Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1933 — Page 14

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THTRBDAY JULY JO 1933 A BLANKET RECOVERY ABODES for Individual industries are being presented to the recovery administration as rapidly as could he expected despite the delay and evasion of some short-sighted industries But a? best, several months of hearing and negotiations will be required to get most of the codes into operation. Meanwhile, commodity prices and the cost of living are rising rapidly. Os course the administration desires surh a lift in price levels But it had hoped that the price movement could be restrained until a compensating rise in wage levels and mass purchasing power occurred. There has been some increase in purchasing power. United States labor department figuies Just published -.how 500.000 more persons employed in June than in May, an increase of 7 per cent. But the increase is both inadequate and spotty. A few industries such as textiles and beer account for a disproportionate share. Hence the grave concern of the administration over the widening spread between prices and purchasing power. Unless the two curv’es ran ire brought rloser together soon, there will be a 'lump. Much of the manufacturing recovery to date has represented merely a movement of goods from factory to stores, middleman buying and stocking against further price rises. But merchants' shelves are filling and goods are not moving out into the hands of consumers with equal speed. To get more millions back to work quickly,, and more wages into the pockets of consumers with which to buy goods immediately, the cabinet recovery board and Administrator Hugh Johnson have recommended to the President a blanket code for all industry. In theory it would be temporary, operating only until all major individual codes can become effective It would be voluntary, depending upon the loyalty and intelligence of employers for compliance with shorter hour and higher wage provisions. The experiment should be and doubtless will be made as a temporary expedient. But It should not be permitted to sidetrack the safer and more efficient machinery for individual codes, set up by the recovery act. THE STATES MOVE T ABOR'S gains under the national recovery act. particularly the freeing of 10,000 Child mill hands through the textile code, obscure the quiet progress being made by the states toward social justice. l aws, always laggard, are catching up with public opinion. And the states, while lacking the courage of the federal government under President Roosevelt, gradually are coming into line. Legislatures of seven states just have passed minimum wage law’s for women and minors, bringing the total to sixteen. This is a better record than in the progressive years of 1912 and 1913 The new laws are drawn carefully to avoid the fate of laws declared unconstitutional ten years ago. So far. fifteen states have ratified the antichild labor amendment, and sevrral of the seven holding spenal sessions this summer may follow suit Utah and Wisconsin also raised the compulsory school age to 16 years. Utah. New Hampshire and Indiana provided for double compensation for minors injured while illegally employed. Tire old age pension movement has spread amazingly Michigan Just has topped a list of ten states joining the pension group this year. Today 30.279.000 people in twenty-five states are covered by old age pension laws. This year saw 19,492,000 people brought under protection of old age security, a gain in the year of 65 per cent. Backing the Norris-La Guardia anti-in-junction law were ten states that adopted state anti-injunction measures on the American Fedefation of Labor model Four others added anti-yellow dog contract clauses to their existing laws. Unemployment insurance fared not so well. Although bills were introduced into twentyfive legislatures, and several state commissions approved measure# and several houses approved them. Wisconsin remains the lone picnepr in this field. The suggestion of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins for regional pools of compulsory reserve funds for the jobless might encourage the movement; otherwise, federal aid will be necessary All states soon will have free employment service, under the new Wagner act. The nation is moving forward on both fronts, federal and state. MISERY RULES COAL FIELDS ABUSE of coal miners in the western Pennsylvania coal fields has reached a new low. It seems. A survey by the Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, and*state authorities shows that miners not only are working for starvation wages, but in many cases are receiving exactly NOTHING in return for their labor. • Deductions for "rent.'* for the "company doctor." for "tools and supplies." for "taxes." are taking every cent of the meager pay that many miners receive. And there are other evils as well, the survey reveals. Miners are compelled to trade at company stores, where exorbitant pnees are charged Thus, in one case, flour sold for 72 cents at a company store and 39 cents elsewhere. Relief funds are being maintained by coal company officials who are members of local relief boards so as to "crack the whip’ over unemployed or partly employed miners. Free speech and civil liberties are being

suppressed under the obnoxious company town system, with Its inevitable peonage Some miners who have a balance to their credit on pay days are paid not in cash or check but in scrip And. in some cases, the very* companies that have issued this scrip refused to honor it. Obviously, there can be no real prosperity in the mine fields so long as such shameful abuses exist. In 1926. a good year in the coal industry. 165 000 miners were employed in this district alone. They formed one of the largest groups of purchasers in western Pennsylvania. Dozens of towns, hundreds of merchants and banks depended upon the business of these miners for their very existence. Since that time, the buying power of the average coal miner slowly has dwindled away until it amounts to practically nothing. He no longer is able to buy goods and. with his disappearance as a purchaser, hard times have come to dozens of towns and to hundreds of business men. And for these towns, there can be no return of good times until the miner is restored sis a buyer, until he again receives decent wages which will permit him to buy the necessities of life that he now must deny himself. Today, the remedy for the present shameful abuses of miners, the means by which the miners buying power can be restored, is in the hands of the national recovery administration at Washington. It is the code for the bituminous coal industry, drafted by the United Mine Workers and the Central Coal Associates, a group of progressive operators. This code calls for a $5 a day basic wage for miners and a short working week. Furthermore. it bans the vicious practices that are so frequent today i n the coal industry. It guarantees miners the light not to trade in company stores or to live in company towns. It provides for collective bargaining and outlaws the present suppression of civil liberties and free speech. It calls for payment of wages in cash or check and bans scrip, it also limits the reductions that legally can be made in a miner’s wages. This code, if approved, means relief for the coal miner. It means hi# restoration as a purchaser of goods at a time when revived buying power is the great public need. And. above all, approval of this code will mean the injection of new life into business.

LIBERIAN LIABILITIES Jk EPORTS that the United States is embarking on another imperialistic adventure in Liberia are rather surprising, just when there is so much talk about American nationalism withdrawing from foreign entanglements. The League of Nations commission and an American general, meeting in London, have reached a secret agreement whereby an American is to be the chief adviser for Liberia, according to reliable reports. Just what Washington expects to gam from getting deeper into the Liberian mess is not clear. But it is clear that, if the great powers insist upon putting a foreign boss over that supposedly free land, a representative should be chosen from some country which has no imperialistic ambitions in the dark continent. Because of the Firestone concession and loan. America has the reputation of dominating Liberia. If now we insist upon an American as chief adviser to that government, it will be difficult to convince the world that we have no selfish interests to serve. The Liberians naturally do not want an American. They are willing to accept a Scandinavian. Our government should be only too glad to agree to such a proposal and thus be relieved of further responsibility in Liberia LET’S HAVE A CLEANUP ißt Mitor Georr* E. Dale, in Munrie Post-Democrat) Tk ALPH HOWARD, who was sent to the Pendleton reformatory in 1931, has been sent back to the state penal farm for an indeterminate period. I do not mean by this that Howard was a prisoner who was incarcerated for crimes, or judgment of courts. He served for seventeen years as superintendent of the penal farm, and was promoted in 1931, when Captain Miles was removed by former Governor Leslie, who placed Howard as head of the Pendleton penitentiary’. Governor McNutt reinstated Captain Miles, a mighty good appointment, I believe, but the Governor certainly has been misinformed as to Ralph Howard. The Indianapolis Times, the courageous Scripps-Howard publication which has done heroic service to keep crooked politicians in their place, is printing a series of articles on the horrors of the state penal farm. Unfortunately the horrors described by The Times, up to date, cover but a comparatively rerent era. That the things so graphically described daily by The Times were practically the same ten years ago when Ralph Howard was superintendent. I can vouch for personally, for I spent three days on the "farm" as Convict No. 14.378, the charge against me being contempt of a judge. Elsewhere in this issue I am reproducing a story published in the Post-Democrat under date of March 30. 1923. immediately after my release. I am a fairly good reporter and I told what I saw. and it is almost uncanny that The Times, ten years later, gives a similar picture, of present day conditions. I am not saying that Captain Howard should be removed from his position. No man should know better than he what is needed at the penal farm. But if he is allowed to retain the position, there should be no covering up of real conditions during his long service as superintendent. Personally I believe as I wrote ten years ago. that the Indiana state penal farm, which I then designated, as The Times of today does, the "Black Hole” of Indiana, should be abolished. However, during the many years that Ralph Howard was the cock of the walk at the “farm," weak governors were over him. who relied upon "ve men" on their prison boards of trustees to convince them that everything was lovely at the farm. Under Superintendent Howard as his chief executive officer, was. at that time and is yet. Captain Arment. It is presumed that during the years that they worked together, the latter took his orders from his superior officer. If. after Superintendent Howard was promoted to Pendleton. Captain Arment continued the practices that haMearned under Howard, it would be cowarfey new to make Arment the goat. U one is hired, both should be retained.

If one 1* slated to go. both should go. If Governor McNutt retains one or both, I have confidence enough in the chief executive of the state to believe that his heart will go out to the unfortunates who are tortured for petty offenses and change the system, which for downright cruelty has no equal in the darkest spot on the American continent. About a year prior to my matriculation in that prison de luxe. I published a series of articles condemning the practices on the penal farm They were based wholly upon reports from ex-convicts, who told stories similar to those now being printed in The Times. * Then, a year or so later, in 1923, I, myself, in person, by a queer freak of circumstances, .found myself being finger-printed, shorn and vaccinated down on the dear old farm, as a man with no identity except a number. I can not Claim that I was mistreated. I was merely required to go through the routine. But that was horrible enough. The prisoners within a few hours, by their underground system of obtaining information, learned who I was. “Look out, they’ve got it in for you and will give you the works,” was repeatedly whispered to me out of the corner of their mouths by kind-hearted prisoners who feared that I would be mistreated as they had seen others penalized for calling their souls their own. I was told to look out for the “runners," described by The Times as convict stool pigeons who circulated among the prisoners and were given soft berths for repeating to the officers what they heard. To Ihe first one who came to me in kindness to warn me in a whisper, I unconsciously barked out that my voice was my own and that I would say my piece under any circumstances. He rushed away from me in terror, fearing that some spy would report him for cautioning me. The Governor has ordered an investigation of the penal farm. It should lie thorough and the Governor will be called blessed if he obtains an unbiased, report on the institution, from its beginning to the present time, and then act, instead of talk, as former governors did when the wails of lost souls reached their ears. SUMMER S FUNNIEST STORY TTIT'HATEVER the Pulitzer prizes for next * * vear may be, the funniest story of the summer of 1933 seems already to have established itself. It is. unquestionably, the story by a Viennese newspaper stating that Adolf Hitler. Nazi chancellor of Germany, is of Jewish descent. To be sure, this story has drawn indignant and heated denials from Berlin. A dispatch from Vienna remarks that the geneology drawn up to prove Hitler’s Jewish ancestry contains “doubtful entries." But the story - was worth reading, and laughing over, just the same. For the head of a dictatorial party which seeks to solve a great nation’s troubles by persecuting the Jews to be found to be of Jewish blood himself—that would be one of the most notable ironies of all history. Scientists at the United States department of agriculture announce progress in war on garden pests. But so far they seem to have been unable to do anything about the neighbor w'ho always is borrowing our rake. Movie star, so the Hollywood press agents say. practices singing his popular song hits while in the bathtub. Maybe that explains his liquid notes. Fishing wouldn't be so bad, if the fish only would bite Just half as often as the mosquitoes. Considering the weather we've been having, what P T. Barnum really intended to say probably was “The American public likes to be cooled." Anti-repeal leader says prohibition speakers should popularize their remarks by making more wise-cracks. Does this mean we are to have some dry humor?

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THE anarchy of rugged individualism, local self-government, and lack of co-ordination, has led to the same kind of breakdown in law , enforcement as in business. We have an ade- ! quate number of judges, prosecutors, sheriffs and policemen, but they are not organized effectively. In no field of endeavor is there more i waste, extravagance and duplication of effort. The failure of prohibition could be accounted : for by an adverse public sentiment, but no such excuse exists for failure of other regulatory’ I measures. We have not made a much better record with regard to murder, theft or kidnaping than with regard to bootleggers. Our chronic inability to deal with every sort of major crime shows a lack of competence and system. During the last few years, a small, but wellorganized. group of gangsters has been able successfully to defy constituted authority, not in any one place, but throughout the entire country, preying on small tradesmen, establishing rackets, terrorizing communities, blackmailing people and levying tribute in various ways. w a a THE most shocking aspect of the situation lies in our seeming incapacity to catch of- , fenders, much less to punish them. It is disgraceful that a private family should be able to do more with a little money delivered to go-betweens than the combined power of na- | tional. state and city governments. The record, however, forces us to admit it. It has come to a point where business men. parents and blackmailed citizens put more faith in negotiations with the underworld than in the regulatory established agencies of law enforcement. Such a situation can not go on. Something must be done to restore public confidence in public service. Otherwise, the criminal elements soon will be in complete control. Need of a recovery program with regard to law enforcement is obvious. According to some estimates, crime costs this country about as much as all branches of government. Worse than that, we have done very little thus far to warrant the hope that it can be diminished under existing conditions. . „ . WE are dealing with organized crime, and that calls for superior organizations. Something must be done to correlate and co-ordi-nate our agencies of law enforcement, to make possible their prompt and effective mobilization, to eliminate the chaos, confusion and conflict of authority which now handicaps them. In the flrst place, we should have adequate state police departments. In the second, we should establish authoritative co-operation between those departments and municipal forces. It. the third place, we should create a na- , tionat bureau of detection and supervision. The present system has the same defects as did the state militia, except that they are more fareaehing, because the system largely is so controlled by cities, towns and counties.

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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 ~

(Tima readers art invited In express their views in three column*. Moke pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 200 words or lessJ Bt F. I. Noll. It seems to me that every boy and girl in Indiana should have opportunity of visiting the Century of Progress exposition, even if it is only for a day. But there are thousands who will be deprived of this great opportunity for pleasure and education for lack of transportation facilities and means of paying the necessary expense. I believe that, with proper management and the assistance of the Governor, this can be accomplished with little expense These boys and girls never will have the chance again and in later life they will wish someone had taken enough interest to provide the means for giving them something thiit for years after they could think of with pleasure and satisfaction. Perhaps one or several organizations could be found that could find a way to gather them in groups to go at different times and to provide automobile or bus transportation. The state could set up a camp at the Dunes, managed by the state militia and Boy and Girl Scouts. The children could be taken direct to Chicago from their homes in the morning and then be taken to the camp to eat and sleep. They then could be taken back to Chicago for another half day's sightseeing and be returned to their homes the same day. We like to boast of the many places of recreation provided by the state, but how many ever realise or think of the thousands who never see such places on account of lack of transportation or even the means of paying the cost of admission? Bv Democrat. I noted in your editorial page columns the other day a letter by D. Yager about the "weak-kneed babies who raved and ranted" about Roosevelt's inability to keep any of his campaign oromises. I am heartily in accord with the writer. For at the present time there are a great many of these “weakkneed babies" who threaten to hinder the whole recovery movement. If Mr. Roosevelt wanted to apply the "big stick.' which he undoubtedly has been wielding, he could drive these "babies" into a hole as renegades. If it is found their influence is a detriment to the coun-

Value of Vaccine Proved in Typhoid Fever ——- B y DR. MORRIS FISHBF.IN

Thi* i* the taut of three article* on tvnhoid fever. A PERSON who has typhoid fever must b*> kept alone and preferably cared for by an experienced nurse. The room should be* screened if the illness occurs during the summer, when flies are common. Because the person with typhoid is likely to remain long In bed he should have a firm mattress, and arrangements must be made to change the bed linen any time it is soiled. The patient must' be bathed at least once a day and kept clean to prevent secondary infections. It also is important that the mouth be rinsed each time after food is taken. There was a time when it was thought advisable to starve typhoid

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : —BY MRS, WALTER FERGUSON"

A LL the mystery yams are not 1 found in books. Occasionally one shows up in government documents. For instance, certain secret papers, locked up for fifteen years in the vaults of our state department. recently have come to light. They put new aspects upon several war negotiations between Germany and the United States. The startling fact is disclosed that disputes among the allied nations kept the war going on for a whole year after Germany had sued for peace. The big villain of the play. Kaiser William Hoher.zollern, also sheds his devil s mask whn we learn that he actually sought to withhold the huge 1918 spring offensive in the hope that peace could be arranged and more slaughter averted. It's too late, of course, to specu-

‘Sure! Iv’e Got a Code!'

A Good Column Bv The Waltonite LET me congratulate The Times on its new column for fishermen. Here is one element of the sporting world which has been rather neglected by the press for a long time. This has been a mistake, because almost every reader of daily papers is a potential fisherman. The fishing sport in Indiana stands out as a leader, because of

Questions and Answers

Q —Define a molecule. A—lt is the smallest portion of any substance which can not be subdivided further without its properties being destroyed; the smallest complete and normal unit of any substance; an aggregation of atoms which are bound together into one group by some kind of an electric attraction. Q—ls the ukelele native to Hawaii? A—lt is similar to the “tiple” of Spain, and it is believed that Spanish sailors introduced it into Hawaii. Another version is that a roving Portuguese guitar maker fashioned the first ukelele and taught the natives of Hawaii to play it. Q—What is "Seward's folly?” A—The purchase of Alaska was referred to by this name. Seward was secretary' of state at the time of the purchase. His political enemies coined the term, because they thought Alaska to be worthtrv. this might be done. These “babies” already have been given fair warning. It is these "weak-kneed” kind who have condoned the bureaucracy rule of the past decade. They fell for the "weak-kneed" brand of leadership displayed by the great engineer and his Morgan-ites. And now. when the Roosevelt mailed fist is about to crash down on petty government, these renegades sound off. If they are open minded, they will climb on the bandwagon hitched to the prosperity star. If their knees stay weak, they'd better pick a hibernating hole.

Editor Journal of thr American Medical Association of Hveria. the Health Macaxine. patients. It now is known that the condition is so serious as to break down the nutrition of the patient, so that present methods involve the giving of a diet of from 3.00 C to 3,500 calories. Then the patient will not lose weight during the course of the illness. There are no drugs that have special virtues in typhoid fever, and it is not certainly established that typhoid fever vaccine is useful in treatment. It is well established, however, that a vaccine made of the killed germs of typhoid fever is of value in preventing typhoid fever. This was proved during .ne World war. In the entire American army there were only slightly more than

late upon the bloody mistake now, i but it's not too late to demand that there shall be no more secrets kept from the American people in the future. It has become rather a common practice these days to make fun of European diplomacy and its roundabout methods But how about get- ! ting the lowdown on our own affairs. for a change? a a a THERE is only one reason why the cloak of secrecy should surround governmental activities during war periods. It is the onlyway any government can keep its soldiers at the front. If the common people knew the truth, they'd stop fighting. All the codes and signals have more than one purpose. They are supposed to prevent the enemy from getting information—but they are!

the great number of lakes and rivers, especially In the northern part of the state. These are frequented daily by thousands, many of whom travel long distances. They like to have their catches known to their friends. They like to read accounus of what is happening in fishing circles. And it js specially gratifying to be able to pick up The Times every day and read how and where the fish are biting best. Keep up the good work, we fishermen like it.

less and held that the money spent for it had been wasted. Q—From what animal does fitch fur come? What is the difference between German and Russian Fitch? A—lt comes from animals of the weasel family that inhabit Europe and Siberia. German fitch has a fine yellow under fur, varying from deep to light, the top hairs are longer, glossy, and dark brown or black in color. Russian fitch is smaller, silkier and lighter in color. Q—What does rathskellar mean? A—lt is a combination of the German words rats meaning council, and kellar. meaning cellar, but its modern conotation is a basement room in which wine and beer are sold. Q—Where is Tiburon or Shrak Island? A—ln the Gulf of California, about 375 miles from San Diego. Q —Who pays the expenses of the national guard in the states? A—They are paid jointly by the state in which it is located and the federal government. Q—'When was the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain signed after the Spanish-American war? A—The protocol embodying peace terms was signed Aug. 12. 1898. and the treaty was signed Dec. 10, 1898. Q—W r ho played the leading role in Eugene O'Neill's play, “ All God's Chillun Got Wings.” when it opened in New York in 1924? A—Paul Robeson.

j 1.000 cases of typhoid fever among '500.000 troops. If the rate for ty--1 phoid which prevailed during the Spar.ish-American war had existed, there would have been approximately a million cases. It is customary to give three injections of the vaccine at ten-day intervals, although the intervals between injections may be shortened Obviously, such vaccines should be given by a physician or a trained nurse. Only rarely, indeed, are there reactions of a serious character. It i# probable that persistent attention to water supplies and disposal of sewage, pasteurization of milk, education of the public in hygiene, and control of typhoid carriers eventually will eliminate typhoid fever entirely throughout the i civilized world.

equally effective at keeping the home folks from finding out anything. Choctaw is as good for deluding the American farmer as lor fooling the foreign foe. "It would be impossible," we are told, "to divulge the details of such important matters to the ordinary individual." Most of us nod an emphatic affirmation to that. But isn't it rather a shabby way to treat the fellow who does the fighting. After all, the ordinary individual has the chief interest in the starting or continuation of all wars, since he does most, of the dying, or, if he survives, pays mo6t of the bills. If war is the worthy enterprise it is cracked up to be, let s have all the facts on the table as they arise, so we shall be able to realise the depth of our nobility.

—JULY 20, 1933

It Seems to Me “ BY HEYWOOD BROI'N

NEW YORK July 20.~The notion that there is an underlying economic cause in every woodpile of moral attitudes constitutes 1 a philosophy which Is very shocking to many people. I will admit that it is a dogma which disturbs my desire to indulge ■ in hero worship “Man can be better , than that," I keep saying to myself ' And I think he can and has and will. But I am not so sure about men. When a nation agrees to adopt some toplofty attitude toward 'he character of a neighbor you ran depend upon it that the passion for righteousness ' and the desire for business are pretty well mixed up. The realization that it is a profitable attitude may be partly unconscious. Many a pat not per honestly believes \ that he is a patriot. a a m Lecture with Slide* IN the last few years we have had I a very striking object lesson of the manner in which so-called national principles may be affected bv national self-interest I am referring to the growth of sentiment in favor of the recognition of Soviet Russia. Thus war one of the issues on which Herbert Hoover had shut his mind. It was. to be sure, a mind not much given to ventilation Any idea in Mr Hoover's nnnd was in grave danger of suffering from claustrophobia. Mr Hoover ielt that it would be bad business to recognize Russia, and so he transformed the problem into a moral issue. Many followed ' this leadership, and whenever debates were held the anti-Russian side almost invariably would contend that it was not motivated by anything gross and materialistic, but swayed only by a great repug- ’ nance against Russia's altitude toward marriage and the church and property rights. Almost overnight the whole complexion of American thinking has changed It is a foregone conclusion that recognition will be extended within the year. And many of the most insistent protesters in the past suddenly will forget all about state irreligion and easy divorce so far across the sea. n n a It Seems to the Xc u'B I WOULD like to quote & few paragraph# from the hard-boiled but pleasingly frank commentator of j the New York Daily News. The Chicago Tribune and its big league * : offspring always have been exceedI ingly active in getting agitated about 1 the “red menace.” Perhaps they still are. but recognition is no long■er part of the menace Here are the j reasons as explained by the News: "What should our part be in these I Far Eastern affairs? Our best plan ! seems plain to us. It has three I parts: <l> Build up a big navy, •2> i stay out of any fight between Russia ] and Japan, and 3 • recognize Soviet I Russia now. before any fighting i begins. "The first two parts hardly need explanation As for No 3, recognition of Soviet Russia now. we advocate that because if we wgit until after war starts Japan will take recognition of Russia by us as an unfriendly act Recognize Russia | now and we shall give both those I potential enemies of ours an even 1 break in the game of cutting each 1 other's throat. i "We 11 be able to sell war supplies 1 to both, our neutrality will be unquestionable. there will be no legitimate argument for our going in on either side. "And we ought to drop the Philippines now like the hot potato and weak salient that they are to us" 9 n a Linus and Lambs

THIS program Is put forward quite candidly as an expression of national self-interest without any highfalutin’ pretense of moral i leadership or anything of the sort. I It sounds pretty cold-blooded, and j yet upon analysis it agrees at many points with programs offered by liberals and radicals under somewhat , more tony titles. j The visionary and the radical I some times may lx first cousins unI der the skin. You may be against i holding the Philippines because you don't believe in imperialism or bej cause there’s no money in it for us. j Let's fuse on that. And recognition i still Is recognition, whether it is ; motivated by fear of Japan, hope j of trade, or a lively enthusiasm for j a mighty economic experiment. But in some respects it seems to i me that the hard-boiled guys are less realistic than the visionaries. We are urged by young men of the News to stay out of war and sell munitions to both sides. Where have I heard that before? It seems to me that we tried that once. and. if my memory is not at fault, it didn't work. It will be ironical, but still not a bad thing, if the abolition of war is won at last by the hard-boiled rather than the Idealists. That could happen. It isn't too much a leap to realize that war is such a rotten bad business that in the long run everybody turns out to be a ■ loser. (Copyright. 1933. bv Th<> T:mri

Synthetic

BY WILLIAM 11. C HITWOOD What is there back of plighted love That thrills the wise and stupid? It is a spirit from above; In other words, it's Cupid It turns to gold each hennaed curl And softens every feature Until the lover thinks his girl A most angelic creature. But in this scientific age It isn't necessary For men ard women to engage In love affairs and marry. A husband really doesn't pay; Besides, he is a bother; And. what is more, a child today Can do without a father. The time is very near, no doubt. Whn men will all turn hobos And wander aimlessly about. And girls will marry robots. They'll rule the world; like Amazons They'll dress, and grow athletic; And all their daughters and their sons Will merely be synthetic.