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Hoover’s Speech President Hoover's acceptance speech impressed us V an exceedingly well-written and, on the whole, frank statement of his conservative position. For the first time he makes clear his attitude toward prohibition. He lines up with the moderate drys, by favoring revision rather than repeal. He is willing tb submit to the states the question of his brand of revision, but he is not willing to submit the question of outright repeal. He does not pledge himself definitely, or his party,to do anything to achieve or hasten even revision of the eighteenth amendment. And, of course, he does not pledge himself to any modification of the dry laws pending change of the amendment. This is a consistent position for a dry who, as he lays, "always has sympathized with the high purpose of the eighteenth amendment” and who now wishes to cling to as much oi it as public opinion will permit. It would block legislation and taxation of beer and wines for several or perhaps for many years, and It would postpone indefinitely a vote on outright repeal. The Democratic platform puts liquor control squarely up to the states, and urges the states to prevent return of the saloon. The Republican platform—and President Hoover’s speech of acceptance—also puts liquor control up to the states, subject, however, to the Coastitution of the United States, retaining provisions that will protect each state from interference and invasion by its neighbors, and from return of the saloon. Both parties, therefore, oppose the saloon. The objection to the Republican method is that it won't work. That fact has been demonstrated for twelve years. If the states can't control the liquor problem within their own borders, the federal government can’t. Retention in the Constitution of anything that throws part of the responsibility for enforcement on the federal government divides the responsibility, and divided responsibility contains within It the germ of Its own failure. The fundamental reason why federal enforcement has failed is that a police regulation has no place in the Constitution of the United States. Insofar as the federal government acts as between states to prevent "invasion” by neighboring states, it is performing a proper federal function—which was performed before the eighteenth amendment and which would be continued after prohibition repeal. But, insofar as the federal government itself invades a state and takes a hand in the state’s enforcement affairs, it is engaging in an endeavor, the utter failure of which is the reason both great political parties now admit that there must be a change. This operation of getting rid of prohibition and back into a system in which the responsibility for control rests where it should rest—a system in which real temperance once again may have a chance to thrive—must be clear cut. Inch at a time amputation only prolongs the agony. We believe that the people, through (specially elected state conventions, have a right to vote on the fiat question of repeal, which Hoover would deny them. Pending that decision of the people on the amendment, we favor speedy Volstead modification by congress. In short, we favor the Democratic plank. The President is frank in defending the high tariff. We believe it has provoked a disastrous international trade war, and that business destroyed by it can not be prosperous again until the tariff is lowered. Unfortunately, the President—like his opponent, Mr. Roosevelt—is less frank regarding the debtsarmament problem, which is retarding business recovery. In one sentence he seems to favor conditional debt cancellation in trade for European markets, but in the next sentence he seems to oppose any form of cancellation. The Scripps-Howard and Borah proposal for joint reduction of debts and armaments, which has received such wide support in this country, is ignored by the President. He appears unaware of the Russian recognition problem, or that better relations with that country would help to check a Japanese war and would open a rich market for our depressed industries; or that present federal unemployment relief is inadequate. Throughout his long discussion of the depression, there is no suggestion that basic changes are needed In our economic system. Reading the President's appeal for re-election, we get the impression of a sincere conservative, sobered by past mistakes and by vast responsibility.

Still a Chance The state senate still has its chance to repeal the .Wright law and forget its hypocritical suggestion that this particular law be' subjected to a referendum of the voters in November. The people may some day adopt a system of not only offering a referendum on all legislation, but also of initiating laws by petition. The very senators who are suggesting a referendum on this repeal bill would probably bitterly oppose any such Socialistic suggestion as permitting the people to make their own laws, away from the influence of bosses, lobbyists and corrupt forces of all kinds. If there has been one law which has proved costly to the people, not only in money, but in morals, it has been the Wright monstrosity. That law placed a special incentive before the eyes of all prosecutors. That in itself is vicious and immoral. It resulted in injustices and, worse, it resulted in placing this law T In importance above the laws on major crimes. That law ties the hands of science and by this act reflects the ignorance and bigotry from which it came. The law is at variance with the national laws held to be inspired on the subject of liquor control. The repeal of this law would help to restore some confidence in government. Russian Business Reports that large American banks and industrialists are to co-operate with Russia in marketing its gold bonds bring added evidence that American business understands the importance of Russian trade, even if the administration does not. Thcee American banks and companies have done business with Moscow in the past and found the Russians absolutely reliable in keeping agreements and paying bills—which, unfortunately, can not be said for some other foreign and domestic custdmers. But our sales to Russia, amounting to $114,000,000 !n 1930 and $103,000,000 in 1931. have fallen off 90 per cent this year as a result of the administration* anti-Russian policy and its blighting effects on credits. Now American business, apparently, is determined

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to regain that much-needed Russian trade, regardless of the administration. There are signs that this business pressure, and the obtious need of Russian-American co-operation to preserve the peace treaties against Japanese aggression, slowly are forcing the administration to a more realistic attitude toward Russia. Mo6t members of the senate foreign relations committee and most leaders of both parties in congress are in favor of an official trade agreement or recognition of Russia, as shown in recent Scripps-How-ard interviews For the sake of world peace and of American prosperity, we hope Hoover will not wait too long to take this inevitable step. Kentucky, Too The state of Henry Clay apparently is ready to shake off the yoke of the Anti-Saloon League. Senator Alben W. Barkley, former Anti-Saloon League lecturer, ran s as an eager supporter of the Democratic platform for prohibition repeal. He won the Democratic nomination in Kentucky’s Saturday primary, leading his opponent by at least 50,000 votes. The nine Democratic nominees for congress all are listed as wets, while three of the nine Republican nominees also are wets. Kentucky voted five to three for repeal in the recent Literary Digest poll. Sentiment there is said to be swinging back to that of the old days, when brewing was one of its biggest industries. The Blue Grass state will not be called the Blue Nose state.

Watch That Match It's vacation time, and the forests call. As you motor beneath their healing,shade, or camp within their green mansions, show your appreciation of these "God's first temples.” Vandalism is comparatively rare, carelessness is not. A thoughtless toss of a burning match or cigaret, or a campfire left unbanked, may result in destroying beauty and wealth that generations can not restore. Fires in the national forests have decreased 46 per cent during the first half of this year, yet the forest service reports that already 51,500 acres have been destroyed by fire.

The American home is the last word in efficiency and comfort, an architect proudly states. The only thing left to do it Is to find something to keep the family in it. ~ A Regardless of its final effects, the recent rise in stock values accomplished one fine thing. It stopped talk of changing the name of the bears to toreadors because of the way they handled the bulls. An observer remarks that a brave man with the courage to say no could make $50,000 a year in Holly * wood. And all this time Senator Borah has been wasting his time in Washington for a mere SIO,OOO. The Cincinnati ball club was organized in 1868, an expert tells us. And just one look at the National League standings will convince anybody that it acts Its age. A New York surgeon succeeded in grafting a small bone taken from the back of the head of a patient. If he only could reverse that process for our politicians! The real purpose of vacations is to give workers change, a physician says. The way it usually works out, though, the vacationist gets back without change of any kind. An employer says that labor won’t be satisfied long with the five-day week. What the workers will eventually ask for is the five-day week-end. From the action of the bulls in the market these days, it looks as if the cat isn’t the only animal with a minimum of nine lives. A farmer-economist says the wheat pit is v the greatest gambling place in the world. And all these years we thought the greatest gamble was the ballot. Florida fruit growers just have learned that sand is a good preservative for grapefruit. Well, they must be a long way behind the spinach growers. The R. F. c. seems likely to change that old campaign slogan of Two Cars in Every Garage to Two Mortgages on Every Home. Another thing the depression has changed: More passengers are killed now in freight than in passenger train wrecks. The real trouble with government seems to be that we have too few ideals and too many deals.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

GRADUALLY but surely the authorities seem to yJ be getting together. The physician, the psychologist, the professor, after seemingly interminable arguments, have arrived at a conclusion. Round and round they went with their theories then- cults, and their complexes, only to reach the same results. The only good parent is the happv parents. It all simmers down to plain, old-fashioned sense. Unhappy people nearly always are bad people, and bad children are sure to be miserable or ill. So most of our cure-alls are worthless. After the hullabaloo over the new’ sciences, the thing that counts is the thing that always has counted—example. Precepts, unless practiced, are no good whatever. So the first step in the breeding of fine children is for men and women—their parents—to live orderly, normal, decent lives. The rest w'ill take care of itself! MUM WE can look at this question with the same dispassionate feeling that the stockman uses for his cattle. His pure breds are well cared for. kept in clean quarters, and no disturbing elements are permitted to enter into the natural calmness of their existence. The result is more fine cattle. While we may not contrive to view the human animal with similar unconcern, a good deal of this direct concentration upon the main question is necessary before we can hope to have children anywhere nearly as perfect as they might be. We can t, for instance, expect them to develop on bad food. They will not thrive in insanitary or ugly surroundings. They will not be healthy without plenty of fresh air and sunshine, and we can not subject them to intense emotional storms, bred of family quarrels, naggings, and divorce court procedure. without bad results. If the day ever comes when we can boast healthy, normally intelligent, and reasonably happy parents, who live in decent, reasonably happy homes, the problem of raising children will have solved itself* A

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M. E. Tracy Says:

Soviet Russia'B Offer of a 10 Per Cent Bond Issue Obviously Is Spectacular. NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Under normal condition, 10 per cent would sound fishy, particularly in connection w.th a government bond issue, but conditions are far from normal. Quite a few' good securities yield 10 per cent at the present market price, and that, too, without any buyers’ rush. Soviet Russia’s bid for outside capital obviously is spectacular. It has been a long time since any great government offered 10 per cent, tenyear gold bonds, redeemable at any time for full face value, together with accrued interest. At first thought, the proposition seems unnecessarily attractive, but it is only fair to remember that Soviet Russia has something of a handicap to overcome. Not only is there a strong prejudice against her in certain capitalistic circles, but the foreign bond market has gone sour. Given Careful Thought IT is logical to assume that Soviet officials did not make such an offer without careful consideration, and that they are offering no more than was needed. They may have overestimated the greed of outside investors and have placed the wrong interpretation on an unusually high interest. Sometimes that turns investors away. Sometimes, they take it as a sign of weakness. We shall know now the complex works in this particular case. The Soviet's record for prompt payment of all obligations is bound to have an effect, while 10 per cent is not as startling as it was five or six years ago. The chances are that if the bond issue is not too big, it will be taken up, especially because of the growing interest in Russian trade. Many people are anxious to get a share of the Russian market, and some of them represent real pow-er in the field of finance.

More Than Half Way WHATEVER else may be thought of this latest move on Russia’s part, it suggests her willingness to meet other countries, not only half way. but on their own terms. Many, indeed, will take it as a surrender to capitalistic terms and customs. Many more will construe It as representing a complete change in Russia's attitude toward the outside. They will be wrong, but that has nothing to do with the favorable reaction it will cause in their sentiments. They have regarded Russia as chiefly interested in promoting disturbance, or revolution, as bent on overthrowing the capitalistic system, as having no use for trade and commerce along orthodox lines. Their calculations are bound to be jolted by her offer to sell them bonds in the good old capitalistic way and pay 10 per cent interest in their own money. They are going to wonder if that "Moscow outfit” is as bad as it has been painted. u tt False Impression Given . OUR relations with the Soviet have been plagued and spoiled by a false interpretation of Soviet problems and Soviet aims. We have taken Communism in Russia to mean the same thing as Communism in America, and have appraised the Soviet by what we know about a few soapbox orators. Russia really is developing state capitalism. Outside of the fact that they are run by public instead of private officials, her banks, manufactories, railroads, wholesale houses and retail stores are conducted much like our own. Her transactions are carried out on a money basis and with elaborate bookkeeping systems. While private or personal profit plays a smaller part than among us, each business and department must more than pay its way.. The wage system so has been revised and arranged as to offer reward for merit, experience and ability. Scientific management is taking the place of proletarian blah-blah. Russia is slowly but surely evolving a real business set-up. Curiously enough, she is copying American methods more closely than those of any other nation.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ln following the fortunes and misfortunes of the socalled B. E. F., including various letters in “Views of Times Readers” and editorials, two points come to my mind which do not seem to have received notice or comment and which appear to have a vital bearing on the consideration that should be accorded this group. Point one is that, strictly speaking, there can be no further “full payment of the bonus” at this time. An analysis of the face value of a bonus certificate shows that it is composed of (a") “adjusted service compensation,” computed at the rate of $1 a day for U. S. service and $1.25 for foreign service, and (b) compound interest covering a period of twenty years. The “adjusted service compensation” w r as considered as due in 1925 by passage of the bonus law. It could not be paid then, so it was funded and twenty years of compound interest added to the “adjusted service compensation” to make the “full value” of the bonus certificate. To illustrate: A man whose “adjusted service compensation” was S6OO, was credited with approximately 141 per cent compound interest for twenty years, so that the face value of his bonus certificate was the “adjusted service compensation” of S6OO x 2.41 per cent, or $1,446. If the bonus is paid now. he would be entitled to compound interest for only seven years instead of twenty years, or S6OO x 1.36 per cent, or $Bl6. Payment now would reduce the face amount by the amount of unearned interest so that the “full value” at present would be only slightly in excess of the “fifty per cent loan value” now available. Point two is that there are three major veterans' organizations—the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Military Order of Foreign Wars. All these organizations frowned on the bonus march, and as they represent the majority of veterans, those members of the so-called B. E. F. who happened to be real veterans are in the position of a small minority trying to fore# their views on congress

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley's “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Thursday’s Times: Robert Eckthorp’s ‘‘Birthdayless Life—Robert Eckthorp, son of an American mining engineer, lived to be more than 19, but never enjoyed the celebration of a birthday anniversary. Born on Feb. 29, 1896, he missed his birthday in 1900, because it was not a

Germ Prevention Up to Community

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. THERE are many hygienic functions that must be carried on by the individual himself such as washing the body and the teeth, using clean cooking utensils in the home and securing regular action of the bowels and the body organs. There are, however, other functions of hygiene which must be carried out by the community as a whole rather than by the individual. Such functions include sewage disposal, the provision of pure water and food supplies, education of the public in health and in hygiene, the destruction of insect menaces to man and if rates and of other rodents, the provision of pure air, of good light and of safety during working hours. These functions are not such that any human being can be wholly responsible for, even so far as they concern himself. However, each one of these factors also affects a multitude of people and anything

IT SEEMS TO ME by ™ n od

IT seems a pity that John H. McCooey should spurn the laurels of literature and its fair rewards so casually. The veteran Democratic leader of Kings county, New York, has been quoted in the newspapers as declaring that the proposition to issue his de luxe autobiography is “a racket.” And. of course, no local political boss could afford to be associated with anything like that. I think that there well may be public interest in a longer statement upon Mr. McCooey's part. There

Questions and Answers

Why do lilac bushes sometimes fail to bloom? Common lilacs have been known to grow ten or twelve years without blooming. Science can give no reason for this condition. Sometimes spading around the roots stops the growth of the bush and helps it to bloom. How many species of poisonous snakes are there in the world? About twenty-five.

and the country, and as a result they are allowing themselves to be used as a smoke screen for Communistic activities. Newspaper reports tell of their pitiful condition in one paragraph and in the next relate how the leaders sleep in the best hotels, travel in special airplanes and send hundreds of telegrams. The real veterans would better themselves materially and obtain more respect from the country if they stayed at home, where they could receive help from their friends and acquaintances. If they desire to be heard as veterans, the logical method would be to join one of the existing veteran associations which have proved themselves and are held in respect by the veterans and the people in general, and work for their view* in an orderly American way. The B. E. F. is not entitled to public consideration as representing veteran thought. STUART A. BISHOP. Past Twelfth District Commander American Legion.

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

leap year. In 1904 he missed it again, when his family left Russia for England on February 24. thirteen days being lost in the change from Gregorian to Julian calendars. When he should have had a bitrhday in 1908, he was sailing westward across the Pacific and lost Feb. 29 while crossing the international Date Line, His

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

that each of us may do in relation to it may harm or safeguard some one else. Much of what is done by the community in the way of sanitation relates to the prevention of the growth and spread of germs. Nobody’s germs’ are his exclusive property or responsibility. A cough, a sneeze, or a touch of the hand may transfer a germ which will initiate an epidemic and remove hundreds, if not thousands, of useful lives. Hence, each of us must be responsible for keeping his own germs within reasonable bounds, and the community as a whole must be responsible to prevent each of us from spreading his germs unnecesrarily to other people. Furthermore, the spread of germs by insects, rodents, and through food and water also comes within the purview of community control. For this reason health departments investigate all epidemics of dise?-3 suspected to be due to germs carried in water, milk or food, and take suitable steps to prevent such spread.

are those skeptics and reformers who may indulge in the gross suspicion that any boss tends to become blase in the matter of rackets and manifests an interest only in the good ones. From the point of view of a first adventures into prose, it should be pointed out that no mean offer was made to the sage of Brooklyn. The subscription price was to be SIOO a set, and already orders have been booked from 125 lovers of belleslettres. a a a In the Rare Book Mart THE old campaigner has taken a great deal of the joy out of life He has not looked ahead to the day when some proud collector might stand among his books and with significant finger point and say, “That is a Gutenberg Bible and next to it a John McCooey first.” And, though at first blush the price may seem a little high, who is there who would not care to pay at least a hundred dollars to learn the way in which supreme court justices are made? At the tariff established, the gross available already has reached $12,500. Mr. McCoy, I trust, is not the man to let any publisher count him out in a contract, and so his share of the enterprise, ' had it gone through, wuold have been well over SI,OOO. Many an author has done far worse on his first effort and some on their tenth and eleventh. Samuel Johnson wrote “Rasselas” and received no more than the wherewithal to pay for his mother’s funeral. So why should John McCooey be so stiffnecked and proud about the poor pennies which society gives grudgingly to authors? a a a Every Letter Counts BUT even if the bos* of Kings never sets pen to paper he still will endure as a man who has inspired a vast amount of writing i upon the part of other people. It has been orthodox in the extreme, and some may criticise it as a trifle repetitious. In a sense it was truly a proletarian contribution in a world of esthetes moodily brooding in their search for the mot juste. ‘Just one little letter after another.” was all that John H. McCooey said to his ‘■pupils. ml

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chance in 1912 disapeared as in 1904. This time while his father was taking him from Greece to France, again losing thirteen days and his birthday in the change of calendars. Robert died in London, Aug. 28, 1915—prior to the recurrence of another leap year. Saturday: ‘‘The ineffaceable footprints.”

The routine inspection of food handlers and of places in which food products are purveyed is a part o' this community function. Indeed, much of the work of any health department today consists of routine testing of food products, of human excreta, and of materials generally to detect the presence of organisms and to keep them under control. In the educational functions of the community in matters of health, every educational method known is being used today, including newspapers, magazines, schools, pamphlets distributed by health departments and centers, welfare agencies, lectures by persons trained in the subject, addresses given on the radio, demonstrations by motion pictures, and finally the indiivdual instruction which the physician gives to his individual patients or the patient’s families. Today as our social system is organized every one in the community constantly must take part in measures for insuring porper community hygiene.

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.

And, heeding, they fared forth to mark their “X”s if not from "Maine to Texas,” at least from Court Square to the shores of Coney Island. When one rather obscure consonant can do so much if laid end to end, Mr. McCooey may be quite justified in shying away from that tribulation which lies in vowels and entire sentences. And let it be said for him that, whatever he might chance to do with infinitives, he never split a ticket. a a a When He Gets Around to It A ND, though the present proffer has been turned down by the maker of judges and of aldermen, there is at least some indication that the creative fervor smoulders in the veteran’s breast. “Some time,” he said, “there may be a book about my political career, but when there is all revenues will go to charity.” It seems to me that John H. McCooe seriously underestimates his earning powers as an author. The bok if done truly well might mark an epoch in the realm of fantasy. From the days of Jack the beanstalk boy down to the latest motion picture dealing with civic problems the public has known only the tale of the stripling who killed the giant. tt a tt Voice of the Dragon HERE comes a chance for the dragon to have his say and to explain' how St. George after St. George came against him bearing upon his shield that strange device, “Reform.” And the old Goliath of Gowanus took each and every one in his stride. Maybe once or ' twice a pebble landed, but it was no more than a cinder and easily extracted when next election day rolled around. Many a gallant one has sung the saga of man against the machine, and in all fairness somebody should conduct the rebuttal of the machine aganist man. And who is better fitted than John H. McCooey of Brooklyn? I won’t subscribe for the book until it gets to the reprint stage, but I can suggest an xcellnt title for the chieftain who so long has stood for the ticket, the whole ticket and nothing but the ticket. How about “Under the Stars"? <Coorricbt. IW2. 17 The TlmeJ*\

.’AUG. 12. 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Study of Sun Spots Trends Toward Solution of Many Solar Mysteries. THE study of sun spots has revealed many interesting facts, many of' which await satisfactory explanation. In general, astronomers feel that the sun spots merely are the surface manifestation of some sort of disturbance deep within the interior of the sun, and that a complete understanding of sun spots would unravel many mysteries about the nature of the sun. The fact that the sun rotates upon its axis first was learned from observation of the sun spots, for if the sun is watched from day to day, the spots can be seen moving steadily across its face. But in addition, study has revealed that the spots are themselves drifting on the surface of the sun. Recent studies show that there does not seem to be any general direction of drift, but that spots anywhere on the sun are likely to drift in any direction. In general, however, the amount of drift east or west is likely to be double the amount of drift north or south. Akesson computes that the average daily drift in longitude to be about 43 minutes and that in latitude about 24 minutes. This corresponds to distances on the sun's surface of 5,400 and 3,000 miles, respectively. He aLso finds that small spots move faster than large ones.

Stupendous Activity WHEN it is recalled that sun spots range in diameter from 500 to 50,000 miles, the amount of activity on 'the sun’s surface can be realized from the fact that these spots move thousands of miles in a single day. In this connection, it should be remembered that the sun does not have a solid surface, but a great seething gaseous surface at a temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The sun spots then are great disturbances moving across this gaseous surface, disturbances which, as previously indicated, arise deep down in the sun and make their way to the surface. Sir Frank Dyson, astronomer royal of Great Britain, and Prof. E. W. Maunder state that the speed and direction of the motion of a sun spot usually changes daily. The result of this is, they say. that at the end of one revolution of the sun, the spot has not moved very far from its original position. The sun takes approximately twenty-five days to rotate on its axis. During that time, according to Dyson and Maunder, the average motion of a spot is about 4 degrees in longitude and 1.2 degrees in latitude. Sun spots usually form in groups, the large regular spot at the head of the stream and the large spot at the end persisting, while the smaller ones between the two disappear Dyson and Maunder state. “Regular spots usually form at the head of a stream, and, during the early days of the development of the stream, move rapidly forward in longitude. After the stream has attained its greatest dimensions and begun to diminish again, it is the following portion of the group that disappears first, and the regular spot which was the original leader often remains alone. In this stage of the history of the group there is a strong tendency for the regular spot to move back again toward the longitude where it was originally formed.”

In Two Belts all sun spots occur in one of two belts. These belts start on either side of the equator, in latitudes 5 degrees north and south, respectively. The northern belt extends to latitude 40 degrees north. The southern belt extends to latitude 40 degrees south. Sun spots vary in number in a cycle. At the time of sun spot maximum, a few spots occur 'near the equator. Russell states that a few small and short-lived spots have, on occasion, been observed in latitudes as Ijigh as 65 degrees and even 72 degrees. Generally, about the same number of spots occur in the northern belt as in the southern belt. But sometimes there will be a period of years in which one belt will have more spots than the other. An interesting bit of history is connected with this fact. From 1672 to 1704 not a single spot occurred in the northern belt. The result was that when a few did appear there, in 1705, they caused great excitement among' astronomers and were reported to the French Academy of Science as an unusual occurrence. Russell states that during the last fifty years there have been about one-fifth more spots in the southern belt than in the northern one. As is the case with so many details of sun spot behavior, no reason for this state of affairs has been advanced.

$ T ?s9£ Y 4 /world WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

AMERICANS ADVANCE Aug. 12

ON Aug. 12, 1918, British and American troops in Picardy advanced rapidly and were reported on the outskirts of Roye, which was taken by the Germans in their first spring offensive. American forces also gained a foothold in Bray, in the same region. Hard-pressed German regiments were retreating in good order, but with tremendous losses from allied artillery. The German divisions in this region apparently lacked reserves and were compelled to remain in the battle line despite the fierce fighting. New s of another Austrian defeat in Italy further disheartened newspapers in Berlin, some of which were beginning to hint that peace should be made.

Daily Thoughts

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?—Amos 3:3. Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.—George Eliow