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SELL BEER WITH CLEAN HANDS TJOOTLEGGING gangsters must be smiling today at the news that Indiana is planning to make beer the object of political patronage and thus open up opportunity for graft and corruption. Dry extremists also must be gleeful over the black cloud of scandal already rolling up over the handling of beer distribution. They know that there is no more certain way of defeating repeal of the eighteenth amendment and blocking real temperance reform than to have the politicians seize upon beer for legalized racketeering. It is deplorable that the Democratic organization in this state seems to be planning to do just this thing. It was bad enough when the legislature permitted “hotels with mineral springs” to sell all the beer they choose for a SIOO license fee while other hotels were forced to pay thrice that sum. Even Hoosiers of tender years must see something odd in the fact that Thomas Taggart, Democratic state committeeman, happens to control the only hotel of any consequence with mineral springs. Now Paul Fry, Governor McNutt's excise director, goes one step further. He will permit only one importer of beer to function in each of the ten excise districts. This simply means that in the county of Marion, which includes the big city of Indianapolis, and which is in two districts, two men will control the entire business which is done m brews made overseas or elsewhere in the nation. An enormous amount of cash will pass through their hands. Every sensible person knows what frequently happens when a strong political monopoly allows its henchman to tap the till of private business. There may be another side of the picture. Perhaps Mr. Fry lias some good reason for his action. But if he has, why did he not state it? Why didn’t lie publicly announce his plan and explain it, instead of allowing it to become public only after vigorous newspaper investigation? There is something strange in his conduct, unless his motive was one of concealment. Governor McNutt has done some excellent things in his administration, but his handling of beer is not. one of them. First, there were intimations of delay in getting beer and now it appears that licensing machinery is being set up which will readily lend itself to extorting money for political purposes from the pockets of consumers, who always foot the bills. It is time for the Governor himself to take a hand in this. It is time for him to announce a rational, honest, and efficient plan for the licensing and sale of beer. II he dodges this responsibility, he may find himself checked in the midst of a very promising career. Smaller matters have tripped up bigger men. THE WAR ON DOPE \TEWS that the French senate has authorized ratification of the 1931 Geneva anti-narcotics treaty gives hope that the years of international effort to curb the dope traffic soon may produce results. On July 13, 1931. after many international failures, a convention at Geneva framed a narcotic control treaty. Under the agreement, a limit, based upon the actual medical needs of the world, would be set on the manufacture of opium and coca leaf derivatives, the chief habit-forming drugs. I’he treaty becomes effective next July 13, provided that by April 13 the signatures of twenty-five nations be laid down at Geneva. Among these twenty-five must be four out of the eight drug manufacturing nations, Great Britain. Germany, Turkey, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan. France and the United States. So far. seventeen nations have authorized ratification, but only two manufacturing nations, France and the United States, have come into line. Heretofore, the sixty great drug factories of Europe have blocked efforts at world control. It is believed now that world opinion finally has won, and that by April 13 all the required nations will sign the treaty. The traffic in dope is a world scandal. It can be curbed only by world co-operation. Here, at last, the world Is ready to co-operate. Ratification of this treaty, of course, must be followed by rigid enforcement, but the immediate need is for early action by at least two more of the manufacturing nations. Great Britain should act. The United States is interested mightily in success of this treaty. While drug addiction here has been held down to 120.000 or so victims, strict enforcement is made difficult by the case of dope smuggling. In behalf of our own unfortunates, as well as the millions of human beings slowly poisoned to death in India. Egypt. China and elsewhere, let this treaty be ratified quickly and rigidly enforced. LIGHT ON SECURITIES IN the midst of Iris efforts to reform bank laws for the safety of depositors, the President has not forgotten the investor. His special message to congress requests adequate protection for the buyer of securities. His proposal is for something in the nature of a national blue sky law, depending upon full publicity concerning securities as the chief public safeguard. Before the stock market collapse, such a proposal would have been shouted down in congress as government interference with business. Now it will be welcomed. Too many voters have had their fingers burned with worthless stocks, and 100 many

business men have fallen prey to slick bond salesmen, for Wall Street to go on in the old way. The public has learned by costly experience that the name of a big bank or bond house attached to a security does not make it secure. To be sure, the legislation desired by the administration will not guarantee investments —any more than the bank reform laws will guarantee deposits. The investor still will have to play his own game and take his own chance. If he wants the chance of making profit, he will have to take the accompanying chance of suffering a loss. But the government will protect him to the extent of seeing that the dice are not loaded, that the game is not crooked. For example, if a securities company—which will not be allowed to exist as a bank affiliate—wants to unload bogus bonds of a Latin American dictatorship on the public here, it will be forced to publish such pertinent facts as that related bonds are in default, or that the foreign government has a record for spending borrowed money on graft rather than for stated bond purposes, or that the American promoter is milking both the buyer and seller by extortionate fees. Presumably also in the field of domestic securities, the investment rackets by which our Insulis and their kind not only beggared tens of thousands of small investors, but also wrecked strong banks and thus indirectly roabed bank depositors, will be stopped by the proposed laws. Before an investor puts a cent of his money into a stock or bond, he has a right to full information regarding the finances of the company, not in the form of rigged statements, which lured so many during the boom, but facts set forth so clearly and honestly that the buyer who gets cats and dogs will have fair warning. Stale blue sky laws do not afford that protection; many of them exempt securities listed on the stock exchanges. Instead of the old racket, under which the buyer took almost all the responsibility and virtually the only curb on the seller was the limit of the sucker's credulity, the President is determined to make the dealer share responsibility for the honesty of his product. Certainly nothing short of the Roosevelt reform can restore confidence of the investing public. AND SO JIM RETIRES J AMES ELI WATSON, whilom senior senator from Indiana, will retire to the sylvan dells of private life, far from the madding crowd of the hustings. No more will he seek elective office. Full of years and honors, he will retire to peaceful pastures, like the mettlesome steed that has run his race and run it well. So one would opine from his latest statement. That, then, leaves no outstanding candidate actively in the race for the Republican senatorial nomination in 1934. Unless one considers Senator Arthur Robinson, which still leaves the count of outstanding candidates at exactly none. But James Eli Watson has made statements before with tongue in cheek. If the prospect of victory brightens before time for the next senatorial race rolls around, it is a safe bet that the sage of Rushville will be among those present. The loaded dice are clicking against Robinson. Back of the scenes the skids are being prepared for the junior senator. Leading Republicans, the gossip goes, are unanimous on the matter of Robinson’s renomination, with the possible exception that George V. Coffin may not agree to the scheme. If President Roosevelt continues to hold his place in popular esteem and the Democrats become even more strongly intrenched, then Robinson can have the nomination. But if there seems to be the slightest chance to elect a Republican senator from Indiana, then the G. O. P. will ditch “Little Arthur,” who still is counting on winning a 1934 race with 1924 tactics. Senator Robinson has been strangely silent for two or three days. Which is just as well, for. to use a somewhat mixed figure of speech, every time he opens his mouth, he hits into a double play. TURMOIL IN GERMANY ' ’IT LATCHING the turbulence and excesses * 7 of the new government in Germany these days is a little bit like sitting by the bedI side of an old friend who. burning with fever, 1 is striking out wildly and raving desperately in 1 a delirium. We are horrified by what we see and hear, and we wish earnestly that something could be done to stop it; but at the same time we remember that our friend is not himself and that in his sober senses he wouldn’t dream of doing the things that distress us so greatly. The things that are happening in Germany today do not make pleasant reading. The prospects for continued peace in the near future are darn. But we remember that Germany has been driven unmercifully by the Versailles treaty; a thing which, like a fever, has raised a delirium. Is there much chance for improvement until the fever itself is broken? NEW DEAL TO BRING CHANGES T 7 VEN more interesting than the legislative I measures now pending in congress, in some ways, are the rumors of legislation to be asked in the near future. Washington seems to be full of these rumors. The capital, evidently, has d.cided that the present is a moment when anything at all can happen and probably will. Some of the rumors are trial balloons, some are clever deductions, and some are outright guesses; but their cumulative effect is tremendous. Thus we have one correspondent writing that Mr. Roosevelt's “little cabinet”—the wellknown “brain trust” of professional advisers—is drawing up plans to have the government lease marginal coal lftnds and retire them from production, just as the pending farm bill would do with marginal farm lands. Miss Frances Perkins, labor secretary, replies “I most certainly do” when asked by a senator if she favors the compulsory thirtyhour week for industry’—and leaves one wondering just how long it will be before congress is asked to transform this expression of opinion into law. Simultaneously, it is reported that the administration's railroad pian, when finally put into shape, will call for something very’ much

resembling outright government operation of the roads. Add all these tilings to the astounding venture of the farm bill, to the reshaping of the nation's banking structure, to the government's implied determination to reduce such titantic figures as J. P. Morgan to the size of ordinary mortals, and it becomes clear that the administration is aiming at the most complete imaginable departure from traditional practices. And in the face of all of this, it is rather important that we refuse to get excited by the prospect of radical changes. Anew deal is, after all, anew deal. It ought to be plain to the blindest man j.hat our old ways of handling all of these things no longer work. We need, above all else, to be daring. If we are going to have great changes—well, let's have them, and more power to them. SECURITY OR CHARITY pi’ grace of a gallant speech by a woman member of its lower house, Maryland may take honors as the second state to adopt compulsory unemployment insurance, Wisconsin being the first. Miss Levinia Engle saved a compulsory insurance bill from defeat and won its passage in the house of delegates when she took the floor to arraign the Bethlehem Steel Company for lobbying against the security measure. She charged that the steel concern had allowed 1,200 of its workers to go to charity for relief and then had objected to paying threetenth of 1 per cent of its pay roll into a security fund under the bill. “It is the narrow and sordid attitude such as displayed by the Bethlehem Steel Company which will bring down upon our heads the same situation the bankers brought on the world of finance,” she said. The bill, carried after this speech, 72 to 27, has an even chance of passing the upper house. Popular sentiment is sweeping America in favor of jobless insurance. Bills are pending in twenty-six states. In Pennsylvania both state and Philadelphia Chambers of Commerce join with Governor Pinchot in urging compulsory insurance. Strong movements behind the plan are afoot in Ohio, Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, and California. The American Federation of Labor, National League of Women Voters, and other groups are at work in the states. The care of its casualties is industry’s responsibility. If industry shirks its duty, government must, as it has with the banks, intervene in behalf of the public. As between security and charity, America should choose the way of security. Alcohol companies already are making ethyl alcohol from corn, expecting a federal law to provide inclusion of 2 per cent of corn alcohol in every gallon of gas. Next time you run the old bus up a tree you can say, “Honest, officer, she was all corned up!” Greta Garbo is on her way back to the states amid great secrecy. Nobody will be permitted to learn of her arrival except the newspaper cameramen, newsreel and movietone men, 500 New 'York reporters, and 122 million Americans. News story tells about a man and his six sons, each of whom is more than six feet and a half tall. Bet a plugged nickel they have scats right in front of us at the ball park opening day, and all stand up at every pitch. Mr. Mellon, home from England, says he thinks he has earned a rest. We always thought the treasury had four billions of the country’s gold and Mr. Mellon already had the rest.

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THERE are aspects of President Roosevelt's plan for unemployment relief which lend | themselves to criticism, but let us remember that the President is dealing with an emergency. The all-important thing is to find work for people, especially in such a way as will enable them to take care of themselves. Thirty dollars a month with board can not be described justly as wages of $1 a day. How many common laborers have S3O left at the end of a month after they have paid for food and lodging? As to the “regimentation” involved, how would it be possible for the government to put 250,000 men at work in a short time without adopting some such plan? We have come to a point where ordinary i methods of providing work and recruiting labor are impractical, and where it has become; necessary to deal with the problem in a drastic I way. Our failure to make effective progress in re-; ducing unemployment thus far can be traced to: lack of comprehensive schemes. While a great deal of work has been provided, it has, for the! most part, been useless and while a relatively j high wage standard has been maintained in theory, the practice of part-time employment actually has reduced the average pay to a very low point. a tt a AS an academic proposition, the man who gets $5 a day for three days a week, but who has to pay his board, may appear to be better off than the man who gets S3O a month with board included, but why not let the man himself decide? There is nothing compulsory about the President's plan. There could not be, for the simple reason that it does not comprehend enough work. With the prospect of only 250.000 jobs and with i six or eight million people unemployed, how could anything like conscription be applied? What the President has in mind is to give a comparatively few men a chance to work and pay their way. Further than that, he is endeavoring to do so with the greatest possible speed. The fact that the army will be in charge does not mean militarism, but efficiency, and the efficiency is designed to get operations started, rather than to force labor. In an emergency such as we face, the allimportant question is not whether a plan of relief is perfect, but whether it is the best that can be devised, and the President’s plan should not be judged by what is desirable under normal conditions, but by what is necessary under existing conditions. The best way to appraise it is by thinking of a better substitute. a a a IN other words, how could the United States government put 250,000 men at work within six weeks or two months, keep them at work for one year, and not compete with private industry, if some such plan as the President has offered is not adopted? Where else could opportunity be found save in national parks and forests, and how else could the task be handled economically and efficiently save through employment of the ' army? As President Roosevelt pointed out in his | inaugural address, the situation is such that 1 the country’ must accept disciplined action for | its own good.

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(Times readers are invited to express J their vines in these columns. Male none j letters short, so all eon hare a chance. ! Limit them to 2." 0 word a or Jess.) Bv Times Rcailer I would like to suggest to those taxpayers on large property holdings who object so strenuously to our school taxes that they dispose of their holdings. Any number of us would be glad to possess some of it and pay that tax that irks them so, and not expect such enormous profits. You don't notice any of them sacrificing one piece unless compelled to. We, the multitudes, will be glad to pay a sales tax. if we can be assured that our school facilities wili not be hampered and will be improved. Why not extend every one of our high school courses into college courses, also open evening classes, where those less fortunate in youth might have opportunity to satisfy their cravings for more knowledge? The plan also would employ many more teachers and it would, in time, almost eliminate our snob class. Our big taxpayer never did allow : his thoughts to center much on j ! child welfare conditions. His am- ; bition just doesn't run in that direcj tion. Oh. of course, he is interi ested in keeping education in the higher brackets for that small group of which he is the proud parent, and he is plenty willing to pay if i he can exclude the common crowd. We, the multitudes, indirectly | have paid all the taxes for centui ries, and he is wise enough to see | how a direct sales tax makes the | workers independent of his boasted | patrimony, and this is why he j makes so much fuss about this sales j tax being such a burden on the j little fellow. It is only camouflage. He is only 1 afraid of the indipendence the little fellow is gaining. The road of the manipulator has become rough, so now he pretends sympathy for his fellow-men. You of the multitudes, don't let ! them fool you with that propa- ! ganda about the many people who I would have been better off if they | never had attended college. Os j course, there are some instances, j but the taxpayer who yells the ! loudest against, it sent his son to college, and would continue to send

THE outer ear differs but little from other external portions of the body in the things which may disturb it. It may be the subject of small tumors which, of course, must be removed if they show the slightest tendency to growth or irritation. Sometimes cysts form which are nonmalignant tumors, but which continue to swell or grow as long as the opening is blocked. These should be opened and the wall of the cyst removed, if there is not to be a recurrence. In erysipelas, the ear will swell to tremendous size. Obviously it must be protected to prevent breaking down of the tissue, due to swelling and irritation. One of the most common forms of injury to the ear is what commonly is called “tin ear” of the pugilist. Repeated blows on the ear result in the pouring out of nlood

INTERVIEWED. Sinclair Lewis • says he believes that women are human beings, which is a bold concession. But if his newest heroine, Ann Vickers, represents his ideal, then he must consider us rather unpleasant specimens, after all. It may be, as certain critics say, that Miss Vickers forecasts anew feminine type and that by and by ; we all shall be capable, erratic, and ! wholly unstable, devoured by a dis- j content that nothing can appease, i But I doubt it. Happily, the Anns j upon my horizon are few. For that I give thanks. The world would be a sorry place if all the ladies should pattern their lives after this rather overwhelming modern miss. If. however, the author wished to leave us with the thought that such a life as hers never could make a ! woman happy, he succeeded. For iwith all her capabilities and her 1 exaggerated talents, Ann Vickers is

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An Eye-Opener Bv Dell .IclTerson MOST people consider a hos- ! pital as a place of beds full of sick people, and pretty nurses in white caps, with serious-faced doctors in long gowns in the operating room; but few ever consider the vast amount of detail, tne enormous needs of a hospital, attended to behind the scenes. One of the less widely known departments in the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children is the sewing department, in charge of Mrs. Ross. OnJ employe is kept busy with an electric sewing machine doing nothing but mending, sewing up miles and miles of holes daily. Think of an order lor 2.000 diapers! In the words of a wellknown Durante. “It's colossal. It’s amazin’!” Single orders are very few and far between. Mrs. Ross brings out a whole sheaf of orders for the day—l,ooo surgeons’ caps, 500 small dresses, 2.000 short trunks for children. 300 overalls, 1,000 nurses’ aprons, 3,000 nurses’ caps. Last year, and you will admit a lean year, at that, more than 25.000 articles were made, from hot water bottle covers to rubber sheets, from small gray dusters to bathrobes. In making these, more than 20,- | 000 yards of materials was cut out, : and upward of hundreds of spools of thread, and thousands of but- | tons were used. “his children,” but “yours” are different. The multitudes fully realize the value of education. Now that the minority has decided to reverse, they probably will meet with difficulty in convincing the masses that they have not profited in educating their children. And since the sales tax seems the only way out of the present dilemma, they will welcome it rather than be deprived of educational benefits. Bv the Rev. Otto H. Nater. We have had a number of requests to explain an article appearing in The Times Monday. About eignteen years ago, the Missionary Bands platted thirty-five acres between the Eagle creeks, reserving

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Ifv?eia, the Health Magazine. between the cartilage of the tissue and its surrounding membranes. At first such swellings are bluish red; they feel like dough, and they are opaque, so that light will not pass through. In some instances, it may be advisable for the surgeon to open the tissue and to remove the clot of blood, and, in that way, to prevent permanent thickening and swelling. It sometimes is necessary to plan the use of bandages which mold the ear and hold its shape while such surgical treatmeant is being undertaken. In addition to the diseases that may disturb the outer ear, there are disturbances which affect the canal up to the point of the ear- > drum.

a tragic being. Lovers, abortions, illegitimate children, and great causes can not cover up the important fact that she is osmething of a rotter. b a a THE discriminating reader knows well that the last chapter in which a grand new world opens up Questions and Answers Q—Does the United States own any territory in South America. A—None except the American embassiees at Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Buenos Aires. Q—Which Governor of New York was impeached and removed from office? I A—William Suizer.

seven acres for a camp meeting ground. We petitioned the board of works and we were granted permission to do our own street grading, and make the proper elevation over the Danville intcrurban tracks at Alton avenue and Berwick avenue. Last January, the Indiana way deeded to our organization the strip of ground covering its right of way; and wrote use we could remove the ties and cinders at our convenience. Berwick avenue had some bad holes, where cars could not pass; and our truck driver and helpers removed about fifteen loads of cinders from our premises east of BcrI wick avenue. I was called to Richton, Miss., for a revival meeting. While absent. | some neighbors' took cinders in | wheelbarrow loads; and some truck drivers drove in and helped themi selves. Soon 1 hey were removing t cinders from the street. On Saturday, four boys, according to neighbor witnesses, dug under the grade, and in the evening the police car was stalled. We endeavored to explain the situation; but in the confusion wc were misunderstood. Later, two policemen came to our home, and asked me to accompany them to the police station for questioning. I asked if Mr. Flora, our truck driver could go along, as a witness to the fact that we hauled no cinders from the road. They said, “yes.” And when we got to the station they arrested us both. We were familiar with our suri roundings, having held meetings in | the police station on Sunday morn- ; ings for eleven years. We talked to ! the prisoners for a few minutes. | Then the turnkey kindly took us to j a cell up stairs, until we got in touch I with our office, and were released. The judge requested that we fill 1 the street where the cinders had ;been removed. W have complied with this request. Any one would know that a person deliberately undermining a street crossing and thus endangering life, should be held in a ward for observation. We have the kindest feelings toward all concerned. If Christianity is practical, we should be able to jkeep two bears in the family—“bear tand forbear.”

Almost any infection may involve the outer canal of the ear. Under such circumstances, it is necessary to remove the infection and to prevent its recurrence by the use of proper antiseptics which a physician can supply and which should be used only after he has given proper instructions. There is a good rule in medicine, ! namely, never put anything in th* ! external ear any smaller than the | elbow. The tissues are most delicate and may be seriously harmed by the use of wires, toothpicks, earj spoons or similar irregular or un- : sterilized devices. A scratch of the lining of the canal may result in the formation of i a boil, which is exceedingly painful and which is difficult to handle in I such an inaccessible part oi the body.

! before Ann and her true love is onlv I the gesture of the novelist to his ; public, and that the real Ann will go on doggedly with her experiments, ! her gesticulations and her too voci- | serous opinions. It is one thing to argue that worn- ! en should have a broader scope for their activities and new outlets for | their energies, but it is another | thing to believe they will find these in sexual promiscuity. Because, for women, that is the one sure road to disaster. To look for happiness down the primrose | path is to go searching for ripe | strawberries on a frozen plain. Many modern novelists make a 1 great point of egoism, of being, as they say, true to one's self. But no i man or woman ever was true to self ! who first did not learn to be true to | another person and to abide by some | moral code, however, eccentric.

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It Seems to Me = BY JOE WILLIAMS.

tH if tine for Hrywood Broun) XJEW YORK. March 30. —IT “:n.- ’ ing by train, from the sou:':' to relieve the shagry old columnist in his magnificent light for birth control and practical indolence, I observed that still another great American institution has crumbled under the fever of adversity. I refer to the smoking car. Once the common meeting ground of irrepressible w:t>, corntassel philosophers, and brother Moosors. Mr. Pullman's steel-shod stace has become a national forum of tremendous gravity. The girthy gentleman from Saginaw who always was the first to poke his bald noodle through the smoke waves to ask: ' Say. fellows, I wonder if any of you ever heard the one about the farmer'.- daughter”— Now takes a long, solemn pull at his cigar, clears his throat with a significant rumble, and proceeds to tell all and sundry just what he thinks of the war debts. "I can be as tolerant as the next one in money matters,” he says, swinging his cigar around with-a band leader's flourish, "but to me a debt is a debt. Them Frogs borrowed the money, and they should be made to pay it back!” The girthy gentleman sat back with a fixed expression, which seemed to challenge anybody in the room to give an argument on eco-nomics--or an anything else, for that matter. a a ts Life /.s’ Earnest ctso the outsider it was tragic to JL study the change that had come over this gav soul. the life of every overnight jump, good old Sam, who always had anew one to tell the boys. The industrial shock had jolted him out of hi ltiichievous Peter Pan nature and recast lu.m as a grim, serious thinker. “The time has come for every citizen to put his shoulder to the wheel.” added good old Sam. If you hadn't already sensed the new mood of the smoking car, you would have suspected that this crack had something to do with a gambling apparatus. As it was. you felt downright trutorm: for having frittered away four bucks at roulette the nisht before. “Now, let me explain the gold standard" A tall, angular gentleman from Connecticut, with glacial features and a vocal .sibilants that, sugge-t----ed radiator valvi , walked cut to the box and started to warm up with this one. I decided to give him the benefit of a full set of eager acoustics, for either I am very dense or the gold standard is not readily assimilated, because up to now all that I clear’.v know about the subject is that in the dentist’s office you pay more for gold titan porcelain. Mr. Connecticut's presentation did not seem to vary a great deal from others I had heard in barber shops and press boxes, except a- to length, and lie ran in a lot of familiar phrases which had the rest of the boys nodding gravely and murmuring, "Yes, that is how 1 sec it.” At about this time the porter came in with an armful of fresh towels, and in an unrestrained moment I said;— "What do you think of the gold standard, Winterbottcm?” "Bess, that thing you call the gold standard never did bother me, and 1 sure am positive it ain't going to start bothering me now!” Somehow this seemed the most intelligent remark the forum had yet developed over a stretch of 200 miles, and I was all for asking Throckmorton to assign the making up of the berths to one of our crowd and sit in for a round himself. a tt a Hitler and Hotels WE just were rolling out of Jacksonville when a momentary sag developed in the conversation, due. no doubt, to vocal exhaustion, and someone promptly filled it in by asking, “What do you think of this Hitler?” “He's likely to be all right,” answered a gentleman from Texas - a gentleman who knew Jack Garner personally—“and if there ever was another Lincoln, Jack Garner is the man.” There were no dissenters when Mr. Texas contended that Germany didn't seem to be going anywhere, anyhow, and that under Hiller she might, even by accident, do a little bit better. “But he can’t discriminate against the Jewish people and hope lor permanent success,” an unidentified voice sifted through the wall of smoke. “I grant you that,” grant'd Mr. Texas, “but we’ve got aHot of that in our own country, and you don't hear anything about mass meetings and protest parades, do you?” Everybody insisted such discrimination was slight and certainly not systematic, but I happened to remember I just had left a hotel whose record-breaking business in a panic period had been built largely on the fact that if your name was Choynski the place was full. One provocative topic remains— Tom Mooney. The porter had come in to turn out the lights and was listening. 'T sure don’t see how you gent'emen figure they is giving Mr. Mooney a break by letting him out in times like these ” (Ccpvriisht. 1533. by The Times) Currin Valley BY MARGUERITE V. YOUNG. They thought the valley would grow corn, And that is why they stayed, Where peaceful mountains cast on them A glamorous, cool shade. But these were hard and merciless, Yea, these were fallow lands. Tire reapers came away from fields With empty hands. Their children were like wild things, Their women held the sigh, Os wind in their old crooning, And they were quick to die. But they could never tear away The roots that they had set, In lands too beautiful to leave And leaving, to forget. And they were nurtured from thin soil By moonbeams in clear lines. And shade, and peaceful mountams, i Apd wind among the pines.