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DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER 11-A 1 The Foe of Democracy New Books 1 THE PEOPLE'S I OPEN FORUM letters to the Open Forum must be addressed to the editor, not I to third persona, Xind the right to Hiorten them is retried. Com' I plete signatures and postoffice addresses are necessary and they will be printed. Contributor are limited to not more than one letter I in any 30 day period. Poetry and verse are not accepted. Letters become the property of this newspaper and cannot be returned.

Address letters to White House Never Convenient But People Still Liked to Move In White Hnusw Profile, by Bess Furman: The lii'Mis-Merrill $4.00. IN the light of the present rejuvenating of the White House, readers will en Joy a sparklmg book about (his famous house and its variety of household ers, written by a Washington reporter of more than 20 years experience. It Is brilliant, compressed and fascinating readme. I The Open Forum Editor, Register and Tribune, Des Moines, 4, la. Asks About Wilbanks Smith HUNTERS AND THE FARMERS To the Open Furum Editor: I can't resist writing in regard to Mr.

Regester's (Nov. 25) clever idea of farmers' being put on the same basis as any other hunters. If that were carried out it would soon end all the discussion. Naturally, the town hunters would insist on their share of responsibilities along with their privileges and though it's true town people (gun clubs, etc.) have scattered feed for game during an exceptionally hard winter, when it came to donating a few hundred bushels of grain every year there would soon be no more pheasants, heme no more argument. I think it is a matter of courtesy to permit a farmer hunter to go over his land first on opening day but he has to "get up pretty early in the morning" even to do this.

Posting one's land doesn't, seem to help. You'd have to plaster every fence past. We've been very lenient toward anyone "absurd and impractical enough to ask permission to cross our fences" in the past because after all they're helping us to reduce a pest and a costly nuisance but Mr. Regester should stop and think that it might be just such an attitude as his that's making it increasingly tough on visiting hunters. The rules are often made after the mischief is done.

If the issuing of a license means a hunter can trespass and trample on my land I'll move to town where they have a police force to help protect my rights. Mrs. Orland Relnsmoen, Joire, la. mm 3 IMI1.I.IV MADISON. Reader Wonders If He Has Been Praised Or Punished.

To the Open Forum Editor: In all the furore and hubbub about the "Johnny Bright incident" the indignation of the public, the heated conference meetings, the withdrawal of j. Drake from the Mis-f souri Valley Confer ence it wouia ce interesting to learn what has happened to the cause of all this commotion the boy with the picturesque name, Wilbanks Smith. Has he been duly reprimanded for his act, is he shunned by all fair-minded persons, SMITH. has he been cast out into the Oklahoma prairie or has he received a medal from Oklahoma A. It seems strange that he can remain hidden from the public after com mitting an act of such magnitude that it causes great universities to sever relations.

Some enterprising newspaper should send a reporter to interview the now-famous Wilbanks and obtain his reactions to all this. Or maybe the matter has been hushed Opposition to jf 1 i i rt el" mt jrt'W- 't-v-: TURBINES IN KEOKUK POWER HOUSE. Contributor told that the Mississippi Jailed to produce enough water to Mitrn the furbin'S ot Keokuk. Said to be Prejudice Arid Poverty. To the Opa Forua Editor: Vlshinsky'i latest antic in dangling the bait of possible agreement on Big 4 arms talk Is another in a long list of things the Russians have done and are doing to confuse us.

I may be accused of being brash, but, nevertheless, I will go ahead and state that it is clear to me what the Russians are trying to do. I do not claim any originality for this because there is considerable clear thinking on Russian- VISHINsKV. American relations in this country, and I am indebted to others for this idea. The Communists do not advocate taking the world by storm. Rather, they let their intangible allies, in the form of inflation, poverty, discontent, racial prejudice, blind nationalism, selfishness, and despair, badger their enemies until they capitulate.

INTANGIBLE ALLIES. It Is safe to say that Vishinsky and his bunch will go just far enough in their responses to our overtures to keep us muddled and confused. They will not precipitate a world-wide military conflict, and will try to prevent such a conflict from coming (for purely selfish reasons). -They have the initiative to the initiative a cat has with a mouse, and as we become more and more confused as we try to understand what they are trying to do, they will peacefully watch us being destroyed by the tensions within us. As long as we continue on a program of armament, with all its undemocratic accessories (such as uni versal military training) we are doing just exactly what the Russians want us to do, and we are following Marx's prophecy of the future of capitalistic systems (although a little behind schedule).

A SECOND REASON. There is a second reason why our blind efforts are leading us to our own destruction. The real enemies of Communism are financial security, racial equality, and sound economics. The real enemy of democracy is not Communism. It Is poverty, racial prejudice, exploitation, suffering, sickness, and death.

We will not win the battle against Communism unless we win it on these grounds. And a lot of Americans will have to adjust their thinking if they are ever going to comprehend what this means. The Communists won China by promising them economic security, equality for everyone, food, clothing, a roof over their head. They did this while we were catering to the Kuomlntang, which, with its corruption, was literally robbing the people of everything they had. HOW TO WIN.

We Americans will win the battle against Communism if we stop despising the vast majorities of "ignorant" people who comprise the world's population. If we would really sacrifice something to raise the standard of living of the other tiineteen-twenticths of the world's population, and would concern ourselves with such humble things as poverty, despair, suffering, racial prejudice, instead of dissipating our resources on a vast military machine capable of accentuating all these things if we would do this the Communists would have to say, "We are licked." Earl Snader, former missionary to China, Panora, la. PATROLMEN AND DRIVERS. To th Open Forum Editor: In reading the letter of Mrs. Kenneth Brown in the Nov.

18 issue: Why should it be necessary to have so many patrolmen on our highways if everyone was a law abiding citizen? We pay men to put the yellow lines and signs along our highways so we won't need so many high-priced men. I am sure everyone that drives a car can read if they can't they better not drive. If all drivers would slow down a little there wouldn't be so many accidents. Dora S. Boyer, Box 377, Panora, la, ACCISATION.

To the Open Forum Editor: Our president wants inspectors for all nations' arms. Wre all that is a laugh, because inspectors can be bought off. -Herman C. Hansen, Relnbeck, la. Excerpts From GOVERNMENT BLAMED.

I have a son now In Korea, another In Japan and these boys are being told they must fight to keep America safe. They are not keeping America safe and they will not do so unless our government changes its tactics. Is it not our government that is endangering our country Our boys are only making It easy for the money-hungry people of America by going into those horrible countries. Mrs. C.

C. Steely, RFD No. 4, Manchester, la, GOOD DRIVERS. I think 90 per cent of the people are excellent drivers to be able to miss all these seml-trallers when one of their rear wheels is riding the curb or off the slab and the other is on and over the black line. Lewis E.

Bergen, 91 E. Seventh Muscatine, la. LEFT OUT. We have left Christ or Christianity out of too many things. Until the leaders of our nation realize they cannot solve this terrible conflict alone there will always be unrest, turmoil, envy and strife.

Mrs. Iona Ohncmus, Melcber, In. FAITH It appears as though many professed Christians, ministers included, have mart faith in guns, bullets and bombs to bring world peace than in what Paul describes, the sword of the 3 Definition of A Republican To the Open Forum Editor: What is a Republican? There are various shades of professed Republicans as represented by differing groups under the Republican label, but the only true Republican principle is unalterable adherence to the Con-' stitution of the U. which clearly defines the law governing the personal rights, liberties and protection of the American people for their individual development and prosperity. It was the primary purpose of America's far-visioned founders to build up the individual which has been the secret of our national strength and any departure from this principle is not Republican but something else under the wrong label.

Mrs. H. A. Cinade, Ackley, la. HOME AS SOURCE OF THE CHILD'S MORAL PRECEPTS To the Open Forum Editor: I was extremely interested in the feature article in last Sunday's Register (Dec.

2) dealing with the views of young college students on the state of the nation. As a teacher of America's youth, I felt the need to take issue with the thinking of some of these young people on the all important problem of the teaching of moral values. The particular statement which I contend contains fallacious thinking is the statement of Miss Doyle: "We should start with training teachers so that they are able to teach moral values to children in the grades. Teachers would be better at it than parents." WISIIFVL THINKING. This is wishful thinking In my opinion.

The school in which the child spends six of his 24 hours, five days a week, nine months a year, certainly has tried and is trying to do the type of thing Miss Doyle suggests. But how much more important is the child's home where by far the majority of his time' is spent! A child's loyalty can not be divided. If he is taught one thing at home and another at school he will reject the one and accept the other The average child will accept the ideas given him in his home where his primary loyalty lies. If the instruction in his school contradicts this loyalty, the teacher's attempts at change falls on mute ears mute because psychologically the child cannot accept both sources of instruction. PART THE HOME PLAYS.

If we are to look at the situation realistically, we are drawn to the conclusion that the home is the source of a child's moral concepts; that if the home does its job well, the school and the church can help by reinforcing these concepts; that without the proper training in the home, the school and church are useless as sources for moral instruction. Theodore L. Thomas, High School Teacher, Malcom, la. BLl'E LAWS. To the Open Forum Editor; I feel like commending the Sioux county board of supervisors for protesting the opening of the pheasant hunting season on Sunday.

I think that not only in Sioux county, but all over the state a majority of the people are opposed to Sunday hunting and many other ways of Sabbath desecration. If these people would just all speak up on protest as these Sioux county people have done it might have weight enough to stop some of this Sabbath desecration talk about blue laws. Any law is a blue law to people who do not want to obey it. And the way things are going I think it is time our laws were enforced even if some people call some of them D. Ralston, Earlhum, la.

SALES TAX ON FOOD. To the Open Forum Editor: Will you please tell me if the Democratic party is for the common man, they why the sales tax on food and clothing? Why the income tax? Did sny of these rich politicians stop to think they can't take their money with them? T. II. J. McDonnell, RFD No.

1, Fort Madison, la. EDITOR'S NOTE: The only sales tax to which an lowan is subject is a state sales tax, which has been administered by a Republican state administration since 19.19. Forum Letters spirit, which Is the word of God. David Spitler, Webster City, la. SOCIETY BLAMED.

Society is to blame for youth taking the route of crime. Every city in the land has slums where half starved youths are born and reared. The law can punish but it does not remove the cause of crime. Would not decent homes be far better for parents? Frank H. I-ynch, Line vllle, la.

DEFINITION. A Christian is a person who has seen the error of his or her way of life and has decided to pattern the same after the best example in all times, The Christ Himself. II. G. Moaner, 80S Eighth place, Hamp ton, la.

HE'S FOR TAFT. We believe as do a host of people that our only hope for a sound na tion is to elect a Republican presi dent and a congress who will stand up and leave us with our freedom, our American way of life, and by that we may be able to keep the security of the nation, and for that we know the people are greatly interested to do. We stand for Senator Taft, for we "know he is honest, a statesman, and not afraid to speak out, and is not afraid to go to the people with open denunciation of the perils that are before us. C. W.

Fcl-ton, r. 1173, Sioux City, la. up in Oklahoma, and the citizens down there aren't aware of the tremendous upheaval they've caused in the football world M. E. Lukenbach, Onaua, la.

Nebraskan Approves Action by Drake To the Open Forum Editor: Drake University is to be commended fur its decisive actions in severing relations with Oklahoma A. A'M. College, and with the Missouri Valley Conference for its inaction in the Johnny Bright case. Other people have already made appropriate remarks about that now famous incident and the great service performed by The Register and Tribune in publication of the necessary photographs, which have now been seen by the entire nation. The name of Drake University, along with the names of the other members of the old Missouri Valley Conference of more than 20 years ago, is still to be seen inscribed upon the football stadium and the colliseum used for basketball, here at the site of the University of Nebraska.

May I take the opportunity to say that perhaps sometime in the future we in Nebraska may have the pleasure of engaging in friendly competition once more with the athletic teams of Drake University? Bertram Yotinkin, 1245 S. Street, Lincoln 8, Nehr. Hydro Plants Barefooted Woman Caught First Man To the Open Forum F.diior: An exclusive line of women's shoes de luxe is being quoted in large display advertising at $28 per pair, plus tax. If they did not have the high heels shown in the advertisement cuts, they would still be high, many would say. The manufacturer dares to put a little merriment in his advertising for he names the style and kind of shoe in big letters 'The Man Catcher." Of course, he could not remember "away back when" the creative brain of a woman tried out the experiment of catching the first man.

She got him, but wasn't she going It barefooted those days? Birdwcll Sutlive, 26 N. Fourth st la. and oxidization of pollution, increased growth of wallows, brush and plant life in streams; also, increased flood danger for many miles, lower ground water table level and possibility of the dam going out probably drowning people and stock. We hear so much about cheap light and power from hydro projects. If the public knew how much government subsidy we are helping to pay through taxation in federal projects, they would find it costs more than steam plants.

Any business man re ceiving enough federal subsidy could sell his merchandise for less than cost of production. ATOMIC POWER. Why destroy our natural resources in plant life, animals and fish, in addition to wasting taxpayers' mil lions of dollars when atomic production of power and light for peacetime use is here? Authorities estimate large atomic power plant would cost about the same as the Grand Coulee Dam but would produce much more power at a cost of one-sixth the amount of our cheapest method of producing power today which is by fuel for steam plants. A. Claire Dewey, Washington, la.

In our effort to injure others we may succeed, but we always inflict the deeper injury upon ourselves. Fault-finding is a sin against society. Destroy confidence and "the whole social fabric falls to pieces. "The tongue, of course, is not an evil In itself. It depends upon how we use it.

Some of the bitterest suf fering that this world has known has been inflicted bv the unbridled tongue. Aimee Tarsnns, Wapello, la. i First you meet Abigail Adams, a canny housewife and highly intelligent woman she mourned there was never enough wood to burn to keep the mansion warm. Thomas Jefferson set a fine table, introduced ice cream, made the Louisiana Purchase. And for the last he was criticized by many who felt territory should be conquered instead of purchased "a mean and degrading mode of acquiring territory," some said.

Dolley (she spelled it that way) Madison in her flowered anil feathered turbans towered over her James (he was 5 feet, 4 inches), had a genuinely good time in the House. She knew how to win votes, too. The key person would get the seat of greatest honor closest to the fire. It was bitter, driving Andrew Jackson who planted the lovely magnolias still blooming today on the grounds, in memory of his maligned Rachel. The hard-working, strait-laced I'olkj, James and Sarah, put in gas lights; Franklin Pierce installed a furnace.

James Buchanan almost moved out of the House he" called the place unfit for use in summer because of the nearby malarial swamps. The Hayeses inaugurated the Easter egg rolling party. It was dapper Chester A. Arthur, who declared "I will not live in a house looking this way." When he got to work repairing ami decorating it he had Si wagonloads of de-fund furniture, tarnished bne-a-brac and ancient claptrap chared out ani sold at auction. Arthur put in the first elevator and the first baths, two of them.

Idealistic, intellectual Woodrow Wilson had a gay side he could do impersonations, Cakewalk, dance a jig. Of the Coolidges, Calvin and Grace, Chief Usher Ike Hoover remarked; "Members of the household said that she was 90 per cent of the administration." In the Truman regime the White House finally received the overall treatment it badly needed and "now should be solid enough to last, a couple of centuries." Charlotte Brunk. A Striking Critical Study of Faulkner William Faulkner A Critical by Hurry Modcun Campbell and Ruel E. Foster; University of Oklahoma Press, 13. ESSRS.

Campbell and Foster from down Oxford, way have turned out 'one of the most Interesting and revealing analy ses yet to appear concerning the literary endeavors of their Pulitzer prize winning neighbor, William Faulkner. In their analysis of the metaphori cal content of Faulkner's works, his 'symphonic" unity, surrealistic and native humor, primitivism, anu dreams as symbolic acts, the authors make some striking points; however, an unconvincing attempt is made to compare Faulkner's cosmic pessimism with that of Czechoslovakia's Franz Kafka. Aside from this, Campbell and Foster have made a definite contribution to Faulkner criticism and have done much to dispel the notion that Faulkner's work is "a magnolia blossom nostalgia for the antebellum south." This book should take its place beside the critical labors of Robert Pcnn Warren and Malcolm Cowley as a key to a better understanding of Faulkner. Robert Patrick Dana. 11 "I'm From Mis- eighDOr uri." by Allyson Painter and Irving Dilliard; Hastings House, $3.75.

Allyson Painter, a St. Joseph, girl, became fascinated with the historical associations around her home town. She began to photograph memorable sites, old houses, scenic views and characteristic people. In time she roamed through the entire state, from the Ozarks to the land of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. This excellent book, with bright, in formative text bv Irvine Dilliard, a St.

Louis newspaperman, is the result. Besides Miss Painter's 90 striking and beautiful photographs, five animated maps add life and sparkle to the volume on Iowa's friendly southern neighbor, "where man and mule shaped the heart of a nation." Carl Gartner. Ri "Voyage to Oe by J. C. Furnas; Sloane, $5.

In an exhaustive study of the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, J. C. Furnas has combined the trained reporter's knack for getting the facts with enthusiasm for his subject producing an easy-to-read, yet comprehensive biography. From frail childhood to frail manhood and eventual death in Samoa, Furnas has traced Stevenson a man of talent, even genius, of rare courage, yet hot-headed, unconventional and sensitive. That the same man who wrote "Dr.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" could have written "A Child's Garden of Verses" and 'Treasure Island" has been a matter of wonder to many but it does not seem strange after delving into his life. Glen SlcConncll. "What's The World Com- TUTUre by A. I.

Low; I.lppincott, $3. A British inventor and science popularizer looks into the future of the atomic age, push-button factories, transportation, sports and leisure, radio, food, war, crime, punishment and morals. It's not very startling to the average newspaper reader but is an entertaining, if not very penetrating, addition to the current absorption with the distant future as sn escape from immediate reality.Wocfc iMcfcer. AKTHI K. Delicate, Penetrating Prose in 'Breeze' "A Breeze of Morning," by harles Morgan; Macmlllan, $3.50.

HE PLOT here is a pale ghost. but Morgan magic ruffles the shrouds enough to make it come alive again, for the moment. It is an old and universal theme: A studious, maturing 14-year-old boy romantically in love with a 19-year-old girl who was born to a dying elegance. Hut, the treatment is peculiarly Morgan's own, delicate and penetrating. The telling is in the first person, by the man who 40 years ago was the spellbound boy who had visions that the man never will disown.

For so distinguished a novelist as Morgan, this is small work, but it Is rewarding if you find the mood. This is not the Morgan who created the strong-chorded mysticism that was "Sparkenbroke" (1936) and the potent blend of the earthy and the ethereal that was "The Voyage" (1940). This is Morgan in carpet slippers, telling an essentially little story that, nonetheless, has the quick-silver gleam and the far-away tinkling that come in his prose. Bob AlcCall. Cod The truest of the Schooner Argus, by Alan Millers, harloH Si riliner's Sons, $3.73.

You think cod is a tasteless, unromantio fish? Villiers, author of "The Set of the Sails," "The Coral Sea" and other sea-going stories, will convince you otherwise. For as his Portuguese fishermen sail several thousand miles to spend months on the treacherous north Atlantic in tiny one-man, flat-bottomed dories, the cod becomes a thing great value. Villiers sailed with the graceful four-master Argus for the 1950 season. With her were the and proud men whose an cestors for centuries have braved the menace of fog, sudden squalls, ice bergs, treacherous currents and con stant cold on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and fishing grounds clear up in the Arctic circle, Their almost routine escapes from death, as in the daily rejoining of their "mother" ship with an overloaded dory in a pitching sea; their stoic acceptance of constant danger, and their slogging toil at sessions of cleaning and salting the catch make a stirring talc. The book is well-illustrated with photographs by the.

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To the Open Forum Editor: The farmer owns his farm. It's his private property just like a business concern is the owner's private property. When a hunter Buys a license he isn't helping the farmer pay taxes on his farm or helping with the upkeep of the farm. When the hunting season opens irresponsible hunters drive along road past our farm shooting from thair cars, not aiming at a target. These poeple forget that cows, pigs and other animals may be grazing within range of the stray bullet.

I think farmers have a right to expect little consideration from hunters. If farmers went into the city and drove along the street shooting tins way and that what would happen? Naturally they would be put in jail. Doesn't same law apply to hunters who carry loaded guns In their automobiles? Of course there are hunters who are responsible and they are the ones who ask permission to hunt. These we welcome. Lois L.

Bandow, Utv No. 4, Denlson, la. Lawless Elements Threaten America To the Open Forum F.diior: America today faces the greatest challenge ever before her. Crime investigators and exposures have largely driven the vicious ele ment, gangsters and lawless element underground where their lawlessness is, challenging America as to who phall rule America, the moral Christian people, or the lawless gangsters and destructive clement. America's great need today is for many more people to go to the polls and vote for honest courageous men instead of conniving, scheming politicians who are nothing but Yes-Yes men and Charlie McCarthys for the selfish greedy politicians who work hand in hand with the greedy politicians and rich liquor men and their henchmen which are fast giving us a drunken, befuddled minded, and scared and uncertain America.

God grant that the American voters will wake up and go to the polls in great numbers in 1952 and destroy our great internal enemy which is far more dangerous to us than any foreign enemy. Francis G. Cutler, 1421 Slorv Boone, la. FACING THE FIT I' RE. To the Open Forum Editor: I note that Leah Jane Smith says young people should face the future with more courage.

If she were 19 years old and about to take rifle in hand and head for Korea to fight an unknown and ruthless enemy in the bitter cold Korean winter, I wonder how much coiyage she would face the future with. Certainly she has little to fear. No more than General 'They Can't Hurt Us" Ridgway. But it's a different thing for a 19 year old boy-Paul Faas, Stacyville, la. LETTER ON CHEATING.

To Ihe Open Forum Editor: We have been hearing so much about West Point cheating, scandals in sports and they are after the big gamblers and all for throwing games. How much different is all this than the throwing of an election, such as took place in Missouri when Congressman Slaughter was defeated? Why is it that those responsible have not been brought to justice Wal-dnn Kent, Auburn, la. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. To the Open Forum Editor: Why is it that every Armistice Day the president takes a "much-needed" rest and completely ignores the Unknown Soldier and the tradition for which his burial place is consecrated? Could it be that in some way he has heen informed that the American buried there was a Republican? F. D.

Winter, Hinton, In. FATHER OF 1951. To the Open Forum Editor: I wish to nominate Earnest Gie' napp, 38, the proud father of eight motherless children as the best Ameri can father of 195X and his youngest sister as the best American aunt of 1951. Slorv. "Father Looks After Eight Who Lost Mother," by George Shane, Sunday, Nov.

4. Walter Bin zard. 1731 S. Eleventh Council Bluffs, la. Iowan Doubts Value of Moscow Dam.

To the Open Forum Editor: Many people reading will recall the promise of benefits assured by the building of the TVA. Keokuk dam and many other hydro projects. Informed people will admit that not one project delivered everything promised. This letter will probably have no effect on stopping the construction of the Moscow Dam. If built, the failure of receiving benefits promised, may convince Iowans they do not want any more of them; or will it? It would be very easy for our citisens to check specific failures in promises.

I have been told that the Mississippi at Keokuk with all the contributing rivers, including the Iowa and Cedar, failed to produce enough water to turn the turbines. Silting the river on the upper side of dam, over thirty feet deep and nad to be pumped out. The promise of many new industries being brought to of the dam, failed completely. LOSES OF TVA. On TVA alone, it is claimed since Completion, $130,000,000 has been lost in its operation and the government has had to pour in millions of dollars to keep this and other hydro projects operating.

Steam plants are being built with taxpayers' money to augment production in order to overcome the failure of promised production. Did it ever occur to you that these subsidies may be stopped? Some hydro plants in the west, due to lack of water this last fall, could not function and the federal government talked of moving many of these industries away. This low water can occur anywhere and there is always a threat of the dam being destroyed. FLOOD DANGER. This is what the people In the Iowa and Cedar river valleys face, and most hydro projects in Iowa would involve the same.

There would be non-fulfillment of all benefits promised, reduced flow of Cedar river, interference with the natural dilution Suffering Caused by Unbridled Tongue To the Open Forum Editor: Many has succeeded in taming all kinds of monsters, both on land and on sea, but has not yet made headway with the tongue. It is a restless evil." Some of the sins of the tongue: profane swearing; insincerity in speech; lies that we tell, white or gray or black; harsh words that often wound far more deeply than blows. The fault-finder injures himself. The mudslinger cannot engage in his favorite pastime without getting some of the mud that he slings both upon his hands and upon his heart. We are foolish enough to believe that we can build ourselves up by tearing another down.

Blind enough, to fancy that by putting a stick of dynamite under the house of a neighbor, we can strengthen the foundation of our own. a nation values anything more than free' dom, it ivill lose its freedom; and if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM..