Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1933 — Page 10

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THURSDAY AUO 10 1933 LETS GO r | 'HE groat federal public works program is .ageing The process of organ iz.ng a staff is dragging out. valuable time is being lost in the race to restore purchasing power before the severe test of winter us on us again. No one is to blame for this condition. On the contrary, it has resulted in part from the very virtue of Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and hus associates. They are determined that the $3 300 000 000 melon in the cutting shall not produce political scandals and graft. Tlie country ran not be too thankful that thus vast fund is *n the hands of men with integrity and awareness of the graft danger. That is adequate cxctuse for the delay to date Rut it ran not excuse much more delav. After all this is an emergency program. This is the big element. It is not enough that the building get Under wav next spring and summer The jobs and the government orders for materials are needed at once, or at the latest within a lew weeks. This fits into the NRA program. Industrial codes for higher wages and shorter hours will not be worth the paper are written on if the manufacturer has no orders, if the merchant can not moye goods from hus shelves. The NRA program is keyed to the promise that government purchases and jobs under the public works plan will prime the industrial pump, will function during the crucial interim period before private purchasing power is adequate to sustain the economic new deal. The time has come for the public works administration to show some of the energy and drive of General Hugh Johnson and the NRA The nra makes mistakes, but those errors incident to speed are a small price to pay for NRA s rapid achievement. Secretary Ickes can cut red tape and get going He should do so.

MISSPENT MILLIONS OU may recall the story of "Brewster's •*- Millions.” Monty Brewster's grandfather and uncle hated each other. Grandfather died and left Monty a million. Then uncle died, leaving Monty seven millions, under the condition that. Monty must spend the first million within a year. If he failed, he wouldn't get the seven Certain rules were set up to assure that the million actually should be spent, not gambled or given away Monty went to work Without going into all the details of how he got rid of the million. he did it. But he was a wan wreck at the end of the year. In 1929. more than 500 men in the United States had net incomes, each, larger than the million t'iat Monty labored so hard to dispose of; thirty-six had incomes of more than five millions each, and several thousand other rich men throughout the nation had incomes greater than any human being could spend without long and painful and intense struggle. But there the concentration of wealth stopped What happened? Not having either the ability or the desire to spend such accumulation those exceedingly rich men ploughed most of their income* back into the further expansion of the businesses from which the incomes had been acquired. And what happened then? More factories than there were customers to support, more office buildings than there were tenants, more oil wells than there was a market to consume, and so on along the line. And thus did that rugged individual, the temporarily successful rich man. hoist himself on his own petard; thus did his apparent success invite more and more competition against him: thus did he find what he considered tremendous assets transformed suddenly into massive liabilities for want of people who could buy; thus came the crash: and therein lies the explanation of why the militia gets into the oil business. Confining the argument strictly to enlightened selfishness, how much better it would have been for the rich man himself, as well as society as a whole, to have paid more in wages, which would have increased consumption and have worked toward that better balance of production and consumption, which, ir and when achieved, will make the sky the limit so far as the future comfort of the human race is concerned. And let us make no mistake in our understanding of those terms, overproduction and underconsumption, about which there has been so much confusion of thought. This is not a depression due to overproduction. It is a depression due to a lack of balance. So long as there is a slum in a city, so long as there is an unpamted house on a prairie, or. to carry it farther, until every home as well as every railway car is both air-conditioned and operating, so long as there is ugliness anywhere on any landscape, so long as a peon in Mexico ekes out a sordid existence on a few pesos a day. or a Chinese coolie subsists on his pitiful ration of rice, the human market for mass-production is there, eager to consume but as yet not possessed of the wherewithal to buy. A dollar a day added to the purchasing power of every inhabitant of two countries alone. China and India, would add nearly a billion dollars a day to the demand for those things which the inventive and productive genius of this generation is able to supply, and put every factory in the world on a twentv-four-hour-a-riav production schedule. But. instead of that, the factories are idle, their owners are broke, and the industry that should thrive so prosperously is paralyzed. All because of that mal-distribution. All for the ant of a far-sighted social consciousness. All

’"T''HIS nation is engaged in the most righteous war m its history It is a war against greed. That is all that the President's recovery program Is He has declared, and congress has backed him, that capital shall receive a reasonable return on its Investment. He has decreed that labor us entitled to a fair wage for Its efforts. He has written into the country’s law' the principle that society must make it possible for the humble to exchange their services for a decent living for their families. This is a Just program. It is in step with the American ideal, distilled into the Constitution from the bloody snows of Valley Forge. There is considerable evidence that a minority of business firms in Indianapolis look upon all this as horseplay. Mr. Roosevelt has set September 1 as the date when every industry is to be in line. Until then, except in the most flagrant cases, it would be unfair to pillory violators in public. Yet an advance warning obviously is needed at this time. The fundamental thing in the recovery code is the increase of minimum wages of those now employed and the employment of additional people. This is an abrupt reversal of the recent policy of American business, to keep down costs. No matter how a business twists and squirms to meet the technical requirements of its code, if its pay roll has not increased, it is not meeting its obligation to society. It is a renegade and a slacker It must be treated as such Mr. Recalcitrant Industrialist, you no longer can say, I'm running this business and I shall do as I please.” You may not know it, but you have been reduced to a junior partner for incompetence. Your new partner is the people of the United States. If your employes wish to organize for collective bargaining and orderly arbitration, they may do precisely that. And you are going to take it and like it. Mr. Greedy Labor Leader, the time has passed when you can feather your own nest with absurd and technical disputes designed to keep you in a soft job. There are two sides to this recovery plan. The labor union which is silly enough to go before the public with an unjust cause will find itself torpedoed by mass opinion. This is not the time for chiseling and racketeering by either capital or labor. This newspaper has received many specific complaints about the conduct of certain local businesses which are operating under

because of an overgrown materialistic philosophy which did not have the vision to see that you can not sell unless people can afford to buy; that wealth can not expand and at the same time be ingrowing; can not live off its own fat; can not have health without balance: and can not have balance without paying as much attention to the other fellow's capacity to purchase as it does to its own capacity to produce.

IT SOUNDS FAMILIAR i Editorial In Akron Timos-Pres*) EDITORS are chronic hoarders of press releases, clippings, and letters. When one cleans out his desk—about once a year—he often has the feeling that history is being made a little too fast to keep up with it. A year ago a group of Akron Socialists brought to the editor a press release prepared by the party headquarters staff in Chicago. It dealt with the party platform as it was to be expounded by Norman Thomas at the Akron armory on the night of Sept. 8. Yesterday in cleaning out a desk it came to light. Here are some of the things Mr. Thomas promised: That he would "repeal” unemployment. That he would ask five billion dollars for direct relief of the unemployed. That he would ask another five billions for financing a public works program. That he would introduce a compulsory sixhour day and five-day week without reduction in wages. That he would reorganize industry on a planned basis. That he would push the principle of public ownership. All of which has *ttle value except to remind us of a wise-crack made by some unknown wit after listening to an impressive speech by a Socialist. Asked what he thought of it he replied: “It's all right, but when we are ready for Socialism the Republicans and Democrats will give it to us." UNITED UNDER NRA 'T'HE encouraging thing about the program X now being attempted by the National Recovery Administration is not so much that it is helping to beat the depression as that it is providing a rallying point for the emotional forces of the American people. It is sometimes said that our country has grown too big—that its population is so large and its distances so vast that its people find it almost impossible to unite in a common cause. At times, perhaps, this is quite true. What arouses the Pacific coast often leaves the middleweSt cold; what stirs the middlewest is apt to be of small interest along the Atlantic. We are a people of diverse interests and. occasionally of divided loyalties But here is something that is taking hold everywhere. The blue eagle looks out from store and office windows along thousands upon thousands of miles of highways. Everywhere It stands for a mass awakening, a common cause, which is appealing to Americans of every section and every class. It is. in fact, a unifying force of a kind that we have not known since the war; and in its ultimate effects it may be a much more profound thing than any emotion the war brought us. For the unification of 1917 was a cruel thing, in spots, and it was followed by disillusion We felt ourselves lifted up. but in the letdown that followed we could not help seeing that there had been something just a little spurious about it all. Our ideals got lost sight of too rapidly. We had been brought together, but no one had applied cement to make our new union stick. What we are getting now is something different. We are getting, at last, & new vision of what a united America could mean; anew realization of the mountains ti*vt m

Warning AN EDITORIAL

the Blue Eagle. Fortunately, they do not seem to be characteristic of Indianapolis business men as a whole. The strange conduct of the taxicab companies is a case in point They all adjusted their rates upward to a uniformly high level. Piously patriotic posters explaining that this was due to the President's recovery plan appeared in the cabs. Some even displayed the Blue Eagle, which later mysteriously was removed, although the new rates were not. No one minds paying a rate that will give taxi drivers a decent wage, but has this increase meant reduced hours and a guarantee of ihe $14.50-a-week minimum to the drivers? It has not. The taxicab companies have the cart before the horse. They should have raised wages and reduced hours before, and not after, asking the public to foot the bill. They stand before Indianapolis in a very peculiar position. Still another case is that of the manufacturer threatening employes who attempt to join the American Federation of Labor with removal of the group insurance benefits and other ‘'perquisites” of his company union. There is no ambiguity about the stand of the administration on such matter. This rugged individualist may find his salesmen in the field at a distinct disadvantage with his competitors who are co-operating with the President. Nor can a few restaurants, which have been paying their waitresses $7 a week, get away with raising them each to $14.50 and then charging every one of them $7.50 weekly for meals. The automobile washing and service station which has been paying washers $5 weekly raised them to $14.50, then decided to furnish them with three squares a day at $9 50 a week, certainly is not playing the game. These are a few examples. Fortunately, it would take this entire page and more to list the instances of Indianapolis businesses which fairly and squarely are fulfilling the spirit of the President's plan without cheap equivocation. They richly deserve the patronage of the public and they are going to get it. The “wise guy” of the nineteen twenties is as serious a menace today as the man who shot a comrade in the back in the Argonne. Only by unanimous action can the nation be lifted out of the slough of economic depression. The business man in these times must adopt the slogan of *the French Foreign Legion, "March or Die."

might be moved if the American people as a whole could recover the faith that is their heritage. We are engaged in an attempt to recover that faith, in a fight to gain a unity of purpose and outlook that will make up for the spiritual deadness of the post-war years. It is a dozing giant, this great American people. The signs today indicate that it is about to awaken. When it does there is nothing that will not be possible for it to accomplish. Thieves broke into the granary of an Ohio farmer and hauled aw'ay sixty bushels of wheat. At last, business recovery! Wheat's worth stealing! Seattle boy who smoked black cigars at 4. has quit at 9. saying “they taste terrible." Is there no end to the disillusionment of the younger generation? Then there was the fellow who quit the sausage-manufacturing business because he couldn't stand the grind. In France, there are 184.4 persons to every' square mile of area.

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FOR some years Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis has had a lot of fun pestering Lieut. John B. Sherman about two pigs which were stolen from the Jefferson Davis estate during General William T. Sherman's march to the sea. Last week Lieutenant Sherman contributed his part to the joke by shipping two pigs to Captain Davis. Captain Davis, however, is not satisfied On the theory that, "pigs is pigs,” he claims that he is entitled to such a herd of porkers as this old world never saw, and threaterns to employ scientists to determine the right number. It sounds logical enough, but first Captain Davis should file a bill of particulars with regard to the two stolen pigs. Were they male or female, or did they have the misfortune of j belonging to the same sex? If male and female, w r ere they brother and sister and likely to run out because of inbreeding? Were they healthy pigs, and could they have been depended on to reproduce at a normal ratio? Was their environment such as ' would have guarded them against hog cholera and other diseases? BBS | A RTHUR BRISBANE S suggestion that the •“X problem is one of interest can not be accepted without qualifications. Interest is a manmade contraption, and can be computed, if not collected, according to mathematical rule. The reproducing power of pigs can not be calculated so easily. Theoretically, a pair of pigs ought to reproduce many millions in seventy years, but they don't. Nature has a way of making the world safe for other animals by interfering with pig prolificacy. In the same way, nature protects people against money by interfering with the collection of interest. According to arithmetic, one dollar placed at 6 per cent compound interest when Columbus discovered America now would amount to more than the wealth of the United States. Thanks to the vagaries of human nature, no one thought of putting a dollar aside for that purpose or of making arrangements to pay the interest. When Benjamin Franklin died, he left two bequests of 1.000 pounds each to accumulate for 100 years and he computed what they should amount to at the end of that time. While they increased a great deal, they failed to meet his computation. mum MANY a man has made his fortune on paper by figuring what a few dollars or a few pigs would bring if left to themselves for a period of years, but nature or other people refuse to support the racket, You can't get very much out of life, whether through pigs or dollars, save as other peopl® cooperate. Interest doesn't mean a thing unless it is paid, and pigs don't mean a thing unless somebody provides pasturage or eats pork The value of possessions in the form of land, buildings, machinery, stocks, or anything else goes right back to what other people are willing to contribute, to a just and sensible distribution of profit, and, above all else, to those natural laws which maintain an economic balance in spite of human schemes and dreams to the contrary.

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(Times read ns are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your Limit them to 2.5 0 words or less.l letters short, so all ran have a chance. By D. Yaver. In my travels over the state, I have been sounding out a great many of the unbiased Legionnaires, and without exception, they have denounced the state administration from McNutt all the way to the hand-picked Legion appointments over the state. Some even have gone so far as to suggest the probability that Paul Frys auto business must have slumped considerably, inasmuch as the state is considering scrapping motorcycles for light cars of the make he sells, for use by state police. The Times always was first to expose official racketeering. Apparently, however, someone has applied an anesthetic and there is just one “Big Happy Family.” If there was an election today. Paul McNutt couldn't be elected as township trustee. By the way. why don't you tell the people how many political jobs were handed out as a result of the gross income tax law and see how much is being spent in comparison to what is being collected. What would Indiana do for a Fred Landis today. The Republicans said he was too radical, but they were too dumb to appreciate his vision. We are obtaining nationally what Indiana could have had under Landis as Governor and saved our state from some future contaminated expose. Your series of articles by Arch Steinel on polluted streams will smell like' “Christmas Night” in comparison. It might be interesting to know just why we boys won t tolerate draught beer. Is it possible the shakedown process is on or are they waiting for all the breweries to get into production so no one will be slighted? A Sincere Time* Reader. It is indeed encouraging and stimulating to note some of the views appearing in your Message Center column. I refer especially to the article written by a Disgusted Reader, in which he exposes our great Governor McNutt. He brought out many fine points, but I wish to disagree with the statement that it will be fifty years before another Democratic Governor Is elected in Indiana. I can not be

A TREMENDOUS number of per- j sons die each year in the United States from asphyxia or strangulation as a result of poisoning by carbon monoxide gas. by strangulation during birth. by strangulation under anesthesia and by loss of breath from innumerable other causes. Asphyxia means a deficiency of the supply of oxygen to the tissues of the body. In this condition, there is a tendency to develop an acid condition of the body or so-called acidosis. The human body can not live in an acid condition. Normally, the blood is slightly alkaline. The living body has many competent mechanisms for self-regula-tion. As the body tends to become acid, there is a definite effect on the breathing system. Indeed, one becomes breathless promptly on exertion. 1

SWEATY, shirt-sleeved men crowd-' ing around a slight woman at the Pittsburgh steel plants—and we see written anew chapter in the history of American government. When Frances Perkins, secretary of labor traveled down to Pittsburgh and talked over industrial problems like a friend with the men who work there, the country witnessed a momentous move in humanitariaviism and industry. It was. in the first place, the only intelligent way of getting informa- ; tion. No red tape, no secretarial ini termediaries, none of the stand- j j offish methods usually employed, but a simple, sensible w’ay of finding out what must be known if any- 1

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: : The Message Center : : I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it. —Voliaire ”

Asphyxia Takes Heavy Toll of Life BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN =

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : —BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON = —

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How About It? Bv Times Reader. A FLEET of concrete-carry-ing trucks, driving from a concrete plant on the canal, comes down Montcalm street and Indiana avenue bearing only Ohio license plates. Just how they can get by without Indiana licenses? It appears that it’s high time the state or city police did something about this sort of thing.

so optimistic, as I do not look for another Democratic Governor for 100 years. I'm sure the very sight of a Democrat such as McNutt would retard the political digestion of any sane Hoosier. The Disgusted Reader cites, as I have said, many fine points but of course, he could not mention all of the flaws of McNutt's administration. Look how nice McNutt has handled the beer situation Nice for whom? His pet henchmen, of ; course. Does Illinois, Pennsylvania and other progressive states have draught beer? Sure. Why? Because they have governors who have insight and foresight enough to know how to handle the beer situation. All will not be so bad if we are only taken for a ride, but I’m afraid four years of McNutt will be our death. But there is one bright spot in the situation, next election for Governor will be so one-sided they shall not need to count the votes. Our Governor may have his eyes on the White House, but if he is a wise lawyer he will apply for his old position at Indiana university and forsake politics for life. Bv Tim** Reader. The other night your good paper carried a letter stating some facts about the NRA program in a local factory. Many men are working in other places for 10 and 15 cents an hour and at night also. The general opinion is that most of our industries, at this time, have given their support and are under the President's blanket code. In fact, these factories would like the public to believe this condition can be found in their shops. However, they are telling their men that a difference of wages between two sections of the country keeps them from going on their factory' code, or they are telling their men that they must have about two'weeks to raise their prices on their output. These excuses the men must take

Editor Journal of the American Medical Arvoeiation of Hv*ei*. the Health Magazine. Control of the amount of alkaline substance in use in the blood apparently is regulated by the amount of carbon dioxide present. This is essentially the most important substance in regulating the relationships of acid and alkali in the human body. For that reason, the newer methods of resuscitation in cases of asphyxia involve the giving of car-bon-dioxide to stimulate the breathing system and to aid the return of the normal relationships of oxygen. carbon dioxide, and alkali in the blood. So important has asphyxia become as a cause of death, that leading physicians recently have formed a special society for the prevention of death through this method. In most large cities teams have

thing is to be accomplished by the . labor department or any one else for that matter. So Miss Perkins, woman before she is secretary, packed her bag and journeyed to Pennsylvania and there she saw men in their everyday surroundings. She looked at the kind of shops they worked in and felt the heat and saw the sights they are so accustomed to. She went to their homes and heard from their own lips the recital of their fears and hopes. She was, in short, a human being talking with other human beings—not just an official listening to complaining discontented citizens.

while they are being driven at a ten to twelve-hour day, which will get most of their warerooms full of furniture by the dead line of Sept. 1. Labor in this city never will go under any code until Sept. 1 and. not then, unless by government action. Manufacturers of furniture or of any other goods for sale who have shown their support should put printed stickers on their goods telling the public that it was made under a NRA code, and the public will take care of these kind of industries that are trying to do everything to keep from going on a code and who are at the same time making a lot of noise about their support of it. A boycott of Shelbyville furniture or any other city is what Is needed to get the President's program at work. We are thankful that the most of our other industry’ is made up of different type men and that they have shown their support to this program by working their men forty hours on a living wage. We must tell the world about the slacker as we did in the time of war. and if success anti anew future is to come, it must come by a 100 per cent program of co-operation to this great program of the President. A man who has given thirty years of service to the factories of Shelbvville. at which his highest hour wage was 40 cents, and who now is working for 15 cents an hour and who knows these conditions exist, writes this letter.

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I do not believe there ever will be an opportunity for women in flying the mails.—Mrs. Phoebe Omiie, aviatrix. It is well to keep your feet on the ground, but it is equally necessary to keep your head in the clouds if you want to accomplish more than the routine drudgery of life. — Dr. Paul Jones, Antioch college. The eighteenth amendment has not accomplished anything that was predicted for it when it was adopt-ed.—Ex-Senator John K. Shields. Tennessee. I never was a good actress: I quit before the public found me out. —Olga Petrova.

been developed in fire departments, in the electrical Industry, in the gas industry, and similar groups to administer fire-aid measures in case of aphyxia, and also to supply oxygen with a special apparatus, which gives 98 per cent oxygen and 7 per cent carbon dioxide. Approximately 10,000 people die every year in the United States from drowning, gas poisoning, and electrical shock, and it has been estimated that between 40,000 and 50.000 people are saved each year by the prompt application of resuscitation and inhalation of oxygen and carbon dioxide, as mentioned. It is of the greatest importance in all such cases to obtain medical advice a soon as possible so lifesaving measure, involving stimulation of the heart, which only a phyj ician can administer, may be underi taken.

opo obtain information upon any X other basis than this is to fail before we start The American public, as well as the department of labor, can endure some authentic news about the steel business that does not emanate from the luxurious offices of Charts M Schwab who looks always Into a roseate future and admonishes us not to sell America short. Presidents, directors, highly paid officials of all our gigantic corporations may be wholly sincere in their points of view But we already are familiar with everything they have to say. We want now the opinion of another individual—the man who produces the goods we buy and l enjoy.

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It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

VTEW YORK Aug 10—Sharp. pointed, specific criticism of various factors in NIRA is one thing, and hiding behind a hedge and throwing rocks Is quite another. Two classes of persons have a logical right to oppose the general scheme of the national industrial recovery act It offers nothing to those who believe so much in rugged individualism that they sooner would go down with the ship than take a chance on any lifeboat And probably the legislation hardly would be enthusiastically by those who feel that there is no possible way station between the present depot and the outlying terminal called the dictatorship of the proletariat. But I find that some of the genera! and uncodlfied grumbles come from the camps of thase labeled liberal. I don’t understand it. Why don’t they kick and scream and veil their heads off about individual abuses, instead of aiming a roundhouse swing at the entire system? a a a Strange IU o fellows I HAVE been suspicious for some time that many liberals and radicals are suckers for the reactionary interests. It. would be nonsense to contend that NRA has abolished the profit motive and turned the means of production over to the workers And yet it seems to me a significant leftward step in the economic history of America The people with the greatest stake in the preservation of the old order have praised it with the faintest of damns. All those who speak authoritatively for the vested Interests have condemned the new experiment as sheer Socialism. And the radicals have complained that it has nothing to do with their notions, and that NRA simply is big business sneaking up on us with an American form of Fascism. Now. it can not be that both schools of critics can be right I believe that NRA establishes a mechanism which offers great possibilities to organized labor. I think it drops a very meager betterment into the lap of existing unions, but it is a plan which well-organized industrial groups can use to their own advantage if they have the gumption and the spirit to recruit powerful co-operative units. I can think of no situation in which the right to strike should be denied to any one as a potential weapon. But it is a wasteful use of energy all around. A strike should be a silver bullet drawn from the belt only when it can be used effectively. The more powerful organized labor becomes, the less it will need to use its armies and its banners in trench warfare. Why should anybody fight a battle when a good swinging review will suffice to do the trick? bub Patience at Home IAM puzzled by the fact that Americans should bestow great patience upon experiments in other countries and be so much Inclined to give short shrift to radical changes here at home. On many occasions I have been rebuked for saying this or that in disparagement of Soviet Russia. Letter-writing clients have said: "Don't you realize that a mighty experiment is taking place and that Russia still is in the stage of transition? Haven't you sense enough to watch and wait, instead of looking for small surfaces into which to stick your pins?” I don't remember that anybody said it in precisely those words, but that was th-* general idea. And my critics were right. I shifted my whole bulk around and began pointing with pride to the successes of the Soviets, instead of viewing with alarm the fields in which they failed. Now the national industrial recovery act is hardly as deep in the social furrow which it has ploughed. It Is not the full turn of the wheel in economic matters. And yet it is a significant and perhaps an ejjochmaking thing in American life. The man who scoffs and says, "As far as I'm concerned, it only means that I get sl7 a we->k instead of *15.” overlooks the fact that if Washington now can tilt salaries a little, it may in no very distant day go gay and raise them radically. a b b Chance for Peace POSSIBLY it is not possible to have a bloodless revolution, but I do not see how any man can deny that if it could be worked out in that way it would be a consummation devoutly to be wished And if it can be done, some formula very like rhe present one must be employed NIRA is very new and vitally important. If we must shoot at it. let us at least give this piece of legislation a chance to show us the whites of its eyes. iCopvrighr. 1933. bv The Time*) Forgetting BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH Along these idle roads and pleasure spent, Among this carefree lot both far and wide. The worthless chatter, thy true self hide Amid the eyes of others keen present. In frivolous mood, your broodings chide. All godly thoughts are thus den.-'d. But this, tortured one, does not prevent Your love for beauty. Ah. this you need. Poor dolorous one forget that lustful greed. Questions and Answers Q —What was the estimated gold reserve of the United States Feb 28. 1933’ A—Approximately $3 808.000 000. i Q—Give the birth dates of Lionel. Ethel and John Barrymore. A—Lionel. April 28. 1878; Ethel. Aug. 15. 1879; and John. Feb. 15. 1882. Q—How old is Ruby Keeler, and how long has she been married to A1 Jolson? A—She is 23. and married to Al Joison. Sept. 21, 1928.