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Constitutional Amendments Federal Judge Clark—no need to tell you who he Is—thinks it would be better to have constitutional amendments referred to state conventions for ratification than to have them referred to state legislatures. The latter has been the method of ratification used in the case of the present nineteen amendments. Legislatures, says the judge, have a lot of things on their minds besides the merits of the proposed amendment. He quotes Confucius: “How can a man serve the prince? When out of office, his sole object Is to attain it; and when he has attained it, his only anxiety is to keep it. In his unprincipled dread of losing his place, he readily will go all lengths.” A constitutional convention, on the other hand, could be composed of the best and most disinterested citizens; men would give their time and thought to a matter of such grave Import, who would not give it to all the niggling, harassing duties of a state legislator. . ... There probably Is something in the Judge’s view, but he overlooks an important aspect of the matter. Any convention called to consider the ratification of constitutional amendment would be composed of delegates elected for that purpose. And they would be elected to reflect the views of the voters. They would be expected to vote yes or no in the convention and nothing more. No need to enlist the best brains of any state for that. What the judge’s suggestion amounts to, as a practical thing, Is that amendments be ratified or rejected by popular referendum. And there is a good deal to be said for that method, as opposed to staled legislatures. / So much for the ratification of amendf men t SHowever, it is possible to initiate cons^ u jj ona | amendments through the convention Here’s united States Constitu^f lon _ The con . gress, whenever two-thirde9i. k°th Ijfouses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amerWments to the Constitution, or, on application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either cage, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the congress. . . . If the legislatures of two-thirds of the states thus should require congress to call a national constitutional convention, we might see such meeting of best minds as the New Jersey Jurist visualizes. Some day it may be done. And when it is done, it will be the prayer of every average citizen that the convention, among other accomplishments, shall rewrite those parts of the present great document that seem to serve only the purposes of confusion. The average citizen, for example, would like to have the Constitution so clear and simple in its meaning that no federal judge ever would find it possible to pronounce solemnly an amendment invalid ten years after it had gone into operation. Power and the Poor Senator Cameron Morrison, while trying to help Frank R. McNinch to a place on the federal power commission, has presented the senate with excellent reasons for his rejection. Morrison explained that the Duke Power Company, mentioned in connection with McNinch, is “almost a religious and benevolent organization,” the founder of the company having left the greater part of its stocks and bonds to Duke university, and North Carolina hospitals. The power properties, the university and the hospitals are all managed by the same men, Morrison said, adding that Duke Power Company “constantly is doing good for humanity, building a rival in physical structure with Yale or Harvard, caring for sick folks, and for decrepit Methodist ministers who are retired.” \ Thus McNinch comes from a community dependent upon power company profits. Every time Mr. McNinch is forced to decide some general power question—a matter involving a company miles from North Carolina perhaps, but establishing a precedent that may mean dollars and cents to the Duke Power Company—it will be natural for him to remember the needy Methodist ministers of North Carolina and the sick folks in Duke hospitals. In any case, Senator Morrison’s sentiments seem to be shared by the senate interstate commerce committee, which appears willing to confirm him without having asked his views on power regulation, nullification or enforcement of the federal water power act. Dole vs. Emergency Relief The idea that the federal government should establish a dole to proride more or less permanent charity for the unemployed is not apt to get far. The American people rightly distrust any system which tends to solidify poverty and enervate the population, or which sets up a political organization for dispensing of favors to voters, financial or otherwise. Such systems abroad have produced evil results, and would shoulder on the government the job which belongs to industry of solving its own unemployment \ problem. Solution of this problem is not a matter of philanthropy, but of social engineering. It involves a reorganization of industry by industry, to level out the vicious business cycles; better production planning; more Intelligent marketing. Moreover, with the growing use of machinery, reducing costs and man labor, it Involves a shortening of the work-week to give labor its share in the machine profits and to take up the otherwise inevitable technological unemployment slack. This is necessary not only in justice to labor, but also to capital, which is dependent on a high consuming mass market, attainable only through high wages and steady employment. In line with industry's effort to reorganize rationally against depressions, the federal government can provide advance planning and approprlaitons for the staggering of public works, and adequate employment exchanges and labor statistics. To care for the smaller number of unemployed who occasionally will be out of work despite the best of advance planning, there is imperative nesd for compulsory state unemployment insurance, based-on the responsibility of each industry for its own workers. Present voluntary unemployment insurance systems of a few individual corporations are inadequate, because they reach only one-half of 1 per cent of the workers, and because they are unfair to those progressive companies which must compete with less progressive ones. Unfortunately, all the plans of industry and of the federal government to prevent unemployment, or to provide for exceptional cases through insurance, apply only to the future. None of them touches the A

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emergency this winter—not even the government’s public works program. We started too late. Therefore, the country has on Its hands a vast immediate problem of philanthropy. There are millions of our fellow citizens and their children cold and hungry. They must be helped quickly. It was assumed that private charity could meet this need. But there are reports from many communities that private charity is not adequate, especially In smaller and poorer communities and in oneindustry citi%s hardest hit by the depression. If there is no other way to prevent starvation, then, of course, the federal government must appropriate funds for the Red Cross—just as the federal government often has voted funds for foreign relief and to cope with food and other emergencies in this country. Congress and the President’s emergency committee should ascertain at once whether the emergency need is being met adequately by private and community agencies, and should act accordingly. If the, need for federal aid is established it can be provided through the Red Cross to fit local con&ikfons and without either a continuing dole or political control of funds. j No one should be to starve in this richest of countries this winjeff/ aboo Explodes It Isnoften that Joseph Stalin, chairman of the exqp/j tlve committee of the Russian government, ffivej}.. aid and comfort to the enemies of Communism fiPS this side of the water. However, the remarks he recently made to an Interviewer about propaganda ought to be very reassuring to those of us who live in mortal dread of a red uprising in this land. In effect. Stalin said that Communist propaganda In capitalistic lands is not, by itself, and never can be, very effective. Propaganda doe* not make Communists. They are produced by national conditions. If the conditions are not favorable, all the propaganda on earth will be useless. Few people anywhere are as afraid of Communism as we are in America; and few people anywhere have so little reason to be afraid of it. Stalin’s comment shows how groundless our fears really are. As long as we maintain the kind of conditions here in which the ordinary working man can be reasonably sure of finding and keeping a job, getting a decent amount of pay for his work and enjoying a fair amount cf the luxuries of life, we shall have no earthly cause for getting exercised about the “red peril.” All of this is perfectly obvious. But our professional patriots seem utterly unable to understand it. A short talk with Stalin might do them a lot of good. In a Hurry _ The call for bids by the postoffice department for a trans-Atlantic air mail service is rather startling. It comes at a time when trans-ocean flights in airplanes still are considered “stunts”; at a time when the development of airplanes is such that very little speed is gained over steamships in the Atlantic crossing; at a time when congress is considering the slashing of appropriations; at a time when the domestic air mail system within the United States still is incomplete. And at a time when the dispute as to whether airplanes or dirigibles are the most practical for ocean hauls still is in progress—with the dirigible holding a slight edge. In the face of these things, it seems logical to believe that the postoffice must have a pretty good reason for its apparent haste. Whatever that reason is, the public will have to foot the bill, and the public is entitled to know. Shades of Mark Hopkins A college once was described as a log with three boys on one end and Mark Hopkins at the other. Most of our great institutions of higher learning staggered along for a century or more with a student body under 500. Today we take up the metropolitan press and find Secretary Vorhiss and Registrar Arnsdorf of NewYork university lamenting the fact that the registration of that great institution has fallen from 35,586 in 1929 to only 33,062 in 1930. This loss is greater than the entire student body of Harvard during the major part of its history. We are not tempted to do .any deep moralizing about this situation, but the above figures sharply call our attention to the fact that we are in the days of the mass production of bachelors of arts and of business administration as well as of flivvers and golf balls.

REASON

Mrs. golda munroe burdick morrison NIXON KENYON—that’s the name she’s acquired by laboring industriously in the vineyard of matrimony—has just married a foui'th naval officer, after having been crowned the widow of three of them. It would seem the navy has more to fear from Golda than from bombing planes. a a a They’re going to the mat in the house and senate in worse fashion than we’ve seen for ten years. This elaborate bipartisan hitting of the peace pipe some weeks ago was all turtle soup. It was just the handshake before the bell tapped. a a a NOW that China has established her national consciousness, she’s going to bat with a vengeance, having enacted 61)00 laws in the last two years. Uncle Sam could give her a friendly tip that there’s such a thing as having so many that nobody pays any attention to any of them. a a a But there's one place where we hope China wins cut, and it’s in the matter of demanding that France and Japan srurender the concessions they grabbed from the immense hermit when she too full of dope to assert her rights. They’ll all get out and be good when they see enough force behind the request. a a a We talk about our "civilization,” but it doesn’t pan out in the conduct of nation’s claiming to be the custodians of the upward march of man. They are a bunch of grabbers, and while they boast of their cture, their manners are those of the boa constrictor. a a a THIS is why many Americans suspect any movement to tie us up with Europe. Having come to this country, to get away from foreign turmoil, it’s quite natural that a lot of us should not care to jump back into it. a a a It’s fine to read that fish are to be brought to the United States from the Arctic by airplane, for so many we get now visibly are fatigued when served. It would see that they’re still giving up the whale that swallow Jonah and now and then we get some- , thing, that tastes like it might be a piece ofJonah.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:-

We More Often Than Not Are Blessed, by a Lack of “Big j News” | 'M' EW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.—T0 ’ Judge from the local papers, ; there isn’t much going on in the world right now—nowhere nearly as much as there was four or five days ago. Os course, there Is quite a bit about congress. The upward turn of stocks and cotton—the LnidseyManning fizzle and Judge Clark’s opinion, which, upheld, would raise Cain not only with the eighteenth amendment, but several others. By and large, however, the headlines run to horse racing, or episodes of a purely local character. One learns that the price of certified milk has been cut from 4 to 6 cents in New Orleans, which sounds interesting, until it develops that most of the dairies wor>.' c handle certified milk and that most of the people couldn’t afford to buv it if they did. Also, one learns that th p New Orleans Rotary Club r ” ; v take coffee and doughnyt' a t its next two the difference betwe?yx what they cost and what it 'regularly pays to the Community Chest. Again one learns that Gcvepnor Huey P. Long has reinstated a d&ckv/orker who was discharged some time ago without cause, that the Alabama militia has cornered some bandits in a swamp and that twelve more Arkansas banks have closed, tt tt tt Little News Is Good News NOT a particularly exciting setup, but still the kind of one with which we must live 90 per cent of the time', if not more, and which deserves our everlasting gratitude for that precise reason. What a world tills would be if it treated us to a Spanish revolution, or something equally disturbing, every day, not to mention anew outbreak of the gang war in Chicago, or a triple execution at Sing Sing. Though most of us fail to realize it, we often are more blessed than not by lack of big news. A prosperous business, smoothly running machine, or contented home seldom makes the front page. Prohibition and hard times have furnished much sensational news of late, but who wants them to continue as they are? tt tt tt it Makes Us Look Dumb SPEAKING of prohibition, Judge Clark appears to have stirred up another tempest in a teapot—or would it be more accurate to say in a beer mug—with his twentycolumn opinion holding the eighteenth amendment unconstitutional because it was ratified by state legislatures instead of by state conventions. One would be more impressed with the performance had the judge himself not virtually blown it up by declaring; “Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the appellate court, we hope that it at least will have the effect of focusing the country’s thought upon the neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions.” Not pausing to argue whether a specially called convention has any advantage over the regularly elected legislature, or whether a referendum wouldn’t be better than either, we csrtaintly ought to find some way of giving constitutional amendments more careful consideration. The way we were stampeded Into pissing the eighteenth amendment, coupled with the way we are trying to wiggle out of it, is a sad, sad commentary on our intelligence. tt tt a Need Common Sense BUT for heaven’s sake, let’s not try more technicalities, since that is where the trouble started. The idea of killing off a constitutional amendment because some one forgot to cross a TANARUS, or misplaced a comma, is made of the same stuff as was the idea that we could end the drink habit with a few legal phrases. Bootleg hooch is a direct result of bootleg law. We have had more than enough of both. What the eighteenth amendment, as well as many other things, calls for is more common sense and less professionalism. We got into this mess largely by listening to professional reformers. We shall only get into a worse one if we try to get out of'it by listening to professional loophole finders. There are only three honest methods of dealing with the. eighteenth I amendment—obey it, change it, or | repeal it.

Questions and Answers

In what county is the city of Baltimore, Md.? It is an independent city, not in any county. Who played the role of the prosecuting attorney in "The Unholy Three?” John Miljan. What metal was used in the mast of the yacht “Enterprise?” Duralumin. During what period were Indian head 1-cent pieces coined? From 1859 to 1909 inclusive. What is pornography? The expression or suggestion of that which is obscene. What is the total membership in the Roman Catholic church in the United States? The last religious census enumerated 18,605,003 Roman Catholics. What is the highest medal of honor conferred by the United States? The congressional Medal of Honor. What is the record attendance at a football game? The record was 120,000, at the Notre Dame-Southern California game at Soldier’s field, Chicago, Nov. 16, 1929. How do the major league batting averages of Babe Ruth and A1 Simmons compare up to the end of the 1929 season? The batting average, major leagues, of Babe Ruth up to and including the season of 1923 is .348; of A1 Simmons, .356.

Vhere’s a Limit to Human Intelligence!

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Watch Child’s Health at Holiday Time

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia, the Health Magazine. A FEW years ago a Christmas party was held in connection with a Sunday school. A mother, exceedingly anxious not to disappoint her child, sent the child, who recently had measles to take part in the celebration. The child still had some discharge from the nose. Following the Christmas party, thirteen other children came down with measles due to infection from this source. The mother owes a responsibility to other mothers to see to it that her child does not become the source from which such cases are spread to other children in the community.

IT SEEMS TO ME

TjVROM the accounts which have been published of the Nobel prize speech by Sinclair Lewis, one gets the impression that our American representative was just a little sore. I think he complained too much. I can understand his irritation. I felt that he was highly deserving of the honor. This was the first time an American had ever been selected by the Swedish committee. It would have been a little more clubby for us all to get together and say “fine and dandy,” but several authors and critics stood out. They refused to join the cheering section. One or two went so far as to say that it was insulting to America to give Lewis the prize. They argued that the author of “Babbitt” had been honored chiefly because he made fun of America. a a a 100 Per Cent Criticism NOW, this seems to me a very silly objection. In the first place, a nation has no right to be so thin skinned. After all, even the most perfect 100 per cent American must realize that here and there things exist in the United States suitable for attack, humorous or otherwise. But people who say or think that Lewis has devoted his entire literary career to holding us up to scorn, just haven’t read his books. At least, not very carefully. I don’t see how anybody who read “Arrowsmith” could think that. I always have thought that the chief character in that book was pretty nearly the most exciting and heroic figure in American literaure. And even “Babbitt” was far from being I all bad or ridiculous. I Maybe there is some exaggeration in the portrait, but it isn’t entirely I one-sided. As I remember the book, ! Babbitt did foolish things, silly i things, and had all kinds of mixed j impulses. I don’t think that Lewis ever meant to say that he was peculiar jto America. In fact, I remember j his having explained several times ' that England, Germany and France | had Babbitts. I guess Sweden has i them, too. After all, the book was an attempt to portray that mythical and interesting creature we call the average man. I say mythical because variety is so gTeat in human beings that every individual has some particular quirk which is wholly his own. a a a His Lights 1 DON’T think it’s the job of a writer always to praise his countrymen. He must write things as he sees them, even if he happens to see them a little wrong. I don’t hold by 100 per cent Americanism or 100 per cent anything. It doesn’t allow any room for the jolting and jarring which goes on in anybody’s journey ■ through life. The tank’s too full, and when a 100 per cent American gets jostled ; he’s likely to spill a little. A good | patriot ought to be able to carry j his Americanism like a gentleman. Still I must confess a good deal of ! irritation with the speech which j Sinclair Lewis made to Swedes — j that is, il it’s been reported cor- ! reetly. j It sounds to me like a Babbitty 1

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

A child who is ill or recently has recovered from an infectious disease should be given its Christmas celebration at home and should not be permitted to mingle with other children until it is compeltely well; indeed, until the physician says that it is safe for the child to do so. The hygiene of celebrations Is altogeher a special question. The unusual excitement, the eating of vast quantities of sweets and indigestible foods, the speeding up of all of the child’s activities, the breaking up of its normal routine of rest and eating may serve to introduce a series of illnesses following the holiday week that yield far more worry and distress than ever can be compensated for by the momentary pleasure of careless celebration.

HEYWOOD BY BROUN

ber of popular fallacies. For instance, here’s Lewis saying: “The American artist is considered a failure without a butler, a motor and a Palm Beach villa, where he often is permitted to mingle almost on terms of equality with the banking barons. “But the artist is oppressed by something worse than poverty. He is oppressed by the feeling that what he creates does not matter and that readers expect him to be a decorator or a clown.” tt tt tt Authors and Apples NOW, that would suggest that Sinclair Lewis was speaking as a man who never had been honored in his homeland. I T . would also suggest that Sinclair Lewis had spent most of his life starving in a garret. And, of course, that isn’t true. There has been, from time to time, a lot of hullabaloo about Lewis. I know because I was a book reviewer when “Main Street" first appeared, and I nearly split a rib saying how good and how fresh and how unconventional it was, and every other critic was throwing his hat in the air, and the book proceeded to sell something like 400,000 copies. So in this case, at any rate, Lewis had universal critical acclaim and very considerable financial rewards as well. I don’t know whether he has a Palm Beach villa, but he had a motor. He could have had a couple of motors and a couple of villas by the time the royalties came in. And other books by Lewis excited comment and caused public commotion. Not all the comment on all the

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MICHELSON’S BIRTH Dec. 19

ON Dec. 19, 1852, Albert Michelson, eminent American physicist, famed for determining the speed of light, was bom in Strelno, Germany. Michelson came to this country as a youth and was educated in the public schools of San Francisco. He entered the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, and upon graduation became instructor of physics and chemistry there. He later taught at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, O.; Clark university, Worcester, Mass., and the University of Chicago. It was while he was in Cleveland that he devised an apparatus for measuring distances by means of the length of light waves. He later determined with great accuracy the speed at which light travels. During the World war Michelson devoted his entire time to new devices for naval use. His rangefinder, for example, was adopted as part of the equipment of the United States navy. In 1920 he achieved the distinction of being the first ever to give the approximate accurate size of “ star, when he demonstrated, by means of light interference, that the diameter of Betelguese was 260 000,000 miles. Michelson was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1901,

The very choosing of Christmas gifts is a matter in which hygiene must play some part. The baby that is too young to understand toys should not be given wooden dolls with paint that can be sucked off, mechanical toys with sharp cutting edges, small novelties that can easily be inhaled or swallowed. Thin paper books will not survive a month with a child under 3 years of age. Guns, knives and similar dangerous weapons have their uses, but are hardly suitable toys for boys even as old as 16 years. Certainly it should be unnecessary to warn against open flame candles for Christmas trees. In these days electricity goes everywhere. If it is not possible to light the tree with electric lights, lights might better be avoided.

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

books was favorable, but, then, some of the books wem’t much good. Os course, that’s an opinion, and, I ought to add, my own opinion. “Elmer Gantry” seemed to me a very trivial piece of work. It was a careless caricature, and if Lewis doesn’t like 100 per cent Americanism he shouldn’t want 100 per cent critical approbation, either. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—lt seems as the unemployment situation grows and a few of usfwho are fortunate enough to have jobs and are doing everything to relieve the less fortunate so they may be warm and have something to eat, the big companies, such as the power and light company, the gas company and the water company at least would inquire wether there were children in the family when the bills for gas, light or water can not be paid because of unemployment. I know of a case where the gas, light and even the water were shut off because the bills could not be paid. The children could not even get a drink of water. However, the Church which I attend learned of this and provided food and some fuel, of which they had neither, for three days, and are having the water turned on, so they can at least have water. Water is cheap and in a time like this is seems as though companies like the light, gas and water companies would have a heart, or would at least report It to some charitable organization before they cut service, at least. A TIMES READER. Editor Times—After reading the letter of “An Interested Reader,” I find it impossible to keep from adding a few of my own observations. It is not to be denied that some married women are working whose husbands are able to support them. But there is another class of married women who work because necessity demands it. A woman in this predicament either must work or depend on charity. She is not delighted with the prospect of leaving home for a store or factory, and she would give up her job tomorrow if she

Backgammon Everybody’s playing it now. Backgammon is a game with a history. Fifty years ago, in grandmother’s and grandfather’s time, it was one of the fashionaole games of the times. Now has come a revival of interest in this fascinating pastime. All your friends will be playing it 60cn. You want to know the fundamentals of the game. Our Washington bureau has ready one of its comprehensive bulletins on the subject, illustrated with diagrams of the plays. Just fill out the coupon below and send for it: CLIP gOUPON HERE Dept. 106, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington. D. C. I want a copy ot the bulletin BACKGAMMON, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loo* - uncancelled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY .... STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

_DEC. 19, 193(1

SCIENCE

•BY DAVID DIETZ-

“Dot and Dick in Natureland” Is Ideal Gift for Child at Christmas Tims, PERHAPS a science editor may make a suggestion which wiT help you with your Christmas shopping: An ideal gift for boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 12 is “Dot and Dick in Nature land.' published by J. Thobum Bishop. The author is Dean Halliday. The pictures are by Doro. Dr. William G. Vinal, professor of nature education in the school of education of Western Reserve university, and director of the Nature Guide school of Hudson. 0., writes a brief introduction for the book. In it he says, “Here is a book of facts about nature that I wish I had had when I was a boy.” That sentence gives ttie keynote of the book. It is a book of facts. But they are by no means dry facts. They are amazing and interesting facts about birds, insects, animals, plants and flowers. Halliday and Doro will be known to many readers as the author and artist, respectively, of the newspaper “strip” which carries the same title as the book. This “strip” tells the adventures of two children, Dot and Dick, who are introduced to the wonders of nature by their Uncle Ned. a a a To Be Colored ft\hE book is made up on the fol<* A lowing plan: Each page on the left-hand side is given to a fullpage drawing of some animal, bird, insect or flower. Each page on the right-hand side is given up to four pictures detailing one of the adventures of Dot and Dick. Each adventure concerns the specimen pictured in the fullpage drawing. The first two pages of the book are in colors. The others are to be colored by the lucky boy or girl who receives the book for Christinas. Either paints or crayons can. be used. A feature of the book is a color chart telling the proper colors for each animal or plant, and a list of books for reference use. Thus the book not only should' provide much fun for children but also should serve as an introdiuction to the study of nature and a sound interest in the subject. Tl.e first picture for coloring shows two tumblebugs rolling their bar. of eggs to a hiding place. The pictures on the opposite page tell how Dot and Dick go into the woods with Uncle Ned and find two tumblebugs In the grass who dig a hole and hide their ball of eggs in it. Another picture shows the boatman bug which lies on the water on its back and rows itself by the motion of its legs. Another adventure concerns the trapdoor spider which builds its nest in a hole in the ground and weaves a trap-door on silken hinges over the entrance. a a a Beauty of Nature THE directions given in the color chart are simple and easy to follow. For example, on one page is a picture of the Venus fly-trap, an interesting plant which traps insects in its flowers and then proceeds to digest them. The color chart says; "Venus flytrap. White flowers. Stem and leaves green.” Educators throughout the world are beginning to realize the necessity of stressing nature study. The city child, surrounded by paved streets instead of green pastures, no longer has the opportunity to learn nature as did the country child. It is for this reason that the schools are emphasizing nature study. It also accounts for much of the interest in summer camps for boys and girls. It is a great pity when a child grows up without a proper appreciation of nature. Much of the interest and beauty of life is forever hidden from him. “Dot and Dick in Natureland’* will provide an excellent start in i the right direction for any child besides providing hours of amusement with paints and crayons.

Daily Thought

Thou shalt not steal.—St. Matthew 19:18. Stolen sweets are best.—Colley Cibber. had the assurance It would be given to her husband. As to luxuries, she does net know the meaning of the word. While she wears her old hat and her year before last dress to pay the rent and grocery bill, her unmarried friend often comes to work in a fur coat, and with diamonds on her fingers. If the single girl gets out of workg she often can go home to her parents, but woe to the poor married woman, for who wants to support both a daughter and an unemployed son-in-law? It’s true many women hold jobs that should belong to men, but often a single girl needs work r.o mora than a married woman. AN EMPLOYED WIFE