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__ FRIDAY MAY 12 1933. JUSTICE FOR VETERAN'S 'T'HE White House has reaffirmed the President s pledge to protect veterans suffering from aetual war injuries. This is good news. Tire administration made a blunder when it interpreted the economy law in such a way as to force unjust outs in compensation for serv-ice-connected disability. But the promptness of the administration In confessing its mistake and promising relief is strong evidence that the President's spirit of fair play can be trusted in this matter. This newspaper long as urged economy in general veteran payments which have been pulling the federal government deeper and deeper into debt. But we always have insisted on adequate care for veterans who are victims of actual war injuries. Indoeri. it was by cutting unreasonably large benefits to less needy veterans that adequate payments to real sufferers were to be assured. That also was the policy of Mr. Roosevelt. It therefore is somewhat difficult to understand why the administration in the execution of the law distorted the Roosevelt policy. At any rate, the protests of injured veterans from many parts of the country have brought the issue to the President's personal attention in time to prevent widespread injustice. In addition to a pledge to review' the regulations for the specific purpose of fixing more equitable levels of payment, the White House now promises to keep open all necessary regional offices of the veterans’ administration and to keep all hospitals running, pending the survey. Obviously, no amount of good intention on the part of the White House can achieve just administration of this law unless individual veterans have ready facilities for appealing injustices—wliich means plenty of regional offices to receive complaints and to handle them with sympathy and intelligence. ' The issue still is as clear cut as ever. In all the complicated details, such as ratings for compensation, the important thing is to differentiate between those who are suffering from war injuries and those who are not. The government must not let red tape prevent full justice to the man disabled in service. ART THE IRRITANT TNDIVIDUALISM is the essence of art. The -*■ greater the artist, the stronger his urge toward non-conformity. Whether the story be old or modern, it is the same—Cellini and his clash wdth the rich patrons of medieval times or Rivera and Radio City. It w'as to the credit of the Rockefellers that they recognized the great genius of Rivera and employed him. It is only history repeating that the pressure of Rivera’s nonconformity should irritate to the breaking point. So Rivera is out. Complete freedom for art’s indvidualism never will come this side of the hereafter. Then, as Kipling puts it: Only the master shall praise us and only the master shall blame; And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the w'orking, and each in his separate star, Shall draw the thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are. Tiie only way for the art sponsor in this world to remain safe and satisfied and unruffled is to hire a kalsominer.

SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT IN case you're looking: for signs of business -*• revival, you might be interested in reading the early reports from Great Lakes shippers. During the first two weeks of this year’s navigation season, more than 650,000 tons of freight moved through the St. Mary’s Falls canal, between Lakes Superior and Hiu'on. The first two weeks of last year's season sent only 368,000 tons through the canal. Wheat movements are up more than 100 per cent, coal more than 500 per cent, iron ore more than 100 per cent. Business on the Great Lakes freight lines, quite clearly, is better than it was last year at this time. And you might remember that these lake steamers carry those bulk commodities—coal, iron ore. and grain—whose movement is the very backbone of the nation's business. If this improvement continues, a good deal of optimism will be justified. TARIFF ARMISTICE BRITISH public opinion has helped the London government to reverse its policy of opposition to the Roosevelt tariff truce. British acceptance of the truce, even with reservations. apparently assures an international economic armistice until the world monetary and economic conference meets June 12. With this precedent, it should be easier for the President to extend the truce through that conference, after which it is hoped some kind of formal tariff reduction agreement will be made effective. The temporary truce will do more than create a better atmosphere for the important world conference. It also will stop an epidemic of bargaining tariffs in many countries. As an evidence of its good faith, the Roosevelt administration is opposing the efforts of a house group to writ* a virtual trade embargo into the short hour and minimum wage bill. Moreover, the President has indicated that provisions in the farm bill allowing import taxes on agricultural imports will not be used during any tariff truce. In the past, it has been impossible to get even the nations together. When Great Bntproposed a tariff truce, we enacted the

Hawley-Smoot monstrosity. In retaliation. Great Britain initiated us in the protectionist foliv and other nations raised their barriers in self-defense. Now, at last, the world's common suffering seems to have revealed to many governments at the same time that no single nation can be prosperous for long unless others re prosperous: that all are dependent upon foreign trade and international exchange, and that prohibitive tariffs and trade barriers, unless dropped, will make paupers of us all. CITIES TURN TO UNCLE SAM of the most interesting things that are happening these days is (he profound shift that seems to be taking place in the relationship between federal and city governments. Just where we are heading, in this field, is not yet clear. The things that already have happened, coupled the developments that lie just ahead, look sometimes like the outlines of a very deep and comprehensive change in our whole system of local government. Consider a few' of the ways in which the federal government is getting its hards on things that always have been considered strictly the cities’ own business. Vast amounts of money from the federal treasury are going and will go to the cities—not only to feed the poor, eradicate slums, build houses and finance other public works, but to enable the cities to pay their teachers, their police and their other employes. The gangsters w'ho have overawed the authorities in so many cities are being attacked directly by Uncle Sam. Advices from Washington indicate that the government will seek broader powers than now' exist so that it may tackle this evil more effectively than is now possible. Such cities as Detroit have petitioned the federal government for a new' kind of relief in the matter of municipal bonds. Some cities not only can not pay their bills, but can not carry their bonded indebtedness; and here, again, Uncle Sam has been asked to come to the rescue. On top of all of these things, the administration's plan for economic reorganization, as exemplified in the Muscle Shoals-Tennes-seo valley program, looks forward to nothing less than a redistribution of the country’s population, a scaling down in the physical size of some cities, a transplantation of people In a way that ultimately might become tremendous in scope. Add all these things together and you get an entirely new picture of local government. The old order, under which local governments were to all intents and purposes completely independent, seems to be dissolving w'ith amazing speed. Anew lineup is in the making, and it may produce changes that will alter the whole face of our society.

SAFEGUARDS AGAINST REVOLT IN spite of the occasional sepulchral echoes it seems to be pretty well taken for granted that the reactionary racket is played out. If we wish to avoid radical revolution there is no hope save in a resolute and unhesitating liberalism. Hence, one may see something of promise in the formation of the Associated Liberal Groups of Greater New York which combine such earlier liberal organizations as the militant Liberal Movement; the Modern ’76ers; the New National party, and the Young Liberal Democratic Club. These militant liberals have drawn up what they regard as a minimum program which possibly can save the present order of society. They hold that there are three chief problems to be solved; (1) Unequal distribution wealth: (2) unequal distribution of leisure; and (3) chaos in production and distribution. To remedy this situation, they propose the following measures: tl> A more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth by eliminating tax-fre bonds and tax exemption eliminating tax-free bonds and tax exemption incomes of leas than $5,000 a year, applying a general business tax on gross incomes, a stringent tax on evasive gifts, and higher inheritance taxes. (2) Application of the surplus thus attained to public works programs where these are necessary, and to employment of double shifts in all industries, reducing for all the number of working days per week, and of working hours per day. Industry could be induced to carry out this program by granting a substantial rebate on their taxes wherever the working day and week is shortened. 1 3' Establishing of a natitonal planning board, whose purpose shall be to carry out the above program, to check overproduction and guard against underproduction, and to direct all economic activity toward: (a) The socialization of natural resources and monopolies that are fundamentally noncompetitive. <bt Employment of all who can work, tc) Continual raising of the standard of , living. <d* Continual shortening of the forking days per week and hours per day. (e' The extension of present military and civil service pensions and workmen's compensation acts to comprehensive old age pension and compensation laws. If liberalism fails successfully to meet the crisis, the next line of defense against extreme radicalism will be the moderate Socialism taught at the Rand School of Social Science. Thus institution in New York City is the only important unit in American higher education designed to give instruction in socialistic doctrine. It has been in operation for some twentyseven years. Even in the period of depression, it has been able to maintain a student body of more than a thousand. Tlte doctrines taught in the school are not in every case of the type which we all might approve. Yet we certainly need not one, but a score, of Rand schools. They are needed, if for no other cause, to challenge the bland conservatism of more than 99 per cent of our colleges and universities. The Rand school is launching a drive for some $20,000 to maintain its work unbroken. Its campaign should appeal not only to moderate radicals, but also to conservatives with some spark of decency and good will. The inculcation of such doctrines as are taught at the Rand school will be more effective in staving off revolution than the teachings of a thousand conventional institutions that fail to come to grips with the realities of today. -

HOW IT WORKS SOME manufacturers during recent hearings in Washington on the thirty-hour week bill complained that they will be ruined if they have to cut their hours of operation and rearrange their shifts to comply with the proposed legislation. But some other large industrial plants have tried the new scheme without waiting for legislation, and with success. One large firm which had this system in operation in 1930 informs the department of labor that the short work week has distinct advantages from its point of view, in spite of the fact that It increases the number of workers 39 per cent, and that wage scales were kept almost at the level paid for longer hours. Advantages listed by the management are; Increased daily production from the plant as an operating unit, due to increased production at every station or task, slight in itself, but considerable in the aggregate. Elimination of meal periods, with their waste time and the expense of a large cafeteria. Increased return from the capital invested in plant and machinery, owing to the increased rate of plant operation. Opportunity for reorganizing the working force to rectify inequalities and fit all "pegs" in appropriate "holes.” Decreased overhead, due to the fact that the factory produces more goods for a dollar of overhead than under the eight-hour shift. The workers employed by this plan, all women, naturally were pleased by the new policy. They reported that they were less tired, had more time for home duties or for being with their children, or had more lesiure time. The labor department's report, quoting a pleased and prosperous management, is extremely timely, it coincides with the President’s appeals first to the United States Chamber of Commerce and then to the country at large. It comes just as the house of representatives, W'ith the aid of Secretary of Labor Perkins, is putting into legislation the Roosevelt policy of shorter hours, minimum wages, and protection of employers from unfair competition. Wise employers are - supporting this measure to defend them against sweatshops and to revive the mass market by creating new purchasing power throughout the country. VANITY OF VANITIES TT IS vanity, rather than material trouble. that causes most suicides among men. So says Dr. William Muhlberg, medical director of the Union Central Life Insurance Cos. of Cincinnati; and his explanation sounds like a good one. “The thing that drives a man to take his life is his inability to swallow his pride, built up during his more prosperous years,” says Dr. Muhlberg. "It is not fear of seeing his children go hungry, or his wife weakened from doing housework. "It is the agony of watching his neighbor’s satisfaction when he has to withdraw from the country club and sell his sixteencylinder sedan.” The old urge to keep up with the Joneses is one of the most powerful motives any of us have. It is probably true that when a man finds himself losing in that silly race he is apt to feel that his whole life is a failure. The vanity of man is one of the queerest and most compelling traits that, human nature displays. Five-cent loaf of bread rises to 6 cents on inflation prospects. "Brother, can you spare 12 cents?” No, Doris, Swiss bellringers are not the people who come to the front door peddling magazines subscriptions, furniture polish, and trick glue.

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YOU hear w r omen talk of the bargains they can get, or men enumerate the pieces of property that can be bought cheap, just as though it were a blessing and just as though some one’s suffering were not the real explanation. You wonder whether the craze for money hasn't dulled our sense of human values. The gold hoarders are not fighting for human rights, but a privilege which would be possible for only a few- even without an embargo. If farmers were not going broke in the south and unscrupulous manufacturers were not grinding the very daylights out of their employes, dresses, shirtwaists, and napery would not be half so cheap. Anti-inflationists w’eep over the prospect of 50-cent dollars, but fail to mention the twodollar dollars by which capital in the form of money has been made to rise in comparison with the capital in the form of land, buildings, equipment. raw material, and manufactured goods. Which kind of capital is more important? a a a WE are dealing not only with lack of money, but lack of perspective, common honesty, and common sense. Little but forced selling has led to overproduction in certain lines, and little but inordinate greed led to the forced selling. Business, as we call it, has grown to the proportions of a fanaticism in this country, especially as measured in terms of cash profit. We do not admit that dividends can be too great, or private fortunes become too large. Racketeering merely is an off-color imitation of the holding company which operates through service contracts. Half a dozen different forms of ethics have been developed for the convenience and accommodation of as many activities. We have one brand of honor for lawyers, another for doctors, still another for salesmen, and still another for commission men. “Cruel and abusive treatment" may mean anything in a divorce case, or “mental anguish” in a damage suit. a a a WE see nothing ridiculous or unscientific in the fact that three alienists solemnly swear that an accused murderer is sane, while three others swear that he is not. The fact that nobody pays the slightest attention to our tax rolls when it comes to valuing real estate strikes us as funny rather than serious. We hardly realize that fundamental streaks of dishonesty' have been developed in this country because of the idea that it is all right to live “within the law"—the letter of the law, not the spirit. A passion for mechanics has led to the notion that a cash register or an adding machine is better than an honest clerk, and that a sealer of weights and measures is more dependable in a social way than willingness to do the right thing. , Before we really recover from this depression, we are going to do something besides boom the stock market and increase prices. We are going to get back to some of the oldfashioned virtues. Otherwise, no system, no set of rules, no nation-wide programs will prove effective.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour litters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Indiana Bfli Employ*. Your paper of May 5 carried an article in ‘“The Message Center” signed by ex-A. T. & T. employe. You made a sad mistake in not putting that article on page one, where every one would be sure to read it and know conditions as they actually are. Your paper has a large sale among employes of this company at all times, but on the above date every Indiana Bell and A. T. & T. man was eager to read it, and if he could afford it, buy the paper which had the nerve to publish an article which stated facts which if anything were entirely too mild. Company officials became uneasy and a great desire is evinced to fin’d out the identity of the writer and throttle him. Some readers may say that if conditions are as they w r ere stated in the ex-A. T. & T. employe’s article, why do not the men leave the employ of the company? The answer is simple. Men were hired fresh from school or at an early age and trained in work which is of technical nature. They spent several years learning the work and now' they are helpless because that training is of no use in any other line of work and the entire telephone structure of the country is controlled by the A. T. <fe T. About a month ago Governor McNutt stated that he w'ould force the telephone company to reduce rates. Immediately after a high Bell official stated at a meeting of employes that the company was carrying an excess load of 500 men over the state. Naturally, these men wbuld be laid off if reduced rates ware put in effect. That is not true. What he should have said was: “If the rates are cut, we will reduce the force 500 men and make the rest of you shoulder the j extra wark.” At this same meeting he an- i swered a query as to why the divi- j dend rates were not cut, in the fol-1 lowing manner: “A cut in dividend, rates would W'ork a hardship on the owners of stock. The small stock- 1

This is the flrst of three articles by Dr Fishbein dealing with ailments of the feet. TT'EET should be bathed once daily, preferably with non-irritating soap. After being dried, the foot may be dusted with a simple talcum powder. In exceptional conditions it may be desirable to have other types of dusting powders, but these should be selected by a physician according to the nature of the condition for which these special dusting powders are to be used. These powders frequently contain salicylic and boric acids. Long applications of medicaments of this kind to the feet may result in maceration or burning of the skin. The simple measure for aiding to maintain the circulation of the

A CUSTOM that never goes out of style is the habit of telling women in what their whole duty consists. Children being our main business, it is not strange that advice about raising them should come from, every quarter. It speaks very badly for us, I suppose, that we seem to have put all these excellent to such poor use. It may be that we have grown impervious to the clamors and through sheer weariness, close our ears to wisdom. Anyway, such impertinent remarks as are contained in a letter from a gentleman with tendencies toward feminine reform, move me not at all. He wonders why w T e have little authority over our children. "I can't see.” he goes on. “why you women won t learn to do at least one thing well. Is it because you are utterly incapable or merely fatuous, that not one of you seems able to make her own youngsters mind?” Jt

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

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He Doubts Us By Early S. Bailey. 533 Coftev street. T THANK you with all my heart for the “bomb” which you exploded in the camp of the “w'ets” May 9 with your editorial entitled "The Prohibition Amendment.” You surely must have been paid by the "drys” to do it. Have you really turned dry? I hope so. You have been writing in defense of misery, murder, and suicide until that date. I am so glad you have turned, but I’m afraid you haven’t. I fear it w'as just a slip of speech. It looks like a sensible (?) w r et would know better than W'rite W'hat you did concerning the soldiers from Kansas. Yes, it does, sho nus. Shame on you newspaper men, shame, shame. There are some real patriots left in this country, but they are not to be found among the editors of large newspapers.

holder w'ould suffer. To my knowledge there are three women living at the Marott hotel w'hose husbands’ earnings have been cut off, and whose entire dependence is on the dividends of the A. T. & T. Such a statement? How many shares of stock at $9 per must they own to be able to live in such surroundings, and would it not be better for those same women to take a dividend cut and have to sell several shares of sto.ck than to cut off the salaries of employes of the company entirely and let them starve? There might be some hope of better conditions if the men working for this company could in honest fashion deal with officials of the organization, but this is impossible, as local officials have no pow'er and must deal with the office in Cleveland, which in turn takes up the matter with high-salaried men in New' York, who do not even know there is a depression. Everything published in your paper is dispatched immediately to the New' York office, so your paper is our only means of direct dealing. We are hoping you will take up w'hat seems to us to be a lost cause and

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

legs and feet in health is the use of the so-called contrast bath. Two large buckets big enough to hold both feet and perhaps to reach up half way to the knee are needed for the purpose. In one bucket warm water is placed, sufficiently high in temperature to feel distinctly hot. It is useful if this bucket is in relationship to the hot water faucet, so that additional hot water may be added to keep up the temperature. The other bucket is filled two-thirds full of cool water. The person who is taking the contrast bath sits between the two buckets. He first places both feet in the warm water for one minute, then removes the feet and places

THE explanation of this appar- 1 ' ent shortcoming is simple. Let us concentrate for the moment. Women fail to regulate their homes for exactly the same reason that men fail to regulate their world \

Questions and Answers Q —Who said. “He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprung to its feet?” A—These are the words of Daniel Webster in his speech on "Alexander Hamilton,” delivered March 10, 1831. Q—What is the value of a United States fifty-cent piece dated 1876? A—Fifty to ftf tv -five f cents.

| go after this company in the same manner you did with the water ! company and other utilities, which seem to think that men are only | machines and should have no con- ! sideration whatsoever. Bv G. H. S. Dear McNutt—lt seems j to be the general opinion all over j the state that your administration | is going to end up in the same mani ner that the late President Hard- | ing's administration did. Your advisory and lieutenants are betraying you daily and in my weekly travels over the state, I can say truthfully that it is only rarely that I hear any one say anything good about your admniistration. On the contrary, you are being condemned severely and openly. The beer racket is going to be your downfall and if there is any doubt in your mind about this, time eventually will prove this statement. Being a staunch Democrat, I voted the straight Democrat ticket, but I am utterly disgusted w'ith the manner in w'hich you are administering the affairs of our state government, and can not understand why you don't call a halt to the grafting in the beer racket. Believing that you have further political aspiration, it does seem that you immediately would take steps to clean up your house and set it in order, so that you would become a credit to our party instead of the opposite. It is impossible for the ordinary individual to sing your praises when there is so much criticism against you. Your most intimate advisers are not playing you square, but are double-crossing you in varied ways. The beer importers care nothing about your fate, for in a year or so they will have theirs and if necessary can resign and their worries will be at an end and you will be dangling out on the end of a limb. They are all politically dead now' and couldn't be elected constables in their own districts. From the present picture, it surely doesn’t look as if there were going to be any more Democratic victories at the polls in many years to come, from the present going on in our state administration.

\ them in the cool water for one min- | ute. This procedure i* alterated for 10 ' minutes. The alternating dilation ' and contraction of the blood vessels i is helpful exercise and induces circulation in the tissues. There is nothing so restful as massage of the feet, particularly after a tiresome day. The feet may be kneaded with rotary movement of the fingers. If the skin is easily macerated, cold cream, olive oil, cocoa butter or similar suitable ointments may be used to lessen irritation. In many instances when the foot is inflamed because of excessive walking or standing, hot applications in the for mos moist dressings of saturated solutions of epsom salts may be helpful to bring about : relief. I Next: Fainful Heels.

—it's too much trouble. It takes strenuous efforts to keep people on their best behavior and even more to make children obey. Therefore, it's always pleasanter for a man to play golf than to study municipal affairs so that his pockets won't be picked, just as it's easier for a mother io be lenient with the children Bnd thus get in a few bridge games. # The woman who sets her head to exact implicit obedience from the family won't have time for anything else— and I doubt whether she'll have a great deal to show for her efforts in the long run. Raising a family and running a government are equally discouraging. You get all worn down from trying to have your own way. Taking everything into consideration, there's mighty little difference between the home and the office. The person who sets out to be the big boss in either place disliked cordially. ~ w

MAY 12. 1933}

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN -

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sighted a iong-range gun in the closing minutes of his radio Rddress last Sunday, but refrained from firing it. It was customary at. one time for ! critics of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to accuse him of lacking decisive- ’ ness and political courage. I 1 among the many who must eat their words in this respect. Even one who opposes much in his policies ought tb grant, in all fairness, that he has been definite I and forthright. And so there is every reason to believe that he will move into action on th? problem of the foreign debt. It will be a very difficult fight, and preparation is necessary. What he said in regard to this situation was fairly general. He did declare: "I want to emphasize to you that the domestic situation is tied in inevitably and deeply with the condition in all other nations of the world. In other words, we can get. in all probability, some measure of prosperity to return in the United States, but it will not be permanent unless we get a return to prosperity all over the world.” o tt tt Stirs the Hornets NOW, that would seem a mild enough statement and a sufficiently aximatic declaration to arouse no opposition. And yet already it is passible to detect a marshaling of the forces of the isolationists. For some little time the powerful papers of William Randolph Hearst, have been urging congress not to "abdicate” its powers. In the past Mr. Hearst frequently has urged congress to go home and keep out of the way. In warnings against "abdication” Mr. Hearst is concerned almost solely with any kind of revision of the debt. Will Rogers, who represents a very large American constituency, even though he may pretend that his object is one of mockery, comes out much more frankly in warning the President to keep hands off. In referring to the President and the congress he writes; "They have given him every' power from mayhem to manslaughter, but if he asks for the sole and exclusive right to deal with this debt thing, he is going to ride his horse under the first limb he has hit.” And later in his syndicated sermon Mr. Rogers adds: "These debts have become imbedded into the people's minds like religion has. and any time you come out on either side (just like arguing religion) you are going to lose and change nobody’s opinion.” The mere fact that Will uses "like” as a conjunction in his playful way should not blind anybody to the fact that he and the people he represents are in deadly earnest. a a a A Dare to Be Accepted BUT this is a challenge which President Roosevelt should not ignore and which I beileve he will not ignore. And Franklin D. Roosevelt has one great advantage in the coming struggle for power. Will Rogers may be a better monologist, but the President is infinitely the better radio performer. The President mentioned four objectives of the coming international conference. He spoke of reduction of armaments, the cutting down of trade barriers, the stabilization of currencies, and "the re-establish-ment of friendly relations and the greater confidence between the nations.”

It seems to me that very little will be accomplished at the conference unless w'e first recognize Russia and also agree to discuss the debt situation with the entire w'orld. I can't imagine worse advice than that given by Will Rogers, or on lower grounds. Mr. Rogers says that the debt has become a forbidden subject. I think that Will Rogers is entirely correct in saying that the foreign debt is largely a matter of passion and prejudice, but it must be lifted out. Certainly there is no hope in drift and silence. I remember once I talked to a woman whose husband committed suicide. Some friends came to call the next day, and she told me: “It was horrible. They wanted to be kind, so they just talked about indifferent things and never even mentioned Fred’s name or what had happened. And the more they kept not mentioning it. the more I thought about it. You know, it almost seemed as if the coffin w'as right there in the room between us.” If America undertakes to discuss international economies with France and England and specifies that the debt shall not be mentioned, it will be a conference across a grave. ana \ot Just the Bankers COME people here have decided the question very simply by saving that the intematioal bankers are for revision and that anything those fellows are for must be wrong. This is largely the attitude of the socalled liberals and radicals in congress. But 1* should not be forgotten that to the toiling masses of England, and of France, and of America, the debt is not just a bankers' problem, it is a millstone bequeathed by those who made the great war to their sons and their sons sons and daughters, it is a vast projection of a shadow, and it must be lifted. 'Copyright, 1533. bv The Times, Two Songs BY JOHN THOMPSON 1 awoke . . . The tapering fingers of the dawn Brushed mv eyelids, and a yawn Escaped my lips; I sang . . . An oriole in a nearby tree Stretched his throat and sang with me, . . . A queer duet. DAILY THOUGHT The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.— Nahum 1:7. aaa TROUBLE and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer dnveth away trouble and perplexity.— Melanchthon.