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wicked than they used to be, but are simply filled with enthusiasm and love a thrill; and the bandits, knowing this, try to please them! The people are growing better all the time, but they must be amused, and their everlasting love of excitement must be satisfied! Isn’t it wonderful to live in an age of such wonderful thrills? PRINCETON STARTS CAMPAIGN AGAINST ILLICIT RUM DENS Princeton, N. J. (By Associated Press.)— Princeton University is mak ing a drive against roadhouses and “ hot dog” stands in the college zone be cause of the .sales of liquor to under graduates. At the same time the university is seeking to prevent the possession of automobiles by undergraduates. The authorities feel that automobiles go hand in hand with the illegal liquor evil throughout the United States. Dean Christian M. Gauss appealed yesterday to Federal authorities at Trenton to wipe out a string of dives. His action followed several student affairs- in which automobiles figured. Two students arrested Sunday night were fined for being drunk and disor derly and taking an automobile with out permission. Later a student was injured and a school teacher was killed when an automobile plunged down an embank ment near Freehold. ‘A bpttle was found in the wrecked car.— L. A. Herald. IS IT MATERIALISM OR IDEALISM? Will C. Wood, Superintendent of Schools in California, is quoted as saying: “ A great deal has been written and said in recent years concerning the shortcomings of youth. Undoubtedly during the war we fanned the flames of idealism to the limit, and,there was a natural reaction. For some years after the war there was a spirit of cynicism which affected not only adults, but youth as well. There was also a general tendency toward mater ialism with consequent breakdown of restraint and moral standards in most all ages and walks of life. “ Youth was affected and juvenile delinquency records indicated a real increase in waywardness. Recent records of the police courts and ju venile agencies indicate that we have reached the peak of cynicism and ma terialism and that idealism with a re vival of standards of right conduct and human service is coming into its own again." We could wish that Mr. Wood was right in his prophecy of the coming triumph of “ idealism" among the young people, but the Bible holds out no hope along this line. (2 Tim. 4:3, 4).
results that have been obtained from segregation of lepers in Hawaii and the Philippines, as well as in the United States. It he can Induce them even to begin on the American policy the end of the historic scourge could be said to be in sight, since quarantine on a national scale would stop the in fection of new victims.-—Missionary Review.
LIFE'S EXPECTATIONS The death rate of this country— all ages and classes— is 11.9 per thousand population. But the death rate of the doctors as a profession or class is 17.22. One reason is that the doctors often become sacrifices to their own work. The country practitioner un dergoes trials and hardships that are likely to shorten his days. Anyhow the expectation of life in the medical profession is less than in most of the ■brainy trades.— L. A. Times. PRICE OF KNOWLEDGE The people of the United States will this year spend $3,000,000,000 on education— for the upkeep of their schools and colleges. Before the* war the annual outlay was around $700,- 000,000. We are now paying more than four times as much and it is to be earnestly hoped that we are getting the worth of our money. Judging from the number of our young men who have learned to play the saxo phone, we are.— News Item. THE NEW JERUSALEM They are having quite a real estate boom in the Holy Land and the new city of Tel Aviv is being called “ the Los Angeles of Palestine." It already has a population exceeding 40,000 souls.and is being built along modern lines. There are wide paved streets, electric lights, 'open plumbfng and A telephone system. With a Jewish background it is natural that there should be up-to-date banking houses. There are also several excellent schools. It is understood that num bers of American Jews have invested money in the new city and that lots are being sold by subdividers after the best American plan. There’s a sky scraper project under way and a trol ley line is being operated. Miracles are still being performed in Palestine. —Selected. “ RID THE WORLD OF LEPROSY!” With this slogan, William M. Dan ner, General Secretary of the Amer ican Mission to Lepers, started some months ago on an around-the-world tour. The Mission, cooperating as it has done for many years with denom inational boards of foreign missions, has established a chain of nearly a hundred leper asylums in lands where the affliction is most severe. Mr. Danner carried letters of intro duction from the Japanese Ambassa dor and the Chinese Minister at Wash ington, which will secure him access to the strongest statesmen in these two countrie8v In Siam he will seek an audience with the King, who per sonally founded the extensive public leper asylum in Its capital city, Bang kok. He will bring to the attention of all the officials he meets the excellent
BULWARKED AGAINST THE BANDIT What wonderful progress we aré making in these last days! Our police formerly carried a revolver to combat the bandit; then they commenced wearing steel vests for protection, and. now they are using armored cars and wear a full coat of armor as depleted herewith. We do not wonder at this nor crit icize them, though when the writer lived in Texas years ago no one could carry a revolver without a permit, and a violation of this law was punish able with a heavy fine. Before long we will have to have iron shelters and a watchman sitting on the roof. Of course it must be true as the Modernists say, that men are not more
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