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cafion wi m the h lna d address of the author., mot Ummea.rily for pblicafies, h*fer Our i h.. Suck mateial M« ir"ea Uceffitor by Tuesday noon -t e:. dîne for ili. cureàt inn, WHO: KNowsP lxal the poitcal doubt, uncertainty and con- fusion .that hshrase h merican .peopl during the past two or more. years, the professed motive h as been to find some- way in which to make each one, of our 125,000,000 people happy. in the effort there bas beeni no dearth of per- sons presumptuous enough to claim that they knùow the exact formula, by which- the laudable purpose cati be achieved. Literally, hundreds of laws have been enacted, besides some 17000 rules and ýregulatîkns baving, the effect of law set up by *1 bureaucrats, guaranteed in the> advance notices to j banisb gloom from tbe human heart and raise the ppqiace to the severitinh eaven, Where unalkoyed bliss is said to reign supreme. But is one to be condemned if a doubt creeps ini as te the ability of any person, no matter how altruistic bis nature or bow sincere bis intentions, to know what will make any person, including himself, happy? Happiness is* a state much sought and seldom attained. It may be experi-.- enced for a brief time, or intermittently. but a sustained happiness that will endure througbout a lifetime is almost neyer encountered. One reason is, of course, that the indivichiat. cannot put his finger upon the thing that, pos- sesed; would insure his lasting happines5. And it is often a fact that what will bring bappiness to one will cause unhappiness to another. Wbat will seemingly brlng bappiness today wiIl cause discontent, dissatisfaction and grief next week or next rnonth;ý How then, is it possible for any mani or set of meni te evolve a sytem of laws and reguflations that will'insure continued hapi nesPspi jIf ten persons were asked the question, "What jwould be required to make you perfectly happy ?" probady terne of them would sgy, "A million dollars," becaisue in the minds of most people the nossesim of aterial wiealthis a zuOIIran$P of bmaustmss" be M-ýS a the Rotarian Xagu- zine, --be ksanaa aweetory. ne sets down assets in one cohum &"u UabMtm In the other, and Mrioes a balano.. IX wM eorage you thus to Imm xwbat yon ahready have I the wa.y of ad- vuLtages., toe oemmStbfflwtth the. dluadvan- tages; to reai tuetit * *le you have 'ne om-x» rmuat t cnter. there là, a good. Park; that, *hile there are top maur, alun boékài the library le excellent. .'Do net x*ke- the ist*ke, however, of think- Ing a good feature cancels a bad one, that, If the' board of health la èecint, you do not need, a beys" club; that If you have a piayground, you, can get along.wlthout a. littie tiieatre: that a. municipal.garbage Incinerator atones for badly paved streets.. *'Te Idea of the balance sheet Ja',not te make you complacent, but te vlsuallze what you have te start:With, and4 What nugt lbe doue tte tUrn ail the liabilittes. (or ati-manY au pos»lbIe) Inte assets. It la ýa great heip te get ail such things dewn in black and *hlte and look them squarely in the face.- Mr. Caîkins suggests a. survey of the ýcomn- .'nîunity in ,wbicb a group.of citizens would partici- pate. When the survey is comp!eted and every good point Of tbe- tôwn set down, as weIl as everything, that may, might, could'or sbould 6e added; the result wilIl be an àccurate picture. Its purpose is to show wbat is missing froni tbe Ççommunity, tbe advantages listed being merely to show that tbere is sometbing on, whicb to build. Sucb a list cati be made tbe program for :civic betterment, but it is only a beginning. RUMORS M4ucb cruel inju~stice is cau sed by the thougbt- less spreading of unsubstantiated rumors, espe- cially where some regrettable accident has oc- curred, and aroused suspicion against a village or some other governmental body. In many cases these rumors have little to justify tbeir repetition, but it seems that they are pounced upon and avidly circulated without any effort to learti how muc h of truth and bow mucb of fiction tbey inay contain. Village- and Park officiaIs: and employees are: inivesting a lot Of time in an effort to render efficient and economical service. They are men and women of *sound judgment., unimpeachable character and iinbued with a desire to serve the turn the job over to the Socety editor. She has pages where we have only a colunin. Authorities mnay assert witb as uiuch eniphasis as they like that the escape of "Midget" Fernekes from ýthe Joliet penitentiary was due te tbe stu- pidity, of guards, bt the man in the street, who bas no illusions, wvill bold te the opinion that te' way was well greased. Cupidity, not stupidity, séeims to be the answer. This day, seventeen months in advance of the 'xekt présidential election, the political, pot is sizzling as tbough we were to go. to the ýpolIs in a 'week.1 The newspapers are great reading, . crammied as they are witb speculations, guesses,, predictions and what not, i.ncluding a list of possible. candidates against tbe one sure candidate. Wbe4her due. te bis naturally optiinistic na- ture or tbe intense siummer heat prevailing ini Washing- ton, James A. ($12,000,000 Sur- plus) Farley, ringmaster for the ýNew Dealers in 1936 as in 1932, is claiming.the earth and ail that thereon is. He says that bis' candidate "I win more states next time than be did last time, and even contemplates creating a few addi '-: tional states s0 that bis entry will bave a reason- ably good workout. But a mati who cati forgèt to charge up enough expense items to show a $12,,000O surplus migbt aise forget some other things. F~or istance, be might forget that next time America will not buy a president "sight and unseen," witb his head in a bag and flot knowing wbat he intends to do wben elected. There's 'just no tellîng these .days what a girl will do.. One Chicago lass who disappeareci from.ý ber eastern college a montb ago was found work- ing in a sidesbow at Coney Island (the New York one). Refusing to quit, she asserted that 'she- 'iearned more in one month in the sidesliow than sbe learned in a year at college." But she neg- lected to state wbat it was she learned. Another, an Evanstoh society miss, made ber debut as a bareback rider in a circus. The world's "big shots" sure do crack some good jokes occasionally.' Mussolini says there is a way to prevent the irnpending trouble ini Ethiopia. "4Let Ethiopia," h le nlmtnhr avers. <zie un a,,t, 4j.hnuh knSe haî, we tUie an be depended up ve the umsut aloi -avenue throughi est measure of ha ilibeneits whide ich hehas i ieess and sc 1 Iat id the ¶"Works program in N4ew York to cost mucb red the subway," reads a headline. Gosh! Did tbe subw« systeni cest as mnuch as that?, In tbree and one-baif years the Illinois Emerg- ency Relief commission bas spent $300,000,000. And almost every day a case turtis up in whWch, as relief bas been steadily paid to undeserving 'ay "dclients." THfE PHANTOIt RE4p0R'TI]R