The Northern Methodist Church is planning to raise an endowment fund of $10,000,000 to be used in providing pensions for retired ministers and their widows. It would be difficult to imagine a better use for such a fund. A similar one should be raised by the Southern branch of the church. And it should be raised by the laymen and the laywomen; for were it left to the prospective beneficiaries it would never be realized. With that sublime self-abnegation ever attaching to their service, they would be on as heretofore, devoting all their pleading to the providing of funds for those great church undertakings which mean nothing to the clergy except the fruition of attached devotion to and effort for the cause of Christ. Some conferences provide well for the superannuated ministry, but most of them should provide better. Best and most certain of all would be a great standing fund like the one to be promoted by the Northern branch of the church.

Cosmo Hamilton, the English author, says that grotesque extravagance in woman's dress is one of the signs that war is needed to restore the stability of a country. If he is right, this country needs a whole series of wars.

More Dreadnoughts Assured
ONE result of the great naval battle just fought in the North Sea, with consequences so disastrous to British prestige, will make itself apparent in Congress when the Senate begins consideration of the navy appropriation bill. It will be the addition of two, and perhaps three. Dreadnoughts to the building program adopted finally by the House. 