The main need is to secure a uni
versal system, understood by all and
put into practice in all sections of the
country. The proposals of the asso
ciation are simple and easily under
stood. If they were universally adopt
ed. it is safe to sav some of the auto
mobile accidents which result in loss
of property and life, would be avoided.
Beautifying the Landscape.
Frnm the Lynchburg Advance.
Good roa.ds are revealing new and
j unsuspected wonders of nature. New
filling stations and nickel snatcher
i stands spring up cry day,
Capital Sidelights
The Library of Congress, which Is
really the National Library of the
United States, and one of the great
est of our educational Institutions, al
ready ranking third among the great
libraries of the world. Is coming into
a larger future through co-operation
of individual benefactors with the
Federal Government by endowments
for collections of important and rare
books and by endowments for highly
specialized service, placing the heads
of the various departments In rank
with the faculty of a university.
During the Summer two members
of Congress, Representatives Meyer
Jacobstein, Rochester. N. Y.. and
Emanuel Celler, Brooklyn. N. Y., are
conducting an intensive campaign for
an endowment of $150.000 by enlight
ened Jews, to be presented to the
Library Trust Fund Board, created
by Congress last year, to augment
the present number of Hebraica and
Judaica possessed by the Library, and
to acquire rare items of Sem
itica, and to endow a chair for
Semitics, so as to insure permanently
a scholarly conduct of this division.
