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Give Light and the People Will Finn Their Otcn B'op

WEDNESDAY. JAN 25. 1933

THE BIG OBJECTION When Governor McNutt announced that he believed the sales tax law is wrong in principle, he stated an economic law which can not be disregarded, even in emergencies, without grave danger. It is wrong in principle because it interferes with that mass consumption of goods winch is necessary to support mass production. Mass production is here, whether we like it or not. It is now our system of iiving. It came with the development of machinery. But mass consumption must support it or the unemployment situation continues forever. The financiers backed mass production because they found it profitable. They have not yet financed mass consumption. That is what is wrong with present day conditions. The consumers’ dollar will buy only so much in goods. On the average, 70 cents of it is spent before it is earned. It takes about this much for food and shelter. The rest must provide for the products of the machine. To take out any more of that dollar for taxation only means greater unemployment, more idle men on the dole, more vacant stores. While the merchants are excited over the prospect of anew tax, those who should really be concerned are job holders. That consumer’s dollar has suddenly become more Important than we thought. It means work. It means the preservation of mass production and mass distribution which is the present economic order. WIIY GET EXCITED? No one need be unduly excited over the so-called beer bill now being passed by the state legislature. In the first place, the prospect of any sort of modification of the Volstead act is somewhat remote and will not occur until the special session of congress. When that act is modified, the measure will not provide for the sale of intoxicating liquors, merely declaring that beer and wines of 3.05 per cent alcoholic content are still in thfe class v/ith ginger ale. There can be no real legislation for the prevention of the return of the saloon until the eighteenth amendment is repealed and the task of regulating intoxicating liquors put up to the states. When that point arrives, the limitations as to the manner in which liquors may be sold will become important and it will be necessary to banish the speakeasy which has succeeded the old-time saloon. There is something ironical in the heated debates between dry forces and those who disbelieve in the noble experiment over the possible effect of the proposed law if congress makes the enforcement law conform to the facts. The whole theory of modification rests upon the declaration that the presence of 3.05 per cent of alcohol does not make a beverage intoxicating. Under that theory, there is the legal question of whether the state can distinguish between soft drinks in its revenue measures, for that can be the only theory on which any legislation concerning the new brews can be passed. Asa pattern for legislation necessary when the whole prohibition amendment is repealed, the proposed law has much to commend it. Until then, no one need be excited. Only soft drinks, gentlemen, are in sight. A JOB FOR EXPERTS In the Sumners bill just reported to the house of representatives, an intelligent and timely effort has been made to facilitate reorganization of hardpressed corporations, and to give relief to individual debtors and mortgage victims, without the delays, expense, and destruction often resulting from bankruptcy proceedings. Unfortunately, the provision regarding railroad reorganization, certainly one of the most important sections of the bill, is full of holes. The bill would not basically change conditions under which railroad receiverships have become a national scandal. Bankers, in the habit of milking the roads, have been fighting to keep adequate public safeguards out of this bill. Representative La Guardia of New York worked hard in committee to protect the public interest. but the final form of the bill is a compromise with which the banking lobbyists should be gratified highly. The issue is whether the interstate commecre commission is to have effective control of railroad reorganizations and of operation of a road until reorganization is complete. The alternative is to place control in the hands of busy judges, who have no expert knowledge of this complicated industry, much less administrative capacity, and who are dependent upon subordinates. Under this bill, the judge is given too much power and the I. C. C. not enough authority. ENOUGH PROFIT Usually a federal court is almost the last agency of government to reflect popular thought. In the eastern district of Illinois, however, such a court has taken the lead in fixing utility rates in a manner which deserves emulation by other courts and by state utility commissions. This court has found that a return of 5.17 per cent, allowed by the Illinois commerce commission on the properties of the Kankakee Water Company, Is not confiscatory and has refused to issue an injunction against it. In the past the courts frequently have found rates yielding below 7 and 8 per cent return were confiscatory. But the Illinois judges say: “In this connection we have considered the evidence of present return in industrial enterprises of other character, and that of similar utility companies.’’ In other words, the court does not propose that utility rates shall continue on a boom time basis when other businesses have been deflated, to say nothing of wages and salaries. This is sound reasoning.

THE GREAT SCOTT MYSTERY

Mystery is universal in its appeal. The human race will go to sleep over charts and graphs and ergs and joules, but it will stay up all night with a detective story. Howard Scott furnished the mystery. Without it, Technocracy might have been just more statistics to a public already surfeited with and baffled by the outpourings of experts. So give the tall stranger credit for the part he played in dramatizing a important problem—the problem of technological unemployment—the problem which Albert Einstein, world's greatest scientist, on the very day of Mr. Scott's exit, described as the chief cause of our international misery. The trail which led from Greenwich Village, through the lunch wagon and floor wax factory of Pompton Lakes, N. J., seems to have ended in a blind alley on Morningside Heights. Just how Howard Scott got to be high priest of Technocracy is yet to be explained. But certain it is that his bulky form no longer will darken the doors of Columbia university. He is off the campus for good. He has been disavowed by some of his associates there. But the energy survey lives on. That is well. And it is important. The final and factual results of that survey will be awaited with anxious interest by a distressed world. But the same world still is interested in mystery—the mystery of how Howard Scott became high priest. In their leisure moments, as they relax from their slide rules and their blueprints, will hi3 ex-associates in Columbia tell us the real story of how the massive gentleman with the six-cylinder words got under the tent in the first place? MEN WITHOUT MONEY Mother Necessity keeps on giving birth to inventions designed to save men from starving in the midst of plenty. Her latest offspring is “wooden money.” “Wooden money,” or scrip, has grown out of the barter system. Its use is spreading so rapidly that economists are asking whether soon America may not have created a secondary money system without benefit of gold, silver, or government printing press. According to Stuart Chase, more than 500,000 Americans now use no other money than scrip. He finds that in twenty-nine states 144 jobless exchanges operate with their own paper issues in place of legal tender. In New York a national organization is forming behind the movement. A group of eminent economists and relief workers, meeting at Princeton, have petitioned for state and federal aid in standardizing emergency exchanges and money systems for the jobless. Professor Irving Fisher of Yaie is agitating a plan that has worked well in Germany, for supplementing our depleted currency with a temporary medium known as “stamp scrip.” Cities could issue scrip and stamps for redeeming it. If upon every $1 scrip a 2-cent stamp were placed each week by its holder, it would come back to the city in a year worth $1.04. The plan actually is in operation in Hawarden, la. Mr. Chase says the United States must do one of three things: Revise its economic system on the principle of national planning; inflate “with or without a huge public works program”; encourage the use of “wooden money.” The growth of this movement is not without its encouraging features. Sprung from bitter soil, it yet may bear sweet fruit. It is teaching men to co-operate for mutual salvation. An “automat” beer-dispensing machine has been invented to set out a foaming glass when a nickel is dropped in the slot. It can't be much of a success until it is made to say “This one’s on the house!” and fit action to words. There’s improvement here and there, but the filling station business continues to hold up better than any other. After all, the lame duck amendment is one quack remedy not to be despised. Idle factories are a distressing sight, but for utter desolation you have to hand it to our exminiature golf courses. New York state is preparing for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, say dispatches. You can’t fool New Yorkers. They knew we had that eighteenth amendment all the time!

Just Plain Sense 1 1 BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TT is our nature to take the kindness of men for granted while we condemn their cruelties. I have, for instance, five items from five widely separated newspapers giving accounts of the saving of a human life by firemen, some of whom worked twentyfour hours pumping oxygen into congested lungs. Such items are common news and we pass them over as the usual thing, with a mere glance. But for the first time I have seen this common thing—and as always is the case, common things when really looked at are common never more. I sit here today with lifted spirit and a gladder heart, because I realize once again for a little time that human kindness is immeasurable and never will vanish from the earth. For I saw men, big, heavy-browed, hard-looking men, intent, desperately intent, upon the saving of a life. One, a brown-faced, tender-eyed six-footer—-the sort you often see lounging in front of the fire station and of whom you sometimes say that he seems never to be doing anything—labored for sixteen hours without rest, bending over the sick-bed as if he had been a nurse or the mother of a child who was helpless and ill. a a a r T''HINKING of such men as these in all the cities of the land answering the hurry calls of baffled science and frantic love, you must take a newer and clearer look at them. For they, quite 'literally, perform miracles; they are the modern Christs who set the still heart to beating again. Limp forms without breath for several hours walk once more. Closed eyes reopen; the dead tongue speaks. It is a miracle done before our doubting eyes, a miracle of which we are not conscious long enough. Sc when I think of all kinds of men that I have seen and of all their strange misbehaviors, never shall I fail to visualize the firemen hurrying here,* there and everywhere witn their blessed tanks' of oxygen. What does it matter, after all, if human beings snmit a thousand misdemeanors of the flesh when their spirits are so fine, their hands sc, willing to perform labors of love and when their faith is so gallant and so sure? Perhaps if we thought and talked more of the essential goodness of mortals, some of their meannesses would vanish before radiance of approval, like snow before the sum. .

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It Seems to Me ....by Heywood Broun

“ A TLANTA, Jan. 25.—Angelo TV Herndon, 19-year-old Cincinnati Negro who said he came south w 7 ith a message of Communism, w 7 as convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and sentenced today to eighteen to twenty years’ imprisonment.” This is the first paragraph of a press dispatch and not the propaganda assertion of any radical group. And yet it seems to me to stand as the most punishing indictment of modern day society which I have seen in a year. A law had to be dug up from musty archives before this savage sentence could be pronounced. Indeed, under the statute which was utilized the defendant could have been condemned to death. tt tt tt Back of the Book THE law in question was passed more than sixty years ago, when Georgia was in the hands of the “carpetbaggers.” it was intended to punish those who rebelled against emancipation and the later legislation which followed the Union victory in the Civil war. There surely is irony in thus turning a law designed to protect Negroes in newly established rights against a young revolutionist of that race. If there is anything in the constitutional guarantee against “cruerl and unusual” punishments this verdict must be overturned. But that document has been a great deal less than effective

Every Day Religion

BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTO:

/~\N the birthday of Robert Burns, w 7 e give thanks for his songs, written swiftly as men write letters, as spontaneous, as artless and as lovely as the songs of birds. That w 7 hich lives in his songs and will continue to live w 7 hile human nature is the same, is his passion for liberty, his sense of the worth of man and the dignity of labor, his pictures of the beauties of nature, of the pathos and hard lot of the lowly, of the joys and woes and pieties of his people; and, therefore, they find response in every breast where beats the heart of a man. The lyrics of Burns, singing of love and laughter and longing of beauty and pity and pain, were little jets of music finding their ■way through the fissures in the granite-like theology of his day. They came fresh from the heart of man whom the death of a bird set dreaming of as a world wherein life is woven of music, mystery

Daily Thought

And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them u 7 ho carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them.—l Kings 8:50. HE who is false to his fellowman also is false to his Maker.—Stahl.

~ DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ‘Rabbit Lever’ Fatal in Few Cases

MIDWINTER brings again the danger of “rabbit fever,” a condition known to market men for the last thirty years. About 1907 certain cases were described in medical literature, but it was in 1912 that investigators of the United States’ public health service found a plague-like disease among the squirrels in California county, and discovered that this disease was caused by a germ which they named in “honor” of Tulare county, California, the bacterium tularense. • Finally, Francis, another investigator from the United States public health service, found in 1919 that this germ which caused both the plague-like disease of rodents and deer fly fever could infect human beings with a condition named tularemia. a a a v W'HILE the disease caused by that bacterium tularense is

in those protections which it ostensibly bestows upon the Negro. The courts of Georgia and the prison system of that state recently have been under severe attack. Georgians have resented much of the criticism, and the picture painted in “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang” has been widely assailed by the citizens’involved as a lie and a libel. I am in no position to say from my own knowledge whether the specific evils and cruelties pictured in the film are wholly accurate. It seems to me that much of the detail might be dismissed and the indictment still remain. The very existence of a chain gang, no matter how benignly administered, should be a reproach to any state. And in the light of the Angelo Herndon sentence, it is difficult to accept any assertions of sweetness and light about Georgia justice. tt u Outside the Ranks IAM so far from being a Communist or a Communist sympathizer that I can lay fair claim to standing not much lower than fourth or fifth in that party’s pet hatreds. At times I have even succeeded in pressing Norman Thomas closely as a betrayer of all things admirable in American life. I never quite made the role of Judas, but I have been Judas Jr. on numerous occasions. These circumstances are trivial

and sorrow. A flower crushed in the budding, a field-mouse turned out of its own home by a plowshare, a wounded hare limping along the road to dusty death, or the memory of a tiny bird who sang for him in days agone, touched him to tears. tt tt St THE poems of Burns did not grow; they awoke complete. He saw nature with the swift glances of a child —saw beauty in the fold of clouds, in the slant of trees, in the lilt and glint of flowing waters, in the mists trailing over the hills. The sigh of the wind in the forest filled him v. 7 ith a kind of wild, sad joy, and the tender face of a mountain daisy w 7 as like the thought of one much loved and long dead. Burns had a sad life and a soul of fire, the instincts of an angel in the midst of hard poverty; yet he lived with dash and daring, sometimes with folly—oftener a sinner, but never a hypocrite—and we must add, else we do not know the man, with a certain bubbling glee, a lyric joyousness as of a bird singing on the bough. Long live the spirit of Robert Burns; may it grow to the confounding of all unkindness, all injustice, all inhumanity! The feet of the singer may be in the furrow, but the nobility of manhood was in his heart, on his lips the voice of eternal melody, and in his face the light of the morning star. He haunts his native Scotland as an Immortal youth; his hand guides every plow. (Copyright, 1933. United Features Syndicate)

: BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. not especially serious seventeen out of 420 people who had it died. The infection usually comes from handling or dressing rabbits sick with the disease. The rabbit sick with tularemia is not likely to be active, so health authorities warn particularly against eating rabbits that can be knocked over with a stick. If the rabbit gives a good chase and has to be shot, he probably is not a very sick rabbit. The person who has tularemia develops swellings of the skin with the formation of abscesses, swelling of the lymph glands and nodules and small spots of infection in the internal organs. The typical history of such a case is that the sufferer dressed wild rabbits, had at the time a sore on the finger, and that f1 % '

enough. I emphasize them only to point out that, even if I accepted without qualm the charge of being the supine tool of a vicious system, I still would rebel against such a monstrous outrage as the Herndon conviction. I do rebel. Among other things, I wish to point ont that this is still one more instance of the cruel confusion which arises through differences in the codes of various states. Angelo Herndon could stand night after night in Union square or Columbus circle and hurl at Morgan, Rockefeller and Ford all the names he would care to call any of these gentlemen if they happened to be Socialists. He could predict barricades and the “self-determination” of the black belt. He could go through the entire Communist creed without much more than a “Move on now.” Os course, he might be clubbed. But no magistrate would think of holding him for sentence on the ground of expressed views alone. tt tt tt Justice Is Lacking And this is not said by one who believes that the city of New York constitutes a peculiarly liberal community. I don’t think it does. I think that in very many instances there has been inexcusable police violence against Communists, although I am aware of the fact that upon certain occasions pretty heavy provocation has been offered. On the whole it is my belief that Police Commissioner Mulrooney has made a good try, and I much prefer his tactics to those suggested by Mr. O’Erien. I mean Mayor O’Brien, of course, but it’s hard to get used to it. My chief point Is that within the borders of the same nation behavior which in one stale can, at the most, be no more than disorderly conduct can by transition to another suddenly become a capital crime. If we are to be anything more than the loosest sort of confederacy, such violent discrepancies must be wiped out. And the change must come in the direction of justice and of mercy. If Georgia intends to persist in such savage lawlessness as the Angelo Herndon conviction I suggest that the President order the marines lately arrived from Nicaragua to land upon her coast and restore order and protect American interests. (Copyright. 1933. by The Times)

So They Say

Whether technocracy’s contentions are correct or not, a great deal of free time will be upon the hands of the masses from now on. This means a greater task for religious forces.—Dr. George E. Haynes, vice-president of home boards of the Congregational and Christian churches. Why you no ask me am I in luff with someone? You moos be crazy!—Lupe Velez, movie star, when interviewed in New York. I’d be very woody if I didn’t know what I’m worth at the gate. —Babe Ruth, “home run king,” commenting on salary dispute.

shortly thereafter the sore developed into an ulcer, then the glands became involved and finally other organs of the body. u a a RABBIT meat, even from rabbits infected with this condition, is harmless as a food if it is cooked thoroughly, since a temperature o£ 133 degrees F. will kill the germ. It is safer, however, for every one who is dressing rabbits for use as food to wear rubber gloves during the process. Most people who become infected with tularemia have to go to bed from ten days to three weeks, but sometimes recovery is very slow. There is no specific serum, nor any special treatment for the condition other than that which a competent physician can give by prescribing remedies to relieve pain, and by controlling secondary abscesses.

M.E. Tracy Says:

GLOOM RULES LLOYD GEORGE

HERE are a few of the observations with which David Lio\d George, war premier of Great Britain, celebrated his seventieth birthday. Os all human leaders, only Stalin and Mussolini grasp what is occurring in a world headed for catastrophe, and they lack the resources to do anything about it. The English government has been bluffed by Canada, defied by Japan, and bullied by the United States. The United States government is like a dying wasp in the fall, with but one sting

left. That’s an awful view for a man who played no small part in shaping recent events to take. If Lloyd George had not shown marked tendencies toward moodiness, it would add real weight to the already oppressive burden of doubt and bewilderment, but his is a mind palpably affected by emotions of the moment. In the midst of strife, he was sure that victory would mean perms - nent relief, and when victory came he was equally sure that a beaten foe would pay most of the bill. tt b tt Eyes See Nothing but Disaster NO prominent figure of the present era more faithfully has reflected each succeeding wave of emotionalism in his atitude and utterances. A biography of Lloyd George would be a good index to the lighter manifestations of mass psychology which have colored the drift of European affairs since 1914. The man is not a panderer, but merely sensitive. He can not help voicing the moods, emotions, and beliefs with which he happens to be surrounded. He can see nothing but disaster ahead, for the simple reason that that is about ail most people can see. By all laws of logic, he still should be a political power in England, if not in the world. An understanding of mass psycholoby and an ability to exprr ; it usually can be depended on to sustain a leader, but there is one exception. No matter how hopeless people may be. they will not folk a hopeless guide. Indeed, their very hopelessness calls for the other kind. tt ts tt People Want No Pessimistic Leader WHEN it comes to leadership, people want a man who can see more than the dark side of things. They do not ask him to shut his eyes to the possibility of trouble, or deny that it exists, but they do expect that he will try to help them prevent or diminish it. They are willing for him to find fault with what has been done and tell them what a bad pickle they are in, but only for the sake of argument, only to provide a background for constructive ideas. Pessimism never has been and never can be the basis of leadership. People don’t need to be told how badly off they are. except as it may serve to spur them into action. Human nature was not born to quit or to follow 7 those wfto advise quitting. Men may differ as to the best way out, but the majority always can be depended on to agree that there is some way out and to accept only those who try to find it as guides. Humanity has lost much of its substance and many of its dreams during the last tw 7 o decades, but it has not lost faith in the power of courage and intelligence. It still believes that men can find a road out of this economic morass. It realizes that many quacks stand ready to undertake the job, and that it probably will be sold a lot of worthless remedies, but it still has confidence in the go-ahead spirit.

‘Man’ Comes to Land

TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION years ago, man’s ancestors climbed out of the ocean and took to living on land. So says Dr. William K. Gregory, who has traced twenty-five stages in the “big parade,” the evolution of man through the geological ages. Dr. Gregory is professor of vertebrate paleontology at Columbia university and curator of comparative anatomy at the American Museum of Natural History. I outlined the first six stages in Dr. Gregory’s “big parade” Tuesday. It started with a primitive “pre-fish” Much swam in the oceans of 400,000,000 years ago. Stages 2,3, 4 and 5 were better developed fish. Stage No. 6 was a fish-like amphibian, a “fish with four legs,” which started its life in the water just as do frogs today but which lived its adult life on land. Stage No. 7 is represented by the “stem reptiles,” or cotylosaurs, to give them their scientific name. Unlike the amphibians, the reptiles could spend all their life on land. “The most conspicuous advance among the reptiles was elimination of the fish-like or aquatic stage of individual development,” Professor Gregory points out. “By inclosing an artificial watery environment within a watertight egg the reptiles hit upon a ‘basic patent’ which enabled them to invade the uplands and eventually to conquer almost the whole earth.” tt tt tt A Steady Advance THE earliest reptiles retained generalized five-rayed hands and feet. “This constitutes one of their many claims to be on or near the ‘main line’ of ascent to man,” Professor Gregory says. Stage No. 8 is represented by better developed reptiles, which lived about 200,000.000 years ago. These reptiles, known as the “captorhinids,” had jaw muscles more like those of the mammals and man. Stage No. 9 is represented by the “theremorphs,” reptiles whose fossil remains have been found in Texas. In them, there is a reduction of the bony armor of the head and an increase in the muscular development, a distinct advance from reptilian to mammalian characteristics. Stage No. 10 brings us still closer to the mammal. It is composed of the earlier mammal-like reptiles whose fossils have been found in both South Africa and Russia. “While their forerunners had been clumsy beasts, crawling with sharply bent elbows and knees, these South African reptiles had begun to lift the body off the ground by bringing the fore and hind feet under the body,” Prof. Gregory says. Stage No. 11 are the “cynodonts,” reptiles so mammal-like that Professor Gregory calls them “pro-mammals.” “The skeleton is now well fitted for running, while the skull abounds in new advanced features directly foreshadowing the mammalian grade,” he says. tt tt tt Mammals Appear STAGE No. 12 is on the borderline between reptiles and mammals, according to Professor

Questions and Answers Q —State the largest number of words written on a postcard? A—The record is 14,041, which represented a thirty-day task by Moses Ge 11 ma n, a Brooklyn teacher. Q —Where is the Muzo emerald mine? A—Colombia, South Africa.

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Gregory, and “shows the absurdity of the statement that are no links between classes.” These border-line creatures are known as “icidosaurians.’ Stage No. 13 is represented by two survivors or relatives of these mammal-like reptiles, the duckbill platypus and the spiny anteater of Australia. “Both these forms lay large reptilian eggs and have many reptilian features in skull and skeleton,” Professor Gregory says. “They represent an early stage in the evolution of mammalian chararacters, especially those that tend to maintain a higher, more stable body temperature, and more sustained activity. These qualities have helped mammals to conquer the world and drive out the reptiles.” True mammals make their appearance with stage No. 16. These appeared at the beginning of the Mesozic Age, or Age of Reptiles. This was about 150,000.000 years. It was during the Age of Reptiles that the gigantic dinosaurs developed and ruled the earth. But as Professor Gregory points out, tiny mammals were beginning to develop at the same time, getting ready to take over the dominance of the earth when the dinosaurs found themselves too over-spe-cialized to meet changing conditions. These early mammals are represented mostly by fossils found in’ England and Wyoming. Professor Gregory’s “big parade” will be continued Thursday.

Times Readers Voice Views ... Editor Times—As the rumbling thunder of protest rolls on, I can not resist adding mine, also, at least a tiny squeak. Indiana artists are more than justified in protesting Richard Lieber’s appointment of a New York artist to paint the murals depicting Indiana history and tradition in Indiana’s world fair building. However worthy Mr. Benton may be as an artist, it is unreasonable to expect him to be able to do justice to this assignment that any number of Hoosier artists could. The way in which the Indiana artists are taking this so-called “slap” is very interesting, and no doubt will prove to be even more so. Many opinions and suggestions have been voiced, showing almost every type of culmination of righteous ire. One prominent artist evtn wants to disclaim his nativity as a Hoosier artist, believing it to be a stigma because of Mr. Lieber's “slap” at Indiana art. I believe he’s taking the importance of Mr. Lieber's opinion too seriously. Another suggests that Indiana artists should not exhibit a single canvas at the world's fair. What? Apparently bow down to Mr. Benton and leave him a clear field? No competition or comparison? No doubt that would please M, r - B. and Mrs. L. mightily, but let's not let them get away with it that easily. Every Indiana artist ought to contribute and strive to make Indiana’s wwld fair exhibit of fine art the grandest ever! Who know’s that the murals might nc?y even be noticed! At least they and be outshone. Don t hide our proudest light under a bushel! What kind of bravery or spin* is it that surrenders at a sir.g.e slap, political or otherwise? ” on, every shoulder to the tasK—and shades of Caesar! Maybe Indiana art will be given a New York commission! D. MILDRED PORTER. 1535 Villa avenue. . 1

-JAN. 25, 1933

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