Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1933 Edition 02 — Page 4

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SATURDAY MAY 13. 1933. MOTHER’S DAY TN celebrating Mother's day tomorrow, we shall not blink the charge of going sentimental. We ll write that mother of ours an airmail letter telling her she’s the greatest ever, and if we can spare the money we’ll wire her a box of roses, bless her. But we have a better idea even than that. Let us make tomorrow a day of remembering not only for one woman, but for all the elderly mothers of the land. How many of the three million or so American women past 65 have that simplest of mortal needs, security? The United States Chamber of Commerce estimates that nearly two million persons of that age are “without sufficient financial resources to maintain themselves at the minimum level of subsistence.'* At least a million women, then, must look to their government for food and shelter in their declining years. One-half the states still punish their elders for poverty by sentencing them to barren and degrading almshouses. The other half has adopted old age pension laws. Federal aid would make the pension method universal. Let us swear that the sun of another Mother’s Day shall not set upon a single county poorhouse in this republic. THE NEW BONUS MARCH THOSE who remember the events of Black Thursday last July will rejoice in the Roosevelt administration’s plans for receiving the 1933 bonus marchers in Washington. The White House today is no more sympathetic than was Mr. Hoover to cash bonus demands. But this administration is more sympathetic with the plight of these ragged legions. And it recognizes the right of all citizens to petition their government without being driven from their capital before the torches and tanks of soldiers. In contrast to the hysteria and brutality of the government last summer, President Roosevelt’s w’ay is forthright and orderly. The White House has agreed to plans of the marchers for a five-day convention, beginning Saturday. The veterans will be represented by delegates, twenty for each congressional district. The government will feed and house those who have no food or shelter, and give free transportation to and from the encampment ten miles from Washington. The response to such decent treatment already is apparent. The veterans have promised to return to their homes after their convention and after they have made their demands. Os course these plans can be upset by foolish acts of police underlings, provocateurs, or trbuble-makers. They probably will not be. The New Deal seems to embrace the principles of that old deal, as dealt in the Bill of Rights, lor free speech, assembly, and petition. Mr. Roosevelt in planning for the coming bonus demonstration is wise. He knows that the American method is better than the way of the Cossacks. TIIE WOUNDED "I*7HEN the President presented his farm * * relief bill to congress, he pleased the country and shocked the conventional politicians by admitting that it was an experiment w’hich might not work. At that time there was much praise of Mr. Roosevelt’s refreshing sense of realities. He realized the difference between a leader and a stuffed (Shirt dogmatist. Now there has been another test of the Roosevelt type of leadership. His aids started to make and enforce regulations under the economy law which were cruelly unjust to veterans disabled in the war. This provoked protest, not only from the injured veterans, but also from newspapers and organizations which had supported the general veterans' cut. on the understanding that those with service-connected disabilities would continue to receive adequate care. When this protest reached the White House, a strange thing happened. Instead of the usual bureaucratic attitude and the-President-can-do-no-wrong sort of guff, the White House quickly admitted the injustice and proceeded to try to correct the error. A smaller politician never would have confessed the blunder, and if finally forced to do so he would have been humiliated by loss of face. President Roosevelt is big enough to take the other course. He also is intelligent enough to know that by such honesty he increases public confidence in his leadership. In this particular case, it is essential that the President keep an eye on future administration of veterans’ relic-f. There must be no further slips in the care of men suffering from actual war injuries. NEW SOCIAL ORDER EMERGING SLOWLY but steadily the pieces of that gigantic jigsaw puzzle at Washington are falling into place: and as they do. it begins to be possible to get an idea of what the outlines of our new society are going to be like. Those words, “new society,” do not go beyond the facts. Almost without realizing it, we have swung off from our old course at something like a right angle. If we have not swung nearly as far as some radical leaders would like, we certainly have swung a great deal farther than any one thought possible as recently as six months ago. Whether we like it or not. we seem to have put rugged individualism in the grave and patted the earth down smooth. We are switching from an unrestricted capitalism to ft controlled economy. The social responsibilities of the merf<*Who employ labor and control money and guide in-

dustrlal and agricultural production are in the process of getting written into law. That means a change as tremendous as any that has come to us since we won our Independence from Great Britain. It means that American soil no longer will nurture the picturesque and reckless autocrats of the past—the Jim Fiskes. the Jay Goulds, the Bet-a-Million Gates and the Sam Insulls. Such Industrial wars as the ones Andrew Carnegie waged, such financial battles as the HillHarriman struggle early In this century, are cut of the picture henceforth. A closely integrated and infinitely complex society like ours simply can not stand them. Such things are inevitable in a society resting on a capitalism in which the profit motive is the only thing that lights the fires under the boilers. Unrestricted capitalism can not operate in any other way. If we now are demanding that the welfare of the nation as a whole be taken into account from top to bottom of the business and financial structure—which is precisely what the developing program at Washington amounts to—we are not going radical: we merely are trying to adapt capitalism to the requirements of modern society. There lies today’s great opportunity. This country, first to prove that democratic government could work, now has the chance to prove that the escape from the evils of capitalism need not lie in a revolutionary repudiation of capitalism or in a revolutionary’ repudiation of democracy. HOME, SWEET HOME MERICANS, once in danger of going nomad, are rediscovering the charms of that ancient and honorable institution, the home. Hard times, the new fraternity of brewmeisters, and other influences are reviving homely joys of the fireside. Farmers may strike and riot, but it’s easy to keep em down on the farm. The United States department of agriculture reports the largest farm population in the country’s history. The rural regions now claim 32,242,000 souls, a gain of 1,001,000 over last year. The familiar story of the eager rustic who left the old homestead to dally wtih the tinseled sins of the big city has become that of the modern prodigal son, a broke and blighted bond salesman, bowing his head over the oil cloth-covered table in thanks for an attic bed and three squares a day. The Toy Manufacturers’ Association records the change in sales of adult games, which tripled last year over 1929. The jigsaw puzzle, which would have been scorned a few years ago, accounts for $10,000,000 of $30,000,000 worth of games for the grownups sold last year. Tunes are coming back. The new brew is v ashing rust out of vocal chords. Gene Buck oi the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, believes that “beer will unlock the pianos of the nation,” and call the family into evening huddles for close harmony and gabfests. Irving Berlin sees Americans becoming song singers instead of listeners. Perhaps the wail of radio crooners and the hoarse tom-tom of the cabaret hot-chas yet may be drowned in a great folk chorus of melody. Ail of which is something. For, be it ever so overcrowded with indigent relatives, there’s no place like home. PASSAIC’S BOY HEROES six orphan boys of Passaic. N. J„ whose presence of mind saved an Erie railroad train from a disastrous wreck, seem to be getting about all the honors that any six youngsters well could handle. Both the city of Passaic and the Erie railroad invited them to go to the circus. A citizens' committee has been formed to take them iO a ball game. Medals are to be awarded and a trust fund to educate the boys is being subscribed. A New York banker has presented them with new baseball gloves. And last, but never least, Babe Ruth himself telegraphed his congratulations and asked them to be his guests when the Yankees next, play in New York. So far, so good. But one wonders just vhat all this sort of thing does to youngsters like these, in the long run. Does it make them, puffed up with pride? Do they get cocky and self-assertive? Or do they have the balance to take it in their stride? The private thoughts of a boyhero would be worth examining, if there were any way of looking at them. A PROFITABLE PURGE ’’ I ’HERE is something a wee bit attractive about that- plan for a “national ill-will week” put forward by a group of intellectuals in Paris. Under this scheme, all Frenchmen would set aside one week in each year “to purge themselves of their latent evil and go in for a fine week of pure malevolence, calumny, hate, envy, and sin.” Towns, cities, and provinces could designate the most villainous citizens in their Jurisdictions and hold them up to public execration. Such a scheme, like a heavy thunderstorm. ought at least to clear the air a little. The great amount of rancor and bad feeling that automatically is generated in the breast of each citizen in the course of the daily routine might get a chance to discharge itself. After such a period, it might be a little easier for us to practice those ideals of neighborliness and charity to which we forever are giving lip-service. PURE FOODS AND DRUGS 'T'HE Federal Food and Drug Administra- -*• tion’s monthly report indicates that under the new regime the department of agriculture is making a renewed effort to protect consumers. During April, large seizures were made of foods unfit for human consumption, of deleterious drugs, of improperly labeled goods, of medicines for which false curative powers were claimed. Recent studies of past enforcement of these protective laws clearly imply that more should be done to protect buyers from impure and adulterated drugs and foods. The new admin-

doubtedly has revealed this, as well as weaknesses in the statutes. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell has undertaken a study of the laws and their application. Department of agriculture chiefs are doing well in seeking more rigid adherence to the existing laws. , Such enforcement not only will afford a better, surer protection for consumers, but also reveal any structural faults of the law. DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITY SENATOR HAMILTON F. KEAN of New Jersey objects to the provision In the pending federal securities bill which would require directors of companies to sign statements concerning the affairs of their corporations and which would make them civilly liable for losses by stockholders. Nobody, the senator argued, would want to be a director if he were apt to lose his shirt because some company about whose inner af tallspirT k “ W mt,e Sh ° UM 80 That may be true; and the result might be that Erectors would be extremely careful to know just what their companies were doing, which would be a very fine thing indeed in the f a Tf had CnoUgh ° f directors n he last few years: if the new law would induce directors really to direct, we should all be better off. ° Uld A MORTGAGE MORATORIUM MORTGAGE are doing more than anything else to turn peaceful arm protest into a movement of revolution relief tl h™ 'Z* 60 brin * Partial relief to the worst sufferers. But it can not spring into full operation at once-time is reduired to appraise property, check records IT i", T', tga§eS fr ° m pHvate hold ers to ederal land banks at lower interest rates. Meanwhile, the holders of these mortgages have the power either to make a bad situation worse or to tide over the victim until he gets government relief. President Roosevelt Friday, in signing the law, made a direct appeal to these holders cf farm mortgages. He spoke not only to -,heir patriotism and sense of justice, but also to their selfish interest. Under the law’ they are to have the privilege of exchanging slow and doubtful paoer for bonds guaranteed by the United States treasury, it is anew deal-and a good one —for them. The Piesident asked them, pending full operation of the new law, tc abstain from foreclosing or making any effort to dispossess debtor farmers. When the Hoover administration made a similar appeal in connection with a semi-official mortgage moratorium, co-operation from the real estate creditors was disappointingly small. But if these creditors are intelligent, they will understand that conditions are much more serious today. Creditors can not expect to retain any sympathy of the public, or of congress and the administration, w’ho are making and unmaking laws, if they defy the President by demanding their pound of flesh immediately. Spiritualistic revivals follow depressions, movie director says. Probably bank depositors trying to find out where their money w r ent. Japan’s claim that the open door still prevails in Manchoukuo is somewhat affected by the fact that Japan holds the key. ’i ou may continue to save the pennies, if you like, but the dollars seem no longer able to care for themselves without congressional supervision. London planned a “joy week,” but postponed it until 1933. Probably found they had everything they need for it but the joy. Savant sets age of earth at 2,000 millions years. Seems like that ought to make it old enough to know’ better.

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THE federal government gets bids on cement for Boulder dam—ten of them, all alike, with the price up 20 cents a barrel. Secretary Harold Ickes regards this as representing too much co-operation and calls on Attorney - General Homer Cummings to investigate. The state of Illinois has a similar experience with bids on cement for road work, and Governor Horner wonders whether it would not be wise to build a publicly owned plant. Assuming that we have a cement trust, or at least an agreement to control production and fix prices among the various manufacturers, is it out of line with the policy now being advocated? Assuming that the cement people have pooled their interests, eliminated unfair competition, adjusted production to the demand, and established such prices as would guarantee reasonable profit and better wages, have they done anything more than is being suggested for all major industries? As I understand it, the administration virtually has told industry to regulate itself to be prepared for government regulation, that in either case, prices must go up and wages advance, and that this can not be accomplished without removal of unfair competition. In other words, industry is being told to get together, for stabilization of production, prices and pay. a tt tt SUCH a set-up is irreconcilable with free competition or anything approximating it. The problem it presents is one of fair prices, fair returns, and fair wages. Barring government regulation, each industry must decide what is fair, and it can not do so without a working agreement based on uniformity. Controlled industry, with allotted production, the minimum wage, prescribed working hours, and suspension of anti-trust laws, undoubtedly would tend to stabilize conditions. Whether it would increase the drive and energy from which we have benefited so much is another story. At ail events, we might just as well kiss the great indoor sport of competitive bidding goodby. You can't have that without competition. O tt tt WITH stabilized industry, a barrel of cement, a ton of steel, of an eight-tube radio set is going to cost about so much f. o. b„ no matter from whom you buy it. The great difficulty is to figure out just how much a barrel of cement is worth in bushels of wheat, or the fair value of a radio set in comparison to a bathtub. Competition will change from a battle within each industry to one among all industries, as recently was illustrated by the drive to substitute cigarets for candy. How much of this fixed and dependable income should a man put into a home, as compared to life insurance, or into life insurance as compared to automobiles—that will be the great problem of life with controlled, stabilized in-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES '.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) Bv R. R. Mann. For a number of years the railroads of this country gradually have been putting themselves out of business by overcharging for freight and passenger service. These railroads have no more right to ask for help from taxpayers’ money than has any other business firm which has lost out by overcharging for goods sold or for services rendered. Many lawmakers are very kind to the railroads because they ride on these roads free and charge the taxpayer so much a mile for each mile covered. If the railroads wish to survive they will have to reduce their overhead at least 35 per cent. This can be done within a few weeks’ time. Freight rates, passenger rates and wages should be reduced 20 per cent and salaries from 50 to 70 per cent. The salaries of railway executives are entirely out of reason. Hundreds of men in this country are qualified fully to direct the operation of any railroad for a salary of $20,000 or less. There should be a revaluation of railroad property which would bring a reduction of 40 per cent. This would save the railroads millions of dollars in taxes. The recapture clause should be and will be repealed. Unless the railroads adapt themselves to peace-time conditions they can not hope to survive. By W. H. Richards I take The Times daily to keep in touch with city, state and world events, but have been disappointed in not finding information about the greatest event that has ever occurred in the history of America, where 4,200 delegates, representing more than fifteen million organized workers, met in Washington last Saturday and Sunday and declared anew declaration of independence. It unanimously was decided that the workers no longer would sub-

T)LINY the elder was visiting his friend Pomponinus some 2,000 years ago. The latter complained his wife was troubled by sneezing too much. “The best way to stop sneezing is to kiss a mule,” Pliny said. And when his friend said that he suspected the paternity of his child, because both he and his wife had gray eyes and the child had Igrown, Pliny confided that a gray-eyed woman could bear a brown-eyed child by eating rats. Moderns laugh at these ancient superstitions, but many little less grounded in fact persist to the present time. George J. Dudycha of Ripon college, in examining a group of students of seven midwest colleges about superstitions, found that 87 per cent w’ere unwilling to believe that if an expectant mother sees a person with a birthmark her child will have a birthmark. But 25 per cent of the students believed that an expectant mother,

DURING the several years that I have been engaged in publiclyexpressing what probably was worthless opinions, I have learned one significant fact about human nature in these United States. The good* American is an easygoing person. He w’ill stand for a great deal of criticism. He will let you find fault with the way he conducts his business and his morals. He doesn't resent anything you say about his wife and his children. You may insult his country and slander his creed. But you “dasn’t” say anything about his dog. And not just his dog, mind you, but any dog. The canine is the only living creature in the whole length and breadth of the land that is regarded with utter reverence. And city people are twice as dogminded as .country people. By dogminded rjmean absolutely hypnotized an|r .completely drowned in sentiments**,* - THin Hat mine! ni

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None So Blind!

Ghastly Gloom By Mrs. W. A. Collins. POOR hypocrites, these drys! Whipped to a frazzle by their own prohibition law and too narrow’ minded to admit defeat. After canvassing one precinct for w’et voters, I advise the drys to turn dripping wet. The few’ drys I found were ill tempered, bad mannered, disrespectful citizens. One said I w’as going to hell. A dry man said, “Get out of here and go on dow’n the street.” The wets were kind, sweettempered, respectful, and courteous. Believe me, if I had a disposition like the few drys I met, I certainly would cultivate a taste for alcohol so I could manage a few smiles and make life w’orth living. mit to the rule of bankers and big business corporations, but that a new' government must and shall be established in which the basic means of life will be owned and operated for the good of all the people. Farmers, trade unionists, political left wing parties, unemployed councils, leagues and unions, all combined their forces and declared for a complete revolution of industry by peaceful means if passible, but not hesitating to fight as may be necessary. Revolution is not only coming, but is already here. That the capitalist press suppresses the facts about an event of so much moment only show's how' badly the people need a press that will print the facts. Socialist papers will do so. By r. B. Nisbet. May I express my sentiments in regard to an item I saw published in your paper stating that the Indiana bakers are intending to raise the price of bread one to ten cents a loaf? What do they lake the people for. when they can’t get employment? Bread prices are too high as it is. I bought six one-pound loaves for 25 cents when wheat was selling

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Masazine. by fixing her mind on a subject, could influence the character of an unborn child. Today there are people in Germany who believe anemia and jaundice can be cured by cooking sheep’s lice into jam. There is a superstition that the way to avoid childbirth pains, is to open all the doors, windows, and boxes, to pull out all the drawers, and untie all the knots around the house. They think paralysis can be cured by putting the patient to sleep in a stable where a donkey has slept. Beliefs depend on environment, education, and reasoning. The simplest type of reasoning is sympathetic, such as belief that a yellow flower like a dandelion will cure jaundice, that heart-shaped flowers will cure disease of the heart, that the way to get strength is to use the bones or organs of strong animals.

| course, include the suburbanites, who are only city folks pretending itc be in love with nature—a horde !of lesser Antoinettes frolicking in | their little Trianons, as it w r ere. | Country people are the honest to goodness farmers without bathrooms |in the house, perhaps. But they

Questions and Answers Q—Does a watch stop at the moment its wearer dies? A—No. Q—How much did the population in the United States increase from 1910 to 1930? A—From 91,972,266 to 122,775,046, an increase of 30,802,780. Q —Are locomotive wheels made of steel.

at $3.10 a bushel and now see the price today a bushel. People then had work and money to buy with. There are too many two-footed hogs for the good of this country. Too much selfishness and greed.

So They Say

Roosevelt is a great man, not only because he has a great mind, but because he has w’onderfui technique in handling men.—Paul Claudel, former ambassador from France. During the last ten or twelve years the governments of Europe and America, with but few exceptions, have been manned by men of mediocre ability.—Colonel Edward M. House of Texas. If w’e adhere strictly to the theory that competition must continue, regardless of the fate of the producer, it may become so keen as to deprive him of any return on capital invested and deny a living wage to his employe.—Silas H. Strawn of Chicago. American owned and operated ships are an American sales force that sees to it that American wheat and other farm products are transported and sold in foreign ports.— Rear Admiral Frederic R. Harris. I’m free as a bird. I really think I’m freer than most birds.—Lilian Harvey, movie actress. Liberals w'ould like to rebuild the station w'hile the trains are running; radicals prefer to blow' up the station and forego service until the new structure is built.—Rexford G. Tugw’ell, assistant secretary of agriculture. We w'ant to get business back on its own feet—and off the government’s feet—Daniel C. Roper, secretary of commerce. The talking picture today is the most. American of all art forms.— Albert Warner, movie producer.

Some of the propositions submitted by Mr. Dudycha in his examination were matters requiring exact knowledge and the responses w’ere extraordinarily interesting. For example, from 85 to 95 per cent of the freshman group disbelieved the statement about Friday the 13th being unlucky, or breaking a mirror, or the value of finding a horseshoe or tapping on w’ood. But this was accompanied by the belief in prenatal influence. Aiso, 50 per cent of the freshmen believed in telepathy and a considerable number thought a child who was left-handed ought always to be taught to be right-handed. By the time the students had become seniors there had been a considerable addition to the number of minds demanding proof, and less credulous in relation to superstitions. Apparently, the education did convert some students away from naive beliefs and superstitions.

are nevertheless, to my notion, the only individuals who really appreciate or truly understand the dog, who is, in spite of some of his foolish friends, a noble and dignified animal. U tt tt PSYCHOLOGISTS might be able to explain this urban aberration as a sort of repressed desire for primitive fundamentals. The dog is the last link with primordial existence and as a consequence is loved most fondly in penthouses.. Let me explain. The farmer never makes a toy of his dog or his women. He pays both the compliment of allowing them to be useful members of his social order and his family life. Nor does he inflict his silly ideas of human behavior upon an animal that is not human. He lets his dog be a dog, which is not only the gesture of the true gentleman, but proof of profourjdest

.MAY 13, 1933

It Seems to Me

BY HEYTVOOD BROUN =- NEW YORK, May 13.—Mr. F. R. A. writes to me in what I take to be utter seriousness to complain that I did a serious injustice to Mr. Easley in a recent column. “You never have been a square shooter,” he asserts, “politically or humorously and naturaly you will not reply to this.” ‘Both the writer and several members of his family distinctly heard Mr. Easley's exclamation over the radio.” he adds. -He did not say. as you reported. ’Damn it all! Where the hell does it hitch up?’ He did say, Mv God! Where is the damned thing?' ” In simple justice to F R A. and to Mr. Easley, i am delighted to make this correction. num Job for a Lost Sheep A FTER a certain amount of cogiT* tation, I have hit upon a function which I may fulfill in spite of the fact that I have no official connection with any organized group or party. I have decided to be a boat rocker if I can make the grade. The notion did not come to me out of thin air. I must score an assist for a friend of mine who recently attended a conference with one of the leading lights of the financial world. A little group waited upon him to complain about the manner in which a bank w’ith which he is affiliated happens to be operated. He heard them with deep interest and even sympathy, and when the spokesman of the delegation had done the great man answered in a spirit of conciliation: “I have no doubt,” he said, “that many of the charges which you lay before me are true. I gravely regret the irregularities w’hich occurred in the institution which you have mentioned. We all deplore them. The gentlemen who erred have gone. “I ask you te be patient with the new management, which I can assure you is as clean as a hound's tooth. But most of all I urge upon you the patriotic necessity of not printing any of the things which you have told me. I think we can all agree that this is no time to rock the boat.” a tt n *4 Pardonable Curiosity ONE member of the delegation lingered a little after the other sand said. “Mr. X, I want you to solve a problem which has long been troubling me. When is the proper time to rock the boat? If prosperity is piping hot, we are all told that no man should jar the existing and excellent state of the nation. When a turn comes for the worse, there is again counsel that destructive criticism is out of place. After things reach rock-bottom, everybody tells us that it is the duty of a good American to sit tight and smile and pray fflr better times. As soon as any uplift becomes evident, there is a cry for silence and team work. Please tell me when is the proper time to rock the boat?” But the great financier gathered his charts and papers together and left the room to indicate that the interview was ended. He made no reply and his demeanor showed that he thought the inquiry was frivolous. But to me it seems a fair question. At least, it is a reasonable point of interrogation for those who do not like the boat and believe that some better craft is visible upon the horizon. And they think that the best way to secure passage upon this more seaworthy vessel lies in scuttling the old scow. u n n “Let Her Rock" So I do not think that people who believe this should be blamed for rocking the boat to their soul’s content even in stormy weather. I want to be with those who stand up in their seats and make the skiff wabble from side to side. I would like to see economists take on more of the surgeon’s temper. Here is a man with a pain and the physician says: "Os course, I probably can carry him through this spell with the application of ice bags. But what’s the use? In two weeks or ten days he'll have another attack. We might as well get at it now and cut.” I'm all for economic ether. I think there is no need of asking the patient to suffer needless pain I think it is not impossible to say to an ailing world: “Inhale and this will be over before you know it.” Perhaps we will all wake up some bright morning and say: “Where am I?” And the nurse will answer—- “ Everything is going along as well as could be expected. Don’t fret. The operation is over. Dr. Smithers says that you came to him Just in time. Within another hour the blamed thing would have burst.” (Copvrtelu. 1933. bv The Times)

Mother

BY F. O. RUSHER Life’s greatest gift, Life’s greatest treasure, Life’s all in all, Greatest blesisngs, days of joy, Thru her we recall. What anal! Her sacrifices All y A ar long. Each daily task, large or small, She does -with song. Every dawn, and at twilight} She guides us right. By her bedside, talking with God} She prays each night. What greater joy could we behold, Than her sw’eet smile? It takes mother, her faith in prayep, To make life worth while. She understands our every car®, Although we fret. Our childhood w’ays, our old school days. She’ll ne’er forget. Let us tell her, how we love her, We never will have another! In all our struggles, she helps us on, Let us always remember mother,

Daily Thought

When ray soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine hojy temple.—Jonah 2:7. a a a OUR prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best, what is arnod for us.—Socrates.