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__ MONDAY AUO 7 1933 COAL MINE CHAOS r | < ’HF strike of coal miners in western Penn--X svlvama for union recognition at a time SAhen President Roosevelt is trying to unite employers and workers for a concerted assault on depression turns attention forcibly to that unhappy industry. Differences between mine owners and v k> rs nre perennial, and so deep-rooted thats tlieir peaceful settlement .apparently is impossible The present strike is much like many many others that have preceded it. There is tr< üble over picketing and the presence of V rucebreakers; the militia has been sent into t.ie coal fields keep order: there have been outbr aks of violence. And while this is iroing on at the mines, further evidence of the chaos in the industry Is furnished bv the preparation of half a dozen or more fair trade codes by different groups of operators for submission to NR A. The operators have been unable to agree on prim iples for general application to the industry. Distress in the coal mining Industry began before flip depression became general. The number of miners employed has stead--11 v decreased, partly because use of substitutes has reduced the demand for coal, and partly through introduction of machinery and Improved methods. The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers recently estimated that in nine years 56 500 miners had been replaced by machines. 75,000 by improved methods and that 140 500 had been thrown out of work by decreased demand Miners In 1030 numbered G 20.000. U )\ eminent figures showed working miners last spring were getting an average of 46 cents an hour for twenty-four hours a week making their earnings sll a week. Employment was a third less than in 1029, but pay rolls were three-fourths less. Suffering was acute and widespread. What to do with this large body of workers wno can not find places in their own industry and can not be absorbed by other industries is a national problem Congress had In mind the coal mining situation more than any other when it authorized expenditure of $-5 000 000 to provide subsistence farms for displaced workers. Similarly the lot of operators has not been a h ippy one during the period in which demand for coal has been steadily shrinking. All factors combined have produced a problem that may require more federal intervention than has vet been attempted. The stabilization of an essential industry is necessary for economic reasons, and conditions among miners cry out for attention.

WHAT OF THIS MAN? AkTHAT does the New Deal mean for the ’ ’ man who has passed the 50-year mark, or even the man of 45 years? Despite the multiplicity of problems that confronts those seeking national recovery, the v trker who is "too old” for the high speed pace of the present day should not join the ranks of the forgotten men. In Ft Wayne a canvass has been started to obtain 50.000 signatures favoring modification of a state law which it is claimed bars re n more than 45 from industrial jobs. Leaders declare that insurance regulations keep older turn out of factories In this connection, it is interesting to study the story of a man who walked into The Times office today. He is a man of fair education, gamed in the lower grades of public school and throueh reading since he left the classroom. He's 56 now. with his wife as his only dependent I went to work when I was 12." he says, •‘and I've worked with machines ever since. I know ihe insides and the outsides of machines like a scholar knows a book ■I worked eighteen years for one of the rin's biggest industries. Then I was empi. \cd at another large factory, in a superintendent's job for a time. Then came the depression and the bar b vaiise of my ace For two years I've had no job I've tried selling candy and other things, but I m not much of a talker. So I'm out and I stay out ” He declares that at every place he has applied they won't hire a man even over 40. • No one is wanted who has a touch of gray in his hair." says this luckless worker. I am in the prime of life and no one has a richt to deprive me of the right to work." he concluded. What can be done for this man? What can be done for the thousands like him? In many trades, most of them, in fact, men o\ t r 40 or even over 50 are at the peak of their ability, far more competent than workers who have nothing to recommend them but their youth. It is to these men that those guiding the New Deal should give serious thought. •They have the right to work and to live and to be valuable members of the community. LANDMARK ON WAY OUT REMOVAL of a landmark from the Mile Square seems assured as the city zoning board meets this afternoon to consider a petition for razing the Denison hotel at Pennsylvania and Ohio streets For sixtv-three years the old hotel has held its place on the downtown comer and for as many years it has been known throughout state and nation as one of the city's famous hostelnes. It is a shame that the building must be sacrificed by its owner. Norman A. Perry, because of present business conditions and not because the city is progressing to such extent that an antiquated downtown hotel is ready for replacement by a modem structure. The building has lived its life. It has beer

the victim of fame and disaster. In Its day some of the greatest national figures, and many others not so important, spent their days and nights there in the convivial atmosphere that is so well remember’d by residents of Indianapolis. The Denison, in its heyday was the center of many social functions The bar was a great haven Not only did social functions establish the the hotel's prominence, but many strategic political moves were laid in its rooms. So much for its fame Disaster, in the form of fire struck it several times during its career. A parking lot may be established there. To Indianapolis this custom of downtown parking places on prominent ~orners seems odd. To Detroit, in the period'of boom, razing of old buildings and esnolishment of parking places was a regular procedure. But, perhaps with the old structure removed, and anew deal in the making, another building, as pretentious as the old in days gone by, will be erected to maintain the city's skyline. STITCH, STITCII “Stitch, stitch, stitch. In poverty, woe, and dirt—” a a a A CENTURY has passed since 'The Song of the Shirt" startled England into realization of the brutal conditions under which clothing was manufactured Americans who think of it at all. a> the present time, probably have a vague idea that much has been done to better conditions in this country. The United States department of labor has completed a study of the shirt industry in nine of the principal manufacturing states. It reports that half of the 20 000 workers studied receive less than $740 for a week. In Delaware the median for workers was $5.50 a week; in Maryland. $5.60; in Pennsylvania. $6 10. Shirt making has been shifting from large cities to small towns to get cheaper labor, the survey showed, and also, apparently, to escape regulation of hours, wages and working conditions Some of the shirtmakers—almost all of them women—were working 57 1 - hours a week In one Pennsylvania establishment. 30 per cent of the workers were under 16 years cf age In the shirt industry, as in coats and suits and men's clothing, a great number of contracting establishments are found where the work is farmed out and responsibility for labor is avoided. Wages averaged $6.40 in contracting plants as compared with $7.60 in manufacturing plants The national recovery administration can put an end to these conditions FREIGHT TRAIN NUISANCE T J UNDREDS of motorists in Indianapolis, principally those who must drive to their homes on the west side of the city, are wondering what has happened to the city ordinance against trains blocking crossings. In the last few years, and especially in the last few weeks, since the freight business again has picked up. there apparently is no effort made to control the traffic-train situation. A few drives to the western part of the city which would require crossing the tracks at Belmont and Holmes avenues, convinces most motorists that the freights have the situation well in hand. The motorist halts his auto. Then, as the cars on the tracks are switched back ar.d forth, he finally turns off the motor The line of autos, by that time, has increased to more than a dozen. Apparently the track is going to be cleared. But, about the time one expects to be able to drive on, another cut of freight cars comes rolling along. Not many days ago one motorist had his windshield smashed when the gate dropped suddenly at one crossing, caught him approaching the tracks, By the watch, some of these freight-auto tieups last twelve or fifteen minutes. Blowing of auto horns serves only to irritate quieter motorists who wait patiently, and arouses the ire of the switchmen. While all this is going on. the driver of Mie auto, his wife and children sit in the car that, by now. is surrounded by billows of smoke. They listen to squealing cattle being sidetracked and hear the heavy thump of the steel w heels All in all. it becomes a most unpleasant outdoor pastime on a summer evening. But checking back, it appears that the city ordinance on the question really is not lost. It just isn't heeded. Offhand, there is no recollection of the prosecution of any railroad company for blocking street crossings these last few years The city ordinance reads: “Any person in charge of any locomotive, motor car. car or train of cars on any steam or electric railroad, who shall leave or permit to be left, such locomotive, motor car. car or train of cars standing so as to obstruct any street or sidewalk for any greater length of time than three minutes, or occupy the same in switching or for other purposes while such train is moving, longer than the time above specified, shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding 8100. ’’ There's the law. Why isn't it enforced? Probably, after fire apparatus or an ambulance is held up at a crossing and there is pressure brought to bear, the matter will be solved. Or, perhaps, some ordinary citizen may have the nerve to come to the front for his rights. THE BLUE EAGLE HOME 'T'HE American housewife, because she buys most of the goods sold at retail, can in a large part, make or break the admirustrattion's recovery program If the housewife does not buy those products and from those stores displaying the Blue Eagle, the work of the national recovery administration will be meaningless. Additional costs of farm products and industrial wages must be passed on to the same housewife who has been asked to co-operate She deserves protection from undue price increases The administration intends that she shall have it. She is willing to pay more if it goes to farmers and labor, but not to profiteers. The enlightened merchants and manufacturers realize that it is to their own interests to prevent profiteering. It is only the unscrupulous minority that has to be thwarted. Instead of waiting until abuses create scandals that would threaten the whole recovery program, the administration has set up machinery to prevent profiteering. The office

of the consumeis counsel of the agricultural adjustment administration is prepared to supply weekly quotations on warranted price increases for food and textile ccmmooitles which go into the household budget. Mayors in more than 5.000 cities have been asked to organize nonpartisan consumers committees to prevent price abuses. If the consumers' counsel can supply these committees with adequate information, the American housewife intelligently can challenge unfair price increases. FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE A SUPREME court for business is needed during the war against depression. That, in effect, is what the President has in his new super-board of mediation. Its job is twofold. It will settle strikes in the period before ineiividual cedes are completed. It will arbitrate differences under the cedes. In the sense that an interpretation of a law or code often becomes a virtual lawmaking process, this new board will have much more power than the usual arbitration board in a labor dispute. Genera’. Hugh Johnson. recovery administrator, predicts that the arbitration board will be kept very busy. It wIU be. But that does not mean the country is threatened by general industrial warfare. The coal and steel industries, where workers have been terrorized recently, are exceptions. Those particular Mellon and Morgan companies have long anti-labor records. It is neither fair ror accurate to judge industry as a whole by its worst elements. Industry as a whole has been remarkably alert, intelligent and patriotic in co-operating with the national recovery administration So has labor. The fact that the employers’ advisory board of NR A and the labor advisory board agreed unanimously on the personnel for the new board of mediation is typical of the spirit of teamwork between capital and labor. The motive is not so much a sentimental hands-across-class-barriers emotion as it is hard, cold reasoning that the alternative of recovery is disaster for all. If thus co-operative spirit continues on the part of industry and labor, the work of the mediation hoard in settling strikes and lockouts should not be heavy. But there probably will be a vast field for this board in preventing friction by clarifying codes and iecommending modifications where injustices exist. Mere existence of such a tribunal to hear their case is one of the greatest boons which could be bestowed upon workers in anti-union plants where the boss is a kind of combined Mussolini-Hitler. from whom hitherto there has been no appeal. Judged by its personnel, the new board merits public confidence, just as it has been received enthusiastically by President Roosevelt. Senator Robert Wagner of New York, as neutral chairman, is a happy selection. Government is perplexed over the ownership of a million reindeer in Alaska That makes it official that there isn't any Santa Claus. > They're going to tear down all the fences on public lands Secretary Ickes announces. Probably use unemployed congressmen to rebuild 'em. An optimist is a guy who dares to eat huckleberry pie while wearing an ice-cream suit. The favors you get at a party aren't the only ones you get that have strings tied to 'em.

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MOST of our social and political ilLs can be traced to an extravagant faith in money. We have trained ourselves to believe in buying power, not only as it affects the physical necessities of life, but as a means to insure cultural advantages. We have come to a point where we imagine that most everything can be bought and that the only requisite to a fulfillment of ambition is to have the price. It goes without saying that a reasonable amount of money is indispensable, that we have developed an industrial system which calls for a certain amount of cash, that the family which does not have an income of $1,300 or $2,000 a year is actually denied the ordinary comforts and conveniences of civilization. That, however, does not fathom the pernicious philosophy which has grown up around money. The predominating thought, especially in these United States, is that the possession of money represents the most important thing ir. life and that it is perfectly proper to rate men by the amount of cash they command. Asa general proposition, the man with a million is regarded as far better off than the man with half a million, while the man with a hundred million is rated A-l. a a a THE dollar has come to be a well nigh universal standard of value. From a medium of exchange, it has grown into a social and moral yardstick. The man who can produce dollars in sufficient number usually is excused from disclosing how he got them or from answering such breaches of the moral code as his methods may have involved. It has become a very difficult thing to convict millionaires, to subject them to a system of justice which we find it easy to apply to others. It has become even more difficult to regulate their practices, habits and attitudes. Fines represent little hardship for the man with money He can afford to drive by a red light if it costs only $lO or sls. or even to commit more serious offenses under a system of laws in which the employment of a smart attorney is almost a guarantee of immunity. a a a YOUNG people do not need to be taught the power of money. They see it exemplified every day in the week see their rich companions get away with things that would make trouble for their poor companions. They need no tutor to tell them the important part money has come to play in determining the consequences of good or bad activities. Even against their better instinct*, they come to believe that it doesn't make much difference how they get money, as long as they get it. In spite of the finer ideals which conscientious parents and instructors seem to impart. boys and girls are almost forced to the conclusion that the pay a job brings is more important than the job itself and that success is a matter of rew-ard rather than achievement. Such a conception makes it easy for the gang to get recruits, for the crooked politician to obtain henchmen, for the grafter to soothe hre conscience, for the business man to justify unfair practices. We need to resurrect the self-evident truth that some things can not be bought, that honesty. ambition, courage and even the ability to do things only are obtainable through self-effort, and that while they pay in the long run, they frequently do not promise such quick returns as crookedness, fraud and deceit.

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(Times readers are Invited to express their vieict in three columns. Make pour Limit them to 2SO words or less./ letters short, so all can hove a rhanee. An Interested Citizen. This Is in behalf our laboring brethren, who we know are beginning to see that there is a silver lining in the dark cloud which has hung over us for the last four years. This great change in spirit and mind has been made by the great program President Roosevelt has laid before us. lam sure every one will unite in earnest co-opera-tion. which is the only way to bring back prosperity. Employment is the largest of all factors. This last week, while men and women citizens waited anxiously at the gate of an Indianapolis cotton mill, there was transported any number of men and women from another state to fill in vacancies which were made by stating they were complying with the code which the textiles signed. Now this may not be unpatriotic, but It doesn’t seem the proper action to take when there is such stress here in our home town and state. It looks as though that if such firms feel this is the place to make their business residence, the people of this city or state should be preferred. These very tactics have been practiced by any number of concerns. These activities should be made known publicly for the welfare of our home owners and taxpayers. I sincerely hope every one. employe and employer, will unite and march hand in hand for this great cause which confronts our nation. Bv If. F. Hutchinson. President. Roosevelt. In his inaugural address, said: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” That statement particularly is appropriate at this time, for .here is plenty of need for vision—broad and comprehensive. For three years industry and business have been floundering around in the mire of depression, trying to find a way out. No progress has been made. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is showing them. He is supplying the brains and vision. It’s up to them to furnish the vital force behind his leadership. To what avail will be the mere raising of wages and the shortening of working hours for those who are and have been employed? Very good for them, but wherein is the benefit to the jobless man and woman? Who will pay the inflated prices on the living necessities re-! quired for their maintenance next winter? It's a sure thing the un-

1F the sense of dizziness merely comes and goes and yields quickly to proper hygiene such as suitable attention to the diet, the digestion. the action of the kidneys and correction of disorders of vision. one need not be disturbed. However, if dizziness is repeated again and again it may be due to insufficient blood supply to the brain, insufficient action of the heart, a tumor growing in connection with the semi-circular canals or some hidden disturbance elsewhere. A feeling of dizziness and fainting, if repeated, demands careful scientific study. Os course, some people faint more easily than do others Some faint with the slight-

THE only thing I don't like about the industrial recovery movei ment is the military insignia with which it is being decorated. A good many people. I feel sure, ♦are skittish about getting trapped again into the sort of emotionalism they once suffered and that can. as they know, proceed so quickly from fever to delirium. I hope, therefore, that those of us who are completely and honestly in accord with the President's plan can think up some other words and phrases to describe and gain interest for it. Militaristic terms will frighten off a lot of good Americans. They know we actually did not have cooperatoin during the war epidemic. i What we called co-operation was i coercion. And out of that coercion

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Federal Police By W. H. Brennen. The editorials seems to favor state police to clean up crime. To keep up this kind of urge when the public wants federal police and real protection is hard to understand. It will cost a fortune to equip all states in such a drive. The army is equipped with everything needed and is paid for its time. If any department of the government was to take over this task of a crime cleanup it would be loaded up with experts, etc., at no end of cost. They would work secretly and get nowhere. Those kind of men never get anywhere on any job. Dr. Moley is boosted to dope out how to clean up the crime wave, has studied it for years, it seems, and in all that time about all the cleaning up done was A1 Capone sent up. That's how good the press Is in boosting and one would think they were a little bit afraid a cleanup w’ould be made. Are you for crime or against it? Mr. Merle is the big man in all this master mind stuff and has not made a fumble. Mr. Moley fumbles about every play. Why don't you advocate federal police? With one quarter of all earnings going to crime as Senator Copeland tells of. this kind of protection should be part of the recovery measure.

employeed will not be able to do it. The fundamental idea in NR A is to reinstate 12.000.000 idle men and women in gainful employment. If there was no unemployment in the country and reasonable price levels prevailed, there would be no depression or need for a recovery act. And yet these business and industrial leaders are prone to find loopholes wherein they may refrain from absorbing thpse unemployed bark into Economical life. If the substance of NRA is not to get these unemployed back into immediate employment. then these unfortunate ones as well might be lined mercifully up before a wall end face a firing squad. Sober reasoning should bring to mind that the lowliest laborer who takes wages for his daily toil and spends it. to the last penny, among the merchants in his community, is. proportionately, as much a vital factor to economical stability as the wealthy manufacturer whose yearly pay roll runs to thousands of dollars. Therefore, he should be given a right to work. If time and thought and patriotic sacrifice is given in honest support to NRA and no effort spent

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hsreia, the Health Mazarine. est emotional shock. Some people faint at the sight of blood, others faint quickly from exhaustion, weakness, a blurring of vision, a failure of circulation so that ths face becomes pale, and the presence of cold perspiration. The moment a person faints he should be placed flat on the back and his head lowered. The color of the face is an indicator to some extent of the blood supply to the brain. If the face is pale the head should be lowerpd until the color of the face improves. If. on the other hand, the face is

there grew up menaces as the national councils of defense which, by and by, hatched out the malodorous Ku-Klux Klan and a good many other unjust and ugly offspring. We can't endure that sort of thing again. We must not have this noble endeavor bear any resemblance to the 1018 episode. For the simple reason that we are now trying to g°t ourselves out of the mess that militarism got us into. . . . 'T'HIS recovery plan is a recovery from war and its after effects —and not, let us hope, an easy way of sliding again into a belligerent frame of mind. For that reason it deserves new names since it is entirely different in purpose and aim from military movements. It,

in trying to devise ways and means to evade its far-reaching possibilities. no one need doubt the ultimate success of the purpose Worrying j about rpd ink in the ledgers can not help the righteousness of the movement. There are 12.000,000 men and women who have oeen in | the "red” for two years. Bv Oil Doalfr. The blanket code does not seem to cover the entire bed. particularly in the oil business. If you will take a look around you will find that the small companies and dealers have up signs of the NRA but can you find any big firms, and some of the other larger companies and larger independents? No. i If this is to have teeth in it. as promised, let's see something done about this. We certainly can't have much confidence in the working of this thing when it is not made to apply without favor—or is it fear? So They Say - The more I examine present-day womanhood, the more I am disappointed in my search after that | ideal beauty which is the romantic ! novelist's dream.—Gilbert Frankau. British novelist. Money will buy power and social position, but try to exchange it for anything as spiritual as friendship or love and you only get their counterfeit.—Mary Borden, writer. When I go to bed. I sleep.—King George of England, commenting disdainfully on the bedside lamp displayed at London exhibit. Business has learned a lot from the depression. After we get straightened out and get going good, we’ll start to forget those things again.—Samuel M Vauclain, industrialist. Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world that needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you really want to do.— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Nobody ever has suggested that faculty salaries are too high, but it may be suggested, and I think rightly, that faculties are too large. —President Robert Maynard Hutchins. University of Chicago. Prices must not be stimulated to go so high as to unblance the supply and demand situation.—Henry W. Wallace, secretary of agriculture.

extremely red it may be desirable to keep the head raised. A person who has fainted should have plenty of fresh, cool air. cold water applied to the face or chest as a stimulant to recuperative action. Sometimes the inhalation of smelling salts serves to stimulate the breathing of the patient and in that way to aid his recovery’. The usual first-aid remedy, found in most family medicine chests, for attacks of fainting is half a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia given in water. A perso; who has fainted should be kept quie* and recumbent' until fully recovered If permitted to get up and walk too soon serious results may follow.

is constructive rather than destructive; helpful instead of harmful. It means to give succor, support and hope to the common man. whereas militarism has onlv offered him death and despair Why then must we think of ourselves as an army carrying banners or bayonets? Let's visualize ourselves, instead, as workers massed together to construct a protective dike that will keep out the flood waters now threatening to engulf us. with the President and his aids as our efficient directors. The titles of war will not serve us now Our faces are set in another direction, toward unselfishness and amity. And the cause in which we have enlisted is a thousand times more worthy than any for which the drums have ever sounded. .

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It Seems to Me BY HEYTYOOD BROUN

\'EW YORK. Aug 7.—This year seems to be a season for stuffed shirts in politics When Herbert Hoover went down to defeat I had the hope that perhaps the debac.e marked the end of tins curious sort of type casting. Mr Hoover was. of course, a thirty-second degree stuffed-si. :rt. but since his rise and fall we have seen the emergence of several hun-dred-percenters. Mayor O'Brien is a rare specimen. He meets every requirement. This must account for the strange quality of some of the men mentioned as his opponent. General O'Ryan can meet the mayor in his own field and almost match him. A stuffed-shirt is a person who doesn’t know what it is all about, but still insists on going through the motions. The fraternity is extremely democratic in that it includes members of widely varying political and erononiic belief Stuffed-shirts can be either radien! or reactionary or anywhere in between B B B Rul but Aho Stuffed IN order to prove this the communist party in New York has dug up as its candidate Bob Minor I am not going to contend that Minor is quite up to the high standard set by his Tammany rival or even by Mrs. Whitman's entry, but whenever a show is held for stufiedshirts. Bob has an excellent chance of receiving honorable nv.ntion, even if he fails to git the blue ribbon. He is, in lart. a sort of red O'Ryan. ! Mr. Minor qualified with high | honors when last I heard him. Thv re was a meeting at the Rand school to protest against the expulsion of students from City college who luul been disciplined for taking part in a pacifist demonstration and impeding the umbrella shots of Dr. Robinson. It was such a good cause that partisans from many camps came to speak at the meeting. Since the Rand school Is con- ! sidered enemy territory bv the j Communists. Bob Minor entered the hall gingerly and sat apart from ail his fellow speakers. Most oi those on the program were students and [ they spoke intelligently and warmly about the fight they had to lace under the harsh rule of a jungciatic faculty. And while the sc .. ion was on. Bob Minor sat taking notes—reams and reams of them. To my horror when he was called up to spi ak he carried his tlieir *uh him and read it from beginning to | <’ r *d. It w as. admit, an original. , He made no reference to anything which had gone before. Well, let's be fair—in his opening sentence he mentioned the College of the City of New York just once. From there he leaped to the American marines in Haiti. Ho expounded Karl Marx's theory of interest and at the end oi the , first hour raised both hands dramatically and shouted. ’ What we I need is net words, but at non." There were several other C C. N. Y. meetings in the next few days, but Mr. Minor, the clarion crier for ac- , tion, absented liimsolf. a a a Keeping the Fraud)isc IT took me quite a little while to get any understanding of what i the speech was all about. Then I i realized that to Mr. Minor a rail to j the platform is something like a notice summoning a student to 1 a quiz. It is Mr. Minor's notion that he is being asked to pass a regents’ ; test in the quality of his Marxian., m. He is deathly afraid that someone will accuse him of not being orthodox, and so he spends several agonizing hours before each address j cramming up on the catchwords i New York City will be very lucky if Mr. Minor condescends to mention it as much as once during his coming campaign. Unless all signs and portents fail, his appeal will be purely theological. Like another Billy Sunday, he will dish out the Communist brand of raspberry pie jin the sky for the delectation of j very hungry men and women. I think this is a pity, lor the | Communist party has fought effecj lively in many good causes. It de- ' serves all the credit in the world for what it has done in the Scottsboro case It has been a very effective agent in sharpening the , fight tor adequate local relief. BUB Proving the Point BUT according to Communist philosophy, the cause is everything and the leader does not natter. I suppose it Is in order to emphasize this point that Bob Minor was nominated. Once upon a time Miner was a close pal of a man who ran a Greenwich Village cabaret. A year elapsed, and they met one day on the street. Minor cut his friend and when chided explained—“ Never attempt to speak to me again. We belong to different socia' orders There is a wall between us” Ar.d with that Mr. Minor turned on his exclusive heel and went his patrician way. If Minor isn’t a stuffed-shirt he’ll do until O'Brien comes along. < Coin-right. 1933 bv The Times)

Ole Swimmin’ Ole

BY MALO TOPMII.LUK Thar's a time in ever' life When a feller gits a passion. Jus’ be doin’ somethin' differ'nt. Tho’ he knows it means a lashin’ Fer th’ prankin’. What's a spankin’ When yer bankin' On a lotta fun at splashin' In th' ole swimmin' hole! Ma tells pa; an’ mas pa’s law! Then she begins a-choosin’ Th' facts o' livin' out t - pa; An - th' things thet she's confusin’—! Pa s a-winkin’, Ma's a'blinkin’. And I'm a-thinkin’ 'Bout th' fun thet I’m a-losin' At th’ ole swimmin' hole. Pa admits thet it's too bad. I never seen my pa so mad: "IH take a walk with this here lad, An' teach him what's th’ good fr'm bad,” Pa tells ma, But it was pa An' me thet saw Th' fun together thet we had In th' ole swimmin’ hole.