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FRIDAY AUO ll 1933 IT S IP TO CI HA is due the Republicans for uphold;r.g the "hand of President Roosevelt in the Cuban crisis. Representative Hamilton F.'-n of New York, ranking Republican on s he house foreign relations committee, has as. i.-ed the President of that support. This is especially grntilying, because the Roosevelt policy in the island republic is a rex'. :l of he Mriual alliance with the Machado dictatorship maintained by the Republican admini ration in Washington. There have been two dangers. One was the danger that President Rooseveit r.erding bipartisan co-operation in the ci mystic recovery program, m.ght try to buy t: operaUon bv continuing the Hoover ) f barking Machado against the Cuban peop.e. Fnr’unatrly. the Republicans do not appear tr. exerting such pressure, and the Presici>, i seems to be strong enough to ignore it if it should deveiop. The other danger was that a latent Amerl- •: Chauvinism might, flare up in popular demand- for the United States to move into Cub t with the army and navy. M .. nr intervention always is a possibility under the Platt amendment and the treaty v ru< i established an American protectorate over Cuba, but President Roosevelt from the b< inning has proved his reluctance to use th f .eg.ll weapon of intervention He is using other methods first. This is not only the fair course: it also is the only intelligent policy. If American troops go in'o Cuba, we then shall become responsible for r toring peace and order perhaps a long aid difficult task. We also shall become responsible for the new Cuban regime, which may turn out little better than the Machado dictatorship Moreover, we shall increase Latin American distrust of the United States at a time of general international complications, when we need all the friends we can get. It is possible that the Cuban terror, having been allowed to grow for so long through state department supi*ort of Machado, eonceiv.tbly may create a situation in which Pt .dent Roosevelt will Ik* forced to intervene. We hope not. For however justified, it would b*‘ costly to the United States in every way. The President still has other weapons. He still ran withdraw diplomatic recognition from Machado. If there is a general revolution to overthrow the dictator, the President can permit i .pment of arms to the people, that they mnv have a fair chance against Machado's guns. In the lone run. no outside force can tmpos* peace upon Cuba, or give the people freed'm from their oppressors. That is a job for th>' Cubans themselves.

MINIHN(* O\V N BLSINESS 'T'HERF is a deal ol difference between selfA affuiency and isolation. The man who minds his own business, and minds it well. Is net necessarily n bad neighbor. The idea of "brothers keeper ran be overworked until people have no time to do anything else. Life is so ordered that individuals, communities. and nations must take care of themselves. They are m no shape to take care of any one else unless they do. Charity co-operation, and all other collective methods have a definite limit. While organization is essential to social and economic progress, it can not take the place of self -sustenance. There are things beyond purchase, or even gift things which can only be obtained through work and effort. We can insure each other fair play through laws, contracts, and agreements, but when it comes to making good use of the fair play, people, whether acting as individuals or in groups, must look to themselves. We have talked a great deal about the dangers and unrighteousness of isolation during the last decade and some of our talk has led to development of very false ideas. Manv people have been led to believe that the salvation of the world depended on gettogether propositions, rather than the oldfashioned formula of study and perseverance. This curious doctrine began with the notion that t was no longer possible for any nation to maintain peace if other nations went to war, that war represented the one great handicap to human progress, and that the sole hope of the world rested on a setup that would eliminate conflict. The attractiveness of this dream originated in its false premises. It is ridiculous to assume that we have come to a point where we can t keep out of a brawl, that modern life has done something to people which makes it impossible for them not to fight if anybody starts a row. Admittedly, modem life makes it harder to be neutral. Extension of trade, increase of travel, and growth of intercourse have created a situation in which any nation is likely to suffer if war occurs, but what is the cost of such suffering compared to the cost of joining the fray? We can not only keep out of war just as well as we ever could, but make more by doing so. The thought that neutrality has become obsolete is merely a s’raw-man of idealism, a bugaboo bv which it is hoped to scare people into the adoption of grand experiments. Instead of promoting peace, it is encouraging conflict by causing unnecessary interference. The present day world is plagued with meddlesomeness on every hand. Governments are going out of their wav to browbeat or trick one another, while neglecting their own affairs The result is universal dissatisfaction and fear No one suspects or distrusts a neighbor who attends to his own affairs, who takes care of himself, gives his children a good start, i pays his taxes and does what is expected of

him as a citizen, but what about the neighbor who spends so much time minding other people s business that he has little left to look after his own? The Golden Rule is as applicable toward advice and interference as :t is to other things. OPEN ROAD IS FRIENDLY /ANE of th* best wavs to convince yourself that most of your fellow citizens are. after all. pretty friendly and kindly folk is to take a leisurely vacation tour by automobile. Such a trip will bump you up against filling station employes, garage men. inn keepers, housewives who have "Rooms for Tourists' on signs in front of their homes, tea room hostesses, lunch counter waitresses, and an infinite variety of chance acquaintances in other automobiles. And nothing could be much more surprising, or pleasing, than the way in which 93 per cent of these people will turn out to be men and women whom you are glad to have for fellow-countrymen. Maybe the automobile has brought a change in our national character; maybe the people of this country always were pretty nice; whichever way it is, there isn't any medicine much better for a man than the series of persona! contacts that arise during an extended motor tour. Writers are fond of saying that Americans are hurried, discourteous, irritable, snappish, and lacking in warmth. This may be so. in places: but the motorist usually has a different story to tell. You can travel thousands of miles without finding, for instance, a filling station man who doesnt go out of his way to be helpful and obliging. You usually could write on a postage stamp the names of all the people at overnight stopping places who are anything but exceedingly pleasant. A telephone booth could hold all the peevish or inattentive waitresses you are likely to encounter. And if you get through a moderately long trip without encountering a good many other tourists whom you really would like to know, you are far less fortunate than most. All this, of course. Is an old story to any one who has done much cross-country’ driving. But, it is worth repeating, somehow; for It provides a wholesome and encouraging background for the day's grist of n*ws, which now and then does get a little depressing. Read the day's record of our follies, our crimes and our passions, and you sometimes are brought close to despair. Get out and see your fellow-countrymen as only a roving motorist can see them, and you get back your faith.

WE MUST CURB MONOPOLY MANY observers of the Roosevelt new deal are worried about the dangers of monopoly and the possible extinction of the small producer. The latter is pertty bound to disappear. except in certain specialized and semihandicraft industries. He is an anomaly in our mechanical age of industrial consolidation. His position is like that of the hand weaver a century ago, as portrayed in George Eliots "Silas Marner.” The question of monopoly and the position of the anti-trust laws in the face of the national industrial recovery act Is a more practical and important matter. On this Subject an excellent little brochure by Alexander Levene has appeared, entitled "Modification of the Anti-Trust Laws and Purchasing Power.” The author gets back to fundamentals. He shows that a reorganization of our industrial life which can possess any prospect of success must deal successfully with technological unemployment and also insure adequate mass purchasing power.

Our mechanical evolution has progressed so far that in 1929. at the height of our prosperity. at least 3.000,000 were unemployed in our country as a result of their displacement by labor-saving machinery. The Columbia university survey claims that by 1935 there will be 20,000 000 unemployed on thiis account. The short working week has been proposed as the direct mode of meeting technological unemployment, but this is of little significance unless the same wages or higher wages are paid for the shorter working period. Even in prosperous times, the purchasing power of the masses has been all too slight to maintain anything like permanent prosperity. Sufficient purchasing power can be realized only in conjunction with national economic planning. Unlimited competition, industrial anarchy, and the presence of a multitude of small producers mean low wages and a continually depressed economic order. The same competitive forces which may reduce prices actually reduce wages and throw us into one economic tailspm after another. The way out is through nationally planned industrial co-operation: Equitable distribution to maintain purchasing power by reducing the hours of labor and increasing real wages Is Impossible while industry is ruled bv the wild forces of competition. Full equitable distribution, such as will avoid technological unemployment and at all times maintain full purchasing power to enable each member of the population to acquire and consume his quota of the output of our national productive facilities, can be accomplished only by complete co-operation, not only within each industry, but also between industries and among all factors entering into production, based upon national economic planning and co-operation.” This brings up sharply the question of what will happen to the anti-trust laws placed on the statute books by an earlier generation of liberals. Levene is against blanket repeal of these laws, lest unregulated monopoly be the result. He quotes the famous passage from Adam Smith, to the effect that "people of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends In a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.” We now are repudiating the devil of "unbridled competition.” There is little to be gamed by plunging into the deep blue sea of "unbridled co-operation" characterized by excessive prices, extortionate practices, and inequitable distribution of wealth. The solution lies along the lines laid down by Mr. Roosevelt in his national industrial recovery act. Any modification of the antitrust laws must be paralleled by close federal supervision of the new co-operative practices. The evils of monopoly must be the

benefits of co-ordinated planning achieved, and short hours and high wages assured, to provide that mass purchasing power without which any recovery program is utterly without substantial foundations—a house built on the sands. If the stiff-backed employer*. with their ideas molded in the period of ruthless competition. wince at this sensible public control of industry, let them remember that temporary profits are of little import if drowned later urid*r gallons of red ink. Moreover, if such a plan as the national industrial recovery act does not work, we may get ready for a degree of control and regimentation equal to that which prevailed here during the World war. We will move over into an era of real "guild Fascism.” THEY MUST BE WATCHED ‘"['Ll PERKINS.” an American humorist A-* much beloved of our fathers, used to achieve great success with the following anecdote: "A storm arose and the waves dashed mountain high. They swept the ship from mizzen-mast to the hencoop. The passengers became greatly agitated. ‘ Panic became universal when the captain, rushing madly from the quarterdeck, cried: We are lost.’ "My uncle cried: 'Down on your knees, every one!’ and began to lead in prayer. "Glancing up. he saw me standing aloof. “"Oh. my poor boy,’ he cried. ‘I fear you are the Jonah of this ship. Do something religious. Eli, or we are all lost. Do something religious!’ “I could not resist the old man's pleadings. I did my part. I went around and took up a collection. ’ There is something almost religious about this NRA movement —this mighty mass movement of the American people led by the President, to use our own collective strength to make this a land of comfortable and happy people. But there always are those whose idea of religion is to "take up a collection.” They existed during the war. The sharp boys who can see ways to takp private advantage of the public necessity may increase in numbers as time goes on. SOMEBODY USED HIS HEAD /''VNE of the neatest tricks yet performed by N-' Uncle Sam in his recovery program seems to have been turned along the edges of the Navajo reservation at Shiprock, N. M., in connection with a plague of grasshoppers and a flock of turkeys. Grasshoppers became so numerous on the reservation that they were destroying the peach orchards and melon patches and thieatening the Indians with disaster. So an intelligent federal officer spent $1,400 on 1,100 young turkeys. The turkeys were turned .oose where they would do the most good. Result: The grasshoppers are gone and the turkeys are fat; and the latter will make fine Thanksgiving dinners for the young men of the forest conservation corps. In this doubtless unimportant little tale there is evidence of sensible action by some one which deserves due commendation. Unfortunately, the dispatches failed to give the namp of this unknown genius, so he might get due recognition for his feat. Under the new rules of the game formulated by NRA. even one strike is out.

M.E.TracySays:

IDO not quarrel with efforts to acquire knowledge, no matter how farfetched, or abstruse they may appear, but I know nothing that interests me less than the question of whether the universe is growing bigger or smaller. I fail to see what we poor human beings could do about it in either case, and I doubt whether it lies within our capacity to differentiate between a temporary or permanent phase of cosmic development. The universe is a rather large affair, with a rather long record of existence. We occupy one of the smallest of the millions or billions of little specks which float around in it. Since our destiny is bound up with that speck, it strikes me that we would be wiser in devoting our time and attention to its prospects and possibilities, before we launch out into space. What we do not know about the earth is sufficiently impressive to discourage an unnecessary amount of speculation concerning other planets, much less the cosmos. Like Robinson Crusoe, we live on an island from which we export nothing and into which the cosmos sends very little, except light, heat, and a meteor now and then. a a a HAD Robinson Crusoe devoted his time to speculating on winds and ocean currents, he might have died a great scholar, but the important point is that he would have died. By studying the resources of his little island and making the best possible use of them, hp lived to become a hero, a model, and an inspiration for ten generations of young people. We could do worse than emulate his example, especially since we hardly have scratched the surface of this mysterious old ball. After several thousand years of migrating and exploring, we have done a fairly good iob of mapping the land and charting the sea. but all that has to do only with the surface. When it comes to things high over head, or low’ underfoot. we are as ignorant as savages. We have an idea that the interior of the earth is pretty hot. but we have made comparatively little effort to find out. much less to utilize, the energy it represents. Our deepest shafts have not penetrated two miles. Who knows what we might discover, not as a matter of curiosity, but as a matter of practical benefit, if we were to dig down five or six miles. Engineers say it can be done for 30 or 40 million dollars and that, if our deductions are correct, we would find a practically exhaustless source of heat, light, and power. a a a IN the same way. we are ignorant of what is beyond the atmosphere, or of conditions in ns upper reaches We assume that it extends ; upperward from 50 to 100 miles and that absolute darkness and absolute cold prevail outside its limits. We have sent balloons up fifteen or twenty miles, while man actually has ascended nearly twelve. All that leaves a lot to the imagination. however Even when It comes to the surface of th<* earth, we have much to learn The polar regions still represent a great mystery which may conceal many things that mart could use to his own advantage. Whether it is a question of sinking shafts in the land, sounding the sea, or going up in the air, this old earth leaves a lot of room for adventure and tbe acquirement of knowledge.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The Message Center

I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire

(Timm renders are invited to express their 11 nr* m the** ralumns. Hake, j/our Limit them to 2SO i cord* or less.) letters short, so all ran hare a chance. Bt Two True Bluo Kcnturkian*. I HAVE been a subscriber to The Times for eight years. I read in the Aug. 5 issue a letter signed Just a Hoosier I would like to say that he or she surely is one out of many Hoosiers who surely have, for some reason, a grudge against Kentuckians. I often have heard them referred to as hillbillies, clodhoppers and foreigners, so I don't see why they should be given jobs in preference to Hoosiers. If people w*ere all made to stay in their native state, I'm afraid there would be several Hoosiers sent back from Kentucky. As it is. they always are made to feel weloome there, if for any reason they go to that grand old state. As this still is the land of the free, I sudoosp, Just a Hoosier, that you will have to be patient with the poor immigrants from Kentucky, until they learn it is against the law to come to Indianapolis to take jobs. Bt a Citirrn. Mr. Wake Up nnd Play Fair party, who wrote the article Aug. 3 about the Governor and The Times, is suffering mostly with loss of memory and most of all exposing his politics. Just plain old sour grapes, fermented to the state of intoxication. What can it hurt if the Governor wanted to use some rooms not In use in any public building? It is the taxpayer saving. How can any man make such a statement that there has been no saving in our state government? Mr. Sour Grapes, you are like all the rest of your intoxicated friends, eager to pick up some trifling matter for propaganda. We have the only Governor in years who has the nerve and backbone to unshackle the people of Indiana from one of the most ferocious political monopolies that e\ r er has been known. If you still have some of your memory left, do you recall a Governor making a trip to Atlanta, also one hiding behind the statute of limitations to prevent prosecution? Another giving a contract for cleaning the state house to an Ohio firm

Infestation With Broad Tapeworm Grows

IN 1907, C. W. Stiles of the United States Health Service predicted that infestation with the broad tapeworm would become endemic in the United States: that is to say, it would be distributed fairly well in various portions of this country. It now has been well established that at least forty-one cases have occurred among human beings, that there are numerous cases not recorded, and that the fish in many North American waters have been infested by this tapeworm. Obviously, any one who partakes of the flesh of these fish, not properly cooked, may become himself a host to the organisms. The fish most commonly affected are pickerel or great northern pike, the walleyed pike and the perch. Thus far. the lakes from which infested fish have been procured, according to Dr. T. B. Magath. are mostly in the north central portion of the United States and the lakes

JUST as I was beginning to get red behind the ears with hearing fun poked at the London economic conference, the Scripps-How-ard editorial offices issued a tribute in its defense. I may be an idealist, but it seems to me that it is just as stupid to laugh at the efforts of any such conference as it would be to ridicule the doctors, who. in spite of years of failure, still meet to discuss the dangers and search for a cure for cancer. One fact never should be forgotten. Everything worthy that ever was accomplish’d for the benefit of mankind has been laughed at by the thoughtless and the fools The same jokes were cracked when Columbus began his voyage over an unknown ocean a were heard when Mr. Ford drove hi* l&nny little vehiele down

‘That’s More Like It!’

Starvation Pay Bv A Reader of The Timo* JUST a few words in regard to the xvav this administration has cut its employes who work on the streets to starvation wages when everything you live on is going up. Just what do they think the men can do who work hard with so little to eat? Or do they think they all are fixing down in HoovervilJe? There is where they will have to live on the wages this fine city of Indianapolis is paying them. I thought our mayor said stand by our good President Roosevelt and the NRA in the recovery program. Are they doing it? I will say no.

for double the amount an Indiana firm bid? Jurisdiction in that case no doubt hid much. Do you recall the public service commissioners and w r hat service we had, the highway commissioner, the auto li- | cense plate deal? In fact I will ask you to name one single transaction l at any time but where there was some odor to it. and how on earth any man can criticise our Governor when he has done more in six months than any previous Governor | has in twenty years in a saving of 1 taxpayers’ money? McNutt has been very mild and : The Times is one paper the people can rely on for the truth. Thank goodness w e have only one bird of a feather left in that old organization and he is a senator. We are going i to clip his wings the next election : and try to keep Indiana for its | citizens. Bt W. H. Richard*. So long as the capitalist profit 1 system lasts It nex’er will be possible to regulate industry to give to the workers what is theirs by right. No code of fair competition can restrict the greed of the owning class and compel them to sacrifice their own profits for the benefit of those i whose labor produces them. The capitalist always will find a xvay to evade the spirit of the law, while possibly obeying the letter. Under the code of fair competition, hours of labor are to be rei dueed and a minimum wage of ' $14.50 paid. Those who already are

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of tho American Medical Association of Hvitlt, the Hralth Mararlne. of the south central portion of Canada. Three-fourths of the cases thus reported have occurrred in this area The others have been reported from two metropolitan regions in the east, and it seems reasonable to believe that the eastern patients acquired their infestation from fish shipped into their market* from the infested areas of the central rpgion. More than 75 per cent of pike and pickerel sold in the markets of the United States, according to Dr. Magath. are caught in Canadian lakes which harbor heavily infested fish. Apparently the fish In various areas are infested chiefly by migration of fish from one lake to another through water passages; second. by Infestation from feeding on plankton in hatcheries.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

r the road, and the Wright brothers saw their flying machine flop end fall ere the great day at Kitty Hawk had dawned. Before we say that nothing is to be gained by men of different nationalities meeting to talk over means of making a better world, let us remember tihat we belong to a species that dragged Itself up from primeval slimes. We fought our wav through savagery. barbarism paganism, slavery, witchcraft, and the feudal system We once accepted the Inqisition. the Dark Aces, the Divine Right of Kings, and the theory that the earth was flat. a a a WE have conquered malaria and smallpox andjhphthena and dttbette and hydrophobia and ty-

getting more than the minimum xxage are to have their hours reduced but. in no case, shall their wages be reduced I *To get around thisN>mployers already are discharging their old and ! faithful employes w hose wages they jare not allowed to reduce, and replacing them with new ones at the : $14.50 wage This is in direct opI position to the intent of the NIRA. ! the purpose of which is to increase wages and relieve unemployment by shortening the hours, thus making openings for the unemployed. [ Workers, so discharged, become j seekers for jobs and will have to go to work, if at all. at the lower rate. Thus the minimum wage soon will become the maximum, and while it will result in employent of more people, the total paid in xvages will ibe less than before. The buying power of the people will shrink instead of being expanded and a still worse condition result. C*ily where workers are organized into a strong union can this be 1 stopped, for the workers never will get more than they have the power to take. It is not a code of fair competition that we need, but the complete abolition of competition and private profit and the collective ownership •of the country’s resources and industries for use of all the people and with no man asking profits from the labor of another.

So They Say

Golf Is the only thing I've ever been in love with yet.—Phyllis Buchanan. 22, Trans-Mississippi golf champion. There's no harm in exposing the human body. It is a beautiful work of nature Some people would want to put pants on a horse.—Judge Joseph B. David, Chicago, on nudism. ✓ Never in the past w-as it so impossible to be an atheist as it is today.— The Rev. John Haynes Holmes. New York. It Is as easy to form good habits as bad.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

For the most part, however, the fish are infested from sewage containing human excretions. It is possible also that some of the distribution and multiplication of tapeworms takes place from such animals as wolf. bear, fox and dog. in which this tapeworm will grow. The person who becomes infested with this tapeworm is likely to have difficulty with digestion, nervousness. weakness, pains in the chest, headaches and similar vague complaints, and also in some instances develop anemia. It is important to bear in mind that the symptoms caused may not be sufficiently serious in any instance to cause patients to seek the attention of a physician. However, it is possible for any competent physician to relieve the patient promptly of the Infestation by treating with drugs which destroy the tapew’orm and cause it to pass from the body.

phoid fever. We have warred against and vanquished the boll weevil and the hookworm a.id the microbe. We have bridged river: ind reclaimed deserts and harnessed the lightning. We can talk across the world and communicate with ship* at sea. We walk upon the ocean bed and penetrate into the Jungles and fly across the poles. Bhall we say. then, that we never ran. if we try. make the earth a united whole secure for men and a place of peace for children? Great men dare and do, nor will they be deterred by the ignorant cackling* of those whose knowledge of human history seems to be as s'lght as their vision of theJuture is short. *

AUG. 11, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HFYWOOD BROITS

N r EW YORK. Aug 11.—The code o{ the American Newspaper Publishers' Association establishes for itself far too many exceptions. I have specifically in mind the provision that the forty-hour week "shall not apply to professional persons employed in their profession.” Reporting is an honorable calling, and I would much rather be a rolumnist than an os’eopath. a surgeon. or a lawyer. And yet I think the word "professional' is stretched in this application to all of us newspaper men. We certainly are not professionals in the same sense as doctors or lawyers. because we have not gone through any sort of required training or met any stat" test leading id a license or faced a character committee other than that marie up of a city or managing editor. an n In I)(fcnsc of Publishers BUT today I vigorously would defend the final clause in the code, which does ask that the newspaper business be accepted on a basis quite unlike that established for other industries. I refer to “Nothing in this cod'* shall be construed ns authoruing the licensing of publishers.” It, may be argued that licensing is the very backbone of the national recovery system. And yet I think it must be apparent that this can not be used in the case of daily newspapers. It will not suffice to say that freedom of speech Is guaranteed under the Constitution. That guarantee has been a willow wand during several critical periods of our nation's history*. There oft"n has been censorship. although it generally has been called something else. But a very distinct check can be put upon the free expression of papers, even though no outngh' censorship has been set up. The pitiful estate of radio todav is evidence of tlv* manner in which this may be done tinder a licensing system. Save in cases of obscenity and blasphemy, the federal radio commission pretends in exercise no sort, of censorship Still, I recollect that one of California's more flagrant evangelists lost, his license because he made slanderous remarks about other religious groups. He was and is a prohibitionist and in other ways a pest. And yet 1 do not think that he should have been sileneed. But the worst feature of the government's control over radio lies In the wav in whirh the broadcasting companies leap to anticipate the will of Washington. This is not a criticism aimed at, the Roosevelt administration. It also was true under Hoover. The head of any station or chain of stations comes to have a feeling in his bones that "they” would not like this or probably would prefer the other. nan Some Deni's Advocate IF the President wishes to address the nation, the radio moguls rush forward with the offer of free time and plenty of It. It should be so. All channels ought, to be open to the nation's executive when he has a message to deliver. But I think there should be some provision for rebuttal. Naturally, it hardly would be feasible to allow Tom. Dirk and Harry the right to voice each Individual facet of disagreement. But I am under the distinct impression that even gentlemen well known to the community will not be received warmly if they come forward to say, I disagreed with what the President said in several vital particulars. i would like the privilege of being hooked up from coast to coast to make an answer ” That does not happen. One of the first requirements for success in radio management is the talent to look at bread from a range of Ron yards and detect upon which side the butter lies. I hope that no such period will come in the life of American journalism. It is not always courageous but seldom has there been a day which did not know some forthright editor here or there who dared to take Issue with any administration when he disagreed with its philosophy or practices. Trot sic ’ Wrong 'T'ROTSKI once said a very foolA ish thing. He contended that the test of the sincerity of any government lay in its attitude toward free speech. He contended that no administration had a right to call itself radical If it attempted to maintain free speech. In his mind that, always was a sign of weakness and uncertainty of purpose. But Trotski and other Russian leaders always have thought of freedom of speech and freedom of press as sentimental luxuries. Voltaire was much more acute in his famous defense of hostile opinion. And Voltaire was a better hater than Trot*ki. It was no generosity of spirit which moved him to proclaim his willingness to defend th* right of his enemies to speak their mind. • Copvruh*. 1933. bv Th*

Life’s Good

BY AUSTIN JAMES You know I've lived a funny life, Os happiness and yet of strife: I've done some right and then some wrong. Ive cried—but too, I’ve sung a song, Ive had my hours of dire despair, But found some gladness lurking there, I've been in prison, yet been free, In all, life's been quite good to me. Ive go*ten up and fallen down, I've had a smile—then had a frown, A broken heart—a chilling f*ar, But music, too. and ears to hear: I've known the worst and had the best, I’ve grown quite tired but found my rest; And though quite blind, with eyes to see, I've visioned love—life's good to me. Yee, I've been bad and I've been good, And though quite dumb, I've understood That problems of my every day Were placed there just to show the way; I've had a foe and had a friend, I know beginning from the end. And from it all I've learned to be A man of strength—life* good to Os.