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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933. “INVESTIGATE TO THE LIMIT” NO one will be surprised by the news that President Roosevelt has requested the senate committee to push its investigation of the Morgans and other large to the limit. It was Mr. Roosevelt who took office with a specific pledge to restore the temple from the havoc wrought by the money changers. It was Mr. Roosevelt who suggested that the senate committee turn its immediate attention from commercial to private banks. So far there have been sensational exposures, but only a beginning has been made, despite the many weeks of hearings and more of preparation for the hearings. There still is much to find out about the National City bank and the House of Morgan, and after that there are at least a score of others. Only by making the investigation wide and deep can the public and congress get an accurate picture of the complicated and intermeshed financial machine which has almost destroyed the nation. It is not enough to show the operations of a short market, as the committee started out to do; or the system of beneficiary stock lists, interlocking loans deposits, and directorates by which Morgan controls banks, as the committee now is doing. The committee should reveal the working of a bull market, how the big boys deliberately boost stock prices to unload on an uninformed public, how they rope in smaller banks and investment houses to dispose of that stock, how they whip up public speculative mania by propaganda and false tips. The committee should reveal how the Wall street bankers use their control over industry to water stock, to overexpand equipment, to produce beyond market demands, to batter down wages. The committee should reveal how bankers milk railroads and other industries through reorganization rackets and receivership piracy. The committee should reveal how banks, through industrialists and trade groups, maintain lobbies to prevent congress from passing remedial legislation relating to banks, public utilities, tariffs, and the general economic life of the nation; how they influence foreign policy, particularly their tie-up with the munitions trust. The committee should reveal how big bankers, through campaign contributions, preferred lists of stock clients, and otherwise, exert influence ajid in some instances gain control of the major political parties and of national administrations. Pin-pricking of the House of Morgan and others may be very exciting, but nothing short of a surgical operation will do the job. The Investigation for diagnosis must be complete, and the resulting operation must be complete. Otherwise, the public will get nothing out of this but a brief Roman holiday. We have had experience in this thing before. Twenty years ago the Pujo investigation put the head of the House of Morgan on the grill; the public was just as much shocked, just as resentful, just as excited then as now. Very little has been uncovered in this investigation to date that was not revealed in the earlier inquiry. But it didn't get us anywhere. It was allowed to run off into an emotional debauch. Doubtless that is why President Roosevelt has felt it necessary to urge the present senate committee to keep going until it gets to the very bottom of the financial muck. But to follow the President’s suggestion the committee must be given sufficient funds, a larger staff of aids and experts for Mr. Pecora, and be ready to continue its investigation through the summer and into the autumn If necessary. USE ALL OUR POWERS IT is rather dismaying to find a Washington correspondent reporting that the Roosevelt administration does not intend to use many of the extraordinary powers which will be placed at its disposal through the new industrial bill. This bit of news was meant to be reassuring. Actually, it is the exact opposite. One hopes that it is not tnie. The industrial bill, if adopted in its present form, would bring to American life the most sweeping change that has come since adoption of the Constitution itself. It would put industry on an entirely new basis, and it thereby would change profoundly the conditions under which the average American earns his living. But in spite of those facts—or, rather, because of them—the bill is in many ways the most encouraging single factor on the horizon. That we have in Washington a congress and an executive willing to enact a measure of this kind entitles us to hope that we eventually shall work our way out of the depression and enter a fairer era. To pass such a bill and then to sit back and let it gather dust on the shelves, trusting hopefully that the interplay of natural forces will carry us on up in such manner that drastic action will not be needed—that would be to go straight back to where we were a couple of years ago. It would be to give up the idea of a planned economy in favor of di if ting. Our situation being what it is. we have nothing to fear from a government that is willing to live up to the President s promise of "bold, persistent experimentation.” Our greatest danger would be a government that tried too hard to play safe. Commodity prices are beginning to rise, factory production is beginning to increasetrue enough, and very- welcome signs they are; but to seek to ride up on these elevators without putting into effect far-reaching correctives would be to leave unaltered the funriamei al

maladjustments that caused our woes in the first place. The true conservative in times like these —the man who really wants to preserve as many as possible of our traditional institutions—is the man who is willing to adopt new measures. The man to be afraid of is the man who tries to stick in the old grooves. PEACE IS U. S. PROBLEM OOMLTIME in the not distant future the American people must make up their minds just how far they care to go in helping to maintain the peace of Europe. That peace is a very unstable thing. It has been, ever since the war. it was unstable for decades before the war. There is nothing in sight right now to indicate that it is going to be any more stable in the immediate future. This is because there has not, for many decades, been a situation in Europe which was not deeply displeasing to certain important minorities. Before 1914, France wanted to regain her lost provinces, Polish patriots dreamed of independence, restless groups in the Hapsburg empire schemed for separation. Since the w*ar the central powers, particularly Germany, have felt the Versailles treaty as an irksome restriction which some day must be ended. Hence every nation must be prepared, ultimately, to appeal to force. Asa result, disarmament schemes usually come to grief. Those nations interested in maintaining existing frontiers and treaties will not give up their military predominance unless they are assured that such countries as England and America will join them in preventing the discontented minorities from kicking over the traces. All of which leads up to the question, How far are we prepared to go in underwriting the status quo overseas? If we continue to stand aloof, the disarmament program must collapse. Anew war will become more than likely, and we have no assurance whatever that we shall be any more able to keep out of it than we were able to keep out of the last one. On the other hand, if we line up firmly for existing treaties, we commit ourselves deeply in quarrels that are not of our making and we lend our support to a situation which many of us feel contains great injustices. It won’t be an easy decision. But it is hard to see how we can avoid making it, one way or the other. We rapidly are approaching a great fork in the road, and there is no middle course. Before long we must make one of the most important choices in our history. WHY IT HURTS (From The New York Times) TTTHY is it that publication of the “pre- ’ * ferred list” of J. P. Morgan & Cos. caused so much surprise and regret? We speak not here of the excited and inflammatory cries which have risen in various parts of the country. That a very bad impression has been made no one can doubt. A part of it is due to ignorance and unfounded suspicion. But another part—the really important part—goes with the sense of a gross impropriety having been committed by a firm of which no one would have expected anything of the kind. The favors which it passed out to friends and customers had no taint of illegality. Things of that kind have been done for years by many brokerage houses and promoting syndicates. But something more delicate and more disinterested, more in accord with a fine consciousness of responsibility and trusteeship and the standing of a great company, commonly were associated with the name of Morgan, Here was a firm of bankers, perhaps the most famous and powerful in the whole world, which certainly was under no necessity of practicing the small arts of petty traders. Yet it failed under a test of its pride and prestigeBy a mistake which had with the years swollen into a grievous fault, it sacrificed something Intangible, imponderable that has to do with the very highest repute. The members of such a partnership forgot that they not only must be beyond reproach in their financial dealings—as they doubtless are—but always must appear to be so. They have given even their warmest friends cause for feeling that somehow the whole community, along with numbers of men whom all had delighted to honor, has been involved in a sort of public misfortune. ALL GOD’S CHILLUN REMARK attributed to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, that the south is an untapped market for American shoes, stirred a flood of florid oratory from the senators of Dixie. Senator Bailey of North Carolina insisted that none is more handsomely shod than his own Tarheel state. “Why,” he shouted, “even the mules In the south wear shoes.” The gentlemen from Georgia, Florida and Tennessee allowed the same. Said Senator McKellar of Tennessee: “I have not seen a barefooted person in my part of the country in many years.” Rhetorically, Dixie's champions were very convincing; statistically, less so. Georgia, the senate heard, spends $6.50 per capita on shoes, South Carolina. $5; Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, $7. This gives about one pair of shoes a year to each of God’s chillun there. The south should not feel slighted. The whole United States is an untapped market for shoes, suits, radios, pianos and whatnot. There are millions too poor to buy enough good shoes for their feet. The south is more fortunate only because it is warmer, and going barefoot less a punishing ordeal. If Secretary Perkins works to restore buying power to the south, the southern champions should cheer, ACADEMIC FREEDOM 'P'ROM Tokio comes news that the entire A law faculty of Kyoto Imperial university has resigned in a battle with the education minister over a question of academic freedom. The president of the university and 1.600 law students may also resign. The protest resulted when the education minister suppressed a textbook on penal law ■written bv one of the university professors, the ground being that it contained ideas antagonistic to the Constitution of Japan. It is a healthy sign when an entire faculty comes to the support of one of its colleagues. This is especially true ia view of the jealousy

which naturally might prevail among any group of co-workers. If all the university professors in the world, this country included, were willing to fight at the drop of the hat for true academic freedom, the world, this nation included, would move far more swiftly toward happier days. And there can be no doubt that professors in this country since the Wilson administration have had more backbone. Woodrow, the professor, set anew pace. The various petitions against the Grundy tariff, in favor of shorter working hours, etc., which economists in the nation’s institutions of learning have been sending to the Presidents in the last few years, express this new courage and anew sense of social responsibility—all comprised in the true spirit of academic freedom. The professors in far-off Japan have sounded a brave note to encourage the long repressed faculties of the world. A 400-YEAR PENSION 'T'HE Mexican ministry of finance is considering abolishing the pension which has been paid for four centuries to the descendants of Montezuma, famous emperor of the old Aztec empire; and this bit of news is an interesting footnote to one of history's most romantic chapters. After Cortez had consolidated the Mexican conquest, the Spanish king granted a perpetual pension to Montezuma’s descendants. A number of them later were raised to the nobility; in the late seventeenth century a Mexican viceroy married Montezuma’s granddaughter and assumed the title of “Count of Montezuma.” And through all the succeeding years the pension has been paid. When Mexico won her independence, the Mexican government took over the responsibility. Now Mexico is wondering if this hasn’t gone on long enough; and the interesting thing to most of us is the realization that a living relic of the Aztec empire survives in modern Mexico. SMALLER GIFTS TO COLLEGES r T''HE day of great gifts to colleges and uniA versities is just about over, if a recent appeal from President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university to Columbia alumni is taken as a criterion. In this appeal President Butler urged support of the university through small gifts. In the past, Columbia has been very fortunate in getting mar.v large donations. But now, says President Butler: The great fortunes and the large accumulations which made these benefactions possible are either dissipated or destroyed. The economic and financial crisis which grips the whole world has made their return quite impossible, certainly for a long time to come, if . not forever.” Significance of this change to the privately endowed institution of higher education hardly could be overestimated. We’ve been sitting here fifteen minutes now, trying to think of reasons why Mr. Morgan should object to the higher income tax rates proposed in congress. And so far we haven’t been able to think of a single one. In his balloon flight into the stratosphere - at the Century of Progress exposition, Professor Piccard will use buckshot for ballast, dropping it as needs require. In Chicago a rain of buckshot should seem perfectly natural. Addressing 4,000 Gotham school children, Al Smith told them how to keep the sidewalks clean. Well, Al always was an expert on “The Sidewalks of New York.”

M. E.Tracy Says:

/CHANGES now taking place in this country V* are incidental to larger revolution. During the last quarter century, but especially since the war, the attitude of civilized people toward government and its purpose has been altered profoundly. What began as a struggle to overthrow kings and disestablish intrenched aristocracies has evolved into a movement against the divine rights of mass opinion. Curiously enough, that brand of liberalism which sought relief through such measures as the recall, the referendum, and continuous extension of the franchise set the stage for anew basis of group control. Almost without realizing it, western civilization has passed from a legislative to an executive era, with industry rather than law, as the vehicle of social justice. Up to a few years ago, it was the prevailing idea that more and more direct government was the great need, with more and more laws to protect those rights and privileges which had been wrested from the old order. Recalling how well democracy had worked as an agency of defense against class rule, most people assumed that it would work equaliy well in the constructive and creative field. Liberalism, progressiveism, and radicalism came to mean little, except the more specific reflection of popular sentiment in all phases of government. B B B WE Americans were peculiarly susceptible to this doctrine, assuming that there was something superior, if not divine, in the mere fact of holding elections. We voted and we legislated on an unheard-of scale. Electioneering, especially on the part of politicians and office holders, became a favorite indoor sport. This led to a situation in which thousands of important public positions became dependent on favors to this or that group and in which thousands of public officials seldom did anything without first considering its probable effect on the next election. Buiness interest, racketeers, clubs, associations and other organized groups who wanted anything seized the opportunity to trade. As might be expected, the trading led to graft and corruption in many instances. Efforts to correct such a situation by passing more laws only made it worse. Theoretically, we had a system which seemed to safeguard and protect every right, but practically it didn’t work. nun ' SOME thirty years ago we began to ridicule our legislative bodies and to applaud those chief executives who had the capacity or inclination to dominate them. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were loved for nothing so much as their ability to make congress do what they wanted. The country had ceased to look for Websters, Clays, and Calhouns. The advent of industrial czars not only awakened it to the importance of economics,' but gave it the idea that much more depended on executive management than on legislative facility. Then came the war, with European nations leaping from kingcraft to Facism, without bothering to go through the slow process of democratic evolution, and for the first time in 150 years we Americans find ourselves borrowing ideas from the other side of the Atlantic—from Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and leaders like them, though we deny it. How far we will go is another question* i

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(Times readers are invited to eryress their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 tcords or lessJ By the Onlooker: Add to the list of things we can get along without—the annual Speedway race. . This year five men lost their lives as a result of the race, which proved nothing nor did any of its twenty predecessors. The idea that the race is “a laboratory in new engineering principles are developed” is the bunk. The race is a fruit of the union of greed and the savage streak in humanity. If Nero from the other world can hear himself called names for the gladiator games he sponsored in ancient Rome, he must get a laugh out of so-called civilization which needlessly slaughters men in a race as cruel as anything the fiddling emperor ever promoted. It seems that a nation which has within its borders millions of men, women and children wanting the barest necessities of life could direct its thoughts and energies in fields of human good rather than those in which profit and blood are the only-things that can be reaped. By Carolus Lapidus. Two Marion county commissioners took occasion recently to rap Indiana’s old age pension law. Asa member of the fraternal Order of Eagles, which for more than a decade carried on at its own expense a- campaign of education for an old age pension system in this state, I concede that the law as it stands is far from ideal. And it occurs to me there are a number of other man-made laws which, in the jargon of the day, are “not so hot.” The important point about the Indiana pension law is this—it establishes the principle of decent, just, and humane care of the needy aged. From that point, the intelli-

This is the second article in a series on the Family Medicine Chest. 'T'HE wise person will go over the family medicine chest at least once every three months and discard all materials not constantly in use. It also is well to have the family doctor take a look at the materials to offer his advice on those worth keeping and make suggestions as to what is needed. Unless measures of this kind are taken, the amount of “junk” that accumulates in the average medicine chest becomes something appalling. Just for example, I asked one of my friends to take an inventory on the contents of the medicine chest at his home and his report includes the following: A bottle containing about one tablespoonful of milk of magnesia, which had been there for more than a year. The remnants of two prescriptions, for an illness long since cured and forgotten. A spool of adhesive tape that had dried to the point where it seemed winter. almost ready to crumble, and could be of no possible use. About one teaspoonful of cough mixture, left over from his son's bad cold last A broken fever thermometer. Several discarded powder puffs. A

WE had been talking about the “breakdown of morals.” Several in the small group expressed alarm at the unconcern with which society now regards romantic experiences and children bom out of wedlock. “Is it safe,” said a mother, “to accept without protest this modern point of view? What will such attitude do to the generation that comes after our children? If we abandon the old-fashioned moralities, can we expect anything but spiritual chaos?” Then up spoke the only grandmother in the circle, and her opinion, I consider, is not only unusual for grandmothers, but eminently sensible. “I ctyn’t like to hear you speak of the breakdown of morals,” she said. “Is It not really the breakof -suparstitiojal is.

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Keep It Up! By Mr. Depositor. r "P'HE Times is to be congratulated for the space it has given to investigation of closed banks. Court disclosures regarding alleged mishandling of banks’ funds by bank officials have been followed closely by thousands of depositors. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, investigation certainly paved the way for close scrutiny of bank

Questions and Answers

Q —What is the record attendance at any sporting event in the United States? A—Probably the record is 170,000 at the Memorial day auto race at Indianapolis speedway, May 30, 1930. Q —Who holds the American woman’s record for discus throw, javelin throw, basketball and baseball throw? A—Lillian Copelan, discus throw (2 pounds. 12Vi oz.), 115 feet 614 inches; Mildred Didrickson, javelin (1 pound, 5.20 oz.), 133 feet 5 j 2 inches; Carolyn Dieckman, basketball throw, 90 feet 4!4 gent citizenry of Indiana can proceed to a more liberal law. Anything that will keep even a few old men and women out of the poorhouses, the costly and hopeless institutions which are relics of a barbarism three centuries old, is well worth while. It is not of record that the commissioners who criticized did anything during the 1933 session of the legislature to the end that a more liberal law be enacted.

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couple of old safety razors, long since discarded and certainly never to be used again. A roll of gauze bandage, last used when his son cut his hand while ice skating, and which had been stained by some sort of medicine from an overturned bottle. A hot water bottle that leaks which he intended to patch some day—though months have elapsed

So They Say

Since the signature of the Versailles treaty, which was to be the foundation of better times for all peoples, 224,900 persons in our nation—have committed suicide —men, women and children—almost exclusively out of misery.—Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany. Those who expect my fast to kill me will be pleasantly disappointed. —Mahatma Gandhi. If the children will not think for themselves, the motorist must do their thinking for them.—State Highway Director Merrell of Ohio.

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

always better than slavery and one generation can never create customs for another. Each must fashion its own standards. “It may and does shock my sensibilities to see young people ignoring so many tilings I held sacred. But I console myself by saying that they will find out in the end what the truth is about iife for themselves. “It is better to suffer while trying one's opinions than to play safe by tying oneself down. The first is the way of the gods; the second the way of the worm.” am* “T>Y and by, young people will 13 discover that it is only the essential decencies that count for anything. But I for one believe they should be privileged to make their own -moral -explorations, You may,

officials’ acts by the county grand jury. However, it is disheartening to read recently that the bankers probably will escape punishment \ or censure for parts they are I alleged to have played in defunct Indianapolis banks before they closed. Report that one bank’s alleged shortage in accounts is due to a $290,000 mistake in figures on the bank's books is not satisfying to depositors demanding a complete expose.

inches; Mildred Didrickson, baseball throw, 296 feet. Q —What is the tonnage of the new cruiser Indianapolis? A—lts displacement is 9,950 tons. Q—Which Presidents left the territory of the United States while in office? A—Theodore Roosevelt visited the Panama Canal Zone and went to the city of Panama; William Howard Taft crossed the border into Mexico and dined with President Diaz at Juarez; Grover Cleveland, on a fishing trip, exceeded the boundary of the United States; Woodrow Wilson went to the peace conference in Europe; Warren G. Harding went to British Columbia in Canada, and Calvin Coolidge visited Cuba. Q —What is the origin of the term “star boarder?” A—This is an American colloquialism derived from the use of - the word “star,” to designate a person who shines brilliantly or plays a leading part, and therefore has privileges not extended to others.

i and he hasn’t patched it yet. An atomizer that would not work. A booklet giving directions for physical exercises, which was filed away at the time of its receipt and never opened again. An old medicine dropper, all gummed up with some medicine. A wire hairbrush, bought originally with an idea of using it regularly each morning to invigorate the scalp, but which was put away after having been used for less than a week. And, of course, his cabinet contained the inevitable supply of old safety razor blades—for nobody eve seems to throw old blades away. Used safety razor blades - are dangerous. Recently a man in a Chicago hospital was found to have swallowed seven, probably because he could find no other place to put them. There is hardly a home in the country in which someone has not at some time cut his finger on a discarded blade while reaching into the medicine chest for something else. , A good rule is to put the old blade in the package every time a new blade is taken out. Then when the package is filled with old blades the box can be thrown in the household rubbish. NEXT —ltems that should be in the family medicine chest.

be sure they’ll arrive at the same old fundamental conclusions. “And when they get them in that fashion, they'll have them for keeps. And that is the main point. A good many of my generation, reared in frustration and restrictions, aren’t really convinced in their hearts. Because they couldn’t find out for themselves, they had to take somebody’s word for their truths. “Yes, I do believe in the old-fash-ioned moralities. But I no longer think it makes much difference how we reach that solid ground so long as it is reached. The youngsters will find out, perhaps through sorrow, that self-control and courage are the only virtues that are worth very much to mankind. “They won’t just surmise and theorize about life; they’ll know. And they’ll be able to bring up a better generation of children than wa-duL”

-MAY 31, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

I XTEW YORK. May 31— I read in j rapid succession yesterday the comments of Mr. Walter Lippmann, the New York Evening Post and the Daily Worker upon the case of the House of Morgan. There seems to be a difference of opinion. I almost felt the need of some orchestral accompaniment to resolve the dissonance. As I perused the Post, it was as if a stately old lady in a black jet dress were playing “Old Folks at Home" upon the harpsichord. I fear the Post is trying to break my heart and the hearts of all the members of that little group of wilful men which constitutes its circulation. In the eyes of this journal, the chief fact elicited by Mr. Pecora about the House of Morgan is that “it had tried to help a much-beloved ex-President of the United Statec to make a little money for his old age. I can almost see the preliminary scene which must have occurred behind the blinds of 23 Wall Street. Mr. Lamont is the first speaker. a a a Played Santa Claus MR. L. —Calvin has lost that job he had writing a daily column for the Trib. Outside of being chairman of the National Transportation committee, he’s got practically no work at all. Mr. M. (with an Apansive gesture)—Couldn’t we—er—do something? Mr. L.—Don’t be gross, J. P Remember he once was the President of the United States. Mr. M—To be sure. Just after Warren Harding. The dignity of the office and all that. I apologize. But couldn't we pretend to be business men and organize some sort of company, just for the fun of it? That would give us a chance to help Mr. Coolidge without his ever suspecting anything. Mr. L.—lt would have to be dignified. What do you suggest? Mr. M.—l think food is very dignified. Coffee and tea and yeast and Eddie Cantor on the radio. Surely Mr. Coolidge couldn’t object to making money out of a setup like that. Mr. L.—Done and done, J. P. The scene fades. “Old Folks at Home” grows louder, and Carter Glass in blackface and full livery comes before the footlights and announces. “And that’s how Standard Brands was born.” B B B The Flaw in Fable I THINK it would be effective. I probably would weep as I saw it played, and yet the next day I would have an uneasy feeling that there was something wrong with the scenario. And then I would remember that it wasn't only a “beloved exPresident” who was to be helped in making “a little money for his old age.” After all. there was Mr. McAdoo. I think it would be difficult to call Mr. McAdoo a beloved anything, although I will admit that he can always gain something in popularity by becoming ex. Still, as far as his old age goes. I have a suspicion that everybody, with the possible exception of Mr. McAdoo, is in favor of it. The skit is out. B B B Up in Walter's Room MR. LIPPMANN'S contribution requires quite a different setting. I suggest something austere by Robert Edmond Jones representing a study overlooking the river. The hero sits at a great flat-topped desk on which the audience can see and plainly identify a quill pen, a complete set of four-wheel brakes and a delicately adjusted scales. Over the desk hangs a wall motto reading "Count Ten.” The whole thing is done in pantomime except for offstage noises. Mr. Lippmann’s “Today and Tomorrow” column concerning the House of Morgan is about to be written, and from the street comes the anxious hum of a vast throng of people milling about in considerable perturbation. They carry banners inscribed with the slogan “We Want To Be Told.” Mr. Lippmann takes up his pen, but is disturbed as a river steamboat passes with a band blaring forth “Can’t We Be Friends?” He puts down the pen, then takes it up again. The crowd is hushed into reverential awe. Mr. Lippmann is about to commit himself. You could hear a pin drop. In fact, it does drop. Boldly and fiercely Mr. Lippmann writes across the clean page three ringing words, “Yes and no!” He tosses it out the window to the crowd below. By a conjuring trick the paper disappears in mid-air and never reaches the ground. The scene fades from the study of Walter Lippmann to the crowd below. Now they are all shouting very loudly In unison: “We want Information!” ,p We want leadership!” “We want to know what to do!” On a neighboring balcony there suddenly appears the ghost of Marie Antoinette. She listens to the cri=s of the crowd intently. Then she turns to the audience with a sweet smile and remarks, “Why don’t they read Walter Lippmann?” (Copyright 1533, bv The Times) At Eventide BY MARGARET E. BRUNER. Only these things I ask at eventide: A quiet room, zinnias in a bowl; Perhaps a friend, but if I am denied, It will not matter greatly to my soul.

Daily Thought

For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of cry ink to the mountains.—lsaiah 22:5. BEWARE of desperate steps. The darkest day. live till tomorrow, will have passed away.—Cowper. A CORRECTION Two errors were made in the contributed verse by Mary B. Moynahan on The Times editorial page on Tuesday. The heading should have been “What Is Poetry?” Instead of “ ‘Tls inspiration swiftly spught,” the line should have read ; * Inspiration .swiftly .oaygtoW'