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Rh downfall of romantic and colorful Spanish life. We cling stubbornly to the sleepy little Spanish villages along the Rio Grande, and we hold the old Missions as beautiful proofs of man's ability and courage to dare the desert and savage foe in order to carry the Cross into all the dark corners of the world. All of this has its appeal to us, even tho we be prosaic Anglo and Protestant. On the other hand, we have seen through the past quarter of a century the inevitable injustice that follows when a simple, primitive and trusting people are subject to the exploitation of a political regime so corrupt that it almost whitewashes the Carpet-bag Government in the South that followed fast on the heels of the Civil War.

These mountain states have wonderful natural resources, and these will be developed in the near future. The United States can look to this area to provide a large amount of our fuel, lumber and agricultural products. Big business interrests [sic] will bring new blood into these states, is now bringing it in, and our cowboy with his ten-gallon hat, our Indian in moccasin and robe, our Spanish Don with his old world courtesy are all being gradually fused into that product of the Melting Pot called the American.

To one who has known the Southwest intimately, the outlook is, after all, encouraging. The qualities that enabled these frontier people to "carry on" in face of most unfavorable conditions are the very qualities that our national life must have if America is to endure.

ADAMS, Bertha (Mrs.), born in Shreveport, Louisiana, December 19, 1866, daughter of Henry and Mary Hecox, a resident of Oregon for thirty-six years. Children: Allen Hays. Librarian. Member: Woman's Club, Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 518 Washington St., Oregon City, Oregon.

AMES, Lucile Perry (Miss), born Ashland, Wisconsin, November 30, 1892, daughter of Albert Strong and Lena Lancaster Perry Ames, a resident of Oregon for 15 years. Writer. Has published verse and articles in periodicals. Home: 423 Park Avenue, Medford, Oregon.

BACON, Virginia Cleaver, (Mrs.), a native of Halsey, Oregon, daughter of Lon and Laura Cleaver, at one time a resident of California and Washington, D. C. Married to the late Ralph Bacon. Advisor in Adult Education, Portland Public Library. A. B., University of Oregon; A. M., American University; a former student of Riverside School of Library Sciences. Assistant, English Literature, University of Oregon, 1905; Librarian, Humboldt State Teacher's College of Calif., 1915–21; Librarian, Park College, Missouri, 1921; for 2 years, Assistant Director, Junior Division, United States Employment Service, Washington, D. C.; member of Portland Library staff since 1925. Author: "Every Day English." Member: Phi Beta Kappa, American Ass'n of University Women, Professional Women's League, American Library Ass'n, American Ass'n for Adult Education. Home: 1084 Wilson St., Portland, Oregon.