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TUESDAY, APRIL 11. 1933. lIOW ABOUT THE STEPCHILD? are we going to do about Indiana’s * * poor little orphan sandwiches? The beer drinkers don’t want them; all they want is their brew, without any sandwiches butting in. Four days of sieaay beer drinking in Indianapolis show that the food angle of the beer control bill will be honored more in the breach than in the observance. Already, case proprietors are making it a point conveniently to overlook the stipulation that there be food wi'h the drink, and the patrons are rot going to call the matter to their attention, except possibly at noontime, when they are drinking their luncheons. Several suggestions have been made in an effort to solve this problem. One is that each bar provide a basket in which unwanted sandwiches can be dropped, all to be collected and given to the needy. Another is that each customer be accompanied by a dog which can eat the sandwich while the master laps up his brew. After all, why the sandwich, anyhow? Are we not told that beer is a non-intoxicating beverage, in reality a food? If we buy a peck of potatoes in a grocery store, we don't have to buy a sandwich with the spuds. So why buy food with beer, which also is a food? We leave the answer to the politicians, if they can take enough time off from collecting the gravy to rig up a reply. BOOST THE INDIANS BASEBALL comes back into its own today, with the opening of tile American Association season here. Truly the national game, it will reign until October. But even with the ending of the season and the world series play, interest in baseball does not die. It is one sport which holds its followers the year around. Thousands of fans read baseball as eagerly in December as they do in May and the constant shifting of players, the arrival of new stars, and the passing of old favorites ever keeps interest at high tide. The Indianapolis baseball club is one of the best of civic advertisements. It spreads the fame of the city all over the country. Its plant is one of the finest in the nation, rivaling those of several major league clubs. President Norman Perry has been a liberal spender in his effort to land the best talent obtainable for his club. He deserves everything the city can give him in the way of patronage. And here is hoping that the A. A. pennant will be flying from the flag-staff at Perry stadium after the smoke of the 1933 season rolls away. AT LAST A T last Muscle Shoals will be put to work. /*• Not merely as a hydro-electric power project, although its value as such Is incalculable, but as the key to improvement of the whole Tennessee river basin, involving flood control, improvement of navigation, afforestation, and prevention of soil erosion. Even more important, this is intended as the beginning of a national plan which will include eventually the improvement of many river valleys elsewhere. Thus, as President Roosevelt said Monday In his message to congress, we as a nation will begin? to overcome that stage during which we’ve “just grown.” We will have learned the hard lessons that result from the lack of national planning. “It is time,” the President said* “to extend planning to a wider field . . Unceasing demand by Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska and others, including this newspaper, for government operation of Muscle Shoals has helped bring about the Roosevelt program. Through the years the vital fiecessity of the government operating the power plants it owns has been stressed time and again; and over the same period, with the help of two Republican Presidents, the nation has been cheated of the opportunity. Now, when the administration's plan is carried out, the people who paid $150,000,000 for the public plant at Muscle Shoals may learn more truly the facts about private power costs. In this connection Senator Norris has retained in the administration bill the old and important provisions for government construction of transmission lines and government construction of Cove Creek dam in east Tennessee; and he has added another equally important clause which would designate all interstate power lines as common carriers and thus subject to federal rate regulation. It is quite fitting that Senator Norris should manage the administration's Muscle Shoals bill in the senate. For it was this fine old man’s tenacity through a dozen years and more that has preserved the Shoals for the government. Like Mr. Roosevelt, he has had the dream of developing the Tennessee basin as a unit; and he saved the Shoals, the key to the project, so this might be done. “Uncle George's” example should revivify faith in our democratic processes, for it proves that if liberals in and out of congress are persistent enough, courageous enough, they stand a good chance to win in the end. FRENCH PROPAGANDA IN U. S. THE PYench chamber of deputies has appropriated money for French government propaganda in America through the Agence Havas, official French news association, and its American client, the Associated Press. The Associated Press denies that it will permit itself to be used for such propaganda. Those who krlow the Associated Press and how its operates in America will understand that It never consciously would permit itself to be used in that manner. It is the misfortune of the Associated

Press that its position as a client of Havas and other foreign governmental news agencies can be taken advantage of even to the extent of false assumptions on the part of the French deputies and others. To an American, the assumption of the Franch government seems most naive. But the assumption is none the less vicious for being naive. It is an added lesson, if one were needed, of the folly of government controlled and subsidized press associations. Unbiased news is possible only through independent press associations and newspapers entirely free of official control or influence. That is true in America, which has no subsidized news agency. In France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries which have official or semi-official press associations, the news is not unbiased. The lesson, insofar as American press associations are concerned, is to do abroad what they do at home; namely, set up their own agencies of news gathering so as to divorce themselves from affiliation with foreign “official” agencies. It is on that principle that the United Press foreign service was organized and is operated. AMBULANCE CHASERS POLICE CHIEF MICHAEL MORRISSEY deserves the hearty support and indorsement of the public in his war against ambulance chasing lawyers. It has been rumored for some time that certain unethical attorneys have installed police radios in their automobiles in order to grab lawsuits from semi-conscious victims. These professional vultures flout every precept of decency and sportsmanship. A lawyer who promotes litigation is just as bad as a physician who goes about scattering microbes so that he may profit from the resulting epidemic. It is a curious thing that Chief Morrissey should have to be the agency for cleaning up this mess. What has happened to the Bar Association? Haven't its members heard of the scandal? If they have, what are they going to do to purge their own profession? Their silence on this matter rapidly is becoming as great a scandal as ambulance chasing itself. The chief is washing their dirty linen for them and not a single lawyer ■ has raised his voice publicly. In the last analysis, it is the public which can get rid of the ambulance chasers. When it realizes that the services of a charlatan are far more expensive than those of an ethical attorney, the game will end. There are plenty of first-class young attorneys waiting around in empty offices for clients. They rather would starve than turn ambulance chaser. They are willing to work for reasonable fees. The Bar Association should act to protect them. Make up your mind that a lawyer who comes around trying to sell you a lawsuit is no good. Slam the door in his face and ambulance chasing will disappear. LABOR’S FRIEND TT is one of the ironies of fate that Frances A Perkins, whose appointment as secretary of labor was objected to violently by spokesmen for organized labor, should turn out to be the staunchest and most effective friend labor ever has had in a President’s cabinet. It is not merely that Miss Perkins is seeking the same objectives that labor is seeking. Her conception of her job itself is the important thing. Her theory is that the secretary of labor is put into the cabinet to be organized labor's spokesman. If labor is to have a voice in the high councils of the government, the labor secretary must be the mouthpiece. To realize what a complete departure this theory is from accepted practice, you need only look back over the record of the labor secretaries during the last dozen years. Nor is that all. Miss Perkins not only feels that she must fight labor's battles; she is not in the least backward about mapping out a definite program which goes miles beyond anything that has been considered seriously before. She rapidly is establishing as an administration principle the belief that true prosperity must rest on the prosperity of the workers themselves—that good times can not trickle down from above, but must be built up from the very bottom, and that one of society’s prime duties is to see to it that i£s workers get a fair break. In line with this belief, she is trying to do two things: To get the unemployed hooked up with jobs, and to make certain that those who have jobs get a decent amount of pay for their work. Nor is that all. By the cool determination with which she has tackled her work, she has put new life into the whole organized labor movement in America. She has helped solidify it, she has given it a program and she enormously has increased its influence. When labor's spokesmen look back at the protests which her appointment drew from them, they must feel more than a little bit silly. MICHIGAN’S WET VOTE jIATCHIGAN'S vote on the repeal of the eighteenth amendment is one of the most astounding developments of the spring. To be sure, it was pretty generally conceded that the state would ratify the repealer. But that repeal sentiment would be so widely distributed throughout the state, in rural counties as well as in the big cities, that only one of 100 legislative districts would return a dry majority—not the most ardent wet would have dar-ed to forecast such a result. Michigan, incidentally, voted dry before the eighteenth amendment went into effect. The sentiment of a majority of its citizens, a little more than a decade ago, was, quite obviously, in favor of prohibition. The recent vote on repeal makes it evident that a tremendous shift in sentiment has taken place. Has the same sort of shift taken place everywhere, or is it peculiar to Michigan? LET’S HAVE THE FACTS A s preparations are made for an investigation into the loss of the dirigible Akron. a remark made by Capt. Anton F. Heinan. the Zeppelin constructor who taught the navy how to fly dirigibles, is worth thinking about. Captain Heinan indicated his bflfief that

the Akron was wrecked in much the same way as the Shenandoah, “from causes well recognized which could and should be avoided,” and he added: “If there had not been a whitewash of the Shenandoah investigation, the Akron might now be safe and her crew alive.” The Shenandoah investigation a whitewash? Most of us hadn't heard that charge before; but Captain Hainan's remarks make inescapably clear the necessity of a thoroughgoing investigation into this latest crash which shall bring out all of the facts without fear or favor. Let's have all the facts, even if a few important toes do get stepped on. BEER AND SPEAKEASIES /''vNE of the most freakish bits of current news is that emanating from a large middle western city, in which the municipal government has passed out the ward that just as soon as the new beer law goes into operation. the police department will make a determined effort to put the speakeasies out of existence. It would be hard to find a better commentary on the kind of law enforcement that some big cities have been getting from their police. Leaving aside all questions of graft and ordinary inefficiency, we have here a tacit admission that the existence of the illegal liquor traffic has, in the main, simply been winked at. To be sure, practically everybody knew that already; but it never got admitted quite so baldly before. If American women would stop patronizing beauty parlors the money they spend there would pay the public debt of Greece and liquidate the budget of Puerto Rico. Maybe, but as we have to go on living in America, we’ll say it’s just as well as it is. Spanish young men are demanding that their fiancees know how to cook, so the government has been forced to open cooking schools for them. In the United States a bridegroom wants a bride who knows how to bring in something to cook. Man was fined the other day for shooting rabbits. His plea was that he thought he had the right to do it. Surprise to us is that he didn't plead self-defense. A march on Washington by an army of unemployed college graduates is being planned. Story does not specify what course they are going to take. Writer says it will take thirty years to raise another crop of suckers in this country. Maybe the new administration can figure out a plan to restrict production even then. After many years, roller skating by adults is returning in many cities as a spring sport. We hardly had expected this before the fall of the year. We sincerely hope none of our Welsh friends will be prevented from enjoying the new beer by the fact that “here’s how” in Welsh is “Cwrw!” President Roosevelt presents an old Dutch brick to New York museum. But he seems intent on preventing presentation of gold bricks to investors. Man was struck by an interurban bus in Times Square the other day. Just another fellow who’s gone stage-struck. Vice President Garner has received his 126th gavel as a present. One guy that certainly knows how to take the rap. Quite a few more boys, back on April 7, got caught in the draft.

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NOW we are getting right down where people live. John Farmer is not going to lose the old homestead if he can scratch together 4 r 2 per cent interest and a little on account each year. * Back of it all lies a mysterious trend of values. By every principle of economics, a farm mortgage should be rated as first-class security and therefore bring a comparatively low rate of interest. The trouble is, or has been, that you couldn’t do anything with a farm mortgage except hold it. Banks would not lend on it and there was no ready market in which to dispose of it. By some caprice of inscrutable fate, our financial wizards singled out the mortgage, particularly the farm mortgage, an undesirable for collateral, discount, or exchange. Only those concerns that w'anted long-time, frozen investments would take mortgages, and they gradually came to be taboo as a basis of credit. tt a a GREAT markets w T ere established and daily quotations provided for stocks and bonds. People could- sell or borrow on them at a moment's notice, though it is doubtful whether they represent sounder security on the average than mortgages. * It also is doubtful whether a similar system could not have been provided for trade in mortgages with equally good results. We never tried it and the consequence is that we do not know. We have been content to ignore the land in our passion for liquid credit. That is one reason w'hy land values have run wild on occasion and have been made the basis of preposterous loans. Considering the vast sums of money we spend trying to keep track of the land and its value, we are making mighty poor progress. All privately owned. parcels are supposed to be honestly and accurately appraised for tax purposes, yet who relies on the tax roll? All parcels are supposed to have been surveyed correctly and the deeds recorded carefully. yet who will buy one without getting a law'yer to search the title or paying a premium for some company to guarantee it? a a a OUR real estate set-up is an expensive sham from the standpoint of registration and appraisal. We pay enough to get a thorough and reliable job, but have little but a mass of confused records around which several rackets have been formed. That is one thing which ails the mortgage business, which has eliminated it from our system of credit and which subjects farmers and home owners to unnecessarily high interest rates. To begin with, the surveying, transfer, and title of land should be a matter of complete public record and rigid supervision. No one should be compelled to go outside the tax office or the registry of deeds to find out who owns a piece of land or what it is reasonably worth. If that were made possible, you would see the mortgage business play a different part in our economic affairs and you would see home ownership increase,

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to .150 words or less.) By >l. A. Kiefer. Some sixty years ago I became deeply interested in the co-opera-tive movement and I have read and studied almost every available source since then. In 1913 President Wilson appointed a commission of fifty-odd to go to Europe and study co-opera-tives of the eastern hemisphere. They were there several months and made a report to congress, 1,300 pages, in the Congressional Record. I studied this report criticially, and the part that impressed me most w r as the praise given to co-opera-tives of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. • , They solved the problem sixty years ago and it is solved for many years to come. These three countries have gone through .the depression without any depression of their own, with the exception of a small cut in governmental expenses due to lack of tariff revenue. This, of course, was due to the depression in other countries and their trade had fallen off with the outside world. Show me just one article in any reliable paper or magazine, if you can, to the contrary. No bank failures for more than sixty years, outside of the Swedish match king’s bank, and he had to get his finances in France and the United States of America. I am going to make the broad assertion that I have a cure for this depression and for all depressions in the future, unless caused by the Almighty in the form of drought, flood or other calamity. That remedy is co-operation from producer to cousumer, wffiich is the only true form of co-operation. The farmers and consumers owm all the processing plants collectively. The grist mills, bake shops, grocery stores are owned collectively. The farmers produce the wheat and, after paying the men at the mill, the bake shop, and the grocery man, the farmers get what the bread sold for, and that nets the Danish farmer at the present, $1.87 a bushel for his wheat. Not a commodity is left that is

THERE are general inflammations of the throat associated with redness, swelling and excessive discharge of mucus due to many different causes. Most common of course, is exposure to cold, an extension of inflammation from the tonsils the adenoids, or the nose. Excessive use of tobacco; excessive exposure to dust, smoke, irritating fumes and sudden changes in temperature; excessive dryness, and similar atmospheric conditions may cause irritation of the throat. People sensitive to certain food substances sometimes react with blisters on the tissues of the throat, which become secondarily infected and produce irritation and inflammation. There may be severe pain associated with swelling and inflammation of the throat, including pain

“T BELIEVE in adequate national X defense." This phrase can be heard on the lips of the lukewarm pacifist and the ardent militarist simultaneously. Yet certainly they could not agree as to its meaning. Their ideas about it are as far apart as the poles. But assuredly a good many of us are coming to realize that it does not consist entirely of armaments. For when we put our whole faith in guns, we are defending, not our honor, but our stupidity. Security for nations no longer can be obtained with either bombs or bombast. Brains as well as brawn must be developed. It’s disheartening to see how much we spend on military preparedness and how little we use lor cultivation of statesmanship. We educate the soldier to the nth degree at the expense of the state, but are we willing to train officials in the arts of government? We expect our generals to master all milittfy knowledge, but we send men to Congress to shape our des-

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Back to Savagery By More Practice, Less Preaching We, as a Christian nation, now are in the period called Holy week, one of the most sacred periods of all the church year. Here we reaffirm our faith in the principles of the Christian religion, partake of communion, and end this most sacred week with Easter Sunday, celebrating Christ’s triumphant victory over death, and esatblishment of his religion or love, forgiveness and compassion. On April 21 of next week, in the state of Arizona, in this great Christian nation, all principles of Christianity will be cast aside by these so-called Christians and a woman, weak in mind and body, will be taken from a cell and strangled to death befoie a fewmorbid, curious witnesses. Here is a spectacle of casting aside Christ’s religion of love, and reverting to the most barbarous relics of the past. Even some uncivilized savages w'ould turn with shame from such a sight. While this is being enacted, we are planning to send more missionaries to convert to Christianity these heathen and savage tribes. Is it any wonder that so many are. becoming less interested in Chris-* tianity and those who profess it? Someone has said, and said well, “Consistency, thou art a jewel.”

not manufactured in these three countries by these co-operatives of producers and consumers. Let me illustrate it with the milk situation. The farmers are getting about 4 to 6 cents a gallon for milk. The consumers are paying 32 to 40 cents. The farmers and unemployed will get together and build their own milk distributing plant, make their own bricks, furnish a few sawlogs from the farms for the necessary lumber and while w-e have nothing else to do, we will proceed to build the plant. When in operation, the farmers will get for their milk just what the milk sells for, less the actual cost of pasteurizing, bottling, distributing, and a small part for depreciation. And while w r e are building this

BY DR. NORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. in the ears because of blocking of the tubes which lead from the nose to the ears; there also may be a sense of fullness or obstructions with much hawking and spitting. The first thing to know about any inflammation of the throat is its cause. If the condition happens to be due to diphtheria, prompt action is necessary, including the giving of diphtheria antitoxin. If, however, it is due to some other type of germ, other methods of treatment are employed. The pain of an inflamed throat is relieved best by use of an icebag filled with cracked ice. Most doctors now r are convinced that gargles seldom go deep enough in the throat in sufficient quantity or strength to

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

times who are as ignorant of statecraft as a cow is of parlor etiquet. o a a "ITTE do not train our boys to di- ’ * plomacy, nor for intelligent international contacts, nor to any real conceptions of national needs. Sectional rights have taken the

Questions and Answers Q —Have Negroes ever served in the United States marine corps? A—No. Q —Are public school teachers in the various states required to pay federal income tax on their salaries? , A—No. Q—When was Oklahoma admitted to the Uason as a state? A— NOV. 16, 19 (h.

plant, we, at the same time, can provide room for a grist mill and bake shop, so that the bread side is also taken care of. There is no need to leave out the poultry and egg end of the game. Even a butter factory in connection with an ice cream plant to go with that milk distributing plant is not too insignificant to be overlooked. In fact, if you just look around, you can see a few more hundred things that you can prepare to take on as the building is getting larger and more unemployed are being put to work in their owti plant, built by themselves while they had nothing to do. No city or small community is too large or too small to be without one of these co-Qperative, producer to consumer associations, each community can very largely solve its own problems.

So They Say

I know' the President will deal in a fair and impartial manner in the matter of veterans’ pensions—John F. Curry, Tammany leader. We all felt this is not a time when much money should be spent on purely social show.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, after talking to wives of cabinet members. Spirits have bodies, though they are unable to make use of their earthly matter. Some dead don’t alw-ays know they have died.—Sir Oliver Lodge, psychic investigator. When a machine is installed In industry it displaces workers. The cost of the machine is charged to capital account. Tire savings accruing by reason of displaced workers goes to pay interest and dividends on the machine.—W. W. Royster, locomotive engineer, before the senate finance committee. Labor, the masses of the people, those w'ho w'ork for wages, are the victims of the financial crash w-ho suffer most.—William Green, president of the American'. Federation of Labor.

permit them to have much effect in killing germs or in curing disease. To have a definite effect from any antiseptic in the throat, it is necessary to apply it directly to the infected or inflamed part. This is best done by spreading material with a cotton sw'ab, or by using an atomizer properly. To get the antiseptic into the back of the throat, it may be necessary to hold the tongue or to use a tongue depressor. Primary purpose of a mouth wash or throat w'ash is to clean and soothe. A good cleaning mouth wash is merely salt solution made by adding a fourth of a teaspoon of salt to a half glass of w’arm w’ater. If there is much mucus, the addition of a quarter of a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda or ordinary baking soda may be beneficial.

place of states’ rights in our code and so far as any progress is concerned we are lingering in the era of the Civil war. Politicians are not concerned about their country; they are concerned about their districts only. Our governmental policy is based entirely on a hit or miss system. We howl with horror at the suggestion that we leave the outcome of a battle to chance, but we depend entirely upon luck to shape national policies that may be and often are more fateful than battles. It hardly is necessary to point out that our slapdash methods always fail in a crisis. If President Roosevelt had not had the foresight and courage to assume dictatorial powers, chaos undoubtedly would have ensued. Why. then, should we not select the brightest sons of our country, as we select Rhodes scholars, for instance, and educate them in the arts of government? Intelligent statesmen are even more necessary to a country than good soldiers.

-APRIL’ 11, 1933

It Seems to Me

BY JOE WILLIAMS

( Bit tine for lleywood Broun) NEW YORK. April 11.—Mr. Jarfc Dempsey of the prize ring made an address before the Columj bia faculty last week. Ever keen to be on the in- cig of things, I asked the gentler, a what he talked about. ‘Abl-.t twenty minutes.” he aiis.vt •.< Such delightful drollery! What was Mr. Dempsey doing appearing before the faculty of a famous university—was he pulling ; a Tunney on the boys in the ba. k j room? ' The answer is yes and no. Mr. Dempsey has no active aversions* to mingling mentally with the nict r people. His one point of uniquei ness in this respect is that he is no: ! an ostentatious student of litera- ; ture. The man never read a line of Shakespeare in his life. To him Shaw is merely a gabbv old gaffer with a frostbitten beard.' But if you want to listen to some plain, direct, sound philosophy on the subject of playing the game. Mr. Dempsey can tear it off for you by the yard. ft ft a They Know Life THE big moment of the drama came when Mr. Dempsey stiffened a fiend in human form who had attempted to besmirch the fair name of boxing by suggesting an evil conspiracy by which Fraud was to emerge triumphant over Truth. I forget the precise circumstances, but just at this point Mr. Dempsey puts his arms of bronze around a meek, fluttery little girl—practically a dove despite the shams of mascara and rouge—and with a Francis X. Bushman gesture cries:— “There is only one way—and that is the honest way.” I imagine that Mr. Dempsey’s presence at Columbia was largely in the nature of a stunt. These things usually are. Professor Billy Phelps didn't fetch Tunney up to New Haven to discuss Shakespeare strictly for academic reasons. The professor knows the stuff of which headlines are made. The cloistered academicians probably need such contacts. There is such a thing as contracting reading room anemia. An hour with Descartes can be mentally stimulating, but an hour with a reminiscent Dempsey is always a lively canter down the boulevards of life. Some of the most impressive talks that grew out of personal experiences and observations. Mr. Dempsey made a charity talk on “How it feels to want a piece of bread” a few weeks ago that was as poignantly moving as any appeal Clarence Darrow ever made. a tt tt Up in the Hills I WENT up into the hills of North 4 Carolina with Mr. Dempsey when he started to train for his comeback fight against Tunney. The community was wholly rural, provincial and not altogether pleased w r ith the presence of a prize fighter. If the antagonism wasn’t active, certainly there was no outward display of enthusiasm for the bluejowled outlander who got up with dawn and jogged along the mountain roads, stopping now and then ’ to throw short, nervous punches at an imaginary opponent—a strange and curious spectacle to the simple folks. But after a week or so the children began to come around the Dempsey cottage and pretty soon, the mammies and pappies were dropping in. Dempsey's father, Hiram, was there. He had an old fiddle, and of night the sharp, squeaky strains of “Turkey in the Straw” 1 would float out over the slumbering fastness. From various parts of the mountain would come neighborly shouts: “Play it again.” .. . How about “The Wreck of Old 999?” ... and so on. It wasn't long before the prize fighter was the most idolized ‘ man in the hills, " A Tender Tribute A COUPLE of years later I stopped over to see the place again and I was told the story of the fight as it had come that night to those people in the hills. There was only one radio and a doctor owned it. He sent out a call for all the neighbors to come to his home, and they came in clattery wagons, wheezy flivvers, on foot through the dry, chalky dust and on bony horses that seemed to walk in their sleep. Graham McNamee’s vocal hysterics were tumbling through the ether, describing the vast crowd, the celebrities, the scene around the ring, the minor bouts, the turbulent weather . . . .“and now Dempsey is crawling through the ropes.” At this point the doctor snapped off the radio. He turned to his neighbors and said: “Let us bow in prayer that our good friend Jack will not be ’harmed.” 1 And there in those silent, brooding hills that night, a thousand miles away from the battle, a whole community of gentle people, none of whom ever had seen a fight, bowed their heads and whispered a prayer to the gods that this young man they had grown to admire would win. Don’t ask me what this proves I * do insist, though, that no man ever was paid a more touching tribute. i Copyright, 1933. by The Times) Friends BY MARGARET E. BRUNER When circumstances deprives us of the friends We knew r in childhood and hi youth’s bright day, Reluctantly we walk a strange, new w'ay And warily take those whom fortune sends. | At first it seems that no one comprehends Or cares to listen to the words we say, Then gradually comes understand- ' ing’s ray— Our hearts grow kind, we seek to make amends. Again we meet, the friends of earlier years, And clasp their hands, but, oh, the gulf between! We talk of matters trivial, commonplace. And all, perhaps, are glad when parting nears. f For time makes subtle changes, unforeseen— Old friends, yet each beholds a •stranger's face!