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FRIDAY. MARCH 24. 1933 FORTY BILLIONS ESCAPE "\\7TTH upward of forty billion dollars " ™ of wealth hiding out from the tax collector. there can be little argument against such a constitutional amendment as that proposed by Senator Costigan of Colorado to permit taxation of tax-exempt securities. Wealth has flown to the sanctuary of taxexemption at an alarming rate. It is estimated that federal issues wholly tax exempt approximated $22,250,000,000 at the end of 1932; state and local issues free from federal taxation totaled some $16,300,000,000. Under the Costigan proposal, the federal government could tax state and local issues, and states could tax federal securities. Both the security and its income would be taxable, and the change would become effective ten years after ratification. While there is some question whether the clumsy expedient of a constitutional amendment is needed, in view of the wording of the sixteenth amendment, authorities lean to the view that the long road to amendment ratification is necessary. Thus, while the tax-wcary multitude may have to bear its unfair burden for years, the delay disposes of the argument that passage of the amendment now would impede municipal financing for reconstruction. The strongest argument against taxing public issues seems to come from public ownership advocates. They claim that cities and other corm.-iiinities need the advantage of taxfrccdom over private competitors. But in fact public ownership is so economically sound that it can or at least should meet private ownership on an equal footing. The reasons for taxing public issues are overwhelming. Tax exemption has encouraged the mushroom growth of public debts, many of which are unsound. It has diverted billions of capital from productive enterprise. It encourages income tax evasions and frauds. It loads the burden upon those least able to carry it, the farmers, workers, small home owners. It creates a favored and parasitic class. And it robs .the public treasuries of badly needed revenue. All these evils are emphasized glaringly today. "The wealth invested in tax-exempt securities has failed the nation in its hour of economic need,” says Senator Costigan. “Our unwisdom never has been so apparent as in the present crisis.” The time to begin this reform is now.

NOT TOO MUCH TALK OPEED is essential in congressional action on the farm relief plan. The senate and its agriculture committee should not delay things with unnecessary hearings, or long executive sessions; debate should be kept at a minimum. The country does not need to be told again just how severe is the farm distress. It knows, and it wants action. The present bill, prepared by competent economists and concurred in by leaders of farm organizations, is frankly an experiment. The President himself has told congress he Will be the first to admit it if the measure won't work. His approach to this old problem, which too long has been kicked about, is refreshing and encouraging. He leaves room for any improvements that congress can make in the measure, but under no circumstances, we believe, should congress tamper with the essential part of the measure which provides for the first time social control and planning of agriculture, our basic industry. It is long past the time when this should have been done. This program for a planned agriculture to raise farm prices is not the President’s whole plan, as he has revealed to congressional leaders. Recognizing that the mortgage problem is fundamental, he is preparing to recommend legislation that will case the burden of farm debts. When some bill for scaling down fictitious land values and high interest rates is combined with the plan to limit farm production and raise farm prices, agriculture will be nearer those "happy days.” But the farm relief bill need not wait on the mortgage legislation. Congress should get the first passed as quickly as possible, to help with this year’s crops. Then it can move on to the other elements in the farmer’s problem. PROTESTING PERSECUTION TN the year 1848 the German liberals •*- trooped to America as a haven from European oppression. Later Germany itself became a haven for human liberty. Now the new masters are grinding under the heel representatives of a race that has contributed much to German happiness and world fame—the Jewish race. The house of Albert Einstein was searched for arms and ammunition, and none was found. Bruno Walter was barred from conducting an orchestra. Many Jewish physicians are being fired from Berlin hospitals. Jews in the public service are being transferred. Irresponsible bands are committing outrages. Foremost American Jews and Jewish organizations are rising up in protest. The American Jewish committee and the B'nai B'rith, in a joint statement, proclaim eternal truths comeming hard-won human liberty, declaring that ‘‘the conscience of the civilized world is aroused against this reversion to medieval barbarism . . . Every proper step must be taken to remedy these injustices.” The organizations introduce a sage note when they say: "Such efforts must at the same time be intelligent and reasonablp. ’ Prejudice must not be fought merely with

Ropeals to passion and resentment, however justified resentment and passion may be. . . . “We shall take every possible measure to . . . marshal the forces of public opinion among Americans of every faith to right the wrongs of the Jews of Germany and for the vindication of the fundamental principles of human liberty.” Leading Protestant and Catholic clergymen and laymen in America have joined in the protest, and the United States secretary of state has instituted an inquiry as to the facts. A dictator in full swing of new power may be too close to prejudices and unsound racial theories to see it, but the zeal for human liberty has become deeply intrenched in the consciousness of the world's people. The high-handed and cruel persecution of the Jews is going to cost Herr Hitler's regime widespread reproach unless stopped at once. REFORM IN THE SCHOOLS (From N>- York World-Telegram, ABRAHAM FLEXNER advocates a special high school in New York City for gifted children. Dr. William J. O Shea, superintendent of schools, also indorses the desirability of putting “slow-progress” pupils in special classes. The theory of education is that the public school should serve all the pupils, whether geniuses, mediocrities, or morons. Under the present system only the majority is served. The schools do not properly provide for the especially apt ones or the slow ones. The result shows in the fact that more than a third of all the children entering high school are unable to do the work offered them. The new idea is to differentiate within the school system to piace pupils so that apt ones will not be held back by the slow ones nor the slow ones impressed with the consciousness of failure through seeing themselves outdistanced by children who move faster in the studies offered. “There is much talk nowadays about economic waste,” said Dr. Flexner, “but no one says anything about the tremendous intellectual waste that goes down into the gutter in the City of New York. ... A democracy like ours must have leadership of brains.” There should be such a school as Dr. Flexner proposes. There should be, in fact, a general classification of students so that the work offered would conform with the requirements of the pupil’s abilities. The special school for the gifted, however, should not be labeled as such. It should be just another school. To advertise it as a place for the higher intellects would be bad and also untruthful, who can say with accuracy which is higher and lower? There are in any cityis public school system many fine thinkers. These should be encouraged. The nation and the world must make rapid changes as the way to survival. General advance depends to a great extent upon educational advance. Liberal thinkers should be given a chance to make the whole school system over, to the end that the pupils will be liberated and none of them bound down. Teach children according to their needs and capacities. Reform the school system to suit that educational ideal.

RUSSIA’S WAY AND OUR OWN of the most interesting bits of news from Russia this spring is the announcement that the government is prepared to take drastic action against workers who fail to work as hard as the government thinks they ought. Recent legislation makes it possible for the government to deprive a workman and his family of a job, food, and his house for a' single day’s unjustified absence from work. Lenin himself urged that the dictatorship of the proletariat must not hesitate to use force against the proletariat itself when the occasion requires it. The working class in Russia, as a class, is exalted as never before in history; but the worker as an individual perhaps has less real freedom than any other worker in Europe or America. And this odd contradiction emphasizes once more the strange and fascinating contrast between the things that are being attempted in Russia and the things that are being tried in America. In each country, at this moment, the greater part of the thought and energy of the people is being devoted to an effort to fix things so that mankind's new' productiveness can be used so as to provide the ordinary man with a better, happier life.. That is the avowed purpose of the Communist experiment; it is, fundamentally, what is back of our own attempt to end this depression and make anew one impossible. Basically, then, we arc seeking the same goal. But how differently we are going at it! Iron discipline, a rigid regime in which the individual counts for nothing and freedom is a discarded word—these characterize the work-ing-out of the Russian venture. To us they look like prices that are too high to pay. We want the same things the Russians want, but we intend to get them in our own way. The individual worker may not be cock of the walk, in America, but he is absolute lord over his own life. Freedom, prosperity, and happiness must begin with him if they are to mean anything. TOO MUCH EFFICIENCY TT ARLIER in the depression it was fashionable to blame al our troubles on science and its machines. Moratoria on science were urged by well-intentioned if misinformed persons. Tnose who figuratively were panting in an attempt to keep up with science and engineering felt that our economic troubles were due to the fact that pure and applied science have advanced too fast. The nonscientific activities of mankind such as finance, government, business and philosophy had not been able to keep up with the procession of civilization led by science. The scientists, on the other hand, while admitting that science s °’.ns to have outstripped the other functions of our civilization, nevertheless point to the many frontiers upon which the advance of knowledge is pressing. Compared with what we know, what is unknown is nearly infinite. This controversy puzzled a mechanical engineer, James Winston, and he determined to flgw whether applied science is scf effi-

cient as the nonscientiflc leaders take for granted. Since engineers have made one of their most remarkable advances in automobile development, Winston made an inquiry into how much or how little further they can progress in the development, of automobile transportation before reaching perfection. “Tha weight of a small five-passenger sedan is around 2,500 pounds,” he explained in a communication to Mechanical Engineering. “The weight of five average passengers will be about 800 pounds. Therefore, to transport a useful load of 800 pounds, a total load of 800 plus 2,500, equal to 3.300 pounds, must be transported. This represents an efficiency of 24 per cent in the load ratio. “The next step is to determine the efficiency of the engine. According to numerous tests, the average automobile engine can convert only one-fifth of the energy in the gasoline into power. In the language of science, this represents a thermal efficiency of 20 per cent. “Similarly, the mechanical efficiency of the engine is 80 per cent, and that of the transmission machinery, 80 per cent. This makes the overall efficiency of automobile transportation of passengers 3 per cent. “We can see, therefore, that in one of his most successful lines of activity the engineer has attained an efficiency of only 3 per cent. In other words, he must advance thirty-three times as much as he has thus far to attcin perfection. “If this progress seems too fast for philosophers, financiers, business men and others, it seems so only because their own advance has been very much less than 3 per cent.” COMPENSATING VETERANS “T HAVE the utmost confidence in President A Roosevelt’s fairmindedness,” says National Commander Louis A. Johnson of the American Legion. “I don’t believe so: a moment that his efforts toward economy will cause him to cripple the work that is being done to help casualties—those for whom the war never will end.” Here, surely, is a statement in which every American can join. Payments from the federal treasury to war veterans are going to be cut vrey heavily—but no one wants to see the men who were maimed or crippled in action deprived of one cent of their deserved compensation. To such men the government owes a debt which must be paid on the nail, come good times or bad. The men who enjoy fat compensation for injuries whose effect has long since passed, the non-service-connected-dis-ability pensioners—they are in a different class.

Metropolitan opera is begging for funds, and Chicago’s Ravinia opera isn’t going to run at all. But somehow the folks next door manage to keep up the- payments on their radio with disconcerting regularity. The United States plans to issue three billion dollars’ worth of baby bonds. We can change the administration song from “Happy Days Are Here Again” to “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby Now!” Fingerprints claimed by a Boston medium to have been made by a ghost have been proved to be these of a living man. No alibis now if the library wants to fine you when you return that book. No reason to be surprised because Roosevelt made congress do the goose step. The very month was March. San Francisco man prefers his steam shovel to her, his wife complains. Well, you can manage a steam shovel just by pulling a lever. Looks like March is going out like a lion. It came in in a jam.

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THE best way any of us can support President Roosevelt is to emulate him. He is not asking for less work or trying to pass the buck. Instead, he is assuming the risk and responsibility of bold action. Suppose half the people were to do likewise; how long do you think it would take to get this country out of the doldiums? Another thing, President Roosevelt is making no mystery of the situation or of the remedies he intends to apply. You haven’t heard a word about commissions to study this or that since he entered office, or the desirability of extended surveys to find out what should be done. His attitude is not that of a highbrow technician. but of a plain man w'ho believes in the old-fashioned virtues of common sense and common honesty. To begin with, he has kept his word, has done exactly what he premised and in jig time. His recommendations have been simple and obvious, which explains their real greatness. n a MOST of us can learn a lot of rules and play the game as they provide. Some of us can think up new ones on occasion. But it takes genius to cut down through the red tape and start over again without creating hopeless confusion. President Roosevelt has changed the prevailing attitude toward some of our most intriguing pastimes, without breaking up the party. When he gets through, this still will be the same old United States, with the same old Constitution, but the popular viewpoint will have changed. Asa matter of fact, the popular viewpoint already has changed. We no longer are chattering of debt revision as the one way out, worrying about Manchuria, or wondering whether we shall have to wait on another world conference for recovery to make its appearance. President Roosevelt has captured our interest simply by demonstrating what can be accomplished with a little attention to home problems. n a it HE has done more to clear up the financial tangle and balance the national budget in two weeks than the last administration did in two years, and he has done it by concentrating American thought on American affairs. He has rejuvenated the country’s faith in itself. and has given us a fine example of how to translate that faith into action. He has mobilized public opinion solidly behind him. The people are ready to support such plans and policies as he may recommend. He has won their confidence not only by his vigorous efforts as chief executive, but by his brief, clear, informing messages. No one feels the slightest sense of oppression because of the vast powers President Roosevelt has requested and obtained. No one feels that bestowal of those powers represents the slightest threat to our form of government. Instead, there is deep conviction that the man merely has assumed temporary responsibilities to contribute his share in relieving a temporary situation, and that he deserves wholehearted co-operation. That being so, let us give it to him, not only in support of his work, but in doing our own.

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Bv An Indiana Republican Arthur r. robinson, the posing and postulating Republican senator of this state, offended the great majority of Indiana the past week by opposing President Roosevelt’s economy bill. Unwilling to face facts and to adjust himself to today’s conditions, and too stupid to grasp the economic necessity thereof —with the ethical discrimination of a moron, entranced by his own vote—Robinson's clownish antics and pandering for votes is a disgrace to the country, and especially to Indiana. He got into the senate on a fluke and from the first his foghorn voice has been no flute solo to Indiana. He has been tried and found wanting. He is a thorn in Indiana’s flesh. His thinking is muddy confusion. Nothing seems to disgrace or discipline him. From thousands of Indiana Republicans who believe the President’s stand to be ethical and moral, as well as economic, Robinson has received telegrams voicing their irritation and annoyance at his continuous blast of south wind and truculent and unreasonable opposition. But no! This victim of Narcissism —self-love and ego—with his eye on the flesh pots, ranted on, unmindful of the sacred trust of his office, while he aggressively and shamelessly played personal politics, in a bid for his own re-election later. Gilding his hypocrisy under the name of loyalty to the Legion. What he will get is the axe. (And that from many Legion men). Out here in Indiana we realize that veteran expenditures constitute one of the chief items of federal cost, taking 21 per cent of all expenditures of the fiscal year of 1932, and 27 per cent of the appropriations for the current year. We know that neither ex-Presi-dent Hoover nor President Roosevelt ever has objected to expenditure for veterans who suffered from war service in any way. Nor do the American people wish to see one dollar withheld from a disabled soldier injured in the service or from the dependents of one who gave his life in that service. But it does object to handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to those who suf-

WHITE men who live in the 1 tropics, and occasionally some in the United States, develop a condition in which there is prolonged diarrhea, loss of weight and inflammation of the mouth. In many instances, the condition is mistaken for food poisoning. The tongue becomes red and sore; the abdomen is constantly swollen with gas, and there, may be repeated cramps. The exact cause of this condition is not known. It is believed to be related to some sort of deficiency in the diet, similar to that which causes pernicious anemia. It was believed for a while that perhaps the condition was due to an invasion of an organism called monilia, but at present the majority of opinion does' not seem to be in this direction.

YESTERDAY afternoon the woman's club discussed juvenile delinquency. Many a modern custom came in for criticism, but the movie was named chief offender. “We’ve simply got to do something about the awful picture shows,” babbled a bevy of ladies, “if we want to save our children.” I raised there, and I raise here, a dissenting voice to that opinion. To adjust the movie to suit the child instead of teaching the child to discriminate between good and bad pictures, is to begin at the wrong end of the problem. Yet everywhere you go you find adults fired with the utmost ardor to reform everything under the sun except that which is right at hand —their immediate family. We indulge in the most fanciful schemes for our children's welfare by trying to take everything and everybody in hand. But most of us neglect utterly our own pr*:ate job, the one for

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Tropical Disease Baffling Medical Problem , , , by dr. morris FISHBEIN

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Attention , Governor By Frank Walton The following is a letter which I have sent to Governor McNutt: “If it is your pleasure to give a slight favor, let our truck and car license become due Aug. 1, 1933, or, still better and a greater favor, put 1 2 -cent tax on gasoline instead of making us license our cars and trucks. “I have been informed by Representative Lee Vellom of Saltillo, Ind., that $1,500,000 was appropriated for Purdue agricultural college for 1933. The Governor and the state legislautre did this agrnst the good will of the farmers. “If the farmers had to do the appropriating, Purdue would not get a penny. Let Purdue get its money like we farmers get ours. Corn, 20 cents a bushel; potatoes, 18 to 25 cents a bushel; eggs, 5 cents a dozen; hogs, 2 1 2 to 3 cents a pound.” Campbellsburg, Ind. sered no disability in the service and thus making a continuing contribution to the country’s distress. President Roosevelt, like his predecessor, asked for a reduction of this expense. An overwhelming mapority'of the American people, and I venture to say, a big majority of right-thinking veterans, will say “Amen.” Let us balance the budget and keep it balanced—for the good of all. The substitute for thinking exuded by the windy Robinson is sheer madness to any intelligent man. It is the preponderant opinion of Indiana —and the country as a whole that Senator Robinson should be retired to the cabbage patch at the next election. And, meanwhile, a gag should be applied. By John Cain Golden AS we gaze into the crucible of time, we behold the seething, bubbling turmoil that is Life, raging at the walls that encompass it. As it swirls and eddies about the cauldron, the dross is driven to the top and is banished into Eternity by the hand of Time. And if we are patient and look

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyecia, the. Health Magazine. Apparently the condition is associated with some deficiency of the secretion of the stomach, as is also pernicious anemia. There is one opinion to the effect that pernicious anemia occurs because the secretion of the stomach is not able to manufacture out of meat the particular substance necessary to the proper formation of red blcod cells. In other words, there seem to be certain relationships between pernicious anemia and the condition called sprue; there also are certain differences which have not made it possible to include both conditions under the same name. Because there are many types of infection in the tropical areas

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ,■

which we are responsible, the job we might do well—training our children. We can’t make over the whole of mankind in one lifetime; but we could teach our sons and daughters to aspire to more than ordinary excellence. Questions and Answers Q —On what day of the week was Jan. 9, 1870? A—Sunday. Q—What is the address of Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who writes “Everyday Religion” in The Times. A—Address Dr. Newton in care of United Features, 220 East Forty-second street, New York, N. Y. Q. —On what day of the week did June 27, 1396, fall? A.—Saturday.

deeply into the turmoil, we may find a bit of gold. So in this, our crucible of Time, the ordeals of the present day, we. too. may find the gleam of pure gold. And the brightest gleam of all is that what is called “Front,” or "Bluff,” but which is n more than financial hypocrisy, has beheld the end of its reign. No longer do we fear the unfavorable criticism of our neighbors of our worldly goods or chattels. We are honestly and sincerely what we are. No longer do we try to equal our acquaintances in the display of the luxuries of life. No longer are we ashamed to confess that they are beyond our means. The marriage for social standing and financial power has settled silently into the grave of the past. The princess and the pauper are on a common level and the name of the level is Life. We have seen our fair weather companions go by the board in our storm of adversity; we have drained to the last bitter dregs the cup of hopelessness and despair. Yet as surely as the sun rises in the east, the ordeal has brought out the gold of experience and philosophy. To meet our friends as man to man on our level of life, to be accepted for what we really are, to be able to look into the eyes of our fellow men with no misgivings, is ample recompense for all our sufferings. And that is, indeed, a spot of pure gold.

Daily Thought

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked w r orks with men that work iniquity; and let me not eat of the dainties.—Psalms 141:4. EVIL is a far more cunning and persevering propogandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.— Lowell.

associated with dysentery and with inflammation and even bleeding from the bowel, one always must be certain that the condition is a dietary deficiency and not a serious infection. When the condition has been definitely determined to be sprue, the diet is rearranged in order to include protein material for a large part, relatively small amounts of fat and carbohydrates which are easy to digest and absorb. It has been suggested that people include particularly ripe fruits, such as bananas and strawberries, and that the diet also be supplemented by a considerable amount of liver. A physician always can aid the condition by prescribing suitable remedies, such as calcium and viosterol, to aid the formation of suitable coagulating substances in the blood.

IT is impossible for parents to avert all social dangers from the young, merely by starting movements and organizing and joining clubs and talking. For each child must learn to accept the world as it is. Only by doing that will he ever be inspired to improve it. And if he is trained to think that society is responsible for his shortcomings, he is not likely to grow into a strong and steadfast man, j capable of resisting even the minor temptations. By far the easiest and simplest way to improve conditions is to work on the children. Moral character, the power to think honestly ! and to test values, must be bred ! into the individual at home. I believe that the movies would I constitute no problem at all and that they immediately wall improve j whenever we have reared a generation of citizens who want decency land beauty in entertainment--

3IARCH 2T, 1033

It Seems to Me - BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

Phillip la follette, newly returned from Russia, just has conferred with President Roosevelt. I hope that the administration will recognize the Soviet republic and that this recognition will come quickly. The old argument that a good many Americans do not approve of the Russian government must sound silly by now. After all, we have duly accredited representatives in Germany, and I don't see how anybody can approve of that regime except Herr Hitler. Yet, even in the face of the Nazi terror. I would not b* in favor of the severance of diplomatic relations. Any official move merely would serve to strengthen Hitler's, campaign at home for exaggerated, nationalism. If anybody asks, “Yes. but whai can be done here which may b effective in checking Hitler?” a reply is difficult. I am in favor of protest meetings such as have beem held. I think this is the time for an even greater show of popular Resentment in this country. tt tt a American United Frovht AND, above all, here is one problem where Americans certainly should preserve and present a united front. It will be foolish if Communists and Socialists refuse to get together on this issue. NMw * a very fervent dislike for HU.lerkfvra the particular personal property o* radicals. Liberals, conservatives, and even the much belabored reactionaries have a perfect right- to add their protest. Here at last is a fight in which everybody can join, everybody can help and we should all hang around. Yet, in the last analysis, the destruction of Hitler must cunte from the German people. Thet rest of us can do no more tlran give them our emotional support. The function of intellectual load--ers throughout the world will be of great importance. Hitler -can not lightly dismiss the indictments brought by Einstein and J-’eucht-wanger. After all, his ostensible purpose has been an appeal for the restoration of the Germany that vas. He. can not pretend that he is. serving the tradition of greatness by alienating all the best minds in th? country which he pretends to recreate. tt tt a Two hinds of Poor IT has been said that in Germany the poor in property belong to the parties of the left \aing and the poor in spirit are the .followers of Hitler. The saying is .probably a little too pat. Hitler undoubtedly has recruited more than ihis share of rascals, but among his followers there must be many who honestly are deceived by the glib eloquence and the easy promises of this expert stump speaker. There w ill can be an appeal from all quarters of the globe to the sober second thought of these .people. Surely the anti-Semitism of Hitler can not stand even ha.ltf a minute's rationalization. If tiie world is suffering from an excess of hatred and suspicion, Hitler hardly can premise to bring back pea ce and prosperity by whipping up and encouraging new forms of suspicion and hatred. tt M u f Germs in the Treaty THE germ of Hitlerism -.undoubtedly lies in t>he maJny mistakes and injustices boui*d up in the Versailles treaty. But. to large sections of a bleeding peojaie, Hitler is saying, “They have beaten you with whips, and I will beat you with scorpions.” This way madness lies. I believe it is a mistake an tactics to stress charges about Hitler's personal life. He has been accused of everything from perversiort to bad pronunciation of the German language. These things, even if they happen to be true, are incidental. The man's program is of nnore im-. portance than his use of vowels and consonants. So far it has been difficult. I will admit, to frame a clear protest as to the Nazi plans because tiney have been laid down in such a hazy fashion. But we have ample evidence that rule is to be by violence, intimidation, the prison and the firing squad. tt tt tt One Clear Plank \tOR can there be any doubt as Lw to the extent of Nazi antiSemitism. In this respect, at least, there has been no concealment? Even so, it is well to remember that the fight is not simply against one cruel and muddled headed charlatan called Adolf Hitler. He represents a system. In all probability he merely is a tfalse front for men equally unscrupulous but just a little smarter. The fight must be against the system which he represents. An ocean lies between ns. But the voice of America can and will be heard. Now is the time for all good men. (Copyright, 1933, bv The* Times) Age BY GERALDINE BRISBIN A little old house And a little old woman, Primrose and lilacs, In an old-fashioned garden. And each passing yeai;, The old house and her face, Resemble each other In beauty and grace.

So They Say

Poetry does not mean going demented. The great effects of-verse are produced by luc id 1t y, simplicity, and a real order of the mind. Alfred Noyes, poet and critic. My opinion is that the United States fleet should be "built up to the ratio laid dowm’in London as soon as conditions permit.— Claude A. Swanson, secretary of the navy. “We’ll continue to enforce the law, even though our allowance of $8,400,000 is more then $1 000.000 under the figure of last year. —Andrew McCampbell, New York l prohibition administrator.