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MONDAY. MAY 29. 1933. 8 TO 0 npWO more states have joined the repeal column. Although geographical and temperamental opposites, little Delaware and big Nevada spoke the same language on the subject of the not-so-noble experiment. Delaware, one of the worst arid states under the AntiSaloon League dynasty, voted 3 to 1 for repeal. Nevada, always a stranger to enforcement, spoke even louder to slake its desert thirst in legal liquor instead of the lawless redeye of the passing era. Eight states have voted, and all for repeal in overwhelming majorities. In addition to once-dry Delaware and never-dry Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Wyoming, New Jersey and New York have hit home runs. Today the score stands 8 to 0. The drys hope much from June’s innings. Os the eight states that vote next month, three—lndiana, Illinois, and lowa—are in the midwest, where the once-potent drys are making heroic efforts to stop the w r ets. In July the test of the south will come, with Alabama, Arkaasas and Tennessee voting. Repeal, final and complete, can be accomplished this year. For the sake of federal revenue, estimated by Mr. Jouett Shouse at a billion dollars a year from liquor taxes, and for the sake of temperance long deferred, the necessary thirty-six states should act for repeal promptly. WOODIN RESIGNS IF SECRETARY of the Treasury Woodin has offered to resign if his presence in the cabinet is embarrassing to the administration. That puts it up to the president. Every time the federal reserve makes an unpopular decision on monetary policy, enemies of the administration will say “that is Woodin reciprocating favors of the House of Morgan.” Whenever treasury department policy on collection or rebates of income taxes of the rich is questioned, enemies of the administration will say “of course, Woodin is a Morgan beneficiary.” We do not doubt that Mr. Woodin in the future would fulfill his official duties faithfully, as we believe he has done since taking office. But the fact remains that his name on the old Morgan preferred stock list, for receipt of securities at less than market value, makes his presence at the treasury department undesirable. Mr. Woodin’s friends will have difficulty in understanding his failure to resign promptly and without attaching strings. He has added to the President's embarrassment by forcing the President to decide publicly that he is a liability. That Mr. Woodin will have to go seems certain. The only question apparently is W’hether he is to leave now or a few weeks or months later, when the Morgan revelations may have been forgotten. In our judgment, the Morgan revelations will not be forgotten; their significance will grow with time. Every day Mr. Woodin remains will weaken the administration. A vain effort to save Mr, Woodin's face might wreck the administration’s whole program. The success of this program depends on the public's confidence in the men who are carrying it out. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND proclamations of the Hitler govern- -*• ment relative to education in the glories of war and the myths of racial superiority, following as they do on the heels of the antiSemitic bigotry of the Nazi, almost make one feel as though Hitler and his associates were determined to make the world believe that the charges levied against Germany after 1914 were all too true. Racial arrogance and the worship of the martial element in history have been the main bulwarks of nationalism, the major bane of the human race in modem times. Nationalism has expressed itself psychologically through super-patriotism, and economically in the form of tariffs, imperialism, and the struggle for markets and raw materials. Preached and extolled by statesmen, it is actually little more than ancient herd and tribal instinct writ large on the map of the modern world. In its wider application today, it has far greater power for evil than in earlier days. The race myth propounded by Hitler and his followers is a combination of the errors of Aryanism, Teutonism and Nordicism. The first was based upon the idea that Europe was inhabited and civilized chiefly by an Ayran branch of the white race. In its developed form, each major European nation claimed to be made up of the only true Aryans and. hence, superior to its non-Ayran neighbors. Teutonism was a further development of Germanic Aryanism. Interestingly enough, this eulogy of the Teutonic race was primarily the contribution of an Englishman, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who married the daughter of the great German composer, Richard Wagner. In our day, Teutonism merged with Nordicism.' The latter doctrine that European civilization was chiefly the gift of the blond giants of Nordic blood grew, for the most part, out of the book of a New York lawyer, Madison Grant. It was entitled “The Passing of the Great Race,” and was commended to the reading public by none other than Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn. This racial Interpretation of history and national superiority is, of course, pure nonsense. As Professor Franz Boas and others have made amply clear, there is no ground for the belief in the superiority of any race,

granted the environment to which it originally was adapted. There was never any such thing as an Aryan race. At best, there were only An’an languages spoken by many different races. Germany la not inhabited solely by blond Nordics. Half of the Germans are swarthy round-headed Alpines or a mixture of Alpines and Nordics. Most humorous of all, if one were to exclude all non-Nordics from the new regime in Germany, one of the first to get the gate would be Chancellor Adolf Hitler himself, an obvious Alpine, racially more related to Mr. Poincare than to Von Hindenberg. The eulogy of war as a major civilizing force in history is as unhistorical and unscientific as the race myth. The doctrine received its most extreme and widely publicized Germanic statement in General Bernhardi’s "Germany and the Next War.” though the same notions can be found in the writings of eminent Frenchmen, Britishers, Americans and Italians. In primitive times, and perhaps even in early historic days, war did serve some good purpose in ending petty tribal quarrels and in building up large political entities which might preserve peace and order. But today war is easily the chief scourge of the human race and the main challenge to its perpetuation. To eulogize war in our ‘day is as silly as to extoll the ox cart as a means of rapid transit. If Hitler and his associates go the whole way with their radicalism and militarism, conditions will he far worse in Germany than before the World war. At that time racial arrogance had no general following in Germany. however much bigots and the superpatriots may have welcomed the illusion. The kaiser numbered prominent Jews like Herr Ballin among his closest friends and advisers. Not a person in the German ioreign office In 1914 even had read General Bernhardi’s book. Such is the penalty which Europe is paying for the fifteen years of folly since the armistice. She is reaping the whirlwind from the lies, deceits and brutalities of war propaganda and the Versailles system. It is even greater folly and imbecility for Hitler to insist upon trying to prove the entente’s mendacity and oppressiveness from 1918 to 1933 sound and justifiable. So far, he has been far more of an asset to Germany’s former enemies than to the cause of justice and understanding for Germany. CENTURY OF PROGRESS A CAPTURED beam of light that left the star Arcturus forty years ago lighted Chicago's second world’s fair. That began the celebration of America’s “Century of Progress.” The big city by the lake, that plays host to an expected fifty million visitors this summer, typifies America, its robust optimism and its strange inadequacies. The staging of a mighty show in the midday of adversity is a challenge to the enemy Depression. The motif of this exposition raises the question; What is progress? Like Chicago this country has made amazing strides in the physical sciences; but the lag of the social sciences is equally amazing. Machines have made ours the richest nation of history, yet 2,000,000 children still work for wages, many in sweatshops that would have shocked our ancestors. Our national income still is fifty billions a year, yet one-fifth of the population lives from the hand of charity. Our buildings sweep the skies, yet 9,000,000 families live in homes unfit for humans. Science has created the “Fifty Horse Power Farmer.” Yet within a few miles of Chicago, desperate afrmers have been striking against intolerable conditions. Inventions enable us to export eight million bales of cotton, yet eight million people of the cotton belts live on wages lower than those of European workers. A miner today can dig five tons of coal a day, yet his home is a hovel, his community a social tinder-box. The transport industries have conquered the air, the sea and the land, yet we build planes, submarines, and tanks to kill men in wars and gangsters ride their enemies to death in armored cars. We have snatched energy from the skies and 12,000,000 homes listen to voices through the air. And the Chicagoan most famous for purveying electricity is a fugitive from justice in Greece. The national wealth hardly is impaired, yet intsead of using this to provide security, comfort and happiness for the 120,000,000, we allow' it to be used by kings of finance as they will, even to corrupt our public men. Go to Chicago this summer, if you can, and see the wonders that men’s inventiveness has wrought. But let us hope it will not take another century before we can celebrate an equal amount of economic and political progress. LOUDERBACK LESSONS nnHE people are indebted to the house of representatives for bringing Judge Louderback to trial and thereby disclosing the weakness of the American impeachment machinery. This trial, the first of its kind in twenty years, proves that we must simplify the present method of ridding the bench of unfit federal judges. The Louderback trial took nine days of the senate’s time. It cost an estimated $50,000. A train load of forty-three witnesses were brought from San Francisco. Often only a handful of senators listened to the testimony. Representative Hatton Sumners of Texas, chief “prosecutor,” proposes that this clumsy, costly procedure be modernized. He suggests that congress adopt rules under which the senate can send a committee of senators to the locality affected and there sit as a quasijudicia! body in trial of an accused judge. On this committee's report, supplemented by direct testimony if needed, the senate can act. Furthermore, the senate should be empowered to oust a federal judge for unfi'.ness as well as for illegal acts. A federal judge is named often for political reasons. He may abuse his great power through- acts of tyranny or favoritism, yet the people have no recourse except through awkward impeachment proceedings. Many California lawyers and a majority of senators consider Louderback unfit to sit as a federal judge, yet because the senate fell short of a two-thirds vote for conviction on the general article of impeachment, thi| judge

goes back to his bench vindicated. The house managers had not proved him a crooked judge; they only convinced a majority of the senate that he was unfit. Since we have taken from the voters the power to retire misfit federal judges, we should endow’ the people's representatives in congress with such power. This power should not be hedged with red tape. Since we name federal judges for life, we must make the removal of unworthy ones simpler and easier. A PROPHET OF DOOM XT is a little reassuring, somehow, to read that a Londofi business man is going about the British isles trying to convince people that the world is going to come to an end June 12. These dire prophecies of doom always appear in troublous times; to hear this one is to realize that our present difficulties eventually will get solved, just as past ones were. This Londoner is said to be spending $5,000 a week on his self-appointed mission—he is, it should be added, a wealthy chap. He has made hundreds of converts, many of whom rapidly are giving away all they own to be ready for the great day. It might be possible, of course, to read an unpleasant omen into the fact that the date this man has chosen for, the end of all things is also the date on which the world economic conference is to convene. If that conference fails, the prophecy might come uncomfortably close to fulfillment. A HAPPY EX-KING ■r'X-KING FERDINAND pf Bulgaria, who lost his throne because he got his country into the World war on the "wrong side, is living in Nairobi, East,Africa, these days, and is enjoying life hugely. From childhood he had read books about African explorers, and he always wanted to go where tjjey had gone and see the things they had seen; but being a king never left him time for such fruitless pursuits. Now, as an ex-king, he is doing just what he always wanted to do. He recently finished a 3,000-mile trip through the interior; presently he will start out on another one. He probably wouldn’t go back to the royal palace if all Europe begged him to. Being a king, evidently, isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Ferdinand apparently blesses the day that deprived him of his crown. Boston dispatch says 15,000 motorists were held up there by a defective swing bridge. Huh! ’Snothing at all! Almost that many held up every day in Chicago by bandits. Now that physicians are permitted to prescribe as much liquor as they see fit, you might say that hilarity is just around the corner. A wise man is one who stops in his kitchen for a sandwich before going to a church supper. A will of his own helps a young man succeed, says an eminent educator. Yes, and so does the will of a rich grandfather. Paris gets the new United States 3.2 beveerage and likes it. Lafayette, have a beer! Liquid banks never got that way by dealing in watered stock. * Handsome Adolf is as Handsome Adolf does.

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WHILE it leaves many things to be desired, the four-power pact now pending in Europe is the kind of agreement which must be adopted before the leading European nations can expect world-wide co-operation. The problem of peace hinges largely on their ability to achieve workable accord. Their inherited prejudices and conflicting aims constitute the rawest spot in modern civilization. Some sort of guarantee that they can and will live together harmoniously is essential to all larger measures of co-operation. This pact, of course, is little more than a preliminary and experimental step. The very fact that it is designed to run only ten years shows clearly that those sponsoring it are not at all sure of their ground. That, however, should be regarded as an indication of practicality. Nothing short of blind egotism would presume to solve the problem of peace, even in restricted areas, except through the trial and error method. It is by far the most complicated problem that men ever have undertaken to solve. There are no precedents by which to be guided and no formulae that have been proved. Mistakes not only must be conceded as possible, but recognized as probable. tt tt tt EUROPEAN statesmen are right in limiting ’ the time which this pact shall run. They are right in subordinating it to other and previous agreements. They are right in not making definite promises as to when or how the Versailles treaty shall be revised, though the possibility of its revision is admitted. If this pact is accepted, as now seems probable, the four great powers of western Europe logically can propose wider agreements and the United States logically can ent£r into them. But—and this is something which every one should remember—all pacts, treaties, and agreements finally are determined, not by what they say, but by the manner in which they are carried out. For this simple reason, it is not only wise, but necessary, to begin with smaller ones. The family of nations still is divided into well-defined groups. Until each group has proved its willingness and ability to live without war, nothing approximating world peace is possible. A way must be found to overcome those differences which specifically threaten Europe, Asia, and the western hemisphere before anything like a reliable accord can be established between or- among them. It would be a waste of time for other nations to attempt making binding agreements with Europe, until Europe has demonstrated its capacity to make binding agreements within its own borders. tt tt it NOT only because of its wealth and population, but because of its far-flung colonial possesions, Europe still is the center of western civilization. It is a divided center, however, plagued with age-old traditions and jealousies. In spite of its progress, it has been unable to maintain peace for more than fifty years. For the last five centuries, it has been the world's chronic stew-pot. Its philosophy of international relations made the last great war inevitable. Until this condition shall have been changed, it would be ridiculous for other countries to attempt the bringing about of world peace. That is what makes the pending four-power pact so important on the one hand, and so reassuring on the other. It represents about the first definite' workable plan of insuring European peace, especially through such readjustments as are necessary to heal the scars of war and remove the handicaps of a treaty w’hich was conceived amid the passions of war.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

•(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By H. L. Seeger To Senator Frederick Van Nuys— I was in Washington the evening the President made his “partnership” with “business” speech over the radio. We back home here sincerely hope that thus “partnership” will not become a permanent stabilization of poverty for the many, for the benefit of those who, through previous control of industry, have brought to the workers of America the low wages, sweatshop methods and the intolerable idleness of millions of our wealth producers. We look forward to anew deal in the control of industry, a control that will prevent the chaos now existing. We want to work to really live, not live to work for a greedy group of “controllers.” The standards of decency for industry must be set by our government and not by those who already have created unspeakable misery. The grip of America’s money kings, with their interlocking relations and control of industry, must be broken if we are to have economic justice. The banking system under private control must be placed where it no longer can dictate the volume of currency and credit, which is the most vital part of our economic system. If the country is to continue the silly program of issuing federal interest bearing bonds to be “sold” to the banks, which then create currency against the bonds, we would better close up shop. This hocus pocus racket is too transparent to many of us back here in the woods. For the administration’s program of public works to relieve unemployment, may we hope the administration, if it insists on the “bond” currency, will place the three billion in bonds in the vaults of the treasury and issue three billion of federal treasury notes against them, the same as privately owned federal reserve banks will or could. If the federal treasury notes issued against bonds in vault are not good, we can have na faith in private bank notes against them. We are looking anxiously to see if

TN various parts of the country at -*• this time there are beginning to appear cases of scarlet fever with some virulence. There always Is some scarlet fever, but fortunately the disease is not spread as easily as some of the other common infectious diseases. Babies under 1 year of age seldom get scarlet fever, but if they do it is especially serious for them. Asa child grows, it seems to develop a greater likelihood of catching the disease up to the time w’hen it is grown. Then the likelihood diminishes. Most cases occur between the ages of 2 years and 10 years, and probably half such children w r ho are exposed to the disease come down with it. In gome instances scarlet fever is spread by milk, but the vast majority of cases are spread from one

NEW YORKERS recently bestirred themselves to find the largest family in that city of swarming millions. A certain Mr. and Mrs. Owens have qualified for the honor, with sixteen living children. It may not surprise you to know that they do not live on Park avenue. Immediately, Papa and Mama Owens were interviewed for the press, the radio, and the new’s reels. It always is interesting to obtain the opinions of American individuals who set new records at anything. I. for one, however, am sorry that some enterprising reporter did not consult, for the public benefit, a couple of the middle-sized Owen kids. It might be more interesting and illuminating to find out what the children concerned think about the notoriety of their parents. After all, they may be said to have contributed a good deal to the affair, if only by the tenacity with

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Fight Pollution Bv Sears-Harvev Cos. I WANT to congratulate you, and thoroughly approve of your policy regarding the pollution of streams in Indiana. We do not believe there is anything more necessary than correcting the present evil. We all know,

Questions and Answers

Q—Define the word “kismet.” A—Appointed lot or fate. It comes from an Arabic root meaning “to divide.” Q—For whow were Pittsburgh and Philadelphia named? A—Pittsburgh was named for William Pitt, earl of Chatham. Philadelphia is from two Greek words meaning “Love of the brethren” or “brotherly love.” Q —Was Caesar the name or the title of Roman rulers? A —Caesar was merely a designation of office in the Roman empire. Julius Caesar came from the famous patrician family of the Julian Gens. His adopted son, Octavianus, was the first to assume the title, Caesar, being selftermed Augustus. Later, all the Roman emperors of the period were known as the Caesars. Q—Does the United States government own all of Bedloe’s island, on wffiich the statue of liberty is located, or just the part on which the statue stands? A—The whole island is the property of the federal government. Q—Can you give the proportions of mulattoes in the colored population of the United States in 1850 and 1920? A—ln 1850 there were 3,233.057 Negroes of whom 405,751, or about congress has the courage to come to grips with the reality and seriousness of this situation, that has the earmarks of a deliberate program of feudal control of the few for their own purpose.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. person to another. Sometimes this is because the cases dccur in mild form and are not recognized, again because mothers let their sick babies mingle with other children too soon after they have had scarlet fever. Even, w T hen one case occurs in a family, the disease may be prevented from attacking the other children if the patient is kept alone during the first week or ten days, ana if steps qre taken to make certain that secretions of the nose and throat of the sick person do not contaminate utensils, garments or ether materials used by the well. Among the first signs of scarlet fever are the fact that it comes on suddenly, that there is sore throat, usually some nausea with vomiting, even dizziness, and a distinctly sick feeling.

BY MRS, WALTER FERGUSON

which they have held on to existence. Regardless of what parents or public may sav, it is the children who should be consulted if we want the "whole truth about Large families. They could give some startling information, I imagine, about the merits and drawbacks attendant upon the prolific life.

Daily Thought

Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.— Amos 9:2. tt a tt IT is vain to gather virtues without humility; for the Spirit of Ood delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble—Erasmus,

there is no pleasanter memory in our minds than that of the time when we were children, fishing, swimming, and picnicking along a clean, pure stream. The young people either will take to the beautiful outdoors, or be driven away by pollution, u’hich is harmful, instead of having healthful and beneficial recreation.

11.2 per cent, were mulatto. In 1920 there were 8,802,577 Negroes of whom 1.660,554, or about 15.9 per cent, were mulatto. Q—How many Red Cross nurses lost their lives in Europe during the world war? A—292. Q —Name the farthest north and farthest south U, S. postoffices. A—Barrow’, Alaska, is farthest north and Guam is farthest south. Q —How much pure gold does a gold dollar contain? A—There are 23.22 grains, a little less than one-twentieth of an ounce.

So They Say

There are likely to be just as many important new’ inventions in the future as there have been in the past.—Dr. William F. Ogburn, University of Chicago. Sometimes baby cries in a dark room, but the chances are he has a stomach ache. No baby comes into the w’orld with any latent fear of the dark. —Dr. Dewey Anderson, Western Reserve University. I don’t believe the difficulty has been so much that congress hasn’t contained men of excellent ability as that congress hasn’t known how to use the ability of the good men it has had.—Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, daughter of William Howard Taft.

The most certain sign is, of course, the sudden eruption about the body W’hich is spotted and very red. A second fairly certain sign is the peeling of the skin after the patient has recovered, but by that time most of the danger of spread of the disease has disappeared, unless there remain discharges from the nose, throat, ears or other portions of the body. A child who has a fever and is also sick should be put to bed immediately. Then a physician should watch the development of the symptoms carefully and make the final diagnosis. It is primarily the duty of the physician to protect the child against the secondary complications w’hich are exceedingly serious. Inflammations of the kidney, damage to the heart, infections of the ears and of various portions of the nervous system constitute the real menace.

r TX) be bom and to live out one’s A youth in narrow rooms, crawling with children and reeking with the effluvia of crowded humanity; to be shoved from your mother’s arms by an interloper before you can stand upon your two feet; to be half fed and inadequately clothed, is, it seems to me, rather a heavy price to pay for transient fame. Children thus reared, if they have opportunities in later life, are likely to develop into adults who have no families of their own. The little girl who during her infancy lugs small brothers and sisters about does not view with delight the prospect of spending her maturity at the same thing. And the lad who has been obliged to scramble around to get food for crying babies naturally will dislike the idea of going on with the job indefinitely. In the end, I suppose, such recordbreaking achievements are pretty good boosts for birth control.

MAY 29, 1933

It Seems to Me IIEYTVOOD BROUN

XJEW YORK, May 29—The New York Evening Post refers to Mr. Morgan's statement before the 1 senate committee about the code of the private banker as “calm and almost noble.” I think that every income tax payer should join in a fervent murmur of, "Thanks for that ‘almost.’ ” But I fear that this slightly qualifying word is under as much strain as a lone suspender button at the back of a bowler's pants. #riends of the house of Morgan are likely to stress the fact that the partners who made no payments to the federal government through two distressful years were acting in a perfectly legal way. I have no doubt of it. It would be folly to assume that these returns were not prepared under the guidance of expert advisers. It was perfectly legal. But that’s precisely what I’m kicking about. It “almost " makes me mad. u tt a Sad Plight of Morgan T AM even willing to admit that in all probability Mr. Morgan and his friends did not add to their wealth in the years 1931 and 1932. Paper profits became paper losses. Mr. Morgan had a tough time of it on paper. But those who live on bread and cheese are almost indifferent to those whose agonies are solely in ledger domain. It will be hard to wring much pity from heads which are both bowed and bloody merely because the red ink has coursed down the ruggedly individual cheeks of Mr. Morgan. Certain familiar arguments will seem a little hollow in the light of recent disclosures. Os late there has been much talk in some quarters of broadening the base of taxation. I have read articles in which it was pointed out that even the man with as little as a thousand dollars a year should "‘do his bit” toward supporting our government and its necessary expenditures during a time of crisis. And. of course, there have been loud wails of anguish as to what would happen to industry and to initiative if the rates w r ere raised in the higher brackets. This part of the propaganda seems a little puzzling. Why should Mr. Morgan care how high the rates may be as long as he doesn’t pay any income tax? But the thing that burns me up—and I think we can drop the “almost” by now—is that in the years 1932 and 1933 I paid more income tax than all the members of the house of Morgan put together. This is not said in the spirit of swank. After all. they paid nothing. tt a a Pag as You Enter TT is peculiarly unfair, because Mr. A Morgan and his buddies have a huge stake in the preservation of our present economic system just as it is. Avery considerable proportion of my tax went to maintain the army and the navy in the style to which they have been accustomed. And what do I get out of it? I like the annual football game, and I listen to the marine band over the radio. Also I think the ships are decorative when they anchor in the Hudson. But I w’ould like to have a little bitsy navy, and the fewer soldiers the better. I’ll take my chances on that. Mr. Morgan cant. Tie has loans. To be strictly accurate, I believe that Morgan & Cos. has participated in few South American loans. But other bankers not unknown to the ruling house have asked for marines in Nicaragua and other details in Haiti. I never was for these things under any circumstances, but it becomes just a bit too thick when I realize that they got all these government services without paying any money at all. Any private collection agency would have charged them 10 per cent. a u if When He Was Soaked Mr. Morgan did not come through scot free. He paid some taxes. Every time he went to a theater and bought a $2 seat in the balcony, he had to slap down 20 cents for the government. He paid 10 per cent on his club dues, and for every gallon of gas he had to turn back 4 cents to the community. Then there have been taxes on country estates and the house ana the private library in the city. But this is just another form of rent. If Mr. Morgan didn’t own a city house, he might be moving into the apartment across the hall. It may be announced that Mr. Morgan made vast gifts to charities. Possibly the thousands are being evicted and thrown on the sidewalks only because Mr. Morgan Is down to his last dollar. Possibly he gave and gave until it hurt. I am curious to know. Mr. Morgan may say that whatever he gave to charity is his own business. It isn’t. When one of the richest men in America can say to the tax collector during a year of depression, “Let’s sit this ore out,” we have a right to ask, “But what did you do during the great crisis?” I do mind Mr. Morgan’s having the best seat in the house. And I mind it even more when I lean, that he came in on an Annie Oakley. (Copyright, 1933, by The Times) Our New Baby BY GORDON OLVEY SR. We got anew baby at our house And yes, sir, it’s a boy, And every one around the place Is filled clean up with joy; ’Cept me. Doctor brought him ’bout a week ago And he’s got big brown eyes: We all think he’s just the thing. Even when he cries; ’Cept me. I said I didn’t like him much, And, yes, sir. that’s a fac’; Now we all think just like me And want to send him back; j ’Cept me.