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The Steel Corporation Action of the United States Steel Corporation in cutting dividends and higher salaries to meet the present business situation, while refusing to cut wages —even to meet the competition of its smaller wagecutting rivals—may be the sign of a better day in American industry. It is particularly encouraging for the reason that the board of the steel corporation pretty well represents America’s financial as well as industrial leadership. A good deal of hard thinking has been going on in this country since the stock market debacle of 1929 and Tuesday’s decision by the steel directors indicates that they have not been untouched by this process. The salary adjustment, it now is understood, is to apply only to employes receiving SI,BOO or more. Thoe in this lowest level are reduced very slightly, while those in the upper brackets are cut as much as 15 per cent. And, it is further understood, special consideration will be given the personal situation of men and women in the si,Boo to $5,000 class, with some exemptions from the general cut. Evefy day some person rises up to remark that capitalism is on trial in America. One day a labor leader says it, another day a political leader says it, another day a banker. There must be something in it. If it is true, the capitalists who control the United States Steel Corporation seem to be moving in the right direction to meet the test. It takes no long memory to recall a day when such a group as that which met Tuesday to decide the course of United States Steel would have thought of a wage cut first, instead of last. It is impossible to believe that, when the depression has been weathered, industrial and financial leaders will fail to recall the lessons left by the present hard times. Four years ago United States Steel was enjoying earnings of such size that it declared a 40 per cent stock dividend. If earnings again reach so favorable a place, is it too much to hope that the corporation, instead of passing the excess around among casual and inside stockholders, may see the wisdom of building up a wage reserve sufficient to ride out any future industrial crisis? Not if they share the growing belief that capitalism actually is on trial. An Italian Affront Reprisals against Italy are in order. The Mussolini government, by royal decree No. 442, has barred the importation of American catfish because of the possible effect on native fish. The Italian government, we suspect, never sat under a cottonwood tree on the bank of a sluggish stream in midsummer and watched for the twitching of the cork that shows a nibble. Nor did it ever sit down to a mess of channel cats, rolled in flour or cornmeal and fried to a brown—in bacon grease—particularly the blue or white channel cat, which is as good as black bass, and may be snared without fancy fish poles, reels, flies, etc. We are aware that some snooty and unpatriotic Americans do not hold the catfish in very high osteem. That’s just ignorance. They never have been out in the Mississippi valley, or down along the Atchafalaya when the trot lines were out. As for Italy, we can retaliate. We can bar, by presidential decree, the importation of Italian sardines. Our Major Idiocy Statesmen still are trying to see if they can save Europe through a half-billion loan to Germany. Rugged individualists haunt us with the information that Britain is spending $250,000,000 a year on unemployment insurance. Such figures appear staggering when they represent spending to advance the well-being of mankind. But no such excitement stirs us when we learn of truly colossal outlays for purposes of human destruction. Come now the announcement of world armament figures in the year book of the League of Nations for the last fiscal year. The various nations spent no less than $4,158,000,000 for armaments last year. This figure is not mitigated by news that the expenditures are getting any less. On the contrary the nations spent SIOO,000,000 more last year than the year before. The outlay per nation among the major states: United States $707,425,000 Soviet Union 5*8,943,000 France 466,980,000 Great Britain 465,255,000 Italy .' 248,946,000 Japan 236,861,000 India 211,587,000 Germany 171,923,000 Spain 112,583,000 China 94,291,000 Poland 92,873,000 Such Is the state of affairs as we approach the teventeenth anniversary of the outbreak of the ‘'war to end war.” No sensible person expects any state to scrap its defenses while its neighbors arm to the teeth. But it is about time the nations got together for a really sincere facing of the disarmament problem if we do not want the apes to protest the doctrine of evolution. It Can Be Done The old fiction that the king can do no wrong has come down to us in a modified form. If the sovereign state happens to emmit a wrong, we now say, it must never confess it. Thus Mooney and Billings have been denied new trials in spite of discovered perjury, the plea of the trial judge and the consent of the attorney-general, and three Governors have refused them pardons. Once in a while, however, a state is brave and honest enough to confess a wrong to its citizens and attempt to right it. The other day three life term prisoners walked out of Stillwater penitentiary in Minnesota, free men. Sentenced for bank robberies, the pardon board discovered that they had been identified falsely and without a moment’s delay granted them unconditional pardons. Os course, the few dollars that jangled in their pockets could not make up for the decade of degradation they had suffered as falsely accused felons. But the state did what it could. It was not too proud to admit itself as human as its subjects. Just fifteen years ago Tom and Rena Mooney were arrested and fifteen years ago Warren Billings said good-by to freedom. Why can not California's Governor Rolph admit his state's fallibility, as Minnesota has, and give these two innocent men their fpedom?

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An Archaic Law What amounts to a draft from the ice age of movie censorship appears in the recent rumpus over the showing of the Schmeiing-Stribling fight films. It is illegal to send these films across state lines, though in most states it is not illegal actually to show the films. This prejudice against fight films constitutes an early and archaic stratum in sumptuary legislation. It dates from the period of puffed sleeves and six petticoats for women. Viewed in the light of 1931, it appears little short of ridiculous. Today even youngsters can see films depicting the racketeer, the panderer, the night club, whoopee in its most accentuated tempo, crime, vice and the . like. Even when the villain is apprehended and punished properly, the memory of the early viciousness is not eradicated from the minds of the audience. The ending never can be more virtue-promoting than a good prize fight, in which the best man wins. In the light of the general run of current films, then, a fight film is almost amazingly clean and wholesome visual recreation. If the federal eye is on the promotion of virtue and brawn, then the archaic law against shipping films across state boundaries well might be replaced by one offering a federal bounty to picture houses which will exhibit such aids to physical higfi-mindedness. - V Murdering Babies At last gang warfare has become terrible to us. The blood of five babies staining the sidewalks of Harlem has made us see that this thing, grown up in our midst, often Joked about, seldom spoken of with indignation, is monstrous and dreadful. Those bloodstains can not be washed away until gang warfare is obliterated. For the blood guilt is not all upon the men who brought a machine gun into a crowded street and opened fire on playing children. It comes much closer home. Gangs have been terrorizing our cities for a good maijy years and we have tolerated them. We can not blame them on an alien influx, according to men who have made a study of the growth and history of racketeering. Colonel Robert I. Randolph, Chicago engineer, whose contributions to such a study have been notable, says racketeering is “an inside job, for which business itself is very greatly responsible.” Years ago, he finds, business men and labor leaders seized upon it as a quick solution of the problems of competitive conditions and labor organization control. And, says Randolph, “the power and spread of the evil is traceable in great part to the respectable appearance of its hiding place.” Then came prohibition, with its opportunity for illicit liquor traffic, the quick growth of lawless operations, and finally the murder of babies. We must fight gang rule and warfare with every weapon the law gives us, with concerted action of municipal, state and federal agencies. But that is not enough. We must get to the root of this thing —and the condition which has made this sort of liquor traffic possible, and end the tolerance of gangs and racketeers in “respectable” business. After all, a civilized nation does not let its children be killed with machine guns as they play. A Texas physician says that because of light clothing, bobbed hair and the “new freedom,” women are living longer. He might have given them greater cause to rejoice if he had said these things make them look younger longer. A cubic inch of air, a scientist declares, may contain a billion microbes. It is statistics such as these that take your breath away. A New York magistrate suggests that gangsters be hanged from lamp posts. That would be letting them off lightly. The trouble with most girls today who sigh for slenderer figures is that they are penny wise and pound foolish. New York police have warned night clubs to “clean up or close up.” If they had taken care of the first part of it themselves, that would have been news. Germany's broke, but there may be something in her pocket battleship. .

REASON

HENRY L. STIMSON, secretary of state, has followed the lead of Andrew Mellon and gone to Europe to take a vacation. The charms of Europe are very enticing to American diplomats these days; they simply can not be resisted. a a a Politicians they go over and statesmen they return, and this transformation is as painless as it is simple. By the mere process of crossing the Atlantic and being photographed with Messrs. Briand, Laval. Mussolini, Bruening and MacDonald, they rise above all petty considerations and become far-seeing mentors of world destiny. a a tt SOCIETY folk must be presented at the Court of St. James to secure their laurels. In the same manner our rugged political servants must cross the threshold of foreign ministries before they can be considered as “belonging” and forever remove from themselves the vulgar taint of earthly things. a tt a This ceremony of purification is a splendid thing, for the very idea of saintliness tends to bring it about. Give a man the hero's part to play and, even though it be a very strange role, he will do his best to play it. tt tt tt The. only trouble with this process is that it occurs too far from home. We wish these miracles could occur right here, so that all their marvels might be enjoyed at first hand. The peculiar thing about miracles. however, is that the more remote they are the better they thrive. B ft tt AND it is unfortunate that such wonderful events should transpire in such a manner that only a few may benefit by them. Not every congressman or party committeeman may go to Europe. It is very sad that these should be forced to go unsaved to their political graves, and It certainly is hard on the rest of us. a tt Harold MacGrath, novelist, is fishing on the St. Lawrence river, and, according to the papers, wearing i twenty-nine-year-old vest. But the most wonderful thing about Harold MacGrath is yet to be told. He writes his books in long hand and never has used a typewriter. a a a Someone should investigate this story and find if it is true for if it is Harold MacGrath is about our most venerable antique. Think what a find he would be for Henry Ford’s museum.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

If We Have a Government Which Can Promote Business and Provide Work the Time Has Come to Prove It. NEW YORK, July 29 United States Steel cuts the quarterly dividend rate on its common stock from $1.75 to $1 a. share. In addition, it proposes to reduce the pay of salaried officials by 10 per cent. The move generally is interpreted as an effort to maintain the present wage scale, and is beyond criticism in that respect. United States Steel stock dropped seven points, however, and other prominent issues suffered a sympathetic decline. The Hoover administration reaffirms its opposition to wage cutting. So say we all, but to be effective, the opposition must include something more than affirmation. Wage cuts can not be prevented by reducing salaries and depressing the value of securities. * They are negative remedies and though they may reveal a fine spirit, they won't get us anywhere. ft a a Relief or Recovery? AFTER conferring with President Hoover, Red Cross Chairman Payne reiterates his opinion that relief for the unemployed is a local problem. Maybe it is, if breadlines, soup kitchens, and family baskets represent what we have in mind. But maybe we are talking too much about relief and too little about recovery. Whether the former an be dismissed as a local problem, the latter can not. Ever since this government was established, politicians, particularly Republicans, have harped on what it could and should do to help business. If they had a right to take credit for the prosperity preceding 1929, consistency demands that they tackle the job of restoring it. a a a Printers Are Right THE Allied Printing Trades Council of New York has adopted resolutions calling attention to the continuance and increase of unemployment and requesting President Hoover to summon a special session of congress for the purpose of authorizing bond issues to provide for such a variety of public projects and improvements as will make it possible for all adult citizens to get work. , Though that may be going rather far, it’s in the right direction. There just doesn’t seem any way out of this mess, unless the federal government turns banker for a season. We must mobilize capital and provide credit if the idle are put to work. Who, except Uncle Sam, is ready, or in a position to do it? tt tt America at Crisis IT should be obvious by this time that the American people face one of the biggest problems in their career, that they are up against something more than a temporary interruption, and that they must do more than taking care of the unfortunate until it blows over. This waiting for some outside or supernatural agency to come to the rescue only makes matters worse. If we have a government which can really do things to promote business and provide work, the time has come to prove it. u u tt Trouble Ahead Unless NO one with common sense can observe what is taking place on every hand, without realizing that we are headed for real trouble if something isn't done to stop or turn the present drift of events. On top of the vast amount of unemployment which gave us plenty to think about last winter, wage cuts are growing more common and strikes are increasing. During the first six months of this year 447 strikes, involving 132,000 workers, were referred to the federal labor department. That represents an increase of approximately 50 per cent over the same period last year. tt tt tt A Pretty Pass! * NATURALLY enough, the growing tenseness of the situation is illustrated most vividly by the increased boldness of criminals, thugs and racketeers. The latter don’t even respect children in their struggle for the right to graft or gamble these days, as was proved in New York Tuesday. A police force of twelve or fifteen thousand is "hopeful” of finding the conscienceless scamps who shot those five little kids for no other reason than that they happened to be in the line of fire. Speakeasy keepers report that the beer barons will find the culprits and mete out the proper kind of punishment if the police fail. A fine state of affairs.

Questions and Answers

Does pateurization remove all the nutritive value from milk? Experimental evidence indicates that pasteurization does not 'injure the chemical or nutritive values of milk to an appreciative degree. It is possible that vitamin C, which protects against scurvy, is injured or destroyed by pasteurization, but that is of little importance, except in the feeding of infants. Is there a sentence in the Bible that speaks of “broken cisterns that can hold no water?” In Jeremiah, 2-13 there is a verse which reads “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” How many enlisted men and officers were there in the United States army on the first day of May this year? On April 30, 1931, the enlisted strength of the United States army was 118,449 and the number of officers was 11,850. In what group of islands Is Tahiti and who owns it? Tahiti is one of the Society islands a group owned by France.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Modem Medicine Emphasizes Diet

This is the second of a series of twen-ty-six timely articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on “Food Truth and Follies,” dealing with such much discussed but little known subjects as calories, vitamins, minerals, digestion and balanced diet. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. WHEREAS the medicine of a previous era concerned itself largely with disease and the control of disease by drugs, modern medicine gives as much attention to diet as to any other single factor in the control of the human body. Modern medicine is concerned with appetite and with digestion. It has learned to control many diseases through control of the diet and to influence the appetite and the body structure by the use of foods properly prepared. In addition to all of the attributes of foods that have been

IT SEEMS TO ME

I HAVE been rereading Joseph Hergesheimer’s “San Cristobal De La Habana.” And I was struck by the following passage: “The moment, now, had arrived for a Daiquiri. Seated near the cool drip of the fountain, where a slight stir of air seemed to ruffle the fringed mantone of a bronze dancing Andalusian girl, I lingered over the frigid mixture of Don Bacardi, sugar and a fresh, vivid green lime.” • a ft

Maybe the Climate “yT was a delicate compound, not 1 so good as I was to discover later at the Telegrafo, but still a revelation, and I was devoutly thankful to be sitting at that hour in the Inglaterra with such a drink. “It elevated my contentment to an even higher pitch, and, with a detached amusement, I recalled the fact that further north prohibition was now in effect. “Unquestionably the cocktail on my table was a dangerous agent, for it held in its shallow glass bowl, slightly ‘incrusted with undissolved sugar, the power of a contemptuous indifference to fate; it set the mind free of responsibilities, obliterating both memory and tomorrow; it gave the heart an adventitious feeling of superiority and momentarily vanquished all the celebrated, the eternal fears.’” I wonder what they put intp Mr. Hergesheimer’s Daiquiri. It seems to me a rather optimistic and romantic account of the effect of a single cocktail. One of the reasons why I was reconciled to prohibition at first was the fact that I invariably felt cheated whenever I read any loving essay about rum. In the theater, too, again and again I saw some character raise a glass to his lips and immediately begin to sing about young love in May if he happened to be the hero or fall down a flight of steps if he were cast as the low comedian. a a tt Wail of a Novice I TRIED earnestly enough, but these experiences never were duplicated for me. No songs came to my lips, nor comic tumbles to my feet. Nor did I ever participate in Mr. Hergesheimer’s “contemptuous indifference to fate.” It was not for me in one cocktail—no, not in many. Occasionally it was possible to reach a stage when I became acutely conscious of the fact that Armenians were being massacred. And later I have known a very persuasive drowsiness. But as for contempt and a feeling of superiority and a freedom from the eternal fears, I never found the right bottle. Whenever a host says, “Here, drink some more Scotch and liven up,” I have the same sinking feeling I used to get when one of my former city editors wrote in the assignment book opposite my name, “Go up to the zoo and write me a funny story.” o a u Chained to Calendar THE whole trouble with life so far is that too much of it falls into assignments. We’re not even content to let our holidays just happen. Instead we mark them down on a calendar, and there they stay as

Holding Himself Up!

mentioned, there comes finally the question of food poisoning and food infection. The development of transportation in the handling of food has brought problems of food contamination that are of i;he greatest importance in relationship to health and disease. Previous to the publication of Upton Sinclair’s book, “The Jungle,” but little attention was given to the cleanliness of food. Previous to the time when it became realized that typhoid fever, dysentery and similar infections were spread by contaminated food, little attention was given to sanitary control. Indeed, there used to be a proverb to the effect that every one had to eat a peck of dirt in order to be civilized. Every one can remember when milk used to be left in a bucket at the family doorstep, when unwrapped bread was tossed from the

fixed and set as an execution day. There are times, for instance, when I feel like turning over anew leaf and leading a better life and giving up cigarets, but when I look

People’s Voice

Editor Times—No doubt you have heard parking troubles until you are disgusted with the whole thing, but I have a few words to say on the unfairness of the whole system. Yesterday my husband drove into Indianapolis and parked on Pennsylvania street, near the Consolidated building and was in there cn business about fifteen minutes. When he came out, someone had broken the lock off the car and attempted to steal some clothing that he had just gotten from the cleaners. However, he got back too soon and frustrated the attempt. But the lock and door handle was broken off, so he went to a garage and had it repaired, obtained the bill and went to the insurance company to report the attempted theft. He parked the car again on Vermont street this time and went up to the insurance office. He was in there just forty-five minutes and the insurance adjuster came out with him to look at the car and there the Indianapolis police tow-in car had hold of our car starting away. Now there is one-hour parking limit on Vermont street and he had only been there forty-five minutes and had ample proof of the fact, but did that make any difference to the police? Not a bit. He was forced to pay them for his own car right there or they would have taken it away. That is nothing more than theft. The insurance company took the matter up, but there will be nothing done about it, as usual. I wonder if the people of Indianapolis realize that we people who live out of town and come in to do our shopping are not going to come in when we re treated like that. There are plenty of other towns in driving distance that have just the same merchandise as the stores of Indianapolis, where the patrons will receive courteous and just treatment. It is plain to be seen that the parking garages and parking lot owners have put enough pressure to bear where it would do them the most good to force the motorist to come into their places even for a three-minute stop. I will say goodbye to Indianapolis and when you change your parking laws we will come back to trade and until then we will go elsewhere. MRS. L. L. P. What is a water dog? That is a common name for hellbenders, large, ugly, but harmless salamanders, which are found in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and the southeast. They are voracious and feed on crawfish, fish and other water animals, and readily take the bait from fishermen’s hooks. They exude much slims and are difficult to handle, and can live for hours out of water. * The spawn resembles that of frogs, but is lighter in color. They reach a length of about 20 inches. Can a parcel be mailed C. O. D. to Great Britain? No.

bakery to the wagon and from the wagon to the grocery clerk, when vegetables were polished with saliva and a dirty towel. Our point of view, it can be seen, has changed in regard to food cleanliness. Nowadays bread is baked untouched by human hands, wrapped in sterilized wrappers and delivered to the purchaser in the original wrapper. Milk is collected under sanitary conditions, transported with refrigeration, pasteurized and delivered to the purchaser in a bottle that has been boiled and sealed with bacteriologic cleanliness. When any one complains of the increased cost of food today, he should be reminded of the increasing fastidiousness of civilized man in relationship to food cleanliness. Even fruits and vegetables are today thoroughly washed and wrapped in individual wrappers before delivered.

nv HEYWOOD BROUN

at the calendar it isn’t New Year’s at all, but Fourth of July, and so nothing can be done about it. I never had the strength of character to get any good out of drinking. It’s a fallacy, of course, to think of a chronic drunkard or a chronic anything as a person of weak will.

Indeed, as a matter of fact, his will is so strong that he has been able to marshal all his energies into one channel and to make himr'lf thereby a specialist. In all my life I have never met but two determined men. One took a cold bath every morning, and the other got drunk every night.

(Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

LETTER TO BAKER July 30 |T\N July 30, 1917, Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner to the United States, made public, through a letter to Secretary of War Baker, many important facts regarding the present strength of France as a fighting unit. He was impelled to write, he said, to correct what he termed inaccurate information in American newspapers regarding the military conditions in Europe. He showed in his letter that France, after three years of war, was just as vigorous and powerful as at the beginning. Whereas, at the beginning of the war France had 1,000,000 men, she had three years later more than 3,000,000. “The French army,” he wrote, “holds more than two-thirds of the western front, that is to say, of the front where the enemy has always directed its chief exertion.” In addition, he said, France had completely re-equipped and rearmed the Belgian, Serbian and Greek armies.

The Dietitians Say—- “ Eat more vegetables in summertime.” Fresh vegetables of all kinds are on the market in quantities, and at prices lower in general than have been obtained for many years. Our Washington bureau has ready for you anew and completely up-to-date bulletin on selection, preparation and cooking all sorts of vegetables in many attractive ways. You will be surprised at the appetizing dishes that can be made from some of the common vegetables that perhaps you have only heretofore prepared in one way. Fill out the coupon and send for this bulletin and add it to your collection of recipes. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 139, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin Vegetables and How to Prepare Them, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled. United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. Name St. and No City state lam a reader of The Indianapolis Times. * (Code No.)

Ideals and opinion* 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.

JULY 30, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Asia, Europe or Africa? Which W'as the Cradle of the Human Racel A THREE-CORNERED battle is raging in the world of science over the cradle of the human race. Some say it was in Europe, others in Asia, still others in Africa. Eminent anthropologists can be found to support each point of view. The one thing they all agree upon, is that the new world is truly new, as far as mankind is concerned. Man. they agree, made his first! appearance in America about 15,000 years ago. It is believed that man entered the American continent from Asia by way of Alaska. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the United States national museum, one of the world’s foremost anthropologists, believes that western and southwestern Europe was the birth place of mankind. He bases his opinion upon the fact that many of the earliest skeletal remains have been found in Europe. Excavations and searching of caves have revealed that a race of men, differing more widely from present-day man than the various races' of man differ from one another today, inhabited most of Europe from 40,000 years ago to about 20,000 years ago. This race is known as the Neanderthal race. About 20,000 years ago, this race was replaced by the Cro-Magnon race and later other races which resemble those of today. a a a Neanderthal THE remains of the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon cultures, weapons, utensils, and art objects, as well as many skeletal remains, are found all over Europe. The widespread nature of these findings is one of the chief arguments for believing that mankind arose in Europe. Very early skeletal remains are extremely few. Europe boasts of two. There is the skull and jawbone found at Piltdown, Sussex, England. Anthropologists consider this a sort of pre-man or “dawn-man.” Technically they have called him Eoanthropos. It is estimated he lived 100,000 years ago. A few bone3 of a somewhat similar type were found at Heidelberg. Germany. The oldest near-human skull is from Asia, however. It was found In Java. Anthropologists refer to it as that of an ape-man and have named him “Pithecanthropos.” The case for Africa is much strengthened by the finding in 1921 of a skull in Rhodesia. “Rhodes man,” as he has been named by the anthropologists, had a more primitive skull than Neanderthal man. It is also pointed out that the two types of ape which most nearly resemble man, the gorilla and the chimpanzee, are both found in Africa. The oldest known remains of anthropoid apes have been unearthed in the Fayum valley in western Egypt. The oriental institute of the University of Chicago is making a study in Egypt. Its investigators have found flint implements indicating that civilization began there 15,000 years ago. a a a Reasons DR. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, is one of the chief advocates of the theory that the human race originated in Asia. He believes that mankind is far older than many other authorities will admit. One of the things which Dr. Osborn hopes will be established eventually by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews’ expeditions into Mongolia is that mankind arose in Asia. Dr. George S. Duncan of the American university, who also holds this theory, advances ten reasons for it. They are: 1. The Java ape-man remains are the oldest of the sort known and Java once was a part of the mainland of Asia. 2. The finding in a cave near Peiping of some teeth thought to be more than 100,000 years old. 3. The discovery of stone implements more than 25,000 years old in Mongolia. 4. The discovery of ruins in Mongolia believed to be of extreme antiquity. 5. Two species of anthropoid apes, the orang and gibbon, exist in Asia. 6. Most of our domestic animals and cereals came from Asia. 7. Mongolia is the oldest dry land on the globe. 8. The great size of Asia. 9. Asia is located centrally to other lands. 10. The oldest remains of animals related to the anthropoid apes and known as primates have been found in Asia.

Daily Thought

For that which befalieth the sons of men befalieth beasts; even one thing befalieth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man has no pre-eminence above a beast; for all Is vanity.—Ecclesiastes 3:19. Mortals are equal; their mask' differs.—Voltaire.