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TUESDAY. JULY 4 1933

THE NEW DECLARATION ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN years ago Thomas Jefferson voiced the revolutionary sentiment of colonial America by denouncing George 111 of England. He indicted England's king in the following fashion: He has refused to assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military inof, and superior to, the civil power. He lias abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us . . . Therefore. Jefferson reasoned: "These United Colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states." While fittingly celebrating the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should bear in mind the fact that President Roosevelt has loosed the rhetoric of a far more momentous edict of emancipation. The American revolution was chiefly a political secession from the British empire. In Its economic aspects it was primarily a struggle of rising capitalists against the aristocratic landlords. The economic doctrine of the patriots was that which is today espoused by our economic reactionaries —the notions of laissez-faire, natural rights, and unrestricted individualism which have been invoked by the supreme court to sabotage efforts to bring about a regime of social justice and economic decency. On March 4, 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced a more sinister tyrant than George 111 or any other monarch of history—organized cupidity and speculative piracy: Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no market for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. . . . Plenty is at our doorstop, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. . . . Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership. they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish. The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We now may restorp that temple to the ancient truths. . . . There must be an end to speculation with other people’s money. The grievance of the American people against George 111 in 1776 were slight compared to those of Americans today against the predatory financial interests which have brought our country to the edge of the abyss. At. the most, Gorge 111 wished to stop smuggling, tax colonists on the basis of their capacity to pay. and reorganize and administer the British empire in North America. The evils we have suffered at the hands of old-line capitalism are far more serious and devastating. We have a planless and chaotic economy in which some people starve and others burn wheat in the fields; some go unclothed and others plow their cotton under the soil. Speculative finance has gutted industry, transportation, utilities and mining. The rich have hogged the social income to such degree that the masses can not buy. thus undermining the whole capitalistic system. The small fry have learned the somothing-for-nothing ethics of our moguls and. applying them In their petty and vulgar ways, give us a crime and racket bill annually amounting to a quarter of our national income. Patriots, collaborating with plutocrats, perpetuate the war system and drain off three-quarters of our national budget to pay for wars—past, present, or future. Theodore Roosevelt talked much about the "square deal,” but it went little farther than words with him. If his illustrious cousin is able to introduce some decency and justice into capitalism, he will have brought about a more fundamental revolution than any historic change of political masters, and his inaugural address will supplant both the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg address as our foremost document of liberation and dedication. ABOLISH CHILD LABOR TT is the best sort of good tidings that the cotton textile code provides for the end of child labor in that industry. Before we rejoice too much, though, we might look at some statistics. In the United States more than 660.000 children between the ages of 10 and 15 are listed by the census as "gainfully employed." Only some 20,000 of these are employed in the textile industry. This code, excellent as it is. touches only a small fraction of the children who ought to be classed as school pupils instead of wage earnrrs. Furthermore, all these industrial codes are designed as emergency measures only. We have no guarantee they will be in effect four yeais from now. t ' We might as well do the job right and ratify the child labor amendment. That would affect all industries—and it would be permanent.

THE SPIRIT OF ’33 THE first American revolution, bom in Philadelphia 157 years ago. was not more significant than the bloodless American revolution now taking place. The revolution of '76 was fought to secure for the colonists the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Through wars and laws this country has to some degree established for its people the rights of life and liberty. Now it is setting out to make the pursuit of happiness something more than a barren quest for millions of unhappy Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s majestic words were no more prophetic of essential change than Senator Wagner's in describing the object of the ! new recovery act as one intended “to give j every deserving person a permanent oppor- I tunity to earn a comfortable living." The men toiling in shirt sleeves in Wash- : ington this summer do not resemble the ragged I Continentals of Valley Forge, yet their work is quite as revolutionary. These Rooseveltian experts are out to bring order to industry and security to the masses, to free from wage labor 2,000,000 American children, to restore to a decent living 50,000,000 workers of city and farm, to redistribute the vast machine-made wealth by means of higher wages and shorter hours, to fit the j wage system into the power age. Compare to this task, the work of the revolutionary fathers in cutting thirteen colonies free from the old world would seem to be child’s play. Yet until it is accomplished men i and women can not begin to pursue happiness, i Revolutions become bloody affairs only , when stupid rulers deny inalienable rights to j their people. This country has its industrial • Bourbons, who never learn and never forget anything; its Tories, who are too blind and greedy to accept peaceful change. These can turn the present revolution from orderly paths of law into those of havoc and chaos. Fortunately, however, they are a minority. If the majority of employers will continue to co-operate with labor and government in the new partnership, this revolution will remain peaceful. SAFE, SECURE, FREE TNDEPENDENCE DAY is just another holiday, nowadays—a day on which we go on picnics, or get the car out for a long drive into the country, or trot off to see a ball game, or hop on an excursion train for a little trip to the city. Children set off firecrackers and grown-ups take advantage of an extra day’s idleness. Everybody enjoys the holiday—and hardly any of us stop to remember just what it’s all about, or think just what we’re celebrating. And that very fact is. perhaps, as good an omen as the most patriotic hero of ’76 could have wished for his descendants. Years ago, when grandfather was a boy, they took their Fourth of July celebration seriously. The winning of American freedom seemed very real and very recent, then. The country still was relatively small, as nations go. Europeans were still inclined to look down their noses when any one mentioned the United States of America. In shedr self-defense Americans had to get together once a year, let the eagle scream and retell the splendid old stories of the Revolution. But a lot of water has run under the bridge since then. Our nation has grown up, and no one denies its right to stand among the leaders. And because of that fact we don’t need to celebrate our national birthday as exuberantly as we used to. We can take our independence, our greatness, our freedom, for granted, in other words. We’re used to them. We know they are things which no one can take away from us. We don’t have to make a lot of noise and burn a lot of red fire once every year to remind ourselves of their existence. So we celebrate the Fourth in a different j way. All over the land today there are happy, carefree people taking a holiday in honor of their nation's birth—and forgetting, many of them, just what it is that they are celebrating. In that very forgetfulness is the most solid of all proofs that the nation's birthday is a great occasion. It bespeaks safety, security, and freedom. RUSSIAN TRADE AWAITS SENATOR GEORGE W. NORRIS of Nebraska issued a little statement on trade i with Russia the other day which is worth close attention. "I have learned, on reliable authority,” says the senator, “that the Russian government desires to buy in the American market $10,000,000 of metal products, 1,000,000 bales of cotton and $400,000,000 worth of machinery. She can make payment partly in kind and partly in money, but must have several years in which to complete the transaction. "She proposes to ship us products of which we import a large proportion of what we use. She proposes to ship these products and apply the proceeds upon her debt.” To a country which for years has been looking frantically for customers, this sounds like important news. If Senator Norris' information is correct, somebody down at Washington ought to see to it that this deal is consummated. HIGHER WAGES, HIGHER PROFITS nnHE encouraging part about the hearings on the industrial recovery act now under way at Washington is that practically everybody seems to recognize the importance of giving the laboring man a better break. Those minimum wage scales may sound extremely low, and there is no sense in pre- * tending that they are as high as we would like to see them; but the trend they represent is a healthy one. and the fact that their pro\isions are being written into law stands for protection of a kind that American workingmen have not had before. What we are doing, in a slow and roundabout manner, is to adopt the viewpoint first popularized by Henry Ford—that industry can prosper only in a direct ratio to the amount of money it pays out in wages. That proposition always has been exceedingly simple. The more money the workingman earns, the more he can spend on the

things the factories produce—that’s self-evi-dent. Yet its obvious truth has failed, so far. to prevent wage reductions in this country, because there is a little catch in it. If it is to work, it has to be applied all along the line. No individual employer can afford to follow it unless all his competitors do: and in an unregulated society there is not the slightest chance that all of them will do so. The measures that are being taken now do not, as some suppose, restrict the freedom of the industrialist in any very genuine sense. They are intended to provide for him a fairly rigid basic code of the wages he must pay and the hours he must operate; but beyond that they actually set him free In a way that he never has been set free before. He is made free, that is, to reap the advantage of this simple and important little equation of Mr. Ford’s—that higher wages, in the long run, equal higher profits. He is freed from the competition of the sweatshop, the fly-by-night operator, the industrial pirate. The economic enfranchisement of the worker is going to mean a brighter day for the workman’s boss. THE BREAD TAX A NEW and extraordinary tax is to be levied, starting July 9, a tax unique in its purpose. On that day and thereafter, until the secretary of agriculture proclaims otherwise, the federal government will collect 30 cents on the milling t>f each bushel of wheat. The United States treasury pools other tax money—revenue from the income tax, from the nuisance and stamp taxes—and spends it for a hundred different purposes, providing national defense, law enforcement, salaries for congress and the judiciary, work for the jobless, regulation of transportation, and all the rest. But the treasury is only a collection agency for this new tax. It collects the 30 cents on the processing of each bushel of wheat and pays it over to the wheat farmers. If as many as 500,000,000 bushels of wheat are milled in the coming year, the treasury will collect $150,000,000, the sum the agriculture department expects to pay the growers. ““For this money the growers must contract to reduce their wheat acreage next year and year after. This is all part of the Roosevelt farm relief experiment. The test is whether, by levying upon the city man’s bread and planning the wheat farmer’s production, farm prosperity will return. No one knows whether it will; everybody hopes it will. This experiment alone will cost consumers of wheat products about $150,000,000, a considerable tax bill from any source, but all will be glad to pay if it means better times in the country. We don’t know how that newspaper debate over "Should Honeymoons Be Abolished?” is going to end up, but it is with breathless anxiety that we await the vote of the Niagara Falls hotel keepers. Primo Camera, the new heavyweight champ, has considerable difficulty in trying to speak English. Jack Sharkey discovered, however, that Primo has no trouble in talking with his hands. "Governor’s gas tank drained,” says a dispatch from Colorado. Does that mean the Lieutenant-Governor will now have to make the speeches for a while? A minister of Mansfield, 0., recently set a new record by playing 150 holes of golf in a single day. Apparently an attempt to show that the game could be made more holy.

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THE figure one, followed by fifteen million zeros, represents the number of telephone lines in the human brain, according to the latest scientific estimate. You can get a vague idea of what that means by remembering that the figure two, followed by only seven zeros, represents the number of telephone lines in the United States. We think we have a very elaborate and complex telephone system. We have been more than fifty years developing it and hundreds of thousands of people are required to keep it going. It bears about the same relation to the brain’s telephone system, however, that a speck of dust bears to the earth. The brain’s telephone system develops automatically from a minute germ cell in a few years. We do not know how or why and we probably never will. Those laws which govern Individual growth and development are far too complicated and exact for us to understand, except in a fragmentary way. About all we have learned, after 10,000 years of study, is that they work. The mechanical contraptions we have devised seem hopelessly simple when compared to that of the human body, much less the human mind. ana WITH all our skill, we can not produce an exact model of the brain, let alone a single brain cell, but whenever a baby is bom, we know that, under favorable conditions, the whole structure soon will appear complete. Our absolute inability to understand the whys and wherefores of this common phenomenon makes speculation with regard to the universe, creation, or even humanity, seem rather futile, especially in the sense that we ever shall be able to control them. It is our obvious destiny to go on learning, but the purpose should be to get in step with natural law, not to alter it. Whether one approaches life through the telescope or microscope, it appears to be governed by immutable principles. We have been able to discover a few of those principles in the field of physical force, but only a few. In the field of conscious or psychological force, we still' are hopelessly bewildered. a a a WE find it very difficult to separate intelligence from training, the power to think and imagine from the power to imitate. We do not know what faculty issues orders for the brain's telephone system, or how far it is wise to suppress that faculty through broadcasting of stereotyped rules and information. Rules and information are necessary to give each generation a better start in life, but they can not be employed profitably unless the power to think and imagine is encouraged. Men have not climbed out of the jungle merely learning what their fathers knew. If each generation had not added a little something on its own account, the human race would be right where it was at the beginning. The desire to add a little something is, therefore. an all-important factor of human progress. Nothing that we possess, nothing that we have accomplished, nothing that we believe, can be compared to the importance of that desire as a basis of future advancement.

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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 250 words or less.) Bv E. K. B. It would give one a great laugh to read about the frantic efforts of police and federal officers to curb bandits, hijackers, gangsters, racketeers, et al„ if it was not so tragical. We even read about the department of justice “throwing its forces into the unrelenting war.” • The superintendent of police in a Missouri town says: "Shoot to kill, disregard hostages.” A fine command that is! The situation has become so serious that Governor Murray of Oklahoma is considering the established of a state ranger force. Everywhere the police are running around like chickens with their heads off—no organization, no cooperation, no system. At the same time our "public enemies” continue to make war on the people of the United States. Has it never occurred to any one that we spend hundreds of millions every year for protection against war? Is it possible that we must be killed by foreigners before we call it war? Here we sit with several hundred thousands troops scattered all over the landscape and bandits running around shooting people within sight of the soldiers’ headquarters, and not a thing is done about it. I, for one, always shall oppose appropriations for the army until the United States army proves that it protects the citizens of the United States against gang warfare as well as foreign wars. What difference does it make to us as citizens of this grand old republic whether we are shot down by foreigners or renegades within our own boundaries? The fact is the gangsters shoot without declaring war, while the foreigners at least notify us. By A Times Reader. I am one of the unemployed and compelled to accept provisions from the township for my family. The trustee order which I receive specifies that I should get each week either a can of baking powder or a

Simple Cause May Make Child Nervous

EXACTLY as the speed of modern life has affected adults who show in the very lines of their faces the stress and strain under which they labor, so also are there found today in most schools, camps and homes considerable numbers of children who are described best by the single word “nervous.” In discussing nervousness in children, the British specialist, Dr. Hector C. Cameron, points out that sometimes serious mental reactions develop frpm relatively simple sources. All children occasionally refuse food; most children at sometime will be wakeful and refuse sleep. An occasional occurrence of this character may not be serious. If, however, it is repeated day after day, the eventual result is the development of disorders which may take long and careful treatment.

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

APATHETIC being is the ambitious mama who is determined that her child shall be an A student. How she hustles and bustles; how she urges and encourages; how she works and sweats. And the pity of it is that she believes he is getting educated. In many respects she is a more tragic figure than her son. She sits down in the evening and “hears” his lessons; she watches his daily averages; she hounds his heels to see that he observes all the rules. She plans where he shall go to college; and what his courses are to be. And having by that time developed the bossing habit, she maps out his life, his marriage, his career. In short, she regulates him—generally into obscurity and misery.

Such a Smell! By G. T. R. IN visiting the fair city of Indianapolis, i came into the city by way of West Washington street. There should be a detour sign at the east end of White river bridge for about four city blocks east. The odor that greets your nostrils

Questions and Answers

Q —How many more Democrats than Republicans are there in the United States house of representatives? A—There are 312 Democrats. 117 Republicans and five Farm-er-Labor. Q —Name the Governor of the state of Washington and state his political affiliation. A—Clarence D. Martin, Democrat. Q —Name the ruler of Afghanistan. A—King Mohammed Nadir Khan. can of green beans, and it always is green beans, never baking powder. They bring us flour, but nothing to put in it to make biscuits but salt, and if we make a protest, they tell us that we can bring the green beans back and exchange them for baking powder after they have taken the bill to the trustees’ office with green charged on it. There must be more profit in the green beans than in the baking powder. Oh, say. green beans, green beans, I’ll vote the Democratic ticket, the Socialist ticket, yes, I’ll even vote the Republican ticket, if they’ll just eliminate the green beans from the trustee order. I planted some beans of the green variety in my garden, but after sitting at the table and looking at the green bean dish every day for twenty months and trymg to eat a spoonful with no biscuits and then to walk out in the garden and see green beans growing, I just couldn’t stand it. Had to dig them up to keep from being a nervous wreck.

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The mental habits of the child may reflect the attitude of the parents. Parents who have children who constantly cry are not infrequently parents who can not tolerate the crying of children. In such instances, the child finds in its crying opportunity to develop extraordinary interest on the part of its parents. Again, Dr. Cameron points out, parents who have children at school and who constantly receive letters from the child saying that it is unhappy and asking to be taken out of school, are parents who are themselves made unhappy and miserable by the receipt of such letters, and who have not succeeded in hiding this fact from the child.

He is not likely to be either educated or happy. Between parents and the educational systems, it’s a wonder our youngsters have ordinary sense. Certainly it should not surprise us that so few have distinctive personalities. and so many settle down into the rut of mediocrity. For only the strongest ever can survive the strenuous and often foolish educational processes we drag them through. 9 8 0 THEIR growing years are spent in resisting some form of cramming. And. unfortunately, the A students, those who never resist, are likely to reach obscurity first. It is the rebel, the being who fights standardization with his whole being, who becomes the outstanding man. ,

from the packing house of a packing company surely u r ould nauseate any healthy person. The natives of this street may stand this odor O. K., but it surely is tough on the newcomer. Go out and get a whiff of this and see if you like it. If you do go, take a clothespin with you for your own protection.

Q —How many beauty and barber shops are there in the United States? A—About 100,000 barber shops and about 65,000 beauty shops. Q —Which country has the largest air force? A—France has the largest fighting air force and the United States leads in commercial aviation. Q —Are mushrooms raised from seeds? Is the edible part of the plant the fruit? A—They develop from stores, which are equivalent to seeds of the higher plants. The mushroom is the fruiting body. Q —Name the second leader of the United States Marine band. A—Arthur S. Witcomb. Q —Where are the streets called "Unter den Linden” and "Bois de Boulogne?” A—The first is in Berlin, Germany, and the second is in Paris, France. ,Q —How many adjusted service certificates have been issued by the veterans bureau and what is their total value? A—As of March 1, 1933, the United States veterans’ bureau had issued 3,707,64 adjusted service certificates with a face value of $3,666,343,099. Q —For whom was William and Mary college in Virginia named? A—King William and Queen Mary so Great Britain, from whom its charter was obtained in 1693, by the Rev. James Blair, the first president of the college.

In an earlier era, parents decided and children obeyed. In the modern era the behavior of the child is a co-operative arrangement with the parents, in which most of the material for bargaining is in possession of the child. Dr. Cameron finds the small family partially responsible for some of the modern difficulties. The child who is the only child is most difficult to train to social behavior. In developing self-confidence in the child, because self-confidence is largely associated with freedom from fear, one must not too greatly stress his failures and must participate with delight in his successes. Try to build up the reputation of the child in the qualities that you desire him to possess. If you would have him be strong, take delight in his growing strength.

The boy who conforms to his mama and his teacher from kindergarten to college is doomed to be ordinary, because he will emerge molded into the mental shape currently popular. And it seems such a waste, the time we use filling our children’s heads with stuff, most of which they will forget or discard by the time they are 30. It smacks of cruelty—that their glorious youth should be spent with geometry problems and the conjugations of Latin verbs. Therefore, I do not despair of the sometimes disobedient child. I sympathize with him. After all so far as we know, we have but one life on earth. Why, then, must we always be doing something we despise and so seldom be permitted to interest ourselves in what we like best? qa

JULY 4, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HF.YW OOD BROl'N"’"

NEW YORK, July 4.—l’m glad I’m not a prizefighter. I would not like the buffets of the ring, but I would fear still more the machina guns of the sporting writers. Nothing has made me feel quits so ancient and Victorian as a perusal of the newspaper accounts of the bout between Jack Sharkey and Camera. In my day we wrote or tried to writ? in the tradition of Alexandre Dumas. In our stones the men were musketeers and heroes—every one. Football teams held on the five-yard line like the Spartans in the past, and Matty was Galahad plus a change of pace. I belonged to the school of the "Ah, look!" reporters, and they have given way to the academicians of the "Oh. hell!" manner. In the days when Runyon and Rice were very young, I did my best to imitate their technique, and so it may be that all three of us were on occasion rather silly and ridiculously sentimental. #OO All the Sad Young Men AND yet I hate to see the working press section entirely filled by young Faulkners and dour Dreisers. It, may be thjit the much advertised revolution is closer than most of us asssume, for the American temper is mirrored more accurately in the sporting pages than in the work of any of the novelists or political commentators. I am inclined to suspect that tho scribes carry over the depression blues into their fight and baseball stories, and that Jack Sharkey becomes vicariously a whipping boy for J. P. Morgan, Otto Kahn and all the taxless crew. But even if the tumbrils are waiting just around the corner, I must say that Sharkey did his very gallant damnedest in defense not only of his title, but of all the old Olympian tradition. If the beanstalk bites Jack, that constitutes not only news, but very thrilling drama. I was stirred to my toes by the encounter between Camera and Sharkey, or, if you must have it in the modern and more simple manner, the meeting of the voluminous Venetian and the lethargic Lithuanian. Sharkey, with his poor, puny 200 pounds, stood up to Everest and seemed almost to cry aloud, "Bring on your avalanches.” If there were sophisticates and intellectuals present, they should have risen in their seats to cheer and shout for the brave try of human aspiration against elemental forces. I never happened to see Shelley plain, but somehow Jack Sharkey reminded me of the poet most distinctly. # a a Aspiration Counted Out TO be sure, human aspiration took a sock on the chin, which appears to be the way to bet, and yet they do pay off for place in battles of this sort, and the resin of the ring at times may be carpeted thickly with laurels. Apollo on his nose has always seemed to me more impressive than Vulcan with his gloved fist held in token of the victory. Poor Camera won nothing but. a title, while the old rose fancier from Chestnut Hill can go home to look his flowers in the face and say, “I was still coming in when he caught me.” One of my sport page friends hinted broadly that the whole thing seemed to him suspicious, and another remarked that he didn’t want to pass judgment, but he never saw the punch which cut down the champion. In that case he and Sharkey were the only ones who failed to note that march of doom as It caine up like thunder. Still, it wasn’t what you would call a fast punch. There was no snap in it. Only demolition. Primo Camera pulled it up from the floor, and it seemed almost to have had its origin in the primeval ooze. An ievthyosaurus was permitted to come out from extinction long enough to take one severe swipe at Mr. Darwin’s well-ordered theory about the survival of the fittest. Arthur Brisane once dismissed * famous prize fight with the terse comment, "a gorilla could lick them both." But now he may have to revise that adage. I’m not saying that maybe the gorilla couldn’t outbox Camera at long range, but in close Primo would tear him to pieces. ana Beyond Realms of Art IHEAR that some of the wis guys around the ring felt that Sharkey might have risen before the count of ten. If Jack was not completely out of time and space and rolling in the snows of yesteryear, then he wasted a great talent upon the menial art of fisticuffs. If the involuntary muscle twitch which ran along his spine at the toll of eight was a piece of acting, then all the Barrymores should be set to digging ditches. And yet Sharkey was defeated not so much by Primo’s promethean sledge as by a fine punch of his own. Late in the first round Jack swung his right and gave it everything he had. He leaped from the floor to get it up to Camera’s jaw and there he hung it. The vast Venetian did not even lean so.much as Pisa’s tower Sharkey was carrying lucifers to Vesuvius. He must have realized then that he had no proper smooth stones for his sling, and yet he went on wading in and throwing punches. I raise my glass high. Here’s to you, Jack Sharkey! I hope you have luck with your tulips. (CoDvrisht. 1933. bv The Times) Elusive BY AUSTIN JAMES A gorgeous thought once came to me; It popped into my brain. I recall that it was musical, A quite deMghtful strain. But I can t remember whether It was poetry or prose. Or a melody or drama. Where it’s gone nobody knows. A question now I ask myself. The answer I would know. Whence do thoughts come. And whither do they go? DAILY THOUGHT If God be for us, who can bo against us?—Romans 8:31. FAITH makes us, and not we it.— Emerson.