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FRIDAY. MAY 26 1933. WHY THE CHARITY? MORGAN has the senate committee to thank for revealing him to the country as a great philanthropist. Hitherto Mr. Morgan's benefactions have been overshadowed by those cf Mr Rockefeller and other men of wealth. But these other philanthropists have been old-fashioned they gave to the poor or to pubiic enterprises. Mr. Morgan is original. He lavishes his charity on the prominent and well-to-do. Mr. Woodin, for instance, then the head of one of the largest corporations in the country and connected with the federal reserve, and now secretary of the treasury. It would not have occurred to the average philanthropist to make a financial gift to Mr. Woodin. Why the charity? It could not have been because the recipients needed money. The Morgans had another list for that purpose —a loan list for prominent men who needed money. What then? Sometimes gifts are made to create good will. Was Mr. Morgan trying to buy the good will of these gentlemen? If so, that, only deepens the mystery. Their good will for what? Mr. Morgan has an explanation. He Intimates these gentlemen were friends. That is not hard to believe. They must have been friends But the explanation does not enlighten; it compounds the confusion, for the obligations of such a relationship are reciprocal. One usually does not take without giving something in return. As Mr. Raskob so nicely expressed it in his letter of thanks, “I hope the future will afford me opportunity to reciprocate.” Os course Mr. Raskob would not reciprocate as chairman of the Democratic national committee, or Mr. Nutt as treasurer of the Republican national committee, or Mr. Roberts as a justice of the United States supreme court, or Mr. Adams as secretary of the navy, or Mr. McAdoo as United States senator, or Mr. Woodin as secretary of the treasury. That would be dishonorable and these are honorable men, most of them not holding public office when they accepted Mr. Morgan's benevolence. But, since obviously these gentlemen would not misuse a position of public trust to repay a personal favor to Morgan, how did they reciprocate? Or didn't they? Is, then, their personal obligation to Mr. Morgan still outstanding? If not, was Mr. Morgan simply a sucker? Perhaps all these questions are misleading, complicating a very obvious matter. Maybe this form of charity is not new, as we supposed. Maybe it is so customary for Mr. Morgan to bless America's famous men with his benefactions that he does it without thought or purpose, and they receive his gifts in the same gracious spirit, without question and without obligation, other than a letter of acknowledgment.

POOR MAN, RICH MAN ■VTEWTON D. BAKER recently, told the American Judicature Society in Washington that the division of American courts Into major and minor tribunes tends to produce disrespect for law and lack of confidence in the administration of justice. He cited the English system where cases, large and small, are brought before the same judge, who gives each the same careful attention. This is one question that too seldom is raised by those seeking law reforms in this country. But it is a question that should be brought out into a foremost position. Poor people with their small cases are herded together in the so-called inferior courts, while their wealthier and more powerful fellows go before highly paid judges in sedate courtrooms. The distinction between cases of lesser or greater importance in this country is drawn on the basis largely of the number of dollars Involved. Yet $lO to a laborer is as important as SIO,OOO to a millionaire. The distinctions are drawn falsely in the same way in the field of criminal jurisdiction, where the rank and file of small offenders also are herded into so-called inferior courts, where lower paid judges hear their cases, often in courtrooms lacking dignity or even cleanliness. The judge who hears the case, civil or criminal, of the poor man should be the same judge who hears the case of the rich man or of the powerful corporation, and the surroundings and circumstances of procedure should be equal in all cases. The bar association of this city, and every other city, we believe, should give study to the issue Mr. Baker raised. WHERE THE HONOR BELONGS SOME military minded persons in the Chicago area seem to have nourished a misconception about the nature of Memorial day. When plans for the parade were being made, the G. A. R. veterans assumed that they would lead the procession. But the commander of troops In that area announced that if any regular army or national guard units were to participate they must march at the head of the procession. The result was an argument between the G A. R. and the military authorities which d.dn't leave a very pleasant after-taste. We might as well remember that Memorial day is. by tradition, first of all a day for the Civil war men. In the north, it beld|gß to those who fought for the Union; in

the southland to those who fought for the Confederacy. As long as any of those gallant old soldiers survive, they belong at the head of the parade. One would suppose that any army officer would be proud to give them precedence. To march behind them is an honor for any military’ organization. WE LIVE TOO FAST ' I 'HE problem that gets the most attention these days is the problem of adjusting our economic relationships with one another so that all of us who really want to can get and keep remunerative jobs. Behind It, temporarily forgotten, is another problem, perhaps even more acute in Its demand for solution. It was touched on the other day by Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., in an interview at Memphis. "Life today,” said Dr. Mayo, ‘‘is too tense. The mind gives out years before the body. We find old people all around us who have been dead for years and don't know it. They don't think any more—their minds have died, although their bodies live on.” Then the famous physician explained in detail just what he meant. “Think what has happened to us in thirtyfive years,” he said. “Our life, once largely agrarian, was paced to the horse. A man could keep up his business in longhand. “Now it has speeded up. Tractors and typewriters—a man had to have a typewriter, then a stenographer, then a lot of secretaries. And what happened? In thirty-five years the percentage of insanity doubled. Men outlived their minds. “Perhaps man is adjusting himself slowly to this age, this speed. But it is a slow process. The tension has become almost too great.” Dr. Mayo is not the first medical man to issue this warning. But our usual custom is to stay about a generation behind our medical advisers in matters of this kind, and the killing pace of modern life has not yet really begun to w r orry us. We have wandered innocently into the midst of a lot of whirring flywheels, high-speed gadgets, and rapidly moving assembly lines, and it hardly has occurred to us that all this is a little more than we can stand. It is not only in the economic field that we have progressed too fast for our own good. The machine age has compelled us to live our lives under conditions unlike those faced by any other men in history. Hand in hand with our efforts to adjust things so that overproduction and unemployment may be abolished there must be a sincere attempt to slow down the tempo of the individual life. As things are now, we use ourselves up at a pitiless rate; as Dr. Mayo says, we die long before we realize it.

THE WISEST COURSE 'T'HE school board at Youngwood. Pa., seems to have acted recently with enough good sense to spare the state of Pennsylvania a duplicate of the famous Scopes evolution case in Tennessee a few years ago. In the Youngwood high school was a science .teacher who taught the theory of evolution in a biology class.’ Certain good citizens protested. The students sided w’ith their teacher. When it came time for the school board to hire teachers for the coming year, the whole business came to a head. The board could have dismissed this teacher and given the town and state a good deal of rather odd publicity. Instead, it quietly buried the whole controversy. The teacher was hired for another year, the tempest subsided—and a repetition of the Scopes case was avoided.

THE B. E. F.’S ‘NEW DEAL’ least among the intelligent achievements of the present administration is the way in which it handled the 1933 edition of the bonus army. To begin with, it received the ex-soldiers cordially, gave them a good place to live and saw to it that they were well fed. Then, after making it clear that there was nothing at all doing in the matter of a cash bonus, it proceeded to offer them jobs in the forest army. Nearly 1,500 of the bonus-seekers enrolled in one day, leaving a scant 500 to make a protest parade. Not only did this help to dispose of a problem that proved uncommonly thorny for a previous administration; it gave the exservice men themselves a chance to get rid of a lot of their troubles. They had no jobs and no place to go; now those of them who really want such things have got them. They won't trouble Washington and the depression won't trouble them. LLOYD GEORGE CHANGES TT is interesting to notice that David Lloyd •*- George, England's war-time prime minister, recently made a speech in London demanding fair play for Germany and denouncing the treatment given Germany under the treaty of Versailles. The interesting part, of course, is that Lloyd George is one of the men who made the Versailles treaty. At the time of the armistice he was saying as bitter things about Germany as the most rabid fire-eater could ask. He won England's famous "khaki election’’ on a platform which insisted that Germany could and would pay the whole cost of the war. Evidently Lloyd George's attitude toward the defeated foe has undergone a striking change in the years since the war. From being a fire-eater, he has become a pleader for moderation and fair play. The change is both instructive and encouraging. THE VOICE OF NEW YORK ' I 'EN TO ONE in New York state, 40 to 1 in New York City, 50 to 1 in Manhattan. New York's vote for repeal of the eighteenth amendment exceeded all predictions and hopes. Tuesday's balloting in that commonwealth : furnished figures that can not fail to impress the nation and help turn the scale in doubtful states, of which drys claim Indiana is one. : Though interest was naturally greater in I the cities than in the rural districts, the re- ! suits in New York are a fair measure of how much further the pendulum has swung away from prohibition since 1926, when that stat* held a popular referendum on the question of

appealing to congress to modify the Volstead act. Then the vote was 3 to 1 In the state, 6 to 1 in the city and less than 9 to 1 even In Manhattan. Compare these with Tuesday's ratios on out-and-out repeal! Small doubt left what 1 the people of New York want in 1933. when 1 they are given a chance to say. Even dry old Nassau county went wet, 15 to l'. Special credit for getting out the wet vote should go to the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, whose leaders worked early and late to convince voters of the plain truth that repeal yet might be lost by overconfidence. The restoration Os personal liberty and state rights will owe much to the leadership of liberal ana courageous women who understand the difference between prohibition and true temperance. With apparently close to two million majority for repeal, New York becomes a worthy and inspiring sixth on the list that already included Michigan, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. “I have been waiting since 1919,” said A1 Smith, when he cast his vote. The wait is over at last. Now let thirty more states follow’ New York before the end of 1933 and give us liberty, a relieved and righted Constitution, and the assurance of lightened tax loads. WELCOME NEWS r T'HE federal government's action in ordering immediate investigation of sweatshop conditions in the nation is welcome news to every state. It is particularly welcome to the thousands of women and children in Pennsylvania, where conditions apparently are the worst. Now Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins has ordered her department to investigate wages, working conditions and child labor in shirt factories throughout the nation. With most of these factories operating in Pennsylvania, due to the rigid laws in New York, Ohio and other commonwealths, th? investigation will center primarily in the Keystone state. While sweatshops vitally concern every man, woman and child in Pennsylvania, they also affect the lives of every American—from Maine to California. So long as sweatshops flourish in any one state, the buying power of the entire nation is affected. The stavation wages that weatshops pay, the employment of children w’hile unemployed adults tramp the streets is a national as well as state and local problem. Hence, w r e particularly welcome President Roosevelt’s national recovery bill and the investigation that the department of labor has ordered. , These two progressive steps mean that the federal government does not intend to see helpless women and children continue as the victims of industrial slavery, because of the failure of legislatures to clean up their own industrial house. ‘‘Not one person in 10.000 understands money,” says an eminent economist. Probably it's because they've had so little experience with the subject in the last few years. Mining town has erected a Chamber of Commerce with walls made of coal. If it’s anything like some of the coal we got last winter, It's really a fireproof building. The Democratic party in congress has a working majority, but how much better it would be if we had a majority working. So far as available records go, there is nothing to show that a girl who grew up to be a stenographer ever won a spelling bee.

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WITH the American people in a mood to repeal the eighteenth amendment just as | soon as they are given an opportunity to vote, | the problem of finding $220,000,000 additional } revenue which is necessary to sustain the public works program should present no great difficulties. Nothing is required but to divert the profits of bootleggers into the federal treasury and that virtually was authorized by the election last fall. Several states already have voted on repeal. The verdict is too uniform and too one-sided to leave any doubt as to the trend of public sentiment. The question of getting the eighteenth amendment out of the way and giving the federal government the benefit of revenue now going to the rum racket is merely one of time. An adequate amount of liquor is being consumed to pay interest and provide a sinking fund for $3,000,000,000 worth of bonds, even with the price reduced and the quality improved. Instead of wasting time on new forms of taxation, the administration should exert every ounce of pressure at its command to hasten the vote on repeal, not only for the sake of revenue, but for the sake of common decency. BBS IT is little short of disgraceful to allow racketeers to go on collecting money which the government needs, through useless delay in changing a law that the people want changed and that they would change if given the chance. There is no reason why a sufficient number of states to put it over should not vote on repeal within the next six months, and there is no reason to suppose that they would fail, or refuse to do so, if approached in the right way. That is what the American people desire and what the situation demands. Here is a good place to show some of that speed, efficiency, and co-operation we are demanding from industry, to bring order out of chaos and to readjust our eocnomic and social structure. What ought to be done not only is clear, but easily accomplished. No campaign of education is required and no doubt exists as to the result. Little remains but to put the machinery in motion. Give the government what now is going to gangsters, and the problem of providing money for public works is solved. Incidentally, the! problem of handling that peculiar and costly character of crime which grows with gang rule would be diminished greatly. 808 IF every sign did not indicate that the American people had made up their minds to end j the "noble experiment” once and for all, there j might be some excuse for delay, but such is not I the case. Sentiment has crystallized on that point. Meanwhile the government must have more revenue, even though the burden of taxation has become dangerously oppressive. Recovery depends on nothing so much as the development of new lines of endeavor, new forms of employment, and new sources of revenue. We can not go on piling up the load as it j exists, asking our crippled industries and j strained business enterprises to bear more. A sales tax, a higher income tax, or added nuisance taxes only will handicap the work of rehabilitation, particularly if we permit racket-

eering, gang rule, and political graft to continue.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By W. H. Richards. It is amazing how many wrong things have been suggested by our wise rulers for restoring prosperity to the American people, every single one of them only a measure to make matters w’orse. The one and only right thing, the socialization of industry for use of all the people and profit of none, has been avoided carefully. In your issue of May 18 appeared an editorial quoting Prof. Raymond Moley, sketching what he calls President Roosevelt’s "major policy.” It is a proposition that industry move its plant to the country, w’here the workers can move from tenements and cluster their homes on small plots around the factories. They can then supplement their wages with home-grown garden truck and stock. A fine way indeed to raise the standard of living of the workers. Os course he means that a big corporation should build a factory and a lot of shacks around it which they w’ould rent to the w’orkers, charging plenty of rent, and then, as the workers w’ould have means of raising their vegetables by working overtime in their gardens, and as wages are based on the bare cost of living, it w’ould not be necessary for the “company” to pay as much wages. Also, as the “Company” would ow’n the whole town, it need not pay in cash, but could issue scrip that would only be good at the “Company store” w’here the workers w’ould be charged 50 per cent more for their purchases than they could buy them in other stores. Such system now is in vogue in the coal fields of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and there are no slaves on earth so crushed under the heel of the oppressor as the men who go down into the earth to dig coal. The wise thing for the capitalists to do w’ould be to frankly admit that their system has broken down and surrender their plants which they cannot run for profit and let the workers try to run them with-

WHEN a heart is unable to do its work successfully, it is not able to take in the blood that comes to it from the lungs and to push it around the circulation. Asa result, various symptoms develop. Among the earliest and most important symptoms of weakness of the heart is breathlessness on slight exertion. Even healthy people get breathless on exercise. Thus, at the very earliest period in heart disease a person may become breathless too soon while exercising, and later become breathless with relatively slight activity. Therefore, one can grade the breathlessness associ at e and with weakness of the heart by the amount of exertion that brings it on. Anybody may become breathless from walking too fast or by climbing a flight of stairs. On the other hand, most people do not become breathless w'hile walking slowly for short distances, or while sitting quietly.

WHAT stories lie behind the wall of words that make the biographies of our great men! It takes only the most casual reading to work up a lively curiosity about their women. The recent life of William Tetumseh Sherman, the narrative of John Quincy Adams, the Marquis James story of Andrew Jackson, and that greatest of them all—“ The Education of Henry Adams" will suffice for illustration. Although these men always spoke movingly of women, they spent very little time with those of their own households. Mrsu. Sherman saw her husband only upon rare occasions. Andre* Jackson, loving his Rachel as he did, managed tc be away from her most of the time. The pursuit of careers and oi fame during hectic days occupied our leaders and the making of wars and of nations never is conducive to conjugal bliss, as we conceive it. A good many fulsome panegyrics are written about the lives of ah

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All Men Equal! By A. Sucker NEWS from Washington certainly is cheering to the average man, with his SI,BOO to $3,000 a year income, w’ho paid taxes on this income to the government this year and now faces the prospect of paying some more to the state. It makes any man feel good to know that he has paid SSO in income tax to the government and that J. P. Morgan and some of our other so-called biggest men paid none. And still they tell us to have faith in government institutions and trust all our business and political leaders! Between the state and federal income taxes and the busted banks, it appears that faith is about all w’e have left and that certainly it is at low ebb these days. out profit to produce for their own needs. Reducing salaries, share work, block aid, credit buying, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, farm relief, sales tax, beer, currency inflation, all have been tried and not one of them has helped the unemployed but walling worker to get the food, clothing, and shelter that his life requires. It is plain that those we have placed in pow’er are seeking no w’ay out except to help bankers and big business further to exploit the 120 millions who are not of the ultrarich owning class. Revolution is in the air. Will it come by peaceful, carefully planned procedure, or will the suffering masses be crushed until they forget they are civilized and break out in a destructive orgy of rioting and pillage? Starving men with starving families are desperate and they have been wonderfully patient, but even a worm will turn. By John F. White. No doubt when the judges selected Harold M. Talburt’s cartoon. “The Light of Asia,” to win the Pulitzer prize, as the most outstanding production of the year, it w r as a well-

! BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hivgeia, the Health Magazine.

One of the causes of breathlessness is a deficiency in the flow of blood carrying oxygen to the head and neck. Another cause is the lack of oxygen in the blood due to the fact that the blood begins to collect in the veins and in the tissues farthest removed from the heart. In the normal heart there is a great deal of reserve power. What the heart does while the human being is resting is but a small fraction of what it can do when it must. Sir Thomas Lewis considers that the heart has ten times as much power as is required for its work while a human being is sitting at rest. Most of the tests are based on the fact that exercise brings on breathlessness in a weakened

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

such women—but wouldn't it be interesting if we could have had a few more authentic first hand reports from the ladies themselves? b a b IS it not possible, also, that the reason these couples seemed to

Questions and Answers Q —ln what states are the towns of Trask and Traskwood? A—Trask is in Missouri and Traskwood is in Arkansas. Q. —Is Franklin D. Roosevelt the thirty-second or the thirtyfirst President of the United States? A.—He is the thirty-second President if the two non-consecu-tive terms of Grover Cleveland are counted separately; otherwise, he is the thirty-first.

deserved distinction in the art of depicting events in striking fashion. But while "The Light of Asia” was a highly signifificant piece of work, boldly executed, to my mind the Talburt cartoon printed in The Times a year or so ago, entitled “The Sermon on the Mount,” was not only the best I have seen from his pen, but the best of its kind in its incisive and far-reaching significance, I ever have seen published. Whole volumes W’ere written into this pyramid picture, made up of all the grim and deadly habiliments j of war, portrayed in realistic boldness, and on its apex standing a war veteran, with an American flag by his side, selling apples as a means of eking out a meager existence. It w’as a startling presentation of the relentless realities, with the ! soldier stripped bare of all its | mythical glory, leaving him reincarnated as a street corner vender, after the nation had used him to defend it with his life, but now denying him the opportunity- of i securing self-respecting and reI munerative employment in its inI dustrial and commercial life. Something like a counterpart to this cartoon was a painting, by a Russian artist, I believe, a number of years ago, depicting the horrible results of w’ar in a huge pyramid of grinning human skulls. I do not recall the other details of this astounding picture, which exeted W’orld attention, but “The Sermon on the Mount,” in vivid outline, brought dow’n to date a clearcut and startling vision of the continued futility of war in promoting the welfare of mankind, and showing the cruel and devastating effects not only on the participants themselves, but also on vast numbers of other members of the race. The republication of “The Sermon on the Mount” might be quite timely, as a companion piece to “The i Light of Asia.” DAILY THOUGHT The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men. | to see if there were any that did not understand, and seek God.— Psalms 14:2. n b n NO man is wdse enough by himself.—Plautus.

heart. Therefore, the doctor is likely to find out best the extent of the difficulty by carefully questioning the patient as to the nature of his breathlessness. The more serious tests include walking briskly up a flight of forty steps, one step at a time, or hopping twenty times on the right foot and twenty times on the left foot, or some similar exercise A normal person, after such exercise. is able to answer questions without interruption by the necessity for breathing, his pulse will rise only ten or twenty beats a minute, and the original rate will be resumed inside of a minute thereafter. The person with failure of the heart will have difficulty in answering questions and is likely to have a much more serious rise in the rate of the heart and a longer time necessary before the heart comes back to its usual rate.

get along so well is because they saw so little of each other? It is nonsense to think that such women did not have important roles to fill, or that their existence was empty. On the contrary, they were engrossed with the most intense living. Upon them, for months and years, devolved all the care of the childdren—and in most instances there were many—and the husbanding of the family resourses. While their men were building a republic and marching to battles and sitting in legislative halls, they were doing the real work of nation making—creating permanent homes and rearing citizens. And so I consider it a great pity that we have so few records left of what these wives and mothers experienced and thought and felt. It may be that our whole destiny would have been changed if we had preserved for posterity feminine as well as masculine convictions.

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It Seems to Me ~ BY HEYWOOD BROUN

VTEPiV YORK. May 26.—As severe ; a counter attack as I have known in many months bounced on my head after the Hitler column ;of Last week. I refer to a piece which began. "I am of the opinon | that the anti-Hitler agitation in America has became somewhat hysj terical and has gone too far.” I still think so. Mast of the letters call me an anti-Semite, while 1 the rest classify me as a woodenheaded sentimentalist. Now I'm not an anti-Semite. And in this parj ticular instance I doubt whether I am either wooden-headed or sentii mental. Hitler is a fair target for stinging | criticism, but some people in America have urged that the United States break off diplomatic relations with Germany and many, more are working to organize an economic boycott. I am against both measures. Breaking off diplomatic relations is an act of war. A boycott is the next worse thing. b a a Not Good in Either Case TN fact, theie are two arguments to be used against the economic boycott. The first is that it seldom is very effective. The second is that if by any chance it can be made to it constitutes a singularly cruel and far-reaching weapon. An effective boycott is a longrange gun. It is impossible to aim it at an individual. You must shoot at the mass. Approximately onehalf of the people of Germany fought hard tc keep Hitler from coming into power. They did not fight shrewdly and at the moment they hardly seem to be fighting at all. But it must be remembered that radical leaders have been jailed and suppressed and exiled. Give them j a breathing spell and new lenders will arise to organize these forces and overthrow Hitler. But an economic boycott will fill hardest of all upon those Germans who hate Hitler the mort. The worker always is the first person to be ruined whenever a nation s driven deeper into depression. 1 hardiy can see the logic of getting at Hitler by punishing the German groups which offer the best hopes of forcing him out of power. Moreover. I think that the most casual study tt the German situation show’s that Hitler has been pushed to the top largely by pressure from the outside. A sane, a prosperous, and a contented Germany would never have turned to this charlatan. Hitler was distilled out of thp miseries and fears and agonies of Germany. Anti-Semitism itself is the product of frightened and desperate folk who look about and seek to find somebody upon whom to pour the blame. Those who bear scars are the readiest to inflict them. tt tt tt It Has Not Worked Yet \ ND in this situation there rise those who say, "We have beaten Germany with whips, and now’ we will use scorpions.” How can this be called realistic thinking? Hitler rose to power by assuring Germans that the whole world conspired against the German nation. And now it is proposed to undermine him by making good up to the hilt his wildest claims of oppression from the outside. Here is a letter from a man in Cleveland, who writes: “A year ago I met a German student in Paris. He amazed me by saying that he intended to vote for Hitler. He seemed a tolerably intelligent young man. and I w’as shocked and told him so. “He answered that he understood America did not like the depression. 'Do you believe that w’e German workers like it?’ he said. ‘America has had it only since 1929. We have had it since the war. I believe that I should rather die quickly by a machine gun bullet than die a slow death through starvation. “ ‘And that is w’hat is happening to millions like me in the Fatherland. Anything is better than a continuation of present conditions . . . even war.’ ”

Hitler and What Then? NOW. of course, it is easy to point out that there is not the remotest chance of Hitler's making good his promises of jobs for gentiles. But a drowning nation will clutch at a straw man. And. more than that, it will clutch at another when the first lias failed. And so the agitation to get rid of Hitler will mean very little unless it also faces the question, “After Hitler what?" Here is a man who writes, ‘T am an ardent pacifist, but I gladly would welcome a war with Hitler. ’ They don't run wars like that. In order to get at Hitler my pacifist friend would have to shoot his way through the boys of the classes of 1933 and 1934 and 1935. ‘ Hatred not merely expressed in denunciation and curses, but in real action, such as the boycott,” writes Dr. A. Coralnik. “is most beneficial for the real Germany —for the masses now frenzied by their emotions and blinded by their rage.” In other words, I am asked to believe that it is rational and reasonable to say to the German masses: “You have suffered much and you are frenzied and blinded by rage and passion and prejudice. To make you wise and tolerant and calm we intend to increase your economic ills and force you deeper into the mire.” To this old wooden-headed sentimentalist that just doesn’t make sense. (CODvrieht. *1933. bv The Times)

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BY MARY MAY Alone on the sill, Alone, In a ciod of earth. In a crock of stone— Not long ago Alive. In far fields, free. With sisters five— Here is a potted lily, Alone, Dead, in a clot of earth. In a crock of stone.