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MONDAY, JUNE 5. I*3J.

WIIAT’S AROUND THE CORNER? r pHE spirit of the Hoover administration ■*- threatens the country once more. The idea that prosperity may be “just around the corner” and that nothing needs to be done about it has reappeared in Washington. This state of mind found expression in the vote of the senate finance committee whereby the chief enforcing clause of the national recovery bill was stricken out. Seven members of Roosevelt's party turned Hoovercrats for the moment, seven of the twelve votes to emasculate this all-important legislation were cast by Democratic senators. Seven of the statesmen who blistered Hoover for hoping and not acting have fallen in with that same futile philosophy. The country has turned many comers since Hoover painted his first glowing picture of the unseen future. Around each it has found more misery. It has found more and more men and women denied the right to work, more fact'>ics dark and forced to go to the wall or meet the competition of labor exploiters. There are more corners to be turned. And It is the congress of the United States which will determine what the country finds there. President Roosevelt has offered a plan for Industrial recovery which scarcely can fail if permitted to operate. He has charted the way toward restoration of purchasing power, the only Turn ground in the bog of despond into which we have been sinking. Intelligent business men have hailed the plan as their on? chance. Labor has seen in it recognition of its fundamental needs. Only the National Manufacturers’ Association has f.iiled to understand that timidity at a time like this may mean disaster. Congress will determine what lies around the next corner. One turning means work, food, profit, progress. Around the other corner greed waits to destroy us. Along this latter route employers may combine, unchecked, to exploit labor, to force up profits, to practice all the evils of monopoly and despotism. And to jeer at a President who seeks to stop them. The choice must be made now. INTERNAT 10NAL OUTLAWS THE New Deal in foreign affairs can not be effective unless the senate gives the President the power he has requested to prevent arms shipments to treaty violators. The policy of American co-operation with other nations to protect the world’s peace machinery, as laid down by the President in his non-aggres-sion message to all nations and as amplified by Ambassador Davis at the Geneva disarmament conference, will remain only high-sound-ing words unless backed by this power. This authority already is held by most government executives in Europe. In this country it repeatedly has been granted by congress to the President in relation to revolution in China and Latin American countries. The time is long overdue for extending that power to apply to war between nations. During the last two years treaties have been violated in Latin American and Far Eastern wars. The munitions for those wars have come from Europe and the United States. We have been in the position of making profit from the illegal aggression of others, aggression which destroys treaties and thus threatens our own future peace. The fact that munition makers foment wars has been attested by the League of Nations’ investigating committee and has been proved too often to dispute. For the United States to sign treaties outlawing war, as it has done, and then continue to furnish weapons to the outlaws is as stupid as it is hypocritical. If only our own bad faith were at issue, it would not be so bad. But the actual result is that we also prevent other neutral nations from outlawing the aggressor. The European nations say, and rightly, that it would be useless for them to embargo arms shipments if the treaty breakers continued to get all the war materials needed from us. The embargo power requested by President Roosevelt, and by President Hoover before him, is not an authority to declare war. but rather to prevent war, or at least to localize it. The senate foreign relations committee is trying to destroy the purpose and meaning of the embargo resolution. It has amended the resolution so that an embargo could be applied only against all nations in a conflict—against the victim of invasion as well as against the bully. Tire net result would be to make it easier for the aggressor. If American public opinion understands the issue, it will insist on passage of the original embargo resolution. ACTING TOGETHER NEVER in the country’s history has so much been said as now is being said about the end of rugged individualism and the necessity of thinking and acting in the interest of all Gods chillun. It is a hopeful sign. It seems to indicate the imminence *>f anew era, or at least the necessity of anew era of co-operation, if that part of the human race comprised in the boundaries of the U S. A. is not to continue to be ground between the millstones of an ever more efficient technology and ever greater concentration of wealth. Two examples of the preachments occurred last week. The President’s wife. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, said to the graduating class of the Washington College of Law that anew “social-minded code of ethics” was coming It}to this country. She described her code: "Do not wish for special privileges: wish for privileges for all.

Attain all you can attain In developing your own gifts and use them for the good of the whole of society. You never will get the greatest Joy out of living until you feel you are one with a great many people—a whole country, perhaps.” And In New York Dr Dixon Ryan Fox, professor of history at Columbia university, told 161 graduates of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Banking that the “new America" was emerging, and admonished, “If you bring to this new age the individual materialism of the past, you will not fit” He urged his hearers to accustom themselves to regulation and to the service of the public interest rather than of personal ambition. In most cases advice of this tenor comes from the more idealistic class—college professors. ministers, numbers of the new government at Washington. And yet it comes out strongly from many other sources. After three years of a depression unique in American or world history—a depression due in great part to prodigious economic advance—the instincts of people, and also their desperation, are seeking new outlets of hope. It Is becoming prima facie evident that under the modern large scale industrial economy, organization and co-operation must be effected universally as well as in the great individual units of human endeavor. FREEDOM AND UNITY state motto is “Freedom and Unity,” yet Governor Stanley Wilson appears unwilling to grant either to Vermont workers. In a report by the Rev. Charles C. Webber of Union Theological school to the American Civil Liberties Union, a story is told that will provide a text for the ironically inclined and a warning to America against the dangers of corporate tyranny. The Rock of Ages Corporation cut its granite quarry workers’ wages from 69 cents to 32 cents an hour. The quarrymen, unwilling to take another 10 per cent cut, called an “industrial holiday.” The Rock of Ages Corporation issued a statement that “no power on earth ever will compel us to operate our quarries or plants on any kind of union basis.” As the strikers peacefully picketed, Governor Wilson called out two companies of state militia. To quote an American Legion statement, the guardsmen, “without warning, threw tear gas bombs among a crowd of men, women and children.” Next day they threw gas bombs among a group of strikers’ children returning from school. And the next day they charged peaceful onlookers, cutting, wounding, and tearing the clothing of men, women, and children alike. The open query to Governor Wilson: “Is it true, as charged, that you are directly or indirectly an investor in the Rock of Ages Corporation?” remains unanswered. Intolerable as this sort of thing is in normal times, it is unthinkable in these explosive days. OTHERS HAVE BEER TROUBLES TNDIANA'S beer control law has not proved an unqualified success. Political preferment, of course, has been glaringly apparent. The public has complained bitterly of profits of brew. There have been murmurs about graft. In many ways, the workings of the law have proved unsatisfactory. In view of all this, it is interesting to note that other states have their problems in controlling the sale of beer and that they, too, are not meeting them to the satisfaction of every one. The following editorial from the Pittsburgh Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, details faults found in the new Pennsylvania beer law: Pennsylvania’s makeshift beer law went into effect at midnight, but its arrival did not cause any widespread rejoicing. Few measures have emerged from Harrisburg more confusing in meaning. During the last month, retailers and wholesalers, county treasurers and lawyers alike struggled to interpret the law’s meaning, with little success. For example, there was that little matter of what is and isn’t a “bar.” The law provides that counters may be used, so long as these counters are provided with stools of a permanent nature. But it fails to say how many stools are necessary, how they are to be placed, and what are “stools of a permanent nature.” There wei'e other clauses equally confusing. In fact, there is even talk of a court fight to iron out the difficulties that have arisen to date. To us, however, there was even a greater objection to the law and its confusing provisions. That was the excessive high fees which retailers had to pay. A druggist or grocer in Pittsburgh had to pay S3OO for a license and post a SI,OOO bond besides. In addition, the law’s confusion made it necessary in many cases to obtain legal aid to prepare the application. In some counties, attorneys charged a flat fee of SIOO for this service. Naturally, this handicap of high fees forced many retailers to discontinue handling the beverage. Many small merchants who had hoped to use 3.2 beer as the lever to pry their business out of the “red” could not scrape enough money together to pay the license fees. Therefore, we can not rejoice over the arrival of the beer law. We believe regulation of beer is necessary, but we also believe a simplified law could have been drafted, with fees low enough that all who wished could have profited from the sale of beer.

DANGEROUS OLD AUTOS ' I 'HE report of automobile accidents during the first four months of 1933, just issued bv statisticians for a leading insurance company, contains one rather significant littla disclosure. While the total number of deaths decreased about 10 per cent from the number for the same period in 1932. the number of defective cars involved in fatal accidents increased by nearly 40 per cent. This, of course, is a consequence of the depression. Cars that ought to be retired to the junkyard still are in service; others which have defective brakes, lights, tires, or steering mechanism are going without the repairs they need because their owners are pressed for cash. The man who drives such a car is under a heavy responsibility. If he keeps his car’s defects in mind and makes allowance for them in his driving, everything is all right; but if he tries to handle an aging and defective machne as he would a brand-new one, he immediately makes a public menace of himself. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has been revived on Broadway and a critic describes it as “a ripe old play.” A mellow drama, we presume.

A MIGHTY TASK FACED 'T'HE era that is beginning these days is to be a great time for young men, believes Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Getting us out of the mess we are in now will be, ultimately, the job of the younger generation, he says. Dean Gauss expressed this viewpoint at Cincinnati the other day: “The impression of men over 40 can not be changed.” he said. “They have built their lives on a plan evolved when they were in their 20s. When they come face to face with a changing social order, such as we are facing today, they are helpless. They must lean upon the younger generation. “The men of my generation received their training in the ’9os. Success in those days meant following the example of certain great men. The great men were millionaires. “Where have our examples gone today? Many of them have lost their fortunes, their positions. They are powerless to adapt themselves to the new order, in which the millionaire has vanished as an ideal.” That anew viewpoint and anew set of ideals are required urgently in the present time of change is indisputable. We shall have to evolve them as we go along, for the most part, and before w r e get through a good many of us of the older generation are likely to find ourselves pretty badly confused; but all in all it should be a time of great hope and great opportunity. For we are not simply engaged in getting the wheels moving again and starting people back to work. To do those things it is necessary for us to re-orient ourselves completely, to find, as Dean Gauss says, new leaders and new standards. The job will take a generation or more but it will prove one of the most worthwhile jobs we ever have tackled. That is why the young man who is just ready to begin l*is career today is to be envied. To be sure, he faces a perplexed and blinded world; jobs are pitifully scarce; it will not be easy for him to find a chance to exercise his talents. But in the long run he will have reason to bless the fate that brought him to manhood just at this time. The world will call on him for the very best he has to give. If he is man enough to grasp it, it will offer him an opportunity dazzling in its size. OUR UNEVEN BIRTH RATE 'T'HE general level of intelligence is higher in the cities than in the country, but city folk are producing too few children and country folk are producing too many. So, at any rate, says Frederick Osborn, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, in a recent address before the American Eugenics society. The families with best minds, Mr. Osborn asserts, are not bearing enough children to maintain present population levels. The shortage is made up by families farther down the scale. It is doubtful, however, if all this will create very much uneasiness. To begin with—considering the enormous percentage of our leaders in business, politics, and the arts who came originally from rural districts—many people will not agree that city intelligence really ranks above that of the country. Furthermore, the “best people” always have borne fewer children than their less gifted brothers and sisters; and, so far, the world has managed to get along pretty well in spite of this tendency. With all these improvements in the new autos, no one yet has suggested the elimination of the windshield wiper so the cops would have no place to put their traffic tickets. Why all this worry about the gold clause, w r hen we’ve always boasted that our word is as good as our bond?

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'T'HERE is nothing in the Constitution which limits the power of congress over money. The Constitution merely says that congress shall have power "to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures.” States are prohibited from making anything legal tender for the payment of debt, except gold and silver, but that has no bearing on the power of congress. Congress is at liberty to strike coin from any metal it sees fit and fix the value. The gold standard is not constitutional, but traditional, established as a matter of custom and law. Congress authorized it to begin with, by declaring how much the government would pay in dollars for an ounce of gold, and congress can change or abrogate it at any time. Whether it would be wise for congress to do so in an abrupt or radical manner is another question, the point being that it has the power. a a tt MANY people have jumped at erroneous conclusions because of the gold bonds and gold contracts that have been written, assuming that somehow or other the government of the United States was bound by them. Like all other governments, that of the United States represents absolute sovereignty, and it represents this in no field more thoroughly than in that of coinage and legal tender. There is no power inherent in the people to demand gold. They are given that power by the supreme law-making body of the land, not by the Constitution. They are given it, moreover. with the knowledge that it can be altered or withdrawn at any time. The supreme court went deeply into all these matters in the case of Julliard vs. Greenman. This case grew out of a dispute over payment for 100 bales of cotton which Julliard sold Greenman for $5,122.90. C. O. D. Greenman offered to pay with $22.50 in gold, 40 cents in silver and SSIOO in United States notes. Julliard accepted the coin, but turned down the notes and brought suit for $5,100, which he claimed to be due. a u tt WHEN the case came up for trial, Greenman tendered the notes in open court as evidencing his willingness to pay, but Julliard demurred and appealed to the circuit court, which overruled his demurrer. He then carried the case to the supreme court, which also decided against him. in a very exhaustive opinion written by Justice Gray. Thus opinion canvassed the entire subject of congressional power to regulate the currency and establish legal tender, referring to about every previous decision and quoting extensively from John Marshall. The sum and substance of the court's finding was that if congress said that notes were legal tender, they were. Os course, this case did not originate in a contract specifying gold of a stated weight and fineness, but since the decision would seem to confirm the power of congress to regulate the value of money, and say what constituted legal tender that question appears to have been answered.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

('Times readers are invited to express their vieufs in these columns. Make your letters short, so all ran have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Taxpayer and Times Reader. What is the matter with the police? I just had pulled around a corner in front of my house and had blown the horn for my waiting wife, but police car No. 29 beat her there and pulled me from my car and told me I was under arrest and searched me. They got only one can of Prince Albert and were not very courteous, which was very embarrassing to me. By An Annual Race Visitor. The efficiency of the Indianapolis police department and Mr. Morrissey’s slapstick! Returning to your fair city from the motor speedway, where I was impressed not only with the fine track, but the splendid work of the police and guards who handled the traffic, I was disappointed greatly and astonished with the display of brutality on the part of several policemen—not merely officers but sergeants. Attracted by the screeching of sirens and the roar of enough police cars to capture all the bank bandits in the country, I gathered with a crowd of people interested in the same bit of excitement as I. The police were holding an enraged man at the police box by the means of chain nippers—one policeman on each arm, and surrounded by dozens of others. I am not sure just what the man was charged with, but he surely was either crazy, drunk, or both. “Slightly put-out” by the prisoner’s kicking and jerking, and perhaps profanity, one of the sergeants whipped out a blackjack, struck, the man on the head, tearing his skull open, and then starting beating his face with his fists. It was not a case of self-defense, because the sergeant and the man were surrounded by half the Indianapolis police force. Only aftfer he was booed and heckled by the onlookers did he cease his malicious treatment. This officer of your fine force well could afford to pretend bravery with his- prisoner’s hands chained so tightly that his wrists were blue, and the squad of help he had. Both the prisoner and the crowd was helpless, because any one who interfered with such treatment probably would have received the same.

This is the last article in a series of six on the Family Medicine Chest. * A MONG materials to be included in the family medicine chest are cosmetics. Most modern women prefer to keep their cosmetics in their own boudoirs, but the man of the house is very likely to put his in the family medicine cabinet. They should include, in most instances, a razor, which should be kept in its box and not permitted to lie around loosely; also some shaving soap or cream, some face lotion, which may be either witch hazel or a special lotion which he prefers. It is not advisable to use a styptic in the form of a stick of alum to stop slight bleeding points after shaving. Much better are any of the astringent surgical powders, of which a small amount may be taken from the box on each occasion and

LARGE groups of children are for me a mo6t moving sight. I feel like blubbering as I watch and get a hard heavy feeling in my chest. I did not exactly enjoy the open air school fiesta I saw the other day. Hundreds of boys and girls of the same age going through dances and drills are just too pathetic to be endured. Colored bunting, the music of bands, and thin bare little legs flashing, while all about, parents sit wrapt in worsjaipful adoration—l think life does not offer a sadder sight. The contrast between the innocent happiness of the juveniles and the rather anguished affection imprinted upon the faces of their audience is so great. And behind the adult masks one can read the

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An Old Economic Law

Attacks Repeal By Claude Harshbereer. YI7E have the law on our side. ’ * Let's keep it and vote against ratification. State control will lead to hostility between states. States are too smail to protect themselves from wet neighbors. The liquor they are bringing in is very small compared with what would be used if there were no prohibition laws. Legalize the sale of alcoholic liquor and the United States will be swept with a flood of liquor advertising that will make all others fade in comparison. We know that prohibition at its worst is a whole lot better than license ever was at its best. Whoever says bootlegging is a product of prohibition either does not possess the

Questions and Answers

Q —Were the war and the navy departments ever combined in one department? A—When the war department was established in 1789 it had charge of all the instruments of national defense and offense, including the army and the navy. In 1798, the control of the navy was segregated and the navy department was established. Q —What is a professor? A —A public teacher of the highest grade in a university, college or institution where professional or technical studies are pursued; usually an officer holding a chair and in special charge of some particular branch of higher instruction. Q—Can owls be kept as cage pets? A—Owls will thrive in captivity if given a diet consisting of animal food, an occasional rat or mouse, raw meat, gristle, bone. etc. Captive owls become fairly tame. They should be kept in a cage large enough to permit them to fly and obtain exercise. Q—Does a resolution for an amendment to the Constitution have to be submitted to the President of the United States at any time? A—No.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hveeia. the Health Magazine. applied directly to the bleeding point. Finally, any good talcum powder may be used after shaving and after bathing, according to the individual preferences of the users. All such materials should be kept in orderly position and not scattered around the chest, helter-skelter, as many men are inclined to do. It is taken for granted that every modern household has a good clinical thermometer, a hot water bottle and an ice bag. These are three exceedingly useful devices in any home and when they are available in an emergency the comfort they give is tremendous. In addition to the materials used for first aid, most families will have bedpans for use In cases of illness, glass drinking tubes, syringes for giving enemas, atomizers and times special devices for creating

A Woman's Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

awful question—that eternal query fathers and mothers put to a needless universe and their own hearts. “Are we failing them? What of their tomorrows?” Yes. we’ll fail them probably. As grownups nearly always have failed children, and our generation will be no exception to the general role, I suppose. We’ll fail them in ten thousand ways, though we love them so much. a a a IT seems to be the peculiar fate of our kind to set our offspring tasks which we know are beyond all human performing. The stars to which we urge them to hitch their little wagons are so very far away. Honesty, which we tell them is the best polio’, so often turns them to

facts or else is not careful to speak the truth. Liquor never has been law-abiding. We think we have bootlegging problems today. Ask the Canadian government what it faces under liquor control. By the way, how long ago did men wear boots anyway? Well, bootlegging is older than boots. , In these days of depression, when we are trying hard to get along without the things our fathers never heard of, we are told by the wets that we could put many men to work in breweries and distilleries. Is that so? Depression began in, spread from, and continues worse, in the drinking nations of Europe! Who are the people who are trying to repudiate their debts to Uncle Sam? Who are begging us to cancel our bills against them? The drinking nations of Europe!

Q—Was Jimmy Durante born in this country? A—Yes, in New York. Q —ls Zangara, who attempted to shoot President Roosevelt, an American citizen? A—He emigrated from Italy and became a naturalized citizen in 1929. ,Q —Does the Panama canal cross the isthmus from east to west? A—lt runs due south from its entrance in Limon bay, through the Gatun locks to a point in the widest portion of Gatun lake, a distance of eleven and one-half miles; it then turns sharply toward the east and follows a course generally southeast to the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific side. Q—Where and when did James J. Jeffries have his first prize fight? A—At San Francisco, July 2, 1896. Jeffries won by a knockout in two rounds against Dan Long. Q —What is a “tael”? A—-A Chinese unit of weight. Q —ls the salary of the mayor of New York greater than that of the Governor of the state? A—The mayor’s salary is $441,000 a year, and the Governor's salary is $25,000.

steam to be medicated with small amounts of tincture of benzoin for relief in various forms of hoarseness or other conditions affecting the larynx and the lungs. There are certain “don’ts” which well may be repeated in closing this series on the contents of the family medicine chest. They are: Do not save poisonous preparations of any kind, including particularly bichloride of mercury, pills containing strychnine, or solutions containing wood alcohol. Do not keep samples of patent medicines of unknown composition recommended beyond their actual virtues. Nevqr permit any preparation of opium or morphine in the * family medicine chest. Never save any prepared prescription after the specific use for which it was ordered by the physician has disappeared.

failure instead of success—as the world judges both. The flags we adjure them to salute and honor and love, so many times beckon them to injustices and death. The education we beg them to strive for has left a bitter taste in our mouths. The prayer we ask them to repeat have become mostly meaningless words in our ears. It has beejn a long time since parents faced such tragic truths about their own shortcomings as we face together in 1933. Perhaps that is a portent of good. We do not know which way to turn, we who would teach little children. We are lost in a maze of doubts. We oniy know that we still love and we still hope. Six thousand children singing together! Oh, Life, be not too cruel to them!

JUNE 5. 1933

It Seems’ to Me , BY HEYWOOD BROUN t— 1

NEW YORK. June s. —a friena of mine telegraphs: -Your attack on Carter Glass was the cyst, shameful thing you ever have written. Don't you know that Glass in 1929 was almost the only one to protest against the banks* share in the speculative orgy? Don't you knaw that he has been fighting to death to enact his law hobbling 'lie Morgan and other private banks? ' Yes. I do know, and it makes the strange case of Carter Glass all the stranger. Anybody who is at ail familiar with American politics knows that Senator Glass possesses a high degree of personal integrity and that he has the courage and the capacity for independent thinking. Yet Senator Glass almost wrecked the investigation. And lam afraid that his obstructionist ta,ctics were based on almost the worst possible motives. I readily will grant that the veteran senator from Virginia is not a partisan or a beneficiary' of the House of Morgan. But he is an arch and passionate presever of the ego of Carter Glass. B B B Fractions)}cas of Glass TO put it bluntly, he was jealous of Ferdinand Pecora. The senator recognizes only one brain trust, and he is the president, the secretary, and the chairman of tin committee on admissions. The last post is a sinecure, for nobody has ever been elected to join the solitary founding member in his gb>r> In the eyes of Carter Glass an Italian lawyer from New York was a plain poacher on the ancestral preserves. The senator has objected on several occasions to what he termed the aimlessness of the inquiry conducted by the committee's counsel. Seemingly, the senator and several others are under the impression that Mr. Pecora is cast in the role of a visiting economist who should furnish a blue print of anew scheme for private banking. That, of course, is wholly outside* the lawyer’s function. it is Mr. Pecora's job to bring out facts for the committee, for congress and for the public. After that, congress may and should legislate as it sees fit. I even have seen complaints directed at Mr. Pecora because of newspaper headlines dealing with the findings in Washington. He is accused of being sensational. But, in all fairness to Ferdinand Pecora, he neither wrote those headlines nor manufactured the facts. Carter Glass has asserted that t!:e ( entire proceedings was a circus which brought, forth nothing new. Mr. Glass, as a newspaper man himself, should know better than that. The headlines themselves show r that all the editors of America regard the facts spread on the record through Mr. Pecora's investigation as decidedly new. vastly vital and of paramount public importance. I think he deserves great credit for forcing a true publicity bath instead of merely washing behind the ears. BBS Rugged, Indiriduals THE thing that surprises me most is the plain revelation that neither Mr. Morgan nor any of his partners is quite bright. Here and there the firm’s conduct is distinguished by a sort of native shrewdness, but there is a complete lack of imagination. Nobody in the organization seems to have had the slightest conception of the amount of ill will they were carrying on their books. Specifically the preferred list may well have proved a two-edged folly. In the first place, there has been the well-justified criticism of the “opportunities” conferred upon men in public life, to which is added the sequel that the worst way to curry favor with a politician is to let him in at 27 on a stock which later tumbles down to 2. It is as if some toadying scholar should hand his teacher a bunch of sweet violets all garnished with stinging nettles. And nobody in the House of Morgan had the gumption to see the storm clouds and to lay in umbrellas for the deluge. Not one single constructive suggestion for reform has come at any time from any of the partners. When the system of private capital goes completely blooey, historians probably will record the fact that it fell largely from its own topheaviness. But they hardly can neglect the fact that it was sped upon its way by the arrant stupidity of those who found themselves in the possession of great wealth. I refer to those sometimes called the trustees of our modern civilization. None of the most telling radical speeches are made by radicals. The people of America are chiefly roused by those who drop rose petals into open wounds. I am not moved to believe that the pressing problems of the day ai e immediately solved the moment great financiers grow affable and even whimsical. I would like to see the law changed in such a way as to drop an income tax rather than a midget into the lap of J. P. Morgan. • ConvriKht. 1933. bv The Times!

An Idle Day

BY OLIVE ENSLEN-TINDER The world is weary hastening on its way. Bearing its heavy load. Forget it! Find some grassy place to stay, And spend a restful hour and sing. The years may be many before you yet. Perhaps two-score or three. Then, if. too soon, your sun should set You’d bless the day you sang an ode Beneath some kindly shading tree. So, when the gods give you an idle day, Take it, watch the world go by And dream; then live these dreams And see the things you’ll do Before your cup runs dry.

Daily Thought

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. —St. Mathew 23;24. rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.— Coper.