Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1933 — Page 14

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THURSDAY. APRIL 20. 1303 A USEFUL STEP BY taking congress and the country into his confidence, the President has headed oif extreme currency inflation. On assurances from the White House that the administration is committed to raising the commodity price level, the extreme currency inflationists have agreed to withhold their proposed panaceas until the more conservative currency and credit inflation program of the President is given a trial. This is an exceedingly hopeful development. It indicates co-operation between the President and congress at a time when the most delicate monetary affairs of the nation are in the balance. Technically, the monetary situation is about the same as in early March, when the President suspended gold payments and exports. We went off the gold standard then. Theoretically, the dollar should have fallen on the world market. But Great Britain, to maintain the trade advantages cf a lower currency, supported and maintained the dollar at an artificially high level. La’er this unfortunate high level of the dollar also was supported by a less decisive policy in Washington, which temporarily permitted certain gold exports. Now' the White House announces that it will revert to the gold embargo policy. But that is not all. While in early March the President refused to interpret his gold embargo policy in terms of a future or permanent policy, he now lets it be known that he intends to stay off the gold standard pending the rise of commodity prices. When we return to the gold standard, it may be at a different level, fixed in relation to stabilized foreign exchanges. This wall be discussed in the MacDonald and Herriot conversations in Washington. Meanwhile, we shall be on a so-called managed, or controlled, currency and controlled credit basis. It is essential to understand two things: This is not greenbackism, or a fiat money status. On the other hand, it is not an automatic guarantee of prosperity. The administration now, by confirming and amplifying its March policy of departure from the gold standard, has embarked on an intelligent experiment, but it has not achieved its goal yet. Great Britain, in her similar experiment with a managed currency, maintained a relatively stable price level, but did not materially raise prices and did not achieve prosperity. Hence the administration’s policy inspires hope precisely because it does not conceive a mere departure from the gold standard as a cure-all, but rather as a useful part in a much larger program. A vigorous credit policy by the federal reserve still is necessary. A more liberal commercial loan policy by sound banks still is necessary. The liberation of four or five billion dollars of deposits impounded in closed banks still is necessary. Intelligent use of the currency expansion powers under the March emergency bank law still is necessary. A unified and safely regulated banking system still is necessary. A large federal public works program on legitimate projects to create quick buying power and get new money into actual circulation still is necessary. A short hour and minimum wage law, to increase and distribute purchasing power and to balance the anticipated rise in commodity prices and living costs, still is necessary. Elimination of the wastes and dangers of armament competition, tariff strife, war debts, and international monetary chaos still is necessary. By cutting loose from an unfair and disastrously dear gold dollar, the Roosevelt administration has a better chance to win its war against depression, both on the domestic and foreign fronts. THE GOVERNMENT’S FINANCES AS the administration and congress move forward with their recovery program, the ordinary citizen stands a vety good chance of getting hopelessly confused when he tries to reconcile the apparent conflict between the efforts oeing made to balance the budget and the plans being laid for fighting the depression On the one hand he sees drastic cuts in government expenditures cuts running far higher than any one had supposed really possible. But as he rejoices over these, he sees that this same government is about to spend money on a scale never before attempted in time of peace, to restore employment and start industry going again. There seems to be a sharp conflict between these two activities. On the surface, they appear to cancel each other. This conflict, however, is more apparent than real. The cuts come out of regular, day-by-day expenditures. So far the federal budget has been pruned by something like $750,000,000, ■with further cuts in prospect. Counterbalancing these cuts come the bond issues. The forest conservation work will take around $200,000,000; direct relief to the states will take $500,000,000 more; the farm and urban mortgage relief schemes will require vast additional sums, and a public works bond issue that might run as high as $5,000,000,000 seems to stand a good chance of adoption. The point to bear in mind is that these enormous bond issues do not actually cancel out the savings already effected. The federal government until recently was somewhat like a man who, with an income of SIOO a week, had living expenses of sllO a week. Such a man, obviously, is heading for. Solvency. Until he begins living within his

income, no one is giing to be very eager to lend him any money. Suppose, however, that he cuts his living expenses to SBO a week. He can now. if he wishes, buy a house and shoulder a $2,000 mortgage. The fact that he is far more deeply in debt than before cuts no ice. He has balanced his budget by cutting his day-by-day expenses. Having done so, he is a good risk. Uncle Sam is in much the same position. These bond issues needn't w’orry us. provided the nudget for actual current expenses is reduced. THE ARYAN MYTH AGAIN fk LONG with much that is tragic, Chancellor Adolf Hitler weaves in many threads of the comic. It now is reported that he proposes to abolish the Old Testament and introduce in its place the Nibelunglied and the old Teutonic gods and sagas. He hopes thereby to restore the primordial Aryan heritage of the Germans. Whatever one thinks of the traits attributed to the ancient Teutonic gods In early German mythology, he hardly can question the right of the Germans to worship their own national gods instead of the alien God of the Old Testament. But when Chancellor Hitler talks about the Aryan race and heritage of the Germanic peoples, he is reviving one of the most threadbare myths of anthropology, cultural history, and patriotic fanaticism. It was all threshed out and settled among scholars a generation ago. The origins of the notorious Aryan myth can bo traced back as far as the lectures delivered to the German people by the great philosopher, Fichte, at the University of Berlin in 1807. Here he stated that perhaps the mast precious element in the German heritage and culture was the unique Teutonic language, or Ursprache. The emphasis of Fichte and others on the importance of language in national character helped to produce modern scientific philology. This made its appearance in the notable works of Bopp, the Grimm brothers, Max Mueller and others. This rising interest in the science of language led scholars to study the similarities between the languages of Europe and Asia. They discovered remarkable identities in the root words and word structure, particularly noticeable being the similarity between most European languages and the Sanskrit of ancient India. In establishing this affinity between European and Asiatic languages, the most important figure was Franz Bopp, who published his “Comparative Grammar” in 1835. To these languages of Europe and the ancient Iranian languages of Asia was given the name Aryan. So far. the scholars were on rather firm ground. But they soon floated off into the mist of imagination. It came to be held that these linguistic similarities implied identity of race —that the Aryan languages must have been spoken by a pure and united Aryan race. Then, in 1854, Count Joseph Arthur de Cobineau published his fanciful but very popular “Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races.” In this he argued for the vast superiority of the white race and the decisive pre-eminence of the Aryan branch of this race Immediately the patriots in the various European countries proudly proclaimed their Aryan race and cultural heritage. But, it still was believed that most Europeans were Aryans. Therefore, it did not appear that any one nation had any monopoly on the Aryan virtues. In the seventies and eighties of "the last century, however, a group of scholars, particularly J. G. Cuno, Theodor Poesche and Carl Penka, showed that the assumption of any identity between race and language was highly fallacious and misleading. A fairly well unified and physical race like the American Indians possess more than a hundred distinct stock languages. On the other hand, several distinctly different physical races have spoken the German, French, or English language. From this time onward, it became apparent then that not all Europeans necessarily were Aryans because they spoke an Aryan language. Thereupon, there arose a feverish effort on the part of patriotic writers in every European country to prove their compatriots the only true Aryans and to show' that their neighbors were of inferior non-Aryan clay In this way, the race myth contributed vigorously to the super-patriotism of the generation before the World war and helped on notably the anti-Semitism of this period. The fair-minded scholars, however, quickly demolished all this tissue of frenzied imagination. It was shown clearly that there never had been any such thing as an Aryan rare. The term Aryan was proved to be applicable, if at all. only to some linguistic stocks common to certain peoples of Europe and Asia. These Aryan languages were brought into Europe by round-headed Alpine peoples who came from western Asia and constituted the forerunners of the modern Slavs and Celts. Therefore, it was quite obvious that the only Germans physically related to ancient bearers of the Aryan languages are the roundheaded south Germans of Bavaria and neighboring states. The tall, blond, long-headed Nordic Germans of north Germany and Scandinavia, who developed the old Teutonic mythology which Chancellor Hitler washes to revive, bore no physical relation whatever to the old Aryan-speaking peoples who came in from Asia. The Nordics originally came from Africa, and only later adopted the Aryan language of their round-headed neighbors to the south. Chancellor Hitler can have his oid German gods if he wishes, but he will not get very far beyond the realm of humor in his effort to make Germany a pure 100 per cent Aryan nation. IT PAYS ■jV/fTSS JOSEPHINE ROCHE of Denver is president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, second largest coal mining company in Colorado. She is a modern employer and believes in unions, high wages, efficiency. While her big open-shop Rockefeller rival was writing its business in the red. Miss Roche’s annual report for 1932 recorded a net profit and a bigger one than the year before. The report shows that the Roche miners worked an average of 191 days a year, compared with the state average of 126 days. Their average earnings were $1,650 a year, two or three times larger than in some nonunion fields. Why? Through a high degree of union efficiency,

Miss Roche reduced operating costs. Through what she calls “the intelligent co-operation and careful work of the hundreds of employes of the company,” production to the man increased. The worker in the Rocky Mountain Company mines produced an average of 10.5 tons of coal a day. That was three tons a day more than the average for Colorado. The better paid worker is more profitable to the employer. THE LOW WAGE CIRCLE GREEN, president of the Amer- ’ ’ ican Federation of Labor, is doing the whole nation a service by his insistent attempts to prod the public conscience into activity over the growing sweatshop menace. Low wages, he points out, are becoming more and more prevalent. In certain parts of some industries they are about down to starvation levels. The workers involved are losing hope for the future. Their living standards are being lowered cruelly. Nor is that all. All industry feels the effect of their lowered purchasing power. As the sweatshop worker sinks down, he pulls everybody else down with him. Low wages are about the most expensive kind there is, and Mr. Green is performing a public service by insisting that we recognize the fact. FRANKNESS IN THE ARMY 'T'HERE was something rather refreshing—and, at the same time, rather startling—about Major-General Johnson Hagood’s blunt statement that an overhaul of the war department and army organizations could save the government a neat $50,000,000 a year and increase military efficiency at the same time. High army officers do not often speak with such frankness. And when this one asserts that the war department is top-heavy and would collapse at the outbreak of a war, it seems obvious that a pretty thorough investigation is called for. War departments in all lands have a way of growing rigid and unwieldy in peace time; if ours has done so, as General Hagood says, a drastic overhauling ought to be in order. To be told, in addition, that this overhauling would actually save us $50,000,000 a year makes the job seem even more attractive. Official Washington might do well to give General Hagood's words some deep consideration. DON’T BLAME THE SUN SO *it’s the weather that’s to blame, is it? Dr. L. V. Burton, editor of Food Industries, displays charts shewing that for the last twelve years whenever the sun got really hot, earthly business depressions got that way, too. When Old Sol cooled, up went the business barometer and prosperity smiled again. The charts also indicate a relation between ultra-violet rays and the mundane mood. Plenty of ultra-violet rays in the air seem to make us cheerful, a shortage of rays throws us into the dumps. Since the solar radiation has been above normal for years and since the sun seems to be getting less hot and bothered now, we can expect good times pronto. We would like to believe in those charts. If our troubles are caused by solar heat we can sit by, like the ancients, and wait for a new deal from Phoebus. But perhaps it would be better to keep plugging along with our economic house cleaning. Nobody seems to be able to do much about the weather. And who knows but it's the misery and stupidity on earth that has been agitating the sun? The fellow w r ho laid away a nest egg a couple of years ago never figured that he was putting it in cold storage.

M.E.TracySays:

LAST year the government received approximately $800,000,000 through income taxes. Treasury officials confidently expected that the higher rates provided for this year would produce $1.000.000 000. Up to April 10. the government had received only $189,000,000, or $6,000,000 less than it had received up to the same time last year. Making due allowance for belted returns, this indicates that the government will get no more revenue from income taxes in 1933 than it did in 1932 if, indeed, it gets as much. The reason is obvious. Incomes have shrunk enough to offset the rise in rates. Besides, every investor who could do so has converted his holdings into tax-exempt securities. While manufacturers, merchants, farmers, professional men and home owners labor under a load of increased taxes, capital to the extent of some more than twenty billion dollars enjoys immunity. Chalk it up as just one more result of the craze for prosperity through installment buying. a a a THESE tax-exempt securities were authorized to promote bigger and better borrowing, to tempt the tightwad to loosen up, to provide irresistible bait for money lenders. It sounded fine when we wanted smoother roads over which to ride as we paid, or more magnificent school buildings, so financed that the next generation would foot the bill. We not only saddled, our children with debt, but promised their creditors exemption from taxes to do a better job of it. Just now the set-up doesn’t look so good. After filling out your little income tax return and signing your little check for the first quarterly payment, it's kind of tough to have some acquaintance drop around ana remind you that he was spared the annoyance when you know that he has more to spend than you do, though he doesn't do a lick of work. You must go right on digging up cash with which to pay interest on the tax-exempt bonds he has tucked away, not knowing how s< m or how sharply your salary wall be cut. while he enjoys a sure-fire income without work or worry. _ a a a WELL, it all began with the war, when great governments decided it was much easier not to pay as they fought, and when business borrowed a page from statecraft to boost production, with politicians quick to see the advantage of such policy. It was a wonderful spree while it lasted. Just think of the streets we paved, the parks we bought, the public buildings we erected and the improvements we obtained, not to mention the wooden ships we launched and the fly-by-night concerns we promoted through the capital we were able to raise on tax-exempt securities. And just think of what an impetus it lent to the scheme of installment buying along the line, with brokerage fees for this, a commission charge for that, and an insurance policy to cover it all. It seems mighty hard to pay the fiddler right now, but let’s not forget that we not onlv hired him, but danced joyously to the tune he played. i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MENTAL disease constitutes today one of the most enormous burdens carried by the well in this country on behalf of the sick. In 1931, the state of New' York spent more than $130,000,000 on the care of the mentally disabled. Already the subject is receiving most serious attention from both the economic and the scientific points of view 7. There are some mental diseases which probably can be prevented, whereas there are others which are still of unknown cause and for W'hich little can be done. Certain mental diseases, as is pointed out by Dr. Horatio M. Pollock, are associated with actual destruction of the tissue or with poisonings of portions of the nervous system. These are known as organic mental diseases. There are, for instance, the types of mental breakdown that occur with the changes that take place in the blood vessels due to old age.

AGAIN the year moves along toward Mother’s day. We have anew suggestion for its observance from the Golden Rule Foundation. The plan is worthy of support from all to whom the word mother has a profound rather than a sentimental meaning. It urges us to use the money that ordinarily goes for gifts to our own more fortunate mothers to swell a fund for that large group of American women, mothers, too, who have suffered so tragically during the last few years from unemployment and poverty. For they have done noble national service in sustaining the morale of husbands and sons. They have kept homes together by the sheer power of faith and affection. Long ago they won our admiration; now they deserve our help. In such manner we should be fulfilling the truest obligations of children. For if there is to be born within us a more unselfish conception of motherhood, then it, in turn, will encourage a more unselfish conception of filial duty.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to .?50 words or less.) By Just an Observer This is in response to “Mr. Just A Boy Yet.” It seems to me that this man, like a lot of others, is entirely too critical of the other fellow, and I think Mr. Perry and his ball team and ball park come in for more than their share of the criticism. Where in this city, other than at Perry stadium, can a man send his wife and children for two afternoons of good, wholesome entertainment each week, free? Surely, Mr. Perry can’t be blamed for the entertainment tax, although I suppose some people expect him to pay that for them, too. Fans used to go out to Washington Park and wonder why they had to sit in such a dirty, rundown place to see a ball game. Yet when it came time to build one, no one wanted it anywhere near them. Now that it is built, it donesn’t iuit some because there are no Tnotholes in the bricks. As for the players, I sometimes wonder how they tolerate the unjust remarks hurled at them when they are doing their best to give fans their money’s worth. After all, there are cities that would be proud of the Indians, Perry Stadium and its owner. By Disgusted. Comes now before us a basket stiff with the plaint that he must walk four miles to receive his monthly allowance of milk and coal. Now isn’t that just simply too bad? I wonder if he ever stopped to consider that the taxpayers who provide such dependents as himself with the necessary commodities of existence probably work as hard and walk as far as he does? The stiffs don't have to work on rainy days and never work if they are sick, but receive their allowance just the same. I know of many

Mental Disease Is Great Economic Problem ■ by DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN r

: : A Woman's Viewpoint : : - BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON _

Hands Across the Sea!

Credit Due Third By W. R. Woods WE believe that those w'ho viewed the "Big Drive” picture at a local theater last w'eek, advertised as authentic, would be pleased to know that the explanatory lecture was not correct concerning the scene showing the destroyed bridge at ChateauThierry. According to official United States and French history, the machine gunners in action at the bridge composed the Seventh machine gun battalion of the Third division. In the report of General John J. Pershing cabled to the secretary of war Nov. 20, 1918, he says; “Again every available man was placed at Marshal Foch’s disposal, and the Third division, w'hich just had come from its preliminary training area, was hurried to the Marne. Its motorized machine gun * battalion preceded the other units, and successfully held the bridgehead at the Marne opposite Cha-teau-Thierry.” At national headquarters of the American Legion in Indianapolis is a stone presented to the legion by the Mayor of Chateau-Thierry, Aug. 17, 1920, which came from the bridge. It says: “The American machine gunners of the Third division took a part as active as it was glorious in the defense of the passage of bridges, repulsing all attacks of the Germans who were attempting to cross the Marne.” cases where the fathers of large families receive trustee aid and never have worked for a particle of this allowance. Several always have the means to induldge in a poker game or a drinking bout. While there are many cases where the wives and children must be cared for and many worthy dependents on this trustee system, I heartily recommend that the investigation of all charity applications go through

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

Another type of mental disease is wholly functional; that is, definite changes can not be found in the tissue of the brain nor can there be seen any evidence of poisoning of the body either by bacterial or chemical poisons. Since it is more easily possible to attack disease when its cause is known definitely than to attack those of unknown origin, much of modern medicine is devoted to an attempt to control such conditions as alcoholism, syphilis, and similar conditions, definitely responsible for certain amounts of mental disease. Mental disease due to drugs is less common than that due to alcohol or syphilis. On the other hand, as life in general has been prolonged, there has been gradual increase in ihe amount of mental disease associated

The really good mother possesses a maternal sympathy that is wider than the horizon of her home. Be-

Questions and Answers Q —What is the capital of Wales? A—Wales has no capital; Cardiff and Swansea are the largest cities. Q —How much did the U. S. coinage amount to in 1931? A—56,013,973,286.26. Q —Describe the national flag of Hungary. A—lt consists of three horizontal bars of equal length and width red at the top, white in the middle and green at the bottom. Q —What are the Pleiades? A—A group of stars in the constellation Taurus, six £' which are visible to ordinary sight.

the hands of police officials and provision be made for any who have to have assistance, outside of the vampire type who exist at the expense of the people. Provision should be made for heavy penalties to any of the leech type who persist in imposing on the taxpayers. The least that our hundreds of officials can do is to strip the forbidden fruit from any applicant to this veritable garden of Eden. lam aware of one instance where a man and his wife have received aid from the trustee and welfare agencies for more than two years, always had an automobile of some sort, no children, and the man hasn’t worked for the trustee or any one else during this period and never will, as long as the conditions of the charity organizations remain so lax. Many of the county patrons never paid a cent of taxes, and yet expect our loyal support, If the existing system can not be remedied, let’s go the limit and include a case of beer in each weekly county allowance and retain the good-will of these parasites. If this burlesque continues, there will be more worthy dependents and blood-suckers of the public than taxpayers. Give hearty support to the worthy and twenty-five lashes on the bare back of any person guilty of abusing this privilege, and in no time the basket stiff roll of the county would be reduced by half. Then the taxpayers again could take a deep breath without paying such exorbitant taxes.

Daily Thought

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.—St. Mark 10:25. HIS best companions innocence and health, and his best riches ignorance of wealth.—Goldsmith.

with hardening of the arteries in the aged. It is believed that the real control of mental disease of functional origin wil come through better study of the young and through the use of suitable preventive measures in childhood and in adol-scence, and also through a control of heredity, rather than through any specific methods applied late in life. Much has been written of late relative to types of mental disturbance associated with the current economic depression. A recent report from the Neurologic Institute of New York indicates an increase in patients of shattered morale who are apathetic and listless, who have lost hope, largely due to a feeling of insecurity. It seems to be necessary to develop some method for relieving emotional strains and raising the morale of those who feel themselves insecure in time of financial stress.

cause she loves her children, she loves all children. Nor do we recognize our responsibility until we have acquired the same kind of concern, a concern that causes us to rebel at the thought of any worthy mother enduring poverty and misery that we, as a social group, can alleviate. a a a THIS year the challenge to our charity is greater than ever. But when wealth takes flight, ’ove blossoms more profusely in human hearts. Out of the deepest need of our fellow creatures will spring the response that is the essence of all religion and all unselfish human love. Our own mothers do not desire gifts, however expensive, so much as they long for a day of our company, a few of our time. To speak ou: love to them in words is better than to say it with anything our money can buy. While we remember our own, %are we forget our neighbor's mother?

.’APRIL 20, 1933

It Seems to Me - BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

NEW YORK. April 20— I’m afraid that Hitler has become too convenient a symbol. A great many people are doing their one good deed of the year by saying that they don’t like Adolf. Having expressed this opinion, they settle back firm in the conviction that they have done their bit to set a muddled world aright. But it isn’t good enough. As Norman Thomas pointed out in Union Square the other day, some of those who did at least a little to make Hitler possible now are running around in circles saying, ’ Isn’t this awful?” Certainly some Os those loudest in their protests are the very ones who liked to point out that Mussolini made the trains run on time. And a few of our very best citizens have been quite articulate in declaring that America should have a good iron-handed dictatorship as the way out of its woes. Now. it is passible that one form of fascism may be a little better or a little worse than another. But there is in all accuracy no such thing as Hitlerism.- He is merely a manifestation of a theory of government which has been established in other lands. And if you are truly against him you also must be against his cousins and his uncles and his aunts. ana New Jersey Notes “ r I 'HERE are a number of North A Jersey notes cluttering up my desk which I know you have been anxiously awaiting,” writes McAlister Coleman. Spring’s virginal crocus broke out in Hohokus. But I’m not going on with that, It is the political situation that I wish to analyze. As one in a position to know. I must tell you that it’s getting pretty tense. I had a narrow escape the other night. Just as I arrived at the meeting, the comrades were nominating me for tax collector to run in the spring primaries. “Now. I’ve run plenty, but I absolutely put my foot down at running for tax collector. Around our town there is a regular army out looking for bonuses for bringing in tax collectors. They nearly got one the other day. He had stepped out of his armored car on the Fairlawn Road, to snipe a butt. He popped back in again, however, before the Citizens’ Protective League could snare him. They picked up the trail of another, north of Saddle River, but he threw the pack off by wading upstream. “I understand that they are showing several good brushes over at the Paramus Tax Collectors’ Hunting and Riding Association clubrooms. For months now no one has spoken to a neighbor of ours—a city slicker who just moved out here and who paid his water tax right off. We told him he couldn’t come over from New York and use his sinister influence on us. A lot of the boys wanted to ride him out of town on a rail, but calmer counsels finally prevailed, and we are using ostracism instead. At any moment now we expect him to break down and admit to collective sabotage. If he doesn't our local O-Gay-Pay-Oo will go to work on him. it a a Conncilmau Colcman “DY the most adroit sort of foot•D work I managed to get myself transferred from running for tax collector to running for councilman. That is what I am running for now. Councilman Coleman. How does that sound? “Then there is agricultural relief. As soon as Guy Tugwell's bill goes through, we have made arrangements with the government not to sow any wheat on our estate and to cut down considerably on alfalfa. For this voluntary diminution of the marginal lands’ production between the incinerator and the kitchen door we will receive, of course, the cost-of-production check back from the processors’ tax as the alternative to domestic allotment. “That is, you understand, to follow upon the amortization of our refinanced second mortgage. It looks like clear sailing ahead. “You were lucky not to have been around when beer broke. Never heard more noise in my life about nothing at all. A young man from your paper called me up the morning the nasty stuff was released and said he wanted a statement from me. He said that he was Interviewing prominent drinkers around town, and would I tell him what I thought of the new beer? I hope he doesn’t think I was unduly brusque, but it's bad enough in the eyes of my Presbyterian relatives to see my name under ‘the following also spoke’ at Socialist meetings without appearing in your sheet as a ‘bon vivant.’ And, then, a few of my creditors can read, too. nott Saved by a Paragraph YOU just saved yourself on Shaw with the last paragraphs. When you and I are 76 (Gott verhuuc, if we have enough vitality left to stand up and tell a bunch of stuffed shirts, breathing down our necks, that their system is lousy and that Communism, of some sort or another, is the only answer to the mess they’ve got us into. then, old gaffer, we can be permitted some rather senile cracks about morons. “I think it was a stirring and touching thing, as you intimated, indeed, that at the end Shaw should come to us to repay, as he thought, his early debt to Henry George and those other pioneers of freedom who first set alight the Shavian flame. “They say the old warrior is upset over the ‘failure’ of his New York speech. So far as this listener was concerned, those 16,345 words that came across the air to a remote New Jersey home did more to justify the existence of the radio than all the other millions of words that have assailed my ears since they first thought the darned thing up. "Copyright. 1933 by The Timesi

Death

MILDRED NEAYTLL We know not what it is; this sleep so deep and still; The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek so pale and chill. The lids that will not lift again, though we may call and call. The strange white solitude of peace, that settles over aU.