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TUEBDAY. MAY 30. 1933.

THE DRAGON IN ,THE PATH WE still are staggered Jay unemployment and relief problems. President Green of the American Federation of Labor has reported huge job losses since March 4. Jt seems probable from available figures that there are as many persons unemployed today as in the dark davs before Mr. Roosevelt's administration. In any event, unemployment conditions have not been improved materially. Mr. Green’s estimate of nearly 14,000)000 unemployed is an understatement, in the light of expert, analysis of the statistics. The facts indicate that 15,000,000 is closer to realiiy. The Reconstruction Finance corporation reports that it has exhausted its $300,000,000 fund for state relief. Even more menacing, however, are the reductions in the wages of the supposedly fortunate persons who have jobs. If prosperity ever does return, the unemployed will be put back to work. If wage standards are maintained, re-employment will be obtained under conditions which might enable the workers to constitute a powerful factor in the revived purchasing power of the nation. If wage standards are blown to pieces, work for the unemployed will accomplish no appreciable good. They will be unable to supply enough purchasing power to start the wheels of out. dormant capitalistic industry, to say nothing of keeping them running at healthy speed. Unfortunately, one of the most deplorable and disastrous policies of the capitalistic groups in this country since 1929 has been their relentless deflation of the workers and farmers. Even in 1929 those two great groups, which make up the mass of the American buyers, did not have an income sufficient to prevent capitalism from collapse. Instead of trying to remedy the situation, our great financial leaders who dominate wage policies and farm finance have permitted conditions to go from bad to worse. Total income of both the industrial workers and the farmers today is less than half what it was in 1929, while the fall in commodity prices has by no means compensated for this drop in income. Hence, special importance attaches to an article in the Forum by John T. Flynn on “Starvation Wages: The Plight of the Unemployed.” He amply proves his thesis that “The simple yet alarming truth is that our whole system of wages is crumbling. This means, of course, that the much-advertised American standard of living, built up so laboriously, that cost so many painful labor wars, is falling to pieces in our hands.” In spite of the inadequacy of wages in 1929, there had been great gains, as will be evident from the fact that the average annual earnings of factory workers in our country in 1880 were $37(1; in 1900, $480; and in 1929, $1,320. The 1929 figure provides no evidence that even then workers could live in luxury and abandon. The United States government holds that it requires between SI,BOO and $2,100 to maintain a family of five on a minimum of health and decency budget. But $1,320 was a long step ahead of $376. Since 1929 the wage-slashing has been scandalous. The marginal industries, like housework and restaurant work, have been hit hardest. Housework now commands only one to three dollars a week, usually with board and lodging. It is not uncommon for restaurant workers from New York to California to receive a dollar a week and meals. In the needle-trades, long the center of exploitation, factory legislation is evaded by. abandoning the factories and carrying on work quasi-secretly in homes—the old sweatshop. Two to four dollars a week is the average income of women thus employed. Even in reputable and representative New York state factories, women's wages have been cut almost in proportion. Even union labor has been unable to prevent these cuts. Men often are paid the regular union wages and then compelled to return a portion to the employer to hold their jobs. Or a “club” may be formed and a considerable portion of the wages deducted as club fees. Therefore, as Mr. Flynn observes; “It is not only the unemployed who has lost his purchasing power, but the employed as well. It would be possible to collect together two huge groups of workers, one group wholly unemployed and the other group working either full or part time; the first group supported by private and public relief agencies. the other dependent upon wages, without finding very much difference between the relative purchasing power of the two groups.” The remedy is, as Mr. Flynn suggests, to be found only in wisely formulated and rigorously enforced minimum wage laws. There can be no successful “new deal” unless the masses can buy. This is the hard reality which must underlie all idealistic rhetoric. JOBS—THE BEST CURE SHERWOOD ANDERSON, novelist, has put in most of this year wandering around America, talking to city people, country people, men in breadlines, hitch-hikers and everybody else he could get hold of. trying to find out if there is any sign of revolution in this country. He reports qow. in the American Spectator, that there is not. And in explaining why there is hot he touches on a point that most radical writers miss entirely. The situation in America, he Doints out. is entirely different from the situation overseas. The people are different, the country is different, the tradition is different. Our great age was a building age. We built cities, railroads, factories, machines; we cut down forests, dammed up rivers, tunneled through mountains, dug ore out of .the earth. We did not worry about theories of eco-

nomics; there was a lot of work to do and we went at it feverishly, content to tackle the job at hand. And today, says Mr. Anderson, the jobless millions are not talking about the “decline of capitalism,” about Socialism or Communism, Marxism or any other ism. Instead, he says, they are simply saying: “Give us work! Give us work! It is this damned standing still here, doing nothing, that is taking the heart out of us.” Now there is an abundance of work to be done. There is, as Mr. Anderson points out, enough work left in America to keep the nation busy for a thousand years to come. What is needed now’, he asserts, is “an end to all the talk of our failure as a people, and new talk of what is to be done.” Both the radical theorist looking hopefully for a spread of Marxism and the diehard Tory quaking in his boots lest the deluge break over him miss the point completely. The chief sufferers from the depression are not in the mcod to smash things. They aren't looking ahead to riots, military rule, a dictatorship of the proletariat and so on. They simply want to go back to work. The jobs are there, potentially; houses to be built, railroads to be* rehabilitated, factories to be overhauled, farms to be put in order, timber to be cut, canals to be dug, water power to be harnessed. It ought not to be such an impossible job to get the wheels moving. REED'S WARNING SENATOR DAVID A. REED of Pennsylvania declares the national recovery bill will place industry in the hands of “bureaucrats at Washington.” “I hope my fellow’ Pittsburghers will stop to think just what this bill can do to Pittsburgh industry,” he says. “It will put into the hands of the President power to fix wages, working hours, selling prices and the proportion of business each concern can do. The owners of the business will have practically no authority left except to foot the bills.” We doubt if the Pittsburgh public will be greatly impressed by such an argument. It has learned from actual experience what unregulated industry and cut-throat competition can do. It knows that such conditions lead to starvation w’ages, to sweatshops, to child labor and other evils of our modern industrial age. Hence, few' Pittsburghers or residents of other cities are likely to be frightened by Senator Reed's dire warnings. They know there is little danger of “bureaucracy at Washington” taking over business. Besides, they would prefer bureaucracy, with all its evils, to the Insulls, the Mitchells, the Harrimans and other fallen czars of big business. YOU CAN MAKE ’EM LAUGH '“pilE famous Mrs. Partington and her mop still are with us. Two women prohibition leaders have written to Director of the Budget Lewis W. Douglas protesting against the proposed financing of public works with liquor taxes when the eighteenth amendment is repealed. They object to such use of revenue from “that which debauches the people.” We might stop to point out that a large part of the American people feel, after thirteen years of hypocrisy, bootlegging, and speakeasies, that nothing ever “debauched” them worse than nation-wide prohibition. Os this, however, we are sure; Mrs. Partington’s struggles with the Atlantic ocean on her doorstep will be nothing to the struggle of those who now try to beat back the wet tidal wave with the astounding argument that we mustn't let liquor taxes lighten our other tax loads! Asa great American said, “You can’t fool ALL the people ALL the time.” Or even a majority of them. PUZZLING GENEROSITY THE ordinary citizen, reading the testimony in the Morgan investigation, surely can be pardoned if he finds some of the stratagems of high finance a trifle hard to understand. There is, for instance, this matter of offering a huge block of stock to favored clients at a price below the market. Ferdinand Pecora, the senate committee’s counsel, suggested the other day that by doing this the House of Morgan voluntarily passed up a chance to make a profit of SB,623.000 in its Alleghany Corporation deal. It invited all its friends to split up that profit instead; and it did it, as far as one can gather from the record, out of sheer bigness of heart. Eight-million-dollar profits do not grow on every bush even for kings of finance. Is Mr. Citizen to be blamed if he finds this sort of open-handed generosity a wee mite hard to comprehend? GUARANTEED BANK DEPOSITS NEWS that congress is acting to guarantee bank deposits of moderate size is pretty certain to be received with rejoicing. With such a provision written into law, the return of confidence to the ordinary’ man should be greatly accelerated. He would know that his bank account was safe. Knowing that, he would not be assailed by the impulse to hoard cash in his own home or in a safety deposit box; furthermore, he would be much more willing to spend his money in a normal manner, assured that the bottom was not going to drop out from under him without notice. That such a law would represent an abrupt departure from traditional banking practices goes without saying. But one who surveys the banks’ record during the last few years is likely to conclude that the more sharply some of those traditional practices can be modified, the better off we shall be. MORGAN AND THE PUBLIC r T''HE investigation into the affairs of J. P. Morgan & Cos. is important, not so much because of sensational disclosures which may be made as because it provides the public with a free look into what is, in the last analysis, the public’s business. Recognition of that simple fact is one of the most wholesome developments that have come out of the new deal at Washington. The boundary lines between private busi* tj

ness and public business are hazy and illdefined at all times. By tradition, of course, what a man chooses to do in his own office, in pursuit of his own designs, is strictly his own concern. But in practice it doesn't quite work out that way, and the more important the man is, the more does the public have a right to inquire into the things that happen in his inner sanctum. The conditions under which all of us live and work and play are determined partly by what our elected representatives do at Washington and partly by obscure economic forces which we do not wholly understand and which we never yet have had much luck in controlling. However, a third factor, which in some ways is the most important of all, is the activity of a few men of great wealth and high position—like Mr. Morgan and his partners. Under our present system, these men are responsible to no one. In the general run of cases there is no appeal from the decisions they make. • Much of the time the ordinary citizen does not even know what their decisions are; sometimes, indeed, their connection with his place in society is so involved that he doesn’t even Realize that the decisions they have made will affect him. Nevertheless, the kind of a job he is able to get, the amount of money he is able to make, the prices he will have to pay for what he buys, the amount of security he *ls able to have in his own niche—any or all of these things can be influenced profoundly by the things that such men do. That is why it is so necessary that the public have full information about the things that go on in offices like those of Morgan & Cos. In putting these kings of finance on the witness stand and scrutinizing their books, the government is not stepping into a field which properly is closed to it. Democracy can be nothing more than a sham if some form of social control can not be made effective over the men whose day-by-day decisions affect the lives of innumerable citizens. Feminist leader predicts that some day women will be getting men’s wages. We thought they already were doing that every Saturday night. Chicago’s Mayor Kelly fired a cannon in a celebration incident to business revival. Well, that certainly should have produced a boom. In view of the bicycle-riding craze that now grips Hollywood, we may expect that movie actresses soon will be competing with the farmers in the raising of fat calves. Nine kinds of water now are known to scientists, reports Dr. David Dietz, science writer. Many mere, however, are known to Wall Street stock brokers. France just has honored Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone in 1846. Verily, the evil that men do lives after them. If J. P. Morgan ever had to retire from the banking business, he doubtless could make a big success as an income tax consultant. Some men get a lot of fun out of fishing, but the majority of them seem to get the most pleasure out of telling about it. Roosevelt has given the bonus army jobs in the forests, and now the boys will raise trees instead of something else.

M.E.TracySays:

Even if the love of money were confined to need or to a reasonable desire for comfort and luxury, it still would be bad enough. There always will be a sufficient amount of poverty to make men steal and a sufficient amount of jealousy to make them overspend. With the appetite blown into a passion by the sophistries of a materialistic age, we have little left of a moral code which aspired to place human qualities above the bank roll. The real tragedy of this depression lies in its revelation of what men will do for money—men in the foremost rank, who were supposed to be equipped with superior intelligence, and who were regarded commonly as models for guidance of youthThe mildest interpretation of their mistakes convicts them of folly and incompetence, while it is impossible to escape the conclusion that they were governed by the most primitive brand of avarice in many cases. tt u a HERE is Edward A. Ridley, scrimping and saving throughout eighty-eight years, for no apparent reason, except to pile up sums of money that he couldn't and wouldn't spend. Here are two accountants who helped an unscrupulous secretary to fleece him of $200,000 during the last two years. Worst of all, here is the murderer or murderers, unknown and unidentified, but here just the same, who brought him and his secretary to a violent end. And back of it all skulks the love of money, not as born of hunger or healthy ambition, but as sprung from inordinate greed. Here are bankers, dragged to the bar of justice for dodging th income tax, forging papers and embezzling funds. Here are thousands, if not millions, of investors, holding worthless or badly slumped securities, sold to them by financiers who were more anxious to make a small commission than to safeguard the interest of those depending on them for good counsel. There is a deal of difference between wanting money for the necessities of life and wanting it for its own sake. There is a deal oi difference between thinking of a business or profession for the profit that can be gained, and thinking of it in the light of services rendered. tt tt PRIDE of possession and pride of achievement have little in common. Instead of a nation of builders, we are becoming a nation of hoarders, or were until the crash woke us up. We are not going to recover by providing a new technique for the old game. We need more of a revolution in moral attitudes than in economic methods. It is not within the range of human ability to devise a mechanical system that can withstand such unconscionable greed as we have contracted with regard to money. We not only strive to get it, keep it, and pile it up beyond all reason, but tell ourselves that the ambition to do so is socially and morally sound. We think of money, not as a medium of exchange and achievement, but as a commodity which can be separated from other forms of capital and dealt with in an isolated manner, as an all-powerful force in human affairs. Much of that must be wiped out of our philosophy before anything like permanent recovery can be achieved.

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The Crisscross? B.v a Democratic Statehouse Friend. npHREE cheers for The Times. The Statehouse Democratic women are grateful to you for letting voters know just what is being done at the Statehouse. Here’s another one. Give it publicity. McNutt is double-crossing the women who helped elect him. Julia Nance, home at Brazil, Ind., is an active Republican—appointed to hold a Democrat woman’s job. Her father, Otis Nance, is one of the pillars of the Republican party in Clay county—has served as Republican sheriff, etc.

Questions and Answers

Q —Which makes more noise, the motor or the propeller of an airplane? A—Aeronautical experts assert that the noise of an airplane is about evenly divided between the motor and the propeller. In engines equipped with mufflers, the propellers make the most noise. Q—Are there any homes for old ladies where, by paying a certain sum of money, one is eligible to enter? How can one get in touch with them? A—Write to the Indianapolis Home for Aged Women, 1731 North Capitol avenue, Indianapolis. Q—To whom shall I write to get information concerning the old age pension system of Indiana? A—The state department of public welfare, Indianapolis. Q —Has the man who played the role of the warden in the motion picture, “20,000 Years in Sing Sing,” ever appeared in any other pictures? A—Arthur Byron, who played that part, has also appeared in “The Big Shot,” “You Said a Mouthful,” “Fast Life” and “The Mummy.”

Don’t Store ‘Junk’ in Your Medicine Chest —' 1 BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

This is the first of a series of special articles on the family medicine chest. MOST Americans, being independent and individualistic, feel themselves competent to fix defects in the plumbing and almost equally competent to take care of their own disturbances of health, as well as to prescribe for more complicated disturbances which really ought to have the prompt attention of a physician. If one looks over the average family medicine chest, he is likely to find it full of strange concoctions and things of all kinds—an array of disorder which actually endangers the family’s health and safety. A survey which I made of the contents of the medicine chests of a considerable number of families brought out some exceedingly interesting information. Among the strange items found in these medicine chests were old cloths to be used as bandages, cracker atomizer bulbs, horehound candy, shoe forms, curling irons, dried sponges, packages of seeds,

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON =■■

O&E foolish feminine fear that should be put to rout is the idea that having a baby spoils a woman's beauty. I imagine this is the real reason why so many young pretty wives postpone the event. They may excuse their course by saying that they fear the pain and inconvenience, the trouble and expense of motherhood, but beyond these personal vindications lurks the thought that every baby detracts from the loveliness of its mother. This theory has no foundation in fact. It originated during the days when women had families too fast for their strength and when their work was heavy and therefore they lost their health and became old by reason of many worries.

Just a Heart of Gold!

He was recently forced to resign as police chief—the Republican and Democrats work together in Brazil to fool the voters. James Penman, Democratic county chairman is a son-in-law of Otis Nance—and the Nance family boast that they can get what they want—be it Republican or Democrat favor—in Clay county. Julia Nance now r holds a Democrat job—even though she is a Republican—through James Penman, Democrat brother-in-law, who is an ardent McNutt man. Give it some publicity and earn the gratitude and respect of Democratic women who are doublecrossed.

Q —What radio station has the call UYR and on what frequency does it operate? A—The station is operated by the police department of Montreal on 1,740 kilocycles. Q —Give the literal meaning of the word “technocracy.” A—lt is compounded of the Greek word “Techne” meaning craft, art, skill, and “itratos” meaning rule, and can be literally defined as “rule of crafts, art or skill.” Q—What is an “orthodontist?” A—A dental surgeon who uses mechanical apparatus in the mouth to correct faulty positions of the teeth. Q —Name the governor of Missouri. A—Guy B. Park. Q —How many persons can stand in the head of the statue of Liberty in New York harbor? A—Forty. Q —ls a Chinese child born in the United States an American citizen? A—Yes.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. hair grease, mange cure, face bleach, shoe polish, empty tooth paste and shaving cream tubes, fifty different remedies for colds, combs for permanent waves, and bobby pins; the remaining partners of divorced cuff links, nail polish, bath salts and discarded sets of teeth. The number of antiseptics found, and their efficiency, varied tremendously. One or two antiseptics were found in some cases, and as many as six different antiseptics in others, individual members of the family having their own likes and dislikes in these matters. Apparently most American housewives need a lot of education concerning the significance of what actually are effective and useful household remedies. A household remedy should be one with a certain definite action, and usually it should contain but one active ingredient. If the thing is worth keeping in

It would be folly to argue that such things do not play havoc with one’s looks, because when health goes, we say boodbye also to beauty. But for the normal woman these days, whose major fears regarding too many children have been taken away and whose domestic work is lightened, there is no tonic that adds such a sparke to the eyes, such a bloom to the skin and such a glow to the whole physical being, as a brand new baby. Middle-aged mothers look like young girls again. What's more, once the ordeal is over, you actually feel younger. For the catharsis to the system that accompaies child birth really rejuvenates.

(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.) Bv Times Reader and Lifetime Democrat. I read in The Times of May 26 that at last we have found a great woman leader, of the Democratic party, free from selfishness and personal greed, a true example of Jeffersonian principles. This fine lady refused a great job, proving she was of fine Democratic character. She refused to be the laughing stock of the rank and file of the great Democratic party. Words will not express the attitude this party will take toward none other than our great woman leader of the Democratic party, Mrs. Jennie E. C. Ralston, a true example of feminine sportsmanship. This fine lady would not permit herself to be like the majority of the contemptible job seekers, such as some of our senators and representatives, business men and all kinds of professional men and women who have other incomes, but are too cowardly to face the depression like the poor precinct men and women workers to whose leadership the Democratic party owes the last election victory. Yet these political hogs stand idly by and witness our vote-producing workers starve and be deprived of the necessities of- life. If the Democratic party continues this practice it will be a Marion county Republican victory next year and the end of the Democratic party.

So They Say

The average executive of today finds himself hesitating to take many steps which he knows must ultimately be taken.—Phil H. Grennan, San Francisco manufacturer. Forty per cent of adult Americans wake up tired and 8 per cent or more wake up irritable.—Dr. Donald A. Laird, Colgate psychologist.

the medicine chest, it should be something which is used fairly frequently. Dangerous poisons have no place in the family medicine chest. A dangerous poison is one which is likely to produce serious symptoms or death, if taken in even moderate amounts. Prescriptions ordered by the family doctor for a certain illness, never should be kept for the future. If any of the material remains in the bottle, it should be poured promptly into a safe place of disposal. Since useful bottles are rare around most homes, the bottle may be washed thoroughly with hojp water, dried and stored away. Few people realize that most drugs deteriorate with age and that a prescription for a certain illness is not likely to be useful for the future. In several articles that will follow this one I shall discuss the items which should and should not be in the family medicine chest. Next: Putting the family medicine chest in order.

'T'HE spiritual zest It gives a A woman to find herself the possessor of anew chlid with all the possibilities for happiness that it brings, is a veritable going back to vernal days. The opportunity to refresh oneself at the wellspring of life—how estimate what that is worth to the individual? The first years in the existence of each baby is a never-to-be-forgot-ten experience for the woman who is rearing one. To watch the flowering of the bud, to trace the development of the mind, to witness and in a measure be responsible for anew and utterly different human being—this is the very manna froja heaven that feeds and renews us.

.MAY 30, 1933

It Seems to Me “BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. May 30.—1 heard a strong, clear voice, and so did many millions, and it said. “We must drive the money changers out of the temple.” A good way to begin would be to drive them out of the cabinet and out of the councils of the Democratic party. Franklin D. Roosevelt has acted quickly in the past, and he must act quickly now. William H. Woodin should not be the secretary of the treasury. He never should have been appointed in the first place, and continuance in office would constitute a condition sufficient to wreck the Roosevelt administration. It was not dishonest for him to accept a block of cut-rate stock from the House of Morgan, but it is preposterous to retain him eVen as a minor disciple of the new deal. He sat too long and too intimately in the old game. tt a a Back to Tin Pan Alley NO. I think that Mr. Woodin ought to go back to his job of composing ballads. Let him write the nation's songs and have no care or authority about the adjustment of its finances. From an avocational point of view. William Woodin is sitting pretty. If ever I heard a song cue dropping into a man’s lap Mr. Woodin is the gentleman whom fate has favored. "We just want you to know We were thinking of you.” Why, the ditty almost writes itself. It could be called “I’ve Got Those Big Bonanza Blues.” Or if the waltz king of the American Car and Foundry Cos. wants something in a nice hot fox trot, how about “My Little Morganatic Miss?” The geographical song has not yet passed out completely, and the theme is susceptible to that type of treatment also. What's wrong with “All My Gains in Allegheny Were Made While Thinking, Dear, of You-hoo”? I'll admit that I have been a little stumped on this last version, because of my inability to find any very good ryhme for the Van Sweringens. Still Mr. Woodin ought to be able to take up where I have left off. He should hardly expect me to write all of this song for him. The best I'm willing to do is to start him off like this: "Market’s soaring, skies are blue: We want you to know we’re thinking of you. Come in at the bottom and climb to the top; Allegheny is good to the very last drop.” . tt tt tt A Rub for Mr. Glass I ALSO hope that President Franklin D. Roosevelt will tell Senator Carter Glass that as far as his counsel and advice go he may take a long vacation from White House visits. Senator Glass decidediv needs a rest. If J. P. Morgan is to be interrogated even once more, the gentleman from Virginia is going to find himself with a permanent crick in his back. It would also be well, I believe, to ask Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to step out of the temple and peddle his wares around the corner. The best excuse the senator has offered so far lor his participation in the Morgan Sunday school treat for good little political leaders is that he lost $3,565 on the three transactions. He ate the strawberry ice cream, but contends that it did not agree with him. Perhaps Senator McAdoo should not have come back for the second and the third helping, a fifteenpoint profit in Allegheny wasn't enough. In fact, all I can see in the senator’s statement is the pitiful plea of a man who jumped on the bandwagon and then didn’t quite know enough to come in out of the rain. tt tt 9 The Public as Usual OF course it is well to remember that in a strict sense the bargain counter boys were not directly the recipients of bounty from the House of Morgan. The chance to turn a profit of a few pennies did not come from the coffers of the firm. After all, what did Mr. Ewing say when he reminded Mr. Woodin that his name never was far from the thoughts of the heads of the great private bank? “The stock is selling in the market around 535 to $37 a share, which means very little, except that people wish to speculate.” Now, it seems to me that free but accurate translation of that would read, “Here’s a chance to take those suckers called the general public for a little buggy ride.” P. S.—Wiiliam H. Woodin, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. forward;; —Dear Mr. Woodin: Disregard all earlier suggestions v.hich I have offered as to the title for your new ballad. It’s just come to me. Call your song “The Unforgotten Man.” (Copyright. 1933. by The Times)

What Poetry?

BY MARY B. MOYNAHAN It is a group of well-selected words— Keen arrows—song tipped—most carefully wrought, And burnishgd bright by golden dreams and thought; With cadence sweet as that from throat of birds; A message hurled afar—which even girds The world. Tis inspiration swiftly sought, Bestowed by haunting muse so often sought; A blend of words akin to music’s chords. . . . A woven web that forms a perfect w’hole, With warp of meter and, perchance, of rhyme; Artistic work for which there’s little gain. It is the overflowing of the soul Which sings its way on down the age of time, To ease the heart of o'er much joy or pain! DAILY THOUGHT The good man is perished out of the earth; and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.—Micah 7:2. WHAT has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?—Hor* ace.