Chicago

CHICAGO IS WINDING up a severe winter which made records that the unborn of the unborn will read. War materials are being turned out in prodigious quantities by tremendous factories that were not in existence even a year after Pearl Harbor. Conventions are banned but still there are no rooms to be had in the hotels. It takes months to find an apartment for rent, warehouse space is all gone, even office space cannot be had in some sections of town. Eastern trains that arrived covered with ice left with passengers standing in the aisles, and they remained standing for hundreds and hundreds of miles. It is so long since we have had a thaw that water shortages have developed in some spots and spring floods are anticipated, but old timers say the conditions that make floods also soak the ground way into the subsoil and contribute to bumper crops. That does not encourage Dr. Charles H. Piper '20; during last" summer which was just a good average growing season, he hired a colored fellow by the hour to cut his grass once and the bill was $13.00.

We are having our annual dinner at the University club on March 22. If your business puts you in Chicago on that day please spend the evening with us, we would enjoy having you and we always have a good time.