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TUESDAY. 20, 1833. THE LONDON DEADLOCK r | "HAT the world economic conference has come to an early deadlock Is not surprising. The part played by the United States in creating such a complete deadlock is, however, unexpected. It was known from the beginning that France had a narrow nationalistic program. It was known that Great Britain would teke no initiative. It was known that the United States among all the large powers was the only one with even a slight chance of presenting a program and getting it agreed to. But now it appears that the American policies are so conflicting that they almost cancel each other, thus adding the United States to the long list of countries which really have nothing to offer. This applies to the three major economic issues—war debts, monetary stabilization and tariff reduction. For many months European governments have been pointing out that these three issues are inter-related, requiring joint settlement. Because of domestic political reasons, and for strategic purposes, it is necessary for the United States to insist on separate debt negotiations. But, in view of the obvious relation of debts to currencies and tariffs, the Roosevelt administration in the beginning agreed to permit the separate debt negotiations to proceed concurrently with the conference on currency and tariff discussions. Unfortunately, and we believe unfairly, the administration reversed this policy and postponed debt discussions until some time after the conference. That decision unquestionably has crippled the conference. Second is the tariff issue. The President Intended to ask congress for special powers to make joint tariff reduction agreements at the conference. But, after delay incident to the pressure of other legislative matters, the President Anally allowed congress to adjourn without asking or receiving special tariff powers. It was explained, however, that the President at least could negotiate tariff treaties which could be held for ratification by the next session of congress. Thereupon, the American delegation experts submitted to the London conference commission a provisional agenda for discussion. including a 10 per cent horizontal tariff cut first suggested by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. But then Senator Key Pittman, in the name of the American delegation, promptly and officially denied that the delegation has anything to do with the tariff proposal. So tariffs followed debts out the window. That left monetary stabilization. But as scon as the American representatives at the conference began to discuss the subject, a denial went out from Washington. Then it was announced Monday in Washington that the President is opposed to any International currency stabilization agreement at this time, fearing that it might stop the fall of the dollar and the rise of prices before American prices reach the desired 1926 level. Asa result, some of the foreign delegates at London are suggesting that the conference adjourn. Meanwhile, Undersecretary of State Raymond Moley is sailing for the conference. Unless he is carrying a definite American program from the President, it might be sensible for the conference to recess until at least one or two of the governments. Including the United States, are prepared to negotiate. A conference with nothing to do but stew in its own juice can cause more harm than no conference. UNJUSTIFIED WAGE CUTS rjwHERE is no reason at this time for the •A action of railroad executives in ordering a 22 4 per cent wage cut for all employes, effective Nov. 1. With inflation steadily boosting the costs of living and with railroad revenue increasing, such a drastic wage cut is unjustified. It runs counter to President Roosevelt's oft-repeated warnings that wages must be increased to spur buying power and help bring back better times. We hope, therefore, that the federal government. under the power granted it by the railroad relief bill, steps in and forces the railroad executives to revoke such edicts. Railroad unions already are threatening to resist the wage reductions with every weapon at their command. There are even ugly rumors that the unions will resort to strikes, if necessary, to block the cuts. Industrial strife, at a time when industry and labor should w’ork together to break the grip of the depression, is unthinkable. Yet there is a real possibility that this may be the outcome, unless the government acts. Asa matter of fact, railroad executives should be the last group on earth to ask their employes to take further w-age cuts. We know of no group that has suffered less during the depression. Most of these executives still are receiving salaries far out of proportion to their services or the financial condition of their railroads. The Pennsylvania railroad, for example, a frequent borrower from the government, pays Its president. W. W. Atterbury. more than SIOO,OOO a year and has fifteen vice-presidents, all drawing huge salaries. Yet this railroad, like others, has cut its pay roll to the bone, whittling down salaries of nonunion employes as much as 35 and 40 per cent. The executives, of course, have taken their cuts, too, but their salaries still remain topheavy and out of proportion to the wages of the rank and file of employes. Os course, the major railroads never Jiave been overly generous to their employes. £>ur-

ing the greater part of the World war. when other industries were paying salaries in line with the high cost of living, railroads still paid telegraph operators as low as S7O and SBO a month. It was only when the war drew near a close that the railroads were forced to Increase salaries In proportion to those of other industries. There is real danger, we believe, that the railroads will lag again in the matter of wages, just as they did in 1917. The present action of the railroads is folly. It is deflation of the worst kind, and comes at a time when Inflation is needed desperately to put a sick Industry on its feet. PLACING THE BLAME TT would be well if every chamber of commerce in Indiana would give thought to the indictment contained in an editorial appearing in The Pittsburgh Press, a ScrippsHoward newspaper. It would be well if the officials of every chamber asked themselves the question, “Are we guilty of these offenses, In our frantic effort to win more business for our cities?” The Press editorial follows: We are glad to see chambers of commerce receive their proper share of the blame for the widespread existence of sweatshops in Pennsylvania. No organizations have done more to help establish these industrial outlaws in the cities and towns of this state. And none has fought harder to protect sweatshops from prosecution and to prevent their abolition. The shameful activities of chambers of commerce in behalf of sweatshops were explained to the Gallagher commission by E. Ray Enders, state labor inspector. Mr. Enders testified during the commission’s hearing at Shamokin, Pa., where it is investigating sweatshop conditions. “In all labor law violations,” he said, “it is necessary to meet the opposition of trade bodies as well as that of the offending manufacturers.” That Is a harsh indictment. Unfortunately, it is all too true. In many cases, chambers of commerce have actually induced sweatshops to settle in their localities. They do this by arranging for factory sites, by guaranteeing cheap labor, and by promising their assistance in the event of strikes and industrial disputes. Accordingly, the sweatshop moves in, sets up its machinery, recruits its labor and begins operations. And the inevitable abuses promptly follow. In time, these violations reach the ear of the state department of labor and an investigation is made. Immediately the local chamber of commerce goes to work. It protests against any attempts to prosecute the sweatshop operator. It tries to intimidate the local newspaper to keep the affair “out of the papers.” It uses its influence at Harrisburg in an attempt to have the state charges dropped. If the underpaid workers strike, a similar procedure is followed. The chamber of commerce does its best to stir up public resentment against the strikers. It charges that the strike is Communist-sponsored, a potent accusation that has crushed many a sweatshop strike. It influences the local police to intimidate strikers. Sometimes it even threatens to remove families of strikers from relief lists unless they return to their jobs. All these things actually have happened in various Pennsylvania cities and towns. And, worst of all, they are happening today. Not even the shameful abuses now being exposed seem able to change the attitude of chambers of commerce toward sweatshops. To the best of our knowledge, not one outstanding chamber of commerce has indorsed the campaign to abolish sweatshops and child labor. On the contrary, many, including the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce, boasted of the part they played In defeating minimum wage and maximum working hour laws—the sure remedies for sweatshops. Strangely enough, these chambers of commerce seem blind to the evils of the sweatshop. They can not see the damage it does to their own communities, even to their own businesses. Sweatshops mean starvation wages to workers and Cut-throat competition for business. And starvation wages mean reduced buying power by the public. And, of course, reduced buying power affects and cripples an entire community. . It hits hardest the very merchants, bankers, and industrialists who, through their chamber of commerce, protect such industrial

outlaws. CONTRACT MEDICINE A COMMITTEE of the American Medical Association, in session last week at Milwaukee. reported what it considers to be the ominous growth of privately exploited hospitals contracting with groups for medical care by the year. Non-medical corporations and individuals, declares the report, are “capitalizing to their own advantage the present hospital situation and the popular appeal for medical care at low' cost.” Stimulated by the financial stress of the depression, these group hospitalization organizations have taken hold in thirty-five states and in the District of Columbia. The association report speaks of them as “profiteering.” Apparently the report does not include in its indictment reputable hospitals which have set up plans whereby individauls and groups may buy medical and hospital care by the year at a low' rate. The latter type of service seems highly desirable. On the other hand, great possibilities of mischief lie in profit-making hospitalization schemes promoted and operated by lay corporations or individuals. The profession of medicine never should be permitted to be exploited in any such fashion. Clinics on the order of those of the Mayos and of Dr. Crile in Cleveland are admirable ih principle and practice. Low price plans for medical care by the year, operated by reputable nonprofit-making hospitals or by groups of physicians, likewise are highly desirable, especially in such times as these, when a large" percentage of the people lack means of buying medical care, while great numbers of doctors are patientless because of the poverty of potential patients. ♦ Substantial, professional plans for bringing doctorless patients and patientless doctors together to their mutual benefit merit encouragement. SOCIAL PROGRESS AT SHOALS COME of the by-products of the measures adopted by the administration to get the nation out of the red ultimately may turn out to possess a social significance hardly dreamed of now'. There is a little sideshow in connection with the Muscle Shoals project, for example, that sounds almost as if someone had borrowed an idea from Soviet Russia and turned It into a 100 per cent American proposition. Dr. A. E. Morgan, generalissimo at Muscle Shoals, plans to build a town somewhere near

the site of Cove Creek dam in East Tennessee. In this town, in new. modem houses situated on wide, pleasant streets, will live some 2.000 men recruited from the mountain towns and farmlands of the vicinity. They will be workers on the $34,000,000 Cove Creek job—but they will be more than workers; they will be pupils in anew school of Americanism, as well. Their hours of labor will be short, compared with the hours in big construction jobs of the past; and in their spare time they will go to school. They will be taught useful trades, such as carpentry, electrical engineering, masonry and so on. Their wives will be taught household arts; their children will go to model schools. Small farms and gardens adjoining their dwellings will enable them to raise a good part of their food supply. When the Cove Creek dam is finished, some of these people will go back to their mountain communities again—fitted for a new kind of life, enabled to live in the isolation of mountain towns and homesteads without being caught in the grip of provincial Ignorance. Others will remain in the new town to man the small industries which, it is expected, will operate with cheap electric power bought from the government. In all of this there is the promise of a venture that is nothing less than dazzling. We are to get not only a great experiment in government power production at Muscle Shoals; we are to get an example in living, a sample of anew kind of social order stolen from the future. There is to be anew kind of town there at Cove Creek, founded on anew theory, aimed at anew goal. It is perfectly possible that this plan may eventually turn out to be the most important single achievement of the present administration. EXPERIENCE IS NEEDED THE supplemental report of the congressional committee which investigated the Akron airship disaster contains one point which it seems that the naval authorities well might adopt forthwith. That is the suggestion that experienced dirigible officers be kept regularly in lighter-than-air duty, so that a permanent corps of veterans thoroughly versed in the handling of dirigibles may be built up. As things are now, the navy rotates its assignments in a way which requires the dirigible officers to spend a good deal of time on sea duty. Commanders Charles E. Rosendahl and H. V. Wiley, for instance, are serving on surface craft right now. If the navy is to maintain a fleet of dirigibles—as looks more than possible, in spite of the Akron’s crash—it would seem to be the part of wisdom to develop a group of officers permanently assigned to dirigible work. It is hard to see how complete efficiency In the lighter-than-air branch can be maintained otherwise. News that a pig was to make a parachute drop from an airplane at Baltimore doubtless failed to thrill lowa farmers. They watched pork drop for three years. A Georgia woman who has lived to be more than 100 years old says she never has seen an automobile. Probably that explains it. Returning explorer says cannibals don’t relish white men. because smoking makes them taste strong. That’s one sales appeal that the cigaret advertisers seem to have overlooked.

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TT was an interesting experiment that Prof. , . f W ; N Keliogg of Indiana university and his thpfr tned when they placed a jtuing ape with their own baby to make a study of the comparative development, but it proved nothing that a jungle savage could not nave told them. . f. 1 the ape learned faster and remembet u ter ’ When the baby had reached 18 months however, it began to forge ahead. It wul continue to forge ahead all its life. The fundamental differences between man and other animals lies in the fact that man’s growth does not cease until actual decay starts. ?n h thot lat f Ve *v. len^ h of human Wfe, compared to that of other life, has little bearing on this condition. and ele Phants live to a ripe old agf, but there is a point beyond which they can not grow' mentally. The elephant knows no more than he dirt in Adams time. Man has the pow-er not only to accumulate, but to transmit knowledge. Modern day Intelligence does not mean that we possess better brains than did our ancestors, but that we have been able to preserve and add a little something to what they know. * a tt IyTAN’S ability to acquire, store, and transmit * knowledge distinguishes him from all other creatures. So does his pow'er to deduce, to imagine, to combine tw'o or more ideas and develop anew one. Other animals change their habits of life only in response to the slow' process of evolution. Man can forestall and outstrip those processes, can reach beyond the bleak requirements- of necessity, and try things in response to no greater urge than that of amusement. Asa matter of fact, many inventions and discoveries were the result of nothing more serious than a search for entertainment or adventure. Play, especially in its more refined sense, has exercised an important influence on human progress. We say that a desire for trade with India led to the discovery of America, but the trade was in luxuries, rather than necessities; in jewels, silks, spices, and sugar. Jugglers were among the first to understand and make use of the principles of mechanical power. The Chinese employed gunpowder to amuse themselves many years before w'hite men employed it in battle. Poetry preceded mathematics and decoration came before sanitation. a a a THE power to imagine has been and will continue to be mans most reliable faculty. It explains why he has not remained stationary, why human life is different in the twentieth century than it was in the first, though bird life, animal life, and fish life are abcut the same. The physical being is circumscribed by narrow limits, and so is the instinctive being, but the imaginative being know's no bounds. Man may not be as energetic at 60 as at 16, but he still possesses the capacity to learn and dream. Not only that, but he' possesses the power to hand down what he has learned, to make it possible for the next generation to begin on a little higher level. That is the secret not only of his advancement, but of his right to hope for still greater advancement. i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TDIES

_ v „ ~ = "* ii ~ : : The Message Center : : I wholly disapprove of what you say and will de fend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to toO words or less.) By T. M. Overley. The letter designated as “By G. L.” in The Times of June 12 has come to my attention. We always are very glad to get responsible and intelligent criticism; however, w r e feel that this article is thoroughly misleading to Times readers, and while clearly evading liability for libel, nevertheless is definitely false in its substance. The article purports to quote United States Senator Brookhart. Asa matter of fact, if this anonymous individual will read the Congressional Record carefully, he will find that this is not the statement of Senator Brookhart. He will find that the only remarks made by Senator Brookhart a few days before his involuntarily leaving the senate, w'as his request to have published in the Congressional Record three pamphlets. The statements from which these quotations are taken are from these pamphlets that are reprinted. These start out and are labeled as “Briel and Argument by Clark G. Hardeman.” It is significantly interesting to note that immediately upon Brookhart’s being out of the senate, he becomes an employe of an organization o? which the managing director is Clark G. Hardeman. The St. Louis Better Business bureau has opposed Hardeman’s business operations and undoubtedly has interfered with them. The bureau is proud of it and should receive the commendation of their community for so doing. The Indianapolis bureau is proud of the fact that w r e turned over to the prosecutor's office in 1930 sufficient evidence in this connection for him to cause the raiding of all known local salary buyers or “loan sharks,” as they are called, and to put them out of business. You can not blame these people for being sore about it. The Better Business bureau w'ould not merit the confidence or its support in the community if it did not make enemies of such types of operators. A statement in this item quoting from the “Brief and Argument of Hardeman” is that “now they have become partners with big contributors from investment and advertising firms for selfish purposes.” I

IN general, ice cream today is safe, *■ clean, and satisfactory food, and the summer consumption in the United States is tremendous. In early days, ice cream was made with eggs and custards and had the disadvantage of including germ contaminations. The germs thrived particularly in the egg and custard mixture so that reports of disease due to ice cream were fairly frequent between 1397 and 1905. Up to 1926, a total of thirty-five epidemics traceable to ice cream had been discovered. However, one need not today fear infection from most manufactured ice creams. In well-regulated communities. the mixture is pasteurized before freezing and the process serves to kill the germs of typhoid fever, diphtheria, and even those of tuberculosis. According to David W. Horn, the first ice cream manufactured for wholesale distribution ih the United States was developed in Baltimore

IF you had prided yourself on being a progressive, it is somewhat disconcerting to be charged with peddling old-fashioned ideas. That’s exactly what has happened to me. A young woman hailing from Radio City calls me to account for w’hat she says are antiquated view’s on the desirability of fidelity in marriage. She thinks it’s hifeh time old fogies like myself retired from the public prints for keeps. Maybe she's right. But after eight years of hearing oneself * called a matrimonial trouble-maker on account of the championship of new theories, it indeed is startling to be dumped into the opposite classification and accused of retarding progress. Come to? think of it, I’m not so sure but that certain kinds of

A Good Old Nezv England Custom!

Ice Cream Clean, Safe, Satisfactory Food

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

This and other statements obviously mean that the Better Business Bureaus have been “purchased” by certain lines of unscrupulous financial and industrial interests to promote their own end, and that members have been protected by their payment to us. Our membership records are open to any proper inquiry. We . frequently have published the names of our members, arranged according to their respective lines of business. An analysis of our membership income shows that only approximately 10 per cent of our budget is paid by all financial institutions that are members. Out of this, all members interested in the sale of securities pay approximately 2% per cent of our budget and out of these we receive less than 1 per cent of our budget from concerns interested in the sale of securities, where sucli concerns also have any connection with offices outside of the city of Indianapolis. These records are available to any proper inquiry. Our books are audited annually by a certified public accountant, George S. Olive, whose reputation in this community we have not found questioned. We are governed by a board of twentyone directors, who represent eighteen different line;-; of business. This board meets monthly and we have not failed to have a quorum present more than three times in the last ten years, to my knowledge. These men are responsible executives, connected with some of the best and largest businesses in the city of Indianapolis, of their kind. They direct the policies of this organization and pass upon all expenditures. The statement which allegedly is quoting Senator Brookhart, but which in fact is quoting Clark G. Hardeman, that it would require days to enumerate the frauds perpetrated by better business bureaus, is an insult to public intelligence, and if this gentleman or any one else can give us facts rather than accusations of this kind, the writer personally will co-operate with him for the exposure and proper punishment of those who may be guilty. We are aware of the fact that crooked business is opposed to the bureau. It is entirely possible that

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hv;eia. the Health Maerazine. in 1851. The ice cream cone w r as apparently invented in time for use at the world’s fair at St. Louis in 1904. By 1915 refrigeration, pasteurization. and homogenization had been developed and the amount of ice cream used increased enormously. Although only a few states insist on pasteurization of the mixture to be frozen for ice cream, the necessities of manufacture have brought about the introduction of modern machines which insure to most users a clean and safe product. Much depends, however, on the ice cream purchase;-. The consumer should not accept ice cream served with a dipper which is kept in rinse water that seldom is changed and which is not suitably chlorinated. Investigations have shown such

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON'

progress ought to be retarded. At least, that’s the opinion of this human antique. Perhaps one grows less revolutionary as one grows older. Os this, at least, we may be sure, we do feel less cocksure about things, as the years pass us by. a a a That is as it should be. We must grow mellower with living. like apples that ripen on the tough. And what is life good for, if it does not teach us tolerance, kindness, and strengthen our faith in compromises? However. I’ll never be willing to admit that men and women can find happiness merely by running after it. Love does not thrive on demands, and demands, foolish, unreasonable often silly demands, are

in handling the thousands of cases that pass through our office, we may make a mistake, but it is unintentional. Too many people are closely associated with the bureau, or come in contact with us in the course of a year, for' us to get by with any such insincerity. We frequently request that mistakes be called to our attention, and W'e have a standing offer that any time we are called for a mistake that we will be glad to retract and apologize. It is safe to say that the anonymous “G. L.” either is someone whose “toes have been tramped on” by the operations of the bureau, or he is someone who innocently has, without investigation, believed some of the scurrilous propaganda broadcast by those w'hose business trickery has been made unprofitable by the Better Business Bureaus. Complete facts are available regarding this propaganda at the office of the bureau for ane one interested.

So They Say

We never have solicited funds because we were “dry,” and we never have refused to accept contributions because the donor was “w'et.”—Commander Evangeline Booth, Salvation Army. We take altogether too many young people of mediocre and depressing personalities, bury them for a few r years in a library, knight them Ph. D. and turn them loose on oncoming generations as libels on the fair name of education.—Willis J. Ballinger, former Smith College economics professor. The defendant was no more guilty than those who sold nearbeer as the real thing.—Judge Oscar C. Bell of Cleveland, in dismissing case against restaurateur whose beer tested above 3.2 per cent. I wish sometimes the idea people have that a man who reads a book Is necessarily doing something virtuous or valuable, might forever be exploded. It might be only his kind of laziness.—Ray Stannard Baker, Author.

rinse water to contain millions of harmful germs. Ice cream is safest w’hen it reaches the consumer in the original package. When it is ladled out or transferred from large containers to small containers by a person who himself is infected and unclean, there is greater likelihood that the user may suffer illness. Ice cream has benefited by the investigations and knowledge applied to all milk products, beginning with handling of cows. Sterilization of equipment, control of sanitary conditions in plants, elimination of carriers in cases of disease among employes in plants, pasteurization of ice cream mixes, are all problems of control by the health departments of cities in which the producers have their plants. Today, ice cream no longer is a novelty or delicacy. It is a staple food article of wide consumption and, from the point of view' of nutrition and health, a meet satisfactory one.

at the bottom of most of our present trouble of the heart. If individuals. want to play at pseudo passion; if they choose many marriages; if they like to think of love as a sort of will o’ the whisp. then I, for one, am not in favor of passing laws to prevent their doing as they please. But I am strongly of the opinion that this slipshod * and childish method won t get them happiness. A half a dozen love affairs may contribute to your feeling of sophistication, but they’ll never increase your sum total of contentment. Continence may w'arp your nature, my dear, but it never will work any more harm to yev than sexual promiscuity.

-JUNE 20, 1035

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. June 20.—1f I were a congressman (and once I missed it by a matter of only 40.000 or 50.000 votes', I would be pretty sore at cartoonists, editorial writers and regular newspaper men. The members of house and senate | have a just cause for complaint. The commentators have whipsawed them in their criticisms, in the early days of the session, when bills were flying by like wild ducks headed south, the cry arose that congress had abdicated its powers and endangered the fundamental theory of the executive and legislative functions. Toward the latter part of the session congress got its second wind and began to answer back and debate and make suggestions. But did anybody say. “Atta workin’i"? Practically no one. to the best of my knowledge and belief. The critics did a complete right-about-face and began to complain loudly that congress was a nuisance and should go home and not stick around interfering with the plans of the President. a a M Above Mine Run THIS congress, like many others. has done those things which it ought not to have done and left undone those things which it ought to have done. But there is some health in it. In fact, it has been a congress well above the American average. This is the faintest of all possible praise if you accept the conventional theory that congress is wrong always and a burden to the wellintentioned executive. George Bernard Shaw, who tries to say the unusual, fell into the ways of Main street on his recent visit and predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt certainly would fail because his hands would be tied by our cumbersome legislative processes. I do not see how any sane man can approve the rules of procedure which obtain in the senate. I have a lively hope that the day will come when the statesmen on the hill will learn that there is practically no subject which can not be covered in a speech of forty-five minutes or much less. Only recently a fairly bitter dispute arose between Mr. Krock of the Times and Senator Clark of Missouri, over the charge that the senator had come into the chamber to filibuster. The gentleman from Missouri replied indignantly that he had no intention of filibustering. He merely had planned to make a six-hour speech. The longwlndedness of congress is caused, perhaps, by the presence of too many lawyers in both houses. It might be an excellent idea to send more newspaper men to the national legislature, but I suppose that once the threat of the copy desk was gone, even these disciples of brevity might bask in the opportunity to word themselves. a u * Southpaw Eulogy THIS column started as a defense of the present congress, but I must note at least one more reservation in my enthusiasm for the current statesmen. Unlike most parliaments, there is very little cohesion among the contending forces. You can not .say In many instances, “The liberals voted for this measure, and the conservatives were aligned against it.” People change trenches with amazing rapidity, and if La Follette stands in one debate pointing the finger of scorn at Reed of Pennsylvania, the very next bill may find them buddies in arms. Aside from certain standpatters who know r every minute just w r hat they are about, very few senators or representatives have any such thing as a definite political or economic philosophy. Congress operates under the catch-as-catch-can theory. It is a great pity that there is not a single radical in either body. Even if there were no more than one or tw’o it would help enormously to clarify the legislative Issues. mum Poor Thing, But Our Own AS THINGS run. all kinds of personal whims and feuds may be the motivating force behind any specific vote. Congress is unwieldy; it is cumbersome; it is muddled. And yet I think that the lawmakers who have just gone home to take a rest by mending fences have done a job quite a little better than might have been expected. Some of the Roosevelt measures were hurt by amendments, but a number of sound and excellent suggestions were made. At least half a dozen intelligent addresses were delivered. There was a general disposition to work hard and to work with a high degree of celerity. A great many people believe now that democracy always will wail in any crisis. I’m not so sure. The last congress has raised my hopes. I don’t mean for a second that the legislative program which went through goes anything like as far as is vitally necessary. Still, it is rather useless to stand around expressing surprise and horror that a fundamentally conservative group of men has failed to authorize a radical program. Maybe it isn’t a compliment at all, but I do think that a distinctly uninspired group of men came pretty close to living up to their own best potentialities. tCotrvrisht. 1933. bv The Times) The Man BY KENNETH R. SHAFFER Angrily, He hurled away the mountain top, And cried. “Sing, child! I bid thee sing!” Easily the babe Picked up its own childish story Os milk, skip, and bitter quince Sung in its uncertain voice. He—the Giant. Lulled by the simple melody, Sank his head into the earth— Asleep! Ho—the Man! DAILY THOUGHTS And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 58:11. FAITH is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God’s treasurers. —J. Stephens.