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Watch the Lists Many citizens are offering themselves as candidates for nomination to the next legislature. % These posts are the most important offices to be filled this year. They do not have the spotlight (hat. goes with the governorship, but the men elected to lawmaking bodies next year will have more effect upon the weliaic of the public than the executive or judicial positions. The next legislature must revise the tax and the utility laws if private industry and the farmer are to be saved from bankruptcy. The power interests will tax industry to death. Unfair taxation will take the farmer. Public ownership must be placed within the reach of the people if the electric monopolies are to be curbed. At present, the people find many difficulties in the path to ownership of utilities. These obstacles were written into the law by those who have exploited the public and then capitalized their exploitation in the form of preferred stocks in holding companies. The effort of the city to obtain a reduction of rates has demonstrated that the utilities have a stranglehold on the people and that relief, under present conditions, is almost impossible. The utilities have been permitted to run wild in their grabbing. The holding company device has made the whole theory of regulation a jest. For example, the charges of the local electric monopoly for coal purchased from its own selling agency amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars in excess profits each year. The commission does not even chide those who do such violence to the law and to the rights of the people. The fact that the people pay for the private club dues of a citizen of Philadelphia as one of the operating expenses of the water company should arouse indignation to the point of action. Watch the announcement of those who wish to make your laws, If you find a neighbor who is under utility influence and who wants the job, warn your friends. If you find a name that suggests integrity, courage and a desire to help those in the same condition as himself, tell your friends about that. Pick the next lawmakers with care. It may mean the saving of your home or your business.

Cumberland Gap In the American drama, Cumberland Gap has played an important role. In colonial days immigrant trains passed through the gap bound for new frontiers in western Tennessee and Kentucky. It was there that the son of Daniel Boone was killed by Indians. In the Civil war it was a military prize. Now, it seems, it has achieved anew symbolism as the barrier between the striking Kentucky coal fields of Bell and Harlan counties and the outside world. The things the world knows about these coal fields sre not pleasant to write or think about. Miners’ families have been underfed, strikers intimidated, sympathizers jailed, newspaper men shot. Yet, in the opinion of Bell and Harlan counties, all this is noDody’s business. Therefore, investigators have been irrested, bullied, assaulted, kidnaped and deported. Recently a mob of “respectable Kentucky gentlemen’’ forcibly conducted a group of New York writers to “the Gap’’ and there, with auto lights suddenly turned off, two of the writers, Waldo Frank and Allan Taub, were beaten with an auto jack. Now two groups of some sixty American students, undaunted by the Kentucky terror, have been refused admission to the coal field. Meeting the students, the 801 l county attorney, Walter Smith, denounced them as “Communists” and “malicious intruders,” and demanded that they past SI,OOO peace bonds before they were allowed to enter the county. The students are due Wednesday in Washington to appeal to congress to carry on the investigation which Kentucky's “peace" officers refused to allow them to conduct. Senator Costigan (Dem., Colo.l has a resolution pending that demands a thorough probe into conditions that Bell and Harlan counties seem so anxious to hide. Surely in view of these counties’ refusal to permit unofficial investigations, congress will step in and do some investigating on behalf of the American people. Cun*erland Gap is an American tradition. It should not become the symbol of tyranny and lawlessness.

Roosevelt on Power Two statements just have appeared concerning Governor Roosevelt and the power question. In the first one the National Popular Government League put Mr. Roosevelt ahead of all other presidential aspirants on the power issue. In the second statement William H. Woodin, president of the American Car and Foundry Company and chairman of the board of the American Locomotive Company, denied charges that Mr. Roosevelt’s policies are “inimical to big business, and declared, in part, regarding Mr. Roosevelt and power: “I have no fear that in his approach to this problem he will bring to it either inclination or desire to destroy or hamper the many companies that for years have devoted their time, care and money to development of this great industry.” Mr. Woodin’s statement, was issued from the Roosevelt headquarters. It was released for publication on the same day as the Popular Government League's laudation. When asked for comment on the latter, Mr Roosevelt is quoted as saying: “Idon’t want to make any snap statements. I want time to think it over. We presume that he will make his statement soon. The Popular Government League appraises the power issue as follows: "It* political significance can not be overestimated. The combined utility and banking interests, headed by th# power trust, have the most powerful and widely organized political machine ever known in history. “The machine operates with other reactionary economic, industrial and financial groups. It is strenuously working to control the nominations for the presidency and congress of both dominant parties.” Governor Roosevelt could not be all that the Popular Government League says he Is and all that Mr. Woodin aays he is in his statement issued from the Roosevelt headquarters. Mr. Roosevelt always has taken a strong line on the power question. And on a question so deeply touching the interests of the American people he ought not now be willing to let another speak equivocally In his stead. since published simultaneously with the Popular Government laudations, the Woodin equivocations call for a statement by Mr. Roosevelt—a

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statement such as that he made regarding prohibition, one containing no generalities, but declaring a definite and specific national program on power. The Public Land What shall be done with the 130,000,000 acres of remaining public domain? A Hoover commission, after months of hearings, has evolved the Evans bill, now being argued before the house committee on public lands. Opponents rally about the Colton bill. There are many who think the Evans bill dangerous, the Colton bill inadequate. The Evans bill would give, under certain restrictions, the federal lands to those states that want them. Since it withholds all minerals and sub-surface wealth the states look askance at a gift of mere grazing lands. Should they take them, it is probable that the lands would get scant attention, would deteriorate even more rapidly than at present, would find their way into the hands of big stockmen. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania sees in the bill an even more sinister “attack on Rooseveltian conservation policy,’’ since it permits boards of politicians in public lands states to throw out of national forests what timber lands they, in secret, decide to take for state exploitation. The Colton bill would expedite transfer of these lands to private ownership, but those “necessary for public use’’ would be administered by the interior department. Neither bill established an adequate public lands policy. These lands should be administered as a national range, either under the agriculture department along with national forests, or elsewhere. Since they are being ruined rapidly by overgrazing and other abuses, the federal government, the only agency capable of making and enforcing rules, should police them in the name of conservation and in behalf of future generations. This should not prove too costly. As the National Grange declares: “The remnants of the public domain should not be turned over to (he states, but a comprehensive national land policy should include provisions for better consolidation of federal and state holdings, and for administration of (he public land through reforesting or otherwise to insure conservation and avoid improper use of this national resource.”

Save the Customers! The other day a member of the house of representatives, a member, incidentally, of the war policies commission appointed to promote peace and minimize the profits of war, rose on the floor and made an eloquent address in behalf of chemical warfare. “Chemical warfare permits the subduing of an enemy without crippling a prospective customer,” said he. “in this post-war period, when we are suffering from destruction and dislocation of the last war, ve should be in a position to appreciate and welcome any devise that would ease conditions should another war be permitted to take place. “I do not deny that destruction is inherent in the war system, but I believe that chemical warfare will prevent the ruination of areas over which a battle may be fought.” At first glance it seems a cold-blooded point of view thus to emphasize protection of factories and railroad tracks and farm lands and other forms of property in preference to human life. But perhaps that will come later. It is at least a start toward civilization to recognize that enough should be left of an enemy to permit him to be a prospective customer. Some day we may come to feel that the more customers left alive, the better off we’ll be at the end of a war. There is, after all, in spite of our voluble chatter about peace, little revulsion in the mass psychology against taking of human life. But if we can make a start toward sanity by protecting property hereafter in time of war, some time cupidity may make us protect human beings—for customers, if for no other reason.

They arrested a man for selling drinks in eggs.! Another man who can blame his downfall on the i chickens. I Tne senator who invited Alice Longworth and Ethel Barrymore to lunch and then forgot all about it must have thought it was a campaign promise. From its attitude at Geneva, you might gather that France is willing to meet any nation halfway on disarmament if the other nation isn't willing to go half way. If conditions in Chicago get much worse they might as well start looking around for another cow and another lantern.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE good pastor of a Baptist flock is enraged at the temerity of this column in daring to express criticism of Solomon. The panning he gives me is worthy of a better cause. He calls upon me to defend, if I can, my ignorance and arrogance and to apologize to all those who have a sacred regard for the Scriptures. I am well aware that to many good people the idea of finding fault with Solomon is almost like flaunting God. That, I believe, is one thing the natte.7 with organized religion, the earth and the people upon it. In a world where a cat may gaze at a king, is a woman to be denied the right to speak her mind upon Solomon or any other man? The pastor insists that no female has enough to understand the deep wisdom of the Hebrew monarch. Moreover, he hints that since most of the evils come from feminine sources, and that Eve was the mother of all sin, whatever the weaker and wickeder sex may have to say about biblical subjects is not worth printing, much less reading. tt a a RIGHT here his logic appears faulty. Solomon himself had no such antipathy toward women. If he believed that the ladies were filled with such devilish instincts, then, according to the record, he was eager to be besmirched. In short, if the pastor’s theory is true, how could Solomon have been good, since the Bible tells us he consorted with upward of 500 women? And that is really a conservative estimate. No, I long have believed that Solomon was something of a fakir. His advice about many things is excellent, but, like a good many other pious folk, he failed to act upon it. And since the English language is so plain, those who attempt to set him up as a saint encourage hypocrisy, for while he may have been a grand old man, he was a pretty wild young man. They quote to us his Proverbs, but what shall we do with his Song, which is the most beautiful tribute to woman and to love that ever has been penned?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

Fits of Temper Which Cause Men to Fly From a Sales Tax to a Tariff on Oil Do Not Suggest Statesmanship. NEW YORK, March 29.—“1t has come to a point.,’’’ says Speaker Garner, “where the worst kind of taxes are better than no taxes at all.” Why narrow the problem to such an alternative? Why not give some thought to the best kind of taxes? This is no time to get emotional fixed ideas. There is more than one way of raising money. Also, there is more than one way of saving it. Fits of temper which cause men to fly from a sales tax to a tariff on oil do not suggest statesmanship. Neither does a frame of mind which can see nothing ahead but bankruptcy, or a blind dash for revenue.

Might Try Economy THIS country’s financial condition includes more than the shortage of so many dollars. It includes mistakes which must be corrected, and extravagances which must be eliminated. Racketeers are making enough to balance the budget. Do gentlemen in congress propose to ignore that item? The time has come to ark, “what are we getting for all the money, and what would be the consequences if we spent a little less?” We are told that, in private life, the dollar buys about 30 cents more than it did a few years back, that the cost of living has gone down and that people can get along just as well on lower wages. If that gospel is good for clerks and merchants, why not for congressmen? non Value Received? AS this is being written, Colonel Lindbergh is reported as in conference with somebody or other over the amount of ransom’ that must be paid for the safe return of his baby. More than one father has found himself in a similar position during recent months. Can you blame them for wondering why they pay, taxes, or whether they would be much worse off if they paid less. The important question is not how much money the government needs, according to its books, but whether the people are getting value received. The fact that so much is called for by this or that department does not tell the whole story by any means,

Millions for Arms THE government is spending about $700,000,000 a year for the army and navy. Suppose that were cut to $500,000,0000, would we be in great danger? Theorists say that we would, that a war might break out and catch us unprepared, but who knows. Other theorists say that a big military establishment tends to provoke war, and that we are rather worse off with it than we would be without it. War, or no war, the equipment becomes obsolete every fifteen or twenty years. War, or no war, we junk our battleships every so often, substitute motorcycles for horses, adopt anew kind of explosive, or make other fundamental changes in the fighting machine. Under such circumstances, would a two, or three-year holiday make very much difference. nun GOVERNMENT is maintained for just one purpose, to render services that can not be had any other way, or if they can be had in other ways, to render them more cheaply and efficiently. Before congress gets too het up over the idea of raising just so much money regardless, it could do worse than give that phase of the situation some attention.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—By this time it is not premature to say that we shall not get out of our dismal economic slough under the same power that brought us in. The conclusion that we were brought into these circumstances by divine plan or through individual social errors comes by false reasoning. - The political compost that is offered us in place of bread makes our condition the more miserable, but it does serve a purpose: It gives us an idea of the character of the influence to which we cry for relief. To expect more than is offered us is ridiculous. The power to which we appeal is grossly impotent. It has been always so., and ever shall be. It has no worthy, inherent qualities, no supernatural faculties. The force which this power claims was gained through a course of undisturbed momentum. It also is unreasonable to assume that we arrived in our predicament through the breaking down of a plan. No such actual loss has been sustained. There has not been a plan. Success for some has followed by virtue of the presence of dumb force. No general humanitarian effort has been spent. Co-operation, privately and publicly, has been inspired by a knowledge of mathematics and confidence in the value of the currency of the country. Ours has been the world’s most perfect example of the theory of dog eat dog. There can be no wonder that in the end the small dog, having no more meat on his bones and not the strength to grow new tissue, should be deserted and that the greater dog should go howling at the moon. Let us have a change! Human sentiment, offering sympathy and pity, is a precious term, but taken alone it provides feeble structure for an intelligent system of government. Co-operation with the society body must be made an obligatory action for all men. J. E. H. Editor Times We taxpayers surely are disgusted with the politics being played by the county commissioners. Seems like some of them would work once in a while. TIMES BOOSTER.

And He’s Lookin’ for a Way Out!

Infant Mortality Rate Is Lowered

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyceia, the Health Magazine. THE infant mortality rate is the number of deaths under 1 year of age for each 1,000 children born alive. The control of deaths among infants is a problem to which health authorities have given special attention in recent years. Asa result, the number of such deaths has fallen constantly and today the infant mortality rate in a community is taken as a standard of measurement for the health condition of the community. It must be remembered, however, that the infant mortality rate is the result of social and economic status of the community, the customs of different races and nationalities, the health knowledge of the people and the presence of hospitals and medical centers for suitable advice.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H b E = D

IT is charged that the advocates of higher inheritance taxes are out to “soak the rich.” I see no reason why they should deny it. To me this sounds like an appealing and reasonable slogan for governmental financing. It is nonsense to suppose that the impoverished are ready to bleed and die to see the budget balanced. Even the threat that existing institutions may collapse unless more revenue is available scarcely can worry those who have nothing, or next to it. There is no point in talking of chaos to the unemployed, because they already live there and know it. If the well-to-do are eager to preserve the economic structure •which prevails, they ought to be. willing to pay for it. And handsomely, at that.

Down to Last Million THE Evening Post weeps copiously as to what will happen if initiative is destroyed by placing a a tax of 45 per cent upon estates of ten million or over. “A confiscatory inheritance tax will kill all inheritances,” it declares, “by removing the natural human incentive which a man has to lay up something for his children.” It does not seem to me that many of us will be affected vitally if legislation lays down the rule that no man may leave ten million flat to his descendants without a large return to the public. I am ready to testify that my ambition has not been dulled by a jot or tittle since I learned that out of any ten million Heywood Hale Broun must return almost half to the public funds. In my case the problem is a trifle academic, but I hereby make a public pledge that I will cease toiling long before the accumulated savings have reached any such amount. And if the community insists upon showering me with fair rewards I

Limiting of Armaments Ca nthe disarmament conference of 1932 at Geneva succeed in getting any sort of world agreement to help lift the load of armaments expense under which the nations are staggering? What of such efforts in the past? Who started the movement to have the world disarm? What part has the United States taken in such movements in the past? How do the principal nations compare in their expenditures on armies, navies and air forces? All these and many other questions concerning the history of the movement to obtain international agreements for the limitation of naval, land and air forces are discussed in our Washington Bureau’s new bulletin, LIMITATION OF ARMANMENTS. It will give any one an accurate background for understanding the present effor to accomplish such limitation. Fill out the coupon below and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 167. Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 132 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE Ia ma reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

For 1930, Chicago and St. Louis led all other large cities with a rate of 54. Cleveland had 55; New York, 57; Philadelphia, 59; Los Angeles, 61; Detroit and Baltimore, 65, and Pittsburgh and Boston, 69. These are our ten largest cities. In each case, except that of Boston, the rate for 1930 was lower than for 1929. A few cities in the United States have shown remarkable improvement, and infant mortality rates in some are so low that they represent an extraordinary healthful situation. One small city in Pennsylvania has a rate of 259, but it happens to be the location of an important state institution for children, and it draws infants from all over the state. For many years large cities in Oregon and Washington have had

will begin to pay back substantially long before the coroner comes. I think there is validity in the argument that high estate taxes will yield much less than is anticipated by the optimistic. I am interested only incidentally in such measures as revenue producers. But Ido hold that no democracy can endure as such unless we prevent the willing of power from one individual to his heirs and cronies. It is illogical to sneer at monarchies if we are to set up a feudal industrial state in which one is to own the coal mines or the railroads for no better reason than the fact that his father before him was a successful manipulator. I doubt profoundly that any American now alive has rendered a public service worth ten million dollars or anything like it. And still more do I question the assumption that great skill In any industry is tapped solely by the hope of a fabulous fortune. When you give a man great power and great prestige, hia income becomes even to himself a matter of small consequence. tt tt Speaking for the Average AS an average sort of person, I can testify that the hardest work I ever have done was always tied up with some activity in which I was to get no money. I don’t mean that I am unselfish. That would bar me from membership in the fraternity of the average. I merely mean that applause and the pat on the back, even when self-administered, are greater incentives than gold in heaping spoonfuls. I never have known a writer who would not vastly prefer to do a good novel rather than a successful one. Although I can not speak from personal experience, I don’t believe that there is much fun in being the author of a “Winning

astoundingly low rates. Thus Seattle has a rate of 37; Spokane and Tacoma 47 and 44. and Portland, Ore., has a rate of 41. Whereas Chicago has a rate of 54, Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, has a rate of 28 and Evanston a rate of 39, This should show' the advantage of good air, sunlight, and plenty of room for keeping good health. Several industrial centers in close approximation to Chicago have rates much higher than the city proper; thus, Blue Island has a rate of 71 and Forest Park a. rate of 80. Altogether, however, most of the cities in the United States may be very proud of their advancement in this field. When it is remembered that many of our large cities had rates as high as 200 and 300. but three decades ago, we have strong reasons for congratulations.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interestin? writers and are presented withoat regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

of Barbara Worth” or an "Impatient Virgin.” These are the hard and arduous labors which a competitive civilization imposes upon the worker in the vineyard. I am of the opinion that certain kinds of incentive well might be destroyed w’ith advantage to us all. No father wants the torment of the fear that his children may go cold and hungry and jobless after he is gone. But if his ambition moves him to the hope that he may leave a fortune calculated, to let them loaf all the days of their life, then there is good reason to root out that incentive. The community does well to say even to a true industrial genius that his children must stand on their own feet and deliver like the rest of mankind. tt a a Making it Compulsory IT has been pointed out that certain rich men have done much for art or charity or medical research. But that's not good enough. That makes the public dependent upon the whim of the sons and the daughters of our barons. A certain rich man died not so long ago leaving more than two hundred million, and of this vast sum he contributed in his will $50,000 to a university. Relatives got the rest. He said that he had done enough during his own lifetime. It should not have been left to him to decide. No man makes a fortune without the collaboration of a vast multitude. The mousetrap man would be nothing much if the public failed to beat a pathway to his door. They trudged and ran and ambled to make him famous, and when he dies I can not see what overwhelming claim belongs to his snip of a daughter who neither made nor used the mousetrap. Why shouldn’t the rich be soaked? That’s what has happened to the poor, not only in recent years, but down through the centuries. If turn about is fair play, I’m all for using it. (CoDvriet. 1933. by The Timesl

Questions and Answers

What elements are in air? About one-fifth oxygen and fourfifths nitrogen with about four parts per 10,000 of carbon dioxide, a varying amount of water vapor, and small amounts of ammonia and certain rare gases, as argon and neon. What does the abbreviation S. P. Q. R. stand for? Senatus Populusque Romanus which means “The Senate and People of Rome.” How wide is the English channel at its narrowest point? Twenty-one miles. In what books are the characters Godfrey Cass, John Silver and Sidney Carton? Cass is in “Silas Mamer,” by George Eliot; John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,’’ and Sidney Carton in Charles Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities.”

MARCH 29, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

j New Uses Found for Aluminum Cover Almost Entire Range of Industry and Art. ONE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO new uses for aluminum are listed in a bulletin issued by the Aluminum Company of America. The bulletin is an excellent example of how progress is made upon the basis of scientific research. The new uses found for aluminum virtually cover the entire range of industry and art. Thus new chapters are added to the story of aluminum, one of the most interesting romances in modern science. Science knew about aluminum and knew that aluminum would be valuable to industry long before it was commercially possible to produce the metal. A century ago, Wohler, the great German chemist, devised a method for separating aluminum from the compounds in which it occurs in nature. But aluminum produced by Wohlers method cost $l6O a pound. In time, better methods of producing aluminum were devised. But they were all too expensive. By 1856, for example, aluminum could be produced for S2O a pound. But that still put the metal out of the reach of industry. It was in 1886 that the problem was solved by a 21-year-old student at Oberlin college, Oberlin, O. The student was Charles M. Hall. * * * Hall Experimented Hall, the son of a minister, was a serious-minded youth of New England ancestry. At- Oberlin college he came under the influence of Dr. Frank Fanning Jewett, the professor of chemistry and minerology. In an address in 1920, Professor Jewett told the story of Hall’s discovery of a satisfactory method of manufacturing aluminum. He said: “My great discovery has been the discovery of a man. When I went to Oberlin in 1880 on my return from four years’ teaching in Japan, (here was a little boy about 15 years old who used to come to the chemistry laboratory frequently to buy a few’ cents’ worth of glass tubing or test tubes or something of that sort. “Not knowing anything about (he boy. I made up my mind that he would make a mark for himself some day because he didn’t spend all his time playing, but already was investigating. That boy was Charles M. Hall. “After he had entered college amt as part way through the regular course. I took him into my private laboratory and gave him a place by side-discussing his problems with him from day to day. ••Possibly a remark of mine in the laboratory one day led him to turn his attention to aluminum. Speaking to my students, I said that if any one should invent a process by which aluminum could be made on a commercial scale, not only would he be a benefactor to the world, but would also be able to lay up for himself a great fortune.

His Resolution PROFESSOR JEWETT continued A the story as follows: “Turnineto a classmate, Charles Hall said’ ‘l’m going for that metal.’ And he went for it. “About six months later, he came over to my office one morning and holding out his hollowed hand, said. Professor, I’ve got it.’ There in the palip °f his hand lay a dozen little globules of aluminum, the first ever made by the electrolytic process in this country.” Hall, as previously mentioned, wa„s 21 years old at the time of his epoch-making discovery. Aluminum immediately was in demand because of its great liehtness Within recent years, the uses of aluminum have been extended bv the development of hard alloys made from aluminum. snSuthf t s ese, Jduralumin, held the vprl gh °l Pubiic atte ntion a few years ago because of its use in the construction of Zeppelins. Many other uses have been found for duralumin, as, for example, in the construction of big telescopes. helDerf n]nm- hOUSehold ’ dur alumin helped aluminum march from the flirriif 11 t 0 the Parl ° r ' AH aorts of furniture now are being ma/te fr™, duralumin. The maSaTSd's™™ signs PartlCUlarly t 0 modcrnis tlc deNext: I will discuss the new uses

M TODAY v® /world War t anniversary

GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY March 29

0 N *f arch 29 ’ 1918 > the Third a i ld u Fiffch British armies were pushed back again in the great battle m Picardy. British officers reported several fresh German dith S em nS had bCen thrown gainst German official bulletins said that sTS) “l heaVy and 80,000 prisoners had been taken in the offensive, which had penetrated British lines to a depth of more than twenty-five miles in some instances. French reserves were rapidly arriving at the front and allied obl e nZ T \ hCUeVed lhat if the could be maintained for seventytwo hours more the German attack would be stopped. They estimated German losses in the great battle at nearly 200,000. Paris again was bombarded by the long-range German gun; seventyfive persons were killed and ninety wounded there during the day. On the Italian front, it was reported that forty Austrian divisions were arriving from the Russian front and an offensive was expected there momentarily. Germany demanded that Rumania turn over her oil wells to a German-owned concern.

Daily Thought

Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted, because they are not.—Matthew 2:18. If life be a pleasure, yet, since Death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.—Michelangelo.