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Save 100 Millions Now The American Legion openly has disowned the disability allowance act. • Readers of Talcott Powell’s articles on veterans’ relief, printed by this paper some months ago, will recognize the disability act as the law which provides compensation for veterans injured in civil life from causes not connected with army service—the law which costs American taxpayers about a hundred million dollars a year for the benefit of about 350,000 of the several million men in service. Disclaimer of responsibility for this law by the American Legion should be big news to the nation’s lawmakers. It means that they can repeal this monstrous piece of legislation without fear of reprisal from the largest and most influential of the various veterans’ organizations. The legion, to be sure, did not go so far as to recommend repeal, but by its action it did serve sufficient notice on congress that its powerful lobby in Washington would do nothing harmful or frightening in case congress decided to relieve the country of this burden. Asa matter of fact, the legion's disavowal of responsibility for this bill is a challenge both to congress and to the Hoover administration. The legion lays: "This nonservice disability cost, therefore, is the responsibility of the administration —which drew the legislation, secured its introduction, and forced its passage in senate and house.’’ That lays the responsibility for passage of this act on Mr. Hoover and congress, but, more important, it places the responsibility for repeal. There are about a million former service men in the American Legion. Os the several million men in uniform, only 350,000 (5 per cent of the total number of men in World war service) benefit by this 100 million dollars a year bounty. Repeal of this act would affect no man who got his Injuries in war, or because of his service. It is a vicious grab, and should be repealed. Congress is in session and should repeal it now. The great majority of veterans probably would acclaim such initiative by Mr. Hoover and congress. IT. S. A. and U. S. S. R. The Ottawa conference, we learn, will take steps to exploit to the limit all possibilities of the Soviet market for the industries of the British empire. ' In the meantime, we are losing ground steadily In this growing market by our ostrich policy of nonrecognition. The Amtorg Trading Corporation just has announced that purchases in this country for the account of the Russian government declined 86 per cent in the first half of 1932, to a total of only $5,549,000. In the first six months of last year, Amtorg bought $40,593,000 of goods, and in the first six months of 1930 it bought goods worth $42,099,000. According to Amtorg’s statement, the decline is due ’principally to the lack of credit facilities comparable to those existing in Europe, where extensive long-term credits, partially government-guaranteed, are available. ’’ The Facts at Geneva It is rapidly becoming apparent that the disaimament suggestions now being exchanged among the world powers aim at reduction of expenditures rather than at the prevention of war. That, of course, is a perfectly worthy motive. But it is important that we accept it for what it is, and do not expect too much from it. The recent British proposals illustrate the case perfectly. The naval disarmament program which bir John Simon, Britain’s foreign secretary, submitted at Geneva calls for limitation of battleships to a maximum tonnage of 22,000, with no guns larger than eleveninch; limitation of cruisers to 7,000 tons, with 6.1-inch guns; limitation of submarines to 250 tons, and of aircraft carriers to 22,000 tons. To adopt such a program would mean a substantial saving. The contrast is especially marked in the case of capital ships. The British navy now possesses two battleships—the Nelson and Rodney—which displace nearly 40,000 tons each, and which cost, at normal rates of exchange, more than $35,000,000 each to build. It contains ten ships of the Royal Oak and Queen Elizabeth classes, which measure around 33,000 tons each and cost approximately $15,000,000 each. It contains the 42,000-ton battle cruiser Hood, which was built for $30,000,000. Reducing the size to a 22,000-ton maximum obviously would mean a saving in construction costs. But would it mean anything else? Would it not, rather, start every naval power on anew construction race—since each fleet would have to rebuild all its capital ships? Would not the struggle for supremacy be as bitter as ever? And. in case of war, would not battleships of 22,000 tons be able to inflict, relatively, aS much damage as their larger predecessors? Indeed, even the economy angle is not entirely certain. Germany's new Deutschland, a 10,000-ton ship mounting eleven-inch guns, cost $20,000,000 to buildi The proposed new battleships surely would cc>6t more than that. Considering the fact that fleets would have to be rebuilt, just how great would be the savings? No lover of peace should put too high hopes on the proposals being discussed at Geneva. The Hutton Farce Now that the dismal farce-comedy of the "love balm" suit between the Los Angeles nurse and Aimee McPherson's husband has played itself out, the ordinary citizen is moved once more to wonder why the time of American courts has to be taken up with such affairs. To be sure, they occasionally are good entertainment. This particular trial hardly could be excelled on the stage or in the movie for its laughs. But the courts, after all, are not maintained to furnish comedy. They are maintained to handle serious legal business, and they have more than they can do without staging rowdy farces. The average breach of promise suit ought never to reach the courts. The plight of the woman whose sweetheart jilts her for another woman is not a happy one, but her remedy should not, ordinarily, lie in a lawsuit. High Time for a Liberal Renaissance The Chicago convention presents an admiiable opportunity for the Democratic party to go liberal and give us a presidential campaign between the two old parties which is not an affront to the intelligence of even a public-spirited moron. The liberal tradition in American history has

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been hard to down, in spite of the growth of materialism and cupidity. Jefferson drove the conservative Federalists from power by an. appeal to the interests of the common man—especially the independent farmer. Jacksonian Democracy united frontiersman and eastern laborer in a common cause devoted to freeing the underdog and clearing the way for the masses in politics and education. There were a number of liberal spurts between Jackson and the Civil war. Whatever their incidental imbecilities, Abolitionists, Free Soilers, Barnburners and Know-Nothings represented a revolt against the established political system. Even the Republican party got away to a very liberal start, only to be gobbled up by the profiteers during the war between the states. After the Civil war, those in the Republican party who were true to its original principles tried to rescue it from revenge, patrioteering, and plutocracy, but the crusade failed. The hangover of the war spirit and the popularity of Grant were too much for Curtis, Schurz, Greeley, Brown, Wells, C. F. Adams, Sanborn, Banks, Reid and others who staged the Liberal Republican rally. Many of these men reasserted their independence In the Mugwump revolt, Which sufficed to defeat Blaine in 1884. But this was a rebellion within a party rather than a real liberal departure. The misery of the western farmers, the deflation conducted by the bankers, and the domination of the wealthy stirred a series of dramatic third party protests—the Granger, Greenbacks and Populists movements. This insurrection promised to attain real proportions under Populism. In the presidential campaign of 1892, when they ran the old war horse, General J. B. Weaver, the Populists obtained a popular vote of 1,041,000 and captured twenty-two electoral votes. In the election of 1894 their popular vote jumped to 1,471,590. But Populism was cut short by the rise of Bryan Democracy, which united most of the discontented liberals. The elder Roosevelt made a very considerable liberal racket, though liis liberalism appeared decisive chiefly because of the reactionary character of the Republican old guard and the Parker Democrats. But the Progressive insurgents, led by La Follette, Norris, Pingree, Cummins and others in Taft’s administration, were real liberals and able to break the czardom of Uncle Joe Cannon. But for the Roosevelt- La Follette feud, they might have captured the Republican party in 1912. That year gave us two vigorous liberal unheavals—the Bull Moose movement and Wilson’s new freedom. But when Wilson betrayed his liberalism to Anglomania and ambition in the spring of .1917 his work collapsed and the nation was surrendered to blank reaction, save for the sporadic La Follette crusade In 1924. Except for the latter, liberal efforts since 1916 have been restricted to small and passing groups of able men, without popular appeal or following. A number of former Roosevelt and Wilson liberals formed the "committee of forty-eight" in 1920, but it inveighed in vain against the surrender of the country to the Ohio gang. Avery similar organization more recently has appeared—the League for Independent Political Action led by John Dewey. It is the most distinguished intellectually of all our liberal drives. And it serves to show how far we are in the United States from realizing Plato’s dream of philosopher-kings. The recent Republican decision to trust to ostrichlike illusions of security and the fear of bugaboos among the populace give the Democrats the best chance they have had since 1912, if not since 1876. If they do not rise to the challenge and the opportunity, then even the mild liberal will have to choose between supporting Norman Thomas and going fishing on Nov ; 8. They have a platform which can furnish the basis of a realistic campaign. Let. them make it good. College professor urges graduates to travel. Unnecessary advice in these days when it's a long way between jobs, Detroit judge has ordered a man not to speak to his wife for two years. That's nothing; lots of husbands don't get a chance to get a word in edge-wise, anyway. A few more of these big league baseball fistic encounters and they'll need a referee as well as an umpire at every game. Money not only goes farther in these days of the depression, but it stays away longer.

Just Every Day Sense FT MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

EXCELLENT mental food for our national birthday season is contained in an article in the current Harper's. Viscount Cecil of England writes on "The New Patriotism.” And patriotism, as we all know, is love of one’s country. "But,” pertinently asks the Britisher, ‘'should not the official acts of the country we love be subject to the laws of natural justice and Christian charity, as are the acts of the individuals we love? "Can we admire behavior in a nation that we abhor in a man? Is it possible for a true man to expend his affections upon a country if its policies directly are opposed to those believed to be decent, just or laudable?” Nationalist? all over the earth today are more rampant than they have been for decades. They are enkindling the fires that result in the conflagrations of war. They are retarding all progress toward peace. mam THEY never are true patriots, because, as Viscount Cecil says, nationalism is as far from true patriotism as lust is from love. "And," he continues, “the idea that a nation can do no wrong is even more dangerous than the. other slogan that a king can do no wrong, for the weapon of the people’s will always is there to hold back the too adventurous monarch.” There Is nothing to stop a people gone mad from egomania. And shall we define the word “great" to mean only rich or possessing the qualities of a bully? Wc dub no man great who has only these things to recommend him. Therefore, the true patriot will use the same yardstick to measure his nation with which he measures men. And surely it is fatuous to believe that we can teach, eilhef the principles of justice or high standards of personal honor to citizens when the nation whose citizens are asked to defend it w r ith their lives sets them an example of unworthiness, evasions, deceits and dishonesty. It seems to me that we can not be loyal to our own country unless we are loyal to humanity. Nor can we love America unless we first love justice. truth and honor in the larger sense that includes the whole world in its scope.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M: E: Tracy Says:

Much of the Ground Which the Democrats Gained With Their Relief Plank Has Been Lost by Their Stupid Action in Congress on the Beer Question. NEW YORK, July 13.—Republican efforts to force a vote on beer at this session of congress obviously are designed to steai Democratic thunder. Rules of the game, as it is played in congress, call for Democrats to block them. , Average people, however, are not particularly interested in that aspect of the case. Average people ! want something more. As to who gets the credit, they believe that ; well might be left for later disj cussion. The Democratic party has gone on record for immediate modification of the Volstead act. That its representatives should have permitted Republicans to take the initiative is bad enough. If they add to this blunder by trying to block action because it was started by Rej publicans, they will leave average people no choice but to regard them as four-flushers. a a a It’s Only Noise AS to thunder, average people don't care who made it in the first place, or who is able to steal it afterward. It ;s only noise, and there has been more than enough of that, especially with regard to prohibition. The people of this country assumed that the Democratic convention meant what it said and that representatives of the party in congress would be guided by it. They have known for a long time that many representatives of both parties in congress favored modification. , They have taken it for granted that these representatives would vote for modification when opportunity occurred, regardless of which party was first to move. They are amazed at the childish attitude that inspires Democrats to block action because Republicans started it. Their amazement rapidly is taking the shape of doubt. Much of the ground which the Democrats gained by adoption of a seemingly straightforward prohibition plank is being lost through the stupid course pursued by the party's leaders at Washington. a a a Relief Must Come THIS country *is in too serious a condition to be thrilled by purely political strategy. This country wants relief, regardless of who get* the credit, and it wants relief from nothing so badly as the intolerable farce of prohibition. Without a party, or unified leadership, this country has forced the issue of prohibition to the top of the list, only to find action blocked by professional politicians. Meanwhile, it is paying unprecedented taxes and putting up with an unprecedented amount of official corruption. The burdens it is bearing cause it to be sick and tired of the claptrap with which it has been fed and of the smart-alec maneuvering by which its desire for relief is now being thwarted. a a a Public Turns Skeptical THERE was rejoicing throughout the country when the Democratic party took the stand it did on prohibition and when Governor Roosevelt declared that he was for its stand 100 per cent. A few days have served to change that feeling to one of skepticism, all because of the small-minded course Democratic leaders in congress have pursued. That course has led thousands of people to believe that, evasive as the Republican attitude may be, it is about as dependable as the Democratic attitudeIf Democratic leaders in congress go much farther in their shortsighted strategy, they will elect Mr. Hoover. Thus far, they have proved about his best campaign asset.

Questions and Answers

What is the nationality and meaning of the name Voorhees? It is a Holland Dutch family name meaning "vanguard" of the army. Which amendment to the Constitution gave Negroes the right of suffrage? The thirteenth, adopted in 1865. Is Carolyn Wells the real name of the writer? That was the maiden name of Mrs. Hadwin Houghton, which she still uses as a pen name. How much reserve iron ore is there in the world and in the United States? It is estimated that the world has approximately 150,000,000,000 tons, about 75 per cent of which is in the United States. How many persons are employed by the federal, state, and municipal governments in the United States? Approximately 3,400,000.

T ?s9£Y $ ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY 1,100,000 AMERICANS IN FRANCE July 13 ON July 13, 1918, General Peyton C. March announced in Washington that more than 1,100,090 American troops were in France and that more than 700.000 of them were fit for actual combat. • On the western front, French troops continued their “nibbling" tactics at the German lines and advances were reported in the Longport-Corcy area and in the Antheuil district southeast of Montdidier. Greek forces defeated their Bulgarian opponents again in the Balkan campaign and advanced across the Sturma river. President Wilson was given tfce right to take over the telegraph lines in the United States for duration of the war. i

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Care Can Reduce Childbirth Infection

This is the second of four articles by Dr; Fishbein on Maternity Mortality. The third will appear in Thursday’s Times. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN' Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hysreia. the Health Magazine. MUCH that is fallacious has been written relative to infection during childbirth. The condition is called puerperal sepsis. Sensational writers in magazines have shouted to the four winds that the death rate of the United States from this cause is worse than in any other country in the world, and that this is entirely due to ignorance on the part of the people and incompetence on the part of the physician. There is no real basis for such statements. Most intelligent American women understand the nature of this condition and American physicians today are as competent as those to be found anywhere in the world. The difficulty lies in the misunderstanding on the part of these sensational writers of two main facts: First, American statistics are kept in a manner different from those in other countries, so that

IT SEEMS TO ME

OUT in Chicago I was wondering why it is so much more fun to be around with Democrats than with Republicans. The two parties are recruited from about the same groups of people, and yet there are a zest and a buoyancy among the friends of Thomas Jefferson that are wholly lacking in gatherings of the G. O. P. I am not referring only to the fact that the second of the major conventions provided far more excitement and columnar-material. Even when not engaged in the serious business of picking the wrong candidate, Democrats lend color and gayety to the scene. They carry more freaks with the troupe, but also a greater number of good fellows. There are fewer stuffed shirts. I finally decided that the thing which has kept the Democratic party young and charming is its splendid record of almost unbroken defeat. a a a Worse Luck Next Time IHAVE a feeling that this fine tradition is likely to be marred in November, and in that case I fully expect the next gathering of the clan quite as dull and pompous as any Republican convention. Nothing sharpens the wits and sustains the morals of a politician so much as losing an election. With one single exception, I never have attended a convention in which I was not heart and soul for the crowd which took the beating. And this feeling reached its highest point at the precise moment that it became apparent that the cause was hopeless. To be sure, this may be a peculiar quirk of my own, but I do not think so. Walt Whitman, who had an

The Greatest Business The most important business in the world is motherhood. The future depends upon the mothers of today. There have been great advances in medical science and in the care and protection of mothers and babies. The day of ignorance is passing. If you are a mother or a prospective mother, you will be interested in a packet of ten bulletins that our Washington bureau has ready for you. They are: 1. Prenatal Care. 6. Children’s Manners. 2. Care of the Baby. 7. Training the Child. 3. Child Health. 8. Parties for Children 4. Food for Children. 9. School Lunches. 5. Care of Infants in Summer. 10. Sex Education for Children. If you want this packet of ten bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. CLIP COUPON HERE ■ Dept. B-34, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want the packet of ten bulletins on Motherhood, and inclose herewith 30 cents in coin or uncancelled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and Number , City state I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

What a Life!

what is called puerperal infection in this country would not even be listed as a complication in some other countries. Second, such infections may arise from within the body as well as from without the body. Puerperal fever or sepsis leads to more deaths and more injury than any other complication of child bearing. It has been well established by the investigations of the famous Ignaz Semmelweis and Oliver Wendell Holmes that many of these cases can be prevented by observing strict antiseptic principles. Most frequently such an infection is due to contact of infectious germs with unhealed surfaces. However, it has been well established for this infection, as for others, that the determination of infection depends not only on the virulence of the germ, but also on the general resistive power of the patient. A serious infection is more likely to occur if the patient is not in good condition at the time of childbirth, if the patient happens to be exhausted by bleeding, or if the process of childbirth has been prolonged, difficult, or complicated.

RV HEYWOOD BROUN

uncanny insight into the heart of man, wrote one of his finest poems as a tribute to all those who have failed signally in their undertakings. I am not quite ready to say that suffering cleanses and purifies the soul. People who are compelled to endure pain over long stretches deteriorate, in my opinion. But losing a good fight is nothing like that. It’s far from being a pain. On the contrary, it’s a pleasure. Most of the zealots of my acquaintance are engaged in carrying on fights in which they have very little chance of winning within their own lifetime. That very fact, I believe, has something to do with their enlistment. They have the comfortable feeling that their job will last. Some years ago, when I was enjoying a nervous breakdown, I went to a doctor who undertook to set me straight. Along about the tenth or twelfth visit he made what he considered a startling discovery. By this time we had been pretty well through my youth and my recurrent dreams with gun and camera. “You know,” he said, "you’re very badly adjusted to the world in which you live. You're playing a role which goes against the grain. You are trying to pass yourself off as a humorist, and, as a matter of fact, you are basically serious minded. What you want to be is a crusader.” ana And Also Robin Hood IT so happened that I had confessed to him that in adolescence Richard the Lion Hearted was my favofle fictional character.. “Why,” said the doctor, “don’t you take up some cause which seems good to you and actually come out for it and work for it? I feel sure

| In most instances the germs probably get to the tissues either from instruments, unsterilized dressings, the woman’s own fingers, or organ- | isms which happen to be present in | the tissues, teeth, tonsils, or other j organs. By a careful examination well in advance of childbirth, by continuous 1 supervision during the months preceding, the doctor should be able to ! anticipate an exhausting or difficult child-bearing process. He can take steps to get rid of foci of infection in the teeth or tonsils, or in other tissues of the body. He can plan for childbirth under the best conditions in a suitable hospital where cleanliness and c§re are of the best. He can, no doubt, assure the paI tient of skilled nursing care with proper handling of dressings, reme- | dies, and similar accessories. The birth of a child never is a trifle even under the best of circumstances; under the worst of circumstances almost anything may happen. Next: Other complications.

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

that will help your insomnia. What cause would you like to take up?” Even though he Was offering me all the kingdoms of the world and a place in whatever harassed outlaw band I might choose, it took me no more than five seconds to decide. ‘‘l’d like,” I told him, “to work for the absolute abolition of all race prejudice of any sort and particularly for the complete freedom of the Negro." I forgot that the physician happened to have been born in Alabama. He smiled a dry grin and spoke without enthusiasm. "Why don’t you pick a fight in which you’ve got a chance to win?’’ he said. a a a The Best Sort of Battle AND I told him that there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamed of in his philosophy. It was no more than reasonable to admit that a man with my particular kind of liver hardly would live to see the coming of the great day. But there are pleasant meadows and high peaks which lie this side of Jordan. Moses never got to the promised land for which he led and suffered, and so it would ill befit a mere camp follower to complain at being put off a few miles short of his destination. One very considerable revolutionary change has taken place in our own lifetime. The winning of the vote for women was and still is epoch making. Among my friends were many of the militant suffragettes, and while the battle was on I never knew a group which lived with greater joy and satisfaction. But now they've won. Dcsdemona's occupation is gone. These women who led the fight are less happy and contented. And yet, of course, this tragic quietude of getting what you wanted can be avoided. The trick is simple. When you pick a good cause, go a little further. Pick two. . (CoDvrizht. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l often wonder if the drys are really honest in their stand on liquor. Do they really believe Indiana has a bone-dry law? Do they read the charges brought in the papers against the speakeasies and bootleggers? Take peaceful, home-loving, aristocratic Irvington. When liquor flowed through Indianapolis, it never besmirched Irvington, because a saloon never opened its doors within its boundary lines. Nine years I lived near Irvington, traded with its merchants, knew its people by sight, worked at the polls at election, fought, sweat, and bled for the good of Warren township. Now I beg these drys to stand in any store in- that beautiful locality and count the cans of malt that find their way into the homes. Watch the people who buy cappers, caps, hose, bottles, yeast, and com sugar. I do not have to tell you to count the crocks and barrels. How about the ‘'Rendezvous?’’

.JULY 13, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Mankind Had No Idea of the Immensity of the Universe Until the Twentieth Century. DR. EDWIN B FROST, who just has retired from the directorship of the famous YerkeS observatory, points out that the universe has grown a million times during his lifetime. He might have added, though modestly kept from it, that he was one of the modern, pioneers who has helped push out the limits of the known universe. It is interesting to trace this growth of the universe. From the origin of the human race until 1609, man viewed no more of the heavens than could be seen with the naked I eye. , In early days, man not only underestimated the size of the universe, but. he also underestimated the size |of the earth. To the old Greeks in j the days of Homer the earth was a sort of soup-plate with Greece at the center. Centuries later, when Columbus set sail on the Atlantic, he thought that he would land on oriental shores. He had no notion that the American continent and the Pacific ocean lay between him and the land of India. In 1609, Galileo turned his first little telescope upon the sky and the heavens* began to expand for man- ! kind. New sights swam into the view of man—the mountains of the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the stars of the Milky Way. Galileo once said that he had expanded the universe, “a thousand times beyond the conception of former ages.” but even he had no notion of the real size of the universe. a a a Great Telescopes Helped' IT is fair to say that mankind had no realization of the immensity of the universe until the twentieth century. It was the work of a great group of modern astronomers including Frost himself and such men of Kapteyn, Shapley, Adams, Hale, RuSvSell, and others, that revealed the size of the universe. Those men were aided by the great modern telescopes, such instruments as the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes and the 60-inch and 100-inch reflectors at Mt. Wilson. Modern studies have shown us, first of all the immensity of our own galaxy or Milky Way. And. second, they have shown us that many of the spiral nebulae are galaxies of stars at immense distances from our own galaxy. Our ow r n galaxy, it is believed today, is a collection of about 40,000,000,000 stars arranged in a great dusk like a grindstone or a watch. The size of the galaxy can not be given conveniently in miles. For a measuring rod, we must use lightyears, the distance which light travels in one year. A light-year is 6,000,000,000,000 miles. Diameter of the galaxy "along the hands of the watch" is about 300,000 light years. The short diameter, "from the front to the back of the watch," is about 30,000 light year/. But the distances of the spiral nebulae range from 250,000 light years up to more than a billion light-years. In recent studies of the spiral nebulae, the light-year, large as it is, has proved a cumbersome measuring rod. And so Shapley and Hubble have suggested that astronomers adopt anew unit equal to 10,000,000 lightyears. U tt tt Religious Convictions FROST has religious convictions. He says tfiat he sees no scientific inconsistency in the conception of a dominant spiritual power behind the universe. "If the universe and its energy are immortal," he said recently; "should not spirit also be enduring? It is by definition without the limitation of mass, space or time, and thus not subject to space perception. "Supernatural phenomena are not involved; nature itself is marvelous enough. To me. this leads to a certain serenity of thought, somewhat; like that which Einstein re-* centiy has described as a cosmic religion sense.’’ * Dr. Frost also believes that the universe is a "going concern.” He does not agree with Eddington and Jeans and others who believe that the universe is running down. He says that he believes that the running-down process now observed are only parts of a larger cycle. For the last ten years. Dr. Frost has been blind. His sight began to fade in 1920, after he had finished a fifteen-year study of the stars of the constellation Orion. Whether long hours at the telescope brought on his blindness is not known. , A ± But, despite his blindness, Drr Frost carried on his executive duties and continued to find his chief joys in nature. He is able to recognize the calls of birds. From listening to the chirps of the crickets around the observatory grounds, he discovered that the rate of chirping differed with the temperature and that if you counted the number of "chirps" in thirty seconds and added forty to the total thus achieved, you had the temperature in Fahrenheit degree^.

Daily Thoughts

Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to live in this place.—Jeremiah 7:3. Home is the grandest of all institutions.—Spurgeon. Was that a gathering place for the elite? Why were twenty-seven boys, habitues of that place, before juvenile court? Liquor was served there, so testimony of patrons show. But it was not bought there, but brought there by the habitues. Still, beautiful Irvington never had a saloon. Do you call such places dry? Are they classed with the speakeasies? Did a very young girl come to harm from these patrons, all young boys? May the Lord have pity on the drys when they stand before thfi bars of justice in the highest tribunal of mercy. Will God judge them on their temperance or by the souls of the youth lost by such nar-, row mindedness? MRS. W. A. COLLINS, " 53 North Hamilton Avenue.