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Waste in Government Thlz city is Joining in the crusade to reduce the cost of federal government. Waste must be eliminated. The people can not pay on the present basis. The little leaks have become torrents. What was tolerated In days of inflation because of its pettiness becomes important in these defaulted hours. What is true of the federal government is also true of local governments. The tax problem is important. But it is also important to stop waste at home immediately and that can be done only by a special session of the legislature. The transfer of the gasoline tax to other uses Should be made at once. The tax that was once needed to build one mile of tosos could today build three if the labor were paid on the basis of made work in townships. It could build two if the construction were paid for at prevailing rates of labor. But the state needs other things more than it does cement roads. The farmers need relief from taxes. The idle men of cities need work. The real waste is the enforced idleness that is increased by the waste in government funds. Every unnecessary dollar taken from the farmer and from induatry today by taxation means a reduced wage for some worker and more men in the ranks of the idle. A real demand for a special aeasion that will change the direction of the one big fund at the command of the state would do more to help Indiana than an appeal to the federal government to cut ihe wages of its worker*.

Good News While the President and the Democratic leaders in congress are working out details of a compromise unemployment relief plan, the country can rejoice that federal aid of some sort at last Is in sight. Reports of local officials and relief agencies have shown for months that in many localities there is no way of preventing starvation without federal help. Private charity never has been adequate, even in the beginning of the depression when It was easier than now to collect funds. During the last two years, approximately 72 per cent of the cost of relief distributed has come out of public treasuries, state and local. Since last autumn, these state and local authorities have been increasingly unable to carry that load. Many of them not only have exhausted their funds, but have reached the legal limit of their borrowing capacity. The dire conditions resulting in large cities, such as New York, Chicago, and Detroit, are well known. But It is not generally understood that conditions are worse in many smaller communities. That Is true because some of the smaller towns and cities are dependent upon one industry virtually laid low by the depression, and because they have less wealth to draw upon in an emergency than have the metropolitan centers. It is a disgrace that the centers of wealth can not or will not take care of their own unemployed. Nevertheless, it seems to be true. Such being the case, it is essential that the federal government help to feed the hungry in the large cities as well as in the small communities. Both the Democratic plan advanced by Senate Leader Robinson and the administration plan outlined by President Hoover, accept the two-fold relief principle urged by progressives since 1930: First, immediate emergency relief to the hungry; and, second, public works to stimulate industry and provide Jobs. Whether the proposed $300,000,000 emergency direct relief should be handled in the first instance by a separate government commission, or by the American Red Cross, or by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation does not seem to us vitally important, so long as the Job is done—and done promptly and efficiently, without political favoritism. In the matter of public works, Senator Robinson and President Hoover are making an important differentiation between general construction projects and those that are self-sustaining. One trouble with the country already is that certain states and cities have built more roads and public buildings than they can pay for, and thus have mortgaged future taxpayers to a dangerous degree. Obviously, when the local and federal tax load Is so heavy that it contributes to the economic depression, relief should be sought in public works that produce income rather than increase taxes. Toll roads and bridges and hydroelectric projects are types that produce financial return soon, and reforestation is a good long-term investment. Fortunately, there are plenty of income-producing projects upon which construction could be started now for the benefit of industry and of the unemployed. The fact that leaders of both parties have committed themselves to the principle of federal unemployment relief before corgress adjourns is the most hopeful news in a long time. Wetward the Course Wetward the course of opinion takes its way. And, one by one, America’s drys surrender to its Impact. The new recruits of the last fortnight include men and women of many faiths—repealers, thoroughly disgusted with the noble experiment; modiftcationists, still hoping and groping; mere dry submission is ts. All agree that the time has come for a showdown on the eighteenth amendment and Its offspring, the Volstead act. For instance: Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, dry daughter of a famous dry father: "I never have opposed a referendum on prohibition. My father (William Jennings Bryan) believed in the referendum. Bo do I.” Chester Rowell, California Hoove rte and dry editor of the wet San Francisco Chronicle: “Let the Constitution prevail and let the people rule,” meaning let’s have a referendum. Oswald Garrison Villard, ex-dry editor of the Nation: “Repeal the eighteenth amendment. - ’ President Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth, a former dry: “I am opposed to the eighteenth amendment, and believe It should be repealed. Governor Henry 8. Caulfield of Missouri, also an ex- dry: “The reason we have not been able to succeed with the eighteenth amendment is because it la fundamentally wrong; not wrong in purpose, but wrong govemmentally. It never was Intended that she federal government ahould police the entire * Senator Thomas D. Sc hall of Minnesota,"a dry: am willing to be quoted aa advocating a referen-

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dum plank on prohibition in the Republican platform this year.” William Alien White, Emporia editor, speaking from the heart of dry Kansas: 'The bitterness of the wets in the east threatens orderly government." J. R. Nutt, Q. O. P. treasurer: "I would like to see this prohibition question brought to a vote.” Representative Arthur Free of California, who represents President Hoover’s home town of Palo Alto: “There la no question that prohibition has net been a success.” Representative Edgar Howard, Nebraska Democrat and former secretary to William Jennings Bryan: ‘The only proper plan for solving the problem of retaining or abrogating the amendment lies through expression of the popular will.” George W. Wickersham, who feels “more strongly than ever” that a roll call is needed to crystallise “the sober, Informed and deliberate opinion of the people.” The list Includes many more wet and dry submissionists, along with most of the Hoover cabinet. Hastings Hart The death of Dr. Hastings H. Hart, humanitarian and Wickersham commission penal expert, should recall society’s debt to that band of prison reformers whose tireless work is so constructive and yet so little recognized. “Man’s inhumanity to man” leaves most of us helpless. It stirs such men as Hart, Kirchwey, Tannenbaum. Lawes, Bates, McCormick and others to lives devoted to the rebuilding of the whole American penal system. Results of their labors have been slow in showing Aside from the reforms in federal prisons and in a few states, such as New York and Connecticut, most of our penitentiaries and practically the 11,000 city Jails and lock-ups remain “public nuisances” and the “antequated and ineffective” things the Wickersham commission called them. At a time when 8,000,000 Americans are being punished with unemployment for no fault of their own, it is hard to stir sympathy for 500,000 men who have violated laws. It is not necessary to sympathize. We need only recall the waste and folly of spending millions to turn men out of these institutions more dangerous enemies of society than when they went in. As former Chairman Wickersham recently said, our slums and our prisons are making criminals. “Whatever the offense of the Individual toward society,’’ he told a New York audience, “the crimes of organized society toward the individual are infinitely greater.” Ambidextrous With its left hand the government chastises speakeasy beer vendors, stores selling home brew “makings.” and even kitchen brewers. With its right hand, it reaches out for revenue in its new tax bill by taxing the ingredients of illegal beer—an excise of 15 cents a gallon on brewers’ wort and 3 cents a pound on malt syrup. With its left hand it padlocks, through federal court decision and Colonel Woodcock’s willing legion, the grape concentrate business, with its right hand it tosses $25,000,000 of federal farm board funds to California vineyardists who make and sell concentrate, and then slaps an excise tax of 20 cents a gallon on the very concentrate it outlaws. With its left hand it turns thumbs down on legalized beer and wine that would help industry and bring in revenue estimated at more than $500,000,000 a year. Its right palm stretches forth for a pittance of $97,000,000 in excise taxes on the ingredients of illegal beer and wine. Theoretically, every man works sixty-one days to support the government, Hoover says. Actually, he work 6 one day for the government and sixty for the politicians. They're still talking about what the Democratic party owes John J. Raskob. And there are those who say that, regardless of what the amount is, it is small compared to what the Republicans owe him. Now they are talking about changing the laws to let the minority have more of a sayso in government. How about changing them to give the majority a chance first? About the only answer to the argument that the United States can survive half drunk and half sober is that we’ve gotten along pretty well for 158 years now. The Japanese government lost $20,000,000 on a single sale in its efforts to stabilize the price of silk, thereby proving that the nation now is 100 per cent westernized. After the Boston experience with Leo, they might change that old saying to read, “You can lead a lion to the mike, but you can’t make him croon.”

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WHILE the people complain about governmental costa, congress plays at hide-and-seek with taxes and appropriations. Attempts to cut expenses in Uncle Sam's house have been pathetic and ludicrous and spell tragedy for the honest business man. Though we could not possibly finance another naval conflict, we find ourselves still paying an excessive sum for warships. Although the public, which is decidedly, openly and even clamorously against war, has urged that such appropriations be trimmed, the gentlemen of congress have surrendered, lock, stock and barrel, to the military lobby. Our children may cry for bread, but we must buy guns. Our country, which is called a democracy and is said to be a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” presents today a sorry spectacle. It is beset on all sides by ravening patriots—political and martial. And if abandoned to them longer, they will devour it. m m 9 a HOW rarely do we now see unselfish service for native land or a politician fighting for principle! Statesmen no longer regard our Union as a whole. Only the small parcel of ground upon which live “his constituents” interests the average legislator. Every man in Washington appeals to work for one purpose only—to get himself returned to office by some hook or crook. Our country no longer is loved; it is looted by those who have sworn to defend it. The great grab act goes endlessly on. Political preferment, party power, the polls and publicity, are the high principles that actuate today’s politician. And powerful lobbies sit like wolves upon the congressional doorstep. Threats, pressure, bribes in the form of vote promises are used to gaijl any ends. And beyond Washington, the peoffe wait, long suffering, patient and still hopeful that all the tore of country may not be dead in the congressional breast.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M: E: Tracy Says:

Let Reason, Instead of Blind Fury, Rule the Nation in the Lindbergh Case. NEW YORK, May 14.—The kidnaping of little Charles Lindbergh was greeted with unintelligent sympathy. The finding of his corpse Is greeted with equally unintelligent rage. Unintelligent emotionalism has characterized this tragedy from the beginning. First, there was maudlin applause for efforts to compromise with the underworld through pledges of immunity and cash. Now, there is a howl Jar severe and drastic laws. Pledges of immunity and cash acomplished little but to provide a picnic for chiseiers. Laws, passed to satisfy the present elaimor, would accomplish little but to provide a picnic for loophole hunting attorneys. mum We Know Now WE know now that sharp eyes and common sense could have solved this mystery in three days; that a properly organized search by the men available would have located the murdered child, spared the nation ten weeks of nerve-racking anxiety, ended torture for the distressed family, and saved a king’s ransom. We know now that there was no criminal Santa Claus waiting to make restitution for a price; that the problem was not to get reporters anl peace officers out of the way so that he could sneak back unobserved. We know now that it was not lack of law which prevented a solution of the mystery, nor zealous endeavor* of the press to help, nor an insatiate demand lor news. We know now that those natural feelings which were permitted to dominate the case amounted to little less than an open invitation for every crook and faker to impose on people whose suffering, or susceptibility, had made them credulous.

Let It Bea Warning LET the denouement of this awful drama be a warning. Let grief over the unhappy fate of this innocent child, whom society failed to protect, be the basis of reconsecration, not to blind fury that weakens and demoralizes, once it has spent its force, but to those immutable principles of social justice, which are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Over the lifeless form of that baby who enjoyed boundless love, but who was hurled into eternity with no one by to shed an honest tear, let us swear an oath to abandon the thought that safety can be bought from crooks, or law be made strong by compromising with lawless elements. mum There Is No Substitute THERE is no substitute for common honesty and a sense of social obligation, no possibility of so arranging matters that crime can be profitable and decent people safe at the same time. The line between right and wrong may wabble, but It must not be ignored. There is no such animal as an honest grafter, or dependable kidnaper. No matter how indistinct it may appear, there always is a cleavage between the forces of good and evil. No man can straddle it, without making things less secure for himself and others. No nation can think of disregarding it, without inviting chaos. mum The Age of Hypocrisy MUCH of the trouble we are in harks back to the illusionment that people can be crooked In certain respects and straight in others; that collateral Is better security than character; that cleverness brings greater reward than reliability, and that success is not the real thing, unless it can be measured by money. God knows why little Charles Lindbergh was murdered, but indirectly, the wicked, wanton, causeless crime can be attributed to the wise-cracking, jazzed-up, hypocritical age In which we live—an age that pays racketeers for protection, that elects crooks to office, on the ground that they are smart politicians, that outlaws bootleggers, buys their goods at exorbitant prices, and then claps them in jail when they fail to pay income taxes on the profits they make.

Questions and Answers

How ranch silver does a silver dollar contain? It contains 371.25-4*o of an ounce of silver. Who is president of the American Red Croes, and what is his salary? The President of the United States is president of the American Red Cross. He receives no salary from that organization. When and where was the last world’s fair held in the United States? It was the Philadelphia aesquicentennial exposition in 1926. What constitutes a thoroughbred among animals? One that is bred from the purest blood or stock, of a breed kept pure for many generations. Who was the secretary of commerce and labor In the cabinet of President Roosevelt? First, Greoge B. Cortelyou; second, Victor H. Metcalf, and third, Oecar S. Straus. What is the term of office for members of the German reichstag? When was the last election? The term is four years and the last election was Sept. 4. What is Eddie Cantor’s real name and where was he born? His real name is Izzy Iskowitch. He was born in New York, Jan. 31, 1893, and is of Hebrew descent. It is a French word meaning prose writer. Who is the American minister to Bulgaria? Henry Warton Shoemaker.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley's ‘‘Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday’s Times: A Jonah of a Key Tag—W. S. Black, a resident of Ravenna, Neb., accidentally lost his key ring while visiting in Lincoln, Neb., in 1922. Failing to recover it, he dismissed the incident .Yom his mind. On Nov. 10, 1930, he was informed by mall that Clyde

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Typhoid Fever Terror Is Curbed

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ■iltor Journal •( the American Medical Association and of Hyxeia, the Health Msraziae. Typhoid fever is in many ways an index to the health of a community. The control of typhoid depends on pure water, pure milk, pure food, proper disposal of sewage, and isolation of typhoid carriers. For twenty years the Journal of American Medical Association has been publishing the typhoid fever mortality rates of our cities of more than 100,000 population. During this time the rates have fallen so that today there is every indication that most large cities in this country have adequate control of sanitation. Five of fourteen large New England cities did not have a single death from typhoid in 1931, and Boston had only one death for every 100,000 people. The typhoid fever death rates for

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

APPROACHTNa what I jocosely call my desk yesterday, I was bogged completely for a columnar idea, but the mail seemed much more bountiful than usual. “Ah,” I said, speaking aloud to myself, as Is the custom of retired actors, “here is grist for the mill. Somebody has written in to say that he reads the stint every day, although, of course, he does not always agree with it. “Or maybe I will be taken to task for opposing the bestowal of gold medals upon the Massie group. And, at the very least, I will find within this stack praise, blame, invective, criticism, suggestion or outright contribution.” And so I slit the first envelope. mmm No Good for a Column “j HAVE entered the Waterman’s X Autograph contest and am making a collection of the, signal ares of prominent people. As you are a well-known writer, I should like your signature in my collection. If you would sign your name on the paper I inclose I shall be very grateful to you.—S. S." And the second communication was to the same effect, although the writer did not lay it on quite so thick. These letters have not run Into the hundreds or thousands, but amount, roughly, to a dozen. That, I think, Is the nucleus of a nuisance. S. S. and G. K. K. and the rest need not be grateful to me, for it is my intention to pocket the stamps inclosed for return postage and to send no autographs whatsoever. Mr. S. S., for instance, believes a little less than I do that this column conductor is a prominent person. And even if I accepted his flattering fiction, I would still steal his stamp. After all, if “Heywood Broun” actually were a collector’s item I would try to keep it in that category. Button Gwinnett was not the most prominent of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, but he became the mo6t expensive through the simple process of not answering letters. Yet my abstinence in the matter of albums Is not dictated largely through cupidity and the hope of comfortable old age for my grandchildren. In &o catalogue known to me Is any quotation set down for my signature. A few living authors are

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

Critchfleld of Woodward, Okla., just had found the address tag of the key ring in the stomach of a ten-pound catfish caught at Dunlap, Kan. In view of the fact that the loser never had been in that part of Kansas, the route the tag must have taken to the stomach o 2 the catfish is extremely bewildering.

New England states as a whole were the lowest |ver recorded, except for 1928. Reading Pa., and Utica, N. Y., did not have a single death from typhoid fever in 1931. This is the second time that Utica has had this record. Buffalo had less than one death for every 100,000 people. New York had a slight increase in deaths from typhoid fever in 1931, because ol three small outbreaks which were traced to food handlers who were typhoid fever carriers. The cities in the east-north central group led all others in its low typhoid averages, notwithstanding the fact that there were thirty-one deaths in Cleveland during the year; twenty of these were due to one outbreak in the state hospital lor the insane. South Bend has had two consecutive years without a death, and it seems reasonable to believe from the trend of the figures during the last ten years that the great group

as high as 50 cents, but the list was compiled before the depression. I think the well known and the obscure may logically Join hands in opposition to the autograph racket. If my name on a blank sheet of paper were worth half a dollar, I might reasonably hesitate to distribute such largess. Since it is worth precisely nothing, I can see no reason why I should take the trouble to bestow straw without bricks upon the acquisitive. m m m It Was Fairly Academic IN the past I have not been adamant about autographs. The problem was not frequent or pressing. In the course of the years, I. suppose, I sent out maybe twenty or thirty. But in those days I could afford to have a secretary and it seemed so simple to be gracious. It merely was a matter of saying, “Miss Z, will you please send an autograph to this little old lady in Yonkers?” The amount of correspondence entailed In the job was seldom very great and Miss Z. was extremely obliging. She could do a highly competent signature, although I myself rather preferred the “Heywood Broun” as executed by Miss Y., her predecessor. At the beginning I had a few compunctions. I took up the matter with Miss Y. after the mild deception had gone on for a few weeks. “I’m worried.” I said. She expressed a polite and tepid curiosity as to my concern. “I’m worried about posterity,” I told her. At first she did not quite seem to catch the drift of my remark and answered with a certain hauteur that it was her practice never to discuss personal matters with her employer and could she go out immediately to keep a luncheon date with her sister. She grew calmer when I explained that I was referring to autographs and not offspring. But she still seemed puzzled. “It* like this,” I explained. “One hundred years from now I’ll be dead. - ’ 9 9 m Hoping for the .Best MISS Y„ who was always a model of politeness, saffc that she hoped not. I waved away her con-

pi V lUftuered P ■ 1 i X rum oflic* RIPLEY

There is excellent authority for this strange fish story. A Most “Courted” Ex-champion —Jess Willard has been a defendant in 726 lawsuits since the day he won tha championship from Jack Johnson. He has lost none of these numerous legal tilts and now is facing his 727th engagement with the law with confidence, according to latest reports.

of mid-western cities with nearly 10,000,000 population is headed for a complete elimination of typhoid fever. When it is considered that there would have been 60,000 cases of the disease with 6,000 deaths in Chicago alone during 1931 if the rates of 1890 still prevailed, the world will have some idea of what a tremendous accomplishment this has been for science and for public health. All the rest of the country compares favorably with the cities that have been mentioned, except that New Orleans suffers with a high non-resident death rate. There were sixty-five deaths from typhoid in 1931 in New Orleans, but forty-eight of these cases were brought into the city *‘rom surrounding territory. In Texas, Houston, San Antonio and Ft. Worth had excellent rates, and are superior in this field to Dallas and El Paso.

Ueili and opinion* eipttiifd in this column are those of one of America’* moat Interesting writer* and are preaented wlthoat rerarri to their arreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude es this paper.—The Editor.

solation and repeated. One hundred years from now I’ll be dead, and in the autograph shops they'll be quarreling about my signature. “You see, there’ll be two sets. Some collector will produce one running, “Thanks for your kind letter. I am inclosing the autograph you requested’— He will compare that with the man who has purchased for his own account and risk at a great expense a genuine canceled check made out, 'Please pay to the order of Barney Gallant twenty-five dollars ($25),’ and followed by the maestro’s fist. “Naturally the collectors are going to quarrel, because they will find that the signatures in the two items are .wholly dissimilar. Do you think we have a right to muddle the minds of generations yet unborn?” “I don’t think they'll give a good dam.” answered Miss Y. I fired her the next day, but still I think she was right. f Copyright. 1932. fev The Times i

People’s Voice

Ed tor Times What is it? A water rate cut, a light rate cut? Surely is something wrong. My definition of the great farce b a gouge into the poor man's purse. The citizen asked for a reduction, and in all affairs there generally is a day set for the committee of both sides to talk it over. But did these companies do this? No. They fixed it all up to suit themselves and cut the water allowance to where the average family would be paying around $2 instead of SI.OB. I know many tfamilies who use more than 700 cubic feet and are careful, too, in summer. In winter they pay as much and don’t have any sprinkling. I imagine they are laughing up their sleeves at the stupidity of we citizens trying to keep clean, cook our food and drink *ll we need on 500 cubic feet a month. More power to the editor of The Times, who is not afraid to voice his own opinion; also, three cheers for the two honest commissioner;:. MRS. LOGEMAN. What is the seating rapacity of the Yankee stadium and the Polo field In New York? The Yankee stadium stats 70,000 and Polo field seats 56,000.

.MAY 14, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Wrong Habits in Children Are Corrected Rapidly i Clinic Experiments. INTERESTING topics, ranging *■ from the prevention of bad 1 habits in children to the question of the existence of the soul, were discussed at the annual meeting of the Association of Consulting PsyI chologists held at Columbia uniI versity. Developments of wrong habits in children may be prevented or corrected by psychological examination given between the ages of 4 months and 2 1 , yeara. Dr. Eleanor C. Kemp, director of the Psychological center New York, declared. “One hundred thirty-five babies of normal Intelligence, ranging from 6 to 30 months of age. were examined by psychologists at the Wells babies’ clinic of the Fifth Avenue hospital,” Dr. Kemp ex--1 plained. “Parents of the group were given Instructions as to proper habit building. “The result was that eating difficulties disappeared, cases of tantrums were avoided, cases of stammering due to wrong enforcement of the right hand in left-handed children prevented, and thumbsucking and other undesirable habits overcome. “Comparison of the group of 135 and 12 normal children who had had no preventive psychological treatment revealed that five of the twelve were thumb-suckers, whereas only four of (he 135 were, and these four had already overcome the habit. “Other wrong habits were in each case possessed by a larger number of children in the group of twelve, than in the entire collection of the 135 tested children.” * * Discussion of Soul RETURN Os the soul to psychological discussions was discussed by Dr. Henry E. Starr, head of the department of psychoiogv and director of the psychological and mental hygiene clinic of Rutgers university. ‘Today,” Dr. Starr said, “whether for good or ill, the ‘soul’ is returning to psychology. And it Ls returning, in part at least, under th; guise of ‘personality.’ "We must not be too feaTful of j the old words or too enraptured by l . new, but should insist upon | clarity and consistency of deflnij tion in every rase.” Dr. Starr attacked psychologists who allowed themselves to ‘become slaves of the little godlets of the schools—worshipers of a : narrow creedal system, whether of Freud, Kohler, Pavlov, Watson, or j another.” ‘‘lt is well to face squarely our own limitations,” he suggested, “in the manner of the modern physicist, rather than attempt to mask a feeling of inferiority with an air : of infallibility. “The physicist frankly admits his I inability to predict the behavior of an electron even in his own laboratory under experimentally-controlled conditions. “Yet many a psychologist feels inferior because he can not predict with 100 per cent accuracy the behavior of some Jim Jones out on the highway of life.” m m m Defines Abnormality THE need tor anew definition of mental abnormality was pointed by Dr. James Quinter Holsopple, chief clinical psychologist oJ the New Jersey state department of institutions and agencies. “The present confusion in definition,” Dr. Holsopple said, ’inhibits psychological research in the problems of mental disease, feeblemindedness and delinquency because the problems themselves, usually phrased in terms of the abnormal, can not be stated clearly. “Applications of psychology to the practical handling of social problems are often Ineffective because they depend upon some vague and erratic concept of the nature of abnormality.” An abnormal mental activity, as Dr. Holsopple proposed to define it, ‘ls an activity which is more characteristic of the abnormal person than of the normal person." “An abnormal person,” his definition was. “is one who generally is noticeable and who interferes with other people's satisfaction of desire. “No one of the definitions now current fits well even that group universally recognized as abnormal, and all fail utterly to clarify the situation with respect to borderline cases. ‘•The definition I propose fits, I think, both the definite and the borderline cases. It, explains the essentially social nature of abnormality."

W T 9s9£ Y WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARV

NEW SHIPS COMPLETED May 14 ON May 14, 1918, it was announced that the first million tons of ships had been completed and delivered to the United States government under supervision of the shipping board. The number of ships delivered totaled about 160, more than half of which had been constructed since the first of the year. An agreement was made between allies and the United States providing that all United States imports first should receive sanction of the war trade board. American troops renewed attacks on Monte Carno and advanced on the Italian lines at Dosso Casina. As if in retaliation, the Italian naval force torpedoed and sank an Austrian dreadnought in Pola harbor. Daily Thought If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.—Psalms 132:12. • m * Who listens once trill listen twice; her heart be sure is not of ice, and one refusal no rebuff.—Byron.