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sr& i RamsevA THE DEBATE. Synopsis.?With his grandfather, small Ramsey Milholland is watching the "Decoration Day Parade" in the home town. The old gentleman, a veteran of the Civil war. endeavors to impress the youngster with the significance of the great conflict, and many years afterward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years afterward, Ramsey is not distinguished for remarkable ability, though his pronounced dislikes are arithmetic, "Recitations" and German. In sharp contrast to Ram_ sey's backwardness is the precocity of little Dora Yocum, a young lady whom in his bitterness he denominates "Teacher's Pet." In high school, where he and Dora are classmates. Ramsey continues to feel that the girl delights to manifest her superiority, and the vindictiveness he generates becomes alarming, culminating in the resolution that some day he will "show" her. At a class picnic Ramsey is captured bag and baggage by Milla Rust, the class beauty, and endures the agonies of his first love. Ramsey's parents object to | Milla and wish he'd taken up with I Dora Yocum. Ramsey kisses Milla. I 1 lll'll iUlllil auvucjuj icmcD tunu. She marries. Ramsey enters the state "university and there is Dora Yocum again. i 0 CHAPTER VII.?Continued. Concluding his rending, which was ornl, the volatile Mitchell made use of his voice In a mnnner of heathenish boisterousness, and presently reclined upon a lounge to laugh the better. His stricken comrade, meanwhile, recovered so far as to pace the floor. "I'm goln' to pack up and light out for home!" he declared over and over. And even oftener he read and reread the card to make sure of the actuality of that fatal coincidence, "D. Yocum. '18," "If 1 could do It," he vociferated, "If I could stand up there and debate one o' their darn ole debates In the first place?If I had the gall to even try It, why, my gosh! you don't suppose I'm goin' to get up there and argue with that girl, do you? That's a hot way to get an education: stand up there and argue with a girl before a couple o' hundred people! My gosh!" I "You got to!" his prostrate companion cackled, weakly. "You can't get out of It. You're a goner, ole Budd,y!" "I'll be sick. I'll be sick ns a dog! I'll be sick as the sickest dog that ever " ' - -i - ?? ~ Tk? ->U Use, Ult" IIIUK. l 11C 11(11 senlors'll be on the job. They'll know whether you're sick or not, and they'll have yot^ there, right on the spot to the minute!" The prediction was accurate. The too fatherly "frat seniors" did all that Fred said they would, and more. For the honor of the "frat." they coached the desperate Ramsey in the technic of Lumen debate, told him many more things to say than could be said In six minutes, and produced him. despairing, ghastly and bedewed. In the large hall of the Lumen society ut eight o'clock on Friday evening. Four other "twelve-minute debates" preceded his and the sound of these. In Ramsey's ears, was the sound of 'intirini nrtjpflslnff on his horn In the early morning of Judgment day. The members of the society sat. three rows deep, along the walls of the room, leaving n clear oblong of green carpet In the center, where were two small desks, twenty feet' apart, the rostrums of the debaters. Upon n platform at the head of the 'room sat dreadful seniors, the officers of the society, and, upon benches near the platform, the debaters of the evening were aligned. One of the fruternal seniors sat with sweltering Ramsey; and the latter, as his time relentlessly came nearer, made a last miserable squirm. "Look here. Brother Colburn, I got to get out o' here." "No, you don't, young fellow." "Yes, I do!" Ramsey whispered, pnssionutely. "Honest, I do. Honest, Brother Colburn. I got to get a drink of water. I got to!" "No. You can't." "HI nest. Colburn, I got " "Hush!" Ramsey cast ins (mating eyes along the rows of faces. Most of them were hut as blurs, swimming, yet he was aware (he thought) of u formidable and horrible lmpusslve scrutiny of himself, a glare seeming to pierce through him to the hack of the belt round his waist, so that he began to have fearful doubts about that belt, about every fastening and adjustment of his garments, about the expression of his countenance, and many other things jumbling together In his consciousness. Over and over he whispered gaspingly to hhnself the opening words of the sentence with which a senior had advised him to begin his argument. And as tlie moment of supreme agony drew close, tlds whispering became continuous: "In making my first apearance before tlds honor'ble membership I fe< 1 constrained to say in making my first appearance hefore this hon<?r'ble membership 1 feel "onstrained to say in making my first appearance before this honor'ble mem . . . Jt hud come. The chairman announced the subject of the fourth freshman twelve ndnute debate; and Dora Yocinn, hitherro unperceived by Kunise). rose and wont forward to one of the small desks in the open spuce, VfjiPaml $&hTa0$n j \ Illustrations by / , Jj jj ^ x, > ^IrWiNAVyer '" ?><> < r /right, by Doubleday, Page & Company. s s ' where she stood composedly, a slim, j pretty figure In white. Members In t] Ramsey's neighborhood were aware of . a brief and hushed commotion, and a , fierce whisper, "You can't! You get t up there!" And the blanched Itanisey j, J came forth and placed himself at the t i other desk. He stood before the silent popu- a j lace of that morgue, and It seemed to t I him tJiot lile fY>iifnr?>? hint foriroftpn ? ?" i n that he was supposed to be their own-1 t er and In control of them; he felt that p they were slipping all over his face, ^ regardless of his wishes. His head, as a whole, was subject to an aglta- t tion not before known by him; It de- e sired to move rustlly In eccentric ways of Its own devising; his legs alternately limbered and straightened under no direction but their own; and his hands clutched each other fiercely behind his f| hack; he was not one cohesive person, evidently, but an assembled collection ^ of purts which had relapsed each into Its own Individuality. In spite of them, ^ he somehow contrived the semblance ' of a bow toward the chairman and the f semblance of another toward Dora, of whom he was but hazily conscious. Then he opened his mouth and, not I knowing how he had started his voice going, heard it as If from a distance. z. "In making my first appearance be- * fore this honor'ble membership I feel 1( restrained to say?" He stopped c short, and thenceforward shook visi- e He Came to the Longest of All His J1 Pauses Here, and the Awful Gravity of the Audience Almost Suffocated Him. fl e: bly. After a Ion? pause, he managed c< to repeat his openlnp, stopped apaln, c! swallowvd many times, produced a n handkerchief and wiped ids face, an act of necessity?then hnd an lnspirn- a tlon. - t! "The subject assipned to me." he u said, "is resolved that Germany 19 .0' mor'ly and legally Justified in J?el- j plans?Belgluins! This subject was ^ assipned to me to be the subject of () this debate." lie. Interrupted himself jj to gasp piteousiy. found breathing dlf- g, ficult, but faltered on again: "This subject is the subject. It Is the subJect that was assigned to me on a j( postal card." Then, for a moment or j % - ? - j - ?I-.. nm.af nnnfl. . f SO, lie I1HU U IU1IUV.UIOU9 I ui v...... j dence, and continued, rather rapidly: j "I feel constrained to say that the country of Belgian?Belgium, J mean? ? this country has been constrained by j the?Invaded I mean?Invaded by the i !l Imperial German Implre and my sub- 1 Ject In this debate Is whether It ought to or not, my being the lnfernative, affirmative I mean?that I got to prove J1 that Germany Is mor'ly and legally Justified. I wish to state that?" He paused again, lengthily, then 0 struggled on. "I have been requested j 11 to state that the German Imp?Empire i a ?that It certainly Isn't right for those j ' Dutch?Germans. I mean?they haven't ^ got any more business in Belgium than I have myself, but I?I feel constrained 1 to say that I had to accept whatever '' side of this debate I got on the postal v card, and so I am constrained to take r I side of the Dutch. 1 mean the j , Germans. The Dutch are sometimes " called?I mean the Germans are some- 8 times called the Dutch In this country, s but they aren't Dutch, though some- r tlmes called Dutch In this country. Well, and so?so. well, the war began | Inst August or about then, anyway. : and the German army Invaded the Del- ' glan army. After they got thefe, the : ! NEGROES WERE IN Two Africans Were Members of I j Narvaez' Expedition of That Year, 1 ( According to History. , < ? t The first recortl of negro slaves t : within the present boundaries of the j (! Fulled States is found In an account ; I | of tlie Spanish expedition of Narvaez ( ! to Florida in lo-8. which included two < j negroes. Hut the negro was not in ; rj Florhla to stay until loGo, when a few \ I landed with .Memedez' colonists. It s ; Is believed the Spaniards had negroes '| with them In their unfortunate colony s of San Miguel de Gualdape In 1 .">20. : uhlch .1. J. Shea locates in the neigh- s horhood of Jamestown. Va. II. II. ; ? i Bancroft, in his "Arizonu and New J nvaslon begun. First, they came irouml there and then they cotnuenced invading. Well, what I feel unstrained?" He came to the longest of all his anises here, and the awful gravity of he audience almost suffocated him. Well," he concluded, "it don't look ight to me." "Four minutes!" the chairman anlounced, for Ramsey's pauses had corn away a great deal more of this errlble Interval than had his elotuence. "Opening statement for the legatlve: Miss D. Yocum. Four nilnites." As Dora began to speak, Ramsey xperienced a little relief, but only a ittle?about the same amount of relief s that felt by a bridegroom when it 9 the bride's turn to "respond," not eally relief at all, but merely the light relaxation of a continuing train. The audience now looked at lamsey no more than people look at a irldegroom, but he failed to perceive ny substantial mitigation of his rightful consplcuousness. He had not he remotest idea of what he hall said 11 setting forth his case for Germany, nd he knew that it was his duty to Isten closely to Dora, In order to be hie to refute her argument when his wo-minute closing speech fell due; ut he was conscious of little more han his own condition. His legs had iow gone wild beyond all devilry, and ie had to keep shifting his weight from >ne to the other in order even to hope hat their frenzy might escape genral attention. He realized that Dora was speaking apidly and confidently, and that somewhere In his Ill-assembled parts lurked familiar bit of him that objected to er even more than usual; but she had sed half of her time, at least, before e was able to gather any coherent leaning from what she was saying. Iven then he caught only a fragment, ere and there, and for the rest?so fir as Ramsey was concerned?she light as well have been reciting the Avedlsh alphnbet. In spite of the rnther startling feeleness of her opponent's statement, )ora went at her task as earnestly as It were to confute some monster of asulstry. "Thus, having demonstratd that nil war is wrong,'! she said, apronehing her conclusion, "it Is scnrceir necessary to point out that whatver the actual circumstances of the lvaslon, and whatever the status of tie case in International law, or by eason of treaty, or the German oath > respect the neutrality of Belgium, hlch of course was grossly and disonorably violated?all this, I say, tales and gentlemen of the Lumen soiety, all this Is beside the point of lorals. Since, as I have shown, all ar Is wrong, the case may be slmplled as follows: All war Is morally rong. Quod ernt demonstrandum, ermuny Invaded Belgium. Invasion i war. Germany, therefore, did moral rong. Upon the legal side, as I began y pointing out, Germany confessed In ie relehstng the violation of law. herefore. Germany was Justified In ie Invasion neither morally nor legal* r; but was both morally and legally rong and evil. Ladles and gentlemen f the Lumen society, I await the jfutatlon of my opponent!" Her opponent appeared to be having nough trouble with bis legs, without iking any added cures upon himself l the way of refutations. But the inrvelous Dora bad calculated the >ngth of her statement with such lcet.v that the chairman announced Four minutes," almost upon the Infant of her final syllable; and all ices turned once more to the upholdr of the affirmative. "Refutation and [inclusion by the affirmative." said the halrman. "Mr. It. Milholland. Two llnufes." Therewith. Ramsey coughed as long s be could cougb. and when he f*>lt lint no more should be done in this yiy, he wiped bis face?again an act f necessity?nnd quaverlngly began: "Gentlemen and ladles, or ladles and enflempn in making the refutation f my opponent, I feel tliut?I feel tlint nrdly anything more ought to be alA" He paused, lonked helplessly at his ncontrollable legs, and resumed: "I m supposed to mnke the reputa?the efutation of piy opponent, and I feel tint I ought to say quite a deal more, n the first place. I feel that the Invnlon has taken place. I am supposed -anyhow I got a postal card that I m supposed to be here tonight. Well, i talkl|g over this matter with a eoule of Seniors, they told me I was suposed to claim this invasion was mor'ly nd legally all right. Well?" Here, y some chance, the recollection of a ,-ord of Doru's flickered Into his cha* tic mind, and he had a brighter molent. "My opponent said she proved 11 war Is wrong?or something like lint, anyhow. She said she proved It ,as wrong to fight, no matter what. Veil, If she wasn't a girl, anybody hat wanted to get her to fight could irob'ly do It." He did not add tlint he rould be the person to make the ex ierlment (if Porn weren't n girl). nnr Id the thought enter his mind intll an lour or so later. "Well," lie added, "I uppose there is little more to be aid." It becomes understood that Ramsey is a woman-hater. (TO BK CONTINUED.) I FLORIDA IN 1528 ilexlco," makes It clear the negro was n some of the early exploration and Missionary parties to that territory, doubtless the negroes continued In he province until ine rspaniurus were Irlven out In 1S00. ("Introduction of Negroes Into the United States." hy \ A. Stakely, In Magazine of Aniorlnn History, November, 1S91). The Treasurer, owned by the earl of Warvlck, and a Dutch vessel brought laves to Jamestown in i019. The Treasurer Is supposed to be tlie first Inver fitted out in America. The first American-built slaver was the ship Deire, a vessel of 120 tons, built at Mar ilebea.l in 1030. ("The American Slave Trade," by J. It. Spears.) TjAq AMERICAN LEGION? (Copy for This Department Supplied bj the American I.enrlon News Service.) FORMER SOLDIER AN ARTIST John Avardo Will Be Sent to Rome by Veterans' Bureau to Complete His Course. Rpfor'e the war John Avardo was a waiter in a restaurant in Baltimore, Now he is a rNL Jar ' ing from war inv Juries at a BaltlA. rl more hospltu), fc\V/|F\/ I Avardo displayed fP^A A A considerable skill in moulding clay. The Veterans' bureau became Interested in the case, and sent him to an art school where he shortly afterward won first prize in a modelling contest. His growing ability has led the bureau to undertake to send him abroud. Avardo's is only one of a number of cases of rehabilitation in which men who before the war were driving trucks or pushing shovels have discovered their true talents In the course of being vocationalized. Men who previously had been content with unskilled labor ure now attending classes in auto-meehnnics, radio-work, drafting, machine design, agriculture, nr.d various other trades and professions. "WHEN WE SALUTE THE FLAG" r Toledo (O.) Boy Wins First Prize in Essay Contest Conducted by Buckeye Legion Post. It took the thirteen-year-old son of a sailor to give the best reason for saluting the Stars tfTr~Ti and Stripes. Mark Winchester of Toledo, O., received ^ $15 for the work JiSk P* of his patriotic ^^^2^ ^ Mark wrote, is hut on outward motion of the patriotic feeling within. It Is not the met* physical movement that counts. It is what it signifies. When we -salute the Stars and Stripes we show reverence for the flag that our forefathers made and preserved. It shows that we realize what the red, white and hlue typifies." A little Russian girl won the second prize. She said she liked to salute our flag because this country, unlike Russia, had so few pogroms and starving children. EDITORIAL ON "CASH BONUS" Chicago Newspaper Comments on Commander MacNider's Plan for Rotating Fund to Be Loaned. "The soundest policy which has been offered with respect to a cash bonus" is the editorial commeut of a Chicago paper on Hanford MacNider's plan fcr a rotating fund to be loaned out to needy ex-service men. The edltorlul, in part, follows: "In many cases the bonus, distributed to nit nuke will be iriven to men who are not In actual need of it, to some who do not need it nt all. All degrees of financial competency were In the artny. For other men the allotment \vLll not be enough. They need more credit than that to recover. "Men who have no need of a bonus could take It without scruple If they Intended to place it In the fund. Men who have need of It could get it from the fund, pny It back when they could, and keep the money available for continuing relief." "Over." Mr. Jessaway was fussy about the correct use of the English language, too fussy perhaps, und was always reudy to find fault with offenders. Also he was in anything hut a good temper as he sat down in. Ids favorite restaurant. "Give me a steak." he said, "and some corn and sotne baked potatoes." "linked potatoes are all over," said the girl. 'Oh, they're all over, huh," snorted Mr. Jessaway. "And what are they all over?" "With," she replied simply.?Ameri can Legion Weekly. Adopts Destroyed French Village. Drifting hack to Apremont-la-Foret, near rhe Saint Mihiel sector, American Legion men tind a little community house raised amid the ruins of the town. It lias heen erected by the city of Holyoke, Mass.. which has adopted the destroyed French village in memory of the twelve Holyoke men who fell in the Saint Mihiel drive. O-o-oh, Myl After having been repeatedly warned never to speak a profane word, the five-year-old son came to his mother to report the wickedness of one of his playmates. "Oh. mother," he ejaculated. "Tommy said an awful word. He said?he said 'he name of the man who runs hell."?The American Legion Weekly. Which Af-fords Much Pain. "I'a, what's autoiaoliiliousness?" "A disease of the tiivver. my child." ?American Legion Weekly. MOTHER TO AMERICAN LEGION Madame Schumann-Hclnk Continue* Work of "The Greatest Organization in the World." 'To bring Joy to the boys who so gloriously offered their lives" Is the > cause to which \ lias'dedicated the ^ r^Iu^ni'er ??f her <%xiidfeS3? sfty8( that it is ai "the greatest organization in the world." hi The role of mother has been Madame ^ Sehumann-Heink's greatest success. n< And now, with a son of her own and ei a million adopted sons, she finds as greut an outlet for her lovable nature in and her talent as in the war days, when she spent much of her time in camps, w singing, working with her needle, und uj spreuding cheer. ai "I have never been happier," said pt the great stur, who, In spite of her years, still has the grace and the col- fo or of youth. . jn SAM S00 H00 DIED FOR FLAG Body of Patriotic Chinaman, Born and Educated in America, Sent to China for Burial. , yv The last journey of Sam Soo Hoo, in killed in action in the Ourcq valley, hi 16 toia uy tne American Legion week- in iy. Of Chinese parentage on both sides, hut born and educated in San FranVisco, Sam, when he became a young man, went to China and married, think- ur ing some day to return to America. When in 1917 news came thnt America had entered the war, Sam kissed his perplexed little bride and said: "I must go." rime passed, and n white cross c' stood over nil that was mortal of Sum ai Soo Hoo. A Ited Cross man came 8t' along and took a picture of the grave, a sending it on to the widow, who won- 'n dered what it meant. And then a re- P' quest came from relatives that the body be sent to China. So now, close by cc Jia gi Chuen, just outside the south gate of Canton, i.ie slender matron gi waits the return 01 her hushund, 1C where, draped in the flag of the coun- S( try for which he died, he will be laid ba In the oust with his honored fathers, as pu ONLY OFFICER TO SURVIVE ^ gr Capt. Bert Rugh Saw All Fellow Commanders of His Battalion Fall , g|? in Battle. lIS ca The only officer In his battalion to jj survive, Bert Itugh's military record (j|( reads like a chroin the business of 1 Wk /Ptl post of the Ameri- y U^lfl lean Legion. This, 80 when completed, probably will he ree- cli agnized as the ilnest Legion home in wi the country. 20 Hagli began his military career as as n buck private in Company C, Forty- I Irr ninth Iowji volunteer infantry, serv- his ing in Cuba from April. 1.898, to May. re 1899. In 1914 he joined the Second st? Field troop of the Canadian Fnglneers, t,e went overseas, and was promoted to yj, a lieutenancy. During the course of th, events, every other officer in the hat- i yc tnllon met his Math. Three of Rugh's jie orderlies were killed in action, and in (.e, one attack Itngh was the only member of his company to come through alive. f,0 BBHlgHBBBiaBKPaaBBBBBBBBHWMM \ Carrying On With the j American Legion Liberal (Kan.) post of the American do Legion is building u swimming pool cr| in the city's park and digging holes 0|, for tree planting. th ' 4 * re: On the brink of Kilflu^a, one of Hawaii's active volcanoes, a health re- ou sort for service men has been erected Sp by citizens of the Island. on * * * tic The United States army costs $3.22 fh, per capita. Great Hritain. with her ; pP many colonics pays $13.23 per capita; , (.?j France, $22.52; Italy. $6.70 and Japan, , se| $3.83. I l,n * | oti German women will be invited to p()1 join with the National Council of fou Women in next year's celebration of th< Armistice day, under resolutions w? adopted in the council's biennial session. * i?~.. Do iitnn Vlfor nf \(nr. 1 ivt'v. 1 'fi > hi aniuwii, T MU. ... gate, Kngland, recently tramped the I'm country as an "out of work ex-soldler" spr and returned with the report that "It SP* Is almost impossible to even get an ncr hour's work." f * hoi The Flanders poppy has been de- drt dared a pest and a menace by the nut federal horticulture hoard. "With Us pni bristling stalks and leaves it Is value- thr less and crowds out useful plants." ntp the board announced. 'he * * Secretary of War Weeks has sug- CO gested that in the event of another war. men, money and factories be j mobilized under a eonserlptlon law. t,(j Such a course would preclude profiteer- 0j(j ing and slacker lists, he declares. we Two thousand elm trees will be tali planted next spring on the road be- res tween Utieu ami Syracuse. X. V., as pai the beginning of a "Ilond of Henieiu- am hrance." tribute to ex-soldiers of New soli York, which is expected to run from to New York to UulTalo, *oy BOYSCOUTS A Conducted by National Council of the Boj Scouts of America.) i .IFE SAVING REQUIREMENTS The merit badge tests In life savig have been subject to conslderaon for some time in order to bring lem up to latest scientific methods id demands. The following requirements which ive the approval of the American ed Cross life saving department have jw been mude official, replacing the trlier set of tests. To obtain a merit badge in life savg a scout must now 1. Go down from the surface of the ater at least seven feet and bring ] i an object 12 inches or more In dlneter, weighing not less than ten ( tunds. ' 2. Tow a person of his own weight >r ten yards by each of the following i ethods: i (a) Head carry. 1 (b) Cross chest carry. 1 (c) Hair carry. ' (d) Tired swimmer's carry. * 3. Undress in water und swim 100 ! irds. 1 4. He must be able to demonstrate J the water the methods of releasing mself from people In peril of drown- ' g, if grasped by: Wrist hold. P'ront straugle-hold. Back strangle-hold. r\ CrthnToi* nrnnnPOCO. tycan/iiouuic kj<.iiuici j;i ?/uv vwv e method of resuscitation. CIVIC SERVICE AWARSS In Marlon, Ind., they have a scout vie service committee through which ly call for community service Is prented. Hie council has worked out plnn whereby each scout that assists a civic enterprise or good turn Is ven credit for the number of hours > works and awards are made acrdingly. For 2i) hours service a red bar Is ven. for .r>0 hours, a blue bar; for 0 hours, a gold bar. Six Marlon outs have already earned this gold ir. Some of the civic service done Is follows: Placed Christmas seal isters, furnished ushers and scout umpeters for community sing, charta cemetery locating all soldier aves, took part In Safety First exbit, made u city wide survey, asstcd at Memorial Day sendees as hers, doing traffic duty, parking rs. serving as messengers and order's; placed flngs and plants on solera' graves, distributed and collected XX) cards for unemployment survey, irked for Near East Relief and so rth. SCOUT SAVES 200-POUNDER . "Pulling a 200-pound man out of the iter would be considered quite a jnt by most anybody, even with rra firnia underfoot," observes the ooklyn Eagle, "but Albert Row* of irk avenue, Bubylon, a boy scout 10 barely moves the scale-beam at , leaped acrobatically from one Ice unk to another In Arg^'e lake mid . th the aid of a hockey stick dragged 0-pound Benjamin F. McGuckln bore, Ihen rescued Mrs. McGuckln' a similar manner and was giving s attention to Mrs. Joseph H. Stenson, also In the water, when others ?pped In i#nd took over the Job. Alrt then skated merrily a<Vay and the Guckins had a Job finding out later e Identity of their young rescuer. >ung Howe doesn't "see much In this ro stuff anyway" and declined to acpt any reward when Mr. McGuckln fered practical recognition of the y's deeds. ' AVE THREE FROM DROWNING Two youngsters of ten playing on p Ice of Butler's pond, Qulncy, t fiss. The ice gnve way letting them v wn Into the water. Hearing their les for help a third hoy not much ler tried to aid them hut broke ^ rough himself. Three boy scouts, spectlvely, Oullie Peterson, Ralph ^ len and Ollbert Fallett. hearing the . tcr.v, rushed with n ladder to the . nt. Peterson, the oldest boy, shoved ! t the ladder to the hole and cauuisly slid himself after It. Seeing j nt one of the lads was In grave danr of drowning, he threw off Ids ^ fit and (lived into the water. He ^ ized the drowning boy with one nd and was able to cling with the 0 ler to the edge of the Ice until his 1 m pan Ions could relieve him of his . rden. The other two hoys were ?n rescued and In the end nobody is the worse for the accident. w LOOK AFTER KIDDIES. 0 3oy Scout Troops 2 and 3 of Wllinntlc, Conn., have volunteered to ve as guards nt congested points to 1) > that school children get safely h oss the street. They will regulate n j J.?.? t I n ffie at the noon recess nnn msmissai ?> ir. giving signals both to the chll- n n and motorists. The scouts are b horized to report to the police de- tl tuient any individuals who ignore " Ir signals, thus failing' to oo-oper with them In Insuring the safety of 1' > small folk. ? ti LLECT FIVE THOUSAND TOYS el T Joy scouts of Pontine. Mich., collectrepainted and repaired over 3.1)00 toys and distributed them among poor kiddies of the city. The toys Is re collected through the schools and In ;en to a shop in a vacant store to be t? tored. Hundreds of people dally w ised to watch the scouts at work, fi I many went home and hunted out a! ne of their own Juvenile treasures ti hand over to the energetic young tl restorers. I IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SimdaySchool ' Lesson' (By REV. p. B. KITZWATfcU. D. D.. Teacher of English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chlcagod Copyright. 1922, Western Newspaper Union. LESSON FOR MARCH 12 AMOS WARNS ISRAEL (TEMPERANCE LESSON) % LESSON TEXT-Amoa 6:1-8. GOLDEN TEXT?Wine Is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby la not wise.? Prov. 20:L REFERENCE MATERIAL?lsa. 5:11. 12. 22. 23; 2S:1-13; Hosea 4:11; Gal. 6:19-21. PRIMARY T?)PIC?God Sends Amos on an Errand. JUNIOR TOPIC?A Prophet Who Was a Friend to the Poor. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC ?Tne Consequences of Self-indulgence. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC ?Social Evils Yet to Be Conquered. The kingdom of Israel reached a high state of prosperity in the time of Tn,AKn,im IT on,I iflth If (llllllll n (-on UUi uyuuui AX, UIIU UI1U * V VMM*? ? dition of luxury, corruption and wickedness. The Judgment woe of this lesson is directed against the sins of the upper classes in Samuria. The same sins ure practiced in America, in the nation and in the church. With the increase Df wealth In America has come luxury, corruption and gross wickedness which staggers the imagination. It behooves ill to give a listening ear, for God will eventually enter into judgment. Our lesson is u temperance lesson. Temperince applies to other things than lniulgence in intoxicating liquor. Our ige is intoxicated with pleasure, pursuit of gain and seltlsh ambition. I. Reckless Security (vv. 1-3). They were blind to the perils that surrounded them. They were living in a fool's parudise, closing their eyes to :he approaching storm of Judgment as predicted by Amos. They trusted in :he mountains of Samaria for their protection. They regarded their city ts impregnable. They no doubt re pirded the utterance of Amos as imiracticable?the dreams of a fanatic. The tragic thing about this blindness >n the part of the chief ones of the lation was they were so puffed up vith pride that they failed to read he signs of the times in the light of ilstory (v. 2.) The cities of Calneh tnd Hamath, though great and. mighty, tad fallen. To disregard the lessons if history, to dismiss the thought of mpending Judgment, is to bring near he "seat of violence" (v. 3). Let haotic Europe and Russia be the red Ights of warning to America, and let ill Injustice and class selfishness be aid aside. II. Luxury (vv. 4-6). The luxury of these upper classes in Sainnria expressed Itself in: 1. Extravigant furniture (v. 4). They had beds if Ivory?perhaps wood inlaid with vory. Costly as their furniture was in hut day, it was commonplace as coiuinred to some of the expensive furnl ure ?nd fittings in our great cities. 2. Laziness (v. 4). They stretched hemselves upon their couches?lived ives of indolence. Such is the way >f many still. 3. Feasted on delicacies (v. 4). The replication here is that they had their lainties out of seuson. This is what nuny of the rich pride themselves in. 4. Adorn their feasts with music [v. 5). They sung idle songs?e\en Inrented musical Instruments for this jurpose. They prostituted the noble irt of music to their sensual feasts. 5. They drank wine (v. 0). They vere not content with ordinary drinkng vessels. They drank from bowls, ndicating excessive drinking. They vere so mastered by the Intoxicating rup that their feasts which were idorned with the refinements of music mded in drunkenness. III. Failure to Grieve for Joseph [v. 0). Joseph here stands for Ephralm ind Munusseh, his two sons. Ephaim became the principal tribe if the northern kingdom, so Joseph is ised as a synonym for the nation. The ipper classes were indulging in these ffemlnate luxuries, entirely indifferent , o the groanlngs of the masses. And vhenever such a condition exist In a lutfon there is need of Amos to hunder God's Judgment upon those rho are guilty of It. IV. The Inevitable Issue (vv. 7,8). 1. They shall go Into captivity (v. 7). 'he northern nation was first In sin, herefore first to go into captivity. Vhat a striking contrast this picture! nstead of lying on ivory couches easting upon dainties, they are with he suffering exiles. I 2. The certainty of the issue (v. 8). t is inevitable because of God's naure. He is a God of justice. He as sworn that Judgment shall fall * ie Is the God of hosts?the controller f the whole universe, therefore none an escupe. God hates the wickedness f the world, and He will bring into Lidgment the men and women who evei In luxury with no concern for hp nnnr nnri need v. Thotlfirh God ' alts l?ng. He does not forget. The nly escape for America is repentance. Meditation. We can walk with the Holy Spirit y taking our Bibles, and, even if we ave only two or three minutes a duy. ledltating upon the Holy Scriptures, ieuding the Bible In that way, reading little every day, Is like burning coal, ecause by burning coal we liberate le fire and life of long ago. Coal is le old vegetation pressed down In the nrth, and when it Is brought out and ghted we are bringing out the heat nd light of long ago for this generaon. That Is exactly what we do whoa e meditate upon the Bible: we librate the inspiration of years ago.? he Bishop of London. Church the Teaching Body. The church founded by Jesus Christ i the teaching body. Thank God 1 It rings us the Bible tUnt .safeguards the aching of the church, because the rltten record prevents the church * 0111 drifting away In its teaching to II kinds of developments which are , way from the primitive deposit and le primitive faith.?The Bishop of ondon.