18 Eugenical News leads one to avoid unnecessary hazards was indeed present but sublimated by the greater happiness derived from love of combat and of overcoming imminent danger. [hairline column-width rule] Louisa Frederici Cody, in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper: Memories of Buffalo Bill. New York. D. Appleton, 1919. 336 pp. [centered score] William Wilson, Labor Leader. William Bouchop Wilson, born Blantyre, Scotland, April 2, 1862, came to America with his father's family in 1870, and, after a short time in the public schools, entered the coal mines at the age of nine; at the age of eleven, became a half member of the Mine Workers' Union; later developed as a leader of boys and men; helped organize the United Mine Workers of America, and became secretary and treasurer of the National Union of Miners. From 1907 to 1913, he was a member of Congress where, during his last term, he served as Chairman of the House Committee of Labor. Largely through his activity the Department of Labor was organized and of it he became the first secretary at the beginning of President Wilson's administration, March, 1913. As such he has had frequent occasion to intervene in disputes between factory workmen and their employers, and during the war he was instrumental in preventing great strikes, such as would have hazarded the success of our arms. Secretary Wilson has had from early years a love of facts and a capacity for acquiring, holding, and utilizing them. He states that with the first real money he ever earned he purchased a second-hand edition of Chambers' "Information for the People," and read nearly all of it aloud to his father. His wonderful memory is found also in his father and both love to use in argument and debate the facts they have amassed. Though Wilson's father was a coal miner without any education, he obviously had a love of knowledge, such as led him for years to have his boy read to him in the evening. Wilson's mother was a woman of education who gave him instruction at home. The retention of facts was made the more easy since he had them arranged logically and catalogued naturally in his mind. Wilson had a love of debate. At the age of fourteen, he organized a debating society among the boys which developed into a sort of local lyceum. His love of debate is doubtless associated with his success therein, for "he makes his points with logical precision and delivers them with telling and convincing force." The love of debate is a part of the instinct for struggle and the desire for supremacy carried into the intellectual, instead of the physical, field. Wilson has a love of organization. This is seen not only in the organization of a debating society at fourteen but in becoming secretary of the local mine union at the same time. By the age of eighteen, he was so influential among the miners that he was regarded by the mine owners as a dangerous man and excluded from work in mines. At thirty-seven years he was president of one of the divisions of the Miners' Union and, the next year, International Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers. Wilson had a capacity for literary expression also. This is shown in poems that he has published and in numerous letters that he has written. During the Way he personally prepared many posters appealing to the workingman to keep at his job. He has a love of humor also and in conversation is reminded of anecdotes which he tells with zest. Wilson is a fighter for better conditions. His [end]