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A Great Doctrine Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, at a critical time in world affairs, has underlined an effective American peace policy. In his address Monday night he reaffirmed the Hoover-Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition of territory and agreements achieved by arms. That doctrine, in our judgment, is the most important international step taken by the United States since the World war. There was nothing academic about the Stimson pronouncement. It was timed to meet two immediate crises. In the far east, Japan is resuming her conquest of China. A majpr war in Manchuria threatens to draw in Russia, and anything that touches Russia jars Europe. Such a war could not be isolated. It is our affair. It is the concern of every peaceful nation which has learned from experience how easily and quickly a local war can'become a world war. So Stimson repeats, for Japan's benefit, the doctrine which he laid down to her last January—that the United States will not recognize any territory seized by her, any puppet state operated by her armies, any agreements wrung from China with bayonets. But this doctrine has more meaning now than last winter. It no longer is merely an American policy; In March it was accepted by the League of Nations. And within a week it has been made the policy of Latin America as w'ell, through the joint declaration of all the American republics to Bolivia and Para guay under the Chaco war threat. Asa background for stressing this new doctrine, the secretary of state discussed the Briand-Kellogg pact. We would not belittle that treaty. This newspaper fought hard for its ratification. Without that antiwar pact, probably the road to the later HooverStimson doctrine would have been longer. But there was one serious fault with the Kellogg treaty, as we pointed out at the time. It was only an expression of good intentions. And the good intentions in that promise to outlaw war were tarnished by the increase in war preparedness by virtually all signatories of the anti-war treaty. It was a gesture, a valuable gesture; but ineffective standing alone. The Kellogg pact needed teeth. It needed a definite commitment pledging the United States and other signers to do something about its violation. The Hoover-Stimson doctrine is that definite commitment. It not only outlaws war theoretically. It outlaws the actual fruits of war. Thus the Hoover-Stimson doctrine is not so much a peace doctrine as a method to enforce peace. It would use all the moral and diplomatic force of neutrals against a war-making nation. True, it does not specifically provide for use of military, or even economic, force against an aggressor. Obviously, however, it opens the way for economic force in cases where necessary. No nation which has been outlawed by the neutral world diplomatically can obtain easily the foreign commerce and credits essential to success in a major war. In the long run, the use of such moral, diplomatic and economic weapons to enforce peace is apt to be more effective than foreign guns, which seem to endow the outlaw with martyrdom at home. Only one thing cripples the Hoover-Stimson docti ine. Fortunately, that is only temporary. It is the Hoover-Stimson Russian policy. To go on outlawing Russia, who keeps the peace, is to nullify the Kellogg pact and the Hoover-Stimson doctrine. The conti adiction is more than theoretic. It is the most dangerously practical issue planted in the far eastern dynamite. Without Russian co-operation, any international peace action in Manchuria invites failure. Russia has been co-operating for peace as best she can under the handicap of our contradictory nonrecognition policy but the handicap has been too much. In the name of the great Hoover-Stimson doctrine and of world peace—even if it does not care about the billions of dollars worth of Russian trade—we hope thr administration will resume relations with Russia soon. Burning Oranges Hie \ entura Star reports the burning of 2,000 boxes of oranges in a deep barranca by a southern California company. The company's sales manager admits the destruction of several hundred boxes, explaining that lack of market and the fact that no charitable agency called for tljrm made it necessary. ‘•Overproduction.” he called it, meaning underconsumption. Oranges contain vitamin C, recognized as an essential diet for babies and children and as a preventive of scurvy. Tens of thousands of children these days go without it. Surely we can evolve a system of relief distribution that will make unnecessary the burning of wheat, corn, oranges and other food at a time when people are hungry. A Modern Mid-Victorian <An Editorial in the New York Times) Ellen Browning Scripps was born in London a few months before Queen Victoria came to the throne. But though a mid-Victorian in the middle years of her life, she became the most modern of women through her early American transplanting; an equal suffragist, a temperance reformer, a practical protagonist of free speech, a keen sharer in business enterprises, and a generous nourisher of the sciences. In the days when a college education was not common, she entered a co-educational college, Knox college in Galesburg, HI., being graduated in 1858, the very year In which one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was held beside its main building. She founded a college In California for young women and so carried across the continent the torch put, in her hands by that midwestern college which gave her the education that made possible an unusual career. The inventive and artistic genius of the father showed itself in the unusual achievements of the sons, but also in her own and in her unique contribution to the success of their ventures. After teaching school for some years, she joined her newspaper brothers, carrying with her the meager earnings of those years. At first, as author of ‘'Miscellany,” which was the forerunner of a special feature in the daily press, she became partner with her brothers in their great undertakings. Milton A. Mcßae, who shared in some of these enterprises, said <en years ago that she then had given to schools, hospitals, churches of many denominations, playgrounds, associated charities, A

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zoological gardens, natural history societies and other causes upward of two million dollars. She kept on giving, notably for science and higher education. She had learned the “art of giving.” But in her simple life at La Jolla, fronting the Pacific, she showed that she also had learned the art of living. She had all the graces of a mid-Victorian in the midst of an active, modern, American existence, in which she kept in touch with the affairs of the world, but participated in those of the community about her. The daughter of the London bookbinder who became a prairie farmer gave anew glory to American womanhood by a life that added the best of the new to the best of the old. Idle Men, Idle Lands Next to the millions of idle men, the worst waste in the United States is in its millions of acres of idle lands. When the Pilgrims landed, nearly one-half of our continent was in virgin forests. Os the original 800,000,000 acres of “forest primeval,” only 137,000,000 acres remain standing. At the present rate of cutting and burning, this soon will have gone the way of the rest. Because the timbermen did not replant, and because of wasteful farm methods, 21,000,000 acres of good farm land has been destroyed by erosion and gullying. More tragic than either of these is the waste due to the attempt to farm poor or sub-marginal lands. A study recently was made of 1,500 such farms in one eastern state. It was found that onehalf of them had been abandoned and returned to public ownership through tax delinquencies. The farmers who remained were receiving an average income of S9B a year. In five states—Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Oregon—nearly 40,000,000 acres, or 16 per cent of their total areas, have reverted to public ownership through farm abandonment. It is estimated that 100.000,000 acres', or an area equal to half of the total remaining public domain, has come back into the public's hands through failures and delinquencies. Efforts to make these slothful acres earn their way must be directed toward two ends, the planting of idle and submarginal lands to trees and the repeopling of good lands. Attempts along both lines are afoot. The United States timber conservation board just has issued a constructive set of suggestions. One is that standing timber be made free of taxes and be taxed only upon its sale. This would encourage private timbermen and farmers to replant logged areas. Another is that forest properties be permitted to merge for control of production. States, notably New York, are reforesting submarginal lands. Last year New York planted 41,000,000 trees; Michigan. 23,000.000; Pennsylvania. 8,000,000; Wisconsin, Ohio and Massachusetts moro than 3,000,000 each. The “farm garden” movement, too, has begun in New York and Indiana. In New York state, 5,000 families in forty manufacturing communities have joined this “back-to-the-land” movement. All these efforts are, of course, small in face of the great problem. What is needed is a national land planning program, evolved in co-operation with the states. Most of the nations of the world are convinced that Japan needs a good spanking, a famous historian remarks. But the trouble is that so far we have had no volunteers for the mother role. Mussolini says he is a firm advocate of economy In government. Just to prove his point, cabinet dinners In Italy now consist of a table set for one. What does this country stand for, a speaker asks. Well, after what we’ve been through, we'd say that it would stand for most anything. The prince of Wales says the way to avoid depression is to keep busy at something. Another way is to choose a king for a father. A woman in Massachusetts just has divorced a husaand who previously had divorced her. Still deternined have the last word, we suppose. An oculist warns that it is dangerous to rub the •yes. Vacationists receiving their hotel bills should pinch themselves instead. A Chicago woman who shot her husband says that she will miss him. But she didn’t at the right time.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A T a recent church conference, a resolution con/A demning the moving picture as a destroyer of morals was adopted. In this, as usual, we are grasping the wrong horn of the dilemma. The notion that movies or shoddy literature can change the passions or the mental processes of humanity is a delusion often entertained. And it is a delusion. Contrariwise, as Tweedledum would say. the passions and mental processes of humanity change literature and the movies. Every writer and dramatist must exaggerate to prove a point. There never was a great piece of fiction but was highly colored and in a measure overdrawn. Fact must be heightened by fancy to get public attention. “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” a book that moved the hearts of men as few ever have done, suffered from the greatest exaggerations. There never was on earth a creature so good as Uncle Tom and never a child so pious as Little Eva. But by magnifying their virtues and intensifying the cruelty of Simon Legree. Mrs. Stowe crystallized public opinion and helped to abolish slavery. a a a DO you believe that such powerful plays as “What Price Glory?” and such ruthless books as “Death of a Hero” and "All Quiet on the Western Front,” could have sprung from any catastrophe less ghastly than a world war? Moving pictures, books, all literature in short., attempt to and do, in a measure, portray life. If, therefore, life is mean and shabby, it is presented to us like that. The concepts of literature—and the moving picture is a form of literature—change continually, and, as Emerson reminded us, "Each age must write its own books.” To reckon, therefore, that you can improve the morals of a nation merely by following certain rules in the making of its reading or entertainment is to grow entirely topsy-turvey in your thinking. Since all art is a by-product of life, the moving picture, which is a modern form of art, must reflect certain phases of existence. To improve the movies, therefore, we first shall have to improve the manners, customs, morals and ideals of the American public.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

Pay Doesn't Mean Much When You Get Beyond a Certain Point, hut Below a Certain Point It Means Everything. NEW YORK. Aug. 9.—Mayor Walker's month plan might do all right for a country village, where no public employe gets more than a living wage, but | it is far too simple for the great- ! est city in America, where salaries range from SI,OOO to $40,000 a year. There is nothing fair about a pay cut which deprives one man of bread, while it causes another no greater inconvenience than giving up one of three autos. Mayor Walker's plan is merely an economic wisecrack. It sounds fine until you repeat it. Then its hollowness becomes apparent. A month's pay for the common good—“that's telling them.” says the ditchdigger, before he has had time to think it over, "that’s taking them all in.” Then he goes home to give his wife the good news. She is not so enthusiastic. She knows much more about the family budget than he does, and just how much scrimping it takes to make both ends meet. “But,” argues the ditch-digger, “it's Mayor Walker's idea and it must be good. Besides, what can I do, and besides, there is Captain So-and-So, and Commissioner So-and-So; they've got to take it.” “Oh, yeah,” says his wife, “and suppose they have. What do they stand to lose, except a night at the show now and then, or a week less at the beaches.” a tt tt There Is a Living Wage PAY is a strange thing. When you get beyond a certain point it doesn't mean so much, but when you get below a certain point it means everything. There is such a thing as the living wage, even if nobody seems to know just what it is. There is a place in the economic scale where the margin is so thin even the slightest cut brings blood. Take a man drawing $40,000 a year, like Myor Walkfr, and what happens if you lop off SIO,OOO. Does he need to go hungry, or poorly clothed? He does not. It may give his pride an awful jolt, but it doesn't do much harm to anything else. Now take the man getting SI,OOO or $1,200 a year, and what happens if you lop off even a small amount? Quite often it is the difference between enough and not quite enough to eat. If you've ever gone through the experience of not having quite enough to seat you know what that means. If you lack the experience there are millions in this country who can tell you all aobut it. tt tt tt Fairness Is Foremost AS a matter of common arithmetic. you can save more money by cutting the pay of 100,000 lowsalaried people bv a certain per cent than by cutting that of a few high-salaried employes twice as much, but that does not justify the ! idea of making it unnecessarily tough for the former. Fairness is the most important element in the conduct of public business, whether applied to taxation or pay cuts. People will put up with most anything as long as they think they are being treated fairly. They have proved nothing more vividly during the last three years. The ability to pay has been accepted as a just basis on which to settle national debts. It certainly ought to be accepted as a just basis on which to fix salary reductions. The man who gets barely enough for meat and drink never should be asked to make the same percentage of sacrifice as the man who gets many times enough. The idea of economizing at the expense of those who least can afford it has become too fashionable. Not that most of our business and political leaders have failed to bear their share of the load, but that, every once in a while, someone, like Mayor Walker, comes out with a proposition which would put an unjust share of the burden on those at the foot of the line.

M TODAY £$ IS THEWORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY 25.000 GERMANS TAKEN

August 9 ON Aug. 9. 1918, British troops on the Somme battle front pressed forward more than five miles on a frontage of nearly twenty miles, in a day of desperate attacks and counter-attacks. German resistance was stubborn in the extreme, and this fact helped account for the 25.000 prisoners taken in the two days of bitter fighting. German losses were enormous. Their troops on the Somme front were tired out from nearly four months of continuous fighting, and their reserves were not sufficient to plug the huge gaps in their lines.

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Build Decides Sport Best for You

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvireia, the Health Magazine. THE ability to run, to jump, and to throw effectively is necessary to success in various forms of athletic endeavor. The purpose of athletic exercise is not primarily., the development of large muscles, but rather the development of form, grace, proper competitive spirit, and mental attitude. Certain sports are not at all adapted to certain types of bodies. It has been shown that girls and women can not successfully run the 800-meter race and this has been barred from women's competition in Olympic games. The bodies of women are not suited to broad jumping and putting the shot or to lifting heavy weights. True, there are occ sional women who might excel in these sports, but in most instances they will be found to have something of the masculine type in their body build.

IT SEEMS TO ME

MY attention has been called, through the medium of Westbrook Pegler’s column, to the fact that the Olympic program contains a fine art section. Mahonri Young, it seems, scored a first for the United States with a statue of a prize fighter. Maybe I have not been looking in the right places in the newspapers, but this particular phase of the activities in Los Angeles has escaped me. I am in entire ignorance as to what height was cleared by the winning poet and his name and nation. Nor have any of the headlines revealed the victor in putting the prose narrative or tossing the nude. It is perhaps a little too much to expect 85,000 spectators to gather to cheer on a landscape painter. He might not even like it if they did. But, at least, there could be public contests in oratory and the art of acting. The latter pursuit, for instance, ought to be a decided novelty for Hollywood and its environs. tt tt tt The Men-Who Toss Weights AND, after all, not all the events scheduled for the multitude seem to me precisely thrilling from the spectators’ point of view. I vastly would prefer to see Miss Dorothy Parker hard at work upon a poem than watch Mr. Sexton tossing the 16-pound shot. I read with amazement that there was enormous enthusiasm when “the genial giant” heaved the metal pellet” some fifty-two feet and more. But I rather think my reaction would have been, -‘So what?” Sixteen pounds is quite a lot of weight, particularly if it is distributed in the wrong places, and yet it can't be vitally important whether Mr. Sexton can toss it fifty feet or a hundred. And, likewise, I care very little just where the javelins fall or the hammers. There is no intention to suggest that sheer power and perfection of timing in its application are wholly without appeal to this old esthete. There is an undeniable thrill in watching Babe Ruth knock a home run over a distant right-field fence, and I know of few sights more beautiful than a well-hit ball sailing 300 yards or so down the center of a golf course. Indeed, I have known drives of considerably less than that which moved me mightly, but those were ones hit by myself back in my athletic days. tt tt tt Almost a Champ INDEED, once upon a time I was in danger of becoming a weight tosser. Only lack of ability and absence of character saved me from this fate worse than death. In my freshman year the track coach came upon me in the gymnasium and said, “You ought to be a shot-put-ter.” His remark startled me. I wondered how he could tell intuitively in that way that I was maintaining a standard of D minus in all my courses. And so he gave me a shot to toss about under his practiced eye. I heaved it out some ten or forty feet, and the coach said: “With practice you can do a good deal better than that. Come around every afternoon about this time and IH give you some pointers.”

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It is commonly believed that a small, slender boy seldom makes a good shot putter. Massive boned, big men seldom develop into good sprinters or distant runners. True, an occasional athlete of great weight will excel in sprinting, but the majority of fast runners are light, lithe men. Boys differ a great deal in their athletic ability and it is the function of an intelligent coach or trainer to find the sport to which a boy best is adapted, since it is good for him to do the things’ athletically in which he excels. Much, in addition, can be accomplished by proper training. The ability to breathe properly, to run correctly so far as concerns the distribution of weight and the carriage of the body, and to use the breathing apparatus and the heart to the best advantage are not only matters of body build, but also of training. There is a limit to the speed or contraction of any one muscle, to the duration of the contraction, and also to the action of groups of muscles.

pv HEYWOOD BROUN

The morrow dawned—and it was a clear, crisp morning, with just a touch of spring in the air—and so, naturally, we got up a poker game. When shot-putting time arrived I was the big loser. Even in those days I possessed a certain amount of shrewdness, and I wasn't fool enough to quit tossing chips in favor of heaving mere dead weight, i realized that in the long run it all evens up. As fate would have it, I dropped deeper and deeper into the hole. And, indeed, my passion for poker remained for the entire four years an insuperable barrier between me and a liberal education. I wish now that I had learned French and the rudiments of meterical composition. I easily could stand more anthropology and a profounder knowledge of the strata in the rocks. But I’m glad I didn't grow up to be a shot-putter. tt tt tt Too Much Stress THE coach was a determined man. and even my failure to report did not deter him from his propaganda to develop m brawn and let my brain go wither. He gave me something to remember him by in the shape of a twelve-pound shot,

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Editor Times—The writer was no little amazed recently to read your news item relating to the revocation of radio broadcasting license recently granted by the federal radio commission to the Thirty-first Street Baptist church of this city. Can not public sentiment be so crystallized that the radio commission may come to feel the overpowering demand of this community for a station like WJED, which real- -- will serve the community in a wholesome and unselfish way? Surely there is enough evidence in the general news items of every newspaper edition to show the wanton lack of real goodness in the hearts of the men and women of America. What a power for social uplift and educational dissemination a radio station of the right type can be. Please accept my sincere personal thanks for the active part you are taking in clearly laying the facts before the people in behalf of this splendid movement. Yours very truly, M. C. FINNEY. 1325 Congress avenue. Editor Times—l can not understand why the trucking industry is so opposed to being placed on an equal competitive basis with the railroads. I never have been a railroad employe, but we all know from experience what the inexperienced builder has done to the building industry, and we stand idly by, letting the trucking companies destroy the backbone of our nation with the aid of the taxpayers’ money, and then we wonder why business does not improve. I wonder what the public would say if the railroad companies would park five or six box cars on our

It is the experience of many athletes that the amount of power that can be exerted by the muscles is in excess of their speed of contraction or use. However, if strength is in excess and if contraction speed is well developed, records are sure to be broken. It has, in general, been believed that a good little man can beat a poor big one, but there seems to be no question that a good big man will beat a good little one. Height is of particular advantage in such track events as the high jump, in which the center of weight must be raised from the ground. To begin with, the tall, thin athlete has a light weight to raise and only has to lift his legs up to be well over the bar. Height also should be of advantage in putting the shot, because the weight starts at a higher point and, its initial velocity and angle being equal, will travel farther when thrown by a tall man than by a short one.

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which I was to take away with me for the summer. “When you’re on a beach or a lawn just practice with this,” he advised me, “and at the end of the summer you’ll be surprised at the progress you’ve made.” Os course, this was before the days when it was necessary to weigh down every traveling suitcase with bottles of gin, but even so, there wasn't much room for it, and it grew to be a terrible nuisance carting the thing around to all fie great houses in Newport and Easthampton w'here I was invited to spend a week-end. The only good toss I ever made landed in a man's crocuses and created ill feeling. But mostly I couldn't seem to feel the surge of steady Improvement. One heave of the shot felt and looked just the same as any other. And after you tossed it away with a mighty effort, you had to walk all that distance, pick the confounded thing up and go back to the point from which you started. That isn t what I call progress, so one night I dropped the shot into the bay. With it W'ent my hope of athletic supremacy. Still I' m not sorry, although sometimes I get a wistful feeling that it might have been fun to take up pole vaulting. 'Copyright. 1932. bv The Times)

streets, sometimes without lights at night, overload their cars and ruin our asphalt streets, which are soft in warm weather, force their employes to work from twenty to sixty hours without rest, running their trains in the center of the highway crowding other traffic off the road, killing and injuring its passengers and preventing the man with a family enjoying a ride on the highway. I venture to say the railroad employe would not have a job very long, yet the trucking companies are guilty of all this, and are having the support of the average business man. This is just one example of what a high school and college education will do to our business. It would be far better if our so-called "leaders” would have quit school at the eighth grade and learned at least a little common sense, and put a damper on our present “cutthroat” business methods. Our worries would be over. EDWARD J. KIRCK. Editor Times—What is the matter with America? The answer is, Man’s inhumanity to man.” We have permitted greed and selfishness to crystallize the minds of the people and where laws of the nation are made for individual selfishness it will cause the overthrow of the nation. The danger signal of a nation is a decrease in home ownership. If we fail to promote the common good, then we have failed in the true purpose of human government. When the people allow politicians to do their thinking on a question of national policy, it results in legislation based on the influence of the selfish interests against the interest of the masses and if not checked

.AUG. 9, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Many Myths Regard the Sun and the Moon cts Husband and Wife, or Brother and Sister. npHE notion that the sun, moon and planets exercise some direct influence upon the specific incidents of the lives of individuals persists in some quarters. These beliefs can be traced all the way back to the early days of civilization when the sun and the moon were believed to be real people, taking an active and actual part in events upon the earth. Many of these early legends regard the sun and moon as husband and wife or as brother and sister. Many myths Identify the sun or moon as national heroes who were deified and transported to the skyafter death. The myths differ as to the sex of the sun and the moon, some designating the sun as masculine and the moon as feminine, others stating just the opposite. Australian myths regard the moon as a man and the sun as a woman. The Indians of Peru, however, believed the moon to be a woman, who was both sister and wife of the sun. This dual relationship is not uncommon in mythology. It is encountered frequently in Greek and Roman mythology, where, for example. Juno, the queen of the gods, is both sister and wife of Jupiter, king of the gods. tt tt Confusion in Sex OLCOTT offers a possible explanation for the confusion in sex of the sun and moon. He writes in his “Sun Lore of All Ages;” “This confusion in the sex, ascribed to the sun and moon by different nations, may have arisen from the fact that day is mild and friendly, hence the sun, which rules the day, properly would be considered feminine, whiie the moon, which rules the chill and stern night, appropriately might be regarded as a man. “On the contrary, in equatorial regions, the day is forbidding and burning, while the night is mild and pleasant. Applying these analogies, it appears that the sex of the sun and moon would, by some tribes, be the reverse of those ascribed to them by others, climatic conditions being responsible for the confusion.” In this connection, it is interesting to note that in the German language the word for sun is regarded as a feminine noun, while the word for moon is masculine. Just the opposite is true of Latin and the Romance languages. An old Persian legend regards the sun and moon as husband and wife and the stars as their children, a progeny more numerous by far than that of the old lady who lived in a shoe. Many peoples, perhaps because of the brilliance of the sun. have regarded themselves as children of the sun Thus, for example, the Incas of Peru called themselves the “children of the sun.” tt *t * Interesting Myth 'T'HE natives of the Malay penin- . sula ha ve an interesting myth which seeks to account for the differences between the day and night sky and also the motions of the sun and moon. According to this legend, both the sun and the moon are regarded as women, while the stars are the children of the moon. The legend tells that the sun once had as many children as the moon. The children of the sun were bright like the sun itself. Fearing that the earth could not stand so much light and heat, the sun and moon made an agreement to cat their children. The sun carried out her part of the agreement, but the moon only hid her children. When the moon’s children, the stars, came out at night, the sun was very angry and began to pursue the moon. This accounts for the motions of the sun and moon through the heavens which the Malay natives regarded as a pursuit of the moon by the sun. The stars go out as the sun rises. This, the natives sav. Is because the sun still is devouring her children. But the moon hides her children during the daytime and brings them out at night. Among the American Indians we find the sun and moon generally regarded as brother and sister. One legend of the Ottawa Indians tells of two Indians who “sprang through a chasm in the sky and found themselves in a pleasant moonlit land." There they met the moon, who was “an aged woman with white face and pleasing air.” She introduced them to her brother, who was the sun. will result in revolutionary disorder of the most tragical kind. Political parties either are humane or possessed of greed and self-pro-motion. The people must decide which one to choose. Study the platforms and the candidates as far as possible, use your own judgment, and you will arrive most nearly at the right conclusion. We must encourage the education of all the people upon questions of national policy, then they will think for themselves, see the dangers that threaten civilization and in time will grasp the philosophy of a really free government Possibly we do not need reforms; what we probably most need is spiritual royalty. Simply maintain. not alter, the doctrine of our Lord. After all, a community or a nation which is a community can be no better than its citizenry. In other words, we must change our way of thinking and we are doing that very thing. Good thinking, good fellowship, lend a helping hand to the other fellow, confidence will do much to bring us out of the present chaotic state of affairs. You know He commanded His disciples to “feed my sheep” and it seems to me the sheep are not being fed. For centuries we have chased the filthy dollar, which has committed more crime than any. other one thing in this world. Let us then turn face about and do something for humanity. Asa nation, we must not reject God. To do so is moral, spiritual, social and political suicide. A PATRIOT.