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A Message from Ford Henry Ford watched the great auto race in Indianapolis with interest. He also found time to elaborate the messages he is giving to readers of conservative papers, who, otherwise might not discover that new' ideas are abroad in the world, Henry Ford does not believe in charity. That was one of the things he told the editor of The Times as he sat in the judges’ stand at the Speedway and recalled the days when he was driver in races and not the largest manufacturer of automobiles. Charity, he believes, is a degrading thing, not only to the man who takes, but to the one who gives. ‘‘The only men in my organization that I have ever been compelled to have arrested for dishonesty were men to whom I had given money,” is his basis for believing that there is something wrong in a charity system. More unsual is his theory about money. He does not believe that the present depression can be cured by tinkering with money. “We have the wrong idea about money. We have treated money as a commodity. We have believed that money ought to make money and dollars breed dollars. Money should be used as a means of exchange,” is the comment of the man who has a great deal of money and who, if his mind was of the banking type, might be expected to make his dollars work for him instead of using his dollars to create new and useful things. Most of all, Ford has great faith in the future of this country. He has his own plans and schemes for making things better. One of these is that every man should produce a*part of his own food. That is the reason that he will extend his policy of having parts of his automobiles made in small factories in many cities, including many factories in Indianapolis and Indiana. At the present time, so he told the editor of The Times, over 5,000 factories are contributing parts to the new automobile. That means that men will live in smaller cities and be able to get near the soil. Ford has faith in the regenerating power of Mother Earth. He believes that the man who gets his toes and fingers into the soil gets something more than the food he grows. That is one reason why even his $50,000 a year executives this year are working in their own gardens. Ford is advising them to do so, and what he advises happens, especially with his $50,000 a year executives. Ford has faith, and he finds it in the fact that the American people, so he says, have a heritage of the pioneer blood of all other nations. He believes in pioneers because of their courage, their vision and their determi- ' nation. Incidentally Ford is the one man who owns his dollars and who does not let his dollars own him. Right now% he is spending many thousands of his own dollars to tell the people what he believes about charity and employment and /the way back. What he has in mind will not appeal to the financiers. It may not appeal to the jobless or to those who see no way of life except through a handout. You can be sure that he will not* give the dole system or private charity of social workers as a remedy. It will be something connected with work and the elimination of the taxing power of money. Perhaps Ford can persuade the people to change their ideas about money and convince them that money should not be a commodity but a convenience.

The Coming: Two-Ring: Circus Preconvention and precampaign books are upon us again. Jay Franklin is a well-informed and cynical publicist. He has a precise knowledge of candidates and issues, and his cynicism is sufficiently restrained so that it does not beget indifference. He discusses, in "What We Are Axmt to Receive,” parties, candidates and issues with great realism and verve. Not since Allen's "Only Yesterday” has anything on the American scene been so diverting and engaging. His characterisation of the two major parties is cogent and intelligent: "Once in a lifetime the Democratic party has a chance to win the presidency. Between times the Democrats go through the motions of electioneering: they solemnly select a nominee, who hypnotizes himself into believing that he will be elected: they adopt —after prolonged squabbles—an interesting and intricate party plats 0 *™: and on election day it's all washed out and the Democratic candidate retires, full of honors ar.d or primes, to await the next sucker. -Whenever they get an Idea the Democrats are licked. They have guessed wrong on every major political issue since and including the Civil war. . . . Their ideas may have been eternally right in theory, but they were wrong In fact at the ballot box. "The Republicans have been in power so long that they take it lor granted that they are the Only party fit to govern. . . . The Grand Old Party has been drifting and dreaming along the line of least resistance and greatest profit for generations, and not once m that time has it had to take the political offensive. Instead, it has won elections by mudslinging and cleverly has avoided anything in the nature of political ideas. . . . "Where the Democrats go chasing after some vague idea of the welfare of humanity and have yammered about world trade, the Republicans have catered to much lower instinct with ‘America First!’ and Prosperity: The Pull Dinner Pail. Two Cars in Every Garage, and so on. r “Bi this means, their party has grown into the f

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strangest conglomeration of conflicting viewpoints, held together by crude material interests and by patriotic prejudice, that the world ever has seen. . . . The only menace to the sc'idity of this confederacy is the risk of an occasional depression which knocks the stuffing out of the pocketbook and makes the boosters look ridiculous." Likewise, as to the prospects of the campaign, his observations do not lack relevance and astuteness: ‘Properly handled, the 1932 election is a sure thing for the Republicans ... if they are willing to let a few hard-boiled old pirates like Senator Moses of New Hampshire and Ray Benjamin of California run the show. “An unscrupulous Republican campaign would pin the red label on any liberal opponent and could resort to patriotism—the last refuge of the politician—as a winning issue for Hoover.” In short, the great hope of the Republicans is to cash in on what seems to be the wave of social and economic timidity which swept the British Tories into power and may spread farther. The Democrats have, likewise, one long chance, namely, the dramatization of the collapse of the Hoover “prosperity boloney" of 1928. ‘ For the Democrats, the platform will consist of two words: ‘Herbert Hoover.’ The paramount issue on which they will appeal to the country is: Herbert Hoover.' And the only rational policy which they can offer with any hope of accomplishment is: ‘Down With Herbert Hoover!”* But big business in the Democratic party will oppose the choice of any bold leader who thus could dramatize the case against Hoover: ‘‘Pity the poor Democrats! They have to choose between a man of courage who will dare to risk the party fortunes in a bold fight for national power and a man who will try to please Mr. Raskob’s big-bottomed, blue-joweled coupon-clippers at the risk of election.’ If the Democrats defy Mr. Raskob and select a dramatic fighter, while the Republicans fall back upon the red scare, we are likely to have an election of vast emotional horse power, possibly unequaled since 1896. The great difficulty lies in the fact that perhaps the most dramatic leader in the Democratic party is Mr, Raskob’s man.

America on the Block The meanest mayor has been found. According to dispatches from Hastings, Minn.. Mayor Charles Lucius of that city has had the municipal wage scale set aside and has been auctioning city jobs to the lowest bidders. Policemen who had been paid 3135 a month were displaced by bidders willing to work for less. Even the city street sweeper lost his job to a man willing to eke out an existence on less. A son offered to do for $45 a month what his mother had been doing for $75. She was removed and h 8 was put in her place. If these stories are correct, here is a city willing to auction off its safety, its protection from law breakers, its civic integrity, to the lowest bidder; a city ready to do with no government at all. And if wage scales generally thus were to be hammered down to the barest subsistence level, we might as well say farewell forever to the American standard of living. Moreover, unless we are mistaken badly, this Hastings mayor must have taken an oath pledging him to serve the interests of all the people of his community, not just the large taxpayers. The two are not incompatible; but a mayqr who auctions jobs never will discover that.

Dynamite The cases of Israel Lazar and Ben Boloff should be pondered by thoughtful Americans. These men are victims of criminal syndicalism laws carried to absurd lengths. Lazar was sentenced in Philadelphia to four years for utterances he made in campaigning for William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President in 1928. He had called President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg “hypocrites,” and had said other and more foolish things. According to his brief before the United States supreme court, which refused to intervene, it was his slighting remark about the former President that chiefly causco his conviction and sent him to jail for what is. in effect, lesc majeste. Boloff must go to jail for ten years in Oregon for mere membership in the Communist party, a legally recognized political party. Oregon’s supreme justice. Belt, in dissenting, said the sentence was “not in keeping with proper administration of justice." The Governors of Pennsylvania and Oregon should pardon these men as a rebuke to courts that misuse their power. Such convictions dp not stamp out radicalism. They sow the dragon teeth of revolt by driving radicalism underground. Protest, it can not be repeated too often, is like dynamite—dangerous only if bottled up.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

OUT of the horrible tragedy at Sourland mountain In New Jersey, a gleam of radiance comes. In that place of sorrow for seventy-two days a brave woman has shown us how splendid true womanhood can be. And amid all the turmoil, the agony, the horror, and the shame, let us not forget that Anne Lindbergh belongs to America, too. It Is her kind who peopled this land in days gone by—that same fortitude in the face of dire grief, that splendid courage, ttat heart-moving calmness are qualities that kept the pioneer mother going on to her ultimate destiny in spite of poverty and tragedy and toil. t So long as we have a few Anne Lindberghs, we need not despair of our country. She has stood like a rock, battered by storms of suspense and terror and soul-searing sorrow, a living ideal of the true woman upon whom must rest the hope of the race and of the world. Poised, endlessly enduring, she has displayed amazing fortitude for the sake of her husband and the other child who needs her strength, and perhaps also because hers is a heritage of brave hearts that are not to be conquefed. mm* THIS is the same stoicism that the high gods showed in the days before history began, and that comes from some souree in the universe which is beyond our ken. It is the quality possessed by all great souls, that lifts existence perpetually above the sordid. When events appear ominous and the future looks dark, and it seems that the forces of evil have overcome us, there always is some Anne Lindbergh to remind us that virtue and honesty and valor survive. Cinema stars may go glimmering across the feminine consciousness: professional beauties and exhibitionists may engage our attention for a time, but it is always a person like this gallant young Rachel mourning her murdered first-born who makes us proud to bear the title, Woman, Wife, Mother,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M: E: Tracy Says:

The American People Have Little Left to Do in the Coming Election Except to Shut Their Eyes, Hold Their Noses, and Vote the Party Label. NEW YORK, May 31.—1n spite of most unusual conditions, this campaign is sinking to the level of ward politics. The Democrats obviously are more at fault than jjhe Republicans. The latter were forced to stand by their record and renominate their man. The former might have done something The present session of congress* from which so much was expected, has resulted in little but a lot of chaotic ideas and half-baked attempts at compromise. Each party has worked for nothing so hard as to spoil the other's plans, to prevent it from getting too much credit. Just now’ President Hoover and Speaker Gamer are hurling statements back and forth in an obvious effort to belittle each other's program. Such an atmosphere puts the forthcoming election into the hands of moochers, muckers and professional politicians, with the American people left no choice but to shut their eyes, hold their noses, and vote the party label. u n a Only Borah May Howl EVEN if the second-term tradition had not insured President Hoover a renomination, the Republicans have no better man in sight. They have plenty of discontent, but it is of that whinntg, spineless quality which produces neither coherence nor leadership. Under ordinary circumstances, millions of them would bolt, or vote the Democratic ticket, but three years of shillyshallying has schooled them to sit quietly by and take it on the chin. With the exception of Senator Borah, it is doubtful whether the drys will put up much of a holler, if the Republican convention goes wet, and it is doubtful whether Borah hollers from much of anywhere but his front porch.

Muffed by Democrats AS to Democratic leaders, if there are any, they have muffed the oppcri unity of capitalizing Republican dissatisfaction. Indeed, their prize role seems to have been one of watchful waiting. Once they discovered what the Republicans were likely to do, they invariably have copied it in principle and then tried to impress the public by changing a punctuation mark, introducing an adjective, or substituting a figure. They will go to Chicago with the nomination of a presidential candidate depending largely on a row in New York. If the inquiry into Mayor Walker's affairs has the right effect, and if Governor Roosevelt handles it in the right way, he. Roosevelt, may be nominated. Otherwise, who knows? a m a Democrats Lack Goal IF politics was the consistent, intelligent business we pretend it is, the Democrats would have known whom they were going to nominate two, if not four, years ago, and not have been in the pigkle they are. They would have been pursuing a definite program, especially since they gained control of the lower house of congress, and would have built their leadership into it. As things stand, they don’t know what they want, or whcm to place in the saddle. Two-thirds of them are ready to cheer for a dark horse, not because of what he might promise, or could do, but because they feel a genuine lack of confidence in those who seem to have the best chance. That lack of confidence goes back to lack of purpose and policy. Since Wcodrow Wilson went out of office, the Democratic party has offered the country little but opposition to the Republicans. mum A Program of Nonsense WHEN the Republicans haven't done enough to make opposition logical, the Democratic party has not hesitated to oppose some of its own former stands. Right now many of its leaders are as enthusiastic in criticising the League of Nations, the world court, or the peace movement as any of the so-called “irreconcilables” ever were, while other of its leaders are sold genuinely on the doctrine of protection, provided it is applied to their pet commodities. We are not giong to build helpful, constructive political organizations on such nonsense as that, much less run the greatest nation on earth efficiently.

Questions and Answers

Does the United States have free coinage of silver? No. What class of postoffloes have the lowest rank and how are their postmasters appointed? ' Fourth class offices rank lowest and the postmasters are civil service appointees. Where was the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor made? In France. What is the total area of the earth? It has 196,950,000 square miles. What is the coldest hour of the day? About one hour before sunrise, because during the night there is more loss of heat by radiation than is gained. There is a gradual gain in temperature from sunrise to 2 or 3 o’clock in the afternoon, when the peak is reached. Describe the national eoat-of-arms of the German republic? It has a standing black eagle facing left, each extended wing displaying six features. The beak, tongue and feet are red and the claws are black. Has an amendment to the United States Constitution ever been repealed or changed? No amendment has been repealed, but two provisions of the original Constitution have been changed, one having to do with the manner of electing the President and .the other having to do with the manner ,of tlecung United States senators.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Child Needs Heaviest Meal at Noon

This is the second of two articles by Dr. FUhbein on midday meals for young children. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hvgeia. the Health Macazine. IN their analysis for luncheons for small children, Mary E. Sweeny and Charlotte Chatfleld urge that the young child's heaviest meal be served at noon, especially if the noon meal can be followed by a rest period. Children who have an early breakfast may need a luncheon in the middle of the morning or in the afternoon. Such a luncheon may consist usually of tomato juice with cod liver oil in the morning, and a glass of milk in the middle of the afternoon. In planning a menu for the midday luncheon, the basis should be a main dish of protein character,

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

CHICAGO, May 31.—1 never have been exactly what you might call Chicago-conscious. But. for that matter, neither are the people who live here. Chicago is the best argument which I know against big cities. To one accustomed to the quiet, leisurely pace and neighborliness of New York, this city of the lake roars too much and says too little. Yes, from my point of view Chicago is entirely too big. The size of the place makes it extremely difficult and unlikely that you will by happy accident run into any of the people you want to see. I mean, of course, fellow exiles from Broadway and other metropolitan points. I would not like to live in Chicago, and don’t even think it’s much good for a visit. For one thing, it takes too long a time to get the New York papers. This. I maintain, is not said in a provincial or a captious spirit. After all, I am interested in the affairs of the day. I want to know the latest activities of Gandhi and Garner and Roosevelt and what's about in Russia. And from the local press I can not learn. What Is flews' in Chicago? I TURN to a page on which I expect to find the day's grist of congressional happenings, and all I see is a picture of Miss Mary Yanchowski, who has just been voted the best-dressed co-ed at Northwestern university. Chicago will not tell me what Andy Mellon is doing in London, but offers instead the adventures of Andy Gump in a lonely graveyard with an unidentified assailant armed with a sawed-off shotgun. I can both see and read about the nose flute, “an instrument played with the nose by the Bontocs of Luzon,” but I am denied access to information about any late developments along the war-swept front of Gatti-Casazza and the opera house.

What’s in a Name? The answer is a whole lot: History, geography, occupations, relationships, nationality. Your name—your first name, your middle name, your surname—all mean something. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a packet of five of its interesting and informative bulletins on this subject, which will interest every individual human being. The titles are: 1. and family trees. 3. Surnames and their mean2. Given names and their mean- ings. 4. Meanings of Indian names. 5. Nicknames and phrases. If you would like this packet of five bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-30, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of five bulletins on Names, and Inclose herewith 15 cents in coin or loose, uncanreled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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which may be an egg souffle, scrambled eggs, a meat ball, or some similar protein food. There should also be one fresh green leafy vegetable which may be worked into a sandwich with whole wheat bread, one cooked vegetable, milk as a beverage, and fruit or some other dessert usually flavored with fruit. All of the menus used contain various quantities of calcium and phosphorus, provided by the foods selected, and also about half of the daily requirements of iron. The growing child needs these mineral substances. To cover the question of price and variety, the foods selected are seasonable and the menus varied by preparation of the food. To reduce the cost of the meal in which liver is used, beef liver in loaf or

It is my notion that the newspapers of Chicago are net printed to provide information for the citizens, but to furnish them with an escape from their harsh realities of the life they lead. Many have suggested remedies for the depression and for the relief of those who do not toil or spin. The press of Chicago has its own solution. To those who are curious to know where the next meal is coming from, and how and when, the journals of this beehive offer quaint cartoons and comic strips. * Unlike most cities, this one is not divided into conservatives and radicals, or even Republicans and Democrats. It is made up of those who follow the Gumps and those who are interested in the Nebbs. And when I noticed in a current issue of the largest organ of information that Andy Gump was being held us at the point of a gun, I realized that even the crime wave was being sold to Chicago as a sort of bedtime story. m m m The Poet’s Interpretation CARL SANDBURG used to sing of the Stockyards and of the raw, crude power of this anthill which towers up above its surrounding plain. His love and enthusiasm for Chicago was based upon a conception that here, in spite of suffering and tragedy, was life itself finding articulation and expression. Life goes on, but it has been driven down to dumbness 1 . Chicago, if its papers express the popular will, takes less interest in the present and more in the past than any other city in the United States. Quite unjustly, Philadelphia has been singled out by monologists and wits as the symbol of “sleepy town” existence. It never was and probably never will be possible to attend a vaudeville show without hearing about the Philadelphia letter carrier who was shot because the inhabitants mis-

patties may be substituted for 1 broiled calves’ liver. Meals including fresh spinach, when out of season, are fairly costly. Tomato juice may be substiI tuted occasionally for orange juice. |lt approximates the nutritional I value and palatability. The juice from canned tomatoes sweetened with a little sugar and flavored with cinnamon and cloves is much enjoyed by children, and compares favorably with other iresh fruit and vegetable juices in food value. The mother w’ho is interested in feeding the small child properly can secure this bulletin from the department of agriculture or from the superintendent of documents, Washington, D. C., for 10 cents. It provides a vast amount of information on the subject, and use of this information will do much to help the child to grow healthfully ; and vigorously.

Ideals and opinion* expressed In this column are (hose si one of America's most interesting writers and are presented withoat rezard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

took him for a Confederate soldier. But. after all, the Civil war ended less than a hundred years ago. It was in Chicago that the fate of a political campaign turned on the bitterness aroused by the tyranny of King George in the American Revolution. People grew so aroused about this issue that there was even some talk of the citizens seizing tea and tossing it into Lake Michigan. Surely as long as America boasts a city which still is concerned with redcoats, there is no just reason why Philadelphia should be razzed because of a slight misunderstanding concerning Confederate gray. m m m Still in the Whiskered Era ONLY in Chicago and some of the outlying districts in the state of Illinois would it be passible to elect a United States senator for no other reason than the fact that he grows impressive whiskers. J. Ham Lewis is fortunate in living among folk who have not even begun to catch up with the problems which are stirring in the more alert portions of America. And if this seems a cross and grouchy column, it's meant to be just that. Anybody has a right to ask, “Why are you mad?” I'm mad because Norman Thomas made hisflrst campaign speech in the 1932 race at a huge dinner from which hundreds of people were turned away and about which the newspapers of Chicago carried not one single line. You may think me unduly partisan, but I contend that it was a happening of more significance and importance than the election of Miss Mary Yanachowski to the great office of “best-dressed co-ed at Northwestern.” (Coovriaht, 1933. bv The

What causes the illumination in Neon signs? Neon, a gaseous element, was discovered in 1898 by Sir William Ramsay and M. W. Travers. It is separated from argon, with which it is mixed In the atmosphere by fractional distillation of the liquified gas. and is colorless. By applying a high electric voltage to glass tubes fitted with electrodes and containing neon gas, the electrical discharge through the gas causes a characteristic reddish orange glow. By the addition of small amounts of mercury to the gas. a lfght blue color is obtained- By adding other gases in conjunction with neon or by using colored glass for the tubing, other colors are obtained. Who is the world heavyweight wrestling champion? Jim Londos generally is recognized as holder of the title. How many class one and class two railroads are there in the United States? Out of a total of 1.497 railroads, there are 156 class one. 225 class two and 316 class three. When was the first Issue of postage stamps by the United States postoffice? What countries had preceding issues? The first general issue of stamps in the United States was in 1847. Prior to that time, three countries issued postage stamps; Great Britan in 1849; Brazil in 1843, and the Cantons of Switzerland in 1843-1845.

MAY 31, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Children Are Trained to Be Witches by Cherokee Indians in Great - Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. BELIEF in witchcraft still flourishes in the Cherokee Indian settlements in the Great Smoky mountains of western North Carolina, so Dr. Frans M Olbrechts, noted Belgian scholar, finds. Dr. Olbrechts has been studying the Indians of the region, completing an investigation which the late James Mooney of the Smithsonian institution began. He finds that parents often de--1 cide to make witches of their children and that twins are considered particularly good material for the purpose. -If tw’ins are born and their par- : ents intend to make witches out of them.'’ Dr. Olbrechts reports, “no mother's milk is given them for twenty-four days. They are fed with the liquid portion of corn hominy, which must be given them only during the night. “They must be kept secluded rigidly from all visitors during the same twenty-four day period. From then on a decoction of the bark of smooth sumac is drunk by the mother to make her milk flow abundantly and she nurses the children. “The most astounding assertions are made as to the powers of these twin witches. They do not. stop at flying through thp air or diving underground. They even can walk on the sun rays. “They can take on all human and animal shapes conceivable. Even when they are only a month old. •whatever they think happens .” Bright Children DR. OLBRECHTS was particu- ■ larly impressed by the brilliance of the Cherckee children. He found the educational methods of the Indians highly successful. • Shortly after the child is born.” he reports, "it is carried about sitting astride Its mother's back. “When little boys are 4 or 5 years old they start, under the supervision of their fathers or elder brothers, to make bow's and arrows, and in a few weeks become remarkable marksmen. Little girls, at just as tender age, assist their mothers and eider sisters with the household tasks. “The children astounded me b,\ their keen intellect. One 6-year-old saw for the first time the train of a lumber company working in this district. “When he came home he rolleded empty tins of salmon and other canned food we had thrown away, with sticks and twigs built a bridge over a four-foot-wide rill, laid •tracks' on it and then with tins sticks and pebbles made the most, realistic lumber train imaginable the locomotive with funnel, the trucks loaded with 'lumber.' “When it comes to familiarity with their own culture, these children are marvelous. At 7 or 8 they know more about the fauna and fa of their ow'n district than one of our university graduates w’ho has not made natural history his specialty. “They know the dance steps and songs, are experts at making current artifacts, and if they were tested, on an equitable basis, I feel sure that they often would score higher than white children of a similar age." MB* Games Played GAMES played by the Cherokee children are chiefly imitations of the occupations of the grownups, Dr. Olbrechts says, and include hunting, fishing, dancing, and gambling. “Swinging stands in high favor," he continues. “It is not certain that this was introduced by the w’hites. I was told that the ‘old people’ used to get hold of a stout grape vine, securely entwined around the branches of a tall tree, on which, when it was cut off near the ground, they would swing vigorously. “The child is made to drink the water from the eave of the cabin, from where it falls in one continuous stream, so it may be a fluent speaker. “There Is a suggestion here of the imitative magic of the European peasantry which may have been introduced by the whites. “Certain foods are used especially for children. Roots of the wild yellow lily are boiled and the decoction given the child to make it fat “A similar decoction made by boiling the strong, sinew’y roots of the goat’s rue is given to make them muscular. “The children have no distinctive Iress."

T ?s9£Y ANNIVERSARY

GERMANS HALTED June 2

ON June 2, 1918, French troops halted the great German offensive in the Marne sector, after a day of terrific fighting. German attacks on Rheims continued, but again were beaten off. Losses to the attackin'? forces during the day’s fighting were estimated at more than 25.000. In a surprise counter attack, a fresh French division recaptured several villages taken by the Germans the day before. American troops on the front were engaged in severe fighting. They held their ground, inflicting heavy losses. Submarines operating off the Atlantic seaboard of the United State* sank several small vessels. The German official bulletin said that five submarines were in American waters.

Daily Thought

But as for them whose heart waikest after the heart of tAeir detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. Ezekiel 11:21. Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.—Benjamin Franklin.