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That in part> was the report Of 0. G. Bgrittt of Alington Heights, feld agent and ýfactotum for, the Cook couinty fM bureau. UItis n ot generally known in, Chi- cago and its immnediate environs that çook counity ranks very higli among the agricultural communities not -only of' the United,:Sýtates but of- the world,saidMrBarrett. ."The citv lake but thee remaîin beyond its con- fines soi00 tilled a cres which help to fedz the, multitudes wheich are Chicago and many more in nearby commutities., #orbe lowly onion, has bnought faîne to Cook county, for it produces 85 per cent of that succulent and odor- liferous vegetable grown lu aliý Illi- nius. Ad CookioonAtY tanks *rst îa the Utnited States in the production of oion sets of which it yields 85 per- cent of the total in this country. «Those, who 'dash daily for the train to the city, those who gulp the noonday meal then hustle back to worlc in office. factory or shop, those who try to combat the clamor which is Chicago, d'O not know or knowing do not grasp the significance of the fact that, opined Mr. Barrett, Cook county ranked second lu 1925 iu Illi- nois iu the production of the dairy,- that is, especially of milk, crearn and butter. #There arc Rive times more cab- bages groWn lu Cook county than ln any other ln Illinois aud lu poultry product Cook coutity tankcs fourth iu this state. And there 15 in Cook county the largest alf alfa field east of thc Mississippi river, that near Lansing. That tract, tilled by a Beningenburg and said to be owned by Henry Ford, embraces 470 acres." .Ther arei, Cokcounty at pesenit Tuberculosis institute-'-Dr. Robert S. Berghoff, president, Chicago Tu- berculosis society. The Christmas $eaispaid for 4,97 diest examinations in Chicago and Cook county lun. 1929. -They found 316 new cases of tuberculosis.ý The Christmas scals sent out 29 nurses, who made 23,492 visits to bornes. toi Bive nursîng care and instruction. Christmas seals lu 1929 provided ,well equiipped communitY cent.ers where 6,015 infant examinations wene made and ýmothers advised on feed- ing and other problems; ,42dna tneatments. were given by denitists; 998 chîldnen wene examinied by doc '-' tors for detection of physical defects;, à4,599 physical inspections by nurses were made of school children. Christmas seals_ also provide for an extensive industrial progir1ti, cbild h.alth education pnogram, Mexican hcalth center . . . They' assisted lab- oratory study of cause and treat- ment of tuberculosis.. . . Tbey belp maintain the Edward Sanatorium. The Christmnas seals tell the peo- plc what tubenculosis is and how to avoid it. They search for cases of tuberculosis, helping the sick and guarding the well. *Tuberculosis is the great poverty disease. It' riscs and faIts with pros- pènity. During thte eouomic depres- sioti of' the early nineties, comparable to the present situation, tuberculosis reached maximum proportions. In Chicago the deathrate rose to about 200 per year per 100,000 population. In 1929 there Were only 76.6 deaths per 100,000 population. Right now the United States has less tuberculosis than any previous time in hlstory. Also, the infant death- rate last year was the lowest even experienced. Prosperity had a great deal to do with these favorable con- ~ii588. Enlarging Of the Evanston camlpus by filllng in the lalce will probably1 corne within the next decade or two,1 he said, and will provide a Iagooen with a publlic, park to the east of it,. a landing flçld and a.boulevard. T. H.,,.. Stud.aut mmdFacty The> building 1program hé outliniedj will provide, adequate housing for the students anid'the faculty and the con- struction of additional educational buildings and new ones to take the place of the less desirable old struc- tures. A doruitory, a mnusic builditng and a library will be built during the. next yar, and this samne rate of three buildings a year should be continued' or even increased during the next decade, Pres. Scott stated. Possible reorganization of ýthëe du- cational agencies either may see- the establ ishment of new schools, such as a school of domcstic science, a graduate school cf business admnis- tration, a school of the air, a school of crime detection and criminology, a school .of personnel and a school. of religion; or it may sec a change in the opposite direction - that of, mergers of the preseut departmnents. he said. Mergers of commerce and engineering; music, speech and art; English and journalism; medicine and dentistry; law and political science are among those he cited as possible. T. U». Confo.Sme Plan Mcthods of instruction. will prob- ably be considerably changed lu the ,text few years to make, increasing use of photography, alI the graphic arts, the screen, the ra:dio, television and travel, Pres. Scott said. "More and more use," he continueci, "will be made of conferences between stu- dents,, the project, method, indepen- dent reading and other methods not necessarily based, on' recent inven- tions." In regard to the faculty,.Pres. Scott predicted that iu the future teaching skilrâther than achievements iun e- tne aireciu u - - Mr. Vincent says that the artistir personnel of the. company bas been imâproved f ully .fifty percent since last season. The principal conductor, and musical director is Dr. Max von Schillings, former music al, directoe of the Berlin. Staatsoiper and engaged there this aultumq as guest conductoi for. thirty-five performances of the "Rng oeris;- -Madame .Johanha Gadski who for twenty years was the leading Wagnerian soprano of, the Metropolitan. Opera company, and. who is guest artist of the Germati Grand Opera company, will be with the company again. this.year. The, en- tire, company will number- 150 artists, including a mixed chorus and sym- phony orchestra. A special train. comprising six passenger cars and seven baggage cars,, will transport. the company and its stupendous set- tings from.coast to, coast. The repertoire includes Mozart's "D)on Juan" (flon Giovanini) ôpera; "Flyiuig Lutchuian," 'Tristan und' Isolde," "Das Rhéingold, "Dit Walkuere," "Siegfried" and ."Goet- terdaemmerung," by Wagner; and d'Albert's 'Tiefland." Carl Adler and Hans Blechschmidt w111 also act as conductors. with Dr. Schillings. Th*le. sopranos . will be Madame Gadski, Margaret Batimer, Emilie Frick, Isolde Von Bernhard. Klarie Von Kullberg, Hedwig Jung- kurtb, Zleanor Starkey« and M~arie Masure. The contraltos are Marie Von Essen, Adi Almoslino, Elizabeth Riegles, Ida Von Barsy, Evelyn Mac Nevin; tenons, johannes Semhach, Carl Hartmann, Max Adrian, Gustav, Werner, Siegmund 'Gronveit; bari- tones, Max Roth, Richard Gross, Eric Wildhageai, Wilfrcd Lafler, Edward Strauss; bassos, Carl Braun, Hlans Hey, Laureuz Picrot, Allen Hinck-- . ley; stage. directors, Jan, Heythekker, Kurd Alhrecht. Sorority Girls Entertain 25 a bc Lfter-