Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1933 — Page 12

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>•') WOW A# O Cn, Hijht and the People WUJ hind Their Otcn Way

THURSDAY, JUNE 22. 1933. NO RAIL WAGE CUT T? FFORTS of the railroads to buck the new ■*-' deal by demanding another and greater wage sacrifice of their workers whose ranks have been reduced disastrously in the depression apparently has been scotched. Joseph Eastman, federal co-ordinator of railways, acting upon the request of President Roosevelt, made clear to railroad capital that the government can not countenance the proposed quarter billion dollar gouge of raihoad workers while it is endeavoring to raise mass purchasing power in industry and agriculture. Whether organized railway labor agTees to continuance of the existing 10 per cent wage reduction still is in doubt. But whether it does or not, Co-ordinator Eastman should use some of his new powers to try to employ more men in the railroad industry. Upon his own word, bolstered by that of labor's spokesmen, the amount of deferred, railroad maintenace is immense. The method of financing this work so more men can be put to work is provided expressly m the public works law. If labor is to continue giving up 10 per cent of its wages, it well might ask managements to put back to work some of those discharged during the depression. That is a very sure way of raising mass purchasing power in the railroad industry. COTTON CONTROL r T~'HE fede al government next week will campaign throughout the cotton south for the destruction of planted cotton, for abandonment of 10,000,000 acres that will yield 3,000,000 bales of this basic commodity needed by the naked here and abroad to clothe themselves. This is the seemingly wasteful phase of the second great farm experiment to be conducted as part of the New Deal, to put buying power into the hands of the masses. There is something socially wrong in the wilful destruction of a basic product of the earth. But over and above this there is the possibility that this amazing program will result in higher prices for the cotton growers of the south; the possibility that they again will become big buyers of the products manufactured by their brothers in the cities. There is, economically, the chance that gTeat good will come of this destruction. For the individual farmer who promises to plow under or otherwise not harvest from 25 to 40 per cent of his cotton, certain definite bounties are promised. He may take an option on government pooled cotton to the extent of the potential cotton yield from his abandoned acres, and get this option at the present favorable price of 6 cents a pound. Then, in addition to receiving from $G to sl2 for each abandoned acre, depending upon its probable yield, he will receive the expected profit on his part of the pool cotton. If he does not want to join the pool, he will receive from $7 to S2O for each acre abandoned, again depending upon probable yield. # If 10,000,000 acres are abandoned, from SIOO,OOO to $120,000,000 will be distributed among these farmers, the money to be raised by levying upon the first processing of cotton a special tax of about 4 cents a pound. If the south accepts this plan, and all the rest of the country helps pay the expenses of it. something approaching prosperity may return to the cotton belt. But planning of cotton production can not be imposed for a single season, and then be forgotten. Hence, from the outset the farm relief administration should make clear to growers that this is not just a flash in the pan, to be discarded next season. Both the administration and the cotton south should know that henceforth cotton production must be adjusted to cotton demand. the lean years to be offset against the fat. Otherwise, the heroic methods now proposed probably will not be successful and not be justified. JAPAN'S COURSE IN CHINA TT has been the custom in this country for some time to hold up pious hands in horror over the things Japan has been doing to China. But Nathaniel PefTer, in a recent issue of the New Republic, points out that as r nation we have slight reason to be shocked about it all. Ever since the war, as he points out, China has been struggling to regain independence of foreign domination. She has tried to clear her soil of foreign troops, to get equal representation in the foreign-concession ports, to abolish the rights of extra-territoriality. We, along with European nations, refused to give her these things—on the ground that China was in turmoil and had no unified government. By so doing, as Mr. Peffer points out, we provided Japan with a perfect excuse for aggression in Manchuria. Jehol, and elsewhere. “When we enunciated the principle that disorder in a weak country justifies a strong one in invading it.” he remarks, “we laid the foundations of Japan's defense.” 14 TO 0 T¥7TTH three more states added to their ’ * mounting total, the repealists today stand unbeaten in a single wet-dry contest so far. Fourteen states have voted on repeal, fourteen states have turned thumbs down on the experiment which failed. In Connecticut the wets won by 5 to 1. In New Hampshire their margin was 3 to 1. And, significantly, in lowa, they beat the drys by a majority of 3 to 2. The total popular vote so far stands about 4 to 1 for repeal. The lowa battle was a truer test than even the otiler two doubtful states which have

Looking Backward at McNutt

CIX months have elapsed since Governor Paul V. McNutt and his “young Democracy” began to rule Indiana. In that time nearly all Hoosiers have become ‘ state government conscious.” If there are some who have not, they will before July 15. when they must pay the income or sales tax for the first time. Friend and foe will agree that the new regime has made the statehouse something more than a rest room or school for scandal. In his Inaugural address on Jan. 14. Governor McNutt promised action. Since then he has been delivering with speed that has given many persons a headache. Mores, if not morals, have been revolutionized under his leadership. Indiana has progressed from the most puritanical state north of the Mason-Dixon iine to one of the most liberal. Beer is here and the eighteenth amendment repeal was voted two to one. Credit for this belongs entirely to the Democratic party and largely to McNutt’s branch of that party. The Governor was the first to urge repeal, while the state committee never did come out openly and whole-heartedly. The few remaining Republicans in the senate at the 1333 session continued to snivel and follow the Anti-Saloon League dictatorship as assiduously as their party at one time followed the Ku-Klux Klan. a a a TI/fUCH hue and cry against the Governor 1 A has come from old guard Democrats. This group for years was content with being a minority and picking up with loud "thank yous” the few patronage crumbs which fell from the G. O. P. table. It is the “young Democrats” under Governor McNutt who have seized power and put across the liberal program. Criticism has come to them regarding the technique of their beer law. It doesn’t permit draught beer and creates monopolies, through importers, chosen on a basis of political patronage. McNutt opposed draught beer on the ground that it would bring back barrooms and handicap chances for repeal. He defended the beer importers as inexpensive tax collectors, and grew irate when it was exposed that the state excise office also was engaged in “bond steering.” That is, he grew irate at the expose, not at the bond steering business. voted, Delaware and Indiana. Superintendent F. hcott Mcßride of the Anti-Saloon League had admitted that, lowa was crucial. Tiro Hawkeye state has been a wet-dry battleground for 100 years, and until now had been regarded as the drys’ shining western star. An all-lowa emergency prohibition council sent scores of speakers into the corn towns. On Sunday hundreds of preachers turned their pulpits into political platforms. Repeal billboards were burned by dry fanatics. Tuesday's victories should hearten the repeal campaigners in next month's tests. The drys are making their last stand in the south, and hope lo check the repeal army’s march in Alabama and Arkansas in July. Repealists should be on guard against such desperate expedients as are being resorted to in Missouri and Ohio, where the drys arc trying to hold up elections by invoking the referendum laws against convention bills passed by big majorities in legislature. The United States can repeal this year. Any hesitant state should recall that repeal by Jan. 1 will save the country the burden of carrying for twelve months more the emergency gas, corporation stock, dividend and excess profit taxes just voted for the public works projects. Repeal will permit replenishment of the United States treasury by upward of a half billion dollars in revenue now going into the pockets of bootleggers and racketeers. INDEPENDENCE DAY’S TOLL /"VN the morning of July 5, unless this year U' differs from all previous ones, American newspapers will tell their readers of several scores of fatal accidents which took place on the Independence day holiday. A certain number of people will be killed by fireworks; more will be accidentally drowned: a very large number will die under the wheels of automobiles. Today each of those persons is alive, well and unsuspecting of his fate. Each one knows, if he thinks about it at all, that July Fourth will bring a number of fatalities to the country; but not one has the slightest notion that his own death will be on the list. And because none of us can imagine that these accidents can touch us personally, there isn't much hope that this year’s toll will be smaller than usual. That extra bit of caution that prevents accidents won't get used, in a certain number of cases: and a certain number of us, as a result, will not see the sun rise on the fifth of July. FORGOTTEN BANKS npHE Forgotten Man seems to have been -®- replaced by the Forgotten Banks. For instance, take the case of the Union National of Carnegie, Pa., as told in The Pittsburgh Press. On May 23, a depositors’ committee submitted to the comptroller of the United States a plan for reopening the bank, through repairment of its capital structure by a $50,000 preferred stock issue, which had been entirely subscribed. Yet to date the committee has* not been able to get a reply. Inquiry at the bank reorganization division of the treasury department revealed that the plan is still being “studied.” The Press’ Washington correspondent was informed that after adjustment of details, including further conferences with the conservator, the proposal probably will be approved. There is no defense for such delays. With the nation starting a tremendous drive to fur? nish employment and raise wages, no single move could contribute more to prosperity than release of the billions of dollars tied up in closed and restricted banks. For instance, the Carnegie bank in question contains 25 per cent of the town's total deposits. Hundreds of businesses and individuals have been crippled financially by the closing of its doors. Yet, when a depositors' committee took essential steps to reopen the bank and sub-

An Editorial

| His predictions that there would be plenty of 10-cent bottled beer has proved true, however. Taxes are another point of much criticism of the McNutt regime. Under his domination, : the 1933 legislature seemed to tax everything in j sight. It passed an intangibles tax law, gross in- ; come and sales tax, beer tax, all sorts of truck and transportation taxes, and finally put the driver’s license payment upon an annual basis. In return, it agreed to pay S6OO of teacher | cost in all the state common schools. —a o u \ S McNutt took control of the legislature in tax matters, so he did in everything else. The result is a fat volume of 1933 acts. Similar administrative dictatorship later was followed in the national congress by President Roosevelt. It also worked. On the economic side, the Governor's program has not measured up in liberalism to his anti-prohibition stand, nor to the advance made under the President and, Democratic 'party. His alliance with big utility interests frequently has been alleged and is reflected in selection of certain close advisors, such as Robert Batton, Marion attorney. McNutt appointed him as chairman of the new state banking commission. So far, no drastic rate reductions have come from his public service commission. aa ■ a 'yUTHILE yellow dog contract and anti- * * injunction laws were passed by the legislature, it also passed a law making it a felony for striking farmers to halt foodstuffs on highways. Another law abandoned the municipal elections for a year and was considered absolutely undemocratic. It was based on recognition of the danger of Democracy’s defeat at the polls, based on criticism of their program before it had a chance to work. The banking crisis gave McNutt a chance to exert leadership and Indiana has pulled thiough as well as any state. He did his utmost to aid in reorganization of the Fletcher American National bank. Many predict that his zenith of unpopularity has been reached in these first six months and he will retire from office leaving a record such as he promised during the campaign. mitted them in approved fashion to the proper authorities they had to go approximately three weeks without even the courtesy of a reply. The people of the United States were told by the government to stand by their banks. The government owes to them the duty of reopening those banks with all possible speed; or, if they can not be reopened, of liquidating them with the utmost expedition. Meanwhile, under plans adopted by the re-cently-formed national depositors’ committee, a substantial part of these frozen deposits could be made immediately available. It is high time that the Forgotten Banks be given attention. Wilmington, Del., man now is talking after eleven years of voluntary silence in which he said absolutely nothing. We know a lot of men who have been talking every day for the last eleven years of whom the same thing might be said. It is best never to be despondent, but the man taking his first airplane ride usually feels better when he’s down and out.

M.E.Tracy Says:

TF the average American were able to handle or h L, d Hv tS way the European governments are handling theirs, there would be fewer foreclosures and sheriff sales in this country Os the $144,000,000 due Uncle Sam last year most of it for interest—less than $12,000,000 w . a ® P a *d an< l that was paid in silver purchased at so cents an ounce. Os the thirteen debtor nations, only one paid in full. That one was little Finland. rea t Britain, Italy, and Latvia acknowledged their obligations by remitting a very small percentage of what was due. Czechoslovakia and Rumania promised to pay. The other seven— France, Belgium. Poland, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Hungary, and Esthonia—defaulted. This is probably the most scandalous default in human history, especially because of the crooked, oblique ways in which it has been brought about. B tt B FIRST, we were sold on the idea that European governments could not pay, unless we helped them. Aiter that, we were persuaded that they could ont pay, unless they depreciated their currencies or abandoned the gold standard. Right now, we are participating in an economic conference, through which these defaulting governments propose. to peg the American dollar at such a high price as will give them a permanent advantage in world trade. Under ordinary circumstances, as revealed by prevailing conditions during most of the nineteenth century, and the first decade of the twentieth, the pound sterling should be worth $4.86, while the franc should be worth about 20 cents. For two or three generations, these values remained fairly stable and represented what justly may be regarded as fair and workable. France, though pretending to uphold the gold standard, and though -possessing a gold reserve of mere than $3,000,000,000. not only has reduced the gold content of the franc by 80 per cent, but has paid us practically nothing on what she owed. England, by abandoning the gold standard. succeeded in debasing the pound by more than one-third. Dominating European policy as they do. these two nations propose a bargain by which the United States will recognize a debasement of their currency in comparison to the dollar. England wants the pound “stabilized” at $4. which is 86 cents below its normal worth, and France wants the franc continued at about 4 cents, which is only one-fifth of its normal worth. BUB WHAT have we to gain through such manifestly unfair agreements, what we could not gain by ourselves? On the other hand, what have we to lose? Getting right down to brass tacks, the United States government can peg the dollar without any help from other countries. Furthermore, if the dollar has to be pegged, I we would better do it ourselves and with an eye : to our own interests. | If this is to be a race of depreciated curi rencies, no international conference is needed. , and if European governments have it in their i mind to default, we might just as well let them j do it. The weakness of our present attitude is fear ; of another European war; fear that if one oc- ! curs, we can't keep out of it. j That is nonsense. We are not bound to j interfere with every row that occurs any more than we ever were.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less,) By a Postal Sympathizer. YOUR mathematician better take a correspondence course. I refer to your article regarding the reduction in salary of postoffid£ workers stated as a cut of 1 per cent. The cut is to be nine days out of the first quarter, which is seventy-two working days, and the cut will be between 12 to 15 per cent. Your- paper never has been fair in things like this, as you print very little about them and not all the news is contained in what you do print. Nothing was mentioned about the 15 per cent reduction now in force. By H. L. Sceger. The frozen condition of building and loan associations, caused by inability of borrowers to meet mortgage payment obligations from reduced income and wages, could be avoided largely if our traditional procedure did not bind us to absurd policies that destroy the very thing they are supposed to protect. Credits represented by association stock in shares of SIOO each should not be made immobile merely because the borrowers can not meet the obligations in currency to pay stockholders who need their credits represented by “stock.” Back of federal reserve notes are business obligations of the commercial world. Back of building and loan stock is the same type of collateral, except that it has even greater stability than business notes. If we could break with tradition, custom and precedent in times of Stress and face reality we ought to make this stock so that it would serve as a medium of credit in ex-

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name; ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.— St. John, 16:24. CHRISTIANS are directed to faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.—Franklin.

WITH development of new methods of investigation, physicians are beginning to learn more about relationship of the glands of the body to the functions of the various organs. It now is recognized that it is possible for the thyroid gland, by over-secretion, to drive the heart beyond necessity and, in that way, to influence most unfavorably cases of heart disease. Dr. L. M. Hurxthal has pointed out that many persons with heart disease could be restored to normal activities if the excess driving of an overactive thyroid gland were recognized and contolled. Sometimes the disturbance of the heart is so prominent that the relation of the heart condition to the thyroid gland is entirely overlooked. In such cases there is, of course,

HAVE you noticed the decrease in nervous breakdowns among the ladies? The general health of the American woman has improved tremendously during the great depression, and it is interesting to see how stout we remain through it all. The doctors and butlers have suffered, but the grande dames undoubtedly are profiting by a return to the dishpan and the floor mop. The truth is that woman's worst enemy is the social whirligig. I’ve seen strong and stunning ones crushed in a few years. Keeping up with the innumerable fads of a narrow social circle is twice as hard on the constitution as raising babies. The bridge luncheon in its heyday killed off more women than the washtub ever did. Cocktail* are

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Daily Thought

Thyroid Gland May Overtax Heart - BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN ? ...

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

Barring the Way!

Work and Smile By Frank L. Martins. THE time of anew era is here and its shining arrow-marks point toward one of the greatest prosperities we ever have had. Hence, let us take advantage of this coming prosperity, and make the best of the opportunity knocking at our door, again to make good in our respective duties by working intelligently, steadily and harder. Let us mend our faults, bury the hatchet forever, let us be true to our God, ourselves, and ever mindful of the duty we owe to our God. cur country, and our fellowmen. Let us cast aside all prejudices, all political differences and party affiliations, and, by all means, do not let us be narrow-minded any longer, and let us live in this beautiful Christian world. We are God’s children. Therefore, let us all cast aside our politics, religion, race or color, let us be all for one and one for all. Let us shake hands with the sincere feeling: “I like you and you like me.” Forget for once and forever the ugly word “depression.” In its place let us put the slogan, “think, w-ork, smile.” and then prosperity and happiness are ours forever. There’s only one wny to help yourself. Help end this “dying economical difficulty.”

change of goods and services, as normally that is the function of stock W'here the person saving money loans it through the association to the person paying for created value in labor and materials. This easily could be accomplished if the associations w-ould make their stock now’ represented by share certificates of SIOO each, to be issued in 100 §1 certificates that would be transferable by indorsement in exchange for goods and services. This type of transaction would not affect the value of the stock, because the borrowers who need currency to pay back their loans could use the stock in payment for their loans, after giving goods or services to the stockholder for face value, just as if currency had pr id for the goods and services transferred. Confidence w r ould be restored, busi-

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hyjjeia, the Health Magazine. the characteristic increase in the speed of the pulse. If the treatment is directed primarily toward controlling or reducing the excess action of the thyroid gland, the heart condition may clear up simultaneously. In certain cases the only way in which thyroid overactivity can be controlled is by partial removal of the thyroid gland surgically. In other instances it is possible, through cutting dowm the amount of fluids taken by the patient and by the giving of suitable drugs (including, on occasion, digitalis, which controls the rate and volume of the heart beat, and iodine, which controls to some extent the activity

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

harder on frail feminity than cooking. B B B SO the “back to the kitchen movement, necessitated by the slump and father’s bad investments, has been one of the finest things that ever happened to us. Right now many an erstwhile leader of the elite is enjoying a well-earned rest, frying steak and potatoes for the family supper. Multitudes of good wives and mothers have been saved from death by nervous jitters, brought on by efforts to fill the china cupboards with $350 a dozen service plates and solid silver finger bowls. Marathoning it after the Joneses is what put most of them in the psychopathic ward. |

ness kept going, savings accumulated and the stagnation of credit represented by the shares now' frozen be overcome. We here hold the key to opportunity. We need more common sense and less horseplay, more application of reason to a given problem than strangling procedure that ignores the requirements of modern needs. The financing needs of the future for acquiring homes demand that the channels through which this has been possible use sensible methods, or other channels will be created that will. The state should make this possible at once.

So They Say

Mr. President, w-e are back of you 96.8 per cent—but we can’t go the other 3.2 per cent.—Rev. Charles Oscar Johnson of Northern Baptist church and Dr. Monroe Elmon Dodd of Southern Baptist church on visit to White House. There is no such thing as the present; all is either past or future. —Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university. Vibrations of fine music put mysterious initiative,, resolution, and caurage into the normal individual. —Treasury Secretary Woodin, who is also a composer. Silly as a goose? A goose isn’t silly. It is one of the most intelligent of fowls.—Dr. Raymond Ditmars, curator of Bronx Zoo. I’m a southern gentleman, youh honor, and southern gentlemen never hit a woman—George P. Beck, formerly of Georgia, in defending himself in his divorce suit at Brockton, Mass. The medical investigator today takes all animated nature as his legitimate field of exploration. There are no closed compartments in nature into which man, animals, and plants can be separately placed. All are related organically and, as we may say, united physiologically and pathologically.—Dr. Simon Flexner, director of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

of the thyroid gland) to bring about a rest both of the thyroid and of the heart. In making his decision as to whether an operation should be done on such patients, and also the nature and extent of the operation, the physician takes into account many important factors. These include, for example, the weight of the patient, the patient’s age, duration of the condition, the extent to which the patient is overstimulated, and similar symptoms. Overaction of the thyroid gland tends to overburden most of the organs and tissues of the body. The person who is of hyperthyroid constitution is active, driving, dynamic, irritable, and altogether one who is living life too fast.

Then bonds depreciated, and so did egos. Swelled heads went out with swelled profits. The boudoir and the stuffed shirt made their exits together. Now while papa scrapes the cash drawer, mama scrapes the pots and pans, and both have better appetites. At least, we’ve seen a big turnover in feminine neuroses. *rhe things we fear now are the real things. And as we scratch around for bread and butter, we can understand how empty of meaning or sense most of our efforts used to be. It looks as if the breakdown in the family pocket books is the best antidote for the breakdown in feminine nerves.

-JUNE 22. 1933

It Seems to Me ==BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. June 22.—1 have not been asked in this year, or any other, to talk at a college commencement. but if I ever had the opportunity I think I would like to make an address about as follows: “Seniors of Ooffus university, you are about to be graduated into an extremely lukewarm world. The chances are that not. one of you will get. any decent sort of job for the next two. or three years. Now. what are you going to do about it? “Two tragic things can happen to _ a young college graduate. He may~ come to utter failure before he is" able to endure it or by some miracle he may strike sudden and unexpected success. “Possibly I will be regarded as a little whimsical if I maintain that the latter is perhaps the greater tragedy. In support of my position I will seek solace in Scripture, which has been often quoted at commencements. “I think it is true that it does not avail a man very much to gain the whole world and lose his own soul. And. after all. when I sp ke of unexpected success I did not quite intend to include all that territory. a a a Making It Too Easy “V\7’HAT I have in mind is that W the bright youngster of 21 or 22 who immediately makes his mark is almost certain to be dependent upon luck, influence or some showy talent. None of these factors is to be enduringly prized. Genius, or even good second rate ability, takes longer than that. “The man who succeeds fortuitously is apt to become convinced that he lives in the best of all possible worlds, or' something very close to it. He is likely to found generalizations upon happenings which are. after all, no more than a lucky turn of the dice. “But perhaps it is not. necessary to waste much time on these exceptions. The average man will find himself on the wrong side of a wall of joblessness and indifference. Nobody, as far as I know, has any next Monday morning remedy to save him from discomfort and actual physical suffering. The best, that any commencement orator can do is to urge him not to blame himself for conditions over which h has as yet no control. “A few voluble people still go about the world saying that the unemployed are victims of their own folly and sloth and that they easily would find work if they only wanted to. This is an evil thing, but it is much more evil if any of the dispossessed can be induced to believe such nonsense even for a moment. “I hope that college has taught you the undoubted truth that practically nobody fails without active collaboration. I would warn every one of you against the practice of self-examination and the recital of your own mistakes and shortcomings. ana Praying in Private “TNG not spend very much time in JLr searching your own soul, but try instead to understand the psychology of the group or class in which you belong. By the help of this process you will probably find that the thing which you mistook for a personal weakness or ineptitude is characteristic of most of your fellows in like circumstances. “College itself is a token of anew order of society. Though individual worth is recognized and encouraged, the rewards are not in terms of financial preferment. Every college or university is to a large extent a communal enterprise. In any educational institution worthy of its name and fame, an effort is made to apply the rule of ‘From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.’ “It is and very logical that the colleges of the world should be the places of inspiration for radicals and visionaries. In a rough and inexact way the fellowship of college is a working experiment in the practical possibilities of brotherhood. There are few places where the student who flaunts wealth and special privileges is highly regarded. B B B Our Communistic Elevens “ F? VEN the overemphasis on sports J—/ has in it at least the saving grace that the individual does his best not for himself, but for the team. And so it would seem to me that we might be much better off if alumni remained collegiate and sophomoric and did not swallow whole the standards of a world which is based upon a conception of human nature far more artificial than that which prevails in college. “I would not have you seniors of Ooffus go out to learn from the world. It would be much better to make the world learn from you. You are going into a community which is illiterate. Some of them can read and write, but the vast majority of your fellow countrymen are wholly illiterate, economically and politically. “Keep your heads up. Do not be patient in that state of society to which it has pleased the depression to call you. “Be skeptical of the authority of the wise men. Your professors, perhaps, were not so smart. The same will go for your bosses. “You can't make mutton broth of your sheepskin, but keep it handy, just the same. Don't take the world as it is. This is no impregnable line of giants. Call your signals and shoot a play off tackle.” (Convrieht. 1933. bv The Times) Red Clover BY MARY B. MOYNAHAN There's a call to my heart through the bright, summer day. From the cool green of fields where the red blossoms sway; And I’d go as a child—with my face to the breeze; Even sip of their nectar along with the bees. While a quail whistles low, In the height of his pride. To the timid companion, not far from his side: Midst the red clover blossoms, and ghosts of lost years, Until dewdrops are mingled at dusk with the tears. Hearing—ever—the call from the fern-bordered way, Leading out to the meadow where led blossom* swajrl