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THIRSDAY MAY 1* 19.13 REPEAL AND REVENUE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, with a fine ■*• -pn.se of time, has pointed out in his latest message to congress a single reason, out of many reasons, which demands quick repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The heavy taxes now necessary to carry a public works bond issue, he says, can be eliminated when repeal is completed. The President, in his first utterance since March 4 on the subject of repeal, thus brings home to the states, and, we hope, to their Governors and legislatures, the need of early aclion to set up ratifying conventions. Tiie Democratic and Republican national platforms attest the undesirability of national prohibition from the standpoint of its effect upon morals and law enforcement as well as tax revenues. Voters of five states—Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Wyoming and New Jersey have cast overwhelming majorities in the first referenda held tinder the repeal plan. Twenty -eight legislatures have set up election procedure and dates have been fixed for elections, all but two of them this year. In fifteen other states, however, action is necessary. In six states —Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Montana and Utah —legislation has been passed, but dates for election have not been set, according to latest reports to Washington. In two states. Colorado and Oklahoma, Democratic Governors vetoed bills for repeal elections. In three states—Georgia, Kansas, and North Dakota—legislatures which met this year failed to pass laws for this purpose. In four states- Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia—legislatures did not meet this year and the Governors have not called them together on this vital question. Even eventual repeal—in eighteen months or two years—is not yet assured. But if the citizens of the states, and particularly of the fifteen states which have been holding back, demand action now, and get it. there is a bare chance of ratification by the necessary thirtysix states in 1933. For repeal and revenue, the time to act Is now T . THE PLAN FOR RECOVERY f'r'HE President has proposed to congress the greatest economic experiment ever charted in this country—a plan lor breaking the maddening circle of falling prices, closing factories, unemployment and dearth of purchasing power, which has brought us near to destruction. The Roosevelt plan for the first time contemplates the problem as a whole, comes to grips with fundamentals, and gives evidence, in every ringing phrase, of purpose to fight through to the objective of economic recovery and re-employment. The plan includes a quick stimulant—public works—and an equally necessary tonic for permanent improvement—industrial co-opera-tion under the eye of the government. Specifically, it substitutes sane, planned economy for economic anarchy; co-operation for unfair competition; decent treatment of labor for a national trend toward uncivilized sweatshop standards. The administration bill makes possible a short work week and a minimum wage, better labor organization, a curb on excess production and unfair competition, and quick employment of men on public construction projects. It permits trade associations to agree on codes of competition if the President finds such codes fully protect consumers, competitors. and employes, If the right of employes to organize and name representatives of their own choosing has been observed, and if maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay. and other working conditions approved or prescribed by the President are complied with. The phrase, "other working conditions.” is broad enough to cover child labor and a host of other abuses which now exist, in the opinion of those who helped frame the bill. In industries where no agreement is offered for approval, the President may investigate for himself, prescribe a "code of Tair competition.” and fix maximum hours and minimum wages. He may license business enterprises, if he sees fit, as an aid to enforcement. He may use the unfair competition provisions of the federal trade commission act, the restraining powers of the federal district courts, and the whole machinery of the dfpartment of justice and the courts to punish violators. As further evidence of good faith, binding provision for short hours and fair wages in the government construction program are included. The country has waited for a plan like this for too many ypars. Now that it is ready, there should be no delay in putting it into operation HELP THIS RACKET FIGHT THE city at last has awakened to the need of halting the activities of the lowest form of racketeers—the promoter who conducts a high-powered campaign ostensibly for some charity and then pockets most of the proceeds. Fake "missions,” phony "armies.” and other bogus bands of "mercy" have reaped harvests of thousands of dollars from kind-hearted and gullible citizens since the depression started. Grafters operating under the gyise of charity have grown rich on the nickels and dimes donated by persons almost as needy as those they sought to help. To stamp out this evil there should be f||}l co-operation on the part of every respectable resident of Indianapolis with the committee of

leading citizens named to w’ork with the Better Business Bureau for this reform. A half million a year is the estimate here of the money which has poured into the coffers of promoters of shady schemes cloaked under charity pleas. This sum would have fed and clothed thousands of needy persons in that period of time. If you do not know absolutely that your mone is going for a variety purpose, to assist someone in dire need, say "No” to the glibtopgued salesmen who fatten on misfortune. lIALF-WAY BACK T>ROF. RAYMOND MOLEY, assistant secreretary of state, presidential adviser, and the Brain Trust's No. 1 man, in a recent article, sketches what he says is President Roosevelt's "major policy," a back-to-the-land movement "that will work.” It is the President's conscious purpose, we learn, to evolve a new’ type of American life that is neither urban nor rural but a mixture of each. "Hitherto,” Mr. Roosevelt has said, "we have spoken of two types of living and only two—urban and rural. I believe we can look forward to three rather than two types in the future, for there is a definite place for an intermediate type between the urban and the rural; namely, a rural industrial group.” Whether this is the President’s major policy or not. it is an important one. Cities are too big, too congested, to be happy abodes. The country offers newcomers little more than bare subsistence. In between lie security and contentment. If industry moves, its plants toward the country, then workers can move from their tenements and cluster their homes on small farm plots about the factories. They can supplement wages w’ith homegrow:n garden truck and stock. The haunting dread of hunger will disappear; a layoff will lose part ol its tragedy. Many of the Rooseveltian policies fit this design. Farm and mortgage relief, forestation, Muscle Shoals and other monuments to cheap elecricity wil facilitate the movement half-way back to the land. If industry control public works can be planned with this same purpose in view, they will mean more than emergency life lines to the jobless. America will hope for success for this Rooseveltian "major policy.” To create for millions not only jobs, but a more secure and happy mode of life, is statesmanship. ARTISTS AND THEIR BOSSES '~pHE firing of Artist Diego Rivera by the Rockefellers simply emphasizes a very ancient truth—artists and their employers do not very often see eye to eye. In the very nature of things, they can’t. The artist is at bottom a rebel. If he weren’t, he wouldn't be an artist. He paints things as he sees them, and because he is an artist he sees them in a manner entirely different from the manner of the rich man. That the wealthy patron who hires him gets shocked in squelching him now and then isn't surprising. But it is deeply regrettable, just the same. Artists of Rivera's caliber do not grow’ on every bush. The ultimate loser in the present row is not Mr. Rivera, but the Rockefeller Center. THE FARMERS RECONSIDER r EADERs of the National Farmers Holiday Association seem to have acted with good sense in postponing indefinitely their scheduled national farm strike, to give the national administration a chance to end the agricultural depression. It is doubtful if the strike could have succeeded. There are definite indications that the American agriculturist is going to have a better year in 1933 than he has had in a long time. It well might have proved difficult to induce any sizable percentage of farmers to hold all their crops off the market at a time w’hen prices are higher than they have been in many months. Furthermore, the strike almost certainly would have alienated public sympatljy. No American government ever w’ent as far to relieve farmers as the present one has gone. To strike in the face of that would have been to arouse intense resentment on the part of the general public. MANY JOBS VANISH NOT all the unemployment problem is due to the depression. If we would have, overnight, a resumption of 1929 activity, we would still have many men who could not get jobs. A lot of the men who were paid off back in the boom days were paid off permanently. Their jobs are gone for good. An example of this is to be found in the coal industry. The American Mining Congress received a report from Clarence E. Pickett, executive secletary of the American Friends Service committee, showing that at least 200.000 coal miners never again are going to make a living at their old trade. I The plight of these men is not due to the depression. Their industry simply has moved out from under them. Sooner or later they must be absorbed into other industries, and before a way of doing this is figured out a lot of people are going to have gray hairs and furrowed brows. Nor is this problem one that concerns only the surplus 200,000. Until they are absorbed in other jobs, every coal miner in the land suffers with them. Wages in the coal fields can not rise to decent levels as long as this reservoir of unemployed miners exists. What is true in the coal mining industry is true in a great many others. This "technological unemployment,” about which we used to hear so much before the ordinary, depres-sion-bred kind of unemployment became so common, has laid its hand on almost every’ trade in America. It is a problem that will show greater, and not smaller, in the future. And that is why government and industry, moving to combat unemployment, can not simply base their campaign on a plan to restore prosperity. The problem is too complex for that. We need good times, to be sure, and no relief scheme that fails to restore them will do

any good. But we need a good deal more than that, and it will be tragic if we don’t get it. It is for that reason that the scheme for the shorter working week is so important. Unless we move to redistribute jobs on a wholesale basis, keeping wages up, but making each bit of work go farther, our unemployment problem never will be sfilved. It will be a permanent thing; and with it we shall have a permanent dole. DOUBTFUL ECONOMY TT'CONOMY experts of the administration might take a second look at the plan to save money by putting 3,500 regular army officer on furlough and to spend money by calling 3,500 reserve officers into service at the new’ forestation camps. If the regular officers are to receive halfpay in retirement and the reserve officers to get full pay on duty, the net result will be a considerable increase in government expenditure. There are other considerations which might induce officials to reconsider this policy. The regular officers have made economic commitments on the assumption that their jobs and salaries would continue; if government jobs are available they should haw first call. Presumably also some of the reserve officers now have civilian jobs which they can ill afford to lose for temporary forestry service. This seems to be another case in which economy moves should be controlled by a coordinator; otherwise, the loss may be greater than the gain. AIR MAIL GROWS UP air mail was fifteen years old Monday. President Woodrow Wilson looked on w’hile an old army “Jenny,” with a cruising speed of seventy-five miles an hour, on May 15, 1918, took off from Washington with 100 pounds of mail for New’ York. Over this route Eastern Air Transport now flies hourly service in giant planes w’hich make from 118 to 145 miles an hour. And today the mail flies from New York to San Francisco via United Air Lines in three-mile-a-minute planes in less than twenty hours, only a few times more hours than the original Washington-New York route consumed and half the time required for the cross-country flight ten years ago. Air mail lines now cobweb the nation. Last year the mail-passenger transport planes carried 280,000.000 letters and half a million passengers, together with hundreds of tons of express. On the earth things may be stagnant, but in the air is life. Oklahoma Indians are off on a ceremonial dance aimed at getting good weather for the crops. Better watch ’em closely. If it works, let’s bring ’em to Washington and put ’em to work on the depression. Chicago wife sues husband for separate maintenance, and says she’ll take it in vegetables, he being a farmer. He’ll probably send scallions. Money talks, they always used to say, but under the new bill it looks like it w’ill have to listen for a change while President Roosevelt does the talking. Kansas City man lost 45 cents in a bridge game and shot himself because he couldn’t pay. Must have lost it to his wife. Conservator; The guy who is brought in after the horse is stolen to clean up the stable and get it ready for a new’ horse. There are to be 6,000 hot dog stands at the Chicago exposition this summer. A Century of Progress?

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THE world needs dreamers, not to write poetry, paint pictures, or produce plays, but to translate human knowledge into adventures, enterprises, and achievements in keeping with its scope. Most of the plans and programs being put forward rest on little but the idea of doing the same thing in a different way. War is about the only activity which gives men a chance to mobilize effectively and put forth their utmost strength in a truly co-opera-tive manner. That is why it continues to intirgue the human imagination. Like individual psychology, that of the mass is dominated by a desire to do bigger things. Modern civilization actually is itching for an opportunity to show what can be accomplished through pooled wealth and pooled energy. Polishing off the old machinery or even changing the management will not and can not satisfy this itch. Outside of Russia, there is not one nation on earth committed to a project worthy of its strength, its ability, or its appetite for adventure, and Russia is doing little but install devices and improvements which other nations long have possessed. antt COMPARED to men of the Elizabethan period who risked their all for discovery and conquest, we of the present generation are acting like children. It is quite true that the earth’s surface has been fairly well explored and that the quarreling of countries for territory must be stopped, but that does not mean that the field of romance and adventure has been exhausted. Scientific knowledge and mechanical power have opened a thousand and one doors. We could, with the proper vision and leadership, change the climate of vast regions, or provide a new and permanent source of heat, light, and energy. Wind, sunshine, and the earth's internal fire only wait to be harnessed for man's benefit. At Boulder dam we expect to produce one million-horse power at a cost of SI6ST<rH),OOO. How much horse power could be produced if the same amount of money were spent on sinking shafts through the earth's crust? a a a TEN. fifteen or twenty miles under our feet. not in one place, but all over the world, is a permanent and exhaustless supply of heat. Why not tap it? Why net flood the Sahara desert, or turn the Cold current away from New England? Why not dig a tunnel under the English channel yr the Straits of Gibraltar? Why not make our great rivers not only usable, but good to look at? Seventy-five per cent of human work always has been provided by the appetite for pleasure, novelty, or experiment, and always will be. The trouble with modern life is that it has permitted its pleasures, novelties and experiments to become rutty. In the larger aspects of human progress, it is plating the part of a parlor pink, mistaking commonplace changes for revolution and trying to make itself believe that street disturbances are real movements. It has gone so far in this direction as to be afraid of its own strength, tools and capacity as seriously to consider the idea of restraining itself by law in order not to do too much.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Non-Partisan. J. E. Garnett has awakened my dormant sense of humor with his assertions. I think a trip to one qf our local baking units and the sight of the many hundred loaves of bread that are produced hourly will be a most lucid and convincing argument against his idea. The law of supply and demand will assert itself in this industry, as in the many others, and if the people must live on a curtailed income, the price of foodstuffs must balance in proportion. R. F. Payne, your article has, without a doubt, answered itself as to banks being un smoothly and comfortably, but at the depositors’ expense. It also is true that there would be no necessity of urging the people to buy if their money were not tied up in worthless investments and closed banks. I am afraid that the people have come face to face with reality in regard to the unstable banking situation. As our court records show, and federal actions have shown, not only the people, but our banking authorities, were alarmed over the situation. I have a small amount tied up in a local bank and the experience was costly. It is my earnest desire to love and confide in my fellow-men, but until the fellow-men in question quit pulling my left leg and tugging at my right eye, I must remain on guard against Barnum’s old saying, "There is one born every minute.” I trust this is received as friendly criticism. By Claude C. Harshbarger. Prohibition has accomplished more than any other known system. It is not making everything dry, but it is reducing the amount of alcohol consumed for beverage purposes. Repeal the eighteenth amendment, they say, and turn the problem of liquor control back to the states. What will happen if this is accomplished? It will make the manufacture and sale of liquor a lawful business. It will put it on the same

TNABILITY of the human body to adjust itself satisfactorily to constant high temperature is a wellrecognized phenomenon, manifesting itself usually by symptoms of sunstroke, heatstroke, or heat exhaustion. Another condition commonly seen in men who work long periods of time at a high temperature is what is known as heat cramps. Frequently miners and firemen are unable to work because of severe muscle cramps that come on when they are working at a high temperature. In a study of this condition made by Talbott and Michelsen from Harvard university in Boston and also in the hospital of a mining company in Boulder City, Nev., it is sugested that these heat cramps r e associated with a disturbance of the regulation of the interchange of water and salt in the body.

HUMAN beings, if given half a chance, are likely to be fairly decent creatures. We are as prone to good as we are to evil. Most of our so-called criminals are only victims of circumstance. And howfutile are our present methods of reforming them! It requires so much more intelligence and Christian charity to understand a man than to punish him. It is easier to prosecute than to prevent, to reduce than to teach. And our entire system of penalogy, it seems, has grown to depend largely upon prosecution. We’d rather send a man to jail with all the expense that entails than to try to make him an upright citizen by humane and sensible means. Each state spends large sums yearly for running down, capturing, and trying husbands who fail to support wives and children. In times like '‘these, especially, such cases are increased tremendously on every court docket. In numerous

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Salt Solution Used to Fight Heat Cramp

A Woman’s Viewpoint

Unlash Those Oars!

Claims Extortion By C. M. Jacoby. DO you know what is going on within the walls of the city hall? Do you know that the poultry dealers have got up an ordinance and indorsed it and sent it to the city board and had it ratified, and made a city law, that forces the little dealer to buy his chickens of the city poultry dealers’ organization at its prices, which the organization fixes? Under the ordinance, a farmer is arrested and fined for selling chickens, eggs, butter, rabbits and game of all kinds to any one engaged in resale unless he has paid a S2OO license fee. The small dealer can buy his chickens for from 1 to 3 cents a pound cheaper from the producer than he can from a licensed dealer. He can buy his eggs from the farmer 1 to 3 cents cheaper on the dozen and can save the public money on anything he sells by buying it first-hand. Why should the farmer be forced to pay S2OO for a city license before he can sell his poultry, eggs and game where he pleases? why should any one be forced to pay an extortionate license on anything that goes with everyday living? Here’s the way it will work: The farmer and producer will get less for the articles mentioned and the consuming public will pay more. Go to the city hall and get a copy of the ordinance and see who got it up. basis as all mercantile business and the ownership of property. But why should a government legalize a business that has no other claim than being a wide-sweeping, boiling river of.damnation? There is no guesswork about this, because we have experience to tell us. We know what did happen and we know, therefore, what will happen in the same conditions. The problem of strong drink is hard to handle, certainly, but the one thing we do know about it is that we can not make it easier by legalizing it. That is only to turn this savage beast loose, to put it beyond control. Prohibition is being blamed by the

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association r.nd of Hveeia. the Health Masazine. They studied the minute chemistry of the blood and of the excretions in seven cases of heat cramps. Obviously when working under great heat, there is loss of water and salt from the body in the perspiration. The physiologist Haldane found a loss of SJ/25 J/ 2 pounds rn hour in seasoned colliers at work. Another physiologist found that the weight loss in a Turkish bath was about two pounds an hour. An extremely interesting point is the fact the cramp" promptly disappear when large amounts of salt solution, made up to resemble the concentration of salt in the blood, are injected into the body. All symptoms disappear in six hours after treatment starts. Apparently heat cramps come on when a person has been exposed to a high temperature while work-

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

instances, because we like to believe we are sympathetic with the decent members of the family, we spend all our money on the derelict individual. Imagine for instance what good might be done if the same amounts were applied to helping the helpless. The state better could afford to pay a mother a small sum to keep her child at home than to utilize it Questions- and Answers Q—Has popcorn any food value? A—lt has an average of 490 calories per pound, the same as other com. Q —How is man classified in the animal kingdom? ■** A—As the highest type of animal life, the genus home. A

wets for many of the nation’s financial ills, w’hile it is given no credit for the contribution toward ten years of prosperity. In the face of these facts, are you willing to do your part to help preserve the prohibition law’? But do any right-thinking men or women voters want the repeal? All laws are violated. The difficulty of enforcing it is no argument whatever for its repeal. Let us continue to impart respect for the Constitution of the United States and for all its various amendments. We urge the continued, vigorous and impartial enforcement of the entire Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the, land.

So They Say

If repeal is not procured, the speakeasy will remain as a permanent fixed institution, and public officials will wink at it while ’’the public will patronize it.—Frank A. K. Boland, general counsel, American Hotel Association. I think the principal duty of the Republicans today is to help make good the Democratic promises of a return of prosperity and of employment.—Will Hays, former post-master-general. Beer 'will unlock the pianos of the nation.—Gene Buck, of the American Society of Composers. During our last few months together there were many arguments lasting far into the night.—Joan Crawford, suing Doug Fairbanks Jr., for divorce. The federal government is without legal means to safeguard the American investor. —Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota. The child of today is spared many fears by the influence of mental hygiene upon parents and school teachers—Dr. Haven Emerson of Columbia University. Writers are all dumb. —Sinclair Lewis, novelist.

ing, so that there is a rapid loss of salt in the perspiration that is not replaced. When the blood is examined, there is found to be a lessened amount of the chloride material in the blood. It is possible to prevent heat cramps by providing a daily supply of salt that is greater than the amount lost in the sweat. There are various w r ays in which additional amounts of salt may be gotten into the body. In some industries means are now provided for giving the men slightly salted w’ater to drink, something like 1 per cent of salt being used successfully in preventing heat cramps among soldiers in the United States army. Among certain miners in Great Britain it has been customary to supply salted beer, and it is recommended to the men that the food taken daily be salted liberally.

in supporting a man in jail or even in collecting from him by keeping the sheriffs hot upon his trail. ana MORE foolish than this are our reform schools. They send forth a frank stench of barbarism. We take youngsters who have been unfortunate in their parentage r their environment and lock them up, so that they feel like social pariahs, and then profess to feel aggrieved when they return to us fullfledged criminals. Our jails arc running madly at lull capacity, and we build ever larger prisons, while slowly but inevitably our schools are closing. If w-e took only half the money we spend on prosecuting for petty offenses and used it for the good of the children, we might mend our morals. As they are now, the whdli system reeks with rottenness. We must face the fact.

MAY 18. 1033

It Seems to Me

BY HEYWOOD BROUN =5. VIEW YORK. May 18 I have pretty nearly decided not to make my new book a proletarian novel. In this decision I have been very largely influenced by reading ;■> magazine called the Anvil, which carries the descriptive subhea i. Stories for Workers." Do you mind if I quote just ire first two sentences from a little whirlwind of a tale called “Night Fmce”? Anyhow here goes: "Ail the week stealthily through rlark alleys and somber side streets and pirud. sneering vacant lots, 'nris interlocked, thinking how b'aek’y in tlf 1 room the shuddering crescendo of it had palpitated.” , But perhaps you want to get on ” i' i the s’ery. so we will skip a lit—do"n t: ’C"'"" it” down dfripty streets. ~n~erir' T ; fat. yellow lamps and c’T.n, v f e curtains. We sat on the cl-c s, the days yammering mournfully within us.” And by now you will want to know how it all turned out; "Our feet hit the pavement sharply; surefooted, we strode on: firmly, we marched. It soon would be morning!” a e tt Kind to Proletariat NOW. all that could be superb English prose. I wouldn't know about that. But who says it is a story’ of workers? If that is proletarian literature, then Marcel Proust was the best lad who ever wrote a serial for the Youth’s Companion. In America, at any rate trouble with proletarian literature has been the fact that the proletarians don’t write it, haven’t read it, and never heard anything about it. And if they did, I'm not at all sure they would be for it. A young man may be superb in his sincere and passionate belief that our economic system is all w’rong. He even may be extremely clear-headed as to how the change can be brought about. But these qualifications do not inevitably fit him to set up as an interpreter of the new world to the American working man. There is, of course, no such thing as complete unity of literary taste among all American workers. I easily can find a steamfitter who is intent on getting hold of everything Gorky ever wrote. And I can find another steamfitter, or maybe a couple of steamfitters, who would have a lot more fun with the Saturday Evening Post. ft # St Fiction and Facts TT is true, of course, that our popular fiction magazines, through both conscious and unconscious selection, celebrate for the most -part the triumph of rugged individualism. The boy in the short story or the novel who works hard and behaves himself has a very good chance in the last paragraph to marry the daughter of the boss. He even may come to own the factory and belong to a good golf club. American fiction, and even more extensively the American talking picture, is just as much propaganda as anything written by the most ardent young Communist here or abroad. And it has been a very persuasive kind of propaganda. The much-applauded patience of the unemployed millions is to some extent founded upon their long contact with the success story type of novel and movie. And even the articles lean to the formula of "How I Started With Two Shoelaces and Now Own the Largest Retail Boot Shoppe in Haverhill. Mass.” It is entirely reasonable that many writing men should feel the necessity of an antidote or even an emetic. People who don't think that industrial life in America goes exactly like that ought to set down in their own words their version of the world about us. But I think that, for the sake of propagandic effectiveness, they make a great mistake in trying to alter both the mood and the manner at the same time. * tt tt Alger in Red, I THINK the radical movement needs its Harold Bell Wrights and its Horatio Algers. You could take Mr. Alger’s Ragged Dick and leave him at th* end “Somewhat. More Ragged Dick” after his encounter with the unemployment problem. And certainly there is no reason wdry young American radicals should go in for being precious. All the proletarian literature out of Union Square which I have seen has too much crepe hair on its chest. I once knew a female impersonator who used to curse very loudly backstage in the fear that on account of his occupation somebody might suspect he wasn’t manly. And I have known a lot of proletarian literature in this country which tosses about an excessive number of the shorter and uglier words with the same sort of forced virility. Curiously enough, the radicals in tlfe graphic arts have done very much better. There are half a dozen men who can slap you in the eye with cartoons which are forceful, direct, simple, and effective. But the novelists, the essayists, and the poets—the poets most of all —still are paving their little revolutionary’ renews with the sponge cake of good intentions. (Copyright, 1933 bv The Times) The Green Hill BY MARGARET E. BRUNER Afar, I saw a lush green hill; It seemed a haven, blessed With every needed thing to fill My heart with peace and rest. For I was tiled of valley ways— Fatigued and overworn, And longingly I turned my gaze Upon it night and morn. There was a steep and winding road That travelers might take. What lay beyond served as a goad. I bpre much for its sake. When, wearied, I had gained the crest And thought from trouble freed. I looked about, but was distressed To ftnri both thorn and weed.