The world has been passing through one of its periodical cycles of despondency. Poverty, hunger, despair and futile struggles have led to unrest, suspicion and envy; to crime among individuals and to wars among nations; to distorted estimates of comparative values; to perverted notions of right and wrong; to hypocrisy which is always worse than open skepticism. With the coming of Christmas, however, a better influence seems to pervade the general atmosphere of the earth. In the manger of adversity a new hope has been born. Through vanishing clouds of depression a star of promise gleams brightly. If the wise men of the east will note its appearance and bestow their offering of gold, frankincense and myrrh where Herod cannot find it the gold of employment, the frankincense of opportunity and the myrrh of good will to men where returning prosperity may discover and utilize them, those comforting words of the angel on the night of nativity will again reassure a groping race: Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great Joy, which shall be to all people. Thomas Addison (1793-1860) first showed the association of constitutional symptoms with disease of the suprarenal glands Robert Watt (1774-1819) Scotch physician. He began life as a plough man and road maker but found time to study Latin and Greek. Entered Glasgow University in 1793, and finished his medical studies in 1799. After 1800, he made numerous contributions to the London Medical and Physiological Journal, including a description of diabetes. Major General Adolphus Greely MAJOR GENERAL ADOLPHUS GREELY, arctic explorer, author and humanitarian, lies dead at his home in the nations capital. He was the brave and venturesome hero of many hazardous undertakings. Born in 1844, he was only 17 when he joined the Union army, participated in many major engagements, distinguished himself in the peninsular campaign, suffered severe wounds at the battle of Antietam, recovered to lead a patrol in Fredericksburg, where he was again shot, but rose from his hospital cot to the rank of captain and won the plaudits of his superior officers. In a frightful yellow fever epidemic, during the period of reconstruction, he rendered yeoman service at great personal risk to the afflicted population of the stricken city of New Orleans. He served through several Indian uprisings in the west, had charge of stretching the first telegraph wire across the continent, which was extended to San Diego, and he afterward built telegraph lines to the northwest through trackless wastes, infested by hostile savages. When the United States entered into an international agreement to endeavor to establish circumpolar stations for meteorological observations, General Greely was assigned the leadership for this government. As winter descended upon the little band of explorers and icebergs hemmed them in, they were within seven degrees of the north pole. One after another, members of the expedition succumbed to cold and hunger until there were but seven alive when they were rescued by Captain Schley, who later became an admiral and the hero of the naval battle of Santiago in the Spanish American war. It was ascertained and has been repeatedly proclaimed that nothing but General Greelys foresight, wisdom, courage, noble example and devotion to duty kept the seven survivors from going the way of their companions. To this bold adventurer by land and sea is accredited the influence and insistence which resulted in the construction of the first man bearing airplane by Professor Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution. He also inaugurated and organized the first international radio conference when the possibilities of that invention were still regarded as an absurd dream of the Jules Verne type. At the time of the San Francisco disaster, Greely was stationed there as major general of the line, and his superb handling of a difficult situation made his place still more secure in the confidence and affection of the American people. Major General Adolphus Greely, who has just passed away at the advanced age of 91, has been considered one of the greatest Americans of his time. Only a few weeks ago he was awarded the congressional medal of honor for his valuable service to the people and government in peace and war. The token was personally pinned upon the old warriors lapel by George Dern, the secretary of war. Dec 1935