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TUEBDAY. APRIL 4 1933

MAKE THE HIGHWAYS SAFE r I 'HE tourist season is at hand and the state highway department and motor clubs throughout Indiana should at once take slept, for greater safety for drivers. One of the greatest menaces to the man who drives along state roads at night is the heavily laden truck, fleets of which thunder along the highways all night long, often without proper lights and without due regard for the rights and safety of others. It is nothing uncommon to meet a dozen of these juggernauts in a mile of driving along the principal state routes. Frequent complaints are received by motor clubs that truck drivers are violating laws, especially those governing of lights. Responsible owners of truck fleets generally take good care that all regulations are observed, but they can not be certain what their drivers are doing every minute of their Journeys. The legislature passed a law requiring that every motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire and every motor truck be equipped with at least two red warning flags and two brilliant burning danger signals and suitable holders for elevating the signals above the surface of the highway when in use. It also is compulsory that commercial busses or trucks stopped on the traveled part of the highway outside the corporate limits of city or town for any reason other than discharge of passengers or freight display a red flag 300 feet in front of and in the rear of such vehicle in the daytime, and brilliant lights, 300 feet front and rear, at, night. The tail light law has been ignored by scores of drivers, not only by drivers of commercial vehicles on state highways, but also by motorists in heavily traveled city streets. Many serious accidents have resulted and several fatal ones have occurred in this city because of the gross negligence of motorists. The peak season for motorists soon will be here. Every official should be diligent in seeing that the law is enforced, and every autolst should do everything within his power to help, observing the law himself and co-operat-ing in the effort to see that others do so. S-S-S-SII A LL the hullabaloo in Washington Monday apparently simmers down to an attempt by certain administration officials to revive the old machinery of repression and censorship which the new deal is intended to scrap. The gag bill so mysteriously rushed through the house, without explanation to the members, is in line with the discredited system of secret war plans, secret treaties, secret codes, international secret service, secret plots, and all the secret trappings of a diplomacy which sometimes fooled the public, but never fooled the governments, who usually knew—regardless of spies—the other fellow's secrets as soon as they were hatched. The American people want no more of that system of breeding misunderstanding and war. The foreign policy of the American people is one of peace. We. have no desire to interfere with the rights of any other nation, nor to spy into its affairs, much less to plot or make war against any other nation. If the purpose of this bill is to prevent publication of a book which might injure friendly relations with another nation, as purported, • the passage of such a law certainly would do more to arouse foreign suspicions than any number of unofficial publications. Instead of merely stopping publication of books on secret diplomacy, the bill, as prepared by state and justice department officials and as passed by the house, could be used to gag government officials, members of congress, citizens, and newspapers on virtually any governmental matter. The gag and imprisonment could be applied whenever certain minor government officials decided that publication was "prejudicial" to the “interest" of the country. With such a gag law, the state department could have prevented exposes at various times of its imperialism in Mexico and Caribbean countries; the navy department could have blocked disclosures of the Shearer armament ring efforts to sink the disarmament conference: the Harding administration could have stopped the Teapot Dome revelations; the Hoover administration could have thwarted publication of unemployment statistics and prevented the banking investigation. The bill is a clear violation of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution. Fortunately, the White House intimates that President Roosevelt had no advance knowledge of this measure and will throw his full power against its passage. MORTGAGE RELIEF THE Roosevelt administration has gone to the root of the farm problem in recommending debt relief for distressed farmers overburdened with high interest mortgages on land bearing inflated values. The new bill well might be added as an amendment to the farm price relief measure and both passed together. And then when Mr. Roosevelt, as he has promised, acts to help the small home owner of the city, and asks congress to permit negotiation of reciprocal tariff agreements to improve our world trade, the nation will be on a firmer basis. Generally, as Mr. Roosevelt said in his message, his plan provides a means by which, “through existing agencies of the government, the farm owners of the nation will be enabled to refinance themselves on reasonable terms, lighten their harassing burdens, and give them fair opportunity to return to sound conditions.’* m The bill proposes, at the outset, the issa-

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✓GOVERNOR M'NUTT'S administration has, in its brief lifetime, given Indiana more liberal and sound legislation than any other in the history of the state. That is what makes his shenanigans over the beer problem a pathetic spectacle. They stand out in such sharp contrast to his other acts. Congress legalized the brew after it was convinced that it was not intoxicating in fact. It plainly defined beer as a beverage which would not inebriate. The McNutt regime has proceeded to hedge it about with a complicated regulatory system which gives the lie to congress. Now if beer actually is intoxicating, it is illegal to sell it at all, since the eighteenth amendment still is in force. If, on the other hand, it is non-intoxicating, it merely is a food. The state has no special police powers over wholesome foods and therefore the whole McNutt beer program is oppressive, if not actually unconstitutional. The whole thing boils down to the fact that the national government solemnly has declared that nobody can get drunk on beer and the state of Indiana proceeds to behave as though one sniff would send Bacchus himself reeling. The regulatory machinery itself has some strange wheels within wheels in it. Governor McNutt appointed Paul Fry excise director, charged with handling permits. Then it appears that Fry really has not the sole permit power, but that back of him, and over him, is a private citizen. Frank McHale. Mr. McHale is an honorable man with an excellent reputation, but the taxpayers are not hiring him to look after permits, nor are the voters holding him responsible for the discharge of the duties of that office. They look to Fry. It is a dangerous thing to give any man, no matter how high-grade, power without the public responsibility. If Governor McNutt wants McHale to deal with beer permits, let the Governor give him Fry’s job. It also appears that the holders of the import permits are not really the individuals in whose names they were issued, but stock corporations. The same is true of some of the wholesale permits. This seems like an unnecessary complication. It adds mystery to an already mysterious situation. The reason for such a setup is not hard to guess. Some people want to enjoy the profits of the beer traffic without having their par-

ance of two billion dollars in 4 per cent bonds, the interest guaranteed by the government. Thc.se bonds may be used to purchase outstanding mortgages, or to make new loans. The distressed farmer will be assured of an immediate decrease in interest payments to 4Vi per cent, he may arrange amortization of his loan over a longer period of years, and, if his distress is extremely acute, he may secure a reasonable moratorium. The possibility also exists to scale down the values of land on w'hich mortgages were given when those values were inflated unduly, but it is not likely that this scaling down will apply to mortgages made in very recent years, for during that period land values already have been reduced. This, apparently, is no charity bill, intended to transfer to the government the whole mortgage burden. It hardly could be, since it involves the issuance of only two billions in bonds, as compared with a total farm mortgage debt of almost nine billions. But it offers definite help to distressed farmers, and promises thus to stabilize the whole mortgage market. It is true that the government, simultaneously, will be endeavoring to raise farm prices to pre-war levels through the farm relief bill. But this definitely is an experiment, and so described by President Roosevelt. He doesn’t know that it will work, or actually raise farm prices; he hopes it will. We do, too. Congress could do no better thing, we think, than to pass the debt relief bill along with the farm price relief bill, and do it quickly. PASSING OF THE PROMOTER TT is easy enough to say that we have come -*■ to “the end of an era" in our national history. and it has been said often enough, heaven knows, during the last few months. But for all its triteness, the saying is perfectly true, and the whole business is worth a good deal of examination. One aspect of the change is to be seen in the proposal whereby all security issues W'ould come under strict regulation of the federal government. This, in all probability, means the passing of the old-time financial and industrial promoter—the man who built nothing and originated nothing, but who had a genius for tying together into one big, and useful, concern a whole series of smaller firms that other men had built up. Sometimes this promoter was an out-and-out pirate, all fixed up with a plank which all suckers he captured had to walk; sometimes he performed a tremendously useful service for the nation as a whole. In the main, it is probably true that the great development of our industry in the last three or four decades never could have taken place without him. But it is hard to see how he could operate under this new scheme for regulating security issues and securities markets. The very essence of the old-time promoter’s game was that the process of organizing his companies and floating his stock issues be performed in the darkness—because it was in that process that his vast profits originated. Because the country was expanding so fast, this often enough worked out very well, in the long run. Many a giant corporation contained vast quantities of water when it first was put together, but found before many years had passed that the natural growth of business had drained its water all out. But those expansive days are over, and the imaginative and ingenious promoter who took advantage of them no longer can be regarded as a useful person. The proposed security marketing bill simply recognizes that fact. It has been said often, but it is very true—we have come to the end of an era. LIGHT OX BANKING PRACTICE OENATORS and representatives are urging a sweeping congressional inquiry into preholiday banking practices throughout country; and there Is good reason to suppose

ticipation known to the public. This, of course, gives a wonderfnl opportunity for secret distribution of political patronage. It also gives certain prominent drys a chance to make a quiet profit in these lean days without undue embarrassment. Beer should not be the object of political patronage. The American people are conducting a great social experiment in the legalization of beer. Broadminded, conscientious citizens of both wet and dry’ persuasion are hoping for great things from it. Governor McNutt and his advisers should approach the problem in that spirit. Still another flaw in the Democratic import system is that it, in effect, provides the means for the state of Indiana to set up a protective tariff on beer made outside the state. It seeks to encourage local industry at the expense of the other breweries of the nation. This is excellent in theory. Every one wants to do a® he can to encourage business at home, but tihe Hoosier state still is in the Union and the Constitution of the United States specifically reserves the tariff-making power for the flederal government alone. Even if it did not, since when has the Democratic party become aai advocate of protective tariffs? No sensible person believes that the big national brewers are going to be good boys from now' on. There is no doubt that they will need a good switching from time to time. But Indiana's police powers are ample to handle them without such a peculiar program as that which Governor McNutt has promulgated. This newspaper supported the Governor. It has no reason to regret that it did. If election day were next week, it would be supporting him again, but he is botching the beer proposition. The voters supported him because he was young, vigorous, progressive. They were tired of the olid party machine of the Republicans. Surely he is not going to use beer to build another party machine. If he attempts to meet the Republicans on their own ground, he may strike a snag. The Republicans of this state have been doing business for quite a time on the old-fashioned basis. They probably have forgotten more about running a party machine than Governor McNutt and Ins advisers know. It is to be hoped that the Governor will not lose his amateur standing in politics. That is his chief appeal to an electorate sick to death with the old merry-go-round of political privilege, patronage, and jobbery.

that the public would be very glad to see such inquiry held. Right now, of course, the big job is to get the new banking machinery functioning properly. Those banks which have not yet been permitted to open must be reorganized and reopened, and the frozen deposits which are crippling business must be thawed out. No side-issue can be permitted to get in the way of that job, for it is vitally important. But, sooner or later, a lot of people would like to see some bright sunlight cast on the banking practices that preceded the holiday. All sorts of wild rumors and suspicions are flourishing about them; a sweeping investigation which would make the whole truth public would be a very healthful thing. “What a futile business it is to urge people to be good,” sighs Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Yet quite a few professional reformers have made the business pay. German scientist claims he has invented a device which will show from a person’s photograph whether that person is still living or dead. If it gets in general use, politicians will have to be more careful about taking down their campaign photos after election.

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TP HE frankness of Yosuke Matsuoka comes as a refreshing breath amid the fog of ignorant assumptions and false arguments which have obscured the Far East for most Americans. To put it bluntly, we have not been quite honest with ourselves, much less with the known facts, but have preferred to accept the vague mandates of tradition, or the still vaguer mandates of an undigested idealism. The people of this country do not intend and never have intended to go very far in behalf of China. While glad to co-operate with other nations in preserving the so-called “open door,” their attitude has been negative rather than positive. The real purpose they have had in mind was to maintain the status quo, not because they regarded it as particularly good, but because they were afraid that something worse might occur if it were changed. tt tt u TO be more specific, the people of this country have dreaded the possibility of the rise and development of a first-class power in the Far East, ana their various moves have been designed to prevent such possibility. Asa general proposition, the people of this country do not fear Japan as she is, but they are less complacent when it comes to speculating on what she might become. The analogy between what the island kingdom of Great Britain has accomplished during the last 400 years and what the island kingdom of Japan could accomplish during the next 400 years is too apparent to be ignored. About the only thing required to make it :ome true is a thorough-going imperialistic policy on Japan’s part. The people of this country realize that the Japanese way is better than the Chinese way, not only from a civilizing standpoint, but from the standpoint of their own selfish interests. They realize, for instance, that if Japan takes over Manchuria, she will make it a better place for trade than it was before. But—and this is the all-important consideration—they are not quite sure where competition with a rich and powerful Japan would lead. If they could be assured on that point, they would be far less excited over the question of China's collapse or Japan's expansion. ♦ B tt tt HITHERTO it has been taken for granted that no nation could gro# big without wanting to grow bigger, and that an imperialistic policy presupposes a major conflict with other nations in the end. In other words, unless history is prevented from repeating itself, a greatly enlarged Japan presupposes war with the United States at some future date. \ That being so. the American people face one of two alternatives. First, they can continue their ineffectual opposition to Japanese expansion and not only wait for the fateful day to arrive, but hasten it by their irritating attitude. Second, they can Jace the situation candidly, recognize the futility of trying to stop the processes of orderly development and co-operate with other nations in working out a program to preclude necessity of strife. Japan certainly is not going to disregard the opportunities that the nearby mainland of Asia affords, any more than we disregarded the opportunities that our own undeveloped west afforded 100 years ago. .

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less.) By Impatient. Salesmanship has reached a high plane of excellence in most lines, but it seems to me that book merchants have overlooked most of these lessons. The average person who knows anything about books and goes into a store to buy them doesn’t want a half-dozen clerks rushing at him, with their “Can I help you?” A book buyer—with the exception of those who go into a store once a year to get a Christmas, birthday or anniversary present for a third cousin and buy the first volume that is shoved at them—wants to browse. He doesn’t always know exactly what he wants when he looks over the shelves. A clerk doesn't know your taste in literature merely by looking at you. A man who goes into a store after some books on archeology or comparative religion, science or the arts doesn’t care to have a gushing salesman shove the latest mystery story, or a western, or a gooey, sexy modem novel in his face. Asa matter of fact, I have found that the general run of clerks in book stores know less about books than almost any one else I can think of. Here’s hoping that some book store proprietor sees this and tells his clerks to let customers alone until they have done their own browsing and choosing. By Rural Subscriber. The brewers and politicians have learned nothing from the tragedy of prohibition. They forced the dry laws on the nation by their greed and brainlessness and now they are going to repeat. No self-respecting voter can look ta the mad scramble for graft without becoming disgusted with every phase of the liquor business. I had intended to vote for repeal,

WHEN for any reason the nose is lost entirely, the facial expression naturally suffers. When the bridge of the nose disappears, as sometimes occurs in certain forms of disease, a saddle nose is caused, which is anything but beautiful. The frequency of automobile accidents has resulted in damage to many a nose. Falls, industrial accidents, railroad WTecks, and gunshot w r ounds also produce damages that require medical attention, and the results of pugilism are a constant source of income to specialists in nasal reconstruction. Mother Nature brings many a nose into prominence by bestowing upon it a hump, a knob at the tip,

“'T'O be temperamental,” says a i A well-known actress, “is every woman's right.” Which reminds me that I'm awfully tired of having the actresses and especially the screen stars, give the rest of us matrimonial advice. Without knowing anything at all .about the problems that confront the average, ordinary woman, they put out reams of the most unmitigated rot, and bye and bye become national oracles. They tell us, first of all, how to keep our looks which is o. k., because that's what they are specializing in. It’s one subject with which they are thoroughly familiar. Therefore, we gladly concede to them the right to i hold forth on cold creams, face j packs, diet, exercises, and lipsticks. It is when they venture into the larger fields that the spirit rebels. Even more than I resent being told that Constance Bennett, when she was getting $30,000 a week, loved to slip in the Aitchen and make a lemon pie, c* I resfnt the four-

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More Drunks? By J. C. R. I do not agree with Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley, president of the Indiana W. C. T. U„ that the highways will be more unsafe, with the return of beer and wine, not to mention medicinal whisky. I w'onder if Mrs. Stanley thinks there has been no drinking during the period of the noble experiment. Every edition of every newspaper has carried stories of crashes due to drunken driving, which she probably has overlooked. If beer can make more drunken drivers than alcohol and redeye have .made in the past, I’ll be badly mistaken. as had many of my neighbors. We now' lean strongly toward the other side. If beer is not being brought back for the benefit of the public, w’hich pays the bill, we certainly will do our best to see that it is not brought back for the benefit of a lot of grasping politicians. Indiana is not a cinch for a wet victory at the best, and recent developments have not hurt the drys. By C. E. O. Those of you who bemoan the empty storerooms and houses in Indianapolis and point to them as the pitiful reaction of a depression should drive on a few of the country’s less-traveled roads. The sights you’ll see within the limits of the county and over the county line in each direction are not assuring, but they are broadening. They tell the story of days and nights of failures of the farmer. Here and there along the main highways are houses, barns, and properties in tip-top shape. But on those side roads that are traveled in the greatest majority, by the nearby residents, it’s another story. Barns and houses are unpainted. Boards are loose here and there on

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or a deviation to one side or the other. Forms of the nose have been described as long and short, upturned and downward, humped, flat, wide pointed, narrow' and saddle-shaped. It is just as well that people do not worry too much about their particular type of nasal appearance. The experts find that almost any amount of repairs and reconstruction never is satisfactory to the person who once embarks on the paths of nasal improvement. If the loss of tissue or destruction of tissue causes damage to the health of the person concerned, the

times-divorced lady giving instructions on how' to hold a husband. By this time we have found out that keeping one’s complexion and keeping ones husband are two separate arts, after all. t> a it WHEN I read that Peggy Hopkins Joyce is willing to explain to the rest of us the difuQuestions and Answers Q —Where can I get a copy of the federal inheritance tax law? A—Copy of the federal inheritance tax law can be obtained from E. E. Neal, internal revenue department. Q —Have we a law in Indiana requiring payment of inheritance tax? Where can I get a copy? A— Yes. You can get a copy from the state inheritance tax commissioner at the statehquse.

the residence, as well as on the chicken coop and the barn. And, the sad part of the story, is that it is not a case of negligence. It’s merely a case of inability to keep, in perfect shape, many of these buildings that have been the pride of families for years. Perhaps the dull weather of the last few weeks has something to do with that glum apearance. Perhaps real summer will throw enough sun on those fading houses and barns, and, with the greening of trees and flowers, will lift that pall. But it won’t help those leaning buildings and failing timbers. In Indianapolis, the Chamber of Commerce is getting ready to couple its annual clean-up, paint-up drive with a modernization campaign. Isn’t there some way in which Marion county farmers and the tradesmen might be able to get together to solve this problem of unsightly properties? < Isn’t there some manner in which that clean-up, paint-up drive can work to the benefit of those of us who might live outside the city limits? C. E. C, By a Parishioner. Indianapolis should be grateful for the faithful service of the Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel, pastor of Tabernacle Presbyterian church. For fifteen years he has labored in that field and growth of the church during that period has been largely due to his efforts. It was through his devoted work that the congregation has grown to its present size, and it is due to him that the church has moved to its present splendid edifice. It is through the efforts of men like Mr. Dunkel that churches gain a foremost place in the community. By Reader. To judge from the latest press reports, it goes something like this! In Italy, Fascism; in Germany, Hitlerism, but in Indiana, it’s only McNuttiness.

case certainly demands surgical attention. There are many ways of building up a broken-down or absent bridge. Some surgeons transplant bone and cartilage, some use celluloid, and others use ivory. Humps are removed by dissection and scraping or cutting. * The best way to take care of a deformatory from an accident, however, is to give it the best possible attention immediately after the accident. It is much easier to secure a good result if such care is given at that time than to attempt to complete rebuilding operation when tissues have healed in the wrong manner. Next—Removing Foreign Substances.

culties of matrimony, I become a boiling tea kettle of wrath, and when I am urged to look upon Clara Bow registering deep love for her husband I snort with rage. It seems to me that all these fair* daughters of stage and screen are very far from being authorities upon domestic subjects. They may be able to explain to us how to fail gracefully at the job of being wives, but they hardly can be capabie of instructing us in any methods of success. Then, knowing how bad it is to get into a temper. I put on my hat and go down to old Aunt Susan’s, who lives on the other side of the railroad tracks and who has been married for more than fifty years to the same man. And Aunt Susan restores my faith in men and my hope for women, and my belief in that strange, everlasting, half-physical, half-spiritual relationship between one man and one woman that is marriage.

APRIL 4, 1933

It Seems to Me = BY JOE WILLIAMS ~

(Batting (or Hrvwood Broun) NEW YORK. April 4.—1 had intended doing a thunderous piece on Hitler and ignorance to-day-something that would have endured through the years, like Lincoln's Gettysburg address and some of Ed Wynn's radio jok —but I happened to run into Clyde Beatty, the lion trainer. I found Beatty and his ghost writer. Ed Anthony, at breakfast in one of the midtown pubs. I was invited to pull up a chair and drink a little nourishment with them, which I did wholly as a matter of courtesy. “What do you think of me running around with my own ghosts already?" laughed Beatty. Though it was high noon. I shuddered at such morbid humor at the breakfast table. Lion trainers soii c * oln test long. They all go the same i way. A moment of carelessness a lunging beast—a limp, lifeless form. The curly-haired, blue-eyed young man. with sharp Indian features - called the greatest wild animal trainer of all time—had collaborated on a book, “The Big Cage,” and starred in a Hollywood picture since I had seen him a year ago. If anything, he looked younger, 1 more buoyant, happier. a a a It's His Own Life W r ELL, I finally got some insurance," said Mr. Beatty. We had talked about that the last time we met. "Yes, Lloyds of London insured me for three monilis while I was making the picture. I feel like a human being now.” Mr. Beatty is one of the few men in the world who can not get insurance against his death. I used to wonder whether an animal trainer's danger was as real as the cracking of whips, the firing of blank cartridges and the snarling of the beasts made it appear to be. The long mortuary list and the shyness of the underwriters would seem definitely to confirm the authenticity of the glamorous peril. Is it worth the gamble? Why should any man w ; ant to be an animal trainer? What does it Prove? Can it possibly contribute anything to the social scheme of things? Mr. Beatty wouldn't know. “You don't suppose Lindbergh flew' the ocean solely in the interest of science, do you?” he asks. “That was the spirit of adventure in him—it was something he craved to attempt. “I have been an animal trainer at heart since I was a child. It is now my chief interest in life—my main outlet for adventure. And it ha3 brought me complete contentment.” B tt B Forgive and Forget MR. BEATTY has been near death several times. A year ago, when I saw him, he just had come out of a hospital. Nero, a giant African lion, had felled him. Nero still is in the act. “And the best lion I've got,” Mr. Beatty says. “Apparently he has completely forgiven me for not dying that day." Mr. Beatty goes into the big cage with forty lions and tigers—males and females—something that never has been attempted before. To be sure, the beasts are trained, but even a trained lion or tiger is not exactly an ideal house pet. Frequently the animals fight among themselves. One night there was a jungle free-for-all, with twenty-nine of them in it. When this happens Mr. Beatty has no need to worry for his personal safety. All told, he has had eleven tigers killed at his feet. Mr. Beatty admits that for the most part his beasts are docile enough. “Still, you never can tell w'hen one .of them Is going to get nasty, and w'hen that happens you face real danger. I use a whip, a gun and a chair for protection. The whip and the gun are meaningless. They merely add to the atmosphere. “The chair is my real defense. If a lion or tiger can get his teeth into something, it sort of quiets his nerves. I am not altogether meanspirited, but I don’t care how often they bite into the chair.” tt an Beatty Is Correct ED ANTHONY, who had been scribbling energetically on the back of an old celluloid cuff, broke in at this point to say that he W'ould like to recite, with or without gestures, some verse which he hoped would serve to focus attention on a highly controversial problem—the problem of how to pronounce Mr. Beatty’s name. Exhibit A: “He’s from the well-known U. S. A., and not the distant Haiti— This feller with the chair and whip who’s known to us as Beatty.” Exhibit B, shift, guards back: “His book I’ve read and found exhilarating, meaty, Soul-stirring, full of epic scenes. r Don't mention it, Clyde Beatty.)” Charmed by the lyric cadence of poet, even as is the snake by the Hindu fakir (and there is son.fthing about Mr. Anthony that suggests a Hindu fakir), I turned to the great circus star himself and asked which was correct—Beatty or Beatty? “Beatty.” he answered. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Times) Old Hands BY VERNE S. MOORE Beside a dim, uncertain lamp she sits Her figure bent and tensing to the work Spread loosely on her aproned knee. She knits Painstakingly some article that fits The need where squalid poverty may lurk, Or plies with tender mien, as needle flits. The pattern of some tedious token rare; A friendly gift hard wrought with thoughful care. Her friends have learned to prize and hoard always The bits of lace she knitted long ago In youthful time, for fear her hands grown old She lose the "skill they krew in early days. And yet her hands will not their art forego Until all silently in death they fold.