anaheim-gazette 1932-10-06

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. WATCH FOR THE JOKERS When Anaheimers go to the polls next month they will face two totally different, yet oddly enough, inter-related problems. Upon their correct solution depends in large measure the type of government we will have in the future. The fundamentally different problems to be decided, of course, are the selection of present political leaders and, what to us seems of equal importance, the action to be taken in regard to the score of proposed amendments to the state constitution. The elected leaders' rights are based upon constitutional limitations, so in this article we are not so concerned with the elected leaders as we are with the proposed constitutional changes. They are fundamental. Some are of more importance than others, but all should receive our careful and unbiased consideration. Throughout the list of proposed constitutional amendments runs the threat of government by or for organized minorities. Just because a proposition is submitted by an organized minority does not condemn it, but if the proposition, instead of being for the benefit of the people as a whole, savors of selfish interests, then the public should emphatically disapprove. Throughout most of the amendments to be considered in November, the selfish interest of the minority predominates. Take proposition No. 9, which ostensibly is for the purpose of lessening taxes on real property by broading the tax base and placing collection in the hands of the state instead of divided with the county as at present. This amendment, as the Gazette has pointed out previously, fails to achieve its stated purpose, but would increase school taxes by increasing guaranteed expenditures, and still further entrenching our educational forces behind the state constitution. does not condemn it, but if the proposition, instead of being for the benefit of the people as a whole, savors of selfish interests, then the public should emphatically disapprove. Throughout most of the amendments to be considered in November, the selfish interest of the minority predominates. Take proposition No. 9, which ostensibly is for the purpose of lessening taxes on real property by broading the tax base and placing collection in the hands of the state instead of divided with the county as at present. This amendment, as the Gazette has pointed out previously, fails to achieve its stated purpose, but would increase school taxes by increasing guaranteed expenditures, and still further entrenching our educational forces behind the state constitution. This amendment doesn't decrease costs, succeed in shifting taxes sufficiently to justify broadening the tax base, or better our school system. Its only accomplishment would be to protect the salaries of school teachers. Hence, the selfish purpose of an organized minority, of which we must beware. Repealing of the Wright act is favored by a large number of people. Here is a totally different question, not basically one of the wet and dry issue, but one of constitutional law. If we repeal the Wright act we are flouting the law of the land. So long as the Eighteenth amendment is with us, and is a law of the land, then the question in regard to the Wright act is not whether we favor repeal, but whether we intend to support the constitution until such a time as the constitution is amended to meet our views. The companion proposition to the one for repeal of the Wright act is one delegating to the state, in case of repeal of or change of the Eighteenth amendment, to permit the state, the sole authority for controlling liquor sales. Here again is a question just as unfair as opponents of the Eighteenth amendment claim that measure to be. The proposition would prevent any city or county of the state, no matter how preponderantly dry it might be, from passing local laws to keep out liquor. What will be paraded by opponents as a joker, and by them termed as class legislation of an extremely selfish sort, is proposition No. 11, the Huntington Beach measure asking the state to give control of tidelands within the city limits to that community, the same right that has been granted other seashore communities. While the people of the state are justly opposed to giving up state-owned tidelands and beaches for private enterprise, there are exceptions. This appears to be an exception for one reason only: The Standard Oil company of California has 17 oil wells actually located on or so close to the tidelands that half of the production of those wells is taken from the pool of oil under the ocean, acually owned by the state of California. In other words, half the oil taken out of those wells rightfully belongs to the people of this state. Under present arrangements the Standard Oil is not paying one cent into the coffers of the state for this legal theft of the people's property. The oil firm has built a 10-foot retaining wall over the greater portion of the beachfront, making use of the beach impossible for pleasure purposes. Huntington Beach proposes to lease the tidelands to an oil company which agrees to drill wells to offset the Standard wells, drawing "black gold" from the same pool, and paying 16 2-3 percent royalty, one-half of which would go to the city, the other half to the state. In addition, the company agrees to pay the city a $100,000 bonus. The argument of save the beaches, in this instance, is irrevalent, because the public cannot now use that particular beach due to Standard Oil company "private property" signs. To correct this injustice on the people of the state, and the city of Huntington Beach, we must not let the cry of "joker" in this measure mislead us. FAIRIES When the Romans invade they found in the northern country a race of diminished called the Picts who live That was nearly two thousand ago, and there fire no trace these little people, a race probably also lived in undergrowths all over Northern Europe. A British scientist who studying the subject says widespread belief in a race harmless little folk who lives wilds, undoubtedly has through generations of trials this extinct tribe of earth. There is a great deal suggesting that the presence humanity are merely the perhaps hundreds of different types which have totally cause they were less fifty survivors to adapt themselves battle with nature. ROBINS An English writer sneered in print not long after American robin was not a different bird from the Eredbreast, but had no right a robin at all, as it was variety of thrush. He added measure, that the American rel wasn't a squirrel at all species of rat. American naturalists have the defense of these distinctican creatures. Our robin mit a variety of thrushthe English robin! As for squirrel, it is of exactly that as the English red squirrel. Incidentally, I was puzzled by my country neighbors, not from Germany, complained robins were eating his corn some questioning before that he was complaining on He did not know the English them by their German nat which is pronounced just like which in English is traurven. GYPSIES That curious race of warple whom we call Gypsies famous for centuries as he It seemed odd to me, then I offered an old automobiles mislead us. front, making use of the beach impossible for pleasure purposes. Huntington Beach proposes to lease the tidelands to an oil company which agrees to drill wells to offset the Standard wells, drawing "black gold" from the same pool, and paying 16 2-3 percent royalty, one-half of which would go to the city, the other half to the state. In addition, the company agrees to pay the city a $100,000 bonus. The argument of save the beaches, in this instance, is irrevalent, because the public cannot now use that particular beach due to Standard Oil company "private property" signs. To correct this injustice on the people of the state, and the city of Huntington Beach, we must not let the cry of "joker" in this measure mislead us. In each instance we must look for the joker. Be sure you understand the real purpose of each amendment before voting upon it. THE COST OF LIVING The cost of living has been steadily declining in the United States for ten years. Today is nearer to what it was before the war than it has reached since 1913, according to government statistics which have just been issued. The war sent the prices of all commodities up until, in 1920, it cost the average city dweller just about twice as much in rents, fuel, clothing and the other essentials of life, to say nothing of luxuries, as it had cost for the same things seven years before. In ten years two-thirds of this increased cost has been lopped off, so that today the general average of living costs is only about a third greater than it was in 1913. The period of high commodity costs was, however, the period of our highest national prosperity. From 1922 to 1929 prices maintained a fairly even level of about 70 percent more than in 1913. Everybody was busy, everybody was earning more money than we had ever earned before, more goods were being produced and sold at profitable prices than ever before, and the people of the United States were in happy and contented frame of mind. Then the sudden drop in commodity prices began and we have had hard times, business depression and unemployment ever since. It seems to us that here is conclusive proof that prosperity is dependent upon high prices. All of the statesmen, economists and financiers of the world agreed that is true. An intensive and widespread effort is being made to find a way of restoring and increasing commodity prices. An international committee is to meet shortly in Geneva to prepare the plans and program for a world-wide conference of governments in the effort to find some way to solve this problem. In the meantime, the upward trend has begun in many commodity lines, and the whole outlook seems to be toward better prices, which means, in the long run, the resumption of production and the restoration of prosperity. GYPSIES . . . no That curious race of warple who we call Gypsies famous for centuries as he It seemed odd to me, then I offered an old automobile recently, to find that the age man with whom I was had sold several cars with weeks to Gypsies. He told Gypsy tribes of the United States have become shrewd and expert traders hand, high-grade automobiles ever were in horses. The motor nowadays, and what perts can do to an old car look like new and act like least until the buyer had and driven it away, is amara. Nobody knows much about these strange people. "Gypsy" is derived from a posed origin in Egypt, but ground for belief that they same stock as the Hindoo with a-plentiful admixture streams of many Eastern races. RELIGION . . . the new Professor Robert Millikan famous scientist, makes the statement that among science religious faith is more man than younger men than amor Dr. Millikan argues from the wave of doubt which regillious world, while science began to discover able facts which were not with some religious dogmas spent itself. There has been a decided change in the conbut he maintains that there nution, but rather an applace acceptance of belief in Intelligence behind all phnomena. The God of the scientist says, rules the universe by laws. The only religious lo ANAHEIM GAZETTE WE HAVEN'T A GREAT DEAL OF TIME TODAY BOYS. WHAT DO YOU SAY WE STAY IN OUR OWN COUNTRY? HOP IN THE ROCKET PLANE AND WE'LL VISIT LIL OL' NEW YORK. ALMOST AS FAR DOWN IN THE EARTH AS THESE SKYSCRAPERS ARE HIGH, IS A CIRCULAR TUNNEL THRU WHICH WATER IS DELIVERED INTO NEW YORK CITY FROM VARIOUS POINTS IN THE CATSKILL MTS. THIS TUNNEL IS 750 FEET DEEP IN PLACES AND IS THE LARGEST OF ITS KIND-18 MILES IN LENGTH-IT IS BIG ENOUGH TO ACCOMODATE A DOUBLE-TRACK RAILROAD. CLOSER TO THE SURFACE ARE 4000 MILES OF WATER MAINS. IT NECESSITATES KEEPING CONSTANT WATCH FOR LEAKS & WATER THIEVES WHO OCCASIONALLY HAVE BEEN CAUGHT TAPPING MAINS. AMONG THE INTRICATE SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE OF NEW YORK CITY ARE THE STEAM LINES WHICH DELIVER 5 BILLION POUNDS OF STEAM ANNUALLY TO OVER 2000 SKYSCRAPERS. GOME ALONG NOW BUD'N BUB LETS GET BACK TO THE OL'HOME TOWN BEFORE MOTHER DISCOVERS YOU'VE BEEN AWAY. BRUCE BARTON writes of "THE MASTER EXECUTIVE" Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy-burdened who will find every human trial paralleled in the experiences of "The Man Nobody Knows." THE OUTDOOR MAN The air was filthy with the smell of animals and human beings herded together. Men and women trampled onejected by the priests, who directed her to buy from the dealers. An old man related his experience. THE OUTDOOR MAN The air was filthy with the smell of animals and human beings herded together. Men and women trampled one another, crying aloud their imprecations. At one side of the court were the pens of the cattle; the dove cages at the other. In the foreground, hard-faced priests and money-changers sat behind long tables exacting the utmost farthing from those who came to buy. One would never imagine that this was a place of worship. Yet it was the Temple—the center of the religious life of the nation. And to the crowds who jammed its courts, the tragedy of it. Standing a little apart from the rest, Jesus, the young man from Nazareth watched in amazement which deepened gradually into anger. It was no familiar sight to him. He had not been in the Temple since his twelfth year, when Joseph and Mary took him up to be legally enrolled as a son of the law. His chief memory of that previous visit was of a long conversation with certain old men in a quiet room. He had not witnessed the turmoil in the outer courts, or, if he had, it made small impression on his youthful mind. But this day was different. For weeks he had looked forward to the visit to the Temple. To be sure some of the older ones muttered about the extortions of the money-changers at the Temple. A woman told how the lamb which she had raised with so much devotion the previous year, had been scornfully rejected by the priests, who directed her to buy from the dealers. An old man related his experience. Today Jesus faced the sordid reality, his cheeks flushed. A woman's shrill tones pierced his revery like a knife; he turned to see a peasant mother protesting vainly against a ruthless exaction. And suddenly, without a word of warning, he strode to the table where the fat money-changer sat, and hurled it violently across the court. The startled robber lurched forward, grasping at his gains, lost his balance, and fell sprawling on the ground. Another step and a second table was over-turned, and another, and another. The crowd which had melted back at the start began to catch a glimmering of what was up, and surged forward around the young man. He strode on, looking neither to right nor left. He reached the counters where the dove cages stood; with quick sure movements the cages were opened and the occupants released. Brushing aside the group of dealers who had taken their stand in front of the cattle pens, he threw down the bars and drove the bellowing animals out through the crowd and into the streets. The whole thing happened so quickly that the priests were swept off their feet. Now, however, they collected themselves and bore down upon him in a body. Who was he that dared this act of defiance? Where had he come from? By what authority did he presume to interrupt their business? "This is my authority," he eried. "It is written: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but ye have made it a den of robbers." Next Week: A Strong Right Arm Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Company THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. SUNLIGHT The oldest subject "under the sun." But how important—and how interesting! Wise the family doctor who knows the uses of the God-given elements at his command, within easy reach. Natural sunlight is just right for the human being—and for all life on the muscle and nerves. It is invaluable for the breathing apparatus, and is supreme in maintaining the alkaline balance in the body. It prevents acid destruction of vital organs, such as the kidneys. Sunlight is the principal factor in bringing about the marvellous changes. THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. SUNLIGHT The oldest subject "under the sun." But how important—and how interesting! Wise the family doctor who knows the uses of the God-given elements at his command, within easy reach. Natural sunlight is just right for the human being—and for all life on the earth, animal and vegetable. It is a vital necessity. A dearth of it will produce weak bodies, poor blood, inefficient nerves—a weakened race of people. Outdoor dwellers in rural districts are more hardy and vigorous than inhabitants of crowded cities. Good, bright yellow sunlight is rich in ultra-violet rays, and here we step into up-to-date stuff. The ultra-violet ray is the agent that converts the numerous lime salts of our foods, into suitable form for appropriation by our bodies. Lime, or calcium is an extremely important tonic for blood, muscle and nerves. It is invaluable for the breathing apparatus, and is supreme in maintaining the alkaline balance in the body. It prevents acid destruction of vital organs, such as the kidneys. Sunlight is the principal factor in bringing about the marvellous changes, so necessary to bodily vigor; it doesn't cost anything if you live in its vicinity, and are free to get about in it. In mountain regions, the nearer approach to the sungives a much greater volume of violet-ray. In lower levels, the air is more polluted with dust, smoke, and other outside matters, which diminish the actinic effect of the rays. Artificial instruments have been invented, whereby the doctor may administer sun-rays to patients in winter and cloudy times, when out-door absorption is impossible. THE GYPSIES . . . now motorized That curious race of wandering peopie whom we call Gypsies have been famous for centuries as horse traders. They seemed odd to me, therefore, when offered an old automobile for sale recently, to find that the country garage man with whom I was dickering sold several cars within a few weeks to Gypsies. He told me that the gypsy tribes of the northeastern United States have become just as crewd and expert traders in second-hand, high-grade automobiles as they ever were in horses. They travel by motor nowadays, and what their experts can do to an old car to make it look like new and act like new, at least until the buyer had paid for it and driven it away, is amazing. Nobody knows much about the origin of these strange people. The name Gypsy" is derived from their supposed origin in Egypt, but there is found for belief that they are of the same stock as the Hindoos of India, with a plentiful admixture of the bloodreams of many Eastern European races. DELIGION . . . the newer concept Professor Robert Millikan, world famous scientist, makes the surprising statement that among scientific workers religious faith is more manifest among the younger men than among the older Dr. Millikan argues from this that he wave of doubt which swept over the regilious world, when modern science began to discover unquestionable facts which were not in harmony with some religious dogmas, has about lent itself. There has been, he admits, decided change in the concept of God, but he maintains that there is no dimition, but rather an appreciation in the acceptance of belief in a Supreme intelligence behind all physical phenomena. The God of the scientist, Dr. Millikan says, rules the universe by set, definite laws. The only religious idea that has been discouraged by science is that of a God of whims and caprice, to be appeased or propitiated. I have long believed, with Dr. Millikan, that we humans are not the playthings of a blind fate, but that we can master and control our own lives by learning our laws of God, and bringing ourselves into harmony with them. OYSTERS . . . here again Oyster farmers are expecting a bigger and better crop than ever this year. The oyster of the Atlantic Coast is always a surprise to the visitor from the Pacific, who is familiar only with the small native oysters out there. It is also a source of amusement to European visitors, who have nothing like it. It is related of William M. Thackery, the famous English author, that on his first and only visit to America he was served with oysters on the half shell and didn't know what to do with them. He asked his host how to eat them and was told that they should be swallowed whole. "I feel as if I had swallowed a live baby," he said, after he had gulped the first one down. Some kind-hearted ladies are trying to get oyster dealers to use anesthetics before opening the oysters so as not to give the oyster pain. That, it seems to me, is carrying sentimentality a little beyond the bounds of common sense. DIAMONDS . . . on a come back People are taking money out of their safe deposit vaults and are buying diamonds again, the New York dealers in precious stones report. During the past summer the price of diamonds reached the lowest point since the war, as might be expected in a period of world-wide depression. In the long run, there are few better investments than diamonds. They don't earn any interest on the investment until they are sold, but there never has been a time when a person owning a good diamond could not raise cash upon it on almost a minute's notice. More wealth can be concentrated in a small space in the form of diamonds than in any other commodity, and the tendency for a long period of years, has always been toward increasing values. OBSERVATIONS FED UP A newspaper writer says baseball has lost its jingle at the gate. The columner says fans pay no attention to the game generally because they want home runs. And a heavy wielder of the willow pole is blamed for that complex. Its a good deal like the man with a nagging wife. He stands for her clatter all day as meek as a lamb; but at night when the wife snores he ups and socks her in the mush and then they bot go to sleep. IN CONFERENCE Some weeks ago an investigation committte summoned a man from the financial canyons to testify as to this and that and whatever ails the universe. After the atmosphere cleared the proceedings were just about as they were, and everybody sat back and let nature take its course. CAUGHT SHORT If you can read all the reports about the bulls and the bears on a famous financial street and maintain your equilibrium, or whatever you call it, you are a dandy tella. But what keeps you dodging the most is the bears. Often you read of a bear raid in the financial canyons. The bear is the feller who is accused of selling short, and that seems to upset the apple cart and also the beehive. A bear sells stocks with the hope of buying them at a lower price at some future date. And here is the sticker. Usually the bear has to borrow the stock he sells, which in other words, if you can grasp the situation, means he sells something he hasn't got. SCRATCHING GRAVEL Some of the wise men in high up financial circles are quizzed every once in a while about this and that and are asked to explain about that short selling now-you-see it and-now-you-don't proposition. That complex has a lot of fellers guessing who don't seem able to GUMMING UP THE WORKS Presidential years usually make tough bleeding for the plebeians. The ones who are out pile up a lot of dirt against those who are in. That is done to put those in power in a bad light. Lots of times the big he-men in the financial circles do things to knock down prices of good securities in order to make people believe there is an economic depression. Then after the securities hit a low point, the big shots buy them, and as times improve, they make a big clean-up by the advance in prices. And so on. AND JUST LET NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE Getting down to brass tacks, so far as the country-at-large is concerned, it wouldn't make so very much difference if the president was a republican, or a democrat. Of course, one might be able to do a better job than the other. Congress runs the country. However, when there is a change a lot of new faces are seen around the official family tables. Some presidents might be able to propose a better inaugural address than the other fellow, but the old ship of state moves along just about the same; and the "boys" who get the new jobs and the positions feel fine and dandy and reckon as though they have got the world by the tail with a downhill pull. PASSING THE BUCK Just about the time we had the big wind off the coast, Great Britain made no provision in her budget to pay the U.S. A. those war debts, because she had not received the money due her from her war debtors. The plot thickens. When it comes to balancing a budget that procedure is a humdinger, and no foolin'. Whether the practice will spread to other countries remains to be seen. How's your liver, uncle? SCRATCHING GRAVEL Some of the wise men in high up financial circles are quizzed every once in a while about this and that and are asked to explain about that short selling now-you-see it and-now-you-don't proposition: That complex has a lot of fellers guessing who don't seem able to solve the puzzle. It is a great game but to a man up a mulberry tree if the bears went out on strike the bulls would lose a dandy playmate. NOCH EINSE There have been many kinds of days, some joyous and some sad. For instance, there is the day when you get your final decree and the day the note falls due. And the other day they had a beer day. Lots of the boys who were good walkers, got steam up and paraded around hither and yon until they got foam under the collar. The parade reminded a feller of the goat on the book beer signs, but there were no brass rails or free lunch on the sidelines. Some of the boys out of congress may have had grandstand seats but judging from the dispatches from the seat of war the members failed to tune in on the tumultuous turnouts. It's all right to have a beer day, but the happy days were when there was a boiler maker' picnic when the master brewers rode up in front on the beer trucks while the customers brought up the rear waving the banners and the bung starters. WRINGING OUT THE MOP The other day they cut out a million dollars from the eleven million prohibition enforcement fund. A senator from the west wanted to cut the allowance in half. The senator made the highly interesting statement that the enforcement offered today could be obtained in ample quantity for 5 million dollars. A senator from the south objected strenuously to any cut in the fund at all and says he believes the amendment is a great success. PURSUING THE WILL-O'THE WISP To try and stop short selling would be a good deal like going down to Tia Juana and try to hogtie the roulette wheel dealers. JUST OFF THE BOAT From what you can learn from hear-say and from what comes in over the back fence a new racket has sprung up in the likker game. It is given out on what is termed unimpeachable rumors that the dry territory on this side of a boundary line to the north furnishes booze to the wet district above. And then the modus sperandi is the sticker. Usually the bear has to borrow the stock he sells, which in other words, if you can grasp the situation, means he sells something he hasn't got. PASSING THE BUCK Just about the time we had the big wind off the coast, Great Britain made no provision in her budget to pay the U.S.A. those war debts, because she had not received the money due her from her war debtors. The plot thickens. When it comes to balancing a budget that procedure is a humdinger, and no foolin'. Whether the practice will spread to other countries remains to be seen. How's your liver, uncle? RED INK JUST AROUND THE CORNER A senator, apparently hot under the collar, says he has a hunch that international financial he-men, who jingle large sums of the iron dollars, are indirectly responsible for the market smashing, in order to retard recovery here, with cancellation of the war debts in offrg. From what you learn from hearsay and from what you hear coming in over the grapevine broadcasting station, a lot of folks have a notion that is just about the size of it. NOW, WATCH YOUR STEP! UH, MUH! If you look closely you will notice that when the director orders one of those close-ups in a love scene, if the stars are married, they do not indulge in those long, lingering and luscious kisses; but instead they make you think they are g half nelson hookups. BOYS WILL BE BOYS When one of the new Ambassadors went abroad he was asked whether or not he would serve liquids at his luncheons. It seems he has decided to follow the old customs over there and in all probability there will be something in the ice chest when the guests arrive. CANT YOU DO SOMETHING What this country needs is big men who will get action, instead of beating around the bush. This wonderful nation should be a beehive when it comes to activity. The men who are at the helm should take care of things at home before bothering their heads about the troubles in foreign countries. There are lots of good things that could be done here that would keep the people busy all the time, and hard times would never be heard of. UPS AND DOWNS The man who can tell why stocks soared and kept on soaring just before the crash in 1929, no doubt could tell why the stocks for the past year or two have kept hitting new lows and then some. SPREADING THE GLAD NEWS When the tax slashing committee got going good it was revealed that one hundred million copies of this and that JUST OFF THE BOAT From what you can learn from hear-say and from what comes in over the back fence a new racket has sprung up in the likker game. It is given out on what is termed unimpeachable rumors that the dry territory on this side of a boundary line to the north furnishes booze to the wet district above. And then the modus sperandi is to have the bootleg resold here as the honest to goodness merchandise from abroad, fancy labels and everything, at high up figgers per quart or pint. SPREADING THE GLAD NEWS When the tax slashing committee got going good it was revealed that one hundred million copies of this, and that are published yearly. Some of the topics discussed were the love life of the bullfrog and advice to housewives how to set a table. Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Charles E. Dunn The Christian's Devotional Life Matthew 6:5-15 Golden Text: 2nd Peter 3:18 The heart of our lesson is the Lord's Prayer, a summary, simple and eloquent, of the entire Christian fatith. All that we need to know about God and man is contained within its brief compass. It is indeed more than a prayer. It is the creed of Jesus, and also a covenant binding men to God. Prof. Palmer, of Harvard, beautifully calls it "the love-song of the Christian world." The first phrase, "Our Father, who art in heaven," which Prof. Palmer regards as "the hush before prayer," introduces us to characteristic doctrine of Jesus, the Fatherhood of God. This idea was not original with the Master, but under His creative touch it came to full flower. Note that there are six petitions in the prayer. The first three reminds us of our obligations to God. The last three are concerned with our relations to one another. "Hallowed be Thy Name," the first petition, assures us that reverence for God is basic. The modern world greatly needs this reminder, for our age, in certain respects, is shockingly vulgar, indecent, and bad-mannered. "Thy Kingdom come." Jesus preached, as His major teaching, the gospel of the kingdom. This divine realm is both a present commonwealth, and a future hope. "Thy will be done." This is an apt petition for dark days like those of the present. It was the Master's prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, and of Dr. Grenfell as he drifted out to sea, on an ice pan, with little hope of rescue. "Give us this day our daily bread." This is a prayer for simple, modest living, a request for bread, not cake. "Forgive us our debts" is first a confession of sin. For honest contrition there is forgiveness, but it is conditional. Unless we forgive our debtors, God cannot forgive us. The last petition, "Lead us not into temptation," is a practical reminder of the ever-present power of the tempter. We are so waterful seeking God that He will not allow us to yield to temptation, and fall into its snare.