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TUESDAY, SEPTBMBER 8,

1 SCHOOL OPENING « IXTY-TWO THOUSAND

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Indianapolis

school children go back to school today— |

me to cvercrowded buildings, some to port-

le buildings, others to structures that are | fire hazards or have poor ventilation or out- |

side toilets. Meanwhile, the School Board meets tonight for a public’ hearing on its budget, which pro‘poses to correct some of these conditions by

A compromise pay-as-you-go plan of financing

Rew construction and repairs. ~The plan is to build a new $450,000 Irvington high school, a $350,000 addition to Washington = High School, and also a $75,000 addition to

sthool there are an estimated 4600 high school Students in excess of adequate facilities. : An Indianapolis Times survey of the school eity’s building needs last February showed improper housing was fully as serious as the committee -on school buildings had reported.

“= It also developed that because of bonded in-

power . hopped boldly along.

debtedness, the only way to meet this housing need and also prepare for an ultimate reduction of the bonded debt, was by taxation. This is the way the School Board proposes to house school children in adequate, sanitary buildings, safe from health hazards. The program deserves the community's support.

TWO-LEGGED PROSPERITY

MNJ OWHERE have we heard a clearer exposition of the economic interdependence of |

our farm and. city population than was given by President Roosevelt in his latest fireside speech. : “IL” he said, “in some local area the water table continues to drop and the topsoil to blow away, the land values will disappear with the _ Water and the soil. People on the farms will drift into the nearby cities; the cities will have no farm trade and the workers in the city

factories and stores will have no jobs. Property

values in the cities will decline. If, on the other hand, the farms within that area remain as farms/| with better water supply and no

erosion, the farm population will stay on the

land and prosper and the nearby cities will . prosper too. Property values will increase in-

“stead of disappearing. That is why it is worth .

our while as a nation to spend money in order to save money. = “The very existence of the men and women working in the clothing factories of New York, - making the clothes worn by¥farmers and their families; of the workers in the steel mills in

‘Pittsburgh, in the automobile factories of De- |

troit, and in the harvester factories of Illinois, depends upon the farmers’ ability to purchase the commodities they produce. ' In the same way it is the purchasing power of the workers

. In these factories in the cities that enables

them ana their wives and children to eat’ more beef, more pork, more wheat, more corn, more fruit and more dairy products, and to buy more clothing made from cotton, wool and leather. In a physical and a property sense, as well

' Bs in a spiritual sense, we are members one of another,

i * «+. Healthy employment conditions stand equally with healthy agricultural conditions as a buttress of hational prosperity. Dependable employment at fair wages is just as important to the people in the towns and cities as good farm income is to agriculture.” : In this expression of the President's economic philosophy, we see justification not only of the Administration's drought relief and work relief ‘programs, hut also of those twin New Deal economic props, the AAA and the NRA. And we find explanation of why, despite adverse Supreme Court rulings, he has continued to strive toward the AAA and NRA

~~ ___bbjectives.

» We know now that the boom twenties were @ period! of one-legged prosperity. The leg which represented city wage earners’ buying 3 Crippled agrigulture dragged behind. But in 1929, the ralvsis of agriculture began to creep over into the other leg. And by 1932, the whole body of our national economy had sunk so Jow that, although the farmers had an . pbundant harvest of all crops, they—to quote the President—"had to sell them for prices ~ that meant ruin just as surely as did the Hrought” Meanwhile in the cities, wage-earn-ing workers were without wages or work, . It was to brace up the agricultural leg—to pstablish and “maintain farm prices in good crop years as well as in bad crop years"—that the AAA was instituted. "It was to brace up the other leg—to build pity purchasing power by providing decent jobs at decent wages—that the NRA was devised. : Those two legs recovered in strength and

. po-ordination—and they have carried us for-

OUR “DEPENDABLE CLIMATE”

& OU may not believe it—after last winter's £3 extreme cold and this summer's searing ‘heat—but Indiana is blessed with a better and more dependable climate than many other sections of the country. : "Stephen S. Visher of Indiana University, an exhaustive study of the subject prepared for the Indiana Academy of Science, says: - ' “The popular interest in climatic data has been less widespread in Indiana than in many

‘other states, which fact reflects the dependa- |

bility of our climate. “ “Indiana generally receives almost enough

nfall and seldom a great excess; it generally’

5 enough warmth and seldom a great excess; sither early nor late freezing temperatures aterfere seriously with the growing of our ain crops. Moreover; destructive storms are in Indiana. : : “Because of this very excellence of Indiana's

| strides despite public indifference.

Eeiiool. 3 10, lake the overfiow from Crispus | over 100,000 population now have definitely

Attucks High School. On the opening day of |

THE NEXT BIG DRIVE

FIT HE City Council, by refusing a small appropriation for smoke inspedtors, assumes the responsibility of reducing the smoke nuisance without this extra help. [The problem again is left to the combustion engineer, who

has been unable effectively to cope with it in|

.the past, The proposed WPA smoke survey project,

if approved, will give facilities for a valuable |

analysis of the smoke situation, but it can

not supply trained men to enforte the smoke |

abatement ordinance, +A Against the staggering actual! public loss— injured buildings, damaged trees, lowered realty values, heavy cleaning bills, even lower resistance to disease—the cost of reducing smoke is trivial ; Pittsburgh, which has done atnazing things with its peculiarly acute problem, spends only $16,000 annually for smoke prevention. And Pittsburgh is not now the smokiest city, The

{| reason is that Pittsburgh recognized its prob-

lem long ago. Its earliest smoke ordinance was in 1892. After it got more rigid legisla~ tion in 1811, it made notable strides in smoke abatement, ! There was little public consciousness of the smoke menace at. the turn of the century. To this day in many places the public is slow to co-operate, residential furnace stokers, especially, resenting “snooping” smoke inspectors. And residential chimneys are as mud a problem as industrial stacks. pn The fight against smoke has made enormous All cities

restrictive ordinances, more or less effective.

{ Many of them, like Indianapolis, have found building |

that passing an ordinance may be simple, but its enforcement is another matter. Thirty and 40 years ago, purification of water. supplies was the prime goal of cities. There is reason to think smoke abatement may be the next big drive. With cleanliness so cheap, Indianapolis should get to work on this cleanup job.

NONPOLITICAL AMERICANISM

HE term “nonpolitical” has been used : frequently to describe certain activities of Presidential Candidates Roosevelt and Landon, such as, for example, their meeting in Des Moines to seek a solution to the long and short range drought problems of the great plains. i. Alsc nonpolitical, but none the less important, have been the utterances of both can-

didates in opposition to teachers’ loyalty oaths, |

and in. defense of other civil liberties and economic rights. The doctrine of freedom which they have enunciated is not exclusively either Democratic or Republican. It is American. Speaking before thet Kansas state convention of the American Legion yesterday, Gov. Landon decried the “waste” and “cruelty” and “utter futility” of war, and praised that organization's efforts to take the profits therefrom. “I believe we can do much lby intelligent legislation to lessen the danger of being drawn into-a war with which we have no real concern,” Gov. Landon said. “We must have the strong will for peace. We must be ready to sacrifice short run profits. We must be prepared to stifle the natural affection that we have for the lands of our ancestors. We must keep our heads.” : i How like in sentiment is that to what President Roosevelt said some three weeks ago, at Chautauqua. : : “If war should break out again in another continent,” the President said, ‘let us not blink the fact that we would find in this country thousands of Americans who, seeking immediate riches—fool's gold—would attempt to break down or evade our neutrality. “They would tell you—and : unfortunately their views would get wide publicity—that if they could produce and ship this and that and the other article to belligerent nations, the unemployed of America would all find work. They would tell you that if they could extend credit to warring nations that credit would be used in the United States to build homes and factories and pay our debts. “It would be hard to resist that clamor; it would be hard for many Americans, I fear, to look beyond—to realize the inevitable day of reckoning . .. if we face the choice of profits or peace, the nation will answer—rmust answer —‘we choose peace’.” Eon On this issue, the voters need only to form their opinion as to which candidate would be most likely to succeed in maintaining our neutrality and our peace. The Roosevelt nonentanglement policies are known. They already have been put into effect. The Landon policies have not yet been outlined. ;

: THE MERIT SYSTEM 1= civil service has been sacrificed to

create a national political machine,”

charged the Republican national: platform. This assertion has been repeated and amplifiled by Republican speakers to: create the impression that under the New Deal the merit systém has been mangled by a set of greedy Jacksonian spoilsmen,” If true, it would be damning. But it is not. SE A dispassionate report from the United States Civil Service Commission dise¢ioses that the present number of positions in the civil service is “the largest since 1919.” It adds that in the past fiscal year “there has been an increase of more than 43,000” in such positions. These figures do not include the 13,000 first, second and third-class postmasters, who under

/President Roosevelt's order of July 20 must take

non-competitive examinations on expiration of their terms. Nor the thousands of employes of the Homje Owners Loan Corp. and the Home Loan Bank Board whom President Roosevelt has just suggested bringing under the principles of the merit system, Bo But while the total number of merit men and women has increased under Roosevelt their proportion to all Federal employes has de-

creased. Last June there were 498,725 classified

positions and 325,534 unclassified ones. Thus the Federal merit system wag only about 60 per cent in operation, the smallest proportion in five years. This is due to large numbers in emergency agencies, some ¢f which will be liquidated and the more permanent of which will be brought under civil service as Congress sees its duty and does it. It would have been unwise to bring these temporary, emergency services at once under civil service. As in so many other issues this year, the

two major parties see eye to eye on the need of

experting the government service, Both party platforins have pledged to sustaih and extend the Federal civil service. Its depends

- OUR | TOWN

Anton Scherrer

| QUAINT fallacy among crusaders of our | day is their constant concern for the size of things. They never seem to think of the quality of things. ; Take, for example, the crusade for the suppression of noise in Indianapolis. To listen to’ the crusaders, you'd think that volume of sound is at the bottom of our worries. Shucks! Volume of sound is the least of our noise troubles. For the simple reason that anybody can get used to big noises—especially when they come with the rhythmic regularity . of street cars or with the continuity of automobile honking. It's when the street car is off its schedule that it gets on our nerves. And anyway, if all the big noises were suppressed—what then? . We'd still have the tiny noises, and of the two, the tiny noises heard around here are the most irritating. The fact of the matter is that the tiny noises heard around Indianapolis are really the biggest, if the reformers but knew it. I'll dismiss the tiny noise made by the meters around the house, because, maybe, that's too obvious. Anyway, it may be too late to do anything about meter sounds, but that’s no reason why something can’t be done about the hushed, suppressed noise heard at the under"laker’s establishment before the ceremony begins. Or the tiny rattle of the bathroom door knob made by somebody on the outside. Or the tiny cough affected by highbrows when I ques= tion the supremacy of John Passos. Or the almost inaudible shuffling of feet when I start telling my best story. For sheer piling up of irrelevent sounds there is nothing to compare with them. :

heart let them start with the tiny sounds and let the big noises shift for themselves.

” » u EHAVIOR NOTES: Theodore Griffith insists on a hot drink with a cold plate, and a cool drink with a hot dish this kind of weather. He attaches no importance to the notion except that it may be a pragmatic way out of a diffcult situation. Architect Edward D. Pierre never knows which way to turn to get home after he comes out of the Circle Theater, Mrs. Chester Barney serves her cauliflower with just a soupcon of salt. Miss Anna Locke will pay any price for a head of cauliflower because she once tried to raise one. James W. Friday always wears a pink carnation in his left button hole.- Men don’t have button holes on the right lapel. & Mrs. Meta Lieber saves every bit of string she can lay her hands on. T. J. Ford, barber in the State Life Building, drinks a glass of cold water every 30 minutes whenever he has a cold, He says it's the old Indian cure. Miss Katherine Layman puts butter on her radishes. Lee Burns pours milk over his apple pie. And Indianapolis June brides still spread the meringue on their pies with a spatula. It will be another year before they get over it.

September Sth

IN- INDIANA HISTORY : By J. H. J.

TATE FAIR visitors were warned in stories

in Indianapolis newspapers of Sept. 8, 1904, to steer clear of opium dens.

It seems police the day before had raided a

house on W. Vermont-st and had discovered what was described as complete opium smoking equipment—pipes, bowls in which to heat the drug, ete. Police said it was the headquarters of a gang that doubtiess had come to town to prey on unsuspecting fair visitors. “The plan of such people, according to police,” one story read, “is to follow men in dark streets and relieve them of their money.” It was not made plain whether the opium was to be used by the robbers to get up their courage, or whether it was to be given to victims to render them helpless so that they might be relieved of their money. Anyhow, when the custodian at the police station stored the opium equipment he held each piece at arm's length so as to avoid any risk of contamination.

1A Woman’s Viewpoint |

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TT has all been so grand,” said Mrs. Gordon W. Lillie, wife of the famous Pawnee Bill, when the two celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at the picturesque old town of Taos, N. M. > : Mrs. Lillie's life has been grand because she herself has made it so, for she is: the kind, of person who always carries her chin up. Her head has been bowed for no defeats, financial or emotional. Starting as a crack shot in a Wild West show, owned by the man who is now her husband, she has followed him through good and bad fortune, knowing the applause of kings and the friendship of cowhands. : May Manning Lillie is a good trouper. Nobody has ever seen her when she did not proceed on the theory that, whatever happens, the show must go on. And as with the show, so with life. One is given life and one must live it to the full—so she would say, if she spcke of her convictions, which is seldom. Even now, when So many years are behind her, she greets each day as if it were to be the most wonderful of her existence. Watching her, straight-backed, merry-eyed, you would never guess that she had known bitter tragedy. One day sorrow swooped upon her out of a shining sky. Their only son, darling of their middle age, was killed at the age of 7. Playing cowboy, he accidentally hanged himself. And yet, Mrs. Lillie says “life has been grand,” because she knows we must accept its bitter with itsfsweet and that all experience, if rightly used, if the foundation of noble character. The oad to golden wedding anniversaries is long. It winds through the plains of the commonplace, into canyons of gloom and up to delectable mountains. Looking back, Mrs. Lillie realizes like many another person that everything one meets along that road is worthwhile, even those sorrowful journeys through .teardrenched valleys. :

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Q—Who won the Two Thousand Guineas horse race at Newmarket, England, on April 19, 1936, and how many competed? A—There were 19 horses in the race and Lord

If the reformers really have my interest at!

z : i iy . The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

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WRITER RAPS COUGHLIN'S

MONETARY VIEWS By Pat Hogan, East Columbus

Charles ‘E. Coughlin has choked on his own prescription which he has been trying to stuff down the throat of intelligent people for several years. : Coughlin says: “This peerless President (Roosevelt) by Christmas day, 1934, passed over the coinage he had confiscated to the private owners of the Federal Reserve Banks,

|'your masters and his cordial ad-

visers.” : Coughlin brays about the money question simply because he knows the average citizen knows very little about it—that is those citizens who make no attempt to seek the facts and let Coughlin do their thinking. But as a matter of absolute truth, the Federal Reserve®Banks actually function better than if they were owned by the government. | No matter how much these banks

“make,” they are restricted to 6 per cent on' their investment. That is law. And what they make must be directed to the general welfare. That, too, is law. No other business in the U. S. A. operates under such rigid rule. Does Coughlin imagine any one is going to invest in any kind of business unless he can be allowed a decent

they eat better, and live under bet-

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association

UTAH mother writes me that

she finds this column very helpful and that she is greatly dis- | turbed by a problém which she has not seen frequently discussed. It seems she has a son who is short for his age and weight. The father is six feet tall; the mother five feet four and one-ha&f inches tall. . The mother thinks maybe his thryoid is at fault. Fs I have frequently pointed out that the height and weight of children vary a good deal according to the races from which they spring. Heights vary also in various classes in the community. New-born children among the well-to-do usually are taller and heavier than those of the poor. : College students in general are slightly taller and weigh more than do laborers as a class. This is believed to be due to the fact that

ter conditions of hygiene. Growth of the child in length varies at different periods. At birth a baby is about 20 inches long. The length increases 50 per cent in the first year, doubles by the fourth year, and triples by the fourteenth. When grown, the person is about 3% times the height at birth if nothing has interfered with growth in length. Short children usually become short adults and tall children usually become tall adults. Tall children grow rapidly during the period of 10 to 11 years of age, while short children do not, make this spurt until 12 or 13 years of age. Girls who are big for their age are likely to slow up in their rate of growth one, or two years earlier than girls who are small for their age. ey Most parents fail to watch carefully the rate of growth of their children. For that reason changes will occur which the parents will fail to recognize. The X-ray pictures will show that during severe periods of illness growth in the long bones temporarily stops. Failure of the pituitary glands to function during the first three years of life will have a much greater effect on the size of the person than a beginning failure of this function

of life. 2 i Parents should measure the height and weight of their children at regular intervals so they will know whether the child is steadily in height and weight, as it should if it is a normal child. If, for any reason, this does not

in the thirteenth or fourteenth year |

to take place, a doctor

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return on that investment? Does any sane person think 6 per cent is an exorbitant rate of return? Still some here worshiper of Coughlin recently urged in the Hoosier Forum that people read Coughlin’s book, “Money.” Why should any intelligent person read it, when everybody else in the United States knows more of actual truth about = money than Coughlin and his followers?

* 2 nn THINKS “AMERICAN WAY” NOT QUITE ADEQUATE

By Mrs. B. J. Shelton * e

Sometimes I wonder if Herbert Hoover and Gov. Alf Landon really realize what “freedom” and “the American way” mean. Is a man free when a bank, which he trusts, can take his money—but never return it? When the home, which he has sacrificed for years to pay for, is sold at auction against his will? When a job can not be bought for love nor money? When he is forced to drop his insurance and see his children lose precious teeth, which a few dollars could save, and deny his family even an automobile ride, because the ~govern-

. ment, for which he would be ex-

pected to give his life in time of danger, insists on doling him out a basket instead of helping him to help himself? : This was the “freedom” we had under President Hoover and evidently is what Gov. Landon considers “the American way” since he is so opposed to the New Deal policies. If helpless dependence, and broken homes and bitter despair are the results of “freedom” and “the American way” then God help the Amers= ican people if they go back to them.

#2 SCORES ATTITUDE OF FEDERAL WORKER

By a Reader I know a man, a college graduate, who left this state a number of years ago to accept a job as high school teacher in the west. He married while there and has several in his family now. He quit teaching to take up other lines and after a time reverses overtook him. He became penniless and on top of it suffered a breakdown in ‘health. Not so long ago he returned to this state hoping to find the pastures greener. Later on his family ar-

1 rived in broken installments. After

a time he secured work from the government. To my surprise, I was informed a few days ago that there was nothing too mean for him to say about the Democrats. Knowing him as I

do it bores me to think he would take such an attitude and I would think many sensible ahd reasonable Republicans would be ashamed cf this. It was the Republicans who brought this situation upon us. It is not a Democratic baby. No one would expect him to vote the Democratic ticket if he chooses to vote the other. No one would, on second thought, say throw him out to the wolves, but any one with a sense of justice would say he should keep his political feelings to himself and vote as Ke pleases. I do think, when one of this type comes to the attention of those in authority over this work, it would

such a one is given the most menial sort of work and see to it that he works to the limit of his capacity. Such methods might teach some a lesson and make them more considerate. They might become less inclined to smite the hand that feeds them. The best jobs should, by all means, be given to the ones that have some sense of appreciation.

3 # n=» SUGGESTS REPUBLICANS

LOOK BACK FOUR YEARS By O. L. Branard, Ladoga I hear some of the G. O. P. critics say Roosevelt is going to have a sale in Washington, to sell several million little pig bones and several other things too numerous to mention. The pigs were raised under the Hoover Administration and were poor and worthless. The G. O. P. should look back four years and remember cheap pigs and 10-cent corn, and the banks closing their doors, while Hoover preached ‘prosperity is just around the corner.”

What a load—but Roosevelt has

be very proper for them to see that!

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Vagabond : from ‘Indiana —ERNIE PYLE ed

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APTA LAKE, B. C,, Sept. 8.— | The white horse named Hawk was bored stiff. How many times, oh how many times had he climbed this mountain? : He didn't even look at the lovely lake below. He didn't feel, I am sure, the beauty of the drifting . clouds of fog across the peaks. To him there was no freshness in the wet green of the forests after the night's rain. Didn't he know that he was carrying me, for the first time in my life, to a place you can’t reach by auto or train or boat? No, he didn't . know. He just climbed. We topped the ridge, and headed inland, you might say, up a long high valley. It was a good trail, cut through the forest. Wide enough for two riders to pass. But full of rocks. The horse knew the way. We were headed for Lake O'Hara, high in the Canadian Rockies. We wound and wound around, : following small level spots. Even so, it was mostly up, the whole nine: miles. Only a few times was it level ; enough to jog along. - The rest was:

a hard, walking pull. ’ #2 =» : E forded mountain streams. : Y The leaping, rocky kind you see in the newsreels. Clear as glass, ! and cold as ice. And how they tumbled and roared! You could look

up a quarter of a mile and see the glacier that bore the stream. Or. look down, and see it rushing and falling away below you. : Mountains were all around us,! Across the .valley one rose to a frightening height. It was as sheer as the Washington Monument, and it was solid rock. It stood up there: for 10,000 feet into the sky. ; But what really impressed me! most was the constant death that goes on in the forest. : } Life comes, and stands a little while, and goes away again. Trees grow tall and die and fall over. The: forest was a mass of leaning trees, of fallen trunks, of crumbling logs lying flat. : I tied to a bush, and walked out! through the trees. The ground was + . a mat, a sponge. It must have been | inches deep with piled vegetation— ; long-rotteqd wood, fallen leaves, and needles and twigs and bushes—. moistened by rain and packed there , layer upon layer, for years, for cen-: turies., s : ” ®. 8

T= forest had never been cut, ¢ and never been burned. I must . have stepped upon earth that dec-' ades ago had been a growing tree. And. the tree had died naturally, and fallen among its fellows, and; returned again into the earth, to’ bear a new tree, a We met only one person on the’ long ride. A wrangler, bringing a* train of pack horses down the mountain. He said they belonged to a party of geologists who were hunting fiora and fauna. We stopped several times. let Hawk get his breath; and to me get off and on, out my sidewalk legs. It really was a short hine miles. I was surprised when the corral showed up in. a clearing, just be= fore noon. Hawk and I had lunch, and I walked two miles to the other end of Lake O'Hara and back, the lake you can get to only by horse or ou own legs. e came back in the afternoo the white horse and I. It was Fo as slow coming down as it was go=. ing up. The forest seemed darker and even more silent. I liked it. :

‘To let: to straighten.

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pulled it around the corner and got it up the hill on the road to pros-| perity. :

DAILY THOUGHT

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. —I Timothy 5:13. :

ROM its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all othet men, but that idle men tempt the devil.—Colton. b

COMMON ERRORS

Never say, “It is a long ways from

here”; say, “a long way.”

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clarke

-| threat to the

BY SCIENCE SERVICE HE present age of materialism presents ‘a challenge if not a

: professions such as law, dentistry, teaching medicine and, particularly, pharmacy, in the opinion of Dean R. C. Wilson of the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy. In his presidential address before the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Dean Wilson pointed out that there is a breakdown in the high ideals and ethical standards of the professions and in the high regard in which they were formerly held. In trying to adjust itself to materialistic demands, professional education has forgotten the “high principles by which it should have been guided,” Dean Wilson charged. He cited as an unhappy example, the appearance’ in pharmacy school catalogues of statements that refer to opportunities for their graduates to become managers of chain stores, “There is no analogous situation to this in other professional fields,” he commented; “no chain law, no chain medicine, no chain dentistry, no chain nursing, no chain teach= ing, no chain engineering—why, under high heaven, chain pharmacy?” : Because chain stores are operated solely for profits, there is no place in them, Dean Wilson charged, for professional practices or principles. In the end, he believes, this will work a hardship not only on professional pharmacy but on the public which pharmacists serve. “Herein lies a challenge to our schools of pharmacy, if we dare accept it, to influence these already ‘operating drug stores to recognize and assume the responsibility for service; and to prepare our graduates from the standpoint of character, of fitness, of vision, and of scientific knowledge and viewpoint to assume these responsibilities and realize upon this opportunity to piace pharmacy definitely in the forefront of the prof i»

NIGHT FANT

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I wait for you beneath a shadowed And silence is a noisy thing to-

A creature without body, but with : breath

That tingles in. my ‘taunts my sight. o: The maple is a slender, dancing girl. 3 Hiple a 3 her trunk and