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Edison and His Age Thome* Alva Edison is most significant as symbolizing better than any other American the dominant trend and the outstanding challenge of American life. His era has been characterized, above all else, by staggering progress in mechanical science and by equally amazing stagnation in the field of culture, institutions, and ideas. It is this juxtaposition of an airplane technology and an ox-cart society which is the outstanding threat to the further happiness—even existence —of human society. Edison himself contributed much to this advance in material culture, especially in matters of light, sound, and applied electricity. But he is even more important as the symbol of his age. If we were compelled to single out one person when thinking of applied science, we almost inevitably would bring Edison to mind. He has no conspicuous rival In Edison’s era—%ay since 1870—we have been lifted out of the Middle Ages in our material surroundings. Modern machinery has made possible mass production and greater factories. New and faster transportation methods have speeded up the distribution of commodities. We have built better locomotives and cars, have added Pullman cars, have invented safety devices on railroads, have built surface, elevated, and subway lines, and have passed from the bicycle to the automobile and airplane. We have improved the steamengine, devised the gas and gasoline engines, built the Diesel engine, and constructed practical electric motors. Chemistry has wrought its marvels in the iron and steel and rubber industries, in the manufacture of dyes, in the exploitation of by-products and waste, and in the synthetic re-creation of innumerable and diverse commodities. Modern communication has passeu from the crude telegraph to the telephone, wireless, and radio station. The human voice has been preserved by the phonggraph and transmitted by the radio. We build vast skyscrapers and imposing bridges with nonchalance. In short, when it comes to science and engineering we are something to marvel at, if judged by earthly standards. But the sober observer must admit that we continue to think and behave much as we did, not only when Edison was bom, but when the actual battle of Yorktown was being fought. Our social ideals are based on pecuniary standards, snobbishness, a class system, and the worship of display. Exclusiveness and exploitation, rather than co-operation and service, dominate. In economics, the reverence for wealth and property is unabated. When the dollar no longer is a prize, sheer economic power becomes such. We mouth the fallacies of the days of Adam Smith and Ricardo, still crediting a ’‘rugged individualism” which was outmoded before Lincoln split a rail. The state still is viewed with hostility as the collective policeman ratheV than the instrument of social progress and justice. Politics is as much “air-driven" as in the days of Clay, Webster, and Calhoun, except that the quality of the air markedly has deteriorated. We trust majority rule and believe in numerical democracy. The party system continues without notable reform. Our own party system is a travesty and joke, even with national committeemen. There is no clash of vital economic and social interests in our major party divisions. Outside a few commissions, expert knowledge and direction is derided and rejected. Law is playing the game according to archaic rules which were a disgrace to the human mind in the days of Blackstone. Legal evidence is an affront to all science and logic. Even lawyers laugh when one naively connects law and justice. Religion has made little progress since Tom Paine. Our modernists only are trying to find new phrases to envelope or obscure old ideas and practices. Morals still are based on the theological formulae of heavenly salvation instead of secular guidance for happiness and well-being here and now. Journalism is only vastly successful commercialization of gossip. Rarely does it even pretend to intellectual and social leadership. Education has made some progress in theory and assumes to prepare people to live. Actually, it still is chiefly a mechanical and punitive machine crushing zest and ambition. Broadly speaking, while we are frank and daring in technology, we are cowardly, evasive, and unreliable in our thought and conduct.. The honest man is as rare and in as much social jeopardy as in the days of Diogenes. Such is the challenge of our social order. We can not go on forever with one foot in an airplane and the other bound to an ox-cart. We shall need sociological Edisons, or the work of the scientific Edisons will topple in the dust and snuff out human civilization beneath the scattered debris. A Federal Power Program At last a well-considered and comprehensive public utility policy for the federal government has been formulated. Too frequently in the past we have groped blindly when dealing with this subject, unsure of the ends we would reach and equally unsure of the ends we sought. But the public utilities committee of the national progressive conference has not been afraid to face the matter honestly, examine it from all sides, reject worn-out ideas concerning it, look at the implications of the future, and suggest what we may do. It selects for its end the actual control of public utilities by the public, since transportation, light, heat, power, and water are essential services and furnishing them is essentially a function of the'state. This is a position to which we have been giving verbal approval for years, with our systems of public regulation, hopefully designed to exercise control over rates and services. But the committee faces the fact that public regulation has not accomplished actual public control of public utilities and never can under present conditions. It suggests two remedies: First, that the government compete with existing privately owned railroad and electric utilities. Communities in various parts of the United States have tried this and found it decidedly effective. The federal trade commission recently found a model private utility company operating in Cleveland, giving excellent service at lew rates and making good money, due apparently, to the presence of a rival municipal system. Second, that the government eliminate the speculative profit motive from utility services owned privately. This, it suggests, can be done by changing the basis of valuation upon which rates are fixed, letting the men in the utility business have generous compensation for actual personal service and a moderate compensation for actual investment, but no more. This is as logical and wise a proposal limiting the salaries of public officials. Money paid for utility

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service is, the report points out, essentially tax money “since its payment is a condition of daily subsistence” and we long have rejected the idea that large fortunes may with propriety be amassed out of tax money. A program which, if adopted, would be as effective as this will be fought bitterly. It will attacked as socialistic or communistic though, as Chairman Donald Richberg says: “The program is the product not of socialistic theory, but of faith in co-operative individualism. Individual freedom can be preserved only through opposing equally the tyranny of industrial dictators and of political dictators who would control all industry.” This program is a sound foundation for future action. It deserves the most thorough, careful study by the law makers. Jefferson Speaks Today newspaper men are dedicating to a free and untrammeled press a writing nook in Thomas Jefferson’s lovely hilltop home, Monticello, in Virginia-. The ceremonies celebrate the recent United States supreme court decision against the Minnesota “gag law” and commemorate the life of the author of the Declaration of Independence, who won for us the guarantees of freedom of speech, assemblage, religion and education. On the eve of a winter of distress, this event is timely. Some Americans—disregarding history's lesson, that truth, like dynamite, is dangerous only if confined—will urge repressive measures to punish discontent. So the eternally wise words of Jefferson come to us across the years with unusual force today: “The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.” “There are rights which it is useless to surrender to the government, and which government yet always have been found to evade. (Among) These are the rights of thinking and publishing our thoughts by speaking and writing.” “Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate.” “Differences of opinion, when permitted ... to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as clouds overspreading our lands transiently and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.” “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is well.” “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”

Japan Can Not Stand Alone Japan has shown wisdom and courage in withdrawing her objection to American participation in the Manchurian discussions by the League of Nations’ council. That removes a technical barrier to a settlement. But, as we pointed out Monday, that technical dispute was relatively unimportant. It does not matter much whether the United States co-operates with the league council from inside the door or outside—so long as there is co-operation to preserve the peace in this crisis. Unfortunately, the United States, though chief sponsor of the Kellogg pact, has not invoked that treaty. Relatedly the other powers have done so oow. Still the state department delays. Assuming that the state department intends to act some time, it should realize that every added delay advertises its lack of faith in its own treaty and sacrifices American peace leadership. In this connection, today’s dispatches from Tokio are disquieting. They state that Japan has no intention of withdrawing her troops in advance of a settlement, and that the Tokio government understands “that the United States will not take any leading role in the world-wide efforts to preserve peace in the far east.” It is difficult ot believe that this is an- accurate statement of American policy, but it is easy to understand how the state department’s failure to invoke the Kellogg pact has produced this impression in Tokio. There is one thing, however, which Japan can not misinterpret. That is the desire of a war-weary world for peace. Unless Japan honors her treaties by speedily withdrawing her troops, she will be blamed by world opinion for trying to wreck international peace machinery. No nation can stand alone against the W’orld. Whoops! Students checking on their professors in Columbia university lectures found twenty-six guilty of first degree murder of the King’s English. One professor used “don’t” instead of “doesn’t” seventeen times in one lecture. Another said “the people that—.” And one went so far as to say, “If any one has any questions to ask they should ask them now.” Hooray! We’re going right out and split a couple of infinitives. If a college professor don’t have to carefully handle their grammar, why should us? A student is sometimes hard put to decide whether to pass a course or pass it up.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WHAT is the matter with the modern woman?” This is a question that is asked interminably. If you happen to be a modern woman, it gets dull and tiresome with repetition. To put one’s finger upon the chief feminine fault right now is difficult, since, if we are to believe the public prints they are so numerous and gigantic. According to my idea, however, there is only one that deserves very severe criticism. That our dogged determination to remain a perpetual thirty. Thomas Burke has lately written a touching and very lovely book called “The Flower of Life.” In it he proves that the most blessed contentment comes from an acceptance of the inevitable. Today’s woman refuses to accept the inevitability of middle age, and in that lies the reason for ninetenths of her foolish) behavior and her tragic mistakes. r TT'HE idea, for instance, that the pleasures of twenty A should be enjoyed with equal gusto at forty is quite preposterous. Or that the things we like doing at thirty we shall also like doing at sixty. It is because# we have committed ourselves to this unbalanced ideal that we suffer not only the condemnation of the neighbors, but the dissatisfactions that gnaw at our souls. The mother of anew baby often will fail to enjoy the sweets of this period of her life because she is so fearful of missing social pleasures. She works hi--self up into a passion of consternation, and before she knows it her child is off to school and she has lost irretrievably the thrills of his infancy. I know women who expend enough worry on their graying hair to have carried Job through in facing the masseuse. The matter with them is that Jfciey have no tense of the values of life, and are utterly ignorant of true beauty.

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Remembering How We Went Into Mexico After Villa, We, of AU People, Should Not Be Too Hasty informing an Opinion About Japan. NEW YORK. Oct. 20.—Hope spring eternal in the human breast. Wherefore A1 Capone, though convicted of violating the income tax law and facing a possible sentence of seventeen years, says that "the fight is not finished.” Wherefore, Judge Stabury, who is trying to find out just how rotten things really are in little old New York, sends a process server into Mexico to notify Mayor Walker's broker that he is wanted. Wherefore, the ground on which Japan rejects the proposal made to her by the League of Nations is taken to mean that the Manchuria muddle may not turn out so badly. x x x We Went for Villa THE League of Nations asked Japan to withdraw her troops from Manchuria within three weeks and begin direct negotiations with China in one week. In refusing to comply, Japan said that such a request indicated “intolerable” suspicion of her motives. In other words, that she had done nothing and intended nothing to warrant all the fuss. It is just possible that Japan may be right. Most everybody has taken it for granted that she wanted Manchuria and that the recent rumpus merely was an excuse to provoke war with China. Harking back to the way our own government once sent an expedition into Mexico- after Pancho Villa, and especially to the way its motives were misunderstood and misrepresented by outsiders, we, of all people, should not be too hasty in forming an opinion. XXX Decency’s Not Dead IF bad intentions crop up wher you least expect them, so do good ones. Indeed, one of the most surprising things about life is the unexpected decency of people. Here is Sam Lockett of Knoxville, Tenn., with his face all slashed and his nose cut off, but refusing to prosecute the neighbor who did it, because somebody needs to look after four kids. And here is a great Chicago surgeon offering to repair the damage after hearing how Sam felt about it, and the American Airways Company giving him free transportation. There is a lot of good in people. All it takes is a good deed to bring it out. XXX Fighters Get the Glory IF human experience shows how easy it is to quarrel over little things, it also shows how it is possible to get by the very biggest without trouble. \ Sometimes, you wonder if we are not too thoroughly sold on combativeness ; if our politics, our courts, and our daily life wouldn’t all be better off with less argument. Up to this time, the debaters and fighters have had most of the glory, but have we been wise in giving them so much? XXX Napoleon or Edison? Two struggles have been in progress since the dawn of consciousness—one in which men tried to outdo each other; the other in which they tried to overcome their natural limitations. Napoleon typifies the first; Edison the second. Which of them do you think we should teach our children to accept as a model? Edison probably brought the greatest revolution in human methods and habits of any single individual, outside of religion, who ever lived. He couldn’t have done it had he wasted his time arguing. 1 XXX Pays to Be Ready SPEAKING of Edison and the world-wide tribute being paid him, S. W. Stratton, chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died while dictating a letter about the great inventor for Boston newspapers. Life is like that. You never can tell where, or whom, the lightning will strike next. It pays to be ready, not in a superstitious, maudlin way, but for the sake of those who must carry on. Too many of us neglect putting our affairs in order. That always leads to unnecessary confusion and often to hardship for those we love best. XXX Tragic Unpreparedness DEATH is not pleasant to think about, but it can’t be avoided. Sooner or later, you and I are going to pass out. We ought to make things as easy as we can for those who will be left behind. Most of us would, if we realized what it meant. The fact that we don’t realize it is our own fault. We just put the possibility out of our minds on the assumption that nothing can happen to us, no matter how often it happens to others. That, and that alone, explains why so many widows find themselves in poverty when they ought to be well off. why so many solvent estates are frittered away through incompetent handling, why so many children are obliged to go to work when they ought to be getting an education. f What are the qualifications for American ministers and ambassadors? None are prescribed by la,w, and being appointees of the President, he uses his own judgment regarding their qualifications. What are the best sources of vitamin D? Cod liver qjl, liver and egg yolk are rich sources, and milk and dairy products contain it in small but apI preciable amounts. Is it possible to compres/ light? I No.

Broun Rests Heywood Broun, conductor of “It Seems to Me,” is enjoying his annual vacation. His column again will appear on The Times editorial page, storting Monday, Oct.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Sensitivity Likely to Be Inherited

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. 'T'HERE seems to be in certain families a tendency toward what is called allergy, a form of sensitivity whereby the taking into the body of certain forms of protein results in symptoms that are known as allergic symptoms. For example, hay fever and asthma may run in families—one member of a family may have hay fever, another asthma, another may break out with eruptions of hives on eating certain foods. When both parents suffer from some form of sensitivity, there is a likelihood that at least one-half their children probably will develop some form of sensitivity during life. These allergic manifestations may skip one generation and the mother and father be free, whereas the children display various types of allergy. Investigations made with the special idea of allergy in mind revealed some family history of sensitivity in almost 60 per cent of cases. In one series of cases, when both mother and father had sensitivity,

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Editor Times —Asa reader of your newspaper I enjoy very much your ; attitude in carrying on a marvelous fight against the highway robbery constantly committed by utilities of this city 1 . They, more than any one else during this depression, collected sums of money from the people who are confronted with daily starvation, yet it was legal, because the governmental powers failed until now to take the extreme action in compelling them to reduce their exorbitant profits at the expense of the people. The fight against the utilities is not the only 'fight that your newspaper should carry on at the present time. It is absolutely necessary that the people and your paper should begin a vigorous fight in demanding from the state legislature the immediate recall of the war law compelling the people to pay the tax on their household goods. If this law stays for this coming year, it means that our state government will be responsible for the destruction of thousands of homes of the poor. Thousands of unemployed are unable to feed even dry bread to their children and no doubt, in our mind, can not be taxed for their household goods. Most of their household goods prob- j ably are mortgaged and it is more ! important for those people to feed their children rather than to pay a tax. I must admit that taxes are important to maintain government and if our state is lacking funds, why not put into power an immediate tax on the rich? If working people have learned in the last two years to do without food, without shelter, why couldn’t those contemptible, greedy capitalists learn to do with a little less, at a time when they have plenty? Those capitalists believe that the government is especially for them and why shouldn’t they carry the burden? S. K. BUDWEISER. Editor Times—Please, just a word for the wives who work. There are many wives who, if they didn t work, would not have a place to put their heads. I know for I am one of the hundreds. I am a mother of five living children work every night, and have a husband who thinks more of what is called White Mule and beer than of his children. When he gets to the point where he can t walk, he sends one child, not quite 14 years old, alter it for him. I think it is nice for the mother to work and try to keep the home together, if they would put the bootleggers out and make them break rocks. If this was done, many wives wouldn’t have to work outside of the home. WORKING WIFE. Editor Times—ls a special effort were made by our mayor, industrial board and Chamber of Commerce to get together all manufacturers of the city who could employ more men this winter; if certain difficulties were ironed out for them, or if necessary, give each individual a

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90 per cent of the children developed such a condition within the first ten years of life. The nature of the sensitivity developed, as pointed out by Dr. Warren T. Vaughan, depends largely on the conditions in which one lives. Thus people who live in the British Isles develop hay fever chiefly from exposure to grasses, while in the United States most cases of hay fever are associated with the polens of the ragweed. In this country the concentration of ragweed pollen in the air is mTich greater than that of any other plant, including the grasses. It was found that the children of certain immigrants in New York slept on felt pillows of which the chief constituent was rabbit hair. Most American children sleep on feather pillows. Thus more children of immigrants were found sensitive to rabbit hair than of the American population, and more of the American population were found sensitive to chicken feathers than of the immigrant population. Miners and bakers were found to be sensitive to wheat flour, papier makers to the dust of wood pulp,

chance to show what he needs to speed up or open up his factory, then see to it that he so is aided, this would do more immediate good than spending such large sums on charity. If necessary, get connections with some of the money our President Is loosening up, so it will go to work at once. In six months Indianapolis could be manufacturing almost full blast, if we would all buy and sell our own manufactured goods first, and know where we could procure the same. Anything will do, but do something. I’ve not heard of any effort along this line. O. F. SUNNAN. 4920 Central avenue. Editor Times —I have been a subscriber to The Times all its life and have appreciated it very much, especially the way it comes to the support of the working man. I hope everybody read the letter of Sept. 24 signed TIMES READER. I wish I could shake hands with that MAN and I also wish he would run for President. If we could get a President with as much sense as he has, the U. S. A. never would be in the shape it is in today. He showed by his sense of reasoning that the eighteenth amendment is a farce, and that figures won’t lie, but the higherups have showed us that liars will figure. I would like to suggest to our NO MEAN CITY that they could stop this local panic in twenty minutes if they wanted to. All they would have to do would be to stop married women who have employed husbands from working and stop all country people from working in the city. Employ no one outside of the City limits. Common horse sense ought to convince any business man that employing country people is against the city and also his own interests, for the country man raises his liv-

Cheaper in Long Run Yes, it’s cheaper to give your family a proper diet. You’ll keep them happy and healthy and reduce the doctor’s bills if you know something about what the human body needs daily in the way of food Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a bulletin on PROPER DIET, telling in nontechnical language that every housewife can understand just how to feed her family: The functions of minerals, protein, starch, sugars, fats, cellulose and flavoring. It tells the proper quantities of the various kinds of foods, gives sample meals for a family, suggestions on meal planning, and a week’s menus. You will find this bulletin full of the facts you want to know about proper diet. Fill out the coupon below and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE— Dept. 148, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin PROPER DIET, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. I NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE , * I am a reader df The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.i,

laboratory workers to the hair of the guinea pigs and workers around the race tracks to horse hair. This would seem to indicate that it is not a specific sensitivity that is inherited, but merely a general tendency to sensitivity, the exact nature of the disturbance depending on the surroundings in which the individual works and lives. The symptoms associated with sensitivity seem to depend to a considerable extent on the way in which the sensitizing substances get into the body. Sometimes it is inhaled; sometimes it is eaten; sometimes it is kept in prolonged contact with the skin, and sometimes it is injected under the skin. Thus, hay fever, sneezing and pnning of the nose may be associated with the inhalation of various pollens. Eruptions on the skin are developed from long contact with furs and from the use of powder containing orris root, or some similar substance. All sorts of foods may be involved in food allergies strawberries usually causing hives; chocolate being associated with attacks of headache.

ing at home all but his sugar and coffee and he buys that from his home town or the huckster wagon who passes his home. I would like to ask if the ones appointed by the President and others to look aftei the relief and unemployed situation are working men out of work? If rot, why are they not impeached? S. P. ROBERTSON.

Questions and Answers

What is the record attendance at a cricket match and a baseball game? The record at a cricket match was 262.467 in Melbourne, Australia, in 1929. For major league baseball it was 85,265 at a double-header between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Atheltics at Yankee stadium, New York, Sept 9 1928. What is meant by pigeon or chicken breasted? The terms are applied to persons who have a deformity in which the chest is flattened at the sides and the breast bone is pressed forward and outward. It is also a slang term for those who have a high chest or prominent breast bone. How long is the Belmont race track? A mile and one-eighth. What are agents of provocateur? Persons employed by the police or governments and individuals to instigate otherwise law-abiding persons to commit punishable crimes. Who was the author of the slogan, “Equal rights to all and special privileges to none?” Thomas Jefferson.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

William Gre e n Advocate .<? Consideration of the Problems of Humanity as Well as Those of the Machine. WILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, is the latest authority to join the ranks of those who exhort engineers to consider the problems of humanity as well as those of the machine. From the scientific standpoint, Green is in good company, for no less a scientific authority than Prof. Albert Einstein himself holds the same view’. In February of this year, while visiting the Pacific coast. Einstein addressed the students of the California Institute of Technology. “Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness?” he said. “The simple answer is: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. “It is not enough that you should understand about applied science, in order that your work may increase man’s blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate always must form the chief interest of all your technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.” Green sets forth his opinions in a symposium collected by the Engineering Foundation of New’ York upon the subject of "Benefits from Engineering Progress.” tt tt tt Workers Have Equity T TAVING created the machine age, it is up to scientists and engineers to tackle the larger problems which have come with it. Green says. In particular, he insists that workers have an equity in industry that must be accorded the same importance as the investment of capital. “Technical progress has brought most difficult problems to workers and industry,” he says. “Our term, ‘technological unemployment,’ expresses an experience that has often made science seem the enemy of wage earners. “But this is because science has been used without taking into consideration the fact that wage earners h£tve an equity in their jobs. “We have learned how to make quantites, but we have not learned how’ to get them to the people who can use them or how to distribute equitably the returns from joint products. We are attempting to turn these currents through the old channels w’e developed in the days of hand production. “Wage earners make a very important investment in industry. They put in the time and labor necessary to turn out the products of the industry; they put in their creative capacity, their intelligence, their work lives. “We have reached the time when securities for these nonmaterial investments must be given consideration commensurate with that for capital investments. “Merely speeding up the industrial machine is not an unmixed good unless engineers realize that these changes profoundly affect human lives and nlan to make the influence constructive.” tt tt tt Balance Is Sought WORLD-WIDE economic distress has resulted from failure to recognize the inter-depend-ence of various interests, Green contends. “Within our country we find failure to balance interests and progress,” he continues. “Custom has established certain priorities for material interests that have w r orked for unequal distribution of wealth and income and absence of security for many. Wage earners belong to the groups denied priorities in securities. “Because all interests are interrelated, we must w’ork out principles of balance; increasing output against capacity to buy; increasing productivity against increasing leisure: technical progress against the available supply of labor; output against the incomes of buyers; volume of business against available credit, etc. “We can attain sustained business prosperity only if we understand and apply principles of balance. We can advance the welfare of mankind safely in this complicated age only when we understand the principles of balance between forces which work for progress and retrogression.”

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GERMAN SEA WARFARE Oct. 20 ON Tuesday, Oct. 20, German warships bombarded Dunkirk and German raiders sank two British destroyers and nine merchant ships. No civilian casualties w r ere reported in Dunkirk. Sinking of the ships by the German raiders took place in the North Sea between the Shetland Islands and the Norwegian coast. England’s losses for the week ending Oct. 20 included 17 ships of over 1,600 tons. Meantime the British began an enveloping movement northeast of Bagdad and drove the Turkish forces in the vicinity of KizilRobat across the Diala river. On this date President Wilson issued a proclamation specifiying Sunday, Oct. 28, as a day of prayer for war success, and asked his “countrymen to observe the appointed day, according to their several faiths, in solemn prayer that God s blessing may rest upon the high task which is laid upon us, to the end that the cause for which we give our lives and treasure may triumph and our efforts be blessed with high achievement.” Daily Thought For the drunkard and the glution shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.—Proverbs 23:21. There Is hardly a crime before ms that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.—Judge Coleridge.