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Miss Doty has not only achieved fame, but has also most nobly
fulfilled the fine principles of her fraternity by her sacrifice of self
for those less fortunate—a far grander achievement.

The following, clipped from the Boston Herald of January 17th
will be of interest:

"Madeleine Z. Doty, author of Society's Misfit:, who has just
returned from Germany, gives an even more depressing view of living
conditions in the Kaiser's empire than does Mr. Swope's Inside the
German Empire. Everywhere she saw signs of acute distress from
underfeeding, and reports having witnessed a woman in Hamburg
attempting to sell her baby because she had nothing to eat. Miss
Doty says that the sore spot that really festers is that, now the pinch
has come, the rich protect themselves at the expense of the poor.
There is a shortage only of necessaries; luxuries can be had in
abundance i f one can pay for them ; and so it is that the well-to-do
scarcely suffer at all. For example, while meat is extremely scarce,
chickens, ducks, and birds are not counted as meat at all. The only
difficulty is to be able to pay for them. Those that can pay are
scarcely touched by the food shortage which, according to Miss Doty,
is pressing the rest of the population down to the starvation point."

OUR N E W CHAPTERS

J UST as we go to press comes unofficial news of the installation of
Eta Chapter on January 20th at the University of Wisconsin.
We give them a hasty, though none the less cordial welcome. An
account of the installation will appear in the May number.

On February 23rd, our Alpha Phi Chapter at Montana State Col-
lege will be installed. We welcome these newest sisters as well,
and shall become better acquainted with them in the May number.