Alcohol, Trust, and War Reports
By Editor
IN order to help the public school-teachers in presenting to the children the effects of alcohol as the law requires that they shall, the California Department of Education has issued a pamphlet entitled "Alcohol and Efficiency," giving the scientific conclusion on the subject, reënforced by quotations from men of prominence in various lines of human endeavor and in various periods, from Homer to Kaiser Wilhelm II and Lloyd-George. It may be had free on application to Superintendent Hyatt at Sacramento. HAVE you learned to trust God? Is He your personal friend and companion? If not, you are in a sorry condition, for there is no power outside of the divine that can protect and deliver us in these days of injustice, political intrigues, and violence. But there is a sure and safe retreat in God. If we personally know Him, we are not afraid, no matter what the surrounding conditions. THE English government announces that it has made careful and exhaustive investigations of the reports that were made so much of in certain English papers, as well as in the press of the United States, concerning "war babies," and finds that the stories were largely fabrications — that the conditions on the whole are no worse than they usually are in times of war. TWO eminent investigators in connection with the Rockefeller Institute have announced the discovery of a cure for diabetes. Let it be hoped that in the proving out, their discovery may result in all that is promised; for that is one of the most dreaded diseases of the human family, and for it, up to the present, no cure has been found. THE English press is having much to say in regard to the outlook of the food supply. The government, having become alarmed at the prospect, has appointed an influential committee to inquire into the conditions and recommend legislation. THE strain that the war has put upon the nations of Europe, and the indescribable suffering in so many localities, is causing to be raised a strong cry for peace. And let us all hope and pray that it may be brought about.