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A State Issue The question of whether the people shall regulate the utilities or the utilities shall continue to regulate the people becomes a state wide issue. When Paul McNutt, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, announced that he stood for the protection of public rights, he created an issue that no other candidate can avoid. Any Democrat who attempts to plead for the utility control of government would have a rather difficult time and any Republican who defends present conditions would probably find himself with few votes in either a convention or an election. The thing that happened to the old saloon is happening to the brazen utility group. They have become greedy, arrogant, bold, criminal and very foolish. Not content with extorting unreasonable profits, the utilities have dipped into the conol of government. They have become the government. At the last session of the Legislature a measure to place holding companies under regulation was killed by the efforts of utilityowned legislators in both parties. The attempt to legislate on busses byfraud and forgery, just disclosed and denounced by Judge Chamberlin, was a utilityscheme. It was planned by the lobbyists for these special interests. The clerks and legislators who participated in this fraud were under the domination of these lobbyists. So intrenched in power and so immune to public opinion have these interests become that they went the whole route of fraud and forgery in order to control. They had every reason to be scornful of the public. They had been ably and still are, to reward with appointive office those who served them in legislative halls. They have been able to elect, with their huge campaign contributions, men to office who will do their will. The people have seen a long line of decisions against them in practically every rate case that has affected the large utility interests. The people have seen holding company piled on holding company and the pyramid of high finance supported by extortions in the form of rates. In Indianapolis the fight is just beginning for a fair rate for electricity and water. The city is in rebellion. The city government is protesting and the people are planning their battle. Now the question becomes state wide. McNutt raises the issue. Other candidates can not afford to ignore or dodge. The people will demand some specific promises as to what will be done by the man who becomes Governor a year hence. They will want definite pledges. What Does Columbus Mean to Us? We celebrated Columbus day Monday. What does this intrepid and picturesque native of Genoa mean to Americans in 1931? He rediscovered America and encouraged other Europeans to follow his example. But there is little doubt that the spirit of the times was such that others would have performed the feat of Columbus if he had not possessed the great courage to set out for the indies on Aug. 3. 1492. Yet Columbus is of .sufficient importance for American history amply o warrant a reconsideration of his career. Columbus did not discover America. The first human beings to come here were the Mongolian forebears of our Amurican Indians, who crossed by the way of Alaska wicn a stone culture perhaps 10.000 years ago. They built up high civilizations in Mexico, Yucatan. Peru, and central New York, in some other places remaining in a state of barbarism until long after the white man came. Some, following Elliott Smith and his school, believe that America next was ••discovered" by civilized Africans, crossing westward and bringing with them the pyramid culture of Egypt. This hypothesis is not impossible, but it certainly is unlikely. Th'u-e is no doubt that the northmen did come here in successive explorations between 875 and 1050, but any settlement they may have left was wiped out before Columbus. It is believed that fishermen from western Europe frequently reached the Grand Banks of Newfoundland before Columbus sailed. Xf Columbus diti not discover America, he was the first to come here after the time was ripe for extensive and continued interest in exploration, and after inventions in the science of navigation made possible successful traversing of the great ocean Harrier. For thousands of years sailors off the coast of Europe had possessed ships about as large as those used by Columbus. But he had the mariner's compass, which made navigation fairly accurate, if not wholly safe, far out of si S ht of land. Columbus was not the first to think the world is round, to talk about getting to the riches of the Indies by a westward passage, or to be bold enough to make the effort. Most geographical scholars of the fifteenth century believed the world was round and there was great interest in the western passage to the far east. Columbus was the first man to combine the necessary bravery with the lucky breaks in the way of adequate financial and poliflet: support. These facts do not detract from his ite for courage and initiative, but they give - sett.i idea of the background of his voyages of discovery. It ii g.t interesting fact mat a major scientific error probasiy responsible for Columbus’ willingness to make his daring trip. Geographers held that the wold was slightly less than half its actual size. This placed the Indies essentially in the location of Central America. Had the real size of the earth been recognized, it is doubtful if Columbus or anybody else would have m

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risked the voyage in the petty ships then available. Columbus’ reputation for veracity as a geographer, naturalist and historian has been assailed severely in recent years by a number of scholars, among them Dr. Leo Wiener of Harvard. Columbus had soaked himself in the lurid accounts of the far east in the travel books from Marco Polo in the spurious "Travels of Sir Jon De Mandeville.” He had come to think in these rainbow phrases. Believing that he had found the East Indies, he related his discoveries in terms compatible with what has been told about these parts by the earlier overland travelers and their imaginative exaggerators. His description of his discoveries was like writing the history of our oil industry in terms of some of the more optimistic prospectuses of oil syndicates. Yet this proved all to the good, in its effect upon subsequent history. A sober and accurate narrative hardly would have attracted great interest. Columbus’ grandiose exaggerations helped mightily to sell the idea of the western route, and so helped on the further exploration of the Americas. Columbus did not sell the idea of America to Europe, for he died believing that he had tapped the riches of the Indies. As late as 1609, Hendrik Hudson imagined, as he sailed past the Palisades, that he soon would burst forth upon the open sea which quickly would bring him to the treasure Islands of the Orient. German Fascists German Fascism has entered anew and more dangerous development. That is the significance of tlie giant demonstration of the united reactionary parties at Harzburg, in which Fascists, Hugenberg nationalists, Steel Helmets, and sundry unemployed princes and generals, were joined by important business interests behind the scenes. Hitherto, it has been possible to discount German Fascism as an ineffectual rabble of broken-down monarchists and irresponsible youths, liven the rapid parliamentary gains of the Nazi, or Fascist party m the last election could be explained away as a momentary aberration of the desperate German population. Adolph Hitler, the Fascist leader, could be dis- j missed from serious consideration as a neurasthenic j Austrian house-painter unable to gain the political | confidence of a majority of the German people. Thus it was easy enough for Germany and the j rest of the world to laugh off the ghost of a Hitler counter-revolution. Now the Harzburg mobilization of reaction has revealed that Hitler and his paraders apparently are only the screen for capitalists represented by Hjalmar Schacht. Schacht is more than a former president of the Reichsbank. He is one of the most brilliant and daring men in Germany. He is one of the world’s two or three outstanding financial geniuses. It will be recalled that Mussolini's Fascists started out in Italy as a group of irresponsibles and upstarts, which the world at first refused to take seriously. After Mussolini’s sudden and successful counter-rev-olution, the big Italian industrialists and bankers were discovered as the real power behind Fascism. The world might laugh at Hitler, the mad demagog. It might laugh at General Von Seeckt, revivalist of Junkerism. It might laugh at Hugenberg, wealthy master of mass propaganda. But the world can not laugh at Schacht—or at a Hitler-Von Seeckt-Hugenberg-Schacht combination. Germany will not remain enslaved by the unjust Versailles treaty forever. Either she will regain her economic freedom by peaceful means, or the time will come when she turns to the nad methods of the Fascists. That would mean another European war. If France, Britain and the United States are wise, they will hasten revision of the peace-destroying peace treaties, the cancellation of war debts and reparations, the wiping out of trade barriers, and the joint reduction of armaments. This is necessary for the liberation of Germany. This is necessary for world peace and prosperity. They Can’t Read Illiteracy in this country, advertised by the announcement of new census figures, is no abstract thing that can be laid aside until a more convenient time for action. Four and three-tenths per cent of the population over 10 years of age neither can read nor write, the figures show. In other words, several million men and women who vote have no way of informing themselves on the issues of the campaign. They know little of the national ideals or aspirations, and nothing of the national laws. They have no way of protecting their economic interest, of knowing the contents of contracts, deeds, notices of attachment, and even can not read advertisements that tell them where they may buy cheaply. These illiterates are disgraceful evidence of the gap between national promise and performance. We attempt to guarantee to all comers the right to life and liberty and an equal chance with others on at least the lower rungs of the educational ladder. If we make good our promise, we will do ourselves a service as well as our unlearned brothers.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE mother of a son complains bitterly of the negligence of other women who fail to train their girls to steady ways. Those who have boy children have carped upon this subject since the race was young. The powerful protective maternal instinct abhors temptation for its sons, and, according to the logic of motherhood, what offers such temptation as the flippant girl? It is true that many of us do not rear our daughters well. They often are unfitted for the wifely role, not because of a lack of moral training, but because they are unversed in sportsmanship and honesty. Neverthefess, when a woman asserts that girls are dragging men to perdition, you may be sure that she is prejudiced in favor of some male—presumably a son —and has no reasonable comprehension of the subject. If, as some believe, there has been moral looseness among young women for the last decade, men are directly responsible, and it is comparatively easy to trace that responsibility. u a tt THE weapon with which we destroyed our former ideals was the bayonet. The world war killed more than men. When all permanent things become, of a sudden, impermanent, when traditions tumble about us, when men gaze steadily at death through long months, and women know too well the face of sorrow, then standards, be they set up ever so powerfully, sway and fall crashing to the earth. Men decide the fate of nations; men develop or tear down religions; men make or unmake civilizations. And men dictate and determine the behavior of their women. This always has been true. It perhaps always will be true. When every mother’s son has transferred his notice and affection from the naughty to the nice girl, when men marry only upright and honorable women, we shall see some startling changes in the feminine.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Our Policemen Are Not Crooks or Cowards, but They Are Handicapped by Political Fixers and Shyster Lawyers Who Undo Their Work. NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—President Hoover says that, ‘‘instead of the glorification of cowardly gangsters, we need the glorification of policemen who do their duty and give their lives in public protection.” We do, indeed, but have we been so very remiss? Isn’t the trouble largely due to those policemen who have failed, who have lain down on the job for one reason or another, and left j the public to shift for itself? Do you happen to know of a case in which an officer of the law was denied appreciation after performing his duty as he should? tt tt tt Sherlocks Preferred IT all goes back to that idea of efficiency in which we have been trained to believe. Other things being equal, every [ last one of us would prefer a Sherlock Holmes to a Raffles. Is it our fault that so many of the latter have claimed the spotlight? Is it our fault that the gangsters and racketeers have displayed a superior ability in comparison with the law enforcement officers? Is it our fault that half the killers never are caught? nan Shysters Undo Work OUR policemen are not crooks or cowards in the main, but they are handicapped and discouraged by a system which allows political fixers and shyster lawyers to undo so much of their work. There is not one rookie in a hundred but v/hat takes up his job with the idea of being straight and alert, of pushing his way up through merit, of sacrificing his life for the law if occasion demands. By and by he arrests a big shot, and what happens? What happened after Vincent Coll was arrested half a dozen times, or Jack (Legs) Diamond, or thousands more? tt n Capone, Tax Evader! HERE is Al Capone, heralded as the greatest gangster of them all for five years -and more, designated as ‘‘Public enemy, No. 1,” and charged by common report with many a crime. Would he be on trial if he had made a proper report of his dirty profits to the federal treasury? Think of it! Had to wait for his income tax returns to be examined before the gigantic law enforcing machine could get into court. And how many policemen are supposed to have been chasing the man? Right now Capone is worrying more over the arrest of his bodyguard than the verdict he may draw, and not without reason. a tt Gangdom Vs, Law TAKE the average witness, who has seen a gang killing, and what is his reaction? Does he run to the police with what he knows, or does he take every precaution to prevent them from learning that he knows anything? Why has such an attitude become prevalent? Why, because gangdom functions with such deadly precision, while the law flounders and fumbles. Public sentiment is not on the wrong side. It simply has run up against a; problem that is too much for it. It’s like the League of Nations in this Manchurian rumpus—would like to do the right thing, but lacks the means, a a tt Pity the League BOTH Japan and China want a “just settlement.” £>ince only one just settlement is possible, one naturally would suppose that they wanted the same thing, but they don’t. China wants Japan punished for “unjustified aggression,” while Japan wants China punished for “unjustified interference.” China appeals to the League of Nations, because she realizes that that is her only hope. Japan ignores the League of Nations, because she feels quite capable pi holding up her end of the controversy, no matter what happens. Chiang Kai-Shek, president of China, says that if the League of Nations can’t, or won’t, do something, his country is prepared to make “the supreme gamble.” a tt tt Smoldering Orient r T 'HERE is genuine alarm throughJ- out the civilized world, not only because of Japan’s unyielding attitude, but because of the war spirit which obviously is sweeping China. .Tt is almost a foregone conclusion that war could not take place between these two countries without drawing Russia in, after which heaven only knows what might happen. Japan apparently is playing a well thought-out game, while China is merely emotional, but what the Soviet has in mind, or would do, remains a mystery. To put it roughly, 600,000,000 human beings stand on the brink of strife, with sympathetic explosions likely to occur throughout the Orient.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ln your paper of Sept. 23, in M. E. Tracy’s column, I read his comments that there was going to be a debt holiday not only for one year, but for two. Now will someone please explain why it wouldn’t be a good idea for these loan companies to have a holiday, not only for one year, but two, and give the overburdened farmers a chance to apply this money that is due on thier farms, by repairing and painting their buildings and building fences which are needed so badly. They wouldn't lose any money, they would only be two years longer getting it. Then if they had to take the land over, it would be more valuable with these improvements. Why did the loan companies raise the interest last fall, when everything the farmer had to sell was going down? Why didn’t they lower it, if they wished to help the farmer get out from under such heavy burdens? MRS. ELMER GORDON.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Keep Eye on School Pupils’ Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THIS time of year children are back in school. It is necessary to emphasize that the child’s health is the most important consideration. It ought to have an examination as to its sight and hearing, because it certainly will not be able to keep up with other children unless it has equal capacity. Its nose and throat ought to be looked after, because infections in the nose and throat are associated with bad appetite, failure to enjoy proper exercise and rest, and therefore lowered mental ability. Every year hundreds of children are killed or seriously injured in street accidents because they have not been advised concerning such dangers. In addition, when the child leaves home surroundings and goes out in the world, it comes in contact with other children who swap apples or candy and who play with knives and other dangerous weapons and

IT SEEMS TO ME

Today I start a two weeks’ vacation, and, as usual, I go away with considerable trepidation. A columnist always fears to leave his post, for he never knows just what brilliant doing may occur during his absence. There is the terror that by the time his rest period has ended the boss may wire: “Things are going finely. Stay were you are. Don’t bother to come back.” My fear is even greater this time, because I have ben told that the space will be filled by various bright young pinch hitters on the staff. Every newspaperman has at least one good column in his system, and some may have many more. Still, with all due deference to those who are going to bat for me, I must put in a claim right now that they will operate under a certain advantage. tt it tt Your Minority Knows THERE comes a period in the life of every daily commentator when readers begin to write in consolingly and say, “You’re not the man you used to be.” Os course, the readers may be right. The voice of the people is the voice of circulation. And yet I timidly suggest that it is not always the columnist who begins to stale. Sometimes he is just the same as he ever was or ever will be. It is the reading group which has become surfeited and overtrained. Nor am I ready to admit that wisdom of numbers is invariably beyond criticism. After all, a community which goes on electing Tammany officials year after year could even be wrong on the merits of some

MORGENTHAU STATEMENT October 13

ON Oct. 13, 1917, Henry L. Morgenthau, former American ambassador to Turkey, in a signed statement to the New York World, asserted that the kaiser planned the World war weeks before the actual beginning of hostilities. Ambassador Morgenthau said that war was decided upon at a conference held in Berlin early in July, 1914, between the kaiser and his military advisors. On this same date Admiral Von Tirpitz, formerly minister of the German navy, in an interview in the Brunswick Landeszeitung, was quoted as saying: “We are now at the fateful hour of our existence. Germany can not maintain her position as a world power against England unless her position is founded on might.” Meantime, Marshal Haig’s men were continuing to advance their new lines in Flanders, though the Germans landed troops on the coast of the Gulf of Tagalab, and on Oesel and Dago islands. The garrison of Oesel fought the Invaders.

Regulating the Regulator

who try to persuade the child to catch rides on the back of motor cars and who in other ways may subject him to danger. A warning will not always prevent the possibility, but sometimes it will, and certainly the child has a right to such information as is available. - Other of the most serious conditions which can affect human beings are definitely preventable by modern scientific methods. These are smallpox and diphtheria. Most schools require antismallpox vaccination. In a great number of communities the use of diphtheria toxin-antitoxin is also compulsory. The child should be immunized not only for its own benefit, but for the protection of other children with whom it may come in contact. We live in a social world and are responsible for not ourselves alone, but also for other people. Among the most serious considerations, particularly in times of economic depression, is the question of

particular daily essay or series of them. But, as has been said very often, this is a young man’s age, which makes it precisely like every other. At the end of a quarter of a century in what we jocosely term “journalism” anybody is likely to meet himself upon well-remembered paths. No one can fail to press stops and keys which have known his fingers before. And this is not altogether a fault. It is said in the theater that a playwright must make every one of his important points three times if he is to grasp the attention of his audience. I think an even greater number of repetitions should be allowed to a columnist. After all, if he strikes as hard as he can at some existing fact which seems to him wrong and e'dl he must sling a punch in the same direction when the object at which he aims remains immovable and undisturbed by his best efforts. nun Tread Softly, Gentlemen IT is no more than fair and rea- -*■ sonable that each pinch hitter who steps into the batter’s box during the next two weeks should express his opinion on the state of the world as he sees it. Yet it will disturb me if this favorite grazing ground of mine suddenly turns passionately prohibition for even as much as an afternoon. And I will writhe somewhat if this lane turns into a rousing appeal for an increase in military preparation throughout the world. It is very easy to say that you agree with free speech and that you want to hear the other fellow’s point of view. But it is far more simple if he happens to agree with you. Nevertheless, I take my abdication with as good grace as possible and wish to all who help me out the best of luck. I trust that each of them will be persuasive, brilliant and scintillating. Only this reservation remains: Young gentlemen, please don’t use all your strength. Don’t be as funny or as moving as as you can. Remember that I want to get back to the job again in a fortnight. n u n Unfair Criticism IN the comment concerning Gandhi, it was said by many American editorial writers that the Indian leader meant well, but that his words should not be heeded too utterly, since he was wholly a visionary and a fanatic. Now the tide seems to turn. Several reporters who have interviewed him cable that Gandhi is a practical man, well aware of his objectives and the best way to obtain them. I find, for instance, the Evening Post is complaining because the Mahatma Gandhi is sounding out sentiment before making a visit to the United States. “In other words,” says the Post, “this shrewd oriental is angling for an invitation. No politician 'in the hands of his friends’ could more

proper nutrition. Far too often a child is sent to school with a glass of milk as its only breakfast, sometimes with just a bite of fruit. The child is going to be subjected to wear and tear,'both physical and mental, such as it has not had at home. Hence it should not start for school without an adequate breakfast. “One year of good feeding at the beginning of life,” said Dr. Rose, “is more important than ten after 40.” A breakfast of fruit, cereal, toast and milk is the best type of breakfast for a school child. Bacon and eggs are not needed, and when taken usually result in a diminution of the cereal, which is most important for proper energy and nutrition. In most city schools there are cafeterias in which the children obtain their luncheons. There are many schools, particularly in the south, where the child’s lunch consists of a bottle of flavored carbonated beverage of one type or another, rather than hot soup, vegetables, salads and milk.

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artfully manufacture ‘a popular demand’.” But it seems to me no more than reasonable that Gandhi should look over a field before he ventures into it. After all, there has never been any contention that he was not a propagandist. Indeed, his greatest glory is his belief that ideas may prevail over force. And the dissemination of an idea is, of course, by any definition, propaganda. Somehow or other the word itself has come to have an ugly meaning. We associate' propaganda with underhand methods of spreading untruth. Yet every great teacher from the beginning of time has been a propagandist. It is indeed the twin title which belongs by right to each inspired prophet. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

Questions and Answers

What does the name Adele mean? It is Saxon and means nobly born. How much did the American Red Cross collect for the drought relief last winter? The total to July 1, 1931, was $lO,632,000. In addition the organization contributed $5,000,000 from its treasury. Do fish migrate with the tides? The United States bureau of fisheries says that there is no absolute rule about it. The migrations of fish differ widely among the various species. In general fish move inshore with the rising tide and drop back with the outflow.

Ideas Are Worth Money It is significant that one of the things provided for in the Constitution of the United States itself is that the federal government shall grant patents to individuals who invent new and useful things. A grant of a patent by the United States gives to the inventor the right to exclude all others from making, using or selling his invention for a term of seventeen years. Perhaps you have anew and useful invention. Perhaps you know someone who has. There are very definite and specific provisions of the law for obtaining a patent. They are all clearly set forth in our Washington Bureau’s bulletin, HOW TO OBTAIN A PATENT. If you are mechanically Inclined, and interested in knowing how a patent is obtained, send for this bulletin. Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 142, Washingon Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue. Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin HOW TO OBTAIN A PATENT, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United State? postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO . CITY STATE lam a daily reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

Ideals and opinions expresieo in this column are those oi one of America’s most Inter esting writers and are presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude nl this naner.—The Editor

OCT. 13/1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

New Impetus for the Building Arts in America Is Given by the Newly Formed Construction League. ENGINEERS, architects, building contractors, and other groups interested in the building industry have united to form an organization, known as the Construction League. The aim of the Construction League is, in its own words, “to cooperate for the common good of the industry and to better serve the nation.” The league hopes to bring about the union of science and art which is necessary to make the planning of buildings and cities both efficient and beautiful in the Machine Age. Nineteen groups of the construction industry’, with more than 100.000 members, representing billions of dollars in capital, have joined the league. The league also represents the great army of workers, for one of the groups associated with it is the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor. The league plans to open headquarters soon in Washington. Eventually, it is announced, thirty-five groups will be represented in the i u a Architect Is President OBERT D. KOHN of New York, 1V President of the American Institute of Architects, has been elected president of the Construction League. He will serve for two years. Other officers have been named as follows: First vice-chairman, Francis L. Stuart, New York, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers; second vice-chair-man, A. P. Greensfelder, St. Louis, president of the Associated General Contractors of America; treasurer, H. H. Sherman, Boston, president ot the Producers’ council; general secretary, P. w. Donoghue, Washing*°n * D - C., national president of the National Association of Master Plumbers of the United Sttaes. A joint secretariat will be composed of: E. J. Harding Washington, D. C., managing director of the Associated General Contractors of America: E. C. Kemper, Washington, D. C., executive secretary of the American Institute of Architect?;; L. w. Wallace, Washinglu* 1 ’ 9” exec utive secretary of the American Engineering Council Action was taken on the initiative of the committee on industrial relations of the institute with the approval of the officers of the Asso* dated General Contractors and the Producers’ Council. The council is composed of sixty companies and associations of manufacturers in the field of building materials and appliances with a combined capital of $22,500,000,000. tt u a Aims Commendable THE Construction League, according to Kohn, will give additional impetus to many movements for advancing the building arts in America. “The league, it is believed, should do nationally what has been done in many cities by local building congresses,” he said. “Many constructive policies are being carried out, but need co-ordination. “These include the apprenticeship of the building congresses, the movement for better quality in building materials fostered by the producers’ council, and the attempts by the Associated General Contractors to bring about the pre-qualifi-cation of bidders and to relieve the# unemployment emergency. “Reforms of importance to architects and engineers are being promoted by the associations of plasterers, sheet metal workers, marble quarrymen and dealers, painters, and heating and piping contractors. “Another significant program is that of the Electrical Guild of America embracing education, old age pensions for workers, and unemployment insurance investigations. “The plan of co-operation contemplated by the construction league is designed to achieve something more than merely to advance certain desirable pieces of work being done by one or another group. It is evident that in the process of working together to help these enterprises every group will get a better idea of what its place Is in the economy of the industry. “Through this new relationship the member associations unconsciously will be making for clarification of function in the building industry similar to that which developed locally in all of those cities where building congresses have been established.”

Daily Thought

For though I be free from ail men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.—Corinthians 9:19. And ye shall succor men; ’Tis nobleness to serve; Help them who can not help again: Beware from right to swerve. —Emerson.