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The Manger a Throne Once again the world turns in reverence and devotion to the manger. Once again human hearts soften to the appeal of less fortunate brothers. Once again little children mount the throne. The procession of centuries has witnessed the gradual mental adoption of the messages brought to a world that was in the very depths of material degradation. at its low ebb of spiritual motivation, Conditions at this Christmas only serve to emphasize the fact that civilization has been giving much lip service to His teachings and little thought to their real meaning. There is poverty in every country. There also is limitless wealth and luxury. The poverty is for too many. The luxury is for the all too few. Such condition is inevitable when people worship material things and forget their souls. Such condition always will prevail until there is a real adoption of the Christian, not the Christmas, i pirit. To the devout, the day is one of gladness, for it renews faith in eternal happiness and in God. To the less devout it is the occasion for an expression of good will and human sympathy which is the natural heritage of man. as instinctive when unrepressed as the act of breathing itself. The eager participation in charities, the rush of Christ mas baskets to homes where cupboards are barren, the distribution of toys to homes of misfortune, the desire to give to less fortunate is but an expression of that real desire for human brotherhood so often suppressed and buried beneath the conditions of a complex society in anew age of material development. Rejoicing in the coming of Christ, though, well might be turned to the mode of life, to the practices and especially to the startling message which came with Him. The world had gone mad with materialism. It worshiped in formality and not in spirit. It placed emphasis upon the letter of the law and none upon human values. The great urge then, as it is too often today, was to possess things of luxury or comfort, to gain fame over weaker beings. He came to the poor and lived among the poor. He did not seek out the powerful, but consorted with the unknown and the unimportant. He chose his followers from the lowly, but the names of those vvho listened are eternal in memory, while the great of that day are forgotten. Because be shocked the gjeat and the pow erful and the rich with his indictment of that materialism and anew, strange doctrine or love and kindness. He died upon the cross. But before that happened, he wandered out on a mountain and gave a message that must and will serve as the guide for all the centuries, if civilization does not destroy itself by refusing to follow. Read today, not.only the story of the birth, but the Beatitudes, and let their spirit enter into your Christmas meditations as an added reason for thankiulness and gladness and joy “Blessed are the poor"—not t*e rich in material things. Is your real quest the amassing of gold and jewels and vast wealth? “Blessed are tire peacemakers.'' Turn your eyes to government which delay the bringing of peace and devote themselves to the equipment of vast armies with which to kill human beings, to the creation of vast forces of airplanes and battleships whose only purpose is death and war. Blessed are the pure In heart." Can the heart be pure which is filled with idolatry of passing fancies, of vain trappings of wealth, of desire for power to rule rather than the opportunity to serve? Once again the world finds itself worshipping false gods. Its standards have been based too greatly on material things, rather than on spiritual values. The letter of the law is the rule of conduct, not the spirit of the law. On this day the sham and the futility of all these things is torn away by the light of the stars of Bethlehem. * Their bright rays >’rce deeply into human hearts. For the hour peace and good will reign. The passing centuries add to His glory. They also force the truth of His messages. May this Christmas bring not only happiness to the individual, but a greater acceptance of His truth, which was given to a world not greatly unlike the present. Nursing a Good Cause In the laudable effort to make honest men out of ex-crooks, one of the greatest difficulties met by the reformer is the .solid wall of opposition to giving the released convict a job. Often the former prisoner has no trade which can be sold in the labor mart. Moreover, he either must face the handicap of inaoi:: f y to give references or admit the stigma of criminality. The increased unemployment of the honest crafts- . man today renders It doubly difficult for the untrained ex-crook to obtain a steady job Therefore, the latter usually faces the alternative of starving and freezing or getting the old gun into action. He does not hesitate long as to which to choose In due time, sensible penology will recognize the responsibility of the state to obtain employment for its released convicts and no prison will discharge a man until It first has obtained work for him. In the meantime, public and private agencies must redouble their efforts. Os the private attempts to provide work for exconvicts, the most ambitious has been the Marshall Stillman movement, organized by Alpheus Geer t in Mew York City some seven years ago. He enlisted the aid of famous business men, philanthropists and clerics and put some of the most notorious ex-thugs in all crookdom to work at plodding and prosaic occupations. Back in 1928. Greer took over the Amazon Leather Company's plant and began the making of highgrade leather goods. All signs seemed to point to a successful future, but disciplinary’ problems arose, rwo shop foremen were killed in succession. The result was. as a Herald-Tribune writer laconfcally remarks. a decrease of zest for executive work and administrative responsibilities in the plant. Geer was accused of a flair for the spectacular, but it may have been only a touching faith i b human nature which made him prefer to put a killer at the bench rather than a first-time forger. He possibly wanted to show that not even the worst thug was hopeless. , In any event, his alleged misjudgments were made possible only through the prior and worse Judgments of society. If we had a rational habitual criminal act or sound penology in operation, few or no notorious professional criminals ever would find their way out of prison. The worst type which a man like Mr. Greer could get hold of to reform would be potentially reformable. But no one can deny that Mr. Greer, like Mr. iOsborne, was a brave and devoted piones* in,the ♦movement to uproot our current savage of

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dealing with criminals, It is a cause for real gratification that M. W. Stephens has revived the plan under the name of the bureau of human relations. He will confine his efforts at rehabilitation to the less hardened types of criminals. There are more of this variety at large than well can be handled and the prospect of domesticating and disciplining them is far brighter. Tariff Racket’s Toll While the President and congress are floundering around trying to decide how much money to appropriate for unemployment relief and where to get that money, they should realize that they are partly to blame for the emergency. Times would not be so hard if they had not insisted on saddling the country with the Grundy-Smoot billion-dollar tariff. They must be reminded of this when they read the latest figures of the department of commerce on the decline of our foreign trade. During the first ten months of 1930, foreign trade decreased $2,194,000,000, the loss being about evanly divided between exports and imports. If the President and congress haven’t enough imagination to know what the loss of more than a billion dollars of export trade means to the United States, they can look around at the unemployment bread lines and closed factories. It is for instance, that the National Cash Register Company lpst $1,000,000 from tariff retaliation in sixty days, and now is planning to build factories abroad. Because that million-dollar fund has been taken out of the pockets of American capital and labor—partly by the tariff war we started—the federal government now desperately must deplete the federal treasury and burden the taxpayer to raise direct and indirect relief funds. As long as American business men, workers and farmers go on submitting to this higher tariff racket there will be no permanent relief for the depression cycle. Congress and the President Some of the news stories coming out of Washington arc a bit puzzling. They speak of the rebellion of congress against the President, and of Hoover’s threat to go to the people if congress doesn’t co-operate. If there is anything in our constitutional system of checks and balances, and the division of power among executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, it would be just as proper to spek of a presidential rebellion against congress as a congressional rebellion against the President. Neither is the whole thing. The impression is that it takes at least two to co-operate. Yet one might conclude from Washington stories that President Hoover’s notion of cooperation is for congress t do whatever the President wants it tp do. There is nothing in the Constitution that makes the executive superior to the legislative branch of government. The only possible argume it in favor of presidential dominance over the legislative branch is that the President is leader of his party, and that, hence, members of congress belonging to his party should follow his leadership. But that implies no obligation on the part of Democrats to take orders from a Republican President. It’s a good thing for the country that enough Republican and Democratic senators refused to co r opes-ate so far as to approve some of the appointments President Hoover undertook to make to the federal bench. Until he shows greater qualities of democratic and liberal leadership than he has shown so far, it will be a good thing for the country if congress stops, looks and listens before blindly co-operating by obeying presidential orders or following presidential leadership. It’s a good bet that if President Hoover appeals to the country against the senate at this stage of the game, his only response will be the Bronx cheer. But maybe ft would be a good thing for him to find that out. Congress must be taking the unemployment situation seriously, considering the idle chatter going on there now. High school girls in Maine are playing football. And according to the fashion experts, they’ve got pretty good lines

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THE state superintendent of public instruction announces that the board of education may change the school books once more, all of which is about as welcome news as if we were to be told that a foreign foe was about to invade our soil a a a * This school book changing has reached the point where the people should rise and tell their officials that they are tired of being rimmed and dimmed by this unending monkey business; they should call fgr an end of the system which has plagued and pillaged Indiana too long aa ' a Tills year it is proposed to change the spelling books, the grammars, the geographies, the physiologies, and some other books. There may be some reason at distant intervals to change, some text books, but there’s no sane reason now for changing any of the books mentioned above. a a a UNLESS we’ve changed the way to spell there’s no earthly use of changing the spelling booksUnless we now spell cat with a “K,” unless we’ve dropped the "P” from pneumonia, it’s only public pillage to take from the people hundreds of thousands of dollars for new spellers. a a a And there’s no use changing the grammars unless the rules have changed and “see, saw and seen” have been reversed in their relationship. If “went” and “gone” and ‘lay,” “laid,” “lie” and “lair” have been turned around we ought to know about ;t, otherwise the old grammars are O. K. a a a THERE have been no geographical changes worth mentioning since the World war and these have been taken care of in the geographies adopted since the armistice, but now the people of Indiana are facing a demand for new geographies. It’s an outrage pure and simple We don’t need any new geographies unless the continents should get up in the middle of the night and change places. a a And there’s no justification for changing the physiologies unless our insides have been moved around or unless the superintendent of public instruction has confidential information that they are to be moved around. a a a We have a pile of perfqptly good, but discarded school bocks at our house and we should like to hand them down to the smaller kids, this colossal nonsense tells us we can’t do it t It’s time for the people to speaw

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Science Has Madi Important Advance in Its War on Plant Diseases. HOW experiments in plant breeding have produced new types of corn, wheat, sugar cane, cotton, grass, clover, fruits and flowers were described recently by Dr. A. F. Woods, director ot scientific work of the United States department of agriculture. The new plants have been the result of the application of sceintific methods to agriculture and of anew point of view upon the part of scientists interested in the subject of botany. “The old J>otany was largely the naturalists’ interest in the orders, species, and varieties of plants as they occurred in nature,” he said. “Plants as well as snimals everywhere were coniderec ! as fixed entities that might vary a little under changing conditions of environment, but always remained within the fixed bounds in which they were created. “Tliis viewpoint has been changed as the result of research. We still have the families and species, but they are more or less plastic in the hands of the geneticist. “We have learned that the hereditary characters are carried in the chromosomes of the germ- plasm nucleus and that these chromosomes are made up of smaller bodies not much larger or more complex than some of our chemical molecules. “We have learned that these have a definite relation to each other in the chromosome and that this definite relation controls the form and activity of the individual resulting from the egg cell. “Regrouping can be produced by crossing or hybridization or can be brought abouts by other means, such as certain forms of radiation, thus producing mutations in enormous numbers from which selections may be made.” an The New Botany COLD and drought - resistant wheats and alfalfas, wilt-re-sistant cottons, cowpeas, flax, melons, sugar canes resistant to virus diseases, potatoes resistant to these and other diseases, are mong the new productions, Dr. Woods said. “Plant breeders are constantly improving, developing and adjusting crop planas to various limiting factors and quality requirements,” he said. Important investigators also are being conducted into the other fields of botany. He continued: “We long have realised how fundamentally important plant life is to the existence of animal life. We know that plants are able to combine carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen into forms available to animals. They do this with energy absorbed from sunlight, “We have known a little of these products of photosynthesis, starch, sugar cellulose, pectin, organic acids, and a host of other organic products about which we know very little. “Recently our investigators have opened anew field in the so-called vitamins that are found to have extremely important relations to animal development. They control growth and reproduction, resistance to many diseases in animals and men. Almost every year our investigators are bringing new aspects of these important matters to light. “Then there are other light relations that only recently have been discovered; for example, the relation of periodicity of light exposure to the development of plants. “In nature this is regulated by the seasons and by day and night. We have developed some control of resting periods and growth, but flowering and fruiting in the majority of cases could not be controlled until one of our scientists discovered that* by changing the length of exposure to light and darkness ’he could change the flowering and fruiting period. “This is proving to be a most helpful control in bringing plants to bloom at a desired period, either for commercial or research purposes. It is anew field in which there is research yet to be done. u u Plant Disease ONE of the most important ad- ' vances which science has made in the field of agriculture has been in the attack upon plant diseases, Dr. Woods says: “Anew science, phytopathology, has been developed in our efforts to cope with these diseases. First progress along control lines was in the use of fungicidies. “The United States department of agriculture and the experiment stations have led the world in this development, The same is true in regard to insect pests. The warfare grows more intense every year. “The increasing ease of communication between hitherto isolated regions has made it possible for many fungous and insect parasites to move to cultivated plants related to their wild hosts. With the improved food conditions, they multiply enormously and become major pests. “Plant lice, leaf-hoppers, grasshoppers, crickets, potato beetles, are all well-known examples of those that have moved from mild to cultivated plants. The cotton boll weevil, the pink boll worm, the Japanese and Asiatic beetles, the corn borers, the Mediterranean fruit fly, and others too numerous to mentidn, are some that have been brought in. “Here, free from their enemies, they have become a serious menace to our agriculture. Most of them can not be eradicated, so the best that we can do is to import* their enemies when those enemies are not likely to be Injurious, and also to develop other means of suppresj sion and control. : “This involves a careful, detailed i study of the life and habits of all I these pests, but it is the only hope !of keeping them successfully in j check in highly developed agriculj tural regions. “The aime is true of plant parasites, rusts, smuts, mildews, bacteria and hosts of others.”

Daily Thought I

The meek shall inherit the earth.—Psalms 37:11. Meekness is the grace which, from beneath God’s footstool, *lifts up a candid and confiding eye, accepting God’s smile of fatherly affection, and adoring those perfections which it ‘ can not comprehend.—James Hamilton. T

Industrial Chemicals Affect Skin

This is the first of a series of articles by Dr. Fishbein on skin diseases induced by external causes, particularly industrial chemicals. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hycreia. the Health Magazine. IT IS generally recognized that numerous chemical substances used in industry may affect the skin, with the production of eruptions, irritations, change of color, or other symptoms. Painters, plasterers and dentists are known to suffer due to eruptions from turpentine, lime and similar chemicals. Not infrequently a secondary infection occurs on the spot that has been irritated and thereby lowers the resistance. Specialists in diseases of the skip sometimes find that henna, which is incorporated in hair dyes, will cause eruptions resembling those due to the chemical found in dyed furs. Eyebrow pencils 'which contain mascara or various coal tar products

IT SEEMS TO ME

you like frankness?” said my iJ boss. I got the impression that maybe he would be hurt if I said “No,” and so I nodded with enthusiasm. “Well, then, you won’t mind my saying that of late the column has been a little thin. And I think I know the reason.” I was going to suggest that maybe I was not putting enough of myself into it, but just then he tossed over a clipping in which somebody had taken the trouble to ring all the “I’s” and “my’s” with a red pencil. I counted quickly and they ran up to a total of seventy-nine. “That’s still ten less than my record,” I said stanchly. “Don’t bother about that,” answered my boss. “I’m used to your fondness for the first person perpendicular; it’s something else I want to talk to you about.” a Sins Swim Past ALL my sins of the past fortnight swam before my eyes. Each was using the Australian crawl and clipping through the water at a record pace. I remembered the night when I failed to get to bed until 2 in the morning. I was reminded of the afternoon my copy was half an hour late. And there also was a column about what the ship news reporters probably would ask Einstein, which had the misfortune to appear some little time after Einstein actually had arrived. “The trouble with you,” jny boss went on, “is that you don’t get mad often enough.” “I have no complaints,” I ventured. “All things considered; I have been very happy in your employ.” This he brushed aside as irrelevant. “All your best columns have been written when you were mad at somebody, I liked your Bishop Manning piece. I more or less gathered that you were annoyed about something. You don’t mind my being frank, do you?” But now it was too late for me

CROSSING OF DELAWARE December 25 ON Dec. 25, 1776, George Washington, after being driven from New York by the British, made his famous crossing of the Delaware/ Washington secretely had transported 2,500 men across the river, then full of floating ice, and after marching them nine miles in a blinding snowstorm, fell on the British in the early monring at Trenton, N. J. Colcnel Rahl, who had been left in charge of British forces by Cornwallis, was surprised completely. He had not slept off the effects of his Christmas day carousal and was incapable of meeting the invaders. Asa result, Washington captured more than 1,000 prisoners and large quantities of arms and ammunition. Though it was a small battle, it proved a significant one, because It kindled new hope in the hearts of dispirited anddespairing patriots, end completely upset the plans of Howe, the British commander. After this battle, Washington marched on to Princeton to surprise and rout the army of Cornwallis, who had left Trenton just before jflCashing ton’s unexpected visit. “

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

produce in some people redness and swelling of the upper eyelids. Various chemical substances for removing haird contain barium sulphide, which produces an irritation of , the skin. Some shaving creams have a sufficient amount of alkali in them to irritate a sensitive skin. FDrhlgn(.mmvdo shrd etao et etao In addition to direct irritation from the chemical, there is the possibility of reaction because the person is especially sensitive to some drug or chemical substance. Not infrequently babies have severe irritations of the buttocks due to chemicals in the excretions. Thus in some cases the action of a germ on the fluid that is excreted splits the chemicals which it contains into products, one of which is ammonia, and the ammonia is irritating to the skin. In the case of such irritation from the diaper, the growth of the germ which brings about the formation of ammonia may be prevented by

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to confess that, next to spinach, frankness—perfect frankness—is the commodity I like least in the world. That is, frankness touching on me and my writing and my painting and my figure. But it was too late to develop that attitude. So I nodded again, but with less enthusiasm. “Well,” my boss went on, “since this is confidential and I’m sure you won’t let it go any further, I don’t take any interest in that dog of yours, Corporal Flagg.” “Captain Flagg,” I objected. “I wouldn’t care if he were a colonel. And as far as I’m concerned, you don’t need ever to paint any more pictures. And I’m not exactly consumed with curiosity as to whether you caught two bullheads in Hale lake or no bullheads at all. “I like your stuff when you go out crusading about something. That’s your best line. I’m speaking to you frankly. I’m sure you won’t be offended.” BUB Hating on Schedule I WENT away, not exactly offended, but bowed down under the weight of a great responsibility. The assignment to be mad at some-

People’s Voice

Editor Times —I read in your paper last week where you thought that the courts did not give justice to a couple of men found guilty of bombing and wholesale murder of, innocent people. You say they were not guilty, but didn’t the officers of the law catch them and convict them, before they placed those bombs for the Preparedness day parade, with bombs to blow up places that were being built or that already were built? I don’t believe that the people and the courts of California gave justice soon enough. If those men had been put behind bars the first time they were caught with dynamite, there would be a few more people living in California today. I don’t seem to know how to take you. A few years ago you condemned the Ku-Klux Klan, an organization of protestant people who were not guilty of bombing or murder, but were painted the dirtiest class of people living, because they went out and spoke freely of their rights. Also, if you are as strong for justice as you tell your readers, why, in the name of this good city, don’t you get cut and inspect the charity organizations of this city? I read where the Community fund got S2O 000 over the quota it asked fcr, but still poor people in this city are going hungry because these charity organizations won’t turn loose the money they were given to teed the needy. I know of families who have gone to the Family Welfare for help, who have been turned down and sent to their trustee, who in turn sends them back to the charity organization, whose officials tell them they can’t do anything for them because they have asked someone else for help. Now if you believe in Justice, why, In the name of this city, don’t you look for it in your own city, instead of playing politics as you do and rave about the way the government is run? READER. Was “Lefty” Grove credited with winning any games for the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1929 world series? No. He pitched in the second and fourth games, but did not pitch a complete game,. anCwas not credited wlch any victoifes. }

washing the diapers in antiseptic solutions. Obviously in cases of irritation of the skin such as have been described the matter of first importance is to determine exactly the cause. Usually with removal of the cause of the irritation, the disease propmptly. disappears, particularly after the physician prescribes a healing lotion or ointment or some other measure to aid healing and to protect the skin during the healing process. In some cases in which the skin has seemed to be especially irritable, various means have been attempted to decrease the irritation. Among these are application of ultraviolet rays to the point of tanning, and sometimes the use of Roentgen ray or X-ray to hasten the activity of the cells and to overcome the itching. The relief afforded by such measures, however, is only temporary, and it is important in every case to determine the cause and to remove the source of irritation.

ideals and opinions expressed In this colnmn are those of one ot America’s most inter* estlng writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

body six days a week is a little difficult. Some mornings I wake up and the sun is shining and I haven't anything on my conscience from the night before, and I get the notion that maybe Pippa had the right idea. Os course, there may be some evidence in the newspapers that not everything is right with the world. By careful reading of the reports from banquets and luncheons and so on I generally find that somebody has said something to which I can take violent exception without straining myself too mucin But every new and then I lose a hate. It’s extremely dangerous for me to meet people. It Isn’t at all unusual for me to run into somebody i’ve been hammering for months or years only to find him so agreeable that rancor evaporates and I am cut dof.n in columnar material. B B tt 'Who's All Right? 1 TJ'OR instance, there is Gene TunA ney. It used to be that when nothing else offered I could always take a few pokes (I mean verbal pokes) at him. But he sat across the table at a dinner a few nights ago. He was keen and quick and pleasant. And in excellent training, Besides, they’ve just him honorary sheriff of Fairfield county, Conn., where he lives, not more than a mile from my farm. So that feud is over. I mean as far as I’m concerned. It may be hat psycho-analysis did a good deal to cramp my columnar style. When the treatment began I was filled with suppressed hatred. The doctor pointed out that I was using poker as an outlet for my inhibitions. Although a pacifist by faith and professedly a partisan for tolerance anrd kindliness, I became at the card table a punishing and savage person. Since this fact was brought out, I have lost steadily and been obliged to swear off. You see, I began to feel sorry for the losers, inducing myself. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

Short Story Writing Nearly every one, sometime In his life feels an urge to write, our own experiences or those of others frequently prompt the thought: “That would make a good story.” And, naturally, we want to write It ourselves. From such promptings the prolific literature of today arises. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a bulletin, SHORT STORY WRITING. It can not make a writer out of you 11 you have no talent, Imagination, persistence or ability In that line. On the other hand story writing is not so difficult as it Is sometimes made to appear Our bulletin on the subject will give you much fundamental Information on how to go about this work. You will find it interesting, informative and helpful. It contains information, too, on where and how to market your stories. Fill out the coupon below and send for it; CLIP COUPON HERE : DEPARTMENT 100, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. 1 want a copy of the bulletin SHORT STORY WRITING, and indose herewith five cents in coin or loose, uncancelled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs; NAME • STREET AND NO CITY .* STATE 1 am a daily reader of -The Indianapolis Tiroes. (Code No.>

_DEC. 23, 1930®

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

What, Western Civilization Needs , Especially in America, Is Less of the Ostrich and More of the Missionary Spirit. MORE Jobs through a shortened working day; higher prices through the arbitrary curtailment of farm crops: better business through the exclusion of foreign goods, and so on. ad infinitum. No matter how good each proposition may look by itself, the scheme as a whole is all wet. While It Is true that modern industry has led to overproduction in certain lines and that mechanical power has involved the decrease, if not the extinction, of certain trades, it is not true that all people have been provided with the comforts and conveniences of civilized life even in the so-called civilized countries. • Furthermore, civilization was not attained by building barricades or quitting in the middle of the afternoon, nor can it be preserved that way, U B B -* Job Not Complete MORE than half of humanltv still lacks a speaking acquaintance with what we regard as ordinary necessities. Nether is that half confined to the swarming plains of Asia or the Jungle depths of Africa, as some seem to think. There are millions right here in America living without bathtubs or screened windows, not to mention electric lights, hardwood floors, and washing machines. The fact that we are driving four times as many autos as all the rest of the world put together, or that we have twice as many telephones, does not mean that we have done such a complete job. If every able-bodied adult in this country were to work eight hours a day every day in the year for the next 100 years, we could still find, something to do. Knowledge increases consumption as well as production. Os the two, consumption Is the more important. It is not what some of us raise or make that counts, but the way many of us can use it. What western civilization needs, especially in America, is less of the ostrich and more of the missionary spirit. No nation can grow by walling itself, in lying down on the job and living off its own shelf. Success means responsibility as well as privilege. No matter how well off they may be, those who quit are lost. The problem is not to curtail production, except in spots, but to promote consumption, particularly among people who have not caught up with the procession. We could do a lot in that direction if we had the will, BUB We’re Not Helping YOU hear people talk a great deal about the wonderful market China one day will furnish for our machinery and implements, or Africa and South America. But what are we doing to help the good work along? Are we tackling the proposition the way we tackle that of anew town site, or a suburban development? . We are not. We are sitting down and waiting for them to get set, and whining because it takes so long. If there is a revolution, we generally can find ways to loan the new government some cash to pay off its soldiers, provided we think it is going to last more than a week. How much have we ever loaned for real, honest-to-God improvements; for better roads, reclamation projects and such other enterprises as are necessary for the development of natural resources? People can’t drive autos without roads, neither can they market their goods at a profit. If the United States wants to see more business in the world, the United States must take hold and help to create it. That is one responsibility that goes with the possession of onethird of the gold in existence, with being the world’s outstanding leader In commerce, finance, and manufacturing.

Questions and Answers

Where is the largest stadium in the United States? Grant stadium at Chicago which seats 125,000. Is the dog Rin-Tin-Tln still living? What is the name of the last picture in which he appeared? He is living and his latest picture is “Rough Waters.” What is the rarest and most valuable stamp in the world? The British Guiana one-cent magenta of 1856. There is only one known to exist, and its present value is about $40,000. What is the population of Rome, Italy? The official estimated population for June 30, 1928, was 877,289.