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fRIDAY AVO l#W FARM PRICKS INCREASE ONE of the most favorable developments in President Roosevelt s recovery program Is the increase :n the value of farm products, which adds manv hundreds of millions of dollars to the country's purchasing It is true that grain crops were small, but farmers held over unusually large amounts which they are selling at the advanced prices This is true also with regard to cotton The average of farm prices on July 15 was 76 per cent of the average between 1909 and 1914, compared with 57 per cent a year ago A bushel of wheat now is worth twice what It was a year ago, even after the recent market collapse, and cotton has doubled in value. Ten bushels of corn now sell for as much as s*\ onteen did last year Added to this price Increase are the benefits which the farmers will receive from payrrrnts for restricting wheat and cotton crops Monv now is being paid to cotton farmers for destroying part of their growing acreage. The reduction in wheat acreage applies to next year, but producers will be paid the greater part of their money this year for agreeing to restrict planting A total of more than $200,000 000 will be distributed and this will be added to purchasing power this season. It is too early to predict the outcome of the efforts to curb production, or of other measures taken by the government to increase farm prices The cotton farmers accented the government's proposals willingly, and there is every evidence that the wheat farmers will do likewise There are many difficulties to be met before success is assured, among them the problem of exporting products maintained at artificially high prices Also, the effect of the processing taxes is yet to be revealed. A major problem is to maintain farm prices at a fair level and at the same time keep them from going so high that an unbearable hardship will be imposed on consumers Agriculture Secretary Wallace has warned that runaway markets will not be tolerated He has ample authority to keep prices from going too high but the adjustment is a delicate one. Meantime, industry will at once benefit from the greater purchasing power of the farm population There is an immediate relation between factory output and farm Income and the Impoverishment of farmers in recent years had seriously impaired the great home market and destroyed the prosperity of cities CONSTITUTION AND CODES TIECAUSE considerable expression of concem is being heard about constitutional aspects of codes as they are being formed, the following from a recent speech by Donald R. Richberg. general counsel of the national recovery administration, is amply well worth rereading at this time: As the legal adviser of the national recovery administration, let me indicate in a brief space the futility of a debate over the questions of constitutional law in this critical sit uation. First, there is no change of any provisions of the Constitution attempted in this law Therefore, all the time-honored constitutional rights of the individual remain unmodified by this law. "Second there exists no constitutional right to do anything which is forbidden by this law There is no constitutional right to compete unfairly; and there is no business competition which is more unfair or more harmful <o all the people than the competition of low wages and long hours, which the national recovery act seeks particularly to eliminate. '"The welfare of all the people and the prosperity of all business is undermined by such competition, out of which only a small minority can make a temporary profit. If the Constitution protected the right of a few to profit in such a manner at the expense of all the people, it would be a charter of anarchy r.nd not a bulwark of law and order In truth, the supreme court repeatedly has held that the Constitution does not authorize any such minority veto upon a rode of business morality approved by the overwhelming majority of the people. "Third. If any man fears that, in the establishment of a law of fair competition, he may be deprived of some constitutionally protected freedom of action, his present course should be clear. Let him first join with his fellows In writing the rules of the game before protesting that he is sure the rules will be unfair. "Let him then try to play the game according to the rules which may be a novel but. perhaps, an educational experience for many who have been accustomed to dignify lawless self-assertion and disregard for the rights of others, with such noble words as 'individualism' and liberty.* 'Finally, constitutional rights are not invaded by proclamations, or statements of public policy, or even by grants of extraordinary power to meet extraordinary needs. They are invaded only by the exercise of force to take from a man a liberty or a property right, of which he may not be lawfully deprived. • Let me say now and emphatically that the national recovery administration expects to operate so far inside the boundaries of constitutional power that judicial determination, even of borderline cases, will not be necessary. But. if the learned members of my profession un which two opinions can always be obtained* feel at any time that the administration has erred, the courts, zealous to protect liberty and property, are always open —and they are the final arbiters of what may or may not be done lawfully.'’ More than 900.000 square miles, or 28 per cent of the area of Canar.a exclusive of the Arctic islands, ii y still unixplored. e 1

NORRIS DAM The Tennessee valley authority's decision to begin plans for coaatruction of the electric transmission line to link Muscle Shoals with the projected Cove Creel) dam In East Tennessee will be applauded everywhere the pow-’r issue has b-en raised T V. A does not have to worn- about its broad power policy, the general terms of this policy are fixed in the Norris-Roosevelt act which created the That it has decided to exercise its authority in carrying out that policy will be a relief to those who have been apprehensive about the seeming inactivity of the board along this line. The second phase of this T. V. A decision means anew and finer day for the communities near the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals Sheffield Florence and Tuscumbia. Ala . which have heard the waters rumbling to waste over the Dam while some used kerosene lamps, will get government-generated electricity. Now, indeed, cheap government-generated power will be available throughout the Tennessee river basin. The President's dream of anew social and economic experiment in that basin can be carried out. And as it is doing this, T. V. A has paid Senator Norris a well-earned compliment In naming for him the great Cove Creek project. SWIFT JUSTICE BEST JUDGES of the criminal courts of Chicago have decided to forego their vacations in order to help the w*ar on crime. They will sit during the summer to clean up crowded dockets on which are listed charges against some of the city's most notorious gangsters Judges in other crime-ridden communities might well follow the example of those in Chicago. One of the chief obstacles to enforcing the law is delay in the courts. Convictions frequently are made difficult or impossible because crowded dockets or the maneuverings of defense lawyers are able to postpone trials. Every day’s delay makes presentation of evidence more difficult for prosecutors. Moreover, swift justice is infinitely more effective in deterring crime. A criminal who knows he will be brought quickly to book will hesitate a lot longer than one who knows his possible conviction may be put off and perhaps circumvented. The term "nolle prosse” is familiar to every courthouse reporter; usually It means that the prosecutor has dropped charges against someone because he no longer believes he can get a conviction. Crime never takes a vacation. There is no reason why justice should. TROUBLE IN ANDORRA ITIZENS of the tiny little republic of Andorra are living up to their reputation for independence and stubbornness in defying the authorities of France and Spain. Andorra somehow has contrived to maintain its freedom since the days of Charlemagne. governing itself with a council elected by the heads of families. And the Andorrans intend to continue to manage their own affairs. even if they have to go to war to do it. The republic is under the joint suzerainty of France and the Spanish bishops of Urgel. Lately there have been disputes between the French and the Andorran council. The French ordered all armed forces placed at the disposal of their police agent in Andorra. The order was disobeyed and when the Suzerians named anew council, the old one refused to disband. Andorrans came down from their mountains and up from their valleys on foot and on mules, armed with all sorts of weapons, to protect their council and prevent seizure of the capital. The citizens of Andorra number only a few more than 5.000, and of course, must yield to France if she insists on having her own way. It is to be hoped the difficulties won't be serious. for peaceful, pastoral Andorra is just about the only spot In Europe that has remained untroubled by the woes that have afflicted the rest of the world. DIVORCE NEW DEAL IF there is any matter upon which anew deal * is desirable it is in our antiquated and diversified legislation on divorce in the United States. There is the widest diversity in divorce legislation, all the way from the ultra-me-dieval condition in South Carolina, where there is no legal ground for divorce, to the free-and-easy procedure in Arkansas, Nevada and Idaho. It usually has been taken for granted that the trend of opinion here is toward the civilized divorce laws of many European countries. But this is not unqualifiedly the case. Only a few weeks ago the president of one of the leading legal associations In the country demanded that there be no divorces granted save for causes which would have permitted the annulment of the marriage in the beginning. Therefore, one may welcome the proposed uniform federal marriage and divorce lawproposed by the National Divorce Reform League. It is in general harmony with the enlightened view that marriage should be made more regular and difficult and divorce easier. It would also tend to give uniformity in divorce legislation throughout the nation. The chief provisions as to marriage run as follows: Will forbid marriage ceremony without a license, for which application must be made by either party two weeks before its final issuance Both parties must be present when it is issued. Application to be posted in the county clerks office and published in newspaper. Marriageable age. with consent of parents, 16 for girls and 18 for boys. Legal age. without consent of parents, 18 for girls and 21 for boys. Will forbid the marriage of imbeciles, the insane, feeble-minded, epileptic, paupers, of those afflicted with tuberculosis or venereal disease. or of those related within and including the degree of first cousins. Two witnesses besides the officiating clergyman or official must be present at the marriage. Penalties shall be imposed on those who issue licenses or perform marriage ceremonies contrary to these provisions. A marriage which is legal in the state where contracted shall be legal in all states. The specifications as to divorce would be more liberal than those prevailing in many states and would accord men and women equal rights in the divorce courts. Grounds upon which a divorce may be granted. Interpretations to be alike for men and women, are: Adultery. cruel or inhuman treatment, abandonment or failure to jwovide for a period of a year, Incurable inafiUy,

and the commission of an Infamous crime by either party. Defendant in divorce suit must appear In court. If he fails to do so the court shall appoint someone to appear for him. If defendant is resident of state in which suit is brought, he or she must be served with a personal summons; if not a resident of said state, summons must be published for three weeks in certain newspapers as directed, marked copies of which must be mailed to defendant’s last known address. Alimony shall be paid according to the financial condition and circumstances of the individuals in the case The custody, support and education of the children shall be a matter of equal Justice, with the children always the first consideration Whichever parent is deprived of the guardianship and care shall be allowed to visit the children and have them visit him or her Upon the granting of a divorce an Interlocutory decree shall be entered, but such decree shall not become final until the end of three months, during which interval neither party can contract a second marriage within the law. • A divorce which is granted in one state shall be recognized in all states. Certain improvements could be suggested, notably, the provision that high-grade feebleminded types may marry if both parties are sterilized in advance of the application for license. Also, incompatibility certainly should be added as a legal cause of divorce. This would eliminate the prevalent hypocritical and dishonest plea of “extreme mental cruelty” and the like. Most divorces are, as a matter of fact, asked for on the grounds of incompatibility and w-e might as well be honest about it in any reform legislation. RELIEF PROBLEM REMAINS BETTER business, more Jobs, and higher wages have heartened a depressionweary country. Times are better and the march along the road to recovery Is gaining momentum. While we rejoice at these developments, we must not lose sight of the fact that the very real problem of providing relief for millions of destitute unemployed remains acute. States and cities, with treasuries drained, are finding it difficult to provide food and shelter for those who have not yet felt the benefits of improved conditions. The federal government continues to give huge sums to the states. Even with the most favorable outcome In the efifor's of the recovery administration. ! and with stimulated employment through expenditure of billions for construction, it will be many months before relief will cease to be a consideration of first magnitude. THE FOREST ARMY reports come from the 1.428 camps scattered over the country in which some 300,000 youths are enrolled in the civilian conservation corps. These amateur foresters, according to government officials, are earning their keep in improving the nation's forests by building roads and bridges, clearing underbrush, protecting the forests against fire and pests, and performing other useful tasks. In addition, the young men, most of whom otherwise would be idle, are engaged In healthful outdoor work, and seem to be having a pretty good time of it. The government is spending about $20.000,000 a month in maintaining the corps, but most of this is sent to the families of the workers, who have been on relief rolls. The forest army originally was enlisted for six months, but unless congress objects, i will be kept at work until spring because of the good showing that has been made. French housewife got a divorce by claiming her husband never spoke to her in ten years. Maybe he was just trying to think of a good alibi.

M.E.TracySays: IF geologists are right, a great continent lies buried beneath the Southern ocean—a continent which once rose high above the sea, which possessed rock-ribbed hills and green valleys and on which, perhaps, there developed races of men who regarded it as safe permanently from inundation. If astronomers are right, there are stars so far away that it takes light three hundred million years to reach the earth—stars that may i have exploded, or crumbled to dust long before their shimmering rays reached our telescopes. If anatomists are right, there are more telephone stations in man's brain than in a billion worlds. If physicists are right, each atom represents a solar system with as great a proportion of space separating its sun from its planets as separates the units of our own solar system. Our ability to deduce and discover overshadows our ability to make good use of what we know. To put it in another way, human knowledge has grown too unweirdly for the average man to comprehend, much' less control. | The average man feels rather hopeless on this account. a a a EVEN the gadgets and contraptions by which he* strives to provide himself with food, shelter and clothing seem to have grown beyond nis managerial capacity. His simple ideas of creation have been shattered, and with them has gone his simple faith. Naturally enough, he turns to mechanical progress as a substitute, to his ingenuity and inventiveness, to plans and theories of his own devising. Meanwhile each and every invention, each new device or system, is but the translation of some immutable principle into workable form, snd it is the principle that counts. All we have done, and all we can ever hope to do is to find and utilize the everlasting forces of nature. The contrivances we make as a result of this are not so important. The real problem is to identify and catalogue the force. Not only that we may make use of it. but that we shall be spared the risk of going contrary to it. In this connection, we should remember that the forces which govern intellectual development are just as inexorable as those which govern physical development and that falling empires represent the same kind of a problem as sunken continents. * 9 a WHY are we unable to create a lasting social order, a system of. justice that will adapt itself to changing conditions, an economic structure that will function with a reasonable degree of fairness? With all our boasted intelligence in other fields, why have we been unable to breed a sufficient degree of self control, to do what we ought without compulsion? Why. for instance, can't we drive our automobiles without killing 30.000 people a year? It is not lack of knowledge, but it is lack of something—something that we fail to realize. or comprehend. Our educational system has done wonders in the improvement of trade and professional skill, but it has not done so much in the improvement of mere men and women, chiefly because it has come to be more concerned with their creations than with their well being, as sought to provide happiness through material achievement, rather than by cultivation of the inner self.

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(Timrt rrnarr * are in'itrd tn rr/irct* i thrir rtric* in them cnlumnt. Make ynur lettrrt ihnrt, to all ran hare a chance. ' Limit them to HO tcorilt or lot.) By H. S. Bnniib The alcoholic drink has no place in the human system. The liquor traffic has no natural right, no legal right, no inherent right and the legislature can't make a wrong right, the voter can't vote a wrong right and the supreme court has passed again and again on *he legality of prohibition. The supreme court has stated: "That there is no inherent right in j a citizen to sell intoxicating liquors. That prohibition takes away no personal rights and no property rights of the citizen. That the legislature can not barter away the pub- j lie health and the public morals. And that prohibition itself <s a fundamental principle of government.” “The eighteenth amendment added nothing to these decisions. Therefore, the liquor traffic exists only by political privilege" and its elimination is purely a matter of administration.” To get prohibition on the statute books is but 1 per cent, b'lt the administration of it is 99 per cent, and in order to make good, we need, j can and must have a real, honest-to-goodness prohibition party in power. Then the despised, little Prohibition party will be like little David when the big giant came at him with a shield of protection (license) and the sword of political influence. Then, in 1936, the pendjlum will swing our way and little David will take the sling of faith in which he puts the prohibition ballot and say. "This day the Lord will deliver thee into my hands, then hit him in the seat of thought (forehead) and smite him to the earth and then take from the wet giant his word of political influence and cut off his head and his shield of protection will be taken from him md then the wet politicians will skedaddle. Our own will come to us and then the lid will be put on so tight it never will be removed: then that will be a thing of the past, being sold out by the Judases and being crucified between two old political parties. Just now the wets are putting all their cards on the table and going up like a skyrocket and later on will come down like a stick. Should the

Following electric shock it is first necessary to remove the electrocuted man from the electric conductor. Employes of electrical corporations do not stop to shut off the current. They take off a coat or wrap and throw it around the patient's body so as to pull him away from the contact. They are told never to put their hands near the pockets of an electrified man nor near his shoes, because the presence of metal material or nails in the shoes will cause severe shock to the rescuer. When a person has been shocked by electricity, dekth may occur instantaneously due to paralysis of the centers of circulation of the heart because of overpxcitation of the heart muscle, perhaps due to suffocation from the forcible contraction of the muscles of breathing.

THE American housewife, with her tremendous baying power will be a most important factor in industrial recovery. The President has asked that she purchase nothing from any store or saop that does not co-operate with his program. Thus the boycott becomes respectable, even noble. A momentous item the plan assures is that child labor with one bold stroke, will be eliminated trom the social system. Queer, isn't it, that the ideals altruists have been advocating for such a long time, ideals lhat have been pronounced impractical and useless, should be the ones now set up to dispel our economic woes? Consideration for others, the protection of little children, the welfare of the worker rather than of

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Prompt Action Needed in Shock Cases - === by DR. MORRIS FISHBF.IN

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For Man of 50 Bt Josrph MrFill. Being in accord with your support of NRA and other public matters. I wish to call your attention to a very pernicious element which will make a great flat surface in the proposed recovery wheel. We have twenty-five years between the ages of 45 and 70. the latter the pension age. Our great insurance companies, given to boasting of their wealth, purposely are discriminating against men of the above age by placing such a high rate against them to their employers that the industrialists can not afford to employ them. It is quite nice for these men to contribute to the insurance companies until 45. being rewarded by a kick into the scrap heap. It would only require the effort of a reasonably intelligent investigation to ascertain the facts. With a man in the White House after twelve weary years of futile so-called effort, it strikes me a real editor could reach his ear and that of the public, expasing the unprincipled method enriching the bloated insurance companies. It is appalling to realize that some millions of men in this country more than 50. with children still in school, must be tassed to the junk heap existing solely on the dregs of life. And this is America, the richest country of the world. wets repeal the eighteenth amendment. they have dug their own graves. We had prohibition before we had the eighteenth amendment and will have prohibition administration with a party in power which is in sympathy wth the law. One good thing the wets are doing is to drive all the real drvs out of the old parties and into a beehive where all will be pulling together and in the right direction. Considering everything and with all the handicaps, prohibition has been a wonderjul success. I feel that the wets are doing themselves up with their own acts like did the saloons. I feel that condition- will do for us what we can not Jo for ourselves. Things are shaping up in that, direction, even though the eighteenth amendment would be repealed. Great things are ahead

Editor Journal of tho American Medical Association of Hvreia. the Health Macaxine. Sometimes death occurs due to burning, and sometimes the person who has been shocked by electricity falls and dies from the fall. After the person is removed from contact, artificial respiration is started similar to that used for drowning. A physician should be called immediately who may stimulate the heart by the injection of suitable drugs, or by the use of methods of massage applied to the heart. The director of one of the largest first-aid services for electrical corporations, makes the following suggestions: Release victim, avoiding sustaining a shock oneself. Any dry nonconductor may be used to move vlc- . tim or the live conductor.

the industry he labors for-all these I are but the simple things advocated 2,000 years ago by Jesus, the Christ. Our world has been wrecked because. although we spoke eloquently about these beautiful theories, we built our civilization upon the less solid basis of materialism. a a a AND so it takes a collapse of all our gorgeous structures to derreenstrate that the Golden Rule is the only one that will work for long It takes millions of men looking for i jobs to make us lift babies out of factories. It takes universal suffering to open our eyes to the fact that the man and not the machine ! must be our first consideration. It ; t akes world chaos to ■Compel us to set up an intelligent play whereby

F.d Frathrrlnglll. Statements by Paul Fry. excise director. in the Indianapolis Times, makes it impossible to resist this letter. "Fry said as soon as he received definite evidence of the sale of draught beer by persons holding state license, he would revoke the writs.” "Fiy said two permits had been revoked—" “—he would not hesitate to revoke the permits of wholesalers or importers, if they were involved in the sale of keg beer.” "I'm the licensing authority,in this state, and I will revoke them when I find they are selling draught and not bottled beer.” It seems to me that now is the proper time, through public indignation with pressure on the Governor, either to change the attitude of this public servant, or change servants. Fry. who is not even an elected, but an appointed office holder, certainly has. or is assuming, very dictatorial powers. I would say. absolutely, that the decisions of our elected jurists are far more welcome and acceptable to the public than Frvs. If our learned, elected judges throughout the state can find no grounds for prosecution of such accused persons. then there is no justification for Fry to put such persons out of legitimate business. Sur°ly, he can not contradict his own decisions of just a few months ago. and say that those now holding licenses are not now fit to do so. I have in mind a fellow who whispered "I am the law”; let alonr quote for publication, in direct conflict to many jurists of our stare. "I'm the licensing authority in this state, and I will—" All this does not. of course. consider the public demand for draught beer. The sweeping changes of recent months through the ballot will be duplicated when and where necessary to correct unsatisfactory and undesirable government. A staunch Republican. I long since have recognized the sincerity with which our national Democratic government Is meeting existing conditions, but the state situation is certainly lacking in any such sincerity. Your paper always has battled for Changes which the public desired. How about starting, and I know it will end quickly and favorably, with the people's demand for: "Immediate draught beer.”

If both the victim's hands are grasping the live conductor, free them one at a time. If necessary shut off the current. Near it a switch should be opened. If it is necessary to cut a live wire, use a wooden-handled axe, turning away the face to avoid the flash. Put finger in victim's mouth to remove teeth, gum or tobacco. Lay patient on abdomen, one arm extended upwards the other elbowflexed Rest the face on the hand so that the mouth and nose are free. Carry out artificial respiration. When the patient revives, keep him lving down. Keep him warm Watch the respiration carefully, in case it falls again.

the individual may live decently. The American woman who partially is responsible for the success of such a plan should be willing to assume her share of blame for our condition. For she is not without fault. In the first place she knos too ltitle about what takes place outside a narrow circle. Although she would repudiate the thought with abhorrenc*. she often is thoroughly selfish. Her concept of motherhood is no higher than her own roof tree. So long as her own children are -safe and well-fed she remains unconcerned about thoswho are homeless and hungry. Out of this dark womb of universal misery may there be born a new ideal of motherhood—one that is wide enough to encompass the , world and all it holds of humahity.

AUG. 4. 1933

It Seems to Me —— BY HEYWOOD BROUN NEW YORK. Aug 4 Die First World War” is the best of the war books A novelist or a dramatist must choose and condense Tn* form compels him to deal with one front at a time In any given scene or on anv partmlar page he must confine himself to a single wing of the asylum. Laurence Stallings before editing "The First World War' expressed himself in three mediums He wrote Plumes.” a novel, and collaborated in "What Price Glory?” a play, and "The Big Parade, a motion picture But he has said mast of all in the series of short phases which he has set down to accompany the photographs n the present book "Tactical Blunder.” standing in black type under the picture of d-’nd men In a trench, says Just as much as anybody has achieved in a hundred thousand words. mam Seeing Complete Picture BUT Laurence Stallings is too honest as an observer and too shrewd as a propagandist to make this photographic history a mere chamber of horrors Or. to be more precise, he has realized that even devastation of the fish may be less horrifying than the mutilation of the spirit which occurs in war time. A photograph of a huge London New York Berlin or Paris crowd cheering the boys on to the front has its own particular poignancr as an indictment. A full-page spread of recruiting posters may make the reader feel even more sick lhan glimpses of the hospitals or field dressing stations. And to me the most shocking picture tn the entire collection is that of a sweet and smug-faced American woman standing on the fringe of a Filth avenue Liberty loan meeting and holding aloft a banner reading: —‘l was born in 1863 The spirit of war surrounded me. Now the spirit of war has comp again And I have a son .with— ihe Fighting Men!” War is a mess Its vulgarity is almost as appalling as its cruelD On a single page, with the repeated caption “O. God. Our Help in Ages Past." we see an English bishop, a Russian priest and a German pastor giving their blessings to troops about to die in a righteous caws" I do not take the title supplied by Laurence Stallings - The First World War"—to be a cynical quip It is and it should be a challenge The man Is very much in earnest. He has done all he could. m m a The Birth of a War Ploy A YEAR or so ago before What Price Glory?" was written, Alexander Woollrott. Stallings and I were sitting somewhere having a drink. Woollcott had been a sergeant in the medical corps, and later, at the front, as a reporter for The Stars and Stripes, my own experience was entirely reportorial and mostly in training areas. Stallings was the only one of us who had seen line service from the inside. Something was said about the war. I think Woollcott said it. In thase days he was supposed to be a little romantic about the war. At any rate, Laurence Stallings exploded like a mine. He wanted to know whether either of us had ever heard the sounds a wounded man makes in a wheat field when he has been lying for hours In the same spot, where it is impossible to reach him. He went very graphically into all th? details of what happens when a man is ripped in the middle by machine gun bullets, and he ended by saying that he was going to write a play to blow war out of the water. He and Maxwell Anderson wrote the play and it didn't blow war out of the water. I think that "What Price Glory?” descries to rank very close to the top of the list of enduring American plays, but it contains its own particular solace for those who still believe in war. Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt had not the slightest notion of why they were fighting. But they did have a loyalty to the outfit They did get some fun out of the fight and. unfortunately, this was an accurate observation upon the part of the authors. a a a You Can't Approach It WAR is very heady stuff. It is dangerous even to get close to It. Bugles and drums act as com?ons for bombs and bayonets You can't place any safe minimum content on militarism. And I fear mast, not the old topers in the brass hats, but the Christian men and women who say, "Os course, I'm against war, but. naturally, I would support a righteous war.” They will be among the first to go under the table once the fiagon begins to pass from hand to hand. And I fear those who are all for peace, with the single exception of a desire for their own particular brand of war. I've heard a lot about “no more imperialist war Tha' means merely the pleasant shambles of a nice ltitle civil war. Stallings has a page with two captions —"White Victims of the Red Arm' and. underneath. Red Victims of the White Army.” Only one mood will end war and it is the mood of fanaticism It consists in saying. "No more war of any kind under any pretext whatsoever." ■ CoDvrifh' 1033 bv Th* Time A Merchant’s Wish BY JACK MATYCH When I’ve shoved off this mortal shore And to this ole world I am no more: Please don’t sob. don't even shed a tear— Nor look so sad. 'round my humble bier. Don t tell folks I'm sumpthin' that I ain’t; For 111 always be a merchant not a saint. And when you mosey in my store up there. Let s hope my prices still compare I’ll try to smile, even tho I'm feelin' blue; For you're a customer—my trade depends on you. But when into business I venture up yon. Let's hope this ‘darn depression’ isn't on.