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Giv* Liijht and the People Will find Their Own Way

_ TUESDAY. APRIL 18. 1933. REFLATION JY EFLATION is necessary and has been for many months. It is more necessary now than when the new administration took office. The bank program, essential as it was, involved further wholesale deflation in the form of withdrawal of gold and gold certificates from circulation and the impounding of many billions of dollars of deposits in closed banks. The essential federal economy program is likewise deflationary to the extent of more than one billion dollars. All this has added to the state of unbalance, has made the dollar dearer. It has widened the gulf between the debtor and creditor classes and made more impossible the payment of 1924-29 inflated debts with 1933 deflated dollars. Fortunately, however, this is only one side of the picture. President Roosevelt obviously Is not a deflationist. The administration banking and economy programs were not undertaken because they were deflationary, but despite that. It was a choice of evils. But the President moved immediately to offset that deflation. He reopened the sound banks. He expanded the currency under the new bank law. And he urged upon congress Quick enactment of the following measures for releasing frozen values and for purchasing power inflation this year: 1. Federal unemployment grants to states, $500,000,000. 2. Afforestation, $148,000,000. 3. Tennessee basin project, $34,000,000. 4. Increased R. F. C. credits, $300,000,000. 5. To refinance farm mortgages, $2,000,000,000. 6. To refinance urban home mortgages, $2,000,000,000. 7. Estimated increase in farm purchasing power from farm price bill, SI,OOO 000.000. In addition to these inflationary measures, the President has two more of importance. One is a vast public works program and bond Issue, expected to total from $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000. The other is the short-work-week and minimum-wage bill now being drafted as an amendment to the Black bill by the house committee and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the object being to increase pay rolls and revive purchasing power. Usually those who discuss the need for inflation or reflation ignore these Roosevelt policies already in process. These policies, it should be noted, cover the two elements to inflation; that is, currency expansion under the bank law and large-scale government bonding and spending to put more money into actual circulation. Whether these reflationary moves will be adequate is another question. Maybe not. But no one will know whether they are adequate until all of them are in actual operation. Hence the folly of some of the inflationists in congress; they are defeating their own ends by filibustering against the farm relief and other Roosevelt inflationary bills. An intelligent approach would seem to be for the extreme inflationists to help pass the present Roosevelt program as quickly as possible, on the theory that then, and then only, can they prove the need of additional inflation. In fact, the President himself is on record as fa\oiing not only a sound, but an adequate, currency. While he is not likely to flop to greenbacks or sixteen-to-one silver, he definitely and deliberately has left the doer open for some form of further controlled currency inflation if the present moves toward mild currency inflation, credit and bond inflation, and purchasing power inflation, prove inadequate or too slow. Moreover, the pending foreign negotiations make the present inflation filibuster ip congress untimely. All inflationary arguments are based in part on the disadvantage suffered by the high dollar in world market competition with low currency countries. ' The fact that Great Britain is off the gold standard frequently is most advanced as a reason for us to go on a similar basis. But at this particular moment Great Britain may be headed back to the gold standard. She has been buying gold and now has the largest reserve in her history. Many informed persons in London and Washington believe that Great Britain intends to return tt> a fixed gold standard, provided she can bring about an international agreement to protect herself from foreign gold drains. This and related questions concerning stabilization of international exchanges are to be discussed in the coming Roosevelt-MacDonald and Roosevelt-Herriot conversations. No intelligent decision on American monetary’ policy for the future can be made until our government knows the future policies of Great Britain and France and whether those British and French policies will be changed as a result of the pending negotiations, t In any case, now is the time to get the present Roosevelt inflationary program into operation quickly. After that is done, and after the Roosevelt foreign negotiations, the President and the country will be in better position to ]hdge the necessity of additional currency inflation. *

OLD-AGE PENSIONS

A TOTAL of twenty-two states have adopted old-age pension laws. In these states indigent men and women too old to work will not have to go to the poorhouse and suffer the stigma of pauperization. Instead, they will be able to draw regular incomes from their state treasuries, and while these lncofr.es will not be large, they will at least keep their recipients from starvation and will save their self-respect. But that is not the whole story. According to reliable estimates, the twenty-two states involved will find this means of caring for the aged less expensive than the old system. The poorhouse is not only cruel and spiritbreaking; it Is outlandishly expensive. And, incidentally, the pension laws will remove from the labor market those pathetic old job-hunters whose desperation causes them to agre# to work for microscopically low wages. All in all, the arguments for old age pension laws are pretty strong. The remaining twenty-six states in the Union, to say nothing of the national congress, would do well to listen to them. lIOW MYTHOLOGY IS FORMED r I ''HE savage tribes in some of the northernmost jungles of South America worship the image of a white man in a silk hat and frock coat. For a good many years explorers have been collecting carved wooden staffs bearing this odd image—a white man in old-fashioned dress, often carved with genuine skill, with minor details of costume faithfully rendered. Medicine men used such staffs extensively, believing that all manner of diseases could be cured with them. Naturally, somebody got curious about it all, and a long investigation has finally dug up the explanation. More than 200 years ago a Scotch colony was settled on the coast of the Gulf of San Bias. A doctor, William Patterson, was the leading spirit in the venture. He evidently was a skilled and conscientious physician, and he worked many cures among his barbaric native neighbors. Asa result, the simple savages canonized him when he died—or, rather, they raised him to a position of godhood. Members of his ow r n race long since forgqt all about him, but he remains today a potent legend in the distant jungles. His likeness goes through the forests in the hands of painted priests; he has a secure place in a remote wilderness pantheon. Here, surely, is about as unusual a kind of fame as any white man ever attained; and it leads one into fruitless but interesting speculation about the originals of other, more widely known gods of the old days, because it sheds such a revealing light on the w r ay in which primitive people form their myths. When we first get acquainted with primitive myths, most of us wonder how people could be so inventive; and the answer, apparently, is that they aren’t. Myths aren't invented; they are built up unconsciously about frameworks of fact. * Odin, Hercules, Quetzalcoatl—back of all of these shadowy figures, you may be sure, move the ghosts of very real men, who, by their wisdom or strength or luck, once made profound impressions on the minds of their fellows. In a world which has problems enough of its own, all of this is of very small importance, to be sure. But it is interesting to get a first-hand look at the w r ay mythology comes into being. HOW TO HANDLE LIQUOR AFTER REPEAL Hr HE squabbles and confusion in the several states relative to the sale of beer emphasizes the desirability of having an adequate plan ready for the control of all alcoholic beverages before the repeal of the eighteenth amendment is consummated. One of the most interesting proposals for liquor control is the so-called “A B C plan for true temperance,” submitted by Congressman Emanuel Celler and Lewis S. Rosenstiel. The authors examine the other plans and find in all of them distinct objections. The personal permit plan, which prevails in Canada and Scandinavian countries, is condemned because it makes possible extensive individual drunkenness. One person may buy to the limit of his permit and sell to another, ihe latter being able to drink far beyond the bounds of reason. This procedure also promotes drinking in the home. Even the partial success which the system has had in Canada could not be duplicated in the United States. Canada has a far smaller population, Is a more homogeneous country, and is more law abiding and better policed. Celler and Rosenstiel are even more critical of the state dispensary plan. This would put the government into the liquor business, would involve the creation of a huge bureaucracy, and would build up a powerful political machine capable of great potential evils and much evasion of the law. By and large, state monopolies of all sorts have been failures and the liquor monopoly presents more obvious difficulties than any other type. Moreover, in all places where it has been tried in the United States it has been abandoned after much venality and crime. Even the medicinal dispensary system of Oklahoma was thrown out by the public after a fair trial. Celler and Rosenstiel propose a program based upon the British licensing system. The local unit which will constitute the basis for deciding whether liquor will be sold and how the sale shall be administered will be the county. The qualifications on this are that wherever a city, like New York City, embraces more than one county, the city itself shall be the liquor unit. The principle of local option will be given free rein. Each unit will vote upon whether any liquor shall be sold. A vote shall be taken at intervals of not less than five years, 50 per cent of the qualified voters must participate and at least a two-thirds majority will be required to determine the issue. If the county or city votes for the sale of liquor, its control shall be in the hands of a county license board, who shall have full powers to regulate the sale of liquor within the community. Each board shall be made up of seven persons, to be appointed for a term of six years by the Governor. As to personnel, each board of seven must contain a minister, a lawyer, a physician or chemist, a merchant, an educator, a social worker, and a member of any well-recognized real estate board. If there is none of the set-

Iter in the county, the seventh member shall be a farmer. Both sexes shall be represented on the board and any persons directly or indirectly interested in the liquor business shall be disqualified from serving on any license board. There shall be three distinct types of -noncompetitive licenses for the sale of liquor. First, there shall be a beer license, giving the right to sell beer or any other alcoholic beverage not in excess of 6 per cent by volume of alcohol. The second type of license is that for hotels, restaurants, and taverns, allowing them to sell not only beer, but other alcoholic beverages. All possible encouragement shall be given in both cases to the use of lighter alcoholic liquors to be consumed at the table with food, though such procedure shall not be made mandatory by law. Then there shall be a bottled goods store license, allowing the sale of all kinds of alcoholic beverages in the original packages for consumption off the premises. The number of licenses permitted in any county shall be based roughly upon the population. Generally speaking, there might be one beer license to every 2,000 of population; one hotel, restaurant, or tavern license to each 3.000 of population, and one bottled goods store license to every 5,000 of population. Every effort would be made to encourage the consumption of mild liquors. In the first place, there would be a greater number of beer licenses issued than of any other kind In the second place, the beer license would be the least expensive. In the third place, the tax on alcoholic beverages would be directly in proportion to the alcoholic content, with the provision that no tax should be high enough decisively to encourage the manufacture and sale of bootleg liquor. Finally, the internal revenue taxes on spirituous liquors should be graded according to “proof,” putting a disproportionately heavy tax on the high proof liquor. The saloon will be discouraged, secret drinking condemned, and drinking by glass revived, amidst healthful and temperate surroundings. HEALTH AND DEPRESSION TF you doubt that the scanty fare and poor -*• living conditions caused by extreme poverty have undermined the health of poverty’s victims, you might ponder over remarks made by Colonel James P. Barney of the United States army after he had inspected the first group of 320 conservation corps recruits at Fort Knox, Ky. Looking over the under-fed young chaps in the detachment, Colonel Barney brooded: “They tell me I’ve got a couple of weeks to train these boys before they’re assigned to some forest project, but two -weeks isn’t enough. It ought to be at least a month before they are fed enough and get their muscles used to work.” That blunt comment speaks volumes about the price which young bodies have been paying for the depression. Century of progress fair at Chicago is to be opened by a beam of light from Arcturus, 240 trillion miles away. Good idea. Japan might open her next war with a ray from Mars. Shopper loses SIOO,OOO pearl necklace while shopping on Fiftn avenue. Probably won't be necessary to search the aisles of the 5-and-10 cent stores. Kansas preacher writes 1,000 words on a post card. No wonder they're thinking of reducing the rate to 2- cents. More than 2,000 panaceas for the slump have been received by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins from amateur slump-panacea contrivers. This increasing consumption of paper, ink, postage stamps, all helping to relieve the slump. If you thought you felt low before, wait until you get out last year’s straw hat.

M.E.TracySays:

MUSCLE SHOALS is the key to anew power policy in this country, anew idea of conservation, anew understanding of public resources and how they should be handled. At all events, that is the way Pr ;sident Roosevelt seems to think of it. “If we are successful here,” he says, “we can march on, step by step, in a like development of other great territorial units within our borders.” Muscle Shoals as it stands today symbolizes the old order of waste, exploitation, and political pull. It was not a private enterprise based on private investment or private property rights, yet private interests have been able to check its use for fifteen years. The theory back of this curious situation rests on the assumption that the people have no right to make use of what they own, lest by so doing they interfere with the right of great corporations to establish a virtual monopoly. 000 THE people have been told that they ought to lose $100,000,000, as well as abandon all their interests in the Tennessee and other great rivers, so that private industry can take charge. Private industry presents individualism as sanctioning such sacrifice, just as though a combine or a trust should be regarded in the same light as the lamplighter or candle dipper of Thomas Jefferson’s day. We no longer are dealing with the individual when it comes to heat, light and power, but with large and powerful groups, and we no longer can protect ourselves except by mobilization of public resources through public capital. Asa matter of common sense, Muscle Shoals, as President Roosevelt proposes to develop it, takes us back to the old idea of competition which big r business is doing its best to kill, especially in the field cf electric enterprise. Muscle Shoals offers an opportunity to prove what the production of electricity costs and whether there is not an overabundance of water in the capital of some of the great concerns now producing it. 000 IF the project is carried out properly and if the Tennessee river is brought under anything like scientific control, we shall learn what can be done not only in the production of electricity. but in flood prevention and afforestation through a well-planned hydrographic system. We really are going to school when we tackle Muscle Shoals—a school that should teach us much about some of the bigger things which our natural resources, technical knowledge, and surplus wealth make it possible for us to do. We are going to begin anew adventure in the hinterland, anew struggle to harness nature, anew type of undertaking which njay lead to anew type of life for many people. If the rehabilitation of Muscle Shoals and the development of the Tennessee river prove successful, they well may change the general direction of our economic and social ideals by introducing us to the possibilities of a land which we still know little about. I

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 .750 words or less.) By Donald E. Stebbing. Conservative presses are rattling out the vicious, short-sighted doctrine of Russian non-recognition, forgetting that in any plan for world peace, Soviet Russia and the United States are necessarily the deciding and most powerful factors. Russia’s religious attitude parallels that of the Robespierre government after the French revolution and through its own shortcomings will merge into a more liberal doctrine. Perhaps it is best to illiterate people and leave religion, a highly complicated study, out of the picture, for a time, at least. Unconsciously, they have warred, not on God and Christ, but on the thieving, exploiting agents of reactionary fanaticism. The principles of Christianity are more alive in Russia than ever before, if we may believe unbiased travelers. At any rate, let’s temper our judgment. Strangely enough, Russia’s economic problem is similar to our own, in a certain light. A potential granary of the' world, industrially bashful, minerally unexploited, transportationally puzzled, their plight was not unlike ours after we won our Revolution, except that they have the advantages of our mistakes, and have planned a solution peculiar to the eastern soil and mind, unhampered, even aided, by technological advances. The time is not centuries distant when the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. will be the two harbors for around the world air liners. Moscow and Vladivostok, will not be so far from Seattle, via Alaska. I think Kipling’s truth is not everlasting. East and west will meet, if we proffer the hand of brotherhood now. The Third Internationale, an overzealous organization, may be ignored

Associated with widespread unemployment is the possibility of undernutrition, dqe to two causes: First, lack of funds sufficient to purchase food; and, second, wrong choice of food in relationship to a restricted budget. Any diet must be judged by four main factors: The number of calories, which is a measure of its energy value; the amount of good protein necessary for repair and growth; the amount of mineral matter, and the vitamins. It now is recognized generally that the average adult man requires about 3,000 calories a day, the average woman about 2,500, and the average child, from 3 years on, from 1,500 to 3,000, depending on its weight and its activities. As we grow older, the amount necessary for energy is less, so that a person more than 65 years of age needs 2,250 calories a day. The measurement of the number

LIFE must be very discouraging to the girl who combines moving picture shows with husband hunting. If she follows the reel romance, she is bound to be buoyant with hope, because the screen heroes are the most easily beguiled of men. An inviting smile, a coy glance, a slight disclosure of natural charms will bring them running. They are susceptible and passionate and poetic. Moreover, they always are elegantly dressed, even though they may go in overalls. Their sartorial perfection is equaled only by their instinct for doing the noble thing. They always are devoted, always ardent, and always on hand. So our modern maid steps forth from the moving picture palace with fresh energy for her quest. How sad it is, then, to think of her, lost in a real world, where men are so much more elusive! Here is true tragedy in its most intense form, an eternal pilgrimage after the gleam, '■*'

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The Vicious Circle!

A Bad Ad By Mrs. F. H. I.ep, Baltimore, Md. T WONDER if the people of Indianapolis know the treatment that visitors receive from your police. My two boys were unfortunate enough to have trouble with their car Saturday night, so at 2 in the morning they were manhandled and very abusive language used. I called the matter to the attention of your police captain, with very little respect shown me. They had to push the car to East Sixty-third street, then walk down College avenue to Sixty-first street and Carrollton avenue. A police car drew up and two ©fficers got out, grabbed the boys and treated them like they were tough characters, then asked them where they were going. All they found or the boys was a pipe, for smoking, then one officer held them while the other went to the corner store to see if anything was stolen. I am considering making Indianapolis my home, but if that is the way your city is run. I don’t think I care to come there, for we at least have gentlemen on our force at home. safely. The Second International is more important. Finally, Britain can not afford to make war in any form on the Soviet Union as long as she remembers that in that war, Britons would not die for Britain, but for the highly questionable Metropolitan Vickers Company. Any company which operates* on Russian soil at this time should cast aside capitalist sympathies, if only for the sake of the rest of mankind in this interdependent world. Russia’s dream should not be spoiled. It offers no threat to western civilization. Indeed, the west rapidly is drawing to the co-opera-tive commonwealth, and, let us hope,

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health. Magazine.

of calories provided by a diet is relatively simple when it is understood that each gram of protein yields about four calories, each gram of carbohydrate about four calories, and each gram of fat about nine calories. It was thought at one time that all protein was alike, but it now is found that the proteins from cheese, eggs, fish, meat and milk are superior to other proteins for purposes of repairing body wear and tear. Every adult human being needs about thirty-seven grams daily of first-class protein. It now is well recognized that milk and milk products, fresh salads, vegetables and fruits, liver and liver oils and eggs take care satisfactorily of mineral and vitamin needs. A suitable diet should include at

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IN the harsher and more practical society, the gullible lads are very scarce. The love-making of the boy who cast sheep’s eyes at her', how

Questions and Answers Q —Name the Persian minister to the United States. A—There is none at present; the charge d'affaires is Yadollah Azodi. Q —From what books were the motion pictures, "The Mark of Zorro” and "Don Q., Son of Zorro” taken? A—“ The Mark of Zorro” was taken from the story, “The Curse of Capistrano,” by Johnson McCulley. “Don Q., Son of Zorro,” was based on the story, “Don Q.’s Love Story,” by K. and Hesketh Pritchard. t

more peaceably, more tolerantly, less violently than did Russia. By William Bennett. I can not agree with G. O. P. in Thursday’s paper, when he said that they are sitting on the sidelines letting McNutt and his boys run things for awhile, but in 1936 they would be back, the whole batch of them. I believe instead of sitting on the sidelines, you would better call the ■ undertaker and get your funeral over with, for the way things are going we won’t have enough money to hold a double funeral in 1936 and we would have to bury you together and that would be causing the devil too much trouble. The Republicans died last November and the Democrats now are too sick to live, so we have a nice big healthy servant that will serve the people in whole, instead of the few that have killed and made deadly sick our two old parties. If you don’t believe it, go out, as I have done, and get wise to yourself, or buy a labor newspaper and find out about the farmers, laborers and unemployed continental congress to be held in Washington May 6 and 7, something that our owrn three newspapers do not give to their readers, but still claim to be for justice.

So They Say

For one who has general debility, local weaknesses have their greatest chance of showing themselves.—Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist. Men thought they had achieved a perfect peace, but instead they found to the contrary.—Pope Pius. I have twice as many staff officers, clerks and orderlies as I need, but I can not get rid of them under the existing setup. Maj.-Gen. Johnson Hagood, commander Eighth corps area.

least a pint of milk a day, some fish occasionally, one orange or one tomato, or a helping of mixed salad, an ounce a day butter and occasionally some liver or cod liver oil. It must be borne in mind that these main constituents of the diet are not mutually replaceable. In other w’ords, one can take tremendous amounts of calories in the form of sugar and still not get the essential vitamins. The cheapest sources of calories are the cereals, margarine and sugar, and closely behind them butter, cheese, bacon and dried fruits. Nowadays, leafy green vegetables are so reasonable in price that they may be depended on largely to provide protective foods, in addition to milk. Potatoes, tomatoes, celery, lettuce, endive and watercress are exceedingly reasonable, and are especially recommended as essential food substances for their mineral and vitamin content.

crude it must appear after that of the elegant Mr. Gable. More than likely her gallant will be all feet and hands and stammer when he pays compliments, and will run away at the slightest offense. To make bad matters worse, such as he is he is very rare. The moving picture girls always are sure of from two to three pursuers, whereas our poor little heroine never can be certain she will have any. The only thing she has to console her is that “half a loaf is better than no bread,” so while she dreams of the wonderful males who people the fantastic land of cinema, she marries the best fellow she can catch—and in too many cases never appreciates him, because her mind is filled with the romantic unreal creatures who exist nowhere save in the brains of scenario writers. To tell what the American sweetheart and husband has suffered at the hands of moving picture producers would require the genius of a Dosteoveski. It would take another i Milton to sing their lost Paradises.

.'APRIL' 18, T 933

It Seems | to Me ■ = BY HEYWOOD BROUN =s.

MUCH has been written about the situation in Germany, but as yet I have read little which unt'ertakes to explain the underlying psychology of Hitler's antiSemitism. Asa matter of fact, I am no< familiar with any great amount oi research into the nature of prejudici in general. George Britt and I one* wrote a book in which we undertook to gather a few facts about the nature and extent of discrimination against Jews in America. And naturally, we hardly could resist the temptation to do a little theorizing. But it was rather vague and unconvincing. I must admit that race and religious prejudice remains mysterious to me. One man who was brought up in a little town in Georgia did come forward with some interesting testimony, but it covered only one phase of prejudice. an # One Kind of Prejudice HIS community was almost wholly without benefit of any foreign immigration, and he said that when a peddler of any persuasion whatsoever came through the town the boys invariably referred to him as "that Jew peddler.” In other words, “Jew” became a synonym for ’•tmtlander” or “foreigner.” But in Germany the Jew is hardly a stranger. It is not difficult to understand that closely knit communities should regard the stranger with a certain amount of suspicion. Even in fairly well-developed civilizations, there is fear of the foreigner. His language, his customs, and sometimes even his garb seem curious, and he disturbs the complacency and smugness of any isolated group. Prejudice has a curious habit of cutting in two directions. People who admit that they hold it and act under it sometimes will seek justification by explaining that they have a prejudice against members of this or that race or nationality because they feel that they are inferior. But these same people will wheel about and say that they can't stand some group because it is composed of people who are too clever and successful. This was illustrated during the Scottsboro trial, where Negroes were excluded from the jury, on the ground that they were inferior, and the Jewish counsel for the defendants was attacked roundly on the ground that he was a city slicker intent upon fooling the poor naive natives of Decatur. u a

Impacted Bigotry OBVIOUSLY when a man begins to explain and justify any prejudice, he does not give the real reason for that feeling, even though he may believe that he is talking with the utmost frankness. The emotion operates very largely from the subconscious mind. Indeed, it is tragically true that the most stubborn of all kinds of prejudice is found in the breasts of those blissfully ignorant of the fact that they bear any prejudice at all. Os course, economic reasons will account for a good many instances. When Chinese cheap labor first came to the coast all Chinese, without exception, soon became villains in the public mind. But when this immigration w r as checked and the rush of Japanese began, it was easy to transfer the prejulice to the newcomers. Indeed, almost overnight Californians began to say that the Chinese w’ere honest and trustworthy and a splendid people, but that you could not trust those Japanese. The sudden violence of the Jewish persecution in Germany leads me to suspect very strongly that someone in the Hitler group is quite consciously and callously pulling the strings. The very fury of it suggests artificial stimulation. “Honest prejudice” is practically a contradiction in terms, but I will not credit the Nazi leaders with possessing even as shabby an excuse as that. It is a game of desperate politics w-hich they are playing. They have not hesitated to set fire either to buildings or public psychology for their purposes. tt a u Every Nation Knows IT must be remembered that Germany, although a highly civilized country, contains its vast army of boobs, like every other nation. Hitler and his associates are playing upon their folly. Nazi performances in bettering the condition of the country lag many miles behind Nazi promises. In that situation it always seems expedient to a dictator to find some one to blame, to divert attention. Nero got along very nicely in Rome for awhile by blaming the bear market of his own day on the early Christians. The Nazis being wholly unable to raise the scale of the mass of their followers, try to appease them by incitement to throw rocks through the widows of Jewish storekeepers. And, in like manner, the cultural cupboard of the Nazi movement being bare, it becomes expedient to burn the books of Jewish authors. I only can hope that the boobs of Germany in the immediate future will wake to the fact that even the anti-Semitism of Hitler is only a racket. (Copyright, 1933, by The Times) Bridal Bouquet BY NORMA UPDIKE From the sunset sky of heaven Autumn flung a bride's bouquet To the multitude of bridesmaids At the closing of the day. I saw a flash of zinnia. Then the aster’s softer hue, Blended with petunia purple And a streak of violet’s blue. It was gathered up in tulle Made of fleecy clouds of white. Then the moon came out to view it And it faded out of sight.

Daily Thought

Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.—Psalm 41:1. DID universal charity prevail. earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.—Colton.