ONE of the big churches of New York City is conducting an extensive educational campaign for its congregation in the subject of eugenics. But even so important a matter as eugenics can not take the place of the gospel. Men who understand the Bible and have an experience in its divine teaching, know that it contains a paramount remedy for every one of the social evils that distress society. Men may seek by all of their human methods to devise ways for minimizing sin and regulating evil, and to provide some kind of "natural" methods for improving the human race. But the gospel, which will create men anew in Christ Jesus, is the only real remedy. The trouble with men and women in this time is that they need to be born again, born from above, created anew in Christ Jesus; and the trouble with many of the ministers is that they do not know how to present this living message from the divine Word. If they did know how to present it, they would find their time so fully occupied in giving the message from above that they could not stop to devote themselves to any of these merely human expedients. What this world needs is the pure gospel preached with the demonstrations of the Spirit and with power; and eugenics, or any other kind of modern fads, can never take the place of it. ONE of the greatest meetings of recent times in connection with the temperance cause was that of the Anti-Saloon League held in Columbus, Ohio, November 10-13, 1913. The most prominent temperance workers of the time were present, and many addresses were made that represent the very best things that can be said upon this vital issue. These addresses will soon appear in permanent book form. As the liquor question will be voted on in so many states this fall, and as it is an issue in every part of the nation, the matter contained in these addresses will be a very valuable aid to those who are called upon to speak or write upon the subject. The addresses, bound in paper, 25c; cloth, 50c. Address American Issue Publishing Co., Westerville, Ohio. THE United Fruit Company has something like 65,000 employees in Central and South America and Cuba. This company has inaugurated sanitary and health measures very similar to those used in the Panama Canal Zone, and with results that are fully as striking. The death-rate from infectious and contagious diseases has been reduced to a minimum. The value of sanitation and preventive measures is very strongly emphasized by the experiences in these hitherto death-laden districts. It was supposed that it was practically impossible for a white man to live in those regions, until the doctors, with their sanitary measures, did their work. If correct sanitation will work such wonders in those unhealthy regions, the same attention to sanitary law in what are considered more healthy climates will produce like results in prolonging life and rendering people immune from disease. THE old-time theory has been that an open winter is prolific of ill health; but up to the last of January the weather in Chicago and vicinity had been unusually mild, yet the Bulletin of the Chicago Department of Health discloses the fact that cases of pneumonia, influenza, and other diseases of that sort, have been very much less than usual. The Bulletin thinks this is due to the fact that the mild weather has encouraged more out-of-door life and better ventilation. Pure air is a great preventive of disease, as well as one of the most vitalizing healing agencies. IT is given out that Thomas A. Edison and his wife have each lived for the past two years on less than ten ounces of food a day, and it is stated that Mrs. Edison has actually grown stout on this limited diet. Edison celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday on February 11. There is not much question but that most of us eat a great deal more food than our systems can properly care for, and we thereby impair our highest efficiency for work as well as ruin our health. DR. GAY, of the University of California, has been conducting some very successful experiments with anti-typhoid serum. He has produced a "sensitized vaccine" which does away with the headache and nausea that sometimes resulted from the earlier method. The university will be glad to communicate the doctor's method, and supply the serum, to those who are interested, not only in California, but elsewhere. VISALIA, California, at its recent election, reaffirmed its prohibitory ordinance, this time by quite a large majority. This is the fifth time that this matter has come up, in one way and another, for consideration in that city within the past three years. We trust that this action of Visalia is a prophecy of what the whole state will do when the question of prohibition is voted on at the election this fall. LEADING rabbis and other scholars of the Jewish nation are just completing an English translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. This translation, they say, is to be "free from sectarianism and Jewish bias," and in making it, the leaders say, "We shall now have a Jewish Bible printed in a language which our children can read." THE state health commissioner of Pennsylvania makes the statement that half the ill temper of the world is the result of poor ventilation. There is doubtless much truth to what the doctor says, and we might add that a great deal of the sickness in the world is due to the same cause — a lack of pure air. IT is said that an aeroplane is being constructed in the neighborhood of New York City, and equipped with an 800-horse-power engine, in which one of the promoters expects to fly across the Atlantic Ocean next July in fourteen hours.