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The Forum Replaces the Stake and Rack Seme 358 years ago last August Catholics were butchering French Protestants in the shambles o£ St. Bartholomew's day. At the same time, across the channel, Protestant were burning Catholics. Jews were being shot down and stabbed in czarist territory as late as the present century. Indeed, the pogroms continue in some parts of southeastern Europe. It is proof of the progress of civilization and tolerance, then, to find world-famous Jews, Catholics and Protestants coming together in New York a seminar on human relations among ProtesKts. Catholics and Jews. For the settlement of our ■Fliglous differences wc have evolved from torch, stake and rack to the forum. To the amiable outsider it would seem that the things which divide these religious groups are what may be deemed nonessentials, whether one views the matter from the conservative or the liberal angle. The orthodox Jew, Catholic and Protestant all believe in the same general religious epic. Their cosmology and religious history are identical. They all believe in the same Gcd, Jehovah of the Bible. Protestants and Catholics look upon Jesus as the Son of Ood and the Messiah promised to the Jews. While the Jews reject this opinion, not a few rabbis now call Jesus the second among the great religious teachers of Judaism. What holds these three groups apart are traditions, rites and dogmas of an altogether minor character. Such is the nature of these differences which the faithful regard as of almost biological importance. Steeped in the fog of sectarianism, the average Catholis or Protestant boy hardly can concede that the other actually is a human being on good standing. From the radical religious viewpoint, likewise, Jews, Gcnlilcs and Christian sects seem kef)t apart by myths and traditions no longer supportable jn the light of modern knowledge. Religious battles in the western world today have the ring of a squabble between alchemists, astrologers and magicians. % Creation tales, the literal inspiration of the Jewish and Christian Bible, Jehovah of the Bible, the racial uniqueness of the Jews, the doctrine of the fall of man and the necessity for the vicarious sacrifices of Jesus, the divinity of Jesus, the dogma of the Petrine delegation and supremacy, all have collapsed under the searchlight of modern scholarship. All these groups need to do is to modernize themselves, and their quarrels will disappear. Each type of organization might retain such of its traditions, ritual and ideals as do not conflict with contemporary knowledge. In these may reside certain definite and permanently valuable contributions to culture. But they can not be used today to justify bigotry, dogmatism or intolerance. To find them all on the same platform or about the same banquet table certainly is a long step from medieval and early modern savagery’. Especially significant is the fact that John Haynes Holmes appears on the program. To his community church flock modernized Jews, Catholics and Protestants. Better than any other living preacher he has settled the “human relations of Jews, Protestants and Catholics.” Federal Relief Congress has voted the administration’s $11,000,000 relief program and gone home for an extended holiday. Both Republican and Democratic leaders seem to think they have done a good job, and that all that remains is for the administration to spend the money and the depression will be conquered. Unfortunately, the problem is not so simple. Much of the money appropriated probably will do no good—for instance, the additional $150,000,000* given to the federal farm board to contine its speculation in the Chicago wheat pit. The authorization of $45,000,000 for drought relief is good as far as it goes; but so much time was consumed arguing the matter no time was left to vote the actual appropriation. The administration objected to a provision that some of the money could go for food for farmers as well as for food for farmers’ animals, and then left an ambiguous loophole for the administration to do that very thing. The $116,000,000 appropriation for public works is the best that could be done under the circumstances. That will bring the public construction program close to s7oo.ooo.ooo—about the limit which can be spent efficiently by the government, considering the lack of advance planning. This government building program, if voted last year, would have stimulated business this year. Voted now, it will help business and employment next year. Meanwhile, a severe winter of suffering is upon us. and most of the public construction jobsifcan not begin until spring. The immediate task is to prevent starvation this winter. In some of the large centers of wealth, private and municipal agencies may be able to provide adequate relief. But there are incresing reports tht smaller communities are unable to handle local relief demands. Appeals for direct federal aid to help communities which otherwise can not prevent starvation were presented to the senate on the eve of adjournment by Senators La Follette and Walsh. These appeals were signed by upward of 200 mayors, from east, west, north and south. In such a national emergency there is no excuse for congress taking a two-week holiday. Let members of congress use this recess to find out about conditions in their own state, and return with facts from which the extent of the relief emergency can be judged quickly and accurately. Good-By Lucas These must be trying days for conscientious Republicans wishing to be proud of their party. First they found themselves marching along under the banner of Dr. Hubert Work as national chairman, although they had been promised that when Herbert Hoover attained the presidency he would rid himself of that sort. He did rid himself of Dr. Work, but only to place at the head of his columns his friend, Claudius Huston, the power lobbyist—of whom the less is said the better. Eventually Huston went th* way of all who get caught. Then Robert H. Lucas took office and began his attempt, at which he did not get caught for some time, to defeat Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, whose public career of integrity and construetivngpsx has been the only thing encouraging thousands of Republicans to remain Republicans. Efforts to defeat Norris by trickery in the primaries having failed, Lucas undertook to defeat him in the finals by ordering and paying for literature to be circulated anonymously, dishonestly picturing Norris as a Democrat and an advocate of the saloon. But a citizen whose conscience hurt finally told jthe Nye committee about the transaction.

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will follow Huston into the less pleasant pages of history—if there remain in the party enough leaders who can rightly gauge the public reaction to his methods. And yet there is waiting, right around the corner, to take his place or some other in the party leadership, still one more friend of the President, Raymond Benjamin of California, law partner of Sam Shortridge for many years, a politician whose past gives little reason to hope that his future will be a discernible - improvement over the Hustons, Lucases and Works. Probably no phase of the Hoover administration has been more disappointing to sincere Republicans than his selection of the party leaders for whom he is responsible. The Soviet Premier The resignation of Premier Rykoff of Russia, under pressure of Secretary Stalin of the Communist party, has set off again the prophets of Soviet doom. It shows disintegration of the Soviet government; the leaders have fallen out among themselves; it won’t be long now—so we are told. Being several thousand miles from the scene of action we can't be dogmatic. But here is our guess, for what it is worth; Rykoff’s resignation does not increase weakness, but increases strength and unity of the Soviet power. As the leader of the so-called right faction, he could not pull with the others. As evidence of good will, he “recanted” several months ago, but he lacked the drive required of an official in his position of leadership. Molotoff, Stalin’s friend, who succeeds him, will furnish that leadership. If the Stalin-Rykoff disagreement were fundamental, the situation might be dangerous for the Soviets. But their disagreement is not one between Communist and anti-Communist. It is between two equally militant Communists, who can not agree on the proper pace for the industrialization of Russia. Their purchases are the same, their methods are the same. But Rykoff wants to stretch the industrialization process over a longer period, thus requiring less immediate sacrifices from the people, while Stalin wants the people to carry the full burden now and get the gigantia five-year plan over with as soon as possible. Stalin’s speeding-up program is going ahead. Whether it will succeed is a matter of speculation. But that his five-year plan has suceeded to date far beyond the most extreme hopes is admitted generally by foreign observers in Russia. Witchcraft in New York A year or so ago, when tales of witchcraft in a rural district of Pennsylvania came out into the open in connection with a murder case, certain New York writers professed to be deeply shocked and horrified. They pointed out that such weird superstitions linger in rural communities, and intimated that it is only in the great cities that civilization really comes to flov/er. Now might be a good time for these critics to do some more articles on the same general theme; for United Press dispatches from New York reveal that thousands upon thousands of New York’s citizens are devout believers in witchcraft and black magic. A report issued by a health survey remarks thu T “witchcraft workers and evil-eye healers are still flourishing and exploiting the ignorant and superstitious, particularly the foreign-bom, in New York City.” Ignorance, apparently, can be found in the city as well as in the country. Our New York writers can find, within a few blocks of their offices, conditions quite as shocking as those in Pennsylvania which horrified them recently. Burglars successfully looted an apartment house in Chicago recently with the aid of a monkey. Now w’atch others try and ape them. In Canada, too, the grain problem is a burning question. Farmers there, a news item says, are using barley for fuel in place of wood and coal. The fire which swept the film colony recently gave the stars opportunity to put on some real emotional acting in the flickers. A New York reformatory is to have a Santa Claus this year. Does this dispel the theory that he visits only the good, obedient boys? Thirty-four persons claiming kinship with Einstein sought to visit him in New York recently. This is another slant on the relativ-ity theory. Claims of publishers notwithstanding, the most popular book for Christmas is dad’s check book.

REASON

EINSTEIN said he did not have time enough tc explain to those New York reporters the meaning of his theory of relativity, but he might have found time to tell them why his hair is a blonde while his mustache is a brunette. u u tt -*■ # In their testimony before the Fish committee at Washington. Foster and the other Communists said they owe no loyalty to any flag except the Red flag of the Soviet government. If that's so, they should be put on a boat and sent to Russia. tt tt When Frederick Funston Jr. escaped death by leaping in a parachute from that spinning plane in. California he merely was following in the perilous footsteps of his distinguished father who faced death in the Yukon, in Cuba and in the Philippines. a a a SENATOR COPELAND of New York wants to reduce Germany's war debts to the allies, which would mean that the allies would ask a further reduction of their debts to us. In other words, Uncle Sam would pay for the kaiser’s party. When his term expires, Copeland should run for the reichstag instead of the senate. tt a u According to the last census, 124.926.069 people are now living under the American flag, but you would have to knock off a lot of those numbers if you wanted to find how many are living under the law. m m tt THE members of the Italian chamber of deputies have reduced their own salaries, but you can trust to our statesmen at Washington not to be swejit off their feet by the example. • tt m We'll bet President Hoover felt a whole lot safer in communicating with China over that 6,000-mile link with China than he dees in communicating with the senate. tt tt a Dr. Fritz von Opel predicts that before lory a rocket will carry passengers from Berlin to New York in three hours. That’s even faster than the kaiser traveled from Berlin to Holland. - i\ ■ . .•#

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Have No Precedent for This Depression and Should Not Trump Up Precedents to Relieve It. T TOUSTON. Tex., Dec. 22. Doesn’t a holiday put the old pep into congress, though? No matter how sore the boys may be with each other, at the White House, or over anything else, they certainly can show speed when they want to go home. Asa much perplexed nation, we should be peculiarly grateful for the Yuletide spirit this year. But for the Santa Claus myth, the smell of roast turkey and the irrepressible desire to play with toys long since bought for the kids, who can say when those relief measures would have gotten by, or whether Mr. McNinch would have gotten by at all. As it is, we are better off by $311,000,000 tha*-we were before, or will be some day. tt n h Relief Is ‘Spotty’ REALIZING that one man’s opinion is not necessarily as good as another’s, I still think congress should have made a large sum of money available for loans to states, counties and cities. I think it ■ would have resulted in quicker benefit to more people and would have represented just as wise an investment. After traveling from New York to Texas, I am convinced that the problem of providing work rests largely on the problem of providing it close at hand. Relief through river and harbor improvements obviously must be confined to those who live near rivers and harbors. The same is true of relief through national park, or forest improvements. Though unemployment may be worse in some places than in others, it is not very spotty. Such relief measures are spotty, and in that lies their chief weakness. n tt tt Too Much Time Lost CASH for federal aid roads promises wider distribution, provided too much of it doesn’t go for cement and machinery, or into the pockets of big contractors. “Ready to go,” says the President, but meaning in a r,onth or three months, which is too, long, since Old Man Winter will have done his worst by that time. The federal government is too big and clumsy to furnish an immediate answer to the immediate need. It can’t get around, without just so much lost motion, and even when it does get around, it is bound to have overlooked a lot of folks, because it can do only given things in given areas. When the Canadian government appropriated $20,000,000 for relief last September, it offered one-half the money to provificial and local administrations on a fifty-fifty basis. The Canadian government was not only three months ahead of us in recognizing what the situation called for, but took a vastly more sensible way to see that its relief funds would be distributed evenly. tt tt tt What Is This Progress? IT goes without saying, that we shall get out of this depression regardless of how much, or how little, the federal government does. The power of mankind to survive even the most terrible experiences by falling back on elemental methods and enduring elemental sacrifices has been demonstrated too frequently to be doubted. But if mankind must pull through that way every time a drought, an epidemic or a business slump occurs, what excuse has civilization for existing? * To say that “the people can be depended on to take care of themselves,” -is to rejuvenate the caveman’s philosophy. To chart the course we ought to follow in this emergency by what our grandfathers did in ’73, or what our great-great-grandfathers did a hundred years before, is to make a mockery of our pretended progress a tt There’s No Precedent AS a matter of common sense, we have no precedent for this depression, and should not trump up precedents for believing it. The fact that it caught most of us off guard indicates nothing so distinctly as that it was rooted in conditions so novel and so unexpected that we failed to understand them. It was with that thought Uppermost in mind that we should have taken up the problem of relief. Not only this country, but the whole civilized world, is more or less out cf joint, and Congressman McFadden does not miss the tar-get, though he may have shot a little outside the bullseye when he blames international banking as responsible for much of the trouble. If Mussolini and Bolshevism are by-products of the war, so is this curious new order of high finance, which aspires to play with firstclass governments in the same happy, reckless manner that its American progenitor once played with state legislatures or city councils.

Questions and Answers

Ilow old is Richard Arlen, and to whom is he married? Richard Arlen is 31. He is married to Jobyna Ralston, stage and screen actress. What does the name Danzler mean? It is a German family name meaning thanks, or gratitude. What are the colors of the University of Southern California? Cardinal and gold. How were ancient drawbridges raised and lowered? By ropes or chains that passed from the outer corners of the bridge to holes in the castle wall, high above the ground. A windlass was employed for a heavy bridge. Was Pope Sylvester ll.* Spanish or French? He was generally regarded as a Spaniard, although he was actually bom in southern France.

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Basketball Is Opposed for Girls

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeela, the Health Magazine. EVERY fall the question arises as to whether it is safe for girls to play basketball, whether they should play in interschool contests, and whether they should play the game according to boys’ rules. Basketball is one of the most popular games in high schools and colleges and the subject is being widely agitated. The Women’s Athletic Federation has opposed interschool competition for girls in basketball, and has insisted that when contests take place the girls should be in charge of a woman physical director, that the game should be played by quarters rather than halves, and that it always should be played by girls’ rules. Fewer than 10 per cent of colleges allow women to compete in interschool basketball. Among the reasons offered are that it is not good social policy to have girls traveling about the country for interschool contests, that such competition breeds vulgarity, and from the physical side that the woman is not qualified to undergo the continual strain on the heart that is particularly attendant with basketball.

IT SEEMS TO ME

SINCE I have not seen all the plays in town, I can speak freely and express the opinion that “Overture,” by William Bolitho, seems to me the most interesting. I didn’t say the best play. I said the most interesting. I met Marc Connelly the other night, and he had fire in his eye. By chance his attention had been called to, or at least he’d seen, a casual statement in this column that a second-rate novel generally is better than a first-rate play. To the author of “The Green Pastures,” this was sheer heresy. And so it has seemed to many readers. “What about Shakespeare?” they want to know, and those who fail to mention him toss Bernard Shaw full in my face. Anybody who takes the risk of generalization should be allowed a couple of exceptions. I have no wish to minimize the worth of Shaw or Shakespeare. Or to cut a cubit from the stature of Marc Connelly. And yet I still contend that the effects of the theater are necessarily broader than those little touches which creep into the pages of a novel. mum Behind Parade AND the theater almost of* necessity behind the progress of life in its choice cf materials. No rule holds utterly true, but from the beginning the theater has dealt for the most part with stories which had some element of familiarity. ■Certainly the Greek tragedians endeavored to select a plot out of the myths and legends best established. Even Shaw, considered in his earlier days a fantastic radical, admitted that in effect he was dramatizing the thoughts and opinions of Samuel Butler. While it is true that the average English or American playgoer knew nothing of Samuel Butler, with the possible exception of “The Way of AH Flesh, "enough time had elapsed to give the man's views something of currency. man The Untested THE stage may be a useful medium for mopping up, but it seldom has proved . good trying field for the new and untested. That is why the chances are against the success of Bolithols "Overture,” and that is why I like it. Here, at any rate, is a play as topical as the front page of next week’s newspaper. It seems to me that in the oncoming century the world i will make its decision as to just what radical economic philosophy it is going to follow. Or, it may decide to follow 7 none, though I'll lay 10 to 1 against that. But whichever way the decision i goes, there are certain to be vast . quantities of talk about Socialism, | Communism and the Soviet re--1 public. Nevertheless, not many of us has as yet %ny precise, comprehension of what Communism is ail about. W can’t see the theory for the dubs ‘and the half-wicks.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Strains in the knee and about the body are more likely to occur and to be more serious in girls than in boys, and bruises of the breast are particularly serious in women. Every objection that has been brought against the playing of basketball in interschool contests by girls is enhanced when the game is played according to boys’ rules. A recent report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching cites such authorities as E. H. Arnold, who said, “It seems plain to me, at least, that the female, after puberty, is unsuited to pursue athletics such as the male indulges in and that consequently athletics of that type are unsuited to the female.” Grace Davies of the Ohio State Educational Conference mentions as disadvantages of interschool basketball for girls: (a) The team feels a nervous strain; (b) a mixed audience leads to grandstand play and roughness; (c) there is a tendency to use the best players regardless of their physical condition; (and) it exploits the girls; (e) modes of travel are often unsatisfactory; (f) gymnasium conditions, such as temperatures and floor

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“Overture” may fail, because the average audience will not ’ think through its essentials. And I have no desire to be snooty about the average audience in saying this. Bolitho did not have timo to clarify his own notions. “Over-s ture” was a play to which he would have returned but for his untimely death. > Still, it is magnificent as it stands, even though the scaffolding of the construction period clings to it here and there. tt a tt Eager Essayist I ONCE wrote about Bolitho and said that in his essays he was sometimes too eager to. express himself in regard to things he had not yet quite taken into his hands. He was, I thought, like a shortstop who sometimes tries to make the long throw to first base before the ball has arrived. There is reason to believe that the sympathy of the playwright was centered in the chief figure of the play—Captain Ritter. I say the chief figure, because this is the longest role, even though it does not turn out to be the most important. It is in the fashioning of this character that too much has been left out. The captain leads the revolution of the workers in,a little German town and goes to his death when the military forces of the government arrive and put down the brief foray against the existing system. But the true clash comes between allies—between Ritter, the semimoderate. and Maxim, the dogmatic, Communist. Bolitho was a man whose nature

MOSR

E. A. ROBINSON’S BIRTH Dec. 21 ON Dec. 22, 1869, Edward Arling- . ton Robinson, one of the most famous of contemporary American poets, was born at Head Tide, Me. After two years at Harvard, Robinson went to New York. Here he struggled with poverty and for a time worked in a subway. He leaped into prominence in , 1927 when a poem, “The Children of the Night,” attracted the attention! of Theodore Roosevelt. Since then his fame has grown rapidly. Robinson’s work, as cne critic wrote, is “intellectual, sincere in feeling, distinctly American in tone and point of view, and free from all that is trivial and meaningless.” Amy Lowell called Robinson the most remarkable of living American jdoet?. t a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Robinson’s outstanding works to date include: “The Man Against the Sky.” “Merline,” "Lancelot,” “The Children of tho Night” and “Ti&tram.”

plans, differ, causing difficult adjustments for a team on short notice; (g) the aim of the game is to win, which develops questionable sportsmanship and hard losers; (h) the coach’s time is expended on a few, which is not the aim of physical education. In her well-known book on “Personal Hygiene and Physical Training for Women,” Dr. Anna M. Galbraith writes: “From her physical configuration and her inability to bear prolonged physical and mental strain,” woman would find certain men’s sports harmful, if played in the form in which they are played by men, but even these sports—football, ice hockey, polo, basketball, boxing, fencing pole-vaulting and heavy gymnastics—could, if modified to meet the peculiar characteristics of women, “be played with reasonable hopes of physical, mental and moral improvement.” The question, therefore, comes down to the conclusion that basketball, modified properly and limited to contests held within the school, is a safe game for women, but that an attempt to play the game under boys’ rules in contests held between institutions widely separated is not considered suitable by the majority of leaders in physical education.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ol one of America’s most interestine writers and are presented without regard to tbeir agreement or disagreement with tbe editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

reacted against dictatorship. He liked neither Mussolini nor Staiin. He has endeavored with at least onv. device to stack the cards against the Communist in his play. An episode has been introduced in which Maxim shoots down a prisoner in cold blood. And at the end, when Ritter waits to die, it is Maxim who slinks away and refuses to face the music. But by a curious quirk, Bolitho does much better for the representative of the cause which he did not like. Ritter has been identified by some as an autobiographical expression. This is likely true. Bolitho was. passionate in his espousal of lost causes. His best work was done in depicting those who have stood out against the gods. But the sacrifice of Ritter seems a little aimless. There is nothing in the play to indicate that he died for anything but the spirit of romanticism. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times! '

Daily Thought

Then I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Ecclesiastes 2:14. Wisdom is rare, Lorenzo! Wit abounds.—Young.

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—DEC. 22, 1930

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ-

| Chemistry to Open New Day of Prosperity for Farmer, Scientist Declares. ANEW era of prosperity for agriculture *s a result of advances in the chemical industry is lorecast by Dr. William J. Hale of the Dow Chemical Company in a report to the American Chemical Society. Dr. Hale waxes so enthusiastic over the prospects that -he calls it a golden era and adds that “the great strides in the automotive industry during the last decade will suffer in comparison with the stupendous advance that lies just ahead.” Dr. Hale sees an end to agricultural overproduction as a result of a demand for agricultural products in the chemical industry. The carbohydrate industries, he skys, will absorb vast quantities of grain, which they will use as a source of starch. They also will use cotton and other farm products as a source of cellulose. The carbohydrate industries in* elude those interested in the manufacture of alcohol, acetone, ether, and similar chemicals, as for example, the various cellulose prod ucts, artificial silk, and so on. Dr. Hale predicts a growth of these industries to such extent in the future that there will be no such thing as farm waste. n tt tt Let’s Be Optimistic IT should be said that a great deal of Dr. Dow’s predictions are based upon laboratory experiments which are not yet commercial realities. But these seems no reason for not being optimistic. One need only reflect upon the beginnings of the electrical industry. The story is told that when the famous Michael Faraday was carrying on his early experiments with electrical phenomena, he was visited by the prime minister of England. “What’s the use of all this?” the prime minister is said to have asked. “Don’t worry, milord,” was Faraday’s answer, “you’ll tax it yet.” When one stops to think of the taxes paid by the electrical industry, and the taxes all of us help pay when we pay our electric light bills, he will see that Faraday was right. “The utilization of the various components found in corn is only a question of time,” Dr. Hale said, “but the big component is starch, and naturally the attention of the chemist is directed primarily upon its utilization.” a tt a Farmer to Gain PROFIT to the farmer, even at low prices, will result. Dr. Hale contends, from application of industrial methods. “Thiis, our corn crop, by way of illustration,” he says, "should be grown primarily for the industries described. A lower grade of corn naturally is preferred by chemical enterprises. “We also must have as high -a production of corn as possible to the acre. These conditions will of course operate for even greater surplus than we ever have experienced, but such is the demand of the organic chemical industry. “So great is this industrial utilization of carbohydrates to become that we in this country must prepare ourselves for the importation of enormous quantities of agricultural staples in the not far distant future. “Our agriculturists particularly will welcome the importation of such staples as require careful cultivation and enter directly as such into the manufacture of foods, thus permitting our farmers to produce those staples demanded in greater quantities for the chemical industries and yielding higher financial returns. “The chemical manufacturing i plants making use of agricultural ; raw material must bo located at the | heart of those agricultural zones j concerned in the supply of organic products. “In this way also the farmers will have a common financial interest in the development of their own zones.”

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l am a farmer and I take exception to the letter signed H. D. H. First, hg says let every farmer feed one unemployed. In answer to this, let me say that the farmers would be very foolish to feed any one who had squandered his wages at shows, ball games, and Ail other kinds of sport. H. D. H. says the farmer wants a hand to work for nothing. That is false. The farmer does not have the money to spend like a sport. As far as the blackberries are concerned, if ‘ the farmer allows some to trespass for berries, they would trespass for other things, which has been proven. If the working man would save his money, he would not have to ask for berries. W. B. D