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To the Bottom Fortunately the legislature is now in session and in that body lies a final hope that every incident in connection with the payment of money by a telephone holding company for “public relations’’ may be disclosed. The public will hardly agree with the suggestion of the attorney-general that one member of the public service commission reEither this commissioner is a crook and should be in the penitentiary or he should be reappointed. It is a matter of record that in many other cases this particular commissioner, Calvin Mclntosh, has stood with the people against the greeds of the utilities. It is just possible that the utilities would like to discredit him. It is also possible that the original charge by the attorney-general is true. There is no middle course and no com promise in this situation. If the utilities have been bribing members of this commission, then these members should be in cells as thieves and bandits, for their betrayal of the public in utility rates is conspiracy to rob by wholesale where the more admirable thief takes with courage and a chance of detection. There should be some challenge to the legislature in the fact that this money was taken from a holding company and not a utility. It is time to investigate what these holding companies do with their funds and how they get the money out of the hands of the controlled utility into the pockets of the uncontrolled holding company. Not only this small concern but every holding company for utilities should be probed The people should know what is being paid to the holding company of the electric company in this city and how huge are the sums that are being charged to operating expenses for the benefit of this legal fiction. The people should examine the other holding companies and find out what is being taken from the people of this state for the telephone octopus. This slip by a small utility operator should be the occasion for examining the whole financial utility structure. Crooked commissioners must go to jail. Crooked holding companies must be curbed.

A Big Business View In view of reports that many firms are using the surplus labor market as an excuse for wage cuts, that government contracts are being let to wage-slashing firms, that short-sighted employers are seeking to bring back the low wage era to America, a statement last week in Chicago by one of this country's biggest of big business men is timely. “It Is my deliberate judgment,” said James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation, “that a general reduction in wages in this country, instead of relieving the situation, would set back the impending recovery by at least two years. “I am confident of our steady progress toward better times because of the fundamental soundness of our institutions, of the basic resources of our country, of its wealth as a creditor rather than a debtor country. “Apparently those who advocate wage reductions have not stopped to weigh the implications, that instead of tending to increase consumption of industrial and agricultural products, such reductions inevitably must reduce the purchasing power of the wage earner and restrict consumption.” Let’s Have the Rest! Eleven men In a Pullman smoking room could have done as well . . . And this comment, by a congressman, on the Wickersham commission's report is only another way of saying that the same decision—that prohibition Is unenforced and unenforceable—will be arrived at, whether based upon the average person’s more or less superficial knowledge of the facts, or based upon the commission’s detailed study of the whole situation. The commission, of course, reached its decision that the law was not being enforced after spending many months studying evidence that cost in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. Though it was a presidential commission, it spent the taxpayers’ money. That is sufficient, but not the only, reason why the people should be allowed to know what their money bought. The commission, we believe, has discharged only part of its duty in submitting its report. To round up its work, it must make available to all the evidence on which its report was based A Fairy Tale From Detroit A center of industrialism is not ordinarily the soil in which liberty flourishes, least of all, in a period of severe business depression. Detroit is one of our great. Industrial cities. It has been hit particularly hard in the present economic crisis. We naturally would expect Its Ideals of civii liberties to resemble the situation in St. Petersburg in lin4 o’* in Home or Los Angeles in 1931. We would not be unreasonable in imagining the mayor of Detroit in constant telephonic connection wit'll Ham Fish, Ralph Easley, Harry’ Jung and Father Coughlin. But behold one of the strangest tales in American history. Detroit has a mayor who actually behaves like an American of the old school. It is almost as though one of the fathers had been recalled to life in the flivver capital. Mayor Frank Murphy attended a civil liberties meeting the other night and delivered himself of a classic speech in behalf of the cause. The American Civil Liberties union had planned to erect a monument to civil liberty in the public square. It was proposed to make it of concrete. But the mayor desired more enduring and impressive material. He ordered it done in marble and promised to pay the difference out of his own pocket. He declared that free speech should be as undisturbed around this as in Hyde Park. Further, he sectioned

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the unthinkable, namely, meetings at the factory gates of the great Detroit industrial plants. If Mayor Murphy lives and keeps the faith. It wUI be a long time before the barricades of revolution will arise In the streets of Detroit. Jimmy Walker well might stop off for a reassuring chat with Mr. Murphy some fine day. The Better American Federation of Los Angeles appropriately could send a skeptical delegation to be convinced that the city of Detroit can stand without a “red squad - ’ to arrest those who read the first amendment to the Constitution in the public square. Congress and Business The United States Chamber of Commerce 6ays we shouldn’t have a special session of congress, because of the “uncertainties which infvitably would follow.” That’s a myth. Myths are very pleasant things, sometimes. Take, for instance, the myth that horsehair if kept in a bottle of water long enough will turn into a snake. Or the myth about the Republican party and prosperity. But myths have no place in adult America, and myths like the one now being fostered by the United States Chamber of Commerce are better dead than alive. If it'6 true that congress makes business unsettled, it’s just as true to say that all government operations should be stopped to save business. Congress is only a third of the federal government. Would you send all the executive branch on a vacation to help business? Or put the lid on judicial activities to help business? Asa matter of fact, the executive and judicial branches of our federal government probably have more direct effect upon business than the legislative. The Constitution decreed that congress shall meet to legislate, when legislation is needed. There is before the present session a great deal of im--portant business that may not be transacted before March 4, In thr,t event, or if some important issue arises that requires legislative action, congress should meet in special session. For decade after decade, w r e have been having regular sessions of congress and special sessions, and business has gone right along. A special session now is unlikely to disturb any legitimate business. Killing the Goose The private power companies, scheming for a dummy power commission and ineffectual state rate regulation, are killing the goose that for years has laid golden eggs for them—regulation. When that fails, they will have to meet a popular weapon infinitely more effective. That is public ownership. Witness what is occurring out on the Pacific coast. Oppressive power rates drove Tacoma to municipa" ownership nearly forty years ago. When Tacoma’s Nisqually plant began piling up profits - of $1,000,000 a year at rates among the cheapest in America, Seattle followed suit with her great Skagit project. Los Angeles, with its Owens aqueduct, came next, then San Francisco with Hetch Hetchy. Now Portland has decided to do likewise and her city dads just h "9 voted to condemn the local power company’s plant. The back country, eager to participate in cheaper power, bestirred itself and at last election both 'Oregon and Washington passed measures permitting irrigation districts and smaller cities to combine for public power projects. J. D. Ross, Seattle’s power superintendent, says it will be only a matter of time until the coast cities are hooked up in a great publicly owned superpower system. “People in the east,” said Kenneth Harlan, Portland utility engineer, “do not realize how in earnest the people of the Pacific coast are. They’ve been ‘skinned’ too long. They’re finding the only way out.” Let the private power companies take heed. All the George Otis Smiths and Frank Bonners in the country can not save them. If they destroy efiective rate regulation, they will have to meet the new rate regulator now growing so popular in the far west, —public ownership. It’s one or the other. Now that Clara Bow has been dismissed from the cast, is it wrong to refer to her now as a canned peach? “No one who wears spats,” says Lewis Gannett, the critic, “can get far in America.” Probably because so many watch his step.

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IN this week's papers we’ve seen the pictures of four fellows, awaiting trial for murder, being embraced by their mothers. The cheapest thing about the criminal is that he will brutally kill then send SOS signals to his mother when he’s caught. tt tt Mary McCormic, Chicago opera singer, informs the w’orld she rather would narry fifty Europeans than one American. The average opera singer would rather marry fifty men of any kind than one of another. tt tt tt A postal card mailed at Macon, Mo., in 1910. has just reached its destination at Seneca Falls, N. Y. It must have been one the P. M.’s just had to read again and again. a tt a STANLEY BALDWIN, former British premier, announces that he is broke and proud of it. We’ve been broke many times, but it’s never occurred to us to get chesty about it. Chicago has gone to congress and asked for financial assistance in putting on her world’s fair, but congress ought to tell her to dean up her gang warfare first. Nobody will go unless she does clean It up. a _ a tt Mark Twain’s daughter says the great humorist lived a life of disappointment because the world would never take him seriously. The same is true of all the great comedians of the stage, all of whom wanted to play Hsmlet before they signed off. a a a OF course, our foreign ambassadors must be properly housed, but right now when people in this country are begging for bread it’s not a strategic time fer the government to fork over $1,000,000 for that he use in Rome to take care of our foreign representati\ ;s. a a tt Now that we’ve embarked in the business of buying these expensive foreign establishments, we shall have to pay those in the foreign service far greater salaries than we pay the President, or close the doors upon all but rich men. a a a But we will not do this and this service will be turned over entirely to men with millions, hardly the proper caper for a republic. •*

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Rev. BUly Sunday Overlooks Some Things in His Scathing Denunciation of Tijuana. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 26.—Comes the Rev. Billy Bunday swarming into town and daring the devil to trial by combat, as is his wont, but firs*- giving Tijuana the once over, so that he can “talk about it from first-hand knowledge.” The great evangelist must be losing his punch. Otherwise, he would have availed himself of a more original and picturesque excuse. That one has been worked overtime by lowa school teachers, Kansas farmers and even blase New Yorkers, only to mention three examples. Though streaking it for the border as soon as they can, not one in a dozen will admit honest enthusiasm for roulette or the races. What they want, * and all they want, is to see for themselves, so that they can tell the folks back home just how the naughty place is run. If they play a little, it’s only to be sure that they understand the technique. After a brief inspection, the Rev. Mr. Sunday described Tijuana— Agua Calientt included, of course——as “the rottenest spot this side of hell,” which suggests a very loose way of talking, or a wider knowledge of both sides than any other mortal would care to claim. More conservative critics have described it as the spiffiest gambling joint in this hemisphere, if not the whole world. # n tt Both Are Dumb LEAVING the moral or religious classification of Tijuana to such experts as Sunday, its obvious economy effect always has struck this writer as revealing a certain degree of dumbness on the part of both San Diego and Mexico. The idea that great crowds of Americans would flock across the border to gamble and then flock back fourteen miles each night to eat and sleep was beautiful, but monronic. Even if that had been their natural prefei-ence, those wide-awake money grubbers, with whom this section is supplied plentifully, never would let them get away with it. Hotels are rising in Tijuana and Agua Caliente so fast you.can’t keep track of their names. Instead of improving business as they seem to have imagined it would, San Diego hotel men are discovering that this new Monte Carlo fourteen miles to the south is hurting their trade. Not only that, but they are beginning to suspect that it may hurt their trade a good deal more than it has yet. As to Mexico, she could make more out of such joy spots by insisting that they be located a little farther inland. With them right on the border, she gets nothing but the concession royalties. With them seventy-five or 100 miles beyond, she could get road tolls, sell gasoline, provide trade for garages, and guarantee hotel patronage.

City Still Thrives PUTTING that aside, the situation created by Tijuana is not such stupendous importance to either San Diego or Mexico as some of the publicity would make it appear. Mr. Sunday still can get a good turnout at San Diego, notwithstanding his assertion that the “rottenest spot this side of hell” is only half an hour distant by auto, with a perfectly sober man at the wheel. San Diego is too well established to be affected greatly by such innovations. Even though without organized industry, as we commonly think of it, her prosperity would appear to be quite as sound as that of the average American city, especially when measured in those termo of comfort and convenience which constitute the prevailing yardstick. San Diego county has 449 automobiles to every 1,000 inhabitants, or one automobile for every 2.2 persons, men, women and children included. That means that San Diego county could move its entire population on the front seat and, as one prominent citizen expressed it, some families could put everything they owned on the back seat. * a a Stands at Top BESIDES having more autos in proportion to the population than any other county in America, San Diego has between 300 and 400 airplanes. The fact that most of them belong to the army or navy does not lessen their influence on community life. They give young people something more serious to think abou f than the highly conventionalized social nonsense which is doing so much to shrivel intellect in some other places, and they lead to the development of many allied enterprises. One of the four parachute manufactories in this country, and not the smallest, is located here. So, too, and largely because it is not dominated by the smokestack complex, San Diego has found time to develop some rather impressive artistic and cultural activities. Indeed, those interested in community spirit, especially from a social and intellectual standpoint, could do worse than study Ban Diego.

Questions and Answers

On what finger should a wedding ring be worn? Always on the third finger of the left hand. How much does it cost to lay a mile of cement road? About $37,000 a mile on federal aid roads. From what book was the photoplay “Seventh Heaven” taken? It was an original play, written by the dramatist, Austin Strong. Who composed the popular song “Why Dreams Come True?” It was composed by Irving Berlin for the photoplay, “The Cocoamits,” featuring the Four Marx brothers. Mary Eaton sang it Who is the governor of Rome, Italy? Don Francesco Boncompagnle, prince of Piombino, who succeeded Prince Ludovico Spada Potenzi&ni, Sept. 9,1928.

The Wrong Way to Go About It!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Chronic Bronchitis Saps Strength

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of tbe American Medical Association and of Hyzeia, the Health Mazarine. 'T'HE air inhaled through the nose and through the mouth, preferably the former, passes by means of the trachea or windpipe to some larger tubes known as bronchi, which then divide into still smaller branches, from which the air passes into the cells of the lungs. The smaller branches are called bronchioles. The suffix “itis” at the end of any word means an inflammation. Therefore, bronchitis is inflammation of the larger tubes, bronchiolitis is inflammation of the smaller ones. When the air enters the nose it is warmed and otherwise modified. Thus solid particles which it contains, including carbon, dust, bacteria or other materials, adhere to the moist surfaces, of the cavities through u’hich the air passes. The walls of the bronchial tubes are covered constantly with mucus and the whole respiratory tract has little hairs or cilia which wave in such manner as to force foreign substances outward. Y/hen these substances reach the sensitive portions of the breathing tract, the coughing mechanism helps

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

AT first glance it looks as if the Wickersham commission has done an honest job in its investigation on prohibition. At the very least the document reprsents a trend. There is almost a virtual agreement among Lie men involved that Volsteadism isn’t good enough. And in spite of a dry preamble, the geneial gist oi the findings is wet. After all, only two of the eleven men expressed themselves as satisfied with the present state of affairs. And in one respect the problem has been immensely clarified. The report and its reception has served to remove the last vestige of doubt as to the attitude of President Herbert Hoover on the matter of prohibition. Mr. Hoover stands revealed as the dryest body this side of the Sahara. He can give the W. C. T. U. and the Anti-Saloon League half a stroke a hole. He is for the Methodist Board of Morals lock, stock, and bootlegger’s barrel. a a a Investigate What? OF course, it seems not unreasonable to ask just why Mr. Hoover went to the trouble of appointing a commission if his mind already was made up. Evidently he desired an all-Amer-ica eleven of yes-men, and he seems to be startled and annoyed to get even a hint of “maybe not.” The body was described at the time of its inception as a fact-find-ing commission. The great engineer wanted to ascertain the precise state of conditions from experts before he should go ahead. Now we know that President Hoover is prepared to stand in his tracks, no matter what opinions, what facts, and what evidence happens to be presented. The truth of the matter is that he wants votes and not facts. Much has happened in the last two years to bring up the altogether extraordinary possibility of a landslide President losing a renomination. Herbert Clark Hoover holds all existing records among public men for speed in going backward in public esteem. He has spent his political popularity as if it were Confederate money. a . a tt Even a Democrat AND even if he does manage to jam through a reluctant indorsement from his party, there now is better than an even chance that he will lose to a Demorcat in 1932. Democrats being what they are, this is a modern miracle. With his back to the wall, it now becomes evident that President Hoover has selected the last lorn hope. From now on he will campaign as a Republican only in name. He is endeavoring to put over , a political merger. It is his apparent

to throw the foreign substance outward. There are cases, of course, in . which the bacteria are not thrown out or in which their virulence is so great that they promptly infect the tissues. Damage to the surface of the tubes may result by constantly inhaling dirty air, dust or gases. Inflammation of the surface nay result from poisonous substances. Very large substances actually may tear the surface in the attempt of the tissues to get rid of them. When these things happen, the germs cause an infection and the result is an acute form of bronchitis or inflammation, which may, through persistence, become chronic. A person with chronic bronchitis coughs constantly, particularly during the night when he is lying down and the mucus tends to accumulate. This mucus may be stained by carbon if the person lives in a smoky atmosphere, or if there is a considerable amount of pus, the mucus may be yellow Or green. A person with chronic bronchitis usually is tired and depressed. He may get out of breath because of the interference with his breathing and in association with the absorption of the bacterial poisons there may be fever and a general reaction of the body. . Because of the difficulty in

intention to fuse the Anti-Saloon League and the Republican party, retaining the worst features of each. And the resulting combination, in all fairness, ought to be knowrn as the Anti-Saloon League. Mr. Hoover knows that there are certain people in the United States who take no interest whatsoever in unemployment, the tariff or anything but Volsteadism. For these people there never has been, but one political problem and there will never be any other. It isn’t fair to describe them as having one-track minds. That’s much too broad. They are slackwire walkers. Upon this thin thread of metallic mentality President Hoover hopes

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—We find that a great number of the farmers are not familiar with the fact that if they advertise seed for sale in their sale bill or in the newspaper it brings them under the provisions of the Indiana state seed law. When the seed is advertised for sale in this manner it is necessary for the farmer to tag the seed with properly filled out Indiana seed tags to comply with the law. The grower may sell seed which

A<fj6 THfc“

ADMISSION OF MICHIGAN January 26.

ON Jan. 26, 1837, after a long argument over boundaries, Michigan was admitted to the Union. Admission might have been granted earlier but for Michigan's dispute with Ohio concerning the southern boundary. There was danger at first that this dispute would lead to bloodshed, but in 1836 congress agreed to admit Michigan upon condition that she surrender her claim to the disputed territory and accept in lieu thereof a larger area in the upper peninsula. The first convention called to consider this pr&posal, Jan. 28, 1836, rejected it, but it was accepted by a second in December of the same year. Michigan was admitted to the Union a month later. Michigan consistently has sup ported the Republican party, except for three lapses—in . 1832 and 1883, when the Democrats and .Greenback party in fusion elected their candidate for Governor, Mid in 1890, when the Democrats alone carried the state.

coughing, changes take palce in the lungs whereby they constantly become partially distended with air. This brings about further difficulty of breathing and more wear on the heart, because it is harder to get the proper amount of oxygen into the blood. Obviously the treatment of bronchitis depends on many factors. A good climate is important, since in this way the patient is relieved from the smoke and the fumes and the dust which keep his tissues constantly irritated. Infections in the nose, throat and teeth as well as In the sinuses should be cleared up because they act to pour germs constantly into the lungs. There are various drugs which 'ire eliminated by means of the respiratory mucus membranes when taken internally. These drugs have the value of combating the germs which may be on the surface of the mucus membranes. There are other drugs which aid a free flow of muciis, thus serving to wash the surfaces of the mucus membranes free from the irritating materials. It is exceedingly important that the patient get plenty of rest and the attending physician can prescribe drugs which will be of great service in aiding sleep.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’* most interesting writers and are oresented without rt*i to their agreement or dir ,/eement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor

to slide home to safety. If there is sincerity in the vast rank and file of Republicans the party should split wider than it did in Bull Moose days. If men like Nicholas Murray Butler and Wadsworth are Republicans, then Hoover isn’t. And the other way round. I hope that by now we shall see an end of wet hypocrisy and the pretense that anybody ian be a stern foe of dry fanaticism and a stanch Hoover supporter at the same time. Surely our nation has lost all sense of the ludicrous if in 1932 we have again a group calling themselves wet Hooverites. (Copyright. 1931. bv The Time*)

he has raised on his own premises, without tagging the seed, provided he does not advertise through the medium of the public press, circular or catalog and does not deliver the seed away from his own premises. I will appreciate very much any help which you can give us by calling this to the attention of farmers who advertise sales in your paper. H. R. KRAYBILL. State Chemist and Seed Commissioner. Is a foreign-born citizen of the United States eligible to the office of the Vice-President? The qualifications for Vice-Presi-dent are the same as President, and a foreign-bora citizen is not eligible to that office.

Famous Spies From the most ancient times commanders of opposing armies have relied u]?on the vork of spies to bring them essential information of enemy movements. And in peace as well as war, the work of espionage goes on. Tnere are many spies famous in history. Our Washington Bureau has compiled a bulletin on FAMOUS SPIES that tells of the life and work of a great many of them. You will find this bulletin full of interesting facts on the dangerous work they engaged in—and of the executions of many who w’ere caught. This bulletin is especially timely, in connection with the series on “SDies ” which recently appeared in The Times. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. — CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 111, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, DC. I want a copy of the oulletin FAMOUS SPIES, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Nami Street and No City i 5tate............. ; lam a daily reader of The Indianapolis Time.. . (Code No.)

-JAN, 26, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Important Role Will Be Played in Economic Field by Nitrogen This Year. NITROGEN promises to play ar. important part In the economic and political news of the world during 1931 as well as In the scientific news. Four-fifths of the atmosphere is nitrogen. But nitrogen in that form is of no value to either agriculture or industry. Nature has two ways of making nitrogen available. Certain bacteria, known as nitrogen fixers, occur on the roots of certain plants. They turn the nitrogen of the air into compounds which fertilize the soil. That is why the farmer periodically plants a field in clover. The nitrogen-fixing bacteria congregate on the roots of the clover. Lightning, by Its tremendous power, causes the nitrogen and the' oxygen of the atmosphere to unite in small quantities. Man has sorrowed this trick of nature and uses the electric arc to bring about the fixation of nitrogen. Until this and other processes of nitrogen fixation were developed man was chiefly dependent upon, nitrate deposits in a few regions of the earth. “Nitrogen continued in the spotlight during 1930.” says a summar. of the chemical industry during the last year, published by Dr. Harrison E. Howe, editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, one of the official publications of the American Chemical Society.

Chilean Industry “'T'HE major development, was a JL reorganization of the Chilean, nitrate industry.” the summary says, "producing a $375,000,000 merger in which the Chilean government and the Guggenheim interests are the most important factors. “The Chilean government holds 50 per cent of the stock, in return for which the export tax on nitrate and iodine has been dropped "The Guggenheim process is to replace the older extraction processes, with an anticipated reduction in production costs of up to 40 per cent. “While the Compania Salitera Nacionale. commonly abbreviated to Cosana., will constitute a world monopoly on natural nitrate, an agreement has been made between it and the international fixed nitrogen cartel, which was renewed in 1930 for a period of seven years. Thjs arrangement includes most of the world production of nitrogen outside of the United States. "The United States well might fear the world situation were it not for the phenomenal development of nitrogen fixation within our own borders. “Ninth in volume of production in 1929, trailing Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland. Japan, Canada, and Norway, the United States is expected to be second only to Germany by the end of ,1931 as the result of the rapid expansion of the synthetic ammonia industry.”

Great Experiment, A WORLD: cartel in nitrogen is among the possibilities foreseen for 1931. ’ The summary, goes on to say: “If there is to be a world cartel in. nitrogen, the American part of the industry, should be able either tosit in or to stay out- If it sits- in, the world will watch the greatest experiment yet in the co-ordination of effort within one industry. “If it stays out, the competition will move into a new’ plane, since the German nitrogen syndicate already has found it necessary drastically to limit production, the great plant at Merseburg, for example, - being cut to 650 metric tons a day, only slightly more than a third of its capacity. The Norwegian producers are practically the only ones in Eu rope running at anything like full capacity, and their activity is based on their cheap hydrogen production. “Although all nations now are on a par, as far as a supply of the raw material, nitrogen, is concerned, nature has been somewhat partial in her ; distribution of potash deposits which can bo enomically worked. “The Dead se3 concession for potash recovery accordingly is being contested by rival British and French interests. “It is possible that the matter will come before the permanent court of international justice for arbitration. “In the meantime, two American concerns actively are engaging in the development of anew potash industry in western Texas and southeast New Mexico. “One shaft is down and mining and refining operations on sylvanlte are expected to get under way during 1931.”

Daily Thought

In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be put to con ‘ fusion.—Psalm 71:1. You must cast yourself, on God’s gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.—Alexander Maclaren. . What is the population of Haiti? The estimated population on. Jan,. I. 1927, was 2,300,000.