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SATURDAY. JUNE 10. 1933. RECOVERY N r O one thing will pull us out of this depression. But insofar as one thing can help, we believe the Roosevelt industrial recovery bill is the most effective prosperity move to date. Tt strikes at the root evil, which is the lack of purchasing power. If the mass market continues to dry up, few companies in the country can escape bankruptcy. Every one—from the banker and big industrialist and merchant down to the humblest worker—is dependent upon the consumers' market, which gives business to factories and farms and jobs to labor. The absence of a market, which is starving industry today, often is described as a lack of consumers’ demand. “People won’t buy.” It Is, rather, a lack of purchasing power. People can t#t buy. This is due not only to wholesale unemployment, but also to repeated wage cuts of those lucky enough to have work. The only way to revive the mass market is by larger pay rolls. Even inflation will not help unless the money can be put into circulation, into the pockets of the rank and file to spend. After these years of misery, most business leaders at last understand this basic fact, that American business geared to mass production can not survive unless it shares with labor, in the form of steady and high wages, enough for the people to buy back what they produce. But the business leaders who understand this fact, and -who would act upon it, are powerless because of the unfair competition of a minority *of employers who run sweated Industries. The problem, therefore, is to enable the majority to conduct industry in such way as to maintain fair and steady employment and high ■wages to provide a mass market, without being bankrupted by sweatshop competitors. The government is stepping in only after Industry itself has failed to restrain the suicidal acts of some of its members. Under the industrial recovery bill, industries unable to regulate themselves to prevent self destruction will be regulated by the government. Industries will be encouraged and helped to draft their own codes of fair competition, including shorter hours and higher wages; and industries too stupid or too dishonest to co-operate voluntarily will be forced to do so by a government licensing system. Os course that is putting great power in the hands of the government. But we did it to win the World war. We are doing it again to win a greater war. And we are fortunate to have in Washington at this time a government to which the people are willing to intrust such powers. Although the industrial recovery act is written with a definite time limitation and as an emergency measure, it should open the way to some form of permanent national planning. The American economic system probably can not survive another plunge into the chaos and business death w’hich has dragged down the country during the last four years. National planning is the price of survival. To President Roosevelt the nation is indebted for the leadership which has made possible the industrial recovery measure. WAR ON RACKETEERS V[ OT least significant of recent developments is the fact that the Crusaders, originally organized to fight prohibition, now' have converted themselves into an organization to make war on racketeers. Because of the intimate hook-up between the prohibition law and the racketeer, any group which works for the repeal of prohibition must give some attention to the racketeer problem, There is no question that the racketeer has done a great deal to swing public sentiment against prohibition. Justly or otherwise, the eighteenth amendment has been blamed for his existence. But we should be making a tremendous mistake if we took it for granted that all we need to do to abolish him is to abolish the eighteenth amendment. That would help, of course. The bootleg liquor racket was first of the large-scale rackets, and from the very start it was the most lucrative. But no one who reads the daily newspapers and sees ever-recurring headlines about the "milk racketeers,” the “dry cleaning racketeers.” the “labor racketeers," the "gambling syndicates." and so on, can be so naive as to suppose that the booze racket stands alone. During the decade that began in 1920, the words “organized crime" took on a very real and definite meaning. Before that, big cities had had scattered groups of criminals operating independently, and they had had more or less loose groups of hoodlums who worked in gangs; but there never had been any genuine centralization of any carefully planned organization. T'.u; powerful and cohesive underworld gangs mat curse our cities today are creations of the last dozen years. In part these groups owed their birth to prohibition —but only in part. They are even more indebted to the fact that through many years we had let venality, favoritism, and self-interest rule our city politics. The ward leaders, the corrupt alderman, the crooked political boss —these men presided at the racketeer’s birth, and they continue to shelter the racketeer today. That is why the Crusaders’ action is so encouraging. Repealing prohibition will only be a first step in the war on rackets. To pretend that it will do the whole job would be to delude ourselves in a tragic and expensive manner.

CLASS OF ’33 HPHIS month upward of 100,000 young men and women will emerge from the cloistered college campus into a world that must look to them like a jigsaw puzzle. Some will pity these youths as they did the class of 1917 that marched from the classrooms to the battlefields of France. The more robust will envy them their chance to rebuild from t.he bottom a social order more fitted to their dreams than the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era. Among the latter are two Roosevelt cabinet members, whose recent commencement addresses were in happy contrast to the usual clap-trap exhortations to success. "We are witnessing the birth throes of a new and, let us hope, a finer social order," Secretary of the Interior Ickes told the graduates of Washington and Jefferson university. “We are in the midst of a social revolution. We confess, frankly, that we have made a mess of things. We have squandered recklessly, thrown away our heritage on mad enterprises, dissipated it in soft living. ‘But we must build a new' order and build it together. Yours will be the rare privilege of helping to build it.” Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, spoke in similar vein to graduates of Goucher college in Baltimore. Science, she insisted, must aid industry in evolving an improved social order. Planned production, with higher wages, shorter hours, and more security for the workers, must take the place of the planlessness that produced chaos. The new graduates will find life far from easy, whether they seek the old paths cr blaze new ones. But those who accept the challenge of the times will live, as all young people should, adventurously and significantly. THE SUICIDE PROBLEM pvR. FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN, worldfamous statistician, gives some interesting figures regarding suicide, in the current issue of The Spectator. He is careful, however, when it comes to drawing hard and fast conclusions. As every one expected, suicide showed an increase last year, but strangely enough the rate in Chicago fell off. Why this should be so is a mystery. According to all reports, Chicago has suffered quite as much from depression as any great American city, if not more. What peculiar influence persuaded Chicagoans to take a more hopeful view of life? By the same token, what peculiar influence causes people on the Pacific coast to destroy themselves in greater numbers than the people of any other section? For years Pacific coast states have led the naton in suicide, just as southern states have led the nation in murder. One can not help wondering how much of a part custom, fad, and prejudice play in determining the record. Os the 23,000 who took their own lives In this country in 1932, how many actually were driven to it by want? No doubt the condition of one’s stomach has a profound bearing on one’s attitude toward life, but so have pride, disappointment, hate, and, above all else, the tendency to imitate. A lot of people have jumped from high windows or turned on the gas for purely childish reasons. What is even more puzzling, a lot of people have done likewise for reasons too obscure to be discovered. Suicide is essentially an individual affair. The person contemplating it has no one to consider but himself or herself, and, as a general proposition, consults no one. Case after case comes to closest friends as a complete surprise. On the other hand, many who intimate the possibility of suicide or even threaten to commit it, fail to carry out their plans. The secretive nature of self-destruction makes it very hard not only to explain the cause, but to provide a remedy. Dr. Hoffman suggests “a consulting office” to give advice to would-be suicides in every large city. That might help, but most wouldbe suicides keep their thoughts to themselves. One of their characteristics is a stubborn refusal to seek or take advice. They are primarily selfish and aloof, especially with regard to their intimate emotions. People who talk about their troubles frankly and intelligently seldom commit suicide; first, because trouble usually shrinks when exposed to daylight; second, because thoughts of selfdestruction are not compatible with candor and open-mindedness. The best remedy for the suicidal and other anti-social complexes seems to be to teach children to avoid the pernicious habit of being secretive, particularly about their difficulties and disappointments. Living alone with one’s thoughts is not only a dangerous habit, but one that can be cultivated. Young people should be trained to avoid it. Mental health, whether from an individual or social standpoint, rests largely on a normal exchange of ideas. CYRUS H. K. CURTIS H. K. CURTIS will rest secure in journalistic history and in national history, and his fame will lie mostly in his Saturday Fvening Post, which he bought for SI,OOO and built into what became a most widely read popular magazine. In this his name will be linked with Benjamin Franklin's, for the Post had been built upon Franklin’s Gazette. Cyrus Curtis gave the people what they wanted, and they wanted, in the heyday of the Saturday Evening Post, stories of the clean variety that all the family could read without a blush, yet well written, written by the best of the current American wTiters. And his life—it is another saga of the cleanliving. hard-working American rising from a capital of three cents invested in newspapers as a child and turned into a fortune which ultimately placed him among the five largest payers of income tax in America. What was the driving force behind this native of Maine? First, his physical vigor, which brought him to the age of 83. His original poverty. Next his diminutive size. There was a challenge. It is recorded that when he first started selling papers he fled the razzing of the veteran newsboys and found a newsboys' paradise in an outlying neighborhood where papers were little vended. But it was wisdom and not cowvdice that

actuated the swift movement of his heels. Wisdom later led him to Boston and to his phenomenal success in Philadelphia. As for his effect upon the progress of the nation, that lay largely in the dissemination of entertaining reading matter. He was conservative. His magazines did not tinker with outlaw ideas. A final note: He loved music and was to improvise by ear with excellent effect upon pipe organs, many of which he contributed to towns and cities from Philadelphia to Maine. His philanthropies were enormous. He was a typical American of vast reach. NO POLITICS IN SCIENCE jpOLITICAL appointments should play no part in the conduct of the scientific bureaus of the federal government. When President Roosevelt nominated Dr. Lyman J. Briggs to the directorship of the National Bureau of Standards, repeating a Hoover nomination unconfirmed by the lameduck senate, he heartened the intellectual world. Whether Dr. Briggs is a Republican or a Democrat is unknown and unasked at the White House. Dr. Briggs' job is science, not politics. In the famous “patronage handbook,” which listed the non-civil sendee jobs in the government, the following were listed as potential plums: Surgeon general of the public health service, commissioner and deputy commissioner of fisheries, commissioner of patents, director of bureau of mines, director of coast and geodetic survey, chief of the weather bureau, director of geological survey. Great confidence will be created by President Roosevelt if steps are taken to continue in office the efficient non-political incumbents and then insure adequate scientific and intellectual qualifications of future bureau heads by placing them under civil service. directors should direct TT is interesting to read that the New York supreme court has ruled that corporate directors who neglect their duties can be held liable if their corporation goes on the rocks. This ruling came in a $100,000,000 accounting suit brofight against eight directors of the bankrupt International Match Cos., which collapsed after the suicide of its guiding genius, Ivar Kreuger. The suit asked that the directors render an accounting of their official acts and be compelled to pay the amounts lost through their alleged negligence. Directors, the court holds, must direct. If they are content to serve as figureheads, rub-ber-stamping the acts of corporation officials, they can not escape responsibility. And a nation which has seen a number of firms go to the wall because their directors didn’t take their duties seriously is apt to applaud this decision whole-heartedly. TJOET EDWIN MARKHAM, who wrote “The Man With the Hoe,” has sued in Chicago to collect a promised annuity, explaining that he needs the money. Sounds like Mr. Markham now is “The Man with the Owe.” Somebody reveals that “Pecora” means sheep in Italian, which probably explains uhy he has been such a champion of the lambs shorn in Wall street. So far, we have seen no signs of Mr. Hoover's dire prediction that “grass will grow in the streets” this summer, but the man who has to cut it can testify that there is plenty growing on his front lawn. Divorce court records prove that “soulmates” do not always remain soulmates. Noted author says the condition in which a man keeps his library is an indication of his character. In other words, we see our shelves as others see us.

M.E.TracySays:

Pj'FFECTIVE control of industry calls for the M-y end of stock watering, dummy directors and sham service contracts, as well as wildcat competition. Business has suffered far more from financial juggling and manipulation at the top than from price-cutting at the bottom. The public is compelled to play against a stacked deck because of our highly technical and thoroughly legalized system of ethics. About everything has been prescribed, except common honesty and fair play. Driven by a craze to get capital for this or that purpose, we have permitted promoters, investment salesmen, holding companies, and moneyed interest to get away with about everything short of arson. Worse than all else, we have told ourselves that such attitude was progressive and enlightened. Big business not only has been condoned, but cheered, for doing things which the ordinary man would not do to his neighbor. tt U tt WHEN you get right down to brass tacks, a square deal between a billion-dollar concern and the investing or consuming public is no different from one between a comer grocery and its customers. Dummies on a board of directors imply the same kind of welching or negligence as dummies on a church of club committee, except that the former involve more risk. Giving Bill Smith a secret rakeoff on stock in exchange for the use of his name is the same rotten practice, whether applied to a power trust or a neighborhood hall. The crooked thinking of big financial operators is more definitely responsible for racketeering than any other single phase of our social and economic life. The preposterous service contracts by which holding companies have milked subsidiaries furnished the blueprints and specifications for about every form of racket. a a a IAM one of those stubborn souls who do not believe that there is any substitute for common honesty and common sense. Any method which can’t stand the daylight !is unsound. Any transaction built on the theory that some people must be kept in the dark as to what others are doing is basically rotten. The best kind of citizen and the solidest kind of enterprise is one that can look the whole world in the face. Secret business is made of the same stuff as secret diplomacy. We have had and still are having too much of both. This idea that you can build a sound society or a sound economic structure by permitting individuals or groups of individuals to take advantage of other people’s ignorance or inability just doesn’t work. The great weakness of this country, especially from an industrial and financial standpoint, goes back to things that are done in the dark, to locked doors and half truthful statements. to lack of open, straightforward records, to a curious brand of highbrow double-crossing which could not survive the daylight long.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Matte your Utters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 219 words or less.) By Harlow Lindley, Curator of History, Ohio State Museum. Dear Governor McNutt—l have hesitated somewhat about writing this letter, but since I am a native of Indiana and have spent all my life except the last five years in the state and still have property interests there, I feel perfectly free in writing to you. During the last thirty years of my life in Indiana I was engaged actively in various phases of library work as well as college work. I was graduated from college the year the state library of Indiana was taken out of politics and put upon a professional basis; for the period from 1907 until 1923 I held a part-time position on the staff of the Indiana state library as director of the department of history. When the Indana historical commission was created in 1915 by Governor Ralston, I was made its secretary and served in this capacity until 1923, when I accepted for a year the directorship of the commission now known as the Indiana historical bureau. During these years of official connection with these two educational interests of the state of Indiana I occupied a position so that I know there was not a particle of political influence brought to bear upon the work. I do know that at times some effort was made to make certain inroads upon the work of the state library, but it was without enough influence to accomplish anything. Asa result of this sort of administrative policy the Indiana state library, with its crowded quarters and limited appropriations, has grown to be recognized as one of the most professional and efficient among the state library organizations in the United States. Very naturally I was interested in following the legislation of the last general assembly, and I found a number of my Ohio friends were interested in the experiment. I told them that we all probablyrealized that the general organization of our state governments in the United States, and more particularly our county and township governments, was quite antiquated and needed thorough business-like reorganization, and that I would look to Indiana with a great deal of interest, feeling that if the plan there adopted was handled efficiently and successfully, it would mean much to the future of efficient government.

The Way Things Stand Right Now

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Mosquitoes in Planes Menace Health

IN July, 1931, the United States Public Health Service began inspecting aircraft arriving in Miami from South America for the presence of mosquitoes. It was found that cabin planes may carry mosquitoes for ten hours or more, and for a distance of 1,250 miles. Recently, these experiments were extended by Dr. F. H. D. Griffitts. He proved that yellow fever and dengue mosquitoes may be carried on airplanes from and to countries in which there formerly were endemic or epidemic centers of these diseases. It should be obvious, therefore, that every nation now must protect itself against the possibility of introduction, by this route, of mosquitoes capable of transmitting these serious infectious disorders. Up to recent times, the United

TRAINING from parenthood, says a social sendee worker, is the greatest task now before America. It would be futile, and perhaps foolish, to deny the statement. But if we are asked to accept the belief rhat such training involves only a few formulas and a comprehension of the rules of psychology then we can not agree. The first step in decent parenthood is to set up a decent social system in which our children may live. A sound economic plan, an equitable distribution of goods, security from the ever-present threat of starvation and annihilation in war—this is the primary consideration. Only in this way can the individual apply himself to the responsibility of parenthood. The man who struggles all his life to earn a few crusts

Why All This? By Hopeful Hattie. TLTOUR paper always seem ready to represent the common herd, which wo ail appreciate, so why don’t you go right ahead and print the truth and facts about the beer racket, the real inside which Dame Rumor spreads all over the state. What becomes of the money the brewers must put up with each importer who handles his beer. Why do not several of the leading brands come into the state? How much of a split goes into the "organization” fund? Where did the Governor get his ' new sixteen-cylinder Marmon and by what right does he have a sergeant of the state police chauffeur his women folks on shopping tours? (At Ayres’ Thursday morning.) By what special right does said chauffeur violate traffic rules while dressed in full uniform, gun and all, while he so haughtily drives Car No. 1 with one lone woman (maybe more) in the back seat. Os course I drive my own Ford (not No. 1), but why can’t I ignore the traffic rules and why do I have to pay taxes to pay the state police to haul the Governor’s family on private shopping tours? It sort a riles the old spirit of equality and fairness. The higher they rise, the farther they fall, sometimes, but let’s have the facts.

I even went so far as to say that if the new Governor succeeded in carrying out this new plan successfully in the interest of more efficient government, it ought to lead him directly to the White House, but that if he did not arise to the occasion, and instead turned his power to partisan interests, that it eventually would wreck the whole scheme. While I admit that I am not close enough to the scene to know all of the immediate circumstances, yet I can not comprehend of an educated man, capable of occupying a responsible administrative position in a state university adopting purely political tactics in the administration of the educational and welfare institutions of the state. It is as plain as day that the only result that can bs expected will mean an overthrow of the party and then the other party coming into power will be ready to take their revenge and, as a result, the best interests of the people as a whole, regardless of party, will suffer. After thirty-five years of steady progress in the development of a

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyjreia, the Health Magazine.

States Public Health Service, by careful inspection of incoming trains and steamers, has been able to keep yellow fever from our shores. Since the time when Gen. Walter Reed showed in Havana that yellow fever is spread by the mosquito, and that the stamping out of the yellow fever mosquito will prevent the disease, its presence in the United States has been eliminated. It now becomes apparent that means must be taken to control airplanes as a possible medium in spreading this disease. Dr. Griffitts suggests first a proper inspection of all passengers and crews of aircraft coming from localities In which yellow fever, malaria, and dengue exist; second,

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

of bread hardly can be expected to make a good father. B B B IT also is essential that we change our standards of success. The accumulation of property has been extolled as man’s foremost achievement for so long that all the values of living have become warped in the minds of children. We may profess to believe with Mr. Browning that a ‘ man's reach should exceed his grasp,” but what can we hope will fill the grasp of a generation whose reach is no higher than the cash register? Too many goals we have set up for the children are not even golden; they are only plated. A lively sense of social responsibility also is a necessary qualifica-

professional atmosphere and a professional staff in the state library, I am much grieved to learn of the course you are pursuing, and I feel that I have a right to protest against such a policy, for I believe that it will not only be destructive to the best interests of the state of Indiana, but that eventually it will be destructive to your own personal interests. I have been associated with pretty nearly every phase of library activity in the state of Indiana, having served for thirty years as librarian of Earlham college while in charge of the department of history there, and for a number of years I was president of the Richmond city public library board and served two different times as president of the Indiana Library Association, in addition to my part-time connection with the Indiana state library mentioned above, so that I feel that I have a right to know something of the library background in the state. I naturally am proud of my native state and follow her progress with interest, I know that she is being watched closely by people in other states at the present time, and I had hoped that you would give the state such a broad, positive, efficient administration above personal, partisan, political motives that you would reflect credit not only upon the state, but upon yourself. I hope you will accept this in the spirit in which it is written.

So They Say

Unfair competition in credits is just as vicious as unfair competition in trade. Industries should not sell terms, but merchandise.—Henry H. Heimann, executive manager of National Association of Credit Men. Training lions and tigers is no more cruel than the process through which dogs and ponies are taught their tricks—Clyde Beatty, animal trainer. Many people were a long time realizing that what happened last fall was not an election, but a revolution accomplished in a particularly American way.—Professor Rexford G. Tugwel, member of President Roosevelt’s "brain trust.” The nationality of the man my daughter marries is immaterial, provided he is a good husband and makes her happy.—Franklin L. Hutton, millionaire father of Barbara Hutton, bride of Prince Alexis Mdivani.

sanitaton at airports and in their vicinity; finally, proper precautions to prevent the harboring of mosquitoes in aircraft, and the destruction of mosquitoes in and on the aircraft. Obviously, this equally is important for other diseases transmitted by insects. Houseflies, honey bees, and cockroaches have been observed in airplanes, and the use of gas to kill mosquitoes on planes has resulted in the finding of at least a thousand cockroaches in one plane after it hah made a flight to a southern country-. It is not likely that the importation of infected mosquitoes would be as serious a matter as the importation of an infected man. but certainly the possibility of extreme danger does exist and preventive methods should be employed.

tion for the good parent. Personal integrity, no matter what the copybooks say, has hard sledding in any social order where it gets you nowhere except in jail and brings you nothing but starvation. To be moral ir. an unmoral community is fine, but you'll find it’s difficult to raise good children there. For this reason, the conscientious parent always will work to leave his son a better world, as well as a bigger business. Indeed, it often seems that if we cured the social evils, adjusted economic wrongs, and relieved international injustice, parenthood would be rather an easy job. Most of our problems in this field are caused by the outer circumstance and not by the inner being.

JUNE 10, 1933

It Seems to Me =BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. June 10.—I saw a money changer in the neighborhood of the temple late yesterday afternoon, and it did not seem to me that he was on his way to catch an outbound train. On the contrary, he was headed up the steps, cool as a cucumber. “I wonder if the old place has changed,” he remarked as we passed. In all probability he will not find much alternation inside. There is some scaffolding still up around the main entrance, but the sign "Business as usual" is displayed prominently. Reform has slackened. Within a month there has been a perceptible slowing up. it may be that the new deal was no more than a round of roodles and that we are all going back to the old game. Stocks Soar to New Highs," Market Boils in Record Session," Pivotal Issues Up Ten Points.” Front page prosperity is with us cnce again. Mr. Morgan is going to pay an income tax almost any year now. tt tt B Good Times , Ltd. BUT the trouble lies in the fact that a rich man's boom hardly will suffice to relieve the victims of a poor man's panic. The rise of stocks and bonds has very little to do with any upward turn in the employment curve. Shareholders may do extremely well even in periods when millions are out of work. Congress is fond of denouncing Wall Street in speeches from the floor, and yet it takes far too much for granted on no other basis than the rise in quotations. Already there is a disposition to agree that the worst is over. If any dove has come fluttering back with an olive leaf we have a right to whatever cheer this bit of greenerv may bring us. But the great trouble is that the lessons of the flood are forgotten so quickly. Arthur Hopkins once produced a play called "The Deluge.” in which an assorted group of individuals was trapped in a house by the rising waters of the Mississippi. With death staring them in the face, each m°mber of the community began to have a closer understanding of his associates and a deeper sympathy. But the waters receded, and so did the little group which had seen a vision of Utopia. So it seems to be with the government of the United States and with its inhabitants. When the banks were on the verge of ruin, almost any sort of radical legislation might have been obtained, but the very institutions which were picked up out of the gutter have turned high and mighty overnight and now are arching their eyebrows and talking about paternalism and government interference. After a short burst of candor, the Morgan inquiry has gone back into the secret silences. tt tt tt Many Things Change THREE months ago congress was. frightened sufficiently to cut out the pension graft. Now that there is a glimmer upon the horizon, congress wants to put it back again. The most discouraging thing is the conduct of the Farmer-Labor-ites and other so-called radicals in the house and senate. For the tenth or twelfth time in as many years it is shown again that the vision of these men does not extend beyond the price of wheat. At 70 cents a bushel, every man jack of them has slowed down to a walk, and by the time wheat touches a dollar they all have become Rotarian Republicans. It is true that President Roosevelt supplied the original motive power for certain measures which actually had in them some element of fundamental change. In spite of the slackening of the program, I still think that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the one best bet in the present administration. tt tt tt A Job for Roosevelt BUT part of the attempt to return to normalcy is within his own responsibility. Mr. Roosevelt was elected by a party which is split badly. Moreover, his appeal carried into voting camps of widely divergent vews. At the outset he may well have been troubled by the thought that his mandate, although hearty, was far from explicit. In effect, then, Franklin D. Roosevelt came into power as a sort of coalition government in his own person, and he surrounded himself with advisers of many hues. The best men among his counsellors are some of the members of the “brain trust” which has aroused so much easy parody from the old-line politicians. Roughly, the Roosevelt council can be divided into men who believe that they are dealing with a temporary emergency and men who think that fundamental and permanent readjustments must be made in the economic setup of the United States. It is altogether impossible to reconcile these two schools. • President Roosevelt must make up his mind which is his crowd. And he must make up his mind now. If the lads who have come to the great conflagration with a fir% extinguisher are to prevail, there will** be no great point in getting intc - fury about congressional obstruction of the program. That program will not matter. ICocvrleht. 1933. bv The Times) Toiler Prays BY LAWRENCE F. SCOTT O kindly Lord, My daily work is done And to it I have given of my best. Grant me what every workman needs; The quiet peace of undisturbed rest. • O gracious Lord, Make mine an humble life. Not too much failure or success to spoil The happy, unassuming joy of those Who for their daily bread must ever toil. O. blessed Lord, Be this my dearest wish: When my life's course has been completely run. To fall down prostrate at Thy holy feet And find my true reward in Thy "Well done.’”