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One Little Child The entire nation, the civilized world. Is bound together with a common sorrow and a common sympathy. A nation that ha* watched and prayed for the return of the babe to it* noted parents, can find no words to express its grief nor voice its sympathy. There is left only the hope that this sympathy may help them now in their hour of greatest grief. Later, when the shock has passed and memory remains, there will be consolation that their child was fated, even as a babe, for an immortal place in history. No other human being has so engrossed the attention of the world and forced forgetfulness of all other happenings. Two nations were at war on the day this babe disappeared from Its crib. Other nations were preparing for conflict. Diplomats were discussing plans for mediation. People were watching the capitals of the nations and pondering on the possibilities. Wars are made by thought. Faced by the tragedy that had come to the illustrious father and beloved mother of this child the world had no time to think of wars and diplomats regained their reason and nations resumed their sanity. All good has come from some Calvary. And the world turned an empty crib into a shrine and worshipped again a child, and. worshipping, became kinder and less selfish. The weeks that have passed have brought a realization of the divinity of childhood. There will be a kindlier consideration for all other children. This nation, which was ready to give its all to restore this one child, will be more willing to protect all other children. There is no thought that the mad, perverted minds which conceived this crime knew the results thal were to follow more than the mad acts of other men and peopits of the past knew what was to follow their violence and madness. But, later, there may com*' to the grief-stricken parents the consoling thought that their child did not live in vain. It's a Hard Row—But the Only One For the sake of example, thus editorial is going to fl'Sume that you, the reader, are employed and that your salary is S4O a week. That being the case—on Saturday when you draw your pay you must subtract $12.40 from the S4O and 'earmark - it for the payment of taxes. Which leaves you $27.60 Whether youi income is S4O or $lO or S2OO. the same percentage applies The process may not appeal ro simple ns the s'airment Aound*. For many taxes are not visible. But they arp there, nevertheless. They are in your rent, in the food and clothes you buy, in your gas bill, your light bill, in all the articles you use. Thirty-one cents out of every dollar of the national Income is going to taxes. This includes federal, state and local. Read Ray Tucker’s article in another part of this paper today. Nineteen years ago, in 1913—before the war—B cents went to taxes. In the big boom year of 1929, the figure vas 15. Then came the depression. Government costs continued upward. National income started sharply downward Ir. the three years since the cyclone hit, the portion of your income going into taxes has doubled. It went to 20 in 1930. to 25 in 1931. and this year the best estimate shows it at 31. With income shrinking at such a pace, only one saving act is possible—cutting expenses. Expenses can be controlled. Income ran’t. No new taxes can offset all the momentum of that spread. Now no on* ever invented a way to make expense rutting pleasant. If you have to move into a smaller house, that isn't pleasant. If you have to give up the ear. that isn't either. If you cut out that vacation trip, and trim down on the groceries you use. there's nothing sweet in such a move. But those things can be done, and have to be done, and are being done in a time like this. It is only human that individuals, industries and government resent bitterly anything which means a decrease in living standards. Therefore, the first reaction of every person, every business executive, every government bureau is to say—"it can t be done. ’ For instance. W’ar Secretary Hurley says our national defense is ruined if the proposed cuts are put through. Nothing unnatural about that. Just like the sales manager in a private business who says, "we can't cover the territory” at any less expense. But pressure of necessity in private business makes the cut inevitable, and it is remarkable how well the job is done at the reduced cost. It is harder to budge bureaucratic expense than it is private or business expense. But one thing is certain in this whole situation—the cut* must be made. We ran t go on spending more than we take in. The bitter pill must be swallowed. The first step toward recovery must be a balanced budget. And a balanced budget can not be attained simply by increasing taxes. This nation can not stand a trend such as has been occurring—a doubled tax bill in three years. The cow is going dry. So it is up to our law-makers throughout the land, a., they hear the sad storv of -what will happen if.” to harden their hearts in the interest of solvency. It is the only way out. And we will all be surprised at how well we can get on less. The Unemployed Vote Tn Seattle the number of unemployed has grown so large that it now is able to exert important influence in elections. The Unemployed Citizens' League, controlling 50.000 of the 144.000 registered votes in the city, demonstrated its power in the last municipal election, and is hoping to control the next state election. Asa result, plans are under way for free distribution of seeds and tools. Powerful demands are being made that the state legislature meet and appropriate $3,000,000 for public works, and at the same time repeal a law compelling sale of property without notice to the owners when assessments remain unpaid for two years. In addition, the Unemployed Citizens' League is sponsoring an unemployment insurance bill, to provide weekly benefits of from $lO to S2O. contributed one-third by the state, one-half by employers, and one-sixth by workers, and initiative petitions are being circulated to put this measure into effect by mandate of the people. If the number of unemployed is allowed to increase In all part* of the country until jobless and suffering workers are a majority of the registered voters, such measure*, and perhaps even more drastic ones, will be general throughout the country. Jfcat u one way for workers to get relief. If tho*e

The Indianapolis Times (A SCRIPPS HOH AKI) NEWSPAPER) OwnM n*l pob!ibd dally lescept Sunday) by Th Indianapolis Time* Publishing Co--2 M-220 West Maryland Street. Indianapolis. Ind. Price In Marten County. 2 cents a copy: elsewhere. * ent—delivered by csrrier. 12 cents • week Ma i subscription rates In lodlsna. S3 a year: outside of Indians. &’> cents a tuon'h. BOYD (U RLET ROT W HOWARD. KABL D BAKER Editor _ President Business Manager PHONE— Riley SWI FRIDAY. MAY H. 1*32 Member of (jolted Preaa, Scrlpps Howard Newspaper Alliance. Newgpatwr Enterprise Association. Newspaper Information Heroes and Audit Bureau of Circnlationa. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

responsible for the economic welfare of the country are willing to let this situation develop, they will continue to do nothing to restore the purchasing power of the millions living now at starvation levels. Wisely conceived federal relief measures at the present time might hold in check the onward surge of unemployment, and it* dangerous by-product of discontent. A Special Session The st'ggesticn that the farmers of Indiana will soon give a "tea party’’ to demand tax justice can hardly be turned aside as communistic propaganda imported or inspired by the Soviets. It comes as an official statement from the farm bureau, not a radical organization, but composed of men who own land in this state and hope to continue to own it. No public official, either legislator or Governor can disregard the seriousness of a situation that impels such extravagant language. Conditions should have been changed long before such statements can mean more than absurdity. For months there has been a demand by the farmers and the home owners of this state for a special session of the legislature to change the system of tax levies so as to prevent confiscation of real property. At the last session of the legislature, an endeavor was made to pass laws taxing incomes as a substitute for taxes cn real estate. The people, by the election of a Democratic majority of the house, had approved such a plank in that party platform and Chairman Peters had insisted on keeping this bargain. That measure was defeated. Strong pressure was exerted by the financially powerful. The biggest lobby of the session gathered for the purpose of persuading law makers that the bill would ruin industry. Other measures for relief were also killed. Efforts to prevent expenditure for county roads were futile. So was the movement to turn over to the general fund all or part of the gigantic highway fund. The road interests and the contractors triumphed. Conditions have changed since the legislature met. They have become worse. Governor Leslie insists that any special session of the legislature must confine its work to a tax program, approved by him in advance, or there will be no session. In that he is taking a course that later may be regretted. * Other classes than the farmer and the home owner need relief. The tax problem is not the only question to be solved. Many counties are finding it difficult to find funds for the relief of the unemployed. Private charity funds are at the point of exhaustion. With farmers talking "tea parties," the workers rebelling against the scanty charity baskets, the special session might well be asked to do something that will insure peace, not parties; food, not discontent and hunger; work, not idleness. Economy Plus The cause of economy well could be combined with another principle of good government now. by letting the people know how their business is run. An enterprising United Press reporter's feat in exposing some surprising examples of nepotism among the employes of congressmen proves the need. A mother-in-law may be as efficient an employe for a congressman as any other person. Her work may be as effective if she stays back in the home district attending to the numerous demands made on congressmen by their constituents. But if she does no work, if she is a cloak for an added allowance to the congressman's own income, over and above his SIO,OOO annual salary, the value of that public servant is lessened. In the first place, his services to his constituents suffer. In the second, one or two employes who do the real work—and there is a lot of it attached to a congressman's office —will be unpaid and overworked. If congress would publish monthly instead of annually the list of congressional employes, and if each congressman’s employes were specified, the evil would disappear largely. The people back home would take care of congressmen whose employe-relatives could not prove they earned their way. Some of the politicians are coming out for free silver again. But the really wise ones will advocate free beer. The militarists must have had a good laugh when they read that peace envoys in Manchuria were escorted by a company of Japanese marines. Life's a funny thing, observes a prominent author. Maybe it's not so funny to the millions of jobless.

Just Every Day Sense BE MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ft - - ■

AN advocate of the “Oust the Woman From Industry" movement writes: "Women began working during the war because there was a shortage of males for the jobs. They continued afterward because they were willing to work cheaper than men. They took cuts in pay to keep their positions and thereby started wages on the decline." A large number of people agree with this gentleman. but their thinking is a bit awry on this subject, just the same. Do they imagine that women like working for less money? I suppose so. They talk, at least, as If we do it because of some erratic feminine whim and that we gloat over the poor masculine wretches as we snatch their jobs from them. Yet surely no honest person, considering the subject from the standpoint of his own desires, really can believe that women are such fools as that. The truth is this: Women work for less money because they can’t get any more. They have to put up with a smaller wage or not work at all. m M * AND in this respect, as in many another in which the man blames the woman, the gentlemen are the guilty parties. The first man who hired a woman for less money than he would have had to pay a man—and I presume no one will deny that this person was a man—was a traitor to his sex and paved the way for all our tribulations in this field. If women always were paid the same wage as men. we would not now have so many of them in industry and the whole economic structure might be improved. For instance. I know a young woman, unmarried, who had worked for years on a small daily newspaper. She had filled every position except that of editor, and very capably. Yet when she desired to improve her situation and moved to a larger city to a larger paper, she had to begin all over again as a cub reporter. And this happened in our era of prosperity. No man. after ten years of effort, would have been asked to do that. No woman should be. We take away from the dignity of labor when we make these sex distinctions. Work is. after all, not just a job—it is some fine task to be done and to be done as well as possible.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

The Government of the United States Has So Choice hut to Come to the Rescue of Idle Men and Distressed Business. TVTEW 'YORK, May 13 —Senator Joseph T. Robinson's plan of unemployment relief through a federal bond issue in the sum of $2,300,000,000, is neither perfect nor original, as Its author would be first to admit. A somewhat similar plan, though along much broader lines, was proposed by Senator Robert La Follette some months ago. Also, a somewhat similar plan was suggested by former Governor A1 Smith in his Jackson day address. For obvious political reasons. La Follette and Smith failed to get official recognition. Official recognition can not be denied Senator Robinson, which means that the Hoover administration has been brought to a place where it must meet the issue represented by all three plans. n n u Government Must Act THAT issue is. whether public credit should be mobilized by !he federal government to meet one of the worst emergencies that ever developed in this country. You can select details and prove that one of the three plans may be better than the other two, or that some new plan may be better than all three, but you can't take conditions as they exist and prove that the basic idea is impractical, or avoidable. The government of the United States has no choice but to coma to the rescue of idle men and distressed business. What do we maintain a government for, a gold reserve, a credit system, a congress with power to levy taxes and issue bonds, if not to help us on such occasions as the present? * n • Not Ordinary Slump FOR two years, the Hoover administration has ducked, sidestepped, and evaded the one thing it might have done and that some administration eventually must do to pave the way for real recovery. As I have said many times, this depression is not the ordinary cycle slump, not just one more low place in the road, such as people are likely to run into when they go over a rise. This depression was brought on by inherently unsound conditions, by a souse of speculative madness, by industrial congestion in certain lines, by a false faith in certain values. From the very outset, it indicated permanent readjustment for thousands of enterprises and millions of workers. From the very outset, our major problem was to help people earn a living while they passed through the readjustment period. n n n Excuses Out of Order THOSE in control of the government have no excuse for their failure to recognize the situation, or what it called for on their part. Academically, they had analyzed just such cases and had explained what the government should do by way of relief. They had said that public credit should be mobilized .■or public work in times of depression, and that public policy should be shaped to make this possible. When the crash came, what did they do? First, they said it wasn’t a crash: then they tried to pass the buck by calling industrial conferences; finally, they got in a jam where everything had to be dropped for balancing the budget. Robinson plan. Smith plan. La Follette plan, all representing the rame basic idea, and backed by an ever-increasing public demand—how much longer does the Hoover administration think it can dodge the inevitable?

Questions and Answers

How deep can a diver go with safety without diving equipment? What is the record depth for a diver in ordinary equipment? Twentv-six feet is the greatest depth a diver can attain with safety without diving equipment. The record depth in ordinary diving equipment is 306 feet, made by Frank Crilley while working on the salvage of the Submarine F-4 off Honolulu in 1917. What is the area and population of Scotland a* compared with Texas? The area of Texas is 265.896 square mile 6 and the population is 5.824.715. The area of Scotland is 30.405 square miles and the'population is 4.882,288. Who was King David Kalakua? Did he ever live in California? He was the king of the Hawaiian islands from 1874 to 1891. In the fall of 1890 he came to California for his health; in January, 1891, he died in San Francisco. What does prosateur mean?

M TODAY $3 WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

BLOW UP ARSENAL —May 13— ON May 13, 1918. American troops near Cantigny blew up a huge ammunition dump and caused untold casualties. Fires were started miles around the dump, and the explosion shook out what few remaining windows that remained whole in the town. Vienna papers published a declaration by Czech members of the house of lords demanding an independent state. Along the western front, increased German activity observed behind the lines led allies to believe Germany was making her last desperate stand. Th*s was particularly noticeable at Bethune. where artillery fire concentrated in such a heavy downpour that allied troops had to dig in. No infantry attack was forthcoming, however.

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Modern Life Is Full of Risks

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hycria, the Health Magazine. SAFETY is a habit as distinguished from carelessness, which also is a habit. It means avoidance, of unnecessary earless or foolish risks. Every one knows that modern life is full of risks of all types. Even walking down a city street is dangerous because of the hazards from motor cars, street cars, pedestrians, obstacles thrown from windows and falling from tops of buildings, people who bump into one. high eurbstones and slippery places. In the United States the figure for accidental deaths reaches almost 100.000 persons a year, an indication

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—Regarding government extravagance! At least twenty years ago, in my own home, Charles B. Landis, congressman, spoke very emphatically on this matter. He said "Waste in the government printing office is nothing short of appalling. Thousands of reports are printed, bound and mailed which never are opened, but become at once, waste paper.” Landis well knew the cost of printed matter. He said, further, "When I leave congress I am going to make a speech about this thing that will make a stir and be remembered.” He did not make this speech but if he had there is no doubt that it would be remembered. I recall those patent office reports which were scattered so abundantly by congressmen in my youth, to oe thrown away at once or cut up by children. S. S. P. Editor Times—For several months I have collected facts for a letter to you concerning the transportation we have in our city. First I will say that it is a disgrace to a large city to have sijch a company as this circulating about; the city that is supposed to transport our citizens to and from various points. Why? Just try to get to town in less than thirty minutes, with a good religious mind. More than likely, you will stand and wait ten or fifteen minutes in the cold. Then along comes a yellow rattletrap and you hurry to get on the back end, only to find out that you have to enter the front way. Then you are thrown for a loop a couple of times while you try to put your money in the box. When you start for a seat, you are persuaded to walk about two blocks, caused by the monkey notions of the motorman making change for another patron, with the help of control lever and air brake handle. Just about the time you are seated, you find that you are nearing your destination. You must use all your remaining strength to navigate to the exit. If you are not successful in reaching the door the instant the car stops, well, it s just too bad. If a one-man car hits an auto, which is very likely, since tfce operator does anything from grinding an organ to being general master of wrestling, he is put on the bench, to keep the auto victim from suing the company. When they put on one-man cars, did they reduce fares or improve service? Os course not, and the poor feeble-minded public still upholds them. Now about safety. Does the street car you ride on carry a certificate of inspection by an authorized state inspector? No. Does your car carry automatic air brake equipment? No. Do the men you are riding with pass examinations approved by any branch of government to permit them to transport human lives inside of inclosed vehicles? No. It's time that the people of this city wake up to the fact that we are the laughing, stock of the nation on this subject. MYRON STANLEY. Editor Times—Not long ago your very good paper and the other papers of this city gave a good half column of space to a sob or human interest story about a dog hero. Ever so often newspaper readers come across just such an article about "man’s greatest friend." Yet, no matter what street one drives down in this fair city, pet degs. stray dogs, cheap and high priced dogs run the streets, until

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of the necessity for better safety habits. It is said that 10.000.000 persons each year have accidents sufficiently severe to take them temporarily from their work. This loss may be ; estimated in billions. The world once was much safer than it is now. Before the coming of machinery no one had to be disturbed about automobile accidents. People did not die in their homes from electrical shocks from vibrators. electrical sewing machines, or , even electrical stoves. Workers in industry did not suffer from the high-speed machines with which they constantly are in contact. Much Is being done tn avoid pre-

every motorist has to be on constant lookout to keep from running over dogs that belong to so-called dog lovers. A real dog lover would protect his pet, and would not let it run the streets. The thing is, how to reach these people who claim to love man’s greatest friend, and who in reality show nothing but neglect to them. There is only ONE way to reach them, and that is the newspapers. If they would give as much space to a dog protection week, as they do cleanup week, it would help. Why won’t you newspaper men do a little good by trying to reach dog owners through your papers? You would earn heartfelt thanks from all true dog lovers. The dog gives you good copy when he saves someone from a fire or drowning, etc. Then you give him space—so why won’t you give him a little space in trying to reach his master, to make those dog owners wake up? It is such a little thing for a paper to do. yet many thoughtless dog owners would wake up to their gross carelessness if every time they looked at a paper there would be a cartoon or article to remind them that they are being heartless. The north side of our fair city has hundreds of dogs running the streets, waiting for their turn to be "next.” We grant that a dog is "only a dog, ’ but the more we see of some people, the better we love dogs. And they don't have an even break in the stfeet with machines going sixty per. Won't you forget to be a hardboiled newspaper man and remember how you loved dogs when you were a little tad—and help a little? Thanks. A DOG LOVER. Editor Times —I believe the new '••ater rate is equitable. I believe for the first time in the history of the city the small domestic conunier is getting a break, and he is the small home owner and the one least able to pay for water. I believe the civic clubs, the mayor and H. K. Cuthbertson did exactly the right thing at this time in compromising on the rate. It's certainly a good rate for some 45,000 domestic consumers. The company has about 70,000 customers in all. This great majority of consumers are receiving immediate benefits. The old rate was $1.50 for 700 cubic feet of water. The new rate is SI.OB on 500 cubic feet. However, figures have been shown to prove that' the average monthly usage by those 40.000 consumers was only 475 cubic feet a month. In other words, these 40,000 persons each were paying for 225 cubic feet each month that they never used. The small domestic users, the ones least able to pay, were paying part of the bills for the large consumers, including commercial and industrial plants. MRS. MABLE CARTER. Editor Times—Your paper is worthy of first place in an- home. Your editorial page. Including, of course, Hevwood Broun and Mrs. Ferguson, is a welcome palliative to the senseless prattle so rife in the other newspapers. The space s*t aside for the views of the readers reveals that the contributors, generally speaking, reflect the purpose of your paper to "give light and the people will find their own way.” Sometimes, to me, your voice of

ventable diseases, but accidents cause more deaths to children between 10 and 14 years of age than any two diseases combined. The four types of accidents which cause most deaths, according to Drs. Gentles and Betts, are automobiles, drowning, falls and burns. Os the accidents taking place in the home, falls constitute the worst type, since they make up 44 per cent of the total. After falls, come accidents from burns, scalds and explosions: then comes asphyxiation; then burns, and finally cuts and scratches. It should be realized that every one of these accidents is preventable by a little carefulness or instruction.

the people contributors become a source of much amusement, especially one signing himself “The Spirit of Intolerance." This contributor, by admitting that he lived in a rent-free parsonage, reveals his identity as another soul saver, who bothers himself with the prohibition cause. His rantings against the legalizing of beer and its ensuant taxation, is typical of the ministry in general, who seemingly can not come away from the nest of the dinosaur and see the world as it really is. Drinking our troubles away appears to be a happy solution, after all. Should death overtake one who had imbibed past the limit, and believed himself a Napoleoon in his drunken stupor. I must affirm that cuch a victim died with a lie in his heart, but a head full of pleasant memories. Such results never can be achieved with ice cream. Os course, I am for light wines and beer and a tax on them. There are too many Pollyannas and Tweedle de Dums rampant in our society today. Once again let me express my appreciation for your paper. Your organization is one pulsant with life. I would like it even though only the title were there, because the spirit of tolerance and justice toward the side of the "underdog” would remain. JOHN G. C. SOHN. From what animal does the fur commonly railed “pony” come? From Russian ponies indigeneous in the lower Volga region and the Siberian steppes. The hair is thick and more furry than the ordinary American horse, and the colors are chiefly black and brown. How many explorers have reached the south pole and on what dates? Raold Amundsen. Dec. 14, 1911; Captain Robert J. Scott reached it with his party Jan. 29. 1912, and in November. 1929, Commander Richard E. Byrd flew over the pole.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Chemical Industry Lefts Affected by Depression Than Are Other Great Industries. THE chemical industry has suffered less from the depression than have other large Industries, according to Otto Wilson, Washington statistician, who just has prepared a summary for the American Chemical Society of developments during the decade from 1919 to 1929 Wilson calls this decade "the greatest in chemical manufacture. One interesting conclusion reached by Wilson from an analysis of figures of the bureau of census is that the chemical industry is concentrated largely in the east. "From the beginning, chemical manufacture markedly was an eastern industry, and. in spite of encouraging growth in other sections It remain so." he says. "Out of the total production in 1929. valued at $738048.000. New York, the leading state, accounted for $168,729,000. or 23 per cent; New Jersey. $155,783,000. or 21 per cent, and Pennsylvania. $48,111,000. or nearly 7 per cent. This area thus produced more than half the total for the whole country. "The middle west followed, Illinois being credited with $60,396,000 or 8 per cent; Michigan with $53 - 183.000. or 7 per cent, and Ohio with $46,287,000, or 6 per cent. "California. West Virginia, Virginia and Massachusetts were well/ up In the list." n n n Industry Stimulated nnHE World war and the era that followed it opened anew day for the American chemical industry, according to Wilson. "War demands and the economic dislocations of the times gave an immense stimulus to chemical manufacture, and, when the period was followed by such favoring circumstances as high tariffs, technical advances In chemistry, and an unprecedented foreign and domestir demand, such manufacture enjoyed by far its greatest decade,” he says. "We now have an official measure of the enormous expansion in the war and post-war periods. The government has released the final detailed figures of the census of 1929 covering the manufacture of chemicals in this country in 'hat year. “The totals show not only the swift progress made in most lines of production, but also the amount of such production at its peak. 1929 being the greatest of all years for the Industry as a whole. "The depression that has ruled .since that time has drastically reduced most activities, but the solid character of the previous expansion is shown by the fact that the chemical industry has suffered less than most other major industries." * Growth Shown CHEMICAL and allied industries moved from eighth place in 1921 among American industries to seventh in 1927, Wilson points out. By 1929 it had moved to sixth place. "Value of the products of chemical and allied industries in 1914, comprising roughly the same subgroups as those in the present list, was about $1,307,000,000,” he says. "In 1929 it was $3,759,000,000. In a decade and a half the group thus almost has trebled the value of its contribution to the economic life of the nation. "Value of the products of the compressed and liquified gases industry in 1929 was $52,190,000 and in 1927, $50,547,000; the value of the products of the rayon industry in the last three census years was. 1929. $149,546,000; 1927, $109,888,000; 1925. $88,061,000. "If these amount* should bt added to the totals for all chemical industries in the years named, sh# aggregate value of the products of these industries would be: 1939, $939,784,000; 1927, $732,526,000; 190 ft, $658,371,000. "Output for 1929, thus would ■ more than twice that of 1921, (( would surpass that of 1914 by nsmtft 450 per cent.”

Daily Thought

For whosoever shall give yw a cup of water to drink tn my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto yon, he shall not lone his reward.—St,. Mark 9:37. m Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's wavs are heaven'* way*.— Lessing. Haa the gold spike, driven by Governor Stanford at the time of the completion of the Union Pacific railroad, been preserved? It was removed immediately alter the ceremony and 1* now in the Stanford collection at Stanford university, California. How many civil engineer* arc there in the United State*? Approximately 65,000.