Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1933 — Page 12

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' m THURSDAY. APRIL S. 1933. THE 36-HOUR WEEK 'T'HE senate today is expected to pass a thirty-six-hour work week bill. It applies to labor on industrial products in interstate commerce. Thus measure can be a blessing to the nation by helping to absorb possibly one-half of the 13,000,000 persons now out of work. If accompanied by no loss in wages, the measure v.-ould be of vast benefit to all wage earners by giving them increased leisure and security. It would help the country generally by saving billions being spent in relief, bv stimulating buying power, and starting us back on the road to better times. What of its benefits to employers? We believe it would aid employers, as well as other classes, for the following reasons: It would make the industrial short work day and week virtually nation-wide except for a few exempted industries. It thus would protect the majority of employers who are anxious to maintain decent wages, full pay rolls, and shorter hours. It would prevent the triumph of sweatshop employers and other wage cutters, many of whom are working men, women and children from twelve to seventeen hours a day at starvation wages. Employers paying the old wage under the thirty-six-hour schedule would take some temporary lass, but relatively little compared with what labor has taken and society is taking. Heretofore, capital has won the lion's share of machine industry’s profits. Between 1923 and 1929 the purchasing power of wages increased 41 per cent, while dividends increased 265 per cent. This concentration and maldistribution of wealth was a major cause of the depression. The increased efficiency of labor under shorter hours would make up for most, if not all, of the employer’s loss. Labor’s efficiency has been found by experiments in certain factories to be at about thirty-five hours a week. What this increased productiveness of labor did not make up to the employer, the increased volume and security of his market would. The employers would gain immeasurably in the long run in helping to remove from his market the vacuum of 13,000,000 unemployed. Industry had no answer except the sharewoik plan—and that has not worked. To help industry, the government needs to act. Whether the amended Black-Connery bill would do all that is claimed for it none knows. But its principle is right, and the conditions it seeks to ameliorate are intolerable. This measure is flexible enough to soften the shock to certain industries. It should be bulwarked by minimum wage and other measures to protect the wage scale. This is important. Prosperity will depend on bettor distribution of wealth and a richer mass market for mass production. That is what intelligent employers want, but can not achieve, because of unscrupulous competitors. It can be achieved by law. providing maximum hours and minimum wages. The bill is supported by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. It should become law. EARL DERR RIGGERS PASSES NO more will Charlie Chan, with marvelous intuition and matchless patience, pick up the vague threads of crime and trail the malefactor down to meet the penalty he deserves. Earl Derr Biggers, creator of the famed Chinese fiction detective, is dead. The thousands whom he enthralled with liis fascinating mystery tales will miss Earl Derr Biggers, the author and the man. Especially will he be missed in Indianapolis, for here, at the Bobbs-Merrill Cos., his books were published and he met many of his readers while on business visits here. Starting as a bookkeeper at the BobbsMerrill Company after his graduation from Harvard in 1907, he rose rapidly to fame by his own diligence and extensive study. While his name may not live in literature with Conan Doyle and other creators of noted sleuths, he will be remembered with affection by the multitude of fiction readers who have spent many a pleasant hour with his brain children. ELIMINATE SLUMS; MAKE WORK SLIGHTLY more than $8,000,000 of government money is going to go into a big slum elimination project in New York's congested lower east side. A loan recently approved at Washington will make possible the destruction of several blocks of the worst of New York's tenements, which will be replaced by model apartment buildings, offering good housing to poor people at a price they can afford to pay. There never was a more opportune time for such projects than the present. Organized labor and the administration at Washington are discussing a bond issue of billions of dollars to make work; this New York scheme is of a type which every' sizable city in the country could profitably copy. Consider the following descriptions of the buildings which are to be replaced: -The buildings to be razed are for the most pert of five and six-story walk-up type, ranging from 50 to approximately 100 years in age. -It is necessary in most of the buildings for tenants to obtain drinking and sanitary water from faucets in the court in the rear of the buildings. -Water and coal must be carried several flights of stairs to living quarters. Streets and courts are mere slots between buildings, and sunlight sometimes never is known to dwellers In the section.’* This section, clearly, Is something specialfln

the way of slums. But it would be hard to name a large city m the nation in which tenements nearly as bad could not be found easily; and It is hard to think of a reason why all these cities should not plan on slum elimination programs of equal magnitude for the immediate future. First and foremost, of course, these jobs make work. They stimulate the construction industry, always one of the bellwethers of trade. They create a demand for a large variety of raw and finished materials. They send huge numbers of unemployed workers back to regular pay rolls. But in addition to that, they accomplish a vitally important work. These slums are the cancer spots in the American city. They must be cleaned up if our national life is to thrive as it should. Today our cities have a magnificent chance to kill two birds with one stone. A “THIRD DEGREE” ALIBI r | ''HE evils of the police “third degree” have been discussed until everybody is tired of hearing of them. But every once in a while a case comes up which points its moral too plainly to be overlooked. In Cleveland recently a young man was on trial for robbery. He had signed a confession and the case against him seemed air-tight. But at his trial he insisted that the police had beaten him to make him sign the confession, and although the police denied it, and theie was no evidence to corroboiate his story mast of the jury believed it; and eventually the .jury was discharged, after having become deadlocked eleven to one for acquittal. Now the point in this case is that the “third degree” provided an excellent defense for this chap, regr.rdiess of whether he actually had been beaten. It helped him to escape a prison term; and as long as the practice is continued, accused men will continue to use it to beat the rap. DRIVING OUT HARD LIQUOR TT is good to read that the advent of legalized beer is going to be accompanied by a renewed federal drive against the makers and sellers of hard liquor. One of the most valid arguments against the beer bill was the assertion that its passage easily might mean a relaxation of all efforts at prohibition enforcement. Both friends and foes of prohibition can rejoice to learn that this argument was mistaken. If we are going to get rid of prohibition, the way to do it is to vote it out of existence. Steps to accomplish that end have been taken, and the nation will render its verdict in the comparatively near future. Meanwhile, it would be a gross error to try to wank the law into disuse. We have had enough of nullification. Until repeal has been ratified, we can use all the honest enforcement our prohibition unit can give us. THE LURE OF OPEN SPACES TT is a strange thing, the way an artfully * chosen photograph can set the mind roving. Mr. Ordinary Citizen sets out for his job on a spring morning. The early sunshine and the crisp breeze, chilly but carrying a promise of warmer weather a little later on, already have done things to him; made him question, perhaps, the wisdom of a life that keeps him pent up in a town all the time, led him to draw out again that old dream of some day living on a place in the open country. Then, opening his newspaper, he spots a photograph of one of those “open country” scenes that editors like to present once in a while; a picture, say, of a valley in western Montana, with tumbling mountains in the distance and a fringe of trees by a little stream in the foreground. And as he looks at it he suddenly discovers that a town is a poor sort of place for a man to live. The fine new buildings, the busy streets, the lines of factories and railway yards and so on, things which ordinarily seem to him to be matters for a proper local pride—now they have become artificial devices by which he is cut off from contact with his own earth. They are obstacles in his way and he pays for their presence by an unfulfilled longing for the sort of thing of which the photograph speaks. And this, in turn, is apt to set him speculating about that sparkling new dream which technologists have been revolving lately. Some of these men have remarked that the era of the great city is about over; that in the future all men will live on the doorsill of the open country, with factory units broken up and decentralized, with electric power pulling industrial and rural areas closer and closer together, so that no worker will any longer be held a prisoner by any town. Now all of that, to be sure, is a long way in the future, and Mr. Ordinary Citizen probably has moments in which he wouldn't care much for it, anyway. But a spring morning, a revival of the old, perennial discontent, an ordinary photograph of a western valley—they can act powerfully to set a man’s mind adrift from its moorings. They invite his inner self to plaV the truant. CUT THE BEER PRICE 'T'HE price of beer in Indiana is too high. With sad memories of sixteen-ounce -scoops” for a nickel, Hoosiers will pay $3 to $3.25 a case for the new brew, with SI extra as deposit on bottles. The excessive cost means that the aim of beer legalization will be defeated to an appreciable extent. It means that the vast revenue, fondly expected, will shrink to a fraction of the original estimates. For beer drinkers, much as they may crave their favorite beverage, can not and will not stand the gaff. The argument may be sound that Indiana i should proceed slowly, guard against return of the saloon, start with bottled beer at a higher price and proceed later to draught beer at reduced cost, allay fears of the drys, and insure success of the repeal campaign. But the conclusion will not down that the consumer is being mulcted so that a horde of wholesalers, importers, retailers and political hangers-on may reap a harvest. Added to this is the factor that the high price is a boon to bootleggers. Home brew sellers will meet the competition by cutting their prices, and many drinkers will take their more potent offerings in preference to the three-two brand which will be sold legally. Hard liquor salesmen have taken heart^again

and predict that their business will stay near its present level. If sale of beer is to be a success in Indiana. first thought should be given to puttng the price within reach of the public. As it is. beer can be considered a rich man’s drink. BEER AND FOOD HABITS VI/' ILL the advent of legalized beer bring * ’ a change in the habits of restaurant patrons, thereby causing a change in the kind and quantity of food the restaurateurs must keep in stock? Fred A. Simonsen of Detroit, president of the National Restaurant Association, believes that it will. The popularity of certain dishes, such as heavy meats, fish and cheese, will increase, he believes, while fewer sweets will be sold. The man who sits down to lunch with a schooner of beer at his elbow is not apt to ask for a cream puff to go with it; a hot roast beef sandwich or a vast slab of cheese more likely to be called for. For beer, as a general thing, demands as an accompaniment solid food and plenty of it. ART IN AMERICA A RT thrives in good times. There were good times between 1920 and 1930. money to burn and leisure. The Hoover research committee on social trends reveals that the number of art museums in the country grew from 107 to 167 in that one decade, while the number of visitors to art museums increased greatly also. The number of art students increased 50 per cent, not only in art schools, colleges and high schools, but in elementary schools also. But boom times do not account for all this, or even most of it. Long before 1920 the esthetic or art movement had set in throughout the United States. It had shown notably in residential architecture. The boxlike monstrosities with spindle porch pasts which once constituted the average town, village, and small city gave way first to bungalows, and bungalows have been giving way for a good while to increasingly better types of residential and building design. Each provincial city now has its art developments, its little theaters, its artists, musicians and local intelligentsia. They are little New Yorks, and the culture is as real if more leisurely and less self-confident. Out of the provinces have come the Sinclair Lewises, the Willa Cathers, the Thomas Wolfes, the Hemingways—dozens of artists, sculptors, writers. America today is artistically the most alive nation in the world. Less guided by tradition, it also is less bound by tradition. It is far less imitative and far more indigenous than it used to be, • which is all to the good. The country artistically is due for steady and rapid growth, more rapid according as times are good. Chicago investor seeks to attach Samuel Insull’s SIB.OOO-a-year pension. After all Insull’s years of faithful service, too! Join the cabinet and see the world, seems to be Ramsay MacDonald’s slogan. Big epidemic of colds foreseen for early summer. National law now permits physicians to prescribe as much whisky as they feel is needed. Many a man who never got any of the breaks is broke just the same. While planning that summer trip, remember that it is always followed by a fall. What is really needed now is beer brewed from grain raised by contented farmers.

M.E.TracySays:

WE are hearing much about the Great Wall of China these days, but as a marker rather than as a monument. Even the Chinese have ceased to regard it as an obstacle to invasion. No one asks whether Japan can scale it, but whether she will. One of the most stupendous pieces of work ever performed by man, the Great Wall has ceased to be of any consequence as a physical barrier. Just a windrow of rocks and earth, 1,200 miles long, which means nothing to airplanes and which can be blown up easily at any point. When first elected, however, and for 1,500 years thereafter, this rampart, with its innumer- ; able gates and towers, its roadway along the top, and its thousands of alert defenders, symbolized a philosophy of life that made China what she is. it tt THE emperor who built this wall was a reformer, albeit in a reactionary sense. He saw little but confusion in the natural order of progress. Like some of our moderns, he wanted a planned regime, a stabilized setup which would be free from interference, not only by outsiders, but by inventors and discoverers at home. He burned all scientific books for the same reason that he constructed the Great Wall, stopped China in her traps, limited civilization to routine work, provided a system that left little room for change—a carefully worked out system that involved little risk and little thinking for the masses. It worked well for many centuries, but its final effect was to leave China far behind the rest of the world. Most of us can see the futility of building rock walls, but the idea of safety through barriers of some kind survives. In spite of all that has been accomplished through free intercourse, there are those who cling to the belief that nations can promote their own interests by shutting themselves in. tt tt tt THE tariffs and embargoes by which most countries are trying to get revenue and develop home trade today are blood children of the Great Wall. They stand for the same philosophy which motivated Chin when he decided to make China self-sufficient and self-sustain-ing by keeping other people out, by instituting an order that would minimize conflict, whether as brought about by foreign foes or by innovations at home. Chin was, to all intents and purposes, a technocrat, an apostle of planned existence, who conceived government as an institution to maini tain order, provide work, and let people live i with the least possible friction. He had no use for the turmoil of free thought, free trade, or free action. Progress did not appeal to him as worth the price. He wanted a system on which people could depend, which I would function efficiently from generation to j generation and which would not be disturbed I constantly by intrusion of new ideas. He wanted a scheme of things which would permit children to grow up in the trades and occupations of their fathers, with no more difficult task to perform and no more thrilling prospect ahead than a continuous increase of expertness along rigidly prescribed lines. .The result speaks for itself.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) Bv Old Man Mashie Your editorial, “Golfers Want Fees Cut,” like the lady’s motherhubbard, covers everything and touches nothing. You say “the high plane of excellence reached in the upkeep and improvement of the courses in the last two years.” Do you know that the courses during the season of 1931 were the worst kept in the history of local municipal golf; that because of this general protest from the players of the municipal links, there was a decided improvement in 1932 over 1931, but yet far under the standard of 1930. Do you know that complaints were made because of the filth of the bath and washrooms at more than one municipal clubhouse, complaints which went unheeded because of the inefficiency of management, the source of which was the politics behind the operation of the links? Compare the administration of the municipal links now with that of the days when Dr. Henry Jameson and his associates were on the park board. City golf should be a municipal service, if it is worth while. It is a parochial thought that considers the outgo and income from the links. If you charge a fee at all, you drive some people off the links who should, in all divine right, have the benefits of golf, perhaps the folk in ill health, who need it most, and whose earning powers are nil, those who just can’t afford the fees, and who abandon the links. Yet these very ones may be carrying the burdens of taxation, which, of course, have paid for the grounds. And the ownership of the grounds is the thing of importance, not the paltry few thousand annually for the cost of administration. Shall

This is the last of a series of four articles by Dr. Fishbein on the nose. THERE are .many causes of bleeding from the nose, because the blood supply to the tissues generally is rich and the tissues themselves quite delicate. In many diseases, such as hemophilia and purpura, two conditions in which the elements of the blood are so altered that bleeding occurs frequently and coagulation takes place with difficulty, bleeding from the nose is a common symptom. In the presence of severe infection and in the condition called scurvy, which is due to a deficiency of vitamin C, bleeding of the nose also occurs with a fair amount of frequency. In practically all conditions which produce severe anemia, nose bleeding is not unusual. In cases of hardening of the arteries with exceedingly high blood

ALREADY I am a little tired of beer. And a premonition of turmoil assails me. For there is a faint but unmistakable stir in the ranks of the arid. Their lethargy is fading. Anew zest breathes from the newspaper notices of the W. C. T. U. The ladies still are praying, but their prayers are less smug. Surrounded, cornered, they are quivering with anticipation of the fray. They again are preparing to give battle. And their present predicament is indeed precarious. The day of mere moralizing has passed. Not only God, but the politician, seems for the moment to have deserted them. They hear on every side the clamor of jovial multitudes, who, having tired of seeing prosperity, are willing to co;r promise on 3 per cent beer. Every newsreel reminds them that Franklin Delano Roosevelt has signed the bill. Each radio announcer informs them that there is renewed activity in the vicinity of the breweries. tt SINCE we are judged largely by the .company we keep and the make, I have no assurance ton the clan of which Mrs.

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Nose Bleed Results From Many Causes

• • A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

Paving the Way

Let’s Hope By W. W. SUCCESS after years! The Democratic party has elected a Governor of Indiana! The inauguration is over. McNutt and his cohorts are busy cutting and passing out the pie. We, who, through hard work in those dark years, when it looked as if success never was to be our reward, never faltered, but carried on untiringly and unselfishly—our only reward was being in the great consolation that we were keeping alive the party of Jefferson and Jackson. Even now I think that these loyal workers would suffer in silence rather than harm the cause for which some I know gave their all. were it not for the fact that some business men, never known to enter a state, county or city committee room,, or even contribute one cent to help finance our cause when they were solicited now have state jobs. Was it you, Andrew Jackson, who said, “To the victor belongs the spoils,” or maybe I am wrong —it was these business men? May they run the state better than they did their own business!

the park board by a fee, a fee of any size, which keeps folks off the links, take away the natural and inalienable right of a citizen to use the public acres, in this case, the golf links? By the same philosophy, charge a man to sit in University park. If the park board w'ants more money from the links, I believe that may be attained by lowered fees. You know the law of diminishing returns. Isn’t it a fact that South Grove made more money for the city at 25 cents a round than at 50 cents? And that fee of 25 cents at South Grove was during the days of gen-

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. pressure, there may be rupture of a small blood vessel in the nose with severe nose bleeding for some time. The bleeding from the nose and the loss of blood serve to lower the blood pressure. In ordinary cases of nose bleed, if the person is placed at once in a horizontal position so that the pressure is lowered and if he is kept cool, he tends to recover, since in most instances the bleeding will stop promptly. There are many superstitions about stopping nose bleed, such as dropping a key down the back, pressing on the hard palate, and similar performances. However, there is no efficacy in such measures. In more serious cases, however, physicians use measures which have

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Ella Boole is head would wish any advice from me, as indeed it seldom has shown a disposition to take

Questions and Answers Q—Was the Joe E. Brown, who recently purchased an interest in the Kansas City Blues, of the American Association, the motion picture actor? A—Yes. Q—what are the religious affiliations of Vice-President N. Garner. A—He is a Methodist. Q —How is the name of the late Mayor Cermak pronounced? A—Ser’-mak. Q —Can a person make home brew and wine for home use under this repeal law? A—Yes. Q—Who appoints American consuls to foreign countries? A—The President of the United States with the consent of the senate. 1

eral prosperity and certain popular opulence? Don’t bother about the argument that Coffin should be held for the better players by a higher fee. The duffers usually can afford to pay the higher fee, as well as the rather semi-professional, who plays golf many days a week and because of his practice learns the art of using a mashie, which is not so essential after all. The duffer and the crack, the veteran player and the beginner, should share alike in administration of municipal golf. I doubt your statement that a survey of other cities shows that the majority of them charge higher fees than the rule in Indianapolis. Print the exact statistics. A few years ago it was not so. Indianapolis then charged more than most cities. “If the park board can evolve a plan that will make the courses pay,” you say. Why is it necessary for the city to sell any service at a profit. Are we coming to that? Will it be some day so of the police department? Os the fire department? Os city nursing? Are you certain that the city has the right to charge any fee for the use of its golf links? I mean any fundamental right. Suppose you, as an editor, made a fight for free municipal golf, wouldn't you be better serving the interests of the people? If the city has the right to be in the business of furnishing golf, that sport should be within the means of the citizens. You’ve got a good chance to go places on this golf thing. It is not so important in itself, but it is a symptom of a larger and more malignant disease. A suggestion for a story—get the real figures on golf, of receipts and disbursements in the last few years. Find out actually how much the Coffin course costs the taxpayers.

a greater degree of certainty, such as packing the nose with sterilized gauze, direct inspection with pinching of the bleeding substance like silver nitrate or chromic acid, and the use of various solutions which temporarily constrict the blood vessels. It should be borne in mind that the bleeding from the nose is not in itself a disease, but rather a symptom of disease; that it may be the warning sign for the onset of a serious disorder, such as a change in the blood, or even a tumor of the adrenal glands. On the other hand, it merely may be due to increased mental or physical excitement, or any other condition that suddenly raises the blood pressure. In most cases the amount of blood lost is small, but if the person has repeated hemorrhages, the amount lost may be sufficient to cause anemia and to demand special treatment, for restoring the blood.

advice from anybody: I tci.uer this bit, however, with the kindest intentions in the world. The dry ladies, it seems now have in their hands a powerful weapon in their drive against the consumption of beer by their fair sex (and we must presume that this is a field of endeavor into which they will venture). This weapon is a thousand times more effective than any hatchet even though it were wielded by an intrepid Carrie Nation. I urge them not to overlook or to despise it. It is spelled with three letters—-f-a-t. Fine advance work in the campaign against excess avoirdupois has been done by our clever writers of advertisements. It remains only for Mrs. Boole's troops to follow it up. To get anywhere with the girls, there should be less talk against bars and brews and more agitation about overweight. Bodies rather souls must be stressed. The modern miss is not moved by any talk of codes, but she is concerned about corpulence. She doesn’t fear a fathead half so much as she fears a fat figure. So, Mrs. Boole, I suggest anew slogan: “There is stoutness in the stein.”

APRIL 6, 1933

It Seems to Me

2B BY JOE WILLIAMS = —

'Batting for Hrywood Broun) THIS is no attempt to apply a critical yardstick to George Bernard Shaw as a pulpiteer, philosopher or personage. I don’t know the man that well. What interests me with respect to the distinguished Irishmans pres-ent-day status is that when h.s cheer leaders call for nine rahs and a locomotive they are given begrudgingly. if at all. And it wasn’t so many springs ago that the mere mention of Shaw in any reasonably intelligent company would be sufficient to cause demure ladies to leap high in the air, clicking their heels together, and strong men to gurgle incoherent ecstasies. That was back in the days when anything Mr. Shaw said was considered terribly clever and anything he wrote was touched with a piquancy and profundity that was quite beyond the reach of normal man. To the loyal Shavians, no doubt, Mr. Shaw still gives utterance to glittering nifties and still writes with an inspired quill, but to the larger audience he is just a bearded echo of an Olympian past. He has lost the hop from his fast ball. It would be more gracious to remember Mr. Shaw as the genius who created Major Barbara, wrote ' Caesar and Cleopatra” and imagined the unforgetable "Hcarthbreak House,” but apparently this graciousness is to be reserved for posterity's ledgers. tt xt tt Not Funny Any More A/TR. SHAW has made a business Iyl of thumbing his nas at people, countries, and institutions, and so long as he was able to season his studied malignancies with a salty wit, there were bravos and huzzahs. the laugh was worth the lash. Mr. Shaw still is subjecting peopir —particularly Americans—to his mischievous impertinences, but they don’t sound funny any more. After all. when you have been called an uncivilized barbarian a thousand times, the novelty becomes a bit threadbare. The life of the professional wit is beset with grave social perils. To be known as a man with a sharp tongue and a humorous mind very easily can grow into a harsh handicap. “So you are supposed to be funny? All right; go ahead and make me laugh.” There are times when even the most nimble jester quakes at such a challenge. Mr. Shaw determinedly has put himself in just such a spot, and when he fails to come up with a razor-edged pleasantry his auditors look at one another with that bewildered expression which seems to ask, “Are we supposed to laugh at that?” A California collegian picked Mr. and Mrs. Shaw up in a flivver and motored them to Hollywood after a forced ail-plane landing last week. The collegian is convinced Mr. is vastly overrated as a smart cracker. “I had him in my car for thirty minutes, and he didn't hand me one laugh,” said the discriminating collegian, who admitted he “would rather listen to Ed Wynn any time.” tt tt tt Same Old Gays ONE of the indictments against Mr. Shaw is that he has been slow to change his routine. He has been using the same old gags for twenty years. The habit has become so confirmed that he unconsciously insultedi the beloved Helen Keller when on meeting her he said, “All Americans are dumb.” That always had been good for a laugh—and for some strange reason a headline in the newspapers. It never was funny, and it was particularly unfunny when addressed to Miss Heller. Perhaps it would have been better if Mr. Shaw had retired when everybody conceded him the championship. The world is extremely kind to its retired champions in all fields of activity. On the other hand, there is little sympathy for the aged sprinter who comes back time after time to face the starter’s gun. Some men attain a community magnificence merely by keeping their health and celebrating a birthday at duly spaced intervals. The city editor’s future book is pretty well crowded with memoranda that read, “See Felix Q. Overshoes for feature story on how to keep alive at 96.” A gold-toothed soubrette of the Spanish-American war era becomes increasingly important as a news figure with the passing years, and for some odd reason her views on the current drama, together with a reminiscent flash back to the lusty days of Ward and Vokes, are considered hot stuff, significant and indispensable. tt tt it All Sound, No Fury 'T'HE anniversary of James J. Corbett’s victory over John L. Sullivan always was a calendar event to be boisterously exulted ;n the daily gazettes and around the festal boards—an event that took on added glamour as time rolled on. If Mr. Shaw would retire, the Shavians of the world could get together and hold similar anniversaries of some of the master’s more notable pieces. Right now they are too busy interpreting him to anew generation, who just can’t believe that once the old boy led all the leagues. The current Shaw would be much more interesting as a silent picture. Maybe it was a mistake when they wired him for sound. (Copyright. 1933. by The Times)

The Rules

JOHN THOMPSON Asa parting gift on my birthday, God gave to me a game to play. “Here now,” He said to me, “Begin," He didn't say, though, how to win.

Daily Thought

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?—St. Matthew 23:17. AS the touchstone tries gold, so gold, tries men.—Ciuio.