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Is Man Good Enough for Earth? We nave been told for many years that we were mere ants on ar. ant hill and that our earth life is probably only one of many such occurrences in a vast universe In which the stars are suns like ours, only most of tliftn bigger. Now we learn from David Dietz, science editor of The Timet., that scientists believe that, vast as the universe Is, and plentiful as suns are, few if any of these suns have planets revolving about them capable of sustaining life like that on the earth. A world Is not such a common thing after all. A prodigal nature has spread a vast stage so many million miles in extent that our mind can not conceive its vastness. Yet this gorgeous show of stars is, after all. only what the ancients thought It was—the background and canopy of earth’s human drama. Physically it is immense beyond their dreams; in value it is the same. If anything, the great size of the unpeopled heavens makes that which is peopled more significant. To the imaginative person tills reassurance is not necessary. An individual is not less important in New York, where he is one of millions, than he is in Indianapolis, where he Is one of thousands, or on Mt. Le Conte, where he Is all alone. Neither is man less important if there are myriads of planetary systems with their earths peopled by other human-like beings. Man’s Importance lies in the great range of experience, feeling and thinking that is possWe to him. The repetition of the human phenomenon in many places does not make It less interesting. But If the present view of science, that an earth with human-lika being ib rare or possibly even unique, what a tremendous feeling of responsibility that should give us! If our life is the best that the universe can show for all Its pains in the gestation of stars, poor universe! The number of individuals who have made the most of demonstrated human possibilities is disappointingly few, and our chaotic society falls far short of the order of nature. Today, the earth Is in great trouble. There is a world-wide depression. And why? Because there is an "overproduction." Think of it! Man actually is plunged In gloom because he has discovered that he can produce more than enough to supply his needs and wants! He Is In distress, not because nature is not bountiful and man not her master, but because his own greed will not let the many have what is produced in such profusion by natural plenty and human skill! Look about you. See the forests laid waste by fire, the fields eroded by neglact, the streams polluted by waste, the heavens hidden by smoke. This is the land which nature presented to man as a fair, clean wilderness less than two centuries ago. The trouble is not that man’s will is not free, but that his will Is so free and his power so great that he can spoil this nice expression of the universe which we call earth. Man should stop complaining of the universe and its inadequacies—stop thinking that it is unworthy of him. Let him look to himself. Is he worthy of the universe? We have got rid of the sense of sin about a lot of things we used to do and worry about afterwards. But. there is another sense in which man needs a conscience as he never needed it before. We need to recognize the moral duty to be Intelligent. We must make our activities worthy of the splendid Bcheme of things. The Battle Gets Hot The federal water power act is under fire. If it, is not to be. blown from the statute books, a desperate fight must be made in its behalf. The tight will not be made by the federal power commission; the logical defender of the act. Instead, the power commission has written into its annual report .the discredited doctrine that "control over water power developments is primarily a responsibility of the individual states.” That doctrine was rejected ten years ago, when congress found state control of power resources was inadequate—even before the day of large interstate power movements and holding companies. The fight will not be made by the United States attorney-general, another logical defender of the law. He wrote an opinion two months ago In which he made the first public suggestion that the constitutionality of the power act might be questioned. It was not. long after this that the Clarion River Power Company went to court for an injunction to tie the hands ot the federal power commission, and the Appalachian Electric Power Company said it would build a power plant without a license from the commission if it could not secure a license free of all regulation. The fight will not be made by the President of the' United States. While secretary of commerce, he said; "Private utilities should be left free from hampering restrictions.” "There are most weighty reasons against federal regulation.” "The growing encroachment of federal power threatens disaster.” "I can imagine no more profound invasion of state sovereignty than the substitution of federaflor stpte control of electric utilities.” Hoover will select the members of the new federal power commission. There remain only the members of congress who have devoted so much time and thought to protecting the public in this matter, the scattered public servants, like Solicitor Russell of the power commission, and the hundreds of men and women outside the government who spent so many years working for the federal water power act. The power commission’s annual report Is defiant notice that the legal guardians of the law are arrayed against the law. When Is Controversial Talk Controversial? It is an announced policy of most of the gTeat broadcasting companies to exclude •‘controversial” material from the air. This raises the interesting question of what is ‘‘controversial.” Interpreted In any literal sense, such ruling would prevent Floyd Gibbons from lecturing on the wonders of the General Electric Laboratory. This involves electro-physics and today there is a fierce controversy raging over the latest- electro-physical theories of the atom. But the "controversial" is in practice limited to controversy over social doctrines. Even here there is no literalness. Politics is discussed openly over the air, yet there is plenty of controversy here. For all practical purposes, the test of “controversial” on the radio runs pretty close to the primitive edneeption of taboo. Those things are controversial which are subversive of conservative opinion and Institutions—l. e., in religion, sex, patriotism, and our economic system. Yet there is plenty of talk over the air on all four

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of these subjects. There are Innumerable religious hours from daybreak until bedtime. One of our great religious organizations gives much of its time on the air to denunciation of divorce, birth control and modern views of sex. Patriotism ‘is extolled and pacifism derided by eminent defenders of our public safety. The virtues of capitalism, general and specific, daily are pointed out with thoroughness and deep conviction. So it would seem that “controversy" on the air means the progressive view's on religion, sex, peace, and the economic order. Clarence Darrow can not talk against religion, but Dr. Cadman may speak for it. Less than a half dozen stations in the United States will allow birth control to be presented in even the most general terms by those sympathetic with the movement. Even Harry Emerson Fosdick’s prestige could not break through this barrier. But there seems to be no objection to the most vigorous denunciation of birth control over the most famous stations. Pacifists have had their talks cut short when thej have been able to get the air at all, but there is no record of turning off a valiant patrioteer. Communism frequently is assaulted, but no eminent Communist resident in this country seems to have been invited to defend the Russian experiment. Radio is one of the great intellectual and cultural forces in the world today. It can not afford to link itself up with any single faction. It must not tai itself with any brush. It serves the whole American public, and this public deserves information and guidance on all subjects—perhaps most of all on these very subjects which today are branded and barred as "controversial.” To compel anybody to listen to doctrines he abhors would be unfortunate. But to prevent any sane person from listening to a vital problem In which he is interested is more defensible Faint Praise Whatever were the President’s intentions, his statement Friday on the world court is apt to be widely interpreted as damning the project with faint praise. In announcing that he will submit the protocols to the senate at the forthcoming session, he said: "I, of course, have hoped that it would be dealt with at this time. It is for the leaders of the senate, however, to determine If it should be brought up In the press of other business during the short session. Certainly it should not be made an instrument of obstruction in attempts to force an extra session.” That reads pretty much like an indirect invitation to the senate foreign relations committee to bury the issue for a further year in committee, just as the President has buried it for a year at the White House, and just as Harding and Coolidge buried it for many years. We believe that there has been too much delay already, and that the international honor of the United States is at stake. We believe that overwhelming public opinion wants the world court protocols ratified by the senate this winter—which can be done without obstruction. We think the President should say so. There was an unfortunate oversight in the President’s press statement. In saying he hoped the matter “would be dea.t with,” he forgot to add “favorably.” That oversight perhaps will be corrected in the President’s message to the Senate. Scarface Al's Daddy To separate A1 Capone from prohibition is impossible. Prohibition violation is Capone's business. When President Hoover tells the states and communities to attend to their own Capones, he is in effect telling them to enforce prohibition—which the federal government has been unable to do. As long as there are millions of decent American citizens who want to buy liquor, there will be men to produce and sell it. If it can not be sold legally, It will be sold illegally. And If It must be sold Illegally, racketeering is the inevitable result. Such racketeering involves not only the colorful Capones, but the corrupt politicians from whom they buy immunity. Certainly the President is right in refusing to burden the federal government with the local problem of racketeering control, which Washington should not handle and could not if it would. But if the federal government can not help the states, it can at least stop hindering them. It can stop passing unenforceable laws which create new armies of racketeers preying upon local communities. It can repeal prohibition, which is Scarface Al’s daddy.

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THERE’S a very intimate relationship between the thermometer and crime, and as the red line goes down the tube you may look for more and more strong arm methods to separate man fi#in his substance. an a The Mississippi Valley states are right in their insistence that work be started on waterways, and while we are on this subject, let us rise to remark that, in the light of unemployment, it would be a good idea to start to dig a few reservoirs, in connection with contemplated Mississippi flood relief. a * m In a nation, the size of this, there should always be enough great public improvement projects to give employment to those who can’t get it elsewhere. We have the national need tor the improvements, but we have not the machinery to start the ball rolling. mam HPHIS next session of congress could start the work with the approval of the President, construction could be begun on flood prevention projects that would take hundreds of thousands out of bread lines and put them to work. Charity is better than nothing, but it is next to nothing. a a a The idea of building several great trans-conti-nental highways unquestionably is sound, and we are going to do it some day. If evnetually, why not now, when the work is needed so sorely. Mr. Raskob didn't originate this idea, you know; it has been urged upon the government for the last twenty years. a a a Bome day, not far in the future, we will have pavements from Atlantic to Pacific at intervals, all the way from the northern to the southern boundary, which, of course, will not mean any additional prosperity to the railroads, but by that time they probably will be in the trucking business on a scale commensurate with the opportunity. a a a BUT the main thing now is to furnish work for these who can not live without it, for the world owes every one a chance to exist and if the world denies or fails to furnish thlr chance, the result Is crime and Communism, for lav?, and flags have little impressiveness for the man wnose children are cold and hungry. a a a And In the meantime the immigration gates should be slammed shut and kept shut until every fellow in this country has a job, and they should not then be opened until there is an assurance of work for the newcomers. So far as we are concerned personally, they can keep the gates closed for a long time to oome.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

" Humanity” Has Sunk to the Last Depths of Depravity in the “Shakedoicn” of Innocent Women in New York. CROOKED as he may be, there still is something robust about the racketeer who makes hardboiled bootleggers his dirty work, or gets control of a city government by putting Its ward-heelers on his pay roll. So, too, there is something robust about the cop who shakes down dives, speakeasies, and gambling dens which those higher up oblige him to protect. Both take their lives in their I hands. Though criminal and corrupt, they still possess some qualities which one can find it possible to ! i admire. But w’hen it comes to these Peep- - ing Toms who sell what they see through the keyhole, and to those lawyers and court officials who divide the 100 with them, one looks in vain for that spark of manhood which generally survives, no matter ! how rotten or depraved the mind. An element of brutal courage has j served to soften the shock of A1 j Capone’s conquest of Chicago, and ; an element of financial shrewdness ] has helped to relieve the ugly dis- j closures with regard to judges and magistrates who have been run off j the New York bench, but this latest i revelation lacks even so much as a single drop of red blood to. color 1 the filth. Officers in uniform, lawyers under j Ifeth, representatives of the prosecutor’s office, professional bondsmen and stool pigeons divide loot which would make a pimp blush. nun Lowest of the Low FIRST, comes a dapper little i Chilean, who made as much as | $l5O a week spotting women for the | vice squad, and who blandly ad- | mits that many w’ere convicted ! without a scrap of evidence against | them, and that all were blackmailed, j ! whether guilty or not. j Then come two lawyers, with I several more to follow, confessing j their part in the sorry combine, j And there isn’t even the excuse I of sex appeal to justify the mess. In the whole outfit no one played the part of a he-man. At the bottom of the heap crawls the stool pigeon, getting tips from the barber, the hash-slinger, the push-cart peddler, or any one else low enough to the muck, tracking girls into cheap lodging houses, quizzing janitors and reporting what he finds to those members of the vice squad who are so degraded as not only to be willing to listen, but to pay. The character of evidence obtained cuts little figure, the allimportant question being whether the girl has some dough, and whether she can be scared into giving it up. * * * Share in Shame INNOCENT or guilty, she is dragged into court. Then comes the lawyer for Iris share, the professional bondsmen for his share, the representative of the prosecutor’s office for his share, and a "fifth person,” who remains to be identified. Thus we come to the dregs of an era, to the settlings of a noble experiment, to the last word in human depravity, as made possible by organized vice and political corruption. The hootch business, it seems, with all Its expansion, has failed to provide loot enough to go arc nd, while the warped mentality bred by protected crime has sunk so low that nothing is too vile to appeal to it. The one consoling feature of the mess is that the human imagination thus far has failed to conceive anything worse, which warrants the hope that wc have struck bottom. u u The Public Will Act WHETHER we have struck bottom or not, housecleaning obviously is in order, and if constituted authority has become so corrupt, weak, or immobile that it can’ll attend to it, the public will. One need only recall what occurred in New Orleans some forty years ago, or in San Francisco some seventy-five years ago, to realize where we are headed if those responsible for law enforcement and the administration of justice continue to dawdle. Though nation-wide in scope, thi3 compound of lawlessness and degeneracy represents the same problem that frontier communities, mining camps, and oil booms produce. If there is no other alternative, it will be met in ways they found it necessary to adopt. We don’t want that, don't want vigilance committees, mobs and bar-rel-head convictions, but if the law can’t handle the situation, what else is there to expect?

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CAPTURE OF SAVANNAH Nov. 29 ON Nov. 29, 1778, the British captured Savannah, Ga., in their successful expedition into the south during the Revolutionary war. Despairing, after Burgoyne’s surrender in Saratoga, of winning success in the north, the British decided to concentrate in the extreme south and conquer the country by cutting off one state after another. A British detachment sent by boat from New York and another already stationed in Gorgia, combined to subdue Savannah. After the city was taken, many of the colonists, pleased by treatment accorded them by their conquerors, flocked in great numbers to British standards. Georgia subsequently was conquered and a royal Governor reinstated. The following year the Americans, under General’Lincoln, tried to capture Savannah, but were defeated with heavy losses. Not long after this Sir Henry Clinton conducted a British expedition against Charleston, and captured the city with Lincoln and his whole army. When Gates, with anew American army, sought to retrieve the south from the British, he, too, was defeated badly.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley's “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times; The Hunger Rock of Germany —The -famous “Hungerstein” in the River Elbe, near Tetscher, •Germany, has lived up to its evil omen since 1417, when a low level ol' the river first was recorded. The legend attached to it is that when the waters of the Elbe fall to a record low level, hard-

Baby’s Water Needs Are Great

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeela, the Health Magazine. THE average adult should take seven glasses of water a day, the usual rule being a glass on arising, a glass before going to bed, a glass at each meal, and a glass between each meal. In addition to that, much water is taken in the food. The water requirement of an infant is high; in fact, about three timer that of a grown up. The reason for this high water requirement is that the infant is carrying on much more activity in its tissues, because of its rapid rate of growth. • Furthermore, in the infant, the output of heat is greater in proportion to its weight than that of a grownup individual. The heat is removed from the body chiefly by evaporation of water and, therefore, more water is required. Large .amounts of food taken in require constant circulation of water from the blood to the intestines and back again, to take care of digestion and absorption of the food constituents. Furthermore, since so much food material is taken in, there is a great

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—Senator Sheppard, accredited author of the Eighteenth amendment, must have had a good time with the W. C. T. U. ladies down in Texas. He still is so proud of his child and its playfellows, the Volstead act, that he tells these good W. C. T. U. ladies that “those who violate or help to violate one law today (we suppose the Volstead law), can not be heard to complain if the burglar or the murderer enters their home tomorrow under claim of equal rights to violate another law.” The dear senator’s English might be open to different interpretations, but we suppose, being addressed to these ladies, he intended them to believe he meant that it is just as great a crime to buy or sell a drink of liquor as It would be for someone | to rob his home or to murder himself or one of his family. Shame on you, senator, for so deceiving these good people. We are quite sure you*were kidding them, but we are just as sure they enjoyed the kidding, sc, you may have been justified in giving them so much happiness. The senator also quite exhausts the English language in describing the evils of alcoholic drink. And again the ladies, no doubt, clapped and cheered. Many of us who personally are as dry or it may be, dryer than the senator, will indorse his views on the evils of alcoholic drink as a beverage, although it perhaps will not be necessary for us to use such breath-taking words, since we are not addressing the ladies. The truth is, that a highly organized minority led by the AntiSaloon League, the W. C. T. U. and kindred organizations has been dominating our elections and intimidating our lawmakers, both state and national. Instead of a democracy, we have had a dictatorship. I If it simply was deciding that' I alcoholic drink as a beverage is an evil, we are sure the verdict would easily be in the affirmative. So far the senator surely is right, but it is not as simple as that. The people resent the invasion of their personal rights: the killing of innocent people or those who have small offenses; the im-

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

ships are sure to follow. In 1918 the waters of the river sank again to the lowest mark in the history of the “Hungerstsin,” and the fortunes of the German people reached their lowest ebb in that year, thus justifying once more the sinister prediction of the rock. Cincinnatus—Cincinnatus, who lived in the fifth century, B. C., is considered a model of antique virtue and simplicity. When the

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

deal of waste material to be put out. The waste matter is not put out in solid form, but is dissolved and water is required for this purpose. Os all the water taken in, about 50 to 60 per cent goes out through the kidneys; 30 to 35 per cent by evaporation from the skin and the lungs, and 5 to 10 per cent by way of the bowels. Some 2 per cent is retained in the body to carry on the necessary chemical interchanges. Obviously, various external conditions can influence greatly the control of the water. If the room is hot, an excess amount of water has to be evaporated from the skin to maintain the temperature of the body at normal. If the child cries a great deal and exercises its limbs, the amount of water lost from the skin and the iungs is increased. If it has diarrhea for any of the reasons that have been mentioned in this series, the amount of water lost from the bowels may equal or actually exceed the amount of fluid taken in. If vomiting results because of infection or any other reason, water taken by mouth may be returned promptly and be of no benefit to the body.

prisonment for life for selling a small quantity of liquor; the snooping and spying into their homes; the hiring of ex-convicts as investigating agents; the breeding of gangsters and bootleggers and its resulting evils. One in authority in Indianapolis tells, us that almost every block in the city has from one to many bootleg joints selling either home brew or liquor or both. A police chief of one of our reputable Indiana cities tells us that home brew is made in a thousand homes. When the Ingredients to make home brew cost less than 3 cents for a quart of the brew which sells for 50 cents, and when the people generally are indifferent to this condition, what may we expect? The answer is that the law is unenforceable; that police will wink at the conditions. The Wright bone dry law is a disgrace to Indiana. Will the dictators be able to intimidate our legislature? Under many tests it has been shown that the people are opposed to the liquor laws as they now stand. Unless these good fanatics rub the film from their eyes and look at the conditions sanely, we will lose all the gain in temperance made in the last fifty years. Congress may be dry, but the people are wet. Are our law makers going to represent the people or will they be intimidated by the dictators? The people will stand much, but unless our nonrepresentative law makers take heed, they will be retired to private life. STRICTLY TEMPERATE. Bloomington, Ind. Editor Times Regarding an article in The Times Nov. 28, written by John E. Smith, 427 Erie street. The directory has no record of any such person, nor such address. This person states that the Salvation Army hotel, 26 South Capitol avenue, has men sleeping on the floor and in the chairs and is paid for this 35 cents each from the Community Fund. Let me say for Mr. Smith’s information that the Salvation Army hotel has been in operation more than twenty years, and we have yet to receive our first dime from any source for men who have been sheltered in other than a bed. Our books show* that so far this

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Roman senators sought him out in despair, to offer him the dictatorship of Rome, they found him at the plow. Within a fortnight he defeated the Invading Aequians, relieved the Roman army, saved Rome and returned to his plow at his small farm on the Tiber (462 B. C.). Monday: “A Good Epitaph.” Reference: “Early Progress,” by West.

Finally, if for any reason the rate of breathing is increased greatly, as occurs in pneumonia or in severe conditions of acidosis, the amount of water lost by way of the lungs is increased greatly. The average normal infant fed by its mother on the breast should receive throughout the first year of its life about 2Vi ounces of water for each pound of its body weight each day. Thus, the infant weighing 10 pounds should receive 25 ounces of water. This takes care of its needs, when there is hot weather, diarrhea or vomiting. In the case of artificial feeding, the proteins and salts In the diet are usually higher and there is increased elimination, so that more water is required in order to take care of the output from the kidney. Extra amounts of water may be given to infants between feedings to supply any reasonable needs. A small excess of water will not produce any serious disturbance, but too much water given with food will interfere with its absorption because the size of the cavity of the stomach is limited. If the material given to the infant is diluted too greatly, it will vomit or in other ways get rid of the excess.

jjionth 481 men have been sent to us by the police department, and cur own office has been given free beds. The hotel will be able to collect 35 cents each for one-third of this number only—the remainder —305 beds—will show no income whatsoever. The hotel operates for men who can pay a little and do not care to have their names on a charity list. In addition to this, men who have np money are cared for to our capacity, to the best of our ability. The hotel is open twenty-four hows* a day, and all day and into the morning hours men come to us and are welcome to such warmth and shelter as we can give. Mr. Smith might tell where he got his misinformation. MALCOLM SALMOND, Manager. Who is the head of the prohibition bureau in the department of ; justice in Washington? ; Amos W. Woodcock. ;

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.NOV. 29, 1930

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Scientists of Nation Will Hold Important Sessions in Cleveland in December. CLEVELAND will become th? scientific center of the United States for one week in the near future. The occasion will be th? annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More than 6,000 scientists from all parts of the United States are expected to gather in Cleveland for the sessions which begin on tne evening or Monday, Dec. 29. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, famous American physicist, just completing his year as president of the association. will be the speaker on the night of Dec. 29. Dr. Millikan is one of the world s most famous physicists. He is one of three Americans to have won the Nobel prize in physics, the other two being Dr. Albert Michelson and Dr. Arthur Compton. Dr. Millikan first came into international prominence as a result of his famous “oil-drop” experiment. By this experiment. Dr. Millikan succeeded $n isolating the electron, the fundamental particle out of which all matter Is created. For the first time In history'. Dr Millikan succeeded in measuring the electric charge of the electron. The experiment consisted in measuring the rate of speed of a drop of oil between two electrically charged plates. When electrons adhered to the drop, the speed changed, enabling Dr. Millikan to calculate the size of the electrical charge carried by an electron. nun The Cosmic Rays DR. MILLIKAN subsequently ha> earned on many important, pieces of research. Among his latest have been the experiments fc.v which lie veriiiea the existence m the cosmic rays, the extremely short and penetrating radiation w’hich bombards the earth from outer space. Much speculation has been based upon these rays. Millikan has suggested that they are proof that somew'here in the outer reaches of the universe, matter is being created. If so, the cosmic rays disprove the assumption which many modern scientist make that our universe is like a clock which Is running down. The theory' which he and others— Sir Arthur Eddington and Professor Henry Norris Russell, for examplehave adopted is that the energy of the stars originates hi an annihilation of matter within the-stars. This means that the stars gradually are disappearing into radiation and that in turn they will melt away, as it were. But the cosmic rays give hope that perhaps this process of dissolution is balanced somewhere in theuniverse by one of synthesis, in which the scattered radiation of the stars is recaptured and turned back into electrons and atoms of matter. nun Other Speakers OTHER important speakers af the Cleveland meeting include Dr. C. E. K. Mees, director of research and development of the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester. N. Y. Dr. Mees is to deliver the. annual Sigma Xi lecture on the evening of Dec. 30. Dr. Edwin fi. Wilson, professor of vital statistics at the Harvard university medical school, will deliver the annual Gibbs lecture under auspices of the American Mathematical Society on the afternoon of Dec. 30 In addition there will be a general lecture every afternoon and evening of the week’s sessions. The several branches of the as-, sociation will hold individual meetings, as will many societies associated with the organization. It is estimated that several hundred papers will be read during the week, many by the leading scientists of the nation. Cleveland will be a great center of all sorts of learning during the week, for at the same time that the American Association for the Advancement of Science is meeting to the city, a number of other meetings will also be going on there. These include the annual meetings of the American Statistical Association, the American Sociological Society, the American Economic Assoiation, the American Political Science Association and a number of others.

Daily Thought

There is no peace, salth my God, to the wicked. —Isaiah 57:21. To see and listen to the wicked v already the beginning of wickedness.—Confucius. What bureaus are consolidated into the veterans bureau by the recent act of congress? What is the new bureau called? Bj' act of congress of July 3, 1930 the bureau of pensions, the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers and the United States veterans’ bureau were consolidated into an establishment to be known as the veterans’ administration under the supervision of the administrator of_ veterans’ affairs.