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___ FRIDAY. JUNE 9. 1933, WE THE SWIMMERS T'VEATH lurks in unsupervised swimming p iols. It. struck last night in Eagle ci\:ck and a widow and four children today m iurn lor a husband and father who lost his life when he sought relief from the heat in the waters of the county stream With the temperature around the 95 mark, thousands ol city residents are taking a chance v.ith death and disease by swimming in nearby c; :ks. ponds, quarries, and in White river Thry are taking these chances because city Pools will not be oDcned until June 15. City officials declare that they do not have the money to finance opening before that date. Th’-y can not pay life guards and other empln cs needed at the pools before that time With their present appropriation they assert. This seems to be a time for emergency tri tires, to save lives and prevent the spread ot disease. They city chemist should take stops a* once to test the water at the Twentysixth street beach and make certain that is fit for use by swimmers. With this assurance, it is certain that enough volunteer life guards could be enlisted to safeguard the thousands vno would flock there for relief, serving without pay for the period of the emergency. The same measures could be taken at Warfleigh, as soon as waters recede sufficiently to allow use of the beach. Sheriff Charles Sumner also could perform a great service by authorizing protection for swimmers in Eagle Creek and it is certain that there, too, enough volunteer life guards could be obtained to make swimming safe. The week-end is near. The peril is real. The city and county officials should act. ANOTHER PEACE TREATY TF the signing of treaties could assure peace, there would be no more danger of war. With loud trumpeting, the British. French, German and Italian governments just have initialed Mussolini's four-power pact. According to II Duce, peace in Europe now is guaranteed for tep years. Just why another treaty of this sort is needed is not clear. It reaffirms the no-war obligations of the four powers under the league covenant, the Locarno treaty, the Kel-logg-Briand pact, and the no-force agreement signed last winter. If those earlier pledges of the powers are any good, this new pledge hardly is needed. If the other pledges are worthless, this newest one can not be much better. In European capitals it is said that the real purpose of this pact is an attempt to save the faces of the powers which are at the moment wrecking the disarmament conference. Whether this is true or not, the new pact contains a clause virtually predicting the failure of the disarmament conference. If the four European powers are entirely sincere in their high-sounding peace professions, it is difficult to understand why they do not remove some of the causes of war at the arms and economic conference, instead of writing another treaty of generalizations. Unless the basic economic conflicts and armament races are ended, war will result, regardless of all the general treaties. Os course, if the powers really want a general peace treaty with teeth in It, President Roosevelt has offered them one. Last month he suggested a non-aggression pact which would define in violation of treaties. Tint specific provision would close the loop hole in the Kellogg and other no-war treaties. But the chief imperialist powers. Great Britain and Japan, are proceeding to block progress in that direction. When the London government replied to the President last week, it did not even mention his proposal for a non-aggression pact. Now Japan has replied, and it likewise completely ignores the proposal. Thus latest evidence of Japan’s militaristic policy follows not. only her war of conquest against China, but also her warning that she will not renew the quota limitations of the Washington and London arms treaties. Apparently the European powers and Japan do not understand that their antipoace policies, if continued, inevitably will force the United States into a big navy program. Japan and Great Britain have nothing to gain and much to lose by making the most powerful nation in the world revert to the old reliance on military and naval preparedness for war.

GOVERNMENT AT ITS "HIGH" iR I„ rtuffus. in Junp Harprr's) CONSIDER the scientific agencies, which can be found in almost all the departments. They are full of men who are building roads into the future. In stuffy little offices, in laboratories smelling of chemicals and of decaying*organic matter, these devotees study the habits of insects, the diseases of poultry, human beings, and livestock; they test soils and seeds, they weigh the earth and the stars, and when called upon, as Paul de Kruif glowingly has related, lay down their lives in a rather casual way for the service of mankind. In these men, who are not really government at all, government in Washington seems to me to reach its highest point. Their line goes cut through all the earth; they map and sound; they set up instruments in jungles and cn bleak mountain tops; their adventures, homely and heroic, would fill many volumes. A bit shabby, they lunch in groups in cheap restaurants, drive battered cars or else walk, live in little apartments or in dingy houses over on the Virginia side, complain humorously rather than bitterly when the federal auditors cut out of expense accounts items that auditors. not being scientists, can not understand. They frequently are overworked, usually compelled to get along without some of the

facilities they believe their researches demand, sometimes envious of one another's salaries and promotions; also, they are happy, and have been known old days, when private employers once in a, while actually took on new helpi to refuse outside offers of many times their government salaries. May no retrenchment make the seats of their pants shinier or add one thread to the ravels on their cuffs! — ✓ THE SPOILS SYSTEM TT is true, as Senator Ashurst says, that the November election resulted in more victors than spoils. It is true, also, that rarely in history have the pangs of job-hunger driven such a large and desperate horde to Washington. And it is true that most of the acts passed by this congress have been emergency measures calling for the quickest possible hiring of help. Even so, It hardly seems necessary to have gone so far afield from the traditions of civil service. The whoie Tennessee Valley development, under the Muscle Shoals act, can be developed without reference to civil service. The Wagner employment exchange plan, originally providing for civil service, emerged from congress minus such provision, thus leaving the way open for a manning of exchanges by the same 'ort of political preferment that weakened the Hoover-Doak system. The agricultural adjustment act did not provide for civil service, but Secretary Wallace says he will use the merit system. The $500,000,000 relief act can be administered without reference to civil service. In most cases these measures were stripped of civil service provisions by the house members, acting under pressure from the bread and butter brigade. While the political four-year locusts prepare to swoop on Washington, there await on the civil service lists upward of 250,000 men and women available by competitive examination to departmental and field service in practically all occupations. The civil service system is 100 years old. It is neither Democratic nor Republican. Its two greatest friends were the Democrat Cleveland and the Republican Roosevelt. Speaking to Carl Schurz about the spoils system, Lincoln said: “I’m afraid this sort of thing is going to ruin republican government.” HISTORIANS FAIL TO PLAY FAIR A SERIES of crumbling clay tablets, which were put into the Persian archives at Persepolis twenty-four centuries ago and which were discovered there recently by Dr. James Henry Breasted. Chicago university’s famous archeologist, may add a brand-new chapter to one of the most interesting parts of ancient history. These tablets, as far as they have been deciphered, seem to give the Persian version of the famous invasion of Greece which came to disaster in the battles of Marathon and Salamis. We know all about'those battles already, of course—from the Greek side. Dr. Breasted hopes now. however, to get the Persians’ side of it. too; to look at the obverse face of one of the most famous military campaigns in all history. Doing this may give us anew kind of history and, in the end, w'e may get air entirely new idea of that momentous struggle on the shores of the Aegean 2,400 years ago. History, which pretends to be impartial, is pretty one-sided. Every great struggle, like this between the Greeks and the Persians, gets described by the victors. The losers not only lose the war, but they lose their chance to present their case to posterity. We are all taught in school that it was a very fine thing for the race in general that the Greeks beat the Persians. Why? Well, chiefly because it was the Greeks who wrote that chapter in world history. The Persians never got a chance to tell their side of it. A few' years hence, when the cuneiform inscriptions on these ancient tablets have been deciphered, we may have a different slant on things. It is a pity that similar discoveries can not be made for other great contests. It would be enlightening, for instance, to have a Carthaginian description of the great Ppnic wars; to read of Cortez’ conquest of Mexico in the writings of an Aztec historian; to get a contemporary Indian rajah's account of Britain's conquest of India. History is full of "might have beens.’’ Usually we take it for granted that things happened for the best. Looking at the loser's story might, in more instances than one, give us reason to adopt anew attitude.

TOMATOES AND PATRIOTISM /"\NE of the queerest cases the indefatigable American Civil Liberties Union yet has tackled would seem to be that of the labor agitator at Monticello, N. Y., who has been accused of defiling the American flag. This agitator was addressing a May day meeting, suitably befiagged and decorated, when a group of ex-service men decided to call a halt to things. They showered the speaker with ancient eggs, decayed tomatoes and such like; and the charge against him says that he used an American flag to wipe from his face the stray bits of squashed tomatoes and trickling eggs which took lodgment there. His defenders retort that he wiped his face with a handkerchief, as a man should, and that the flag was defiled by the flying missiles themselves. But even if the charge against him be true it is a little hard to get very indignant about it. A man who gets an uncooked tomato omelet in the face is going to wipe it off in a hurry, and he is likely to use the first thing that he can lay his hands on. One feels that this man wouldn't have been arrested if his accusers had had a sense of humor. WOMEN DRIVERS The old argument about whether men or women are better automobile drivers gets a new fillip m figures compiled recently by the National Safety Council. These figures seem to give the women a good talking point; for they show that while one out of every twentyone male drivers is sooner or later involved in a crash, only one in every eight!-six women drivers comes to grief. All this probably won't settle the argument.

It will go on, probably, as long as we continue to drive cars. The petulant male has a way of remembering every odd bit of piloting he ever has seen a woman commit on the highway; and no matter how’ many statistics you feed him, he always will have a way of saying ’Those women drivers!” that will reflect his own unconquerable feeling of superiority. PATRIOTIC BONDHOLDERS weeks Senator Homer T. Bone of * Washington state has been urging his resolution to instruct the treasury to call upon holders of government bonds voluntarily to submit lower interest rates in behalf of governmental economy. Sympathy with the idea has been expressed at the White House. According to Senator Bone, if interest rates on the more than $8,000,000,000 Liberty Loan bonds were cut down to the 2 per cent paid depositors in postal savings banks, the difference would finance all carrying charges on the great public works program and do away with the necessity of levying new taxes. He points to the experience of England that resulted in saving enough to complete the balancing of the British budget. France's experiences in conversion were satisfactory, although her methods smacked of wartime coercion more than of peacetime persuasion. American holders of government bonds have suffered less than any other class. They have security, they have escaped taxation. If the government called upon them in the* name of patriotism, the great majority, no doubt, would accept lowered interest rates, as have the investors of England and France. TWENTY YEARS AFTER TT is interesting to notice that Samuel Untermeyer. counsel to the Pujo committee in its investigation into the “money trust” in 1912, charges that most of the abuses revealed by the current Morgan inquiry were laid bare by his committee twenty years ago. The Pujo report, Untermeyer points out, condemned security affiliates of national banks, interlocking directorates, private banks as depositories and contacts of other banks with Morgans through underwritings and other privileges. The committee at the time made a series of recommendations designed to end these evils. For one reason or another congress failed to act on them. Hence today’s investigation covers much of the old ground, and shocks us anew with disclosures that really are two decades old. There is a moral in that for the present congress. Let it not, through inaction, make it necessary for anew Morgan investigation to be held in 1953. Probably those rival nudist camps that are staging such keen competition in Germany this summer are just trying to outstrip each other. “Never Give a Sucker a Break” is the title of anew movie. We haven't seen it yet, but we suppose the plot has something to do with Wall Street. Success of Captain Frank Hawks in flying across the. country with a mechanical robot doing the work leads autoists to hope that maybe somebody will invent a robot to do their back seat driving. It isn't stretching matters a bit to say that these new' rubber bathing suits that the girls are wearing certainly have produced some snappy styles. The estate of Peru's late president totaled only S3O, which leads one to suspect that he probably invested in some of those South American bonds.

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THE most significant happening since the war, particularly as it relates to the effectiveness of the peace agencies that have been established, is Japan's invasion of China. In calculating what has been accomplished, or what reasonably can be expected, we should be very frank with regard to this important development. Though out of the League of Nations, Japan is in Asia. She has defied the world, successfully, insofar as the world was represented by the League of Nations. Theoretically, the league functioned according ft its covenant, but practically it failed to get substantial support from any of its merrtbers. No member openly disagreed with the league, but each and every one quietly laid down on the job. That privilege seems to be well understood and provided in all the pacts and tribunals we are creating. In other words, the stage seems to have been set for the benefit of peace lovers, but other people are not supposed to take it seriously. a a a JAPAN has not give an inch since she began to move, but the West has been obliged to swallow all its high-sounding protests and pronouncements. Manchukuo is an independent state, torn from China by force of arms and obedient to the will of Tokio. China has agreed to the establishment of a neutral zone south of the Great Wall, which is as good as admitting the loss of still more territory. The point is not wether nations were right in condemning Japan, but whether they should have done so when they did not intend to do more than talk. The peace movement will not survive many such exhibitions of shadow boxing. The most useless pastime on earth is to make promises, threats, and agreements which do not mean anything. Dependability is the first requisite of international co-operation. That means the signing of no pacts and the utterance of no declarations which governments are not willing to carry out in their true spirit. The peace machine stands revealed as a wreck today, largely because of its own bombast. tt tt tt HUMANITY has been led into a veritable souse of conferences, treaties and proclamations. none of which had teeth. Most of them justly can be described as hopeful prayers. Everybody agreed to outlaw war through the Kellogg pact, but war went right on just the same. Several governments evaded the issue by. refusing to call it war, but Paraguay was too honest to continue that subterfuge and openly has declared war. Still, nothing is done. Men in the street realize that such an attitude toward solemn commitments is hopeless, that it only destroys confidence, and that in the end it will do more harm than good. The assumption that peace can be brought about by moral posture and verbal barrages must be shelved. No new order ever was established by such an easy, week-kneed process. The time has come for governments to weigh their words, to promise nothing, start nothing, and suggest nothing with which they are not ready to go through.

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A BRITISH specialist in skin diseases recently has given much attention to those forms of skin disorder that are inherited. The number is considerable, and the studies of inheritance tend to explain many conditions. Apparently the color of the skin and of the hair, the distribution and amounts of the hair on the body, and the straightness or curliness of the hair are associated with certain factors in the human constitution. The occurrence of a streak of white hair, either in the center or on the sides, is a common feature in many families The time at which the hair begins to turn gray and the nature of the grayness also seems dependent on inheiited factors. Apparently people who are prematurely gray are likely to transmit it. On the other hand, any one in a family with premature grayness who is not himself prematurely gray is not likely to transmit it

WE have been taught to believe that the worst possible thing to be said of a man is that he is effeminate; by the same token. any woman hates being called masculine. Yet the well-rounded individual ol either sex certainly should be endowed with the finest qualities of both. No male really can qualify as a man unless he can temper strength with mercy, and • stoicism with emotion. And .we .constantly are reminded in these days that the true woman must have determination, fortitude, courage—in short, the characteristics that always have distinguished the opposite sex. Therefore. I can’t help but contend that the world, humanity, nations, individuals have suffered

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By F. S. Roccrs M. E. Tracy recently said in his column that "the weakness of radicalism lies in the fact that it largely around the idea of dividing the loot already garnered.” Loot no doubt is the correct term in the light of recent investigations, but the dividing up is news to the well-in-formed Socialist. How, asks the radical, are you going to divide up wealth, when all wealth is perishable? Buildings must be repaired, food perishes, and no wealth exists that does not require labor, either instantly or eventually, to keep it from deteriorating. How are you going to determine who gets the cabbages and who gets' the steamships, if it is a matter of dividing up? ■ The only way, say the Socialists, that wealth can be divided is the equitable division of the daily wealth produced, based on a man’s skill and usefulness, and not his cunning or callousness, or because he picked a parent who could leave him well fixed, financially. Until the people own the natural resources and essential sources of production collectively, there never will be a balance between production and consumption. There are those who scoff that there will be graft and inefficiency in such industry co-operatively owned and operated, because there is graft in politics, whenever it uses government agencies for the old spoils system, which the two old parties like so well. But. according to John T. Flynn and Barron, who are considered very capable business graft in politics never could compare to graft in business. Then again,it always has been big business which has been willing to pay the price to corrupt the governments to obtain special privilege. That the people can operate their own business efficiently and honestly is proved by the co-operatives of European countries. The co-opera-tives of England do a billion dollars’ worth of business a year, handling products from the sources of raw

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material to the retail oulets. Denmark, which has no natural resources, maintains a high standard of living in a land that resembles a few sandy counties of our gulf coast region, by running business for and by the people in co-operatives. The standard of living and education in Denmark would be a source of wonder to our uninformed individualists. This all proves that industry -pan and is run profitably by Hie people, for the people, instead of .for. the exploiters and, income tax evaders. In Indiana, many cooperatives are run by farmers and the volume of business they do shows a steady increase, because capable and honest people always are available, in spite of the beliefs of those who scoff at Socialism, because of human nature. „ This country is siygularly backward in. regard to co-operatives, knowledge of governments and political theories. An Indiana member of a farm co-operative might throw up his hands in horror at the ssword Socialism, although the' Co-

Questions and Answers

—How old is Greta Garbo? ' A-v-Twenty-seven. . Q—When and where did the Prohibition party hold its first national convention and who was the presidential • nominee? - How many votes did hs receive? What was the largest vote ever polled by the party? A—The first convention to nominate a candidate for President was held in Columbus, 0., Feb. 22, 1872. James ’ Beck of Pennsylvania, the nominee, received 5,608 votes..,The largest vote ever nolled by the Prohibition party was approximately 271,000 in 1892. Q—What does the Century of ■Progress., to be held in Chicago this summer, commemorate? A—The one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Chicago as a village. It is an acknowledgment of the services of mankind throughout the world toward the growth of the city during the last century.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Extremely thick eyebrows and eyelashes also are likely to be inherited. Especially interesting is the inheritance of freckles. Freckles are much commoner in fair than dark-haired children. To some exi ten t> the tendency to freckle is ini herited. Practically every museum and i sideshow is likely to exhibit an India rubber man. In such cases there is not a change in the elastic tissue of the skin, but in the connective tissue which gives rigidity. In the most definite examples, the skin of the chest can be pulled out from five to six inches and then go back to its natural position. Most of the cases seem to occur in.men. These cases are not sufficiently frequent to make it possible to say to just what extent heredity plays I a part in their development, but

needlessly because we have set up the theory that strong men should not be swayed by their feelings. Blubbering, they say, should be left to babies and women. I don’t think so. Things now would be in a vastly better way if men had blubbered more and oftener; if their tendency toward mercy and loving kindness had not been masked so that they might appear imperturbable. nun A LL actual improvement in human progress has been brought about by the so-called "softies.” The hard-boiled only have tom down, mutilated, destroyed. To my notion the man who is unmoved by sorrow, suffering, pain, and tragedy, is a dangerous and

f operative idea is considered more I radical than Socialism. Again, there | are moral people who believe that I Fascism is a good form of governi ment, never realizing that Fascism is the last stand of the exploiters j against the ever-growing demands | for a co-operative society. Perhaps this is all due to the | fact that writers like Tracy will tell his readers that radicalism believes j in dividing up and that the masses' have been subjected to a barrage of .propaganda that they are living in a country where diamonds are lying around in the backyard. John A. Simpson of the Farmers’ ! Union said at the Continental ConI gress of Farmers and Workers that I “A conservative is a man who wor- ! ships dead radicals.” We might add that many-a-conservative' weekiyworships the world’s foremost radical, Jesus Christ,, and remains a conservative, not because of seffi,shyness, callousness or lack, of courage, but because' he Is Sheltered from or has kept his eyes closed to the of fellow-iheh. “ **

Q—Name the ten largest cities in the* world in? their order. A—London, New York, Berlin, Chicago, Paris; Shanghai, • Osaka, Buenos Aires, Moscow and Tokio. - _ Q—Do United States'mints issue proof coins? A—They are no longer Issued. Q —To what country and when was the first trans-Atlantic submarine cable message sent? A—August 7, 1858, from. Amer-, ica ho Ireland. , Q—Did Louisiana ever ..have a Negro governor? A—Pinckney Benton Stewacj, Pinchbeck, a Negro, was lieuten-ant-governor of Louisiana 1868-Jl, and acting governor in 1872." ” " Q—Are women eligible for the office of President' df the‘United States? A—Yes. Q—What disease causes the greatest number of deaths in the United States? A—Heart disease.

one instance is reported in which a father and his son, eight years of age, both had stretchable skins. There are also, frequently, extraordinary changes in the development of finger nails and toe nails in families. Likewise, unusual developments of the teeth occur. - In some families the <teeth develop early, and this tendency seems to be inherited, so that cases are on record in which infants have been born with teeth already developed. There are numerous records of infants born with tails. In one case a girl with a very short tail at birth fiaally developed an apDendage so long as to prevent her from sitting down with comfort. An investigation showed that her mother was normal, but that her mother’s mother also had an appendage of this character. There was also a family in Australia in which the father, a son and two daughters all had appendages similar to tails seen on animals.

never an admirable individual. And for my part, I want him to show emotion, as well as to feel it. Else, ashamed of his sentiments, he will make haste to disguise them and so do nothing to mitigate or improve the conditions that have stirred him. The tough body, impervious to blows, may be something for men to covet. But to strive for the mind, insensitive to surroundings, lacking the imaginative quality that alone lifts us above the beats. This is to have fashioned one’s self into something less than a man. When we deliberately train emotionalism out of our boys, we deliberately train them into’ something that is callous, vicious, and unworthy the high place we hold Li the scheme of life.

JUNE 9,

It Seems to Me ===■ BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK June 9.—1 have come to a sudden realization that-J talk too much. This is not an apology lor columns past or present. One need not put on sackcloth ior such sins as he commits in the olive drab of duty. The trouble is that I continue to act lkie a columnist even when I'm in mufti. The discovery that I'm a bit of a bore in private life was not made bv me without outside assistance. : The day after a recent dinner party jl ran into one-of the guests, who ! smiled and said. “I enjoyed your j monolog last night very muen." And in looking over my past life | I find that the habit of monopolizing the conversation has grown upon me. In the beginning table talk was a matter of sheer heroism as far as I was concerned. At the age of 21. I was shy and diffident and stammered perceptibly. I determined to cure myself and sought the advice of a famous pyschiatrist. He said: “It's all a matter of practice. You must learn to tell funny stories. Go about among voluble talkers and try to drown them out.” non Defeating a Champion 1 TRIED and for many years failed lamentably. But there was some consolation even in the harsh discipline suggested by the physician. I started at the top and pitted mvself against the best. At the very beginning I managed to attach myself to the entourage of Herbert Bayard Swope, a well-known newspaper man back in the days of the gay '9os. At that time Mr. Swope never had been even checked in conversation except by a certain southern spellbinder, who on the particular evening in question was maddened by liquor. For the first year I never got beyond. "It seems there were two Irishmen.” Two years later I was able to identify them as Pat and Mike. And on the night of my thirty-first birthday the miracle occurred. The sentiment, the clarity and the voice itself were all strange to me. And yet it came from mv own lips. I said. “Just a minute, Mr. Swope; I haven't finished yet.” I turned white, and Mr. Swope turned red; In the “portentous pause of thirty seconds which followed the fate of, two men hung in the balance. I fully’expected that lightning would come through the roof and strike me dead. It didn't. And I was the one to break thQ, silence, That sealed his doom and my own. He left public life and became a strong, silent man, and I took up columning. one Becomes Better Man AFTER (hat, of course, everything was easy. Nobody would be interested in hearing a recital of my Jater .triumphs. After all. H. G. Wells' was known only for his novels at the time I gave him an hour's talk oh how history should be written, and I was unaware that the'gentleman tcr'iny left was the largest wheat grower in America r when <1 hold a dmnelvparty all but spellbound with a discussion of the -factors which! determine the market price of grain. And but for a j;ecent incident I might have gone on chatting until my deathbed, where my last words probably would have been, “Now let me tell you doctor” As it is, I have decided to quit compensating and to brush up on my stammering. y y t A meeting with Aldous Huxley has made a. belter rnqn of me. For many years I have'been of the opinion that Mr. Huxley writes just a fit tie -better than any one else now alive. And I do not think he need worry if there is talk of body snatching among the newer graves. Aldous -hUHkley is a shy and diffident man who does his compensating in navels, stories and essays. a ‘tr * Taking Over-:, the Talk A AND so when we met, in spite of my‘idolatry, T took over the conversation. Perhaps “took over” is too rfiild k term: I had a full nelson, a body scissors, and an arm lock on that conversation. Two excuses can be made for me. We went to see “Take a Chance,”, and when Mitzi Al&yfair began- to.kiCk her left ear with her;'right instep Mr. Huxley seemed pleased and remarked during a lull in the talk, “You do these things in America with so much vigor.” “So much vigor,” he added. Whatever the reason, the fact is that Mr. Huxley was not heard again that evening. I recounted for him the history of “Shoot the Works,” described my experiences while running for congress, outlined the plot of my new novel, and told the mule story. A little after midnight he toiQ me that he was an early riser. , I went home and reread “Enoch Soames.” Thereupon I sealed my mouth with adhesive tape, threw myself face downward on the bed and cried myself to sleep. I never am going to talk again. I’m done with casting swine before pearls. (Coovrieht. 1933. bv The Time*)

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BY MARGARET E. BRUNER I passed a stranger on the street today, His faithful dog walked closely by his side; Both looked as if their thoughts were far away, Remembering fields and forests deep and wide. While many others thronged the thoroughfare, Os all the crowd I saw but just these two, Who wore a joy no one else could share: An understanding friendship, staunch and true. The man was free from any artful pose, Yet 'walked as if protected by a shield. As though he had the strength of one who knows Some spltioor which to others is concr.-aled. , Their image lives and lingers in the mind: The emblem of a calm, abiding trust; It seemed they had put off and left behind All worldly cares as trifles less than dust.