Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1933 — Page 10

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rmnwMT auo > ttn MOLEY IS THE MAN \\TITU kidnaping and racketeering grow- ™ ’ ing the President in interrupting his vacation to give much attention to the national problem of commercial crime. This is a good omen. In the pas* the federal government has bowed to public demand to the extent of promises. but actually very little has been done Eren the Wirkersham commission reports were not followed through But President Roosevelt, it seems, has a way of acting, as well as talking The fact tha' hr has called in Dr Moley is especially good news Even those who criticise tome of Assistant Secretary of State Moley’s mistake', m foreign policy admit that he is one of the outstanding crime experts in the nation. For years this has been his specialty. The department of Justice undoubtedly is the weakest part of the Roosevelt administration. The President's original plan was to make it the strongest link in the cabinet chain. But unfortunately the great Senator Thomas J Walsh died before he could become attorneySeneral. Since then that department has been used too extensively as a patronage dumping ground, and too little as an efficient fighting arm of government It is the one branch of government which seems untouched by the New Deal. Under the circumstances the President is lucky to have at his side a trusted specialist cl the caliber of Dr Moley to chart and manage the federal campaign against commercial crime Before many months pass the department of justice may become the test of the Roosevelt administration.

THE STEEL MONOPOLY COOK TN the rush to approve recovery code standards for wages and hours, questions which mav prove of infinitely greater importance in American life are being derided with little attention from the public These questions concern price - fixing, production - control and related trade practices that affect the entire economic structure of the country. Some industrialists backed the recovery art. in congress because they wanted exemption from the anti-trust laws, freedom to combin to eliminate competition. The privilege was granted with restrictions, and now the question arises as to how it shall be exercised Steel men. dominated by J P. Morgan <fc Cos., the most powerful single business organization in America, have submitted to the recovery administration a code of ‘fair competition" It clearly perpetuates the old monopolistic practices prevailing in that industry. though condemned and forbidden by the federal trade commission, and it is apparently in direct violation of the recovery act. Another violation in the codes provisions—relating to company unions—was called sharp1\ to attention of the steel m°n by Administrator .Johnson and was removed from the code A similar rebuke was not forthcoming in regard to the pric#-fixing sections of the code, though voluminous records of the federal trade commission and a finding by that body holds that the basing point system of price fixing proposed in the code, is monopolistic. j If the code, as finally approved, permits the industry to perpetuate the outlawed basing point system, as faulty when applied to multiple basing points as Pittsburgh plus; if it allows a single board of steel directors dominated by Morgan to alter basing point prices at will and to control production as well, it will intrench the mast dangerous monopoly this countrv ever has seen Executives of the recovery administration each are trying to do the work of ten men. They are rushed and tired But somehow, if they are not going to harm this country more than they help it. they should find time to insist on a price system for the steel industry that does not bleed the other industries of the country. Most important of all. they should insist on government participation in decisions on price-fixing and production control in this and all other industries. CHILDREN SUFFER ✓~\NE of the most unfortunate consequences of the depression now is becoming apparent in measurable degree—its adverse effect on the health of children. Not so long ago the country was being assired that public health was bfttor than it was in the days before the question of where to get food became a problem for millions of persons Many doubted the.se optimistic statements, but figures were offered to support them. New we are being told a different story. The children's bureau of the department of labor finds that one-fifth of the nation's children are 'below par.” and the depression Is directly blamed for this condition. Material has been collected ever a period of two years, and the conclusion is reached that one child in five of preschool and school age is suffering from the effects of poor nutrition. inadequate housing, cr lack of medical care. In many instances, anxiety and the feeling of worry, where there was no work have also left marks. Naturally localities where conditions have been more favorable and where relief measures have been adequate make the best showing In other localities the proportion of children belcw par has reached "truiy appalling figures. And malnutrition among mothers is snowing its effects on newborn Infants and nurslings, although relief agencies for the moat part have been successful in supplying sufmilk for babies. jw York, raalnatrmon among 300,000

school children has been in three successive years. 16 17 and 21 per cent. The picture is not a pretty one. but consolation may be found in *he fact that relief agencies did tneir best to meet staggering responsibilities for which they were unprepared. Now that millions of men are returning to work and their wages are increasing, fewer children will suffer As relief rolls shrink, the task of caring for those in need will become much easier. The problem of relief will remain for a long time to come, however, and children should be the last to suffer. COST OF BEER T TOW much should the thirsty citizen pay -*■ * for his scuttle of beer? Should he be able to get it for a nickel—with free lunch thrown In—as In the old days? There has been much discussion of that question, and complaints that prices were too high. Here’s what the Brewing Industry, a trade magazine, has to say on the subject: ' A thirty-one-gallon Darrel of beer costs $4 according to estimates, which with the federal tax of $5, brings the cost to *9. A price to restaurants and hotols of sls would allow a profit to the retailer if 5 cents a glass were charged, and also allow the brewery a good profit.” Unfortunately, the Brewing Industry doesn't tell how much brewers actually are charging And. of course, state and local taxes must be added in most places. ROADTOWN TT is significant of the open-mindedness of *he Roosevelt administration that consideration is being given to Mr Edgar Chambless’ project known as "Roadtown.” For some years this proposal to rebuild American cities on the ground instead of in the air has fascinated architects. City homes would be built along a road line through the open country, instead of clustered about a congested group of skyscrapers. Inexpensive, modernized and standardized houses, costing SSOO a person, or renting for $1 a week a room, including all services, would be strung out over the city road so that dwellers would have access to land on both sides. At every road crossing would be a village. at necessary intervals a city. Two out of every five families w’ould work the land, the other three would work in the villages and cities. Thp advantages of ‘'Roadtown” seem to fall Into the general purpose of President Roosevelt to create the beginnings of a halfcity. half-country civilization for the United States. Today we have two kinds of Americans. the city and country type. Roadtown would merge these into one, the city-country American While enjoying the civilizing advantages of city life he would have the health-giving and spiritualizing influences of natural living He would be a more natural man than either the rustic or the son of city pavements.

A CODE AND A MINE WAR 117ITHDRAWAL of the anti labor pro- ™ * visions of the recovery code proposed by the steel industry would carry more conviction if that industry's coal mines werp not now the scene of a labor war. In southwestern Pennsylvania unarmed strikers are being shot down by company thugs in the guise of deputy sheriffs. Governor Pirchot has to send in troops to protect the workers. This is a repetition of the terrorism provoked periodically by the companies whenever their workers try to organize Repeated Investigations. *by senate and other bodies, have shown that these companies rule virtually as feudal lords over serfs The refusal of one of the company town mayors to permit the secretary of labor last Friday to talk with workers in the city hall or In the public park is typical of the above-the-law attitude of these steel and coal companies. particularly of the Mellon and Morgan interests. It was to restrain Just such lawless employers that an elementary charter of labor's right to organize was written into the national industrial recovery law. The country can not recover from the sickness of depression if capital and labor choose this time to pull in opposite directions. Therefore, the law removes certain issues from the realm of controversy. One of those issues is the right of labor to bargain collectively, through representatives of its own choosing, and without interference by the employers The right is guaranteed by the law. That right is even expressly recognized by the revised code which the steel industry itself submitted to the government on the very dav that workers were being shot for the crime of trying to organize under the law. The proposed code says: "That employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, In the designatioa of such representatives cr in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aids or protection." If the companies take this voluntary pledge seriously they will begin to observe it in their own towns and among their own workers at orce. But if the companies merely are signing the pledge with one hand while they break the law with the other hand, then the federal government has the specific authority and the duty to put those companies out of business. The administration obviously has no desire to resort to the force provided by the law, but if it must be a choice between the whole country and the Mellon-Morgan interests, then the latter probably are in for a licking. MISSION WITH NO PROBLEMS TT is rather refreshing in these troublous times to find Ras Desta Demtu, prince of the royal house of Abyssinia, son-in-law of Emperor Hailie Selassie—the Conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Elect of God and the Light of the World—confessing to an ambition to establish an amusement park in his far-off homeland. The prince came to America as the official envoy of his much-titled sovereign, and he did not take lightly his official duties. He called on President Roosevelt and dined in state at the White House. He met all sorts of notables, and saw everything big and grand that America has to offer, tqolwUpg cathedral*, skyscAp-

ers and factories. But he was interested mostly in the Palisades amusement park in New York. There the prince had a good time, despite his dignity and his gorgeous raiment and his retinue. He enjoyed the fun devices, particularly tne shooting gallery, the freaks in the Bide show, and the roller coaster It is true that Abyssinia isn't any great shakes as a nation, but what it lacks in world importance it makes up in dignity and pomp and ceremony. Incidentally, it is the only sizable part of Africa that has been able to keep out of the clutches of the western world, so apparently the am of statecraft are not unknown. But the prince didn't make any high-flown speeches about modernizing his somewhat primitive country, for apparently he and his ruler-kinsman have no desire to ape the way of the western world. And he didn't have a lot of problems to get off his chest to add to the bewildering have been dumped on these shores by envoys of other nations. No. the prince saw all the grandeur cf New York—and reached the conclusion that a good amusement park to provide diversion for his fellow-countrymen would be a most desirable thing. Many will believe that the mission of this descendant of King Solomon was veritably a success, as few missions are. TWELVE-TO-ONE ODDS r T _ 'HE best thing for the average man to do is to stay away from the stock market, says a mathematics professor who has it figured out that the odds are 12 to 1 against the little fellow who is trying to make a killing. The advice is sound, as every one knows, although mapy will be surprised that the professor's computations give the small fry' as much a chance as they do. It is a pretty safe bet, however, that the profeasor’s admonitions won’t be heeded widely, even if they ar based on mathematics. Back at the time of wild stock gambling a few years ago. almost everybody was in the market, and many paper fortunes were made. When the collapse came, thousands of persons were wiped out. Never again, they said, and meant it—then. But the recent stock boom saw the amateurs plunging again. Memories of a few years ago yielded to the lure of quick and easy money. There seems to be no cure for the optimism of the individual who is ready enough to concede that stock gambling is bad business, but who persists in the hope that he will not be among the hapless dozen who get trimmed.

THE BEST WAR BOOK r T'O those who still believe there is glory and profit in war we commend the truest book on war ever published. Its title is "The First World War.” (Simon & Schuster). It consists of 513 photographs, with brief heads and foreword by Laurence Stallings. That is enough. It tells the story better than words There is the untouched record of monotony, blood and folly which propagandists sold to the people as a romantic crusade. For the very young who want their chance in the trenches and for the very old who may lead us into the Second World war, this photographic history should be required reading Musicians in Oklahoma ‘‘rolled'’ a snare drum for six and one-half hours for anew record. Doesn't say what he ate all that time, but with a roll like that he should have had plenty of coffee Government getting interested in the oil code and oil regulation. Might be a good idea to plow under every second service station.

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THE death sentence imposed on Walter McGee for kidnaping suggests the possibility that sentiment is at last being aroused against this peculiar form of lawlessness, but that is not enough. Kidnaping, like many other crimes from which we are suffering, is rooted in 'h weakkneed attitude that includes not only public officials, but the average run of people. Asa general proposition, we Americans have been more willing to buy protection or obtain it through pull than depend on constituted authority. We have allowed ourselves to be preyed upon by racketeers, to be blackjacked out of money, to be intimidated on the witness stand and to compound felony in a hundred different ways for just one reason—lack of guts. Kidnaping is but one phase of the marauding. blackmailing and hijacking which has come to characterize our social and economic life and which probably costs us more than all branches of government put together. While we can trace much of this unhealthy condition to bootlegging, it would be unfair to leave out the customers, the frame of mind which would rather encourage lawlessness than go without a drink. The philosophy toward organized government which that idea represents has cut a deep swath in our attitude toward law and law enforcement. Not only the criminal but the average man has been moved to run his own show. a a a IN more than one kidnaping case, parents. relatives, or friends actually have requested the law to step aside in order that they might negotiate more conveniently and compromise with criminals. Promises of ransom and immunity have been broadcast, while information has been withheld from the police, because those concerned were more interested in bringing about a happy ending for themselves than in what happened to other peoplp or society. We might just as well be brutally frank about this thing. Organized liberty demands a sense of responsibility and a willingness to make sacrifices for the common good. People can not make themselves safe at the expense of society without undermining the basic principles of social order, can not compromise with criminals without destroying constituted authority. It is just as necessary for a citizen to do his duty in time of peace as it is for a soldier in time of war. just as essential for him to make the sacrifices and take the risks which the maintenance of orderly justice requires. mam KIDNAPING has become epidemic because distraught people with cash to spare mad* it pay. As long as they continue that course, it will flourish. Not only juries but the general public must take a stand if this crime is to be stopped By the same token, the general public must take a stand if any form of crime is to be stopped. Law enforcement, like law, is no stronger than the sentiment behind it. We have not arrived at a point yet, and probably never will arrive at a point, where law can be effectively enforced without active co-operation on the part of the people. The anarchy of “rugged individualism.” if such it may be called, has raised the sani kind of cane with our system of justice as with OUT lyrtetß o £

THE INDIANAPOLIS TTMES

(Times renders are invited to express their views in these columns. Make i/our letters short, so all eon hare a rhnnrr. Limit them to t‘>o words or lessJ Bt a r>i*tu*tfd R*adr The party writing in The Times Monday about Governor McNutt courteously asking the state library board for six office rooms in the new state library building should have signed his name "Foul Play" intead of "Fair Play.” Evidently he is a McNutt henchman or on the pay roll of this synthetic Mussolini. He says, in effect, that previous Governors took any room in the state buildings they wished. That is pure falsehood, for heretofore, no Governor in Indiana had the power to do so. Buildings of the state, including the statehouse. were under jurisdiction of the buildings and grounds committee, consisting, under the law, of the Governor, state treasurer and state auditor. McNutt has pulled so many blunders and demonstrated that he is a little Hitler so often, that Democrats other than those who have profited by his reign, openly declare it will be fifty years before another Democratic Governor is elected in Indiana. It seems to me that it is about time for The Times to change emblem of a lighted torch in its masthead to something with a mask and quit telling the public The Times stands for honesty and decency in state government. Your own reporters can tell you. if you will believe them, that Indiana is being taken for a ride by the McNutt outfit. In campaign speeches McNutt claimed there were too many slivers in the highway department. A check will show he replaced them with higher priced sedans. You will note, if you care to investigate, one car is a Packard. No previous Governor in Indiana ever drove a state-owned Packard. A check will show- that sixteen star licenses are on as many high priced automobiles, all purchased in the last six months by McNutt and his clique. He claimed he opposed relatives on the state pay roll. Ask him about William Cosgrove heading the board of accounts; Cosgrove’s

THE bites of insects, snakes, cats, dogs and other small animals frequently demand attention. The sting of a bee, wasp or yellow-jacket should b? pulled out if still in the flesh and a drop or two of diluted ammonia water applied to the wound. The application of cold compresses will help stop pain. The sting of a centipede, spider or scorpion may be more severe than that Os a wasp or bee. Bleeding should be encouraged to wash out any material deposited by the bite, then tincture of iodine may be applied and a cold compress used to stop pain. Most spider bites in the United Stares are due to the shoe button spider or the black widow. It is called shoe button because It looks like a black button; and black widow because the female frequently eats the male.

THE last day of July is a memorable date in human history. It marks the beginning—nineteen vears ago—of the World war. We never forget Nov. 11, the armistice. But how much wiser if would be if we kept clearly in memory that day upon which the so-called leaders of earth committed the most dastardly crime ever perpetrated against humanity; when mortals sank to the lowest level of insanity. So today, July 31st. as this is written. 1 have steeped myself in the story of that war. Happily within reach I have a most impressive volume with which to refresh my memory and stimulate my imagination. “The First World War," it is pc&iieda Ab u&usual bpok ga j"r<£..

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Cold Compress Stops Pain in Bites, Stings == BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN . , ■■- ..j_. .

How About This? Bv C. E. Why is it that with all the money the city receives from the gasoline tax and automobile license fees provided by the last legislature that taxpayers can't get work done on our streets? Thirty-sixth street, between Capitol avenue and Boulevard place, is in a deplorable condition, filled with holes that shake the fillings out of a motorist's teeth when he drives over them. My neighbors have made several requests to have the street placed in passable condition, and promise was made by the street commissioners office that the street would be graded and otherwise improved, but nothing has been done about it. It seems that with all the talk of the New Deal. Mayor Sullivan would give us anew deal around here, at least c.s far as streets are concerned. With the state turning over more than half a million dollars to the city for street work, surely a little management in the street department should make a decided improvement in condition of the city's streets.

daughter employed in the highway department. Cosgrove's son in the conservation department and the Governor's brother-in-law running the elevator at the highway building. Also there is Pleas Greenlee's father-in-law drawing a game warden's pay in Shelby county. Simmon’s brother on the pay roll and Ed Brennan is in the board of accounts with the Brennan boy in the conservation department. If you are not as blind as the famed statue of justice, print a •list of the relatives of officials in the McNutt reign who are on the pay roll, and investigation likely will prove that, in each instance, the McNutt lavorites draw salaries in excess of their predecessors. Facts are McNutt has spent $400.000 a month more than any previous Indiana Governor, and you misrepresent wholly when you state he saved the state a million or more dollars during the first six months of his reign. Plainly, McNutt, bv not using the

Editor Journal of iho Amorioan .Medical Association of Hvgoia. the Health Macazine. The sting of a scorpion is not frequent. A physician usually treats such stings by injecting some anesthetic solution around the bite, including some adrenalin solution to constrict the blood vessels and prevent absorption of the poison. Flea bites, if painful, may be treated with weak solutions of menthol or camphor. Dog bites or the bites of any small animal must always be investigated to determine the possibility of hydrophobia in the animal that bites. The treatment of the bite itself ordinarily is the same as that for any infected wound. If it seems certain, however, that the animal has rabies, or hydrophobia, the wound should be thoroughly cauterized by a physician. The scabies, or itch mite, travels

A Woman’s Viewpoint .= B y MRS. WALTER FERGUSON —==

little tfith words, but that manages f nevertheless to shout the futility, the sordiness, and awful heartstopping sadness of that dire event, with pictures that do not lie. Lawrence Stallings in editing it. and Simon Schuster in publishing it, have wrought nobly for peace. a a a IT is a photographic record, done in chronological sequence Pictures selected, here and there, on every front, collected at random, speak more forcefully than words, of the horrible catastrophe. Pictures of men rotting in the fields; of old women driven from their homes; of children gaunt with starvation; of rows upon rows of coffins and graves; of men maimed, blinded, with faces blown away; of: churches demolished, ironically labeled, "Divine Samcei," |

motorists’ money paid into the treasury through gasoline, license and oil taxes, to build and maintain highways, becomes the greatest obstructionist to the President's program for recovery through needed public construction. Do you know that virtually all road moneys will be used this year for other governmental purposes? Do you likewise know that the boys in charge are getting ready to purchase new equipment such as trucks, trailers, etc., In the highway department, although 90 per cent of this equipment was new when McNutt took charge? It seems to many of your readers and they won't be readers long if you don't quit covering up the administration’s errors, that you could perform a better service to Indiana and to the Roosevelt administration, if you would unmask this man McNutt. Wake up and play fair. Bt Smalltown Rutlne* Man. Asa small business man. who has been struggling for the last three years to keep his doors open, one of a few on a "Main” street of empty buildings, I wish to express my appreciation of your timely article by Walter Lippmann In the issue of July 27. We small fry surely do need an advocate and I hope your paper keeps up the good work of presenting the side of the small business man. We are too weak to organize and, under the approaching reign of boycott and blackmail, will not dare to express our side of this affair. We are fast approaching a condition in this country that will make conditions in Russia, Italy or Germany seem like the millennium. I hope your paper can see the way to keep a column running showing up the unfairness to our class. We certainly need a strong and loyal advocate. Daily Thought Give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good because his mercy endureth forever —Psalms 18:1. GOD'S mercy is a holy mercy which knows how to pardon sin. not to protect it. Bishop Reynolds.

rapidly from one person to another. The handling of infestation with the itch mite is really a problem for a physician. It demands thorough cleansing, the application of suitable drugs and care of the clothing as well. Tiie bite of the bed bug seldom becomes infected but is an annoyance. The itching is. of course, easily treated by solutions of weak ammonia or very weak menthol. In the case of every type of insect, prevention is far better than cure. It is necessary to know, first of all. the presence of the insects; second, their breeding habits; and third, special methods for destroying them. If they are once destroyed completely by fumigation’ or disinfestation methods they are not likely to return soon again, particularly if sufficient watchfulness is exercised to attack them while they are few in number.

And to me. the two mc6t poignant of them all, “Babe in the Woods.“ a boy crumpled up like a child sleeping, showered with loose earth and leaves, left dead among the trees. The other, a half-de-cayed skeleton in German uniform, with this caption beneath: "Ich hatte einst ein schhones vaterland: es war ein trarm.'’ "Once I had a precious homeland; it was a dream " When you close the book, you know that victory never was anywhere except in newspaper headlines; for the soldier and the people there was nothing except misery and death. One other picture I should have liked to see there. A 1932 bread line. For these hungry, hopeless men were as surely the victims of war as all the human hearts that mw an dust baaide the river Marne,

.AUG. 3, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HF.YWOOD BROIN

NEW YORK, Aug 3—ls I were a prehistoric man Id be pretty sore at the wav the museums are treating me. For instance out in Chicago they have Just opened a show at the Field Museum of Natural History in which the life of mar is represented in eight dioramas. Now, whenever a sculptor sets out to do one of his remote ancestors in clay or wax he always represents the old gentleman as an individual with long, matted hair, a short forehead and a flint ax In fact, ’the prehistoric man” looks like a Yale tackle ten years after graduatidh. Os course, thus can not possibly be a fair approach to a forgotten era, These exhibitions are designed to disseminate knowledge and make the present generation feel pretty proud of itself. Tiny tots are taken by the hand and led in front of the glass cases, so that they may be convinced that mankind is constantly on the mend and that the whole human race has ancestors even less prepossessing than Uncle Arthur. a a a Giring Dane in Had Break BUT these dioramas, it seems to me. grossly falsify the underlying idea put forward by Mr. Darwin Ho gave us the theory of natural selection and of differences not only among the species, but within any given group itself. When the museum showmen begin to sc* up a stock type and say. 1 Here he is—the prehistoric man.” thev are perpetuating a falsehood. They should abandon the definite article and assert no more than: ’Here is Alexander K Swiggins. a prehistoric man who lived approximately 250 000 years ago.” After all. if each prehistoric man had been precisely like every other prehistoric man (here would have been no such thing as evolution. The whole group would have been wippd out or it would have survived en masse and we would all be Yale tackles. Even in the case of Alexander K Swiggins. the man with the wax would not try to fool the tiny tots. Children are literal minded, and when they see something in a showcase they are apt to accept It as being something as true and sure as Santa Claus On the metal disc of identification I think there should be carved a postscript about as follows: ‘‘Remember, ladies and gentlemen and tiny tots, the man who fashioned this diorama has never seen with his own eyes a prehistoric man from 250 000 years ago. He wasn't there He merely is doing the best he can The attempt to reproduce the life and culture of our remote ancestors is like working out a jigsaw puzzle when 98 per cent of the pieces are missing. We are lucky to have as much as a jawbone to start with. From that point on we just guess"

Going Very For Wrong NOW. note the possibility of error in this procedure Suppose, for instance, such a relic belonging to Mayor O'Brien should be unearthed a hundred thousands years from now. Judging by the geologic stratum and the boners from various official speeches lying about, thp scientist correctly might surmise that he had before him a fossil relic from the Winchellian era, the age of brass. But let us assume that from this single jawbone the scientist undertook to build a life-size figure illustrating the appearance of prehistoric man in the twentieih century. It wouldn't be accurate at all And I believe that some of our fossil ancestors have been handled badly in the same manner. How can thp archeologist know that the little sketch was anything more than a gag? Possibly among the Cro-Magnons there were many artists who con'/ do much better than that. They merely had the misfortune not to pick the right caves. The relics which have come down to us may be the product of the least talented amateur of the day. Into each age some early Brouns must, fall. mam Anybody Can Guess BUT chiefly I object when some professor attempts to pper through thp mists of many thousands of centuries and tries to be specific about the family life of the cave man. I read in a newspaper account of the Field Museum and the Neanderthal man, ' He was the first to seize a wife and protect her from animals and other men ” I do not see how a few stray skulls can tell us anything as precise as that. When the remains of som' ancient ancestor are found in a somewhat disorderly arrangement around the floor of a newly opened cave who is to say whether Alexander K Swiggins died defending his wife from a saber-toothed tiger or whether this is Just one more evident of the age-old truth that pell knows no fury like that of a cave woman scorned? <CoDvrlht. 1133 bv The Tsm#*p

Pollution of Brandywine

BY HOMUP GROVE To me you're Just as sacred now As any other shrine; Or*even Just a little more, Not because you're Brandywine But because there in his boyhood Riley loved to sit and dream On your banks, and paint us pictures Fit for Heaven's walls it seems. Then the sycapiore they dived from. Laid so lazy-iike and calm: And your waters seemed to sooth them Like some rest-producing balm. I would give the gold of manhood If it could only be. To sit with them for one short day. And hear their boyish glee. Why then should we pollute the place, That lives for us today? An heritage that's left to us From yonder boyhood day. I can not help but feel it grieves Jim Riley's kindly soul; To see the filth and rubbish there, Within, that swunmin' MU.