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FRIDAY, JUNE I*. 1033 THE RAILROAD CO-ORDINATOR / "J~'HE PRESIDENT, according to reports, has requested Joseph Eastman, whom he intends to appoint railrfead co-ordinator, to take e hand in the forthcoming railway wage conference at Chicago. The job Mr. Eastman will assume can not be divorced from the wage question, nor can the government at this stage shun the wage conference, whatever may be the language of the railroad co-ordination act. The attempt of railroad managements to reduce wages 22 > 2 per cent below the basic scale, or 1214 per cent below the present reduction, is On its face a deflationary move, in direct opposition to the wishes of the Roosevelt administration, which is straining every muscle to bring about employment, cut hours of labor and increase wages. The railroads, which just have been given special treatment by the government, which are permitted to get from under the anti-trust laws, which are provided with new federal credit to bring their' long-deferred maintenance up to date, are asking labor to give up another quarter billion dollars so capital may profit just that much. Apparently, President Roosevelt and his administration will not stand for such gouging of those who have invested their lives in the railroad business. Wage cutting has no place in the present economic scheme of things, tuned to inflation. The President’s expected appointment of Mr. Eastman Is particularly fortunate, for his knowledge of railroad problems hardly is surpassed; his courage and fine intelligence in protecting the public interest over a long period of years as an interstate commerce commissioner has raised railroad regulation to a new level. But Mr. Eastman, as co-ordinator, will have an extremely difficult job. It is easy enough to talk about the co-ordinator eliminating wasteful practices and services among the carriers. To accomplish them is a very different thing. And they can not be accomplished unless railway managements co-operate with the coordinator and the government. Their duty in this new effort to put the steam transportation system on its own wheels is as great as the coordinator’s. JUSTICE AND MERCY r I ''HE PRESIDENT has won his bitter and •*- hard fight for the principle of economy tempered with justice in payment of veterans’ Compensation. He has preserved the fact of economy while moderating the unquestioned eeverity of the slashes put into effect by the veterans' administration and the budget director. The Roosevelt compromise gives the disabled veteran the benefit of the doubt, a strong element, in hearings by special boards to determine whether his disabilities arose from war service. And veterans with war injuries are not to be thrown into the streets. Their compensation is not to be reduced more than 25 per cent. The veterans’ administration made mistakes In its severe application of the original economy orders. The solid front of the Republicans, many of them hitherto unknown as advocates of veterans' relief, was marshaled to make the ex-soldier a political issue. It was good politics, and a chance to get the soldier vote. But Mr. Roosevelt won his fight. He yielded where it was clear that his subordinates had acted harshly, but he maintained his position On the major issue of abolishing indiscriminate payments.

BETTER BANKS in importance only to the national recovery act, the new bank law brings the country closer to a strong and unified banking system. When all legitimate excuses are made for our banking system, the fact remains that of all the world's major countries suffering from depression, our country alone had serious bank troubles. It is hardly reasonable to assume that the cause of this is original sin, or that American bankers are less intelligent or less honest than the bankers of other countries. On the contrary, there is every reason for believing that our dual banking system itself is at fault, and that it would have produced the same kind of failures and chaos in any other country and operated by any other set of bankers, no matter how wise. The new law makes several vital'reforms in our system. It separates banks and security affiliates. It forces private banks, such as J. P. Morgan & Cos., to give up either the deposit business or the security business. It breaks up the racket of interlocking directorates between the large private banking houses and commercial banks. It clothes the federal reserve with power to restrict the speculative use of its funds. The deposit insurance provisions of the law were a necessary compromise. They are dangerous to the extent that they luff the public and officials into the belief that any absolute guaranty of deposits is possible, or that socalled insurance is a substitute for a sound banking system. Fortunately, however, the insurance provisions indirectly are expected to contribute to sounder banking, ft he public probably will support only bpnks which are strong enough to qualify for deposit insurance benefits. The new law is described accurately as the most important banking legislation since the original federal reserve act. Even so. it is only a halfway measure. It still limits branch banking to a few states. It still leaves many and

loopholes for unscrupulous bankers—loopholes which will nqt be understood fully until the senate has completed its Pecora investigation. On the basis of the completed investigation of Morgan and others, congress will be in a position next winter to finish the bank reform legislation begun in the Glass-Steagall law. THE AIRSHIP’S FUTURE lITHEN the airship Akron was wrecked, a conclusion that the Unted States should give up all further experimentation with such craft. It was taken pretty widely for granted that these giant airships had demonstrated their fragility and their impracticability so clearly that no more money should be spent on them. But the members of the congressional investigating committee, who looked into the whole situation with minute care, don’t seem to feel that way. They urge the building of anew airship to replace the Akron, and the construction of a training ship, in addition. They insist that such dirigibles have enough military value to justify continued expenditures on their development. The next session of congress will have to decide whether It is going to follow its own committee’s recommendations. UNDERCONSUMPTION ' I 'HE commonest way of explaining America’s industrial depression is to say that the nation is suffering from great overproduction. This, as a technical explanation, is quite correct. But to accept it wuthout looking into the things that lie back of it is to get an entirely lopsided picture of the day’s most pressing problem. Technically, of course, we are overproduced. We can make more automobiles, electric refrigerators, steel rails, rocking chairs, electric light bulbs, shoes, auto tires, plows and whatnot than we can sell. In that sense, we are up against overproduction in a very real and unpleasant way. But there is another side to it—another name for this problem. If, instead of calling it overproduction we call it underconsumption, that other side becomes clear; and it also becomes evident that the traditional method of solving the problem is very much out of date. We may be making more of all of these things than we can sell—but w r e are not making more of them than we need, and we shall not be, for a long, long time. Not until every citizen has all that he needs of this multitude of goods shall we truly have overproduction. During the last few years lowa and Kansas farmers have had to burn com and wheat while city workers have gone hungry; and the same farmers have had to drive superannuated cars and wear wornout shoes while the city auto and shoe factories have been idle for want of orders. On every hand we have had millions of people needing all sorts of commodities very badly; but because they have been unable to buy them, factories have operated at a fourth or a fifth of normal capacity. The administration’s industrial control bill is designed to get around this trouble by gearing production directly to consumption. In the long run, however, this will not do much good if it simply prevents industry from producing more than can be sold. It must increase consumption—it must, that is to say, raise the general purchasing power of the nation—if it is to get us out of our difficulty. Let the ordinary man get his hands on enough money to buy the things he needs and we shall have a broad and enduring prosperity. We shall not have to talk about overproduction for years to come. BOTH BRAWN AND BRAINS 'T'HAT part of the public which is interested in college football is pretty well used to the sight of the star athlete who manages to complete his college course only by dint of the most terrific mental struggle. The burly full back who takes snap courses, has a tutor to prepare him for exams, and even then gets passing marks only because the professors are lenient—he is a common and a rather uninspiring figure on the campus. But the football star isn't always in that class. It is instructive, for example, to notice the names of the five cadets who finished their courses at West Point recently at the head of the list in academic work. The top man of all was none other than Kenneth Fields, famous as a football half back. Two of the other four were also well-known athletes. And the curriculum at West Point makes the average college course look soft by comparison.

EDUCATION FOR THE NEW DEAL Vl/'E fairly may expect that Mr. Roosevelt's " T “new deal" will envisage fully the rights of organized labor and the principles of collective bargaining. Indeed, this is explicitly embodied in the national recovery act. If this is so, it is incumbent upon labor to train leaders who can present and direct labor in such fashion as to deserve justice and security. Labor must be led by men with adequate information and an expansive vision. No American social movement has suffered more from the lack of progressive, devoted, and educated leadership than has organized labor. While there have been some notorious traitors and “sell-outs,” American labor has not lacked fidelity* so much as it has realism, tolerance, and aggressive adaptation to the requirements of the times. The United States still is an “open shop” nation. Even with federal support, organized labor is bound to have tough going for some years. It must cope with crafty and powerful pirates, fortified by high-toned counsel and favored by our courts. If labor can not produce better leadership than it has in the past, the fight will be lost before it begins. Sidney Hilman and some others illustrate the leadership which labor can bring forth and the remarkable achievement which such direction makes possible. The fact that the next four or five years will be a critical period with organized labor in the United States makes it especially gratifying to learn that Brookwood Labor College at Katonah, N. Y., has been reorganized and is reopening with a greatly broadened program of activities under anew director, Professor Tucker P. Smith. Professor Smith is admirably fitted by education and experience to conduct with success

the chief labor college in our country. He has gained an international reputation as a relentless foe of war, and of two of its chief causes—economic imperialism and protective tariffs. But Professor Smith is not a fanatical pacifist with a single-track mind. He is broadly trained in economics, sociology, and international relations, and has taught in leading institutions of higher learning. He recognizes that war is a symptom of a crude and uncivilized social orcer and that a campaign in beljalf of justice, humanity, and decency will inevitably and incidentally take care of war. In his first public statement since taking up his new work, Professor Smith show’s that he recognizes the gravity of the situation which confronts organized labor and fully senses the responsibility of Brook wood in the crisis: “The present world situation demonstrates in painful terms the necessity for an organized movement of workers strong enough to win its objectives, wise enough to map these objectives in terms of a new’ social order, and militant enough to seize every opportunity to attain that goal. “In this effort Brookw’ood will share through our program of non-factional educational service to the labor movement of America.’’ The regular academic work at Brookwood, comprising basic instruction in economics, history, social science, and labor tactics, will go on with extended facilities in the instituteyit Katonah. But there will also be anew effort to bring instruction and stimulation to many who can not leave their work or homes for protracted periods of study. SENATE TO PROBE RACKETS TN adopting Senator Copeland's resolution A for an investigation of racketeering, the United States senate has joined an important national movement to which it can give great help. The senate investigating committee, with the co-operation of the federal department of justice, can bring together and study the experience of the prosecuting •uthorities, police, and courts in various cities, also inquire into the interstate operation of rackets. New York, Chicago and Detroit are to be the first field of the investigation, and the present drive on racketeering in New York City already has accumulated ample material on which to start. Another good result of the senate action will be further to impress all other agencies, federal and local, W’ith the seriousness of the racket problem and the urgent need of tackling it. We particularly hope the American Federation of Labor thus may be impressed. Racketeering has been getting a dangerous grip on organized labor, even to the extent of demoralizing and disrupting unions by delivering them into the hands of racketeer of- . ficer-s. The A. F. of L. should hit this evil, and hit it hard. Fewer automobile accidents on nation’s highways this year, reports National Safety Council. Despite those recent reports of bigger sales in the auto industry, it seems that the turnover really is less. “Eat grapefruit to combat the heat,” advises a woman’s page writer. Yes, it’s often as good as a shower bath. Seeking to preserve their testimony a German Nazi court is having four accused slayers talk into a phonograph. That should make the evidence a matter of record. Wisconsin'state senate met at sunrise the other morning, which will surprise many persons who have always thought that state legislators worked in the dark.

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THIS is the twentieth conference held since the war in an effort to save civilization from one or more of its various follies. The emotions which dominate it are common, but the aims conflict. That paradoxical condition prevails in all phases of life. Two men love the same woman, or two women the same man, and there you have the making of a tragedy. All the sixty-six governments represented at London want peace, but not without some particular advantage. At the opening session, King George called upon the nations to bury their hatreds—good advice, but a poor statement of the problem. If the world had nothing but hatred to overcome, the peace problem would be simple. What bothers and handicaps the world is its traditional affections. Take the love of money, for instance, the love of national prestige, the love of security through alliances, or the love of expansion, whether in territory or trade, and there you have the chief source of trouble. The world virtually has tripped this conference by trying to safeguard or satisfy these loves beforehand. nun ACADEMICALLY, statesmen are agreed that existing tariff barriers ought to be lowered, but England has bound herself by a lot of special agreements, not only with units of the empire, but with several other nations. Even our own government, which is loud in demands for a downward tariff revision, has compromised itself to a certain extent through the industrial recovery bill, which is dedicated to price boosting at home and which, for that very reason, may make higher tariffs necessary to protect home industries against the dumping of cheap foreign goods. War debts are barred, yet, as Premier MacDonald pointed out, the possibility of stabilizing world conditions rests largely on a war debt settlement that will stand. While general peace and prosperity are the accepted objectives, each delegation visualizes them as dependent on some particular concession or guarantee.. The Germans want the Versailles treaty revised. the French want everybody to get back on the gold standard, the English want more inflation, and all of them want the United States to write down, or write off, their war debts. nan. I IKE that of every other, the fate of this conference will be determined by button-holing, horse-trading and log-rolling back stage. Publicly, the leaders will talk about co'-opera-tion and other angelic methods with which no one can quarrel. Only when they sit down together behind closed doors and in comparatively small groups will they talk turkey. They don’t hate one another; they merely are working to get what the folks back home want and expect. Each and every representative is thinking of how his phrases and propositions will be taken, not by the world at large, but by the government or the party to which he must report. To sum it all up, this conference is being guided by the background of local politics and specal interests, because local politics and special interests still dominate public opinion throughout the world.

THE INDIAN AfULib TIMES

(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 Fair Play. It is amusing, if not nauseating, to fair-minded people to read the hue and cry that Republicans are making because Governor McNutt is appointing members of his own party to places in his administration now occupied by Republicans. The Republicans who are raising this cry never raised a squeak when Republican Governors displaced Democrats and supplied their places with Republicans. Imagine Jim Goodrich, Warren McCray, Ed Jackson, or Leslie leaving a Democrat in office if he could get to him. And comes W. E. Hern’y, former state librarian of Indiana, and a former college mate of this writer, protesting the removal of certain persons in the state library and supplying their places with persons, Democrats, if you please, who will work in co-oeration with his administration. The writer has been acquainted with the state library for a generation and he does not recall that Mr. Henry or any of his successors ever efnployed a Democrat as assistant in the library, if they could find a Republican. Harmony and co-operation are necessary to the success of an administration and the writer hopes Governor McNutt will remove every vestige of Goodrichism, McCrayism, Jacksonism and Leslieism from his administration. This is what Republicans who voted for him expect him to do. The writer also hopes that Governor McNutt will go even one step further, and remove any disloyal and half-baked Democrats, if any there be left over from former Republican administrations. This is

TTTHEN the heat of summer * ’ spreads over the nation, physicians and the hospitals begin at once to receive their quota of persons who have been harmed by contract with the hazards of life associated with summer conditions. Many times it has been emphasized in these columns that sunlight is beneficial. It aids the growth of the bones, tends to destroy bacteria, and has certain invigorating qualities. Sun'baths are healthful because they are associated with life outdoors. They bring about a certain amount of rest in the open air. However, there are hazards associated with sun haths which should be borne in mind. Exposure to the sun should be gradual. It is well to begin with not more than five minutes the first day and to increase this to the point where tanning takes place, rather than to attempt by two or three hours in the sun on the beach, or elsewhere, to blister the skin on the first exposure. The amount of daily exposure to direct sunlight may be increased

A DENVER reader is disappointed in me. “I had thought of you,” she writes, “as a real woman, one we could point to with respect, a leader toward the high ideals that we can not but associate with true womanhood. Yet you champion swearing.” My efforts in behalf of the downtrodden navy boys have, it appears, caused disillusion. Yet the evident sincerity of this reproof makes me wonder about certain queer traditions. Why, for instance, should “true womanhood,” whatever that is. invariably be associated in our minds, with forbidden customs. Smoking. chewing. swearing, drinking, living with gusto, in fine, always are connected in our thoughts with men. Our lot is the stilted and lily-white purities.

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Exposure to Sun Should Be Gradual = BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN .

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : ■ - BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Poem on Pensions By Gardner Wilson. In Saturday’s News appeared another leading article on the bounties to veterans, W’hich he who runs may read. As some readers may not have run fast enough to seize the News editor’s thought, however, I am offering, just to a few friends, a garbled version. No pension bill, however prodisral. Will satisfy the claimant tactical. How could it? Is not he A man of give and take? Give inch, take ell. The President now the purse strings will unloose; A taste of blood, a drive—but what's the use? Politicians, pedagogues The nation’s gold will turn To ducks and drakes. Os wartime heroes near four million strong One eighth have proven grafters, in the wrong. , ,■ They're on the pay roll still. As tax returns I fill. Mv heart, be still! On fighters rain with lov our largesses In bounds. The rest an overcharge jes’ is. Could but a Hoover jolt With lightning veto bolt. Quell this revolt. what Democrats who voted for him expect him to do. For twenty-five years it has been the boast of Jim Watson that Republicans are the only persons who should hold the offices, because they have had the training for the offices. Let us now give the offices to Democrats and let them get the training of which Watson boasts. All over Indiana, Republican placeholders and officeholders, from state offices down to janitors in schools, have been resisting removal, on one pretext or another. They should, and the writer believes they will, have to go. By Walter F. Smith Cambridge City, Ind. I read that the senate is holding out against our President about pensions and our President is absolutely right. I hope that he will

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. until it reaches one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. It should not, however, exceed these amounts. It is advisable that those who are exposed to sunlight be sheltered from the wind and from dust which is blown by the wind. Such dusts often contain bacteria, pollens of plants, residue from manure, and all sorts of filth. a a a Auto accidents constitute a major cause of summer hazards. Drivers are told again and again to keep their brakes, steering gear and lights in perfect condition, to change tires after they have run long enough to wear off the tread, to drive slowly, particularly on wet streets; never to pass any one on a hill or on a curve, and to make safety rather than speed their primary object. Unfortunately, there are vast numbers of reckless drivers, and the number of injuries from this source constantly increases. Responsibility also rests on the pedestrian. If pedestrians will walk

And somehow, the two have been so far apart that men and women have not been able to attain any common, meeting ground. a a a T.ET us consider, first of all. what we mean when we talk about women's high ideals. To a great many of us, I am sorry to say, high ideals mean only polite behavior. The qualities have much in common, yet it certainly is possible for one to be an uncouth person, with shockingly bad personal habits, and at the same time to be a fine idealist. The curse of “perfect ladyhood" was wished upon us a long time ago. And it often seems to me that when we are “ladies,” in the commonly accepted sense of the word, we are so likely to be nothing else

win easily. I know as well as I can know without seeing them draw the money that in that department there has been nothing less than robbery, as I have been told by an ex-soldier who never had been out of the country, with no disabilities, that he was notified that if he sent in his discharge papers he would receive S9O a month. He did not do it, but his brother did, and got or gets the S9O a month. I am told of lots of such cases and I know of many. * Look at the Spanish American warriors with only a skirmish at Santiago. In the Philippines, they had more and there are three in this little town and it seems as though they are all drawing pensions. It was a matter of preference as to which state got in the most for its quota and because times are hard it seems as though they all want easy money and find out about their pull. The Hoover regime was for giving pensions to all to get votes. I had a in three months, then nine months, then three years or end of the war and they were kept in overtime. The regiment mutinied and he got no pension until one time that he nearly died in 1916 and he got $lB a month and his army pay was sl3 a month, and gold was $2.50, so he got less than $3.50 per month. He was in Logan’s command, a captain, well acquainted with Logan. Our President wants to balance the budget and I hope that the congressmen will have their names published if they are making a holdout. They are making the mistake of their lives by so doing. There should be a pension commissioner who is a budget man and they will get their deserts and we will have a show. Then come the utilities and freight rates, as they should be; with them regulated, we could make a living.

facing the line of traffic instead of with the line of traffic, and if they will wait to cross the road 4ntil it is clear of motor cars, avoid many risks. Motorists must remember not to stop too suddenly and always to indicate by holding out the hands that they are to slow down or stop. Many of the most serious accidents occur when a motor car stops too suddenly. Finally, statistics show that more serious accidents occur to drivers who are fatigued. Drivers fal lasleep at the wheel or else drive for so long a time that they become mentally exhausted, in which circumstance their judgments as to distance and pace are disturbed. One-fifth of all accidents are due to sudden inattention on the part of a driver who permits his mind to wander because of the conversation going on in the car. the sudden view of an illuminated advertisement, or a sudden memory of some financial or domestci difficulty.

NEXT: Food and water hazards in summer.

at all. And being a lady these days is not half enough. We must first be human bemgs, then women, and then ladies, if you will. It often has been said that no lady uses profanity. Yet we've all known any number of fine women who did, upon occasion. We once were told that no good woman ever smoked a cigaret. But thousands upon thousands of them do so, and all the horrified protests of the ultra-perfect can not alter the fact. Overniceness probably has prevented many of us from developing into good women. We have emphasized manners and overlooked fundamental moralities. In fussing with trivialities, we lost the essential “human touch.” And without it, no influence is potent.

-JUNE 16, 1933

It Seems to Me ■—BY lIEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. June 16 —Observers in Washington are wondering whether President Roosevelt’s economic program will pile up on the rocks of the supreme court. But I think that the problem may be stated with equal accuracy the other : way ’round. Can the supreme court ride out the revolution of 1933? Mr. Dooley’s famous observation Xhat the supreme court “follows the election returns’’ may have been a wisecrack back in the gay 90s, but if the supreme court is to survive in its present form, it literally must yield to this principle. Back in the Bull Moose days. Theodore Roosevelt shocked his progressive followers when he sent up a trial balloon advocating the recall of judicial decisions.” So great was the consternation that the colonel quickly hauled in his kite. mam Not What It Used to Be BUT I doubt that the supreme court holds anything like the same sanctified position today. I have heard young men who classified themselves as nothing more radical than a very light pink speak earnestly about the possibility of curtailing the power of the court or abolishing it altogether. No children screamed and no women fainted at the sound of this doctrine. Os course, the young men in question Were not precisely in a posi-’ tion to put their theories into practice, but I still believe that the supreme court of the United States has lost a vast amount of prestige within the last twenty years. "The hoble experiment” gave the court several bad black eyes. Some of the decisions in regard t<T prohibition problems W’ere so preposterous that there was a justifiable suspicion that certain of the old gentlemen were afraid of the AntiSaloon League. But. of course, tides even more fundamental than this have affected the popularity of the judicial veto. The Constitution itself has i been under increasing criticism. And not all of it has comp from | radicals. Mr. Beck of Pennsylvania, one of the stanchest of conserva- ; fives, has been one of the severest • critics. tt n u IT he Thirteen States IF the vote for the repeal of prohibition carries all the populous j states, but is blocked by the will of I thirteen sparsely settled ones, it j seems to me inevitable that the ; Constitution will be badly bent. No-’ body can defend such a situation as having any place in democratic government. And. more particularly, there will be bitter resentment if a document 150 years old happens to stand in the way of any piece of legislation which seems to. offer some hope of i relief to jobless and hungry men and women. The very fact that the Constitution under any strict construction stands in the way of a federal child ! labor law certainly has not increased national respect for the instrument. a a tt It Was Made for Man CONGRESSMAN BECK has tried to soften the blow of his criticism by saying that possibly the trouble is that we are not good enough for the Constitution. Thus seems to me a quibble of little moment. In spite of the cumbersome process prescribed, it is still a little easier to amend the Constitution than to change the fundamentals of the human spirit. And the nature of man is such, I believe, that he rather would work through the benefit of an unconstitutional measure than starve to death with due legality. It is an excellent thing to remind ourselves every once in so often that the instrument under which our government functions was prepared by men w’ho could not have foreseen the precise nature of the United States of today. Our forefathers had splendid vision, but they were not as good as all that. After all, they were compelled to create a Constitution in the image of the economic world which they knew. Fortunately, they left a few looph6les. But for a very considerable amount of stretching from time to 1 time the Constitution of the United : States hardly would have served to j carry us as far as it has.

nun Public Policy Question FROM now on the supreme court ought to be moved far more by the problem of public policy than by any pedantry of literal interpretation. Surely a five to four decision should be a very feeble barrier irv the path of any determinded majority bent upon some necessary economic change. There remain in the halls of congress a few diehards who would have us live—or die. for that matter —by the letter of the original stipulations. Senator Borah has been eloquent on occasion in saying that this or that may not be done because of Article 3 or Section X. But I think that the true lover of the Constitution in the days ahead of us will be the man who favors the freest sort of construction. If the Constitution is to live, it must be bled and cupped for the sake of modern man and his environment. (Copvrißht. 19331 Refuge BY MARY B. MO YN A HAN And, I believe, that word was passed around: “Here guests will find uo harm,” Since robins, too, have brought their lovely gems, To fill my porch with charm! Daily Thought . ———-li And every (Hie that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented. gathered themselves unto Him, and He became a captain over them.—Samuel 22:2. A GREAT man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.—Lowell.