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cation muet bear the naine ana addressor me Lur *U4 nu& necessarily for publication, but for aur files. Such material muet reaéi the editor by Tuesday noon to be in time for the current issue. THE FOURTHOF.JULY You mnay cali it Independence, day, the nation's natal day 'or anythingeisc 'you like,: but to otie flot so far removed f rom boyhood that no Seg- -ment of memory remains it bas, always been, is now and will cofitinue to be the Fourth of -july. It's like ".Merry Christmas"-no one ever, bas found ýor ever will find 'for it a satisfactory sub-. stitute. It's. just the good old Fourtb of July and that's al there is.to it.> During boyhood, youth and thus far into maturity we -have anticipated' the, Fourth of July w.ith . moreý pleasure than any of the other holidays. But we are ntgorig to kid our readers or ourseif about this anticipation. It was not, we ttdnk, rootd infll-enveIcing' piatriotism. Whiie we realize that one George Washington had somnething to do with the oc- currence that brought about the annual ob- servance, we cannot remnember ever having spent the day in meditation upon the life, work and sacrifices of the father of bis, couintry. What we wanted to do was to shoot off fire- crackers., the louder the better; to tbrow tor, pedoes,, hur Roman candies, touch off sky- rorcets. and do as much cevilment and make scrcarneagle,. iigwapio ig (-/...6 V .--.- for two hours intrigued us not at ail. WTby sbould they, when just across the street there was a merry-go-round, a canée rack,. a doli booth, and a tall, dark gentleman witb a.droopinig moustache who offered to bet that you couldn't. tell which 'sheli covered the pea, -to say nothin-1 of the silver cornet. band and 'the street parade 'and a lot of other things. Thiat was what'the Fourth of july meant to us, and it is not a bit different from what it FATHER 's DAY The impression generaliy entertained is' that Father's Day isa product of American comr-rcl cialism; that it was conceived by the merchants "It was thirty-seven years ago that a family livinig ini a humble cabin on the wind swept and. snow swept Big Rend his in the state',of Waslh: ington was ber èft of a mother. A lonely father .withi a brood of yotuig childrenl kept thevigil and for, twenty years thereafter that father. William Jackso.n Smart, exe rc.ised.:paternaàl vigilance over t hat family. lIn 1910, one of those children, i 1n appreciation ýof the sacrifices, made by that father undrtokto. have the thir.d Sunday .in june designated. as Father's Day. Litie by littie, the idea grew into, the con scio usness of the.count ry, resolutions and petitions were presented to civic and legisiative 'bodies ,by interested organiza- tions and, today, Father's Day is, generaIly recog- nized throughout the- Iand: An' effort is, now being mnade tO«have it nationally recognized'by Congressional enactmnent.". AN AUTHORITY ýSPEAKS No cale In Amecrica speaks with greater auithority 'or with lmore complete information on the crime situation than John Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In an address at the commencement exercises of Kalamnazoo colleg-,e recentîy, -Mr. Hoover gavec some astounding facts on crime, anid pointed out with emphasis.the respoinsibilitv of parents in correcting a (isturbing trend ainonig younig people to enter paths which lead directly to th e underworld. Thèse. excerpts f romn that address are worthy 'of most serions consideration of tound in the railure ofparetdtozuiu ,uprpely. *train the youthful mind into paths freý froni ciinality. Today, there are in America over 4,300,000 eriminals actlvely at .work, plundering, marauding and murdering. There is an aggregate *of over 1,330,000 serious crimes each year, which means ithté every twenty-four seconds there is a felonlous infraction of our laws, including rob- bery-, assuit,. arson, or murder. In addition, over fourteen million minor crimes are comritted each year, flot including trafflc and licjuor law viola- tions. Each settirig sun leaves its final glow over dentg to a. bwill be a confril of welfare In Àmé Soinator Wbeeler is a mnaster of tact, judgiing fronthe manner in wvhich lie bioke to President R ooseveit. the niews that his Supremne court packing bill is dead as a mnackerel. The weather mani bas rédeemeid h.isélf. Sun- day lie came, out 'of bis grouch and present ed lolnging humanity her 1eabOuts with1 a perfect June. day. A rarity, by. thé, way, witIli the particu- lar. june that -closed last midnight. This. reporter acknowledges. the condolences of a contributor ,to last week>s '!Public Forum" upon the fact that our onlysource of informa- tion (or misinformation) on the current insurrection of the C1.. is the Ç.hicago Daily Tribunie, assisted off* and on bthe Chicago Dail 1 News. The critié states*that we have been "led arounid by flic nose" by the Tribune, and fed vvith "phantom' iwws'" untilthe 'cden- ' sity of our ignorance hias be- cornc a public peril that re- qu(ires the attention of some miaster mmnd in whom a kind - Proiidenice lias reposed the rare gif.t of exact determination between that wbich is truth and that wbich is plain hooey. So the critic assumes the dutNI, and gives the 1owv down on. the Mernorial Day battie at South Chicago, ';,%e admit that the Tribune bias been al tru th and rigbteousness whicb tbe critic s0 proudly boasts, somneone bas to make up our mind for us, and we tbôughit that the Tribune, witb an occasional assist by the News, could do tbe job as well' as any. Then w,,e figured that the .Lord intended, us to be led arouind Iby the nose," else why sh'ould Fie have caused us to be born witb a rig in the proboscis? But we must wvarn our judicially minded critic, who so un- failingly discriminates between trutb and bunk, and Jwbo evidently desires to take a turn at the The reason for so many divorces may lie ini the fact that girls of today do flot dare to refuse an offer f marriage for fear that the suitor wil kili them. They prefer to marry the brutes, wait. a reasonable time and then sue for divorce, May be safer, at that.