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GET THE HIGHER-UPS ' I ''HE kidnaping of young John O'Connell at Albany and of the aged banker Luer In Illinois has aroused the nation as at no time since the Lindbergh tragedy. Kidnaping and its twin terror, racketeering, are growing. They are coming to be among the most prosperous of America's young industries. Month by month the gangsters grow bolder. In eight kidnapings in the last five months, the criminals have demanded sums aggregating $050,000. Racketeering constantly is spreading to new fields, permeating industries that deal in the necessities of life, costing many millions annually in tribute from consumers. Extortion has become big business. It was prohibition, of course, that nurtured these crimes. But by ending prohibition we shall not end its offspring. The extortion terror must be dealt with now and after repeal. The federal government appears eager to act. The department of justice promises to lead a war on gangsterism. A senate committee, headed by Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, is investigating. The President is incensed over the recent outrages against the life, liberty, and property of peaceful citizens. Since the business of extortion frequently is an interstate enterprise, the government and the states should act in concert. They should outlaw the private possession of machine guns and regulate machine gun factories. They effectively should control importation and interstate traffic in other weapons. And they should not stop with the arrest and conviction of small criminals. Organized crime can not grow to such power without the connivance of business interests and intrenched political rings. The trafficker in machine guns should be punished along with the user. The political fixer who protects racketeer mobs is also a public enemy. The business man who enters a conspiracy for the purposes of extortion is a criminal. no matter how respectable the circle in which he moves. To jail a few Capones for income tax evasion while ignoring those who profit from their deeds is to make a mockery of law. THE SUPERCABINET THE chief weakness of the Roosevelt administration has been lack of co-ordina-tion. Too often its right hand does not know what its left hand is doing. That is apt to occur in any new administration with inexperienced personnel, especially during the formative period. But the condition has become worse during the last few months, because of the large number of emergency agencies established. Despite a desire for teamwork, cabinet officers have found themselves bumping into one another and into a dozen new administrators and directors. There has been neither time nor machinery for apportioning work. Some of the new agencies have thrown up temporary bureaus, which duplicate work being done better in the old departments. So long as the President was in Washington laboring sixteen hours a day and in touch with new and old departmental chiefs, there was a degree of spontaneous co-ordination. But when the President went on vacation, chaos grew. When he returned to Washington, only a few days’ observation was required to convince him of the need of reform. Now he is trying to solve the problem in a very intelligent fashion. He has created an executive council, consisting of the cabinet, the budget director, and nine of the new administrators. One of the two cabinet meetings a week will be transformed into an executive council meeting. This system under a weak President easily might, result in more confusion and delay. But under President Roosevelt it probably will produce more unity of command and quicker execution of G. H. Q. orders. ONE COURSE LEFT A FEW years ago a great many Americans would have been disturbed seriously by announcement that their navy was to be built up forthwith to treaty strength and made literally second to none. Today the news that this is to be done bothers hardly any one; and this change of attitude measures the failure of American efforts to get the other nations of the world to agree on an effective disarmament program. ' No peace-loving American need be ashamed of his country's record in respect to disarmament, i Shortly after the close of the World war. the United States fleet, counting vessels already built, vessels laid down, and vessels definitely appropriated for, was by far the most powerful fleet ever dreamed of. If the program then in effect had been completed, no other navy on earth could have hoped to cope with American sea strength. The Washington conference saw this country voluntarily throwing away the finest fighting ships ever built. X Os our own free will we scrapped our newest and strongest warships, accepted parity \fith England and pledged ourselves not to siek naval superiority. i That was a magnificent beginning. But it \*as not followed up; and the fault for that failure does not rest on the American government. Repeatedly during the next decade Washington sought to extend the arms reduction treaty and scale down world navies, and repeatedly other powers refused to go along. Some times it was England that stood In the way, some times France, some times Japan. A M a result. It has been made very apparent that world sentiment has not reached the

point at which any genuine, far-reaching naval disarmament program is possible. We have tried, we have made sacrifices, but it is no go. We have what Is left of the Washington treaty, but there is no likelihood that anything better can be obtained for years to come. That being the case, what is there left to do but build up to treaty strength? The time has not come in which we can discard our defenses. If we continue to maintain any navy at all, it has to be a good one; and since no one else is willing to go with us on anew reduction program, we hardly can do anything else than make our navy the best that the existing treaty permits.

AN ORIENTAL QUOTA A MERICANS of good will and good sense hope that congress next winter will place oriental countries under the quota law. Congress’ quixotic action of 1924 in abrogating the gentleman’s agreement and excluding Japanese along with other orientals ineligible to citizenship was a needless affront to a proud nation and one that still rankles. To permit such an irritant longer to mar America's peaceful relations with its Pacific neighbors would be excusable only if it were necessary to protect American institutions. This is not the case. A quota for oriental nations, based on the national origins law, would admit annually only 185 Japanese, including whites born in Japan. China could send in 105 nationals of the non-laboring class. Minimum quotas of 100 each would be permitted other oriental countries, but the bulk of these would be filled by whites or relatives of American citizens and resident aliens. Few more, if any, orientals than now come in would be allowed to enter. In no conceivable way would the change injure our institutions or our living standards. Each year the great and growing nations of the east become our closer neighbors. Our annual trade with Japan and China is approaching the billion-dollar mark. The Pacific is the ocean of destiny, the theater of future grep.t events. Good neighbors do not affront each other with petty slights. The world, heaven knows, has enough sore spots without this senseless discrimination of ours against Pacific powers and peoples. Since we can remove it without harm to ourselves, let us do so.

OLD STUFF? "ITTHILE most folks see in the New Deal * * some novel changes, to Dr. H. Parker Willis of Columbia it’s just a hash of “antique and discarded theories,” a dragging from the lumber room of “broken down mental furniture of the past generations.” “Our internationalism is extreme protection,” he told the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, “Our industrial recovery is subsidy to special groups of interests; our labor policy is the craft guild monopoly of the later Middle Ages; our gold embargo is neo-mercantilism.” Maybe so. But why condemn the New Deal for being old? There's nothing new under the sun, saith the Old Testament preacher. University of Chicago scientists recently deciphered clay tablets to learn that the Assyrians more than 4,000 years ago adopted the five-day week to take up the slack of idleness. Records show that the Egyptians of the Nile valley, some 700 years B. C., had a 10 per cent inheritance tax. The ancient Jews forgave all debtors every seven years and established a city of refuge for debt-ridden families. And now our debutantes are riding bicycles for fun. President Roosevelt's trial-and-error method is as old as the tactics of the Roman general Fabius Maximus. But we shall not mind if the New Deal be as old as antiquity, so long as it works. UNION LABOR’S OPPORTUNITY /GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON'S blunt statement that it is not the purpose of the industrial recovery act to unionize all American labor emphasizes sharply the responsibility and the opportunity which rests today upon the leaders of the American Federation of Labor. Under the new law, as General Johnson points out, full unionization is possible. The government will see to it that organized labor gets a break. It won't permit big industrialists to compel their men to stay unorganized. But it isn’t going to do any spoon-feeding. If there is to be complete unionization, the job must be done by organized labor itself. That puts it squarely up to the A. F. of L. The chance of a lifetime is open for that organization today; if it has the energy and intelligence to take advantage of it, it can win more power than it ever dreamed of before. But Uncle Sam won’t do the job for it.

PROHIBITION’S RECORD T> ECORDS of the United States prohibition bureau at Washington show that the federal government, in its thirteen-year effort to enforce prohibition, has imposed a total of more than 40.000.000 days in jail sentences and fines which add up to around $71,000,000. Those figures look pretty impressive; and yet, when you stop to analyze them, and take into consideration the tremendous extent of the illegal liquor traffic since 1920, it is easy to see that they are not, really, as large as they should have Deen. They are. tnat is to say, a record of failure and not a record of success. Avery large part of the present revulsion against the prohibition law unquestionably arises from the fact that it has not been well enforced, as evidenced by the success of A1 Capone and other underworld leaders. Those prohibition bureau figures, high as they are, should have been a great deal higher. That they are not is one of the reasons why the movement to repeal the eighteenth amendment has met, so far, with so much success. Colonel Lindbergh is listed as “master" in tire clearance papers he obtained for his airplane flight to the Arctic with Mrs. Lindbergh. If there's any attempt at backseat driving, all he'll have to do is show his credentials. New York state officials have ruled that sale of blood for transfusion purposes is taxable under the state’s new sales tax law. Apparently these tax-gatherers believe there’s tlots of money in circulation.

HOUSING PRINCIPLES npHE resolutions adopted by the National Conference on Slum Clearance, meeting in Cleveland, demonstrates the hard-headed enlightenment of the men who participated in it. They did not*dodge the question of land prices, which has been giving concern to a lot of people. * Here are some paragraphs from the report, separated in the text, illustrating the fact that the members of the conference were fully aware of some of the questions raised by opponents of certain specified plans; Speculative profit should not be countenanced in any housing project. No extortionate prices should be paid for land, keeping in mind that the more money that is spent for land, the less is available for labor and materials. While the power of eminent domain is highly desirable for low-cost housing, we realize that recourse to such procedure may involve such delay that may be fatal to a project. In this emergency it is our belief that public opinion can be and should be aroused to impress owners of and with their duty to accept fair prices for their land, as fixed by disinterested and qualified appraisers. . . . When slum clearance and sufficiently lowcost housing can not be obtained otherwise, this conference recommends formation of nonpolitical state or local public housing authorities eligible to receive grants as well as loans for such purpose, and that in states where local governments do not now have the power to establish such public housing authorities, legislatures of such states should, as soon as possible, pass the necessary enabling act. . . .

ROUND ONE /'OKLAHOMA, for twenty-six years of its statehood as dry as neighbor Kansas, goes two to one for three point two, and Governor “Alfalfa Bill” Murray calls off his national guardsmen from the freight sheds to let the beer wagons load the kegs. “It looks as if this were the end of the first round and that we’ve suffered a knockout,” unclerically spoke the Rev. A. M. Jayne, head of Oklahoma's “Prohibition Thousands.” Round two comes when the Sooner state votes on repeal. That will be whenever the legislature decrees an election, probably this year. The ringside dope is that this also will result in a knockout. “I wrote it because I need the cash,” says Senator Huey Long, referring to his new autobiography. Apparently, here is a man who wants very little credit for what he has done in life. The little town of Tiskiwila, 111., has a minister who has gained fame as a magician. Just the sort of man any church needs these days to raise money to pay off its debts. “The modern girl is always on her toes,” declares a woman educator. Yes, we’ve noticed those high heels, too. Judging by those glowing reports of sudden activity from busy industrial centers, when business finally did turn the corner it turned it on two wheels. “Secretary Wallace rebukes lowa bakers for boosting bread prices”—news item. Does that mean he objects to raisin bread? Cleveland ball player was sued for $50,000 by southern girl, w T ho claims he socked her in the eye in argument following the discovery of a run in her stocking. Score: one run, one hit, one error. “Man often forgets the present,” sagely observes a college president. Many wives will agfree that this is true on wedding anniversaries. The height of futility, in our estimation, would be a pickpocket to ply his trade at a nudist camp. John D. Rockefeller declared that his golf game is slipping, when interviewed on his 94th birthday. However, the aged oil king still is determined to break 100.

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BRUSHING aside the smoke screen of details and technicalities which obscures the real issue, it becomes apparent that the kind of stabilization advocated by European governments was utterly irreconcilable with the Roosevelt recovery program. The Roosevelt recovery program was and still is dependent on depreciation of the dollar. By reducing the gold content of their coin, or by going off the gold standard, European governments had succeeded in putting American business on the spot. When he took office last March, President Roosevelt found this country strangled by high money on the one hand and low prices and wages on the other. In large measure this condition was the result of European economic policy. The President had no choice, but to propose such measures and adopt such plans as were necessary to put the dollar back in line. In no other way could prices be advanced, wages increased, and American business rejuvenated. an u SUCH progress as we have made toward recovery during the last four months is due entirely to depreciation of the dollar in comparison with other currencies, but, as the President points out, there must be more. It is obvious that we could not go on lowering the dollar under such a scheme of stabilization as was proposed in London. President Roosevelt was confronted with the alternative of jeopardizing his program or blocking the scheme. The fact that he chose the latter course, even though it seemed to imply a change of mind on his part, should be regarded as an example of wisdom and courage. It would have been stupid, if not treasonable, to bind this country to an agreement that restored the greatest handicap under which it has labored during the last two years. If the President had accepted stabilization as proposed by the gold bloc, the dollar not only would have begun to rise, but would have been pegged as it rose, while stocks, prices, and wages in this country would have suffered an immediate decline. nan “ \ LL right.” say some of the President's /V critics, “but why did he fail to foresee and forestall such an embarrassing situation?” The chances are that he foresaw it. but realized how gravely he would have been misunderstood and misrepresented had he tried to forestall it. The President could not have refused to join or indorse the London conference without jeopardizing his recovery program as well as his administration. No matter what he foresaw, he had to go through with the proposition up to a certain point, had to let the weaknesses and defects of stabilization reveal themselves, had to give people, not only here but abroad, time and opportunity to understand the basic issue. President Roosevelt has announced the doctrine that recovery within nations is the only way to bring about recovery among nations. The doctrine is shocking only because it interferes with certain fantastic theories. In time, everybody will recognize it as sound.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readerb are invited to express their views in these columns, ilahe your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By an Observer I read the letter signed “Swimmer” in your columns of July 7, speaking of conditions at public bathing beaches. What he said is true, but it seems that any publicspirited citizen could remedy matters by staying at home and using the old family bathtub to keep cool during the hot summer days. A can of clean-up powder would remove the rings from the tub and make it safe from contamination. Our fathers did so back in the days before 1900, and they got along very well, at that. Every one had a bath and the city was saved the expense of providing baths to any one with car fare and a bathing suit. Why should Indianaoplis spend thousands of dollars for public bathing beaches when a bathtub can be purchased from $1:50 to $100? Funds are short in the city treasury, even more so than some of the bathing suits to be seen on the beaches. People are in the soup lines, needing soup. A bowl of soup does more good to suffering humanity than a hundred gallons of river water on a well-fed body. Conditions, financially, may be worse in the future for the city. The police, the firemen, the school teachers earn their money and deserve to be paid, so why worry about public baths? Let the public stay away from the beaches till the depression is over in 1945 and give the frogs a chance to make whoopee. They have only the summer time to swim, for they sleep all winter. By Mary McLeod I wish to thank The Times for its interest in the welfare of the residents of Hazelhatch drive. The people who live on this road, taken over by the county last spring, endured many hardships because the road was in impassable condition after every hard rain. The children, when in school, had to wade through mire to go to the bus. I asked the county commissioners and Mr. Short, county surveyor for fifteen months, to fix up the road, for we had great expense with repairs to cars so we could get in and out. The county commissioners and Mr. Short promised, but did nothing till The Times got after them. They

This is the third article in a series on first-aid. SINCE the loss of blood is weakening, people who have lost large amounts should be kept in bed and all possible movements avoided. They should be given plenty of nutritious foods and plenty of fluids. A physician will prescribe suitable drugs and medical preparations for building up the blood after a hemorrhage. A few more suggestions along the line of first-aid measures to control bleeding are in order— Sometimes there is bleeding from a varicose vein of the leg. Under such circumstances, the person should lie down, the foot be well elevated, a clean pad of gauze applied and compressed lightly with a bandage. Such a condition, however, is on? -that calls for good medical atten-

A Voice From the Grave!

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First Aid to Control Bleeding Outlined ------= BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN _ni i

THE subject of gold-digging women has been brought up by a Knoxville (Tenn.> gentleman. He wants to know why sensible people promote it and if it is so deplorable, how it can be abolished? I dislike to disappoint the man, but my opinion is that gold-digging as a feminine occupation never will disappear entirely. Since it always has proved the easiest method for lovely ladies to obtain a livelihood, why should it? It became fashionable in the first place during those centuries when women were forced to get their security and their bread as best they could. Lacking any more noble means, they used their wits to promote their charms. And being neither blind new completely dumb, they soon noticed that the gold-diggers fared rather better

My Policy By Frank L. Martino TT is my policy, as it should be the policy of every other American citizen of foreign extraction, and others, to help preserve the ideals and sacred traditions of this, our adopted country, the United States of America; to revere its laws and inpire others to respect and obey them; to strive unceasingly to quicken the public’s sense of civic duty; in all ways to aid in making this country greater and better than we found it. Furthermore, let us be united into a universal, loving brotherhood and sisterhood, and let us boost our adopted country, our state, and the city in which we are living and earn our livelihood and where we bring up and educate our children. Let us remember forever that on us, our conduct, and our manners depend the success or failure of our sons and daughters. The words “think work and smile,” should be our daily slogan.

then put some boulders in the deep ruts and sand on the road, for which we are grateful. Two weeks ago, I saw Mr. Short about putting on gravel. He said “Why, haven’t they put any gravel on that road yet?” I said, “No. When are you going to?” He said, “Real soon, and if they don’t, I will, if I have to carry it myself.” This was only about the hundredth time he promised to gravel it. To date, no gravel, and when the fall rains come, the road will be impassable again. There is a county road graded and graveled from Sixty-second street

Daily Thought

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou are made whole, sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee—St. John 5:14. IF thou wouldst conquer thy weakness. thou must, never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil; his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome—William Penn.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hvzeia, the Health Magazine. tion and a physician should be summoned. In very severe wounds, packing may be attempted, a sufficient amount of sterile gauze being put into the wound and held in place, but obviously medical attention is demanded immediately. Very serious is a sudden hemorrhage from the lungs which occurs occasionally in tuberculosis. The person so affected should be put to bed immediately, kept absolutely quiet and an ice bag applied to the chest. Obviously, such hemorrhages demand careful and immediate study as to the presence of tuberculosis. Whenever there is bleeding from the scalp, an attempt should be made to stop the blood by applying

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

in many ways than those who depended solely upon their cooking and dishwashing abilities. Men, we must remember, ever have lavished their money most generously upon the charming women, while the hard-working and utilitarian sort went unpaid and unsung. a a a TF we ever are able to set up a social order in which women are actually as economically independent as men—and that is perhaps just another Utopian dream—and if we ever can develop men who will appreciate women, not for thenlooks and pretty ways, but for their contribution to civilization —then gold digging may disappear. I do not anticipate living to see that day dawn.

north to New Augusta road. This road hasn’t a house on it and is about IV2 miles in length. A blind road (Fifty-ninth street) running east of Michigan road into Crooked creek, with but two houses on it, is graded and graveled. Hazelhatch runs between Sixtyfirst and Sixty-second streets, and has ten houses, with seventeen children of school age who take the bus at either Sixty-first or Sixty-second street. Are we not entitled to fair treatment? We appreciate what you have done, but since the road has been taken over by the county commissioners, ought they not to finish their job?

So They Say

The world suffers less from ignorance than from failure to act upon what it knows.—Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, lexicographer. I always have had faith in women and they always have dressed properly, and therefore we have no restrictions (on type of suits women bathers shall wear at city swimming pools.)—Lionel Evans, park commissioner, Youngstown, O. We need anew party of moral ideas, a party that stands for the policy of prohibition.—Mrs. Ella Boole, former president, W. C. T. U. I am renouncing Hollywood completely; for 350.000 followers of Mohammed, economic problems do not exist.—Rex Ingram, movie producer, convert to Mohammedanism. A forty-hour week in industry generally would not scratch the surface of our job of putting a large number of unemployed back to work.— Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator. Any religion that does not help to keep people young has something deeply the matter with it.—The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick. World-wide conditions were a contributory cause to our disaster, but we must admit our deplorable state is largely of our own creation. Senator Arthur Capper, Kansas. The Roosevelt “Raw Deal” is the biggest bologny ever perpetrated.— Howard Scott, technocrat.

a pad of gauze. If this does not work satisfactorily, a tight band may be put around the forehead to compress the blood vessels. It is well to remember that tourniquets applied or kept on too long may do much more harm than good. Almost anyone can wrap a piece of gauze from a roller bandage around an arm or a leg or the forehead. To put on a bandage that will stay in place, that will remain sterile and will serve the purpose satisfactorily is a job really for an expert. The average person should not attempt to learn bandaging. It is as much an artistic performance as playing the piano and probably more artistic than playing the saxophone. NEXT: What to do to save a person from drowning.

Let me ask a question in my turn Why should we malign the women who get their living by their wits and in the easiest fashion? Thousands of men do likewise and are not discredited for it. To sell fake affection is really no worse than to sell fake bonds. So far as giving value for what one receives, the women are perhaps more admirable than those gentlemen who get their living by sundry shady transactions. For the former at least offer something their charm, their beauty, their attention, themselves. But I've known men oil promoters to exchange shares in a dry hole for large cash pa3'ments. When all men get their living by industry and honesty, it will be time for them to slander any form of feminine occupation.

.JULY 13, 1933

It Seems to Me “BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

NEW YORK, July 12.—1 always have been in favor of improving the breed of horses. Particularly I would like to see an improvement in those which are named as being sure to win. Twice a year I go to some local track to lend my support to Mr. Darwin and some friendly layer of odds. Fortunately, I have nothing on my conscience. No bookmaker ever has been evicted from nis fourteen-room fiat on my account. When I come back after a hard day’s study of the charts and tips, the only reply that I can make to those who ask me how things went is to reply that the weather was above reproach. It is possible that my lack of success in the evil business of gambling depends upon my failure to grasp the language of those who would guide the footsteps of recruits for the primrose path. Thus when I look through the comments on the first race, let us say, I find that Zaidee "has a nice turn of speed,” Nut Brown Maid “appears ready for a victory,” Red Badge “will bear watching” and Hale Tower is “worth a bet.” st ts a Those Kindly Critics NATURALLY, I am aware that not all these four contenders can win the laurels, but I am confused by the diversity of counsel offered by a single critic. I try desperately to decide whether I should pick the one who will "bear watching" or the rival with “a nice turn of speed.” In the end the effort proves to have been academic, because the winner turns out to be something called Sadie W„ who up to the time of the finish never had been mentioned. Once I had a system, but it has availed me nothing of late. I liked to bet on gray horses, because they stood out in the crowd. Natural selection has weeded them out. Now the best I can do is to select coal black steeds or those bearing some solid and substantial color, such as a nile green. Unlike many visitors to the track, I am moderately indifferent as to whether I win or lose. I am convinced that money you get in that way does you no good. At least, so I have been told. I’ve never tried it. But I am not much for those losing horses w’hich, as the saying goes, “give you a run for your money.” There is something soothing in picking a long shot (I think her name was Fluffy Jane) who is last 1 at the eighth, the same at the quarter and likewise all the way ’round. A' good consistent horse of that sort puts no strain upon the heart or vaso-motor system. The backer Is able to relax from the very start and say, “She knows her place.” You don’t have to worry about her. a a st Taking It Calmly WITH the onrush of age, I take - my racing much more casually than once was my wont. In younger days I walked between each contest to the paddock and studied the entries with an unknowing eye. I used to fancy that every now and then I could get a nod from one of the nags. In fact, I think I did. But I never was adept in the language. Some times the passing bow of recognition meant no more than, “I who am about to run last salute you.” I never have been able to distinguish between a horse’s “Yea” and “Nay.” But, after all, it is the spectacle which interests me. My ear is attracted by the roar of the crowd. As the colors flash down the stretch what do I care whether my selection is eleventh or sixteenth? As somebody or other has said a good many times, “It isn’t whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.” St St St Kings and Commoners RACING is the sport of kings, and a commoner is lucky to be allowed to watch. When the revo- | lution comes, there won’t be any more racing, and I will save a lot of money, even if I have to dig ditches or get shot. Yet I think that any ardent radical ought to approve of gambling in all its forms. Gambling serves to teach us that money isn’t everything. It shows up the profit motive by illustrating the fact that success has little to do with honest effort and is dependent simply upon blind chance. On the turf and under it we are all equal. I know no surer way in W’hich a man can undertake to share his fortune with all the world than to play the selections with which I have been favord recently. But am I aownheartened ? You can bet your life I am. If I don’t win so much as one bet the next time out, the breed can go back into its primitive pygmy state as far as I’m concerned. I'm a good laser. In fact, I’m a fine loser, but I'm afraid if I can’t manage to break training I may go a little stale. (CoDvrizht 1933, bv The Times)

To You

P,Y JOHN ROSE O’er the hills of dream you are calling me. Heart of my heart, through the silver mist Os the rain of a world of splintered stars On the breast of a sea of amethyst. On the harp of the night strange rhythm plays, A star like a woman's face in mist Embroiders the velvet of dusk with light And sink in the sight of a broken tryst. But I know, though I wait a thousand years, The star will return and music that blew. Will fly through luminous clouds of desire On the destined wings of the soul of you. I know! For though strings of the harp be stilled And sun and moon never rise again, The souls which in love's beginning are one Can never in life or death be twain.