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The Politicians Will Switch Fast Politicians who have been dry during the AntiSaloon League reign of terror have their ears to the ground and are getting all set to switch. The first cautious step, like that of Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois, and Senator Fivc-and-Ten Jones of Washington, is to promise to vote which ever way a state referendum goes. Years ago, when Democrats were under the spell of the eloquent Bryan, the Ohio Democratic state central committee was strong for free silver. Senator Cal Brice got busy and very soon the free silver majority was turned into a minority. The member of the committee from the Licking county district was Ike Hill, a picturesque character, who not only was a member of the state committee, but also held down a job at Washington. Coming back to Ohio to attend a committee meeting after the switch from silver to gold, Ike demanded to know why the committee switched. Some of the boys began putting up an argument on the money question, only to be interrupted by. the dynamic Isaac, with a remark something to this effect: “Never mind the merits of the case. What I want to know is what made you switch, for when switching is in order no sun-of-a-gun in Ohio can switch faster than your Uncle Isaac.’’ Many politicians are like that. They are not interested in any principle of economics or government that may be involved. All they want to know is when it’s time to switch and gallop with the herd; and as the revolt against prohibition grows, many a bone dry will become a bubbling wet over night. It was that way when the reign of terror got under way in Ohio. The change of dripping wets to scorching drys was made in an awful hurry. Most men aie cowards. This goes also for women. Many Voters Are Political Morons Nobody was surprised when Maine went Repub-i lican. Nobody is surprised when Alabama goes Democratic. The surprise would come if either went the other way. There are states that are considered cither safely Democratic or Republican, but it doesn t reflect much credit on either state when you come to analyze it. Putting it bluntly but honestly, the great majority of voters are political morons. They haven’t the slightest understanding of why they are Republicans or Democrats. M <t of them were born that wayjust as they were 1 ;zn Protestants, Catholics, or Jews. A political moro i is a voter who votes a party ticket for no better reason than that his father did the same thing and passed the habit on to his children. When a state is overwhelmingly one way or another, there is no intelligent meaning to it—nothing more intelligent than habit. Many intelligent people don’t vote, because they can’t find anything worth while to vote for. The fact that about 50 per cent of eligible voters don’t vote is encouraging—it indicates a rising tide of intelligence, as well as a reluctance to vote when it doesn't mean anything. Idealism is all right, but it might as well mean something people can get their hands on here in this life instead of something for their unborn descendants. People want to live and be happy while they are alive instead of after they are dead. Hereafters must not be Voo far away in politics and government.. Possibly in religion. It is better to live while we are alive. Help Our Own Needy There s nothing the matter with the heart of the people of this country; the trouble is in the head. They will contribute liberally when there is a famine in China, India, or anywhere else all over the world. They will rush with their sympathy and their money to the relief of the hurricane-stricken people of Santo Domingo—but— They won’t get down to brass tacks and find a way to solve the problem of the unemployed people of the United States. There is hunger and distress in Santo Domingo. Men, women, and children need food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention. And our generous people will dig down into their jeans and send it. They will send it anywhere on earth, regardless of race, creed, or color of the stricken. But there is hunger, distress, and disease right here in our own country. Hundreds of thousands of men who are willing and anxious to work can't get jobs. Their wives and children go hungry; and we have had no hurricane. But we have had, and arc having now, thousands, even millions, out of work. If we had a famine those who have gladly would give to save the lives of those who have not, because they are out of work. Why don't we get our heads together and so organize our industrial life that nobody who wants to work ever will be out of a job and forced to accept charity? Here is a problem for our captains of industry to solve. Politicians won't solve it. It's a business problem. Let us save our own people from the fear of losing their jobs. Poverty is just as terrible here as it is anywhere else, in the world. Human sympathy is just as much needed at home as abroad. A Weak Tariff Commission The ninety days allowed by law proved insufficient when the President came to organize his new federal tariff commission. A list of six names finally was completed Tuesday, the last day of grace, only to have one withdrawn. Refusal of a score or more persons, originally, picked for the six posts by the President, according to press reports, certainly is not surprising. Only persons utterly uninformed regarding the tariff situation, or heroes of almost superhuman faith, would welcome service on such a commission under present circumstances. Tariff experts and economists of the country, together with a large number of business men, arc agreed fairly w'ell that no scientific tariff relief can come out of the flexible machinery provided by the Hawley-Smoot law. This judgment is not based on guesses, but on the eight years’ record of futility of the old machinery, which was essentially the same as the new. There will be no tariff reform until the commission is divorced from the political administration, and until the flexible rate-making power is returned to congress, where it belongs under the Constitution. This is especially true when the desired reform of rates Is so sweeping as that necessitated by the disastrous tariff law now prolonging business depression and unemployment. So long as the tariff commission is little more than a cumbersome White'House accessory, its personnel Is not a matter of great importance. Not even the most impartial and expert of commissions could beat the game under the present rules. Even so, the country only can regret that, after aji the talk about anew and better comnusapn, the w chairman is to be a high protectionist i&litician

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like Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania, who is neither a general economist nor a tariff specialist. The appointment of Edgar B. Brossard, Reed Smoot’s friend from Utah, is astounding in view of the fact that he was discredited as chairman of the outgoing commission. Doubtless the senate will refuse to confirm him. The otl?r three members are abler men: J. L. Coulter of North Dakota, T. W. Page of Virginia an.’ A. P. Dennis of Maryland. All of these are experienced tariff economists, the two latter, who are Democrats, having good records on the earlier commissions. Unfortunately, these experts will not be in position to control the policy of the Fletcher commissici*. Why MacDonald Lied The mental processes of John MacDonald, key witness in the famous fraud known as the MooneyBillings conviction, were “far from normal” in 1916 when by his “identification” he tried to send Tom Mooney and Warren Billings to the gallows and prison for lffe. This is, according to the first scientific evidence, an affidavit just filed by Dr. Howard Naffziger, California’s most eminent brain specialist, who by fortunate chance was the man who attended the perjurer as a clinic patient just before he took the stand as the state’s chief witness fourteen years ago. The affidavit is an important link in the chain of logic drawn about the case for pardon of these two men. Those who heard or read MacDonald’s recent confessions of perjury know that here is a man incapable of normal, honest thinking. Comes now a famous surgeon to tell the doubting Thomas on the California supreme bench that the same thing that afflicts him now afflicted him fourteen years ago. This was a disease of the central nervous system, a disease that is one of the most potent causes of mental breakdown known to medical science. v Frank C. Oxman and MacDonald were the only two state witnesses to have “seen” Mooney and Billings at the scene of the 1916 bombing. Perjurer Oxman, now proved to have been ninety miles away at the time, has been branded by both the supreme court and Governor Young as a romancer. Perjurer MacDonald was at that time and now is physically wrecked, mentally disordered and morally sick. By the sworn word of such as these, whom the late Joseph Choate would call “witnesses who make merchandise of their oaths and trade in the blood of their fellow-beings,” Mooney and Billings remain in prison. Mussolini Amuck Charges that Fascists in the last eight years have murdered more than 2,000 Yugoslav subjects in Italy, and imprisoned and tortured 20,000 more, vill put the minorities committee of the League of Nations to the test. It already has been tried and found wanting with respect to Italian brutality among the Ger-man-speaking inhabitants of the South Tyrol, handed over to Italy at the close of the World war. There may be exaggeration in the Yugoslav charges, but the Tyrol terror is well known. The. German language has been abolished, education Italianized, and even religion seriously interfered with. By seizing the peasant .banks, the Fascists have forced the Tyrolese to submit or starve. The committee on minorities has done some good work on abuses involving smaller nations, but not tie big powers. Will it act in the case of Mussplini? Unless it does, the fine talk about oppressed peoples and rights of subject nationalities during the World war will prove nothing beyond empty verbiage. Mussolini’s treatment of the Yugoslavs and Tyrolese probably has been worse than anything practiced by civilized states in the fifty years prior to 1914. The German treatment of the Poles and Alsatians, Hungarian .policies toward Rumanians in Transylvania, and the like in pre-war days, were caresses compared to the Mussolini ravages. Even the czarist terror in Finland and Poland did not match the Fascist outrages. The only thing ■comparable to the later were the Turkish policies in the Balkans and Armenia. We are not indicting a nation. It is not Italy or the Italians who arc at fault. It is the brutal, ruthless and arrogan* policy of their Fascist dictator. Under Nitti and other civilized Italian statesmen from 1918 to 1922, the minorities were treated with decency and consideration. Once more, it is II Duce versus civilization.

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WE know nothing of political conditions in Illinois, but with Ruth Hanna McCormick fighting the Anti-Saloon League and the league placing a dry Republican candidate for the senate in the field against her, it looks as if the whiskers of James Hamilton Lewis would return to garnish our public life. ana But Lewis has something more than whiskers; he has ability of the very highest order, and those who lightly, crossed his path in the house and senate at Washington called for first aid, for he is an oratorical swordsman of the first rank. b a a Mrs. McCormick has another thing to worry about, the bitter resentment of the Deneen forces, she having lifted Deneen's scalp, in the last primary after Deneen lifted the scalp of her late husband, Medill McCormick, six years before. There's not much burning love in that arrangement. St B B rpHE republic will endure, even though that dashJL ing knight. Cole Blease, was debated for the senatorial nomination down in South Carolina. Blease, you may recall, openly declared himself a statesmen who drank liquor, but favored prohibition for common people, an attitude which seems to have failed to touch the Carolina heart. BBS Mayor Walker has pinned decorations upon Coste and Bellonte for their trans-Atlantic flight, and now he should turn ’round and help put stripes upon those crooked Tammany judges. BBS One is not surprised to hear that William G. McAdoo has retired from politics for good, for he has both cash and contentment, also some age. Spurs do not go with carpet slippers. BBS \ CABLE from Bombay states that the Hindus and the Moslems have started another religious war, and John Bull is laughing fit to kill, for if he can keep them fighting about the sky it will be easy for him to keep the yoke buckled. BBS A thief stole $2,000 from the home of Judge Edwin Lewis of Philadelphia, which show’s that he was a base ingrate, for the American judge is the best friend the criminal ever had. BBS The American Legion of Illinois was wise to decide that prohibition was not tor tt to decide. This organization will go larthfc if it keeps clear cf political difference?. f.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Modern Theories of the Physical Universe Are the Echo of an Old Chinese Philosophical• Idea. MODERN theories of the physical universe hold that everything is constructed of two entities, the positive and negative electron. These are the units, respectively, of positive and negative electricity. It is interesting to note that this extremely modern scientific idea is in many ways the echo of an old Chinese philosophical ideal which sprang up at least 500 years before the Christian era. The modern idea sees the fundamental particles of matter as consisting of two contrary kinds, one perhaps the mirror image of the other. The old Chinese idea was that the whole universe was based on two contrary principles. This doctrine, which took shape at about the time of Confucius, who lived from 551 to 4T9 B. C., became known as the doctrine of Yin-Yang. A discussion of the doctrine of Yin-Yang by a modern Chinese scholar, Ch’i-Ch’ao Liang, recently has been translated into English by Lu-Ch’iang Wu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. tt tt tt Sun and Clouds WU, and Dr. Tenney L. Davis of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been collaborating with him, write: “Yin, according to Liang, originally had the meaning of covering the sun with clouds. “It came to mean shaded, dim, beclouded, and since Chinese cities generally were laid out with principal entrance on the southern side, it meant the northern or shaded side of the city, the interior, the reverse, and the north side of a mountain. “The word Yang originally signified ‘the bright aspect of banners fluttering at sunrise,’ but it soon acquired the meaning of the brilliancy of the sun, hence sunlight, warmth, the face-side, the exterior, the south side of a city or of a mountain. “The couplet Yin-Yang was used to signify opposites, such as north and south, reverse and obverse, and this was without magical conotation and without the belief that the opposites were scientific categories by which the endless diversity of nature might be understood and classified. “The words Yin and Yang, moreover, were used separately more often than they were used together. “The notion of Yin-Yang, however, gradually became extended until in the writings of the Taoists and alchemists it appears as a fundamental cosmological concept having innumerable fantastic associations.” a a a Primal Matter IT is interesting to compare some of the statements of the YinYang doctrine with modern scientific theory. Sir Oliver Lodge, for example, says that it may be possible that both the positive and negative electrons originated from the ether of space. His idea is that the positive electron might be one kind of a whirl or vortex in the ether, while the negative electron is a vortex in the opposite direction. Davis and Wu write: "It was supposed that the primal matter, T’ai Chi, in its gyrations gradually separated into two parts. “The heavy and gross part, Yin, settled and formed the earth, while the fine and light part, Yang, remained suspended and formed the heavens. “Together they were the two regulating powers and constituted the soul of the universe.” Liang writes, “Yin was regarded as the female element, typifying in general the more undesirable phenomena of nature. Yang was regarded as the male element, which was, in turn, representative 6f the qualities in direct opposition to those of the Yin. “From the interaction of these two cosmic forces, the universe was created and, in its various phases, directed and controlled. “As time went on, this principle of dualism came to be a most potent factor :n Chinese thought, for it permeated both the material and the moral world. “At a later date, it was adopted as one of the cardinal beliefs of Confucianism.”

SIGNING OF CONSTITUTION September 17 ON Sept. 17, 1787, the convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen states in the Union signed the Constitution of the United States in Independence hall, Philadelphia. Rhode Island alone was unrepresented at the sessions under President Washington. Four months’ work was required to complete the Constitution, with the exception of the amendments, in the form in which we have it today. The work of the delegates was approved promptly by congress, and at the close of the following year had been adopted by eleven of the states and placed in operation among them. The other two states. North Carolina and Rhode Island, ratified the Constitution and entered into the American Union in 1789 and 1790, respectively. The Constitution replaced the articles of confederation by which the ill-fated union of the thirteen original states was held together from 1779 to 1789. The articles vested no real authority in the common representatives of the several commonwealths. Where and when was the United States cruiser San Diego sunk? It was sunk by a mine, near Fire Island. N. Y.. on July 19. 1918 Six lives were lost. Has the United States a national flower? During a recent contest for choosing a national flower for the United States, the wild rose had more votes than any other, tut no official recognition has ever been made. The golden rod is popularly called the national flower.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Safeguards Urged Against Diphtheria

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyjreia, the Health Magazine. WITH the opening of the schools the hazard of diphtheria increases. Scientific investigators are convinced that diphtheria is a preventable disease through use of the Schick test and of toxin-antitoxin. They are convinced that deaths from diphtheria, even when it is acquired through contagion, may be prevented largely if good antitoxin is given early and in sufficient amounts. Nevertheless the disease continues to occur with startling regularity and deaths are reported each year from every state. Last year in lowa there were thirty-four deaths from this cause. “The number thirty-four does not mean much in itself,” says the epi-

IT SEEMS TO ME

MAYBE you feel, as deeply as I do, that it is very hard to be a columnist. The dramatic critic may get himself disliked by actors, authors may be at the throat of the book reviewer, while politicians wait in ambush for the editorial writer, but the columnist is likely to incur the anger of all three groups as well as many others. It is his job to comment on things in general and no man may speak freely without treading on some toes. And sooner or later, at some party, the columnist will suddenly meet face to face the actress whose performance he assailed, the author whose book he tore to pieces. It has happened to me a dozen times, and I never have carried it off well. It wasn’t fear of physical violence which embarrassed me, but just the feeling that a gentleman or a lady who wanted to punch me in the nose was being forced by the social amenities to say “How do you do? I’ve heard so much about you.” I have felt distinctly sorry for the other person as well as for myself. n n a No Steam in Punches IT is only fair to say that, on the whole, actors and authors and the rest take even the bitterest reviews in good part. Indeed, for many years I was abashed at my inability to make anybody wince, even when I tried to fire straight between the eyes from a distance of twenty feet. In particular I remember going after a popular preacher with malice in my heart. I wrote what seemed to me scalding words. After keeping it up for a month or so I received a note from him. Here at last would be a howl of anguish and resentment from one whose hide had been pierced by my artillery. But it wasn't. The preacher said that my articles had amused and interested him very much and wouldn’t I come and have luncheon with him. Os course, it’s much easier to write unfavorable notices than good ones. Every great play I ever have seen has left me gasping and without an adjective. Enthusiasm is one of the most difficult things to indicate in writing. You can’t review a play by just saying: “Hurray! Hurray! This is great! I’ll say this is some tragedy!” And yet your articulate expression is very apt to fall into just trite terms when your whole inner self has been stirred deeply by the sound of genius. And I am not helped by the fact that the author whose work I don't like generally is one of the most charming people in the world when .1 come to meet him. All the most terrible books I know were written by delightful men and women. This is particularly true about poetry. If the verse is awful you may depend upon it that the poet will prove to be some girl who’s a perfect knockout. r a a ‘I Never Read Notices’ ONE saving and convenient tradition has been set up. Often the person criticised pretends that | he never saw what you wrote about ' him. Os Q<orse, it may be that he hasn’t, but the chances are against

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demiologist, “and the one is not very much unless it is your child.” During the first six months of 1930 there were ten more deaths than for the corresponding period of 1929. Twelve of every 100 cases were fatal, an increase in the fatality rate, since 8.5 cases out of 100 died in 1929. The virulence of diphtheria varies from season to season. According to the records of the lowa state department of health, about 400,000 children in lowa have received toxin-antitoxin. However, 42,500 new babies are born each year, and it is necessary that they are immunized promptly if the prevention is to be of service. The giving of toxin-antitoxin carries little, if any, danger. In New York City more than a million children were immunized without harmful results. The discomfort is

that. Nothing travels faster than an unfriendly clipping. I can testify to that. Since politics began this year, not even the most casual line in the most obscure publication has failed to reach me. Provided, of course, that the paragraph in question accused me of being a swindling, middle-class clown. Malice will bear missives more surely to their destination than special delivery stamps and registration. Even though the man you meet ignores the subject of your critical comments, only a callous columnist could find ease in his company. There always is a lurking suspicion that he may drag you into a corner and attempt to explain why you were all wrong. Worse than

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—ln your editorial, “Pests Beyond the Pale,” all you said was true and you are to be complimented on your courage to say so. Many editors fear they will lose a subscriber if they tell the truth. But in your editorial along the line of neighborhood nuisances please call attention to: The fellow who owns a radio and plays it until 2 o’clock in the morning. Seemingly he thinks he clone owns one. of these noise-makers, for he turns on all the volume it possesses. Usually these loud performances are made when a party is in progress, then the guests try to drown out the radio and play a poor second. Also, why can’t the police detect feathers in a neighborhood and deduct that some flat dweller is making booze. Odor of the burning rubbish is thought to kill odor of the mash. Also, why does the city permit parking on either side of a street less than twenty-four feet wide? And when flat to the curb parking is authorized, why doesn’t it become a law violation to park closer than three feet to another machine, so the parked car can be moved without destruction to it or cars front or rear? Make it a heavy fine to move another car so one more can be parked in the line like sardines in a tin. After a drinking bout—most generally in apartments—why <do the people, on leaving in the wee, small hours of morning, continue to cry back to their host “‘when will we meet again?” They stagger around to find their cars—race the motors for several minutes before starting, then fumble with the clutch and start away, making more racket than a general fire alarm. Also, why is all-night parking permitted on .streets, particularly narrow east and west cross streets? Thousands of cars are parked in this man’s town and few display parking lights. Why don’t the police enforce the city ordinance that says nc one can park nearer than three feet to entrance of one’s private drive? It is no uncommon thing to see cars parked half way across a private drive. Make these - incidents punishable with a fine, and fine the guilty ones. -J- - They talk about t&e auto owner

slight and the protection well worth while. Physicians recommend that toxinantitoxin immunization be performed before the child is 1 year old. They therefore recommend that not only the school children, but even those of pre-school age be given the benefit of immunization. Diphtheria takes the greatest toll among children who have not yet reached 6 years of age. In many cities and towns immunization of children has been performed by health departments as a demonstration of what can be accomplished for the control of this disease. This demonstration % has proved conclusively the value of the method. It now remains for every family to ask the family physician to take care of the individual child if this procedure has not been accomplished already through one of the demonstrations.

Ideals and opinions expressed )n this column are those of one ot America's most Interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naoer.—The Editor.

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that, there is the fear that perhaps he can do it. o e ts Brutal Frankness BUT I am glad that it seldom falls into my province to say anything about talking pictures. That’s where friendship must cease and brutal frankness begin. In the case of an actress on the legitimate stage the reviewer generally avoids reference to the shape of her nose and the architectural symmetry of her eyes. But these things can not be glossed over when a face some forty or fifty feet high is flashed upon the screen. It becomes incumbent upon • the critic to say whether it is a good face or an adequate one. He must express an opinion even if he knows nothing about faces. (Convrifcht. 1930. by The Times)

and driver paying the freight. Say, Indiana auto drivers don’t pay a fifth the price that residents of other states pay, and then do as they please. The state police and city police pay no attention to traffic rules. A state police force of 1,000 men—independent of any state office—would be more than self-supporting and put a little law in force about the common rules of safety In street and highway. TIMES READER. Where is the solar plexus in the human body? Behind the stomach, in front of the aorta and pillars of the diaphragm.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Since the Dawn of Consciousness, Grafters Have Played on the Gullibility of Those Lacking Courage to Stand on Their Own Feet. AS Uncle Eri said, "there are two bom every minute," and nothing proves it like the news. “Doc” Sykes is speeding toward Oregon with SIO,OOO in his pocket donated by the Westchester Racing Association of New York. He made a contract with the association to keep rain away for ten days at SI,OOO a day, and to forfeit S2,iHX) every day he failed. Iu was a good gamble on "Doc's’* part. If it had rained three of the ten days he still would have made SI,OOO. But the prevailing hunger for insurance at any cost Inspired the boys to take him on. * a a a Grafters Even With Us . SALLY LE BLANC, blond and 21, calmly tells a New York court how she advertised her willingness to wed any man who would come across with SI,OOO, though married herself: how a Japanese cook gave her $750, which she divided with her sister, promising to pay over the rest as soon as the ceremony was completed; and how he entered a complaint against her when she failed to fulfill her end of the bargain. Human nature does not change very much, when you come to think of it, nor does the art of racketeering. except in form. Since the dawn of consciousness, grafters have played on the gullibility of those who lacked the courage to stand on their own fee', or face the vicissitudes of life witty composure. a a tt More Easy Money OUT in Kansas, Dr. Jolui R. \ Brinkley is grafting goat glands on deteriorated farmers to the tune of an orchestra. Just one more illustration of the age-old hunger for easy money, burning love and eternal youth. Whatever else it may accomplish, the gland-transplanting fad puts the old alchemists in a better light. Their belief in the philosopher’s stone, the transmutation of baser metals into gold, end the elixir of life, no longer seems half as foolish as it once did. The chances are that they, too, found plenty of people who were willing to pay well for the bunk. tt tt n Woild of Illusion WE still live in a world of lllusionment, even though we have cluttered it up with a lot of scientific labels. We have saved $46,000,000 wortty of eyes, to let experts tell it, by installation of mechanical devices in our workshops and factories, but only to jeopardize them at the movies. We have given the average cliild a better chance to live, as far as smallpox, diphtheria and other diseases are concerned, but only to confront him with a greatly increased risk of being killed by automobiles. We have fallen for the idea that we could sober up by virtue of one constitutional amendment, and make women over by virtue of another, only to find ourselves 1n the grip of racketeers and a reign of lipsticks, a tt a That Fear of Age DR. JOHN B. WATSON, psychologist and advertising expert, does not think that business and higher education have done much more to improve women than the ballot. In his opinion the European woman, who has been held down by convent schooling and arranged marriage, takes on a superior dignity* at 30, while the American woman of 30, having been free and unchaperoned since she was 15, is the victim of an inferiority complex concerning her age, and walks in fear of her 20-year-old companions. Whether one agrees with Dr, Watson or not, it is a fact that the use of cosmetics and other artificial means of creating or preserving female beauty’has increased in equal, if not greater, proportion to the number of women in college and in business. To put it bluntly, the more women know, the more they seem to fee! the need of paint, and the freer they are, the less inclined they seem to appear as God Almighty made them.

Daily Thought

Let the husband render unto tbe wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.—l Corinthians 7:3. Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.—Thackeray.