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Britain and a Scrap of Paper In 1914 a British foreign secretary plunged his country into war on the plea that a treaty signed by Great Britain guaranteeing the independence and integrity of a weak nation had been violated by an aggressor. In 1932 a British foreign secretary will not Join the United States in declaring Japan a violator of the treaty which Great Britain signed guaranteeing the independence and integrity of China. In ID 14 a British foreign secretary declared that war was the only answer to a nation which made a treaty only “a scrap of paper.” In 1932 a British foreign secretary warns the house of commons that “disturbances to peace do trade no good, and we do not seek to get trade through a boycott of other people.” In 1914 the British Tory press deemed it an insult to England that German officials expected England to ignore her treaty responsibility. In 1932 the British Tory press supports the Tory-controlled British government in ignoring its treaty responsibility, and is unfriendly to American efforts to preserve those treaties. In 1914 (Aug. 28> the London Times said: “The imperial German chancellor . . . seems to have experienced genuine astonishment that we should face the sacrifice of war for the sake of our plighted faith. We actually were going to war ‘just for a word,’ for ‘neutrality,’ for a word which in wartime so often has been disregarded; just a scrap of paper. “It was ‘unthinkable.’ ... It is bewildering to find that responsible statesmen . . . should have formed so insulting and so erroneous an opinion of our whole habit of feeling and of thought. They really seem to have supposed that we share their view that right and truth and honor are mere catchwords in the affairs of nations, and that for us, as for them, fraud and force are supreme.” In 1932 the London Times fails to charge Japan with treaty violation, and supports the British government’s refusal to co-operate with American action in support of what the London Times in 1914 called “right and truth and honor.” In 1914 (Aug. 28) the London Morning Post reaffirmed the declaration of the British ambassador to Berlin that “it was a matter of life and death for the honor of Great Britain that she should keep her solemn engagement . . . that solemn compact simply had to be kept, or what confidence could any one have in engagements given by Great Britain in the future?” In 1932 the London Morning Post supports its government in winking at the destruction of Great Britain’s “solemn compact.” In 1914 (Aug. 29) the London Daily Telegraph said, “as precise and binding an obligation then was created as ever was set up between nations in this world—-that treaty, that ‘scrap of paper.’” In 1932 (Feb. 25) the London Daily Telegraph says that it is “Impossible for Britain to subscribe without careful qualification to Mr. Stimson’s statement” charging Japan with treaty violation and outlawing the fruits of Japanese conquest. In 1914 the British government and press successfully appealed to the British nation to go to war over a “scrap of paper.” In 1932 America—through Secretary of State Stimson—in effect appeals to the British nation to stay out of war and to help prevent eventual world war by a moral united front against Japanese destruction of all peace agreements. In 1932 America repeats the question which Great Britain asked in 1914: “That solemn compact simply has to be kept, or what confidence can any one have j in engagements given by Great Britain in the future?”

Nullifying the Noose In Oroville, Cal., recently, two men robbed a filling station and shot to death the proprietress. It was a clear case of cold-blooded killing. Unanimously, the jury found the two guilty of first degree murder. Yet when it came to punishment, the jurymen split, a minority holding out for life imprisonment. The district attorney then announced that he would go out into his foothill community to test public sentiment on hanging. ‘‘lf there is not a reasonable prospect of a hanging verdict in anew trial,” he said, “I will go into court and ask that the defendants be given life sentences.” Thus this peace officer is forced to nullify the law and repeal capital punishment in a capital punishment state. Why? Because, with hanging, as with prohibition and other laws out of touch with public sentiment, juries refuse to be savage, even if the law is. In a test covering a decade, made by Dr. Frederick Hoffman of the Prudential Life Insurance Company. it was found that the murder death rate in non-capital punishment states was forty-two per 1,000,000 people; in capital punishment states it was fifty-seven per million. ‘‘The death penalty is enforced in too small a proportion to have a deterrent effect on the community,’' he found. Why do we not make laws based upon human psychology?

The War in Kentucky The recent assault on Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley and other leading American writers who attempted to visit the Kentucky mining area lends special interest to the authoritative article on "War in the Kentucky Mountains,” by Sterling Spero and Jacob Aronoff in the American Mercury. From the standpoint of race and nationality, this Kentucky radicalism presents a unique situation. The epithet of “damned foreigners” can not be lodged against this group. They are descendants of near Mayflower stock, who settled in this area in revolutionary or pre-revolutionary times. They are hundred per cent Americans, who not more than a decade ago formed the backbone of the Ku-Klux Klan in this area. The industrial setup is part and parcel of the bituminous coal industry throughout the countryoverproduction of coat, declining prices and growing competition of oil and other fuels. Hence, there is a pathetic amount of unemployment, even when the men are not on strike. A few big operators, like the United States Coal and Coke Company, belonging to the United States Steel Corporation, do a fairly thriving business and pay decent wages. But many operators, especially the smaller ones, merely keep their mines open a few days each week, chiefly to prevent the ruin of mines and machinery through total cessation of work! Laboring and living conditions are incredible outside the United States Steel mines and one or two other large plants. Miners get 35 cents a ton for their coal, but dishonest methods of weighing make it necessary for them to deliver four tons to get paid

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for three. Under present conditions, it Is hard for an employed miner to earn S4O a month. If miners are injured and apply for workmen’s compensation relief, they are fired. On top of this, they are compelled, on penalty of being discharged, to trade at company stores, where prices are from 30 to 50 per cent higher than in competing private Store*. Hence, starvation and disease stalk even in the families of employed miners. It was natural that even these Independent frontiersmen should turn to organization in the sheer effort to live. The United Mine Workers came in during 1921, but wre driven out by the Klan. In 1927 they made another effort, but were discouraged when the sheriff arrested their leaders and organizers. In 1931 they encouraged organization, but did not come into the field personally or put the union behind the Kentucky miners. , Hence, Kentucky members of this union have all the disadvantages of unionization and none of its advantages in strike benefits and the like. This led to formation of an independent Kentucky union and to affiliation with the I. W. W. These gestures proved equally futile. So the situation provided fertile ground for the work of the radical National Miners’ Union. The Kentucky miners have no interest in Moscow —most of them never have heard of it—but the radical union offers them the only available chance to escape starvation if organization succeeds. The operators, controlling the courts and politics, fought even the conservative United Mine Workers. The appearance pf the I. W. W. and the National Mine Workers spurred them on to a declaration of war against unionization. Mine guards were sworn in as deputies, Chicago gunmen were imported, the militia was sent in, relief stations and soup kitchens were blown up and fired upon in the effort to starve the already emaciated miners into subjection. The miners are riflemen with a tradition running back to Daniel Boone. They retaliated and in several clashes have worsted the deputies and gunmen. But the latter have the law and political forces on their side. Some 335 men are in jail charged with murder, criminal syndicalism, banding and confederating and the like. Some forty-four are under indictment for murder. However one regards conditions in this area, nobody of intelligence can describe them as civilized or decent. Before we start to pull the Japanese off the backs of the Chinese, we well might assure these old-line Kentucky Americans of some of the rights' and amenities of civilized society. Before we attempt to teach morals to Hawaii, we could afford to assure elementary decencies to honest American workers. Otherwise, we shall make Communists out of the least Communistic type in all American society.

Life Is Cheap Not mentioning the increase tolls of shootings and suicide, the national safety council reports 99,000 accidental deaths in the United States in 1930. As deadly as a war tank is the peacetime automobile, which accounts for 33,000 of these deaths annually. Industry, increasing each year in complexity, is another Moloch, requiring 19,000 lives annually. Besides these deaths, most of them preventable, the council records 10,000,000 annual accidents. Strangely, the home is not the safest spot, for 4,000,000 injuries occurred “with alarming frequency—in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the bedroom, in the attic, in the garage—everywhere.” Fortunately, brave efforts have been put forth and have borne fruit. Football, which last year killed forty-nine young men and injured 1,346, has been humanized by the new rules. Mine injuries have been reduced. Railroads have cut down their accidents to a minimum. Insurance companies are carrying on campaigns in every state to reduce industrial casualties. The fault lies chiefly with ourselves. We have jazzed up the tempo of American life to a dangerous speed. We can not make war safe. We can make peace much more so. Another sign of returning normalcy is the recently reported fact that United States marines are still chasing Sandino in Nicaragua. One of our friends brags that he las kept the same umbrella for ten years. No doubt the original owner gave up hope long ago. Six ribs were stolen from a Denver man. Which was quite likely more than he could spare.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE funniest argument advanced by the American who does not believe his country should join the world court is this: “They only want to use us,” he says with a profound and knowing look, “they think they can get us to assume their economic burdens.” Well, now, we've never been in the league, but if Europe hasn’t used us, I don’t know what you’d call it. And if we are not helping with her economic burdens, perhaps this financial load we carry is a mere figment of the imagination. We are out of the world court, if there’s any satisfaction in that; but most of our hard cash already is sunk across the Atlantic. Billions of our national wealth are squandered in loans to Germany, France, England and others, and there seems small chance of getting it back. * u * IF the men of the oil industry, for instance, had behaved as stupidly in their business as American statesmen have in international affairs, we should condemn them unanimously for their folly. The way they salvaged their failing business was to use their heads. They met, formulated plans, set up a system of proration and co-operation with one another. The fact, as doubtless will be pointed out, that a few unprincipled ones have found small loopholes to break rules does not detract from the excellence of this plan for the salvation of a major industry. Everybody realizes that business survives only because its leaders are sensible enough to work together for the good of all. Nations can live by no other method. And if there is danger for us today in the Japanese Invasion of China, that danger exists because we have not had the intelligence to sit in with other white nations to safeguard ourselves while we aided them. By remaining aloof, we have placed ourselves in the ridiculous position of siding with Japan against the entire world. Whispers here, there, yonder, say we have done this deliberately because we do not want to lose trade. If this be true, then more curses should rest upon the heads of those who have steered us to such a course. The world court meets to stop, if possible, the slaughter of men. Do we stand apart because we still love our dollars more than we love our boys?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M: E. Tracy Says:

Prohibition Is an Economic, Political and Social Issue, Diverting Revenue, Promoting Crime and Destroying Temperance. NEW YORK. Feb. 27.—The wets will be lucky if they get one out of three representatives in congress to sign that petition. The drys will be lucky if they get one out of three votes in the Literary Digest poll. Here is a curious disparity. By all the rules and traditions of this government, congress should be in line with popular sentiment. Congress has about as bfg a dry majority as it had when the eighteenth amendment was adopted, but popular sentiment has undergone a profound change. u * n Public Misled THERE is only one explanation for such a state of affairs. The people have allowed themselves to be misled by politicians. Every time an election has occurred during the last ten years, they have been told that they must not be guided by what they thought about prohibition, because other problems were more important. They have been told that they must not risk splitting one party, or the other, over this particular issue, because it was essential to keep their political organizations intact. They have been told that it really was a good thing that neither party could line up on the wet and dry question, because it was a moral question and should be settled on a moral, rather than a political, basis. u n n Clever Maneuver THIS sort of flapdoodle has enabled a well-organized minority to play both sides against the middle and keep the drys in control of congress. Even as late as four years ago that minority forced the Republican party to run a dry candidate on a wishy-washy platform and the Democratic party to stultify a wet candidate with a platform that was equally evasive and noncommittal. The prohibition movement has been one of the most cleverly managed political adventures m American history. Though disrupted and discredited, the remnants of its rapidly diminishing strength are still sufficient to make the nation inarticulate.

Kidding Ourselves THE situation has become absurd, grotesque and dangerous. According to a former prohibition administrator, there are nearly 50,000 more speakeasies in the country than there were saloons when the eighteenth amendment was proposed. And we go right on kidding ourselves with the idea that “this is a government of law, not men.” Congress proposes to collect $600,000,000 yearly through a sales tax, while bootleggers collect twice as much on illegal hooch. tt tt tt Missing Millions IF the government were getting the money which now is going to rum runners, there would be no deficit and that, too, even though the American people failed to drink one added drop. If the racketeering to which the liquor traffic has given birth were stopped, business would be relieved of an enormous burden. If the political corruption for which the liquor traffic is mainly responsible were removed, honest government and effective law enforcement would represent far less of a problem. St St St r Just One Remedy THERE is just one remedy. The people must assert themselves and demand the right to be heard on what they know is the most important issue confronting this country. In the beginning, it may have been a moral issue, but it ceased to be that long ago. Today prohibition is an economic, political and social issue, diverting revenue, promoting crime and destroying temperance. Its repeal has become essential to the restoration of respect for law.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ls the U. S. A. is going to maintain its leadership in commerce, its respect for civilization and education, the standard American home, the welfare of the younger generation, who will make the future citizens of this country, we, the present powers that be, must give them some Structure to be proud of and to hope to maintain and improve. The last few years have been disgraceful to the American intelligence, and entirely uncalled for in this land of plenty, but we all make mistakes and let us profit by ours by being fair to one another in the various branches of our society and economic standings. Everything has its time limit 4or usefulness to society and country. The ox age, mule age, horse age, cave age, slave age, and now civilized age. Let us be true to our present age of civilization and progress by changing our present wornout economic structure of selfish, greed, profit and power system to an improved Christian brotherhood of live and let live systems. This can be accomplished without working any hardship on any one, nor is it necesary to confiscate the wealth of the rich and prosperous of the country. But we do ask their moral support in this change of affairs and in time to come they would be satisfied with the improved system and conditions and lose nothing, but gain the respect of the citizens at large. It is a true and tried fact that the circulation of money is the life of prosperity, and a prosperous country has a contented people, so therefore it becomes necessary always to maintain a steady flow of pay for all able workers, with a standard living wage in accordance with the American living standard, which is good wages and high prices with regulation against profiteering, and destructive competition, with fair profit, and a square deal to all. C. S.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appears in Friday’s Times: A Contortionist at 71—Will Lea, whose age of 71 has not diminished his ability as a contortionist,

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Worry Is Deadly to Business Man

This is the second of a series of five articles on good health for the business man during the depression. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. MEN in minor office jobs as well as high - powered executives are likely to be worrying in these times of business depression. The “white-collar” man worries for fear that he will lose his job; the executive for fear that income will be insufficient to continue the whole business. Worry is deadly. There was a time when it was listed as a contributing cause to high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, indigestion, and many other conditions Today these are recognized as having other definite causes, but undoubtedly worry does play a large

IT SEEMS TO ME by “

THE way of a neutral is hard, and the attitude which he must assume lacks the romantic appeal animating the extreme right and also the fringe on the left. I often have insisted that political thought is circular and that there are more similarities between Stalinism and Fascism than either camp cares to admit. Nor is this mere partisan fantasy, for I can cite a present instance in proof of the contention. Two schools of thought in America today are urging a course of action calculated to embroil us in a war against Japan. They constitute perhaps the strangest bedfellowship ever known upon these shores, and yet it is not to be denied that for the moment A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, and William Z. Foster, leader of the Communist party in America, are sharing room rent. Lowell is a leader of the movement to enlist America in an effort to solve the far east crisis by means of an economic boycott. Senator Borah and others have pointed out that under international law this would constitute a hostile act. International law never has recovered from the beating which it took in the last conflict. Being somewhat punch drunk, it can not now walk a chalk line, but staggers as it ambles across the face of the

The Right Thing Do you always say and do the right thing at the right time in the right way? Since the days of the caveman there has been rowing up a body of customs, practices and rules of social intercourse between well-bred people that takes the general name of ETIQUET. To know what to do and what to say and how to act on all occasions is the mark of the courteous, well-bred person. Our Washington Bureau has a group of seven bulletins covering the whole field of etiquet. The titles are: 1. Etiquet for Engaged Couples. 5. Etiquet of Dress 2. Social Etiquet. 6. Etiquet for Weddings. 3. Travel Etiquet. 7. Good Manners for 4. Etiquet for Dinners. Children. This packet of bulletins may be obtained by filling out the coupon below and mailing as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-23, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of seven bulletins on ETIQUET and inclose herewith 20 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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ha:; been known for many years as the California physical marvel. The aged contortionist attributes his wonderful physical fitness to regular exercise since early youth. The septuagenarian is proud of

part in the causation of all types of disease because of its interference with the proper functioning of the body. Worry produces fatigue much more quickly than is likely from physical effort alone. The lines in the face associated with constant worry can be recognized even by amateur observers. It is silly, of course, to tell a man who is worrying that he should not worry. All that one can tell him is that the worry certainly will produce no suitable result and that it is more likely to do him harm than good. The man who begins to worry as soon as he goes to bed, and who therefore is unable to sleep, ought to have competent advice and assistance. He is taking part in what scientists call a vicious circle. The more he worries, the less he sleeps; the

globe. But no individual need be an international lawyer to realize that a boycott aimed at Japan would act as an irritant and a provocation toward hostilities. Some months ago such a plan might have been more effective and less dangerous, but that time has passed. Those who suppor' ! t now should admit that they an filing to risk a war. tt ss st Admiral in Disguise IN fairness to the Communists of New York and hereabouts, it must be admitted that they never have pretended to be pacifists. They repeatedly have stated their belief that the pacifist is a sentimental, bourgeois fellow who is either unconsciously or consciously the ally of capitalist tyranny. And they lean to the notion that his heresy is deliberate. On the other new partisans of Russia have" been extremely active in holding meetings opposed to “imperialist war.” On Washington’s birthday they held just such a demonstration in Union Square. They belong to the “one more round” school of thought and would take over Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a war to end war. The Communist believes that it would be a fine thing to line up the proletariat in military array against

BY RIPLEY

his state’s readiness to back him against any grandfather in the world. Monday~A graveyard that gives up its bodies.

less he sleeps, the more inefficient he becomes, and therefore the more reason he has for worry. Sometimes insomnia is due to physical conditions, but in many instances it is due to mental disturbances. On the other hand, falling asleep is a habit and if one establishes a routine of going to sleep easily at a regular hour, he is likely to have less trouble falling asleep than if he suddenly varies the time, the place, and the environment of his sleeping performance. It generally is well known that proper ventilation, proper warmth, and the same bed are important factors in falling asleep. A warm bath or a warm drink previous to going to bed is a great help, and it makes no difference whether the drink is plain milk, malted milk, or some fancy named substance that costs five or six times as much. Next: Exhaustion.

Ideals and oninions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are nrcsented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this natier. —The Editor.

the capitalists and the middle class. After enough exploiters have been shot in battle and in a subsequent reign of terror, the world will be ready for the brotherhood of man. This will, of course, be a workers’ world, but all those who do not meet the Communist definition will have been liquidated. People who hold to this technique for reaching Utopia describe their mental processes as realistic thinking. If you fail to agree you are a “dirty Socialist,” a “rotten liberal” or a “villainous visionary.” It all sounds neat and logical and has a. great appeal to those who have the patience to intrust their cause to the slow processes of evolutionary violence. Maybe Something’s Wrong BUT I feel a flaw. In fact, I see one. No group or person or party ever has succeeded in outlawing war by permitting himself to approve of so much as a single exception. ‘l’m against war, but” always has been the certain ineradicable caste mark of the trimmer. It does not matter whether he limits himself to the “righteous war,” the “defensive war,” or the “holy war.” As long as the itch to fight exists some slick salesman will come along to sell the one-war man a substitute which is just as good. And he will be fooled into buying. Just as the Communists of America have in the present instance. Again and again the Daily Worker has thundered on its editorial page and pointed out that the present struggle represents “a conflict in imperial interests.” But what do I find on its news page of last Monday? And I might add that the Daily Worker is a newspaper in which one reads the editorials for the news and the news for editorial opinion. Large as headline type and four columns wide I find a series of demands for which the faithful are to cheer when assembled in Union Square. The first is harmless, though maybe a little sentimental. It reads “Demand the recall of Japanese troops from Manchuria and all parts of China!” But consider the second which runs, “Demand the expulsion of Japanese diplomatic representatives in the United States!” tt tt M Perhaps He Won't Hear It NOW, this would be, by every existing precedent, an act of war. A Japanese declaration of hostilities would follow within a week. Naturally I do not assume that Secretary Stimson is likely to be stampeded into action by Communist compulsion. It is even possible that he occasionally misses an issue of the Daily Worker. I merely am seeking to illustrate the temper of a certain school of thinking. As nearly as I

-FEB. 27, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Other Planets Have Civilizations Millions of Years Ahead of Ours, Scientist Believes. SOMEWHERE off in space, revolving around other stars as our earth revolves around its star, the sun, are planets with civilizations millions of years old, civilizations whose developments of the arts and sciences is unbelievably ahead of ours. This is the opinion of Dr. William D. MacMillan, professor of mathematical astronomy at the University of Chicago. Dr. MacMillan bases his view upon the belief that the universe is a perpetually regenerating meet., an - ism. According to his view, advanced forms of life always have grown up in the universe during a literally infinite past. Therefore, he holds that there must be thousands of planets upon which life and civilization is far older and far more advanced than it is upon the earth. Dr. MacMillan is led to these conclusions from a study of the nature of the electron and its relation to the universe. He disagrees with the views of Jeans and Eddington that our universe is like a clock that w’as started at some distant date and which now is running down. He also disagrees with their theory of an expanding or exploding universe, the theory which holds that an explosion at some dim distant date set the whole universe to flying to pieces. • in Organization of Electron DR. MACMILLAN’S hypothesis pictures a complicated organization within the electron itself. The electron is the smallest known particle, the electrical unit out of which the atoms of matter are constructed. Electrons are believed to be so small that several million could be placed upon the period at the end of this sentence without crowding them at all. Existence within the electron of a series of undiscovered physical systems, in. which are occurring atom-building, the production of radiant energy and other processes which insure the universe of continual rebirth and prevent its “running down,” is suggested by Dr. MacMillan. His hypothesis, which pictures the cosmos as being tremendously bigger and more complicated than most modern scientists concede, and involves a reinterpretation of several recent discoveries, was outlined by Dr. MacMillan in explaining the significance of a communication printed over his signature in the latest issue of the British science journal, Nature. Dr. MacMillan arrives at his conclusions from a consideration of the shift toward the red end of the spectrum, which has been found in the light of distant nebulae. This shift, which astronomers have interpreted as the result of motion away from the earth, led to the theory of an expanding universe.

Energy Disappears IN seeking to explain the diminution in frequency of light waves coming from the outer galaxies, cn some other basis than motion, Dr. MacMillan proposes several possibilities. He regards the light as a stream of particles—or photons—and suggests as one solution of the problem of the disappearing energy that these photons collide with other photons in their path and lose soma of their energy. Dr. MacMillan believes that the most plausible explanation, however, is that some of the energy of the light, somewhere in its journey of from 1,000,000 to 150,000,000 years between the outer galaxies and the earth, disappears into the fine structure of space, and eventually emerges into our ken in the form of atoms. The farther away the galaxy is, the greater is this “evaporation.” “The extraordinary velocities of recession which are derived from the shift toward the red of the spectral lines of remote galaxies have led to much skepticism of the interpretation of this shift as due to motion ” Dr. MacMillan says. “This skepticism is enhanced when it is learned that the velocities are proportional to the distance of the galaxies He believes that his new theory is less open to objection.

M T ?s9£ Y W ' WORLD WAR t ANNIVERSARY

GERMAN ATTACK FAILS Feb. 27

ON Feb. 27, 1918, heavy German attacks on French positions at Butte de Mesnil failed. Two attacks were launched, both of which were beaten off with heavy losses by French artillery and machine gun fire. The positions which were the German objectives recently had bet 1 taken by the French. The action was the most severe in several weeks on the western front and indicated that spring operations were about to begin. Nancy, France, was bombed by German airplanes, but damage was reported as slight. German troops in Runsia continued their unopposed advance occupying Boriseff and numerous small villages.

Daily Thought

We walk by faith, not by sight. —II Corinthians 5:7. Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.—Bulwer-Lytton. can make out, it is the Communist contention that the best way for us to avoid “imperialist war” is to plunge right into it. And so I *ay in time of stress put not your trust in proletarian princes or in ancient college professors. War is evil, whether it is the pet conflict of a Foster or a Lowell. I’m for peace, and a plague on both their houses! (Copyright. rna. bv The Time*)