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SATURDAY. MAY 6. 1933. TIIE BEER CIRCUS /COMMON sense Hoosiers arc daily growing more amused over the 3.2 per cent medicine show. On the one hand, there arc the drys, of which President William Lowe Bryan of Indiana university is at present the most audible leader. He now is threatening to ride herd on Bloomington restaurant keepers who sell beer to his students. Although his sincerity is beyond question, the sight of the good doctor in full cry after honest merchants engaged in legitimate business is not an edifying one. The university has an enviable reputation, to which President Bryan’s efforts have added in the past. Administration of this institution should be a full-time job. That is what the taxpayers employ him to do and not to spend his time riding a bone-dry hobby, no matter how laudable he honestly may believe it Is. The president of a state university is a public servant. If Dr. Bryan will scan the voting, .returns of last November, he will see that a good many Indiana people, whose taxes contribute to his salary, do not see eye to eye with him on prohibition. He will find no one, however, who wil disagree with a wholehearted application of his ample gifts directly to the university. No man as preoccupied with an avocation as Dr. Bryan is with his can continue to discharge his public duties in the manner which the harassed taxpayers have a right to expect. The ordinary mortal finds he has to work ten or twelve hours a day in these hard times. He looks askance at office holders who do not do likewise. Giving young people a liberal education may not be nearly as exciting as cantering about the state in pursuit of beer sellers and bootleggers, but the former is a mighty important proposition. So let’s go back to work, doctor. On the other hand there are the wets. Indiana voters turned over the control of the state to the Democratic party. The national Democratic organization is distinctly wet, is committed to beer for the poor man, and has been opposed to protective tariffs for generations. A Democratic congress and President have decreed by due process of law that 3.2 per cent beverages are non-intoxicating and therefore legal. Incidentally, this statute was promulgated in exactly the same legal manner as the Volstead act, which the drys argued for years should be supported because it was the law of the land. The Indiana Democratic party calmly has ignored the plain interpretation of congress and has proceeded to foist upon the citizens a system of beer regulation so monstrous that It is downright funny. Governor McNutt and the legislators have claimed the legal right to act as they have, on the ground that the state has wide police power over intoxicants. With straight faces, they declare that they must prevent return of the old-time saloon. Even the most riaive know that to have a saloon there must be intoxicating liquor. And congress solemnly has decreed that 3.2 per cent beer is not intoxicating. The shenanigans of the McNutt administration have succeeded only in making beer so expensive that the poor man can not afford it, in fastening upon the community a horde of political drones in the guise of regulatory officials, and in setting up what is, in effect, a protective tariff around Indiana breweries whose product is not yet even on the market. Without taking much thought, it is possible to conjecture a good deal more about the motive behind all this pettifogging regulation. If Indiana's beer consumption equals that of 1919, when a good many lusty beer drinkers still were in the army, some millions of dollars will flow into the coffers of the politically appointed beer importers, who don’t have to do a tap of work to earn them. Even a million dollars is quite a sum these days for a political party to use as a war chest. Superior Judge Virgil S. Reiter injected the first bit of cold logic into the situation Thursday, when he declared the whole beer law entirely outside the Constitution. His pointed decision set forth that the statute set up special privilege, since a man who is refused a permit to handle beer is not allowed any recourse to the courts. This newspaper has contended for weeks that beer is a wholesome food and that the state therefore has no special police power over it. Thus the Indiana beer law is so much political claptrap. The great and patient public, which views this hurly-burly with perplexity, should remember that the spring always is circus time. TIIE FARM STRIKE FROM every point of view, most of all its own. the decision of the National Farmers' Holiday Association for a nation-wide farm strike beginning May 13 is a blunder. Among other considerations, its friends will commend the following to the association’s attention: Never strike unless you have a fighting chance to win. A lost strike strengthens your enemy and destroys the morale and treasury of your own forces. 2 A successful farm strike would require effective organization in most agricultural states, which the N. F. H A. does not havenot one-hundredth of such organization. 3. A successful farm strike would require a sympathetic strike by transportation unions and ability to limit overland strike-bearing trucks. The N. F. H. A. has not and can not make auch preparations. 4. A farm strike could not succeed without public support. With most city workers either

unemployed, on part time, or getting only sweated wages, industrial labor would Join today with bankers, merchants, and middlemen to defeat farmers trying to starve them. 5. Never strike for a concession which would destroy you If granted. If the N. F. H. A. demand for a guaranteed profit were granted, farm products would glut the market until they were valueless. Meanwhile, industry would ask and probably receive the same guarantee on the price of goods the farmer buys, thus leaving vthe farmer power for winning his strike. Because of the individualistic nature of our agricultural system, it is the one industry in the country which can not be organized effectively for a strike. Fortunately, however, the farmers do not need this economic weapon to the degree that labor needs it. Unlike Industrial labor, farmers have vast political power. Farmers control many state governments, and have more political power in Washington than any other class. But they don’t know what they want. They can’t agree. There are three national farm organizations disagreeing among themselves, and all in turn different from the National Farmers’ Holiday Association. When they do agree, they usually are wrong. As long as they want high tariffs, they will get gold bricks instead of relief. As long as they try to force full payment of foreign debts, they will destroy the foreign market for their own products. As long as they demand cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus—as the N. F. H. A. just has done—they will tend to increase the tax burden which now is breaking them. As long as they block centralized national banking under adequate government control, they will continue to be the victims of bankrupt banks and of loan sharks. The farmers deserve sympathy, for they have suffered longest and worst in this depression. But they never will get real relief until they rise above their sectional, individualistic. and reactionary prejudices, and join with organized labor in an intelligent mass movement for the common welfare. ROOSEVELT’S RAILWAY PLAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in his emergency . railroad program, proposes appointment of a federal co-ordinator of transportation, who •’will be able to encourage, promote, or require action on the part of the carriers, to avoid duplication of services, prevent waste, and encourage financial reorganizations.” In doing this, congress should consider one extremely important sentence from Mr. Roosevelt’s message. ‘‘Such a co-ordinator,” he said, ‘‘should also, in carrying out this policy, render useful service in maintaining railroad employment at a fair wage.” Here appears ample opportunity for congress to add to the bill some such provision as organized railway labor suggests for bringing about rehabilitation of the railroad plant and equipment to provide more jobs. The administration bill’s provisions for suspending the anti-trust laws even for a year should be considered with care; and if there are weaknesses in the language intended to bring about financial reorganizations, they should be eliminated. Labor suggests that this new bill be used as the basis for co-ordinating all our transportation facilities. Mr. Roosevelt also recognizes this need. The only difference between them is that labor wants this done now, and the President wants to postpone it until after he sees how the new co-ordination plan works. With adequate protection for labor, the Roosevelt one-year experiment should give a more definite answer to the question of whether the government eventually must take over the railroads. WHITE COLLAR JOBLESS WASHINGTON has seen some strange sights since this worst of all depressions began. The strangest is the trek of a half-hundred college alumni from twenty-one colleges to the White House to parade the woeful neglect of the nation's jobless white collar men. Unlike the protesting farmers, veterans and Communists they come pleading, not demanding. The red flag they carried was Harvard’s crimson banner. Possibly a sixth of America's unemployed are white collar men and women. More than 75,000 teachers are out of work. Some 40,000 engineers are unemployed. Their lot is not a happy one. Many have spent big sums for diplomas that now are no more negotiable than an Insull bond. In the south, doctors of laws are grateful to be appointed rural mail carriers. In New England, college alumni act as golf caddies. In the west they have been found living in hobo jungles. One ex-professor confessed in a magazine article to have turned moonshiner and bootlegger In a small midwest college city. The less resourceful have joined the breadlines, a pride-killing ordeal. Specialized to their fingertips, or fired with faith in the holy crusades of bond salesmanship, most college grads have looked upon theirs as the best possible of worlds. Reforms they have left to labor or the long hairs. Suddenly they have been shoved, along with hand workers, into the ranks of the dispossessed. President Roosevelt can do little for them as a class. That he values them is shown by his selection of more college faculty men as his advisers than any previous President. He will do what he can. but essential relief must await the results of farm aid. the short work week and minimum wage, industrial remedies and the general upturn. THE NORRIS BILL THE Norris Muscle Shoals bill, representing the administration's plan for the immense improvement of then Tennessee valley, has passed the senate again and is about to be sent to the conference of the two houses of congress. The house will send its own Shoals bill to that conference. The senate measure, we believe, is the better, for it endows the Tennessee valley authority with the wide and flexible powers it should have in developing and managing the project. This board's authority, especially in the building of transmission lines to carry cheap government-made hydro-electric power to states, counties, cities and co-operative organizations of farms, ought not to be circumscribed unnecessarily. For the board will undertake one of the most important social and economic experi-

ments of our times. It will unleash the ready waters behind Wilson dam, send them tumbling over it to generate cheap electric power for farms and city homes, for manufacturing plants and the government's own nitrate plants, where chemists and engineers will experiment to cheapen the cost of fertilizer to farmers. It will undertake the building of Cove Creek dam to hold back floods at the headwaters of the Tennessee river, that will save large areas from damage by high water and improve the navigability of the stream. It will begin a program of reforestation. It will, in short, revolutionize the life and trade in that valley, if the dream of the project finally is fulfilled. Os even more importance is the fact that the Tennessee valley project will be the pattern for development of similar basins elsewhere. HOT WEATHER PRECAUTIONS 'T'HE general arrival of warm weather brings anew rush of business to the old swimming hole again; and this, very shortly, will bring the usual number of drownings, unless the swimmers, juvenile and otherwise, pay attention to a few simple rules of safety. It isn’t wise, for example, to go suddenly into cold water when you are overheated, or when you have just finished a meal. It isn’t wise to swim alone in a spot where no one can help you if you need help. It isn’t wise to dive into a strange pool without first satisfying yourself that you aren’t apt to land on a hidden rock or snag. It isn’t wise to go in the water when you’re under par physically, or to keep on swimming after you have got cold or tired. Those rules are perfectly obvious, of course. But every year a lot of people who forget to heed them get drowned.

TIIE DEMAND FOR AUTOS npHE increase in American automobile production recorded in April is one of the most encouraging facts on the whole industrial horizon. To begin with, it is the first genuine upturn recorded by the automobile industry since the depression began. Secondly, it has come in direct response to dealer demand. The manufacturers are not forcing cars on their retailers: they are making them because the retailers have discovered that the public demand is going up. The cars that are leaving the factories these days are being sold. The buying of automobiles on an extensive scale is not a small-change business. If, at last, the market actually is expanding, it argues well for a substantial pickup in general business. ‘‘Japanese Claim Chinese Leaders Propose Truce,” says headline. Truce? We thought they’d denied up to now that there even was a war. Gandhi's going to fast three weeks again,' he says. Lucky he’s doing it in India, not here. Too common here to attract any attention. Camera expert says movie actresses really are not as thin as camera trickery makes them look. But are they as dumb? Couple of New York bandits stole two coffins from an undertaker's shop. Racket business must be pretty dead these days. New York woman who's just turned 100 wants to live long enough to vote for repeal. Never too late to learn. Speaker says America has learned nothing from Britain's experiences with the dole. So what? Has Britain learned anything?

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is being_ clothed with adequate power to make such readjustments in this country’s foreign policy as a general international accord may require, or to make such readjustments of its domestic policy as may be required to safeguard American interests in case of failure. That squares the government’s ability to function quickly and effectively with the exigencies of an uncertain situation. ‘ While every one hopes that a way can be found to remove trade barriers, reduce armaments, and stabilize money on a world-wide basis, the prospect of success is bound up with many ifs and ands. Under existing conditions, we have no right to assume what can or will be accomplished, or to disregard measures that would be necessary to safeguard our rights in case of a complete collapse. The satisfactory outcome of recent conversations at the White House should not be overestimated. They merely have paved the way for conferences, in which a multitude of conflicting interests must be ironed out. nun IT was comparatively easy for Premier MacDonald, former Premier Herriot, or Hans Luther to sit down with President Roosevelt and reach an agreement as to what should be done regarding various problems, bu® only in a tentative and personal way. Even if these men spoke the language of the political parties in control of their respective governments, they still would not be in a position to make binding combinations, but they hardly can claim that degree of authority. MacDonald is premier of England, not as a ’ member of the dominant party, but by sufferance of an overwhelming majority, with many of whose principles and traditions he has little sympathy. Herriots ability to speak the French mind is even more doubtful, since he recently was forced out of the premiership. As to Luther, whatever constructive suggestions he may have made seem stultified largely by the attitude of Hitler's delegation at Geneva. These condiitons make it desirable, if not imperative, for the President to be in a position where he can co-operate or act independently with the fullest freedom. nun THAT is why he has asked for such broad powers and why congress was justified in granting them. It would have been folly if either the President or congress had permitted respect for tradition to handicap them in preparing to meet what is obviously a grave emergency. The fundamental mistake of American policy during the last three years lies in a stubborn refusal to admit that conditions were abnormal and that little progress could be hoped for without drastic changes. The problem is not to work out improvements on an assured basis of procedure, but to find means of overcoming immediate difficulties, in co-operation with other governments if possible, but by independent action if not.

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(Times readers are invited to erpress their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a fhance. Limit them to 25 0 words or less.) By A Cheerful Taxpayer The unholy ravings of “Taxpayer of April 24” are the most horrible examples of unmitigated bunk and unprecedented hogwash that a longsuffering public ever has had to endure. Who is the lofty worm, that he should take it upon himself to criticise the long and almost hopeless strugggle of humanity to find its proper place in the sun of industrial peace and plenty? Os what use is this never-ending battle for the uplift of humanity if such reptiles as this are to be allowed to slink along the horizon, blighting everything in their wake? Does he not realize that the trained guns of the brains of the universe are centeredupon him and that ignoble defeat eventually will crown his infernal blasts against the uplift of humanity? So let iftm begone to his caverns of inquity and cease ranting about the helpless proletariat which craves a small increase in the pay envelope or the betrayeed soldier who desires a small pittance in exchange for the many sleeplesss nights spent in mud and rain amid the deafening inferno of momb and shrapnel. And let him beware, for false gods are his leading lights and he must get right with the real God and his fellow-men. Otherwise, melancholy days shall come upon him and he will be alone like the immortal Job, who bewaled the fact that all ills of the universe were being heaped upon him. By Observer. It now seems that there is no awakening the rich to the seriousness of things as they are today. Money seems to be the only thing that matters any more. Why can’t people realize they are just people, whether rich or poor, and when the end comes, one is not going to be shown any precedence over the other. The Economy League should be

Sprain Is a Tearing of Tissues of Joints

\ SPRAINED ankle is one of the most common injuries. A slight failure of complete support throws the weight of the body unnecessarily on a group of tendons, and a sprain frequently follows. A sprain represents stretching or tearing of the tissues of the joints. It must not be confused with fracture, which is a breaking of bone. In many instances, fracture is overlooked and the condition diagnosed simply as sprain, with the result that healing takes place slowly, if at all. It is, therefore, exceedingly important to have an X-ray picture taken in every doubtful case, and sometimes several pictures will be necessary to determine the presence of very small fractures into the surface of bones.

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

AGE is a mirror that reflects the true self. When the bright garments of youth have been stripped away, there is disclosed the real man, the real woman. All beauty that then remains is beauty of character and spirit that does not fade and is the very essence of personality. Have you ever sat in a group of middle-aged people and found yourself wondreing what each must have looked like when young? The effort to imagine grim mouths, soft and smiling, and set faces tender, mobile and hopeful, is hard. But more difficult still is the task cf visualizing what the smooth young countenance of children, unstamped by Time’s cruel seal, will be on some remote tomorrow. Women are gallant fighters against age. But they do not always choose the proper weapons. They put their trust in careful creamings and eternal vigilance for WTinkles and gray hairs. Occupied .thus, they often leave undefended

The Leaning Tower

Poor Policy By A Reader I just have read an article in The Times, “Turning G. O. P. Out of State Jobs Defended,” and fail to find any defense argument except that the McNutt administration is discharging Republicans to retaliate for the things “Jim” Goodrich did when he was elected Governor. Jim Goodrich has been just about as unpopular with his own party since his days as Governor as he has ever been with his opponents. For the McNutt administration to try to get even with the Republicans for what Jim Goodrich did in 1917 shows exactly their calioer, and I predict that Governor Paul V. McNutt will go out of office as the most unpopular xpan who ever held the position as Governor of Indiana. satisfied with what it has accomplished, even though the people have found out its selfish purpose and have, as a whole, about as much use for the E. L. now as they have for a copperhead snake. It is true that people realized there were unreasonable things in the veterans’ laws as they were and w r ere hoping they would be adjusted, but for the government to throw thousands of veterans who had service-connected disabilities on starvation allowances July 1 seems a terrible thing to do. Many gave the best of their lives to protect this country, and through so doing now are unable to w'ork. Who should take care of these veterans but the government? If the government is going to relieve itself of its obligations in caring for these unfortunates, it would seem a more humane thing to do to have

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

Sometimes authorities treat sprains by putting a plaster cast on for a few days, elevating the foot and leg, and then applying suitable adhesive straps to give the foot complete rest. After some seven to fourteen days, when inflammation has subsided and healing has begun, an elastic anklet may be worn. These anklets may be removed morning and evening for contrast bath, that is, alternating baths of one minute each in hot and cold water, until the feet have been in the water ten minutes. A recent development is the application of heat through the passing of electric current through the tissues. This tends to hasten subsidization of inflammation and recovery.

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

their most vulnerable weakness—the disposition. Age and ugliness invade us, not from without but from within. We carry inside ourselves the destroyers of our youth and charm—mean thoughts, hatreds, evil broodings.

Questions and Answers Q—Who caught a baseball dropped from the top of the Washington monument in Washington and what were the circumstances? A—“ Gabby” Strnet made the catch sixty feet from the base of the monument on the fourteenth ball dropped. The ball weighed five ounces. Balls that hit the concrete made a slight dent in it and were flattened slightly and bounded fifty feet in the air. The balls that landed on hard turf penetrated two and one-half inches.

a quick process of putting them to death. There are no charity funds available in many places at this time, and when winter comes again what is going to happen then? Why pay $5,000 a year pensions to some who are not in need and never were in service? Why make the poor poorer and the rich richer? If it weren’t for the millions already starving, it would be amusing to note how things are being managed, or rather mismanaged. Next election more people are going to vote for the ones who have proved they are for a square deal for all, regardless of politics. By Mervin McNew. Referring to the bonus march now under way. I wish to state to all veterans who have the bonus interest at heart, that it would be better for them to stay home. I am quoting an article from Senator Arthur R. Robinson, written me on May 1, this year. He said: “As you doubtless know the amendment which I recently introduced providing for payment of the bonus was defeated in the senate. Though we have met with a temporary backset I believe that in the end w T e shall win and you may depend upon me to continue my effort in behalf of veterans and their dependents.” As an appeal to all veterans who have this determination at heart, I ask that you give Senators Robinson, Thomas and Long and Representatives Patman, Crow, Ludlow, Larrabee, and Greenwood your earnest support by listening to what they say w'hen they w r arn “stay out of Washington, and give us a chance.” They have promised to fight it out to the end, so let’s stick and fight it out with them. My honest belief is that we will do more harm than good by a march to Washington. This by one who suffered through the battle of Washington in 1932. Martinsville, lnd.

A simple outline for the treatment of sprained ankle follow's: 1. Put the patient at rest promptly, assuring freedom from bearing weight on the feet. 2. Elevate the leg and ankle. 3. Apply ice-bags. 4. Call a physician. When the physician arrives, he probably w'ill arrange to have Xray pictures made, if necessary. He will arrange for strapping the ankle with adhesive, or, if the sprain is severe, put on a plaster-of-paris cast. In less severe cases, he is likely merely to apply a snug bandage of gauze or cotton. Under no circumstances should the feet be allow'ed to hang for long periods, since this will tend to accumulate fluid and produce inflammation with more pain and swelling.

WHILE it is inevitable that we should be assailed by sorrows and that life should batter us, it is by no means true that we must grow ugly because we grow old. Tears are, they say, the heritage of mortals, and our bodies droop with the load of cares. But even though our faces sag, they need not be masks that hide loveliness and bitter thinking. They can be, instead, window's through which the glow of fine ideals and half divine understandings may shine. No amount of face lifting can give us again the appearance of immaturity. But with some effort we could control our thinking so that the sustained inner harmony of our natures would reflect its loveliness in our outward form. Thus, the essence of true beauty is to be found only in the faces of the old who have kept their faith in the purpose of life and have cultivated sympathy for their enemies ias well as for their friends.

.MAY 6, 1933

It Seems to Me 1 BY HEYWOOD BROUN =5

NEW YORK. May 6.—Within the next three or four weeks I must write a novel. I’m not exactly sizzling with eagerness and ideas, but ’way back in the early spring of 1932 I drew an advance from a publisher. According to the contract, it was to be delivered July 1. The leaves of all the trees turned scarlet and brown. Frost came and winter laid its icy hand upon the brooks and little ponds. Spring came again, as is its custom, and the publisher still hasn’t received his book, and I no longer have the SSOO which I drew as a stimulus to inspiration. And so I must write a novel. The publisher, up to the moment this edition goes to press, has been very patient. It is not his voice but that of the wolf at the door which growls out occasionally, ‘‘Where's that novel?” But if that wolf only would quit his yapping, I think I could explain everything to him in a satisfactory manner. nun Things (jet in Wag SEVERAL things delayed me. For a little while I had a radio job. Nobody can do much writing on a novel or anything else while he has a radio job. A radio job is an occupation entirely surrounded by conferences. It takes half an hour to get a comma in and at least twice as long to get it removed. Somebody once said that plays are not written, but rewritten. But the gentleman w'ho coined that saying knew his luck. When you start to alter a radio script for the sixth time in two days, you begin to say to yourself: ‘‘This is getting to be a nuisance. Even if Eddie Cantor gets all the money they say he does, I guess I don’t W’ant to be a broadcaster and grow up with the business.” And about that time you get fired, anyway, and so the whole thing becomes academic. I’m beginning to amass a very full collection of “Awfully sorry, old fellow,” letters. I have been fired by everything from a fruit salt to a journal of liberal opinion. Still, “Hard to get, easy goes” has always been my motto. And, after all. my motives W’ere of the best. I didn’t want this money for any good reason. I merely planned to put it into a. musical show. Everybody says that what this country needs is better distribution. And when I put money in a musical show, it must be that somebody gets it. I believe that's all attended to by the law of supply and demand. nun Promptly at 11:30 BUT it takes time even to think about a musical show. You have conferences. Now. if I had devoted one-fifth of the time I’ve spent on conferences during the last two years to belles-lettres, I could have writtten the Waverleynovels. And I understand that Walter Scott also was broke. Perhaps that’s a good way to start. And when I wasn't writing the novel, I was conferring on politics and economics and Hitler and left deviations. It seeems to me that I have been not writing that novel almost all my life. It takes time to write a book, but nothing like as much as it does to keep avoiding it. I have a peripatetic typewriter, and that much more agile than a portable. It dogs your footsteps around the apartment. It speaks without being spokeen to. “Did you ever stop to think that you’ve practically stolen that SSOO from the poor publisher?” says the typewriter. To which I reply bitterly: “And if I did write the novel, that might be obtaining money under false pretenses.” I rush outdoors because I hate to bicker with a keyboard. Even in speakeasies there is no refuge. “I’m a friend of Broun's,” says the mendacious machine to the doorman and slips in behind me. And there it perches on the bar, leering at me across the tables. We never have been friends. Acquaintances, yes, but there has been no joy in our contacts. nun What Sort of a Book? ONE of the difficulties is that the publisher didn't tell me just what sort of novel he expected. I believe I said that it would be compounded out of sex. Socialism and “Shoot the Works.” But I don’t think the time is quite right for a reminiscent novel. Besides, the title “Memories of My Dead Life” already has been used. Recently I’ve heard a great deal of talk about the proletarian novel. I’ve never seen one face to face, but they tell me this is the literature of the future. But even for that I need a definition. And I suppose you can’t write a proletarian novel unless you are a proletarian. And who is the proletarian? I always supposed that it was Mike Gold, but several critics insisted that “Jews Without Money” really wasn’t proletarian at all. I wonder whether anybody possibly would stand for a mixture. Couldn’t I be, maybe, just a little bourgeois, a ltitle proletariat, a little strict and some myself? I don’t know, but I must write that novel—for wolf, for SSOO and for publisher! (Copyright. 1933. by The Times) Night Ride BY JEAN COVERDILL Our little car speeds through the night; The wind blows back our hair; Speed and the wind are on delight; A cool, dark ride, heads bare! The black and soft night atmosphere Must soothe each troubled breast; Anxiety and troubled fear And wrath are all at rest. The twin headlights before us spread A narrow way of light; All golden is the path ahead As we speed through the night. DAILY THOUGHT For whosoever will have his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. — ALL is holy where devotion kneels.— Holmes. ,1 St. Mark 8:35.