Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1933 — Page 4

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MONDAY. JUNE 2. 1933.

BRING BACK NICKEL BEER T'vELEGATES to the Indiana constitutional convention for repeal of the eighteenth amendment will meet at the statehouse today. The convention will rank as an historic event for Indiana, but it is merely an uninteresting formality for most Hoosier voters. They are concerned far more with the question of the nickel glass of beer. With draught beer being sold in Ohio, Illinois, and other nearby states, the Indiana brew devotee can see no plausible reason for his inability to order up a schooner—and there is none. With the repeal convention conclusion, the last barrier roared by Governor Paul V. McNutt will be razed. He stated repeatedly that his main reason for opposition was that sale of draught beer would smack too much of the old-time saloon and probably react against the repeal movement. The repeal affair is over. It is time for the Governor or the courts to act. Beer in bottles, which at first sold for 20 cents, now is selling for 15 cents. Some brands are selling for a dime, others two for a quarter. If a twelve-ounce bottle of beer can sell for a dime, it seems that there is no tenable argument against a nickel eight-ounce glass of beer. This price will bring it within the reach of every one and will be another blow against the illicit traffic in home brew and hard liquor. Bottied beer already has done much for the temperance cause. The dealers in alcohol, whisky and gin admit it. The drinkers themselves admit it. Even the drys are hard put to deny it. Questioning of the customers in any place where beer is sold today in the city will reveal that many of them are “off the hard stuff” for the first time in years, satisfied that they are getting a good drink in the brew that now is on the market. And they will tell you of many others who have quit drinking alcohol and gin in favor of three-two. Draught beer will be a still longer step toward temperance and undoubtedly will add to the revenues which already are reaching a gratifying figure. If Governor McNutt has any good argument left against draught beer, let him present it now. If he has not, let’s have brew on tap, for the several good reasons mentioned above. THE COPS DO WORK A N irate reader writes in to inquire what a city policeman does, if anything, besides bawl out unoffending motorists, to earn his salary. To the casual observer, it might seem that the plodding copper does little to earn his pay, but just a slightly more than casual investigation will prove otherwise. Just for instance, looking over the police activities in the last three or four days, these matters, rich in variety, might be mentioned: Policemen wearing masks rushed to the rescue of hundreds periled by chlorine gas on East New York street last Friday. They risked health and life as the fumes spread over a wide area, loading victims into ambulances, holding back crowds, and evacuating residents in the zone of danger. Two policemen chased a load of calves which had escaped from a farmer's truck, finally rounding up the majority of them after a wild pursuit through city streets. Staged a baseball pool raid which netted slot machines, lottery slips, and thousands of baseball pool tickets. Beat the stork with only a few minutes to spare in a race to hospital with an expectant mother. Captured a sea lion which had escaped from his pool on Keystone avenue, after a scramble which led them over lawns, through sheds, and down busy streets, one of the coppers being bitten as his reward. Stood on corners with the temperature past the 95 mark and directed thousands of motorists safely through traffic. Trailed down a suspect who, they say, confessed that he had slugged a motorist who befriended him, causing a wreck in which the benefactor was killed. Posed for pictures with pretty girls for insistent newspaper photographers, answered a thousand and one silly questions, brought lost children back to their parents, kept burglars away from homes with their radio patrols —and then did the routine daily work for which they are paid, and not so munificently, either. So maybe the coppers may do something besides bawl out unoffending motorists to earn their salaries. JOBS ARE COMING BACK TJROSPERITY will not return without jobs. Stocks may soar, grain prices may go up, retail and wholesale sales show temporary increases, but better times depend on more jobs. The skeptical have scoffed at signs of recovery thus far manifest, but they can not discount the fact that hundreds of Indianapolis men are going back to work every week. The Chapman and Price steel plant, dormant for years, announces that it will put 500 men back in steady employment. Work for 200 men within the next ten days, with possibility that 500 will get jobs within ninety days, is the cheering word from the Utility Products corporation. The Schwitzer-Cummins Company has increased its force to more than 200 men and is running full time. The Puritan Bed Springs Company is working a force of 150 men overtime, in an effort to keep up with orders. The Hawthorn yards of the Pennsylvania

Railroad Company also gives an optimistic report, in that five days now is the working week Instead of four, with prospect that more men will be employed in the near future. Beer is giving work to more and more men, in breweries and the many other industries which benefit by its return. Jobs are coming back. They may not be the soft money, cushy jobs of the delirious days of 1928 and 1929, but they’ll put bacon and beans in the larder, and that’s good enough to suit any one who has been tramping the streets, hopelessly looking for employment, for the last two years. AN UNFAIR CODE 'T'HE American people generally will share with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, union leaders and social workers their concern over the omission of child labor abatement from the cotton textile industry’s fair practice code submitted to the National Industrial Recovery Administration. This omission is doubly disquieting. Since the hearing on the cotton textile code is the first, it will be precedent for other industries. It is unfortunate that this first code overlooks some of the basic purposes of the recovery law. These purposes include the elimination of unfair practices, the re-employment of idle labor, the restoration of buying power. What industrial practice is unfairer than the hiring of children? How better could adults be re-employed than by giving them the 2,000,000 factory jobs now filled by minors? And how can buying power be restored fully to industry weighted down by the millstone of children’s wages? e-*-The cotton textile industry is notorious for child labor practices, particularly in' the south. The 1930 census reveals that the production of cotton goods exacts the toil of more than 10,000 children of 15 years and younger. / Four-fifths of these children are employed in the mills of Georgia and the Carolinas. In an appeal sent to Administrator Johnson, the national child labor committee points out that 3.8 per cent of all cotton mill operatives and laborers in southern states are children under 16. Secretary Perkins and the child labor committee urge that the government accept no code which fails to forbid employing children under 15 or 16. “Aside from the humanitarian aspects of child labor and the detriment to health and education which premature employment imposes, the national child labor committee believes that a vital plank in any emergency program to relieve unemployment should be the elimination of child workers and their replacement by unemployed adults,” the appeal reads. The administration will have the backing of the American people, including the vast majority of employers, if it refuses to enshrine the institution of child labor in the fair codes for industrial recovery. U. S. SHOULD STEP IN T> UMBLINGS of trouble are heard in the coal fields of western Pennsylvania. Unless the government moves fast to set up a code of fair conduct for the coal industry, there may be widespread, industrial strife. Already several thousands of miners in the Pittsburgh area are striking for higher wages. And far more serious than this is the bitter dissension between the operators themselves. They are badly divided over the subjects of wage scales, unionization, and trade practices. Os course, these obstacles are not new. They have made the coal industry the worst managed and worst of all the major industries in this country. They have been responsible for the starvation wages, the long hours of toil, the company store abuses, and the other evils existing in the coal fields. But it is unthinkable that these obstacles should be permitted to the rehabilitation of the coal industry, at a time when such recovery is vital to the country’s welfare. It is unthinkable that selfish opera torg should be allowed to block enactment of a fair code of conduct, that will guarantee a living wage to miners and a fair profit to operators. Yet, that is likely to happen unless the government steps in and uses its power, under the national recovery act, to speed up enactment of a satisfactory code. HITCH-HIKERS ARE MENACE T T ITCH-HIKING is a growing menace which city, county, and state officials must join to curb. From a harmless method of traveling without cost it has developed into a deadly peril to motorists. Daily, from all parts of the country, come reports of holdups and murders by hitchhikers. Only a week ago a Lafayette man, doing a good turn to a street moocher, was slugged as he sat at the wheel of his car, a wreck following in which he was injured fatally. Not many months ago, an Indianapolis motorist picked up a hitch-hiker who shot him through the head on a lonely road. Holdups in this section of the state by “thumbers” are common occurrences. So wary have motorists become that .they will not stop to pick up even deserving travelers, and often pass up an autoist in distress along a highway because they fear a trap. Drastic action is needed to stamp out this evil. There are enough dangers on the highways these days without adding hitch-hiker holdups and murders, THE COTTON EXPERIMENT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT today urged the cotton south and the 2,000,000 cotton farmers in it to begin w T ith him and the federal government the first major experiment under the farm relief plan, which he offered to congress in the first place as a new and untried method of raising prices. This week these farmers must decide whether, collectively, they will plow under 10.000.000 acres of cotton, or otherwise not harvest the potential yield of 3,000,000 bales from this amount of land. Mr. Roosevelt has made it clear, in his brief statement presenting the plan to the south, that the success of the venture depends upon the farmers themselves If they co-operate in the first instance, they must continue to cooperate, policing the plan. If the south says "Yes!”—and this is expected to be the answer—something more than $100,000,000 in new mass purchasing power will be created there, for the government will lease the land taken out of cotton production. The city fellow, anybody who uses cotton, will pay this bill. We hope the plan works, that it actually raises prices, that it will be the basis for con-

trolled cotton production henceforth. At the same time, we regard it as a social blunder, almost a crime, to destroy cotton when thousands, millions maybe, are in need of clothing. Yet this is one of those heroic remedies that the Roosevelt administration is offering. May it restore the cotton south to economic health! A restored south will contribute to restoration of the entire nation. DR. AL SMITH TIIHEN Harvard conferred upon Alfred E. * ~ Smith an honorary doctor's degree it glorified itself as much as the immigrant’s son who holds a diploma from the sidewalks of New York. The ceremony was a true wedding of gown and town, a recognition that a man without formal learning has earned the highest honor in the gift of the country's oldest large institution of culture. Since government is honoring university presidents, faculty men and campus experts by calling them to service as never before, it is fitting that the colleges should return the compliment to government. And among the men who have made government scientific and efficient in this country none is more outstanding than A1 Smith. He has been a doctor of laws in a literal sense. Just the same, we hope that Dr. Smith will not acquire the Harvard accent. MR. TIIROTTLEBOTTOM 'T'HE doings of Mr. Throttlebottom touch bottom in the news, as government in Washington moves from Capitol Hill to its summer capital at the offices of the industrial recovery administration. Political dog-days find his activities described in a stick from far-off Uvalde, Tex. The Vice-President is leaving the home town for parts unknown. “I expect to be gone from Uvalde a great deal and, therefore, will make or accept no engagements for at least sixty days,” he heralds. Being gone from Uvalde is obscurity indeed. The fogs of London, the heat of Washington, the worries of foreign and domestic affairs bother him not. We suspect he has gone fishing. Who will envy him? His conscience is clean of any wrong (or other) doings, proof against worries that plague the great. At the worst he will be called upon, like Mr. Curtis, to deliver a commencement address to a junior high school class, or, perhaps, be doctored with an honorary degree. Have a good time, Jack, you lucky beggar. Most -workers are strongly in favor of the proposed shorter week—except the two allowed for their vacation. Lead pencil industry announces it will raise wages, because of better business. Perhaps this is due to the harder figuring people have to do these days. Sing Sing lists a circus contortionist among its convicts. Doubtless he has promised that he will go straight when he gets out. We always knew those cosmic ray scientists would finally get around to something practical. A Franklin Institute professor announces the invention of an “atotn weighing machine,” which is just the very thing for weighing our bank roll.

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IN the face of a French default and British maneuvering to stabilize the pound at too low a level, President Roosevelt shuts up shop and goes to sea. It was, perhaps, the most impressive gesture he could make. While European statesmen may be left in some doubt as to the workability of their own schemes, they can have no illusions as to the kind of man with whom they are dealing. He won’t even stay near the telephone. Quite a change from those chief executives who, while preaching isolation, were ready to stand on their heads for Europe’s good will. Disturbing as the change may be in London or Paris, it makes men on the streets of New York and every other American city feel a whole lot better. It has been a long time since they were quite sure whether Washington or some other capital was in charge of American policy, and whether this government was more interested in helping Europe or protecting American interests. A good deal of the depression is chargeable to the spineless, weak-kneed attitude which Mr. Roosevelt’s predecessors chose to pursue. Not only were they against “rocking the boat,” but they were steering a course which might cause the boat to rock. The slightest sign of a breeze or a little chop sent them into paroxysms of alarm. Playing on this susceptibility, European diplomats and statesmen have been busy with nothing so much as waving storm signals. tt n a FOR fifteen years westbound messages over the Atlantic cable have dealt with fear of what might happen in Europe if the United States failed to do thus and so. In the name of “splendid isolation,” we have waived claims to the tune of billions and lost other billions through the injudicious granting of credit. Asa reward, we have seen our trade undermined by excessive tariffs and currency depreciar.ion. While we have been foolishly idealistic, Europe has been coldly practical. It was entirely logical for British economists to assume that we would agree to peg the pound at a level which would give them a permanent advantage and that we would allow Europe to determine the value of the dollar. They are shocked that President Roosevelt should dismiss the suggestion with a smile and go for a sail. French economists are even more amazed that the second and wholly uncalled for default on the part of their government should be treated with such calm indifference. French journals headline the story in a deceptive way, announcing that the United States will discuss war debts with Finland, but not with France, and deliberately forgetting to tell why. tt tt tt FINLAND paid, while France did not. It is time that we recognized the distinction. Europe must not be allowed to go on assuming that we are hopelessly dumb and that there is nothing which we can not be persuaded to do through flatter> T or thickiness. It is time that we stopped confusing isolation with independence. If the dollar needs to be pegged, we should do the pegging. If tariffs are to be cut, we should insist on a fair break. If Europe wants to go on playing with armaments, we should let it take the consequences. The idea that we must act as the world's “fat cat ’ to save ourselves is all nonsense. So is the idea that we are bound to be drawn into any conflict that may occur and that we would serve our own interests by promising to participate beforehand, /

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.) From a More Fortunate One. This is a country of democracy, frre speech, free press. Oh, yeah! While on investigation at the city hospital clinic last week, I noted this with indignation: A hum of conversation (not loud enough to annoy any one) was going on at the seats where the people were waiting for attention or medicine. A woman sitting at the pharmacy window bellowed back at them in the tones some people use to herd swine, “Cut out the talk back there.” Free speech, free press. “A government of the people, by the people, for the people.” An old-fashioned ideal of Lincoln’s period. Lincoln said, “You can’t fool all the people all the time.” A noted man said no one has any more right to hurt another’s feelings by rude words than to strike that person physically. It is gall and wormwood for people to be forced to accept charity, without being so treated. One is not supposed to talk when waiting at the family welfare—one is not supposed to carry on conversation while standing in line at the trustee’s—your charity might be cut off. People are getting mighty tired of being treated as stock because they happen to be so unfortunate as to belong to the “unwashed horde.” Lincoln believed always in kindness toward all. In these days of poverty and hardships, the least we can do is have a kind word toward those who are already suffering. To add one more ache to their bleeding hearts is cruelty. Having a person dealing with the public in such nasty, offensive manner is breeding revolution fast. Such a despicable person should be removed. Courtesy costs no one anything. It is a stamp o: good breeding, and courtesy is very necessary in these days of fomenting and revolting circumstances. By Philip Lutz Jr,, Attorney-General of Indiana. To Warren E. Cox—Your letter of June 20, a copy of which was print-

FOR some years the public has been advised that infection at the roots of the teeth is dangerous to the general health and that such infection is likely to be followed by disturbances elsewhere in the body. The diseases most commonly seen are the rheumatic disorders, particularly the condition known as arthritis deformans; and also infections of the heart, infections of the kidneys and ulcers of the stomach. Disturbances of the thyroid gland and even infections of the nervous system and the genital organs have been related to infections in the teeth. Recently Dr. J. H. Arnett, a physician, and L. M. Ennis, a dental surgeon, co-operated to study the teeth and the general conditions of 883 students at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Os these students, 733 were found with caries of the teeth to some ex-

“'T'HE NATIONAL REPUBLIC,” a Washington (D. C.) magazine, which announces itself against “all subversive movements inimical to American ideals, traditions, and institutions,” expresses no small alarm at the student pacifist movement. ' Without going too deeply into the question of what exactly is meant by American ideals, traditions, and institutions, it is interesting to note that in this magazine, a least, they do no signify concord or international amity. Sketching through the current number, one gathers that our ideals, as “The National Republic” interprets them, are fist shakings at the rest of the world; that our traditions are those that proved so fatal to Mr. Hoover; and our institutions constitute a great army and navy.

Taking His Last Look Around!

: : The Message Center : : J== I wholly disapprove of w'hat you say and will defend to the death your right to say It.—Voltaire —-

Neglect of Tooth Decay May Be Costly

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : —BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Intolerable By G. L. 'T'HE Indianapolis Water Company, with its long drawn out hearing for increase of water rates, is becoming intolerable, because of the great expense to be paid by the citizen and taxed by this would-be super-government against the consumers of water, the staff of life. The technical staff of lawyers, accountants and technicians brought from New York and Chicago by Ransom, to guess at the value of Indianapolis properties, to squabble over the value of the willow bushes along the canal, to deny that two and two is four, does not worry over the value of their own services, to be squeezed out of the consumers. The water company is public enemy No. 1. It always has fought the public, while buying organs. It should be exterminated by the people by purchase at a fair figure or by condemnation. Th£ reconstruction finance program could be helpful for this selfliquidating municipal enterprise. The personnel of the water company is arrogant and abusive to customers.

ed in The Indianapolis Times of this date, has been received. It would appear from your letter that you do not understand the function of the attorney-general in a matter of this kind. It is my duty, as attorney-general, to defend the public service commission in any action which may be brought against it in connection with any order or decision it may make. In the case of the Indianapolis Water Company, the public service commission made a certain order. The Indianapolis Water Company, being dissatisfied with the order so made, filed suit in federal court to enjoin the enforcement of such order. As attorney-general, it is my duty to defend the order so made and to sustain the action of the public service commission in such federal court proceeding. Hence, you readily will observe

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIV Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hygeia, the Health Magazine.

tent. In fact, 10 per cent of the 27,000 teeth examined were found to be subject to some decay. Neglect of decay is responsible for loss of teeth in the vast majority of instances. In almost 20 per cent of the students examined, there w'ere found granulating infections at the roots of the teeth. Such infections can be detected with certainty only by the use of the X-ray. In an attempt to determine the value of the X-ray, the investigators tried first to pick out the infected teeth without this apparatus and then checked their observations with the X-ray. This study proved that half of the teeth with infections at the roots would have been missed if the X-ray had not been used.

There is announced, too, anew enemy combating organization, called the “Paul Reveres,” whose president, we notice without surprise, is a lieutenant Colonel. Yet these alarmists are, I fear, much in the same positions as the battlers against beer—their cause already lost. a a a QTUDENT pacifism is growing. The demand for arbitration as a substitute for war is increasing. And this is surely not strange, when we consider the body blows that platitudinous patriots have had from sundry investigating committees within the year. Do these impassioned Pauls now riding so hotly after their elusive “enemies” imagine that the college students are complete and utter

that it is not the duty of the attor-ney-general to apply for or attempt to secure reductions in utility rates nor to take sides as between the consumers and the utility except so far as may be necessary to sustain the action of the public service commission. The matters to which you refer in your letter might be proper in a proceeding before the public service commission to secure a reduction of rates, but unless such matters are admissible for the purpose of sustaining the decision of the public service commission, they yould be of no value in the present proceeding before the master in chancery. It must be remembered that the federal court has no power to fix rates in this proceeding, but that it is limited entirely to the question of whether the order of the public service commission shall be enforced or enjoined. If you or the Indianapolis Times has information or evidence which would assist in the determination of this question, I assure you that I will be most happy to receive and consider it.

So They Say

The university is a mating mill. It should be. With its beautiful campus, magnificient views, adjacent lakes and the opportunities students have to measure each others’ worth, why shouldn’t the students fall in love?—-Professor E. A. Ross, University of Wisconsin sociologist. Every person who consents to making terms with the Japanese is my inveterate and eternal enemy—Feng Yu-hsiang, China’s "Christian general.” I’ve been so busy living that I haven’t had time to formulate a philosophy of life.—Samuel Untermeyer, noted lawyer, on his seven-ty-fifth birthday. Dictatorships are inevitable. —Premier Mussolini of Italy.

Os 175 students who had infections at the roots of the teeth, five were found with rheumatic disorders or heart disturbance, forty-four distinctly under weight and twelve with disturbance of the kidneys. Incidentally, similar percentages were found among 708 students who did not have infections at the roots of the teeth, but it must be borne in mind that there are other sources of focal infection beside the teeth. It is quite possible indeed for an infection of the throat, of the sinuses or, in fact, of any portion of the body to serve as a source for contamination of other portions. This investigation served again to establish definitely the possibility of spread of infection from infected teeth, but even more important to show the necessity of X-ray in which there is suspicion of such focus.

boobs? Do they believe the boys will be ballyhooed to arms so that the money interests may continue their lush grazings? Shall we ask the lads to die so that the world may be made safe for the armament marfufacturers, the armchair generals, and the dia-mond-bedecked dowagers? Must the people starve while the armies and the navies of the earth wax fat? What sort of country, I ask you in all seriousness, will we have to defend when the common man has no security, save what he can get with bullets and no expectation except obscure and horrible death on a battlefield? All this jargon of the jingoists reads like a dead language. To our boys and girls, who are wiser than we were, it is without sense or meaning.

JUNE 26, 1933

It Seems to Me

= BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, June 26.—Charlie Mitchell has been acquitted. I don’t know whether to laugh or weep. I’m certainly not going to applaud. And yet I can’t pretend, with any honesty, that I was thirsting for the prisoner's blood. A conviction would have done very little to alter the state of society. And. besides, I never did want to see anybody go to jail. There is a school of thought which holds that guilt is personal and that a few stiff sentences vitally alter human conduct. That is not my observation. Sharp gentlemen of great wealth merrily go out and get themselves better lawyers. And get them earlier. It would have been cheaper for Charlie Mitchell to have hired Maxie Steuer two years ago. Os course, an interesting precedent has been established by the Mitchell case. In effect, the jury has decided he wasn't guilty, because he did what his lawyer told him he could do. If there is anything in the theory that guilt is personal, then it may be a good idea next time to indict both counsel and client. I hardly think it will prove sound to set lawyers up as fathers of confession authorized to pronounce absolution for reckless financiers. a a a Tears of Mr. Mitchell THE papers say that Mr Mitchell wept when the verdict was returned, and the American reports that “Steuer’s face broke into wrinkles, and he grinned impishly, like a boy who suddenly won all the marbles in the game.” Still, Mr. Steuer generally gets the marbles. That should be no great surprise to him. Nor need it be altogether a reproach. One of the things which undoubtedly moved the jury to kindliness was the fact that all of Charlie Mitchell's agates were in hock by the time he stood up to the bar of justice. Perhaps it will not be possible to draw any very vital social lessons from the trial. Maybe it merely proves that Maxie Steuer is a good lawyer and Charlie Mitchell a very lucky middle-ageed man. But I can not refrain altogether from hazarding a few theories and venturing a couple of generalities. Mr. Mitchell was tried by what is called a jury of his peers. In practice this would mean that the methods of a big—or formerly big—business man were subjected to the scrutiny of twelve minor entrepreneurs. In theory, one might expect that people who managed to get together the money to pay an income tax would be extremely bitter against any wealthy person who hit upon a scheme to pay none. To my great surprise, it hasn’t worked out that way. At parties and dinners I have been assailed violently by members of my own group in regard to my opinions about Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mitchell. And the challenge has been, “Wouldn’t you do the same thing in the same place?” I imagine that it is inevitable that the three-card monte dealer always will have an admiration for the man who sells mining stock. But I mustn’t change the subject. The answer to the challenge is probably, “Yes.” an tt Changing the Setup LET’S meet the exponents of that familiar adage, “You can’t change human nature,” on their own ground. And let’s say: “No, you can’t. Instead, we’ll change the setup.” I always have felt that, with a few striking exceptions, people are true to those roles in which their economic background has cast them. A certain set of circumstances will produce a Two-Gun Crowley and another a Charlie Mitchell. Putting the economic situation out of the -way is far more important than putting the individual in jail. There are no villains. It is easier to get people excited about some specific person than to rouse them against a system. We all want to think of the world in terms of Uncle Toms and Simon Legrees. But there isn’t any Uncle Tom. There isn’t any Simon Legree. They, too, are symbols of a certain position in the class array. nun A Negative Nosegay THE best which can be said in his defense is the same plea made for Mr. Morgan. It runs, “But he didn't do anything illegal.” I used to run into quite a different story, it was said in favor of the competitive world that certain men made great fortunes because they were peculiarly qualified to assume social responsibility. After getting the money together, they gave it back again, choosing the right soup kitchen every step of the way. But now I hear no more than, “They didn’t do any harm.” It isn’t good enough. Charlie Mitchell Isn’t going to jail, but I do hope that public opinion will see to it that this Isn’t quite a sufficient recommendation for putting him in the Hall of Fame. (CODvrizht. 1933. bv The Times)

Treasure

BY MARY B. MOYXAHAN Tis fairest when the day is young; While still so fresh, and sweet-new-born ; Its cradle draped in rose and pearl; Give me the lovely, untried morn. The time of day most beautiful, Is curtained round with cloth of dew— Before the folds are drawn aside, Disclosing some unwelcome view . . , The day has passed; but on the way, It left its footprints deep impressed; Then— heavy - burdened disappeared Along the trail into the west. O star-crowned night, the day has gone— With load of tasks—and happenings; Ah, welcome—thrice—thy gift of sleep— With brush of healing, dusky wings!