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WEDNESDAY APRIL 5. 19.13. U. S. S. AKRON w | ''HE lo sos the U. S. S. Akron and its gallant crew is a national tragedy. Under the, impulse of horror and grief, the public is doubtful of tnc wisdom of experiment with more dirigibles. But judgment should be suspended until ail the facts are in. After a thorough investigation of the Akron and saster, the navy anti congress will have the fa k of deciding whether further experiment in this type ot aircraft is justified in terms 0. national d n frn.so. The fact that there always has been disagre ment, both in commercial and naval ch’cLs, as to the value of the dirigible type is not especially important, because ail new inventions have to win their way against those who say ' it can't be done.” It. is important, however, that many years o! experiment by several nations has been to dele almost uniformly disastrous. Germany, v. 'h het globe-encircling Graf-Zeppelin and the German-built Los Angeles, which is now out of commission, are the exceptions. Death oiten is incident to pioneering in Science, as m other exploration. Courage is required for such progress. But sometimes e\rn greater courage is required t-o turn back from a false trail and start again in a different direction. Great Britain had that courage after her last dirigible disaster, when she dismantled her remaining ship. Following the failures ot Great Britain and of their own. France and 1; a1 y have given up the experiment, and Japan never has tried. The Akron tragedy will force our government to give new thought to its rigid airship policy. RECOVERY MUST BE WORLD-WIDE rr-sHE things which arc attracting the most attention at Washington these days are the spectacular developments in domestic policy—the banking measures, the farm relief proposals, tlie work relief projects, and so on. But in the long run the most important slops may be those to which we aren t paying a great deal of attention right, now—the preparations for long, patient, and involved negotiations with other nations which have as their goal the restoration of international confidence. world trade and general prosperity. It is well known that the administration is making elaborate plans for this work. But the subjects to be covered are so complicated, so far removed from the obvious bread-and-butter requirements of the moment, so difficult, in Jact, for the ordinary citizen to comprehend, that most of us have paid very little attention to them. Yet whether prosperity is to return to us may depend easily in the last analysis, on our government's foreign policy rather than on . its domestic policy. Whether the depression came chiefly because of things that happened in America, or whether it was caused by developments overseas, one thing is pretty certain: We can't get full prosperity back again unless all nations have a share in it. The world has grown so small in the last generation that there no longer is any such thing as complete economic independence. We live too close to our neighbors; sickness is one house is very apt to mean sickness in every other house —especially so since our ideas of economic sanitation are of the sketchiest and no such thing as an adequate quarantine is possible. And in the long run, whether we like it or not, we must admit that prosperity has to be pretty much a world-wide affair. The measures proposed at Washington for setting our own house in order are vitally important. of course; but unless international trade, international credit and international confidence can be restored we aren't likely to come to the end of our troubles. RUSH REPEAL A NTICIPATED ratification of the prohibi- -*• * tion repeal amendment thus month by Michigan and Wisconsin conventions, following the election of delegates in those states Monday and Tuesday, has encouraged the wet forces. But they should not mistake victory in two easy salients for eventual success. There is much yet to be done before the fight is won. In fact, there is a disturbing slowing down in the preparations for repeal. Only twentyfour states have set up machinery for the election of delegates to conventions. In nine additional states only one house of the legislature has acted. The remaining fifteen states have done nothing. Time is an important element here. For one reason, the state legislatures are adjourning; some already have done so. In such states action may be postponed for a year or two years. Obviously, it is desirable to act now. while the public is ready. This does not mean that those who press for speed will be forcing action without thought. The general voting public already lias made up its mind. After years of thought and observation of the prohibition experiment, the voters expressed themselves in November. That was a popular referendum in favor of repeal. If democratic government is to operate efficiently, that popular mandate of last November should be translated into legal repeal, through ratification by the necessary threefourihs of the states without long months and years intervening. The usual custom of long-drawn-out rati■A fication of constitutional amendments offers no precedent in this case, because of the unusual November mandate. An added reason for prompt calling of - state conventions is that the entire liquor \control situation is becoming increasingly chaotic, pending ratification. Legally, the old t system still exists; actually the temper of the

people, anticipating repeal, has scrapped prohibition. So the country hangs between the wreck of the old and the promise of the new. It is essential that the new system be legalized quickly. LITTLE, BUT OH MY! overwhelmed by soaring taxes, debts and utility rates, may learn things frem the story of Washington, a little city of 9.000 souls in Indiana. It seems that thirty years ago Washington bought up for $83,291 a private electric light plant. That was six times what it was worth, but at that it must have been a bargain. For, according to an account by Washingtons Mayor McCarthy in ‘ Public Ownership,” the little plant, now’ w’orth $1,000,000, has been mopping up the city's financial worries. It has, we learn, not only repaid the original cost ol the plant, but retired a debt of $57,000 and paid, from surplus earnings, for $430,000 worth of extensions and improvements. It has reduced rates from 10 cents per k. w. h. maximum to 7 cents. It has lifted a $7,000 debt from the city hall. Its earnings have helped reduce city taxes from $1.12 in 1930, to 4311> cents this year, by pouring $125,000 into the general fund in three years. These earnings have built a $19,000 office building to house the electric plant's offices and those of a newly acquired city waterworks. From these earnings the city has set aside $7,182 for street and alley improvements. From them also has been taken $13,500 for unemployment relief. Finally, from these earnings the city’s jobless also have been helped by investments of $27 500 by the plant in two privately-owned factories, which thereby were enabled to continue operations. All of which, it must be admitted, is something for the Hoosier city to crow about. DANGER AHEAD IF there has been any one lesson which the depression has taught discerning observers, it is that there can be no such thing as permanent prosperity under capitalism without maintenance of adequate purchasing power on the part of the masses of industrial workers and farmers. It frequently is asserted that the main reason for the coming of the great depression in 1929 was the orgy of speculation in the two preceding years. This is true only in part, and indirectly. The fundamental reasons for the depression were: ill The steady and extreme deflation of American agriculture in the interest of the credit economy of the speculative international bankers, and (2) the failure to turn a sufficient fraction of the national income back into wages to insure sufficient and permanent purchasing power on the part of the industrial workers. If the farmers and the workers had received a fair break in distribution of the national income in the ten years before 1929, such enormous sums would not have been available for speculators, but American farmers, workers, and productive business would have been in a healthy state of moderate prosperity and prepared to go on therein for an indefinite period. If we ever hope to get on our feet again and to stay there, it should oe apparent to any one willing to face the truth that such a result can be achieved only by raising wages to an adequate level and keeping them there. Therefore, anything in the present situation which gives promise of a depression of existing American wage levels must be exposed relentlessly and the dangers therein made clear. There can be no doubt that at present the stress of special circumstances is bringing about a depression of wages to a degree scarcely matched in the days of the old sweatshop. Half-starving people, not able to get adequate relief, are willing to work for anything which will keep body and soul together. This situation may be exploited to the benefit of society by public-spirited employers or it may be taken advantage of by economic wolves who will seize any opportunity to defeat the achievements of a generation of struggle by social reformers and labor leaders.;) An employer who would not be able to run his factory at all if he had to pay normal wages, but sees the opportunity to open temporarily and give employment at a low wage level to a considerable number who otherwise would be near starvation in idleness, may be regarded as a public benefactor, provided he frankly recognizes that this is only a temporary expedient, related more to the relief of suffering than to the permanent conduct of industry’. On the other hand, an employer who attempts to make a profit out of his ability to depress wages to a starvation level on account of the helplessness of the laboring public and aspires lo take advantage of this situation to break down all standards of decency in the laboring world is not ethically fit for the firing squad. It will require an alert journalism and public conscience to see to it that there Is a careful discrimination between the public benefactors and the wolves. i ■ SHOULD WOMEN BE HANGED? A RIZONA S state board of pardons and paroles has refused to recommend clemency for Winnie Ruth Judd, convicted murderess. and unless new court jfftion proves more effective than anything her lawyers have tried heretofore, the young woman must be hanged on April 21. And this brings up again the old question: Is it proper public policy to send women to the gallows? Under our modern ideas of sex equality, there is little that logically can be said against it. Equal rights bring equal responsibilities; if women are to enjoy the same status as men they must face the sfirne penalties for their transgressions. The time when the mere fact of a woman's sex could win a mitigation of her punishment seems to be past. Yet the spectacle of a woman going to the gallows is not a pretty one. Is it simply a holdover of out-moded sentimentalism that makes some of us feel that it is wrong? RESTORING A TRADITION nnHE Nazi ministry in Bavaria has removed the old ban on duelling among students in the Bavarian universities. A German republican code which sought to outlaw the student duels, an important feature of undergraduate life for many years, has been revoked. Henceforth the students can slash or ■ an-

other's faces with sabers to their hearts’ content. And this—to an American who never has been within many miles of any German university—might seem like a good thing. Doubtless student duelling is a baroaric and useless custom —but it is a colorful, high-spirited tradition, and its existence has provided a large part of the glamour which, at this distance, seems to hang over the German universities. TWO JUDGES by constitutional limitations * to reduce federal judges’ salaries by law. congress last year broadly hinted that these jurists might do a bit of economy legislation on their cwn and take voluntary cuts in pay. Only two judges took the hint. The rest of the forty circuit judge continue to draw their $12,500 and the 151 district judges their SIO,OOO stipend. Possibly the federal judiciary agrees with labor that salary slashes are deflationary and unsocial. Possibly they have other thoughts. The rest of the country w r ill wonder why underpaid government clerks must take severe cuts in the name of economy while lifetenure federal judges need suffer no effects fronii the governmental economy drive. It is too bad the treasury withholds the names of the two judges who reduced their own salaries. A monument should be erected to the unknowns. LEGALIZING BETTING A SOMEWHAT saner attitude toward “blue laws” Is beginning to become apparent in various parts of the country. The state of Ohio, for example, just has passed legislation legalizing horse racing and horse race betting; and before you start deploring such a step, consider the situation that existed in Ohio in years past. Ohio had horse racing—lots and lots of it, year in and year out. These races, obviously, were conducted to the tune of a vast amount of betting, all perfectly open and without concealment. Yet the betting was entirely Illegal. The result was that Ohio had all the evils that go with race track gambling—and a lot of other evils besides. The betting was entirely unregulated; county officials either winked blithely at the law or quietly were bribed to collect a very sizable revenue which it will get under the new law’. The change simply means that Ohio has repealed a law that wasn’t being enforced anyway, and has, therefore, ended a lot of graft and hypocrisy. Premier Saito solemnly has informed Emperor Hirohito's ancestors that Japan has withdrawn from the League of Nations. Seems a shame. What they didn.'t know wouldn’t hurt them. Season of summer romance coming on now. Young couples should remember that many a beach romance that starts on the sands winds up on the rocks. At least you can't accuse Hitler’s pickets of being on the fence. Irving Berlin says he hopes, now that beer is back, that we will turn from being a nation of listeners to a nation of singers. Well, Roosevelt does seem to have introduced a note of harmony. The box score for Germany thus far seems to be a million huns, one Hitler, and a long string of errors. France already has last $160,000,000 in trade because she refused to pay United States that debt installment of $19,000,000. Penny wise, franc foolish.

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Governor Herbert lehman’s fight for legislation in New York state that will remove the control of beer from politics is based on a sound conception of public policy. Those who accept the change of sentiment that has taken place as justifying a revival of the bossism, corruption, and lobbying which did far more than liquor to bring on prohibition, are mistaken. The people of this country have had all the politics they want in connection with liquor. It was a disgust with the alliance between tinhorn politicians and liquor interests that drove them to adopt the eighteenth amendment. The same kind of alliance beween tinhorn politicians and bootleggers caused the present reaction. Unless this kind of a relationship can be destroyed, the country will just go on oscillating between prohibition and wide-open traffic. If beer is allowed to become a political or social nuisance, all thought of repealing the eighteenth amendment might as well be dismissed. What the vast majority of people want is something better, not something worse. a a a THERE is no reason why the liquor trade should dance to the tune of partisan politics, or why minor officials should be given opportunity to make it the basis for patronage on the one hand and punishment on the other. Everything, however, depends on the legal setup. The state legislatures have a chance to legalize this traffic or restore it as a political football. If they choose the latter course, they only will reopen the cesspools of graft and corruption, the hide-outs for criminality and viciousness. and the inevitable growth of an adverse sentiment* Ward-heelers who regard modification of the Volstead act as a grand thing because it enables them to provide anew feed trough for “the boys’’ should be ignored. They do not represent the desire of average people. In fact, they do not represent much of anything except narrow-minded, ignorant greed. a a a WHEREVER the beer trade is sanctioned, it should be under a control which is absolutely free Irom partisan influence, and with which machine politicians can not interfere. Beyond that, it should be permitted to operate like any other trade, as far as possible. Such questions as whether beer can be sold over a bar should be put aside. If beer is to be sold at all, it should be sold in the greatest possible number of ways and in the greatest possible number of places. Restrictions only make an excuse for peace officers and local magistrates to interfere or to collect a price for not interfering. That is exactly what many politicians would like to see, but it is not what most people want or will tolerate. The assumption that we have finished the battle against Volsteadism is erroneous. It barely has begun, and a great deal depends on how it is carried on in the initial stages. The rush to grab control of patronage and gain other advantages from a purely political standpoint is Stout the worst thing that could happen at this time. It not only confirms the prophecy of drys, but shocks other people. The thought that we may be jumping out of the frying pan to fall in the fire already is having a dampening effect.

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THE INDIAN

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25 0 words or less.) Bv Disabled A. E. F. Veteran. Billions for bankers and a kick in the face for the ex-service disabled men! Billions to the section of persons who are more responsible for the present condition of the country than any other group, and the badge of infamy to our country’s defenders. Boiler plate editorials in your paper for a w'elching country w’ritten in a controlled central propaganda office, and stony silence to the thousands of veterans who are endeavoring to get justice in the court of public opinion! Hard-boiled edicts to those who are unable to protect themselves, and help to those who have control of our country’s finance. Ex-service men's organizations, federal employed, American Federation of Labor—all have felt the iron hand of “drastic” action. Holders of securities, mortgages, owners of banks, moneyed men, look forward hopefully to the future. Ex-service men with no other means of subsistence than a miserly stipend from a niggardly government will not look forward so hopefully. A new' deal! Deuces and jokers for the needy as exemplified in dol-lar-a-day jobs away from their families and aces and kings in the form of legal defaulting of bank deposits, and a free hand in the operation of the mint printing presses to liquidate bad business practices on the part of creditor classes. “You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can t fool all the people all the time!” B a Disgusted Member. This is by a member of a large city church. I witnessed something as I w'as going to the services of said church that really made me feel that people have forgotten what they go to church to hear preached. Save thy neighbor and also help the poor unfortunates that this city is so full of. A crippled man, a war veteran, trying to get a way to earn his

TJiis is the third article in the series by Dr. Fishbein on the nose. CHILDREN not infrequently push all sorts of things into the nasal cavity. The character of things pushed into the nose is limited only by the size and the possibilities. Insane people also occasionally indulge in a similar performance. Among some of the common substances that have been found by physicians are chalk, buttons, seeds and pieces of w’ood. Occasionally the nasal cavity becomes infected with worms. Among others are maggots and screw worms, and indeed almost any of the w’orms w'hich can live in the human body. Worms seldom are found in a normal nose. However, in the presence of any disease with an associated odor, flies are attracted which may lay eggs or in other w’ays con-

THE American mother, according to authorities, is indeed a fearsome figure. All the crimes of mankind are laid on her doorstep. Sometimes I marvel that she remains so calm under the constant barrage from psychologists, the doctors, the child experts, and the professors. For we are, they tell us, the ogres that destroy and the saints that save humanity. If we love our babies too much, they are doomed. If we love them too little, the same fate awaits them. If we look well after their physical wants, their souls probably suffer. If, on the contrary, we concentrate on their souls, we’ll neglect their vitamins. They'll be ruined if we spank them, they’ll be ruined if we don’t. ' Discipline your children.’’ cries one professor. "Give the child his freedom,” yells another. Like poor Alice, we are asked to do six impossible things every' day before breakfast. Happily resist mothers who actu-

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Victory Coming By Mrs. Annctta Kelley! If the persecution of the Jews will but drive them back to their own land that God gave to Abraham. a promise yet to be fulfilled, it will have accomplished its mission, according to God’s promise, to gather them there in the last days. Read Genesis, twelfth chapter, first three verses, and on. Hitler is placing himself in line for a good share of the “curses.” In God’s due time, the Jews shall be restored to their own land, then the blessing will come to the whole w’orld, but “woe unto their persecutors.” bread, selling shoestrings and pencils, was ordered away by the doorman of that church, as some people w'ould order a dog from their door, instead of asking the poor unfortunate to come inside and hear the services and helping him. He also called police to send the man aw'ay. The doorman is supposed to be a good, loyal, upright citizen. What do you think? I w’ould have felt ashamed to go inside and hear the services after doing such a low', mean thing to a crippled man and still feel the Lord was with me. The cripple lost his limb serving his country, protecting such people, and all he gets is sneers and kicks. By John E. Bayless. This reforestation that the President is putting forth so much effort in getting started has a twofold purpose, as he has stated in his declaration. First, to grow timber for future generations, and, second, to protect the land from erosion. all of which seems to be a w'orthy object. But let us stop and think f6r awhile. It has not been so long ago, W'hen the timber was disappearing so rapidly, that the farmers set up a cry, “We will have nothing with which to build houses and fences.” This question w'as settled by the pioneers. They built houses and barns of brick that have been in use for more than a hundred years and from appearance are good for generations to come.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. vey the larvae of the worms to the nasal cavity. Among the first signs of infestation of the nose by worms are irritation, sneezing and an increased j amount of discharge usually j streaked with blood. The removal of worms from the j nose is not a serious matter. 'The j nose may be w'ashed repeatedly with | solutions containing proper antisep- j tic substances. The removal of inanimate foreign j bodies not infrequently requires the j i greatest of skill of a competent spe- j ! cialist. It may be necessary to use anes- | thetic, to apply various solutions I which will constrict the tissue of \ the nose to employ the X-ray to locate the foreign body exactly. j Once this is done, the doctor

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ally are engaged in the work of bringing up children are so engrossed with their job that they have little time for following all the leaders. And if they had the time, I imagine they would regard most of the fuss as immaterial. Questions and Answers Q —Where does the Susitna river have its source? A— Near the foot of Mt. McKinley. in Alaska. Q—What nationality is the name Uhlis? A—lt is a Danish name, meaning "mind reward.’’ Q—Who discovered Ceres, the first asteroid, and when? A—lt was discovered by the Sicilian astronomer, Piazzi, Jan. 1, 1801.

Fences have been replaced by wire on metal or cement posts. In the reforestation project, the land must be acquired by state or nation before reforestation can proceed. It seems to me a better way would be to divide the land into forty-acre tracts and sell a tract to a family on such terms as it could meet, with the proviso that two-fifths of it be reforested, if not already in timber. lam aware this principle will be criticised from the fact that poor land, if broken, will wash away. I have been over a greater part of southern Indiana and never hare seen a square forty acres that a family of five could not make a living on, if given a chance. Lycurgus, when he assumed control of Sparta, said “he took nothing from the rich and gave nothing to the poor; gave special privilege to none. All were men of equal footing.” It was during this 400 years that his form of government prevailed that Greece obtained her greatness in arts and sciences. It was during this time that great minds of the world developed. A sturdy race came up, endowed with the principle that, to be good citizens, they must be qualified mentally, morally, and physically. The conclusion of the whole matter is, that no special privilege be granted to any persons or persons whatsoever, for therein lies all our woes. We always have had special privilege, or class legislation, so that the great accumulation of wealth has been in the hands of a few, while many suffer.

Daily Thought

Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law; I shall observe it with my whole heart.—Psalms 119:34.

NOT liberty, but duty, is the condition of existence.—Mathilde Blind.

merely grasps the foreign body with a forceps and withdraws it, endeavoring to cause as little damage to the soft tissue as possible. Sometimes growths in the nose, like polyps, are difficult to distinguish from foreign bodies. Usually ! the discharge coming from the nase as a result of the presence of a | foreign body comes only from one l side. 1 Sometimes the removal of polyps |or similar tumors is followed by ; disappearance of chronic infection by I the nose and sometimes also by rei moval of asthmatic symptoms. | It is not possible for the average I person to diagnose the presence of nasal polyps for himself. The condition, however, can be j diagnosed by a physician following ! examination of the nose, in which he looks directly into the nasal | cavity. NEXT: Nose bleed.

ALL these agitations correspond exactly to the whims of the adolescent child who will fly off at the most amazing tangents beiore he settles down to any permanent level of common sense. And certainly all evidence proves that psychology still is in an adolescent state, experimenting with children and with life So, after all these schools have had their day, we mothers will come right back to the plain old methods directed by common sense, which a good many of us have never abandoned. You may have some general rules, but so long as every baby is an individual right from the start, you can’t bring him up like you bring up any other baby. Each husband, you know, takes a particular kind of management. And so does each infant. It always is better Ur study the favorite baby more than you study the favorite psychologist.

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It Seems to Me BY JOE WILLIAMS

(Ratting for Hftwood Broun) YORK, April s.—The letter from the insurance company read: ' Some day you are going to have an old man on your hands. That old man will be YOU. Is he going to be a happy old man. or will he have to keep struggling along, trying to make both ends meet?” Had I been the gay, insouciant wastrel of my younger years I would have tossed the letter away with a careless shrug—still the approved technique in such things, I believe —and added an amusing and characteristic pleasantry. Something to this subtle effect: Make both ends meet? What do these people think I am-a contortionist? This would be pretty sure to evoke a gale of laughter. ;t not. st vcral. on the part of the sooty sopms.cates in the engine room, and in due course we would, very likely "11 be across the street in the tavern ranking sabers and bellowing lusty hymns in memory of those bitter nights on the snow-swept moors. (Editors Note—These are no’ to be confused with the Dinty Moores of Broadway or the Jackie Ostermoors of the Varieties.) But to get along with our little whimsy—When you begin to drip with the saltness of time . . . B\ the way, who wrote that line? Offhand, I mean. Anybody can find it in Bartlett’s. Was it Euripides Miscellaneous or Index? That's something I never could do —remember lines. Os course, on the beach it's different. For instance. a real student never would forget Miss Georgia Coleman's lines. Ana it he did. he would be sure to find them again in next Sunday's rotogravue sections. " n n ‘7 Call It Main css" Now. where was I? Don’t tell me; let me guess! Perth Amboy. Evanston. Ashtabula, Lansing'’ Such fun! It must be the magic tome of the spring air. What's that saying the Soviets have—“One touch of spring makes the whole world grim”? I'm only kidding about the Soviets. That’s just a trick we writing geniuses have. We take a well-known phrase, change it around cleverly and hang it on some individual or some nation. There is nothing vicious or mean about it—just an outlet for our boyish mischievousness. Few’ readers realize how completely boyish writing people are. Some of them are little more than children at heart. It is very gratifying when you encounter an understanding public. It was flattered the other day when one of mv zealous enthusiasts wrote to the editor and said: ‘‘That Williams writes the most childish stuff I ever read.” You see, in some mysterious, spiritual way I have been able to project my personality, my inner soul, my everything, clear through the printed page right into the home of this correspondent, probably interfering with the broadcast of the Goldbergs, upsetting a jigsaw' puzzle, and frightening the French maid at the same time. Budding authors will note how ingenuously I have built up background and atmosphere as a means of sustaining suspense and interest in the pivotal characters of this native folk drama, the working title of which is ''What are you going to do w’hen you get to be an old man?” ttan Shopping for Old. Age T>EFORE plunging into the subAJ ject up to my graying temples I wish to call attention to the fact that this native folk drama has a working title at union rates, that this is a definite indication of better times, that the uptrend is no longer a seven-letter word meaning “Sez you!” “Nertz” and ‘‘Tell it to Lord Witherspoon Sweeney.” Well, if I am going to have an old man on my hands it is nice to know about it, and I can do no less than start now to make things agreeable for him around the manse (a derivative from the Latin “maneo,” meanign ‘‘shanty”). Wait a minute! Yep, that's right. I’ve been copying it out of a book. It would be rather exciting if you could shop around for the kind of old man you wanted yourself to belt, as a fantasy, you could walk into Time, Future & Cos., dealers in Spent Careers, look over the stocks, point to a particular model and say, “Give me that guy at the age of 70.” I am not sure what kind of old man I would like to be. Mr. Cornelius McGiliicuddy of the Athletics, is one of the nicest old men I know, but I shouldn’t like to spend my final innings sitting in a chicken coop waving a cardboard and yelling "yoo-hoo” at outfielders. What would people think? I wouldn’t like to be old Mr. Rockefeller, either, because people are always asking him embarrassing questions about Roxy and Radio City and the future of the show business. You get tired of that stuff after a while, even if you are a bom trouper. Mr. Shaw is altogether too fast and frivolous for me. At his age he just has started stepping out with the Hollywood set. De Wolf Hopper is a more comforting hope. At 75 he gallantly observed, “It's been a good life, and there is plenty of it left.” There hasn’t been a male Fannie Ward yet. Maybe I can make that. (Copyright. 1933 s— —> er ,

Two Sins •

BY JOHN THOM* Boys Tramp out violets. To throw knives Into a tree. Girls Distort reflections. By tassing pebbles Into the pond. Vanity, On a mountain. Preens and suns Herself, Hypocrisy, In the valley. Knits a mantle For the un.