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News material must reach editor by 'Tuesday noon. Contributions, s/w aid beur author's mime, required frreference and flot necessarily. for pu.blication. AUGUST 10, 1939. Loose Stogements On its radio broadcast. of. August 6, the University of Chicago mad.e a public apol-î ogy .to former President Herbert'Hoover, - for a staternent. made during, its program a week earlier. The' statement, miade by a Washington. columnist, was to the effect that Mr. Hoover-has had men. "buying. Up"ee southern delegates to the 1940 Republican presidential convention. The apology, which Mr. Hoover had re- quested, asserted, among other things, that the offen4ulg renar~k was extemwporaneous and not included in the script for the broad- cast. The incident draws attention to the fact that a great deal of misinformation is dis- $eminated in radio broadcasts. Commen-. tators and others should be especially care- ful in what they say. Their audiences are numbered in the thousands and hundreds of thousands, many of whom depend upon the radio for latest news of what is going on in the world, -and accept what they hear as tniith. without verifying it through other sources. Thus untruths are. further spread by word of mouth, with the explanation, -I heard it overthe radio." Much .of thisý could be avoided by a clear division of actual occurrences and the personal im- pressions of the radio speaker. Only courage of a high order and a set- tled determination to conquer the difficul- ties which had so completely submerged it that the surrender of its church home be- camne'an unavoidable tragedy, could have urged its people to that un remiting, effort which has now been .crowned With suces. The boundless joy of its;rmembership at -the homnecoming is shared by.hundreds who perhaps have neyer attended its services. Churches generally ýhave been passing through a perliod of retardent, experiences that have tried the souls, of both pastors and laymen. E s it too much toi hope that: the success of this particular church pres- ages a clearing of the darkened skies that have hovered. over others, and that, through a rdedcatonof memberships and the pub- lic to the traditions and principles of re- vealed religion., their former healthy con- dition May be regained? A National Energency The following editorial cornes from the office of the National Safety, council. It is so strong in its appeal for the cooperation of the public in, reducing the horrible slaughter of men, women and children on the streets and highways'that this news- *magazine is pleased to reproduçe it while regretting the condition that necessitates it: "When an emergency arises, the Ameri- can people act. '-When an epidemic strikes, the nation mnobilizes to conquer it. "When flood, tire or hurricane roar across the country, millions of dollars and train-, loads of food and clothing pour into the, stricken area. "Itf an enemy invaded our shores, every one of us would rush to the defense. "Today we are faced with a national emergency as great as any of these-great- Thirteen billion dollars! Within the. memory of. this reporter the populace threatened to go to 'Washington and, hang a lot of congressmen and senators who had appropriàted alrn'st one billion.l How times have changed! Anytime noWw we can expect the author of 'ILive Alofle and Like. It" to corne out.,with a book enititled "Seeing Double,"or "T w-o Can Live Cheaper, Than ýOne.. E., Winnetka. Criminologists haveý neyer yet laid finger on the reason for mental icrackups which induce men theretofore regarded, as- of exemplary charý acter, moral probity and strict rectitude to sud- denly forsake the path of law obedienice and be- corne highway bankdit's of the most dangerous type. Yet sucb phenomena are occurring almost -every day-well, anyway, ev ry once ini a while. In point is the incident of last Friday, when one of the. most daring daylight holdups, reeo.rded in many a moon was staged in the very shadow of the polic.e station of a Newv Trier vUllage. The story of the crime, as related by an eyewitnéss, riïns like this: A respectable citizen of the vil- lage, his supply of smokes having become ex- hausted, was returning to bis office from the corner drug store where he had gone for re- plenishment, It being a very hot day he was coatless. accounting for thue lack of pockets, which fact has an important bearing on the case. Noting a couple of prominent business men approaching, the r.c. proceeded with confi- dence in bis own -safety, unaware. of the mental crackup that had taken place. Suddenly he was set upon byý the two hitherto. trusted b. mn., bis arms piflioned, and by force and violence one of the five good cigars which lue carried in bis hand in lieu of a pocket, was extracted there- frorn and appropriated by one of the bandits. The victim is congratulating hinself that only one o!f the holdup men is a slave to Lady Nico- tine. An indictmertrned by the (kangaroo) grand jury charges. the P. b. m. with kidnaping, the r. c.,' comrnitting highway robbery, collec ,t- ing ransorn and general devilishness. The pun- ishment? Wait until we get a chance. A Pied Piper is seeking a job of luring the pigeons from Chicago's loop. That boy will need wings. * Three more days to freedom.