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FRIDAY MAY 19. 1933 HITLER IS STILL HITLER T f ERR HITLER piped down when confronted by an American-British-French-Italian-Russian united front against him. That is the significance of his wild speech on foreign policy—-no more, no less. To assume that the Nazi madman has changed his policy would be folly. The attitude of the French and British people toward Hitler is that actions speak louder than words. Ungracious as such attitude may appear to those who have not followed Hitler's career, it is the only sensible reaction. Wilier has done more to retard revision of the unjust Versailles treaty, more to retard international recognition of Germany's rights to equality, than any man living. He actually is Germany’s own enemy. The fact is that until Hitler became German dictator, both the United States and Great Britain were siding with Germany and against France on the treaty revision issue. Now neither the London nor the Washington government, nor any other government in its sen.se, willingly would increase the power and prestige of such an international firebrand. It is not that foreign governments or peoples desire to meddle in the internal affairs of Germany. It ts that foreign governments for their own self-protection desire to prevent another world war. Peace can not be built upon hate. Hitler has fried to turn all Germany into a vast caldron of hatred. Peace can not be built on military revenge. Hitler Is persuading millions, of Germans to trust in a revival of Prussianism. Peace can not be built on racial and class persecution. Hitler, by his brutal and cowardly terrorism against Jews, against German culture, against labor unions, is planting international dynamite—he is turning foreign countries into enemies not only of Hitler barbaiism, but unfortunately, enemies of Germany. This is the great tragedy in the situation. The German people are suffering for the sins of Hitler, and will continue to suffer.

MUSCLE SHOALS AT LAST ft-vHE great Tennessee river basin improve* •*- ment is about to begin. Another congress has passed another Muscle Klioals bill, probably the best so far This time Franklin D. Roosevelt sits in the White House, and this time the progressives have not been thwarted, as they were by Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover. Mr. Roosevelt's signature has enacted the bill into law, and the great social and economic experiment can be started. Muscle Shoals, these last twelve years, while progressives led by Senator George W. Norris have fought to keep the government's huge plant for the government’s own use, has become the symbol of the power fight. It has become the symbol of government operation of a hydro-electric plant, a yardstick by which the rates of private power companies could be measured. Through these years Senator Norris made the fight to save Muscle Shoals for the people v ho paid for it. and now his dream and that cf President Roosevelt are possible because of that valiant battle. His bill prevailed in the conference between the two houses last week. He is responsible lor the flexibility of the law to permit the necessary exercise of broad discretion in undertaking this experiment, which eventually will result in decentralization of industry throughout that valley, the sale of cheap power to states, counties, cities, and co-operative organizations of farmers. President Roosevelt is pxpected soon to appoint the three members of the board to administer the project, and no more important jobs have been his to fill. As the house conferees on the bill said: * We are persuaded fully that the full success cf the Tennessee valley development will depend more upon the ability, vision, and executive capacity of the members of the board than upon legislative provisions.” It is to be hoped that Mr. Roosevelt will not be influenced unduly by geographical factors. nor by the fact that the conduct of the Tennessee experiment will require minute, accurate technical knowledge of many sorts. He should, we believe, appoint men who, first, believe in the Tennessee project. They should be men of vision, who understand the human and economic effects of the development. It will be easy enough for them to hire technical experts, chemists, engineers, hydroelectric experts, to work out details. THE WORM’S TURN 1 AWNS and sidewalks in Indianapolis are covered with wriggling earthworms as the result of the recent rains. Experts assure us that the worms are neither larger nor more numerous than in previous years. They only appear so to the citizen who tries to get from his kitchen door to his garage without stepping on a half dozen of them. These worms are called by a variety of names, among them dew-worms and fishworms. The scientists know’ them more technically as the “Lumbricus terrestis.” The average citizen—unless he is a fisherman—may regard earthworms merely as nuisances. But it was the great Charles Darwin who pointed out their value in the scheme of life They break up the soil and turn it over, thus increasing its fertility. It is estimated that the upper ten inches of soil is entirely turned over once in seven years by activity of earthworms.

SCHOOL SYSTEM BREAKS DOWN TT used to be a joke when some unexpected emergency forced a public school to close ahead of schedule. Today the joke has lost Its point. It has been repeated too many times. The National Education Association has figures to show that on April I—the mc*t recent date for which statistics are available —nearly 300,000 American school children had oeen given holidays not called for in schedules. More than 1.200 schools have been closed entirely. In nearly every city and town school teachers' salaries have been cut, the cuts ranging from 10 to 40 per cent. In many other places teachers haven't been able to collect what is owed them. And in innumerable places school schedules have been shortened, certain classes have been discontinued, teaching staffs have been reduced, and special features have been dropped. What we have here, plainly, is an emergency which fails to shock us only because it has come upon us gradually. It is needless to point out that our whole social and political setup rests on a sound, adequately supported public school system. The fact speaks for itself. Trying to run a democracy in a large, heavily industrialized nation without giving every child as much of an education as his mental powers permit him to assimilate is worse than trying to make bricks without straw'. It is simply Impossible. Yet we are rapidly approaching the point of complete collapse in our school system. We can't much longer continue to pare our school services, pay off our teachers with unsubstantial promises, and extend our holiday periods without involving the whole nation in an extremely serious predicament. And it is not quite enough to keep our fingers crossed and hope that the pending business revival w'ill solve all our troubles. The depression not only has cut revenues of our school boards. It has revealed profound faults in the whole system by which the schools have been at the mercy of the politicians. Inefficiency, corruption and the spoils system in city and state government are exacting a terrible price. To rehabilitate the schools we must, eventually, rehabilitate all machinery of local selfgovernment. SCIENCE, INSANITY, AND THE LAW 'T'HE case of Winnie Judd once more re- -*■ emphasized the necessity for a complete overhauling of the legal conception and procedure relative to the matter of insanity. The Judd case represented many long drawn out months of virtual horseplay. The facts which finally saved the condemned woman from the noose were all available at the time of the trial. In the end science did not prevail. Sympathy and chivalry merely upset the normal course of our hard criminal procedure. in most states of the Union it is almost impossible for an honest expert in medical psychology to present straightforward and relevant evidence. He only can answer the questions put to him and they are adroitly framed to bring out the points desired by the examining lawyer. There is no opportunity to present the well-organized and unified opinion that such a physician would set forth in dealing with a private case. Moreover, the legal test of insanity; namely, the question of whether a person can distinguish between right and wrong and recognize the consequences of his acts bears no important relationship to the scientific medical notions of mental disease. • There are plenty of persons of psychopathic character w r ho have no serious impairment of mental powers, but are quite incapable of normal social conduct in the face of inciting circumstances.

Massachusetts was the first commonw’ealth to eliminate the first obstacle to the introduction of medical science into the courtroom. Here the burlesque and horseplay involved in the legal examination and cross-examination of psychiatrists has been done away w’ith. The accused man Ls thoroughly examined by an accredited psychiatrist from the state department of mental diseases, a careful report is drawn* up and all this informaiton is available when the trial opens. In short, the doctor here functions in the courtroom as he might when dealing with a private patient. He has no other incentive than the ascertainment of truth and suffers no significant handicap in setting it forth for the benefit of the court. In an interesting recent case in Maryland, a precedent has been set which, if widely followed, will eliminate the other major defect in our legal handling of the insanity problem, namely, the absurd legal notions of mental irresponsibility. This is the procedure followed in the famous Duker case, presided over by Judge Joseph N. Ulmah of Baltimore. This is dealt with at length in Judge Ulmans interesting book. "A Judge Takes the Stand,” just published. Herman W. Duker held up John W. Anderson. the driver of a milk wagon, in the spring of 1931, and shot him dead when Anderson resisted. There was no doubt about Duker's guilt. There was, further, no doubt about his being a man of normal mental powers. He was quite clearly able to distinguish between right and wrong and fully to realize the consequences of his act in holding up and shooting an innocent man. At the same time, he had a long case history of anti-social conduct and of psychopathic personality. From the age of 13 it had been realized that he was a psychopath, incapable of normal social conduct. He had been examined by a number of eminent psychiatrists, all of whom branded him as a psychopath before he committed the murder of which he was convicted. No less a person than Dr. Frankwood E. Williams examined Duker two years before the murder and said that “he is as little able, on account of his psychopathic condition, to conform his conduct to social standards, as he would be to walk in the air.” Upon advice of counsel. Duker pleaded guilty. Had the case been handled by a convential judge, the issue of insanity hardly would have been raised and Duker would have been sentenced to hang without any serious consideration of the deeper issues involved in his case. Had the insanity issue been raised,

it hardly w'ould have been allowed by the usual jurist. But Judge Ulman realized the educational value of the case and established what may prove an epoch-making precedent in American criminal jurisprudence. He admitted that Dukcr was insane according to legal standards, but also declared that he was clearly a case of “psychopathic personality,” and, hence, quite incapable of normal social conduct. For the first time in the history of American criminal procedure dealing with adults, the notion of psychopathic personality was given definite legal standing. Medical science and enlightened jurisprudence were at last allow’ed to come into actual contact. Judge Ulman also took advantage of the opportunity to establish another healthy precedent by condemning Duker to be hanged, not as a punishment for his crime, but as a measure of social sanitation. Holding that he was incurable, could not be safely returned to society, and w r ould disrupt prison discipline if confined, he concluded that extermination was the desirable disposition of the case.' On this point the judge was reversed by Governor Richie, who commuted Duker s sentence to life imprisonment. AL SMITH’S REFUSAL TT is disappointing to learn that A1 Smith A refuses to be drafted for service as mayor of New York. The job needs him badly, and he could perform a tremendous service in it. To be sure, the matter is not especially important to any one but the citizens of the metropolis itself. But we may have an interest in it, and his appearance in that job would have been good news all over the country. New York needs a mayor of Smith's capacity more than it needs anything else; it would have been like a breath of fresh air to see him step in to occupy the place formerly held by such men as Walker and Hylan. For years it has been a common criticism that city government is the weak point of American democracy. It is a rare event when a large city gets as mayor a man who is even passably equipped for the job. A1 Smith seems to have been made to order for the job in New York. It is a pity that he won’t take it. SUPPORTING PRESS FREEDOM are bound to be interested in the new law’ put into effect in New Jersey recently, under which no court, grand jury or other inquisitorial body could require any reporter to divulge the source of confidential Information used in news articles. This law simply recognizes what long has been the code of the news-gathering profession: That a reporter is in honor bound to protect the person from whom he gets information of legitimate interest to the public. Courts and grand juries frequently have tried to compel reporters to reveal their sources, and in most instances they have failed. All too often they have made the attempt simply because the reporter in question had made public something that certain highly placed folk wanted concealed, and the action has been an effort to get the reporter in a hole. New Jersey's law is anew bulwark for freedom of the press. Alcohol can be made from petroleum cheaper than from corn, asserts Dr. Gustav Egloff, famed research chemist. Maybe in the future the expression “Getting well oiled’ really will mean what it says.

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ONE need not be a particularly shrewd reader of signs to realize that civilization is moving toward another epoch of puritanism. Two-thirds of the people in Europe already have lost what were regarded as essential rights .twenty years ago. The book burning in Germany, the ex cathedra decrees of Mussolini, and the ruthless suppression of critical or adverse opinions by the Russian regime are but markers oI the growing tendency. The fact that economics instead of religion provides the motive should not be taken by one to promise less intolerance or bigotry. Arbitrary rule by small groups wall result in the same kind of oppression it always has. We should gain little by swapping open Sundays for controlled industries, or the divine right of kings for the divine right of technocrats. Dictatorship is just as tyrannical by any other name. Love of physical comfort is persuading us to follow anew kind of witch doctor and accept anew kind of despotism. A little more skeptical toward salvation in the hereafter, we have grown to believe in its possibility on earth. Having failed to make the world safe for democracy, we propose to make it safe for everyone by abandoning democracy; at least some people do. , BBS THAT is how the Romans felt when they made Augustus consul for ten years, and the French when they made Napoleon consul for life. There comes a time when people are ready to throw away the privilege of self-gov-ernment for the sake of a breathing spell, but only to discover that despotism leads up the same blind alley, no matter how it originated or what purpose it pretends to serve. People can not put themselves in the hands of masters without becoming slaves. This thing we call discipline invariably reaches a point where it will not tolerate the liberty to think. It already has reached that point in several countries. If you don’t believe it, go to Russia and begin to argue that Communism is wrong and ought to be overthrown, or to Germany and attack the Nazis, or to Italy and denounce Mussolini. Laziness is at the bottom of this new-found faith in concentrated power. People want security without effort, ease without work, liberty without obligations. For the hundredth time, they are looking for some system, or formula which will guarantee this blessed state. For the hundredth time, they are calling on a few to do the job. and are imagining that it will be well done, regardless of their own lack of interest. a a a IT is quite true that countries have grown too great for the old town meeting system, but in practice rather than in principle. The fact that 100.000.000 people can not assemble in one place to be counted does not mean that the right to think and vote should be abandoned. If that right is abandoned, as it has been in many nations, this world again will feel the shriveling effect of tyranny and oppression; again will cry for release, and again seek freedom through revolution. We talk about individualism as though it were something created by law. as though the ego could be eliminated by statute, as though the inner consciousness of man could be regulated by gadgets, as tfiough life were not an eternal compromise between what we ought to do together and what we must do alone.

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(Timex readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 25 0 words or less.) By F. A. Richards While reading the editorial page of The Times dated May 13, I perused the squib “Passaic's Boy Heroes.” It seems that six orphan boys in New Jersey, saved an Erie railway train from leaving the rails and going to the happy hunting grounds. A noble deed, appreciated by the Erie and all on board the train. Now’ let’s check on the reward handed out to the boy heroes of ’33. Six circus tickets at 50 cents each, six ball game tickets at $1 each, six copper medals at 10 cents each, six baseball gloves at $1.50 cents each, Babe Ruth ball game tickets at $1 each. It totals $24.60. A grand reward to be divided among six Americans of the rising generation! The average steel passenger coach costs the Erie Railway between three and four thousand dollars. Say there w r ere six coaches at a value of $20,000, plus the price of a locomotive at SIO,OOO. That would be $30,000 saved the Erie by the six boys and they are rewarded with $24.60, or $4.10 each. Does it make them puff up with pride? Do they get cocky and selfassertive on $4.10 each?.. Do they high hat the neighborhood kids? Do they waste the coin in riotous living? Do they buy new autos with the reward? Do they spend it on the New York Stock exchange? T f rseems that the old A. E. F. 1916 proverb is right, ‘Heroes get flowers on Decoration day.” By S. W. K. “Taxpayer's” epistolary frenzy is so incredibly anti-social that it seems anachronistic. But he is not unique; his indiscretion and blatancy only make him seem so. For the cancerous growth of pluto-

IN the control of tuberculosis there are three places for attack—prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. It is recognized that satisfactory treatment depends on early diagnosis. It is recognized, furthermore, that the combination of early diagnosis with satisfactory treatment definitely lowers the death rate from this disease. Finally, the prevention of tuberculosis. through control of the dissemination of the organism, represents the greatest advance in the control of this disease. If ycung c’. Idren can l>e kept from contact with the disease, if children whose constitutions are such as to incline them toward infection when submitted to the germ are given opportunity to develop good bodies, and thereby resistance, much will b? done to stamp out this ancient Captain of the Men of Death.

TAty told in every mail that the modern woman is not a good sport. She smiled during prosperity, but she is peevish in depressions —so runs the gist of the arguments. And the tone of many implies that it's high time I gave up trying to defend the sex. But I shan’t do it. no matter what happens, because most of the loose talk about the modern wife's cussedness is exaggerated. I never have professed to think her an angel and by the same reasoning I never shall remain silent to hear her dubbed a devil. And isn't it true, besides, that we can not generalize about men and women. There are so many different kinds of wives as there are different sorts of husbands—and that's a great many. No two of us are exactly the same, which is the thing that gives a zest to living. It requires no particular generosity to admit that there are lots of unpleasant female specimens in circulation, women as mean and selfish and greedy as pigs. But. my friends, what about the great gen-

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Called Unfair Bv H. C. Becker. T HAVE been and still am a daily reader of The Times since it w r as the Sun and found it fair, but your editorial attack on Cities Service doesn’t set well. The idea of completely smashing the poor man's holding in this company is an injustice w’hen you know’ ana your paper has taught that banks and almost all stocks are in the same boat. Then w’hy bankrupt the poor man’s stock, w’hich later on will be as good as any? cracy eats deep within the social body. Who are the beneficiaries of the doctrine of laissez faire but parvenus —almost without exception? They are the underprivileged come in comparatively recent times, themselves, to escape industrial oppression and social stigma. Those of us whose forebears founded the nation as a haven of political and religious liberty have fallen upon evil days indeed w'hen its resources are exploited and its economic life debased by these erstwhile proletarians of the old world. The gratuitous insult of that brutal harangue hardly can touch the starving and the shelterless. Others who still can laugh relish that funny philippic. Delusions of grandeur are not always pathetic. Os course, “taxpayer” can not be expected to know that no “aristocrat” could be guilty of the stupidity and had taste he evinces. His are the unmistakable utterances of the yokel come to unwonted affluence. In these United States we have no social caste; our peasantry are grown into rich vulgarians.. Theodore Roosevelt had a name for them. “See how they climb,” says Nietzsche, "these sw’ift apes! They climb over one another, and thus drag themselves into the mud and depths.” (Let us hope that he

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. It now is some fifty years since Koch announced the discovery of the germ that causes tuberculosis. Since that time physicians, health officers, social workers, and educators have combined in pointing out to the public the necessity for avoiding contact with this germ. The only way in which contact can be avoided is to remove children as early a.* possible from parents who are tuberculous, It also is necessary to avoid overcrowding in homes, apartments and institutions. Whereas much now is known about the nature of the germ that causes tuberculosis, the other factor ir. relationship to the disease, namely, the reason why the cells and tissues of one individual withstand tuberculosis successfully, while

eral average, the plain ordinary folks like you and me? Faulty as they are, they do, I think, measure up to the standards set by the general average of men. And why should we expect any more of them? If nature could not Questions and Answers Q—Why was Rutherford B. Hayes chosen President in 1876, when Samuel Tilden received the majority of the popular vote? A—Owing to a dispute over the selection of presidential electors, the election of the President was thrown into the house of representatives, which solved the difficulty by appointing a presidential commission to determine the issue. That commission, being dominated by Republicans by a majority of one, chose Hayes, although Tilden. the Democratic nominee, received a clear majority of the popular vote.

speaks here with his usual clairvoyance.! And again, "Only a man of intellect should hold property.” Several ways occur to one in w'hich “taxpayer” may have obtained his “share of the national income.” But intelligence isn’t one of them. And the saliency which ablutions seem to occupy in his stream of consciousness would indicate that the bathtub is a recent institution in his menage. B- a True Indiana Bell Employe. Like the employes w’ho wrote articles on May 12 and 16, I can not sign my name, but not because I'm yellow’ or ashamed I work for the Indiana Bell. I haven't been an employe many years, but I am well acquainted with men who have up to forty years’ service, and if working conditions were so terrible it looks like they w’ould have left the employ of the company long ago. I was graduated frqm high school and. being unable to attend a university, roamed from job to job and last joined the Bell inexperienced in anything. They taught me line w’ork, and today I am making a comfortable living, while many of my friends w’ho obtained educations are unemployed. We have a plant council that is our representative to our employers, and it is true that many things are vetoed that are brought before them. That is the fault of the employe, because he brings up such impossible subjects. The employer has to take these subjects and weigh them against the hundreds of employes and not the individual. The disgruntled employe wants to be treated as an individual and it can’t be done with any success. The employe w’ho signs his name “Another” speaks of Socialism, but his thoughts and writings are Bolshevism instead. He would have to think that w r ay to speak so of a company that has been so square to its employes.

those of another individual succumb to the toxin and the infection, has not been determined. Death rates for tuberculosis have fallen fairly steady during the last fifty years. Most of this fall definitely is related to improvement In living conditions, to changes in hours of work, to emphasis on the value of sunlight and fresh air and good personal hygiene. Much of the control of the death rate is related to proper disposal of sputum of those who are infected, much of it, no doubt, due to the withdrawal of infected people by placing them in sanatoriums, preventoriums, and similar institutions. Nevertheless, there is a vast amount of tuberculosis among people generally. The battle continues, and it is reasonable to believe that some day this disease, like yellow fever, will be brought under complete scientific medical control.

contrive to create the perfect male, shall w’e expect perfection in the weaker vessel? • u e n WHATEVER should we do if all of a sudden every woman w’ere transformed into the angelic creature about whom men to dream? What would there be, then, to complain about? Imagine the fuss and fury that would occur if upon some bright morning we should w’aken to find there were no more feminine culprits upon whom to hang the blame for our general ills? How flustered and nonplussed the men would be to find every girl well-behaved, every wife a model of all the virtues. and every mother a saint. It's been funny to observe their antics while one listened to their talk. They have ballyhooed the good woman until their paeans have grown monotonous as the fifth chapter of Genesis. Yet there’s scarcely a one of them who did not, between canticles, as it were, leave their paragons to pine while they ran after the poor sports.

MAY 19, 1933:

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, May 19.—I've been with nature We have a rendezvous in May each year. But the best I ever can say is that I will be a brother to her. You se?. I like nature, but I don't respect her. She's too Victorian, j Ail kinds of things have been hap- ' pening in the world, to which nature has paid almost no attention. Freud, Margaret Sanger and Lenin have written and argued to no | avail. Nature still is blind to cooperation. birth control and the inhibitions. i An apple tree stands outside mv j door. It is crowded with blossoms. ! Each blossom eventually will turn into a sour and insignificant green apple. The tree will groan under the weight pf its undesired fruit.The apples will fall to the ground - and rot. Nobody wants them for cider, pie or applejack. But there's no point in telling the tree anything about marginal land ■ or overproduction. Without spraying or pruning or kind words, it seems bent upon going on until the end of time raising green and unlikable apples. a e a | Darwin Too Generous MR. DARWIN was able to find a purpose and a plan in na- | ture. As long as evolution is accepted as providing for the survival jof the fittest, there seems some j c ?nse even in the wild extravagances of plant and animal life. But this old apple tree can't quite catch the idea that the race is over and that it has been disqualified for foot faulting, failure to break clean, and general ineptitude. That is the curious thing about nature. In many respects it it is shockingly cruel and yet in others it will humor the misfits and thepalookas and let them string along as if they ready still had a chance for survival and the blue ribbon. | I think the trouble with nature is | that, though it speaks a hundred | tongues, it cant say “No” in any onej of them. But even in Connecticut, wh**re ! the hand of man has in some ways j modified the primitive, brutalitiesstill occur. Pandora, the greyhound, seemed to catch a touch of the sweetidealism which permeated my farmhouse on Mothers' day. She sat and listened somewhat dubiously to the radio while Mayor O'Brien made his eloquent apology for fatherhood. She saw me rise at dawn to pick a bunch of violets still fragrant with the dew. And when T couldn't findany violets within twenty feet ofl the house and went back to bedy again, she returned to her nap. - o a a Pandora Does Her Bit STILL the spirit of the holiday had touched her not too active j brain and she decided that it would ; be meet and right for her to make j some contribution in the mood of j the festival. So just after breakfast she went to the top of the hill past the lake and killed a woodchuck which she bore home in triumph. Indeed she laid it at my feet. I am neither a mother nor a i woodchuck collector. I was horri- | fled that this small furry animal i which had been so much alive within I an hour and doing whatever it is that a woodchuck does now should J lie stark and limp simply to mark a greyhound s misconception of the j significance of Mother s day. I could not chide Pandora, for she was severely chewed around the nose and had bled and suffered to be able to make her timid proffer, of a dead rodent. After all I thought,, one must not quarrel with the logic of nature. It is a strange" point of view, but nevertheless consistent, and maybe I'm wrong. I should not have been so humble, for late that evening I discovered that nature, in Connecticut at any rate, is cockeyed. Retiring a little before 9 or 10, as is my custom in the country, I w - as awakened by the sound of music. I did not w’ant to wake up, for in my dream a kind-hearted old j gentleman had come along and said: "I understand you want to | put up a two-piano revue. Would $50,000 be enough to start? You understand that you can have plenty more if necessary.” 808 ‘Heaven Help Us’ I AM practical even when asleep, and so I took the old gentleman’s money in five dollar bills and I was sitting back watching Johnny Boyle put on the opening number for "Heaven Help Us.” The piano music grew’ louder. Somebody was in the living room. Wide awake by now, I listened intently. “It's a nice melody,” I thought to myself, “but I believe it’s a steal from Irving Berlin.” In order not to distub the unknown musician I sneaked into the; room on tiptoe. A large gray rafc was running up and down the keys/ And where w’as Pandora, the woodchuck scourge, or Captain Flagg, that fierce fighter and chipmunk chaser? Both dogs were asleep and snoring. They could not have been more than ten feet away from the musical rat. And so i said then and I say again, “Nature doesn’t know her business. She needs a couple of professors from Columbia to found for her a brain trust. Woodchucks harried on distant hills! Rats on the grand piano! What kind off management is this?” iCoovrieht. 1933. bv The Times) Your Smile BY JOSEPHINE DIKE You need not say a single word But come into a room And smile at me; your eyes have tricks That chase away all gloom. But if at someone else you gaze With that bewitching look. Then winter wraps my heart in ' ice, ! Each cubbyhole and nook. Ah. what a world of mystery Abides in your sweet smile. It’s the "Go” sign on the love road Which makes all life worth while. : Daily Thought A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked... person.—Psalms 101:7. NO wickedness has any ground of reason—Livy.