Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1927 — Page 4

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Does He Mean It? Thrilling the sincere hearts of the very sincere women who are fighting alcohol under the banner of the white ribbon, Senator Arthur iiobinson of this State assures the national convention of the W. C. T. U. that prohibition is here to stay. His amplifications of that declaration might cause considerable consternation among certain Federal officials if they gave as full and complete credence to the Senator as did the sincere women who applauded his remarks. For the Senator in his enthusiasm declared “prohibition can and will be enforced, but we must have in the enforcement service only those who are in sympathy with it.” Inasmuch as the Senator has considerable to say concerning the men who are named to enforce the law in this State his declaration at home might sound almost as a threat to some gentlemen who have held or who hold j°bs in that department. If the W. C. T. U. members at home take at full value the ringing declaration of the Senator they can undoubtedly get results immediately tha*t will make this State really as dry as they wish it to be, if prohibition can be enforced. t It is true that they would hardly expect Senator Robinson to take the bold attitude of n Pinchot, who lays the failure of prohibition to the attitude of the cabinet member who has charge of the enforcement. No one would expect him to antagonize any one in power in his own party. But what would he do if he were asked to scrutinize closely those selections of George V. Coffin who received jobs in the prohibition department. How many of his own appointees, and he has several in this State in that department, could receive credentials from the W. C. T. U. for real sympathy with the law? How many of them have tried to enforce the law against those useful precinct followers of Coffin in this city who have from time to time been suspected of engaging in bootlegging, and Coffin, the friend of Robinson and his champion, heir to the Stephenson power, has not hesitated to use these men who violate this particular law. What sympathy with prohibition does Robinson believe is in the heart of that dry agent who hurried to the cell of Stephenson last fall when politicians of this State and Robinstm party were anxious to close the lips of the former Grand Dragon who is now a life guest of the State? Does the announcement of the Senator in his speech mean a reorganiaztion of the prohibition department in Indiana? Or did he really mean all he said?

Their Highest Compliment If Jacob Wolf and James Rocap needed any public recognition of their public service, it is to be found in the fact that the city council and mayor have abolished their positions. There could be but one reason, of course, for the council and the mayor to abolish the board of zoning appeals which was created to fill a real need in regulating the development of the city. These two men stood in the way of private enterprises and projects and purposes of the city administration and no administration likes to have its shortcomings exposed to public view. The board of zoning appeals came into being because hard and fixed zones had not satisfied the public or the citizens affected. The mayor made his mistake of naming two men who refused to be his rubber stamps or play politics. They took their jobs seriously as citizens. They voted against filling stations in residence sections and refused to issue permits which would enhance the values of some lots to the detriment of neighboring property. Os course that couldn’t last. The city council in many cases overruled the board. But that procedure always had its dangers. Someone might talk. And more people are talking these days than ever before. So the board passes. Two citizens find themselves out ot power for the sole and single reason that they tlid what they believed to be their duty. Os course the public will suffer. There will be unsightly filling stations in residence sections. Any one who wants the zones changed will now know deflm —ly where to go and be assured that their little schemes will not be officially exposed to public view. In future days Wolf and Rocap can point with pride ro th lact they are so dangerous to the present discredited administration and equally dis-. credited city council that they were legislated out of power. They will need nothing more than that. . ...t. Secretary Wilbur and the Navy Secretary of the Navy Wilbur says he never said he was going to ask Congress to double our present cruiser building program. The denial, of course, is of n# great importance, save, perhaps, to Mr. Wilbur personally. The Navy’s needs remain the same and, as he admits, our cruiser program will be based upon the needs of the country. In third place after Britain and Japan, we shall have to do a lot of building over a good many years to put us where we will be the equal of England and two-fifths stronger than Japan, the ratio agreed upon at the Washington conference of 1921. Anc this is essential if only to help bring about future naval limitations. As long as we put ourselves in the position of beggiqp stronger powers to scrap thAlr ships so they will be no stronger than we are,

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we can expect to be laughed at just as wa were this summer at Geneva. We be able to say to them: “We are quite as strong as you are. Add we havo the money, even without increasing taxes, to make* ourselves much stronger. Nevertheless we propose to scrap t<Jh for ton with you and then put just as low a limit on our total tonnage as you will put on yours.” Then we may expect to get somewhere. Meantime, pending some such possible future agreement, we have our national defense to think of. Many envious eyes are upon us and any show of excessive weakness might easily mean our undoing. The proper official to lead the way in all this, quite naturally, is the Secretary of the Navy. If he Is too timid, however, another leader will not be wanting. “Ain’t this a free country?” asked a Chicago schoolgirl when the police arrested her for leading a SaccoVanzetti demonstration. When are we going to learn not to say “ain’t”? A research committee finds there are nearly 2,000,000 laws in the United States. You’d think some of them besides the prohibition law would be broken some- time! When Clarence Chamberlin returned to his home town an aerial stunt show was given for his entertainment. That’s like giving a taxicab chauffeur an exhibition of plain and fancy driving. One, thing about the naval limitations conference —they certainly did keep those Swiss shipbuilders down. American tourists spent $761,000,000 in Europe and other foreign lands last year. They’ll have enough over there pretty soon to start up another war. A newspaper headline says Wife Doesn’t Mind Beating. Usually they don’t even mind their husbands, let alone a beating. , Social note from Europe: Mussolini says men with whiskers don’t amount to much. George Bernard Shaw’has gone to Italy. • Disarmament is O. K., but we favor a large army for Rumania to keep the sob sisters away from little King Michael. Cheer up, everybody, and look forward to the holidays. Christmas and New Year’s day both fall on Sunday this year. President Coolidge’s tour through Yellowstone suggests the crack “there’s nothing like seeing the country you were President of.” I That shakeup in the national prohibition enforcement personnel suggests that there must have been a shakedown somewhere along the line. If you can’t be wise you can at least laugh at those who are. , “Knock and It shall be given to you,” is the way some people think thatapassage reads.

Why People Like Jimmy Walker BY N. D. COCHRAN

I don’t know New York’s mayor. Never met Jimmy Walker, and the only time I ever saw him was on Lindbergh day in New York City. He was sitting with Lindy on the back of an open auto will his feet on the back seat. I haven’t the slightest notion of what Jimmy and Lindy were talking about, but it wasn’t hard to imagine the young fellow was terribly bored and that Mayor Jimmy was kidding him along, making funny cracks and keeping the city’s guest in a good humor. Some people may think that the mayor should have sat as stiff as a general on dress parade—that his stove-pipe hat should have been geometrically on straight—and that the mayor should have looked solemn and uncomfortably dignified. If he had I should have been tempted to throw a whole telephone directory at him from the hotel window, and without tearing It into confetti. Tfce rakish tilt to Jimmy’s plug hat told a story in itself. It indicated that it was Jimmy’s hat instead of the hat’s Jimmy. Very few men are masters of their formal clothing, and most of the few are waiters. That’s why most men hold waiters in awe. An ordinary man has to have his regular clothes on to feel on the same social plane with his waiter; and only supermen have the temerity to to get chummy with a head-waiter. They tell me a lot of gossip about . New York’s mayor. They say he is always late, that he lives in a dinner coat, sleeps until noon and a lot of other things that don’t matter when you really figure them out—even if the other terrible charge should be true, that Jimmy isn’t a prohibitionist by inclination, belief or practice. They all indicate that Jimmy’s Job is like his plug hat—it isn’t his master. Some of the old fogies may still believe that early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, but most of us just naturally agree with Harry Lauder’s song that it’s nice to get up in the morning but it’s nicer to lie in bed. Anyhow, not many of us want to get up any earlier than we have to. Where Jimmy has the edge on most of us is that he doesn’t have to get up until -he is ready, and is human enough to stay in bed. Most of us have been taught that we should/always be punctual and always keep our engagements. Mebbe so. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that being punctual is always a pleasure, or that it makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. There are two sides to that argument about punctuality, and a good argument can be put up against punctuality and keeping engagements that you are not so awf'iily anxious to keep, and know-you won’t 1 get any fun ut of keeping That isn’t orthodox virtue, to be sure, but it is quite human. Being a slave to his job and lacking a sense of humor has hurried more than one president to his grave. Taking himself, his Job and life itself too seriously has got many a man laughed at. It is significant that the people laugh WITH the lighthearted, devil-may-care *Jimmy Walker and not AT him. There’s a differenqe. People don’t want to be serious and solemn. They don’t want to be reformed, uplifted or preached at. If they have to be unhappy in order to be good they don’t want to be good. The real meaning of “Be good and you will be happy” is to be good fn the way that will make you happy. That is, be happy and you will be good. Anyhow, most of Jimmy Walker s faults seem to be little ones, and not cardinal sins. They are not the test of his fitness for his job. It is possible that when he tackles serious "problems he may know as well how to be serious as he knows how to be happy. And the chances ase against a happy, good-natured, care-free man being a political crook.

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Why the Weather?

By Chrle FiUhugh Talm&n Authority on Meteorology

WIND-BORNE DUST Winds charge the atmosphere with millions of tons of dust every year and it is often carried to great distances before it settles to the earth. In China an area ot some 300,000 square miles is covered to a depth of hundreds and even thousands of feet with a fine yellowish soil called “loess,” which is supposed to have been brought by the winds from the deserts and dry steppes of central Asia. In March, 1901, a series of dust storms occurred in the northern part of the Sahara and the dust, after being whirled upward by cyclonic winds to a great height, was eventually deposited over most of western Europe to a distance of 2,500 miles from the place of origin. An elaborate study was made of this “dustfall” by two German meteorologists, Heilman and Meinardus. v/ho estimated that not less than t,800,000 tons of the deposit fell over the continent of Europe and as much more over the Meditteranean. On the African coast the deposit is supnosed to have amounted to 150,000,0CO tons. A reddish haze, due to dust from tv, e Sahara, is frequently tncoun--pred by vessels In the region between the Canaries and the Cape Verde Islands. This haze probably gave rise to the reports of a “Sea or Darkness” that figure in the narratives of early Atlantic navigators. (All rights reserved. Science Service. Inc.) LOCAL MAN HEADS NEW $1,000,000 CORPORATION Allen G. Messick Named PresidentTwo Indiana Concerns in Merger. Merger of five companies manufacturing radio equipment Is in effect today, two of the units being Indiana concerns—lndiana Electric Manufacturing Company, Marion; Slagle Radio Company, Marion; Apex Electrical Manufacturing Company, Chicago: Workrite Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, and Sentinel Manufacturing Company, Chicago. Assets of the merged companies were announced as $1,000.000. Allen G. Messick. Marion, president of the Bobbins Body Corporation, Indianapolis, was elected president of the new corporation. He has served as counsel for the Marion company taken Into the merger. Representatives of the five companies announced the combination in New York Friday, afte.- a ten-day conference. It was organized under the laws of Delaware, and given the name of United States Electric corporation. Relief of the serious patent Mtuatior. in the radio equipment making field was given as the cause for combining the companies.

Wife Sale Man Surrenders Mate for Truck and SSO, But She Comes Back Home.

Bp United Press LICHTENBURG, South Africa, August 27.—“1’1l give you my automobile truck for your Wife,” offered a local diamond digger to his best friend. “That’s an insult,” replied the husband. “And SSO besides," imperturbably persisted the digger. “She’s yours,” said the husband. With the wife’s consent, the bargain was sealed. The wife, after a short period of happiness with her new husband, decided that she had been the loser in the deal. Sho returned to her old mate. The purchaser demanded his truck and SSO back. > “ My yours > tak her,” said tne husband. "Try ar-J do It,” said the wife. tei ”f° rar y husband appealed £,*s® p ? U ° e ’ who advls ed him to try the civil courts.

Brain Teasers

Answers to today’s Bible quiz will be found on page 14: 1. Whom did the people believe was Christ transfigured ? hC Bpostles _.?• two Prophets were seen with Christ at the transfiguration? 4. What bird did Noah send forth from the ark before he sent forth the dove? 5. How long did Noah live after the flood? Publisher’s Mother Buried By Times Special PERU, Ind., Aug. 27.—Funeral services for and burial of Mrs. Mary E. Lockwood. 79, were held here Friday afternoon. She was the mother of George B. Lockwood, publisher of the Evening Press, Muncie a " d °r the National Republican, Washington, D. C. Joins Glasgow Faculty By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 27. Dr. Horace Ellis, former president of Vincennes University, sailed today from New York for Glasgow, Scotland, to take a position as a member of the faculty of the University o Glasgow. \ Aviation Gains in Sweden By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Commercial aviation is increasing rapidly ih Denmark. July saw 1,878 passengers carried on routes touching Copenhagen, compared with 1,583 in June, and 557 airplanes stopped at the port during July.

Do You Know — That 594 transient men and women found shelter, aid and direction during the first six months of the year at the /Wheeler City Mission, an or- ' ganization sharing in the iCommunity Fund.

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Four Persons of National Prominence in Music Circles to Be on Committee to Judge Radio Contest

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 27. The personnel of a national sponsorship committee, to supervise the Judging of the final event In the National Radio Audition was announced today by the Atwater Kent Foundation of Philadelphia. Four persons of national prominence in the musical and cultural life of the United States have accepted the invitation of A. Atwater Kent, president of the foundation, to serve on the committee, to which one other outstanding name will be added. The committee members are Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley of Western College, Oxford. Ohio, president of 1 the National Federation of Music Clubs: Mrs. Otto H. Kahn of New York City, wife of the widely known sponsor of the musical arts; Madame Louise Homer, famous contralto, and Edward W. Bok, well-known Philadelphia editor and publicist. Announcement of the names of this committee followed a recent endorsement by President Coolidge of the foundation’s search for young men and young women singers, who are now unknown. The President, said in a letter to a field representative of the foundation, who discussed the Audition ideals with him: “I think the National Radio Audition, as outlined in your letter. Is a laudable undertaking. It should stimulate interest in the musically inclined youth of our country and offer them opportunity that otherwise would be unlikely. To this end I wish it success and am hopeful much good will come therefrom.” The national sponsorship committee will aid the foundation in the selection of judges to hear the five district auditions to be held in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and San Frahcisco in November, following certification to the districts of the winners in a series of State contests to be held during October. The c'anmittee will take charge large’j of the Judging at the finals, which ate to be sung over the national network of the National Broacasting Company's station WEAF, New York, early in December. Judging in State and, district 'events will be by a joint vote of the radio audiences and a special jury of judges. In these events the total vote of the radio audience will'•be 60 per cent of the decision, and of the judges 40 per cent. No radio vote will enter into the final hearings in New York. The decision then will be left entirely to the judgment of the national jury of judges, of which the National sponsorship committee will be the nucleus. Radio listeners will again have the opportunity of hearing one of America’s most famous humorists when an hour’s program by Will Rogers and his gang is broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company through the Blue Network at 1C o’clock, Eastern Daylight Saving

(Richmond Palladium Irrespective of the right or wrong of professional boxing, there is a ludicrous inconsistency in the Govmont's attitude which permits the radio to broadcast a bout blow by blow, but refuses

to let the motion picture present the details of the fight on the screen. The law prohibiting interstate-ship-ment of prize fight films is archaic in comparison with the Federal attitude

A Ludicrous Inconsistency

toward the sport in other respects. It puts the whole country in a silly position. If it is wrong to show the prize fight in motion pictures why not prohibit radio announcers from broadcasting every detail of the fight. Millions who never saw a prize fight and never took a particle of interest in one, tune in their sets to listen to the descripion of the fight. Press associations have hundreds of their representatives at the ringside to watch the proceedings and to flash them over the wires to all parts of the country. Photographers take pictures without stint, and the next day the press, is permitted to print them. The Government has no hesitancy in collecting a tax on the light tickets. If the Government tolerates other means of broadcasting a prize light, if it sanctions the fight itself, and

The Reception Committee

Time (9 o’clock, Central Daylight Saving Time), Saturday night, Aug. 27. The broadcast will originate in the Washington Auditorium, where the Board of Governors of the National Press Club is tendering Rogers a dinner earlier in the evening. The program is scheduled to occupy an hour, and it is expected that forty minutes of this time*will be filled by Mr. Rogers. The sixty minutes on the air will start with a musical selection by a Meyer Davis orchestra, followed by a brief introduction of Mr. Rogers by Louis Ludlow, president of the National Press Club. Following a characteristic monologue, the famous comedian will Introduce ths various members of his gang, screen stars who have accompanied him to Washington for the filming of the first pictures in connection with the making of a screen version of Charles Hoyt’s comedy, “A Texas Steer.” These stars will include Louise

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any Question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C„ Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. What were the dates of the two wars between Turkey and Russia? What did they accomplish? Thu Russo-Turkish war of 18281829 resulted in the liberation of Greece and the Independence of Muldavia and ,Wallachia (now Rumania), and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, concluded by the Treaty of Berlin, stripped Turkey of half of her European possessions. In what parts of the United States and Canada are wolves found? In the United States in-the upper peninsula of Michigan and northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. In Canada they are found in British Columbia, Saskatchewan,. Manitoba and western Ontario. There are some wolves in southeastern Alaska and in Mexico south of Arizona and New Mexico. When and at what cost was the Brooklyn bridge built? Building was begun Jan. 3, 1870; it opened May 24, 1883; cost of construction was $17,909,412; cost of land, $7,185,165. For how many teams in major baseball leagues did Rube Waddell pitch? What was his best season strikeout record? He pitched for the Chicago Nationals in 1001; the Philadelphia Americans, 1902-1907, and the St.

What Other Editors Think

Fazenda, Sam Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mack Swain, George Marion, Ann Rork and Sam Rork. In the picture, Rogers plays the role of a Texas cattleman who is forced into Congress against his will. This program will be broadcast through WJZ, New York; WBZ, Springfield: WBZ A, Boston; KYW, Chicago; KDKA, Pittsburgh; WJR, Detroit; WHAM, Rochester; WBAL, Baltimore. Ann Mack, soprano, will be the artist o.i the Atwater Kent Hour Sunday starting at 9:15, eastern daylight time. Her program follows: “Down In th> Forest" Landon Ronald "A Little Bit O' Honey" Carries Jacobs Bond "The Black Bird" J. Hook "No-No-No.” Aria—" Waltz Song,” from Romeo and Juliet Gounod "The Poet Sings” Winter Watts "Chanson Lepere" Frederic D'Erlanger "The Changeling’’ Everett Tltcomb "By a Lonely Forest Pathway” Chas. T. GrifTes “Five Little White Heads”..J. W. Btschoff “Pierrot” Dagmar de C. Rybner Estelle LlcbUng. at the piano.

Louis Americans, 1908, 1909, 1910. His best strikeout record was 343 in the season of 1904. Are both Leopold and Loeb, who murdered Robert Franks, alive? Yes. W’hat causes smoke? Smoke comes from a fire because the gases which are in process of consumption are not pure, but contain organic matter, principally carbon particles, and these are not wholly consumed in the process of combustion, but form the smoke. Complete combustion results in a smokeless flame. Who played the part of “Penny Fish” in the picture, “Tillie, the Toiler?” Harry Crocker. What are the velocities of sound and of light? Sound travels at the rate of 1,126 feet per second at 20 degrees cent!-' grade; the latest calculation of the speed of light is 188,284 miles per second. How often has Corinne Griffith been married? Twice. Her first husband was Webster Campbell, formerly her director, whom she divorced. She is now married to Walter Morosco, son of the theatrical producer. Can the President of the United States veto an amendment to the Constitution? Amendments to the Constitution are not submitted to the President. An act interpreting an amendment may be subject to veto but not the amendment.

if its highest officials attend the fight, why should the fight be barred from the screen? The law is one that might be repealed without jeopardizing the morals of the country. Or if the Government believes prize fights are inimical from an ethical standpoint, then they ought to be banned. (BLUFFTON BANNER) Charlie Miller was nominated for the job of superintendent of public instruction by the Republican party, and was elected mainly because he opposed the

county unit. Now he has accepted the Job of superintendent of the Indianapolis city schools, hoping to hold both jobs until Governor Jackson promised to name a successor of his (Miller’s) choice. Mr. Jackson refused and the

Holds Two Jobs

ruling power has decided that in accepting one job he has vacated the other and another man will be named for the State job at once. Funny how a Republican hates to let loose. Mayor Duvall has been fooled again. He thought, in starting a newspaper in Indianapolis, the people would simply swamp the subscription department and the advertiser would demand space- in his ad columns. Neither happened and the paper has suspended.

AUG. 27, 1927

M. E. TRACY SAYS: We Have Becoync Too Satisfied With the Fruit of Our Industrial Tree to Pay Proper Attention to the Roots.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 27. During the last two months I have traveled 3,000 miles through the northeastern section of the United States, have visited thirteen cities and three times as many industries, have talked with farmers and farm hands, with coal operators and coal miners, with steel magnates and taxicab drivers, with preacners, policemen and politicians. My impression is that the country is prosperous, according to the accepted use of the word, but that its very prosperity is breeding tendencies that are dangerous. There is a widespread disposition to glorify the artificial structures that make men rich and to neglect the natliral foundations on which those structures stand. We have become too satisfied with the fruit of our industrial tree to pay proper attention to the roots.

Farm to City Abandoned or poorly cultivated farms are becoming too numerous. Though there is a vast amount of idle land, you cannot find a good stand of timber in a day’s journey. The building boom our cities have enjoyed is reflected in thousands of rural dwellings that are rotting down, social and economic concentration have become the order of the day. Our wealth Is coagulating In large pools, just as our population is congesting in large communities. We have gone to a point where the first thought of every boy and girl is to live in the city, and where the next thought is to get connected with some pay roll instead of starting on a career of their own. Fifty years ago it was the general desire of young men to be independent, to own something, to enter a business, profession or trade that would reflect their individuality. Now it is their general desire to live near the bright lights and let someone else do the worrying. Lindbergh at Home Lindbergh appears to have found his greatest pleasure in the way he was received by the old home town. The crowd was not so large as that which has greeted him in many other places, and there was a delightful lack of formality. There was the sincere affection, however, of those who not only knew him, but knew his father and mother. When all is said and done, there is no tribute equal to the love of those with whom we grew up, and whose opinion is worth while because it is based on intelligent understanding.

Redfern’s Courage Undismayed by the fatal results of the Hawaiian flight, Redfern hops off for a 4,600-mile trip not only over sea,’but over vast wastes of unexplored jungle. You can not help admiring the young man’s courage, though you may doubt his wisdom. If he succeeds, it will be due to favorable weather conditions quite as much as to the excellence zC his machine. Enough has been done during the last four months by way of longdistance flying to prove that the airplane in its present state of development is not adapted to such use. Controlling Fliers Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, is of the opinion that these spectacular flights ought to be stopped. Desirable as that may be, it seems a difficult task. While it might be possible to courage the offering of prizes aife the staging of races, there seems iPS way of preventing the individual flier from hopping off any time he wants to. m That is probably what the individual flier will continue to do. The triumph which Lindbergh enjoyed and the unprecedented honors that were conferred upon him represent too great a temptation for red blooded youth to resist. If we did not want our aviators to try such stunts, we should have refrained from staging such a show. Stunts and Values Stunts have come to play a big part in cur life not only because they attract attention, but because the press agent has made them of commercial value. It is ridiculous, of course, to give a man a vaudeville contract, because he sat on a flag pole for several days, but that and similar nonsensical performances have come to be recognized, as worth rea’ money. It is bill board advertising carried to the nth degree. The tragedy of it is that thousands of young people are led to waste their energy and risk their lives to get a passing cheer. Tomorrow or the day after, they will be forgotten, but that is what they do not realize. Life and Thrills Os far more serious importance, the idea that life holds nothing except thrills is leading many young people into crime. It led two Chicago youths to murder a little boy, it led a San Francisco flapper to shoot her mother and it led a college girl to steal so that, she could write a more interesting book. If we do not want 9ur young people to become infatuated with the sensational we must do more to impress them with the thought that there is something worth while, something satisfying in l normal constructive work.