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Cast Your Ballot Make up your mind upon the ticket and the candidates you believe will serve your interests best and then cast your ballot next Tuesday. A tremendous majority for the constitutional convention, which is opposed only b> the tax dodger and the privileged classes and indorsed by all progressive organizations, led by the League of Women Voters, the Farm Bureau and the State Federation of Labor, would go far toward insuring the right kind of men in that convention. It would show the power of public opinion. After that, be sure that you are not misled by appeals to prejudice and passion or by last-minute canards. The Times believes that Coflinism in this county should be wiped out because it has made a mockery of good government and has destroyed what is even more important, good will in the community, by fomenting and using racial and religious hatreds. The Times believes that in its protest against CofTinism it but reflects the sentiments of the good citizens of all parties and of the independent voters. You may like Coflinism. If so, your course is easy. The Times believes that on Tuesday the great army of right-thinking citizens will banish Coflinism from the county courthouse as they have driven it from public schools and city hall. It does not believe that the last-hour appeal to the old hates on a basis of misrepresentation of their opponents will succeed. The state Republican machine forfeited all claims tc respect when it appealed through paid advertisements to the Catholics as Catholics, not as citizens, and sought to tie them to the former wearers of the nightgowns, who now understand how they were misled and used for selfish political gains. How the forces of Coflinism are holding so-called organization meetings in certain parts of the county in which the leaders first make sure that the workers are Protestants and then attempt to whip their lagging interest and ardor into life by appeals of hate against the Catholic and the •Jew and the Negro. The Times believes that this is the last frenzied convulsion of the dying python of Coflinism and Stephensonism, a reversion to the un-American injection of religion into politics, the last effort of the desperate organization which has no regard for this country and no purpose beyond control of political offices for the sake of plunder. You may not agree that religion and politics should be separated. You may believe that the founders of (his government were wrong and that its traditions should be changed. You may like hate instead of good will. If you do, vote for Coflinism. The big thing is to vote. Vote after careful thought as to what men and what tickets will represent your interests best. Bad government depends on the lack of interest on the part of the great majority of citizens. If you do not vote, you place yourself in the class with children, convicts and the insane. Re a citizen, not a cipher. It Can Be Done Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana reports campaign expenditures of $989, although more than 514,000 had been contributed to help him win the election. Montana is a big state, and Walsh is facing determined opposition, yet he found it necessary to use only this trivial sum. His record is in marked contrast to that of candidates in several other states, notably Illinois and Pennsylvania, where hundreds of thousands have been used. * Conditions in Montana, of course, are not like those of congested industrial states. Walsh, nevertheless, has shown that it is possible to conduct a hard campaign without lavish outlays. Also. Senator Norris and other Progressives have shown that it is not necessary to have a fortune—or command one —to aspire to a senate seat. * Jailing the Jobless There are many different ideas about how to treat the unemployment situation. We have ideas of our ov.n on the subject, which we put forward from time to time. Other persons have other ideas. And naturally all do not agree. But all of us ought to be able to agree on how not to treat the unemployment situation. Here are two examples of what not to do: Among the tens of thousands in New York City who tramp the streets helplessly looking for work ware twenty-three men who dared to sink exhausted in a ferry station. The police found them sleeping. They were dragged into court. There they were sentenced to jail for thirty days—for the crime of having no place of their own to sleep. In Sacramento, Cal-, hungry men who could not ret jobs from an employment agency demanded ream of the ftees they had paid for jobs. They were jr.ilcd. When other unemployed men demonstrated in protest, the police rushed out tear gas bombs and machine guns. If the police begin running amuck with upward of 5.000.000 unemployed in the country this winter, there will be trouble. The authorities must get it into their heads quickly that their job is not to punish the unemployed, but to help them. It is not a crime to want work and have to go without food and shelter because there is no work. , The only crime is that of the industrial and political system which fails to provide wort for willing men. ' Machine guns and jails can not solve unemployment problem.

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Our Next Task Only a few days and we can turn from politics to something less pessimistic and more interesting. If we believed all the rival candidates tell us about one another, we might be disposed to think there is little worth saving in our democracy. Fortunately, however, it isn’t as bad as all that, and most of the candidates running for office have more good than evil in their makeup. War may be hell, but once we got into the last one, political, racial, and religious prejudices were put in mothballs for the time being, and we put on a bully show by way of showing how we could work together when we tackle a serious and constructive job. It won’t take long for us to cool off after the votes are counted; and tften we can again drop politics and all go to work on the biggest national problem our people ever tackled—the problem of periodical unemployment, with all the human suffering that goes with it. There really isn’t much to worry about in how the election goes, or who wins or loses. In no event is the country going to the demnition bow-wows through the strange antics of politicians in any or all parties. It isn’t that kind of a country. After election, we will quit playing politics and all go to work at finding work for everybody who wants to work and is out of a job. Coolidge on Issues ‘ I am not going to discuss issues with you,” said former President Coolidge, advocating the election of his friend, William M. Butler, as Republican senator from Massachusetts. “ . . . Issues have a way of disappearing aftey a campaign and never coming up again for a decision.” It is true that some issues do disappear. But they are false issues, trumped by politicians to enlist votes. Mayor Big Bill Thompson’s issue of King George naturally won’t come up for settlement. Nor will Senator Tom Heflin’s issue of the Pope. Real issues, however, remain, and clamor for settlement. Prohibition, unemployment and the depression, the tariff, power and farm relief are such issues, and will come up for a decision. It is proper that they should figure largely in the campaign—as they are—and that candidates should take definite stands on them, for only in that way can voters make their will felt. Not even politicians can make real issues “disappear” for long—witness prohibition. A “Mistake” There is admirable restraint, logic and charity in. the brief by Edward McKenzie, filed Wednesday with the California supreme judges, asking and unconditional pardon for his client, Warren K. Billings. For fourteen years McKenzie has known of the absolute innocence of Mooney and Billings. Yet he treats seriously the testimony of such persons as John MacDonald and Estelle Smitji by laboriously sweeping away the cobwebs their lies have woven. Only once in eighty-seven pages does he lose his temper. “If,” he exclaims, “we have become so weak and inept that there is no relief from the obviously false and theatrical stories of the vicious morons of the world ... we ought to say so frankly, admit our utter failure, and mourn the loss of an idealistic concept of justice.” It is hard to see how the six doubters of the California supreme bench can remain unconvinced of the monstrous wrong their state has committed, after reading this able marshaling of facts from the recent rehearing. McKenzie shatters the whole prosecution theory. He firmly fixes the alibis of Mooney and Billings. He arrays the tangled lies of Edeau, Oxman, MacDonald and Estelle Smith against these alibis, bulwarked by the impersonal testimony of clocks and cameras. Finally, he wrings confession from -the prosecution's own lips by quoting the one ex-prosecutor who stands out against pardon for the pair, Ed Cunha: “I was satisfied to have Mooney even hang on that theory; that is, without any direct connection with the crime (upon his activities alone).” McKenzie is charitable. He blames neither Fickert prosecution, venal witnesses, nor state. There' is no mention of frameup or conspiracy. It was a “mistake” of sovereignty. “Without respeat to the cause thereof, the sovereignty has made a mistake,” he concludes. “That settled, there appears but one way to go. There can be no middle ground. One never is -part guilty and part innocent. Innocence deserves a pardon.”

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Governor franklin roosevelt has made the mistake of his young life by failing to go after those suspected Tammany office holders, tooth and nail. It will avail him nothing presidentially in 1932 to be re-elected Governor this year by a compromise with corruption. a a a Os course, Roosevelt has before him the warning of what Tammany did to' Governor Smith because he did his duty and went after Tammany grafters, but you can put it down in your little red book that Roosevelt never will be nominated if he has a Tammany taint: a a a The department of commerce reports a 13 per cent decrease in the value of hore-drawn vehicles from 1927 to 1929, but all the same no gas buggy ever will be made that can compare in beauty to the oldfashioned phaeton with its side lamps on. a u a AND there was another advantage about the horse and buggy age— the family never went without underwear to get anew rig. , a a a The leading manufacturer of dirigibles in this country tells President Hoover that his faith in the great gas bag is unshaken. This mental attitude is perfectly natural so long as he can continue to make them and sell them. a a a When you find the genuine article, brotherly love is one of the rare things of the world. It existed between the late Myron T. Herrick and his brother. Orin R. Herrick. When the ambassador died a year ago, th brother passed into a decline and just has gone oyer the Great Divide. a a a THE ambassador accumulated great wealth, but said to his brother: -‘You are a greater man than I. because you raised nine fine children." And we believe he was right about It. a a a One of the greatest of brotherly ties was that which existed between the late Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and his brother Eben. They lived all their days together, being partners in the practice of law and when Eben died in Washington, Colonel Ingersoll delivered that immortal tribute at his funeral. a a a There are grades of crimes, the worst being the crime which affects young people. Two men Just have been given four years for selling booze to the students of the University of Illinois. They been sent up for fife, at least. Mm • j

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Western Civilization May Be Going Through a Lot of Useless Motion, but It Is Gaining Here and There. PRINCE TOKUGAWA of Japan pauses to pay us a brief visit on his way home from Brussels, where he has been attending an international conference of the Red Cross. “Nothing,’’ he says, when asked by reporters what he thinks of earthquakes, unemployment and the head hunter revolution in Formosa. “Nothing; it always has happened.’’ Apparently, he can’t understand why we excite ourselves over the eternal reiteration of human events and emotions. If he and other orientals only realized it, that is the reason we get along so well and find life so interesting. The fact that things have happened many times before is a constant challenge to those who have faith in man’s power to grow. Only those who lack such faith can interpret it as a sign of monotony and an excuse for stoicism. tt a tt i -Some Good Accomplished PROGRESS is largely the result of fighting what alwajis has happened, of struggling to -reduce the trouble it causes, or striving to take greater advantage of its benefits. Since the dawn of consciousness, we poor mortals have had to breathe ten or fifteen times a minute and eat two or three times a day. If we hadn’t taken some interest in assuring ourselves of an adequate supply of food and fresh air, a good many more of us would have smothered, or starved to death. According to the oriental viewpoint, this is a great waste of time, since we have not been able to eliminate death, disease or a hundred and one other misfortunes. But in spite of its inability to attain perfection, or anything like perfection, western civilization has demonstrated that much can be done to prevent human suffering and promote human comfort. e a a Can’t Have It and Eat It IT IS to'be admitted that the philosophy of western civilization includes a lot of unnecessary excitement and a lot of monotonous, if not wasted, effort, but what is the alternative? The alternative is to sit down and mouth platitudes, to take a calm view of the possibility of death by drowning when rivers rise, or death from famine when crops fail, instead of trying to prevent it by using our wits. Western civilization may be going through a great deal: of useless motion, and may be failing to accomplish much that it would like to accomplish, but it is gaining here and there, giving birth to anew idea now and then and getting a big kick out of the performance. There are people in this country who think we should adopt the oriental attitude, though not to the extent of giving up our autos, electric lights and vacuum cleaners. What they want is all the modern improvements, coupled with that complacency of mind which produces no improvements. Well, we can't have our cake and eat it. If we want scientific achievement, we must accept the type of mentality that goes with it—the inquisitive, strenuous, restless type. So too, we must accept the grind of drabness which goes with oftrepeated motions and emotions. tt a Always Old Stuff TAKE the problem of maintaining and improving democracy, for instance, and of what does it consist but just one election after another. Preceded by the same old wind-jamming, buttonholing, babyrocking, hand-shaking sort of campaign. Every one knows exactly what the show will be like before it starts, and in nine cases out of ten, can foretell the result. Suppose we laid down on the job for that reason, how long would it take to get back to despotism, if not the jungle? Some people say ' that’s where we are going to land anyway, that we only are building a house of cards and burning ourselves out with the labor. Maybe we, are, but the house is good to look at while its lasts, and will be just as good for posterity to talk about if it falls. Western civilization is not deceived by any notion of permanency j in its achievements. It recognizes that they are temporary and defective, but it also recognizes that they prove the possibility of putting the imagination to work and offer a sounder excuse for the art of dreaming than the personal pleasure it gives the dreamer. Is a radio receiver classed as a musical instrument? No, it is in a class by itself as a device for the rectification and conversion of transmitted electrical impulses into waves./

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LISBON’S EARTHQUAKE ; November* I ON Nov. 1, 1775, Lisbon, capital of Portugal, Was destroyed by ! an earthquake which is said to have been felt from Scotland to Asia Minor. Between 30,000 and 40,000 persons were killed artd property damaged to the value of $100,000,000. Though the City had for many centuries suffered from earthquakes, tills was the only one which devastated it. The greater part of Lisbon was reduced to a heap of ruins almost instantly. A tidal wave hit the city at the' same time and wrecked shipping in the Tagus river. Fire added further to the disaster. The district surrounding an old Moorish castle in the center of the city was the only part not destroyed. The rapid recovery of the city was due largely to the energetic work of the prime minister, the marquis of PombaL Lisbon soon became prosperous again, but at the beginning of the nineteenth century the French invasion, the loss of Brazil and dynastic troubles resulted in its decadence, from which it did not recover until after !850.

Sanatorium Choice Important in‘T. B.’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE person with tuberculosis sooner or later may be compelled to resort to a sanatorium so that he may achieve proper scientific treatment for his condition. Since the home itself, with all of its personal relationships and with its relief from maintaining any kind of attitude, is fundamental to healthful mental states, as is pointed out In the London Lancet, the worst sanatorium, in the belief of a patient, is usually the one in which he happens to be. Sanatoriums vary greatly in providing the environment of home and in their ability to maintain a proper attitude toward his disease. Many persons do best in reasonable* solitude; others demand an environment with plenty of company and conversation. Obviously the physician who is choosing the sanatorium has to take

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PSYCHOLOGISTS have been making tests recently to determine the truthfulness and honesty of school children. In one of the experiments a box containing eighteen coins was given to each child. If I remember the results, in 17 per cent of the cases the boxes were returned with part of the money missing. This is interesting, but not altogether scientific in method. As far as I could ascertain from reading the report of the board, two possible contingencies were wholly neglected. The teacher might have taken some of the money. And what about the visiting psychologist? When science is the' game, there should be no limit upon the skepticism. And, again, the experimenters decided that a very large proportion of school children were given to overstatement. This decision was arrived at because a great many little ones replied “yes” to such questions as “Do you always stop to pick up broken glass when you find it lying in the street?” and “Are you invariably polite to your parents?” tt tt tt Questioner BUT to say “Yes” to questions of this sort is a good deal less than lying. In a sense the test did no more than establish that many children are obliging and accommodating. They got it into their little heads that the grownups who were fussing around wanted to get “yes” in answer to their silly questions. And’so they wrote “yes,” which in spite of being one letter longer is somehow or other much easier than “no.” , 0 A sweet and pleasant child might well get the notion that a denial of any interest in broken glass might pain the visiting gentleman. Why not say “yes” and send him home happy? Asa matter of fact, I very often answer questions in that same spirit myself. Still, I am not contending, that I am any more than 83 per cent honest, but I don’t thinkrlt was the questionnaire which proved my dereliction. A professor of journalism sent out a very long list of inquiries- to various newspapermen. In reply I told 'him that I did most of my work between 6 and 11 in the morning, that I neither smoked nor drank, that each day- I read one improving book and took church and exercise regularly. tt tt tt Professor Happy NONE of this was true, but I did think it would make the professor happy. From the tone of his questions I gathered that he felt that journalism ought to be on a well-scheduled and respectable basis. Why, then, should I hold to the truth when a few simple and harmless lies might serve to give pleasure? And it seems to be that any percentage worked out upon the basis of the religious questionnaire may very possibly be fallacious. Orthodox people would be much more likely to answer than heretical ones. Among certain atheists there is a distinct evangelical spirit and a desire ,erts, but the average

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into account the cost, so that the patient will not be worried constantly by this question, and he must take into account also the psychologic factors that have been mentioned. It has been argued that one of the principal values of a sanatorium, as also of health resorts, lies in the fact that the patient is taken away from his usual 'environment, and secures relaxation of mind and freedom from care. The person with tuberculosis requires, besides rest, a reasonable amount of fresh air and sunlight, a proper diet, and good medical care. The patient in the exceedingly active stage of this disease requires rest much more than fresh air. Obviously, therefore, the provision of a suitable bedroom with good medical care is his chief requirement. The person who has passed the actjve stage and who needs fresh air and sunlight will do much better where such climatologic advantages are available than in a

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agnostic has nothing to sell and is more or less indifferent about imparting his religious opinions to others, even when asked. tt tt tt Coming and Going 1 DON’T know just what the the immigrant can do to satisfy the most stalwarthy patriotic of Americans. If he remains within his own racial group, he is scolded for it, and if he seeks to enter fully into the cultural mills of American life, such as the great universities, he is told he must not push in where he is not wanted. Those immigrants who remain indifferent to our political processes are scorned, and others, like the Irish, who step in and take control of machinery of government in the largest of American cities, are equally criticised. Just what is the happy mean? Commercially, the unsuccessful immigrant is stigmatized as a drain upon the community, and the gloriously successful one is assailed for taking the bread out of the mouths of the native born. Once

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Editor Times—Allow me to express my unqualified approval of your Saturday editorial, “Vote for the Convention.” It ably presented the case for the calling of a constitutional convention, and disposed of the argument of those who claim that the cost would be too great. You also showed how impossible it has been in the past to amend our present Constitution. I have been much impressed by the change in tactics of those who, for reasons of their own, have opposed the convention. A year ago the most vocal opponents insisted that our Constitution did not need changing in any way. They said cur legislature could, by statute, remedy any situation that needed it. When disinterested individuals pointed out convincingly that the tax situation, for instance, could not be remedied except by constitutional change, these opponents grudgingly admitted that perhaps an amendment or two would be in order. As arguments for change have become harder to answer, they now freely say: "Yes, we must have amendments, every one agrees to that. It is difficult for me to believe ih the sincerity of these persons, who admit the necessity of change, but insist on the amendment method, well knowing that method is practically impossible. They advocate amendments knowing that, since the two amendments that were left "hanging fire” by the 1929 legislative error that failed to fix a date for the referendum upon them, still may be regarded as before the 1931 legislature, new’ amendments can not be proposed until 1933; they must be re-enacted in 1935, and can not possibly be presented to the voters before the fall of 1935. That is a long time to wait. All citizens who honestly desire to better conditions will surely vote “Yes” for the convention. MRS. LETITIA HALL CARTER. Secretary, Indianst League of Women Voters.

sanatorium situated in the northern part of our qountry and in a smoky atmosphere. Thus Englishmen regularly go to Switzerland for their tuberculosis when they have reached this stage in their disease, whereas they are well cared for at home in the active stage. Modern scientific medicine provides methods of treatment for tuberculosis, including surgical removal of the ribs and collapse of the lung, and including also the injection of air into the thorax so as to collapse the lung and rest it in this manner. These methods are obviously available oniy where. there are competent men to perform the operations aiyi to take care of the injections. The care of the patient with tuberculosis therefore requires not a routine treatment, but the best possible judgment of someone experienced in the study and treatment of this disease.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

again the visitor to our shores gets it coming and going.

t! tt tt Grow or Die EVERY organism, by which term I mean to include the biological group we call a government, is either experimental or dead. It is the silliest nonsense in tne world to assume that any program can be framed so precise in literal inspiration as to last without change through the ages. Certainly that was not the notion of the founders. They knew of the paring and the expansion which would have to take place and made provision for it. Nor does one have to be born both Nordic and American to understand the inner grace of American institutions. The best book upon the American plan is still the contribution of Mr. Bryce of England, and Brandeis, the wisest man upon the supreme court bench, comes from a racial strain to which many would deny Admission. (Convrieht. 1930. by The Times)

Editor Times—Since the Community Fund will necessarily have to be supported by a smaller number of contributors this year, and at the same time will have to meet a much greater number of calls. Why not cut down the allowance to the Y. M. C. A. and Y. V/. C. A. and give a greater proportion to the organizations that are giving actual relief to the needy' The social and recreational work of the two organization in quite praiseworthy, but in a crisis like the present one it is certanly secondary to the relief work in the form of food, shelter and clothing that is dispenced by a number of the other beneficiaries of the fund. A SUBSCRIBER TO THE FUND Who were the three maidens in “Oar Modern Maidens?” Joan Crawford as “Billie,” Anita Page as “Kentucky” and Josephine Dunn as “Blondie.”

The Right Thing Are you always sure just what is the ‘correct thing” to wear to a particular place at a particular time? An evening wedding, a reception, a tea, a dinner dance an informal bridge party—and all the other places and events where one is expected to dress correctly? Our Washington bureau’s new bulletin, THE ETIQUETTE OF DRESS, will tell you exactly Morning, afternoon, evening, sport, travel—any event and all occasions for both men and women are covered. You will want a copy of this bulletin. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. * CLIP COUPON HERE 1 Department 101, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, THE ETIQUETTE OF DRESS, and inclose herewith five cents in coin, or loose, uncaiiceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs: Name Street and Number City State I am a reader of The Indiapapolis Times (Code No. >

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

Our Knowledge of the Stars Has Increased Greatly i\i the Last Twenty Years. ONE of the most remarkable and important scientific developments of the last twenty years has been the increase in our knowledga of the stars. The average book on astronomy, written even so late as 1910, was devoted almost entirely to a discussion of the solar system, the moon, the sun, the planets, comets and meteors. What could be said about the stars fitted with ease into one op two chapters at the end of the book. Now the situation is reversed. The present-day writer finds that, the stars alone offer sufficient subject matter for a book. If he attempts to crowd all of astronomy into one, he finds himself striving to condense the material about the solar system to leave more room for a discussion of the stars. For many years, Young's “Man--ual of Astronomy” was the standand college text book. Professor Russell and his associates, revising this book, found it necessary to expand it to two volumes. One is devoted to present-day . knowledge of the solar system, tlia other to the stars and certain related subjects, such as the nebulae, the analysis of the sun’s light, and the general relations between physical and astronomical theories. tt tt a Points of Light THE ancients had no true understanding of the stars. '•They imagined that the earth was at the center of the universe. Surrounding the earth were ai number of concentric spheres. These held the moon, the sun and the planets. The stars were thought to be tiny points of light fixed the outer-most sphere. Neither the true nature of a stall, nor its distance from the earth waq comprehended by the ancients. Throughout the Middle Ages, the comprehension of the stars was no better. The great Sir Isaac Newton was the first to realize how very far away the stars must be, although even he did not appreciate the enormous magnitude of stellar distances. Newton, by his law of universal gravitation, showed that the planets revolved around the sun because of the sun’s gravitational pull upon them. He realized, therefore, that sined the stars showed no influence of the* sun’s gravitational pull, they must) be sufficiently far away to escape that pull. But it remained for later astronomers to demonstrate that our little. solar system is like an island lost in a corner of a great ocean of space. It was in 1839 that astronomers first succeeded in measuring the distance to a star. The feat was accomplished independently by two men, Bessel and Henderson. tt tt a Power of Mind THESE studies revealed that the nearest star was 25,009,000,000,000 miles away, so far away that its light, traveling 186,000 miles a,., second, took four and one-third years to reach the earth. All the other stars are of course farther away than that. More than half of the stars visible to the unaided eye are more than 100 times" farther away than that nearest star. One could not have blamed the astronomers had they despaired of ever learning much about the stars,, for the stars are all so far away that no telescope is powerful enough to reveal them as anything but--of light. Nevertheless, the astronomers have attacked the problem. They have devised means of measuring the distances of more distant stars and of estimating the distance of stars too far off to measure. By means of the spectroscope they have analyzed the light of stars and drawn important conclusions about their temperatures and conditions. They have applied the discoveries of physics to the heavens, and drawn deductions with the skill oC Sherlock Holmes. While the work has revealed the relative unimportance of the earthto the rest of the universe, it also has revealed the power of man's mind, for it has shown that mentally man can reach out to the stars.

Daily Thought

His mercy endureth forever.— Psalm 136:16. ; GOD’S mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardor* sin. not Drotect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not the pre-* sumptuous.—Bishop Reynolds. You stated in your column that Chicago has no subways. Is not thalf an error? Chicago has no passenger subways, but the city has an elaborate* system of freight subways. Our answer referred to passenger subways only. What is the 1930 census population of Dallas and Houston, Tex.? I Eased on announcements mad--by the local supervisors and subject* to revision in the final official court* the population of Dallas is 260,3:' F and Houston has 289,579.