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SUBSCRirTioN.-$2 PER YEAR SINGLE COPTES 5 CENTS AUl conunications and contributions inten<Ied for publi-. cation must bei'r the name and address of the author, flot necmsarily for publication, but for our fiLes. Sucb material mut reach the editor b4 Tuesday noon to be in tini f or. tecurrent issue. Yu'iRE ELLINU? "Ohwd sotne powler, ic gpijtîegie lis To« sec o:irscls as othcrs scec ns! So wrote the beloved ýRobert Burns, Nwho rec- ogniztd the fralities of humans, and their pro- pensity for viewing their own lives 'and acts f romi a wrong perspective. Someone detached and .,%ithout, int erest, hé. thought. could arrive a t more accurate estirnates. Perhaps he was right. And perhaps. too. '*The London Sphere," w.hich commented recently- iî,on trends -and phil osophies, in American governiment. cOnes 'miuch dloser to the truth,,thani. those Nyho. because of interest and close, con tact. are too. confusecd taý seeý clearly. It said: "The United States contains (ý per cent of the_ world's area and 7 per cent ofi ts population. It norrnally consumes 48 per cent of the ol' cëff ee. 53 per cent of its tin, 56, per cent of its rubber,'21 per cent of its sugar, 72 per ýcent of its silk, M6 per cent of its coal, 42 per cent c f is' pig iron and 09 per cent of its crude petroleum. "The United States operates (A per cent of the world's telephone and telegraph facilitier. owns 80 per cent of the, motor cars in use, operates 33 per cent of its raîlroads. It produces 70 pexr cent of the oit, 00 per. cent of the wheat and cotton, 50 per cent of the copper and pig iron, and 410 per cent the lead and coal output of the globe. * "The United States possesse.s almrost ,1,0. 000,000 in gold, or nearly one-half of the worid's monetarv metal. It bas two-thirds of ciiizat'in's banking resources. The purchasing power of the population is greater' than that of the 500.000,000 * people of Europe and much larger than that of the more than aà billion Asiatics. "Rkesponsible leadership- which cannot' trans- late such a bulginig economy into assured pros- perity is destitute of capacity,. But pompous statesmen, looking over theestate, solemnly de- clare that the methods bv -whIich it was created * art 211 wrong, oùight to be abandonied, must be it cost. just as we enjoy air and. sunshine as- sornething provided by nature and which is free for our use as, long as we live. B-ut liberty is not as cheap as that. "Eternai vigilance" is the price that mnust be paid for it, and whenever v-igilance is relaxed there wili be an effort to take it away, from us. -That rnay be the fix we are ini right now.. LooKiNCYAHEAD: A-,cominunication in, this, news-magazine last, %N-eek 'f rom -the 'pen of Ma\Itthew P .,Gafftiey. sup- erintendent of New Trier > High .sczhool. big forcibly to. the f ore the need. in the ver'y near future., for. additions to the equipment and facili- ties of the school. In b 1is communicat.ltinMr. Gaffney pointed out three way., in which these additions rnay be procured. Tt is flot the purpose here to. discuss the methods sugg-ested by M,\r. 'Gaffney. but rather to eniphasize the -responsibility of parents, of students., anld other taxpayers N\hIo mnay nc't be sending childrcn ta the szhool. to give every possible aid in arrivng. at a lecisîon as f0 wbiat is the right method. W\hile thie tws is for- tunate in the capable personnel of the executive staff (4f the school and of the Hioh -ch bd harrd. th is fact shouild not deter cizens romn lendiîng what assisýtance they may. The forecast of population cointaine*d in Mlr., 'Gaffnev,',s commnunication indicate.s that thé ini- crease in facilities -îvill need-to be considerable, a nd'that th'ose In charge of the school are per- forming a real service ta the commutnities by ap- proaching. the probleni in Advance of the tinte wvhen the lack w%ýotli constitute a crisis and hur-. ried, action an imp.editnenit to. a satisfactory so- lution. GooD POLICE WORK M.\embers of the Kenilworth police departnent did a splendid piece of police work early \V'ednes- day morning of ýlastl--çe.ek when they captured oeof 'the hioldup men who have been preying upon -North Shore villagers. for several weeks, and later arrested bis. accomplice. The 'officers, cruising on SheridanY road near \o 'Man's Land, noticed one car closely following another and became suspicious. knowing that the practice of that spread , to other nations, and înat tne, resu1 accients about 75 per cent, accoruîug tu urcai woud be a loosening of bonds for maily more of the province. huanan beings than oeUld be accounted for in Perhaps the good results are attributable as thie thirteen colonies.. much' to enforcemient as to the provisions of the Liberty is the* most prizd possession of man. law. In Canada laws are enforced-and no foolin'. Riverside (Illinois) offiias,, caused a wrecked automobile to be placed on the iawn of the village bail, bearing. a placard re ading: "The wreck is here but UE'S GONR! Tufe PHANTOM EOT. t I I t 'i World war--.-oe. else. In that there is the makcig of a first class fracas. After noting, as we did some weeks ago, the embarrassment caused by a zipper garment ta ,a gentleman on ýa bus, we resolved that under no ciricumstances wouid we ever own or *wear anv garment fitted with that unidependable contri- vance for op ening or closing theý thing. But we. are'doonxed. The -approach of a birth 'anniversary brought a rather nice Iooking, blue sweater-. .with a zipper front that, zips ail the way down so the garment can be donned or remov'ed. coat- like. We spenit the first day trying to find out howv the atrocious thing works, and found.-that most of the time it, do-n't.. Now ýwe are ap pealing to the engineering profession for help. Some of those boys should be able. to figure it. out. The c.nl-y thing we are sure of is that -we wvill never %vea.r that sweat er on a, bus. It's too dangerous. State's Attorney Courtney and the Chicago Crime commissionhaveeçmbarkeéd iipon a c 1am- paign .to'bring to anend the escape.f romý punish- mrit of criminals on the plea of inisaiit, ,vheni -that 'isanity runs in cycles. Meaning t hat the crimninal w-ho pleads insanity wvhen the crfime ivas commiit.teed and sanity at the .timle of trial, or the rev-erse of.thiatcorder, shall not be given frecedoiný to continue. a crimin al carcer. It. is, higlh timie steps be taken to ter minate the farce.' This is strictil on the QT-"ôff thle, record.'" a- the hig-wiýýgs say. Fact is, e r sronusI, Coli- temiipiating throwing up* the sponge and düserti ng the newspaper profession. For -vhy? 'Our pride, ]ii alhas been shattered, and: it was. some pride. As boycj and mail our experience lhas spread o'ver a good many, years, and our, effort hias alwavs, benl to uphold and carry 9on. the traditions of. Horace G.reeiey. and other higiights of the cdi- torial ranks. We_ iiever iouind it njecesýsar\, ta cuitivate an agcile. maginatio.n in, order ta create fi rs t-page nw out of w\hole cloth ,_or mlav1be .a bare rumnor.. Perhaps.that is becau se oui' experi- ence hias been outsidethe metropýolitani newspape r ed.At any ratc -the S'spicion that the 'ýbig', papers impose upon their, readers to a shocking degree hias growmn prodigiously, and in exact ratio to that 1grow%-th pride of profession has d.wliidled until it hias ,reached the point, which2