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The Answer The Scripps-lloward declaration for A1 Smith as against Roosevelt has brought from many sources this query: “If you think so much of Smith today, why didn’t you support him against Hoover in 1928?” The answer is: We wish we had. Over There Now is the time for the administration to help the forces in Europe working for peace and a revival of world prosperity. With one eye on the closing sessions of congress and the other eye on the Republican convention in Chicago, the administration should not forget that grave issues may be determined in Europe next week. At Lausanne the nations will hold the long-post-poned reparations conference, which will include a discussion of the twin subjects of war debts. At Geneva the fate of the world disarmament conference will be in the balance. Also at Geneva, efforts will be made to follow through on the recommendation of the league commission for general return of the gold standard Virtually every major international issue will be under discussion in one way or another, except tariff —and that probably will slip in, too. The Geneva arms conference is almost dead. All the pretty phrases of delegates seeking am alibi can not obscure the fact that something must be done quickly to revive that conference, or the world will pitch back into a pre-war type of armament race. Such military competition would threaten another world war. Basic causes of war are as acute today as in 1914. There is no reason why statesmen, under the pressure of this war danger and the need for economy, should not salvage the Geneva conference. Mussol ni in Italy seems to have reversed his earlier militarist policy and now is open to arms limitation— Italy needs the money. In France, the liberal Herriot just has come into power. This week he announced that he would attempt a 10 per cent reduction in French military expenses, and stressed the serious financial plight of his country. In Great Britain, Premier MacDonald, a pacifist during the last war, is reported ready to propose at Geneva a ten to fifteen-year war truce. Where is the United States in all these last-min-ute efTorts to save the disarmament conference and iron out the reparations-debt dispute? Apparently ■we are sitting back, as usual, taking a negative part in the disarmament negotiations and refusing to talk debts. For better or for worse, the United States, as the most powerful nation in the world, can make or break these European peace efTorts. We can break them merely by inaction, for any world agreement that counts is impossible without our co-operation. It is time for the Washington government to take the lead in the international negotiations, proposing a joint and reciprocal reduction in arms-debts-tariffs. That is the road to peace and prosperity.

Ramsay MacDonald and Britain Pew foreign luminaries arouse more enthusiasm In American public consciousness than the colorful British premier, Ramsay MacDonald. Hence, American readers should be interested greatly in the keen and authoritative judgment of MacDonald's present position and policies by Professor Harold J. Laski in Harper’s magazine: “It is difficult for any one who shared in the high hope of MacDonald’s future when he became prime minister in 1924 not to be moved by the tragedy of his present position. “He could have used the Labor party to remake the foundation of England: he has become the helpless tool of its essential antagonists. Most of the policy he now espouses is a direct contradiction of the essential ends to which he has devoted the major part of his life. “The man who explained with passion the right of India to freedom imprisons by thousands those who took him at his word. The man who denounced the war of 1914 stands unprotesting in the face of an imperialism as menacing as any in modern history. The internationalist accepts without difficulty one more and vast economic barrier in the way of world unity. “The appointed leader of the working class movements leads their hereditary foe to the battle. Not since Strafford has there been a change of front so decisive or so tragic. What is the cause of it all? “I believe the essential cause is the relation of MacDonald’s peculiar temperament to the special environment of British politics. “Timid, indecisive, vain of applause, he shrank from the price of unpopularity among a society he had come growingly to esteem. Its own self-confi-dence nourished his lack of it. “Its own faith in its standards gave him standards he otherwise could not attain. Its habit of accepting the facts of life without seeking to alter them saved him from the need to reflect upon principles which sought to change those facts in terms of a different social ideal. “He had grown away from the people who made him eminent. He had lost the willingness to make their dreams the measure of his own. He had come, perhaps only half-consciously, to find in the habits of the British governing class the security and the safeguards against that unknown tomorrow to which leadership of the Labor party impelled him. “His immediate value w r as seen. He was cultivated with a skill by those who had shunned him, which lessened the earlier distance he once had deplored. When the moment of crisis came, he found that the bridge he had thought a barrier of separation was, in fact, the high road to the safety for which he yearned. “Henceforth, he could live at ease in Zion; for in Its habitations one docs not listen anxiously for the birth cry of a new T world. He has avoided denunciation; he has escaped the danger of 8 .second exile for his faith. The ribbon is in his coat, and he will not live to read the verdict of history.’’ Many have believed that MacDonald's shift has been vindicated by the great improvement of Britain under the coalition government. It would appear that this “betterment” is largely a matter of party and press talk. The New Republic just has printed a letter by a distinguished British economist, who says; “I know no reason to suppose that there is an improvement in our economic situation. I take this view because (1) the shipping statistics show a continuous decline; (2) the same is true of railroad traffic; (3) there is no improvement in textiles, iron and steel, or coal, except in the home made of the

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first named; (4) the decline in the number of unemployed is fictitious and is due to the fact that 385,009 people have been struck off the live register of unemployed through the new regulations; (5) the rise of the pound is due to the comparatively heavier weight of other people’s troubles. ... No serious industrial reorganization is taking place in any direction.” Mr. Mellon’s Pants Although he is quit of his troubles with budgets and bonuses, Mr. Mellon, over in London, still has his worries. Chief among them seem to be pants. On two occasions he defied custom by appearing at the Court of St. James in the chaste habiliments known in this country as trousers. But the other evening he showed up at a swanky party at Bridgewater house with the ambassadorial legs done up in black satin rompers. The occasion was the derby—or is it darby?—dinner given in honor of Lady Ellesmere’s daughter's debut, and Queen Mary was there. To have worn anything else, the cables said, would have been “unspeakable.” We can sympathize with Mr. Mellon's dilemma. His pediments, like those of his two predecessors, Mr. Kellogg and Mr. Dawes, are nothing to flaunt before royalty. But, after all, a chap can’t be unspeakable. Now can he? Bryan's Daughter The defeat of one of congress’ six women members, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, in Florida's primaries, is another political casualty that carries a moral. The commoner's daughter is charming, intelligent, and attractive, but apparently she lacks the quality of forthrightness that voters are demanding of their lawmakers in these days of indecision. She made friends of the young folks of her district, secured appropriations for the Mediterranean fly eradication campaign, spoke earnestly for Everglades park. But on public questions 15he wavered. A dry, she voted against the Beck-Linthicum resolution, and then, on arriving home, to find her people thoroughly sick of prohibition, she came out for a referendum. It was too late. The voters, unchivalrously, retired her in favor of a wet out-and-outer, a Palm Beach lawyer. The party conventions at Chicago should respond to the signs of the times, of which this defeat is one. John Barry Ryan, poet and capitalist, says he worked four years polishing up nine lines in one of his poems. But we’ll bet he would have given up after the second year if he had just been a poet and not a capitalist, too. Alfalfa Bill Murray says he is not worrying over his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Well, that makes it unanimous. None of the other candidates is worrying over it either. That Harvard explorer who found white-haired Indians in South America merely proved that Hollywood was not the leader in making platinum blonds, after all. Scientists hope to find a tribe of savages in Australia whose speech consists of hisses and grunts. Trying to find out in advance what taxpayers will be like in another twenty years. After all the hullabaloo in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia about tariff barriers and the depression, it looks as if they might change the name of the “Blue Danube” to the “Danube Blues.” Several railroads have announced 4 ‘air-cooled” trains for the summer months. They’d better plan on doubling the capacity of the smoking compartments to counteract the hot air from salesmen. Three more skeletons of Neanderthal men have been found by scientists. Now we have almost enough to start a Neanderthal club. The man who robbed the Youngstown soup kitchen of bread and tomatoes must have gotten tired of waiting in line. A federal man says .t is amazing that people don’t recognize counterfeit money as soon as they see it. Maybe it's because they see so little of the genuine. Correct this sentence: The senate will investigate charges that the stock market was manipulated in a deal by which the public cleaned up $5,000,000. At the recent magicians’ convention, one of them complained at the absence of new tricks. Why not try pulling prosperity out of a hat, boys?

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ONCE more we have honored our soldier dead. Perhaps we can lay wreaths upon the graves of our Civil war heroes without a deep feeling of shame, but, collectively, I do not see how w r e dare go through this performance beside the resting place of any man whose life was lost in the World war. For we have played him false. Our oratory is meaningless, our monuments are empty of sincerity. Urging him to die in a war to end war, we have done nothing at all as a government to carry on for the cause in which we sacrificed him. We have more tariffs, more armaments, more war talk, and more jingoism right now in America than we had when these deluded men marched away to the sound of our wild huzzas. Unless we are faithful to the principle for which they died, we are weeping crocodile tears for them. That we have not attained world peace is nothing to our discredit. But it is shameful that we have made so few real efforts to bring it about. u tt IN his splendid book on human stupidity, Walter Pitkin has made some pertinent remarks about the particular kind of human stupidity that encourages war. It is a fact, he says—and I am sure no one can deny it—that war always kills off the finest and most intelligent part of a population. Thus the south lost its best during our civil strife, because they fought until their strength was gone. Mr. Pitkin considers that France and England today are much less acute mentally than in 1913. Who will be ready to challenge this statement? For these countries wasted the best blood of their lands and destroyed the brains that might have made them great forever. We know that America lost fewer men in the World war than any other nation. We are better situated for safety than most. We have more power, more natural resources and the finest traditions for leadership. This being true, then, the burden of breaking the way toward world peace must rest on us. If America does not take up the torch dropped by the lifeless fingers of her heroes, then that torch will be extinguished. With the ghosts of 9,000,000 martyrs haunting us, dare we give up this fight?

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M. E. Tracy Says:

Why Not Simplify Matters by Having Both Conventions Request Each State to Authorize a Vote on Prohibition at the November Election? NEW YORK, June 11.—A nationwide referendum should be the first move with regard to prohibition. Since no law exists for holding such referendum, it must be brought about by voluntary action. William G. McAdoo has suggested that congress pass a special act, but the constitutionality of such act would be doubtful. Besides, why wait until congress reassembles, or is in the proper mood? Why not simplify matters by having the Republican and Democratic conventions request each state to authorize a vote on prohibition at the November election? Can you think of anything that would clarify the atmosphere quicker, or more definitely, and do you believe that any considerable number of states would refuse? * * M Congress Needs Orders IF we undertake resubmission, withtout a mandate from the people, who can say how long the stalling will continue? What has occurred at Washington during the last three years, and especially during the last three months, is more than enough to make one skeptical of routine procedure. Obviously, congress needs sailing orders. An aggregation of law makers that would refuse to tax beer under existing conditions, when it might have done so merely by amending the Volstead act, hardly can be relied on to move rapidly, or aggressively, in changing the Constitution. nun Give Voter a Chance IF the states could be induced to unite in holding a referendum on the question of prohibition next November it would do more good than all the platform planks conceivable. It would let us know where we stand right off the bat, and that is what we should know before we get too excited over imaginary possibilities. It would furnish definite evidence as to whether three-fourths of the states are in favor of repealing, or modifying, the eighteenth amendment, provided, of course, the proposition was put in such way as to give the voter a chance to register a plain “yes” or “no” opinion. u n Too Easy to Block INDORSEMENT of repeal, or resubmission, even by both parties, will mean little, unless accompanied by efforts to get action. If we have to wait for two-thirds of congress to say the word, or the required number of states to act through their legislatures, or specialy called conventions, heaven only knows how long it will be before we can get a constitutional amendment before the country, much less adopted. Such method of procedure certainly would afford obstructionists the best kind of opportunity to strut their stuff. They would need only one-third of the members in either house of congress, or control of the political machinery in one-third of the states, to block progress indefinitely. With a mandate from the people, however, they would find such a course vastly more difficult. u n u Hold It Soon IT seems to be generally agreed that a popular vote on prohibition is in order, that it represents the only effective way to start things, and that our lawmakers will continue to wiggle, wabble, sidestep, and stall until it is held. That being so, it should be held at the earliest possible moment. Conditions being what they are, it should be held at the least possible expense. There is no reason in the world why both objects could not be satisfied by persuading the states to authorize a referendum when they vote for presidential electors next fall, and there is no reason to suppose that suggestions to this effect would carry less force if they came from the two national conventions than if they came from congress.

M TODAY 4$ f is the- ve ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

BELLEAU WOOD STORMED June 11 ON June 11, 1918, American marines completed the capture of Belleau Wood and repelled three fierce counter attacks by crack German regiments. More than 300 prisoners and thirty machine guns were taken during the two-day engagement. German losses in killed and wounded were estimated at more than 2.000. The sorely pressed French divisions on the Marne rallied to inflict a crushing defeat on their tormentors when they repulsed an attack on a seven-mile front. Later in the day a French coun-ter-attack gained 1,000 prisoners and all the ground lost earlier in the day. On the Italian front, an Austrian attack was beaten off after heavy fighting near Monte Carno. The British resumed the offensive for the first time since March on their front and reported a gain of more than 800 yards on a two-mile front.

Questions and Answers

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Proper Child Height, Weight Shown

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. A STATEMENT just made available by Dr. William Palmer Lucas indicates the weights and state of development of children at various ages so that parents may have some idea as to whether the child is gaining properly. The report published by one of the largest insurance companies, as a part of its public health educational service, gives the following figures: At One Year Weight—Boys, 21.5 pounds; girls, 20 pounds. Height—Boys, 29.5 inches; girls, 29 inches. Teeth —Should have six cut. Muscles—Growing rapidly. Speech—A few words. At Two Years Weight—Boys, 28.4 pounds; girls, 27.8 pounds. Height—Boys, 33.1 inches; girls. 32.7 inches. Teeth—Should have 16 cut. Muscles—Growing rapidly.

IT SEEMS TO ME by ™ od

OWEN D. YOUNG spoke well at South Bend to the students of Notre Dame, and I did not agree with a word he said. Young’s address was marred by a slight lack of candor, for he commended to us dictatorial government, without ever once using the word dictator.” Instead, he spoke of “putting extraordinary powers in the hands of the President in times like these.” ! Now, democracy is one of those things which may not be met with the familiar phrase, “I can take it or leave it alone.” There is no true conviction in the minds of those who say, “Os course. I believe in democracy, but”— Like free speech, majority rule must stand or fall by its value at those moments when pressure is applied. If democracy is useless in a time of crisis, it is not an ideal worth any man’s life or death. Quite frequently we are reminded that during the great war many facets of freedom were shut off, and some advance this undoubted fact as an argument for the assumption of “extraordinary powers.” It is probably true that in surrendering ancient rights some gain was made in new efficiency, and still I think the price we paid was much too high. tt tt tt Flavor Seems to Last IN many lands in many ages the argument has been advanced: “This we must do for a little while. It is better to take on a pinch of tyranny than to suffer much.” But there is no such thing as a dictator for a day. Here in America we have not recovered those heritages which we pawned to turn back the enemy who supposedly was at the gates. After fourteen years the hatreds, the regimentations, and the espionage which we shouldered for the sake of conflict still are with us. It sounds persuasive to say that some of our checks and balances are cumbersome in the face of the immediate crises and that the strong man system might profit us greatly during the emergency. So it might, but it is easier to put a man on horseback than to drag him down againAfter we get this person with “extraordinary powers.” just who is going to halt him with a • Whoa—here is the place where you get off!” I have heard much and seen nothing of those dictatorships which ar to pass as soon as the necessity

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average depth being 13 feet and no depth greater than 50 feet. The pathway across the lake followed by Rous was less than one foot deep, with a bottom composed of a salt and sand crust. Ordinarly an auto tire would break through this crust and mire in the mud, but Rous equipped his car with air wheels and made the trip successfully. A Champion Ale Drinker—

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Speech—Vocabulary of 100 to 500 words; 2-word sentences. At Three Years Weight—Boys, 33.5 pounds; girls, 31.5 pounds. Height—Boys, 36 inches; girls, 35.6 inches (gain of three inches over previous year). Teeth —Completion of the first set of twenty teeth. Muscles—Growing rapidly; likes to skip and jump. Speech—soo to 1,500 new words; begins to use pronouns. At Four Years Weight—Boys, 36.4 pounds; girls. 35.1 pounds. Height—Boys, 38.6 inches; girls, 38.4 inches. Teeth—Full set of twenty teeth. Muscles Growing rapidly with increasing co-ordination. Speech—soo new words and makes complete sentences. At Five Years Weight—Boys, 41.4 pounds; girls, 40.2 pounds. Height—Boys, 41.7 inches; girls, 41.3 inches. Teeth—Twenty teeth.

for their creation has evaporated. I don’t like dictators, and I like even less their sons and their sons’ sons. Give absolutism an inch and you must war with it for all eternity. n tt u Whom Have You in Mind? IT is easy to say that popular government is a failure and that the voters never have manifested sufficient intelligence to deserve unrestricted freedom. It is easy to say that, but it should not be uttered except by those who have clearly in mind the many-sided, vastly gifted person who is to take upon his own shoulders the task of thinking and acting for the millions. The only thing worse than an intelligent dictator is a stupid one, and the annals of the ages have not shown that wisdom follows the scepter and the crown. It is peculiarly inappropriate for us to talk about conferring might and majesty upon some single one during a period when we can not see the trees because of the forest of mediocrities. Does any sane person truly think that Hoover has shown so much in his executive function that he should be made supreme, without posibility of effective dissent? What earthly point is there in talking about a dictator for the United States when all our presidential timber consists of nothing more than* scrub oak and lonesome pine? Once upon a time I harbored briefly the heresy that someone of the industrial captains or the financial colonels might be shrewd enough to find a short cut back from depression into health, but I do not think so now. The bankers and the steel barons and the railroad kings have made such a palpable mess of their own concerns that I see no reason why a cubit should be added to their stature. tt * A Poor Thing:, but Our Own Democracy often is clumsy, cumbersome, and inefficient, but aren't we all, both collectively and on our own? Those men whom history has hailed as great may have done a good job in writing their personality across the parchment of time, but they built their fame upon the blood and tears of the many.

RV Eeglsterrd C. • I 1 1 Patent Office RIPLEY

Squire William Lewis of Builth, Wales, carved himself a spacious niche in the history of ale drinking. When he died in 1793, at the age of 52, he left behind a record of having attained to an unprecedented corpulency—a weight of 560 pounds, and of having consumed eight gallons of ale every day for 32 years. Monday: The Man With a Horse’s Mane.

Muscles—Same as third year. Speech—The articulation is now nearly perfect, and an interest in rhyming is developed. At Six Years Weight—Boys, 45.1 pounds; girls, 43.6 pounds. Height—Boys, 44 inches; girls, 43.4 inches. Teeth —The child should have twenty-four teeth, four of which are permanent—especially important to preserve sixth-year molars. Muscles —Rapidly growing; increasing correlations. Speech—The articulation is now perfect; the inflection of nouns and verbs nearly perfect. Child is interested in nonsense words and likes to draw his ideas. Speech defects are recognized before six years; 80 per cent of stuttering occurs before six years. Os course, it should be remembered that all children are not normally the same size, as we pointed out in a recent article. The size and weight of parents should be taken into consideration in every case.

Ideals and opinion! expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor

Napoleon was, I will admit, a more significant person than Chester A. Arthur or Martin Van Buren, but even our pygmy Presidents have brought us to less woe than, we would know under the leadership of plumed knights and conquerors. When we go wrong, as we have done on many occasions and undoubtedly will do again, it is just as well to be able to pass the blame up and down a long table. Humble pie ought to be cut in thin slices. You and I and the next felfbw are not so smart. We will admit that. But when it comes to mistakes, we want to make them. It always is more satisfactory to fall down a flight of stairs than to be kicked down. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times) I j | People’s Voice i Editor Times—This little article \ ! may not reach the thousands of ; World war veterans that it affects, but to those whom it does reach, I J am sure it will meet with their hearty approval, and I do not be- j | lieve that one of them can disagree with what I have to say, unless he has changed since he was severed , from the service and mustered out after the close of the war in 1918 What prompted me to ask you to j publish this article is an editorial that I read in the Indianapolis Star j of recent date that sounded the j idea that the bonus marchers were led by “red propagandists.” Having confidence in your paper for fearlessly printing what you believe the J people should know, I respectfully | am submitting this. Every doughboy, gob. and leatherj neck who wore the uniform in 1917 and 1918 put it on to fight for his country, without asking why he j should do it. This country was at war and every one of them was old enough to know what he was going up against. War is not a “lark.” In the hearts of every one of those boys was formed a tie that is found only in a family, commonly known as the “family tie that binds.” For those who do not understand what I mean. I suggest they ask any soldier, sailor, or marine what would happen to him if he wrongfully ac- ! cused or started an argument with ; him. The result would be that he would : have the whole navy, army^and 1 marine corps to fight. Those hoys

JUNE 11, 1032

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Increase in Trench Mouth Is Believed Largely Due to the Depression, Partly to Kissing. A N increase in the infection familiar to overseas soldiers of the World war as “trench mouth” is reported in the United States by the American Dental Association. The disease, known technically as Vincent's infection, is spreading in the United States, according to Dr. Alfred Walker, chairman of the as- ! sociatlon's educational committee. Dr. Walker warns of the necessity of greater precaution against the disease and of prompt treatment when it is discovered. He says that the depression probably is responsible for the increase in the disease. He also says that the use of glasses instead of paper drinking cups in many places is helping to spread the disease. A short time ago, he says, dentists were inclined to blame kissing for spread of the disease, but they now think that the depression is more to blame than the ancient custom of kissing. Some authorities think that the disease is in itself only a symptom of a systemic disease and thai the lowerintr of general resistance, coupled with worries induced bv the depression, are responsible for its spread. n o b Increases Reported IN New York state, the numtaqr of cases of the disease hav# increased 100 per cent, according to a survey made by the American Dental Association. A similar rise of the disease was shown in a report from Los Angeles, where statistics were collected by Dr. I. Disraeli. Dr. Disraeli reported that “95 per cent of the public health service officers. 80 per cent of the dental schools, and 90 per cent of the practicing dentists who were questioned believe that the disease as a whole is on the increase.” He adds that “of the individual dentists questioned, the 90 per cent who believe that the disease as a whole is on the increase state that the acute type is on the decline and the chronic type on the increase." During the war, acute cases were sometimes fatal. The chronic cases are not so dangerous. They are the result, according to Dr. Walker, of the resorting to home treatment on the part of patients, who discontinue [ taking precautions as soon as the i pain and discomfort are relieved. This, he says, may happen often before the disease is actually eradij cated. tt n n Adequate Treatment THE need of adequate treatment in cases of “trench mouth” is stressed by Dr. Walker. “Tartar and soft material deposit on the teeth," Dr. Walker points out. “Bacteria impregnate in this deposit, and although many of the germs can be killed by a good mouth wash, the'deposit and some of the bacteria will remain. “No mouth can stand an antiseptic strong enough to eat through these deposits. The best way to get rid of the disease is to institute the proper professional treatment.” New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Rochester, Minn.; St. Louis and Los Angeles were included in the survey, he adds. The majority of dentists reporting stated that no widespread precautions had been taken to stop the disease, and that it rapidly was becoming more prevalent. Trench mouth, known to the medical profession as Vincent’s infection, was ‘identified” by Dr. H. Vincent, a Parisian, in 1897. -It got its popular name during the war, when it was common among solders. “In its milder form, the infection is marked by a slight destruction of the gums, resulting in a tender mouth,” Dr. Walker says. “High temperature, headache, nausea, loss of appetite, bleeding and glandular enlargement mark extreme cases, which sometimes result in death.”

Daily Thought

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.—John 18:36. The man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he can not win a woman.—Shakespeare. stuck together. They were all fighting for a common cause and they did not w'ant any strangers jumping on themSome of those same boys are banded today for a common cause. Whether they are right or wrong, I do not think that any person, or group of individuals, continually should jump on them. As our most famous Will Rogers always says, “All I know is what I read in the papers,” well may be my case. I first found out about this socalled “red” movement in newspapers. I surely did not see it about me. I believe it is either a lot of bunk, or something that would sell more newspapers. Whatever it is, or where it came from, or how it ever was conceived, will remain a mystery to me, but I do not believe it should be used as a weapon to discourage or molest these boys, seeking what they are entitled to. They are doing no more than assembling in Washington for the purpose of lobbying for legislation that will benefit them in their hour of need. If the police departments of the nation will leave these boys alone. they will not harm any one. The only difference between thes" toy:; and a well-paid professional lobbyist is in the mode of travel and the amount of money in his pocketsThe people of this country should have no respect for any one who openly will convict and condemn I these boys. If they call being hungry, and in some cases out of a job I tor months, being a Communist and ; a red, there must be more than ten million reds in this country. If these boys were working and were not hungry, they would not have attempted this march. That i and no other reason prompted the i march. RUSSELL W. FAULKNER.