Through the economic gloom, however, come flashes from other worlds to nourish our sense humour. From the churches the fundamentalists and liberalists are sending out articles and arguments calculated no doubt to inform and convert, but resulting often in a situation of pure entertainment to the layman. Such was the challenge of William Jennings Bryan, leader of the fundamentalists, to meet in open debate any leader of the liberalists of equal importance as himself, who would first sign a statement, el am descended from a monkey." A liberalist minister, whom we suspect to be the redoubtable Mr. Fosdick, not only accepted the challenge and agreed sign the statement, but, said "TE will do even more. I will a statement that I am des-conded from two monkeys."
Down in Georgia, the legislature being composed of simple strong men, more simple than strong it would seem, have recently decreed that opera is a luxury and as such open.' as far as Georgia is concerned, to discow agement in the form of a luxury tax. For every six performances in cities of more than 100,000 population, $2500 must be paid, in cities of smaller population, $1,000.
Their argument is that only people whose brain power is in inverse proportion to the size of their bank account, go to the opera any was. and. that with both these qualifications. they can support the tax without kno it. he opera-goer, one else knows, is the man who walks to work while his wife watches the December sales for her summer hats and the April sales for her winter coat. the student, the—teache and the immigrant. 4 the people who have and when to express app or condemnation, we ar keeping an interested eye on Geors Every_week we celebrate something. Last week was Constitution Week to commemorate—the 126th anniversary of the signing of the document Gladstone characterized as "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given moment by the brain and purpose of man." It is interesting to note in this age of youthful accomplishment and pride therein that President Madison. "the father of the Constitution,"? was only 37 at the time of writing, and that Alexander Hamilton and Charles Pinckney, sisters, were but 33 and 24 respectively. The Constitution at present lies in vault in the Library of Congress at Washington. Specially lighted and designed cases are being prepared for it, and when they are finished. the foundation of our government will be placed where all who wish may read it the original.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.