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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

BIRD WATCHERS are in a class by themselves. They're in the same front row with fishermen, hunters, golfers, butterfly chasers.

Last week it was mentioned here some 400 Britishers stumbled into a woods three hours before dawn to find out which bird was up first, singing and scratching for grub,

A challenge was made. Anyone for birdwatching in the woods on the Butler University campus? Sunrise ‘last Saturday was listed by: “the weather bureau as coming at 5:51 a. m. So. at 5 a. m. on the nose, my sleep-heavy eyes peered through a heavy drizzle. A fast exit seemed best.

But there was Bill Clouse, 317 E. North St. He'd

come fo take .pictures of the expedition.

“We better hurry and get into the woods,” he

sald. At 5.05 a. m, hurry?

Even in the halflight I noticed the frowns. My shoes squeaked and 1 carried a large umbrella. No bird watcher moves like an old wagon wheel or carries an overhead tent.

Here's the report on the birds. The cardinal

was first to sound off —5:30 a. m. A dove cooed at 5:31; wood thrush, 5:33; pewee, or flycatcher,

FOR THE BIRDS—A bird-watching challenge was accepted and "Mr. Inside" had his “eyes opened."

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

BUTTE, Aug. 12—Here we are at the city that's “a mile high and a mile deep”—and we're disappointed. Butte’ll never be a sissy city, but it's getting tamer each year. Once upon a time, women from other cities, exhausted from slaving over their hot can-openers all day, came here to relax at slot machines. But there’s a reform wave on, and the slot machines have gone. Most of the wicked women have, too. Butte may be on the way to becoming downright angelic. “What can we do in this city?” the Beautiful Wife and I inquired at the Finlen Hotel, which is on ‘a street with an interesting and rather familiar name—Broadway. - “You can go over and look at the copper miners,” a man said, \ “Where would we find them mining?” we asked. “Down in the mines, and you can’t get in. The place to find the ones that ain’t mining would be in the saloons.” “Goodness, just like other people,” we said.

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THEY DO PLAY strange card games for money in a couple of the bars—but the big gambling halls are no more. It's a churchly city. The people are friendly in a way that a stay-home New Yorker never finds out about. For the folks of Butte come right out and say hello to perfect strangers, while passing them on the street. . I was walking down Broadway, hugging the buildings because of a shower, when a passerby chuckled and said, “How do you like this weather?” Some of the miners are college boys who attend the Montana School of Mines, and gain some practical experience—also some money. I saw one who looked like Dane Clark. We were out looking over the extensive minIng area, right along the Continental Divide, admiring the beautiful mountains, when suddenly on the side of a mountain I saw a familiar face. It was that of my friend, movie actor Horace McMahon. > 4 WE HAD COME to a drive-in movie and they were showing ‘Detective Story.” Gary Cooper and Myrna Loy eame from nearby Helena, but not many have gone to Hollywood from Butte. Frank Walker, the ex-Postmaster General, is from Butte.

Right now the Butte folks are excited about one of their sons, Ernest McGlone, who's going from here to New York to become executive vice president of Anaconda Copper. : He's 52 now, and used to be a baseball and football star. Mr. Cooper But what Butte enjoys is the fact he started out in the mines as a mucker. They say these mines’ll never be exhausted in our lifetime, and the zinc found in these mountains will make Butte even more important. The streets here are named for metals—such as “Antimony St.” and “Porphyry St.” —whatever metals they are. And Butte tells the story of the cop making out a report about a horse that died on Porphyry St. He couldn't spell Porphyry; so he dragged it around to Park St. In New York, they told it years ago about

Ewing Chides lke

On Social Security Left fo Art

Dwight D. Eisenhower for his Mrs,

fare of older persons.

Security coverage. While Gen. Eisenhower was president of Columbia University, Mr. Ewing said in a statement, the General said in a speech: “If all Americans want is security, then they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.’ “All of a sudden he fairly weeps at the plight of our older people,” said Mr. Ewing. “He wants to have the remaining 14 million workers covered by Social Security benefits. He wants to increase Social Security payments. I supge he will do this and still rece the budget by $40 billion a

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$10,000 Trust Fund

Gu) A $10,000 trust fund for John WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UP) Herron Art School scholarships ~ Federal Security Administrator was created by the will of Mrs. Oscar R. Ewing today chided Béssie Bartlett, who died Friday. Bartlett, “sudden solicitude” for the wel- liam M. Bartlett, philanthropist, directed the scholOver the week end Gen. Eisen- BiShips be Satapiisied as a mem..hower._ advocated greater public orial to her husband. Rewer Adyncaled for ay “Bequests of $1000 were made ; old persons and expanded Social to the Indianapolis Welfare Club and to the building fund of Meridian Heights Presbyterian

The bulk of the estimated $100,000 estate will go to two of Mrs, Bartlett's nieces, Vera Edwards and Irene Lyons of Walled Lake,

Mrs. Bartlett lived at 6107 Cen-

LINCOLN, Aug. 12 (UP)—Offi- 8 cials at St, Elizabeth Hospital the Iron Curtain, here said 28 birth certificates for, babies born in June and July have permit to remain in the country

Early Birds Sing For Mr. Inside

5:36; at 5:37 another cardinal whistled; 5:40 a. m. a towhee used his wet whistle (it was raining hard by then); I recognized a crow at 5:41 and a dog barked at 5:44 a. m. (I was really on the ball here); robin, 5:45; Carolina wren, 5:55; tufted titmouse, 6:08; purple martin, 6:15; nightingale, 6:16, and at 6:30, the indigo bunting got in on the act. » It was fun, really, and I'll never raise an eg brow or smile again when bird-watching is mene tioned. I'm convinced only those who never have indulged are the ones who smirk at the hobby that hurts no living creature. * * MRS. ELIZABETH LAWTON, Plainfield, wrote she “was all set to join the bird watchers but other plans interfered. I am sorry.” I'm sorry, too, Mrs. Lawton. oo & , NOW THAT the Zionsville centennial is over, some old faces are coming out from hiding. They've been in the whisker bush. Punkin Shaw, one, of the centennial big-wigs, slashed his off Sunday and said the home operation didn’t hurt a bit although there were several inches to cut away, SO» DR. DAVID E. BROWN and family rolled back from their California vacation trip this past week end. Big news for all their friends was the experience of being jarred in their beds the first morring out in the Golden State. They arrived just in time for the earthquake. a SMALL FRY are beginning to eye the calendar. City schools are to open Sept. 3. Mothers out Pike Twp. way also know school is coming on. fast. They are busy licking labels saying “Property of . . .” and pasting in books. This is the first year the school goes on a lending hasis. oo oe oe MERCHANTS from around 10th St. and Arlington will eat steak at the Athenaeum ‘omorrow night. Right "there to give expert opinion will be super-market owner and school hoard member Joe Guidone. In the way of food —George Paton, one of city’s top commercial artists, had good luck fishing Sunday. oN GIANT JIM SMITH, Times sports staffer, came back to work today looking bigger than ever. He's recovering from shoulder and back injuries suffered in auto accident..and is bearing a 25-pound body cast. THE LATCHSTRING is always out at The Times. But you'll have to reach to the right to open the door from now on. Just a bit of dressing up on the street side —we've put in a new door. Out of habit, I've been going to the left. Hard on the knuckles.

Butte Is Mining Town. But Refined Now

Kosciuslgp St., so maybe the people are pretty much the same as New Yorkers after all.

THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y. ... Coin collectors are watching anxiously for signs that Farouk is liquidating his huge collection. If he does, it'll seriously affect the market. . . . Betty Furness got four movie offers as a result of her TV work at the conventions. (That's more than Sen. Kefauver got.) .. . City Hall insiders are sure NYC Mayor Impellitteri is already committed to‘running again. Gregory Peck wrote N. Y. friends he'll stay on in Rome indefinitely when he finishes his current movie there. . . . A nationally infamous gambler got into a mess in an East Side bar the other night. His blonde girl pal started throwing glasses and had to be “quieted.” ... Actor 8S. Z. Sakall has notified his agent he can no longer be billed as “Cuddles.” ... Jane Wyman is pleasing to the eye in “The Story of Will Rogers.”

BN GEORGE JESSEL, who'll campaign for Adlai Stevenson, talked to the governor about speaking plans in California, and Gen. Ike's audience of 12,000 there. ‘“‘Shucks, Governor,” said Georgie, “I can bring in more girls than that.” Yul Brynner injured his knee in an offstage fall at “King & I” ,.. Jerri Higgins will sue George Ross (Arline Judge's ex) for divorce. Charges non-support ... New duo: Mike Todd and ballerina Janet Last, of the French Casino.

WISH I'D SAID THAT: Jolly Cholly Tisman recalls this truism: “Experience is what’s left

after he's completely forgotten her name.”

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Lemuel Ayres, raising money for his show, “See the Jaguar,” heard a prospective backer had spent $50,000 on his daughter's wedding. “And to think,” says Ayres, “the ceremony didn't even have an out-of-town tryout.” “So many politicians are promising to sweep Washington clean,” says Harry Rolnick, “it may become a broom town.” ... That's Earl, brother.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—An out-of-town friend has written me for information on the Indianapolis Rose Society. Can you tell me the address of the secretary? Frances Ingram, 802 N. Chester. A—The society has a special post-office box to take care of just such queries, I suggest that your. friend write to Indianapolis Rose Society, Box 6324, 42d St. Station, Indianapolis, Ind. Q—I enclose leaves from verbena plants set out as a border for evergreens. They began to have yellowish spots on the leaves shortly after

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

they were set out. In just a week or two one plant died and several others were almost completely covered with this condition. A few plants escaped. Should I pull the affected plants up? Or what? Mrs. Laura Hill, 1445 Fruitdale Ave. A—The splotched leaves you sent showed effects of the verbena leaf miner, a common pest. Pull up badly affected plants. Spray the others with nicotine sulfate. Repeat two or three times. This fall after frost dispose of all dead verbena tops. .

‘Flying Spring’ Seen Over City

Now saucers, Mrs. Anna Slate, 2607 N., Butler Ave. reported she saw one pass over house about 6 p, m. Sunday. She told The Times it looked just like a coiled spring and was

going about the speed of a conventional airplane.

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Czech Consul Wants

To Stay in Canada

OTTAWA, Aug. 12 (UP)—Dr. George Mares, 43-year-old Czech(oslovakian consul general in { Montreal, resigned his post yesterday and sought asylum from the Canadian government rather

than take his. family back behind

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1952

MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE—

Uncle Sam's In Colonial Hot Spot

By ERNIE HILL UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Aug. 12 (CDN)— The great revolution of the Middle East is becoming

one of the most violent forces at work in the world today. Hysterical, shrill nd neurotic,

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a whole way of life grows more daring and lesperate as British mili tary and eco nomic author-

that area. Britain, once the pcliceman of the Middle East, uncapped the jar that loosed the ugly genie of psychopatic nationalism. Idealism engendered in two world wars pushed. the British

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the Middle East. World sentiment, much of which can be traced back to the U. 8S. demanded freedom and independence for colonial and mandated areas. , o ~ » THE BRITISH WEAKENED their- grip and today we have near chaos in Iran and Egypt, dictatorship in Syria, growing unrest in Lebanon, violence in Iraq and daily bloodshed on the Israel-Jordan border.

The Middle East declines an American invitation to join a Middle East defense command to help protect itself against possible Communist aggression, United States diplomats are searching frantically for a formula to get the anti-Commu-nist Middle East countries fighting on our side instead of against our Allies and among themselves. Their hatred of Britain and France is so intense most of these countries had strong proHitler elements that had to be subdued during the last war. Their fanatical dislike of the European colonial powers is still so strong, Russia is considered less of an enemy by great masses of people. ” ” = THE U. S,, ONCE the most popular of all countries, is now distrusted and often disliked because it has supported Britain and France against the Moslem Arab world. The delirious anti-foreign antics of Egypt and Iran are largely unjustified today. They are an anachronism. They are fighting an imperialism that no longer exists. But demagogues and Islamic spellbinders have been making political capital of anti-British hoopla for so many years, they find they can continue to thrash the dead horse .and get better results than ever. The British long ago pulled out of the Persian oil fields and left the world’s largest refinery at Abadan to the Iranians, to operate or abandon or blow up. The British have increased their petroleum production in Iraq and in Kuwait until they no longer need Iranian oil. Weeping Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran’s political Johnny Ray, originally counted on the U. 8. to- come to Iran's assistance wit he technicians, tankers and the markets to keep his country in business. But the U. 8. quietly has permitted Iran to stew in its own juice. We offered economic aid to salve our conscience. To aid and abet Iranian nationalization, as yet without compensation, would invite countries like Venezuela and Saud: Arabia to crack down against American oil companies. n ” ”

IT WAS A DIFFICULT choice for the State Department to make. To go to the aid of Iran. and assist nationalization would be to strike a blow

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SLEEPING GIANT—The Anglo-Iranian oil fields left by th British to Iran "to operate or blow up."

at the whole theory of capitalist enterprise in the world. “You have abandoned us in our hour of need,” Mossedegh told the Harriman group when it was there. “You have aligned vourseif with our enemy-—you, who have given billions to Europe, deny us assistance that costs you nothing.”

This bitterness az~inst the U, 8. erupted during the last few days with the fantastic proposal by Iranian parliament members that they take over the island of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf and chase out British and. American oil producers. The Iranians can make a good case for nationalization of British oil interests. But they fail completely when they claim “foul play,” because British and American oil companies will not come and work for them on their own terms. Egypt's rabid anti-foreign campaign likewise over-shoots the target of credulity. Until the end of the last war, British troops occupied Kasr El Nile barracks in the middle of Cairo. They were in evidence in Alexandria as a foreign police force to protect British property and maintain order. But the British. troops are gone now. They have been withdrawn to the sandy bahks of the Suez Canal—out of sight and out of action except as a protective force for the strategic waterway. Yet former prime minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha and his WAFDIST orators would leave the impression the British are in physical possession of all of ‘Egypt. n un " POLITICAL AUDIENCES like nothing better than a blistering attack against the British, whether or not it is true or applicable to the situation in Egypt. The corrupt leaders of the WAFD party, on their way to slipping back into power now that King Farouk has abdicated, use these charges of crime against Britain and Israel for a purpose. So long as hatred of foreign enemies is kept alive, the illiterate population of Egypt is. unlikely to detect corruption at home. That theory has worked well for the past two years.

Gen. Mohammed Naguib, Egypt's new strongman, has proposed to attack corruption

in high places, He appears to be cleaning out Farouk's palace cronies and has many of them in jail or under house arrest. But as yet, Gen. Naguib has shown little indication he will include the equally corrupt WAFD leaders in his cleanup

campaign. The miserable lot of the Egyptian Fellaheen (peasant),

RIDE THE WILD HORSES—No. 2

The Greatness

CHAPTER TWO

THE WILD HORSE OF SNOBBISHNESS

They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. —MARK 10:37.

By J. WALLACE HAMILTON E all have the drummajor _insinct.

We all want to be important, to surpass others, to lead the parade. We begin early to ask life to put us first. Our first cry as a baby was a bid for attention. Even as we ran the gauntlet of bottles and safety pins, we learned cute and clever ways of - getting ourselves in the center of the stage. In adult life we still have it; we never quite grow out of it. Why do wé want to sing solos, paint pictures, or preach sermons? To help people, of course. But that is not the full reason. ; We would be surprised to .

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This is the second of a series of excerpts from sermons preached by one of the country's exciting pastors. J. Wallace = Hamilton is the founder of the Community Drive-In church, St. Peters-

burg, Fla.,, known as “The most amazing church in America.”

how much the drum-major instinct enters into everything we do. We like to do something good, and we like to be praised for it.

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MOST OF us are not quite sure of ourselves, or’ of our place in the esteem of others; we welcome praise because it reestablishes our self-esteem—or, as Dr. Fosdick puts it, it gives us a temporary lift over the low opinion we have of ourselves. It explains why so many of us- are joiners, too. If we are not very important persons we can become important by joining lodges qr clubs that are. Little fellows, who don’t count, get into something that does;

tiad to the soil and exploited by pharoahs and pashas for centuries, sometimes appears to win when there is a change of government. But he always ends up forgotten and unchampioned. Israel, the only spot in the Middle East where the common man enjoys dignity and the chance for a good life, remains one of the great sources of bitterness and distrust of the U, 8. American aid to Israel, hoth governmental and personal, is hundreds of times that which

goes to neighboring. Moslem states. Evén the 800,000 Arab refugees living in squalor

around the borders of Israel are given only a fraction of what we donate to the new Jew: ish state. » n n

THE ARAB WORLD believes it could have defeated the Israelis in 1948 and could chase them into the Mediterranean today if it were not for the U. 8S. Our moral support for the government of Jerusalem is of tremendous importance in the Middle East.

As an Egyptian foreign office minister said one day in Cairo: “If the British get out of the Suez Canal Zone, we will be on the way to a peaceful settlement with the West. “When you have recognized the king of Egypt as the king of the Sudan, we will be a step nearer. “But we will never play on your side until you force Israel to let those 800,000 refugees go back to their homes and their fields.” Israel, hanging on for its life in an alien neighborhood, is bringing imagination and purpose and life to the land. By example, it has introduced a way of life and an impressive number ef modern Western methods that are producing an impact on its neighbors, Jordanians and Syrians are discovering it is possible to irrigate dry fields, to replace mud huts with concrete houses, to build canning factories and introduce industry into an area feudal since Biblican days. The upper and middle elasses in Syria and Egypt and Iraq are disturbed about this new way of life that would give education and hospitalization to the workers in the fields, It is going to cnst them money and they do not like it. Israel’s impact is destined to grow in importance in the coming years. And, the Arab demand for another war will also increase, Yn :

” n ”n GEN. NAGUIB'S rise to power in Egypt has put the Israelis on their guard. Naguih was a hero of the Palestine war

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ANTI-BRITISH—Scenes like this in Cairo where feeling against the British runs high are commonplace.

and has set out to jail those palace grafters who sold faulty army supplies to those fighting in Palestine, Gen. Naguib’s Intensely nationalist colleagues are the group that has iept alive the idea of - a “second round” against Israel. The U..S., a Johnny-come-lately and an {innocent bystander to most of the historical hatreds of the Middle East, finds itself in a difficult, if not impossible situation. We have been forced to make choices that would prove costly either way we went. In Iran, we chose to support the British and refused to touch “stolen” oil. In Egypt, we backed Britain

«in keeping its army in the Suez

Canal Zone until an international force might take over. In Morocco, we have voted with France to prevent an investigation of colonial administration. We have done the same in Tunisia despite tremendous pressure from the 13 Arab-Asian countries in the United Nations. We have supported Britain and France realizing that to desert them now probably would turn them against our rearmament _ efforts through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. France has put us on notice to that effect although Britain has never gone that far. “ o n THROUGH THESE DECISIONS, we have kept NATO alive and have for all practical purposes lost the Middle East. Had the U. 8. taken the side of the Arab states, as our ideologies of freedom and independence dictated, we probably would have lost most of the support of Europe. We might have the Arab Moslem gtates with us but the question is always raised concerning what real backing they would give us in a headon collision with the Soviet Union,

Even~ the most enthusiastic backers —of-—the Arab states agree we could expect little

effective help from the Arab world. It has been centuries since the crescent and the scimiter commanded military respect, We have tried futility, to make up for our Middle East deficiencies by tossing out a few million in economic ald, exchange professorships and a sprinkling of Point 4 money. Uncle Sam's performance in the Middle East is sometimes described this way: Joe Stalin is pictured as the

conductor of a great symphony orchestra, commanding more volume from the Polish woodwind section, getting the Czech oboes to come in at the right time and Bulgarian timpani to hit it properly. : And in the middle of this symphony performance, the Middle East story goes, a man enters the concert hall and comes down the middle aisle barking in a nasal voice: “Pop Corn. Peanuts, Point 4.” » ” » THIS IS AN UNFAIR story because Point 4 is more important than that. But it is repeated by those who have little good to say for us.

At the moment,” the U. 8. desperately needs a new approach to the whole Middle East problem. It needs to get away from the idea it must make a choice between the colonial powers and the Arabs. New thinking and new vision on the subject are needed. A formula rising above the bitterness of the present, a welding together of all of our Allies is a dire necessity, If the Middle East is to survive free. The British and the Iranians, the French and their colonials, along with the Egyptians and the Syrians must be brought under the same desert tent. Our Moslem friends must be made to see their potential enemy fs no longer the beef eater of Britain, but the Mongol aggressor from the north. ” » » BERTRAND RUSSELL pointed out in a recent interview that as Asia and Africa become literate, their resentment against our high living standards are going to increase. Something approaching economic equality in the world is becoming an evolutionary necessity if we are to keep it from becoming a revolutionary fact. We must preach freedom opportunity and -democracy to these people and we must practice it ourselves. : The present situation appears harren. But our Arab friends are watching our elections with the hope we will find a new President with a program rising above the ruts and mire of today’s situation. Such a plan could make a Middle East defense command a reality as an essential bulwark against Communist pressure in this unhappy part of the world,

Of A Man Is Relative

they don uniforms, wear a gaudy button, whisper a secret password, and so find the thrill of significance, Think of how the drummajor instinct has contributed

to snobbishness, setting man against man, group against group, even as it set the dis-

ciples quarreling two against 10. It is the kind of strife that

“stirs up the silt Tn the soul.

When some of us get the idea we. are just naturally superior and the ordained of the Lord to be first—then trouble really starts,

It probably does some people good to be the First Grand Noble or the De Luxe MatronPatron of the Invincible Order of the Knights of the Sun and Sea. .The little fellow who is hen-pecked at home needs a chance to be the Most Worthy of the Most Worthy somewhere, Perhaps we should all have a chance, once in" a while, to wear gold braid and swing a baton and strut like a drum. major. just to get it out of our systems. . “

Sometimes this snobbishness gets into a hooded uniform. It becomes sinister in the little masked men who ride at night, terrorizing the countryside. Sometimes it gets under black shirts or. brown shirts, and

sets out to terrorize the world.

But lay hold now on the answer of Jesus. Our familiarity

with the words. of. Jesus..has..-

made them almost commonplace, and that is bad, for they are highly significant. He indicated His awareness of the presence of the universal craving for importance. Far from rebuking it, or even curbing it, He lifted it up above the immediate occasion and said, in effect. “You want to be important. You want to surpass others, and be great among men. All right. You should. To be My disciples you must. But be sure that it is real greatness you are affer. Be sure it is a greatness worthy of God. If you would excel, excel in goodness. If you want,to be first, be first in normal excellence. Make the strong.

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in kindliness, “us make the force of our am-

force of your ambition the ser vant of high spiritual enter. prise.” ” n 5 IT TROUBLED Jesus that men were so slow to understand the difference between appearing to be big and being big. All around Him were men labaring under the false concept, all around Him people with unworthy delusions of grandeur.

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Hamlet, all reached for an importance for which they were not prepared. Let us put it this way. You are important. God made you to be great. Go after it. Let us see how important we can be. Let us all try to be drum major in this worthier parade. Let us compete with each other. Let us develop some rivalry in our churches. Let us see who can be first in generosity, in service. Let of

bition the servant high

spiritual achievement.

NEXT: The Wild Horse of

Gambling.