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The Other Babies The greatest tragedy in life is the loss of a babe. When it is taken by the ruthless hand of a kidnaper who steals it from the arms of its mother, the mind is shocked by the towering infamy of the crime. When the babe happens to be the child of a world hero, the son of a mother whose fine womanhood has been demonstrated by her bravery, her appeal for the helpless and the starving, by her sweetness of soul, there is given a sympathy so universal that for the hour, nothing else matters. Wars may rage. Statesmen may ponder on policies. World leaders may thunder their advice on supposedly grave and important matters. The destinies of nations may hang in the balance but all eyes are turned only to the home now vacant, thought only asks whether this one babe is alive and imagination tries to fathom the depths of depravity of those who have so outraged civilized thought and sentiment. It is then that we know that no symphony played by orchestra, no song of great artist, can have in it the music of gurgling laughter. It is then that we know that no painting of great masters can bring the sense of beauty that is found in a smile of innocence. It is then we know that no language is as significant, no matter what its message, as the first prattle from the crib. Perhaps this knowledge comes instinctively from the fact that these cradles hold the destinies of all the tomorrows and that hope alone lives in a bastinet. If only, in normal times and away from the tragedy of the theft of a child, we could remember the importance of the child and the sacredness of its life! Other babes are being torn from the sheltering arms of parents at this very hour by forces as relentless as those of the kidnaper. The child into whose little life does not come the plenteous supply of milk necessary for its existence is taken away, and the mother heart that watches the wan face of her babe grow more pale as the days pass also feels the cold shudder of fear. The father who wearily walks home each night from a fruitless search for work, bringing with him the basket of kindly or enforced charity, must feel something of the bereavement that comes from the sight of a crib, soon to be vacant. The home, broken by poverty through enforced idleness, is also empty and human hearts break by the slow attrition of need as much as by the swift blow of tragedy. Some day there will be a civilization, safe for babies, a civilization in which no mother will be broken in heart by the savage hand of the criminal invader, a civilization in which all babes will be as sacred as the Babe of Bethlehem and worshipped, cherished and protected. The Generous Utilities Those who may be inclined to take a tolerant view of utility extortion because of pretended generosity in civic matters may be disillusioned by the evidence given in a hearing of a rate case involving the city of Franklin. The utilities receive loud applause when their donations to the Community Fund in Indianapolis are announced at the dinners of workers. The representatives of these utilities are given credit for being good fellows and for an hour resentment against utility greed is lost in the thought of a generous donor to the poor. But the city of Franklin discovers that whenever the Public Service Company, which is an Insull concern, donates to the needy of Indianapolis, a proportion is charged to the customers of Insull in their town. Just a few of the items which a public service accountant testified he found in the list of operating charges against the Franklin company were a part of the donation to the Community Fund of Indianapolis, a part of the membership fees to the Chamber of Commerce, presumably in Indianapolis; a part of a donation to the Civic Theater of this city, a part of a donation to a hospital in Newcastle. All that happens when donations are made to public causes is that the total is distributed among the various companies owned by the same holding company and the people are forced to pay it in the form of higher rates. Os course, the practice is against the law, but the utility companies of this state have never been compelled to respect law. They make the laws. They pick the men to enforce them. They laugh at them when it is profitable to laugh. • Perhaps someone can defend the practice of charging the people of Franklin for any part of a donation to the Indianapolis Community Fund. Possibly someone can find some reason for permitting utilities to defend the charging of donations to charity to operating expenses. When citizens are compelled or are impelled to make such contributions, they have to dig into the money which would otherwise go to their personal savings or expenses. The utility does the same thing. It reaches out into the pockets of their customers and no sacrifice whatever is made. The next time you hear about utility generosity, remember the testimony in this case. The Customary Stillness We are not in the least surprised to learn that Silence followed the recent challenge by Collier’s to Raymond Robins. Said Robins at a dry rally: “The liquor interests have purchased news writers, who have poured veiled venom into their stories." Said Collier’s: “If Robins has any definite knowledge of the purchase by liquor interests of any writers tor the American press, he is in possession of facts which he should make public. What liquor interests was he talking about? What news writers? If Raymond Robins, or any one else, can answer, it is his duty to do so. “If, however, Robins has no facts in this matter, if in truth he has stooped to the ancient political trick of impugning the integrity of those whose opinions differ from his, he should admit his folly." . Says William L. Chenery, editor of Collier’s, asked today what if any answer had come from Robins: “We haven’t heard from him.” That nothing further has come from Robins is entirely in keeping with the hush which has followed similar challenges to similar loose charges during th .over-a-decade in which prohibition has been with us. Up to the States With final approval of the lame duck amendment, the fate of representative government passes to the forty-eight states. The first thirty-six legislatures to convene should make it a part of the United States Constitution. When the people of the states study this amendment and find that its adoption is necessary to secure

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for the popular branch of government the power it commonly is supposed to possess, there should be no doubt about quick approval. Until the lame duck amendment is written into the Constitution, the federal congress is subordinate to the President for the greater part of every alternate year, and can meet and legislate only with his consent. In other countries, such condition is known as dictatorship. And until the amendment is effective, the will of the people, as expressed in selection of representatives, is thwarted constantly, so that it never is able to register except upon issues more than a year old. Even with the lame duck amendment, our government will not be as responsive to the will of the electorate as that of Great Britain and other European countries with a parliamentary system, in spite of our persistent belief that we alone of the peoples of the earth possess a government of, by, and for the people. But It will be an important ancf worthy step in that direction. Unchain Labor This session of congress has been full of disappointments for men of small means. Now a tax bill has been prepared that will take more money from the pocket of the humble citizen every day of the year. But at last one victory is in sight for the man at the bottom of the ladder. The anti-injunction bill, approved almost unanimously in the senate, at least will give him a fighting chance to obtain decent wages, decent working conditions and a decent sense of responsible manhood. It can accomplish little for those now in desperate straits. But men who live through the depression, who survive it with stamina and morale unimpaired’ will have a better chance than ever before, if this bill becomes law, to unite as free men and fix the fair price for their services. The right which has been theoretically theirs for so long, which justice has acknowledged with lip service, will be theirs in fact. The anti-injunction bill, as it reaches the house, is the careful work of some of the best constitutional lawyers in the country, who have spent years perfecting it. Its final approval need not and should not be delayed. Its passage will give members of this congress just cause for pride. Food for the Hungry A humanitarian congress has decided that the people shall not starve. By the overwhelming vote of 344 to 2, the house late Thursday approved the bill for free distribution of forty million bushels of federal farm board surplus wheat to the hungry unemployed of the nation. The senate previously had approved a similar bill, and the two houses assuredly will agree in conference. The house vote proves conclusively that the Democratic leaders there dilly-dallied too long with the wheat bill. It might have been passed two months a' had the Democratic leaders permitted the house to express its opinion then. The house vote also assures that the question of whether the hungry shall get this wheat is put directly up to the President. It is hard to believe that Hoover will keep this food from the hungry. Congress now stands behind the principle that when American people are in want, and when local governments can not fill the need, that their own federal government will step in and save the helpless from hunger. It is a vastly important precedent that the senate and the house have set in passing this wheat bill. Upon that precedent soon, we hope, congress will act again and take still further steps to relieve the millions of destitute in this country. The only legitimate question that can be asked is whether local agencies actually are unable to carry the relief load, whether Americans actually are going hungry. And this question has been answered in the affirmative by virtually all experts and relief worEers appearing before the congressional committees. A 2-year-old baby voted in the recent Irish elections, a news item says. That proves the Irish are right up-to-the-minute on the latest American election methods. Paris police are installing radios, after the fashion of the Americans. There’s no use letting the cops be bored. It looks as though Japan may have to send its whole army into China to protect itself from attacks by the Chinese forces. With all the relief bills passed, the only thing needed to bring prosperity back is the return of good business. The prince of Wales is teaching boxing to his young nephews. Now some wise cracker will call him the prince of whales.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

nPHIRTEEN spinsters in New York City have •A formed a Bachelor Girls’ club and each must pay a SSOO penalty if she marries. Such cleverness as this should be applauded extravagantly. For these girls know a thing or two about men, and it is not for nothing they have had business experience. Members say such ruling will make for successful marriage because it will prevent haste. We may add that it practically will assure a husband for every girl, because a man is intrigued with the idea that a woman is hard to get. Hiding behind a SSOO bill will make her more alluring to his eyes. Men have done this kind of thing for a long time. Bachelor clubs are not unusual in any city. The eligibles intrench themselves, as it were, behind fortifications of organized resistance and thus, safely secure, as they believe, they announce that they are ready for a siege by the ladies. it IT is, therefore, a pleasant surprise to find that the girls also are trying: this excellent device. Once let them broadcast to the world that they have made strong resolutions not to marry, and are ready to forfeit cash when they do, and the men will flock to the bait like flies to a honey pot. For the male likes to tackle something difficult in feminine resistance. He enjoys the sensation of strength and power that surrender gives. Conquest is flavorless unless the fight is hard. And the individual husband who carries off his lady from behind the citadel of a bachelor girls’ club is sure to feel that he has gained a great prize and that he has been able to do so because his fascinations were irresistible. This will give to the whole proceeding for him a pleasant sensation of personal achievement and thus the marriage will begin auspicious.

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M. E. Tracy Says: Kidnaping Is Regarded as a Comparatively Safe Commercial Venture by the Criminally Inclined. We Must Show Them It Is Not. NEW YORK, March 3.—The worst thing about kidnapping is that the interests of the family involved generally run counter to those of the public. Take this latest outrage, for instance, and what Colonel Lindbergh wants is his bady, regardless of cost, or consequences. That is what any normal father would want under similar circumstances. As between the safe return of a child and the escape of kidnappers, even with their pockets full of extorted gold, parental instinct knows but one answer. If it were your child, would you hesitate for one moment? Os course, you wouldn’t. You’d give up everything you possess, compound felony and shut your eyes if by so doing you could get him back in his little crib. n tt tt Crime for Profit PUBLIC interest is not well served by such a compromise with crime. Every child that is ransomed at a high price and every gang of kidnapers that gets away with the miserable business means a little worse reign of terror. There have been too many ransoms already and too many successful getaways. Psychologists can explain it as due to hunger for thrills, but men familiar with the underworld know that it’s for profit, and that we are facing an epidemic' of kidnaping for no other reason than that a lot of crooks have tried it and found it profitable. tt tt tt America Terrorized THOUSANDS of mothers are sick with apprehension and thousands of fathers dread to hear the telephone ring because of this new terror which has sprung up in America. And it is anew terror, for though we have always had a certain amount of kidnaping, we never have suffered from it is we are suffering now. By no stretch of the imagination can it be attributed to the normal streak of criminality. Something has occurred to popularize it among the evil-minded, to make it a fad, to increase the number of cases by an astounding percentage. tt a u Crooks Emboldened TIME was when the most hardened criminal balked at kidnaping, when he felt that society was too much against him, that his own kind might turn on him, that he was almost sure to get caught and that he could expect no mercy from any one. Unhappily, times have changed. The things respectable people do for money have taught criminals that profit is sufficient excuse for any outrage. They have heard too much laughter in the speakeasy, too much applause for rich crooks, to be scared. They have slen too much indifference on the part of the public to take it seriously. And, above all, they have been inspired by the way vicious elements have been organized and financed through the profits of illegal trade. t ff f Graft at Bottom KIDNAPING has come to be regarded as a very promising and comparatively safe commercial venture by the criminally inclined, and we face the problem of showing them that it is not. We face the same problem in a good many other lines, for crime has taken on a singularly commercial character throughout this country. Where most of it used to be committed for spite, the most of it is now committed for cash. Crime has learned much from business not only as to method, but as to object. Your niodern thief keeps books, though he may forget to file an income tax return. Also, he keeps in good standing with the fraternity, knows what lawyer to see when he gets into trouble, what cop can be trusted and what court is likely to be kind. We have got to go to the foundation of the structure to destroy it, or any of its principal branches, to the source of its financial and political power, to the treasury chest, graft and corruption which make the underworld feel safe.

F T ?s9£ Y $ /world WAR \ ANNIVERSARY gating BRITISH ADVANCE March 4 ON March 4, 1918, British troops in Palestine advanced two miles on a 12-mile front north of Jericho. Turkish forces retreated in disorder. It was reported that Rumania would sign a separate peace with the central powers within the next twenty-four hours. German activities on the western front, while confined to trench raids, led allied observers to believe that the armies of the kaiser would make a supreme effort to break the allied lines within three weeks. New divisions were being placed in the trenches rapidly by the German command, to accustom the men to fighting conditions in the west. Questions and Answers Which Governors of New York have been Presidents of the United States? Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt. What is the correct abbreviation for Pennsylvania? Pa. How old are Anita Louise, Joan Bennett and Marion Marsh? Anita Louise is 17, Joan, 20, and Marion Marsh, 19.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Thallium Dangerous in Depilatory

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia. the Health Magazine. TOURING recent years the substance called thallium has been incorporated in creams and pastes used to remove superfluous hair from arms and chin. The surgical clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham hospital, Boston, now makes available the records of three cases in women who came to that institution seriously ill as a result of poisoning by thallium from a depilatory. One woman, an Italian domestic, 29 years of age, had complained of failing vision. She also made note of the fact that her hair had fallen

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—School No. 44 is at the corner of Sugar Grove avenue and Twenty-first street. I believe it would be worth your time to drive out there, go two squares west on Twenty-first street to Harding, turn around and go back to Sugar Grove, then give the public your version of a thrilling ride on an unimproved street in the “Beautiful City of Indianapolis.” The property owners of this community filed a petition five years ago for the paving and opening of this street to Northwestern avenue. They said it was the largest petition ever presented for the improvement of a street, but the “POOR” street car company, did not have the money to repair its roadbed, The water company said it would ruin its canal if a bridge was built across it, and the city was all sold up on bonds and could not issue any more. Mr. Perry builds a ball park at Sixteenth and Harding streets. When it is opened, “BEHOLD” there is no way for the traffic to get in and out, and he realizes he has made a terrible mistake by giving the city his airplane (something else the poor people will have to pay taxes to keep up) so Sixteenth must be opened up right now. The water company canal will not be damaged and the ctiy can issue plenty of bonds. Sorry we are not all able to give airplanes to accomplish what we want. We are just one poor family trying to buy a little home, keep our children in school and do our best to make respectable citizens out of them, but, it surely is tough sledding when you do not have half-time work at a much less salary and have to pay the water company $1.50 a month, regardless of consumption, but run over a gallon and see what happens. We had 65-cent gas when we had two companies, and the gas company would give the coke for hauling it away, but gas went to $1.05 and coke to $7 to $lO a ton. The Community Fund, either lose your position or pay what they ask you to donate. I believe any of us would like a position with the Community Fund with the salaries they pay. There are mar.y people in position to donate their labor to

Growing of Roses Do you know the happy adventure of growing roses in your home garden? Success with roses is not hard for the amateur if a few rules are followed. Os recent years nearly everybody who pretends to have any sort of a garden, has from one to a score or more of rose bushes Whether you already grow roses, or whether you never have, and want to start, our Washington Bureau has ready for you a comprehensive, but simply worded bulletin, written by a practical rose grower with years of experience, that will give all the information you need for success. If you want your table and your living rooms filled with beautiful roses this year, fill out the coupon below and send for this bulletin—and start the happy adventure. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 172, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin ROSE GARDENS, and enclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled, United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and hadling costs: • NAME ST. and NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times.

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out, that she was very nervous, and that she had trouble in walking. It was found that she had been applying a thallium cream to her face, arms, and legs for a year and a half in order to remove the hair. She discontinued the use of the cream, her vision improved, and she ceased to have any trouble with walking. A nurse, 28 years of age, was believed to have a tumor of the brain, because she complained of blurring of the vision and of severe pain in her feet and legs. Indeed, she had been having the usual experience Os seeing handfuls of her hair fall out whenever she was shampooed.

that kind of work. Why not use it? Then the taxes with the extra added charity expense which we already have donated to the Community Fund. In place of the city putting ail the charity work on the golf courses and public parks that benefit no one, why not give these men a pick and shovel and have them level these unpaved streets? I know that many of them would much prefer to work for what they get and it also would cut down some more of our city expenses. If the city is unable to do anything for the Twenty-first street, I would suggest that the ladies who are compelled to travel this street don their knickers, get out the old shovel, rake, and hoe, see if some gravel company will donate a few loads of gravel so that this street can be level, before some terrible accident happens to some child being bounced up against the top of the auto while being taken back and forth to school.. ONE WHO DRIVES IT FOUR TIMES A DAY. Editor Times—Prohibition a failure? Why? First, because it is forbidden. Forbid a child anything and it is going to have it, if possible. Grown-ups are to some extent the same. Second, prohibition has gotten far into political channels. With political power you can be a big bootlegger, run a night club, sell to those who have the password or a card of membership. Name it Scotch, Bourbon, Three Star or any other good label. Just so it has the color and the name, you can clean up. A man who likes a drink of beer or schnaps will pay the price. Third, before prohibition, if such it is, a man ran a square place. No Sunday drinks. Closed at regular hours. Didn’t have to be a donor to the police, giving them cigars, cigarets, candy, free meals, etc. But now just look around! Bea close observer, W. C. T. U., and you will get wise to yourselves and see you have made a big, flat failure. Instead of running up to the Capitol trying to influence congress to let the so-called dry law exist, you should wake up and use

She had been using depilatory cream for fourteen months to remove some superfluous hair on her face. When the thallium cream was discontinued, her vision improved, the pain in her legs disappeared, the hair on her head stayed in, and no further thought was given to the possibility of a brain tumor. A married woman, 35 years of age, who complained of loss of vision and weakness of the legs had been applying cream to her upper lip and chin for fifteen months. She recovered when use of the cream was discontinued. The dangers of this substance for the human being are such that its use must be especially controlled if it is to be used at all.

common senss. You are meddling. Finding fault with others, criticising the manner or condemning the methods of others is your private privilege, but not your public right. I am neither for nor against alcohol, but it is a man’s own right to drink if he so desires. According to our Constitution, our country is a land of freedom. Let’s try to keep it that way. If we mind our own business, we will have enough to do. Let’s repeal. Start some jobs. TIMES READER AND TAXPAYER. Editor Times—l wish to thank you for the good turn you did for me recently. You are truly a poor man’s friend, and I for one, appreciate it. I, like thousands of other people, through no fault of our own, must live off charity. But what makes me mad is that city officials and charity organizations forever are painting the sky with sunshine, making it appear that we, the unemployed, are looking through rose-colored glasses and are having one heck of a good time. Every week I am associated with hundreds of men who (like myself) are facing a blank wall, with very little encouragement. I would venture to say nine out of every ten Indianapolis unemployed have gone this winter hungry, cold and undernourished. A basket for four people is supposed to contain $3.60 worth of groceries and would be ample if we were not being charged 25 cents a peck for potatoes, 22 cents for one and one-half-pound can of syrup, 22 cents for 15-cent coffee, etc. Five- twelve-ounce loaves of bread must do a family of four one week. I am not writing this as a “sob story,” but merely stating facts. We are being gypped by someone, but by whom? Surely not by any of the city officials. They are too honest, and of course the grocers will step forth on the judgment day and truthfully say they never “hooked” a thing in their lives. Editor Times—l welcome The Times every evening because, aside from world news, its editorials stand fast for the welfare of the public. Mrs. Ferguson actually deals in “Just Common Sense.” Tracy seems to have graduated in the science of government. Broun sometimes talks through his hat. Evidently he has a vivid imagination. He can and does write much in elaboration of subjects that are next to nothing. I admit that he is skilled in the use of words. He knows ’em all and. once in a while, he seems to be quite bright and logical in the use of them. “It seems to me” that after his disastrous struggle with cellophane he would be in the hospital now. But 111 wager that he will have an article ready for this evening’s Times, and I’ll read it, as usual. SOL M. GLICK. Editor Times—l am a World war veteran who has been out of work a year and a half. We veterans know the persons opposed to our bonus are the ones who prospered during the World war. I, for one, enlisted the second day after war was declared and went over with the Third division, went through everything that this might be a free country, and was proud ot it We know the American Legion turned it down at the big convention, but it wasn’t the legion, but the big shots who are afraid they will be taxed for their millions they made during tho war. The 50 per cent bonus that we got

MARCH 4, 1932

IT SEEMS TOME By Heywood Broun The Republicans Now Plan for Hoover to Weep His Way Back to the White House. MR. BRYAN said it should not be done to labor, but Herbert Hoover is going to wear it willingly. Already Republican haberdashers are measuring the President for a crown of thorns. This year we will hear very little about the great engineer and much of the misunderstood unfortunate. It is the pian that Mr. Hoover shall weep his way back to the White House. And this moist appeal may even include some slight platform concession in the matter of beer. After all. Republican campaign orators are going to need something to weep in. The first sob of the campaign has been uttered by Arthur Train in Collier’s, and it is called “The Strange Attacks on Mr. Hoover.” Mr. Train points out that none of our greatest Presidents has “escaped defamation of the vilest sort.” He lists Washington, Adams. Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, Wilson and Roosevelt. I am moved to protest mildly that certain things which were said about the character of Grant’s second administration turned out to be true. Moreover, I believe there is a logical flaw in the axiom which now is being presented to the voters. As I understand it. we are being told that since Abraham Lincoln and Herbert Hoover were both severely and often mendaciously criticised, they must be men of about the same stamp and timber. It doesn’t follow. it tt tt Only Constructive Bunk INDEED, Mr. Train begins his article with a strange theory of the place of myth and anecdote in public policy. “The familiar anecdotes,” he writes, “of our national heroes heard in childhood—Washington refusing to tell a lie, Lincoln studying by flickering firelight, Roosevelt leading the charge of San Juan Hill—inculcate ideas and values, as nothing else can, of honesty, industry and courage. “It makes no difference to the modern boy that the cherry-tree story is ‘bunk.’ Bunk or no bunk, he knows that Washington was an honest man and that Roosevelt was a brave one.” After such an introduction the reader may be pardoned if he wonders whether or not Mr. Train is applying this theory in his recital of the career of Mr. Hoover and matching unfriendly and malicious bunk with friendly and idolatrous bunk. It is hardly the most convincing lead for a factual article.

Spiking Ail Falsehoods OPPONENTS of Mr. Hoover should welcome a shaking down of the charges advanced in several recent books and more particularly that of Hamill. The most cursory examination of “The Strange Career of Mr. Hoover” impresses the reader with its lack of decent reportorial instinct. It doesn’t sound true. Mr. Hamill has such an unfortunate manner that he might well succeed in arousing disbelief if he did no more than set down yesterday’s official temperature. Republican leaders are smart enough to see that stuff of this sort is helpful to their cause, for by showing up obvious lies and exaggerations they may succeed in disqualifying even legitimate criticism. To my mind Walter W. Liggett’a “The Rise of Herbert Hoover,” although not a model of dispassionateness, does make a more credible case against Mr. Hoover. Arthur Train, with legal acumen, has centered upon the weakest link in the attacking forces and devoted almost all his attention to Hamill. At that, some of his rebuttal in less than sweeping. He tries to dismiss the frequently mentioned rebuke in a London court by saying, “Judge Joyce was distinctly proCninese.” Out of the welter of conflicting testimony it seems to me not unfair to accept the fact that Herbert Hoover upon occasion had the misfortune to be associated with men who were a little less than 100 per cent scrupulous. This, indeed, was a misfortune which followed him even into the first cabinet in which he sat. a a tt The Here and the--Now BUT everybody—and I hope the name is legion—who sincerely wishes to defeat Herbert Hoover for re-election should refuse to have any truck with controversy bearing upon Mr. Hoover’s mining experiences and his early life in London. The question of whether he is a great engineer or not is wholly irrelevant to the problem in hand. The voters must decide whether or not he is an adequate President. It is a waste of time to argue as to the merits or demerits of the conduct of Belgian relief. His success or failure in handling our own unemployment problem is the immediate issue. I am quite ready to agree that it is a monstrous thing that the President of the United States should be slandered. And I think that in spite of the fact that Mr Hqlover allowed his Republican co-workers to conduct the dirtiest campaign known here in our time in carrying on the fight against A1 Smith. But I feel that the opponents of Herbert Clark -Hoover should be too proud to stoop. There is no necessity of backstairs gossip. The truth is ample to set us free < Copyright. 1932. bv The Times!

Daily Thought

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.—Ecclesiastes 9:11. I would rather be right than be President.—Henry Clay. went mostly for debts. As most of us are heels over head in debt, now is the time to pay them off and not In 1945, when two-thirds of the boys will be dead. Let’s all get together and demand our bonus. We need a few more true Americans like Mr. Patman and we could get somewhere. WILLIAM BLAKELY.