6 THE ACORN Late, so late, We Learn the way to live Late, late, so late We learn the way to live; Late, late, so late We find what life may give; We spend our years with lavish hand, Their worth we do not understand, Till late, late, so late. Late, late, so late We learn what living means; Late, late, so late We prize the dew-hung scenes; We fling away the coin of youth, And do not learn to prize the truth Till late, late, so late. Late, late, so late We learn how sweet is love; Late, late, so late We find 'tis from above; We loiter in forbidden ways And do not learn to hoard our days, Till late, late, so late. Late, late, so late We learn the gold from dross, Late, late, so late We learn to kiss the cross; We prize our youth when it takes flight,, And do not read life's book aright, Till late, late, so late. R. S. '12- THE ACORN 7 Mr. Roosevelt's successful appeal to Governor Gillett for the hold-up of anti-Japanese legislation in California, is a good sample of legitimate presidential intervention for the national welfare, remarks one editorial writer. The proposed legislation, aimed to segregate oriental children in separate schools, provide separate quarters of towns and cities for oriental residents, and bar orientals from directorates of California corporations. The President's appeal was the sequel to Ambassador Jakahira's formal protest against the proposed legislation on the virtual ground [that it would amount to an act of bad faith on the part of the United Stated. The attention of the whole country has been called to the fact that the race problem on the Pacific coast still bristles with possibilities of mischief. Some think that the peril of California in a foreign war is worse than the Japanese peril to California. The Literary Digest Sir Oliver Lodge, the celebrated English physicist, believes he has discovered a method for dispelling the heavy fogs of London by the use of electricity. The air is to be charged with electrical currents which will dissolve the black fog and precipitate it to the ground in a form similar to black snow, if one can imagine such a phenomenon. Extensive experiments are to be made in London to give a practical test of Sir Oliver's electrical system, and satisfactory results are expected. In Massachusetts a Yankee is reported to be exhibiting a vegetable fruit consisting of a cross between a cucumber and an orange. According to the latest statements, the New England experimentor did not grow cucumbers on an orange tree, but grew hybrid oranges on a cucumber vine. The third year of experiment he picked five perfect cucoranges, so to speak, from a single cuco vine. He hopes soon to raise these articles in a seedles form. According to a traveler who has had large experience in the wilds of Africa, the real dangers which Mr. Roosevelt must face in his hunting trip in that country will not be from the wild beast of the deserts and jungles, but from venomous insects. But while he is absent, the resident's admirers will think of him as pursuing the lion and the elephant and not as being pursued by gnat and the bug.