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FRIDAY. APRIL 28. 1933. WAITING FOR DEFLATION / ’T'HE controlled inflation bill which the senate is expected to pass today gives the President wide powers in fighting the depression. By necessity it represents a compromise of several points of view. Apparently the President is not enthusiastic about all its provisions; no more are we. With the general purpose of the bill there can be no quarrel. Its aim is to restore prices, stabilize international exchanges, and revive an honest dollar. There are few persons who would disagree with this aim. But some object to the methods set forth in tiie bill. Particularly there is opposition to the free silver and new currency provisions. These objections seem to be offset in large part, however, by the cardinal fact that all provisions of the bill are permissive rather than mandatory. The President is not obliged to use the more extreme inflationary provisions at all, and is not likely to do so under any save the most extreme circumstances. If the bill before final enactment can be Improved in the direction of the administration's policy of controlled inflation, so much the better. If not, the bill should be made law without too much delay. Not an academic, but a practical, situation confronts us. For better or worse/ the crisis has reached the point where the country has only two alternatives. Either we take some such measure as the President has proposed, or we take a doctrinnaire, cure-all, singletrack and rigid law of the free silver or greenback variety, at present sidetracked by the President’s bill. The # Presidents measure has the supreme merit of elasticity. It gives the general the guns and munitions —several kinds—and tells him to use them as, when, and if, he needs them. That is the way to win a war. And we are in a war now. The first gun the President is given, and probably the most important, is credit inflation. At the moment there is more currency and currency expansion possible under existing law than needed. The problem is to get it into circulation. The President's bill would make the federal reserve more effective for this purpose, especially through open market operations. With luck, this credit may be all that is needed domestically. The second gun is gold devaluation. Here international,, rather than domestic, requirements may force the use of a form of inflation definitely controlled both by its nature and by the specific limits written into the bill. Resumption of world trade, the leveling of tariff and other barriers, war debt adjustment, and the whole effort to bring order out of the international financial chaos, wait in part upon the stabilization of monetary exchanges on a gold standard. Probably inability of Great Britain and other of the so-called sterling group to stabilize at the old gold standard without wrecking their price levels will necessitate a devaluation of the dollar by us as part of general international stabilization of anew and just gold level. If applied temperately and wisely, this not only would improve the world situation, which is one major cause of our own depression, but it would help Americans to pay their debts with dollars nearer the value of the dollars they borrowed. Instead of going from an honest to a dishonest dollar, as rabid deflationists argue, we would, in fact, be going from the present dishonestly dear dollar to an honest dollar. If the President has power to use these two guns of credit expansion and gold—along with his other emergency measures for bank safety, farm relief, public works and shorter hours and minimum wage—the need for extreme currency inflation probably never will arise. But if uncontrolled inflation and its dangers are to be escaped, we must start moving along the road of controlled inflation soon. There is not time for much more talk.

PHILIPPINE PATIENCE FROM conferences with political leaders in Washington, the Philippine representatives have learned there is no chance at the moment of correcting evils of the joker-laden independence law passed by the last congress. Other foreign questions already in process of negotiations and domestic problems make impossible now the considered deliberation necessary to untangle the snarl in Philippine relations caused by the inept law. But in a few months probably Ahe Roosevelt administration, in conference with Filipino spokesmen. can turn to this problem. The situation is not hopeless. American public opinion, insofar as it is aware of the injustices of the new' law. favors anew deal, in which the Philippines would be spared the economic slavery to which the proposed conditional independence would condemn them. The law as it stands is the product of a selfish lobby willing to sacrifice the welfare of both the United States and the islands. This growing public opinion in the end probably will bring about a modification of the law to the interest of both peoples. Fortunately, President Quezon of the Philippine senate, the chief representative of his people, is a statesman patient and wise. He has faith in the American people's sense of fair play. His confidence is appreciated. In returning to Manila, we trust that he can convey to the Filipinos the hope in this country that the unjust law will be made right. JUDICIAL CONFUSION ONE of the things America needs is a centralized judicial system which would declare and administer the law uniformly for the entire country, according to a recent

speech by Newton D. Baker. It needs also, Mr. Baker adds a higher standard in the selection of its Judges. There are forty-eight state supreme courts in the land, as Mr. Baker pointed out, and each determines the law for its own district and administers that law with variant interpretations. The result is uncertainty, which necessitates legal advice as to the position of each supreme court regarding business affairs. With this criticism there will be few to quarrel. Agreement is likely to be less general, however, on Mr. Baker's suggestion that election by the people is a bad way to select judges. A judge who is appointed for life is, after all, appointed by some politician; so far our experience has not conclusively proved that this is a surer way of getting high-class men on the bench. WHEAT FOR RELIEF need for free wheat as food ' still is acute. Congress once more should make grain available to the Red Cross. Senator Hayden of Arizona has asked the senate to appropriate $50,000,000 of Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds to buy wheat to be distributed by the federal relief administrator and the Red Cross. And the latter officially has announced its willingness to assume the new task. Now the senate and the house should act. ' Only 3,000,000 of the 85,000.000 bushels of wheat congress made available for free Red Cross distribution remains. This is estimated to last through June 1. Unless congress acts in the meantime, hunger will result. This great task of alleviating hunger by free distribution of government grain has been one of the bright spots of the immense relief task the country has faced during this depression. Quietly, and apparently with efficiency and speed, the Red Cross has distributed flour from federal wheat to almost 6,000,000 families in all but nineteen of the 3,072 counties of the United States. There has been no ballyhoo about this, or about the distribution of clothing made from federal cotton; but the benefits are clear. CHICAGO’S TROUBLE MAKERS T TP to now the folks who count in Chicago have been patient with their city’s trouble makers. True, Mr. Insull has found it convenient to take up his residence in sunny Greece and Mr. Capone has had to sojourn for a spell in Atlanta. But, generally, Chicago winks an eye at the peccadilloes of its public enemies of the upper and nether world, and even lets the latter shoot it out down in the Loop. But there’s a limit to patience. Banker Charles G. Dawes found the limit was reached when 5,000 teachers stormed the big Loop banks, demanding that the bankers cash their warrants for long overdue salaries. They claimed a total of $29,000 000 is due them, that 400 of their number have gone to sanitariums with nervous disorders, that twenty have gone insane from worry, that one school janitor died of starvation. General Dawes was inclined to be patient when they brought him out of hiding. But, while he was talking it over with the crowd, one teacher reminded him that his bank had borrowed $80,000,000 from the R. F..C. of which he had been former chairman. Another declared that he had “gone along with Insull in cheating us.” Then General Hell’n’Maria boiled over. “To hell with trouble makers!” he shouted. It is suggested that Banker Dawes and other leading Chicagoans might evolve a tax system that would permit their rich city to pay its teachers, firemen, and policemen. A good time to get this done would be before the world goes to Chicago this summer to see its “Century of Progress” exposition.

OUR ERRATIC ROBINS /L CAREFUL perusal of the newspapers this spring might well cause the reader to wonder what on earth has been coining over cur tribe of robins lately. Ordinarily the most sensible and well-bal-lanced of birds, they have taken to fighting shadows. First it was a Kansas City robin that tackled his reflection in a widow pane; then a robin in Illinois took it up, and the first thing we knew the habit had spread all over the country, so that a city which could not report a battle between a local robin and its reflection had to hang its head in shame. What, we should like to know, is all of this about? Have the robins become infected wij(h that strange craze for distinction which leads human beings to indulge in flag pole sitting and marathon dance contests? Has the general giddiness of the times extended even to the birds? Can't President Roosevelt, or somebody, do something about it? AMERICA’S NEWEST WAR VESSEL that a government can do ever is much more impressive than the launching of a great warship. The accounts written by people who saw the new U. S. cruiser New Orleans put into the water at the Brooklyn navy yard recently all agree on that point. Pacifist and militarist alike confessed to a thrill of excitement at the mere sight of the great ship. Beauty and strength, grace and grim menace, combined in one black hull—such an occasion expresses the might and majesty of a nation as few things can. Considered purely as a spectacle, the launching of a warship is one of the most striking affairs any government can put on. And such a spectacle, too, is .apt to lead a thoughtful man to muse on the uses of a navy, and the odd fate that attends most warships. For the years of peace are longer nowadays than the years of war, and when anew warship takes the water the chances are many to one that she will live out her career and eventually go to the scrapheap without once meeting a ship of her own class in actual battle. Indeed, one writer who saw the New Orleans launched pointed out that in all our history no American line-of-battle ship has ever matched blows with a foreign battleship. In the war cf 1812 it was the cruisers and gunboats that saw action; in the Civil war the fighting was largely with gunboats and shore forts; in the Spanish war the few American battleships that let off their guns let them off against cruisers; in the World wagr the

American warships had nothing but submarines to light. But the queer part of it all is that this does not in the least mean that building these great warships is a waste of time. A navy that seldom fights can be quite as useful as one that fights all the time. It is a form of insurance; its mee existence prevents fights that might occur if it were small and weak. The New Orleans may never fight. Even the least pacifist of citizens probably hopes she never will. But she will serve the purpose for which we built her even if she doesn't. Simply because she exists, and is afloat and ready, she helps to defend us. A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT common touch which has helped give President Roosevelt an amazing hold upon people was shown in a striking fashion last Sunday when he personally drove to a dock in Washington to greet and shake the hands of a score of New England fishing skippers who had saiied down to appeal for aid for the fishing industry. The President, on cruise, had some time earlier taken a salute from the schooner. But it was not in the book of etiquet as it has been read at the White House these many years for a President to make the informal, hearty gesture of meeting a crowd of fishermen—to their own surprise—as they came ashore with a petition for help. President Roosevelt is a sailor himself, and that accounts in part for his friendly action. But the spirit behind that gesture has shown up throughout his administration. He has humanized the whole procedure of executive life and of the government functions, Mrs. Roosevelt helping him with the same sort of informality and sociability. This sociable and informal manner, tending to kindle a national community feeling, is helping to draw the country together in its troubles. President Roosevelt may be turning dictator, but the fine spirit of democracy is finding its best expression in him. See where mathematics is losing out to social subjects in the schools. Well, for the last few years we needed only subtraction and division. Now it looks like we’ll need only multiplication. “To hell with trouble makers!” shouted Charlie Dawes when school teachers demanded their back pay. Sure, Charlie, but who are the trouble makers, the teachers or the politicians who bankrupt the city? The 16-to-l silver proposal might work, but it sounds like a long shot. American Indian language had no swear words, declares an investigator. But then the Indians did very little spring housecleaning. French arrest many workers and tourists near the border fortifications, says a news story. Well. Europe may take hope. The spy industry seems to be picking up, at least. Bankers, you might suppose, prefer their beer on draught, while lawyers prefer to get theirs by the case. Bank cashiers used to go away from time to time to get a rest. Now some of them go away to avoid getting arrested. Speech may be silver, and silence gold, but paper money seems to be doing all the talking these days.

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THE last few days furnish a vivid illustration of what can be done by hobbling the golden calf.. England is shocked and the French plan spoiled. A “dirty trick,” according to John' Bull, which sounds funny, since he only is getting a dose of his own medicine. Premier MacDonald and M. Herriot found more to talk about than war debts when they arrived. • What hurt most was the fact that President Roosevelt had not only caught on to, but seemed quite willing to play with, Europe at its own game. Gentlemen from overseas were taken completely by surprise. They had no idea Uncle Sam would do such a thing. From some of the comments, one would imagine that they felt quite hurt over it. The dear old gold standard! How could we be so disloyal to it? What has become of that pride which inspired us to make other people pay a premium on the dollar all this while? Well, you can’t blame Europeans for being taken aback. It’s novel for the United States to do more than call a conference or offer a loan, tt * tt EVERY precedent suggested that we would continue to be the world's good angel, no matter what it cost us, that we would go right or. boosting the dollar, regardless of loss in trade. The chatter about bank reform, controlled production, and price fixing -appears to have quieted whatever fears Europe might have entertained over inflation. Whatever doubt they may have had regarding other matters, European statesmen seem to have accepted the proposition for a conference with every assurance that nothing would be done to disturb such economic advantages as their respective countries had gained over us by depreciating the value of currency. They had their strategy all mapped out and their speeches all prepared. They were all set to plead poverty because of the low pound, low franc, and low lira, and we were going to sympathize with their hard fate as usual. They were going to argue that the dollar proved how well off we were in contrast to their straitened circumstances, and we were going to write another slice off the war debts. tt tt tt THEY” might agree to a general tariff cut, if we insisted, since their cheaper money still would guarantee them a whip hand in foreign trade, and we were going to be very grateful. Too bad the President had to be so crude and that, too, at such a late hour as left no time for reshaping the campaign. Gentlemen from overseas should not feel unnecessarily blue, for the worst is yet to come. The Roosevelt administration' has not been in power long enough to do more than practice a little. Just wait until it gets down to business and really begins to make use of the power at its command. That’s the thing this country never has done, the thing it rather would not do, but if the world refuses to be satisfied without a demonstration, this country can put one on and confer afterward. The American people have had about all the horseplay they want in the name of co-opera-tion. They now are in a mood to insist on straight dealing or cut loose.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters shorty so all can have a chance. Limit than to 250 words or less.) Bv Another Taxpayer. Taswell. Ind. I was amused when reading the letter “By Taxpayer” in. April 24 issue of The Times. Taxpayer does not seem to understand how Governor Olsen of Minnesota can imperil his political career and social standings by some of the things he threatens to do. Did it ever occur to Taxpayer that Governor Olsen might be more interested in trying to keep people from starvation and doing some good than he is in his social standing? Another thing; People will go hungry just so long, and when enough people are on a starvation ration, what then? They take things in their own hands. There have been revolutions in other countries and they could happen in the United States. Lots of worthy people are suffering through no fault of their own. In regard to peasants and aristocrats, it is not what one has that makes him an aristocrat, or the lack of essentials of life that puts people in the peasant class, by any means. Because some of us are not in want, we should not be any the less sympathetic for those who are in need. By C. L. F. Answer to tax payer, April 24. I am not concerned with individuals and seldom refer to personalities. The people and their general conditions is what counts, but since Taxpayer describes Governor Olsen of Minnesota as being an addled-pated, muddle-headed jackmule, I will decribe Taxpayer. In lieu of the fact that profanity is barred from public print, I as-

THE great poet, Milton, writer of “Paradise Lost,” was blind during much of his lifetime. This blindness is, no doubt, v associated largely with the nature of his writings and with his philosophy of life. There have been many considerations of the character of his blindness, with this moved Dr. William H. Wilmer of the great ophthalmologic institute which bears his name, to make an analysis of published writings concerning reasons for the loss of Milton’s sight. x The father of John Milton died at 84 years of age, and read without glasses all his life. His mother died at 65, and it was reported that she had weak eyes and used spectacles after she was 30 years old. In his early youth the boy suffered from digestive disturbances and later in life from gout. His eyes were naturally weak and he suffered from headaches. From his twelfth year on he abused his sight, reading until midnight with the type of artificial light that was available in the beginning of the seventeenth century. This overuse of his eyes continued as long as Milton could see manuscript.

“VI7ITH all thy getting, get unVV derstanding.” i thought of this line in Proverbs as I listened to Grace Morrison Poole, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, tell of her visit to the Geneva conference, and of her sensation as the various representatives spoke of the needs of theii several countries. She said: “As I sat there while Sir John Simon talked, it was not Sir John I saw. Instead, there rose before me the picture of a tiny English village I once had visited, and I stood again before a slab set within the walls of an ancient church; a slab upon which was engaved a long list of names. “And I heard the voice that spoke to me then, saying: ‘Not one bpy from our' village returned from the war; all were lost.’ “And when Tardleu rose, I saw a French peasant woman, stooped and so old that she seemed ageless, who talked to me of the four brothers who had not come back from the war of 1870, and of the eight grandsons who had died for France in 1914.

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Teach Logic By Orie J. Simmons. IF I were asked what could be done to insure the long life of this nation, I promptly would reply, “Add a course in logic to ail public schools.” It is easy for the jeweler to test whether a ring is gold. It is easy to apply logic to test an idea, if any one knew the pincipal of- logic. The statement, “Twice nine is nineteeen,” is not accepted. Arithmetic is taught in school, and yet the statement, “we should use both .gold and silver for a money standard,” is accepted. Logic is not taught in school. The process of “Reductio ad Aburdum” should be as familiar as the process of long division.

sure you my attempt will be feeble. Governor Olsen may or may not be right, I am not discussing that. What I am concerned with is the gist of Taxpayer’s letter. Has the concrete reinforced with tool steel blockhead been reading the ipublic press? Any person even with a head as hard as I have described ought to know that the economic life of the nation, and entire world is in t. deplorable condition. Men and women in all walks of life are being swept from their economic feet. Tradesmen, farmers, teachers, bankers and business men, great and small, are forced to beg from the cold hand of charity. Millions of willing workers are reduced to utter paupers. The rights of vested interests above human life perpetuating it as inevitable can exist only in perverted minds. Taxpayer, where did you get your property? You make no pretense of working for it, which is the only way of earning anything of value.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. The poet was born in 1608. About 1641, when he was 33 years of age, he began to have trouble with his left eye. The sight grew steadily worse and ten years later that eye was entirely blind. A few years after the onset of the disease in the left eye, the right eye became affected, and by 1654 that eye admitted only a tiny speck of light. In available letters it appears that there was use of the eyes, but gradual failure of vision. He had all the usual symptoms of dancing objects before the eyes, occasional flashes of light, and similar disturbances. There have been many suggestions as to the reasons for Milton’s loss of sight. It is not likely that it was due to detachment of the retina, because that comes on suddenly, and is, as Dr. Wilmer says, accompanied by a feeling that a black cunain has suddenly dropped before the eye. Occasionally there are fireworks, such as flashes of vivid light and floating colored disks before the eye, and Milton makes no record of such symptoms day and night.

“'T'HEN the German representaA tive spoke. He carried me back to a certain quiet horns in Berlin where I once had stayed, and I remembered the proud old Questions and Answers Q—ls there a federal law to protect the American flag? A—There is a federal statute which protects the flag from desecration. It provides that a trademark can not be registered which consists of or comprises, among other things. “The flag, coat of arms, or other insignia of the United States or any simulation thereof.” Congress also has enacted legislation providing certain penalties for desecration, mutilation, or improper use of the flag in the District of Columbia. Q —Are Samuel and Martin Insull Jewish? A—No.

If peasantry is a God send for menial work of slaves, as all other commodities by reason of the machine age, we have an overproduction. The mess that civilization is in now can not be solved by concrete blocks. It takes brains and cooperative planning, old Flint Sparks. !~==-m=vrr-' ■ ■ ■ So They Say ' ■ i Mind is a product of electricity generated by matter.—Dr. George W. Crile of Cleveland. No civilized country of modern times has suffered so cruelly from unscientific and inefficient currency as has the United States—Thomas W. Lamont, banker. The chair understands that when a senator gets the floor he can talk upon anything on the face of the earth.—Vice-President Garner. Practically all major problems of American forestry center, or have grown out of private ownership.— Rexford G. Tugwell, assistant secretary of agriculture. There is no lesson that Shakespeare teaches more profoundly Than that we must cease our bickering and distrust. —Frank Butler, British vice consul. No first-class power would be willing now to agree to a reduction in its military establishment. —Ma-jor-General B. D. Foulois, United States army. Hollywood pays $50,000 a year to some men just to hear them agree with the boss. —Cecil B. De Mille, movie director.

Except for his failing vision, indigestion and gout, Milton seems to have had good general health. It is possible that he suffered with a tendency to nearsightedness. Both his father and mother were nearsighted. Weakness of his eyes may have been associated with inflammation of the lens and with eyestrain from overuse, perhaps also with uncorrected errors of vision. It' seems hardly likely that he suffered from cataract, because it does not accord with the general history of his case and there is no record that any of his friends observed a grayness of the pupils of his eyes. Dr. Wilmer is inclined to believe that Milton suffered from nearsightedness complicated by glaucoma. Glaucoma is the cause of 1 per cent of disturbances of the eyes. It occurs at all ages, increasing with every decade of life after 30. In this condition, there is a tendency to increased pressure within the eye due to interference with the mechanism of drainage of fluid from the eye. The fact that Milton had gout would seem to predispose toward glaucoma, and certainly the overuse of his eyes might have been a factor.

man there who told me how r he had followed his king to the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles and watched as he w’as crowned emperor of all Prussia. “His granddaughter now is an ardent follow'er of Hitler, and that, too, I can understand. The old regime gave so little to her generation and took so much away that it is not strange that she and others like her should renounce the thinking of their grandfathers and go searching for new avenues of hope.” This kind of knowledge, a knowledge of the background, the traditions and the sorrows of people on the other side of the earth, constitutes true understanding. They must see us, we must see them, not just as citizens of a nation, but as men and women swayed by prejudices. beset by troubles, following dreams. For this is the only way that peace among nations will be realized. If we understood our enemies we never could fight them. For they then would be, not enemies, but friends.

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It Seems to Me - BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

I think this would be a fine day to recognize Russia. It is my impression that the present administration intends to take the step, and if and when such action occurs proper credit should be accorded. But why not now? There is no reason to believe that any new information is to be obtained. The facts are public property and the question has been discussed exhaustively from every angle. No one could accuse the state department of having functioned with .indue haste in the matter. The curious thing about those who oppose recognition is that they argue with equal fluency from either side of a given situation. Thus a year or so ago the chief consideration urged for a continuance of our present, policy was the menace of the Russian wheat crop. We were told that the Soviets needed foreign credits abroad to purchase maefiinery and that they were prepared to dump grain at ruinously low prices. In other words, we were urged to refuse recognition to a nation which had developed such a high degree of agricultural efficiency. o tt a Swapping Times % BUT now' the tune has changed. The same people who said this thing are the very ones who contend that the Russian agricultural plan has broken down, that the peasants are eating the seed supplied to them and that the attempt to collectivize farming has been a colossal failure. In other words, we must turn our backs upon the Communist experiment because it is doing so badly. The truth seems to be that both the Russian menace and the Russian breakdown were exaggerated considerably. There is excellent testimony that the functioning of large scale cultivation has met some serious obstacles. But the problem involved certainly concerns Russia and not us. Come to think of it, we, too, have a farming problem. Then there was the bugaboo of the trial of the British experts. Before the case developed, it was the custom to refer to the charges as fantastic. But here again the objection has evaporated in the face of facts. Reliable newspaper men have given us a full account of the trial, and though the method of procedure is unlike many of the customs which prevail in our courts, it is evident that a very strong case was made against the defendants and the sentences w'ere extremely light. tt tt tt Concc rn i) i g Self-In t crest IN a w r ay it may be unfortunate that there are obvious material advantages for us in recognizing Russia, and recognizing Russia now. Our own chief commercial rivals are fading out of the picture. Even if some adjustment is made, trade relations between Great Britain and Russia have been seriously disturbed. Hitlerism has cut off Germany from the Soviet markets. And there is friction with Japan. I see no reason why we should not frankly admit that we have tangible benefits to gain. But in such circumstances somebody is sure to rise and say with a great air of righteousness, “And w'ould you sell this nation’s soul for the hope of a few paltry dollars?” And the answer to that is, “No, but what possible bearing on the case has your rhetorical question?” The things chiefly involved in the controversy seem to be our national common sense and our national idealism. I do not want to cumber Russian Communism with a phrase which is hardly in repute hereabouts at the moment, but it must be admitted that the Soviet effort is an experiment noble in purpose. It would be silly to say that personal ambition had disappeared entirely within those borders, but certainly nobody in the leadership of Russia is trying to get rich at the expense of the nation. tt tt n The Right to Choose ANY American has a right to object to things which have been done or now are being done inside the Soviet republics, but I don’t see why anybody should wish to withhold sympathy from an honest and sincere effort to abolish poverty, want, and misery from a large section of the earth. I have read a vast amount of literature about Russia. I have talked with scores of people who studied it at first hand. Some liked certain phases of the present regime and did not approve of others. A few rejected almost everything and others swallowed it whole. But there was universal acceptance of the fact that here was a sincere and honest effort to make anew world. In fact, I think we should, do even more than extend recognition to Russia. I feel that w r e ought to give her a pat on the back. It would not be at all amiss for President Roosevelt to send a little personal message with his bouquet to Stalin. He might very well WTite, “From one experimenter to another.” (Copyright. 1933. by The Times) Dancer Speaks BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH Should you forget me in some other world. In some lost city of wind and fire, Remember my laughter—and gay dress beswirled. Os these your heart never could tire. A tom-tom dirge, lute, and violin, You’ll seek me from this other world. My spirits left a stain within, On rolling hills, bright notes unfurled. Os bliss and song we’ve had our share, Each time recaptured a vibrant glow, A little while it made us fair, Nights are burning moons, most rare, For life I dance—l love it so. ""= S’ ■•=■' ■—•T ; r a Daily Thought How are the mighty fallen, and I the weapons of war perished! Samuel 1:27. AFTER crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. j Franklin.