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The World-Telegram Th® Ingredient* harmonize in the merger announced today of the New York World and the New York Telegram. They blend naturally. There Is nothing In the nature of oil-and-water about the transaction. That fact 1* vital to the World-Telegram's capacity for future Journalistic service. It Is likewise vital to the whole Scrlpps-Howard organization, of which The Indianapolis Times Is a part. It was an outstanding consideration on both sides of the negotiations through which the consolidation was effected. Through half a century the Institution which Joseph Pulitzer founded and that founded by E. W. Scripps have been working in separate ways toward a common end. The Ideal which has characterized the World under Pulitzer ownership has characterized the Telegram under Scrlpps-Howard ownership. To sum it in a single sentence that ideal is: Liberalism, independence, consideration for those who have no other spokesman, and a deep faith in the ability of the common man, given a fair deal, to better himself. While means toward the end have differed, the objective has remained constant. Though they did not know each other, and never met, E. W. Scripps and Joseph Pulitzer saw alike as to the fundamental mission of a newspaper. It chanced that th*y started their major careers in the same year, though in cities far apart. To the reader of those days, accustomed to publications sponsored by and serving special interests, an independent Journalism was something new and strange. Pulitzer and Scripps saw the deadening influence of entangling alliances. They saw that the duty of a newspaper ran to its readers only—to all its readers; not to any single group, social, political or financial. Scripps said in his first issue: "We have no politics, that is, in the sense of the word as commonly used. We are not Republicans, not Democrats, not Greenback, not Prohibitionists. We simply intend to support good men and condemn bad ones, support good measures said condemn bad ones, no matter what party they belong to. “We shall tell no lies about persons or policies for love, malice, or money. It is no part of a newspaper s business to array Itself on the side of this or that party, or fight, lie or wrangle for it.” Pulitzer said; “Never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogs of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.’’ . Each believed in printing the news as it happened, accurately, without regard to personal opinion or desire, and uninfluenced by those who wanted something put in, or something kept out. And each believed the Journalistic duty went farther than that. Each viewed the editorial page, the page of the paper’s opinion, as a mighty weapon in behalf of the creed to which each was sworn. So. through half a century, those purposes have paralleled. Now they are joined. The ideal lives in anew generation. By this consolidation Its scope Is enlarged, its force multiplied. It is only natural therefore that each member of the Scrlpps-Howard organization joins with the World-Telegram in the sentiment expressed in New York today; “We view the future with mixed emotions—with elation at the opportunity and with humility before the greatness of the obligation.”

The Duvall Pardon Those legislators who may be tempted by the flatteries or favors of privileged interests to betray the people—and many legislators are taking this attitude—should contemplate John Duvall in his prison cell. Duv&U is asking the Governor to forgive the fine of SI,OOO assessed when he was convicted of violation of election laws in order to get into office. Now, says the former mayor, he can not pay the fine which was a part of his sentence and he dislikes the idea of doing what less noted prisoners would be compelled to do—to stay longer in his prison. Gone are the friends who once fawned upon his smiles and took his favors. Gone are those who once used him for their own purposes. Gone are the sycophants who once did his bidding without question. Gone are those who led him to the mountain tops of glory and used his easy virtue for their own purposes. There were days, only a few brief years ago, when he was the autocrat of this city and when his wish was the law. In those days he consorted largely with those who had designs upon the public till and who wanted special privileges. The plunderbund often whispered fairly tales of future favors in his ear in order to get what they wanted and they got it—as far as Duvall could give it to them. He thought only of his ambitions and his own advantage and little of the public good. Out of power, these favor oeekers forgot him and it is news that his once large fortune has so dwindled that he can not pay the fine of a sum which once was to him a matter of no importance. The fate of Duvall is the working of the law of compensation. He rose to political power on the wave of hate aroused by the Ku-Klux Klan which aroused enmities and destroyed good will. The same punishment which the Klan administered to thow of different race and creed now hovers over the Jail where Duvall sits in silence. Those who serve privilege and hate must expect hate in return. Heal friepdships are never based on evil deeds. Those who took the favors of Duvall held him in contempt even as they smiled their thanks, They do not visit him in his prison cell. The dollars that came to him so easily in other days as easily slipped away. Just why any one should take any special interest in either getting Duvall out of Jail or in keeping him in is not, easily explainable. He no longer matters. But up at the state house men young in public service might ponder on his fate when tempters come to whisper in their ears. His fate is that of all who betray the people who trust them. Lonely, broke, forgotten—and four years ago an autocrat. What a pity! Re*Jiggering Congress The more one considers the house of representatives the more obvious it seems that proposals to upset its plan for reapportionment and increase its membership are ill advised. Pour hundred thirty-five representatives occasionally pour into the big chamber at the Capitol—which, big as it is, has not seats enough for jail of them—and Joyfully vote some proposition up or down. But, t ....v

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as a rule, only a handful of this number is present, transacting the business of the house. It is impossible for 435 members to function effectively in a legislative body, and domination inevitably has fallen to the hands of a few. Sections of the country not represented in this ruling clique have far less representation than they would have with smaller delegations in the house. When the gavel rule is abolished, as now appears likely, the house will become more cumbersome than the senate. If it is not abolished, there is no way to prevent government by a house oligarchy, unrepresentative of large sections of the population and completely contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. The house adopted an admirable policy in its reapportionment bill of last year, providing for automatic redistribution of membership according to shifts in population, with no further increases in membership. If it abandons that policy r,ow and admits more representatives, so that no states shall have smaller delegations than at present, it probably will be impossible ever to limit the membership. There are only two statesmanlike ways of meeting the reapportionment problem. One is to retain in the laws the system adopted last year. The other is to cut the membership of the house in half. The second plan probably calls for a sacrifice; beyond the capacity of human nature. The first plan calls for nothing but conservative common sense. California’s Immortals Next Sunday California will unveil statues of two men chosen to stand in Statuary hall in the nation’s Capitol as its two most eminent citizens. It is interesting to note that in a materialistic era California chose, not Marshall, discoverer of gold, nor any of its other wealth builders, but two preachers. One is Fray Junipero, Serra, Franciscan friar, who saved California from Puritanism and Russian conquest by building Its first Spanish missions. The other is the Rev. Thomas Starr King, young Unitarian minister, who in four years’ residence in California saved the state from disunion and slavery by force of his remarkable eloquence and spiritual fervor. Fr. Serra was an humble man famed for his piety and love of justice. Dr. King was a scourge of oppressors, a prophet of freedom. If their bronze statues could speak, one wonders what these two Californians would say about their state today that holds in prison two innocent laborites, Mooney and Billings, admittedly upon the word of framers, dope addicts and confessed perjurers.

Out to Pasture . . They shall drive thee from men with the beasts of the field and they shall make thee eat grass as oxen ...” That is what Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar, the king of kings, a long time ago. The incident has its modern counterpart, it seems, on a much larger scale. The bureau of plant industry of the department of agriculture has joined those agencies of the government seeking to relieve distress. It advises that wherever they are found edible weeds should be eaten for variety and inexpensive additions to the diet of famine sufferers. Dock, lamb's quarter, mustard, pigweed, dandelions, pokeweed and even mallow and nettles may be used. And this is added optimistically, “probably many other weeds less widely known and with less limited listribution could be or are eaten.’' The kind of pasture to be eaten by the millions out of work in New York, Chicago and our other big cities is not specified. It will stir the envy of many a bridge fan to know that in the orient all you have to do is bow to make a grand salaam. South Africa has decided to conduct its boxing contests under American instead of British rules. We fear foul play ahead. “Accept this,” said the man as he turned over his second-hand car, “with my kindest depreciations.” Three stages in the life of a baseball player: Holdout, dugout, out When Edison said rubber will be produced from goldenrod in about two years, he perhaps was stretching it a little bit.

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AMEMEBER of the New York legislature wants to put red plates on the cars of reckless drivers. It would be a better idea to confiscate the car and tie a can to the driver. a a a A funny thing occurred down in New Jersey. A prohibition officer was chased by a bull and jumped into a straw stack and landed against a hidden whisky still. There has been a great deal of “bull” in prohibition enforcement, but this is the first time it has hc’red. a a a Two galoots up in Wisconsin got their f uish by running their Lizzies into a moving train. It won’t be long until there’s a popular movement to compel the railroads to upholster the outside of their trains. CONGRESSMAN JAMES M*BECK of Philadelphia is against the federal maternity bill, which greatly has reduced the death rate of mothers in child birth. He asks if it’s good governmental business to take the money of a bachelor in Minnesota and pour it into a baby’s cradle in Missouri. a a a Yes. Mr. Bock, it is good governmental business. In fact we should say it’s just as good governmental Business as it is to take the Missouri child, when he grows up, and make him fight to keep a foreign foe from taking the property of the Minnesota bachelor, who has no children to offer for his own defense. * a a The present drive for membership, conducted by the American Leg on, makes a man on the outside wonder how any one, eligible to membership, can get his own consent to stay out of it. Tire legion fights the battle of all ex-service men, members and nonmembers, and common gratitude should make all eligibles members. ana CHINA smokes sixty billion cigarets a year. You naturally wonder how she finds time enough to fight all these wars. a a a We see in the paper that Queen Mary of Yugoslavia has the measles. It must be very embarrassing for a royal lady to have anything so common. a a a After many years without the death penalty, ths‘ senate of Michigan votes everwhelmingly to restore it, and it is expected to become a law. The death penalty is a fine club to have behind the door in case you want to use it.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Congress Has Swamped Hoover in a Wave of Emotionalism and It Has Jfade a Mistake on th-e Bonus. TJ'T. WORTH, Tex., Feb. 27. After it’s all over, many veterans will admit that President Hoover was right. So will many congressmen and, above all else, many taxpayers. This was no time for the United States government to make a large sum of money available for those not in actual need. Neither will such action do much to overcome the depression. The fact that President Hoover's veto message found congress deaf ultimately will reflect more on the latter than on him. He merely has been swamped by a wave of passing emotionalism, while congress has made a mistake, of which the American people will be reminded every time they get a federal tax bill for the next few years. The essence of the situation was brought clearly to light when the house shouted down Tilson’s substitute, which would have provided loans for needy veterans. If relief had been the objfct, that substitute would have founji favor. a a a Loans in a Hurry SECRETARY MELLON might Just as well begin digging around for the money which he has said it would be hard to find. For one, I doubt whether the job worries him much, though the consequences of it may. All he has to do is sign a few notes for the taxpayers to meet later on, but he can’t afford to let any great amount of grass grow under his feet while performing even that simple operation. The stage has been set for business in every town where there is a legion post from Maine to California. People are going to be surprised at the speed with which veterans get their loans, especially when compared to the lack of speed with which farmers have been getting theirs. Also, people are going to be surprised at the total amount of money required. Congress started out with the idea of assisting those farmers who had been ruined by last year’s drought and providing work for the unemployed. Thus far, the farmers have been loaned about $3,000,000. a a a Not Even a Dent Made HOW many people have been pm to work as the result of federal appropriations? No one seems to know, but not enough to make any discernible impression on the multitudes still tramping up and down our streets and highways; From a relief standpoint, the federal program has proved a miserable failure up to this point. Compared to what the states, cities, towns, charitable organizations, volunteer committees and privately owned industries have done, the federal government has shown an astounding, inability to meet a critical situation. Nine-tenths of what the people expected from Washington when congress assembled last December still is in the state of prospects and promises. Though that $45,000,000 for seed, tools and equipment was appropriated several weeks ago, it looks as though many farmers would not be able to get their rightful share in time for this spring’s planting.

Little Federal Help STOCKS are coming back, industry is coming back, and trade is coming back. Eventually, the American people will climb out of this economic mire, just as they have out of others. When they have finished the task and have time to take a “hind” sight, they will discover that it was largely through their own efforts and that they got very effective aid from the national government in the hour of their most desperate need. Perhaps it ia better that they should have done the thing that way, but it doesn’t square with the grandstanding by which they w r ere misled so gloriously last fall. Whatever else may be said of President Hoover, he has been consistently conservative, sitting tightly on the lid and refusing to admit there was any occasion to open the federal treasury, except where sheer ruin made it inevitable. The people have had no illusions as to where he j stood from the beginning. * a a Incapacity Shown THE same hardly can be said with regard to the so-called [liberal and progressive elements in j congress, who' gave the people every j reason to believe they would do something purposeful and effective by way of immediate relief. "Doubtless, they meant well, but they have shown as great an incapacity to get things done as has the President himself, if not greater. After three months of deliberating, if it justly can be described as such, this session of congress winds up with about as many unemployed as there were when it began, and with more than 90 per cent of the money appropriated to assist farmers still lying in the treasury.

Questions and Answers

Where are the White mountains? They are a division of the Appalachian system in Coos, Grafton and Carrol counties. New Hampshire, and noted for their bold and picturesque scenery, and for the health and pleasure resorts that have been located there. They cover an area of about 1,300 square miles, extending from the Connecticut river to the Maine boundary. Who wouM succeed to the title of the prince of Wales if he ascends the throne? The title of Prince of Wales would not be borne by any one, unless the present prince should marry and have a son, because this title is conferred only upon the eldest living son Q& the reigning king. WThat country produces the greatest quantity of amber? The region that produces most amber is in East Prussia, Germany.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Most Foods Better for Cooking

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and at Hygeia, the Health Magazine. lOWER animals live essentially i on raw foods, except those that have become domesticated so thoroughly that they have become accustomed to the diet of man. Previous to our newer knowledge of the vitamins, it was not realized that the cooking of food might destroy essential substances. Modern knowledge, however, indicates that heating will take from the foods some vitamine which are susceptible to heat. This does ont mean that a raw food diet is the opimum diet for man, nor should it be an indica- 1 tion for the formation of a raw meat cult.

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WEST OF THE HUDSON.—For years I have belonged to the eastern, and more particularly the New York, group which made constant fun at California. This attitude of mine was based on ten days in San Francisco some years ago and the reports of travelers. Once or twice a year some friend of mine would return from Hollywood, and after we had rubbed, him with snow to restore circulation and poured hot drinks down his throat he-would sit up and tell us bloodcurdling tales of his experiences. I’m sorry to say it, but I gravely suspect that some of my friends lied. California, at least the southern end of it, is both a lovely and gracious country, and Hollywood is an excellent place in which to spend a few days of your vacation. The fact that most of the people I know here have to be on the job at 9 and toil all day takes nothing from my fun. It is highly enjoyable to 101 l around ■ lot with no responsibility.

An Afternoon THERE might well be a slogan, “Join Warner Brothers and See the World.” From noon till 3 I wandered on their lot and passed through Bagdad, Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago. So lifelike w T as the Chicago set, which had but recently housed “Little Caesar,” that I was convinced for several minutes that Hollywood had gone metropolitan in its achitecture.. It was a most convincing false front. / Nor was it necessary for me to blush at my gullibility because I was informed that a visiting writer from the east dropped ten nickels in a prop telephone booth in another set before he found that it merely was a bit of local color. Bagdad, which served for Otis Skinner in “Kismet,” is the most pretentious set which the WarnerFirst National lot has to offer Whole streets are carefully cobbled to suit the exigencies of the script and single-sided temples reared and trees planted. Out of a certain forest in the Bagdad sector I am bearing home a trophy which seems to be the complete Hollywood characterizer. Even when I went close to the trees they seemed real enough, but under the strong sun the green of the foliage looked quite unlike anything ever seen, even in an early Broun. And, sure enough, when I picked a leaf the real tree had been made to assume make-up, Each leaf hxl been painted green. Nature has not yet entirely caught up with tba requirements of directors. a a a Well, Not a Million LOCAL spies inform me that all the casts set forth in the announcements are grossly exaggerated. The so-called million-dollar | picture in actuality consumes not much more than $200,000, but there is no exaggeration in the extraordinary amount of time devoted to the making of even the simplest picture. To one untrained in the mysteries of the craft, the dawdling is puzzling. I stood and watched an actor and an actress- in an interior scene go through four brief lines of colloquy,

Now for Some Harmony

It has been established that heating for a long time, even at moderate temperature, in an open vessel will decrease the content of vitamins, particularly if the solution in which the food is hied has an alkali] *;■ reaction. It since has long been established that contimed cooking- of a vegetable in water will cause the salts to be dissolved out of the vitamins into the water,' so that some of the valuable constituents are poured down the sink. From the opposite point of view, the eating of raw foods may be dangerous. In the first place, a raw food diet does not appeal to the sense of appetite •and an appetite for raw food has to be cultivated. In the second place, heat will kill harmful germs, which is certainly essential in the case of many meats.

and each time they stopped the head, man said, “Cut.” Or if that was not the word it indicated, at any rate, that something was amiss. Nine times more they said the same brief lines, and each time the product was discarded. For all I know, they may be trying still. Ten and out was enough for me, since by that time I had managed to seize the gist of the situation. a a a Only Human I AM told that on occasion something goes wrong with the sound and that, again, the film buckles or a stray noise creeps in or the, line is not read entirely to the‘director’s satisfaction. Undoubtedly the margin of error is large, but I gravely suspect that in this tedious process there is something of pose.

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—l notice that Representative Braughton asked after roll call Saturday to be passed up temporarily before voting, as he said he “had been out of the house during debate and wished to learn exactly what was at issue.” He is the representative who thinks so much more of his private job than of the state’s business that he had a phone installed on his desk to call him to his private business when wanted. Probably that was why he was out during debate. Being a taxpayer, some of my money is being paid to Braughton, and I would like to have him stay in the seat where the people voted to have him sit. I am glad he was made to vote, even if he didn’t know what it was all about. ELLA THOMPSON. 6140 Central Avenue.

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LONGFELLOW’S BIRTH Feb. 27

0| N Feb. 27, 1807, Henry W. Longfellow, American poet, was born at Portland, Me. After graduation from Bowdoin college, at 18, in the same class with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow was at once appointed professor of modern languages at his alma mater. He resigned in 1835 to study and travel in Europe. On his return he accepted at Harvard a post similar to that he had at Bowdoin. Longfellow’s poetic gifts made him at 34 perhaps the most widely read poet in America. Poems which helped establish his faihe were “Evangeline,” “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” “Excelsior,” “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” “Paul Revere's Ride” and "The Vulage Blacksmith.” His fame as poet rests on two points. First, he gave expression to the commonplace emotions of American civilization with charm and simplicity; second, he did much t*-> spread European culture in this country. - -- ~*r

Next, heat develops odors and flavors which are beneficial to the appetite and which favor digestion by softening fiber and by coagulating protein. All this discussion establishes again a point of the utmost importance in forming scientific judgments; namely, theer is no one track rule in science. A good diet will contain some foods cooked, because of the fact that cooking helps them greatly; other foods raw, because cooking harms them. A . certain amount of uncooked fruits and vegetables is essential in a well-balanced diet./ Under modem conditions sot, civilization, man being what he is today, the majority of foods require cooking or preparation before they are suitable for human consumption.

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

After all, a great director must act like a great director. If he just said, “Fine and dandy,” the first time a scene was shot, people around the place might get the idea that the whole thing was too blamed easy. After all, it has been said, although fallaciously, that genius is an infinite capacity for. taking pains. And naturally every director wants to be a genius if by any chance he isn’t established in that status already. But, for all the fuss and feathers, I am convinced that the people in Hollywood know their' business a great deal better than most of the satirists imagine. After all, a large portion of the bitter and scornful comment has come from authors who came to Hollywood and performed poorly (ConyriKht. 1931. by The Times)

Editor Times—Tax and increase of tax is all we are entitled to hear from this legislature, apparently. If the proposed state income tax does go through, as the senate has amended it, the whole citizenship of Indiana should pack up their possessions (what few are left) and leave the state. All the wage earners who still have jobs have had a cut in wages of from 10 to 25 per cent, and still the senate “lawmakers” want to take another 10 per cent from us. A widow with two dependents has a lot of a show keeping a home for her famliy, working every day each year, paying taxes on her real and personal property, then pay anew tax of 10 per cent of her already shrunken wages and have anything left for food and education, doesn’t she? All decent citizens of tliis taxridden state should register serious complaint on a legislature attempting what this one is. , MARIE S. KAISER.

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.FEB. 27, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

World Will Honor “First of Microbe Hunters'* in 1932. • SCIENTIFIC societies in many parts of the world are begin- , ning to make plans for the cele- ! bration of an important event ney i year. . ._• . The year 1932 will mark The tercentenary of the birth of Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, father of microscopy. Paul De Kruif, with h is gift for labels, called him the first of the microbe hunters. Today, with our precise knowledge , of bacteria, it seems almost incvecC ible that there was a day when mankind did not know of the existence of germs. * But it is a fact that knowledge of bacteria is only a few centuries old. Knowledge of the role which bae teria play in life is even younger than that. Although Leeuwenhoek discovered the existence of germs; It was not until the days of Pasteur and Koch, the middle of the nineteenth century, that the connection, between certain bacteria and certain diseases was established John Tyndall, the famous British physicist, a contemporary of PasteuF and Koch, summed up the situation when he said, "We have been scourged by invisible throngs, al tacked from impenetrable ambuSV cades and it is only today that thg light of science is being let in upon the murderous dominion of our" foes.” £ a a a | An Unusual Start { Leeuwenhoek was born m Delft, Holland, on Oct, 24, 1632. T j He was the son of Philip and Mar-, garetha Leeuwenhoek. His father died when he was boy, and his mother sent, him to. school in the hope that he wouKT enter the government service But he preferred the world cri business and at the age of 16 left?; school to become an apprentice iij,a dry goods store in Amsterdam It was here that he first learned • to use a magnifying glass. Such, glasses were used by the drapers ter' count the threads in their goods. ; In 1654 he returned to Delft and opened a dry goSds store or hST own. He also became the janitor" of the city hall in Delft. The recital of these early events* in the life of Leeuwenhoek inii” presses one that here is a most un-C, usual and unpromising beginning;' for a great pioneer in the worldof science. But the magnifying glass is thah key to the mystery. It seems thdj£ Leeuwenhoek had been fascinated;;; by the magnifying glass. And now in his leisure he began to grind lenses Soon he was making little micrqft scopes which were more powerful , than any in existence. These microscopes became hfIST hobby and he began to examin®*’ everything that caught his a bee, the head of *£• fly, anything that caught his atterST. tion at the moment went under hi|“ microscope. In 1674 Reinier De Graaf, th~ Dutcn anatomist, persuaded Leeivir wenhoek to write out some of hiS£ observations and send them to thjr Royal Society in London ** s He Wrote Letters. THE first letter which hcek sent to the Royal SocietJL. was titled “A Specimen of Some Obi servations Made by a Microscope” Contrived by Mr. Van Concerning Mold Upon the Skir>£ Flesh, etc., the Sting.of a Bee, This letter was read at a of the society on Mas' 19, 167^-.-; Throughout the rest of his life, Im£ continued sending them letters. _ As he lay upon his death-bed, the age of 91, he called one of hfjg* friends and asked him to see that letter which he recently had fkSS ished was sent to the sociey. In all, he sent 110 to the Royal Society in London, araiw twenty-seven to the French Acadei*my of Sciences. His most important discovery cans?!: upon the day that some fancy caused him to put a drop rain water under his microscope. To his astonishment, he found * that the drop of water was filled” with living, moving thin|£S “wretched beasties,” he called thet&l in his letters to the society. ~ “They stop, they stand still ag ’twere upon a point, and then thasS turn themselves round with swiftness as we see a top turn round” the circAunferenee they make beinsrno bigger than that of a fine graiiY of sand.” he wrote to the society The Royal Society was by this communication. Members r£* fused to believe it. and so they conii* missioned two of their Robert Hooke and Nehemiah Gre#£ to build the best microscope they* know how to make and attempt tlwL same experiment. On Nov. 15, 1677, the two reported that Leuwenhoek was right. Mthunting had begun!

Daily Thought

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and whosoever is de-££ ceived thereby is not wise. —Proverbs 20tl. Wine is an abomination.—Ptah~ Hotep.