The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . oal andenters the sanctum sanctorum of the affec-tions without apology. A new service insignia should take itsplace: a white cross (same as the Red Cross)on a Mack field in a circle tells its tale withemphasis equal to the black garments ofmourning and the crepe veil. The circle foreternity, it has no end; the black field forsorrow and mourning; the cross for sacri-fice and suffering; the white for star in the service flag may be cov-ered with this emblem when he for whomthe star is worn has paid the price of his 474 THE SURVEY FOR JANUARY 26,
The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . oal andenters the sanctum sanctorum of the affec-tions without apology. A new service insignia should take itsplace: a white cross (same as the Red Cross)on a Mack field in a circle tells its tale withemphasis equal to the black garments ofmourning and the crepe veil. The circle foreternity, it has no end; the black field forsorrow and mourning; the cross for sacri-fice and suffering; the white for star in the service flag may be cov-ered with this emblem when he for whomthe star is worn has paid the price of his 474 THE SURVEY FOR JANUARY 26, 1918 love of freedom and democracy with hislife. Father, mother, wife, sister, brother,lover may wear upon the arm, or buttonupon the coat or the flag at the window,this telling emblem that he who runs mayread. Let it be so that the high cost of mourn-ing may come from the heart, not from thepocket; that the conservation may be forthe living; that the corralled stocks ofmourning goods may find no market here. New York. R. H. IN Stretching the Pay Envelope, by John , in the Survey for January 12, thestatement is made on the basis of Annalistfigures that the wholesale price of foods in-creased 123 per cent between February 1,1916, and October 1, 1917. This is an in-correct inference. The difference betweenthe index figures for the two dates, whichwas 123, is not the percentage of increasebut the absolute amount. The figure forFebruary 1, 1916, was 157. 123 is percent of that, and that is the percentage thatshould have been used. OVER 400 in a yearly total of 2,400 studentsin the automobile school of the New YorkY. M. C. A. are women. Sixty women havebeen trained for the Womens League ofNational Service and a number are drivingcars in France for the Red Cross and otherAmerican relief agencies. THE Royal Victoria Tuberculosis Trust ofEdinburgh has endowed a chair of tubercu-losis at Edinburgh University. The firstprofessor will be Sir Robert William Philips,wi
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