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VOL! Cir T7; 19L4 No. 42 
CROWDED COLLEGES! Reports from the leading col- 
leges are to the effect that this tall’s entering classes are 
much larger than ever before. In a town known to the 
writer some twenty years ago, only two boys had been 
to college for a generation. W5uthin the past five years a 
delegation has gone from every high schoo! graduating 
class. ‘his tremendous change is found almost every- 
where. ‘Ten years from today there will be-a vastly in- 
creased body of highly educated men and women. ‘They 
will be a powerful force in behalf of good government 
and social progress. As the college doors open wider, 
college degrees grow cheaper. Many men are going to 
college for a four years’ loaf and sports, or to form per- 
sonal pulls to help them in business later. The colleges 
are judged not only by the kind of men they turn out, 
but’ by the number they throw out. 
THE National CONVENTION OF EPISCOPALIANS 
gathered in New Yory city propuses that a committee be 
appointed to memorialize Congress to establish a uni- 
form marriage and divorce law throughout the United 
States. In this movement for civic and marital better- 
ment every thinking citizen will heartily concur. ‘There 
can be no other solution of the vexing and immoral 
complications that result because of the diversity of 
laws on marriage among the states of the Union. An 
effort was made about ten years ago to establish the 
proposed uniformity of divorce law by means of a cam- 
paign launched by well meaning citizens. ‘The task was 
doomed to failure from its inception. If Congress will 
now address itself to this menace to home life, good re- 
sults may be expected. ‘The uniformity of marriage and 
divorce laws would spare the public many of the un- 
savory trials which are “trumped up” and “put through” 
in states other than those in which the parties concerned 
ever lived, 
WILLIAM’ SuLzER, despite his feeble defense and pro- 
testations, stands convicted of indiscretions and conduct — 
unbecoming a. citizen desiring recognition by ‘selection 
for public service. The impeachment charges may even be 
dropped, but the name has been sullied and Sulzer has a 
task on his hands to redeem himself. Will he try to do 
it? 
On, FoR A WEEK or T'wo of the traditional Indian 
Summer! Is there to be none this year? 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE '- 
THE UNANiIMIty with which the bankers in con- 
vention in Boston last week attacked the new proposed 
currency bill ought to convince the most careless student ~ 
o1 pubuec affairs that there is something wrong with the 
0 The isolation of the national gold supply in — 
Washington and the establishment of a central bank with” 
a banking organization which virtually makes the national © 
Measure, 
banks ot the country subsidiary banks of the central 
bank is the apparent result that may be expected from ~ 
the bill. ‘The American people have not been willing to — 
If such “a ’ 
make that change in its banking system. 
change is to be made it ought to be made in the open 
aud not in the underhanded way the bill provides for. 
{t is evident that many national banks will preferably . 
surrender their charters, and organize as State banks. 
But then, it is far from certain that the bill will become 
law. 
doing nothing else the session will have been a profitable 
gathering for the American people. ‘The constant un- 
scientific tinkering with-the money question in America — 
is disconcerting and useless. ‘fhe Republic wishes. to 
make progress but often times the greatest progress may 
be made in knowing when to stop. Congress ought to 
ate its hands off. ‘Che appeal of the bankers should be 
eard. j 
Tue SrAsons have their compensations. The full 
flowering season of summer has passed, but nature is al- 
ways beautiful and to him who seeks out the apparent 
or even the hidden glories of nature autumn has its 
charms. ‘The shading reds of the trees touched by an 
early frost in the swamps, beautifully set off, for the 
eye to take pleasure in, against the changeless green of 
the conifers is worthy of more than a passing look: ‘The 
maple, easily leads in its color effects over all trees, but 
even the flamboyant colors and varied hues of this 
triumph of autumn frosts cannot compare with a smaller 
tree, the sassafras. The ways of nature in tinting the 
green of this ambitious shrub, with the richest reds is 
beyond the ken of man. But why solve mysteries? The 
beauty is there for enjoyment, not explanation. As the 
orchards begin to look frayed at the edges, the trees’ 
leaves to lose their green lustre or even to fall because — 
of an early drought from their hidden bowers, fruit stand 
out now in their rich bloom, the ripe fruitage of the sum- 
mer’s suns and rains. Surely autumn is an “old man 
trudging along dropping a rich store of ripened fruit as — 
it plods its onward way to disappear beyond the hills,” 
leaving, however, its tribute for passing on the way. 
CHAIRMAN Extiorr is already showing his ability as 
the leader of the New Haven railroad. ‘The pending suit 
by the United States government has been stayed for 
the time being. The railroad probably never will be sued 
by the government for it is the desire of the manage- 
ment of the railroad to meet the demands of the govern- 
ment. Corporations as well as individuals must obey 
laws, It is a wholesome sign of the times. © = = 
Tur Enrirg ArLantic Coast has been experiencing 
what a sea-faring man calls “a spell” of bad weather. — 
‘There is a temptation to say that one has never seen any- 
thing like it, but September, 1911, holds the record. In 
that year nearly the entire month was cold and rainy. A 
little of the last two weeks’ weather would have made the 
. gardener smile in July. 
CoNGRESSMAN GARDNER did not succeed in nailing his 
planks on the Republican platform, but there is good 
timber in all of them, | 
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