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A Special Session Opposition by the Chamber of Commerce to the calling of a special session of the legislature, demanded most vigorously by the farmers and workers, is not surprising. The chamber has a record for opposition to public demands. Its vision on public matters can be most kindly described as conservative. While there may be some reason for the statement of Governor Leslie that no definite plan of revising tax laws has been agreed upon, the greater truth Is that a special session would more nearly accomplish fairness than would a regular session, where trades for votes on measures is customary and usual. It can not be said that the state is entirely bankrupt in brains, even though home owners and land owners arc rapidly approaching that state financially. Conditions at the present time are such as to suggest that the legislature might well be in continuous session during the'next few months in order to meet emergencies as they arise. Seventeen other states have been compelled to adopt this means of obtaining tax laws that would meet changed conditions in finance and industry. This state is not exceptional in its needs. It is too much to hope, of course, that a special session would do something to start employment of the unemployed, and yet, it is the only agency big enough and powerful enough to meet this need. The unemployed worker and the distressed farmer both need legislative relief. Charity is not the answer. Even the Chamber of Commerce, depending upon a revival of business, should be vitally interested. Failure to call a special session can only mean a confusion of the failure of the people to manage their own affairs. Race Suicide Talk Again The race suicide bogey bobs up with vigor from time to time. In the old days the friends of the cannon-fodder notion grew nervous for fear the ranks of recruits for the battlefield might be thinned out. Roosevelt, Mussolini and the Bolsheviks have revived this doctrine in our generation. Ecclesiastics have been alarmed concerning the reduction in the number of souls to be reclaimed and have fiercely fought birth control. The latest converts to the falling-population scare have been certain anti-birth-control and anti-immi-gration-restriction biologists and statisticians. An able article from this school by Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, appears in the Forum. Dr. Dublin’s facts are not unknown to close students of the population problem, but they give a clear summary of probable population changes In the United States. The annual birth-rate is falling off steadily. In the Says before 1880, it was more than 35 per 1,000 of the population. By 1915 it had fallen to 25, while by 1930 it had dropped to 19. This represents a decline of 25 per cent in fifteen years. Population increase ir. even lower in the great cities; in New York and Chicago the birth-rate being about 17 per 1,000. Dr. Dublin holds that the fall in our birth rate will continue in even more spectacular fashion. Due to immigration of young people from Europe and the high birth rates of the earlier generation, we now have an unusually large proportion of the population in the procreative age-class. This abnormal situation will pass soon. If we make allowance for this in our statistical computations, the true rate of “natural” population increase in 1928 was only 1.7. per" 1,000 as against the apparent rate of 7.9 per 1,000. Dr. Dublin believes that, with even the most optimistic predictions, we shall have a stationary population, with a birth rate of 14 per 1,000, by 1970. The maximum population of the United States should be about 154,000,000 and be reached about 1985. It will then fall back to 140,000,000 by 2100 and remain at about that figure. A more pessimistic, but equally supportable estimate would put the population of the United States in 2100 at 75,000,000. In any event, population increases, of today will fall markedly. With this will come significant changes in the age-classes. The percentage of young people will drop. In 1850, 52.5 per cent of the population w’ere under 20 years of age; in 1920, 40.7 per cent; but by 1950 they will constitute only 29 per cent. The group over 50 will increase even more notably. In 1850 only 9 per cent was over 50; in 1920, 15 per cent; but by 1950 this group will constitute 35 per cent. Dr. Dublin predicts some rather gloomy consequences of this change, which is due, he belie\es, almost to birth control practices. More old people will make us more conservative and traditional. They will not have the zest for large and diversified purchases which characterizes the young. They may not keep the wheels of industry humming or maintain the present swirl of fashion changes. We may’ be brought under the heel of countries with large population increases—such as Russia, China and Japan. Dr. Dublin’s facts are valuable and illuminating, but his gloom may not be justified. Youth does not invariably mean liberalism nor age conservatism. Witness the young “Black Shirts” in Italy, and ihe liberalism of Gladstone, Roosevelt, Wilson, Hughes, Holmes and Brandeis as they grew older. We may hope that before 2000 A. D. liberalism will come to be based on knowledge and information, rather than physiology or blind human chemistry. Older people may mean a more stable and settled social order, but age may bring mellow wisdom and tolerance, quite as much as petulant repression and adamant reactionism. As far as the danger of a foreign yoke is concerned, either we shall have secured world peace by 2000 A. D. or there will be no human race to worry about. They Have No Money “Philadelphia, third largest city in the United States, is without funds to pay its 25,000 employes,’’ according to the headlines. A second item reads: “Governor Louis L. Emerson urged today that the state of Illinois seize tax delinquent property in Cook county and sell it to collect directly the overdue $25,000,000 revenue owed the state by the county from taxes.’’ And yet in Washington, the administration still talks about relying on local governments to care for suffering during the winter! Reports of the severe financial difficulties of city governments have been authenticated by the New York federal reserve bank and Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills. The latter has provided Senator Connally with a memorandum prepared by a officer

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of the bank showing that the municipal bond market Is in a “more or less demoralized” condition. It would be gratifying if the cities were able to carry the load of unemployment relief with-no outside aid. Only 30 per cent of relief funds is coming from private charity. Local governments are unable to give the remaining 70 per cent as they did last year. With tax collections down, municipalities generally are forced to turn to the open money markets for funds to carry them over the depression. But the slump, abetted in many cases by financial mismanagement of cities, has demoralized the market for their paper. The New York federal reserve bank realizes this, and Mills has assured Connally that the treasury department will do all it properly can to improve the municipal bond market. This is gratifying, but, of course, the improvement depends in part on a return of normal business conditions and in part on renovation of the financial administration of many cities. These two improvements will take place eventually. Meantime these cities should be given help to meet their unemployment problems over the winter. And this help should come from the federal government. Congress Wants to Rest Congress proposes to take a two weeks’ vacation over the holidays. That shows how far out of touch with the country some of the congressional leaders really are. Apparently they do not know that few Americans will take a long vacation this year, except the millions who are unable to get work. After a nine months’ vacation, the congressional leaders might be expected to want to get to work and to keep at work—just for a change if nothing more. And yet after only two weeks of labor since last spring, they now plan a fortnight of recuperation. Those leaders rightly blamed the President for his refusal to call a special session of congress in the early fall to face the serious legislative problems arising from the depression, the moratorium, the foreign crisis, and the dangerously large federal deficit. Following the failure of the administration to advance adequate relief measures of its own, the country came to look to congress for aid. Now, with the hopes of the country resting with it, will congress be so insensible to its duty that it will run away to play while the country waits and suffers? Even those congressional leaders who feel no sense of duty in this matter at least should have enough political shrewdness to sense the public resentment over this two weeks’ holiday proposal. We hope that Senators Borah and La Follette will be successful in their effort to cut the Christmas recess to five days. Going and Coming While the United States department of labor tries to clear the land of alleged radical aliens, the state department with equal autocratic power keeps American radicals at home. The case of Paul F. Kassay, Cleveland mechanic, reveals an ironic situation in Washington. Kassay is Hungarian by birth, American by naturalization. Last summer he was arrested under the Ohio criminal syndicalism law on a charge of sabotaging the navy new dirigible Akron. Judge Wannemaker dismissed the charge on a defense demurrer and ruled the Ohio syndicalism law unconstitutional. An appeal is being taken to the Ohio supreme court. Last July Kassay applied for a passport to go to Hungary to settle an estate, promising to return. This the state department denied on the ground that “the department does not believe that it would be compatable with the public interest.” Behind this surprising decision is said to be the plan of Ohio authorities to rearrest Kassay if the Ohio high court should find the law unconstitutional. While admitting Communist sympathies, Kassay denied he is a Communist or that he planned to injure the Akron. No evidence of sabotage was discovered. The state department claims absolute right to issue or deny passports at its own discretion and its passport records are sealed jealously from public in-, spection. Federal Judge Booth of Minnesota rmed in 1923 that the granting of passports is discretionary with the state department. The 1926 law uses the word “may” instead of “must.” Aside from the absurdity of one department kicking out of the country alien radicals and another holding back American radicals, it is plain that no government department should wield such absolutism in the disposal of human rights as this. The department of labor’s autocratic power in deportations was challenged by the Wickersham commission, which urged a court to hear appeals from the secretary’s decisions. There also should be some appeal from the state department passport rulings.

Just Every Day Sense j BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THOUSANDS of young wives face the reality that confronts a San Francisco correspondent. She lost her job when she married and her husband now earns less than she did. Although she is happy with him and. enjoys home life, she is ashamed to meet her friends, because her standard of living has been reduced. . . Her dresses are out of style and she flinches at the sympathetic glances from the well-groomed corrjpanions of her more affluent days. What shall she do? The sensible thing would be to keep on staring cold facts in the face. Thus she may hit upon the conclusion that it would be wise for her to move to a different neighborhood and make new acquaintances. And she may be surprised to find that one or two old pals will stick to her, ands oshe will taste one of life’s supremest rewards. It takes courage to fling aside the old standards when the purse is flattened out. But it always pays to do so. a a tt MULTITUDES of people are scraping bottom these days. And the woman who recognizes it as such and refuses to allow herself to be deluded by false hopes is the one who will make the quickest comeback. Friends who abandon you when your clothes are shabyy are poor creatures to worry over. Every effort you make on them is sheer waste of good indentions, after all. It is best to be freed completely - from their demands. And it is a mistake to believe that your set is the only one in which fine and interesting people can be found. They are to be met with everywhere. Each community contains some splendid soul who is worth the knowing. To find this out is a beautiful adventure. The girl who is young and in love with her husband need ask God for but one thing more: The courage to hold fast to those possessions that are worth preserving. , Our former prosperity has deified many meaningless things. Perhaps our depreqgon will restore to us the old gods of love, home ana simplicity.

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The Law May Feel Relieved by the Death of One Mr. Leys Diamond, but It Certainly Can Claim No Credit. N' EW YORK, Dec. 19.—Jaok (Legs) Diamond, gangster par excellence, hard cider king of the Catskills, and victor in twenty-two out of twenty-four rounds with the law, goes the way of his kind. It was right after a wild party staged to celebrate his latest acquittal—three bullets in the head and hysterical women screaming a weird finale to the drama. “Got what was coming- to him,” runs the popular verdict, giving little heed to the far more important question of how. The law may feel relieved, but it can claim no credit. Save for the implacable code of gangland, Mr. Diamond would be strutting as of yore, not only a free, but a much admired individual. nan And What Happens? “TII7E expected it,” say the au- ▼ V thorities, as though their policy of waiting for gangsters to kill each other off had been justified. “Retribution!” cry the moralists, as though the thugs who disposed of Diamond were special messengers of the blind goddess. “You’ve got to play straight .with the mob, Buddy,” proclaims the would-be leader of a juvenile gang, and every kid in the neighborhood is impressed. As for average people', they are just a little more afraid than they were, just a little more likely to forget when asked to identify some professional killer, just a little more apt to join those conspiracies of silence which already have done so much to balk law enforcement. n n n Are They Right? MODERIv criminologists —some of them at least—tell us that fear plays little part in determining human conduct. They would do well to study the white-faced, stammering witnesses called to testify about a gang killing, or the complete dumbness of a locality wihch harbors some racketeering outfit. Nothing succeeds like success. n n n A Strange Situation OUT in Milwaukee, they have no gangs. Also, they have no deficit. While other cities are obliged to let school teachers, clerks, policemen and firemen go unpaid for lack of cash, Milwaukee puts money in the bank. It’s a strange situation, especially to those who have thought of Milwaukee as given over to beer and socialism. Not pausing to discuss the beer angle, the. socialistic angle furnishes part of the explanation. It has kept Milwaukee citizens interested in politics, has trained them not only to argue, but to think. Milwaukee has some civic consciousness left. Her political ideals have not been killed by that kind of boss rule and partisan spirit which visualize municipal government as a source of jobs for henchmen and the law-enforcing machine with which to “take care of” faithful crooks. n n n We Need a Shakeup THERE is not a city in America but should be as well off as Milwaukee. Many of them had much more to begin with. What most of them lacked was a faction of intelligent discontent, a faction with something more serious on its mind than merely winning an election. You can’t have such a faction without more or less radicalism. This cry for orthodox partisanship which one hears on every hand has done more to rot and corrupt the American government, especially in its local branches, than any other single factor. We need the stimulating force of fundamental disagreement. Without it we soon forget why we have a government or whether it is functioning as it should. That causes a let-down in morale all along the line, opening the door for all sorts of unofficial influence and invisible control. Probably nothing would do this whole country so much good as a real moral shakeup—a shakeup that would mend it of a few of the simple old-fashioned virtues.

m today 7 WORLD WAR \ ANMVERSARV

FRENCH SOCIALISTS’ PLEA December 19 ON Dec. 19 1917 the Socialist group of the French chamber of deputies sent a long open letter to fellow Socialists in Russia in which a plea was made that Russian revolutionists -refrain from making a separate peace with Germany. It was pointed out that such peace would revive autocracy and bring about a moral disaster for which socialism would be to blame. General Sarrail who had been in command of the allied armies at Saloniki was recalled and General Guillaumat was sent to the front to relieve him. Heavy fighting broke out on the Italian front with the Teutons storming Monte Asolone. Italians waging a concentrated attack east of Monte Solarolo were repulsed by a determined German stand.

Daily Thought

But we know the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.—Timothy 1:28. Where law ends, there tyranny begins.—Earl of Chatham. How did Sing Sing prison get its name? It -was named for the town in which it is located, which was formerly called Sing Sing but has since been changed to Ossining. The name is said to have originated from the name of a freindly Indian, John Sing Sing, who lived in the vicinity. Is Marie Dressier the real name of the movie star? Her real name was Lelia Koerber.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Measles Not to Be Treated Lightly;

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. Notwithstanding the fact that many thousands of dollars have been spent in research for the causative organism of measles, this has not been discovered yet. The general impression prevails that it Is so small that it will pass through the pores of a clay filter, therefore belonging to the class of filterable viruses. The symptoms of measles are known to practically every one. They include fever, running of the nose and throat, reddening of the eyes, a cough and the appearance of

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—Why not house the poor in houses? Why churches? Rupert Hughes has written an article on housing the poor in churches that has almost as little merit as an article he wrote some years ago on “Why I Quit Going to Church.” We always are seeking an easy way out in the affairs of life. With a superabundance of everything including men and machinery, a cry is being raised to open the churches of the land to the homeless. We believe every church gladly will open its doors to those wandering tha streets homeless and afraid, and afford them shelter. We also believe that the church has leadership far too intelligent and courageous to submit to the type of economic life that is so crude and cowardly that it demands church seats for sleeping quarters rather than beds. We do not want church seats for the poor, we want beds! We do not want church edifices that are ill equipped to care for crowds in a sanitary way as sleeping quarters. We want homes! Wandering crowds on otir city streets, homeless and afraid, are a sign of economic disease that can not be solved by demanding that the churches be made vast sleeping quarters. Ignorance sought to provide for lepers by driving them out of the city in the older days. Intelligence now is solving the problem by providing them beautiful, sanitary quarters where a healing ministry can be applied. Mr. Hughes threatens the church with extinction if it does not open its doors to the poor. The churches would have died long ago if Mr. Hughes’ article referred to previously in this letter had been taken as a guide for others. We do not fear the reaction of the people nor their memories when more prosperous times shall come. We gladly will open our churches if need is revealed, but wish to voice our conviction that such makeshift quarters are wholly inadequate and a shameful reproach upon a country that has more wheat than it can sell, more food than it can consume, more gold than any other nation, and as fine an educational system as any people in the world. The church will be remiss if it does not aid the poor at this time, but Mr. Hughes need have no fear on that setre. Let the records of philanthropy speak and the church need not hide its head in shame, but in my judgment the church will be far more remiss in its obligation to the people of the world if it does not lift its voice in an unmistakable demand that capital share its profits more equally with labor, that some type of unemployment insurance be worked out, and that men who are willing and able i to work be given che opportunity to do so. It is intellectual and moral leadership that we need in these times of stress if we are to be led from the abyss where greed and war have plunged us to the place where we rightfully belong-as children of God. We have plenty. We have the machinery and the intelligence to create more than we can use in every way. Our method of distribution is poor and must be changed to meet modern conditions. Let the church open her doors to the poor, shivering sheep driven by the lash of poverty to the brink of despair, but let her also lift her voice in an unmistakable manner and give this message to the world —we do not' want church benches as

X Marks the Spot

white spots on the lining membrane of the mouth. Because many children seem to recover easily from measles, parents have been inclined to treat the condition lightly. ‘ Indeed, there are some who think that every child has to have the disease and that, therefore, careful control is unnecessary. This opinion certainly is not warranted by the facts. The child who has been in contact with other children having measles is likely to develop the disease from eight to ten days after exposure and may, as a result, have complications which lead to serious injury if not to death.

sleeping quarters for the poor. We want beds. OWEN A. KNOX. Beech Grove, Ind. Editor Times—We recently read a letter to Santa Claus, by a girl in your paper, sent to Governor Leslie. Our heart goes out to the poor and needy this winter, but if I were writing such a letter it would be as follows: Dear Santa—l am one of the 12,000,000 unemployed in our free America, richest country in the world, and my family is in want because we have plenty of everything and the workers have produced too much. I am forced to live under the conditions of serfdom, as the Russian peasants lived before their revolution and worse than American slavery days. I am forced to work sixteen hours on our ‘slave chain gang’ ’and then again am forced to accept groceries I do not need as pay. Flour, cornmeal and macaroni is stocking up so fast that I can soon start a store of my own. Yet there are other things we need and can use, but are compelled to accept what is doled out to us. I have lost all except my life. The furniture store took my furniture, public utilities cut off my gas and lights and my family is in dire need of clothing, furniture and beds to sleep on. Also proper food so as not to become undernourished. I am expecting to be thrown out of my house any day and my water cut off. Now, Santa, this is my plea to you. Give us a minimum wage of 40 cents and hour, three days a week on the chain gang, so we can buy groceries we need in the home, and other necessities. Prevent public utilities from shutting off the necessities of life when it is no fault of our own that we can not pay. prevent furniture stores from taking furniture and realty companies from takin g home and evicting tenants unable to pay through no fault of theirs. Give the working people a government and a Constitution with laws in their favor, and not one that does not permit them to petition congress for relief and sits idly by while a few Wall Street parasites kill twelve million peope through slow starvation. Give us a Chamber of Commerce that will not pave the way for reducing wages. The dole would be a credit compared to this. Don’t let Americans forget that America was the first revolutionist, Communistic country in the world. Princess Kropotkin says that Russia has slavery today. Well, if the American worker will study Russia as it is today, study and understand Communism, its principles and foundation, he would be glad to live under that system of slavery, compared to our capitalistic starvation. Help Representatives Patman in his impeachment proceedings against Andrew W. Mellon and may the public write him to encourage him. Also give us a President and a Governor with courage and action that will demand and get relief for the working people of our country, who constitute the cream and backbone of our nation. BILL. Editor Times—Article 4 of the Constitution of the United States sets cut that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, homes, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. And no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describ-

Measles seldom occur in a child under 6 months of age. because apparently the mother transmits to the child some of her own immunity, provided she has had the disease and recovered. The disease occurs most commonly in children from 5 to 9 and from 10 to 14 years of age. All races are attacked by the disease, but apparently Negroes and Indians die more frequently than whites, perhaps because of their living conditions and perhaps becase the medical and nursing care given to them is not as adequate as that administered to most white children.

ing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. In reading over your newspaper I observed the article pertaining to the death of one person, Homer Ingersoll, caused by the police of the city of Indianapolis. Here was one man who was poverty-stricken and was forced to use every influence man possesses to provide for a needy family and a sickly wife. This panic which has been going all over this country and putting men out of work eventually tends to break down the morale of mankind. Here, Mr. Editor, we have a case where police officers, acting outside of their capacity, walk into a man’s home without a just cause or even probable cause, as the Constitution sets out, and place fear in a man, which caused his death, only through the complaints of some jealous of prejudiced neighbor. If the officers had acted in their capacity, instead of being visitors to the man’s home, they would have placed the man under arrest and then searched his home, thereby obtaining enough evidence to place him under arrest. Instead, they placed him in a resting place for the rest of his life. Do you think this a justice to the public? A VISITOR FROM CLEVELAND, O. Editor Times—l have been a Times’ reader for the last nine years and think it is the best and only real newspaper in the city. You surely can hand it to those dol-lar-lQving hypocrites. There is one thing I would like to tell some of these wage-cutting manufacturers who cut their forces to nothing so they still can make large profits. If they will take five minutes of their time and go to South Meridian street and see the poor children with ragged clothes, yet clean, with their loaf of bread and bucket of soup. If these men had any hearts at all they would cut iheir profits a little and keep larger forces of men. Every one knows that they took the benefit of this so-called depression, and to think that men with a real helping hand, like our loyal city firemen are feeding these little ones. Let me tell you there will be a day when you can not take these dollars with you. You know the other fellow has to live as well as you, so don’t pile those dollars up, but keep them rolling. Every man knows the cause of the depression, but he won’t say for

The Movies If you are interested in the movies—as most people are—then you will 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 of 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 City state I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

_DEC. 19, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Scientific T r iumphs Seed Only the Spirit of Romance to Produce a Great Era in Architecture. THE bold use of romantic imagination will produce one of the greatest eras in the history of architecture. So says William Orr Ludlow, chairman of the committee on industrial relations of the American Institute of Architects. America stands on the threshold of that era now, Ludlow thinks, but will not enter it until builders begin to dominate the new materials which science has put at their command instead oi permitting the materials to dominate them. Among the gifts of science to architecture. Ludlow’ lists structural steel, non-corrodible sheet metal, asbestos products and reinforced concrete. Ludlow urges America to begin 1932 “by burying absurd catchwords, stopping the mechanizing of the home and the ’factorv-izing’ of school buildings and by producing art. in nature’s way.” “First of all," he says, “let us put away that absurd modernistic phrase ‘whatever is useful is beautiful.’ Let us also bury as quickly as possible meaningless lightning strokes and uncomfortable geometric patterns. Let us instead follow nature's way—everything useful and everything beautiful.” * n n Spirit of Adventure THE contributions of science and engineering, notably the steel skeleton and the elevator, have revolutionized architecture, Ludlow says. “They have made the age-old necessity of horizontal building a thing of the past.” he says. "They give verticality a. new and unlimited dimension.” Ludlow also believes that America has “the spirit of adventure which dares to go new places and do new things.” “Granted, then,” he continues, “that we have everything else to make this one of the wwld’s great periods of progress in architecture, have we the artistic soul to round out the requirements, or, as a nation, are we like German, which in pursuance of the robot ideal is said to be ‘fast becoming a nation of brains without temperament’? “Something more than tools and temperament is needed for great architecture, something more than a sense of beauty. “The creators of lasting art must! have a sense of something of which beauty is only the flower, something that stirs not only the emotions, but the very soul, that may be called romance.” nun Romance Is Needed LUDLOW explains in some detail just what he means by romance in architecture. “What Is meant by romance?” Ludlow continues. “It may be ‘a desire to escape, to get into the land where I am not. Escape, to get out of the dreary, or at least commonplace here and now, to transcend the baseness and cruelty inherent in what we know as facts, to have play for the untamed center of the being that can never be reconciled to its bondage.’ “Perhaps romance in architecture is poetry, telling a story in symbols, in pictures, in suggestion. It may be a story of old times and customs, told by clothing modem frames in ancient habiliments. “It may be a story of the marvelous way that structural materials are woven together to serve the modern w r ay of living. “If the imagination is not excited to see something more than the actual in our buildings, if it is not stirred to tell a tale of something beautiful, something fanciful, something thrilling, there is no romance. “If architecture is simply a matter of the most practical way to house our wants, we should not search architecture for beauty and romance, and it looks very much as if a machine age were impelling us that way.”

Questions and Answers

Has the University of Notre Dame an unbroken record of victories for its football team in the last five.or six years? Up to Nov. 1, 1931, the football team of Notre Dame has not been defeated since 1928, when it lost to Southern California, Carnegie Tech, Georgia Tech and Wisconsin. Did Thomas Edison discover plants in the United States that yield rubber? Edison told newspaper corresopndents on his eighty-second birthday, in February, 1929, that he had found more than 1,200 American plants yielding rubber in some form or other, and forty of them were worth while cultivating on a large scale. Can girls enlist in the navy or the Marine corps? No.

fear of being called a Red. No one can call a man a Red because he tells the truth. A TIMES READER.