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SATURDAY. JULY 8. 1933

LIFE IS SAFER TN spite of the fact that 170 persons gave •*- up their lives on Independence day, an American's chance of dying with his boots off continues to grow, as the result of crusades by safety workers. The National Safety council reports that death* from accidents In 1932 numbered only 88,000. This sounds large, but in 1930 the number was 99,300. Last year motor accidents killed 29,500 persons, or more than homicides and suicides combined. Next to streets and highways the most perilous .spot in America is the home. Home accidents are Increasing, and last year accounted for 28,000 lives. Occupational accidents, even in a depression year, killed 15,000. Public fatalities, outside of auto deaths, totaled 18,000. Only twenty-eight passengers were killed in railroad accidents, a remarkable record, compared to railroading's early years. And out of 365 deaths from flying. 195 were those of pleasure fliers. The drop in motorists’ deaths since 1913 has been noteworthy, particularly in recent years. In 1931 deaths from auto accidents totaled 33,675. Last year’s percentage of decrease was double the increase in motor travel. The occupational death rate also is declining, having dropped from 20,000 in 1929 to 15,000. Mining, lumbering and construction are most hazardous. Industrial accident frequency rates have declined 61.5 per cent since 1926. The safety movement just has completed its twentieth year. In its two decades the American accident death rate has declined from 88.5 per 100,000 persons to 70.5. Had the 1913 death rate continued, 175,000 persons now living would have been killed. Collective effort is saving lives. It also can make those lives more livable. THAT SPLIT Developments following logically from the administration’s recovery program are providing an interesting sidelight on one of the most perplexing features of the 1932 presidential campaign. One of the high spots of that campaign was the apparent coolness between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith. • The two had been comrades in arms for years; furthermore, they evidently had been fairly close friends,' as Well. Roosevelt twice had put Smith in nomination for the presidency. Smith had turned over nis job at Albany to Roosevelt. But 1932 brought a break. Roosevelt spoke of the forgotten man and Smith promised to take off his coat and fight all demagogues. The Chicago convention flag left a scar that refused to heal. Not until late in the campaign was there a reconciliation, staged amid the floodlights; and even then hints of soreness persisted. Gossip had it that the rift was personal. Roosevelt was accused of having gone high hat; Smith, of nursing wounded vanity. Now, however, the basic difficulty becomes fairly clear. Smith’s recent editorial in the Outlook reveals that the gulf between himself and the President is almost as wide, fundamentally, as that between the President and ex-President Hoover. The recovery act, says Smith, “will cripple initiative, legalize monopoly, raise prices and require higher tariffs.'’ It “goes beyond anything my imagination can follow.” The common man is likely to “get lost in the shuffle.” We are apt to “sell our American birthright for a mess of Communistic pottage.” These comments show that the rift of a year ago was based on something deeper than personal pique. Roosevelt had one political philosophy; Smith has one almost diametrically opposed to it. Both used to be classed as liberals. Roosevelt has taken the ultra-modem fork in the road and has gone on to evolve anew theory of democracy; Smith has clung to the traditional conception of democracy and has veered steadily toward conservatism. It is not likely that we ever again shall see these two men in the same camp. The cleavage between them is too deep and wide. That editorial in the Outlook reveals a basic disagreement too profound to be overcome. REVIVE THE PROHIBITION PARTY •jyjTtS- IDA B. WISE SMITH of Des Moines, who succeeds Mrs. Ella A. Boole as president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, says she will be a Carrie Nation type of leader if necessary and that her political affiliation is “the Prohibition party, when there is one.” Well, there is one still, albeit of late much attenuated, and has been right along since the national prohibition convention at Chicago in 1869, whien resulted in the first appearance of a Prohibition party and platform in the 1872 presidential campaign. We hope repeal of the eighteenth amendment is going to mean reinstatement of the Prohibition party as the natural and proper refuge for all ardent prohibitionists who still think this the paramount national issue. We hope the long and painful bedevilment of the two major parties by the Anti-Saloon League i* definitely over. Since 1920 the Prohibition party has hung on chiefly by abusing Republican and Democrat* for “nullification, corruption, and maladministration” under the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. The Prohibition party platform of 1924. 1_1928, and 1932 scouted the possibility of any

We Must Build Up Our Navy Editorial

r T'HE world for the moment has scrapped the anti-war treaties and blocked disarmament. We are forced to build up our navy to quota strength. The decision has not been made by us, but by the other powers. The decision Is not irrevocable. It can be reversed by the other powers whenever they are willing to abide by the anti-war treaties and to accept our repeated and standing disarmament offers. Meanwhile, we shall arm. Japan broke the anti-war treaties. The other powers were unwilling to do anything about it. In our attempts to uphold the treaties, the United States was isolated. We were the goat. Japan now holds the conquered territory. Following the initial failure of the powers to stand by the treaties, Japan was encouraged to go farther. There she will remain. Nothing short of war, if that, can displace her. And the United States certainly has no intention of going to war with Japan on this issue. Whether we like it or not, that is the situation. Japan defied the treaties and got away with it. Any other strong nation can do likewise. Nevertheless, we were willing to go on with disarmament plans. Japan was not. The European powers w'ere not. Together they just have sunk the Geneva disarmament conference and are increasing their navies. That is the net result of more than a decade of American effort for disarmament. Our method of achieving an end has failed. It w r as a long and fair experiment. We did more than talk and beg. We acted. We deliberately held our naval strength far below treaty quota limits as an evidence of our good faith. All to no avail.

improvement “so long as friends of prohibitory law divide themselves among political parties seeking the votes cf the law violators and the nullificationists,” and stressed the need of “a party thoroughly committed to the maintenance and enforcement of prohibition law.” There was logic in this. There still is place and function for a Prohibition party in which die-hard prohibitionists can concentrate their efforts and work off steam. The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. should go back to the Prohibition party and leave Democrats and Republicans free to rejoice over their deliverance. Mrs. Smith is entitled to her affiliation. She should regain and revive it. THE VALUE OF PLAYGROUNDS A BULLETIN from the National Recreationa.l Association hammers anew on a point which requires especial emphasis in time of depression—that lack of public funds must not be permitted to cut down the recreational facilities available to children. To begin, the bulletin points out that children must, and will, play. Not only their happiness, but their health and character are bound up in their play. Under modern urban conditions, the public has to make provisions for playgrounds. If it fails, children are cheated of their rightful heritage. In addition, public expenditures on playgrounds are connected directly with expenditures on jails, juvenile courts, prisons and the like. If we skimp on our playground expenditures now, we shall pay double, in less pleasant ways, a little later on. A RECORD ACHIEVEMENT /'ANE of the brightest achievements of the United States war department seems to have been recorded in connection with the enrollment and mobilization of the civilian conservation corps this spring. Robert Fechner, director of the emergency conservation work, reveals that the program laid down by President Roosevelt has been carried out to the letter. More than 274,000 young men have been enrolled in the forestry corps, and upward of 250,000 of them now are in the corps’ 1,300 work camps. Thus in three months more men have been enlisted and put in camps than was the case in the first tirree month* of American participation in the World war. Apparently a pretty difficult and complicated job has been done with a good deal of efficiency and promptness. MEN AND THEIR HOUSES A/TILLIONS of men out of work throughout -*-*-*- the United States. Millions of people in the United States living in insanitary, overcrowded firetraps, menacing the healtu and well-being not only of the occupants, but of the entire community. Can we put the idle men to work building better houses for themselves and others? We have the materials, the technical skill, as well as the men, in abundance. To devise plans for doing this in the way to contribute most effectively to the social welfare is the purpose of the National Conference on Slum Clearance meeting in Cleveland today. It is a great problem. Every’ city needs the advice of these experts and it is devoutly to be hoped that they arrive at a solution. Evicted from his studio for nonpayment of rent, a Washington, D. C., sculptor became so angry that he smashed all his statues with a hammer. Very likely, he reached the conclusion that his profession was a bust. Pennsylvania thief was arrested when he attempted to pawn a $1,900 watch for a measly sls. He should have known that time is precious. An erroneous impression that Mary Pickford intends to remove to Texas to live probably arises from the fact that after her divorce from Doug she will be in the lone stai; state. - I The average doctor knows 25,000 words, says a lexicographer. Two that we wish ours could forget are “Please remit.” “There is only one thing to be said when a husband persists in coming home late at night,” declares a woman writer. The trouble is, however, that most wives don’t realize this.

Instead of this method hastening disarmament and the substitution of effective peace machinery for war preparation, it actually has encouraged Japan and others to take the opposite course. Very well. Our method having failed, we must, as realists, try the other method. The other method is to meet them on their own self-imposed terms of preparedness. When the world sees that the United States is rich enough and strong enough to play the preparedness game, perhaps then the other powers will be glad to bargain for disarmament arid real peace treaties. That was the costly, but effective, method by which we achieved the Washington naval treaty—the only effective arms limitation to date. It is important, however, that the American government, in being forced into its new naval building program, make clear to our own citizens and to the world that only our method temporarily is changed; that our end remains the same. Our purpose is a warless world. For idealist reasons, yes. But also for practical reasons. War does not pay. All lose by war. The practicability of peace has not been disproved by the tragic drift toward force. The great world powers merely have proved their temporary inability or unwillingness to co-operate for peace. We dare believe that this epidemic of militarism and supernationalism is temporary. When Japan and the other world powers no longer misunderstand our anti-war and disarmament program as an evidence of weakness, the enduring American peace policy can be advanced with more hope of success.

AN ELECTRIC YARDSTICK TN May, 1932, the labor department’s wholesale commodity price index, based on 1926 prices represented as 100, was 64.4. On the same basis, electricity prices were fixed at 106.1. Thus, general commodity prices decreased 35.6 per cent, while the power price had increased 6.1 per cent. In April of this year, the general wholesale price index was 60.4, a decrease of 4 per cent compared with a year ago; and the electricity index had decreased 7.8 per cent to 98.3. But the general index figure still was 39.6 per cent below the base year, while the wholesale electricity price index was merely 1.7 per cent below 1926. These figures stress only one of the unique price phases of this depression; How electricity rates have been maintained while all other prices, to say nothing of all other buying power, have dropped drastically. Through the years there has been no national yardstick against which electricity rates could be measured accurately. But one has been provided in the New Deal. This is the Muscle Shoals-Cove Creek project, just getting under way. At its own power plants, within a short time, the government, through the Tennessee Valley Authority, will manufacture power, and over its own transmission lines it will make this energy avai.’able to towns and cities within the 40,000 square miles of the river basin. In this we wiil have the power yardstick needed so badly. Chairman Arthur Morgan of the Tennessee Valley Authority recognizes the vital function of this board's operation, and he and his associates are to be congratulated on their announced intention of instituting from the outset a system of cost accounting squarely comparable with that used by the private pow’er companies. The price of electricity should not be so far out of line with the prices of other necessities.

M. E.Tracy Says:

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S rejection of the French proposal to stabilize money in such way as would bring back the gold standard evidently was based on disagreement with the basic theory of value. Up to this time, it generally has been assumed that money should be rated in gold and that the value of all other commodities properly were subject to the fluctuations of gold, whether naturally or artificially created. If gold went up, the general scale of prices and wages went down, and vice versa. Such a condition placed all people at the mercy of those who possessed or controlled this one metal. Theoretically, governments were the chief operators in gold, but its free circulation enabled international bankers to usurp their function. Comparatively small groups of men not only have had it within their power to manipulate : the price of gold by direct action, but to affect ' government policy by exerting financial pressure.! This narrowed speculation to unwholesome limits. a a a BY tinkering with gold, a government or a powerful combination of financiers could depress or raise general price levels and shift currents of trade. More than that, they actu- j ally could threaten the solvency of nations, if i not the demoralization of world economics. j Such power is not safe. The purpose of money should be to facilitate exchange, to act i as a measure of values. It can not perform that i service honestly or consistently if it contains i the element of value within itself or is made I dependent on any one commodity. Stabilization must go beyond the gold con- ! tent of a coin if commerce is to be established I :on an equitable basis. It is manifestly unfair! to expose wheat growers, oil producers, or auto manufacturers to arbitrarily lowered prices ! through manipulation of a single metal. It is vastly more unfair to expose taxpayers of a nation to unjust burdens by a similar process. This so-called gold bloc countries are for a kind of stabilization which either would guar- \ antee them some of the advantages they now ! enjoy through the arbitrary manipulation of i i gold or open the way for further manipulation, j a a a TO illustrate: France would like to see the gold standard maintained, provided the franc : would be recognized as worth a small fraction : of its former value. European governments in general are sore because the Roosevelt administration has succeeded in depreciating the dollar and their chief interest in re-establishing the gold standard is jto stop it. They want the sole privilege of depreciating money, which they have exercised in I an unconscionable way and which they hate to lose. President Roosevelt has earned their displeasure by meeting and beating them at their own game. The efficacy of his method is proved amply by the favorable reaction in this country. We are getting our price levels back, and we like it.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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: : The Message Center : : I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire =■

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them, to 250 words or less.) By Average Citizen. Is it not the function of a local newspaper to furnish its community with news that is uncolored? Also, is it not true that a newspaper has a certain moral obligation to its readers? The Anderson Bulletin, managed and owned by McCullough and Crittenberger, is so saturated with Mellettism that it is not possible to get uncolored reports of court trials to determine whether Baldwin or Mellett is mayor of Anderson. It is very plain to vs average citizens that the “interests” of the Bulletin best can be served if “Hick” Mellett is restored to power. Why? How? Has the Bulletin joined hands with the Mellett attorney? This attorney is the same one who previously fattened on the Mellett administration gravy. If he wins this case, he again will become city attorney, and will fatten again. Evidently he has promised to do favors for the Bulletin. . Decency, economy, and the best interests of the community always have gone by the boards when the money changers have waited on some newspapers. This fact carries with it a certain significance when it is noted that Tom McCullough still is seeking political favor. By Non-Partisan. To take into consideration the weakness of our coastal defense would be a grand and patriotic program for our public officials to indulge in while they still have opportunity. The invasion of France by the Germans and the invasion of China by the Japanese should cause the honorable statesmen to lay aside their taxation bills and programs and seriously consider this problem, so vital to welfare of our nation. We grant that the Italian armada is on a friendly visit to our friendly nation, but how can we be sure that it is only a sightseeing expedition? The feasibility of an invasion by this nation or any other foreign nation is being demonstrated thoroughly to the United States. That the events of the World war were tragic or necessary is of no consequence, but as a preventive of hostilities only the policy of constant preparedness can be considered, as

Ticks Carry Mountain Spotted Fever • ■ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -■ , ..■■■=

ALTHOUGH most people are familiar with the common infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and whooping cough, few have adequate information concerning some of the more unusual infectious disorders which attack people in ‘various parts of the United States. For some time it was thought that Rocky mountain spotted fever occurred only west of the Mississippi river. In 1930, investigators for the United States public health service found the disease in some of the eastern states. It has not yet been seen in the New England states, but with the present means of transportation, it might, of course, appear at any time. Rocky mountain spotted fever is

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

THE cult of the greedy capitalist was the lowest form of folly—as time has proved. And a social conscience is the most important asset for government. Things are looking up today, not only because it was ti ne they should look up, but because there is evidence that the powers are preparing to put into practice some sound, unselfish theories of economic planning. I predict without hesitancy that in another quarter century, we shall regard as an enemy of his country the man who can hold in private possession billions of the nation’s wealth, and at the same time have power to close his factories at will and put thousands of men tout of * ork &]■ ***

Dreaming

Thank You By Times Reader, IAM afraid the working people little realize how much they are obligated to your paper. I read the editorials of the three papers each day or at least I read the headlines of the articles in The Star and The News, but usually they are so uninteresting or far-fetched that I get disgusted and quit. The Times editorials always say something. And it surely is a brave bunch of employes that do some of the things that you do. It’s almost like conceling your salary. The most simple-minded can see that you lose the big advertising on account of your hard shooting. And we who appreciate you have nothing to help with except buying the paper, which we realize is a very small item. Do you know that firms in Indianapolis are paying as little as 12V2 cents an hour and working eighty-four hours straight time for sl2? The managers of this company still buy new twelve-cylinder machines, play golf half their working hours, drink high priced whisky and eat at the Columbia Club. We still need a Patrick Henry along with this new deal. is proved by the wholesale butchery indulged in by the warring factors. Let the other nations clamor for peace and brotherly handclasps, but keep our armaments at their highest possible efficiency and the most powerful nations will hesitate to rupture the peace. The series of articles written by our foremost army, engineers on our inefficient and obsolete coastal defenses can not be ignored, or our

Daily Thought

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. —Acts 8:20. MONEY is not required to buyone necessity of the soul.— Thoreau.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hveeia. the Health Magazine.

spread to human beings by the bite of infested ticks, particularly wood ticks and dog ticks. These appear early in the spring, are most numerous during May, June and July, and disappear rapidly during August. The ticks develop on long grass and bushes, and from these pass to animals or human beings in search of blood. The tick, once on the body, does not begin feeding promptly, but usually looks first for a place that will be suitable, including especially the back of the head or the arm pits. In avoiding infection by the bite of the tick, it is necessary, of

The viciousness of our recently l abandoned system of grab-bag ethics and deadly competitive struggle is everywhere apparent. But it was not until those things that represented wealth to the opulent had become nearly worthless that we set our faces in another direction. ea a , PROSPERITY did not fail us; we failed prosperity. With everything for happiness and contentment within reach, we used every device for bringing about our own disaster. We were faithless to each honorable code of humanitarianism. We boasted of our greatness, while the rich filled their strong boxes and the poor lived out of community chests. As we were posing cm our money

nation will be faced by invasion by a nation that must have more room for colonization. By Wondering. Now that we have a state income tax, it would be a great thing if our legislators and lawyers would start hunting for loopholes in the statute, to close them before some of our big money makers evade the tax a la Morgan and Kahn. If all the little fellows have to pay, let’s make sure that all the moneyed men have to come through with their share also.

So They Say

We have nothing to fear in this country from a dictatorship; it can not live here.—Alfred E. Smith. Drinking is an art. and while in France it may be productive of good conversation, in Germany of music, and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen.—Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar. Human life never was so cheap and insecure in the United States as it is at the present time, and murder is decidedly more common in this country than in any other country which claims to be civilized. —Dr. Frederick Hoffman, insurance statistician. In case of war, the giant modem dirigibles, with their long cruising range, high speed and scouting planes w’hich they carry, would afford a protective weapon of unequaled value. —Lieutenant-Com-mander J. L. Kenworthy Jr., Lakehurst naval air station. On the whole, T think the average policeman is honest, reasonably competent, and reasonably intelligent. He would do good work if his superiors would let him. —George W. Wickersham, former United States attorney-general. I can’t stay up late and sleep later in the morning; it’s too late to teach this old dog new and tricky hours.—Vice-President Garner. Great liars can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and there is not a woman among them.—Dr. A. S. Rosenbach, bibliophile.

course, to avoid the ticks, to get them off the body as soon as possible, and, in case one is going into an area in which Rock Mountain spotted fever is fairly frequent, to be vaccinated against the disease. The safest camping grounds are those in places w’here low vegetation is scanty. Unsafe camping grounds are those in which the bedding is placed directly on the ground and in areas thick with sage-brush. Clothing, such &s high boots and leggings, or socks worn outside the trouser legs, helps to keep the ticks from getting into contact with the body. The United States public health service has prepared a vaccine which is useful in preventing infections with Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

mountains, their bases already were crumbling. It is no wonder they fell. But man saves himself at the last because he falls. And now Administrator Hugh S. Johnson announces that in the future when a corporation makes profits these profits shall not be put into the building of larger plants for the making of even more profits, but instead will be directed into wages and dividends, until wages and dividends are stable and equitable again. And here is an even more revolutionary statement. “No business that depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” Do you know who said that? The President of the United States. To me it has a mighty* singing sound.

JULY 8, 1933

It Seems to Me - BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

VTEW YORK. July B—l did not think it ever would happen to me. Particularly at my time of life. For twenty years my recreation, like Bernard Shaw's, has been “anything but sports.” And now the athletic bug has bitten me. I'm nothing but a big outdoors boy. The first thing you know somebody will be putting up my name to join the woodsy folk. It even may come to nature talks, in which I point out the differences between the oriole and the robin. As yet it isn't as bad as all that. The craze is only in the golf stage. One can hang around a country club without impairing his urban standard, but this is a pioneer course composed of three slightly dented coffee cans and a few handfuls of sand. u a a Something for Memory The three holes are named wistfully after old cronies of mine whom I probably shall never see again. The pitch across the slag pile I’ve named after Barney. Tony is a sporty half mashie shot down to the foot of the big tree, and you have to cross two flower beds to get to Jack and Charlie. The record for nine holes (that's three times around the course) is thirty, held by me. I also hold the eighteen-hole record, the thirty-six-liole record, the amateur and professional titles. Mostly I play by myself. People who thought I was a bore before I took up golf should hear me now. I can talk for hours about how I got a one at Jack and Charlie when there was money bet upon the round and of the manner in which I saved my championship after being two tjown and two to go. The match, which was played at 6 in the morning, is a whole chapter, and I can draw out endlessly the episode in which Captain Flagg saved me from going out of bounds by allowing my overstrong approach to hit him in the hind quarters and bounce upon the green. He always was the most intelligent of Airedales. But I am interested in the larger aspects of the situation. I am wondering what happens to a sluggard when he suddenly becomes lean and hard and artfully co-ordi-nated. That hasn’t quite happened yet. I will still be stoutish for another six months, and even after I am down to bone and muscle the myth of corpulence will linger on. I see Paul Whiteman has been compelled to write a book to inform people that he is no longer fat. I suppose I shall have to advertise my new build in some way. But I hardly can see it as a book—" From Broun to Brawn.” Maybe I'll just do it as a couple of columns and keep my secret to myself. tt a tt Adding a Little Gristle YET, since newspaper columnists, even more than novelists, write out of themselves, it may be that the point of view and the manner of thus strip will undergo a subtle change. The very keys may respond to the deft putting touch. I may from now on occasionally sink an idea instead of merely curling around the cup. Perhaps my somewhat obvious sentimentality was less a matter of heart than of superfluous flesh. A fat man loves everybody. He is afraid to deal with the world on any other basis. Bring Shaw up to Chesterton’* girth and he, too, might grow whimsical. I have always thought that charm increased in a direct ratio with blood pressure. If I can only lose another thirtyfive pounds, I’ll have a civil word for no man. I mean metaphorically to get myself a niblick and risk explosion shots. a a tt Lost in the Rough BUT it may not work out like this at all. In the beginning golf was no more than a means to an end. I dedicated myself to it in a sacrificial spirit. When a fellow is all dressed up in three sweaters and a rubber shirt, he needs somewhere to go. I mean somewhere in the great outdoors. And so I sunk the coffee can* into the earth merely to lure myself into greater reducing effort. I realized that to be of any use as a ra'dical agitator I must provide myself with a look more lean and hungry. I was growing a little weary of the role of being a speakeasy pink. But I must not let this new interest in golf become a passion. Heaven deliver me from the gospel of sport for sport’s sake! I don’t want to swap the speakeasy for the locker room. And so I have framed a little prayer to be said by myself every night at 9. just before going to bed. It runs: “Please don’t let me become too good at this game, and lead me out of the temptation of trying to be Sarazen or Walter Hagen.” tCoovright. 1933. bv The Times)

Aunt Gambles

BY NELL MACE WOLFGANG My Aunt Mary’s very pious, Also very sedate— She wouldn’t gamble on anything: Oh, no, nor speculate! She says it’s wrong to bet on things When we don’t know how ’twill end— She wouldn’t draw baking powder Even to please a friend! And she thinks it wrong at parties To give away a prize— But she doesn’t know what she's missed. Sometimes it’s a surprise! Lately I've been watching Aunty. She does one thing I know— She sure gambles on cantaloupes From early spring till snow! But she wouldn’t call that chancing: I know better than that— Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re not And that is gambling flat I