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"Fear God and Keep Your Powder Dry." The 416 members of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis were presented with Bibles last week by the American Seaman's Friend Society. This is the 50th presentation of the kind which the society has made to the future Admirals. Possibly Farragut got his " Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead ! " from this source.

No Wireless Salvation. Cardinal Dubois, Archibshop of Paris, is a radio enthusiast and has a receiving set in his Archiepiscopal Palace. But he thinks that radio is powerless to save souls. " Broadcast sermons cannot be expected to convert anyone. Wireless is too dry and cold to have an effect. Personal magnetism is lacking."