Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1933 — Page 4

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1931 GOOD SOLDIERS nPHE annual war over the army budget is on again. Since the days of Harding, every President has charged up the hill against excessive annv appropriations, • only to back down in the face of a barrage of army propaganda and political pressure. In the Coolidge administration, the President was provoked into a public warning that the military was trying to usurp the civil authority of government, President Hoover did not get very far with his economy plans. Now President Roosevelt and Budget Director Douglas actually are going to cut $144.000.000 from the $365,000,000 war department budget—a reduction of about $54,000,000 from nonmilitary, some of which will be replaced in the public works budget, and $90,000,000 from military expenses. And again the same old cry goes up that the administration is destroying the army. This cry can not be taken seriously. The war-time records of President Roosevelt and Director Douglas are too well known for the public to believe that these men are trying to wreck national defense. Moreover, army waste and extravagance no longer are a secret. In the name of efficiency, if nothing else, much of the deadwood should be eliminated. This is common knowledge among officers, though few have the courage to say so publicly. Major-Gen-eral Johnson Hagood, with bravery and accuracy, has stated the case. He says: “We can get a better organization for less. . . . We have too many bureaus already and we could spare six or eight of them with advantage to the national defense and to the joy of the taxpayer. ... 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.” Now that the civilian branches of government have been reduced .so drastically, the military men should be good soldiers enough to take t.helr fair share of economy without whimpering. As they know, in the federal pay roll reductions for the period 1932-34, the total military cut was only 4 per cent, compared with a 10 per cent decrease in the total civilian pay roll. While the civilian personnel was reduced for that period 17 per cent, the military personnel was cut only 0.4 per cent. Considering that much of the proposed reduction proportionately will come out of the national guard, citizens’ military training camps, and reserve officers’ training corps, the regular army should be the last to protest. Its commander-in-chief, President Roosevelt, is making the cuts regardless of protests, and the public is back of the President. Not only a less expensive, but a more efficient, army is likely to result. PAINLESS EXECUTION THE death recently of Dr. Alphonso Rockwell passed almost unnoticed. But this man. a distinguished physician and scientist, put his mark on his generation in a way as striking and as bizarre as that of old Dr. Guillotin of France. l*r it was Dr. Rockwell who invented the electric chair. Oddly enough, Dr. Rockwell himself was not in favor of capital punishment. But the electric chair was devised as a reform. A more humane method of taking life than the gallows was sought, and Dr. Rockwell—in collaboration with two other physicians and Thomas A. Edison—was given the thankless job of finding one. The electric chair was the result. It claimed its first victim in 1890. Since then it just about has become the standard instrument of execution in the United States. And Dr. Rockwell, who disapproved of the law which his invention served, must have been glad that the public was not generally aware of what he had done.

RUSSIAN RECOGNITION IN his policies with respect to most aspects of domestic problems and general international relations. President Roosevelt has moved with an amazing and gratifying promptness. Not a few have, however, been disappointed by his delay in recognizing Russia. Every week of delay postpones the establishment of highly desirable commercial relations with the U. S. S. R. There just have appeared three splendid books on Russia, all indicating that if there is any state which should appeal to the apostle of a •‘new deal" it is Russia. Professor Jerome Davis of Yale university has been mentioned widely as the possible ambassador of the United States to Russia in case of recognition. He and a group of experts, most of whom earlier had traveled widely in Russia, visited that country to study aspects of contemporary Russian civilization. The results of their investigations have been brought together by Professor Davis in an absorbing and authoritative volume on ••The New Russia: Between the First and Second Five-Year Plans." Whatever we think of Russian economics, the book pictures a well-organized and dynamic society which has attained stability and has achieved more remarkable results, considering the obstacles imposed, than any other society of our day. Professor Davis points out that thus far the Russians have not even attempted to establish Communism, but have aimed to introduce a comprehensive system of state Socialism. Russia now stands between the first and second five-year plans. The first was devoetd primarily to the rapid mechanization of industry and agriculture. The second aims to produce a classless society. Russia may have devoted a little too much energy to mechanical development at the expense of the provision of sufficient food; nevertheless, "if there is hunger in the Soviet

Union it is not found beside an abundance of wheat and corn. A person willing to do useful work will be able to secure food if there is any available." The volume concludes with a forceful and logical chapter urging the immediate recognition of Russia. One of the most common of the threadbare arguments against the Russian experiment is that it is contrary to human nature. This archaic thesis is obliterated by Professor Harry F. Ward in his penetrating book, “In Place of Profit: Social Incentives in the Soviet Union.” Professor Ward, for some fourteen years a close student of Russian conditions, went to Russia to live for a year to discover what new drives the Russians have introduced to take the place of the old profit potives. He finds that the basic effort of the Russians Is to arri\ c at a practical solution of the alleged conflict between the interests of the individual and the group. They seek to do this through a comprehensive improvement of the material and cultural conditions of the workers: “The dominating fact is that self seeking must take on some aspect of social serving to get anywhere.” Professor Ward ruthlessly smashes'a number of basic American illusions in regard to Russia. Far from subscribing to the notion that every man is entitled to an identical social reward, the Bolsheviks actually denounce and combat equilatarianism. They recognize that skilled labor and scientific acheivcment are needed greatly and can be provided only by special reward to persistent effort and high ability. Further, every commune, factory, village and consumers’ organization competes with every other in the effort to produce more striding results in the way of realizing the social ideals of the Bolsheviks. Ella Winter (Mrs. Lincoln Steffens), in the best book of its sort in the English language, “Red Virtue: Human Relationships in the New Russia,” points out with equal thoroughness and vividness the way in which Russia has altered human nature with respect to various types of social adjustments. Frank sex education and freedom of divorce practically have eliminated prostitution, lowered the divorce rate and solved sex problems in a more rational and satisfactory fashion than in any other great state in human history, she says. The penal system, based upon reformation rather than punishment, is unique in the modem world. Slums and congested dwelling districts are being wiped out. In spite of the strain and stresses and the rapid changes, there is less mental disease in Russia than in the United States per capita. Such is Russia in the year 1933. To withhold recognition is sheer folly. If we wish to combat it, the proper procedure clearly is to surpass its achievements.

SWEET ADELINE BEER comes back and a reporter finds the man who wrote “Sweet Adeline.” You get the impression that such songs as this wrote themselves, grew up like folk fables, that no man could have concocted such a universally owned thing. Ask any man or college student who over glasses of beer chimes out in the strains of this old tune who the author is and he would blink as much in astonishment that the piece should be associated with an author as in lack of knowledge as to who that author is, or was. The author of “Sweet Adeline,” as the reporter reveals to us. was Richard Gerard. But Richard Gerard is Richard Gerard Husch, special clerk in the New York city general postoffice, happy father of five children. He still sings with gusto and longs for Broadway. But six mouths are six mouths when feeding time comes—and “You know how much big-heartedness there is on Broadway.” “Sweet Adeline ... for you I pine . . .” That beverage over w'hich some of the tallest pining was done, itself pined for, is back. Hearken now to those vibrant strains, not so vibrant in the last thirteen years. MUSCLE SIIOALS YARDSTICK TTOTES are nearing in both houses of congress on the administration's Muscle Shoals bill. Prosperity for the Tennessee valley will not, as some apparently expect, result the minute that President Roosevelt signs the shoals bill. This is a long-time program of immense scope, involving economic planning in the entire river basin. Its provisions for electrification, at cheap rates, of the farms of the valley; for cheap power for states, counties and municipalities; for experimenting in the manufacture of plant foods, have deep significance. Its reforestation plan will take time, as will the carrying out of its provisions for improving navigability of the stream. But before long, with the government operating the Muscle Shoals hydro-electric power plants, and those at Cove Creek, we will have for the first time a chance to measure against federal power rates those of some private companies that are based on inflated valuations, immense and unnecessary bond and stock issues. Within the last few days, power company officials, while giving every evidence of being convinced that the Muscle Shoals bill finally will be enacted, have been conjuring up the same old bogies to frighten the house military affairs committee against government operation. These phantoms were laid successfully, we think, by the testimony before that same committee of Senator Bone (Dent., Wash.), whose recent years have been devoted to fighting the power interests of the west. The administration expected its titanic plan to bring some opposition; congress might as well expect the same. But neither should be in the least deterred in enacting the shoals bill. EXTENDING POWER OF SOCIETY 'T'HAT tragic dispute of Hastings, N. Y„ in which a man and his wife barricaded their doors to keep their infant daughter from being taken to a hospital for a life-saving operation, is a thing that could have happened at no other time than the present. A few decades ago the mere notion that any one might try to override a parent's wishes about a child's welfare would have seemed unendurable. The tradition of endless ages still held good, until very recently—a man could do what he liked with his own, and “his own” included

members of his family as well as his lesser goods and chattels. Now we have got past that, and because two bewildered immigrants in a small town hadn’t become adjusted to the new viewpoint, the state s attempt to save their daughter's life seemed to them cruel, high-handed, and deeply unjust. And for those of us who are sitting on the sidelines, there is an interesting parallel to be drawn. What else was this stubborn, heart-break-ingly, confused attitude on the part of the John Vasko family than a last flare-up of the rugged individualism of the old days? There was a time when it was none of the state s business how a man chose to rear his children. It is only recently that the higher duty and responsibility of the state has been recognized. This poor immigrant shocks us, today; our grandfathers would have called him a hero. And we are beginning to see, now. that this tension of society's responsibility spreads into many fields. Not only has society the obligation to step inside the family circle, on occasion; it must interfere in many other matters with which it never "before concerned itself. In sheer self-protection, it must interfere w-ith a man's private business. It is getting ready, now, to regulate the amount of foodstuffs a man may raise, if he be a farmer; to say how many hours his employes may work, and what pay they shall get, if he be a manufacturer; to say what he may do with his money, if he be a financier. It has to do these things, and many more like them, because the old individualistic system does not work any longer. BOYS AT WORK ' | ''HE remarkable effect of employment and open-air life upon boys is being revealed in the preliminary training of the President’s new reforestation army. The report from Fort Slocum, at New Rochelle, N. Y., says that 1,790 recruits there have shown marked increase in weight, color, and morale within a w-eek. It would be hard to say how much of this improvement in health and spirit is due to regular hours, good grub, and out-of-door exercise and how much to removal of the ogre of insecurity. The latter must have a great effect. Through these 250.000 boys and men who are put at conservation w-ork the country is certain to receive a marked stimulation toward recovery. Happiness is infectious. From the work camps some of this elation wfill sift back home and lighten hearts there. It will leaven a little the whole loaf of American depression and encourage success in the President’s new move,to get industry going. AID TO HOME OWNERS r T'HE proposed new federal law to provide mortgage relief for the owners of small urban homes eventually may have a very beneficial effect on depositors in frozen banks and on the tax incomes of cities and states. It looks very much as if many frozen banks, with vast sums invested in small real estate mortgages, would be able to thaw out a good part of their frozen assets by exchanging their mortgages for the 4 per cent bonds of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. This, naturally, would be a break for their depositors. At the same time, the scheme is designed to enable home owners to pay their delinquent taxes; and such payments would lift a large part of the financial burden which today lies upon innumerable states and cities. If this measure would achieve those tw r o results, it would be very welcome indeed.

M. E.Tracy Says:

UNLESS all signs fail, this country is on the verge of a decentralizing movement, made possible not only by the invention and discovery of certain mechanical devices, but by the normal reaction of people weary of dancing to an old tune. We have had a glorious time building skyscrapers and crowding into cities, but how' can W'e make effective use of the auto, radio, airplane, and other contraptions which enable the individual to travel about or sequester himself without losing touch with the world, if W'e continue to do so? Besides, the prospect of getting out of doors has a peculiar charm after our extended whirl with the stuffiness and discomfort of congestion. Architects probably are right in assuming that the skyscraper craze is over and that anew style of construction is just around the corner—a style which will leave more elbow room on the one hand, and serve the needs of increased leisure on the other. Science virtually has destroyed the compelling reasons for jamming factories, office buildings, and apartments into the smallest possible space. It no longer is necessary for workers to live within walking distance of the mill, or for heads of firms to be so close together that they can drop in for a chat. tt tt tt WHAT real purpose does the telephone serve if we make use of it to talk across the hall or across the street? Os what advantage is the radio if we still must dwell within ten blocks of the opera house? Wherein lies the benefit of autos if we employ them to follow Old Dobbin’s beat? We have been freed of many limitations, and it is incredible to suppose that we shall ignore it. Isolation has ceased to be the dread consequence of living apart that it once was. The young man who goes a thousand miles away from home today is not compelled to bid his parents or the world he knows good-by. He can occupy a cabin on some western mountainside and still get the report of a prize fight as it proceeds in Madison Square Garden. To the same extent that machinery has reduced the hours of essential work, it has increased the possibilities of leisure. The real problem is to take proper advantage of the latter. We have been playing with most of our great innovations thus far, but the time has arrived for us to make them a part of our daily life, to realize the new freedom they promise. n tt tt WE have done very little by way of readjustment to the new agencies of travel and communication. Our social and economic life still is dominated by traditions of the railroad and kerosene lamp era. We have only a vague conception of how much better we could live if we really tried, of what stupendous changes electricity, broadcasting, and combustion engines make possible. The barriers that formerly separated urban farm rural life have been swept away. Except as one enjoys the crowd, there is no longer any distinct gain in herding together. Suburbs can be extended enormously, factories can be moved into the country, living rooms can be converted into a concert hall by the mere turn of a button and neighbors can keep in close touch with each other, though their houses are fifty miles apart. And work, you ask? Well, what about the privilege of rebuilding a nation, of making this country truly modern?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ITimes readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to ISO words or less.) By R, J. A. Since Governor Paul V. McNutt first announced himself a candidate for office, he has made numerout promises about what he was going to do for the people of Indiana. Some of those promises have been fulfilled—some of the others may be carried out —but there are two things for which the Governor can claim full credit. He has succeeded in doubling the luncheon expenses of the average beer drinker and he has periled the state’s chances of throwing off the Anti-Saloon League yoke, which has galled it these many years. I realize that the words “average beer drinker” may be construed by a variety of mathematical processes, but I think it is fair to call the “average beer drinker” one who enjoys about three bottles of beer and a sandwich for luncheon. Three bottles of beer and a sandwich will average 60 to 75 cents. That’s just about double what the average office worker and professional man is accustomed to spending, for they usually eat their heaviest meal at dinner. Upon no grounds save those of politics can one justify a price of 20 cents for a bottle of beer. In Louisville, one can buy a shell glass of beer for a nickel. Beer is cheaper in Illinois. In fact, beer is cheaper almost any place in the United States than it is in Indiana. If I am wrong, I would appreciate a correction. The writer of this letter, long a reader and admirer of The Times, was present during one of the debates on the present beer law in the house of representatives and was appalled aj, the meretricious arguments with which the administration leaders met the claims of the draught beer bloc. Most of the defense of the Governor’s beer bill .came from Representative John F. Ryan, Terre Haute, who “wet nursed” it through the public morals committee, of which he was chairman. Ryan actually had the audacity

EVERY now and then newspapers contain reports of poisoning in the household due to error, or sometimes intentionally. The substances most used are drugs which occasionally are found in family medicine chests. The average person seldom is ready with the knowledge of what to do in such emergency. The firet thing to be done without any delay is to remove as far as possible any of the poison that still is in the stomach. A physician usually washes the stomach by the use of a stomach tube through which water is introduced and by which it is removed.

“T'vOG worship in America is bexJ coming as widespread as the worship of the sacred cow in India,” says an evangelist, who brought much wrath upon his head when he unceremoniously propelled from his tabernacle a dog that was not conducting itself reverently during services. This rash act called forth once again scores of “tributes to the dog” and certainly proved that the preacher's point was well taken. By and large, men love dogs because they can dramatize themselves as heroes and gods while doing so. It gives a person a feeling of delight to know that even a dumb brute regards him as the most or. in fact, the only important being m the universe. And admirable as this affection maybe, it is a sentimental emotion that originates in egoism. In short, man would not love his dog so much if he did not love himself more. He wants attention and approval and adoration above everything. His dog can be counted upon to give him these. The beast worships without questioning his motives or

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Quick Action Is Vital in Cases of Poisoning

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : BY .MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Use the Switch By P. S. Thomas. After reading daily papers for years and seeing all the crimes that are committed, I often wonder there are so few, when I see the way children are brought up, children who are not taught to mind and, when told to do anything, do as they please. I believe, as Dorothy Dix, in her answer to a mother who believes in freedom, that a worse handicap couldn’t be put on your girl or boy. In fact, I believe we would have plenty of room in our jails and prisons if children were taught law and order, not only in the home, school and on the streets, but in our churches and Sunday schools. I also believe in the old hickory switch liberally applied when needed. My viewpoint comes from experience, because I have a large family to show that I am right. to insist on the floor of the house that bottled beer could be sold for 10 cents a pint, There's only one answer now to that claim and that’s “Why isn’t it?” Governor McNutt’s opposition to draught beer, or at least what he claimed was his reason for opposing it, was that draught beer would make saloons of public dispensaries. Just why drinking beer from a keg rather from a bottle, is more likely to make a public place a saloon is very debatable. It would be interesting to have the Governor give an explanation. It should be a fine example of casuistry if not of lucidity. At any rate, the Governor convicted himself of arrant insincerity on the draught beer question when he opposed an amendment that would have permitted draught beer for home consumption. Certainly, a keg of beer can not make a saloon of a private home, if it is a bona fide home. The shameless alacrity with which the Legion gang has seized upon beer to reward Democratic stalwarts is enough to disgust many of those who looked on McNutt as a smallscale Roosevelt—a Governor who

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. The average layman is not capable of passing a stomach tube. He therefore, must, arrange to get the stomach empty by some other means. One of the best ways to do this is to have the person drink promptly a cupful of warm salt water and then perhaps to provoke vomiting if necessary merely by putting a finger down the throat. When a person has been poisoned by an acid of any kind, it is customary to give sodium bicarbonate,

asking whether the object of his affection is worthy of it. One does not have to be good or Questions and Answers Q —Give the dimensions of Boulder dam now under construction in the Colorado river. A—lt will be about 730 feet high and 1,180 feet long on the crest; top width forty-five feet and bottom width 650 feet. It will create a reservoir of 30,500,000 acre feet. Q —What day of the week did June 6. 1877, fall? A—Wednesday. Q—How many islands are there in the British Virgin islands group, and what is the total area? A—A group consists of thirty islands with an area of fifty-eight square miles. Q —How many British thermal units are in a gallon of average gasoline? A—136,000.

was as sincere in his desire to improve the lot of Indiana as the President is in his labors for the nation. The state is gagging on the political plums which have been shoved down the collective Indiana throat and 20 cents a pint beer doesn't help to wash them down. On June 6, Indiana goes to the polls on the important question of retaining or rejecting that farce that is dignified in the Constitution as its eighteenth amendment. Indiana may vote wet June 6. If it doesn't Governor McNutt can add the whys and wherefores and find that his administration’s gross mishandling of beer may have played an important part.

So They Say

Particularly young girls do not realize that real charm is the charm of reserve, quiet dignity, and beauty suggested rather than inflicted. Maurice Chevalier, movie actor. Knowledge, to be of use. must grow. The explorer is merely the vanguard, the scout, in that small army of investigators who open new paths for human progress.—Lincoln Ellsworth, explorer. There is considerable doubt as to whether the Russian government is attempting to overthrow other governrments. Senator W. E. Borah, Idaho. The stress of economic conditions has brought to the division many people who never before had time to read.—Dr. E. H. Anderson, director of the New York public library. There are a few bad-mannered men who are successful, but only a few. —Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war. Spain’s greatest contribution to the world has been cultural.—Premier Azana of Spain. The 3.2 wine will satisfy the average taste.—H. F. Mouquin, New York wine merchant.

or baking soda, to counteract the effects of the acid. In poisoning with carbolic acid or any of its derivatives, lime water is a better antidote than baking soda. Os the greatest importance in relationship to poisoning is the relief of pain, the. treatment of heart failure, and the maintenance of breathing. A physiqian must, of course, be called immediately in every possible case of suspected poisoning, because he is able to undertake measures of treatment that are unknown to the average person. Moreover, many of these measures can be administered only by a physician.

noble or even truly kind to keep one’s dog in an adoring mood. a tt a THUS, all these eloquent tributes, these beautiful outbursts upon the fidelity of the mastiff to his master, have their source in the same urges that cause a man to cry into his beer—self-intoxication and self-pity. They are forms of emotional indulgence that permit men and women to feel noble. “How wonderful I am,” speaks the inner consciousness to itself, “and nobody appreciates me except Fido. Nobody understands, nobody loves me. 800-hoo! Excellent, indeed, is this animal that recognizes my true worth.” It seems to me that certain mawkish and often maudlin dog lovers miss entirely the significance of the beautiful relationship between man and beast. For when man has made himself entirely worthy of his dog's adoration, he also will have gained the love of his human fellows, who often are as capable as any dog of responding gratefully to kind treatment and affection.

japril: 19, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. April 19.—“ Well, Heywood.” writes Cub. “Shaw and the newspaper men met. and if anybody emerged from that cat fight with a slued of dignity left it certainly was Shaw, not the reporters” “I liked,” he continues, “the photographer who got in a pet at Shaw and said: 'Hell! Who does this guy think he is? Why. I told Queen Marie to cross her legs, and she did ’ I would have fired that lad for incompetence. He ought to have known that he could have got a much better picture of Marie if he had asked her to stand on her head, which she would have done gladly. The News put Shaw in his place by printing one smallish picture of him beneath a much larger picture of a Miss Adonell Massie, 19, of Dallas. Tex., who denied her engagement to Neely Vanderbilt. That certainly is news—denying your engagement to Neely Vanderbilt. tt tt tt Looking Down on Show THE News made its picture of Shaw a freak shot, snapped from above, so that Shaw's head was enlarged out of proportion. Awfully funny. Funniest picture the I News has printed since they scooped the town on that one of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair. "Yes. sir; the boys certainly put the old man in his place. For some reason the whole fracas set me to brooding about newspaper men their cause and cure, tl am one.) Why are w-e newspaper men the way we are? Why are we so temperamental, so haughty, so jealous of our—shall I say—amour propre? “Heywood, I think it's because we have a deep-seated conviction of our own inferiority. If we didn't, we'd never become newspaper men. “After all, we never accomplish anything. Asa tribe we are passive lads. We’re the Boswells. We spend our lives in the reflected glory of the boys who have ability enough to get things done. “A newspaper man isn’t capable of taking any active part in shaping events. He couldn’t. Munsey's ghost wouldn’t let him. “We follow in the wake of the big fellow's, heroes and scoundrels, and chronicle their deeds and misdeeds as truthfully and accurately as our ability, modified by the sacred cows of the owners of our newspapers, will allow. “Once in a while one of us breaks loose, wangles a political job with Tammany and really accomplishes something. Or he writes a book, like Mencken, or a play, like Stallings and Anderson. “Failing in escape, he gets his compensation and soothes his libido by standing at speakeasy bars and telling the bartender and whoever else will listen how pally he is with Tom Lamont or what he said to Peggy Joyce or what Frank Roosevelt said to him. “And there he stays until he gets too old to be of any use. Then the newspaper throws him out on the end of his spine. , “Meet me at Tony's tonight, Heywood. I want to tell you what Bill Woodin said to me.” tt tt tt With or Without Shield I’LL come, bringing my inferiority complex with me, but, even so, I w T ill be disposed to argue the print raised by Cub. The best I can give Shaw in his encounter with American newspapers is a shade. And I think a draw' would be a good decision. The questions were not so hot; but neither W’ere the answers. And did my ever so welcome correspondent ever stop to consider the fact that George Bernard Shaw operates under one of the most active inferiority complexes ever known in this generation? He w'ould be a Freudian's bank holiday. Analysts all over the world would pay good money to get at that unconscious. tt u a Prepared Positions AND yet he isn’t what you might call a well-integrated personality. When he ventures a sock to the jaw r , he likes to be backed up by respectable society. After all, he did go to Russia accompanied by Lady Astor, and he gave his American lecture under the auspices of the most thoroughly stuffed-shirt organization available. If Mr. Shaw had been wholly free of unresolved complexes, he would have announced merely that at such and such an hour he would mount a soap box in Union Square and talk to whoever cared to come. Instead, he let himself in at the back door of the Metropolitan Opera House. George Bernard Shaw is a great man. The fact that he made a poor speech in New York takes nothing away from the fact that Candida ’ is the greatest comedy written in our generation and that Saint Joan ’ and “Androcles and the Lion” are no slouches, either. But if this were an easier and more comfortable universe, he and every living newspaper man might have sat together comfortably in a circle and said in unison, “Thi3 is a tough world for us authors ” (Copyright, 1933. by The Times) Far Woodlands. BY MARGUERITE V. YOUNG There is a gallant hunter, who Goes flashing forth at morning; Oh, publish on the rocks and sky And in the streams a warning. For he whom nothing small eludes Is coming through the fields To bag for Dinah's empty pots What easy killing yields. But neighbors peering from their blinds Behold a sorry sight. When he, alas, how shamefully Droops home from, hunt each night. From woodlands far removed he comes With half-regretful words That he has stood all day and watched The bright, unfrightened birds. Daily Thought . . i ft . Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one—Job 14:4. CLEANSE the fountain if you would purify the •tream —A. Bronson Alcott.