The imagination will not down. If it is not a dance, a song, it becomes an outcry, a protest. If it is not flamboyance it becomes deformity; if it is not art, it becomes crime. Men and women cannot be content, any more than children, with the mere facts of a humdrum life--the imagination must adorn and exaggerate life, must give it splendor and grotesqueness, beauty and infinite depth. And the mere acceptance of these things from without is not enough--it is not enough to agree and assert when the imagination demands for satisfaction creative energy. Flamboyance expresses faith in that energy--it is a shout of delight, a declaration of richness. It is at least the beginning of art. All right go ahead: A TEXAS PRIZE CONTEST--The Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Texas, recently emerged from a prize contest which had a strange _dénouement_-- Look here young man, after this you examine those girls in the cold weather. Who is Warner Fabian? _Flaming Youth_ is the story of the super-flapper, of her affairs at country clubs and cozy home-dances with all the accompaniments of prohibition stimulants. Warner Fabian believes that the youth of this country feeds on excitement and rushes to knowledge "heeled" by way of petting parties and the elemental stimulus of jazz. The barriers of convention are down. Youth makes its own standards and innocence, according to the author, has been superseded by omniscience. It doesn't matter that Warner Fabian is a _nom de plume_ which conceals the identity of one of the ablest scientists of this country who has dared to look facts in the face, facts physical, moral and emotional. He has written the truth about youth, the youth of today as he sees it. FLAMING YOUTH by Warner Fabian is the writing on the wall. It is the _Quo Vadis_? of the present moment. Those who are following in the Metropolitan Magazine the fortunes of Pat, the most sophisticated and yet at the same time one of the most deliciously lovely heroines of recent novels, and the fortunes of her two sisters, may protest that Mr. Fabian's portrayal of youth in this novel is outscotting Fitzgerald and overdancing in the Dark. We feel however that this story of three girls and their many men is one which may sufficiently frighten mothers and electrify fathers and hit the younger set hard enough between the eyes to help America's youth to, at least, a gradual return to sanity. And so the beginning of art ends in a gradual return to sanity. Today Modern scientific research has provided the most efficient agent for the treatment of local inflammation: DIONAL applied locally over the affected area acts promptly with prolonged effect. Drugless. Non-irritant. Non-toxic. Indicated in Mastitis, Burns, Boil, Tonsillitis, Mastoiditis, Sprain, Abscess, Bronchitis, Mumps, Contusion, Ulcers, Pneumonia. If a man died on a stretcher he simply said: Dump it out. And ordered us back for another load.