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FRIDAY. JUNE 3. 1933. ONE RIGHT WAY TO VOTE WHETHER a reign of sanity will replace a regime of fanatical tyranny will be decided by Indiana voters next Tuesday, when they ballot on the most momentous question confronting them in the last half century—repeal of the eighteenth amendment, breeder of graft, corruption, gang rule, and murder. They will decide whether they will dethrone hypocrisy and live once more under the rule of temperance and moderation, or whether they wish to perpetuate the theory that morals can be legislated into a free people. They wiii decide wnet'ner they will help business recovery and attain economic progress, or whether they will continue a policy that has resulted in the waste of millions of dollars and a moral loss that can not be estimated in monev. E\ery disproved and exploded argument of the drys is being shouted today from the housetops, in a despairing effort to swing the sentiment against repeal. We hear again that the sanctity of the home is in peril. But how', pray, has the sanctity of the home been protected under prohibition? Certainly not by driving the saloon into the home, as has been the case in every city of America. The best answer to this cry of the drys is the fact that thousands of home-loving mothers are enrolled in the battle for repeal, thinking mothers who know the road that their children are likely to travel under prohibition. Before us is spread the grisly picture of automobile drivers, stupefied by liquor, strewing the highways with wTecks and shattered bodies, if repeal comes. But there is a strange silence concerning the motor death lists which have mounted steadily under the beneficent reign of prohibition. Out of the propaganda mills come dire prophecies of the fate'await mg the youth of the nation if prohibition falls. But the drys conveniently overlook the fact that today a condition exists that never even was imagined twenty years ago boys and girls staggering into their classrooms, dying in automobile wrecks into which they were plunged by hip flasks, filling hospitals as the result of indulgence in bootleg liquor. Prohibition has been an economic failure, a moral failure, a miserable travesty on justice, a spur to crime. Its continuance in Indiana, it is true, is backed by thousands of good people, sincere in their belief. But it is backed, too. by the shattered forces of a ghastly trinity—the Anti-Saloon League, the Ku-Klux Klan, and the Horsethief Detectives’ Association, two mangy lions and a fetid jackal, responsible for more misgovernment in this state in the last decade than had disgraced Indiana for the previous sixty years. A vote for repeal is a vote to bury them and everything they represent so deeply that they never again will be resurrected. No intelligent person can believg that Indiana will do otherwise next Tuesday.

NOT TOO FAST! FOR the first time in many months there are real signs of business recovery. Wage increases are beginning. Dividend payments are going up. Retailers are placing larger orders. Industrial production is climbing steadily. The steel industry is operating at 56 per cent of capacity compared with 18 per cent two months ago. The trade associations report to the federal government a marked business improvement in most lines and in most parts of the country. Commodity pirces are rising. Since March textile product prices have increased more than 9 per cent and farm products more than 25 per cent. With anticipated enactment next week of the all-important industrial recovery bill to increase purchasing power of the mass market, and with tariff reduction authority for the President, there is a good chance of holding present gains and making more business progress during the summer. But there is a dark side to the picture also. That is the revival of the speculative mania. Already some stocks are being boomed beyond their earning capacity. Gamblers are playing for a big killing. There is too much trouble in the world today to worry much about the lambs who run to Wall Street and beg to be fleeced again. But every person w ho has a stake in legitimate and solid business recovery, which means 120,000.000 Americans, must fear the results of an artificially high stock market, followed by collapse. The government has large powers in this situation. Misuse of its credit machinery, permitting the flow' of money into speculative instead of productive channels, would be disastrous. Excessive use of its inflationary authority to speed up a rise which already is the fastest in our history easily might result in a wreck. NOT A NEW DEAL. THE determination voiced by both White House and congress that the. economy act shall not carry injustices to wounded veteranswill be cheered widely. * When in March the President sought to save $400,000,000 from the costly veterans’ budget, no one, not even the Economy league, contemplated that these sating# would be made at the expense of sufferers from combat disabilities. Now bureaucrats at Washington are charged by senators, veterans’ organizations, and others with having distorted that law. They have, it is charged, sent out arbitrary rerating orders that have in hundreds of resulted in pauperizing veterans wounde<ry in

battle and threatening to throw them and their families into the breadlines on July 1. Every congressman has been flooded by appeals. Some are spurious. Some are from non-service sufferers. But many are authentic. It should not be necessary for congress to pass restrictive laws to protect actual sufferers from war service. President Roosevelt's promise to appoint an independent investigating committee to see that justice is done should suffice. To throw wounded veterans into the streets to beg is not economy nor is it the new deal. DEATH FOR MRS. DACH TIIG, fat, ugly, and ignorant is Mrs. Anton Dach, the Schulenburg woman , condemned to the electric chair by a jury of twelve men at La Grange, Tex. Her hair is coarse, her hands are rough, her face has no animation. She wore cotton stockings and an ugly gingham dress. She can’t talk English, and she has little appeal to man’s emotions. What a pitiful thing to face a jury! She killed a man. burned and buried him and now she must die. It is true she said the man had criminally assaulted her, but the jury looked at the woman and no doubt some of them laughed. Suppose Mrs. Dach had been a pretty little thing, becomingly dressed, silk-clad ankles peeping forth from dainty skirts, a tear trickling down a grief-stricken face as she recited the story of killing a brute to defend her honor, the terror of her crime, the attempt to destroy the evidence, her nights and days of suffering—would the result have been the same? Someone has said that if the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, or one leg a little longer 'than the other, it might have changed the history of the world. Poor Mrs. Dach—fat and funny-looking, hard-working, uncouth, and ignorant, the mother of three children, all young, for she is only 36. She lies in the La Grangajail, refusing all food, wanting to die. The law says she must be killed by the state because she killed a man. That’s modern Christianity, modern civilization. Her huge body or her brainless head must be burned with the state’s electricity until the current takes every spark of life in that mass of flesh. Vengeance is mine, saith the state. You killed and you must be killed. What good will it do? JOBLESS EXCHANGES TJASSAGE by the senate of the Wagner unemployment exchange bill gives assurance of early victory for this wise and essential measure. The plan provided under the bill would have been in effect before had not President Hoover vetoed a similar measure two years ago and substituted his own unworkable system. The Wagner bill appropriates $1,500,000 this year and $4,000,000 annually until 1938 to build a nation-wide system of free exchanges. Three-quarters of this goes to the states on a 50-50 basis. The federal director, aided by an advisory council, sets the rules. Without an effective and expertly manned placement system, the pending $3,300,000,000 public works program will start under handicap of a disordered labor market. Without it, unemployment insurance systems can not operate successfully. Without it, heartaches, costly maladjustments, and wasted human effort will strew the path to recovery. This measure is Class 1 emergency legisla-

NO CUTS, NO LOANS ■'T'HE Reconstruction Finance Corporation n ow formally rules that hereafter corporations seeking loans either must reduce excessive salaries paid to their executives or prove that such salaries are not excessive. The cuts required are drastic and specific. Executive salaries heretofore above SIOO,OOO must be reduced not less than 60 per cent, including previous reductions; salaries from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO must be cut at least 50 per cent; and so on down to former salaries and wages between $4,800 and SIO,OOO, W'hich must be shown to have been reduced at least 10 per cent. The fairness of this hardly can be questioned, even though congress has not yet got around to passing a law on the subject. The incongruity of R. F. C. aid to railroads or other corporations that could afford to keep up SIOO,OOO executive salaries during depression and even, in some cases, to fsorease salaries in the $25,000 to SIOO,OOO brackets has been pointed out. Justice to stockholders Is, of course, also involved. Present action ordered by the federal supreme court to determine the propriety and equity of the payment of huge bonuses to American Tobacco Company officials calls public attention anew to the broader question of inordinate and disproportionate rewards for executive services at a time when many of the ablest men in the country are prepared to accept a lower scale of compensation for their best work and effort. This larger phase of the matter must be dealt with more slowly. But meanwhile the R. F. C. has every reason and right to refuse to lend public money to private corporations that -maintain “sky” salaries despite their professed needs. If “charity begins at home,” so should economy. TOY BUSINESS BOOMS T OOKING for results of inflation in American business is hardly a paying proposition yet, since few' really inflationary steps have actually been taken; nevertheless, the director of the Toy Manufacturers of the United States reports that inflation already has caused a boom in the toy business. Not long ago toy makers held a “Toy Fair,” attended by buyers from all over the country; and sales recorded at this fair were 75 per cent over those sold at a similar fair. James L. Fri, director of the manufacturers’ association, attributes this largely to the inflation program. Buyers, he said, sought to get their orders in now in advance of rising prices. Asa result, 300 American toy factories will have increased production schedules and larger pay rolls this summer, *')

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? TI7ARDEN KIRK PRATHER of the Kansas * state penitentiary had a gun at his head and a wire noose around his throat. The rebellious convicts who had seized him told him to order the guards to give up their keys and throw away their guns. He did what he was told to do, the guards complied, and the convicts escaped, with results that make interesting current history. What w-ould have happened if Warden Prather had refused to carry out the orders of the rebels? He probably would have been killed. But that probability is no justification for the course he followed. A man who accepts a position like his does so with knowledge that his duty may cost him his life. Only the conviction that the safety of many others than himself was involved could justify the warden's conduct. We can never know what would have happened if Warden Prather had told the convicts to shoot and be damned. We can go back and imagine a different sequence of events from the one that actually happened. But there is no turning back in actual life. We never have the chance to play it over again a different way. WHEN FATE WAS KIND npHE fate that presides shipwrecks A seems to be an excessively capricious sort of lady. Once a ship comes to grief, the lives of those aboard seem to depend more on blind chance than on any other single factor. A case in point is the recent wreck of the passenger liner George M. Cox on Rock of Ages reef in a heavy fog and immediately broke her back. The 124 persons aboard were taken ashore by lifeboat and raft without loss of life. Lake Superior, as luck would have it, was calm. Without taking anything away from the calmness and efficiency of the officers and seamen who effected the rescue, it can safely be said that if a heavy wind had been prevailing a good many lives surely would have been lost. As it happened, their luck was in and they were saved. It just as easily could have been the other way—in which case one of the worst marine disasters of recent years would have been recorded. One-half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives, says the adage. Yes, but in these days of senate investigations it is beginning to have its suspicions. Pictures of old-fashioned bathing suits show that girls once dressed like Mother Hubbard when they went for a swim. The 1933 styles, however, strongly remind one of her cupboard. This reforestation army idea is not without its dangers. Just think of the poison ivy bonus that future generations may have to pay. “Woman Claims $5,000 For Loss Os Thumb” —Headline. It must have been the one she kept her husband under. Someone has observed that our noses are becoming sharper. That’s what comes from keeping them to the grindstone. Don’t worry if your wife has lost her thimble recently. Maybe some restaurant is using it to serve a 5-cent glass of beer. We read that a man of 97 is learning to play the saxophone. That, in our opinion, is the best time to learn. "Frown exercises fifty muscles in the fade,” says doctor. Moral: Take less exercise.

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A FRENCH businessman with whom T w'as talking the other day made w'hat struck me as some rather pertinent observations regarding our credit system. “You Americans expect too much of banks and bankers,” he said. “That is one reason why so many of them fail. They can’t do the job you have imposed on them. It is beyond the capacity of average human beings.” “Credit,” he w'ent on, “is primarily a matter of business, not in the general sense, as you appear to think, but in a very particular sense, with each line of trade or industry having peculiar needs and requiring peculiar knowledge. “No banker on earth can make himself sufficiently familiar with more than a few lines to be an expert credit man. The result is that he depends on cut and dried statements, or liquid collateral. “You have come to a point where your credit system turns largely on listed securities and a highly speculative market, to the exclusion of real estate, goods and character.” tt tt B IN FRANCE.” he explained, “there is no such running to the bank by every Tom, Dick and Harry, either with deposits, or for loans. Asa general proposition, each line of business provides its own credit, except at the top. The grocer, for instance, buys on time from the jobber, the jobber does the same from the manufacturer, and the manufacturer takes care of it all through banks. “That leaves the credit situation up to people who know' their line, who understand its peculiarities and technique, and whose personal contacts enable them to form accurate judgments.” Realizing that one man’s opinion is not always as good as another's, I believe there is something in this idea. I do not see how credit can be separated from the special knowledge which is required in each line of business and be sound. That, however, is exactly what we have done, or attempted to do in this country. We expect the banker to make safe loans in every' line, to be an expert on the needs and condition of a thousand and one activities, to provide for their requirements and never lose a nickel. Naturally enough, the banker falls back on stereotyped statements, liquid collateral, or personal influence, finding himself victimized by exaggerated reports, speculation and gullibility'. tt B B THE men who have given their lives to a particular industry, producing the goods or performing the routine services it demands, must of necessity be more familiar with its state than a banker and better able to Judge of its credit requirements. The prevailing method of forcing retailers to run to the bank to pay jobbers, and jobbers to run to the bank to pay manufacturers, and everybody to run to the bank whenever somebody else wants money, is palpably asking too much of mortal man. Such a system is bound to involve an unhealthy proportion of failures, or an equally unwholesome restriction of credit. During the last three years, we have had both, and bankers are less to blame than is a public which has demanded the impossible,

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By William Lee Evans. We have with us again the old, old malted beverage, beer. The brewing of beer in America dates back to the Pilgrims. A supply came to this country aboard the Mayflower. The housewives in almost every home brew'ed beer for their families. Such is the tavern story'. So Indiana goes back to the verybeginning of the nation to find that the common sense of the Pilgrims on this matter may be applicable today. Already, with beer legalized but a short time, one writer, a woman, tells us “drunkenness has increased, consequently automobile wrecks.” This was, and is now', all in her imagination. The wish is father to the thought. The die-hards grab at every straw, hoping to save prohibition from the flood of dampness. Throughout the prohibition agitation with which W'e have been cursed for the last decade, more than one blatherskite has given vent to this rhetoric. "This nation can’t exist half drunk and half sober.” Ridiculous! Thousands upon’ thousands of men and women in our much eulogized America regale themselves on alcoholic beverages as they w r ere intended to be used, in a sane, decent manner. These, realizing their accountability, constitute, as a body, the mainspring of society. As for the rable, creatures not amenable to guidance, these act the part of a maladjustment, the friction in the world’s movement that is relieved best by the oil of a no-worry policy with no-accounts. The exhilaration of drinking comes and goes; there are lax intervals. To imperil, to engulf our civilization, there must be widespread, prolonged debauchery', a perpetual carnival. If the alarmists, the reformers, ever have any justification in saying, ‘‘the country is riding to a fall,” it will be consistent for them to indict, not the liquor traffic, but a coalition of other evils, political

This Is the fifth article In a series of six on the Family Medicine Chest. THE most commonly used general pain reliever is acetylsalicylic acid, commonly called aspirin. So far as is known, aspirin is relatively harmless except for a few' people who are especially sensitive to it. Such people can not take even small doses. One aspirin is as good as another, provided it is up to the standard of the United States Pharmacopeia. Among the strongest of medicinal preparations are the narcotics and anesthetics. Narcotics never should be used by any one without a physician’s prescription and, indeed, no drug that has to be administered with a hypodermic syringe should find a place in the average family medicine chest. Some people with diabetes have been taught by their doctors to inject themselves with insulin. Even

OH. dear! Oh, dear! Look what’s happened to the United States navy. There’s treason in the fleet. Its own high admirals has banned plain and fancy sw-earing. In the future, whether ashore or aboard ship, cuss words are taboo and ribaldry forbidden. We may expect, from this day forth, to hear our brave marines talking like the students of a young ladies’ finishing school and perhaps later they will take to sewing lace on their shorts. That is, if they wear shorts in the navy. Speaking* frankly, this seems rather an alarming innovation. Congress should investigate it. For it easily cpuld deVelop into a sinister pacifist movement. Mr. Fish already may be able to trace unmistakable signs of Communism here. Because jtuch. a plan is almost

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The Gas Tax By Max E. Wickersham. OFFICERS and directors of the Indiana Petroleum Association wish to present some pertinent facts regarding the proposed three-fourths cent federal gasoline tax. The following figures are based on the net gallonage in Indiana taxed in 1932. Motorists in Indiana will be subjected to a total state and federal gasoline tax of 5% cents a gallon. This will be a sales tax of more than 100 per cent on the net wholesale price of gasoline. Estimated additional cost to motorists in Indiana of three-fourths of one cent increase will be $3,138,668 annually. Total cost of federal gasoline tax of 1% cents will amount to $7,323,558 annually in Indiana. Estimated total cost of threefourths oi one cent increase to motorists in Indiana for the en- ’ tire fifteen years’ amortization period will be $47,800,020, w'hile under the bill as amended in the house our state will receive only $10,287,752 for highways. The motorist will pay approximately 42 per cent of the total tax and only 12 per cent will revert to highway construction. This information is given the motoring public with the request that they urge Senators Van Nuys and Robinson to oppose any further burden on the motorist. Taxing of gasoline should be a state right W'hereby the motorist will receive a return on his tax in the w'ay of highway construction. corruption, the panderers, and those w'ho have fallen from God. In the beginning, an All-Wise Creator put good and evil into this world. As to the form, no comment is needed. Sin is here for our discipline; it is for us to resist evil, to hold sin in check. That only. We mortals of this planet can not eradicate sin, we can not circumvent the law. The established order of things must endure. The return of beer has disappointed the hopes and prophecies of its enemies. Millions of men and

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

these people should keep their syringe outfit separate from the materials in the family medicine chest. There are all sorts of antiseptics available for use on the skin, in first aid and also for gargling and for washing various portions of the body. The most widely known skin antiseptics are tincture of iodine and 2 per cent mercurochrome. The council on pharmacy and chemistry of the American Medical Association permits advertising of recognized antiseptics for first aid, and tincture of iodine and mercurochrome are included among such preparations. This same council has concluded that no antiseptic substance is of value when used as a gargle for destruction of germs in the mouth and throat. If the antiseptic is applied directly on a swab so that the ma-

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

certain to cause a distinct falling off in naval enlistments and interest. “Join the navy and see the world” is an alluring slogan, but hitherto its strongest pull has been that the boy could also swear at the world while he was looking at it. tt n n IN order, therefore, to understand how signicant and far-reaching the sudden admiralty reform may be, let us imagine our fighters in action, several years after this ruling has gone into effect, when they have forgotten all their favorite oaths and are cured of the habit of resorting to them in stressful moments. Strong men letting fly their torpedoes and bombs, shooting their giant guns, yet with never a "damn” issuing from, lips tested with de-

women are contriving to be happy and sober, besides doing a little bit more for the government. As for the unfortunate drys, it is for them to cool their parchad lips with a portion of holy (wholly) w'ater. The immaculate, steadfast drys will display wisdom by being content with their undefiled deportment. They will rank higher in public esteem whenever they can be persuaded to cease their worry over the other fellow. With evidence against them, these disturbers of the peace would do well to concede a cessation of hostilities. The people at large, though they may not register their votes in accordance, have shown clearly that they do not approve of the brand of prohibition we have been blessed with for a term of years. The time is ripe for a regulated traffic in alcoholic beverage. To this measure for the public good, the exponents of a lost cause should lend their acquiescence, and gracefully, at that. A conclusion is being arrived at, a decisive averment is in order, sad to relate (?). The foamy nectar and the beaded elixir that glows red in the glass never will be banished. The dream of annihilation that the drys so long have cherished never will come true.

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The proposal to repudiate all outstanding gold contracts is unconstitutional and the courts will so hold if there is any integrity left in the courts.—Senator Carter Glass (Dem., Va.). Most of them really have brains, but they are afraid to let people know it.—Mrs. K. Van Cortland Suydam Rockier of New York society, commenting on debutantes. X Stage fright is something to be proud of. It is an electric nervousness that, properly controlled, stirs the actor to higher endeavor.— Stuart Walker, Hollywood movie director.

terial is held in direct contact with the localized infection, it may have some definite use. Among antiseptics approved by the council on pharmacy and chemistry are preparations of hexylresorcinol and preparations of metaphen, also neutral solution of chlorinated soda and hydrogen peroxide. The council has not approved antiseptics commonly represented as being useful in the relief of all sorts of infections of the throat and also for the prevention of various types of infectious diseases, including colds. One of the best old-fashioned antiseptic solutions for common use around the home is boric acid solution. Most people prefer to have packages of crystals of boric acid or of the powder, and to make up the solution fresh just before use. Next—First-aid materials for the home.

termination and pain. The sweat pours down their faces, they wq-estle with their monstrous machinery, they suffer untold hardship, but all they can ejaculate is a puny “Geewhillikins.” I am not able to determine what the reaction of the militarist will be to this order, but as a plain padfirst I am moved to protest. It may destroy navy morale, quell courage and lessen patriotism. More than that, it can cause these hardy seafaring fighters to hanker after the peaceful bucolic life and set them to envying the husbandman who, if it please him, can shout profanity at his cow. Swearing belongs to the sea. The only way man can retain his selfesteem there is to curse the elements and die. And w'hen our war makers—but goshl What’s the use?.

JUNE 2, 1033

It Seems to Me “ BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

NEW YORK. June 2.—Jack provided me with a rest over Memorial day by sending what seems to me the most effective argument I have read in favor cf the boycott against Germany. But I am not yet persuaded. Mr. Rich wants to be against war. but for the boycott. That is a difficu;; position. The end result of an effective boycott almost invariably has been war. I admit that to choose between hell and Hiller is a Hobson's choice. Nevertheless, war is the greater evil. a st u One for the Column IHOPE that the severe counterattack you received because of your Hitler columns hasn't put you into a permanently pugnacious crouch," writes Mr. Rich. “Or. to mix my metaphor, I hope it hasn't made you loan over too far backward. It seems to me a little pointless at this moment to try to trace the genesis of Hitlerism. It is true that Hitler was distilled out of the miseries and fears and agonies of Germany. But it is also true that the Jews—and the Socialists and Communists and liberals of the world—had the least hand in imposing those miseries. It is doubly cruel, therefore, to have them become the chief victims of Hitlerism. If they flail their fists wildly and hit an unfair blow on occasion, please try to understand their reaction. “It is silly to call you an antiSemite. I know you are not. I know. also, that a number of my colleagues on the Yiddish press are strutting about with a Semitic chip on their shoulders. One of them, for instance, has gone to the inane length of saying, ‘Those who are not with us are against us.’ “But never mind these hysterics. So far as you are concerned, what it really amounts to is this: The very people who accused you of anti-Semitism know' better. They look to you for solace and warm sympathy and find on a particular occasion that you have served cold cuts of rationalism. tt a a The Fear of Unity “TT is horrible to think that people A advocate war or invasion to overthrow' Hitler. That would be brutally stupid and ineffective. It merely .would unite all Germany behind him. “No matter w'hether he won or lost the war, he w'ould win moral vindication; something that this it is about the only weapon left in I therefore agree with you entirely in your argument against any methods of physical force from the outside to depose Hitler. “I can not quite agree with you in your argument against boycotts. A boycott possesses the elements not only of physical duress, but also of moral aversion. It is true that it is a long range gun that hits the : innocent as well as the guilty, yet ! it is also true that it hits the guilty as well as the innocent and that maniacal chariatan never must get, the armory of Hitler s opponents. “It has scored, moreover, singularly direct hits. The only amelioration in the Hitler program was effected by means of the boycott. Hitler can not make good on his demagogic promises of jobs for his followers if his regime is boycotted. But this, I grant, is an argument of physical force, and w'e must try to be philosophic and pacific about the matter. “Well, then, are you ready to condemn Gandhi for his non-co-opera-tion policies against British domination? Do you condemn the Chinese who boycott Japanese goods? lam sure that many innocent people, many sincere opponents of imperialism, were hit by the boycotts in both cases.” a\ a a An American Apology THE lot of the Jews in Germany is in some respects similar to that of the Negroes in the south. Hitler himself pointed to the similarity by indirection in the course of his speech before the reichstag. “Here is what happened in a certain town in the south after a particularly atrocious lynching. I is reported in ‘The Tragedy of Lynching,’ by Dr. Arthur J. Raper. ‘The Negroes,’ I quote from the book, ‘in the Emelle community (where the lynching took place) are using the boycott as a weapon of revenge. Silently but certainiy they do practically all their cash trading in Livingston and York. “Very likely the storekeepers affected had no hand in the lynching, since the townspeople did not participate acitvely in it. More than likely employes, even Negro employes, of these storekeepers suffered because of the boycott. “And yet I think it w r as as just a* it was effective for the Negroes to have put it through. I am conflden' that in the Emelle community there will not be another lynching in a long while. Nor will the wholesale lynching in Germany continue if any effective boycott is imposed against Hitler.” 'Copvrieht. 1933. bv The Times! Rapture’s End BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH Your eyes, dear, Those tortured eyes that searched the darkened corners of my soul I lingered near, Our bodies remained a sacred part of long ago. We stood apart, Just one thought remained, that you must leave, My breaking heart Like some crushed bird within, but could not grieve. There were kisses but a few. Too sad we were for passion, or words of love, A stranger different you, That came to me in spirit from above, Your memory the death song of * mourning dove. I felt your fingers. Your smile like tears upon wilted tiger flowers, Your low- voice lingers, Amidst the air that ascends with fleeting hours. Upon the empty ground, Your soul dear, will come to again soon. My love shall rebound. Within the darkness of each passing moon. My eyes are tired, my aching body bums, hush, fool! I shall place it in the stream, where i it is cool*