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WEDWMDAY, MAY 24, 1933 WHO SHOULD PAY? A S far as it goes, the new tax plan agreed to by the house ways and means committee is good. But it doesn't go far enough, and for that reason is unfair. This is a re-employment tax that now is to be levied, a tax to pay interest and sinking fund charges on $3,300,000,000 in government bonds that will be issued to construct public works and create jobs. The house committee has increased the normal income tax rates from 4 to 6 per cent on the first $4,000 of net Income, and from 8 to 10 per cent on all income in excess of $4,000. The middle class, the people of modest incomes, are complaining at these increases; but, their complaint is justified, we believe, only because the committee at the same time did not make great wealth bear a proportionate share of the burden. It did nothing to increase the income surtaxes, and thus has ignored the theory of our income tax system, under which those who have little pay little, those who have much pay more. Unless the surtaxes are increased in the administration's national recovery bill, the new levy on great wealth will be no larger, comparatively, than upon the $2,000, $4,000, SIO,OOO incomes. Here is a splendid opportunity for the senate to equalize the tax burdrn, to maintain the principle of our revenue system. The committee likewise gave corporations favored treatment in the taxing sections of the new bill. Although the measure itself is intended to revive business, no new or higher levy was placed on the incomes of business. It is true that the committee made corporate dividends subject to the normal rates as well as the surtaxes, and there are some who argue that business, because it is being helped by the measure, should assume this $83,000,000 new tax. But these persons seem to forget that it is the little fellow, the little investor, who will bear a large part of this new impost. Yet the committee is to be complimented for making clear in the bill that these new levies may be lifted when the eighteenth amendment is repealed, and liquor taxes begin pouring into the federal treasury. It neither sidestepped nor straddled, but named repeal by name. And thus, for the first time, the whole immense power of congress and the federal government Is thrown behind the growing movement to take the eighteenth amendment out of the Constitution. Those who will feel the pressure of the new income taxes—those of small means and large—have new incentive now to work for repeal, for easier taxation. MR. MORGAN DIDN’T PAY A GREAT many people are indignant because Mr. J. P. Morgan of the Wall street Morgans paid no federal income tax during the last three years, and that most of his partners likewise escaped. That is a natural emotion for persons who did pay. Just how Mr. Morgan slipped through the Income tax net is not yet altogether clear. Presumably he did not resort to the alleged illegal practices for which his friend and debtor, Mr. Mitchell, has been indicted. It is well known that many rich men have escaped from the income tax in recent years merely by walking out the back door which the obliging law has left wide open for them. That door is called the provision for capital-gains-and-losses. It provides that the individual may be taxed on the gain from sale of capital assets held more than two years or in the event of losses in such sales he may distribute losses as a future credit against the tax on his ordinary income. As former President Hoover and others have pointed out. this tax during prosperity increases speculative inflation and during depression impedes business recovery. It contributes to a boom because stocks are not liquidated on a rising market, but, are dumped or put through wash sales on a low market to establish real or fictitious losses and escape taxes. It is time for the government to take another look at this entire matter of the capital-gain-and-loss tax. Rich men of the country should not be able to escape income taxes at the very moment when the rest of the country is burdened with increased taxes and when the government is so desperately in need of revenue. FRANCE’S NEXT MOVE CHANCELLOR HITLERS speech was a body blow to the Versailles system. It also was a sharp disappointment to those who had hoped for a fiery and defiant blast from the German chancellor which would offer confirmation of their thesis of German infamy and aggression. Whatever the previous folly of Chancellor Hitler with respect to anti-Semitism. “Aryanism,” radical myths, repression of radicalism and the like, his speech was a masterly statement of the German case before the world. He put well nigh perfectly the German situation. He showed that the German status is intolerable so long as 4 Germany remains stigmatized as the sole criminal of 1914 and perpetually is penalised in armament, economic life, ard moral standing on the basis of this absurd thesis. He is right in holding that Germany can never well become an actual member of the family of nations so long as this absurd and unhistorical indictment is suspended over her head. Chancellor Hitler very wisely put his demand for German equality on the basis of disarmament by everybody, instead of insisting that Germany be allowed to arm up tb

the level of Prance and other states with lopsided military establishments. This cut the ground from under the contention of Germany's enemies, who have alleged that what Hitler wishes 1s not security, but military power to wage a successful war for restitution of German territory and prestige. Hitler did well to cap this by the assertion that the necessary improvement of European conditions could not be found in anew European war. Two wrongs do not necessarily make a right. Hitler’s expression of willingness to disarm Germany completely if her neighbors will do likewise and to wait five years for this to be achieved fully is as sweeping a declaration as anybody could ask. To have gone further than this would have raised doubts about his sincerity, if not, indeed, about his sanity. It offers ample proof that, if he speaks the truth, Germany wishes security rather than aggression. There is much more plausibility to the German talk of security than to the perennial French gesture on this subject. Germany, a country with a population of more than sixty millions, is restricted to an army of 100,000. France, with little more than half that population, has an army of nearly six times that figure. Together with her allies, her military power outranks that of Germany by more than forty to one. Germany at least has a logical case when she talks of security. This speech unquestionably puts the next move up to France. Let her match Hitler’s declaration that “Germany would be ready without further ado to dissolve its whole military establishment and to destroy the scanty remnant, of arms left it if neighboring nations unreservedly do the same.” It will be hard to deny the logic of his sequitus that “if the others are not willing to carry out the disarmament provisions under the Versailles treaty, which is equally binding upon them, then Germany at least must insist on its claim to equality.” As far as words go, it would be hard to ask for more lrom Chancellor Hitler. The only way to test his sincerity is to take him at his word and see what follows. President Roosevelt said in his message that “common sense points out that if any strong nation refuses to join with genuine sincerity in these concertd efforts for political and economic peace, progress can be obstructed and ultimately blocked. “In such event the civilized world, seeking both forms of peace, will know where the responsibility for failure lies.” By his speech Chancellor Hitler successfully prevented Germany from being put on the spot at this stage of the game. The chancellor’s speech will increase the regret that he has seen fit to prejudice Germany’s clear and logical position in world affairs by silly trivialities, such as his antiSemitism and other vagaries. It is to be hoped that he will reshape his policies in this regard and restrain his obsessed supporters, who are placing their fatherland in jeopardy by acts no more essential to Germany’s well-being than a trip to Mars. LIFE FOLLOWS FICTION ONCE more fact has been taking lessons from fiction, reality from art. The murder in New’ York of Edward R'dley seems too bizarre to be true. The material would be more appropriate to the pages of S. S. Van Dine than to the columns of a daily newspaper. Mr. Ridley himself surpassed in eccentricity the ordinary fictional standards for millionaire recluses. He wore a fabulous set of whiskers that would shame the artificial luxuriance of a department store Santa Claus. Whenever he appeared on the street, winter or summer, he wore an old black overcoat. Strangest of all, perhaps, in these curious days, is the fact that this millionaire really had a million dollars and a good deal moreone million cash in a bank that is still open. The bullets from which he died are shown to have been fired from the same gun that killed his secretary two years ago in the same dingy office. When things like this happen in fiction, there always is an explanation in the last chapter. In real life we can not be so sure. HARBINGERS OF BUSINESS THE traveling man is more than just a part of a complex sales organization. He is a harbinger of busy times, an agent of good business; when he is on the in force, it is a safe bet that real prosperity is not far off. It is interesting, therefore, to read the remarks made at Houston, Tex , recently by L. B. Carlon, national director of the Travelers' protective Association. “You soon will see traveling men back on the road, the forerunners of better business and renewed commercial life,” he said. “In my round I find truly a feeling of optimism. Railroad car loadings are on the increase. Rail transportation companies are installing fast freights to handle the increased tonnage quickly. “Men are going back to work. Aggressiveness and enthusiasm have supplanted pessimism.” BANKRUPT CITIES FARMERS, home-owners and foreign nations are getting debtor relief. What of American states, counties, and cities? Under spell of the late boom, communities, like people, went on spending jags. Many of them spent foolishly, most of them overborrowed. Result: a total of 895 local governments are in default on their bonds. Among these are one state. 172 counties. 309 cities and towns. 136 school districts. 277 other taxing units. Chicago, owing its teachers $30,000,000 and its firemen and policemen other sums, is chief municipal mendicant. President Roosevelt realizes how T serious this condition has become. He has called in Senators Wagner and Couzens and treasury department aides to work out some method of relief. One plan.is to permit communities to go into bankruptcy courts and arrange with their creditors lower interest and amortization charges. Another is to grant them R. F. C. loans, secured by warrants for taxes due. Emergency legislation, doubtless, is needed. But the federal government should do nothing to encourage civic shiftlessness and wasteLocalities must keep their credit as good as Uncle Sam’s. The wiser states are doing this without slashing blindly into needed so-

cial, educational, and regulatory budgets. Utah and West Virginia have voted their governors power to combine or abolish useless bureaus. Major eliminations have been voted in thirteen other states. To make fewer taxing units grow where 250.000 now plague the land is the big job before the states . The wiser cities are putting money into profitable utilities. Louis Bartlett of California, writing in The Nation, tells the story of eighty-four American cities and towns in sixteen states that have abolished all taxes. The cost of government is met by profits from city-owned water, gas, and electricity. According to Bartlett, 2,000 American cities own and distribute their own electric power. Other cities make the Spartan choice of doing without professional politicians. They have the city manager plan, the budget and civil service systems, simple and non-duplicat-ing bureaus, just tax and assessment methods. The road to solvency is straight, and it leads uphill. Communities which allow utilities and their politicians to man the driver’s seat and joy-ride recklessly downhill at the taxpayers’ expense, will find themselves in the ditch along with the others. MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR A N American who has spent the last five or six years in Europe returned to his own country on a vacation recently. Visiting friends in a typical American city, he put in several days driving around the town, its suburbs and the adjacent countryside. Then, one evening, he told his hosts: “You people have no idea how lucky you are to be living in America, You can’t imagine how much better off you are than the rest of the world. “Even in the depression, your workingmen and small-salaried office worker have so much more than similar people in Europe have that there's just no comparison. “After living in Europe for a while, a man who comes back to America feels as if he had got to the finest country in the world.” That sort of talk, of course, used to be our most common boast. In the last two or three years we haven't heard it so often. Indeed, we have let the depression undermine our confidence so much that we have sometimes talked as if we were the unluckiest of all people, instead of the luckiest. But we’re still sitting on top of the heap, comparatively speaking, and it wouldn’t hurt us to keep remembering it. That doesn’t mean that, we should close our minds to the fact that w T e have upward of 10,000,000 men out of work, that we should forget that hunger and discouragement and want are abroad in the land as seldom before, that we should become Pollyannas and shut our eyes to all unpleasant sights. It simply means that in spite of all our troubles we have a great deal for which to thank God, and that we can face the future with more hope and courage if we realize the fact. By keeping that in mind, we can help to advance that great American dream—the dream w r hich has hovered over our horizon for more than a century: The dream that in this land it would be possible to make a better life possible for the average man, the dream that freedom and contentment and happiness more easily could be made everyday realities here than anywhere else on earth. That dream is still possible for attainment. By keeping our eyes on it, hoping for it and working for it, we shall be helping, year by year, to make it come true.

M.E.TracySays:

HAVING studied the subject at some length, a committee on social trends decides that the population of the United States will be about 150,000,000 in sixty years. While the impossibility of making accurate predictions is apparent, habit and customs are developing which leave no doubt that the enormous increase of population we have enjoyed should not be expected in the immediate future. But —and this is an important point—when the American people realize what these customs and habits imply, there is more than likely to be a reaction. Just now, the small family, birth control, and restricted immigration are very popular. We have come to one of those curious phases of national life w’hich often follows a period of too rapid growth. The country is motivated by nothing so distinctly as that “tired feeling.” At the same time we want business to improve and work for everybody, and we forget that our industrial establishment has been tuned to a probable increase of thirteen or twenty million in population each decade. Take that increase away, or even reduce it to a large extent, and the problem of providing work becomes very different from what it was. a tt FOR one thing, the city building orgy by which we have set a record for all time I would cease. With the population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year, New York would face very slim prospects of containing 30,000,000 people in the year 2033, as some of those planning its future have guessed. During the last century, the population of this country doubled approximately five times. If the same rate of increase were to continue, it would be more than that of the whole world now- a century hence. • It was on such a rate of increase that we developed the industrial enterprises and ideas out of 'which our prosperity was created.If population is to become a matter of control, it follows that industry must adjust itself to the consequences, and not industry alone, j but all those phases of collective effort which ! depend on number and movement of people. tt tt tt THERE is no reason why America should not be as happy with a static population as with one which doubles every twenty or thirty years, but not unless it changes its fundamental ideas of what constitutes progress. Up to this time, the great American fetish has been growth, with unequaled bigness as the object. We have striven to build the greatest city, the tallest building, the most commodious stadium. We have measured our progress by counting noses, money in the bank, stories in the skyscraper and other quantitative units. Quality has come to play a less and less important part in our sense of value. A decline in the rate of increase of popu- : lation would change all that, and possibly for i the better. We have grown too materialistic for our own good, too infatuated with accumulating inorganic substances, too negligent of I those intangible forces, which, after all, determine human destiny. A declining birth rate is the natural byproduct of a philosophy which visualizes phys:al comfort and physical convenience as the most worthwhile objective in life, but whether such philosophy can survive the ultimate effect of its own devitalizing influence is mother story.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Mai re your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) Brs. Mrs. Sylvia Brummett. Everywhere you hear people talking on the wet and dry question. I, as a mother, am protesting against having whisky in our state, on the ground that it seriously interferes with our business of raising children to be decent and law-abiding men and women. Os course, we realize the government. needs the tax and the unemployed need the extra work that the making of booze would provide. One thing the wets failed to mention was the fact that thousands would be needed to work on caskets to take care of the bodies of the many victims killed and murdered by drunken drivers, and so not only would there be w r ork on caskets, but there w r ould be more work in the cemeteries digging graves. There would be more hospitals, more asylums for the insane, homes for the feeble-minded and inebriates, more jails, more doctors, more nurses, more lawyers, more undertakers, more policemen. All these would employ thousands and thousands more. And, too, the tax on all this booze would make milions of dollars for the government. And the mothers and children will be the greatest sufferers. The mothers whose hearts will break with the horrible suspense of waiting night after night, not so much for her son and husband, but for her young daughter, and so the mother will watch with a w r hite, wan face and a horrible dread in her heart, with her tears, her broken

This is the first of two special articles on rheumatism. PHYSICIANS long have realized that employes in certain type's of w r ork are more likely to suffer from rheumatic disorders involving inflammation of the joints and of the muscles than are other workers. Many investigators have found that disability due to joint diseases is at a minimum where home and working conditions are good, whereas patients with rheumatic disorders rapidly become worse and, indeed, increase in number under bad housing conditions. The person with a tendency to arthritis or inflammation of the joints is better off with a warm, indoor occupation than with an outdoor occupation. Out of 3,000 cases studied, men working outdoors had from five to three times more rheumatic condition than those who worked indoors. Among occupations particularly suited to persons with a tendency toward rheumatism is office work of various kinds unless the arms

TANARUS) ITTER invectives come from a United States army sergeant at Ft. Slocum. N. Y., who accuses me of trying to build up circulation for the Scripps-Howard newspapers with propaganda against the army. “Your fight agqinst a system,” he says, “is nothing more than a fight 2-gainst individuals. And these individuals are at a decided disadvantage in that they lack that effective weapon, the press, which you a r e wielding sc unscrupulously.”' I dare say nothing I could set down here would alter the sergeant’s opinion. To hate systems and love the individuals involved in them is. it seems, beyond the understanding of a good many people. “No doubt the slave-holding families of the old south felt the same way when assaults were begun against a custom that gave them a livelihood and brought sporadic prosperity to their communities. Yet it truthfully can be said that universal sympathy was felt for their predicament.

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Occupation Is Factor in Rheumatism

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Near the End of His Rope!

Defends A. T. & T. By a Bell Employee’s Wife. IAM the wife of a man who has been a Bell employe for a good many years and we always have found that company fair and square. Os course his time has been cut and he is afraid of being dropped entirely, but every man who works for someone else has the same fear. Thousands of men are on small pay or have been let out entirely who do not or did not work for the telephone company. I have two brothers who would be glad to take the places of the authors of these complaining letters. They have been out of jobs two years and didn't work for the telephone company either. As to dividends, my mother, a widow, put her savings in stocks.

prayers to God in the night until her health breaks, and she, too, will need to be buried, giving more work to the unemployed and more tax for the government. What a mockery it will be and our young girls, the future mothers of our country, the greatest consumers of the rotten stuff. I believe even the fiends in hell laugh at the talk of employment and tax on the stuff they drink. And what about the bloody, mangled forms of our little children, victims of rum-crazed fiends out to make whoopee, w r ho don’t care how much suffering they cause. Little children, half starved, ragged and diseased while the father spends every cent of his money for whisky and then comes, in wild crazy, red eyed and beats his wife, kicks his children, takes what little money the mother has made by sewing or

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hytreia. the Health Magazine. are affected. Among women, telephone operators, librarians, teachers, bookbinders and office clerks are occupations which are suitable to those with rheumatic tendencies. Particularly unsuitable for men are such positions as those of postman, police, miners and outdoor labor, also refrigerator workers, bath attendants and window and bottle washers. Among those who suffer particularly with rheumatic inflammations of the hands, even under the best working conditions, are seamstresses, washwomen, blacksmiths, bricklayers and butchers, whose hands frequently are much used under damp conditions. It is obvious, therefore, that certain working conditions tend to favor rheumatic disorders, and among these the leading place is given to cold. The human being is the most un-

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE march of progress, however, does not stop out of deference to personal grievances. The nations did not cease their attacks upon slavery because they realized that its abolishment would ruin financially a multitude of good people. Neither will they cease their at-

Questions and Answers Q.—How tall Is Janet Gaynor; How much does she weigh? what is the color of her eyes and hair? A.—She is five feet tall, weighs ninety-eight pounds, and has red hair and brown eyes. Q —Express 1933 in Roman numerals. A—MQMXXXIII. Q —Who was secretary of the treasury under President Taft? A—Franklin MacVe^gh.

thinking she could at least pay her clothing expenses and not be entirely dependent on her children. Only the A. T. & T. is paying dividends. She has a right to them, it is her money they are using, and they got it by promising to pay interest in dividends. Those companies which do not pay dividends are cheats and thieves, as they are using other people’s money without paying the interest promised. She has more right to that dividend than my husband has to his wages and any one who says a company should not pay dividends even by lowering wages is ignorant of right business dealings. I have heard of dogs that bite the hands that feed them and those letters in The Times are from that kind.

washing late at night., goes back and spends it, too. for booze. No, I haven’t overdrawn it. I remember when we had the saloon and I know dozens of instances just as bad as the ones I have mentioned. Will the government make anything in the long run from tax at such a terrible co^t?

Daily Thought

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger as for one of your own country. Leviticus 24:22. LAWS should be like death, which spares no one—Montesquieu.

protected of all warm-blooded animals, and for ages man has fought a constant battle against cold. Man developed the use of fire and of clothing to protect himself against the rigors of climate. When rheumatic conditions occur among those working under extreme heat, the results probably are to be associated with sudden changes; for instance, bakers who work in heat near the ovens all night long, go home early in the morning amidst the dampness of the dew. * /Metal workers, also on midnight shifts, become extremely heated and go out into the damp, which Denetrates the clothing and produces a rapid loss of heat from the body. Such a combination of cold and damp is a serious strain on the body of even a healthy man. It generally is well established that people with rheumatism do well in hot, dry climates. Next—Measures for the control of rheumatic disorders.

tacks against war, rather than offend those employed in its making. Each change in thought, the overthrow of every institution, means change and often hardship for certain groups of individuals. So long as we must have armies and navies, we shall respect and honor those who work uprightly at their profession. But we should be .traitor to our highest ideals, our profoundest beliefs and to that essential hope that Jesus left the world, if we failed to do our utmost to turn the hearts of humankind toward peace. Not the peace that is preserved by soldiers, but that which is the result of international wisdom and good will. It may be a goal too high for us to reach, but it is not too lofty to struggle toward. And as surely as I believe that our life upon earth means something, that it has a significance beyond our finite comprehending, just so firmly do I believe that some day armies and navies will be be no more.

AT,\V 21. 1933

It Seems to Me “BY HEYWOOD BROUN-

NEW YORK. May 24.—President suggestion that the nations of the world should “send no armed forces of whatsoever nature across their frontiers” will be increasingly effective if it is clarified and carried to its logical conclusion. It ought to mean that America renounces its self-assumed right to police Central and South America. Indeed, it should mean the end of the Monroe doctrine, or at any rate, its more modern interpretations. If European nations pledge themselves not to send expeditionary forces to “protect their neutrals,” then we shall have not the slightest excuse for ever landing marines on any distant shore. Under this interpretation of international obligations. I even can not see our right to retain control of the customs house of the republic of Haiti. A renunciation of the Monro? doctrine would do a great deal to build up the prestige of the United States and to promote amity between ourselves and the neighbors to the south. Adventures such as the flying column to get Villa and the landing at Vera Cruz not only accomplish nothing from a selfish imperialist point of view but actually caused us groat damage by setting all Latin America against us. a a a j Did Not Get Their Man NOR did our interference in Nicaragua serve any reasonable purpose. Wp failed to capture Sandino, and he came back into the fold, just as he said he would, the minute our forces were withdrawn It is quite possible that there soon will be a good deal of pressure put upon us to intervene in Cuba under the terms of the Platt amendment. It is quite true that Machado is a more brutal tyrant than Cuba ever knew, even in the days of the Spanish occupation. But no successful change can occur unless the pressure comes from within the island itself. The Cuban problem is one of unemployment. poverty, and land distribution. I doubt that it is worth anybody’s blood merely, to put a Menocal in place of Machado. But, at any rate, the problem belongs to the Cubans, and no armed force of ours could help. Our attempts to interfere have been traditionally unsuccessful and unpopular. I hope that when Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke of crossing frontiers he included in his conception the end of our invasions into the back yards of our immediate neighbors. And I hope that in due course he will make j this clear. b b e EARLY in the winter of 1917 a man in a theater bawled me out roundly because I didn't stand up when “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” was played bv the orchestra at a Ziegfeld musical comedy. Things got so bad in those days that people would pop up for ‘ There'll Bea Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” and “Hinky Dinky Parlez-Vous.” My father, I remember, didn't have much ear for music, and when I told him one night at a show that “Old Folks at Home” was optional he replied that he thought it would be just as well to continue standing. “Better be on the safe side,” he told me. I didn't expect to run into anything like it again, but the other night at a Town hall meeting when seme hecklers grew vigorous, “My Country, ’Tis of Thee” was played on a piano to get everybody up, and the audience v.as dismissed. It was a curious sort of meeting. An organization undei* the much too whimsical title of the “Hop Light Ladies” is undertaking to ao something to provide jobs for women who have been dropped from the rolls of Home Relief. The idea is that recruits in bright-colored smocks are to go around selling flowers and doing other home jobs. I do not expect to see this enterprise solve the problem of unemployment. still since the work is non-competitive, I wish the “Hop Light Ladies” well whether they get two* jobs or fifty.* b a b Spreading the Blame HOME RELIEF has been a mess, but even that failure can not be laid at the door of those who would put on smocks to fight the depression. But most curious of all was the cry of “Communism” which came up from the “Hop Light Ladies’’ and their adherents as soon as their scheme met criticism from the audience. After all. it had been explained that any money which came in was to be put in an iron pot and divided up among the workers of the organization without anything being paid for executive salaries. That in a very miid and miniature way is Communism, and so I could not understand just w’hy the ladies of the right and of the left grew quite so frenzied with one another. And so I found myself in the uncomfortably neutral position of being unable to rise either for anthem or argument. Perhaps piffling plans for betterment do get in the way, but fundamental action seldom comes without some attendant minor gestures. [Copyright. 1933, bv The Times) Rose Petals BY M. E. MARLOWE I woo the summer back again, In mem’ry fair it glows, While youth and joy and tender pain Dance by on spectral toes; Arid in my heart an old refrain With sad, sweet cadence flows. Rich, once, was I. with summer’s gain When true love found repose. And tears as soothing as the rain Mourned at the season’s close; Tonight,my soul thrills up again To touch this faded rose.

So They Say

I would prefer a blind tiger to one with both eyes open.—Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of New York V/. C. T. U. The farm relief bill has become law. but if it is to succeed we immediately must enact a gigantic program to restore purchasing power to urban workers.—Senator Robert M. La Foilettt.