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Vermont's Green, shot Feb. 15, 1924, as a bystander in a Pennsylvania Avenue rum-gun fracas, was voted $7,500 by the Senate. He spent the money to pay immediate medical bills, later repaying the full amount to the Senate Contingent Fund. A permanent pension for him was discussed but never voted.
Pensions are customarily granted widows of U. S. Presidents and Vice Presidents by special act of Congress. Mrs. Roosevelt receives a $5,000 pension. The $5,000 pension bill for Mrs. Marshall, passed by the Senate, is now pending in the louse. No pension has been voted Mrs. Wilson, who, wealthy, has asked that none )e given her.
The long lists of pension bills which daily fatten the Congressional Record are largely for military veterans, their relicts and heirs, or for retired Federal employes, in cases technically irregular under the tension laws.—ED.
Chinook Praised
Sirs:
Have been reading about the Byrd Expedition and the naming of different mountain peaks after great men; why not name a mountain, a bay or an inlet after the great dog Chinook. He did a great thing in a dog's way. Chinook was brave until the last, in soul and action, even to die alone.
MRS. E. L. COMPTON
Camden, N. J.
Dog Chinook was named for a wind-the dry warm northwesterly wind that is said to moderate the climate and "lick up" the snow from cold mountain slopes. —ED.
Wine to Water?
Sirs:
"But he never flinched. . . ." We are wondering if James Cannon Jr. of the M. E. Church south shall blink when he sees the Holy Places in Palestine—all of them, if we remember rightly, in charge of Roman Catholic Franciscan monks. (And you know that rascal Al Smith believes the same as they do.) If Cannon Jr. would have a competent guide then must he seek a son of Francesco Bernardone.
And when he reaches Cana of Galilee, this prophet of the Republican party, perhaps we shall hear of a miracle—the changing of wine back into water—diametrically opposed to the one requested by the Mother of the Master.
LIAM F. MALON
Delaware, Ohio
Bankrupt?
Sirs:
Anent Editor High's "tour de force in hailing Bishop Cannon as "the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928,"I would appreciate more light on the worthy editor's conception of religion, his definition of progress, and finally on how he can see "religious progress" in Bishop Cannon's conduct in the last campaign. To my mind the bishop's conduct was a sign of the "bankruptcy of protestantism" rather than one of "religious prog-ress."
JOHN K. LEWIS
Gratid Rapids, Mich.
New Hymn
Sirs:
As the clamor for a new national hymn has broken out again, I have been prompted to write the following:
THE NEW HYMN By John C. Wright
The Star Spangled Banner was never too hard For the heroes of Freedom to sing,
And the story it told
Will never be old Where the tocsins of Liberty ring. A national hymn isn't easy to write. For the hymns of a nation are made
In the blood of its sons
And the roar of its guns, As its armies march forth unafraid. Ye never may write a new anthem As stirring, as touching, as fair
As the one that was born