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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 38. 1933

THE STEPHENSON CASE D. C. Stephenson must serve his life term for murder. There can be no criticism of its decision when the action is construed narrowly from a strictly legalistic standpoint. Yet we believe that the court’s ruling is unfortunate. There is no doubt that Stephenson was an evil influence in this state. He deserved punishment and he has had it. There is no need at this late date to review the tawdry details of the death of Madge Oberholtzer, for which he was convicted. Stephenson undoubtedly was guilty of criminal conduct in connection with that death. But was he guilty of first degree murder? The courts unequivocally have said that he was. Technically, perhaps, this is correct. This newspaper was largely responsible for much of the evidence against him. Stephenson now says he has new evidence and the courts should have allowed him to present it. With the full knowledge that he was a thoroughly undesirable character, The Times wishes to ask a few questions about his case: Would he have been convicted of first degree murder had he not been the grand dragon of the disreputable Ku-Klux Klan? Would he have received such harsh treatment had his case not been loaded with partisan politics? . Did the fact that a number of persons were using Stephenson’s misconduct as a political springboard have anything to do with the extreme sentence imposed on him? The Times’ opinion of Stephenson is unchanged. Yet we must be fair. * Justice is bigger than any individual. It is bigger than politics. It overshadows any newspaper campaign. It should be passionless. It should deal equally with all classes of men. It is the very life blood of representative government. We believe that justice now is going awry in the Stephenson case. The man, no matter how evil he was, is becoming a political prisoner. Society rightly demanded that he be punished, even though that punishment resulted from one of the strangest murder trials in the history of jurisprudence. He has been punished. Let Governor McNutt, who is a liberal give this man a chance to present any new evidence that he has. Then, after the Governor has heard it, he will be in a position to judge whether executive clemency should be extended. But Stephenson should not be imprisoned unheard for the rest of his life. If he is, pure justice in Indiana will have been replaced by that ugly specter, persecution.

RISING ABOVE POLITICS ■pETTY partisanship has no place in unemployment relief work. The children of a Republican sufTer just as acutely when they are hungry as the family of a Democrat. Governor McNutt showed-not only common sense, but a high order of statesmanship, in recognizing this principle by appointing William Book, dry Republican, as the new state relief boss. Book has made a fine record during the last year as assistant to Fred Hoke, state unemployment relief chairman. "I gave him the full time job because of his having done the other job well,” said the Governor. That is real statesmanship. Governor McNutt has demonstrated that he is man enough to rise above the penny pitching politics of some members of his own party. Perhaps this is an indication that the state administration is recovering from its growing pains. The patronage is about all distributed. Now the Governor and his aids can settle down and give the state the kind of government it deserves. It may be that Indiana's chief executive now will follow the same high-minded policy in regard to the schools and the state library. Whether he does or not, there can be little doubt that Mr. Book will have one of the most difficult and important tasks in Indiana during the coming months. He deserves the cooperation of all good citizens.

A SECURITIES MONOPOLY Tj'ROM the admissions of Otto Kahn to the senate investigating committee Tuesday it appears that the monopoly in the vast banking field of railway securities is even more absolute than the public realized. Reports of the interstate commerce commission have shown that the railway security business is dominated by two private banks. Morgan and Kahn’s House of Kuhn, Loeb. But Kahn's testimony shows that not even these two are competitors in any real sense. He explained that the big bankers do not bid against each other in this field, but each keeps hands off the customer of another bank. This seems an ideal set-up to Mr. Kahn. Why shouldn't it? In trying to show’ that this system, by which a few big bankers divide up the business without competition is profitable to the railroads, Kahn cited the 1928 Southern Pacific case, in which Kuhn, Loeb. in an independent bid, went higher than earlier competitive bids for that issue. That was not a typical transaction and even in that case Kuhn, Loeb paid less than the price which the Southern Pacific received a year earlier from competitive bids. I. C. C. reports indicate that in the period 19.15-1931 the so-called • spread, or bankers' gross profit, on railway equipment trust certificates was cut 75 to 80 per cent by the competitive bidding method. In the same period the bankers’ profit from railway bond issues

dropped only 15 per cent with the noncompetitive system. The farther this senate investigation goes into the banking maze, the more apparent is the need for getting to the bottom of it. Counsel Pecora and his staff are doing brilliant work, but many weeks of poring over the bankers’ books and files will be required to see this thing through. Wisely, the senate committee recessed the Morgan hearing when new angles developed on which the investigators needed more time for study. Obviously the sessions planned for this week, can no more than scratch the surface of Kuhn, Loeb activities. * If the senate committee does not want this investigation to be merely another Pujo flash in the pan, it will take time to do a thorough Job. Much more is involved than expose of bankers’ lack of intelligence and lack of trustworthiness in handling other people’s money. The real object of this investigation is much more fundamental than spectacular. It is nothing less than the formation of laws to make the government at Washington supreme over the power of Wall Street.

DOLLAR WHEAT "TVOLLAR wheat has much more behind it than speculation. To that degree it is healthier and means more to business recovery than the unwise Wall Street boom in certain industrial stocks which again are selling beyond their earning capacity. Doubtless there is a speculative factor in the sudden and rapid rise of grain prices. Some are gambling on the possibility of further monetary inflation and a continued fall of the dollar on foreign exchanges. But that is not the chief factor. Three other forces are operating: Farm prices properly reflect the increase in industrial activity of the last month, and the virtual guarantee of larger urban purchasing power through the minimum wage-maximum hour codes of the national industrial recovery administration. At the same time, the farm relief administration plan for future wheat crop restriction promises a smaller surplus to depress the market. Finally, nature is cutting down the supply; vast areas in the grain belt of the middle west are being burned by heat and drought. This last factor, which probably has a larger effect in lifting the market than any other, will not bring permanent farm relief. On the contrary, it may make permanent :e----lief more difficult. For, in the past, lean crops resulting in higher prices always have encouraged short-sighted farmers to overplant the following year and thus drive prices lower again. Therefore, while dollar wheat is encouraging to general business, which is dependent upon increased farm buying power, the need for the administration’s domestic and foreign crop reduction program is greater now than ever.

NEW FRONTIER CHALLENGES ONE of the reasons why America always came out of its nineteenth century depressions so completely was that it always had a frontier awaiting development. When industrial stagnation in the east had reached a certain point, the country could turn west, roll up its sjeeves and proceed to pull another section of the frontier into the fold; and before it got through, it discovered that the depression was gone. No one needs to be told today that the old frontier is no more. We haven’t any vast undeveloped spaces along the western horizon any longer; none, at least, that we can use just now^. But we have anew frontier these days, if we only stop to recognize it, and it can serve us today precisely as the old western frontier served us a generation or two ago. Our new frontier is less tangible than the old ones, and you won’t find it on any map. It includes practically all of industry and nearly all of agriculture.’ The pioneers who are attacking it are the workers, the farmers and the business meh of the United States—their map—still a bit rough and uncertain, in spots—is the combined industrial recovery and farm relief program. It isn’t just a figure of speech to say that all this stands as a new' frontier. The old, physical frontier represented an obstacle to be conquered, new paths to be found, jobs to be filled, daring decisions to be made—with anew space in w r hich men and women could establish homes, bring up children and hunt for happiness as the prize. This new frontier represents exactly the same thing. It is a challenge, just as the old one was, to our daring, our ingenuity, and our endurance. Beyond it there lies nothing less than anew order of living, waiting to be exploited. The possibilities are as unlimited as any that an early pioneer saw when he climbed an unexplored mountain peak and looked off to the west. The present moment is the end of a depression. but it also is something more important; it is the beginning of anew era. The future can be finer than anything in our past has been, if we just recognize our new frontier and tackle it as a frontier should be tackled. SAVE THE SCHOOLS 'T'HE National Education Association just A has issued a report describing the effects of the depression on the American public school system. The picture resembles the wake of a cyclone. Returns from forty-two states indicate that 2.269 schools in eleven states were closed before March 1 of this year; many of them had no prospects of reopening this fall; approximately 100 city school systems reduced their terms this year by twenty or more days; many more rural schools shortened their terms by thirty or more days. In 1926 the United States spent $2,026,308,190 to educate 24,741,358 children in public schools. This year it is spending only sl,961,900.000 to educate 26,526,700 pupils. Before 1930 we were spending about $400,000,000 annually for school buildings, sites, and equipment. This year we are spending only $154,000,000. With building virtually suspended, it is estimated that 250,000 children are attending on a part-time basis and 150,000 *re

being housed in temporary or portable shacks. There has been delay in building 4,000 needed rural school buildings, and about 18,000 rural school districts are failing to make necessary repairs. Sale of text-books has dropped 30 per cent since 1930, and some 17,000 rural schools are operating with improper equipment. In 50 per cent of city schools, educational services have been curtailed. Such sendees as health, music, art, manual training, physical instruction, and home economics are suffering most. Night schools, Americanization classes, and kindergartens have been hit heavily. These are somber statistics. They reveal a singular lack of vision on the part of public servants. The federal government is making available to states, cities, and rural communities some $2,000,000,000 in loans for public works. Here is opportunity for depressed localities to rebuild their educational plants and open their schools on a normal basis this fall.

BURNS FOR BEER 'T'HE city of Akron (O.) has lifted its anti- -*■ fireworks ordinance. A councilman proclaims that the people should be permitted co celebrate the return of prosperity and beer. Burns and lockjaw in the glad name of better times and the foaming mug. At the same time directors of health all over the country send bulletins that “many powder burns incurred on the Fourth lead to tetanus and result fatally during the next two, three or four weeks. Also, there are at least 100-non-fatal injuries for each fatal one, and many of these injuries are so serious as to disable the victim permanently. “Get medical first aid at once, for fireworks injuries, no matter how trivial. Fireworks destroy eyesight, cause lockjaw, mangle fingers and hands, and cause cripples for life.” An awful risk to take for a little explosive celebration of beer and return of prosperity, it strikes us. Our notion is that Ohio municipalities will stick to their anti-fireworks ordinances.

TOO MUCH CREDIT IS BAD SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ROPER’S assertion before the National Association of Credit Men that unwarranted credit expansion is ‘‘an erosive influence” which must be eliminated before real prosperity can be restored is a very timely and valuable warning. It could be argued very plausibly that a leading reason for the collapse of our last boom was the fact that too many people had been persuaded to live beyond their means. It was too easy to go into debt, too easy to buy something now' and pay for it next year; nations, corporations, and individuals all suffered, and still suffer, as a result. Billions of dollars’ worth of foreign bonds, sold in those easy-credit years, today are practically worthless. Many a business and many a person would have come through the depression in fairly good shape if it had not been for the load of debt that had to be carried along. All this does not mean that the right kind of credit should not be available. It simply means that we shall pile up new troubles for ourselves if we go back to the slipshod, free-and-easy ways of the past. Government weather forecasters, says an authority, are correct 80 per cent of the time. A large part of the 20 per cent, w'e take it, is when they predict “Cooler weather tomorrow.” Girl tennis star declares short pants are healthful. That’s funny; our doctor always advised deep breathing.

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THEY have brought a Negro up from Haiti to be examined by American scientists. His skin is said to have turned white after he ate a certain kind of nut. He ate the nut to cure a persistent case of asthma. It is described as an “old family remedy,” to which he resorted after a long and futile experience with modern curatives. If this is so, many of his ancestors must have tried it. Why didn’t their skins turn white? The nut is variously named “oury” or “ouary,” in newspaper reports of the case. I have been unable to find out anything about it under that name in such reference books as the Century dictionary, Encyclopedia Brittanica, or Bayles Cyclopedia of American Horticulture. This is not surprising. Miracles are not produced by well-known nuts. Be that as it may, Ysneond Dauphin comes to us not only asserting that, though w'hite today, he lived as a black man for 58 years, but with documents to prove it. He says that the weird transformation came about after a fiveday whirl with oury nuts, that they made him very ill, even causing partial loss of sight, that when he recovered he not only found himself rid of asthma, but a white man. He says that this was apparently due to a shedding of the skin, which occurred some time after he ate the nuts. tt tt tt HAITIAN medical authorities have looked up the case and are satisfied with its authenticity. They do not pretend to know', however, whether the result should be attributed to the nuts or to some constitutional peculiarity of Dauphin. Cases of skin shedding have been reported by physicians, but this is the first one on record in which a Negro turned white. In 1881, Dr. Preston of Canterbury, New Zealand, told of a woman who shed her skin every two weeks from the age of 7. She was 67 years old at the time. Her skin would come off in large separate sections; sometimes in an unbroken piece, like a glove, or a stocking. Ten years later, Dr. Frank reported a someW'hat similar case in which the skin had been shed on July 24 each year for thirty-three years. In volume 49 of the “Philosophical Transactions” is recorded the case of a miller, 35 years old, who w r as subject to periodic skin shedding. When exposed to cold, he w T ould be attacked by fever, with pains in the head, back and limbs, furred tongue, great thirst, etc. Then the whole surface of his body would become yellow, growing florid later on. For several days he would be nervous with intermitten periods of numbness and tingling. About the third week after the attack began, the skm would begin to raise in spots as though by blisters and peel off. Gradually he would recover and go back to work. tt b a NO doubt all such anomalies have a definite meaning if we only could discover it. While some of them obviously are due to exceptional conditions, others have no apparent cause, except constitutional eccentricity. Just what constitutional eccentricity we do not know. It may have a profound bearing on the mere obscure processes of evolution. At any rate, it is worth studying. Meanwhile we must not forget that an anomaly or a miracle can be and that science constantly is confronted with the task of discovering whether a case is genuine before it gets too excited over the cause.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to Zoo words or less.) By Charles H. Krause Sr. While not a believer in Socialism in its entirety, only where competition can not be had, as in the case of public utilities, the writer voted the Socialist ticket as a protest against the two old parties. W. H. Richards writes: “Let the machines be owned by the people collectively.” Now as such things as are produced by the individual should be regarded as private property, how w'ould he acquire the machine for public use? The labor expended in producing them has been paid for at least in part and w'hile the laborer has not been given the full equivalent in many cases, how' w'ill it be determined to what extent he has been taken advantage of? How shall w r e proceed to socialize the machines? By purchase or by confiscation? There is another avenue open by which the people can get control of the source of supply, the land and all natural resources, w'hich naturally belong to all, and that is to abolish all taxes on improvements and all products of labor, for these are all shifted to the consumer, and concentrate all taxes on the value of land and natural resources, thus compelling such to be put to use. This w'ould open an unlimited demand for labor and solve the problem of unemployment. Capital is suffering today as well as labor, but while capital is diminishing and receiving no return, w'hat is much worse, labor is deprived of its inherent right to subsist. Both are suffering for want of an outlet. Unscrupulous capital could not oppress labor if it were not for the monopoly of land, land speculation, and the control by the few of natural resources. These have destroyed healthy competition, which is essential not only in business, but in politics and religion. By destroying competition, we are heading toward dictatorship. Let us bew'are that we do not jump from the frying pan into the fire, but keep alive individual initiative.

ONE of the exhibits at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago is a concession in which the exhibitors have collected a remarkable series of cases of skin disease. One of these exhibits includes two cases of what skin specialists call cutis elastica. It is a condition in which the conceptive tissue of the skin has disappeared due to a constitutional disorder, allowing the skin to be exceedingly elastic so that the victim easily may be called an “India rubber an.” It is possible, in these cases, to stretch the skin eight or ten inches and then to let go of it so that it flips back. In the cases shown, however, the skin already has been stretched so often that it hangs down in long folds. There is also a case of ichthyosis, or so-called “fish skin” disease. The man exhibited has a skin

Tp XTREMES never are normal and generally bad. Therefore, the fight waged by some members of the younger generation against oldfachioned sentimentality is a fight in a worthy cause, but when carried beyond bounds it endangers its purpose. Let me quote from & letter written by a young married woman who has suffered and seen relatives suffer from maternal possessiveness. ’Tf.” she says, “mothers are full of tears and heavy love and they talk too much about the proverbial aching arms, the children reflect that sentimentality and it only makes the shocks that come later in life harder to bear. And they have to fight it so, for you know in the material side of life there is no room for sentiment.” Ko, I do not go so far as that.

Another Wet and Dry Argument Rages!

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Skin Diseases Produce Human Monstrosities - ■ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN j— - ■

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Low Wages? No! Bv R. Sprunrer. TN Saturday’s issue of The -*• Times, a writer to your column congratulated Will Craig for his article in last Monday’s Star. I see no reason to congratulate a man who is for starvation wages and downing the workingman. A banker like Mr. Craig should know better. Wake up, Mr. Brown, and get wise to yourself. You are sadly out of step. The way to real prosperity is to fcut the large profit of the big fellow, control production, spread employment, reduce working hours, and achieve a more equal balance between wages and cost. The worker has as much right to luxury and life as has the wealthy class. As to the farmer give the consuming public plenty of purchasing power and that will take care of his produce so he can purchase his needs.

By W. H. Richards. A letter in your message column Saturday gave another brilliant (?) suggestion for getting out of the chaotic condition of industry. The writer suggests that all wages be cut to 25 cents an hour. He says pay two men 25 cents an hour instead of one getting 50 cents. By this means he would produce twice as much wfth the same labor cost, giving the whole product to the owmers of the machines, who already have surplus goods piled up that they can not sell. He says put everybody to w'ork at sl2 a week. With the hundredfold output of machinery over human hands, with everybody working there would be more produced than the whole w'orld could use and the workers w'ould be unable to buy it. The whole trouble is that the workers have received too little for producing too much. With each, w'orker producing $lO w'orth and getting but $2 there must be a surplus of both w'ealth and poverty. Wages always have been adjusted to conform to the bare cost of living, when they should have been advanced to conform to the greater

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. which appears like the scales of a fish. Most authorities agree that this disease is inherited. There are records of seven Norwegian families in which the disease occurred frequently. Another of the exhibits is a patient with elephantiasis of the legs. This condition occurs principally in tropical countries. An unusual parasite gets into the channels which drain the lymph from the body and causes a thickening of the tissues, due to lack of drainage of this material. The patient at the exhibit iscalled “the man with the elephant legs,” and should be recognized as a case of disease, rather than an extraordinarily abnormal human being.

It seems to me that all our activities, even the most scientific, are imbued with sentiment. And having fought valiantly against the insidious menace of sentimentality, still I am glad this is so—or that it seems so to me. Without sentiment, even sentimentality, if you will, life would be cruelly hard, too hard to bear. And though we resent and deny the charge, each of us cherishes a pet emotionalism to which we are slaves. It often is difficult for us to recognize these as such, because we so easily can justify it in our own minds. QUITE the most fatal result of the excess of love in which many mothers have indulged is that it has made our young people overly cautious, even cold.

output as machinery multiplied man’s productive power. Labor-saving machinery never has saved labor one hour nor eased a backache. All the benefit, has been grabbed by the few multi-million-aires who own and control it and permit it to run only as they can make profits. A six-hour day and five-day week, with minimum wages of 60 cents an hour for unskilled and $1 an hour for skilled labor may pull us out of the mess that capitalist greed has plunged us into and enable the capitalist system to go on a few mere years until the next depression. But why have depressions? All means of manufacture and distribution of products owned by the government and operated for the good of all, with private profit to none, forever would abolish depressions with poverty and its natural offspring, crime and disease. This change must come either by the well-studied plan of Socialism, or by the violent upheaval of Communism with the establishment of a dictator. The American way should be the sensible one, as proposed by the Socialists.

So They Say

Fashions in freaks change, the public taste being what it is, and just now Siamese twins are at a discount; people have seen enough of them.—Clyde Ingalls, circus sideshow manager. My opposition to the dole is not because of the money it costs—that is a minor matter. It is the insult which the most efficient country in the world hands to men who want to work.—Henry Ford. People still patronize doctors more than patent medicine salesmen because they can stall on doctor bills. —Dr. J. Cramp, director of investigations for American Medical Association. The power and prestige of the Democratic party ha§ developed with increasing militancy ever since women were given the right to vote. —Postmaster-General Farley.

Another of the strange cases exhibited is a woman whose lips have developed-so that they are exceedingly thickened, giving her face a somewhat horse-like appearance. Especially interesting is a case of vitiligo, in -which pigment disappears from the skin irregularly, giving the person who suffers from this disorder a leopard-like appearance. The fantastic vocabulary of the side show labels such curiosities as “leopard-men,” “tiger-women,” “dog-faced-boy,” or “mule-faced-woman,” realizing that such designations take from the diseases exhibited some of both the horror and pity with which they usually are viewed. In every collection of this character, whether in side show's or circuses or in freak exhibits generally, the physician finds much of interest, because practically all of the persons exhibited represent cases of unusual disease or monstrosities at birth.

There can be no denial that many women have been cowards about life. They have clung to their children and cluttered up their existences with littered affectcions. But that’s no reason for abandoning all sentiment, and hating all softness. There is a safe middle ground for which we must search. Careers, ambitions must not be crushed on either side. But as life goes on, w T e learn w T e can not ever really be free from certain human responsibilities and loves. We can not say “I owe no duty to another.” For we do, we always will, and my guess is that we would be even more unhappy than we are, if we could extricate ourselves from all such bonds. Freedom is an alluring word, but sometimes it echoes in a vast surrounding emptiness. 'm

.JUNE 28, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. June 28. The fusionists in New York City have begun to tear their hair and cry out piteously that there is no hope. They seem intent on mourning the fact that several pleasant gentlemen who most certainly would have been cut to pieces at tile polls shrewdly refused to make the run for mayor. These original proffers and refusals and. indeed, even the ballet of black despair have served a useful purpose. The preliminaries being ended, it is .ime for the star of the show to make his entrance and for the enemies of Tammany to get to work. Step forward Fiorello; the orchestra has been vamping long enough. The trouble with most of the names stressed so far is that some of them wouldn’t run verv well and that others would be no great bargain if they did. La Guardia has been scrupulous m allowing the favorite sons to have their chance, and now he should announce his platform, his candidacy and his program. a tt a This Isn't 1929 IT will be argued by some chat La Guardia met a crushing defeat when he ran against Jimmy Walker in 1529. But it must be remembered that a great deal of graft has flowed under the bridge since then. In 1929 New York wanted Solomon in all his glory rather than Jeremiah and his lamentations. I think the city of New York ought to have a chance to make a complete right-about-face in atoning for its stupidity in 1929. Some felt four years ago that certain charges of La Guardia against his opponent were wild and reckless. But every prophecy and every accusation have been proved. Surely La Guardia has no reason to be ashamed of his part in the 1929 campaign. He can take up where he left off. And his candidacy should offer a haven to prodigal sons, burnt children, and the suckers who never got an even break. Nor is La Guardia that pale sort of person called “a reform candidate.” 'He is undeniably a radical and a man with a definite economic point of view. I do not suppose he will be acclaimed wildly by either bankers or big business men, but in the regions to the left he should have united support all the way up to the ramparts of the Communist party. Naturally and quite logically a party dedicated to dogmatic revolutionary technique would have to reject La Guardia just as fiercely—pei haps a little more fiercely—as any one outside the ranks. But I do think that La Guardia deserves and might very well obtain a large portion of the not inconsiderable Social vote in New York City I think that it would be a grave mistake for Norman Thomas, for instance, to run against him.

Some Refugees TN the 1929 race Norman Thomas J- polled the largest Socialist vote obtained up to that time. I do not a vote Particularly useful to the radical movement, because it w'as drawn to a large extent from disgruntled Republicans who preferred a Princeton man to an Italian. La Guardia once said half-joking-was too radical for a lot of the Republicans, and so they voted for Norman Thomas.” But it isn't really a joke. I not only hope, but believe, that La Guardia would go just as far in such matters as municipal housing and transit and education as any man the Socialist party could offer. 1 said the other day that any candidate for mayor who would have a chance for victory or deserve a chance must be one who would concentrate on the problem of evictions and joblessness and relief. I think La Guardia would be such a mayor. New' York has lagged behind the nation in appreciating the ability of Fiorello H. La Guardia. Washington correspondents are hardboiled, cynical, grudging of praise and almost invariably radicals at heart. Who wouldn’t be a radical after long years of close observation of the Democratic and Republican parties? These men were all in agreement that La Guardia was the most fearless and useful member of the house. La Guardia is, if you like, guilty of one heresy. It has been his usual practice to run under an independent and a Republican designation. He is, as a matter of fact, about as niuch a Republican as William Z Foster. I am not for the practice of clinging to labels in this manner, but it must be pointed out that La Follette, Norris and practically all the insui gents have done it on many occasions. _ . b a a Tammany Plus T THINK that La Guardia can beat -*■ Tammany. Undeniably that is something, but it is a good deal less than enough. La Guardia is better than that. He can begin the creation of anew city out of the mess of misery and slumdom which surrounds us. He can eliminate the arrogant asses W’ho control education and cut the graft from city departments. He can protect the right of free speech against invasion by the police and bring vision and new hope. Technically speaking, this wouldn’t be exactly a revolution. Still, I think it would be swell. (Copyright. 1933. by The Times) Gems BY MARGARET E. BRUNER The gems I prize are void of lock and key, For they are things no common thief w'ould steal; Thieves take the foolish baubles which they see— They have not learned that only dreams are real.

Daily Thought

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.—Peter 5:6. HUMILITY is the root, mother. nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.—Chrysostom.