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* Wednesday. march 29. 1033. SPRING CLEANING 'T'HE plan for relieving the city's jobless by a sprint? drive for the improvement of property is sound horse sense. Panicky people have been hoarding their money and meanwhile indulging in the wildest form of extravagance, that of letting their homes quietly decay for lack of shingles, paint, and a few clapboards. A slatternly appearance of yards, houses, and office buildings only helps to contribute 1o the depression psychology. No one safely can hoard any more without running the risk of ten years in prison. Why not spend that money that has been hidden in an old teapot on sprucing up? What better investment can a man make than in the appearance of his own home? Well kept grounds and a trig house are not only good for the family, but they improve the morale of the whole community. Louis J. Borinstein, who heads the cleanup campaign, shrewdly has pointed out an additional benefit. That is the fact that money will buy more paint, carpenter work, and outdoor labor today than it has in many years, or than it will in months to come. Invest in your own happiness. Save your money and ghe a job to a deserving person by backing this drive. HOW ABOUT REFORM? '"P'HF. curtain is down on the basketball season, but back of the curtain rises a tremendous clamor for reform. The time is here lor anew deal in conduct of the annual state basketball tournament of the Indiana High School Athletic Association —or thousands of cage fans are utterly wrong. Chief Pooh bah Arthur L. Trcster and his principal aids stand indicted on six counts — conservatively counting. They are charged with incompetent handling of tickets for the major sport event of the winter here, depriving hundreds of fans of opportunity to see the play. They are charged with incompetent handling of the crowd after the thousands who attended had entered Butler fleldhouse. They are charged with continuing a system of tournament play that perils the health of scores of athletes, at an age when they are not matured sufficiently to stand up under the tremendous strain. They are charged with playing politics in choosing tourney officials. They are charged with providing totally Inadequate facilities for press and radio, the two agencies which have made their highly profitable enterprise possible. They are charged with gross discrimination against the press in bowing to A1 Feeney, state safety director, state fire marshal, state this and that and a few other titles, allowing him to broadcast from the edge of the floor when other announcers and reporters were barred from this favorable position. They are charged with other things too numerous to mention, and hundreds of fans and coaches and basketball officials over the state are ready to back these charges. It looks as though the time is ripe—or overripe—for Mr. Trester to take a deep bow and start for the exit, with his chief henchman lock-stepping along in his immediate rear. Trester, early in the week of the tournament., announced that only 300 seats would go on sale, alter all applications and early reservations had been handled. Press reports of the first games showed that 4.000 seats were vacant. This tact was not properly advertised, so thousands of eager fans were prevented from attending. Tickets unsold and returned for other reasons by principals in many cities of the state •were refused by tourney officials, despite the fact that they had been accepted all other years, and sold in this city. The reserved scat system at the fieldhouse became a howling farce after the big crowd jammed its way into the building. It is doubtful if more than 30 per cent of the fans occupied the scats which they bought. The usher setup was a complete breakdown. The first arrivals'seized the best seats and those who came after them accommodated themselves as best they could. The press sat in a makeshift area in a balcony aisle, level with the howling fans who sat ahead of them and beset behind by a shrieking niob of partisan rooters who made proper coverage of the play virtually impossible. Adding insult to injury, Fire Marshal, etc., etc., A1 Feeney moved his broadcasting equipment to the edge of the floor and stayed there, despite the twittering of Czar Trester and the roars of protest from newspaper reporters. When the tourney ended, thousands waded through mud to their cars and wound up in one of the worst traffic jams in history, because of inadequate preparations to handle the throng. The charge is openly made that choice of officials for the meet was dictated solely by politics, friends of the board of control of the I. H. S. A. A. being given the berths and competent officials being barred. Among those left out in the cold were two of the best in the state—Dale Miller and Stanley Feezle. Last, but foremost in importance, comes the charge that the system of play is dangerous to the health of the players. Lads still in their teens have not the stamina to undergo the grueling test to which they were subjected in the tournament. Greencastle, which lost the final tilt, played three games on Saturday, two of them overtime affairs. A college coach, who observed the players when they returned to Greencastle. declared today that all the players appeared for two or

three days as though they were in a stupor, so great was the strain in the final day's ordeal. With this in mind, there is increasing demand that the tourney be held over a threeday period, in the sections and that an extra week be added in the finals, to give these boys who have not yet reached maturity a chance to get their proper rest and preserve their health. The curtain is down on the basketball season, but the fans will not forget. They demand reform and Mr. Trester and his aids will do well to heed their demand or step out of the picture. NATHAN MARGOLD 'T'HE appointment of Nathan Margold as solicitor of the interior department to succeed E. C. Finney is a hopeful sign. It indicates that in Secretary Ickes' big department the test of ability will apply in manning the bureaus, rather than political or bureaucratic considerations. ( Mr. Margold is a lawyer of ability and experience, a conservationist, a friend of American Indians as their volunteer counsel on several occasions. His personality should vitalize a department very much in need of a tonic. It is to be hoped that in naming an Indian commissioner and other bureau heads, Secretary Ickes will display the same objective devotion to the cause of efficient and progressive administration. THE NEW CREED OOLD governmental action to mitigate mass poverty, want, and insecurity is demanded in a manifesto issued by 160 prominent Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant clergymen and laymen of the National Conference of Jews and Christians. The manifesto urges ample food and shelter for all; adequate care for the aged; unemployment insurance, “to destroy the haunting dread of destitution;” higher living standards and shorter work hours; juster tax systems; “an economy inspired not by competitive greed, but by human love.” Os congress, these churchmen ask the immediate creation of a national planning board to prevent the “return of disastrous human misery engendered by uncontrolled economic exploitation of the commonwealth.” “The present organization of society fails in tragic measure to reflect the principles of justice and brotherhood which our religious teachings share in common, when it allows untold numbers of men, women, and children to suffer in the midst of plenty,” say these men of church and synagog. Asa rule the clergy move little faster than their congregations. That they have adopted a militantly progressive program now indicates that this is the program of the American people. Indeed, many enlightened capitalists see in these social reforms the minimum needed to save the social order from collapse. The new bill of rights conforms almost in detail with the aims of the American labor movement and the Roosevelt administration. With church leaders now marching shoulder to shoulder with laymen liberals, the cause of fundamental reform will be strengthened immeasurably. BETTER THINKING A FEW years ago industrial states were -*• denouncing the child labor amendment so vigorously that they succeeded in keeping it out of the Constitution for the time being. Now they are beginning to wish they hadn’t. Five states have reversed themselves this winter, and editorial comment in others indicates that more will do so before legislatures adjourn. Ten states now are on record for the amendment. In nine legislatures ratification resolutions are pending. The change in point of view is, of course, due to the economic situation. When a comparatively small number of jobs that adults should have filled were pre-empted by children, the greed of employers for cheap labor was able to obscure the evils of the system. As soon as the number of displaced men and women grew so great that it affected every community, the economic absurdity became obvious to all. No start can be made toward assuring economic security for families, physical and mental health for communities, the development of sturdy, intelligent, moral citizens until youth is released from the factory. STRANGE \VA R RIO R S AA7TTH the Fraternal Order of Eagle's battle * ™ won for the old age pension law in Indiana, interest of the state's lodge men now turns to Pennsylvania, where an epochal battle impends, involving a remarkable break between two of the foremost exponents of machine polities. The split is remarkable in that it is a battle for a principle between William S. Vare. boss of Philadelphia, and once barred from the United States senate, and Joseph R. Grundy, who served for a brief time in the senate. Grundy is the power behind the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association. Grundy doesn't want old age pensions, because the powerful corporations have turned thumbs down on the plan. Vare wants them, because old age pensions have been a hobby in the Vare family for years. Grundy, say Pennsylvania political writers, is a- machine politician, but first and foremost a corporation man. Vare is for the corporations as long as they do not interfere with machine politics. It is an interesting fight to the country at large, to see these two arrayed on opposite sides over an issue of the nature of old age pensions. BEER RACKETEERS 'T'HOMAS F. (HUMPTY) JACKSON, reformed burglar of the old Bowen,' days and now an upstanding, respectable keeper of a New York bird and pet shop, poses an important question, or makes an important statement, on the eve of the return of beer. He said in an interview with a New York newspaper: “The mug has got to have a racket. He employs maybe a hundred guys, and he's got maybe a hundred enemies. If he quits he gets knocked off. “So, beer or no beer, liquor or no liquor, the mug is going to keep right on with his business. He will turn to the policy racket, the insurance racket, and a great many other rackets.” There has not been much speculation along t

this line by social thinkers lately. Beer has loomed big and has monopolized the view. But the problem has been much discussed in the past. The opinion always has been that with prohibition out, the beer racketeers would swarm over into other predatory occupations. The depression stands against them there, however. The other rackets now are crowded. Merchants are ppor. And it is harder to find a market for valuable articles stolen. This condition already has expressed itself in reduced crime. However, the fact remains that thousands of the underworld and more respectable employes of the beer racket will be out in the cold. This may turn into a major police problem. POLITICIANS AND PROFESSORS TT seems that the politicians at Washington do not take kindly to the predominance of college professors in the President's inner circle of advisers. Politicians and college professors do make an odd combination, when you stop to think about it. The arena of practical politics has little in common with the seclusion of the campus. Never before has a President had the temerity to try to make the representatives of these diverse fields pull in double harness. Yet in the differences that now are appearing, it is a fairly safe bet that the sympathy of the general public will incline toward the professors and not toward the politicians. The college professor, to be sure, is by tradition an impractical and visionary fellow. He is long on theory and short on practice. He can cook up endless schemes which look well on paper, but don't work out in real life. That, at any rate, is the tradition. But the college professor, today as never before, is entitled to sit back and emit a coarse, “Oh yeah?” Consider the situation for a moment. For the last decade all our affairs have been in the hands of men who, if they were nothing else, were at least practical. We have had a set of eminently practical politicians at Washington; we have had highly practical bankers and industrialists running the worlds of finance and industry. And look at the mess we're in! The most visionary of collegiate dreamers hardly could have devised a system which would crash more completely than this system erected by our practical and hard-boiled realists. Isn’t it, then, about time that we intrusted the w'reckage to some new hands? Can’t we afford, at last, to indulge in a little theory? Is there, in the record, one good reason why the politicians should poke fun at the college professors? If it irks the politicians to find the professors stealing the show, that is too bad. But it isn’t likely that the public will shed many tears. Restaurant run by Paul Mellon, son of Ambassador Andy Mellon, fails when landlord has constable lock door, business being terrible. First off, we thought maybe manufacturers had foreclosed for aluminum kitchenware Paul hadn't paid for. A Columbus (Ind.) man celebrated his ninetieth birthday by shingling the roof of his barn. Probably just preparing for a rainy day. Kansas paper has a heading: “Banks Enjoying a Holiday.” It's nice to think that somebody enjoyed it. Somehow, you’re pretty apt to feel low after a high old time. Philippines turn up with a million-dollar surplus in their treasury. Wonder if they would annex us?

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THANKS to a noble stand by the house, we shall have 3.2 per cent beer instead of 3.05 per cent, which means a couple more drops in every pint. Thanks to an equally noble stand by the senate, we shall have 3.2 per cent wine. According to experts, the beer will be strong enough to satisfy the most manly appetite, but the wine, they say, will be insipid. Well, there is a catch in the wine provision. Because of the time required for fermentation, wine can contain 3.2 per cent alcohol at a given date and 12 or 15 per cent a month or six weeks later. Thus it W'ould be possible for a wine producer to sell his product in strict accordance with the law on May 1 and for the purchaser to find himself in possession of the stoutest kind of wine by June 15 or July 1. While the law’ prohibits the manufacture, transportation, and sale of wine with more than 3.2 per cent alcoholic content, it does not, ana can not, forbid the increase of that content by natural processes in a citizen’s cellar. ana THIS innocent looking provision merely opens a way for the shipment of unripe wine in kegs, instead of the grape concentrates now T so generally sold. While preventing the sale of mature wine over the counter, it opens interstate trade to unfermented wine in the original package. Under the law as now written, grape growers and manufacturers can put the juice in kegs or barrels and ship it to any state which allows traffic in 3.2 per cent liquor, provided if reaches its destination before it exceeds that percentage. If the consumer wants to drink it in a raw state, that is his privilege. On the other hand, if he wants to set it aside, put in a water seal and do the other things necessary to complete fermentation, who will interfere? tt a a NO doubt the purchaser will get instructions on what not to do to hold his wine within constitutional limits, but as everybody knows, and as has been the practice with regard to concentrates for several years, he can read those instructions the other way and, with a little trouble, provide himself with a robust beverage. Thus we sanction one more fake in our efforts to get around the “noble experiment” pending its repeal, and pay lip loyalty to the eighteenth amendment while we go through the clumsy, long-drawn-out process of killing it. One only can wonder what will happen if only thirty-five states vote against it, and the country is obliged to live with the darned thing, though a majority of people want it out of the way and refuse to obey it. Whatever happens, this should be a warning. The folly of using the Constitution to regulate personal habits and impose petty regulations on the American people stands clearly revealed. If this farce teaches us to avoid such folly in the future, it will have served a good purpose in spite of the lying and hypocrisy to which it has led and which appear likely to be with us for some time.

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(Times renders are invited to e.rprcss their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) Bv Wilbur Murrell I have noticed Mr. Talcott Powell, since you have assumed the position as editor of the Indianapolis Times, that you are continuing your rather w'arped and one-sided attack upon the veterans and any one w'ho might happen to see at least a part of their side and has the necessary nerve or, as you see fit to call it, cheap politics, to stand by his convictions against those who would deprive those who served their country in time of w ar. Did you ever stop to think that those who served in France were forced continually to sleep on the rain-soaked ground of that country and go with w-et feet for a w r eek at a time without a chance to dry them. They w'ere young at that time and it had no bad effect on their health, but they now are advancing in age, when the exposure they endured at that time is beginning to show results. No doubt you are aware of all these arguments in favor of the veteran. but, like all weak-kneed politicians, you will publish only those favorable to your own side of the argument, which is that of the big business men of the country. Were you as patriotic in ’l7 and ’lB as you are now, or did you do your bit over here in dry weather and a nice warm bed. no poison gas, no machine gun bullets, shrapnel or trenches? By Irvin Ancliilevich I should like to answer the Republican w'ho used a lot of space and some rather high-flown and spiced language and said absolutely nothing at all. I’ll attempt to use a little space and say something. I’ve had the opportunity of hearing and observing Mr. A. Robinson and although in some things I was not impressed very favorably, being strictly an independent voter and thinker, yet I believe in giving him credit for having the courage of his convictions and sticking by his guns, instead of stampeding with the com-

OBVIOUSLY, any serious infection in the windpipe or in the voice box will produce a cough. Any interference with the vocal cords or any growth w-hich prevents their proper opening and closing may be the cause of a constant coughing. Pressure on the windpipe will cause a cough, as sometimes occurs due to enlargement of the thymus gland or enlargement of the lymph glands surrounding the windpipe. The more serious types of coughing involve colds which have spread down into the chest and produced inflammation of the bronchial tubes. The physician, by use of his stethoscope, can tell that there is interference with the passage of air through these tubes. Asthmatic constriction of the bronchial tubes also may produce wheezing and coughing.

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1 : Coughs Are Due to Variety of Causes ■ ■ -■ BY DR. MORRIS FISHREIN -l

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A CLEAR, concise account of what the modern Russian woman is doing appears in the current Scribners and is written by Mrs. Lincoln Steffens. Morals, she tells us, have gone through several stages since the revolution and right now, it seems, there is :he visible tightening of the fibers of decency that, sooner or later, always follows promiscuity in the relationship of men and women. For instance, she quotes a set of principles drawn up for a certain youth commune: “The commune utterly condemns ephemeral sexual connections and an unbridled sex life. The only solution for the sexual question is a firm and lasting marriage, built upon love, ana such marriage can result only from reciprocal friendship, closeness of soul, and mutual interests.” However negligently this rule may be followed in Russia, it is not a bad one for Americans to consider. nan FAMILY life has weakened all over the world. It has weakened most of all in Russia under

The Return From Elba!

Shun Suspenders By Angela Ma thus IN regard' to the article published on ’ The Times’ front page March 6, how many citizens, plain and otherwise, are aware of the rare personality of Miss Torrence, teacher, who is of so fine a clay, so delicately sensitive, that the sight of suspenders causes her to send a child home to doff the iniquitous things and don a belt? The parents of this child have been culpably negligent in permitting their child flagrantly to so outrage the fine feelings of his teacher, also perhaps permanently demoralizing the other pupils. This teacher says, “If I taught in a district where it was necessary for the boys not to w'ear coats because they did not have them, I might have to put up with the sight of suspenders in my classroom.” Now let us all, as a sound, sensible citizenry, unite in sparing this lady the awful ordeal of “having to put up with the sight of suspenders.” We want our children trained in courtesy, kindness, simplicity and civic pride. So let us all unite in placing suspenders under the ban. Down with suspenders—all hail to the belt, the symbol of “culture and social graces.” We of commoner clay idly might have supposed either article merely as designed to keep our trousers on. Both are useful articles, really, and it is a matter of little or no moment w'hich w r as chosen. We are abashed and humbled and only can hope that the parents of this child are chastened sufficiently and duly repent their crass carelessness and will sin no more. One who has learned anew sense of values. mon herd, who might as well go home if they are going to become just rubber stamps. Kindly consider that a Republican administration passed the latest disability act because of humane con-

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The other forms of cough that are especially serious are those involving actual changes in the lung tissues, such as those due to tuberculosis or fibrous changes in the lungs, and also inflammations of the membranes lining the chest cavity known as the pleura. Such inflammations are called pleurisy. In addition to these coughs which can be traced to the issues concerned, the physician is concerned with the condition called whooping cough, and with the development of ulcers in various parts of the throat. Finally, the child who has had whooping cough may develop the habit of coughing, and, even though

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

the Soviets. But pray let us not delude ourselves into believing that it has not also weakened in America. We have set up a great many substitutes for parental care in this

Questions and Answers Q —What narcotic is commonly referred to as "snow”? A —Cocaine. Q—Are children born in the United States of alien parents American citizens? A—Yes. Q —What is the average speed of the S. S. Europa? What fuel does she burn and what is her horse power? A—Her average speed is 26 1 2 knots. She burns oil and her turbines develop about 96,000-horse power. Q —What does the name Thelma mean? A—lt is from the Greek and means "willing,” “submissive.”

sideration and allowances which they realized were due the veterans for their heroic, unflinching, and uncomplaining sacrifices. There are many strict requirements to be met and passed before they are allowed the little they receive, and I might add that, with few exceptions, they have earned whatever they receive a darned sight more than your army of political party workers and henchmen who are being supported on highclass charity right along. One of the numerous county officials can handle the license agency for his territory and thus eliminate the expense of maintaining numerous offices and dummy job-holders who are occupied mostly in doing nothing essential. Here is a chance to do some real economizing and reduce the budget, but, as usual, party workers must be maintained at any cast, while the boys who rendered an invaluable national service, now that they are not needed, can shift for themselves as best they might. The “new' deal” seems a long way off, but it is coming.

So They Say

The schools will be only as good as the public demands.—Howard W. Nudd. director of the Public Education Association. There is no question that the jigsaw puzzle and crossw'ord puzzle satisfy the need for a sense of accomplishment.—Dr. Harrison Harley, Simmons College psychologist. We must have music and poetry and we can not think of a future without their inspiration. Mrs. August Belmont of New York. Salvation will not be found by continuous conferences. Premier Mussolini of Italy. Contrary to popular belief, the use of snuff is not confined to any one region.—B. D. Hill, department of commerce.

it is w'ell, continue to whoop and cough for months, perhaps because it has learned that the cough makes it a center of interest. However, such a diagnosis is made only with the greatest of difficulty and never should be made unless with certainty that every possible antomical source of the cough has been studied and eliminated. This is the important step to be taken in the treatment of any cough; namely, to eliminate or erase the cause as far as possible. After this is done, it is possible to quiet coughing by the use of sedative preparations which a physician can prescribe. There are various drugs which tend to loosen a cough and others which tend to lower the threshold of stimulation so as to permit healing without coughing.

country. The nursery school, the grade school, summer camps, girl reserves, the scout movement, the church, and a hundred and one organizations wihch have for their purpose the training of the young. In certain ways, it seems to me, the Russian idea is advantageous. At least it is honest and direct. The state is responsible for the child, and it assumes the resopnsibility. Whether the plan is a success remains to be seen. I see no reason to think that it would fail any more ignominiousiy than a great many parents have failed. And it has the merit of putting some sort of firm foundation under the individual. Over here we have grown somewhat slipshod in our methods, though we spend vast sums hiring substitutes for parents. Asa consequence, when many are engaged in doing the same job, none excels at it. Truth often is bitter to the palate, and the truth is that many thousands of American babies are not getting half the excellent care that Russian babies are getting.

31 ARCH 29, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEY WOOD BROUN

II 7HEN this column appears I ’ ’ will be on the high seas. If they intend to consult my feelings in the matter I would just as soon have them moderate their altitude. No ocean need ever strut all its stuff for my benefit. I have a special reason for desiring a trip in calm waters. The ship which carries this precious cargo of human freight is. by an odd chance. Italian. Somewhere in the broad Atlantic the captain and I might get mto an argument about Mussolini. Os course, I’m not going to foment anything, and still I do not want to be compelled to deny my principles. I have hit upon what seems to me a happy compromise. If anybody in authority inquires as to my opinion of the deuce I will reply simply that in my opinion he is no such fool as Hitler. That I can say in all sincerity. I hope it will be satisfactory. a a a 1 he Reader's Holiday THIS present voyage marks the annual vacation of Hevwood Broun readers, dippers and despisers. I think it is an excellent thing for every group in the community, even the small ones, to have a stated period of rest. There is nothing in all the long grind of columning so satisfactory as returning to an audience which has stopped rioting in the aisles and throwing things and is back in the seats again. Then, indeed, the poor performer feels that the show may go on. Naturally, no columnist ever takes a vacation for his own sake. His job is one of the easiest in tne world, and he works largely for the fun of it. It is possible to tear him away from his desk only by appealing to his better nature. I have seen many a strong and adult columnist break into tears when told by his managing editor that he must absent himself for a while. Sometimes he will pound his fist on the flat top (I am referl'ing to the desk, and not to the managing editor! and exclaim: “But I don't want to go away. I want to stay here and write columns!” At such times the wise and kindly boss will attempt to reason with the poor fellow. He will point out that a few determined individuals have read him every other day for fifty-two weeks. “Don’t you think that they deserve anything?” the managing editor will ask. a a a Speaking of Averages THE average columnist is not a bad fellow if you can get under his hide, which still leaves the average columnist a pretty bad fellow. But a few executives have succeeded in piercing the outler layer, and underneath you will very probably find a heart of gold. The daily stinter can be made to see the problem in the terms of those three or four to whom he fondly refers as “my public.” He will grant that they should not be expected to bear the grind without surcease. Sometimes the columnist can be induced to go away of his own accord and cheerfully. It is not invariably necessary to call a cop. I myself went away peacefully enough, but with misgivings. You see, there always is a pinch hitter, and no man who has the feeling that he is developing into a fungo hitter is likely to be very happy when some young, snappy fellow steps into his spot and hammers six or seven drives over the center field fence. I don't know whether it is bad luck or what, but the pinch hitter for a columnist always turns out to be a combination of the original Rudyard Kipling and Bernard Shaw before his dotage. a a A o Very Lofty Plans 'T'HE fellow who hikes away for A the readers’ two-week respite seldom is entirely frank. Generally he is fond of saying that he has set out in search of new material and that he will return with a brandnew line. Os course, he never does, and that was never his intention. What he really means to say is that he is seeking a chair in the sun and some island which never did ratify the amendment. When I return I will have seen Hayti, the Panama canal, Jamaica, Nassau and Havana, and yet I promise not to write anything about strange native jamborees in the heart of the Haitian jungle. And this, despite the fact that I expect to be in Port au Prince for all of five hours. I positively will not discuss the respective merits of sea level canals and those which carry locks. No searching study of the Machado regime will come from my pen nor any dissertation on the English empire as a colonizer. It will be the same old column. And so I think I have a right to add a little personal and confidential note to the lad who bats in my piace: Don’t put all your back and shoulders into it, Joe. You wouldn’t want to spoil the racket of a pal, now, would you? (Copyright, 1933, by The Times) Old House BY MARGARET E. BRUNER. The old house leans a little, listenin?. For dim, remembered footsteps on the walk; u And lost in dreams it falls to wondering, At random bits of desultory talk. Perhaps it thinks some dear beloved voice Wiil come to break the silence again— A child's bright laughter make its walls rejoice, Alien so long to all save wind and rain. And still the seasons pass; spring kindles hope, But summer brings no answer to its prayer, ' Then autumn wanes and winter shadows grope i And leave it brooding with a dumb despair. | An outcast, waiting for its day of doom. Whose ghostly echoes drift from [ room to room.