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Two Good Laws Passage of a registration bill by the lower house revives faith in political parties, In other years party platforms have been forgotten as soon as the election passed and offices obtained. This measure was pledged by the Democratic party in its platform. It is designed to protect the ballot from fraud. It is fostered by the League of Women Voters. That any one would object to a measure which is so badly needed "and so essential to any pretense of self-government is beyond explanation. Yet there was objection. Certainly neither this measure nor the' one to provide separate state and national ballots can be defeated by a Republican senate. That body can not afford to place its party in the position of attempting to throttle the will of the people, even though in the past it has been very callous of public opinion or public rights. The separation of the ballots will go far to produce a better grade of state officials. In the past Governors have been more often chosen because they were the tail to presidential kites than for their own qualifications. The result in the past few years has been unpleasant. It may be cited that the present state administration owes its power to a hatred of A1 Smith and not to public appeal. Next election the advantage will probably be on the Democratic side. It would be unfortunate if a Democratic swing produced a same similar disaster. V, Alfonso on the Run King Alfonso of Spain is on the run. That may mean much or nothing. He has been pursued by the republicans before* and always escaped. Twice he escaped through the ruse of a dictatorship. The dictatorships made matters worse. But the king didn’t mind that, so long as they held up his wobbly throne. Perhaps he will trick the republicans again. In the end, however, they are apt to get him. A ruling house resting on such cruelty, oppression, and inefficiency can not last forever. But the fall of the monarchy alone would not bring about the reforms so long overdue in Spain. Any reform of value will have to curb the power of the military-land-church alliance, of which the king is merely a symbol. If Spain is to remain a medieval realm, exploited by the arriiy, the landed gentry and church potentates, the abdication of the king or the writing of some paper constitution of civil rights w r ould be an unimportant gesture. Any political revolution, peaceful or otherwise, will fail /to liberate the Spanish people unless they are wise enough and strong enough to. force basic economic changes at the same time. Shorter Hours The textile industry, notorious for its low wages, both in New England and in the south, and for its employment of women and children at long hours, apparently is beginning to see the light. The industry is making progress in balancing production with consumption. It is making efforts to stabilize employment. These things we learn from George Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile institute of New York. He told President Hooover: “Seventy-five per cent of the cotton mills in the United States, including 75 per cent of the night runners, have announced their indorsement of the policy to eliminate night employment of women and minors.” v The textile industry is sick and has been for a long time. Apparently the owners are getting* together in an effort to pull themselves out of the slough. And it is good to see that improvemnt of working conditions is a part of the program. Child labor should, of course, be abolished. Re-Enter the Tariff Those Democratic managers who sold their party into the bondage of a Republican high tariff are not going to get away with it if Cordell Hull can stop them. In the house the Tennesseean remained loyal to the Democratic competitive tariff principle when many of his party were lured by Wall street leaders to ohtRepublican the high protectionsits. Now that he is going into the senate, he will cause them more trouble than ever. Hull’s tariff statement this w'eek is a warning to the leadership which has called a party council immediately after congress adjourns. He is not going to let them soft-pedal this issue. He knows that the Hoover high tariff, which has helped to kill our foreign trade and prolong depression. was enacted with Democratic votes. He knows that the battle for tariff revision has to be won within his own party before it can be won in congress. With Senator-Elect Hull in this fight will be Sen-ator-Elect Costigan of Colorado, a former fnember of the tariff commission. If they can reconvert enough Democrats to tjje necessity of tariff reform, the progressive Republicans can be depended upon to help them bring down excessive industrial rates in the next congress. We wish them luck. He Can’t Win Pity the poor fanner! First Chairman Legge of the farm board tells him to reduce acreage. % Along comes a drought and damages the crop. The net result is the same—less production. Tfrere is prospect of another drought—or a continuation of the present one, in wheat-growing areas. And the effect of it, according to Legge, would be worse on agriculture than the effect of a surplus of one of the principal grains. Legge wrote a letter to Governor Shafer of North Dakota, discussing prospects. Shafer pointed out that wheat had sold in Liverpool the day he wrote Legge at 60 cents, the lowest price since 1893, and at 65 cents in Chicago, which means the North Dakota farmer realized about 40 cents. Legge thinks it ‘’entirely possible” that there will be r shortage of wheat next year But apparently the tarmer isn’t golne to benefit. |

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Behind the Wickersham The only surprising thing about the senate vote requesting the Wickersham committee to submit its prohibition data is that this obvious action was not taken sooner. It is high time the country was shown that testimony, which proved so conclusively the lailure of prohibition. It must be interesting if the summary given in the body of the Wickersham report is a fair sample. Congress, which is expected to pass more enforcement laws,' certainly has a right to study the data upon which the commission made'its contradictory recommendations. At the same time, it would be useful to know why those tricky “conclusions” were put out by the commission and by the President, making it appear that the commission favored prohibition, when in fact seven of the eleven commissioners urged modification or repeal. That trick served the purpose of confusing the public mind^regarding the Wickersham report, and thus canceled much of the value which such an antiprohibition report otherwise would have had. Publication of the testimony and expert survey of evidence gathered by the Wickersham commission is desirable, therefore, not only for the legislative guidance of congress, but for the information of citizens whose votes ultimately will repeal prohibition. What They Preach If it is reasonable to assume that high public officials try to practice what they preach, the country has a right to expect that the administration will change its policies regarding diplomatic recognition and overcentralization of government. At least President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson are rather strenuously on record to that effect. In his Lincoln’s day address, the President chose as his chief theme the evils of centralized government in matters where local sentiment should prevail. There is grave danger, he asserted, in the tendency of the federal government to usurp the rightful functions of state and local government. With that generalization, the public is in complete agreement. Indeed, it long has been one of the most popular subjects of political orators. But obviously the public is less interested in this as a theoretic proposition than in its concrete application. If the administration is to apply this principle, it will have to reverse its policies on the tariff and the farm board. And on prohibition. How does Hoover square his principle of local autonomy with his policy of a national police force to carry on the prohibition experiment? The growing movement for prohibition repeal springs directly from the principle that the federal government has no right to interfere with the state and local autonomy involved, no right to subject wet states to dominion by dry states. The increasing demand for prohibition repeal is a recognition of those very dangers of federal government interference which Hoover professes to fear, dangers best proved hy the failure of prohibition enforcement. Similarly, Stimson has been speaking on the need of returning to our traditional Jeffersonian foreign policy of basing diplomatic recognition on the existence of a foreign government, rather than upon our moral approval of that government. " This, of course, is precisely what the advocates of Russian recognition have been saying to the state department for thirteen years. If moral approval were required, we hardly could recognize any of the score of governmental dictatorships, certainly not Italy and Venezuela. But we do recognize those governments on the sound basis of international law and morality that it is the right of every sovereign nation to determine its own form of government—that is not our business. Hoover and Stimson should apply their high principles to the test cases of prohibition repeal and Russian recognition. No complete list of the animals is available, but it seems there is plenty of bull connected with Big Bill Thompson’s mayoralty rodeo in Chicago. Englishmen, Statistics show, live longer than Americans. The philosophy of Americans is -that it is better to live fast than long. A scientist suggests the arm grasp greeting instead of the hand clasp to minimize germ transmission. There’s no danger “muscling in” here, apparently.

REASON

~'TVHE other day two men up in northern Indiana X shot at each other after an automobile collision. We’ve wondered for some time how long it would be until our rugged sex would take up arms in defense of their lives and Lizzies. a a a' Up until now the lamb-like demeanor of gentlemen under the greatest provocation from wild drivers has presented a study in psychology. Men who would fight at the drop of the hat over the most frivolous things have been translated into doves of highway deportment. 0 0 0' THEY have been crawling out of the wreckage of their beloved buggies, exchanging cards with offenders, wishing them s happy new year and letting it go at that. We have wondered what made them so gentle, whether it was association with tie carburetor, the transmission or the fan, but we’vt concluded it's tne fan. But now that the bombardment has started, as we have so long anticipated, we hope it will be conducted with discrimination. We are enthusiastically for it as against drunken drivers. In fact, we think legislatures should put a bounty on the pelts of this treed. They used to pay for the pelts of mad dogs, and a drunken driver is only a mad dog on wheels. 000 \ THE news that five fraternities have been raided at the University of Michigan and quantities of liquor seized brings up again the old issue of the relationship of fraternities to modern education. 000 We never belonged to a fraternity; we never had the necessary capital to get past the gentleman who collected initiation fees. But we saw something of their operations back in the placid past and what we saw led us to conclude that they sustained about the same, relationship to education that General Smedley Butler sustains to Mussolini’s tranquillity. 0 OXO SINCE those days the fraternities have grown by leaps and bounds and in many colleges and universities they run the whole business. They’re great places for fellows to get acquainted and to learn things—not in the curriculum. 000 But it puts a young fellow up against it, for he’s given the air by most of the boys if he doesn’t belong. And the fraternity is here to staj, no matter what the net result may be, just like gome other things we should like to wave farewell to, but can not.

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Through Science, Invention, Travel and Exchange We Have Willed Ourselves Out of Isolation. Tucson, a t\z., Feb. is.— I The Arizona house of representatives requests President Hoover and the United Sttaes senate to stabilize the price of silver, presumably upward. The idea is quite popular in this section of the country just now. No doubt,% several other states would join Arizona in a round-robin to the federal government if they thought it would do any good, but memories of Bryan and '96 put a damper on their wishful optimism. Where the doctrine of “free and unlimited coinage of silver” once was regarded as the sine qua non of human salvation, even those with a real pot at stake find it difficult to do more than hope that a Chinese loan can be arranged. China is on a silver basis, but hasn’t enough silver to meet present obligations, much less finance foreign trade. It has been suggested'that if the United states, or a group of nations, including the United States, were to loan China two or three hundred million dollars’ worth of silver, not only would the price of the metal be stabilized, but commerce with China greatly increased. tt u tt Might Help Trade STRIPPED of technicalities, the scheme amounts to this: The United States, or a group of nations, including the United States, would purchase so much silver over a given length of time, conveying it to China and taking Chinese notes or bonds as security. Under such arrangement, the producers would be selling their silver to absolutely solvent governments for cash, while those governments would be looking to a badly demoralized China for payment, and the taxpayers of those governments would be expected to get their returns through increased trade. It might work out to the advantage of every one concerned, if it only could be put into operation, but the hardest part of the problem is how tcy start. As things stand, England has a stranglehold on the Chinese silver market, which she is supplying from mines in China, and before the United States, or any other government can get a look-in, it will be necessary to persuade England to give up her monopoly. That is something England seldom does, and she would be particularly reluctant in this case, on account of the trouble in India. tt tt tt Out of Isolation HOW the world is shriveling. Sometimes it seems as thougii there were nothing complete on this side of any horizon. An evening paper in Tucson, a resolution by the Arizona house of representatives, and the first thing you know you’re up against Downing street and Gandhi. At the same time, you hear Tucson people talking about the resolution passed by the New Yore assembly calling for a federal constitutional convention to considrr the eighteenth amendment, oi the squabble over Russian manganese, or the Sparks bill, just reported favorably by the house judiciary committee at Washington, to exclude aliens from the population count on which representation in congress is based. Through science, through Invention, through machinery, travel and exchange, we have willed ourselves out of isolation. Whether or not we like it, we have got to live up to it. tt tt tt Attitude All Wrong NO one can go about this country to any great extent without realizing what has welded it into a homogeneous mass, or that the same causes are producing a similar effect throughout the civilized world. We ,keep telling each other that the big job ahead is adjusting ourselves to the new economic order, but we are not doing it, or making much effort to do it, especially in international affairs. We still proceed on the theory that this government can stand off in the corner, regardless of the immense amount of commerce its citizens have developed, still assume that we can elude political responsibilities, no matter how intimate or complicated our commercial entanglements become. Not only that, but we imagine we can run the show, without playing a full part, that all we need do is snap our finger and the rest of the world will fall all over itself to obey our wishes. No trick to straighten out the silver situation, according to those Arizona solons. Just let President Hoover and the senate “stabilize it,” though we only produce about one fourth of the world’s output and must kick John Bull off his perch to get anywhere. Sympathize with the people of India in their struggle for independence and prosperity, of course, but not to such extent as would prevent us from taking away most of their silver market if we could gain something by it.

Questions and Answers

How many species of animals are there? There are more than 500,000 species; the number in each class of the animal kingdom is approximately as follows: 7,000 mamals, 20,000 birds, 5,000 reptiles, 2,000 amphibians, 13,000 fish, 60,000 mollusks, 360,000 insects, besides a host of lower invertebrates. What is anarchism? It is a system of social doctrines and propaganda based thereon, the essential features of which are the abolition of all constituted authority and the complete emancipation of the individual from every form of control, political, social and re-" ligious. Is there a maximum and minimum age limit for the President of the United States? The minimum age as provided in the Constitution is 35 years. There is no maximum age limit. When will the next display of the aurora borealis occur? About March 15, this year.

Workers ‘Hold the Sack’ in Bad Times

BY ROBERT P. SCRIPPS 'T'HE great defeat of democracy in government and individualism in industry is that no scheme has been devised to take care of the workingm&n in slack times, or when new inventions upset long-estab-lished conditions of employment. Since abandonment of the feudal system and setting up of possession of wealth as the chief distinction of the leaders of society,'the workingman has been left on his own, economically, a commodity in a commodity market, his value and his living standards subject to all sorts of fluctuations. No employer has had set up for him a sufficient incentive, in his own interest, to look out for his employes in lean seasons as well as in seasons of plenty. It is these “feast or famine” conditions of employment that undoubtedly have awakened the interest of the masses in such socialistic experiments as Bolshevism and Fascism, in spite of the manifest disadvantages of the dictatorships involved. “Frfee press’’ and “free speech” have a special professional interest for journalists and politicians, but to a mechanic or hod carrier who is neither author nor orator they must be secondary to prospects of a regular job and continuity of family life. # tt a Although, to the common man, feudalism of course constituted a sort of dictatorship, the system did in itself create a personal interest on the part of his leaders in his and his family’s welfare. Prizes of prestige and authority, as well as of fat lands and privilege, came, under feudalism, as a result of position at court. Position at court, in turn, was based essentially on the potential political —really the military—value of the baron to the crown. This was in turn based on the number, efficiency, and loyalty of troops that he, in an emergency, could put into the field in the crown’s service. The sort of barons who “lasted” under this scheme, or who reasonably aspired to advancement, were those whose serfs and tenants were comparatively healthy, contented, and particularly attached to their persons. There was every incentive for the ambitious lord of the manor to see to it that his followers never suffered unduly. In bad times there was good, selfish reason for him to dig down into his own reserves to make jobs, or to provide relief, so that they should not suffer. Otherwise, might they not be won over by the blandishments of an opportunist neighbor, and he find himself unhorsed on his next visit to the seat of government? With the advent of the nineteenth century and the so-called age of steam, this system began to break up. The crown—the government—already had gone in for professional soldiers and sailors. Stock companies were invented to make possible expensive factory installations that displaced hand workers by the thousands. The same thing happened in the mines. u a shareholders became X largely foreign, so far as producing districts were concerned. Wages certainly started to increase, and some aspects of working conditions to improve, almost altogether by the action of laborers themselves, functioning through unions. But the selfish interest of the owner-employer in either the good will or personal welfare of the employe ceased to exist. I, a shareholder living in London or New York, could have no possible selfish interest to cause me to care whether a miner in Cornwall or West Virginia did or did not like me personally, or whether his children were or were not healthy. To get under my hide at all on the latter score, you had to appeal to a very generalized patriotic sense, which yet was not developed—and which, apparently, is not developed yet well, either in the United States or any other great industrial nation. Economists, trailing along with the rapid developments of the last and the first years of the present century, developed the idea that with increased wages and savings banks and all sorts of stocks on the market purchasable in small units, laboring and artisan clusters could be educated! to attend to their own savings and insurance funds, each

Still Another Bridge to Cross '

on his own account. The phrase “every inan his own capitalist,” describes the notion. tt tt a THE fact is that this simply has not worked. And a further fact is that it is doubtful if it ever will. Throughout the whole course of human history it has been observable that even the most competent artisans, artists and soldiers, as well as lawyers, doctors and statesmen—all very useful citizens—have been, like “Joe Cly,” in the language of the Chinaman, who for the first time observed the sidewalk activities of the Salvation Army, “Allee time bloke.” It is apparently a very particular genius in mankind, as well as throughout the animal kingdom, that prompts the “saving against a rainy day”—the building up of what an able business man or banker would call an “adequate reserve,” and undertake as a matter of course. This is no reflection on the social usefulness of the nonsavers. My own observation extends chiefly to persons who work for newspapers; and I have been aware for a long time that it is just those individuals without whose services newspapers could not go to press who have

VOLTA’S BIRTH February 18 ON Feb. 18, 1745, Allessandro Volta, an Italian physicist famed for inventing the voltaic battery, was born at Como. Educated in the public schools of his native town, Volta showed a marked taste for literary effort and physics. When he was but 26 he gained considerable popularity for his discussion of the phenomena of frictional electricity. Following his appointment as professor of physics in the Royal school at Como, Volta applied himself to chemistry, one of his important discoveries in this science being the organic nature of marsh gas. He studied atmospheric electricity and devised many experiments! such as igniting gases by the electric spark in closed vessels. In 1800, a year after he becanje professor of physics at the University of Pavia, a chair he occupied for twenty-five years, Volta made his important discovery of the voltaic battery. The volt, the unit of electric pressure, was named for him.

IT SEEMS TO ME by ‘ b ™

SOMEWHERE west of the Hudson. —Before leaving New York I made a promise that I would hot turn Burton Holmes and indulge in travelogs. But at that time I had seen neither Kansas nor the Arizona desert. I don’t like Kansas, at least not from a car window. Kansas is to the nation what Yonkers is to Manhattanites. No matter what your destination, you’ve got to go through it. And even the fast trains require practically an entire day for Kansas. By nightfall the state will wear down the hardiest. If you happen to like flat fields and square farmhouses, Kansas may please you for a little while. But not after the eleventh hour. 000 ' Remembrance BY then the eye, in fact, the soul, cries out for a mountain, a lake, or to an idle meadow vacationing in buttercups and daisies. To put it in a sentence, Kansas is a long drive and 9,872 brassie shots. It isn’t trapped enough. In fact, you could almost putt across its excessively manicured smooth surfaces. Already winter wheat is popping out quite gay and verdant and the grain seems ignorant of the fact thafc. it has no future except to be bought by Alexander Legge. It’s a long way from these wheat fields of the middlewest to Stalin, Russia, and the five-year plan. A vast experiment going on many thousands of miles away looms like thunderheads above the Kansan, his

to borrow money every time there is an illness, or anew baby, in the family. There can be no question that what the mass of men miss in this democratic industrial civilization of ours are the elements of financial and social stability that were the saving grace of an outworn system. tt tt tt IT is the promise of such security that, in a normally prosperous country like the United States, constitutes the chief appeal of projects like Bolshevism and Fascism. Any one would be a fool to underrate the strength of this appeal. Capitalists, politicians and journalists alike, each with their own special stake in our system, can not afford to under-rate it, or fail to examine into every possible means to provide such security—and continuity or family life —under our system. “Every man his own capitalist” is an exploded doctrine, at least for our times. “Social responsibility for every capitalist” has got to take its place, unless the masses are to take things into their own hands, along with the demagogues, and some sort of super-state—Mussolini or Stalin, makes no difference—eliminate private capitalists, journalists and statesmen altogether. NEXT: Why does pour progress tun into a blind alley?

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l see that the government borrowed money at 1% per cent interest to retire Liberty bonds. Why should a public utility be guaranteed 8 per cent when the investment is just as safe? In Europe no utility is allowed over 4 per cent, so why not apply that here? Show me any business man who would not jump at the chance to have a guarantee of 4 per cent with no limit to salaries and a constantly growing business. Let the cost of the necessities come down with the salaries of the consumers. If the legislature is in the power of the lobby, let the taxpayers’ association circulate the petitions and get the question on the next election ballot—“ Shall we limit the utilities to 4 per cent?” Let the people have a voice in the rates they have to pay and they would use more of the utilities’ products. This would let more people use these products and give the utilities a larger income. J. C. COLLINS.

family, his home, and all his mortgages. But as yet he is not internationally minded. He will still cheer for isolation and the Farewell Address. This, I will grant you, is an imterpolation. I talked to no Kansas farmers on the, t.-ain and nobody quoted George Washington. The only friendly person was a lightweight fighter from the coast returning from a Chicago bout. I like to try and'speculate upon the occupations of people I meet in trains, but this time it was hardly difficult Tba youngster’s left ear was an unmistakable mark of his calling. “Goldie isn’t exactly what you’d call a boxer,” his manager explained to me. “You see he’s always ready to trade a punch and he kind of uses that ear to block with.” 000 Just Joshing BEING given the opportunity of a smoking room intimacy with the contender, I drew him out as best I could concerning his art. I’ve heard a great deal of the importance of verbal exchanges in the rallies. Years ago I read of how Young Corbett knocked out Terry McGovern by whispering in his ear something which infuriated him out of all skill and caution and, in later years, I witnessed a fight in which Benny Leonard was supposed to have preserved his title against Lew Tendler because he talked him wild after Tendler had landed a jreaily punishing blow. Goldie was skeptical.

.FEB. 18, 1931

SCIENCE

_2_BY DAVID DIETZ Architects to Attack Ugliness in Buildings Before It Passes the Blueprint Stage. Determined that the advance of science and engineering should result in a corresponding increase in beauty, the American Institute of Architects is launching a campaign to reduce ugly buildings to a minimum. On the basis that the proper place to attack uglines is in the blueprints and not in the finished structure, the institute plans to campaign for the formation throughout the country of architects’ advisory councils to pass upon the quality of buildings before construction begins. The institute is taking Washington as its shining example, for that system now exists in the nation s capital. “Homes, offices, shops and institutions will take on new dignity, well ordered neighbors no longer will be threatened by single eye sores, and endless rows of mediocrity will cease to disfigure entire sections, once a nation-wide vigil exists,” it is declared in a statement issued by the institute from its national headquarters at The Octagon. “The successful operation for eight years of an architects* advisory council established in the national capital by the Washington chapter of the institute has demonstrated the advantages of such service to the public and to the profession,” it continues. a a Blueprints Tell CINCINNATI, as well as Washington, has adopted the plan of an architects’ advisory council. The institute plans now to ask each of its seventy chapters to start a drive for a similar council in its own town. “The majority of people can tell whether a building is beautiful, mediocre, or ugly, but in completed buildings nothing can be done about it,” officials of the institute say. “The trained eye can detect potential ugliness and possible 'improvements in blueprints. At this stage, improvement may be made in proposed buildings. “If the members of the architectural profession will focus their trained eyes upon buildings in the blueprint stage, and will give cooperative, constructive criticism of one another's work, and if even a minority of the public will lend moral support, there need no longer be any reason why entire sections are injured repeatedly by endless rows of mediocrity, or well-ordered neighborhoods by single eyesores. “Well-designed •buildings need ost no more than mediocre structures. They arc better investments for the purchasers, c-.d for the community as a whole.” “For eight yews, once a week, three architects, drawn from a jury panel, have criticised constructively all plans filed for building perm Is in the District, of Columbia. The jury groups all plans into five classes—distinguished, commended, approved, average, and disapproved. Distinguished service awards are made by a board of review,” tt a Capital Gains “ A Sto the effect on building gen--fV erally, it is a matter of common observation that the quality of speculative building in the national capital has made tremendous improvement within the last half decade,” the statement of the institute continues. “Where organized opposition to the council existed at its beginning, we now find co-operation between architects and builders. “The findings of the council are published regularly. The commended awards are featured by any builder who receives them, and the public generally has come to have confidence in and respect for the work of the council. “The architects as a whole have exerted their organized influence for better city plans, park improvements and the like; but after all, they have not put their full force into effect in their own special field, where it can have most weight. “Regardless of any plan of park system, it is the individual buildings of a city which make it or mar it. If these buildings can be dealt with one at a time as erected, the quality of a city can be immeasurably improved. “The establishment of the Washington architects’ advisory council has demonstrated its value to the profession and to the public.” DAILY THOUGHT They that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.— Job 4:8. Wickedness resides in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.— Cicero.

(deals and opinions expressed In this column are thov. of one of America’s most interestins writers and are presented without rerard to their ..? r disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

I dont talk much, myself,” he explained, “but I remember now there was an Eyetalian I fought last year in St. Paul. I musta run twenty miles trymg to catch Up with him and when 1 got him in a comer he grabbed nae. I said, ‘Why you yellow ! —; you dirty - —1 ? 1 and then somehow he got offended and straightened up and started to fight. * 0 0 Sundown Kansas f>Ut we were talking about KanIt has at least one compensation. When sunset comes to the prairie farm there is no hill, big tree or trust company building to get in the way. The colors come all the way down from the top -of the broad vault right to the far, fiat rim of the level fields. Only from a deck or a beach will anybody ever see pigments flung upon any such broad canvas. is almost as If Providence said, JYou all have had a tough day here in Kansas and now here’s Just * somet hing to L 7 and make it right again.” And yet to me it does not seem enough. Th trim little white packing boxes stand so solitary in the giant meadows. Visiting a neighbor is like a trip to Peekskill to call on your aunt. And the people within the frames must be pretty well tired of each other when darkness comes and slews the stars about.