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The Star Still Gleams Nineteen centuries ago, wise men following the guiding light of a star, looked into the eyes of a babe. No white uniformed nurses hovered over it. No skilled scientist watched its feeble heartbeats. No whispered orders brought relief to the anguished mother. The place was a stable. Only the wise men knew and understood that here was the King of Kings. There were years of poverty, marked only by what would today be called precocity in challenging the smug keepers of the temple who stood ever ready to defend philosophy of tradition and to quiet any doubts as to the divinity of things as they were. There were the years of quiet work as a carpenter, unnoticed in the throng, unmarked by any incident that might give warning of the facts that He was to rule through ages yet to come, to change the current of history, to make and remake nations and, much more important, to become the guiding light of human lives, lifting souls from degradation and hearts from despair. Skeptics may doubt the divinity of His origin. They do not doubt the divinity of His message. “Peace on earth, good will toward men. ’ Those were the words the angels sang above the manger. That was the message the wise men caught as they looked into the eyes of the Babe as it struggled for life. It w r as the message the angry mobs heard in fear at the cross. It is the same message that men today find as they look in the eyes of all the other babes, because they, too, are divine. It is written into the hearts of each and all as they come into this world, a heart unfilled with fear, clean of hate, trusting and simple in the faith that men are born to be kind, and that the law of life is love. Not yet has the promise been fulfilled. That is because the message that first was sung at the birth of the Babe has been thrown back by minds that steel themselves against its profound truth and its profounder hope. Today there are many in need. And their needs may give birth to doubt of divinity itself. Nations and races still war as men war against each other. But each year more of the spirit of Bethlehem creeps into life. True, there are impoverished people who may be skeptical of the good will of the more fortunate. There are whole nations of human beings who trust to guns for their future. Each year peace draws just a little nearer and more and more men are being forced to the great truth that brothers do not kill each other. Each year, the minds of men are led through their hearts to find good will as the real guide to human action. The star still gleams with hope. The wise men are following it, finding again its message as truth.

The Larger Units The one criticism of permission of the Insull interests to merge large numbers of small utilities into one great district is that this action 'will demand a change in the system of regulating rates and service. Unquestionably, public utilities are no longer local in either their financial structure or their physical operation. The small electric plant of the village gives way to the superior efficiency of*the super plant. Independent telephone lines must have long-distance service. Gas comes from the distant wells of Texas. So it is perhaps inevitable in the evolution of the theory of regulation instead of competition or public ownership that the gigantic utilities be given the right to link together their small units. But that very act will prevent any serious protest being made by any city or town against injustices. It may bring about a fairer distribution of burden* and permit a wider use of these services. It is becoming more and more important that farm homes be supplied with electricity. The farmer is entitled to the living standards of the city. But it is, of course, more costly to reach him than it is to reach the home in congested cities. He would probably be unable to bear the cost of his own service. What may happen in the very near future is a demand for regulation based upon the entire utility investment in the state for rate making and the fixing of a general rate throughout the state. That will require watchfulness on the part of the people. The utilities can be trusted to be alert. Mr. Olds at the Hague President Hoover has appointed Robert E. Olds, American member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, to fill the place of the late Roland W. Boyden of Boston. We wi*h Olds, a former law partner of Kellogg, the best of success in his new post. At the same time, \te may be pardoned in expressing the hope that he will prove ft more staunch upholder of American rights than he did in the most notable case in which he thus far has participated. We refer to the settlement of American claims against Great Britain for damage done to our neutral trade during the World war. Between the outbreak of the World war and our entry in 1917. Great Britain did vast damage to the American shippers. Even members of Wilson’s cabinet protested that Britain was violating our rights more flagrantly than she did prior to the War of 1812. But Wilson flatly stated that he did not propose to let a little thing like international law stand in the way of Britain’s effective prosecution of the war against “wild beasts'’—a somewhat strange deviation from his own injunction to the American people that

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we must be neutral in thought as well as in word and deed. Lansing reassured American shippers through the promise that their claims would be prosecuted vigorously and collected at the close of the war. After the war, the matter was allowed to lapse. When, in 1926, Borah mentioned this item, he stirred up a storm of resentment in Britain and no little criticism in the United States. Yet, the administration apparently thought it best to clean up the matter. Olds, then assistant secretary of state, handled the negotiations for our country along with Phenix. There is no exact and final sum set for the extent of the American claims—some 3,000 in number—on this account, but the minimum figure of experts was more than $100,000,000. Many claim that the right figure is five times that amount. But there is no point in exaggeration. Let us accept a minimum estimate of $100,000,000. How much did we collect? On May 19, 1927, Olds allowed our claims in full to be settled for $1,500,000, or about 1 cent on the dollar. Moreover, we did not get even the $1,500,000. It was cancelled against a bill alleged to be owed to Britain for naval services and aid to our shipping board during the war. This was all the satisfaction we obtained for inroads upon our neutral rights more extensive than those which led us to enter the war against Germany. But the most deplorable part of the story remains to be told. More serious than the monetary loss was the legal surrender of our neutral rights. • The most shocking part of the agreement was our submission to the compulsion to press our claims first in British prize courts. Only after a neutral American shipper has failed here, can he approach our state department. Such arrangement was a near complete surrender of American neutral rights, for which we have struggled more than a century. The position of neutrals throughout the world has been greatly weakened as a result of this arrangement by Olds and Phenix. It never should have been done in any event without consent of congress. We shall find ourselves in a very weak and unfortunate position if another European war breaks out and we have to defend our rights as neutrals. All our efforts preceding the War of 1812, during the Civil war, and preceding our entry into the World ■\\ar are as good as nullified and scrapped. In short, what is probably our chief contribution to international law has been rendered null and void. Could we trust Olds to help settle an arbitration case between the United States and Great Britain at The Hague^

Hard on the Bald! The comfortable, accepted theory that men become gray and bald because they wear tight hats over their hard-working brains, or because their vitality is lessened by their highly civilized habits and environment, is assailed by Curator Gerrit S. Miller Jr. of the the division of mammals, Smithsonian institution He says: “Not one .of the explanations I have seen in print takes into consideration the zoological possibility that many features of human hair may be generalized primate traits instead of specifically human developments. I mean the possibility that they may be characteristics forced on man because they are common property of primates, the animal group to which man belongs. “I have become convinced that the chief peculiarities of human hair are explained best and most simply as special examples of primate ‘patterning.’ ” There’s no joy in this! In the first place, that word “primate” is of course, just a polite, scientific way of saying “apes and monkeys.’’ it is sure to stir up the fundamentalists, who have been mercifully quiet and content of late. In the second place, we always have been consoled partly for getting gray or bald by flattering ourselves that high civilization and hard thinking are chief causes. Evolution or no evolution, if grayness in a human being never has any more intellectual significance than it has in a gray-headed ape—well, what’s the use? Curator Miller’s contribution is no cure for depression. Nor, if we know our fundamentalists, will it conduce to “peace on earth and good will toward men.” The Smithsonian means well. But it really should be more seasonable and tactful in its outgivings. Employment agencies report they are besieged daily for jobs. Yet it’s a sure thing that by this time every member of our army of unemployed is bulletin bored. Twenty-three countries have abandoned the gold standard. About the only thing gold will be good for pretty soon is bridgework. Los Angeles Christmas baskets for unemployed working girls contain silk stocking, powder, rouge, lipstick and perfume. What, no umbrellas?

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS WALTER FERGUSON

'T'HE middle class, as well as the rich, have reU A s Ponded generously to the charity drives that have beset them on all sides. Never since the war nas tnere been such an outpouring of money. From c |° n^^ ons to the “widow’s mite,” we have shared with the less fortunate. In spite of clouds on the business horizon, most cities and towns have been able to raise the funds they were asked for. This, it seems to me, is a remarkable achievement. But to those who have given the last penny they can afford, certain tidings from political headquarters do not sound so well. We hear, for instance, that the Democratic national committee is starting a drive to raise six million for its 1932 campaign and that the Republicans hope to get ten million. o tt a TN view of the fact that the nation now is more A than a billion dollars in the red, wouldn’t even this minute sum be better diverted into the national treasury? And while it might not mitigate government ills, it at least would feed multitudes of hungry people, and thus spare the drain on the purses of those who ill can afford to be as charitable as they have been. This money, it is true, probably will come from the rich and influential. Frankly, it represents a gamble. The generous contributor, if his party wins, may demand great political favors. The fellow who guesses correctly expects to get well paid for every cent he puts in. In the meantime, millions are crying for bread. What are we going to do about it? Have we lost both our courage and our common sense? Is there no patriotism in politics? Will we let children starve and use our gold for political barterings? Or, to put It in another light, does it take sixteen million to get us out to the polls? I for one do not believe there is 16 cents’ worth of difference between the two parties, and therefore think it a gTeat waste of money spend anything over that amount arguing about it.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Though One Hardly Would Guess it Now, What the Old Folks Called Morality Still Cuts a Big Figure in Our Progress. ALDOUS HUXLEY believes that the world needs a Messiah, and no one can review what is going on, particularly in the field of more pretentious effort, without suspecting he is right. Here we are in the twentieth century, pretending to want peace, but hesitating even at a moderate degree of disarmament; signing treaties to outlaw war, but refusing to back them up, even by so much as a straightforward declaration of principles; telling ourselves that the economic situation is safe and sound, though half a dozen great governments can’t meet their debts. There is a patent lack of common honesty in the conduct of human affairs, and it is all the more serious because no one seems to regard it as alarming or even unusual. u u Cling to Hypocrisy IN the United States, we go merrily on with the prohibition farce, just as though we could evade the consequences of the lying, deceit, and hypocrisy which it in% volves. The legislative committee now investigating affairs in New York City has spent the last few days endeavoring to link police officers with speakeasies, just as though the public would be surprised if it succeeded. Thirty thousand speakeasies, according to the best information obtainable, and 20,000 cops paid to keep their eyes open, all within an area of 300 square miles—yet from a legal standpoint they are supposed to be ignorant or innocent of each other’s presence. tt

We Lack Courage THOUGH no one can tell the exact amount, our annual bootlegging bill runs well above $1,000,000,000. That not only represents a stupendous loss of revenue to the government, but the chief support of racketeering. We are going to have higher taxes, however, rather than do the obvious thing, going to keep right on breeding gangsters and thugs rather than admit gi blunder. Neither of our great political parties has the good sense, much less the courage, to meet this issue squarely. Wet Republicans will shout loyally for dry Mr. Hoover when the time comes, and dry Democrats will shout just as loyally for wet Mr. Roosevelt if he is nominated. Asa matter of fact, the average politician is alarmed by nothing so much as the - possibility that prohibition will get out of control and that his party will be forced to take a stand on it. This is particularly true of the Democrats, who, seeing a chance of success for the first time in twelve years, are moving heaven and earth to prevent an eruption over the liquor question. tt tt Morality Means Something FORMER Governor Smith of New York rightly describes such an attitude as “pussyfooting.” We simply can not go on suppressing our convictions for the sake of political or commercial success. ‘ Though one hardly would guess it from some of the things now going on, what the old folks used to call morality cuts a big figure in our progress, whether as individuals, communities, or as a nation. People qever fool any one as badly as they fool themselves. The man who puts over a successful deal by sidestepping facts, the nation that achieves temporary security, or the party that wins an election only lays up trouble for the future. n n tt Must Play Square Restoration of confidence generally is regarded as the one great need. But how can this be done if people fail to play square not only with each other, but with themselves? Going back to first causes, what is responsible for such a general lack of confidence? We are putting faith in everything except character, trying to cure every kind and description of human weakness by some process W'hich does not involve the toil and sacrifice that go with honest, purposeful moral training. Moral conceptions are what separate man from other animals. Remove them from civilization and it becomes a soulless, brutal thing.

Questions and Answers

What is the difference between a right-handed and left-handed shoveler? Observation of gangs of laborers engaged in seems to be conclusive that they use the shovel, grasping the handle in either hand, according to whether the vehicle to be loaded is on the left or right of the shoveler. In other words, if the material is to be thrown over the right shoulder or to the right side, the shovel is grasped half way down the handle by the right hand and at the end by the left; if the material is to be thrown over the left shoulder or to the left side, the shovel is grasped half way down the handle by the left hand and the end by the right hand. There is no authority on the subject that can be quoted as official. What is the address of former President Calvin Coolidge? The Beeches, Northampton, Mass. What is the world record high ran in pocket billiards? Ralph Greenleaf made 126 against Frank Taberski in world championship tournament in Detroit, Dec. 16, 1929. Are carrier pigeons a special breed? They are domestic pigeons, trained to convey written messages fastened to their necks, wings or legs. They are also called homing pigeons. How shonld watermelon and pickled peaches be eaten? Watermelon should be served with a knife and fork. Pickled peaches may be, eaten with a fork or a | spoon.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Parrot Fever Is Highly Infectious

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal ot the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. NOT long ago people throughout the country were aroused by an epidemic of parrot fever, scientifically called “psittacosis.” This disease is transmitted by birds, particularly parrots, but also by parakeets, love birds and canaries. A bird that apparently is well may transmit the infection, but in most instances the parrot will seem to be ill, and it is attempted care of a very fond owner that usually results in the owner acquiring the infection from the bird. - It takes from six to fifteen days after contact with the source of the infection for the disease to develop in a human being. The disease begins with a chilly sensation, fever, headache and early involvement of the lungs. The tongue has a white coat.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY n BROUN D

WHEN the Lusitania was sunk, Hans was just 2 years old. Gretel was born in the winter after the armistice. Hans and Gretel are expected today to help in assuming those burdens of taxation based on Germany’s war guilt. When Hans marries and when Gretel marries, the responsibility for keeping up the payments will be passed on to their children and to their children’s children. And this, according to the plan, is to go on for sixty-two years. The century will be all but done before the books are squared and the pressure lifted from the backs of toilers. This is long-range warfare with a vengeance. Here is a gun more powerful than any yet devised, for it can scatter hatred and destruction down through the years and blight three generations. It is the plan. Germany must pay, for if she does not allied nations in our debt will be engulfed in the default and we shall lose our credits. nun A Legacy for the Future THEN up spoke Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and said, “Now, why should the progeny of Americans who had nothing to do with the war, progeny of Americans who were not even alive, pay. this war debt, and the progeny of the people who started it go scot free? I confess I can not see that, Mr. Mitchell.”

The president of the National City bank confessed that he found this query unanswerable, but he went on to say, “It is an impasse that will retard the time of world development with respect to economy and exchanges and understandings for a long time to come.” But that is an answer sufficient and complete. I wish that Mr. Mitchell had developed it more, so that Senator Feed and others might have grasped the true import of his prophecy. If inter-allied debts and German reparations are to be satisfied in full we and our children’s children must pay a price. We must pay by living for sixtytwo years in a world of commercial chaos. We must pay by meeting half a century of acute conditions of unemployment within, our own borders. We must pay by facing a cordon of hatred and suspicion. We must pay by giving up all hope of international understanding and brotherhood. We must cut off our right hand, so that our left can scrawl as best it may across the page, “The debt is satisfied.” Ruin Others, Ruin U, S, SOME have called us Shylock, and quite mistakenly, for in order to achieve our pound of flesh we must match blood drop by drop for every one we shed. In Shakespeare’s play Shylock and his debtor stood separate entities, but we are an actual and arterial part of the very body from which the tribute of living tissue is to be exacted. To put it very Amply, we can not ruin any nation or group of nations without ruining ourselves. And this is the legacy which Senator Reed would leave to the progeny of America. It is the plan. But who made the plan, and what

You Certainly Did!

there is a loss of appetite, and the pulse Is usually low in relationship to the height of the fever. Sometimes the onset of the disease is so rapid and the toxemia so great that the person develops a delirium. People of any age may develop this disease, but most of the cases seem to have occurred in older people, probably because children pay little attention to a sick parrot, whereas their parents and older people show the type of solicitude that has been mentioned. For the same reason women have the disease much more frequently than do men, except in laboratories where investigation of the disease is being carried on and where the laboratory workers come down with it. As has been said, an apparently healthy bird can transmit the disease to a human being, but there | is no evidence that one human be-

reason is there to expect that it will be carried out down through the ages by generations which knew neither kaiser nor Clemenceau? Charles Mitchell gave it as his opinion that Germany can not and will not complete the payments. I will go beyond that to state that I think the Germans should not. Nor the French. Nor the English. tt tt tt Common Sense Sentiment PEOPLE who believe as I do are accused of being sentimental, but I contend that it is the anticancellationists who have departed from all semblance of realistic thinking. An editorial in the New York Sun says that it would not be “sportsmanship” for Germany to default. In other words, we are asked to say to a bankrupt and a desperate people: “Come, come, now; be good sports. Starve if you must, but don’t forget the rules.” And Senator Gore wanted to know whether there was not a legal and a moral difference between debts and reparations. Mr. Mitchell should have told him that there is no difference which hunger and want will not wipe out. But the gravest crime against common sense consists in the very

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l should like to ask if you think it is fair to the small grocer, who is asked to contribute to the charity fund and who has taxes to pay and a family to keep, to pay men on charity gangs in baskets of groceries, half of which are not what they like and which are furnished by a few favored grocers, instead of paying them in cash and allowing them to get what they want for their own labor and also get it where they want to buy it and in that way distribute business all over the city and help every one. Several people have come in to one store to say they would like to buy, but are not paid money, only baskets of food, and some undesirable at that. If each grocer could have at least a chance at the baskets for his neighborhood, it would help. Even that is not done and the grocer is supposed to get along against all odds and give to the charity fund and then feed a half dozen people who come begging every day. A HARD HIT GROCER Editor Times—After twelve years of Indianapolis citizenship, in which time I subscribed and gave $165 to our charities to assist the less fortunate, I am in need myself, and can not get any help. I have sold at great sacrifice all I had accumulated and for the past four weeks I actually have lived on less than 25 cents a day (self and wife). We have not had meat or butter nor vegetables except 10 cents worth of Irish potatoes. I spent Tuesday of last week at the 333 North Pennsylvania street office of the Welfare, the Fountain square office and trustee’s office. I am hungry. Why the Community fund? Can’t you start this fund toward the needy? $ & O. 1133 East Washington street.

ing transmits the disease to another. The control of parrot fever involves the prohibition of traffic in South American parrots, the guarding of homes and pet shops known to have harbored infected birds, until these have been cleaned and disinfected thoroughly. The only specific treatment known to medical science is the injection of blood of the person who has recovered from the disease, but even this method of treatment is in an experimental stage. Otherwise, the patient is given proper food and nursing care, and is carefully watched for the development of complications. Regardless of the love or the attachment of the owner to the bird, any bird which, is shown to be infected should be sacrificed, and not only the bird, but the cage and any other materials which have come in contact with the bird should be burned.

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

conception of “war guilt,” upon wmich the plan is founded. Senator Reed, in talking of the war spoke of “the progeny of the peopie who started it.” He did not want them to go “scot free.” „ 1 wonder what he means by scot ’ I wonder what he means by “free.” And still more greatly do I wonder whether he thinks that half a century hence it will suffice to say to any citizen of Germany: “My boy, you must pay. Don’t you remember that your grandfather, wdien young, was among those who violated the neutrality of Belgium?” I would have every phase of the great folly wiped from the books. Then the nations of the world might meet at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and say: “The future we hold in common. In that we are ail allies. What are we going to do w-ith it, beginning here and now?” (Copyright. 1931. bv The Times)

m today #5 /WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

CZERNIN’S TERMS Dec. 25

Dec. 25, 1917, Count Czernin, foreign minister of Aus-tria-Hungary, acted as spokesman of the Central Powers in offering terms for a general peace at the first Russo-German conference in Brest-Litovsk. His statements were intended as a basis on which the Entente Allies were to join in the peace negotiations with Russia. The allies, however, refused to take any notice of the offer. Count Czemin’s terms were later withdrawn. Heavy fighting still continued on the Italian front with the Teutons capturing the honors for Christmas day by capturing Col del Rosso and adjoining heights on the Asiago Plateau.

The Message of Hope Today, in every land, men and women journey back in their thought to Bethlehem to pay tribute to a Man and a Message. The Message changed the current of history because it brought anew concept of human relations. Men were no longer to live by conquest but by love, no longer to look upon their fellows as enemies but as brothers. As yet, this concept has not reached industrial relations. It has not yet found Its translation into the age of machinery. The Columbia Conserve Company is based upon the theory that men should be equal in their rewards as in their responsibilities. It is an industrial democracy. It is Christmas Day in action. Ask any REGAL STORE for our booklet—A Business Without a Boss. It is good reading at this time of year!

DEC. 25, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Chicago University’s Neio Oriental Institute Climaxes bO Years’ Work by Dr, James H. Breasted. THE new Oriental Institute, built upon the campus of the University of Chicago at a cost of sl,500,000, represents a magnificent triumph for its director, Professor James H. Breasted. For forty years Dr. Breasted has been devoting his time to the recovery for modern civilization of the story of man’s rise from prehistoric savagery. Almost single-handed, Dr. Breasted has organized the greatest concerted effort ever made for the unearthing of the lost chapters in the history of the ancient world. The building of the Oriental institute in Chicago represents the headquarters of this enterprise. The work, however, is going on in all parts of the world. The Oriental institute has five exhibition halls, devoted to Egyptian, Assyrian, Assyro-Babylonian, Per-sian-Moslem and Hittite-Pales-tinian civilization. The institute is carrying on archeological research in these five fields. The institute was made possible by the generosity of John D. Rockefeller Jr., coupled with gifts from the General Education board, the International Education board, Julius Rosenwald, Theodore W. Robinson, Robert P. Lamont, Henry J. Patton and others.

Interest Began Early THE story of Dg. Breasted’s interest in ancient civilization is an interesting one. Asa student at the Chicago Theological Seminary the young Breasted developed an interest in the study of the Hebrew language which he never lost. He determined to learn more about the ancient Hebrews than was available in any of the fragmentary writings concerning them. After a year at Yale, under the famous Hebraist, William Rainey Harper, who was to become president of the University of Chicago, Breasted went to Beriin to pursue his studies of Oriental languages. Even before the University of Chicago was opened, Harper appointed him to the first chair of Egyptology in the United States, which he accepted after he had made his first expedition into Egypt in 1894. On that first mission, which incidentally was his honeymoon trip. Dr. Breasted’s budget was SSOO, and his equipment consisted of a donkey and a pocket camera. Today the research budget of the Oriental institute is $500,000 a year, one thousand times the budget of 1894, and from his office in the new building on the Midway—the newest addition to the equipment for the work —Dr. Breasted directs the activities of twelve university expeditions, employing several score of highly trained investigators and several thousand native diggers, at work on strategic sites along a 3,500-mile horseshoe front extending from the upper Nile valley to Persia.

Expeditions Were Many DR. BREASTED’S first major project was a mission in 1899 to all the leading museums of Europe to copy their Egyptian inscriptions for a dictionary financed by the German emperor. In 1905 he brought out in five volumes an English translation of all the then known inscriptions from the earliest times to the Persian conquest and followed that with a “History of Egypt,” now accepted as standard, which has been translated into French, German, Russian, Arabic, and into a Braille edition for the blind. In the seasons of 1905 to 1907, he directed an expedition which copied the inscriptions surviving on the monuments along the Nubian Nile, and led the first party of archeologists to run the dangerous rapids of the Fourth Cataract, 140 miles long. Returning to America he produced a work on “The Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt,” and a textbook called “Ancient Times,” which is used not only in America and England, China and Japan, but has been translated into Swedish, Malay and Arabic. A forthcoming Hebrew edition will teach the children of Palestine their own history. In the course of preliminary expeditions through western Asia in 1920, Dr. Breasted led the first party of white men to cross the Syrian desert after the Great war, through a hazardous wilderness of inimical Arab tribes, from Bagdad to the Mediterranean. He was asked, by Lord Allenby, as a result of this trip, to advise the British prime minister, Lloyd George, and the foreign minister, Lord Curzon, on the state of the uprising.

Daily Thought

And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord.—Joshua 9:14. A sin fie grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. —Lessing. Do cows have upper teeth? They have no upper front teeth, but do have upper molars and premolars.