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Luesse and the Law Something more than a year ago, Luesse, leader of the unemployed In this city, was sent to the penal farm. He Is still there. The Governor and trustees of the institution refuse to listen to the pleas of conservative business men, ministers and other citizens for his release. The history of the Luesse case is significant, because in it is a record of injustice and tyranny that is of much more importance than any dislike of Luesse and his activities. What happens to Luesse is of importance only to himself. What happens to American safeguards of liberty arc very important, especially in these days of discontent. Luesse had made himself obnoxious in his radical demands for jobs for the workless. He had led parades. He had made demands for work or unemployment insurance. He had protested against evictions for failure to pay rent. Very often he clashed with a censorious police but was never convicted of crime. Somehow his activities annoyed the police by being within the law. Then came a day when he gathered, with other Unemployed, at a scene of eviction. What happened there is a matter of questionable doubt. Even under the worst possible construction of events, Luesse interfered with constables who were tossing furniture into the street. He denies any such activities. He said that he only used the incident as a text for a sermon on economic injustice, delivered on the spot. Luesse was taken to the police court. He was sentenced by an unfriendly judge to sixty days in jail. That was the limit of punishment which this minor judge thought should be given. Luesse appealed to the criminal court, where in a burst of fury and unbridled language, the judge sentenced him to a year in the penal farm and levied a fine of SSOO. This was the chasm between the police court and the criminal court on the question of penalties. Lack of funds prevented an appeal to higher courts, such as are open to clever and greedy criminals. Luesse went to the farm. He has served his year. He can not pay the fine of SSOO. He must stay there at the rate of $1 a day, or 500 days, because he lacks money. The Governor and the trustees have set aside fines levied on those who have committed crimes which have shocked the consciences of men and women. Mercy has been given to violators of women, to thieves, to forgers, to confidence men, to bootleggers, to purveyors of vice. But there is no lessening of the shackles which keep this unimportant man in a cell. The facts present the inexorable conclusion that Luesse is being held in prison not for what he did but for what he is. That is bad precedent. There may be new officials in political upheavals who will not like the men who are now keeping Luesse in jail. Luesse, out of prison, could do little to disturb society. Inside, he furnishes a continuing cause of discontent. T Certain It is that his being sent away has not given work to those who listened to his speeches, it has not stopped, but rather increased, the radical utterances upon the street. The conservative forces of this community should endeavor to convince an obstinate and opinionated Governor that occasional justice will not decrease respect for law or loyalty to American institutions. The Water Rates No one will quarrel with the statement that the compromise schedule of rates for the water company was the best that could be obtained from a utilityminded commissioner by a city administration that was handicapped for lack of funds with which to fight. No one will quarrel with the charge that the rates are still too high, and higher now for a large group of citizens than they were before. All that was obtained was a confession that the company has been charging small home owners on an unfair basis for years and that its hands had reached much too deep into the city tax funds for hydrant fees. The reductions were voluntary. The Increases were illegal and immoral. The stark fact is that the company has been chatging to operating expense the club dues of its Philadelphia president, its contribution to organizations working against public interest, its charities and its tributes to minority groups. The bigger fact is that its profits have been indefensible mcrally, extortionate In the aggregate, hurdor.some to the prosperity of the city and without any relationship to the actual investment of its eastern owners. It has collected for years on a theory which it established in the supreme court that its rates should be based on a problematical cost of reproducing its plant, including the reproduction of the God-made river and water sheds. That actual basis was translated into terms of high priced labor and commodities. If the same rule were applied today, by a commission and court not thoroughly hypnotized by the power of money and the pleas of utility manipulators, the rates for all, large users and small users, would be cut at least 20 per cent and perhaps more. Pleading before an unfriendly jury may be a futile thing. It may be necessary to wait until January of next year. Then there will be anew Governor, who. according to all signs, will be pledged to the people’s interests and under no obligation to the utility fiction. But the day must come when the people are permitted to live without paying tribute to private individuals who have shown themselves very callous to public interest. # Public ownership of a water supply for this city is necessary. There are enough idle men to build a new one, if the owners of the present system persist in their obstinate greed. Words, Words Dr. Vizetelly and the rest of the dictionarians must be busy these days unscrambling and trying to define the new argot brought upon us by the depression. “Broadening the base.” “reinflation,” “counter-in-flation.” “liquidity,” “frozen assets,” “balancing the budget.” “bear raids"—all these, and more, have been thrust upon us, among the other evils of the depression. These phrases may mean something to the eminent bankers and economists who foisted them upon us. But they are hazy to the rest of us. Why have not the bankers the quality of expression of the underworld and the sporting writers? What we need is some plain language in the high places. j

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Intelligent Economy It is as true today as It was a few months ago—when everybody was proclaiming it—that an intelligent program of public works would help restore prosperity. Yet today the government is about to abandon important public works on which it already is engaged. It has failed to create new employment, and proposes to destroy the useful employment of many thousands of workers. That is what is meant by the contemplated slash in the appropriation for Boulder dam, for instance. The same is true as to other proposed slashes. If this is to be done, it should be done only as a last resort. There are other and better ways to save money. Economies could and should be made in the federal budget. Roughly speaking, a third of the cost of running the federal government for the coming fiscal year will be due to the costs of the war and navy departments. The war department budget for the coming year calls for $423,940,302. About $323,000,000 of this will go for strictly military costs. The navy will spend $343,000,000. The total military expenditures will be approximately $666,000,000. This is about $100,000,000 more than the country spent for that purpose in 1924. Even if consolidation of the two departments is impossible because of presidential opposition, at least $45,000,000 could be cut from the war department by eliminating its “educational branches,” the national guard, organized reserves, R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C. The country trains, uniforms, equips and feeds the thousands of men in these services, pays for a summer camp vacation for them, and even seeks to guide them in their political thinking. Another $50,000,000 could be saved by postponing new naval construction, and cutting that amount from the naval bill, with additional sums from the navy’s educational services. If congress sensibly should omit from the budget the $44,000,000 it proposes to spend for enforcing prohibition restrictions which the people are getting ready to wipe shortly from the statute books, it could afford to forget entirely about pay cuts. If it should decline to subsidize ship owners to the extent of $28,000,000 in mail contracts and $35,000,000,000 in building loans, and airplane companies $19,000,000 additional for mail contracts, it would need to worry no more about dismissing efficient and faithful employes. Economy can be achieved without making the depression worse. Unfit Judges A senate subcommittee has reported favorably on the nomination of James H. Wilkerson for the federal circuit bench. In the face of a record that brands him a more savage injunction enemy of labor than the rejected Judge Parker, that aligns him with machine politicians, that stamps him an eager partisan of oppressive corporate interests, Judge Wilkerson is given a clean bill because, forsooth, he is against crime. Hie minimum of a judge's sworn duty is to sentence‘criminals. Because Wilkerson gave a jail sentence to A1 Capone—breaking, it is charged, his agreement with both prosecutor and defendant as to length of the sentence—his obviously disqualifying bigotry is forgiven and he is pronounced fit to occupy the second highest bench of the land. That is like rewarding a man for not beating his wife. Gangsterism and racketeering are serious issues. They are peculiarly disquieting issues in Chicago. No judge can conquer these evils, however, until the root! cause, prohibition, is removed. A federal circuit judge must stand harder tests than the mere question of whether he has the decency to send a convicted criminal to jail. The real test is whether he is so much a partisan of property interests that he can not or will not give justice to the people in their human rights. Wilkerson has demonstrated that he is such a partisan. That should disqualify him for promotion as a federal judge. The same is true of the other pending Hoover appointee. Kenneth Mackintosh of Seattle. We believe that, if the senate is sensitive to its constitutional responsibility to withhold confirmation from unfit judicial appointments, it will, reject the injunction judges Wilkerson and Mackintosh as it rejected the injunction judge Parker. Apparently, congress is going to save the railroads if it takes the taxpayers’ last dollar. Clarence Darrow says the least painful part of man’s existence is sleeping, wonder if Clarence ever slept in a day bed.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

AS an outstanding producer of good pictures, Ernst Lubitsch is entitled to a respectful hearing. He insists that it is impossible to make fine pictures without sex interest, since the most dramatic conflicts of life are the conflicts of sex. This audience of one agrees. However, it would be a splendid thing if we could impress upon some producers that in real life we are not perpetually going through sex conflicts and that there are many hours when we are not concerned with sex at all. Some of our Hollywood overlords appear to forget that. I have small patience, however, with those who always are crying down the movies, because while this may be our newest and crudest industry, it is improving all the time. It is true that a good many pictures are impossible and sentimental stories of wish-fulfillment, with a strong appeal to the adolescent mind. But it is also true that the number of good pictures is growing steadily. , # # * NO doubt we always shall have cheap and shoddypictures, just as we always have had cheap and shoddy books and plays. We do not close up the publishing houses and the theaters for that. And those critics who are surfeited with stage and screen productions in New York can have no adequate conception of what it means to the country man to be able to see the best moving pictures at the very same time they are shown in metropolitan centers. I know of nothing that has so helped to rid the provincial of his feeling of inferiority and ignorance as the radio and the moving pictures. For the first time in history, in one respect, the farmer has the same chance with the city dweller. This fact, I am convinced, will bring about a change in our 'national viewpoint. And that change will be for the better, in spite of our general wailings about mass-mindedness and standardization. The fact is that never before have people known so much about their fellow's at the opposite side of the country and the earth. The chance for educational advance and understanding by means of the radio and the movies is beyond imagination.

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Talk Must Go Beeper Than the Latest Death-Dealing Contrivance Before We Make Much Progress With Disarmament. YORK, April 14—“ Hey, ’ dad,” says Henry, “What's this disarmament huddle all about?” “Well,” I explain, “the nations are trying to see if they can not agree on a program which would permit them to spend less money for war equipment.” “But I thought war had been outlawed.” “It has in theory.” “What do you mean, theory?” “The nations have signed a treaty whereby they agree not to make war on each other, unless attacked, and to regard war as a crime.” “If that is so. why can’t they get rid of most of the war junk? What are they afraid of?” “Some of them do not appear to trust each other as much as they should.” “You mean some of them think the others would go back on their word.” “That is about the size of it.” “Oh yeah! And I suppose they will go right on telling us kids not to cheat.” # Adult Sophistry YOU can go to the books of statecraft, or diplomacy, and demonstrate that it is perfectly logical to outlaw war and still arm nations to the teeth, but you can’t make a 15-year-old boy understand it. Why? Because he has not outgrown the illusionment that promises are to be kept, especially when made by governments. He is not sufficiently well educated to appreciate the tricks and sophistries with which we play to the gallery. # u tt Wasted Time DISARMAMENT? The boys might just as well quit Geneva and save the board bill. There is little but pretense back of the show. Asa Russian delegate once put it, the way to disarm is to disarm. This quibbling about gun caliber, poison gas, tanks and other modern implements of murder is worse than a waste of time. It conceals the real issue. While success in war may depend on superior weapons, the idea that war is legitimate never has and never will. As long as that idea prevails, nations will distrust each other. As long as they distrust each other, they will not disarm. tt tt tt War Finds a Way BANNING a few devices and contraptions has little bearing on disarmament. It might save some money, though even that is doubtful. It certainly would not prevent, or civilize war. To hear some people talk, you’d think that ancient war was a pink tea, that civilian populations used to be safe and that men couldn’t do a very effective job of killing with old-fashioned tools. Those people aje just frightened by their day dreams. They have been careless in their reading of history. They fail to realize what efficient butchers, looters and rapers the old boys were. Twelve-inch guns are not required to lay waste a town, or poison gas to exterminate a countryside. Men knew how to wipe their fellow beings off the map long before they ever heard of high explosives. tt tt it Education Needed THE talk must go deeper than the latest death-dealing contrivance before we can hope to make much progress with disarmament. The trouble is that we have not been sold on the purpose, except as soothing syrup for taxpayers. The majority of people, especially of these in high places, do not believe that substantial disarmament is safe. They still see potential enemies on every horizon, still look on war as likely to break out in any quarter at any time. As long as that attitude predominates, we might just as well dismiss the contracts and conferences as so much hooey, and admit that it will take years of education to bring about the necessary change.

Questions and Answers

Was King Solomon a Negro? No, he was of the Semitic branch of the Caucasian race. How old is Alfonso XIII, former king of Spain? He was born on May 17, 1886. Where is the United States Coast Guard academy? New London, Conn. Do West Madison street and Fif-ty-first street, in Chicago, intersect? No. When and where was Blair Niles born? She was born at Coles Ferry, Va. References consulted do not give the date. When was Pola Negri bom? Jan. 3, 1897. Who was the author o*f the play upon which the motion picture, “The Beloved Bachelor,” w-as based? Edward H. Peple. How may one address Charles Ellis, the billiard player? Care of the National Billiard Association of America, 629 South Wabash avenue, Chicago. When did President Hoover sign the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill? At 12:59 p. m., eastern standard time, June 17, 1930. How much has it cost the federal government to enforce prohibition? These data are too long to include in this column. The Times Washington bureau, 1322 New York avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C.. w-ill be glad to send a compilation on the subject to any reader who sends a request for same, accompanied by a 2 cent stamp for return postage. What is the definition of the slang term “apple sauce?” It is generally used derogatorily i to mean “flattering palaver.”

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Rheumatic ‘Cures’ Number Thousands

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyreia, the Health Magazine. PHYSICIANS know that there are many varieties of rheumatic disease and therefore that self-treat-ments may lead to difficulties. Patients with chronic inflammation of the joints are seen at all sorts of resorts, undertaking special baths and similar treatments, which in their cases may not be warranted, because of the acute inflammatory condition of the disturbance. Investigators in one large clinic of this country endeavored to find out how most of their patients with chronic disturbances were being treated before coming to the clinic. It was found that 75 per cent of them had consulted non-medical .practitioners, masseurs, and similar healers, as well as various physicians, without successful results. Today proper treatment of rheumatic inflammation involves use of

IT SEEMS TO ME

SECRETARY PAT HURLEY made an extraordinary speech to the Republican editors of Indiana, and in its course he managed to add a clause to our Constitution. Referring to those who have declared that President Hoover is too optimistic, Mr. Hurley said: “We have had many Presidents—exemplary figures—who guided our ship of state wisely in time of stress. They were all optimists. They had to be to gain victory. Not one of our Presidents ever has been unfaithful to the purpose to which the nation was committed.” If I understand Pat Hurley correctly, he is under the impression that our forefathers founded a nation dedicated to the proposition that the voice with a smile wins, keep to the sunny side of the street and prosperity is just around the corner. It is quite true that they spoke of “the pursuit of happiness,” but I never thought this meant that every runner must chortle with glee in chasing his objetive. T would be much more sensible to laugh a little less and save some breath for a good sprint in the last lap. m it tt More Work, Less Cheer SELDOM has the nation been in greater need of sound, poignant, driving pessimism. I am not referring just now to the economic and political utility of looking on the dark side of things, but rather to the psychological advantage enjoyed by all stern-faced folk over their grinning brothers and sisters. People who condemn pessimism in round and general terms have not the slightest notion of the way in which it operates. They confuse it with defeatism, and a true pessimist is never a-quitter. You will find the shirkers chiefly in the ranks of those who feel cer-

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 lama reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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drugs which diminish pain; removal of foci of infection in the teeth, tonsils, and other parts of the body; use of physical therapy in the form of hot baths, electric development of heat in the tissues, and, finally, a controlled diet. Unfortunately, most patients with rheumatic inflammations do not undertake a regular course of treatment under competent care. They experiment with one method or another without realizing that the attack on this disease must be a profound and complete attack. Forty per cent of patients treated for rheumatic inflammations were found to have experimented at one time or another with all sorts of rheumatic cures offered in bottles in drug stores. It is stated that 6,000 different rheumatic cures are sold in Germany, and a brief investigation in this country revealed at least 550 patented rheumatism, gout and neu-

tain that everything is going to turn out for the best. Under that theory it is always possible to lie back and nap another hour. And I would defend many of our Presidents from the charge hurled at them by Secretary Hurley. For instance, there was George Washington, who wrote in Revolutionary days to one of his generals and declared that affairs were in so deplorable a condition “as to fill the mind with the most anxious and alarming fears.” Indeed, one of his most brilliant exploits has been celebrated in a large and well-known painting. He crossed the Delaware and confounded a band of Hessian optimists who were addicted to the Hoover-Hurley formula of looking up the bright side of things. tt tt tt A Nice Big Frown FEW of us can attain pessimism upon a scale as grand and lofty as that which Washington achieved, but each can do something in his own way. I have found pessimism a solace and a comfort even in little things. It is, for instance, my annual practice to declare roundly each autumn that Yale is going to win the football game. Sometimes the Elis take me at my word and proceed to mop up Harvard. In that event the edge of the tragedy is tempered quite a bit for me because of my having moved into a mood of expectancy. And when Harvard wins, of course, my joys doubled, since such a happening represents a bolt from the blue. Moreover, all ties are in my favor, since each constitutes a moral victory. There is such a thing as crying, “Wolf at the door!” once too seldom. And this, I think, has been a besetting sin of the present ad-

ritis remedies being sold in American drug stores. These remedies usually contain, as is pointed out by Drs. Edward H. Rynearson and Philip S. Hench, some product of salicylic acid, or of henobarbital, a mild cathartic and usually some alkaline preparation. There are, of course, cases in which the administration of one cr all these drugs may be inadvisable, yet time and again patients experiment with these methods on their bodies who would not think for a moment of experimenting with a substitute for gasoline in their cars. It is well known that persons with rheumatic conditions occasionally get better and again relapse, without any certain understanding for the reasons of either improvement or relapse. Unfortunately, each improvement may be taken as evidence of the value of some new treatment and not as natural improvement in course of the disease.

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ministration. After all, one man’s optimism may very well be another's woe, misery and lack of employment. Even a small group of pessimists in 1928 and 1929 might have done much to avert the crash and its attendant catastrophes. a tt tt Not Yet Too'Late Even today it is not too late to look soberly into the full depth of our present tribulations and their possible consequences. In his speech Secretary Hurley declared that in the last 100 years we have had fifteen major depressions. An optimist flaunts a fact like that in a cheery way. He means to suggest that with any luck we may have fifteen more in the next hundred years. But a pessimist inclines to be mournful about such ridiculous economic macihnery and to suggest in his bitter way that it might be a good idea to have a panic to end panics. Optimism, according to the Hoo-ver-Hurley version, appears to consist of neither seeing, hearing, nor speaking of distress. The tree which falls in the impenetrable forest or the man who drops on the breadline makes no noise. At least, there is no sound in the executive mansion. But, in justice to the optimists, I must admit that, with all their faults, they are not likely to go the whole distance with Hurley. This sort of talk isn't really optimism. It is spinach. (Copyright. 1932. by The Times i

People’s Voice

Editor Times After the first few hundred attempts and a wonderful display of courage, I’ll feel reasonably assured that praise and appreciation of a wonderful paper isn’t enough and that a letter from Connersville isn’t worthy of any particular notice. I haven’t the slightest desire to become a literary genius, but when some hard-headed dry explains, in a most elaborate way, the "gorgeous” effects of prohibition, I rant and rave and pull a Tom Heflin, sit right down and, with no regard for grammatical errors, start roarin'. We weren't criticised whfen we were asked to shoulder a musket or yank the trigger of a machine gun. but perhaps some of us feel a bit more keenly than others the sting of the prohibition dragon-fly. Maybe we shouldn’t cry out in pain when we live in deadly fear of being kicked out, bag and baggage, or shiver from the cold, and in doubt from whence cometh the next meal for our families. It has been said that “time cures all wounds,” but it doesn’t fill an empty stcmach. I’ll stand behind the latter part of that sentence. W. D. CAMPBELL. What male actor won the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences award for merit for outstanding individual achievement for 1929-30, and for what performance was it awarded? George Arliss won the award for the role of Disraeli in the photoplay of that title.

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

.APRIL 14, 1932

SCIENCE

Solomon Had the Right Idea When He Declared There Is Nothing New Under the Sun. KING SOLOMON is alleged to have said there was nothing new-under the sun. Recent archeological discoveries, reported at a meeting of the American Oriental Society at the oriental institute of the University of Chicago, would seem to indicate that King Solomon had somewhat of the right idea. Changes in interest rates and commodity prices were traced back to 450 B. C., while the notion of brushing one’s teeth was traced back to 1700 B. C. In addition it was pointed out that the ancient Egyptians employed proofreaders.* Evidence of a business upheaval in ancient Assyro-Babylonia about the year 450 B. C. was reported by W. H. Dubberstein of the oriental institute. A study of clay tablets of that nge showed that in one year interest rates jumped from 20 tb 40 per cent, while the prices of a bushel of dates or barley rose from a quarter shekel to a half shekel. Dubberstein’s suggestion that internal difficulties of the Persian administration were responsible for the business upheaval. The study of Babylonian business documents, now in the possession of the oriental institute, indicates that the Babylonians often required securities for their loans in the form of slaves or property. These securities, referred to as “pledges.” were used by the lend"! until the loan was repaid, and therefore constituted a form of interest, tt tt 1 Religious Rite THE ancient Indo-Europeans cl 1700 B. C. made a religious rite of the brushing of teeth, according to Dr. George V. Bobrinskoy. assistant professor of Sanskrit at the. University of Chicago. These early Indians had no tooth pastes, but they brushed the teeth thoroughly, he said. For a toothbrush, they used a twig taken from a living tree, a species of fig tree being recommended for the purpose, he continued. It was imperative that the bark remain on the twig. The “toothbrush” could be used but once. There was a long list of days when the rite either must be omitted or performed in a different manner, he said, and on such days the cleansing of the mouth by rinsing with twelve mouthfuls of water was substituted. A prayer to be delivered before I and after the brushing of the teeth | was translated as, “O Lord of the Forest, grant us long life, strength, glory, progeny, cattle, riches and | knowledge.” Professor Bobrinskoy also trans- | lated a passsage from Buddhist lit- | erature which read: “There arc five evils, O monks, resulting from the omission of the chewing of the toothstick. Which five? It is detrimental to the eyesight: the mouth becomes evil-smelling; the taste-conducting nerves of the tongue are not cleansed; bile, phlegm and food cover the tongue over, and ones meal does not plcacc one.” Sounds almost like a magazine ad or a radio program, doesn’t it? tt it tt Temple Inscriptions ANCIENT Egypt employed the services of proofreaders. John A. Wilson of the oriental institute said. They were used to correct inscriptions on the temples. Wilson found many instances where hieroglyphs carved on temple walls had teen corrected by filling parts of them up with plaster and recarving them. He also found that the correction were indicated by scribes who actrr as proofreaders, using red ink foi the purpose. “There are instances in the temples where the red line lies ciearlv across the carved and painted figure,” Wilson says. He goes on to say, "there are many reasons why the inscriptions needed proofreading. The scribes were trying to couch their texts in a speech which had died out as a spoken language several hundred years before. “Furthermore, the inscribing of the texts on a stone wall was a complicated process, with plenty of opportunity for errors and omissions.” But if the proofreading wasn't always good. “The texts are still heavy with barbarisms, both grammatical and artistic.” he adds. He notes however, an attempt to be accurate, and calls attention to one inscription in which a list of booty captured from the Libyans was changed so that the number of swords captured was altered from 124 to 123.

& T 9££ Y if ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMANS ADVANCE April 14 ON April 14, 1918, heavy fighting on the Lys front resulted in capture of Merris and Vieux Berquin by German troops. British forces continued to hold Neuve Eglise against German attacks, but gains made on the flank s by the Germans rendered the town vulnerable by assaults from three sides by nightfall and military experts regarded the town’s fall as inevitable. American troops on the Toul sector again were attacked by German forces, but succeeded in beatin? them off after sharp fighting. More than a regimemt of enemy troops participated in the attack. The German long-range gun again bombarded Paris but losses there were small. German troops in Finland occupied Hyving and were reported moving on Helsingfors unopposed by the Russian Red Guards in the vicinity. Pinnish White Guards were reported aiding the Germans.

Daily Thought

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.—Proverbs 13:12. He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.—Confucius.