The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

We live in an age of wonders. Ini- ventions of modern science surge upon lis with such increasing rapidity and pro found magnitude that the average mian of the street finds biniseif tom-, pletely lost in a maze of new ideas. It is. an age to combat ignorance,. as evidenced, bythe radio, telephone, tele- graph, air transportation' and develop- mients ini surgery. The history of maný is the Ibistory of a steady progress to- %vard the defeat of bis own. ignorance. No.agency bhas beenmore active in carrying the story of this progresg to a. waiting world than, the' modern metropolitan or cominunîtY. newspaper, itself a product of the age and a direct expression of the progressl it re- ports,, Purchased ât a cost too small to consider,. it, is an, institution f ounded upon a, service wbicb basl no .e(Ilal. In correctly reportilg the news of the day, financial,, political âand scientific, in providing a means for pro7miUgating wortbhy ideas, ini moid- ing publicopnion along well-founded lhues. îaugbing to scorn the oddities of lii e and condoning our heritage--bu- man f railtis-the modern newspaper 15 performning a service of inestimable %vorth tii mankind. 'l'lie newspaper, not as -à. machine. but as a vebicle for the conivey)atce o human 'thought, lias, produced somte of the, best minds and clearest tbini<ers1 of the day . The f reedorn of the press was won over two hundred years ago by the courageous efforts of Our early patriot joumnalists, for patriots they were, no Iess than tbeir miltary broth- ers so miuch better known. Since that 1» jury to Skan-Kar D.efers Engagement Shan-Kat, famous Hindu dancer, was~~~ ordtopspne bis engagement laàst Monday at Deerfield-Sbieldshg school auditorium -in Highland Park, because of a serious injury to bis fin- ge rs. 'The recital bas been postponed for several weeks, and the exact date*i when it will take place at Highland Park. wNill be announced next week. Those who have tickets may turn them in at the places where they were purchased and receive their money, or ail during iast session y' '.-""re '. Earl Moss, 316 Cumnor road, Ken- ilworth, niotored home from the Uni- versity of Illinois with five othier boys, and spent the week-end witb bhis parents. The newspaper as an institut ion wbhicb provides that check upon gov- ernment which no constitution hias ever been able to provide, is a vital factor~ in the political and economic well being of our country today., Neyer before, it steens, bas that check been so iminient- ly. and vitally neces sary as it is now. Xi th goverfiment thrown into the f renzied. hands, of niad theoeists, shiackling -the wheels of industry at every turnl and wildly trvmg to legis- late the country into an a rtificial pros- perity, it is the duty of every- newse1 pp er to provide. sonie semnblance of saniity and, balance. -Victor C. McKeigbani. NURSE BEATS. CHILD E-ditor, W;LMEýrT= LIPE: Monday at Il :45P-, awomian drîving north on Sheridan road between Ab,- ingdon: and Oxford road,, Kenilworth, saw a colored nurse-maid strikiniz a child (she, wassuipposed, to be taking care of) with a stick. Wben asked flot to do sucli a thing, the nuËse- maid fiew into a rage, said she woull do what she pleased, and would givt the child another beating when shi got lier home. The child .was having difficuty walking against an intensely vold north* wind, and flnally gave up and sat down, which tbrew the negro nurse into a rage. so she picked up- a stick and struck the child many tumes. The child L.ad on a brown out- fit. This samne nurse was pushing a black baby cab in which was a tiny baby. The nurse tater picked up the eider child ;and seated her in, the cab on top of the feet of the small baby, who was lying down. The nurse-maid was colored, some white'hair mixed with the black, rather heavy-set, and wore a long dark blue cape.-(-:. S. S. Tells Now Mmm ami. W... enLoe.Fat ont d»rtmm WiIlow Road, West .1 S k ir Bld.,, Win».tk PH4ONIES WINNETKA 855. WILME1TE 900 Over 3,000,000 gallons of Fuel Qils, stored in our six plants, assure you of an adequate suppy of the proper grade. of Fuel Ois at ,ail. times. PLANT NO. a PAUK 8300 Touhy Aveu. PLANT NO. 3 Ph... YARD* 3100 140 West 43ad Street AN. As AITL5 sAs.1 PLANT NO. I 1801 Fullerton Ave. Ph... DIVERSKY 2700 (ail duer: 0 .s) PLANT' NO. 4 Phno 7112, limblil PAMK RIMGE Northweet oit C. 207 Greco Stage Park, RidMeIII. euea0m ayayzaba WILLIAMS OIL-O-MATIC HEATINGCQRP. Factorg Brmnches: .120 Davis Street, EVANSTON, Phones:- GBEenleaf 2300-2301, WILIMI!2311i 185 No. Michigan Ave., CHjICAGO, Phone S1TATE 8057