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/ Call That Session When the state chairman of both political parties go to the trouble of sounding out sentiment on the matter or a special session, it is a fair presumption that the people as a whole demand relief that can only come from legislation. The farmers have made their demands again and again only to be met with a refusal by the Governor, who, evidently has small liking for legislatures. His attitude can be understood. A special session might be more inquisitive than the regular gathering of politicians. The same conditions which have led the farmer to demand a change of laws that will prevent agriculture from being reduced to serfdom and the individual farmer from extinction make life hard for the independent merchant and even harder for the wage worker. As far as the farmer is concerned, unfair tax burdens become confiscation and all too many farms are becoming the property of money lenders. The only way this state can act to relieve any class of citizens, either the dispossessed farmer or the jobless worker, is through the legislature. Tn times that demand action, the legislature should be in session to meet emergencies and emergencies already exist. The legislature must very soon revise the tax system to equalize burdens and place them on the shoulders of. those able to pay. It should do something constructive in the matter of unemployment. The state might well join in asking the Governor •to follow the example ot states like Wisconsin where Teal concern is being shown for the common good. The Wrong Emphasis Only thirteen years old, and a suicide. An Indiana boy had failed to make a place on a football team. Life seemed worthless. He ended it. The fact that this tragedy occurred in the city which is the home of the largest state university Indicates that school authorities, from highest to lowest, should pay some attention to the emphasis placed upon college and school athletics. No boy has ever yet in this state ended his life because he failed to make the glee club, the debating team or first rank in scholarship. When all the honors and adulation go to the heroes of the gridiron, thoughtful persons may well stop and ask whether schools are being operated fo* football or football for the schools. That athletics form a very proper part of school life must be admitted, but the primary purpose of athletics should be the cultivation of healthy bodies. Outside of the gate receipts, just what is the purpose of competitive athletics? Is the advertisement worth while? Should youth be attracted by football glamor or a desire for education?

The Chaos in Coal John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers is quite right when he says something must be done |o stabilize the coal industry. Whether or not his fc>lan for accomplishing this by government regulation is the wisest plan possible is rather more difficult of, determination. The government will not — and, in our judgment, should not—step in until private industry has refused to save itself from chaos. The coal industry has been discussed at some length in the hearings before the La Follette senate committee. It has been suggested, among other things, that coal operators should spend their time devising ways to increase the demand for coal, that they should endeavor to find a method of making coal furnaces as easy to operate as oil or gas furpaces, for instance. But to solve the problems of the industry on the basis of increasing production involves rapid destruction of an essential national resource which is definitely limited. This would seem to be as foolish as wasteful destruction of oil reserve. Under the Lewis plan, conservation of coal might be accomplished to a limited extent. On the other hand, government regulation often has resulted in a generous return to the regulated industry, guaranteed by the government, but necessitating high prices to the consumer. Government regulation so far has found no way to keep the valuation on which fetum is based to a reasonable level. It may be that the peculiar problems of the coal Industry can be solved only by complete government control. To achieve properly limited production and assure profits to coal operators without at the same time making the price of an essential commodity excessive would require great skill on the part of the (government regulating commission. And yet, as Lewis says and as conditions in Kentucky, in West Virginia, in Pennsylvania cry out, Something must be done. The winter should not be allowed to pass without serious study of this problem by the congress. The Anti-Lynching: Pledge Indicating that another fight will be made in congress for a federal anti-lynching law, the National Equal Rights League has called upon President Hoover for his aid. Both the Republican party and the President have spoken on this issue. The Republican party pledged itself to an anti-lynching law “to exterminate this hideous crime.” President Hoover has said: “Every decent citizen must condemn the lynching evil as an undermining of the very essence of both justice and democracy.” Yet neither acts. The Dyer bill, imposing federal penalties upon counties which wink at lynchIngs, has got nowhere under three Republican administrations. While the government hesitates, public opinion moves, all too slowly, to stamp out this American barbarism. Last year there were twenty-one lynchings, as compared with 225 in 1892. The truth about the cowardly injustice of these lawless episodes also comes out. A group of southern investigators recently found that less than one-fourth of all lynching victims in the last forty years even were accused of assaults upon white women. They found that of last year’s lynching toll two were innocent, eleven were “possibly” so. The problem is acute. There were twice as many lvnchings last year as in 1929. President Hoover has said: “Platform pledges must not be empty gestures.” One test of Republican issues will be on this issue. And what about the Democrats? Land o’ Plenty The composite yield of crops to the acre upon American farms is 11 per cent greater for the harvest closing than it was a year ago, the Uniteji States department of agriculture's bureau of economics announces. Larger than average crops include cotton,

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tobacco, apples, and winter wheat. Corn and potato crops are average. 3ut the marketward movement of grain, potatoes, and apples Is comparatively light, because of low prices. The farmer’s plight is seen in the following picture: The wholesale price level of all commodities is practically at the pre-war Index of 100, Farm taxes exceed 250. Farm wages are about 120. Prices of things bought by the farmers are 125. Prices received by farmers for their products average about 70. Thus the current snapshot of the American farmer is that of a man who stands in front of his bursting barns with his hands—and nothing else—in his pockets. And in the city is the man who needs the farmer’s products, but has no money to buy. A Hoover Achievement The annual report of Charles J. Rhodes, United States commissioner of Indian affairs, and his assistant, J. Henry Scattergood, is hopeful. In this report are signs of progress toward the humanization of the Indian bureau and the freeing f the remnant of the 225,000 Indian wards, after 100 years of bureaucratic tyranny. Beginning at the foundation, the new administration seems to have tackled the educational system with real vigor, it has abandoned three worse than useless boarding schools in Oklahoma, California and Arizona, improved supervision of the rest, and co-operated with states to meet the needs of Indian scholars in public schools. Health and sanitation also appear to have been improved greatly through the enlargement of hospitals, field nurse personnel and better statistics. Through agricultural extension work Indians are made better farmers.

But, it most be admitted, only a start has been made. The boarding school evil should be abated entirely and a decent school system substituted. The Swing-Johnson bill should be passed to permit the states to administer relief, health and education. The great and illegal $43,000,000 reimbursable debt should be scaled down. The system under which more than 100,000 Indians have become dispossessed and made into near-paupers should be abandoned and adequate relief provided for its victims. To protect the Indian culture, a measure should be passed permitting the incorporation of Indian Tribes and giving these tribes better protection in the federal courts. The ideal of the new Indian bureau is to work itself out of a job in twenty-five years through the eventual weaning of the Indians from government aid. This can not be done except by educating them in self-reliance. And it can not be done at the cost of Indian culture. The new regime at least has turned America’s face toward this better goal.

The Willing Auto Sales-tax evangelists who argue that their scheme is ideal because of its painlessness should take a closeup look at the workings of our one big example of the sales levy—the tax on gasoline. They will see how there has come to be loaded upon the backs of American motorists a burden that is making them cry out in -omething very much akin to pain. Originally the state gas tax was intended as a road builder and repairer. Soon, because of its easy extraction, it was put to all sorts of chores. Florida began spending gas-tax money on schools. New Jersey voted a $17,000,000 bond issue for charitable institutions and water, the bonds for which are to be retired from gas tax collections. California is proposing a $25,000,000 relief bond issue, to be paid for by a 1-cent addition to its 3-cent tax. Proposals have come for county gas tax levies. A federal gas tax has been suggested. Already SBO,000,000 is being spent annually from gas taxes upon other things than roads. Every state in the Union now has a gas tax. The levies run from 2 cents a gallon to Florida’s 7-cent tax. Gas taxes now bring in an estimated $495,000,000 a year. In gas, registration, and personal property taxes, motorists now pay out more than $1,000,000,000 a year. Os course this huge burden means double taxation. It results in evasions, in racketeering, in bootlegging of gasoline, in other abuses. Soon it will begin to be reflected seriously in diminishing returns to the auto and allied industries. Here, then, is the sales tax in high gear and going the legal limit of speed. We’re working the willing horse—or auto—to death. It should be a warning against making universal this “painless” scheme for raising revenue. England may be hungry, but if newspaper accounts are correct it still has its Irish stew. The government is closing four military posts. Add.ng a few more soldiers to the army of unemployed.

Just Every Day Sense Bl’ MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE Liveright publishing Company has issued a bulk volume called “Woman's Coming of Age.” Many notable have contributed, and the feminine, its present psychology, its past degradations and its future hopes are analyzed and discussed. The introduction, which is especially fine, contains this thought-provoking sentence: “She (the new woman) realizes that morality in the past has been made by man for the subordination of woman.” After one penetrates the crust of sentimentality that obscures for us the sight of hidden truth on this subject, there is no doubt that man always has set the moral standards of his age. And he has set them with absolute fixity for his women. It is as if he had built a high barbed-wire fence to corral the ladies of his house, but had taken care to leave a few strands loose in his own masculine inclosure, so that he might slip away occasionally nun IT is somewhat startling, too, as you study the story of women, to realize that the only way by which the intellectual one in past ages could attain any real freedom of thought or action was by becoming a prostitute. There’s man-made morality for you! Yet from the golden age of Pericles, down through many centuries, men kept their own women strictly secluded and in complete subordination, while they enjoyed both the physical and mental stimulus from the smarter and more lively sort who were barred from society. Mme. ae Maintenon, the mistress of Ixjuis XIV of France, had a powerful and brilliant mind, but to display or even exercise it she was obliged to sell her chastity to the king. A majority of loose ladies of the past have not only been ambitious, but far above the intelltetuai level of their timer .Man hai many sins to answer lor, but the most heinous is h a use of morality as a cudgel to dull woman’s wits.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Our Government Is Drifting Toward an Economic Morass. Sooner or Later We Are Going to Have to Pag Up. YORK, Dec. s.—President Hoover is reported as inclined to let Democrats take the lead in shaping a revenue program which is the biggest problem before this country right now. The federal deficit was nearly $1,000,000,000 last year, and promises to be twice that much this year. The question is not whether taxes should be increased, but how. Politicians invariably assume that increased taxes are unpopular and that the party which can be held responsible for them is sure to suffer. Not pausing to argue the nonsense of such twaddle, most of us had hoped that President Hoover would rise above it.

Hoover’s Opportunity IT is true that Democrats control the lower house of congress and that nothing can be done without their consent, but it is equally true chat Republicans control the upper house and that nothing can be done without their consent. For the very same reason that neither party is in a position to have its way, neither can be held wholly accountable for what occurs. Asa matter of common sense, divided control not only gives the President a great opportunity for leadership, but demands that he make the most of it. tt tt Disaster Ahead IT is to be acknowledged that President Hoover has been compelled to grapple with a distressing emergency, for which he was in nowise to blame, and that he has done some very good work in advising with the leaders of private enterprise and in suggesting financial improvements. His ideas with regard to home building and the credit corporation which was clearly born of his guidance represent constructive work. Meanwhile, and regardless of how business may have been helped, the government is drifting toward an economic morass. If something is not done to balance the budget, and keep it balanced very soon, we shall find ourselves facing a state of affairs similar to that which upset the British applecart last summer.

Politics Taboo THIS is no time for the chief executive, or any other responsible leader to give the slighest thought to the political effect of measures. The nation is threatened too seriously for that. The best that can be done with the whole-hearted cooperation of all concerned will prove none too good. We have helped other countries balance their budgets only to find ou r own badly out of equilibrium. We have’"concerned ourselves with German reparations, the British dole and moratoria for every one but ourselves, when we ought to have been more concerned with the adjustment of expenses to income or vice versa right here at home. nun No Laughing Matter n ON ’T be fooled by the cheap twitter of optimism with which we have schooled ourselves to approach every financial problem at Washington. A two billion dollar deficit is no laughing matter, even in these United States, especially at a time when most other countries seem obsessed with the idea of blocking our trade with tariffs. We are running behind, and we are running behind fast. That means higher taxes, or increased debt. Nor would the higher taxes do much good if confined to a few spots, or few articles. n n n Must Pay Up TT would take at least sls from every man, woman and child to wipe out this year’s deficit, and there is small reason to suppose that it would take less to wipe out next year’s. ' That doesn’t sound so big—only S6O, or $65 for the average family but when you add it to state taxes, city taxes, school taxes and an incalculable variety of district taxes, it means a lot. It means so much, indeed, that no one yet has been able to devise a satisfactory plan. Os course, every one would like to pass the buck, but that can’t go on forever. Sooner or later, we are going to have to face the music, adopt a program and pay up.

Questions and Answers

How many postmasters are there in the United States and its possessions? The total number is 48,739, of whom 179 are in Alaska, eightyeight in Porto Rico, one in Guam, and five in the Virgin islands. How many federal and state penitentiaries are there in the United States? Ninety-six. What is the total number of counties in the United States? There are 3,080, not including the independent cities of Baltimore, Md., and twenty independent cities in iVrginia, each with the status of a county. What does the aeronautical term air pocket mean? A localized condition of the atmosphere, due to varying and irregular air currents, lessening the upward reaction against the plane, causing it to drop suddenly, as if into a hole. It is supposed to be due either to a descending current into which the aviator runs, or to an overtaking current travelling faster than the aviator's speed. Who invented the universal language known as Ro? It was invented in 1904 by the Rev. P. Foster. A monthly sheet called Roia in that language is published at Waverly, W. Va. How much electricity does the average electric iron consume? .5 kilowaats peer hour. About 550 watts or approximately

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Examinations Essential to Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE object of an annual or semiannual survey of health by a physician is to find out whether or not any conditions detrimental to health or to life have begun their ravages, in order that they may be controlled before they reach the point beyond which control is impossible. Today mothers are receiving splendid information on the care of their children. However, as Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood recently pointed out, *it is high time that a beginning be made in a systematic and effective manner in the instruction of mothers so as to give to them the same protection that the children receive. Up to 1900, more than 30 per cent

IT SEEMS TO ME sv

CHARLIE CURTIS of Kansas has announced that he is willing to accept another nomination for VicePresident, and apparently nothing can be done about it. Asa matter of fact, it would be extremely difficult to offer any argument against his candidacy, for the incumbent is, as theatrical producers say, just the type. Still it seems to me curious that the office is treated with such flagrant contempt. The Vice-Presidency is not at all a bag gamble for the ambitious politician. Only a heartbeat stands between the holder and the highest executive office within the gift of either machine. Several men have gone from this obscure post into the White House. And yet every convention behaves as if the tail of the ticket were a matter of no consequence whatsoever. Small men have been nominated for the Presidency and elected. But even Herbert Hoover looms like an Alp in comparison with some of the Republican Vice-Presidents. And naturally I have Mr. Curtis particularly in mind.

A Sort of Cosmic Jest I SUPPOSE that even the most rock-ribbed Republicans would grant that it would be utterly fantastic to have Charlie Curtis assume the reins of government. Probably nobody ever even has considered this prospect. It has been satisfactory all around to bury him in the minor office. Washington correspondents tell me that Charlie has endeavored to wiggle a finger now and then to indicate that he still is in the land of the living, although a Vice-Presi-dent. He has changed the office fixtures in order to create an impression of importance. The vastest desk ever known in our national capital has been placed in his office. Upon it a marathon dance or a miniature football game could be conducted. And the shining surface is forever bare of papers, for, after all, a Vice-President does not have to figure or calculate. He is among those who serve by standing and waiting. The real mystery lies in the eagerness of Curtis to immolate himself once again. No doubt he must remember those articulate days of his own when he served as senator from the state of Kansas. This is not the most impressive post in our democracy. But a senator at least gets his picture in the rotogravure sections upon occasion, and there are close contests in which his opinion and his support are sought by promoters of good or bad causes. a a a Man Whom Nobody Knows BUT who cares what the VicePresident thinks? Who, indeed, has ever made any investigation into the problem of whether a VicePresident thinks at all? Moreover, the private life of the substitute executive hardly can be pleasing to a man like Charlie Curtis. Before they walled him up, Senator Curtis was among the goodtime boys of Washington. I have heard it said that, although he was no statesman, he graced the life of the capital through the fact that he played just about the best game of poker prevalent in official circles. Now he deals and shuffles no more —I mean as far as cards are concerned. .Vice-President Curtis was seized

of mothers who were seen in one surgical clinic reported that they had abscesses of the breast because they had not been taught how to take care of the breast properly while nursing their infants. Today the number of mothers with the condition is less than 5 per cent, and among those who are educated it is less than 1 per cent. Mothers should know that injuries and chronic irritations incident to birth of a child, no matter how trivial, should be attended to promptly. Immediately after the birth of the child the mother should have sufficient care to bring her tissues back to as nearly normal a condition as is possible. Much of the cancer affecting women concerns the tissues involved

with a curious delusion once he was inducted into office. If no one else chose to take his job seriously, he purposed to constitute a minority of one. Accordingly, he thrust aside childish things and no longer participated in jackpots or roodles. It was not fitting for a Vice-Presi-dent. Indeed, the change came upon him even before election. The nomination itself was enough to freeze his features into a grim determination to look like a sculptured leader. n n n Stands on Dignity I REMEMBER that on the day after the bad news was transmitted to him a group of newspapermen and photographers called at his home to perform the last rites. It is customary to interview a Vice-President just once before he enters into his four years of silence. And Charlie Curtis muffed his single chance to declare himself. Instead of the genial senator the gentlemen of the press found a statesman. He waved aside the man with pads and tripods, saying, “Not on the Sabbath, boys.” Asa matter of fact, the occasion of the interview did happen to be a Sunday. But how a Vice-President would know that I do not understand. For him each twenty-four

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ls Senators Watson and Robinson never again do another thing for the people of Indianapolis, they surely deserve great credit for their recommendation of the displacement of Robert H. Bryson as postmaster of this city, and the placing of Leslie D. Clancy in the office. The presidential rule is explicit on this proposition and they sternly fulfilled their interpretations of duty as laid down by the Wilson presidential decree, which, in part, says: “When a vacancy shall occur in the position of any postmaster of any office of the first, second or third class, as a result of death, removal, or on recommedation. of the first assistant postmaster-general, with approval of the postmastergeneral, to the effect that the efficiency or practical needs of the service requires that a change shall be made, etc.” The senators recognized their intrinsic functions as representatives from Indiana, as it would have been difficult for them to have agreed upon a better qualified or more efficient man for the job, and we certainly needed a change. CHARLES G. REISER. Editor Times—Why do cur guardians of our public streets show favoritism when it comes to a decision as to which improperly parked car should be towed in? Well, Officer Schmidt was ordering the tow-in police car to back up to a brand new Auburn bearing license number 18899. but after close inspection of the title it seems as though the car belonged to a friend of one of our “Wall street” dwellers, so he commanded the tow car to move on and actually stood guard over the Auburn until the owner strolled out, got into the car, and drove away. . Let’s promote him to a captain or something. _ Gi’’e ’em the heat. Times. POOR PUBLIC.'

in birth. These tissues are as easily accessive to the physician as is the skin. If the woman is disturbed by an unsightly birthmark or mole on her face, she immediately gives it attention, because it is so easily visible and accessible. We should not neglect conditions which are not visible, but which are far more dangerous to life. Most people avoid medical attention until they are suffering with some condition that brings about discomfort and pain The early stages o f cancer are not as uncomfortable as a common cold and certainly not as painful as acute indigestion. It would be far better for the health and life of mankind if cancer would manifest itself in such an obvious manner.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most inter* esting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naner.—The Editor.

hours of the week constitutes a day of rest and abnegation. So I think that posterity well may inscribe the name of Charles Curtis in the list of unsung heroes. When first he accepted exile he may not have realized completely what the life of an outcast would mean. Like Robinson Cruso and the castaways of Cocos Island, his banishment came more or less as a surprise. But this time he goes with his eyes open to spend another four years of solitude, subsisting as best he can upon the flesh of wild hogs and shellfish. His martyrdom is of his own choosing. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

M TODAY Ms vtw, 'STHE- Vt> ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

VOTE WAR ON AUSTRIA December 5

ON Dec. 5, 1917, the house committee on foreign affairs vol.l unanimously that a state of war existed between the United States and Austria-Hungary dating from noon this day. A Vienna cable quoted Emperor Charles as saying in an address to an Austro-German delegation that the dual monarchy was ready at any time to conclude a peace that would guarantee the integrity of the monarchy. An official communication of the Bolshevist government announced that a preliminary ten-day armistice had been agreed to. General Dukhonin was killed by being thrown from a train. The British steamer Apapa was sunk, and eighty passengers and the crew perished, a German torpedo sank the ship. Fighting resumed on the entire Macedonian front from the Struma to the mouth of the Vajusa. Several Bulgarian patrols were captured by the French. The German auxiliary cruiser Botnia was reported blown up in a collision with a German mine off the island of Amagar. Teutons forced the Italians from strong positions between Mounts Tondarecar and Badenecche.

The Movies If you are interested in the movies—as most people are—then you v ill enjoy reading and keeping for reference, a packet of five bulletins on the subject that our Washington bureau has ready for you. They are: 1. Directory of Motion Picure Stars 2. Popular Men of the Screen 3 Popular Women of the Screen 4. Picture and Radio Stars 5. The History of Motion Pictures If you want this packet of five bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Department B-15, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times 1322 New York avenue Washington, D C. I want the’packet oi five bulletins on MOTION PICTURES and inclose herewith 15 cents in coin or loose uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and Number Cifc y , State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

DEC. 5, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ _

Scientists of Nation Will Review Achievements of the Year at New Orleans Convention, Opening Dec. 2s. npHE days between Christmas and New Year’s day are vacation days for college students and school pupils. But not for their professors and instructors. They are the favorite days for annual meetings of learned societies. As usual, the American Association for the Advancement of Science will hold its meeting at that time. This association, the nation’s largest and most important scientific organization, will convene on Dec. 28 in New Orleans. As in past years, the meeting will be divided into fifteen subsidiary sections, each one dealing with an important branch of science. Still more sessions will be held by the thirty-four affiliated scientific societies which will convene in NewOrleans at the same time. It is expected that about 5,000 of America’s leading scientists will attend the meeting. It will be the eighty-ninth meeting of the association and the second time that the meeting was held in New Orleans. The previous occasion was in 1905. Dr. Franz Boas, famous anthropologist ot Columbia university, is president of the association. The retiring president is Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of California Institute of Technology. Dr. Morgan is famous for his researches upon the problems of heredity. Both men arp to give addresses at the New Chleans meeting.

Science Progress THE latest news in every field of science will be discussed during the meeting, w'hich will last until Jan. 2. Some of the papers v scheduled have an immediate appeal to the layman, as for example, one by Dr, Irving Fisher of Yale university, titled “First Principles of Booms and Depressions.” In others, the news is hidden beneath a complex technical title, as for example, a paper by Dr. P. W. Bridgman of Harvard university, titled “Statistical Mechanics and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.” This paper, as the title indicates to a student of recent atomic theory, will deal with the latest theories of the nature of the atom and of energy. Another interesting paper, by Dy. H. H. Kimball of the United States weather bureau will deal with the relation between the sun and our weather. It is titled “Solar Radiation as a Meteorological Factor." Other papers include the following: “The Romance of the Next Decimal Place,” by Professor F. K. Richtmeyer. “Engineering Problems of the Mississippi River,” by Professor Floyd Nagler of the University of lowa. “Calculus of Variations of the Quantum Theory,” by Professor G. A. Bliss of the University of Chicago. “Geology of the Gulf Coastal Plains,” by Professor R. A. Steinmayor of Tulane university. “The Organic Nutrition of Plants,” by Dr. E. J. Kraus of the University of Chicago.

Discussion of Growth A FEATURE of the New Orleans meetings will be a number of symposiums at which the same question will be discussed from various angles by a number of speakers. One such symposium is to be held upon the subject of “Growth.” Speakers will include Dr. Boas, president of the association; Dr. Richard E. Scammon. Dr. Harry Bakwin and other well-known authorities. Both the growth of individuals and the growth of population will be discussed. V Dr.-E. B. Wilson of Harvard uni versity will speak on mathematical phases of growth analysis. Another symposium will discuss the ancient Maya Indian civilization of Central America. Papers will be presented on the subjects of “Astronomy of the Mayas” and "Racial Antecedents—and Linguistic Problems of the Mayas.” Diseases caused by parasites will be the subject of a symposium addressed by biologists and medicaj men. Another feature of the meeting will be the awarding of the $1,00(3 prize which is given each year for the best paper presented at the meeting. This prize was won last year by M. A. Tuve, L. R. Hafstad 'and Or Dahl of the Carnegie Institution of Washington for a paper on the proS duction of high potential by means of vacuum tubes.

Daily Thought

Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostle’s feet.—Acts 4:37. As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled—Victor Hugo.