Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1933 — Page 4

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SATURDAY. MARCH 25. 1933

HITLER TERROR TjriTLER atrocities against Jews and political opponents in Germany have provoked great waves of protest in virtually all civilized countries. There is nothing much our government or any foreign government can do, except to insist on ihe protection of its own citizens unlucky enough to be caught in Germany at such a time. That is the convention of international law—one government does not interfere as a rule, with another sovereign government in the treatment of the latter's subjects. This rule, however heartless it may appear at, first glance, has in general worked for peace among nations, otherwise nations constantly would be in danger of drifting into war over domestic disputes. But this does not mean that effective action is imposisble. The kind of mass protest now arising against the terror is apt to be more effective in the long run than foreign governmental action. When Americans cancel their sailings on German ships, when the English boycott German goods, as they now are doing, the pressure becomes very acute on the mad Hitler. Even those German business interests which have helped to raise him to power may realize their folly. Our profound sympathy to all the racial and political victims of Hitler barbarism. We sympathize also with the mass of German citizens who have been fortunate enough to escape the terror so far, but who will pay in the end for the sins of the counter-revo-lutionary government which has seized power. Unfortunately, the world does not differentiate between governments and peoples. Germany and the Germans will be blamed long after Hitler is gone. So Germany is twice victim; the victim of Hitler and the victim of world opinion. THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AMENDMENT r | "'HE work of modernizing popular governA ment did not end when the lame duck amendment became law. Senator George W. Norris has laid before congress another amendment which is the logical successor of the one now so widely acclaimed, and a few years from now we will doubtless wonder, as we do in regard to the lame duck measure, why it was not adopted long ago. The new amendment abolishes the electoral college and allows voters to participate more fully in selection of a . President. It makes it possible for independent candidates to run for the presidency with a real chance of election, as well as the nominees of the two great parties. And. when the votes are gathered, It provides that all of them must be counted for the man for whom they are cast. Instead of giving the candidate who gets a majority of New York's popular vote all the forty-five presidential votes cast by that state, it gives him just the proportion of those votes to which his popular vote entitles him. In the past, men have become President though a majority of the popular vote was cast against them. This never could occur if the presidential vote of each state were divided in accordance with the popular vote. Nor could the political parties force unpopular candidates upon a reluctant electorate if machinery for an independent race were available. It took Senator Norris ten years to make the country see the great need of his lame duck amendment. Already he has urged this new reform for five years. It should not require a national emergency, as it did in regard to the other measure, to make us appreciate that democracy, if it is to succeed, really must be democratic. A DIRECT ATTACK ON IDLENESS TJRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S scheme for enrolling 250,000 men in a peace-time army for a direct attack on unemployment is about as complete a departure from accepted traditions in America as could be imagined. And yet—such is the temper of the country today—that very fact is helping to win public support for the measure. So far. in our fight with unemployment, we have followed the old traditions and they haven’t worked. Merely to see the problem tackled from an entirely new angle is encouraging. A leadership which is not afraid to do something never done before in this country seems to stand a pretty good chance of getting somewhere. Meanwhile, the plan is deeply interesting. For one thing, it ought to help sift the wheat from the chaff in the various metropolitan breadlines. The industrious and energetic citizen who is unemployed through no fault of his own and who subsists on charity because he has to and not because he wants to—this chap can be expected to jump at the chance to join the army without guns. But the loafer, the gimme-a-dime-please-mister drifter who rather would panhandle than work—he will be reluctant to give up his warm flophouse corner for a steady year of honest toil; and his very reluctance will help to expose him. Our cities will know a good deal more about the men they are supporting when the recruiting campaign for this army is over. In the second place, the whole scheme has a freshness and a directness that make it exciting. It puts the government into direct frontal assault on unemployment. There is, as President Roosevelt points out, a vast amount of work that the government ought to do; there

also is a vast number of men who need work very badly. This plan puts the work and the men together in a definite and straight-forward way. It gives action to a nation that wants action. It is as welcome a thing as has been suggested In Washington this spring. A REAL LABOR DEPARTMENT T TOW well the President chose in naming * Miss Frances Perkins to head the labor department Is shown by her vigorous action in ousting fifteen alien-baiters from the immigration service. Here is a labor secretary with brains, courage, and sympathy. She can, as she intimates she will, build a useful and honest bureau of labor statistics. Realistic research under a modern and trained director can coordinate the work of fact-finding bodies in and outside of Washington. She can enlarge the now innocuous bureau of mediation into an effective bureau of industrial relations. Such a bureau not only could mediate in strikes, but study industrial danger zones to prevent such chaos as reigns in the soft coal regions; encourage experiments in employe-management co-operation; even aid in forming unions for orderly bargaining, as the commerce department now' builds trade associations. She can substitute for the Hoover-Doak nest of nepotism an efficient and non-political state-federal employment service, such as is proposed in the pending Wagner bill. She can, and doubtless will, give new’ support to the women’s and children's bureaus, already among the most effective agencies of our government. She can, by means of state-federal conferences, aid in standardizing labor laws, in extending such reforms as unemployment inr surance, old-age pension, minimum wage and anti-injunction law’s. She can harmonize federal activities with national industrial planning in view. She can combine the practical and the scientific by keeping in closer touch with the research bodies of the universities and foundations. With America crying out for leadership, a reconstructed and well-manned department of labor now can take its rightful place in helping to build a modern industrial order. CONQUEST OF FOG AN airplane took off from College Park, Md„ in weather that kept all other aircraft on the ground. There were rain and murky clouds dow - n to the treetops. Visibility w’as almost zero. The pilot, James L. Kinney, government research bureau flier, with assistants, flew 200 miles to Newark without being able to see anything and came to within a short distance of the landing surface of Newark airport before he saw’ the ground. Had the murk cloaked his vision to the ground, he could have landed as safely. Kinney has made many similar flights in good weather, his vision completely hooded. But this was the first in thick weather. The extraordinary flight into the equivalent of black darkness from earth to sky w’as made passible, first by the radio beacon w’hich guides planes from port to port and, second, by the “bent beam’’ which the government scientists have developed and on which the plane, reaching the vicinity of the airport, glides down to the runway and lands. Conquest of fog long has been talked of. It seems about completed. Probably it will not be long until transport planes on the regular mail, passenger, and express lines will be taking off, flying and landing in any fog, with perfect safety. The end of progress is not yet! A NEW “SOVIET MENACE” 'T'O certain of our country’s senators goes the palm for the most horrendous discovery of the year. Certain of these law-givers, according to current advices from Washington, have discovered that the pending farm relief bill “contains a deeply hidden but terrifying “Soviet menace.” This may be partially due to the fact that any government which really makes a determined effort to improve the living conditions of a large mass of the population is apt to seem more or less Communistic to a certain type of mind. But the dispatches relate that it is chiefly due to the fact that Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to the secretary of agriculture, once spent a whole month in Russia. Now that the terrible secret is out, one trusts that the senators who dug it up will not feel hurt if they discover that no one but themselves is very much excited about it. MR. MITCHELL’S ARREST A BOUT all that any one can say concerning the arrest and indictment of Charles E. Mitchell, former chairman of the National City Bank, on a charge of income tax evasion, is—“ How have the mighty fallen!” Until very recently Mr. Mitchell was one of the most respected and influential members of the financial community—than which, in our money-minded land, there was no more hightoned outfit. When a great banker opened his lips, no dog§ might bark. We lesser fry might listen respectfully when a financial wizard told us what was what, but it seldom occurred to us that we might offer any criticism. And now the gentleman faces criminal charges of the very kind which landed AJ Capone in Atlanta; and the best part of it is that a public which has grown disrespectful and cjnical about its money changers does not seem to be putting out any very great amount of sympathy. GEORGE GATLIN YX/'HO knows anything about George Catlin? Possibly some artists and scholars. A story came out of Washington regarding him which is worth quoting, both on account of Catlin and as a commentary’ upon genius which drudges in some attic and creates pictonal wealth destined to be worth the means of comfort long after he is dead. The mayor of Cedar Rapids, la., visited the Smithsonian institution, in Washington. He pointed to some paintings of Indians and asked if they were valuable. He was told that paintings by George Catlin, outside the government collection, were worth at the lowest price SSOO. The mayor then related his story. Fifty years ago Catlin, poor. sick, and discouraged, worked in an old tower of the Smithsonian, while the institution’s secretary

tried without success to get congress to buy his paintings. A boy carried food to the artist, who sometimes gave him the only reward he had at hand—some painting or other. The boy, having no use for the pictures, stuck them behind a stairway. The boy of fifty years ago is the now mayor. The pictures from behind the stair were the pictures on the Smithsonian walls. Catlin had his moment of identification, advertising a species of “success” story. His pictures hang where he wanted them to hang. The government got something for nothing. The hunger pangs of fifty years ago no doubt were pretty distressing to George Catlin. Congressional attitude toward economy takes various forms. MASH THE MASHER 'T'HE arrival of spring stirs into new’ activity A the lowest form of animal life—the masher. An unspeakable worm at his best, thriving in the muck of street corners, he may become a snake of positive menace, lying in wait in a parked car, bent on abduction, assault, or worse. Police can not exterminate the breed. Even birth control could not go far along this line. But at least .downtown streets and corners could be made fairly safe for women of the city who daily shrink from the insult of the masher. A business girl writes to The Times today, calling attention to the condition which she and hundreds of others employed in downtown stores and offices face as they go to and from work and on shopping tours. “Many times during the week it is necessary to pass the intersection at Illinois and Washington streets, in business hours. This also is a convenient path for shopping purposes. “For some time w r e have had to take our choice of going a roundabout wa; or listening to the insinuating remarks of a number of adult ‘drug store cowboys.’ “Practically every day the same ones appear, especially on the northeast corner, and comment on every passing girl. “During cold weather, of course, these incidents were few’er, but now that the days are getting milder, w’e dread to think of having to undergo their inspection and hear wise cracks flung at us several times a day. “It may be great outdoor sport for them, but we don’t enjoy it. Is it necesasry?” It should not be necessary. The police can help to stamp it out. Any good citizen can do his part, by reporting any incident of the kind he sees to the nearest policeman. And the women can do their part. Let them forget their natural aversion to scenes. Let them report to the police every case of the kind which they encounter. And let them appear in court, if necessary, to see that the offender gets his just dues of a stiff fine or a little exercise at the state farm or a few days in jail to meditate as to whether mashing pays. We have had rum squads and gambling squads and several other kinds of squads. A mashing squad might be a good idea for Chief Morrissey to consider. “Success is here today and gone tomorrow’,” states a writer. Yes, nothing recedes like success. Incredible as it may seem, all the current books on technocracy were written by hand. The rush to pay taxes nowadays is exceeded only by the rush to dodge ’em. Golf widows’ worries never are over. Just now they’re trying to restrain their mates from digging divots in the living room rug. Where there’s a will there’s—a crowd of lawyers.

M. E.Tracy Says:

SUCCESS Os repeal depends largely on the w’ay beer is handled during the next year or two. If beer is permitted to become a nuisance, either from the political or the social standpoint, the possibility of getting thirty-six states to vote against the eighteent h amendment will be reduced greatly. The fact that sentiment has changed toward nation-wide prohibition must not be taken to means that people w r ant a return of the old order, or that the country has become so wet that it will stand for anything. To begin with, the drys have not been eliminated. They are prepared for a stiff fight, and, as a general proposition, they are the kind of people who will stay with it. Os more importance than the drys is that element of the people which, though thoroughly disgusted with Volsteadism, will be quick to resent anything like a return of the liquor ring or the backroom hideout. The people have not voted to go back where they were before nation-wide prohibition came into existence. While millions favor repeal, they look for improvement, pot retrogression. n tr n

THERE is a widespread belief that mismanagement of the liquor traffic itself brought on prohibition, and that a better system can be devised. There is the same old opposition to artificially promoted drinking and to any sort of alliance between liquor and politics. The chances for repeal are none too certain, and they can be spoiled easily. At least ten states can be depended on to vote “no ” Three more w'ould save the eighteenth amendment. In several, sentiment is divided about evenly and a little adverse influence w’ould swing it against repeal. Under such circumstances, a great deal depends on how beer is handled. Brew’ers and politicians must w r atch their step. This is no time for a political souse or a patronage grab. The majority of people are looking for something better than we have had under the eighteenth amendment or than we had before. If they fail to get it, there is likely to be an unfavorable reaction. Not only the saloon, but the type of politics for which it stood is out. u a a AVERAGE people will not tolerate the kind of establishments which promote drunkenness and furnish the basis for political control. If beer is good, let it be sold openly, like cigars and cigarets. In no other way can graft or bootlegging be eliminated. Laws designed to limit the traffic in such a way as would give public officials arbitrary powers will lead only to a restoration of the old setup and a return of the old adverse sentiment. It is useless to suppose that we can beat back over the ground we have traveled without getting the same result. If beer is handled in a respectable manner, it will be respectable. If, on the other hand, it is handled in a way to cast doubt on the traffic, to create the impression that there is something shady about the business, the old opposition) will return.

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[Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so every one can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.] By John E. Bayless I want to add my approval to the declaration of the President that he w'ould favor an act to make the postal savings accounts checkable, thereby making it convenient for all having money in the savings department of the postoffice to take care of their business in the most convenient manner possible. And that is not all. The check book could so be arranged that the one to whom the check was offered would be sure the money w’as there to cover the amount for which the check was given, thereby guaranteeing against fraud. Another angle is that the government could use this money instead of borrowing from the big money lenders at a high rate of interest on non-taxable bonds. This would give a special favor, as they are doing nothing, you might say, toward keeping up the government, but making use of it as a means for private gain to the disadvantage of the many, which has been one of the primary causes of hard times. Another angle is profit. It is from this profit that the great fortunes are built, and because there are many consumers and few’ profiteers the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. Special privilege has sought and obtained legislation favorable to its interests. It is by this principle that great wealth has and is being used to exploit labor. The railroads always have had special legislation and help, cashing their bonds, exorbitant appropriations for carrying the mail, and excessive freight rates, all of which comes out of labor. Telegraph, telephone, lights, gas, water, in fact everything that is used by the public, are in the hands of private ownership. It is time

WHENEVER material from the bile, called bilirubin, gets into the blood there follow’s a yellowish discoloration of the skin. The skin, the mucous membranes, and even the whites of the eyes become jaundiced. There are, however, several different types of conditions that can cause the passage into the blood of this bile. For instance, an obstruction may occur anywhere in the bile ducts from the smallest channels which develop in the liver to the point at which the bile pours into the intestines. If the obstruction is sufficient, the bile is turned back and jaundice follows. The most frequent causes of such jaundice are stones w’hich block the tubes, but occasionally tumors may form and block off the ducts, and in other instances there may be serious infection with inflammation and swelling resulting in obstruction.

ALL my life I have heard mothers disparaged because they will talk about their children in public. But it was not until I became acquainted with certain male newspaper writers that I understood fully how little we deserve such treatment. Fathers, it seems, may be excused for writing about their babies, but mothers are not to be excused for talking about them. Asa matter of fact, I have all the sympathy in the world for these men. What's more, no subject matter ever could be so entertaining as a baby, from the viewpoint of its parent. The thing I object to is that women get so much of the blame for a fault that is common to both sexes. These papas, to be sure, maintain a slightly stand-offish attitude in the clever little pieces they do about their children. They preserve their masculine aplomb with commendable consistency. They appear to disdain slightly

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Let's Have Relief By Non-Partisan IF our illustrious statesmen don’t change their policies in regard to elimination of poverty and unemployment, they may face a situation that will make civil w'ar a pleasant pastime. Laws compiled to protect the raccoon from eviction seem to have more than a touch of irony in them. Nor does the eternal squabble of party politics help the situation. If our honorable governor were to tarry in his methodical beheading of vanquished Republicans and consider the sore plight of his commonw’ealth, it would be more beneficial to all concerned. While his ability is unquestioned the example which President Roosevelt has set in dealing with these catastropes should cause the governor to realize that to date he has been nothing more than the advance agent for the great Democratic circus. The placing, with a flourish, of his signature on some silly amendment doesn’t signify that he is complying with his oath of office in regard to our constitution and laws. Provisions were made in these laws and constitution to take care of such emergencies as have arisen. But could our forefathers see the sacrilegious amendments that have been and are being incorporated into these regulators ' of the masses I fear they sincerely would regret that they were to become innocent parties to these outrages. for the public to look after its own affairs. Politics from the time Constantine organized the church until now has been grabbing everything in sight for its own malicious ends and will continue to as long as the masses continue to sleep.

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Associated with jaundice, itching of the skin is not infrequent. The material is excreted in the urine, and as a result the urine has an intense yellow color. Because the bile is not, as usual, expelled with the excretions from the bowel, these develop a clay color. Not infrequently the entrance of the bile substance into the blood leads to hemorrhages, not only through injury to the walls of the smaller blood vessels, but also because of its effects on the substances in the blood which are involved in clotting. One form of jaundice, which occurs frequently in children, lasts from two to twelve weeks. It has been thought that this is infectious, but the proof is not certain. It seems to come on about the same season of the year when colds in general are frequent. The condition does not actually occur in epidemics.

the intensity with which mothers of the same babies regard the infant prodigy. They poke gentle fun at maternal solicitude. We are led to believe that they remain always calm and dispassionate before the infant’s allure. Questions and Answers ..... Q— Which state is nicknamed “lodine state?” A—South Carolina. Q —Name the Japanese coun-sel-general in New York City. A—Kensuke Horinouchi. Q —On what date did the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur fall in 1906? A—Saturday, Sept. 29. Q —What is the date of the next Madri Gras in New Orleans? A—Feb. 28.

By Mary Neal The boy who wore the red suspenders is becoming almost as notorious as the dazed college fellow w’ho ran the wrong way with the ball, but not for the same reason. It would seem that there are, at present, degrees of culture and that none of these includes the famed suspenders. That a boy of 11 should commit the unforgivable social blunder causes us to smile, if a bit carefully. We can understand the boy. What we fail to comprehend is how a grown w'oman, principal of a school, supposed to be old enough to know better, to have reached years of discretion, could make such an uproar about a pair of red suspenders. It would seem that something was radically wrong somewhere, that a teacher had so little to occupy her time. Or shall we say that the cares of her profession sit lightly on her when she could take time out for such ridiculous performances? To send him home, cause him to miss part of his daily work, shame him before his classmates, make him learn to hate the school, all for an innocent pair of red suspenders. No wonder taxpayers cry out for teachers who can teach, to instruct our modern youth. Surely the mind of the 11-year-old would have been just as receptive to learning that day, regardless of his attire. Wasn’t there some way that he could have been told, with just a suggestion or two about future appearance, and then left to decide the matter for himself. Is it the Bible that says, “Man looketh upon the outward appearance, but God looketh upon the heart?” Would that we had a little more of the God-like in some of our modem educators.

It is frequently without fever, and definite bacterial organisms have not yet been found in the bile as taken directly from the intestines at the point in which the bile is poured into the intenstines. Various types of poisons which tend to injure the liver as, for example, poison by arsenic, phosphorus, chlorpform, and cinchophen are frequently associated with jaundice. There are also cases in which certain types of infection actually do spread through a community. Much liver damage is frequent. Such cases might well be called infections or epidemic jaundice. One of the most common types of bile in the blood is that which occurs in tiny babies just after birth. This usually tends to clear up in a few days. There are, however, other types of infection at birth associated with jaundice which are more likely to be serious, if not fatal.

T)UT do they? I should say not. Pride drips from every line; love garlands every letter. One can imagine them racing home each* evening bursting with desire to feast their eyes upon their owm particular lovable lump of human sweetness. They can not. with all their ruses, keep an immense self-satisfaction from creeping into everything they write about the family, son or daughter, as the case may be. Fatherhood sits upon them like a golden crowrn. Plainly, they are feeling sorry for their friends, who may have fathered children, but none so perfect as their own. The sweet unreasonable ness of parenthood is an evident in the man as in the woman, and it is good that this is so. Any father who is not prejudiced tremendously in favor of his own baby is, I think, a mighty poor specimen, and doesn't deserve to have one.

.MARCH 25. 1933

It Seems to Me -BY HEYWOOD BROUN

T>EER is almost here. It may turn out to be a more important change in our social and economic life than some of us cynics ; had anticipated. I myself have done very little bleeding and dyi-g for the brew in recent years. It .mod to fall among the minor problems. But now that the beverage practically is within reach, I begin to comprehend that I was a little less than fair to beer when I didn't have it. I still think the material aspects of the move are somewhat exaggerated. I believe we may be disappointed in beer as a grain consumer, a revenue producer and a reliever of unemployment. But beer has its spiritiml side, and it would be shortsighted to neglect this important factor in the return of an industry. This will be particularly true if w r e get some approximation of the old-time saloon. a a a Beer Ins pi res Talk TANARUS“ has been held that beer will be A a boon to Tammany politicians. That may be so. but it will have a much greater effect in winning recruits to radicalism. For instance, one of the reasons why Socialism has made such small progress in America in recent years has been the absence of beer. It is a slow fuel, but a steady burner. When there are places where men can sit and W'arm off embarrassment, exchange of ideas is sure to come. Over the goblets plain people begin to tell comparative strangers what they think of the world and what they think it ought to be. Beer serves to bring out arguments about rent and wages and surplus profits. Unlike those headier beverages which lead to altercations, beer makes for solidarity. Congress has decreed that a formula of 3.2 is not intoxicating in fact. I hope that congress is right and that the supreme court will see eye to eye with this legislative decision. But beer of that alcoholic content or even much less is intoxicating in theory in the best sense of the word. I mean it has within it that potency of imaginative refreshment which makes a man say, “Well, now, if I were in congress"— a a When Marx Was Young IWAS interested the other day in reading an essay on Karl Marx by Harold J. Laski, and in that brochure I found the statement that "Marx remained a year in Bonn, studying jurisprudence; but he seems to have devoted himself more to the convivial side of the university.” Marx was a prodigious W’orker during the greater part of his life and a prophet who preserved the austere tradition. Accordingly, it is a little heartening to know that he had at least one semester of beer and jollification. And certainly the movement which he founded has draw'n inspiration from the seidel both in Germany and in the gay ’9os in America. After all, beer is Uu philosopher’s drink. Poetry is associated with wine, and perhaps fallaciously. Surely it was no wine of a 3.2 type which set any Pegasus to soaring. But the hard, clear, and intensive thought of the w’orld has very seldom been done on water. George Bernard Shaw stands alone as a teetotaler who has won literary distinction. And his occasional flightiness and instability of viewpoint may be blamefi upon the fact that he has traveled more thai} seventy years without ballast. ana

May Not Suffice I AM not so much a beer propagandist that I would suggest that inspiration for genius or high talent can ever be purchased for 5 or even 10 cents a glass. Perhaps it is no more than a coincidence that the beer-drinking nations have been the very ones to furnish us with the greatest of cosmic philosophers. It is quite possible that even the new liberation from Volsteadism will not give us at once a Wagner, a Karl Marx, or an Einstein. But it will help to bring good amateur conversationalists back into their own again. Certainly there is no support for the familiar prohibition contention that beer is brutalizing and reduces its devotees to a dull sogginess. We need not look abroad for proof to the contrary. The mind of Henry L. Mencken is perhaps not the best in America, but surely it is the liveliest, and the Baltimore strong boy has been insistent in his praise of beer and still another flagon. I will admit that there is a certain amount of pretense about the amber fluid. To paraphrase a familiar spiritual, “Everybody talking 'bout beer ain’t drinking it.” Nevertheless, it has entered intothe poetry and the prose and the philosophy of many nations. And so, even if beer fails to balance the budget, it may serve its purpose in doing precisely that for the intellect. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Times; A Locked Diary BY EVE STANTON As the dull gray of a young sun’s setting, So is the sorrow of swift forgetting; Asa light song too early shattered, A fire burned out and the ashes scattered; So is the dusk that sways and lingers. Lights that die and fugitive fingers, The ghosts of flowers, a dust that slips Through soft unloosed fingertips. Better that eyes be bright with weeping Than blind to dreams and dulled with sleeping, • Better the heart be torn with pain Than veiled with slumber and deaf to rain, A silver wound in a tortured breast Than silent lips and a night of rest. The death of rapture, the loss of light, A cloudless day, and a starless night.