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DEPRESSION CAN’T CURE SELF cpHE American people are being given the chance thus summer to make one of the most colossal mistakes imaginable. Business is reviving more rapidly than we had thought possible. Factory chimneys are smoking again, trains are moving, men are going back to work; and the very speed with which all this is happening carries with it a danger which is very real, even if it is not obvious. Our chance to make a mistake lies simply in this: Because things are picking us so rapidly, we may conclude that the alterations which have been outlined for our inherited economic framework are unnecessary. We may, in other words, delude ourselves into thinking that the "normal processes” of business recovery will put people back to work, lestore buying power, and bring back prosperity unaided. According to the classical theories of economics, that is precisely what ought to happen. But already it is becoming evident that unless cur industrial machine is held under strict and intelligent control, we merely shall be gathering momentum for anew plunge into the ditch. And one more plunge would just about finish the machine, and its riders as well. The successful working of our traditional system depends entirely on the impetus supplied by the profit motive. In the last few weeks the profit motive has impelled industry to adopt certain tactics which inevitably must betray any recovery which is made. Retail prices are rising faster than wages. Production is outstripping employment. Manufacturers are hurrying to pile up surplus stores of goods before high wages go into effect. The diehards are preparing to fight organized labor. The business pickup has caused certain industries to grow cold on the industrial control plan. Now these developments do not indict the individuals responsible; they indict the traditional economic system under which these individuals have to operate. They reveal in It flaws which must be fatal unless they are corrected. depression is going to end automatically, so that these correctives are not needed, we shall have nothing but trouble. We need to remember every minute that the dawning recovery can not be permanent or healthy unless a very real restraint is put upon the scramble for profits. BUSINESS WEATHER CHARTS SECRETARY OF LABOR FRANCES PERKINS has been seeking the best man to head the United States bureau of labor statistics. The job requires not only an honest fact-finder, but a courageous labor economist. In Dr. Isador Lubin of Brookings Institution in Washington, Miss Perkins has found such a man. The new commissioner, in addition to his brilliant academic record in several universities, has had practical experience. He advised with Senator Wagner on public works and jobless exchanges. He aided Senator LnFollette in the notable national planning hearing, forerunner of the Roosevelt industrial recovery law. Before the depression, he warned of the coming unemployment crisis. He has fought for emergency public works, national planning, short work week, minimum wages, old age pensions, abolition of child labor, free jobless exchanges. The importance of labor statistics is incalculable. They are to business and government what weather reports are to mariners and aviators. Unless our labor statistics, our ousiness weather charts, are adequate and reliable, > we are apt to crack up. Those charts have not always been trustworthy. I Dr. Lubin can be trusted. POLICE SALARIES V\/ ITH further reductions in the city budget almost certain, some extremists will demand deeper cuts in police salaries. Acquiescence to such a demand would be a mistake. The police already are working under greatly reduced wages. In addition, they cheerfully are putting in hours of overtime so that efficiency may be maintained, despite the depletions which necessary : economies have made in the force. Indianapolis has reasons to be proud of the depression record of its peace officers. While other cities hopelessly have watched their law enforcement agencies sink into impotence, this community has remained singularly free from gangsters and racketeers. The acid test still is ahead of all police. With the vanishing of the enormous illegal profits from bootlegging, gunmen will be seek- . ing new ways to make a living. Already there is evidence that beer rtmning gangs, deprived of their revenues by 3.2 fermented beverages, are turning to the sinister crime of kidnaping. : Indianapolis is certain to have its share of unemployed thugs in the next year or two. * It can not afford to risk the demoralization of its excellent police force simply to effect I temporary' economies. REAL MEN, THESE AVIATORS | 'T'HAT Jimmy Mattem finally turned up t alive and uhurt in a remote Siberian vil- | lage surprised no one who knew what a I capable filer this young man really is. > That he wanted very much to get anew jfljine and continue his solo flight around the . World is not so very' surprising either, if you “ know Jimmy. . The aviator is of a breed apart, nowadavsj

The Governor Acts —AS EDITORIAL ——

'T'HE instant that Governor McNutt heard ■*- the nauseating mess at the state penal farm he moved into action. After a rapid, but comprehensive, investigation, he transferred Ralph Howard from the Pendleton reformatory to the superintendency of the farm. He did not select Mr. Howard because of his political affiliations. Mr. Howard is a wellknown Republican. He chose Mr. Howard because he has had seventeen years’ experience at the farm, because he is an experienced penologist, because the reputation of the farm was good while Mr. Howard was there before, and because he is known as a rigid, though just, disciplinarian. Indiana is fortunate in having a Governor who is not afraid to act. Prison conditions similar to those at the farm have made the name of Georgia a byword in enlightened circles throughout the world. Georgia's Governors have chosen to pussyfoot, temporize, and play politics with their chain gang problem and thus brought disgrace upon the state. Governor McNutt has shown that he can act boldly and wisely, with no thought of immediate political consequences. anyway. Dangers and difficulties that would daunt the rest of us look unimportant to him; if they didn’t we should have no trans-Atlantic flights, no highspeed records, no world flights, no aviation at all. For daring, determination and endurance, the ordinary flier these days puts the rest of us to shame. • That's the way it seems to be with Jimmy Ma'ctern. He undertakes a highly difficult and hazardous flight, cracks up, barely escapes with his life —and then, instead of hurrying home to sit by the fire and thank his stars that he Is alive, he hollers for anew plane and prepares to keep going. A FAMOUS NOVELIST PASSES SIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS, better known to thousands of Americans as plain Anthony Hope, certainly won't be remembered as one of England’s great novelists. But the news of his recent death was assuredly unwelcome to a very large number of people, and the work that he did brought entertainment and excitement to an enormous circle of readers. Anthony Hope, in case you have forgotten, wrote “The Prisoner of Zenda.” He was the writer who discovered that an especial kind of romance, decked out with tinsel and invested with an enchanting aura of never-w-as, could be thrown over those small kingdoms and principalities of central and eastern Europe. In a day when men w T ere finding it hard to take the pretensions of dying monarchy seriously, he transplanted the whole business to a make-believe land and revived its glamour. His books never w r ere profound or weighty —but they were good reading, and they form a not inconsiderable part of the romantic background against which many of us spent our youth. THE SPOILS SYSTEM AGAIN npHE Hon. William F. Stevenson, former South Carolina congressman and popularly known as “Seaboard Bill,” heads the federal home ow-ners’ loan corporation. Quite frankly, he is filling the new jobs under this $2,200,000,000 concern with deserving Democrats. The other day a reporter asked him what had happened to the merit system. “What system?” was Mr. Stevenson’s innocent rejoiner. Too many others in Washington have forgotten that the merit system is and has been for fifty years the American policy. While 250.000 qualified civil service men and women remain jobless, hundreds of new places are being filled under the spoils method. Scores of merit men have been fired from the Reconstruction Finance corporation, to be replaced by “Farleymen.” Civil service requirements were deleted from most of the new emergency laws, and, while many excellent appointments have been made, hordes of spoilsmen swarm the new offices, demanding preferment for their friends. Such services as the securities administration, Glass-Steagall banking regulation, commerce and agriculture are resisting the fouryear locusts with scant success. The merit and spoils systems have come to a head-on collision. Recent declarations reveal President Roosevelt's desire to adhere to the traditions of Lincoln. Hayes. Cleveland, the first Roosevelt, and other defenders of the merit system. He announces that in rehiring into emergency jobs those dropped from the federal service under economy, civil service employes will be given preference. He is reported as favoring an advisory board to hear appeals of dismissed civil service workers. He has instructed Postmaster General Farley to prepare legislation placing first, second, and third class postmasters under civil service next year, but meanwhile letting the bars down to politicians. It is important for the morals and efficiency of the federal services that the President restrain the spoilsmen. THE CRAZY ONES r l 'HEY jeered Copernicus’ theory of the planetary system. They persecuted Galileo for demonstrating it. They laughed at Nikola Tesla for saying that cosmic rays rained on the earth. The years rolled on and vindicated the derided ones. Now, at 77, Nikola Tesla is carrying on in the old tradition, announcing again that he has something new—this time the discovery of a hitherto unknown source of energy—■ saying that probably the world will laugh and once more call him crazy, saying he does not care what the world calls him, for the world will be wrong. Copernicus and Galileo and a valiant band of other pathfinders in the darkness of the race's ignorance were like that, too. President Roosevelt, announcing he hopes to take off seven pounds he gained while on his vacation, should find encouragement in the old proverb that all things comes to him who weights.

The rest of the job now is up to Mr. Howard. If he is worthy of the Governor's trust —and w r e believe he is—he will strike the chains from the legs of those minor offenders who are sent to the farm. He will eliminate the practice of handcuffing human beings for days to cell doors. He sternly will stop physical violence inflicted by ignorant bullies wearing the uniform of the state. He will install a strict and evenhand. and system of discipline, based upon justice instead of upon the blackjack, the club, the manacles. Above all, Mr. Howard will remember that the majority of the farm inmates are not desperadoes with felony records, but men who have committed only petty offenses against society. He will bear in mind that most of his charges can be saved and sent back to their communities as useful citizens. So, roll up your sleeves, Mr. Howard. Your state, your Governor, and your fellow citizens expect you to remove this stain from Indiana’s reputation. They know that you are the man who can do it. RECESS THE CONFERENCE \TOW that the world economic conference has become little more than a face-sav-ing enterprise, the American delegation seems to be making matters no better by remaining in London. The heads of several major delegations, including the French and Italian, have gone home. The conference has no real life left in it. Apparently the only excuse for keeping the body around after the spirit has fled is that no one wants to be blamed for killing it. That excuse is not necessary. No one nation Is to blame for killing the conference. The conference should not have been held. When it opened, this newspaper and others pointed out that its chances of success were almost nil. Certainly there was and is enough world economic chaos to justify the nations trying to get together. But it was clear in the spring that, however great the incentive, the nations w'ere not in any sense prepared to negotiate their economic disputes. They w'ere not ready and still are not ready to sacrifice their partisan positions. Under such circumstances, the limelight and the ballyhoo of a world conference only increases the friction. President Roosevelt says that an increased price level at home and abroad is the important immediate job. Therefore, obviously the Washington government is not at the moment free to conduct serious international negotiations, but must concentrate at home. If the President wants other nations to follow his example of public works, higher wages and shorter hours, and inflation, obviously that can not be achieved at London, but is a Job for each government to attempt at home. The United States not being ready to negotiate on the major international problems of tariff reduction, war debts, and monetary stabilization, it would be sensible to recess the conference for a few weeks or months. Hollywood story says no sooner do newly married movie stars begin to get really acquainted with each other than they want a divorce. Probably that explains it. Husbands who complain they never get a kick out of life might try making a tactless remark while sitting opposite the wife at a dinner table when guests are present. Citing low distillery stocks, government forecasts serious whisky shortage when repeal is ratified. Already prohibition leaders can be heard singing: “In the Sweet Dry and Dry.”

M. E.Tracy Says:

WE talk about buying power as though it w’ere solely a matter of wages and income. It seems to be taken for granted that if people have cash, they not only will spend it, but spend it for those commodities and services in w’hich certain lines of business are interested. Ten years ago, w’e accepted buying power as something which could be stimulated, if not developed, by advertising and salesmanship, and competition was supposed to help, because of the energy it put into both. Right now', we appear to be sold on the idea that competition can be restricted, if not eliminated, without lessening the force of advertising and salesmanship and that buying power will emerge automatically with the increase of wages and income. The increase of wages and income is bound to be reflected in a price advance. Meanwhile, three years of depression have made price a rather important element in buying power. All this explains why the administration at Washington is so desirous of holding prices to the lowest possible level. a a a ANYTHING like a sharp advance in prices at this time probably would result in a buyers’ strike. Asa whole, the people of this country are interested in accumulating, rather than in spending. Most of them are loaded with overdue debts, or have had to neglect their property. The necessity of paying old bills and making repairs overshadows everything else. Making repairs will provide a large amount of w’ork if increased wages do not result in too high a cost. Added to this, hard times have taught many people the desirability of putting something aside. These considerations, as well as many others, suggest the improbability of a spending spree, no matter how rapidly stocks go up, or how swiftly wages advance. Disappointing as that may be to a few, it is good for the vast majority. Nothing did more to bring on the depression than unwise, extravagant spending. It not only robbed people of their reserves, but led to overproduction in many major lines. a a a / T n O state the problem in another way, we hit X a pace between 1925 and 1929 which we could not keep up, and which will break us, just as it did before, if we hit it again_ The recovery program, as outlined by administration authorities, is more dependent on a steady, consistent pull than on a stampede Business needs to be careful as well as optimistic! The thought that it can find an exhautless clover patch by writing a few codes ie dangerous. In the end. it will enjoy just such degree of prosperity as the public is willing to support, and no more. What the public is willing to support depends first on its ability, second on its taste, third on its idea of fair play, and fourth on its sense of tame. The public is price-conscious and taxconscious at the present moment. It is inclined to look for relief, rather than high doings, and to be thrifty rather than wasteful

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By a Sincere Times Reader. There appears to be a changed disposition and attitude on the part of proponents of the New' Deal as regards certain remarks made recently concerning speculation in stocks and bonds. This is indeed alarming to the WTiter, as the Democrats raised a great deal of ballyhoo concerning speculation. As we recall, they contended that speculation in stocks and bonds was mainly responsible for our present depression. We are at present facing another artificial and buoyant boom in speculative issues. There is more unwarranted manipulation in stocks than ever before, if w’e consider the present status of our economic system. Distressing factors are looming and it seems to me that if w r e are to enioy a change and anew deal, something should be done to check and regulate the unwarranted rise in stocks. What have the backers of the New Deal done about speculation? As I see it, very little. Certainly, the present prices of stocks are discounting earnings for years to come. It is my suggestion that the laborer come in for more wages and our nonproductive stockholders be satisfied with a reasonable return on their investment. It will be a great victory for the Democratic party to check speculation and seek ways and means of placing the barometer of future American activities in some medium other than the corrupt and parasitical Wall street exchange. Why not have a governmental regulated exchange, which w'ould, I am sure, remedy many of our present ills. By Subscriber. In all the talk about the New Deal and how' this country may be brought back to prosperity and sane living, I haven’t heard one big factor mentioned. This might be described as the old idea of "keeping up with the Joneses.” I think this had more to do with this country’s fall and is a bigger clog on recovery than anything else that could be imagined. Any one recognizes the fact that buying pow'er must be restored and that people must spend money if this nation is to get back on an even

THE perfect love match of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks has ended. “Why?” Thousands of romantic women will cry the question. There may be several reasons, but probably the main one is that there's no such thing as a perfect enduring human love and never will be. It. is to be hoped that the movie-mad sentimentalists will profit by this particular marital disaster —sad as it is. It conveys to us a much needed life lesson. Love, like all other things, is subject to change. It is not a fixed, irrevocable state, but a sort of building process which never is quite finished. Romance may flower alone, but it takes constant care to keep it alive so that it may develop into the blossom qf steady devotion.

Trying to Look Like Southern Gentry

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

First Aid May Avert Drowning Death —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

This Is the fourth article in a series on first aid. A MONG the most serious of emergencies that demand first aid is resuscitation after asphyxiation which may result from drowning, from electric shock or from exhaust gas poison. Occasionally, there may be asphyxiation from other sources, such as gas escaping from electric refrigerators. It has been estimated that 25 per cent of men and boys past twelve years of age do not know how to swim, and there are few' women who would be capable of swimming long enough or far enough *to save themselves in an emergency. When a person has been under water long enough to become unconscious—about four or five min-

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

The Dog Menace BY J. D. /~YNE of your readers wrote recently of the menace of dogs, stating that almost every day several reports of persons being bitten by dogs are received. I, too, have noticed this situation and wish to add my bit to the campaign for relief. In my neighborhood are three dogs which are allowed to run loose and no one can pass any of the houses w’here they are kept without being menaced. It is dangerous for even grown-ups and doubly so for children, w'ho can riot protect themselves. # I hear many people prate of their love for dogs and a lot of other soppy sentimentality about our dumb friends. But why should this be a screen for keeping a savage police dog that would be a menace even in the wilds of Alaska? I, for one, believe that it might be, a good thing for a shotgun squad to clean up this condition, so that we and our children may be safe. Why don’t the police do something about it? keel. But it must be borne in mind that the reckless spending of the 1928 era will not bring restoration. This still must be a nation of savers, buying enough to keep up a good standard of living, but not buying wildly and extravagantly. More homes have been wrecked and more persons thrown into bankruptcy by the mad effort to have as “good or better than the neighbors have” than for any other reason. Just because the neighbors happen to buy anew and flashy car,

Daily Thought

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgmnet, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.—Pslams, 1:5. HE that avoideth not small thoughts, by little and little falleth into greater. Thomas A. Kempis.

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

utes—first aid measures are of greatest importance to save life. Resuscitation by the manual method is important, because it is the quickest and most readily available. There are numerous devices for artifiicial resuscitation, but usually it is not well to wait until these come. Lay the patient on his stomach. Extend one arm directly over his head. Bend the other arm at the elbow' and rest the patient’s cheek on his hand, to keep the nose and mouth off the ground and free for breathing. Kneel facing forward, straddling the patient’s legs above the knees. Place the palms of the hands on each side of his back, just above the belt line and about four inches

Married people suffer disillusionment and despair because they seldom take this fact into consideration. They do not work to preserve love as they do to save material wealth, or even physical health. Yet the greatest sin we can commit against love is to take it entirely for granted. a a a CAN we expect such imperfect beings as men and women to create perfection in love? That hardly is reasonable, since the qualities we lack in ourselves our love also will lack. However, there’s no need to feel dowmeast about it. Our romantic delusions have their encouraging aspects. The search of mortals after perfect love is the quality that endows us with divinity* Our per-

some oriental rugs, an electric icebox and some high-priced porch furniture, John Smith thinks he has to do the same. Or, rather, in most instances, his wife thinks he must. If people could live with the idea in mind that they do not give a w’hoop what the neighbors have or what the neighbors think, this would be a far better country and a far better world. If the neighbors w'ant to live beyond their means, let them do it. But do your buying judiciously, spend within your income, and keep up a good normal standard of living. and you’ll find you're far ahead in the long run. In other words, let the Joneses go jump in the lake if they feel so inclined.

So They Say

No tailor alive can make a dapper lady-killer of a fat man. An ample stomach is death on clothes— Adolphe Menjou, movie actor. If there is one subject on which my knowledge is less than it is on income tax returns, I do not know it.—Otto H. Kahn (who paid no income tax for 1930, 1931 or 1932). Tax evasion may be fair enough according to law . . . but whenever we place the burden of life upon the shoulders of others, w r e cease to live according to the law of God.— Bishop William P. Remington, Oregon. Probably the greatest problem for modern civilization to solve is howcan individuals, communities, nations, and races learn to live together and solve their problems without bloodshed and war.—Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter, University of Denver. I’m w-illing to die for him. but not to be seasick for him.—Secretary of Interior Icke§, in declining to attend President Roosevelt's cabinet meeting aboard U. S. S. Indianapolis. though he later changed his mind and went.

apart, thumbs and fingers together, the little .fingers over and following the line of the ribs and the tips of fingers just out of sight. With arms straight, lean gradually forward, pressing downw-ard and forward and counting slowly one, two three. Snap your hands sideways off the patient's back. Sw-ing your body back, .counting slowly, four, five. Rest. Straighten the arms and repeat the pressure. To assist in timing the three movements of the straight-arm pressure, quickly release and swing back (about twelve a minute), repeat during the period of pressure, •'out goes the bad air”; snap off your hands and repeat, during the period of release, “In comes the good.” Keep working steadily until breathing begins and continues naturally. Next—Treatment of bruises.

petual quest for the unattainable is the most moving, albeit the most pathetic, trait that distinguishes us. The very preciousness of love derives from its evanescence. Its fragility enhances its value and it has become man’s most potent desire, because it so rarely is encountered or experienced. Each of us is a Ponce de Leon of the spirit, hunting for his mythical fountain. A little absurd, perhaps in his failures, but glorious in his questing. Let us gaze upon ourselves and know the truth. Though poor and pitiful in many ways, we are mighty in our strivings, and our greatest striving is after love—the one thing, the only thing, whose lack makes life unen-

JULY 14, 1933

It Seems to Me “ BY lIEYWOOD BROUN

TWTEW YORK, July 14.—Under ' the national recovery act, various industries are presenting their code for the approval of General Hugh Johnson. Seemingly none is too small to merit federal attention. Only the other day I noted that a plan had been prepared by the National Sash Weight Association. Now, when it comes to dull, blunt instruments, it seems to me that there should, m ail logic, be a code for columnists. But it will not be easy to get the lads in line Rugged individualism nas been the rule, with practically no co-opeiation. One of the first difficulties lies in the fact that there are so many different sorts of columns. It is not easy to make a general rule which will fit both those who deal with blessed events and those who are concerned with the gold content of the dollar. I suppose that the two famous Walters—Winchel! and Lipmann—are both columnists, and yet it must be a flexible code which will be elastic enough to include these two diverse energies. a a a Knows No Brothers IT will not help at all to say that Broadway columnists constitute a separate sect and should have their own organization. They are quite incapable of co-operation. Indeed, the average Broadway columnist exists chiefly by throwing mud at his competitor's washing. And even if it were agreed that the columnists’ code should not apply to the Broadway boys, but only to all others, definition still would be difficult. Once upon a time, and perhaps it was the Golden Age, a newspaper w’as concerned only with reporters and editorial writers. The reporter went out to ascertain what had happened in the world and submitted his factual report. The editorial writer took these happenings and proceeded to say whether he approved or disapproved, according to the policy of the paper. And naturally there were certain things, like floods, tornadoes, cyclones and such, concerning which no difference of opinion was possible. The entire press united in these circumstances to deplore the sad events. Jack Sharkey, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, was talking in public just the other night about the condition of modern journalism. It seemed to me that Mr. Sharkey spoke shrewdly. Although still a comparatively young man. the Lithuanian lily lover could remember back to a day when a boxing expert dealt in jabs and hooks and uppercuts. When Jeffries and Fitzsimmons w r ere in their prime, no one had heard of Dr. Sigmund Freud. At least, no one around the prize ring. If anybody was hit hard on the chin and went dowm, and if he remained for a count of ten, he w r as out. And that was the end of it. Not so today. The men wuth pencils, who knew no more than what they saw, have been edged out by the bright youngsters of an analytical generation. a a a Columbus and Columnists PERSONALLY I like the new way better. I think that many ring battles have been decided by a state of mind, and I welcome the new kingdoms which have been opened up by the new' explorers. But if we columnists, sporting or otherwise, are to come together to adopt a code for Washington’s approval, I think w'e may have to cede certain of our priviliges. Under the new deal I feel that most of our prejudices must go by the boards. On many occasions it has seemed to me that various w-ell-known professionals have been handled harshly by the commentators. And when I have asked the reason, the frank reply often has been, “I’ve never liked the so-and-so.” It is, of course, convenient to have a daily shot at space in which you may pay off people who, for one reason or another, are distasteful to you. But I believe that this will not be allowed under the code. I am afraid that under the new dispensation we all must sacrifice something of individuality in an effort to be a little fairer. I speak of this factor with vast regret. No one will suffer under the obligations to be scrupulous more than I. In fact, if the code is almost on us I probably shall take two weeks of having a final fling at all who lie within the range of my whims and prejudices. In fact, it will be very tough and maybe a little dull to be fair ail around. a an According to the Code BUT that, I think, must of necessity be included in the code. I am also fearful that Washington may take up the point about how many times a columnist may use the same column. I think that after two years have passed the game law' is off and that it may be reprinted even without acknowledgments. General Johnson may disagree. He may argue that all codes are designed to promote more jobs and that the columnist who has nothing to say should stand aside and give another fellow a chance. „ Although I might admit the justice of such a ruling, it would bear heavily on me. I doubt that I could be happy working only tw'O days a month. (CoDvrieht. 1933. bv The T rr.es) Exit Cabbages BY JAMES L. DILLEY’ No match in ugliness is found For cabbages sprawled on the ground. Their leaves invite no end of worms; Some big as snakes, some small a* germs. | To keep one watered well ’tw’ould take A river or a good-sized lake. ■ Next year in my back yard I’ll place Some tree shoots in my garden space. Firs and willows; beeches, too, Will grow where cabbages one* grew. For heaven knows 1 11 never see A cabbage lovely as a treel . j