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TUESDAY. AUO 1 iftl ONE CHILD IN FIVE "Ilf HEN’ th f - war with unemployment * ~ Anally is over pitiful human casualties will remain with us as they did after the World war. The veterans of this later war are children Babies only‘a few months old. and schocl children will bear the marks of this war. Already one-fifth of all the pre-school and school children m the count ry are show ins? the effects of poor nutrition inadequate housing, lack of medical cave and th sense of insecurity brought by unemployment, the United States children's bureau reports. If our understanding of what this means to *he next generation and to *he future of America nad !>ern great enough we could have prevented the tragedy For there was food enough in ’he country for all. The food was at hand the children migh’ have had it. Because they did not these children will go ihrough life with less than normal strength and energy. They will be subject to disease. Thi ir minds will be less active. They will be less capable of grappling with the unsolved problems we shall hand them. The national bill for public health services, hospitals and prisons probably will mount. With the help of a national administration not afraid to look squarely at this problem no a, we have begun to realize that we have done less ’han our duty in the past. This winter when need and destitution still will be with us, no matter how fast the re-employ-irent program moves, we must do more for the children V. s. WARS ON CRIME "W 7" IDNAPERS, racketeers and gangsters have been declared in on the new deal by Presidt nt Roosevelt. And they will be the only ones who will not like it. The President has instructed ihe department, of justice to use all its resource.*? in helping local authorities stamp out lawlessness. This action will be welcomed not only by a public which has at last become alarmed ovc the succession of sensational kidnapings and the growing depredations of gangsters, but it will be welcomed also by local authorities !or organized crime has been conducted on a scale with which city and county police have been unable successfully to cope The United States government can not, under the Constitution, set up a central rietec’ive agency like Britain's famous Scotland V.ird But the federal government can perform many similar functions. It can bring to the aid of local police the services of a corps of highly trained and efficient agents who are not hampered by questions of jurisdiction and who can coordinate local efforts to bring criminals to book There is no desire on the part of the federal government to usurp local police functions in the preservation of the peace, but intervention has been made inevitable and is now desirable because criminal operations have become national in character, and a national problem. Joseph B Keenan, in charge of the government’s anti-racketeer-ine campaign, called the situation “a veritable revolt against orderly government.” The federal government in recent years has demonstrated its power by putting in prison a number of gangsters who had been abl r * to operate in large cities virtually withoir molestation. Lately, the government has done eflective work m arresting several persons in millionaire kidnaping cases soon after the victims were released. These men will be prosecuted in federal courts under the so-called Lindbergh law Federal agents assisted in obtaining the death penalty for the kidnaper of Mary McElroy in Kansas City. The department of justice will build up Its force and increase its activities in cooperation with the states to crush the bands of kidnapers and racketeers, promised Attor-nev-Genoral Cummings. It seems safe to predict that gangsters are witnessing the beginning of the end. be an eagle ROOSEVELT might well have A made his Blue Eagle appeal read: "In the name of salvation, of patriotism and humanity'’ Unless Roosevelt's recovery plans speedily begin to lift this country out of the mud and finally succeed altogether. American patriotism is but a sentiment to be aroused by rage to cut other people's throats in bloody warfare, for fair reason or foul, and it would be more fittingly symbolized by a Black Buzzard than by a Blue Eagle. NRA means conflict, in large part, but not wholly, between selfishness and patriotism and. selfishness is a strong feature of the human equation, the mass psychology. Four years of depression's exactions have compelled every employer to think and work, night and day. to make his individual business profitable, if not to actually keep its head above water. Thousands of concerns have been jumping into the "red" and out again, month by month. It has been a long period of uncertainty, fear and general chaos. a condition, since human nature is human, promoting selfishness and aim to look out for one's individual interests, letting intangible, ephemeral, sporadic patriotic sentiment look out for itself. Salvation of true patriotism and humanity, the latter to starve to the point of gnawing its finger nails unless NRA succeeds, depends upon the breaking down or discarding of that sort psychology based upon selfishness. There is. already, glorious evidence that a great majority of big employing concerns will join the Order of the Blue Eagle, making some sacrifices, which all must, wisely considering

that to be the only way out of the hellish chaos that has prevailed for four years There will be a minority of employing concerns who will not see that present sacrifices mean final return to normal prosperity, if not actual salvation of their own businesses Such, and there will be comparatively few of them left when NRA shows that it successfully carries on. will be as buzzards eating at second table after the eagle Bea Blue Eagle, Indigo blue! HANDICAPS "IAT ASHINGTON informs that Great Britain. France and the United States are in competition for $500,000,000 worth of orders from Russia, the deciding factor to be the length of time credit the winning country will give Os course, our nonrecognition of Russia is a handicap. Individual American firms have been financing their own sales to Russia, our R F C. already has financed the sale of 84.000.000 worth of cotton to Russia and it is fact that Russia has not yet defaulted on any of its commercial obligations. But Uncle Sam’s backing of another half billion of credit to a foreign nation is a matter for hard thinking. He already has outstanding about ten billions of credit extended to foreign countries whi<"h stand a mighty good chance of being credit account forever. If this present Russian trade matter were a proposition to give all Europe a half b!’l:ou of credit, what a roar there would be. Incidentally, it would be interesting to know what sort of roar Borah would emit. THE LIMIT ‘•'T'HE ceiling is no longer the limit ” Such the notice hung up in the Chicago pit. by the leading gamblers in the nation's food stuffs. You see, the gambling had become too dangerous and was creating too strong a stench, so strong that it might provoke an administration actually for government of. by and for the people to impose law prohibiting transactions in which there was not actual transfer of the foodstuffs, and even of stock certificates representing merely the tools of the game, is do the ivory or celluloid chips in poker. What sense in Mr Roosevelt's vastly Increasing the taxation of all of as and paying rental to raisers of foodstuffs for their idle acreage in order to raise farm prices, when the pit controls the prices? The pit sees the point. Possibly, the pit suspects that, before he will permit the gamblers to ruin his costly endeavors to get more money into the hands of our 40.000.000 of agriculural folks, President Roosevelt will demand just that prohibitory’ law referred to above. The temptation for him to so act must be strong, especially since the gamblers themselves announce that the play with the food raiser’s prices has been too high and risky. At present the pit’s reform movement has got as far as limitation of the fluctuations in grain prices in any one day to 5 cents for wheat and other grains in proportion. The little suckers still can do their gambling and the big pools still can creel their suckers. But. more reasonably, fellow citizens, more reasonably! Maybe, President Roosevelt will yet have the Chicago pit and that New York Stock Exchange working under regulations. He will find all of his great recovery plans much easier to make work, should he wipe out speculations in margins altogether. The grain and stock gambling produces nothing, and may wreck everything. hull and moley T> EPORT has it that Raymond T. Moley assistant secretary of state, is on the way out. We hope and believe that he will remain in the administration. Almost every one agree- that he has made certain errors of tact and judgment. And it is a fact that he has been a much less frequent visitor at the White House since his return from London. State Secretary Cordell Hull is reported returning home to demand his resignation. It will be very regrettable if this reported friction continues to the point where either Hull or Dr. Moley leaves the administration. Both of these gentlemen have served the country well, and have served the President unselfishly. Dr Moley, as head of the nocalled brain trust from the beginning of the campaign, has been the President's right-hand policy man. Hull, in the senate and later in the cabinet, has been one of the President's most valued political advisers. Admitting that Dr. Moley has made mistakes and that Hull has preserved a dignified patience. Dr. Moley is not chiefly to blame. The President is responsible for making his chief policy adviser assistant to Secretary Hull and thereby inviting a disastrous division of authority An and the national emergency is responsible for Dr Moley working about eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, to the oomt of exhaustion, where the finer points of bureaucratic etiquette begin to blur. The irony of this is tnat the position of assistant secretary of state is one of the few in the government which Dr. Moley is not particularly fitted to occupy. He is not a specialist in foreign affairs and does not pretend to be. Apparently the thief excuse for giving him his present job was the need for a title and rank approximating his real importance in the administration. The theory may have been good, but it has not worked. It has not helped the state department nor Hull. And it has interfered with Dr. Moley s larger usefulness. The state department needs an assistant secretary in fact as well as in name. And Dr. Moley needs a better job in line with his unusual ability as general policy adviser to the President. LAND OF THE FREE \ WOMAN went to Homestead Pa , to tell the steel workers about their rights under the national recovery law That was communism to the mayor. He refused to let her speak on the town square. Her name was Frances Perkins secretary of labor. Must some steel or coal town official jail the President as a red before America awakens to the fact that free speech is dead in many parts of this country,

BABY BONDS “YNVEST in your government!” might well be the slogan to accompanv the United Btate* treasures official announcement that It will float a $500,000,000 bond issue in denominations as low as SSO Here are the so-called baby bonds, to run ( for eight years and pay 3 ! * per cent interest. They may pressage the refinancing of other long term government war-time Issues on which larger interest rates are being paid. Treasury Secretary Woodin, announcing the issue, stressed President Roosevelt's appeal for national co-operation, pointed to the economies instituted by the President, to the special taxes levied to assure that extraordinary expenses would be definitely met. The new bonds are attractive securities for persons of small means. Invest In your government! THAT STRAW HAT PROBLEM A S if the world was not borne down enough by weighty problems, this is the*season of the year when to every man comes the moment when he must decide what to do ’ about his straw hat. The chances are that, going into August, that straw hat is not what it used to be It's a little soiled, to begin with. There are faint gray streaks under the scales of the brim The band frays distressingly along the edge of the bow. The brim is a little floppy from the after-effects of that rain storm that descended unannounced at that June picnic. What's to be done? Many a man’s reason has trembled on the edge from contemplating less weighty problems than this. Get It cleaned? All right so far as general polishingup is concerned, but It’s never quite the crisp affair that caught the eye in early summer. Throw it away? The late-summer prices, down to half or less from spring, are tempting. But then it will be still good next summer, and by that time the style will diabolically have changed. Wear it on through the dogdays? Then it will be the same fading, un-tidy-looking object that now causes distress, and here is always the risk of wifely sarcasm. London conferences may come, and Geneva sessions may go. but the problem of the late summer straw hat goes on forever. Roman senators were appointed for life. Shakespeare is said to have played the part of the ghost in his “Hamlet.” Fleece-bearing dogs were once domesticated by the Indian tribes along the North Pacific coast; a few dog-hair blankets are still in existence. About 2,000 persons could be accommodated In the Baths of Diocletian in ancient Rome; six of these establishments were constructed during the days of the Empire. There are 3,096 county divisions in the United States, and twenty-two independent cities. Egyptian papyri 2.000 years old are In better condition today than some of the paper which went under the printing presses during the World w’ar. The largest plant in the world manufacturing smokeless fuel, gas and oils, is at Glenboig, Glasgow. Its daily output Is 100 tons of fuel, 15,000 gallons of crude oil and 15,000,000 cubic feet of gas. From 100 to 200 earthquakes perceptible to the human senses occur in the United States every year, the number observed by instruments is far greater. M. E.Tracy Says: WHILE some men use their wits to go around the world faster and faster, others try to figure out how* it is and what the climate j was like ten, fifteen, or even forty thousand years ago. According to geologists and astronomists, we of the northern hemisphere are in a season of cool summers which has lasted some 4,500 years and which still has 6.500 years to ran. Previoas to that, there was a warm season of 11.000 years, and previous to that, another cool season of similar duration. There are those who believe that civilization has the same kind of variations. Some go so far. indeed, as to imagine that long extinct races of men knew all about airplanes, automobiles, electricity, radio and other devices which we consider new. This is an interesting theory, but there is little to back it up. save the apparent rhythm which characterizes the processes of evolutionary development. 0 a b THE brief space covered by written history leaves no doubt that mass movement, organized society, political progress and the technique of civilized life are all subject to ups and clowns. The fall pf Rome resulted in a welldefined collapse, with little advance in material knowledge for 1.000 years. China made little progress from the fifth to the seventeenth century A. D Not only the Babylonian empire, out Babylonian civilization were extinguished about 400 B C. Men appear disinclined if not incapable of maintaining continuous efforts in one direction very long, which is neither illogical, nor inconsistent. Civilization grows complicated, if it grows at all. with one branch forever affecting another, and with new ideas constantly replacing old ones. Besides, there always is a tendency to overplay ideas, to abuse power, to exaggerate the value of discoveries ana inventions. Most systems. enterprises and activities have broken down because they were carried too far and created a natural opposition. 000 THE human mind will tolerate a certain amount of organization and discipline, especially when it is in trouble, or seeks the accomplishment of some definite purpose, but the human mind primarily is imaginative, and it will not tolerate such a degree of organization. or discipline as permanently interferes with that function. The urge to rove mentally, as well as physically. is irrepressible. Human nature demands the right to dream, explore and experiment. It will abide by fixed conditions only long enough to develop regions, complete projects, make discoveries and perfect systems Then it insists on the privilege of going forward once more. Change is and always has been the basis of man's progress, and change rests on freedom of the imagination. Many of the changes we have made are so big and important as to call for long periods of cooperative action, but what those periods call for is temporary. The all-important factor of progress is change, and no system can last very long with*out recognizing and accommodating itself to that factor. Any form of government or social order which presumes to stop, change or suppress the Imaginative instinct is doomed.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake pour letters short, so all ran have a chanre. Limit them to 2~>o words or less.) Bv G. S. M. (A Democrat) With reference to the letter ol A. J H.. I wish to state that he is "all wet." and Mrs. B W. C. is right regarding the reformatory at Pendleton. I spent three years and five months in that institution while it was under the supervision of A. F. Miles, and I know what I am talking about. I worker if A J. H. knows why Miles was requested to resign by Governor Leslie? I know that his reasons were not groundless. If the food you saw was plentiful, it certainly was not well cooked, nor was it a fit repast for the hogs. They take much better care of their dumb animals. The penalty for smoking while at work is ninety days, if you are seen by an officer. I have seen men smoking while at work in the kitchen throw their cigaret butt in the stew at the approach of an officer. I have seen men beaten so badly with blackjacks by the officers that they hardly could stand, their heads cut. Have known officers to knock men down, kick them to their feet and repeat until the unfortunate man no longer could feel the blows or kicks, then he was thrown in the "hole" to think it over The doctor would be called over to patch the fellow up and hurry him on the way to recovery so no one would know how badly he had been beaten. The hole is a small concrete cell with one small window high in the back wall. You are given a pair of overalls and a pair of sneaks to wear while in there. Your bed consists of a board two feet wide, six feet long and one blanket, which is put in the hole about 8 when you are given your second quart of water. The hole is plenty hot in the,summer and plenty cold in the winter. If A. J. H. is so certain that the reformatory is such a fine place, the only way for him to find out what it really is like, is to go there as an inmate. They are the only ones who know just what goes on, and how much is covered up. The officers couldn't be expected to tell the truth and condemn themselves.

WHENEVER the skin is opened. torn, or punctured the injury is called a wound. The greatest danger from wounds, after the immediate danger of hemorrhage, lies in infection. Therefore. the first step of importance is to prevent infection by disinfection. In taking care of a wound one must be certain that his own hands are clean. Surgeons wash the hands thoroughly with soap and water and then wash them in antiseptics, and thereafter wear sterilized rubber gloves. All materials applied to the wound should be sterilized. If a sterile package of material ordinarily bought at a drug store is not available, it may be made by boiling thoroughly materials available in the home. Also, a freshly laundered handkerchief or towel is likely to be relatively free from germs.

IN spite of certain reverential praise given it by sundry bibulous gentlemen, the old-fashioned saloon is hated thoroughly and feared by women. They now must be constantly reassured as to its extinction and its name is a hissing upon their lips For the saloon kcaper of yore was a man who knew nothing at all about feminine psychology, else he wouid have used different tactics for preserving his business I am convinced it was r.ot the evils, so much as the mystery surrounding i r . that caused the downfall of the once invincible saloon. Those swinging doors, through which no respectable wife could pass—they were the sparks that lighted prohibition's torch. Mystery, lure, wonder, imagination, m darned by the unknown

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Probe Is Needed Girl Employe. We are a few faithful employes trying to earn a living wage, working under a slave manager, at 7 to 12 cents an hour, rating less than $1 a day. Can't someone with authority investigate these conditions? Why do these conditions have to exist in this no mean city of Indianapolis? , Edward Berwick Can it really be true that something of permanent value is being ! taught us by four dreary years of depression and disaster? Has "rugged individualism” not proved the best of medicines for the ills of the body politic? Granted millionaires have multiplied, but. at the shameful cost of want and misery for those millions classed as i "the masses.” Was the game worth the candle? Our new President utters a decisive ’No!" He reverses Solomon's dictum "That which hath been it is that which shall be." and tells us that which hath been it is that which shall not be. That over long hours of toil, over short rates of , pay. and killing child labor shall cease if any power resides in our government to make them cease. That government it has long been our boast is a government "of the people, for the people and by the people,” and he appeals personally through the radio to you and me. dear reader, to stand back of him in the efforts he and his picked associates are maxing to insure a square deal for those real creators of wealth, the .men and women who do the actual work of the nation, be they farmers, mechanics, "white collar” men, or laborers. But his task is not likely to be an easy one, for "vested interests" j have long been in the saddle and I will not willingly be unhoped Our courts and our American Constitution will be invoked to delay or defeat those certain new measures now most necessary if we are iealj ly to emerge from our pel k.d of depression and disaster. “Necessity knows no law;” and if anything ; constitutes "Necessity” surely it is the starvation of suffering millions. I "Man is more than constitution." No need to await any economic conference's decisions oefore setting our own house in order. So ihere's success to the new deal!

Editor .Journal of (ho American Mrdifal Association of HvrHa. the Health M;t;a?inc. i Among the best of an’isepiics Is alcohol. Tincture of iodine is used widely as a first aid dressing, as are also mercurochrome, saturated solution of boric acid and hydrogen peroxide. When a wound has been contam- ' inated with dirt, this >nould be washed out with a suitable solution. It is not well to apply hydrogen peroxide to a fresh wound, because it may cause pain and unnecessary crusting. After the wound has been dis- , infected by the application of a suitable antiseptic, it should be covered with a clean sterile gauze and suitably bound. No one should attempt to sew a wound unless he has had medical training. Whenever pus or infection occurs, it should have prompt medical at-

these typified the saloon in every community. Something went on there in which women could not participate. Thus what may have been, and undoubtedly was. a drab and sordid spot became to their minds a veritable brothel in which strange, unimaginable sins took place. . mam THE old-fashioned woman skirted physically clear of the saloon but it was her chief mental preoccupation Her life too was stale and monotonous, as< drear and empty of excitements as that of her hard-working husband —and she had no equivalent of the saloon to which she could go searching for glamor. She watched her men hurry to those hidden retreats that for her were fearsome holes of evil, alight,

Srlvia Brummelt People every where are at a loss . to account for the rebellious attiI tude of the younger generation. Gone are the obedient, mannerly, modest youngsters of the pyist and. in their stead, we have a rebellious disrespectful, head strong set of young people. This deplorable condition Is ecaused by want of religious training in the home and school. The Bible is the foundation of all education. Ail truth, every good principle, every virtue, every good habit and everything that is decent, honest and true, is founded on the word of God. All the money and time and talent spent on education is in vain, all wasted unless it's founded on the Bible. I rather would have my bov or ; girl never to see the inside of a schoolhouse. never know one letter from another, than to turn out an infidel like so many of our college students today. When the Bible was removed from ithe schools, we took away the foundation of all truth, all wisdom, all knowledge. There is no truth but what is based on God's truth. There i is no knowledge except it be founded on the word of God. What a horrible wrong we have done our children by taking away the foundation from under their very feet, and leave them floundering helplessly to make the best of ; things. We dare not think of the outcome of this state of things, unless \\r get some understanding, and put the Bible where it belongs in every school in America. II Daily Thought Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: Strip you. and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. Isaiah 32:11. IF you are idle you are on the road to ruin: and there are few stopping places upon it It is rather a precipice than a road - Beecher.

tent ion If a person Is far removed from medical attention, he should realize that it is of the greatest importance to release the pus by opening the wound and then to apply the antiseptic. W T et dressings of concentrated boric acid solution applied for several days are helpful. Small splinters are best removed by using a needle which has been i passed through a flame to sterilize it; large splinters by the ase of a knife blade sterilized in a similar manner When a fishhook gets into the skin, it is not well to attempt to pull it out. To avoid tearing the tissues, it is perhaps better to push the point onward and forward and to let the end of the fishhook follow the point. The barbed end then may be cut off with a wire cutter, making reimoval easy.

when other houses were darkened, noisy when quiet brooded elsewhere, and peopled, at least in her imagination, with abandoned houris, eternal enemies of the virtuous. Therefore, quite as much for the probing of forbidden mysteries as for the destruction of evils, the American woman took up the hatchet of Carrie Nation. Subconsciously she longed to raze walls that kept her from secret places, to obliterate that which she could not penetrate. Perhaps if the saloon had had doors that stood wide to the public gaze it might never have ben abolished. At any rate it's a healthier ( thing that beer now should be sold and drunk openly. So long as it stands in grocery stores alongside bacon and eggs and soda pop, it will I be comparatively harmless.

AUG. 1, 1933

It Seems to Me *=BY HEYWOOD BROUN J NEW YORK. Aug I—lt has been said that when President Roosevelt addresses the nation he becomes the evangelist rather than the economist I am not at all sure that this is true, but in any case it is hardly a grievous fault. Men who are minded to change anything in America must accept the fact that we are a people brought up for generations upon preaching. The leaders of Populism. Prohibition and Pfogressivlsm ail have had something of the pulpit quality. Os coursi the swing of infectious sentimentalism has been used to promote notions which set racd to me unfortunate. The K K K . for instance, tolled its followers into line with tambourine talk rather than logic And 1 yet when a man has become intellectually convinced of the righ’eousness and necessity of a cause I think he is foolish if he does not attempt to capture something of the revival spirit in his harangues. Certainly a great many vital enterprises have languished because they have not been made exciting enough. 000 Taking the Tiger Calmly For instance, in New York the greatest ally of Tammany is inertia. Tammany gets out its vote Other people stay home and say, “Things are just terrible, but what can I do about it?” You could name upon the fingers of your hand the evils which flourish and exist simply because so few people have had the gumption to get up and do anything about them. Parades, demonstration, mass meetings have a real utility. People who get excited can get what they want provided they get sufficiently exclti ed and hold that mood. I never was one to admire the art j of what is called detached thinking. I plead guilty to being partisan and full of prejudices. But I think my prejudices are far more Justified than those of the other fellow. If I can help it I never intend to get m the mood of being always open- ! minded i It's all right to raise a window of the brain enough to let a little ventilation in every other year, but a steady draught of night air is fatal to any sort of action, i I have known men. hundreds and hundreds of them, whose minds were so open that ideas came in > with the west wind and left with j the east. 000 Prejudiced About Ariation THERE seems to be a current belief that the world may find an airway to salvation. Orators urge as to become plane-conscious Fervent appeals are made to the womjen of tlie land to take up flying. People who refuse to avail themselves of the new means of transportation are looked upon as not I only craven, but in some way sedi--1 tious. Possibly I am merely echoing the ; old prejudice which went down 1 fighting under the wheels of the j locomotives, but I think that aviation mast still prove itself a boon to man. At the moment the score stands against the new invention. There is blood upon the fuselage, j At present the airplane's chief I potential importance is that of a , new engine of war It was the plane ; which carried death and destruction : behind the lines to the noncom- | batant. This, to be sure, may prove ; a factor in the establishment of j peace. Possibly nations will kindle less quickly under the realization that neutral zones have been abolished and that another conflict would find even the most secluded hamlet a city of the front. But it seems to ime that time must wipe out the memory of the young dead in shattered cities before we all begin to worship the flying machine as a beneficent thing And there must be considered, too, the toll of those swallowed up in the sea and broken in lonely forests. These men and women have given their lives that the Airplane might survive and flourish What price aviation? No one can fairly answer that question unless he is able to foretell the kind of world in which he will be living fifty years i hence. 000 .4 Note About Moses Communities are ungrateful but probably sound in their disposition to depose the leaders of a struggle as soon as that struggle is won. Those who came at the eleventh hour have a clearer vision of immediate necessities than the pioneers who blazed the trail. Maybe it was a reward and not a punishment wly>n Moses was barred from ever seeing with his own eyes the goodly promised land. In its actuality it could never have matched the dream which led him night and day as he guided his people out of the house of bondage and through the wilderness. I can imagine Moses standing i upon a high mountain and gazing over the pleasant valley. He would have sighed. I think, and said. "Was it for no more than this that I left the Red Sea?” (Coorriaht 1931 be Th* Ttme> Parable BY AUSTIN JAMES A house was builded on the sands. And there It stood in grand array. Resplendent in its golds and silks. And many came from far away To new its splendor—but. alas! A storm approached—and with the dawn Threw all its fury at the sands And washed away—the house was gone. A house was builded on th> rocks. And there it stood In homely dress Os rough hewn logs—but no one came To view it In its homeliness. And as before, a storm approached. The elements in angry mood Released their fury at the rocks. But w n nt away—the house still stood. O. lesson in this parable. I fain would take thee to my heart And ever know thee word for word. That I might tell these two apart. And say unto the Lord this prayer, As I in holy reverence stand. “Pray help me build upon a rock My life— and not upon the sand.”