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IDA'S BIRTHDAY.

Little Ida Taylor was going to have
birthday party the next night, So Of
course. her mother was VERY busy FIX
ing up the house. Ida went to col
lceiate school. and II was her second
year. She liked il very much Soon
1t was time for the party Ida was
In her hes; frock and so was her
mother. Soon most OF the guests had
arrived. Tho dining room door was
opened. and the children marched In.
Tho room was very pretty--aN In pinI,
and green. Ida's favorite colors Ida
was eleven years old and was very
happy. Al about II o'clock the guests
left the understanding house and the
beautiful presents. after telling Ida
and her mother what lovely time
they had had.
DOROTHY ELIZABETH GRICE.
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THE lost CHILD.

In the city of New York child
was stolen from her mother and father
They searched everywhere for her. bur
they searched in vain. The father OF
the child went out and got all OF the
men around and sent them to look for
her, They did as they were told AT
last they came to crowd OF gypsies.
and there they saw her They took
her up on the horse and carried her
home TO her mother and father Her
mother was out In the yard looking
for her. and when she saw her oomins
she ran to her for Joy.
EDITH COOKE.
Ara AiWhf yaara
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NIOI.ETS.

Oh. sweet blue bunch OF violets,
love thy perfume TO smell.
For you have the sweetest odor
In all the fiowery dell.
You grow by the laughing brook.
And YOU haunt the meadow hooks
The ii!tle boys and girls who come L
play,
Pick You on springtime day.
y sweet blue bunch Of violets
Once grew by an old stone wall;
y lily, some pansies and daisies.
And. lastly. sweet pea SO tall.
Pick me with thy gentle fingers.
Oh. maiden with gentle hands.
And keep ME for brave love-lad.
who ties me with golden bands.
come in the month of March.
stay in April and May:
Bat ] grow weaker and wealer.
AS l grow older day by day.
So now. s l will have TO say good by
am bidding you a long farewell
TO the good friends who love TO picl
me
Down in my nowery dell
ROBERT b. GWYNNE
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THE WEEKS PRIZE WINNERS.

Florence Johnson. s07 West Spring
street. city
Richard Moses. Box I'll, Lexing
ton, Va.
Mary Elizabeth Flournoy, Glover. Va.
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Puzzle Department
ChArnde.

My first is NJ. but not In manner.
My second is a. but not in around
My third is =. but not In remember.
My fourth is &. but not in count.
My fifth Is II. but not in horse.
MY whole is Il month that winds
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Ma. Indeed.

D@"r Editor i hop. YOU have not for
S"I"n M" Bu; | have not forgotten YOU.
an scnclns YOU drawing Yours
PHETT SHIELDS
South First 81. Richmond Va
w. it,Ir
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~ b.~r Editnr.-.-I am vending YOU an
one ''ctrr" which hope YOU will Hike
WH,t enough To POT IN Your paper You,
i''.o ir"nlh"rs vond you such nice drawings
anh We enjoy 'h- Chidren's Page 50 much
. :" hardly walt "a got It. 7 would lie
fisd 10 get badge. Your ii,ile friend
ALFRED SCOTT WILKINS
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LOUISE f. REYNOLDS.
.IumbIed Nnme. of n,,.

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par Ld!i9r vii wit" 20 YOU again
Z! '"' sou Know th.t haven, fyrro',cu
n" rtr: thinl- Tho nag cont.s, Viii H..
, ." ""u S"u IN going 10 ;rT hard 10
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.f'in now 20 Nr!'e uir" s,orleg Won, +,
" me. when n" nice warm weather ror,aS
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'''"' 20 tNS ~igrE iS ~. mud ~ -...t
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49,. Theii 80" rG'ds 80 muddy. The, az.
""' hHNs -" clos" now. With
~ ~ l"N" VIRGINIA HARRIS
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Praises I'nrr.

benr fdit"r,--i sucss YOU thlni have
forgotten YOU hut am glad 20 say that
maven boy" YOU will please excuse me
Tor not writing sooner sending in
dfa"inr for hss'cr. which nope Will
cap. Mr. N~Si" Basket" think our
naEc ia innroYinG every week. Don't you?
h"nIhE u Wiz continue 10 30 rerna a.
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WILLIAM THOMPSON
Chnrude.
a. IL

My first is in W. but not in wind.
Ny second is in y. but not in ache.
Ny third is III S. but not in sail.
My fourth is in II. but not in hush.
My fifth Is in I, but not in Iris.
My sixth is in y. but not in Nan.
My seventh is in G. but not in gig.
My eighth is in It, but not in ton.
My ninth ia In -. but not in one.
My tenth is in y. but not In not.
My whole is the name Of Presiden
ELIZABETH THOMAS.
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Likes Contest

D'"t t.uitor.-I am sending In some draw
.hES toT Sundai. and hoIe /, viii h. IL
sun,.,p. 700. Jaw my ORA wing In last
1890 p"pcT. You ASKED Us in your le,
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Nm. shN mop everybody else viii 700
IL" !nu Won tax" any more room in
w, n"p"r ana hope the paper bs IKE, wa,',
"' me incmh---. y member -"o
SAM FEASTER
- 800 South Third Sra,
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Ny first * in \. hut not in at
MY second is in +. but not In pat.
My third is in r. but not in rat.
Ny fourth is in ], but not in is.
My NTH Is in l., but not in lazy.
Ny whole is tho name OF this month
AIRLINE, TUCK ER
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Scntls I.iIIIlc

bcar Editor
not ir". ! am =
7 rops TO sc.
writing 100 long
nor.
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80 .''!l-"I-- i'l-ss you thinli fhs' !
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whirh hoD" w''i cs,pr. Mr. ws.rn IA -.
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LIE !h>t w+.'t. with lov. 70 alt ~ ~.
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FLORENCE JOHNSON.


so' West Spring Street CITY
hsCi- "
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VIRGINIA HAYES.


.%s =: ;!45 sss P$ss $$
how hoys ike hR""ihn an,i fSsursioPs know
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the 'FS na Xs1sre VOLTA Ss ilnaH wis
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Wishes fs% As o in il afaSy All
Ku,r.u y JENNINGS L. HUNT.
ms large 6ossl5 Stssse Print t. H. my draw"
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n,.,e a remain H1 ESHf N%ism .STkrysox.
4 Patrintic Member
.ye Gs"r m ESior now am going to try to write
school ths morning saw n Was sr@ etHi .Sit to
!, as cou ME streets hope We viii have
Your %snSsr '" KXr III L 'nsi sGsu'
tdmires President.
,ifni spring is here a, I Ias, siaq the beau.
than glad TO welcome It, certainlv grew
h hsSd 90 Oh o,I King Winter. but al last he
q, IKE ~. the he season better than any other
nc w).iifo III, everything is budding into
ZEN Gme there OF our u great poets In EXPRESSING IT,
craving ra m sending intended II for presio
SSim, "i'son. Do You think ii resembles
mn ,hn. could nave done better but for
d dnoso glasses which were very hard to
m ua,, IN great ndmirer OF Uncle Wood
row row. and am sorry to say That iii never get
d fme Tn h to- vote TO-. him. Last election
town that morning to vote almost wishe,i
Iha an so WAS Of age. but wishing was all
grand time. Do wish some OF the members
we're mere 10 60 with me. Put on your
bonnet. editor, And race down to the Wiids
Of old North Caroline and 20 With "i me-.
set sn YOU would enjoy Il. wouldn't your
tired OF me. SO will oloae for this tinse.
p. s-a.o.,v.a J nIS nrt II EUNT.
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It Surely VIII.


IN ~ ,tuI'nl,-i r"*d The letter Won Ma
nno 'n 10 p"per sundsy think il would "h he
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nr~e h nv ,y am sS'nx 70 Try to get 's
rad Tho I'd . = ssr. any. Ike to
lust G"-" igr don't want 20 l.. , a. Zoo 700.
nSohr o!d member. s'ee"!
Many ELIZABETH FI.ouRNoY
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That Was Mic.

Dear Edit"r.T am sending q little Easter
hcrs happy Ea-,cr,i,Ie wrnt" Iewi.
W"rtiey and ne sent m" nice little card
CHRISTINE HALL.
Alton Va.
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Dear i;ditor.--I
zen nc &! an A.
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York | wen, In
VEN hcr. 7 saw s
saw Trinity chur.
CHURCHES in Al,
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thc Singer tower.
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ocean. I went =
week ! saw tho
was going ND in
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Ihey had a. very
.. mere. II haprrne
about cloC,y I,
was all rcd. Pic:
MAVEN; any linC'
hour glass. I VII
getting real ionx.
New Year. from
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] rsnnot draw. % ] viii
7"rdtnr in I, chhr.dc which
In sundays paper. ] am
letter. Your row mem
E.IIAHETU THOMAS.
sscll st, Blucheld. ". Va.
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in writing llt,le poem
'"cwbird got hun.
; IN" hundred on arith.
my poem Viii cscan.
D,;skr,. Sincerely yours.
NikGiNlA FERGUSON.
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oppose you have forro,.
amcd Tor not writing Ia
IA a grand trip 10 Ncw
oiy and stayed 10 M
faricks Cathedral. /
:, one OF the oldest
iIoa. The pew where
@ent on SUNDAY I saw
nc OF The highest bui,d.
: saw the Atlantic
I'm niinS for one whole
iS statue OF Liberty I
~, and the man who
! IL was very dangerous
z explosion While / Was
q, Jersey city. II WAS
IRE morning. The skv
= excuse this ink. az I
INK. am sen.iing n
lose. as my letter is
Wishing YOU d IInppv
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LOUISE BLOOM.
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DOROTHY y GRiCE.
Gresham Court.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Hall Game Passionately Pleads That AJ
Death of Women and Children Re-
Avenged; Reprisals as War Measure

"The Allied navies have to.sav,,,.
dreadnoughts to every one a. N. A.. y
Germany and Austria, and in ads,s.*
more than four old battleship, "a ~
the enemy But the superiority !, q
Of metal, modernity and tonnsy. !. e
greater than even these immens. s,. q
ply. Are we really conten. to So. a. :
mass of about 200 battleships wal, n ~
the of chance OF the German Zee, 49,
to fight, until peace perhaps an p,,.s
tory peace-is declared? When ,.,..
battleships were sunk in the Dars,,.H =
was represented as great naval A.
but what kind of disaster would |,
on the day peace is signed hundred, :, Il
tleships are found 20 have been bras.
unused and pass into obsolescence. "a !.
planted in future wars by airpla,e, a..
marines
The American journal thus pbr,,,. !
situation:
"The Mississippi Of the German MN
against humanity is the Eloe Rive, =
many's Vicksburg may be the impcr,,,, ;.
of Hamburg, eighty miles from N. -.
Put Farragrt in command to say -
Damn the torpedoes,' and release n. a.,
But the air as a field for ner. b,.,
killing exchanges occupies only a f,,.,,
of American attention. The det,rr,,
ton to build splendid aeria! arm,
with which to recapture peace 70, !,
world is manifested in Congress and
camp. The Aero Club of Americ, !,
expressly urged upon President Wis
the desirability and the feasibility Of q,
plying 10000 aeroplanes, and has also u
gested that the appropriation be incruy
to S2,00O,00O,OOO. Secretary Daniel. },
asked for 100000 additional for !
ravy's aerial needs. The Council Of b
fence. has now definite plans for tn. "
duction of $500 aeroplanes per mort
under the existing s639, 100000 apprra
ton. Allied experts are agreed that 1,
war in the air will be vital, il not |.
cisive.
The decision of Americans to fy J
using the wings which the Wne1
offered them for a decade but which W..
treated as State Fair toys, calls for tn,
ing schools on a large scale. Fsld Il,
now under construction at Daytor 0.s
Mount Clemens, Mich, and Rsnt1g, L
As yet only 1000 students Of srs.=
have enrolled at the preliminary tar,
camps as aspiring to fly in the fssaa
German providence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
WHAT AMERICA THINKS
w ABOUT REPRISALS.

Reprisals upon civilians find warm adj
vocates in the United States. THE Sun"
suggests "thrashing the outlaw nation
savagely" and "reprisals by great air
fleets. administering to German cities eX-
actly the same treatment" would stop the
German raiders. An American fleet OF
aeroplanes for this purpose is advocated,
and Orville Wright acquiesces in this sug-
gestion. and adds that "aeroplane raids
could be conducted against business CEN
tres and population centres in Western
Germany, producing upon her irreparable
injury
As a reply to the boiling OIL used by
the Canadians at the Messines Ridge, Ger
many came forward with new discovery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Great Britain Debates the Bombing OF German 1oWn

will find Joy in Wednesdays bombing Of
London. knowing full well that it did nothing
more helpful 20 Germany than TO send ten
little English boys and girls TO the grave
and fifty others TO the hospital
These are hard words, but for Gods sake
let us strip our minds of the delusion that
the German woman thinks the suffering of
the English mother over the loss Of her
English child is to be put into the same
category of human calamity with the suffer
ing of the German mother over the loss or
even the peril of her German child. She
does not. Whatever her feeling in days Of
peace may be, in this time of war she thinks
II right to safeguard the welfare Of one Ger
man child at the cost, if need be, Of the lives
Of ten thousand English children. At mo-
nents of great emotional excitation human
itv is capable Of criminal illusions. and war
has brought one such criminal illusion to
the German mother. Some of US have known
of it since the early days of the war, and II
at this moment any tender-hearted person OF
our own race has doubt of its baneful
power, let him spend shilling on Mr.. Ar
chers demoniac anthology, called Gems OF
German Thought There he will find
among other manifestations of moral
lunacy such as the history OF the human mind
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Sentiment in England Regarding Air Re-
prisals Is Rapidly Changing; Still There
Is Argument For and Against

of preventing further raids on London
babies" THE Westminster Gazette" de-
nounces reprisals as useless. "The Spec
tator" says the question is purely mill
tary one and that the "best reprisal is to
beat the enemy"
Many ministers advocated reprisals
upon German civilians in the pulpits on
the day of worship following the last raid,
quoting the Bibles enthusiastic advocacy
of reprisals. Lord Derby, however. dep
recates the idea of reprisals as being "a
mere imitation of German brutality" un-
worthy Of England, besides being inef-
fective. Baron Montagu, in the House
of Lords, claimed for the enemy "a per-
feet right to bomb London, which was
fortified city"
To Hall Game retaliation is the very
essence Of the war. In "The London Daily
Chronicle" he writes:
LET us clear our hearts Of confusion and
our tongues of cant, and say plainly, what IS
plainly true that the air raid of Wednesday
was an atrocity deliberately inflicted by the
mothers of Germany on the mothers of Eng
land Can any reasonable mind doubt that
if the German woman had from the first con-
demned the bombing of London as an out
rage on the instincts of motherhood LONDON
would never have been bombed? Even ad-
hitting that the German woman, notwith-
standing her education and enlightenment, is
not and never has been, free woman in the
sense and in the measure in which the Eng
lish woman, the American woman or the
French woman is free, can it be thought that
if she had vehemently opposed form Of
warfare which made the destruction OF
child life in the country of the enemy a
probable and even an inevitable consequence
the most arbitrary government in the world
would have dared to practise it? Such
suppostion is impossible of acceptance
Motherhood is force which ploughs too
deep into national welfare to be defed by
any Kaiserism or any military despotism
whatsoever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

~ EPRISALS and retaliation at sea
X have scarcely departed from mere
- defensive operations against the
submarine, though the authoritative Army
and Navy Journal" has voiced the feeling
in the American navy for a naval often
sive as suggested by Winston Churchill
The submarine toll continues large, if
not so large as during the BLACK Weeks"
of May and June. The outstanding facts
are two: The failure of Germany's ruthless
programme to produce the delirium of
starvation in the English within the time
set, and the failure Of the Americans and
of the English to conquer the submarine.
The American enthusiasts who early an
nOunced the complete mastery Of the sub
marine enemy have either adopted some
other vocation or are indulging the world
gratuitously with continuing marine
losses, as no records to support the an
nouncements are available.
The difficulties of the problem have been
increased by German initiative in provid
ing net-cutting devices, telescope peri
scopes, equilibrium pumps to enable the
submarine to stand still and devices for
obscuring of exhaust traces. The Ger
mans pretend that the submarine campaign
has been a success, but the assurances of
Admiral Won Capele, Minister of Marine,
and of Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
fail to satisfy German "distrust of the
effectiveness of this weapon to compel
peace"
Park Benjamin, in "The Independent"
emphasizes the fact that as yet the Ger
man U-boat has kept ahead of Allied cf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

IN diabolism which she used in her air
raids. making several small aeroplanes
carving this new missile more effective
than a great Zeppelin. Meanwhile, Ger
MANY. an expert in. brutality facing the
London and New York amateur strafers'
not TO be .outdone in reprisals, promises an
aerial feet Of 200 ships, while the "hol-
nische Zeitung" suggests 1000.
1NDER the captain Release the
l Fleets" Americas authoritative MIL
itarv periodical, The Army and Navy
Journal" enthusiastically indorses WIN
ston Spencer ChurchilPs demand Tor sea
thrust at Germany-an offensive warfare
instead of a passive one. Some OF THIS
journals interesting speculations run as
fellows:
AN DEVELOPMENT in the war news since
the definite alignment of the belligeren' ma
fang WAS assumed in the autumn OF 1914
hos had so concrete foundation IN common
sense or holds so practical promise OF lar
reaching results as does the increasing de-
mand that the next grand assault upon Ger
-. ho from the sea. or air and sea COM
bined.
"rho rronosal of a sea offensive had the
endorsement of eminent strategists even De-
fore the addition of the United States navy
10 can the already marked superiority OF the
Allied marine forces over those of their en-
omv II Is in accord with principles OF econ
amy in view of the fearful cost OF minor ad-
vances on the land; official reports OF casual
tios within recent months show an average OF
10000 per day
"The annals of history need not be
searched further than a half century back
70 find added backing in precedent Grants
encircling armies held the Confederacy IN
death grip but it was Farragut and his as
eociates who broke the back of the resist
ance against him. Operations on the MIS-
sjssippi. at Mobile, Wilmington and Charles
ron gave larger net result, compared with
cost in men and material, than did any as
sault on land.
"Germany's heel of Achilles may yet be
found in the 2O0-mile arc that stretches from
the coast of Denmark TO the northern limits
Of Holland The estuaries of Schleswig-Hol-
stein must include many bays and coves that
are lacking in prime defensive qualities. II
NOT Helcoland Blight itself might be es-
sayed.'
The Army and Navy Journal" quotes
statement by Winston Spencer Churchill,
now one of the leading publicists of Eng
land which appeared in THE Sunday
Pictorial" Uondon):
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

cannot parallel, the most appalling proof
that to the heart of the German woman and
man alike any acts whatever are justihable
which are directed toward Furnishing the
English people and forcing them into sub
lection"
"The Westminster Gazette" while it
Gisagrees with the sentiment expressed by
Hall Game, strongly advocates reprisals:
"Mere reprisas. in the sense of bombing
German towns and killing German women
and children, simply because they have
bombed our towns and killed our women and
children would be both unworthy and futile.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

But these air raids have by general con-
sent A definite military purpose which takes
US on to different ground. That purpose Is
to compel the withdrawal of aeroplanes from
the battle ground for the defence Of the
civilian population, and so give the enemy
an advantage in the legitimate air struggle
over our own lighting men, Now, if that is
to become regular practice, it introduces a
new military factor to which we are bound
to find reply.
This is not a question OF vindictlveness'
it is a question whether we can remain pas
sive and allow the enemy not merely to Kill
and MAIN our civilian population, but to get
a signal military advantage by so doing. We
are afraid it is necessary to warn him that
we cannot"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

the German U-boats which are blockading
the British coast nor for effectively protect
ing ships against them, has as yet come to
light, nor does there now appear any more
chance of such discoveries being made than
has existed ever since the war began.
"The resurrections, and reresurrections,
and re-reresurrections of old ideas, of
course, have been legion. In France twenty
thousand plans have been offered to the gov
eminent, out of which 81 per cent went i'm
mediately into the wastebasket. OF the re-
naming per cent, held for further exami
nation, but one-third were thought worth con-
siderng, and from these last nothing ap-
pears TO have materialized.
"In this country the mail is crammed with
letters on the subject TO the War Depart
ment and the Navy Department, and the
Commission for Technical Research, and the
Council of National Defence, and the Naval
Consulting Board; and now comes a 'Subma-
rine Defence Association composed of men
of shipping and allied interests, TO act as
sort of clearing house for any protective
ideas which may be submitted And the pro-
fcssional wizards who were going to in
vent are gradually fading out of the lime
light. Like Glendower. they said they could
call spirits from the vastly deep But their
answer TO Hotspur's query. Will they come
when you do call for them turns out to be
only watchful whiting. You can't make peo-
pie invent, nor hens lay eggs, because Of
An urgent public demand, nor by the aid OF
debating societies which are organized TO ex-
cite their enthusiasm