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A. Bankers’ Soviet Probably the bankers of the state would be shocked to find any resemblance between their demands for a new system of supervision and the ill-famed sovietism. The bankers want the laws changed. They want particularly to select the members of the commission which will supervise banks. In short, the bankers themselves desire to replace elective officials in t.ie selection of some officials to have charge of banking problems. That, in effect, is the Russian philosophy of government, except that they extend it to all industry and all business. ' Unquestionably there should be changes in the banking laws. During the stress, present supervision has been found inadequate. There have been too many failures, bringing loss to too many depositors. Any change that might prevent such losses should be made. Other changes might provide for a variable interest rate on loans, to correlate with changes in labor and commodities. If any change in banking laws be made, encouragement for credit unions would not be amiss. The work of these credit unions, especially in farmers co-operatives and in the local firemen’s association, has been outstanding. In this city, the fire department has been taken out of hock to the 1 small loaners. The farmers have found their own banks most convenient. It is also somewhat significant that no credit union in the United States has failed during the depression. • Those who have in mind the security of the depositor might study this system with some seriousness.

Relief for Needy Most significantly, the first conference between the present and next Governor is called for the discussion of poor relief. A year ago when Senators Costigan and La Follctte were pressing for some measure of federal relief, Governor Leslie and his unemployment advisers telegraphed Washington that Indiana would need no help but would care for its own. Today, this county and other counties are asking for federal funds. The situation calls for the most serious consideration. Private charities are finding the burden beyond their capacity. The counties, especially the industrial centers, are staggered. Yet human beings must have food, clothing and shelter. Loans from the federal government for self-liqui-dating public projects to give employment may be the most direct solution. Certainly, if some plan of giving work can be found, it will be better than the present thinly disguised dole.

Debt Evasion Another ambiguous statement of debt policy was made by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi in a speech Monday night. He rejected the idea of reviving the debt commission and hearing the debtors’ pleas for what they are worth. Os course no statement by Mr. Harrison can be ignored, since he is the ranking Democratic member of the senate finance committee, and as such presumably the key Democrat in the Democratic congress which will dispose of this important matter, one way or another. The most striking aspect of the Harrison brief is that it ignores the immediate issue, which is the time clement, and that it evades the related questions of tariff reduction and armament reduction. The time factor is vital. President Hoover has asked for action now, when it is needed. The Harrison plan means inaction for an indefinite period. To propose direfct diplomatic negotiation, as the Democrats do, is rather absurd, when such diplomatic negotiation has been tried already and now is helpless to achieve results, because the President has lost control of cfingress, which alone has power to act. It is equally futile for Senator Harrison to argue that revival of a congressional debt commission would encourage the debtors to seek revision. Does not the senator know that such revision already has been sought through formal notes, and that the purpose of the commission mould be to consider the requests already made? About the only hope to be extracted from Harrison's speech is in its very contradictions. As long as the Democratic leaders think it necessary to straddle the debt issue, there is possibility they may come down on the right side before it is too late. A sample of the contradictory nature of their position is the Harrison assertion, spun out at great length, that he opposes not only cancellation—which lie must know is not an issue—but also ‘ modification or unnecessary postponement.” By the time he gets to his conclusion, however, he veers in the other direction and thrown out this: ‘•I am perfectly willing that we explore all possibilities of alternative forms of payment for the period of this emergency—payments in kind, in negotiable credits, in service, in marketable securities, or* even in definite concessions of any nature. “Os course we always should be willing to confer or even negotiate in that spirit of sympathy and helpfulness.” Since the Democrats thus are willing to explore “definite concessions of any nature" and to negotiate,” it becomes increasingly difficult to understand why they are at such partisan pains to block the President's efforts to get congress to do those very tilings. — Shushing Dr. Shuler Unfortunately, we think, the District of Columbia court of appeals has upheld the federal radio commission in its decision to deny a broadcasting license to the Rev. Robert Shulef, Los Angeles' self-styled reformer-politician. We agree with the commission that some of Shuler’s air talks tended toward the sensational, malicious. and socially unhealthy. Yet we hold that, short of recourse to the slander laws, Shuler should have remained unmolested to air his dubious views. The commission’s suppression only spread Shuler’s fame, martyred him, aftd aided in turning a local into a national public nuisance. Shuler almost won a seat in the United States senate at the last election. In the next place the commission, if it did not actually violate the Constitution and the radio act, set up a dangerous precedent in censoring broadcasts. A wise government will be guided by the words of Voltaire, who wrote to his enemy Rousseau, when the Swiss were about to burn the latter’s book on social contract: y “I do not believe in a word you say, but I 'will defend with my life, if necessary, your right to say it.”

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We hope Shuler will appeal this ruling and let the United States supreme court set the radio commission right on the issue of censorship. Thwarted At plot-thwarting no eagle-eyed Hawkshaw can beat a United States customs man. And no thwarting ewr was negotiated more cleverly than the seizure by these trusty customs men of three Russian posters, recently brought back from Moscow by Corliss Lamont, son of Thomas W. Lamont of the House of Morgan. The posters—in the eyes of these sleuths—might be a plot against the peace and security of the U. S. A., but to seize them required a law, and Mr. Ham Fish had failed to get congress to act against Russian posters. Undaunted were our heroes. They spied on the a tiny replica of an American greenback, an inch long and a half-inch wide, and they recalled that to display a picture of an security violates the counterfeiting law. They did their duty, seized the posters, and chalked up another thwarting to their credit. It’s probably just as well. If young Lamont had pasted up his posters at Times Square, think of the subversive discontent that picture of a greenback would have stirred. The Peonage Charge Inactivity of the presidential commission appointed just before the election to investigate labor conditions along the Mississippi flood control project increases the necessity for a congressional inquiry. Senator Robert Wagner of New York will demand this investigation into charges that “virtual slavery” exists in some of the labor camps. It is reported now that thirty-four senators have pledged their support of Wagner’s resolution. This isn’t enough, of course. But unless the attitude of the senate has changed more than any one suspects, that body will not delay granting Wagner's request, and will recognize the necessity for ending alleged peonage on the government's own construction projects.

The Schoolboy’s Dilemma Whatever else it did, the recent presidential election at least created one more problem for the school boys of future years. It created one more “pair” of Presidents for them to worry over. So far there Ijave been two of these pairs. There have been two Presidents named Adams, and two Presidents named .Harrison—and a fine time school boys have had trying to remember which, in each pair, was which; whether it was John Adams who was John Quincy Adams’ father, or vice versa, and whether it was William Henry Harrison or Benjamin Harrison who was “Old Tippecanoe*” A couple of decades hence school boys will be~trying to remember which Roosevelt was which. In 1952, very likely, school examination papers will record that Franklin Roosevelt fought in the Spanish wai and that the famous Teddy defeated President Hoover in the 1932 presidential race. Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have perfected an instrument to pick one germ from a field of millions. But it s just as hard, as ever to find a collar button when it rolls under the dresser. Science informs us that more than 300 trillion stars are out yonder in space-tmore than enough to give a separate sun to every human being who ever lived. If* you want to hitch your wagon, here's your chance. _ : y If reports from Washington are correct, John Nance Garner was a pretty smart poker player, even under the weight of the speakership. His cronies would better watch out when he becomes Vice-Presi-dent and has more time to concentrate. # If A1 Smith is a little off key when he sings “The Sidewalks of New York” for that benefit in New York he should be pardoned. It’s been six months since he was given the pitch at Chicago. The BVitish Association has been solemnly discussing why babies sleep. Weary fathers believe theonly prdblem to worry about is why they don’t.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSOPJ

“XN 1917 the youth of American left homes, jobs 1 and opportunities, and for varying periods engaged in war. They were taught to care little for life, to kill without thought, and to die without fear. They helped to win a glorious victory.” So says General Smedley Butler, retired. This excerpt from his article in the current OutlocJk will, however, not bear close examination. American boys did not leave their homes as gladly as the general appears to think. They were rorced to go. They did not kill without thought or die without fear. No man does. And they did not help to win a glorious victory. Because there was no victory for any nation or any man in 1918. There was only de-

feat. Defeat for everybody. Whether General Butler’s plea for the bonus payment is sound, I can not pretend tp say. But this much is certain: A large part of the blame for the occasion that made the bonus necessary must be laid upon the doorstep of the hangout of the general—the war department. n u SEYMOUR WALDMAN makes this plain in a recent little book called ‘Death and Profits.’ And it was written from a study of the actual papers and records

of the war policies commission, and shows that all the fine intentions we once expressed about taking money profits from war apparently have dissolved into thin air. Immediately after 1918. a great clamor was raised for drafting the dollar as well as the man. Do you remember? Well, Waldman explains exactly how that move was circumvented and how. after months of deliberation, we are just where we always have been—with business and industry jfrepared to get a very nice profit for themselves while men go forth to die for S3O a month. ' Even the American Legion, or its leaders, "he charges, have agreed that a 7 per cent guarantee to capital hi war time would be agreeable. The war policies commission, in short, has recommended that “no constitutional amendment to permit the taking of private property in time of war without compensation be considered by congress.” * * And, supplements the author, with what seems honest justification, “It startles one to know that elaborate preparations are being made to insure future profits to business during a future war when the cries of maimed men of the last shambles still are to be heard.”

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YORK, Nov. 29.—1 find myself in disagreement with most people as to how the liquor traffic should be handled after prohibition has been repealed. Like them, I am opposed to return of the saloon, but for every different reasons than commonly are advanced. It strikes me that our failure to make better headway in the promotion of temperance can be traced to excessive and unreasonable regulation of trade. From

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The worst of it is, we still cling to this futile idea. Bootlegging, disrespect for law, official corruption and machine politics have been the worst features of the liquor traffic in this country, whether under prohibition, or high license. You just can’t create a monopoly, or special privilege' for control of individual habits without inviting such evils. That, however, is what many people conceive as the best alternative to Volst&adism. They talk of state or rigidly restricted retail outlets, just as though such a set-up would not

MARK TWAIN used to say that the American Civil war really was a fight between Robert Burns hnd Sir Walter Scott. The Yankees, he said, read Burns, who taught that “a man is a man for all that,” whether white or black or brown. We in the south read Scott for his grace and charm of courtesy, his pictures of an old chivalry when knighthood was in flower, and, let us hope for the sweetness and cleanness of his genius. No matter; it was picturesque way of saying what may or may not have been true. Anyway, all the world just has been paying tribute to Sir Walter Scott, on his one hundredth anniversary, and it means much to recall a man so gallant and true-hearted —a man, who, like Mark Twain, worked hard for long years to pay off debts he might have avoids, and died with no shadow on his name. When dying he called Lockhart, his son-in-law, to his bed and said: ‘Mv dear, be a good man—be virtuous —be religious. Nothing

This is the second of two special articles by Dr. Pishbein on scientists’ quest for a basis for predicting the sex of the unborn child. BY DR. MORRIS *FISHBEIN Editor • Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcin, the Health Magazine TWO young men in California, Dr. J. H. Dorn and E. I. Sugarman, found, when working with the Aschheim-Zondek method for diagnosing pregnacy, discussed in the first article on this subject, that the effects of the urine of a pregnant woman when injected into rabbits varied according to whether the unborn child was a boy or a girl. They tried their test in eightyfive cases. It seems likely that in four of the cases in which an error was made that error was due to the fact that the rabbits used in the experiment were not of the correct type for this work. Apparently,- a pregnant woman with an unborn female child secretes in her urine a hormone, or glandular suhstance, which N can stimulate the cells in the tubules of the sex organs of a pubescent rabbit and cause precocious development. On the other hand, the urine of a woman with an unborn male

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th, e beginning, we have assumed that political control of a business wo u 1 and achieve moral results. We have encouraged monopoly, invited smuggling, opened the door for political corruption, and stultified the basic conception of personal liberty in an attempt to prevent over - indulgence.

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Every Day Religion BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Tests on Rabbits Indicate Child’s Sex

be repeating the sorry performance which led to the ‘ mess we now are in. u u Don't Repeat Error \ S a matter of common,sense, we could have little to worry about, if the great majority of people could take liquor without getting drunk. Asa matter of record, the great majority always has been able to do so. It was the comparative few who could not control their appetite that threw us off the track. For t,he last' 100 years, we have been trying to reform them by mass regulation, and have accomplished little but to make the mass sore, to generate a widespread disrespect" for law to corrupt and immobilize our law enforcing machine. Let us not repeat the blunder. v * Remove Bootleg Lure “W 7" EL L>” you “what’s the W alternative?” Simply this. Throw the door wide open as far as the retail liquor trade is concerned, let it be sold like cigaretes, in the original’ package and with a government stamp attached. Forbid its consumption in places where it is sold, except hotels and restaurants, which should be licensed for that purpose and rigidly supervised. Enact laws to insure the best liquor at the lowest price, and thus remove all possible temptation to make and bootleg the stuff. I am assuming, of course, that the sale of liquor will be subject to state control and local option, that it will not be imposed on any community against that community’s wish, and that both federal

else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. Read to me,” he added. “What -'book shall I read?” asked Lockhart. “Why do you ask? Ther.e is but one book,” Sir Walter replied. ' Yes, awfully old-fashioned, no doubt; and many in our snippy, cynical and clever time would dismiss it as a bit of sodden senti-* ment, sickly and sticky, andmake a wise-crack about it. None the less, some of us are beginning to see with anew, strange, and curiously comforting clearness, that nothing is worth #while, nothing at all in the tiny moment of life—a mere flicker, the briefest thing blown out before we are able to turn round—except being good- simply being good. v People may argue up and down as to what, precisely, being good means, but they know in their hearts as they know nothing else; and every one who is worth anything will end by thinking that all that counts in this infinitely precious time, is just goodness. (CoDvrißht. 1932. United Feature Syndicatei

child, when injected ihto a pubescent rabbit, does not stimulate the cells of the tubules of the sex glands, but, on the contrary, occa- i sionally, seems to have an inhibitor or depressant action. In one instance there was an unexplainable error. In two instances in which there were twins—a boy and a girl—the reaction suggested a boy in each case. It has been said that there is somewhat of the female in every male and somewhat of the male in every female, and that in the case of the twins the combined hormones leaned toward the masculine side. A good many people may wonder what such a test really is worth. It has its values. In Mexico, it was found that women who simply refused to come to a clinic for prenatal care came regularly every month when promised that the doctor would tell them the sex of the prospective child. ' There may arise social economic conditions when actual control over the number of boys and girls born in the case of certain families or even for the community generally ma]| be a matter of great significance. Obviously, _this detection of the

and state governments will adopt measure to protect “dry” territory. In such states and communities, Tiowever, as desire the sale of liquor, it should be placed under as little restraint as is compatible with sound public policy. n u a Retail Control Futile SOUND public policy demands avoidance of those methods which tempt people to disobey the law, or engage in corrupt practices. Sound public policy recognizes the utter folly of attempting to overcome the liquor evil by control, regulation, or prohibition of retail trade. We have tried high license and the eighteenth amendment without satisfactory results. Finland is having as bad results with the dispensary system, and so are some Canadian provinces. The European system, as practiced in France, Germany, afnd England, is better than any of the experiments thus far proposed. It has its defects, but it does not involve the .breakdown of law and order.

People’s Voic£

Editor Times — READING the You Say It Column in The Times surely gives one a great kick. So here is a reply to an article written by One' Dry Voter from Marion, Ind. I knew a young man, tfrho, some years ago, got a job as brakeman on a railroad running between Indianapolis and Cincinnati. He made only a few trips until he became involved in small liquor deals. It was not long until he decided to quit his job and began doing business on a large scale. He then moved to Hamilton, 0., became prosperous and* finally decided to go to Cincinnati, where he lived in luxury. The result was that he was shot and killed by a detective in trying to escape the law in Cincinnati. Now what caused this? Prohibition. Frank Murphy was killed by machine gun in Hamilton, 0., a week later to the very day. George Jacabls was killed by machine gun also in Hamilton. The writer was just within a few minutes of being an eye witness to one of those killings. Both these men were fine boys at one time. One had a wife and three children lived in a highly respectable neighborhood and never was suspected of being a bootlogger. But he was out of a job had an idea of making big money, chose the bootlegger and racketeer method, and this was the result, also due to prohibition. A.'B. C. Who was Thorfinn Karlsefni? A Scandinayian explorer. What does the mark “Reg. U. S. Pat. Off” I mean? It is a ijegal notice that the mark or name is registered in the trade - mark division of the United States patent office, and that any one who infringes the mark is liable to suit for infringement.

sex of the unborn child is not nearly so interesting or important a problem as predetermining the sex. All sorts of notions and beliefs exist in connection with that possibility. There Js a belief that the* mother will have boys if she sleeps on the right sidf and girls if she sleeps on the left. That, of course, goes with the ancient tradition that boys are dextral add girls sinistral. There was the claim of a certain British investigator that the time of conception in relationship to the movement of the tides determined j whether the jSrospective child would be a boy or a girl. That notion seems to be associated with the influence of the moon on the tides and with the idea that the moon particularly influences the female sex. There was the claim of a Dutch investigator, made quite recently, that an alkaline reaction in the female sex organs meant a boy and an acid reaction invariably meant a girl. I know of but one instance in which this experiment was carried out under scientifically controlled conditions. The hopeful father was a physician friend of mine. He reports to me that the experiment failed—the baby was a girl.

It Seems to Me: 1 " ** ** " *y~ *•—•* ■■ BY HEYWOOD BROUN

AS far as I can make out, America's policy in regard to the foreign debts is largely dictated by a desire to save Will Rogers from having to eat any of his gags and to spare Mr. Hearst from an attack of editorial apoplexy. Aside from these undoubted benefits I can not for the life of me understand just who is to to be helped by cur present attitude. There is at least a good lighting chance that Great Britain can be driven into default, and I do not know of any mechanism by which default can be made to

feed the hungry or to house the shelterless, either here or abroad. It is rather generally admitted that the drying up of ouf foreign trade hardly was a helpful factor in national prosperity. Accordingly, if the loss of much was bad it stands ,to reason that there will be small stimulus in kicking it all over the dam. In a world which suffers in a practical and material way from an excess of suspicion fear, and hate, we purpose to add a little salt to the wounds and then sit back and wonder why these curious aliens do not seem to us. n v a 41 A King of Israel. THERE was a young man in the Bible who announced when men came to him with piteous pleas that he intended to work out hi political problems by using qjore severity rather than less. He planned - to use scorpions instead of whips. It didn't

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one es America’s most interesting writers and are. presented without regard to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this pa p e r. —The Editor.

Junior—Why are the nations of Europe all armed to the teeth? Pa—Because they are filled with misery, woe. suspicion, and fear. Junior—Yes, out why are they filled with misery, woe, suspicion, and fear? Pa—Because they are all armed to the teeth. O O St One ojf the Vicious Circles. r I ''HE Butterscotchman in “Davy and the Goblin” couldn't run until he got hot or get hot until he ran, and the European situation is similar. Europe is filled with an enormous amount of bristling national feeling and a desire to protect itself against all its neighbors, because at the moment it has very little to protect. Happy men don't go about carrying guns, and neither do happy nations. Since we are dealing with a vicious circle, it is possible to break in at any point. It would be an excellent thing, if feasible, to say, "Reduce armaments first and then we will reduce debts.” But it might be just as effective to say, “We will begin by reducing debts, and then * you follow by reducing armaments ” The whole point is in getting a start and making some arrangement whereby we do not deal with nations as individuals but with the whole family of peoples. ts st n Richard Brinsley Sheridan Said It. r I ''HERE is a scene in Sheridan’s play, ‘ The Critic,” in which two betrayed English girls draw daggers with the intentiftn of slaying two faithless Spanish lovers. But the Spaniards draw daggers at. precisely the same moment. The situation is further complicated by the fact that two English uncles rush on the stage with swords which they press against the backs of the villains. All action is stalemated, and one of the characters of this play within a play complains to the author: “Why, this is dreadful. Noboar can make a move. How is your play going to proceed?” The author asks him to be patient for a moment and he will see a neat device for the solution of the situation. And presently there enters a Beefeater who cries, “Drop your weapons, in the king’s name!” The daggers and the swords clatter to the floor and the play goes on. There is need today for some such inspired Beefeater who is competent to give the word and allow the world to get back about its business of moving on. But this can only be done by concerted action. So far Uncle Sam has refused to be east for the Beefeater. The only phrase assigned to him in thel script which he holds at present is “Fay in full.” That he has said over and over again and no weapons have been dropped. It would almost seem about time to give him a better and a different line. > (Copyright 1932. by The Times)

SCIENCE The High Priest of Light BY DAVID DIETZ

F\R. IRVING LANGMUIR, as I have pointed out, was the Twelfth American to win a Nobel prize. Three prizes in the fled of physics, two in .chemistry, two in medicine, one in literature, and four for the promotion of peace, hkve been won by Americans. It has been my good fortune to meet five of the seven who w'ere awarded the prize in the scientific fields. Perhaps the reader would be interested at this time in hearing about the men .who achieved this most coveted of scientific awards. The late Dr. Albert A. Michelson, the “high priest of light,” was the first American scientist to receive a Nobel prize. I met Dr. Michelson at a number of scientific meetings and heard him lecture on several occasions.

He was a distinguished-looking man with gray hair and mustache, finely chiseled features, sharp eyes and high forehead. He possessed the quiet dignity and formal reserve of the other generation. He lectured in a pleasant voice of medium volume. The listener came away impressed by his genuine love for his work. It was evident that to Michelson a scientific experiment was an artistic masterpiece, something that called for the same skill and artistry that the playing o* a great violin concerto demanded. A well-done experiment was as beautiful to him as an inspired painting or a heroic piece of sculpture.

The High Priest MICHELSON was called “the high priest of light,” an apt Title, for he was the world’s greatest authority upon the subject. Michelson was regarded by many authorities as America’s foremost experimental physicist. The present figure for the velocity of light is Michelson’s. Michelson was born in Strelno, Germany, on Dec. 19, 1852. When he was 4 years old; his parents came to America and settled in San Francisco. He was educated in the public schools, winning an appointment to the Naval academy at Annapolis, where he was graduated in 1873 at the age of 21. He had shown a fondness for science while at the academy and two years after graduation was sent back to it as an instructor in chemistry. The subject of light- was receiving much attention at the time and young Michelson was instructed to give some lectures on the subject. That order launched him upon his career as the high priest? of light. It is interesting to speculate howmuch a part fate plays in shaping a career. Had it not been for that order, Michelson might have returned to active service, and, perhaps, become a rear admiral. As in was. Michelson spent $lO of 1 his own money on apparatus, be-

work then and I doubt desperately that it will*work now. Hut one objection to any form of revision is being made by certain kindly people whose intentions are of the best. The argument runs that we should not ease up the load of debts by even a jot or tittle, because the countries so favored will immediately splurge with these funds and increase their war equipment. That sounds like a promising argument until you begin to observe the European situation and note how circular is the vicious ring of circumstance. It could be explained by a little dialog between Junior and his Pa which might go about as follows:

j because there was no fund avail- | able for the purpose. He set up a classroom demonstration of the method of measuring the speed of light, and with it, got a more accurate figure than any then in existence. n n tt Enjoyed His Work TT7ITH his interest in science * ’ aroused, he subsequently re- : signed from the navy to pursue | graduate study in Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris. While in Paris, he invented the interferometer. - the instrument which in one form led to the Einstein theory of relativity, and in another was useja for the first direct measurement of the diameter of a star. , The interferometer is a delicate measuring instrument, making use of light weaves as a unit of measure. It is so delicate that it will meas-> ure the amount which a street car rail is bent when you rest your thumb on one end. Upon his return from Europe, Michelson became professor of physics at Case School of Applied Science. From there he went to Clark university and from there, in 1892, to the University of Chicago. In June, 1925, he was honored with the first distinguished service professorship awarded by the University of Chicago. After a serious illness in 1929, he became professor emeritus in 1930. His invariable answer to why he continued his scientific investigations and why he is so intent upon results of the highest accuracy was; “I do it oecause it is so much fun.” While Michelson realized that pure science paves the way for industrial applications, he did not feel that he needed any such excuse for his own activities. On one occasion he said: “It seems to me that scientific research should be regarded as a paiqter regards his art, a poet his poems, a composer his music. It would be quite as unfair to ask of these an apology for their efforts; and the"feind of benefit which I should most appreciate from research in pure science is much more allied to such non-material results—results which help to increase the pleasure of us all art. which help to teach man his true relation to his surroundings." a

Daily Thought

Ye shall walk in all the way* which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you. and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.—Deuteronomy 5:33. Obedience is the Christian; :rown.—Schiller. * 1

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