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FRIDAY JULY W 1931 NO TEAKS FOR LONDON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and Prime Minister Ramsav MacDonald Thursday put up a biave front in trying to prove that the London economic conference was not a failure. In the ordinary .sense, certainly, the conference was a failure But this need not be taken too seriously. The only persons who think all is lost because of the conference collapse are those who expected impossible miracles from it to begin with. We Ametirans. especially, are sometimes neivp in our ideas about such conferences. We ere prone to think of them as meetings which can change world events -Jus* ns we once believed that a prohibition law could make the country dry Actually, a law is effective only to thp degree that it reflects public opinion; it merely ratifies. oi gives legal recognition to. a public will which already exists So with an international conference, it merely puts a formal stamp on conditions or agreements already arrived at or reflects the absence of such unity among the nations. Thus the London conference was damned before it opened Basic conditions and policies in the individual countries were such that major agreements at the conference were impossible, as this newspaper and many others pointed out In advance Much of the disillusionment regarding the London conference springs from the exaggerated faith of Americans in public meetings, especially international gatherings The simple idea is that any international problem ran i)e solved provided you can get enough representatives around a table to talk It out in front of the world. The opposite is true. The records show that the open covenants are secretly arrived at Anri when they ate not arrived at secretly, no covenants are produced. The reason is obvious. International agreements are a matter of trading. Each side must sa-rifice something. This can not be done publich because national feeling at home will not permit it. Thus public sessions of international conferences rarely are honest. The speeches and statements are of two kinds: Sweet nothings or d.clarations for home consumption. The first kind docs not advance actual negotiations, sr.d the second kind retards or wrecks actual negotiations. That is why the important part of a conference is not the conference itself, but the advance “preparations." If the secret “preparations" result in general agreement and satisfactory trading, then the big public show has a good chance of success. Otherwise, the public show will fail, and increase friction. Hence the frequency with which international conferences are called off altogether or repeatedly postponed. The mistake of the London conference was in allowing it to meet Preparations—and fairly successful preparations —had been made by President Roosevelt in his confidential conversations with Prime Minister MacDonald and other foreign leaders. But that was in the spring. By summer, conditions were changed vastly, not < nly in the United States, but elsewhere. By that t me. however, there had been so much ballyhoo about the conference to save the world that the politicians were afraid to disappoint the public bv calling it off. They guessed wrong. The public is more disappointed as it is. And the advertised friction and sharp exchanges at London may make future agreements more difficult. But we should not forget that the important thing is a beginning of national recovers If we ran keep on putting our own house in order, and if other nations will follow our example in their own wav. within a lew months the nations should be able to negotiate international economic agreements so essential to the welfare of all.

TH K DRY'S ELATION 'T'HF organized drys are jubilant. They see a loophole in constitutional law through which repeal of the eighteenth amendment can be blocked. And they are preparing to take immediate advantage of it. Seemingly, it matters little to these drys that repeal is the popular will of the people. Seemingly, the fact that twenty states—all that have voted—have indorsed repeal means nothing to tnem. The organized drys apparently are not concerned about majority or minority opinion—whether or not the public really wants the eighteenth amendment. Their sole concern is prohibition and they are determined to save it a! all costs. The loophole in question is the decision of the Maine supreme court, doubting the legality of a state repeal convention in which delegates would be elected at large. Instead of by districts. With this decision as a base, the drys plan to appeal ail elections in which delegates were elected at large to the United States supreme court. They are confident that the highest court in the nation will sustain their appeal and that elections in a half dozen states, including New York and New Jersey, will be thrown out The fact that New York voted for repeal by an 8-to-l majority and that the drys were snowed under by a 6-to-l vote in New Jersey seemingly makes no difference to these ardent prohibitionist s. They still intend to contest the two elections on the absurd grounds that the delegates elected in these two states were not “truly representative” of the people. r In short, they maintain 8-to-l and 6-to-f'

majorities do not represent the true will of the voters. Os course this is not the first time the organized drys have resorted to questionable weapons to block a showdown on prohibition For years they have exercised political pressure on congress to prevent any move toward modification or repeal. And with their huge chests of campaign contributions and organized strength, they were able to block a showdown until the Roosevelt New Deal came along. Since then, prohibition's ultimate doom has been an accepted fact. Every state voting to date has gone for repeal Even the traditional dry southland and such states as lowa and Indiana have added their votes to the swelling repeal chorus. Yet. the organized drys persist In hunting loopholes through which to block showdown elections Already, they have lost their first fight—an attempt to stop Ohio from voting on repeal next Nov. 7. The Ohio supreme court rejected their petition to postpone the election. Now they are making a similar attempt in Missouri And. using the loophole conveniently provided by the Maine supreme court, they intend to seek nullification of all elections h**ld to date where delegates were selected at large. Instead of by districts. Asa matter of fact, the decision of the Maine supreme court is hardly a justifiable loophole for an appeal of this kind. The arguments for election by district stress the fact that it allows more representative selection of delegates, that it protects the rural areas which normally would be outvoted by the more populated city districts. Yet. does It? Consider Pennsylvania's case, where the state will elect next Nov. 7 dele-gates-at-large to a repeal convention. In Pennsylvania, congressional, senatorial and legislative districts are divided so badly that a fair, representative vote on the district basis is impossible. Many rural districts, for example, have only two-thirds or even half as many voters as city districts. If delegates were elected to a repeal convention by districts, this would mean that rural voters—the backbone of dry strength of this state—would elect far more delegates for the same number of votes than their city cousins. In other words, the farmer in some districts w’ould have two votes to the city mechanic's one And still the drys insist that, an election of delpgates-at-large—with each vote counting alike—is not “truly representative." WHY, MR. RILEY! P* VERY now and then, some judge or magistrate hands down the opinion that man should be master of his own household. And millions of husbands, upon reading of the Judge's opinion, merely chuckle and tell each other that the judge is probably a bachelor, or else he would know better than to make such a statement. But Tuesday, Police Magistrate Patrick F. Riley of Pittsburgh—himself a married mandelivered that same opinion in passing judgment upon a prisoner who had blamed his wife for running afoul of the law "You should be master of the house,' said Mr. Riley, as he imposed the customary $25 fine or thirty days in jail. Perhaps Mr. Riley is the master of his own household. If so. he is a rare exception. But the millions of other husbands who meekly take orders from their wives will not be convinced. They still will be of the opinion that Mr. Riley should know better.

THE SHRINKING EARTH npHE air is full of distance fliers. Lone pilot Wiley Post flies around the globe smashing records. General Balbo. who brought his fleet of twenty-four planes from Italy in history's most spectacular mass flight, is en route home to Rome. The undaunted Mollisons, who flew from England, are projecting an air trip to Bagdad. The Lindberghs are in Greenland. These ocean flights are reminders that science is shrinking the earth each year into a smaller and smaller planet. In a few years, flier Past says, planes will be circumnavigating the globe m forty-eight hours. In view of what the inventors and aviators are doing to bring nations closer to one another. how absurd appears the growing economic nationalism that seeks to force nations back to :he isolationist ideals of the clipper ship days! The nations are interdependent, no matter how loud the eagles and the lions of nationalism screech and roar. World wheat and cotton conditions helped our midwest farmers and southern planters more than the heroic efforts of Secretary Wallace's "A. A. A." The phenomenon of 25.000.000 workless men of the world is almost as important to our prosperity as our own 12.000.000 jobless. We can manage our own currency and control our own industry, but a foreign news flash can change the domestic situation overnight. SHIFTING TO IDLE FARMS 'T'HE government’s effort to place unemployed city workers on farms, where they can support themselves and their families, constitutes one of the most interesting experiments in the : ntire recovery program. Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes. under presidential order, will have $25,000,000 to spend on the endeavor The consequences well may be more far-reaching than the modest beginning indicates. What to do with hundreds of thousands of workers permanently displaced in industry has been one of the most baffling problems of the economic and social reorganization now being attempted. Coal mining furnishes a case in point. Authorities estimate that there no , ~ are probably 250.000 idle miners who never can again And work digging coal, even under the most favorable circumstances. There is no longer sufficient demand for fuel to warrant their labor, because of the development of water power, use of oil for fuel, and other factors. What is true of ooal mining is true in less degree in scores of other occupations. Obviously, direct relief, which now is such a heavy burden on taxpayers, will not solve the problem permanently. It is necessary and desirable in the present emergency, but can not be adopted aa a permanent method of

providing food and shelter for large numbers of the population. Moreover, the government is engaged In a gigantic effort to reduce agricultural output, and any Increase in productivity would defeat this effort. These and other difficulties, however, do not seem insurmountable. The farms on which workers will be placed presumably will be subsistence homesteads, which would net materially add to the glut of farm products. The emigrants would have the friendly cooperation ar.d assistance of the government. And small farms adjacent to cities would offer passible part-time industrial employment. The project may be an important factor in final and permanent solution of the unemployment problem, present even In the best of times. ON THE LEVEE TYJTSSISSIPPI VALLEY contractors are reported ready to present a code of fair practices which will remedy the ills complained of when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People found conditions of virtual ‘'slavers" among their workers. We hope this is so, and that the code provides fair hours and fair wages for the thousands who labor on the levees. How much better is it to see enlightened omployers prohibiting child labor on their own initiative than to see this done by the powerful arm of the federal government. How much better it would be to see Negro labor on flood control projects get humane treatment, decent wages by decision of their employers, rather than by federal orders, following a senatorial investigation. The senate's authority to investigate Mississippi valley labor conditions, as reported by’ the N. A. A. C. P., still exists. This is a whip that can crack over recalcitrant employers’ heads But it should not be needed.

HERE’S REAL COURAGE npo be a successful dictator, you need the wisdom of a Solomon, the thoroughness of a Napoleon, and the rash daring of a Caesar But mostly the rash daring of a Caesar. Frankly, some people may have had some doubts that Adolph Hitler had all these qualities. especially the latter. But now who can doubt it? Through Frau Magda Goebbels, wife of his minister of propaganda. Hitler now proposes to set up a government fashion bureau and become arbiter of dress to the German woman. From this time on. nobody can question the rash daring of Herr Hitler, who proposes to tell 3C.000.000 women what to wear, even through a feminine minister-wlthout-port-folio. It is colossal! But there is a pretty good chance that it won t work. You can tell a man how to run his business, and make it stick You can make him salute every dictator’s underling that comes along, and make it stick. You can tell him to w r ear a black shirt, or a brown shirt, or even a nightshirt, and make that stick, too. But when it comes to telling a lady that she must wear a straw hat, or a felt hat. or a large hat or a small hat. or a German hat, or no hat at all—well, sticking your head into a lion's mouth is just innocent fun beside that! Sound engineer figures that 30,000.000 words are spoken on the sound stages of Hollywood every year. Huh! That walkout of technicians that closed the studios isn't a strike It’s a protest! Chicago speculator reported to have bought (but not paid for) 13.000.000 bushels of wheat. Probably just wanted to be sure he'd have pancakes next winter. The recovery act is to be administered by the use of codes. And leave it to General Johnson to make sure it isn't a cipher.

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THE object of our recovery program is to help business through stabilization of prices, wages and values on a steadily ascending scale. This does not square with the wild, illogical, uncontrolled orgy of gambling that has taken place in the stock market. Any man can ruin his credit and reputation by playing poker. The same thing is true with respect to our largest commercial and financial interests. Marginal trading in stock has little to do with promotion of industry. It does not provide capital for legitimate enterprises, increase earning power, or create confidence. On the other hand it diverts credit and breeds a dangerous frame of mind. We have no time to waste on gambling. Our business executives have all they can work up. without knocking off to watch the ticker. The processes of readjustment will lead to enough fluctuation without the demoralizing effect of unintelligent betting. a a a CONTROL of our great stock and grain exchanges is more essential than control of our manufacturing establishments. They stand forth as monuments to the anarchy of unrestrained freedom. The sweatshop competition, about which we have talked so much, is insignificant compared to their disrupting influence. We can not hope to make substantial, dependable progress so long as our credit system is exposed to the raids of speculation. Such a set-up is irreconcilable with the purpose we are trying to achieve. The nonsense of tolerating any system by which the value of securities can be changed 4 or 5 per cent in an hour should be apparent. So should its effect on the public mind. Whether measures can be devised to hold such trading within reasonable limits is doubtful. If they can not. we have no choice but to close exchanges until such time as our more important securities have been stabilized If it has become necessary to tell the honest, hard-working individual that he can not put in more than thirty-five to forty hours a week, to make room for his unemployed neighbor, is it not time to sweep gambling aside? Is it not time to free capital and credit from this cancerous growth which feeds on a manufactured psychology l a a a WHAT have the six or eight million share days to do with the progress of legitimate business? What do they represent except th" vagaries of three-card monte or a roulette wheel 1 But—and thus is the important point—they involve the resources of a nation in ticuble by diverting capital and restricting credit, by creating a false sense of value, and destroying confidence. We can not bet our way out of depression, can not make earning power from paper profits, can not create wealth by swapping shares of stock. Our problem is to provide work through liberation of credit, to increase production making greater consumption possible, and. above all else, to Insist on honest, reliable value.

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(Tim** readers are invited to express their t ine* in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chanre. Limit them to 230 words or less.) Bv H. S. Onond. Following the harrowing details of the staff writer. Arch Steinel. as they appear from day to day in The Times, makes criminal action by The Times management mandatory because you are in possession of sworn statements of men who have suffered the various outrages as stated in public print. These statements follow responsible investigation of men detailed by your paper to lay bare the facts of the Indiana state farm's unwarranted conduct in its effort to maintain the efficiency of one branch of the state's reformatory units, supposed to control and regulate the personal conduct of every delinquent temporarily committed under first and second sentence Such undue despotism demonstrates the utter unfitness of the men in charge to remain in the offices assigned them. Cruelty is no corrective process by which to obtain reform or respect for organized corrective control or prison authority or discipline. Requiring unreasonable stunts of labor in any line is abuse of power and any officer convicted of a misuse of authority should be removed and a few examples of disciplinary treatment would have a wholesale effect on the rest. The chief cause for this expase is found in the employment of untrained men whe, therefore, are unfit l'or , responsibility of handling such a large criminal element. The tendency is an unregulated, unintelligent and vindictive policy handed out by men who utterly are unfit for the responsibility of their jobs. It is a proposition for the next legislature, through a committee, duty of which it is to study the requirements of this branch of penal reform, by requiring an examination of the personalities and moral qualifications of applicants. They also should be under sufficient bond to the state to be able and prepared to administer their duties humanely and intelligently. Inquisitorial punishment belongs to the dark ages and has nc part in obtaining conformity to civil rule.

Stonecutters who use pneumatic hammers frequently suffer with a disturbance of the circulation of the blood in their hands so that they develop a condition which has been called variously white fingers, dead fingers, mechanical drill disease and spastic anemia of the hands. The condition has been discussed from time to time in medical literature. Recently a special survey of the subject was made by Drs. M. A. F. Hardgrove and N. W. Barker. The air hammer now used has a handle weighing about five pounds and measures six to twelve inches in length It is driven by compressed air and delivers about 3,000 strokes a minute. The fourth and fifth fingers, which are held nearest to the cutting edge of the tool, which is either the hammer or a chisel, are pressed closely against tne end of the tool to guide it. Therefore, it

Marriage as it ought to be” is discussed intelligently by Margaret Weymouth Jackson in a recent issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine. Mrs. Jackson contends, and very sensibly, that we must get on a sounder basis than youth and beauty as lures for the success of marriage. "Youth and Beauty.” she writes, "are only the lures and not the binders. They are the fragrance the flower puts forth to attract the bee But they are not The honey in the honey pot. The way to build and hold a happy married life is to forget. first of aUi that It is necessary to build and hold it.” That's looking facts scraight in the eye. It's our constant striving to keep our men Jfiat has been largely

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Pneumatic Hammer Causes ‘Dead Fingers’ =■ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON -

The Old Swinwtin’ Hole

Immoral? No! By N. F.. IN answer to L. A. Jacksca. who takes issue with Nicholas Murray Butler through the columns of The Times, may I be permitted to point out to Mr. Jackson that the term immorality as applied to the use of liquor is a term in use only among dry fanatics. In challenging Dr. Butler. Mr. Jackson actually is taking issue with Mr. John Public, the downtrodden. who for fifteen years has been bluffed and lied to and showered with words, words, words, and more words emanating from the offices of the Anti-Sa-loon League and the W C. T. U. Mr. Jackson can find his answer to the immorality of the use of liquor in scanning the votes of twenty states of these United States. Twenty have voted to repeal the eighteenth amendment. Twenty-eight more will vote to repeal before 1935 rolls around That’s how immoral the voters of the United States think the use of liquor.

Punishment does not ntcessarily mean inhuman treatment that stirs all the evil nature of the culprit by its unreasonable severity. There are deprivations of privileges and solitary incarcerations for deliberate disregard of rules that should and would carry their appeal for compliance with just and reasonable rules. The desire on the part of uncivilized guards to beat hell out of any delinquent or apply torture to obtain obedience is excessive, therefore unreasonable and falls to exercise any reformation in any. man of spirit who is under light sentence. It makes the guard worse than his prisoner and the writer trusts that this timely expose of the inimical conditions with their contributory causes will receive the immediate attention of officers whose duty it is to maintain law and order among that multitude of first offenders. They should decent men in control, who are capable of handling that unruly element and men who, themselves, wffl learn their business and improve upon obsolete methods as experience

Editor Journal of tho American Mrdi(il AnofiJlion of Hygrla thr Hratth Magazine. is the fourth and fifth fingers which are mostly likely to be affected. Shoemakers who use a different ; VD* of vibrating machine also have been reported to suffer occasionally w’ith a similar condition. The hammer used in structural "iron work is heavier and delivers only about 1.500 strokes a minute. A few months after a stonecutter begins to use the air hammer, his hands turn white and become numb and coid. When the man washes his hands in cold water in the morning, he is likely to have an attack even more than when actually using the hammer. In right-handed men the third fourth and fifth fingers, and more rarely the second finger of the left hand, are the ones chiefly involved. In left-handed men it usually is the right hand that is involved.

responsible for our losing them. I think and I have said many times in this column, that the most tragic, useless waste is the energy expended by wives to retain their happiness. The essential fact of marriage goes deeper than the '•'‘■iorink of skin or hair, and takes in more territory than the shape of a nose or the length of an eyelash. It is not to be measured by any physical yardstick. a a a TT J’E may as well be frank, even VS ruthless, with ourselves. It looks as if the gals who work the hardest fail the soonest and the oftenest. Since we began our campaign against halitosis and athletes foot and pimples and tooth film and plumpness and B. O. op, what have

teaches them to be studen s, instead of ruffians. By One of th* I nemp!o>fd. To Mrs. Taxpayer: While I haven't been forced to accept charity from the county. I am one of the unemployed. and I would like to slate, for t'ne enlightenment of Mrs. Taxpayer. that it is not because I am too lazy to work She evidently lias no conception whatever of the disappointment and. heartaches that we unemployed suffer day after day and week aftei week when we tramp from one employment office to another with high hopes, only to have those hopes dashed to the ground with the timeworn phrase. "No Help Wanted." I was under the impression that the reforestation idea originated with the President of ihcse United States, but I must have been wrong, and I am sure he would appreciate l Mrs. Taxpayer's brilliant ideas. But I wonder what on earth she imagines they would do with 12,000.000 oi us in the forests. From the way she condemns the charity board for a couple of errors that she thinks she know’s about, it is quite evident that she imagines there is at least one person who is smart enough to handle 25,000 or 30.000 charity cases a week without a single mistake. She doesn't seem to consider the fact that there probably are several thousand of her so-called lazy people who have paid taxes for many more years than she has. and that instead of charity being a disgrace, it is no more than fair that the government these men helped to support for years should lend them a helping hand in their time of need. From her point of view, it would be more commendable if we unem-, ployed, instead of engaging in a friendly game of cards to take our minds off our worries, would follow’ Al Capones trail of hijacking and wholesale murder to get rich and beat the government out of a few dollars in taxes. If the tax burden is so unjust to Mrs. Taxpayer on account of we unemployed, she might move to Russia, where I understand that she wouldn't be bothered with taxes, because she wouldn't be allowed to owm anything personally.

When the attack comes on, it maybe relieved by any method that will restore the circulation of the blood in the fingers, such as rubbing or putting the hands in warm water There happen to be several other diseases which produce symptoms somewhat similar, two in particular being Raymond's disease and thrombo-angitis obliterans. These conditions differ, however in that Raynaud's disease chiefly occurs in women, that thromboangitis obliterans usually invoves the feet more than the hands; moreover, Raynaud's disease Is likely to be symmetrical on both sides. However the nature of the employment of the individual concerned is the chief point for making a diagnosis promptly in the case of stonecutters, steel workers or shoemakers who constantly use the pneumatic hammer.

you. husbands have deserted their wives in droves. In many wavs they were justified in their behavior. , Because, when we set up the hypothesis that they are subject only to the physical, we insult them. We insult their finer instincts, their loyalty, their intelligence, their very decency. If a man ceases to love his wife only because she is overworked, tired, or ill. or old. then we pay him a compliment by saying he/never has been capable of loving her at all. And if he is not capable of experiencing real love, then he's not worth worrying about. Whenever wives try half as hard to appeal to and satisfy the spiritual needs of men as they now appeal to the physical, they will be surprised at how easy and pleasant marriage can be.

JULY 28, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. July 28—The charm of President Roosevelt is so persuasive that I often fear the sound of his voice may sweeten projects which should be open to acid skept; , Even yet i am far from being a complete convert to the "new deal" But I must admit that I have traveled far in Roosevelt's direction from an original belief that his nomination in Chicago would have rragit consequences for the country. His radio address on NR A must rank among his best performances As far as I am concerned, it stood the test of being read twelve hours later in cold type. A few complained that there was nothing new or sensational about it. But 'his Is. perhaps, Franklin D. Roosevelts greatest achievement. He has managed to sneak up on public opinion Things which actually are extremely startling in the light of our national tradition are madp to seem familiar, logical and purely a matter of common sense. BUB H e Have Gone Slowly IT must be remembered that the United States is one of the most conservative nations in the world The hot and unhealthy breath of rugged individulism even yet can be felt on the back of our necks. We are drawing away from this philosophy. but it still is in the race Now. it is quite true that from any radical point of view President Roaevelt has left many fundamental facts in the old order quite unchanged. I have no enthusiasm whatsoever for NRA save as a beginning of the movement toward a co-operative commonwealth. And I realize that many whom I like to think of as comrades are of the opinion that the various codes which are being put into being constitute a bulwark rather than a threat to the old order. I can't agree. It seems to me that thosj who assail the President bitterly because he is not radical enough simply at? playing into the hands of those reactionaries who are complying with the change only with reluctant feet and startled eyes. And I am ready to admit that as yet the Roosevelt innovation is more strikingly a change in concept than in actual work.ng conditions It may be said that hungrv men would Just as soon be told to eat cake as to live on concepts. Nevertheless. a change in any country's economic philosophy always is a tok n n of a much deeper upheaval yet to come. Often I have heard men break nut in the middle of a two-hour speech with the cry. "What we nerd is not w’ords, but action!" They are mistaken. We n-'Pd words and a great many of them. People err if they assume that action is a sort of spontaneous combustion. It never has been. Before man moves, he smelts and refines his will by the process of protracted discussion. Surely this was the case in Russia. That was a revolution which did not break until millions of words had gone over the dam. non Looking Backward TN the year 19—. when America -l has become a co-operative commonwealth, somebody will sit down to write a history of the events leading up to this epoch-making change. It may be that he will dismiss Franklin D. Roosevelt lightly and bri-fly as a leader who did no more than scratch the surface. But I hope that the historian of this undated day will be a little wiser than that. It is mv notion that the shrewd observer who looks back will have some comprehension of the fact that thero might well be a saving. "Scratch Capitaliism and Catch Communism." When a canal or a great irrigation project is to be begun, it is customary to let some dignitary take up the first spoonful of earth with a golden shovel. And when he has completed his choro, much remains to be done But at least it is a start. I see no great point in slambanging away at Franklin D. Roosevelt on the ground that he isn't radical enough, when so many millions are not radical at all. In the light of findings about the machine ag” and the efficiency of modern production, the forty-hour week is murh too long in anv industry. But it is better than the fortv-eight-hour week. At the very least. America has been touched with the consciousness that salvation lis in planned production. We are beginning to face I h p fact that labor-saving devices must be exactly that and not mediums with which to increase the number of the unemployed

They Could Re Larger THE minimum wages set by most of the co-operators in codes are pitifully small. But. again, thev represent some advance on those which did prevail. Th- 'act that child labor is gone is a disanct advance. And. most of all, we have finally put one foot over that old fear about the government's being in business. Even if he has only been hired as an office boy. I think that George K Government is a bright lad who will work up. I have not only the hope, but the faith, that presently he will own the whole establishment. i Copyright, 1533. hv The Tlmn Decision BY JAMES L. DILLEY At times I want to learn to swim And then the swift w-ind sighing, Reminds me that I also want To some day take up flying. I'd like to learn to swim, but still It seems a silly notion. A man can swim across a pool. But fly across an ocean So I shall wait awhile, until This thing that's called inflation Puts money in mv purse, and then 111 take up aviation. DAILY THOUGHT For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye met?, it shall be measured to you again.—St. Matthew. 7 2. HUMAN judgment is finite, and it ought always to be chan-_ table.—William Winter.