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TUESDAY AUO it IMJ IS NRA ANTI-LABOR? 'T'HF. NR A Is under attack ■*- Miss Mary Van Kleeck of the Russell Sage foundation has resigned as a member of the advisory council of the United States employment service In protect against the administration's alleged anti-labor policies. When such an expert makes serious charges, they merit consideration. Specifically Miss Van Kleeck says that the collective bargaining rights of labor, recogniz'd by the recovery law. can not be protected if labor is denied the right to strike under the new truce agreement. That is true It aiso is true, as she says, that, the NR A evaded the company union Issue in the steel c >dc hearings. Moreover, it Is true, as . he says, that company union employers have more than a fair share of representation in the NR A organization. This set-up does hold dangers. Bur. despite these unfavorable conditions, labor has fared better than employers at the hands of the NRA to date. Take the case of the textile code, the first and largest in operation. The NRA gave labor a far better deal in that code than the union official himself had demanded in the original negotiations. The most remarkable feature of the steel hearings was the failure of labor to achieve even a minimum of organization in that industry under the invitation of the recovery lav. and the failure of labor to present a strong case at the hearings. There was only one powerful and adequate voice raised in b'half of labor s rights—and that was the voice of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins; in other words, the Roosevelt administration. Finally, take the case of the mediation board. Only two of the seven members are direct labor representatives. But Miss Van Kleeck has overlooked the much more important fact that Senator Robert Wagner, the chairman, and Dr Leo Wolman. the economist. hold the balance of power on the board and that both are proved friends of legitimate labor interests. As for the right to strike, which she thinks has been sacrificed by the truce agreement, that is an inalienable right which can not be destroyed But it is a right that can be withheld for fair arbitration. If certain employers do not live up to the code standards, as Miss Van Kleeck properly fears, the administration in the dispute will be on the side of labor and not on the side of the law-breaking employers. Far from sacrificing a right in the process, labor, in fact, wins a powerful ally in the government. The real trouble with Miss Van Kleeck Is that she hates to face the disagreeable fact that labor in America is weak and poorly led. and that it has failed during the last few weeks to take advantage of its unique opportunities under the recovery law to organize unions Asa friend of labor, she is inclined to blame capital or the government for the sins of organized labor itself If . President Roosevelt had been half as slow and indifferent to the needs of labor as many of the union lenders themselves have been, the country today would have no recovery law with its charter of labor rights. Miss Van Kleeck might have admitted at the outset that the internal weakness of organized labor is the most serious handicap of the administration in its effort to increase purchasing power through higher wages and shorter hours Then, with fairness to the administration, she might have fired point-blank at those NRA deputy administrators whose anti-labor poliev jeopardizes success of the Roosevelt pro-labor policy. NR A S BIG TEST PROBABLY the stiffest test the National Recovery Administration must face comes Wednesday, with the opening of hearings on the bituminous coal code. The woes and griefs of other industries fade in comparison to the many vital and perplexing problems of the coal business Its difficulties make it easily America's No. 1 industry—so far as chaos and disorganization are concerned. Yet. all these problems must be settled before coal properly can take an integral part in any national recovery movement And the NRA must do tne job. It alone has the power to replace chaos with order. Perhaps a settlement of some basic causes of friction between miners and operators has been made easier by the Roosevelt coal strike truce, which is expected to send 50,000 western Pennsylvania miners back to their jobs. But there still will be plenty of difficulty before a satisfactory agreement on company towns and company stores, on collective bargaining. on union checkweighmen. on a half dozen other vital issues concerning labor is reached. Furthermore, there are the disputes between operators themselves—disputes which have led to the presentation of a half dozen different codes to the NRA. Mine owners disagree over such things as * secret rebates to customers, unconsigned coal ihipments and a host of other disputed trade practices. These, too, must be settled. Then there is the bitter quarrel between northern and southern coal operators over freight rates, wage scales and coal prices. The north charges the south, with its favored freight rates and cheaper labor, has undersold its competitor In the open market. It wants this stopped. And the south, in reply, insists that any

change in freight rates and wage scales will only hurt Its own coal business and throw thousands of employed miners out of jobs So far as the NRA is concerned, its main Job is to increase wages and put idle men back to work But in achieving these goals alone, it faces a hard task Government figures showed working miners last spring averaged less than sll a week. True, their working hours approximated only twenty-four a w“ek, but it is obviously impossible for the miner and his family to buy adequate food, clothing, and shelter for this sum. Small wonder the question is asked, “Who ever saw a rich miner?" The problem of finding jobs for idle miners is equally difficult The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers estimated that in nine years 56,500 miners have been replaced by machines, 75.000 by improved methods, and that 149.500 have been thrown out of work by decreased demand Miners in 1930 numbered 620.000, of whom almost 20 per cent worked In the western Pennsylvania bituminous fields The NRA. therefore, not only must boost wage scales to the point that the miner can become a purchaser of goods again, but it must scale down working hours sufficiently to permit the re-employment of thousands of idle miners. And with that done, the NRA must turn Its attention to the quarrels between miners and operators and between rival operators. It must settle these disputes and settle them permanently. Seme, perhaps, will question the possibility of remedying all of these conditions, of restoring the sick coal industry to permanent good health. But it can be done. The medicine of recovery seems to lie within the code drafted jointly by the United Mine Workers and operators representing 25 per cent of the nation's tonnage. Needless to say. that code gives labor advantages that are denied It in other codes. It guarantees collective bargaining, union checkveighmen and the right to refrain from buying at company stores and living in company towns. The code's wage scale of So a day for Inside labor and its short working week—to be limited to thirty-six hours—likewise means reemployment of idle miners and wages sufficient to restore the miners' buying power. But the operators also benefit greatly—perhaps as much as does labor—under this code. Every unethical and questionable trade practice is strictly banned. And to make the ban effective, a board of control for the entire industry is set up. its members to be named by the NRA With all its advantages, of course, there is no guarantee that this code will be a cure-all for all the woes of the bituminous coal industry. Perhaps it will not turn that chaotic giant into an industrial Utopia. But at least it provides a firm foundation upon wTiich the coal industry■ can fight its way back to recovery. And that is more than any of the other codes offer.

STOCK GAMBLING RESTRICTED j ✓GOVERNORS of the New York Stock Ex- j change wisely have imposed new and drastic rules designed to curb the unbridled | stock speculation against which there has been so much protest. Margins, heretofore left for determination by individual brokerage houses, hereafter must be at least 50 per cent for of $5,000 and 30 per cent for larger accounts. Complete information on pools and syndicates must be furnished weekly. Customers’ men may not solicit business at customers’ homes without written permission. The margin requirement, of course, will not save investors or speculators from losses. They will, however, discourage outright gambling with capital which represents only a small portion of the value of stocks “bought"; they will check the tendency to overtrade; and they will tend to prevent the prvamiding of paper profits. Regulation of pools and syndicates will make juggling more difficult since operations will be disapproved if they tend to create “unsound values.” And pool operators will not find it so easy to unload on a gullible public which has been lured into the market. Taken together, the rules should make less probable such spectacular collapses as the one recently There seems to be little doubt that this incipient panic was brought on by pure gambling. Adoption of the rules marks a change in front by the men who control the world's biggest security market. Heretofore they have resisted agitation for changes designed to do the very things now being attempted. The exchange, which is not incorporated, consistently has held that it was not unlike a private club, and that congress was without power to regulate it. Congress has refrained from enacting many proposed measures to minimize stock gambling, although the Glass-Steagall bill, passed at the last session, strengthened the power of the federal reserve board to keep funds out of speculative channels. Time will tell whether the new method of operation will eliminate the practices against which so many complaints have been made. If voluntary action does not succeed in eliminating them, it seems a safe prediction that the government will step in. AMERICAN VS. MEXICAN DESERTS 'T'HE new public works law says nothing about cultivating desert acres in Mexico. Yet the public works board must decide in a few days whether to do just that or to spend money on the American side of the border for a canal from Boulder Dam to Imperial Valley. Five years ago when the Boulder Dam act passed congress, one of the important provisions attached to it called for construction of this canal as the only means of saving water to be impounded at the dam for American use. The canal was opposed by the same forces that fought Boulder Dam. notably Los Angeles owners of land on the Mexican side of the line. Throughout the Hoover administration, they'-' were successful in blocking canal construction. Now the time has come when a final decision must be made quickly. The dam will be finished in two years, and if the canal is not ready at that time, the stored water will rua into an existing canal, which traverses Mexican land before it turns back on to American soil. Once the water is put to beneficial use on T

those Mexican acres, it probably can not be reclaimed at any time by the United States. For that reason the public works board is being asked to make funds available quickly for construction of the canal ordered so long ago by congress. Allocation of Colorado river water was so complicated a question to all communities of the southwest, that congress took eight years to master the subject and iron out the difficulties. The Hoover administration ignored congress' fair and considered decision and followed a policy which, if pursued, condemns many acres of fertile farm land on the American side of the border to go back to the desert while Mexican acres bloom with the life-giving water. The new deal certainly will not continue this unwise and unjust policy. PROTECTING CONSUMERS /CONSUMERS who have been somewhat disturbed by the rapid rise in prices of food and other necessaries will welcome publication by the government of a weekly ‘ fair price” list for the protection. The list will show what farmers get for raw commodities, what labor gets in increased wages under the Industrial program, and what farmers must pay for the things they buy. It is logical that the government, having stimulated prices, should take measures to keep them within bounds. Wages inevitably lag behind price increases, even when these increases do not have the stimulation of bounties and production control. And while mass purchasing power unquestionably wili b( greater under the recovery program, there are millions of individuals who have not yet felt its benefits and will not for a long time to come. A fair price list will provide a measuring stick for the buying public, and the operation of public opinion will discourage gouging. In the long run public opinion will be the most effective means of control, although other measures are available if they are required.

TAMMANY SEEKS OPINIONS ' k ’’AMMANY'S attempt to measure scientifically the public attitude toward Mayor John P. O'Brien is something new in political technique. An expert with assistants will measure cheers and boos that greet his honor when he appears publicly. The investigators will interview citizens in the streets. They will sit in movie theaters when pictures of the mayor are shown. Then they will draw up graphs, and what, they show will determine whether Tammany casts Mr. O'Brien overboard. or backs him for another term. The experiment has its amusing aspects. Its significance perhaps lies in the fact that such a large group of independent voters has grown up in New York that the all-power-ful Tammany no longer can rely on its district leaders alone for a safe forecast of which way the wind is blowing. We’ve got more government in business and more business in government. What we need now is more business in business and more government in government. New Orleans seems to be a good vacation city. Lots of people down theie apparently are spending their time trying to catch the kingfish. Yugoslavian military authorities have sentenced a carrier pigeon to death for espionage. No doubt they figured it was hatching a plot. And let's all hope that the NRA eagle doesn't lay an egg.

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has been in office five months. During that brief period, he has shown what a man could do by thinking purposefully, keeping his temper and accepting obstacles as things to be overcome. His greatest contribution to America and the world is the example he has set. Though confronted by some of the most perplexing problems ever put up to a human being, he has found it unnecessary to get mad or even stage a scene. The way he has gone at his job has changed the psychological attitude of this nation. From Maine to California, men and women find anew source of inspiration in his calm, forceful, unostentatious methods. The whole country is beginning to imitate him. to abandon its heated chatter and approach the task of recovery in a more self-confident frame of mind. This simple fact has done quite as much toward restoring business as the technical plans which are being carried out. Asa matter of fact, most of the technical plans proposed by President Roosevelt hark back to a common-sense view of our problems. They are not so revolutionary as some of the boosters and critics profess to believe. They rest on little more titan a sane application of big business principles to business in general. Instead of eliminating competition, they are designed to put it on a sane, coherent basis, safeguarding our economic liberties through an articulate program, rather than suffering them to lapse through anarchy. nan THE idea that those engaged in the same industry. trade, or enterprise should pay about the same wages merely expresses a fundamental principle of democracy, giving men a fair break. The idea of a code to regulate wages, hours and practices merely substitutes system for unplanned, unreasonable and often unjustified practices. In words. President Roosevelt has undertaken to provide rules for the industrial game The amazing part of it is that no one thought of doing so before It is the greatest game humanity ever undertook to play. Yet we have permitted it to go on without a semblance of rules for several generations, have depended on the conflict between labor and capital to promote the ends of justice, have fought problems instead of trying to solve them Bad temper and bad results have characterised our futile efforts, and when a real depression broke, we found ourselves lacking not only the agencies, but the ideas with which to meet it, much less Cos prevent another like it. a a a THE bewilderment which marked this country's progress, or lack of progress, in 1930, ■3l and '32 stands forth as a disgrace to human intelligence. We were so befuddled, indeed, that it took us three years to identify the depression' as such, or realize what it was doing to our economic structure. This largely was because our industrial system lacked coherence, because it had been developed in such a promiscuous, haphazard way that no one understood it, because our psychology had been warped and misguided by a false sense of value, because, with all our strenuasity, we had lost sight of those human objectives which are necessary to make all undertakings worthwhile.

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(Time* reader* are invited to erpre** their rietes in these column*. Make pour Limit them to 230 irord* or less.) lettert short, to all ran have a chance. By a Times Reader. How prompt are some of these small business men to characterize the recovery act as blackmail, boycott and what not. W’hat a terrible blow’ for these poor souls to conceive of paying a decent living wage. They can not seem to realize that unless wages increase at once, this country is doomed. Why, indeed, have they had to struggle to keep open their doors if not because starvation wages have decreased buying power and contributed in great measure to unemployment. And now, because they are urged to do their bit In the guise of a minimum wage, and this to the end that they themselves nfisy prosper, their wails and Lamentations can be heard throughout the land. True enough, the fulfillment of the pledge may not be an easy task for some employers, but were the sacrifices made during the war easy? Was fighting in muddy, ratinfested trenches easy? Any business man. large or small, that ran not see the advisability of paying the minimum wage, when for several years past he has been able to hire workers at his own figure, most assuredly deserves a boycott. Just as it was necessary to draft man power in time of war, it is equally necessary to draft buying power in this war on depression. Bv Arthur 11. Greenwood. The Wabash valley and flftod control project has been submitted to a special committee for consideration by the Interior Secretary Ickes. The great need for flood control or the Wabash and White rivers has been clearly and forcibly put before this committee by Representatives Greenwood and Jenckes. along with a literal deluge of letters and telegrams from people annually affected by the overflow of these rivers. Such work should have been done years ago and now that funds are available through public works administration the dream should become a reality. Five overflows of the rivers this year has paralyzed the production of agricultural products and left thousands of acres of land uncultivated and farmers un-

THE human being is subject to various kinds of possible poisoning from foods and drugs, from mushrooms and all sorts of similar toxic substances. There are poisons constantly used in industry which may get into the body and thereby produce severe illness. In any case of poisoning, certain procedures are immediately desirable. First, try to ascertain the nature of the poison taken. An empty bottle in the vicinity, the presence of some of the substance in a cup or utensil, or the presence of the poisen on the tablecloth or floor or clothing may be a valuable sign. By smelling the breath and examining the mouth of the patient, the physician may determine poisons. If the patient has taken the poison accidentally, he probally will be willing to tell the physician if he is conscious. If poisoning is suspected, a physician should be called immediately. Before the doctor comes, it is well to give white of eggs milk or strong

TIRESOMELY vociferous as this column has been about rights for women, it must give one more cheer for Inez Haynes Irwin, who in her recent book. "Angels and Amazons.” says: "Men have failed utterly, shamefully. ridiculously in the business of go vernment. In the housekeeping of government their failure is even more abject They know nothing about system, efficiency or economy. Tney pay the biggest price for everything—spiritual and material—and then never get anything done." Not being intolerant, however, Mrs. Irwin believes that men are the inventive, creative, intellectual sex and should be left in peace to perform the great feats of the earth arid universe, to devote themselves to science, literature, music, art and thought. She calls them the genius sex.

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Aid of Physician Needed in Poison Cases

The Movement Spreads

No Work for Him Bv a Disgruntled Hoovier. When you get through with women's employment, let the men have a chance Men with families still are looking for work but if you are past 35 don't look, as the insurance companies and compensation cobra will get you. If you are past that age take a dog button. We have been promised street and highway work. Do we get it? No. just another couple of weeks. So tighten up your belt. I have run out of holes. Go and ask for work where they display the emblem, find some guy in charge and hear him bark. They all know they are going to get by with their camouflage. Turn some of the basses out and let them go on half rations six or eight months and then X-ray them, and see if the insurance companies will turn them down for being underweight and see how they like it. I was bom here but there are times you have to be ashamed of it. I am a delivery man with a clean record but would do anything to be able to live again and see my family well f*>d. I can take you places and show you the truth. employed. If this work is approved, not less than 75.000 men will be given employment, directly and indirectly. Thousands of men will be employed doing the actual work of building the lei’ees and thousands more will be affected by the safety afforded their farms. We ask that the people co-operate with us by urging the President and Ickes to authorize the allocation of the $18,000,000 necessary to complete this much needed flood prevention. By Insurance Man. How about the industrial life insurance companies work.r.g out a code? Some of the larger and better known companies are working their men on territories twice as large in size of debit as 'hey were in 1927-28-30 and 31, and have* cut their commissions so they are making less than girls and women hired in factories and restaurants. A noble profession, doing good to all people, making profits for stockholders. yet not Dlaying fair with the man behind the gun. Gne com-

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN

Editor Journal of tho American Medical Association of Hvcria. the Health Magazine. tea. which are antagonistic to many poisons. In order to get the poison out of the system as rapidly as possible on? should provoke vomiting, either by tickling the back of the throat, bv giving a cup of warm water mixed with salt, or b] washing out the stomach with a stomach tube if one understands how this is done. If one puts a heaping teaspoonful of salt in a cupful of luke-warm water, stirs until dissolved, and has th? patient dnnk the mixture, repeating the dose every ten minutes until three or four cupfuls have been taken, vomiting takes place promptly. serving to wash out the stomach. Thereafter the person must be treated as in any case of fainting, dizziness or shock, the symptoms being treated according to the nature of the case. If the patient is

A Woman’s Viewpoint —BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Reasonably, therefore, she takes it for granted that women should do the housekeeping jot* for the country. And. come to think of it, it has been pretty tough on the men. having everything to do. Perhaps that is why they have made such an utter fizzle of so many aims. One doesn't expect a genius to be good at budgeting, nor a scientist or statesman to keep up with the market price of eggs, or their national equivalent. B B B llyt'EN pride themselves on being good politicians. Asa matter of fact, they are exceedingly poor ones, as the state of politics can prove. And as for managing government efficiency, show me a single one who has had any prolonged success? You can t imagine, any-

pany. making a financial s'atempnt. shows it is in better liquidating condition than ever, yet off Vials are paying less for results than any company ever did stating to their men that they could not afford to adjust their commission It also is stated other companies who did make it possible for their men to draw a just return for labor could not afford it. that it would draw into their reserve and they would not be able to pay th-ur loans, cash surrenders and death claims. One of the companies which has come through has debits around SIOO. and the agents average $24 for collecting same Another company five times as large having debits around S2OO their agents receive about S2O for collecting. Why cant nsurance men come to an agreement and have a living wage and put from 1,900 to 1,500 more men to work in Indianapolis?

So They Say

We don't want to listen to harangues. You must submit facts to back up your assertions.—General Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator. I think that today we rather feel that people have too many ideas.— Dr Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller nstitute for Merical Research. By strength and stupidity youth sometimes eblows experience out of the way. but experience wins finally. —Henry FYird. automobile manufacturer. We have discovered by hard experience that life does not consist of the abundance of she things we may passess and that we can not feed our souls on com and wine or on bread and circuses—Bishop John Newton McCormick of Michigan. Any dead dog can float with the stream. Dean Inge, London’s “gloomy dean.” America, with all her genius for production, has not learned the art of distributing according to her capacity to produce. Edward A. Filene. Boston merchant.

weakened greatly or prostrated, he must be kept warm, recumbent and his general strength sustained. For many of the common poisons there are special antidotes. However, few i people have time to consult tables of antidotes or know wherp the antidote is to be found. For poisoning with carbolic acid it is customary to wash out the mouth with whisky or alcohol and water, to have the patient swallow three or four tablespoonsfuls of diluted whisky or alcohol and water, and to give a heaping tablespoonful of epsom salts dissolved in water. In case of poisoning by various narcotic drugs it is customary to provoke vomiting and then to give strong black coffee, at the same time doing everything possible to keep the patient awake. Sometimes it is necessary to walk him abc*it forcefully. As long as he is awake he will continue to breathe, but if he is permitted to sleep, breathing may stop.

thing more muddled and messed than our present economic condition. or a nation more inexpertly or extravagantly run, can you? Now, if women have been blessed by heaven with any special capacity for housekeeping—and were told often this is our only divine endowment—why in the name of common sense aren’t we allowed to exercise it for the national good? And let's not b° fatuous enough to imagine that by sticking a few women here and there among several hundred thousand men, improvement will be marked. Why not turn one department of government over to women for a certain period of time and And out what they can do? That's the only square, sensible way of testing their ability. And they deserve to have a test. *

AUG. 8. 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

YORK A’.lu 8- The best thing about NRA is the point j which Is raised most frequently against it I refer to s he emotional background which has been built around it Sage commentators have warned us neair.st the wrongs which may txperpetrated in the name of the new patriotism. I haven't the slightest doubt that such things will occur I am aware of the loopholes, the inconsistencies and the inadequacies of th dispensation And lam for it lam for the excitement and the hoopla. It does not deter me to V told that we are going through the old : Liberty Loan days all over again I made some speeches for that drive, and the only excuse which I can offer now is that they were singularly ineffective My proudest boast is that I succeeded in selling nothing But lam not bitter about the pattern. A good cause may require the same technique as one not m the least admirable Yesterday I came down from the country after a long absence from the city’s strife, and i* seemed to me festive to note ho various blue eagles in the windows of the stores b n a It Marks a Start "VT ATURALLY, I am not such a fool as to believe that the whole problem of those who have and those who possess nothing has ! been solved by any blanket code ! of the Roosevelt administration. But I think I am smarter than those who can not perceive that this it i the opening wedge into the creation J of an entirely new state of societv. Franklin D. Roosevelt is not a revolutionary, but he has done more | to move the United States to the 1 left than all the Communists and Socialist propagandists put together The national recovery act itself has been labeled m. a temporary and an emergency measure, but when it is changed and altered the | swing will be to make it. more radiI cal We are living In the days of transition This is the most exciting period which American history ever has known. Compar’d to us, the boys of Valley Forge were mere visitors at a side show. The failure or success , of Pickett in his rharge at Gettysburg was of far less moment than the fate of the spinal measure in j tlr> New Deal This is the <Jawn. You can crow it over the horizon like Chanticleer or sulk in your tent with Ajax—if I haven't gravely muddled mv mythology. The strangest thing to me is that the boys who have been crying for I a revolution fail to recognize its first i feob l p flutterings Os rourse. it isn't the whole hog or anything like it. I You may tell me that it is the final : and furtive attempt of the ins to | maintain their position against the outs. But capitalism's last gasp is also the birth cry of th co-opera-tive commonwealth All summer long I have been training vigorously because I want Ito see the new world. It lias been a rare between my liv-r and the I revolution. I hope I can make it last. To be s urp. this is the bloodless revolution. Some of my wisest friends have told me that such a thing never can b I've had mv doubts. But surely it is worth she try. n m m A Time to Begin iCOME of these days God's going to set this world on fire Why not this very’ morning? Cupidity, .self-interest, trade advantage are ! not yet banished from the face of I the world. The blue eagle has a beak to bite and claw’s to rend I can not quite throw my hat in the air for every employer who says Look at me. What a g ,od boy am I. I'm paying my employes $lB a week. Os maybe sl4/’ And yet. and | still, and nevertheless, the tide has turned and the bn2 1 is rolling— to mix metaphors enthusiastically. Even if it is no more than a glimmer. we have caught the idea that hours and wages and the process cf production are not matters of rugged individualism. Some of these days God's going to set this world on fire.

“Vm an Old Softie” IHAVE been all my life a sentimental radical, and I am not likly to rid myself of the notion that the brotherhood of man is much more than a figure of speech with which to end an address. I have complete sympathy for Russia in its extraordinary effort, which is essentially Utopian, no matter how hard-boiled its partisans mav pretend to be But the difficulties of Russia today lie less in the economic field than in a failure to grasp the fact that paying off old scores is tedious businesss. The easiest way to find a clasics society is to wipe the slate clan at the very outset and to forget whose father was just what. And certainly grandfathers should not count. I am for a world of complete industrial equality. And if anybod" tells me. "You don't mean it In the present system you are s.tting pretty,” I can answer truthfully, *1 know more about the lower part of my spine than you do, and where it rests now isn't good enough ” iCopyright 1933 br Th Time*! Universal Song BY WILLIAM CHITWOOD There is a universal song Tha* murmurs in the quiet breeze; It rustles in the grass along The brook, and whispers in the trees; It echos in the fields of grain: It dwells in every song bird's heart; It tinkles it the drops of rain. “We do ou- part. We do our part.” O, may America unite And truly practice this same song Till happiness, man's common right. Replaces every grief and wrong; May industry's rotating wheel. Resound in factory, field, and mart; And may we all be made to feel “We do our part. We do our part.”