Squalls

President Ella Alexander Boole of the National W. C. T. U officially declared last week that "we cannot compromise" on Sunday openings of the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia. She withdrew" the W. C. T. U. exhibits and moral support. The Exposition already had lost the moral support of Presbyterians, Methodists and Lutherans.

Mayor Kendrick and the exposition managers need fee-paying and, according to Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, graft-paying concessionaires. These, in turn, will come only if they may operate on Sundays, the most profitable amusement day of the week in the U. S.

Strict Sabbatarians are determined to make this Sesquicentennial Sunday closing an issue which may have greater repercussions throughout the country than the Fundamentalist-Modernist row. Sabbath Associations last week sent representatives to Harrisburg, Pa., the state capital. These gentlemen spoke so intimately, so forcibly, to State Attorney General George Washington Woodruff, that he changed his mind from its former course, and immediately instituted quo warranto proceedings against the Sesquicentennial management.