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WEDNESDAY. AUG. 16. 19JS ANOTHER JOB FOR F. D. R. 'T'HAT President Roosevelt on his return to Washington should have been impressed by the need of co-ordinating the work of his numerous emergency agencies is not surprising There is a big job to be done in that direction. A month ago the President saw It. Then he organized what came to be called the super-cabinet, consisting of the cabinet chiefs and heads of the new organizations. But that did not solve the problem. Indeed, it is not a problem which Is apt ever to be solved. It is like the task of the housewife with her dishes—there always are more to wash after every meal. The faster the separate recovery Uni's move, and the more efficiently, the grea'er the problem of co-ordination. Take the mast serious aspect of the problem. the gap between the recovery administration and the public works administration. The purpose of the public works program is to provide a quick increase in national purchasing power through wages and material orders during the next few months, until the full strength of increased private purchasing power can be built up by the industrial codes. But public works are lagging behind the code program. This is not the fault of any one in particular. Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has been too busy fighting off graft and political pork hunters to speed up public works to the rapid pace set by General Johnson in the industrial codes. Nevertheless, it is time for General Johnson and Secretary Ickes to get together. Unless the public works pace can be quickened. some industries may not be able to live up to the labor codes they signed in fjood faith with General Johnson. A related problem Is the delay in unemployment relief and its connection with the public works and recovery programs. Here the fault is not with Washington, but with certain states which are failing to carry their part of the federal-state load of relief. At the same time some of these states seem unaware that active co-operation in the public works program is the best way to get a return on their relief money, that made jobs better than doies. Then there is the necessity of drawing all government purchases to blue eagle firms; the need for centralizing the agencies set up to protect consumers, and the incentive for relating the wage-fixing and price-fixing levels to the administration's monetary inflation program, if there is such a program. These are only a few of the more obvious aspects of the growing problem of co-ordina-tion of the many-sided recovery drive. By the very nature of the task, there is only one man in the country with sufficient authority and responsibility to do the job. That Is the President. MALLORY FIRM SETS EXAMPLE MANY Indiana industries might profit from a study of the P. R. Mallory Company's lnbor policy. For several years this concern has been an open shop. When the New Deal came along the Mallory management decided that It was time to change that policy. The decision was reached after mature deliberation. There were no acrimonious disputes. no strikes, no professional agitators. The company simply decided to give its employes a voice in its affairs. Only a few simple steps were needed to carry out the plan. First, the employes were asked to ballot on whether or not they wanted to organize. A reasonable and just proposal for a factory union was presented to them. The voting was conducted by the workers, themselves, under circumstances which made interference by the management impossible. Seventy-five per cent of the employes declared themselves in favor of the plan so that it will be put into effect immediately. They will have equal voice with the management in the future in all matters pertaining to wages and working conditions. If the employes and management can not agree a sound method for outside arbitration is provided. The Mallory union is no ordinary company union. Every thinking person knows of the “yellow dog" labor organization which is the creature of management. A Mallory employe, however, knows that from now on he will be assured of justice. The final decision on disputes rests outside the plant. That is conclusive evidence of the good faith of the concern's management in setting up this union within the factory. But the Mallory management went even farther. It provided a method whereby, after a reasonable trial, the employes may affiliate their organization with the American Federation of Labor. Certainly nothing could be fairer than that. This factory, one of the largest of its kind In the world, has some extremely difficult production problems, which naturally reflect themselves in the handling of labor. It makes electrical equipment which is not of a standard type. Most of its orders require special designs. Thus it can not. in lean periods, keep the plant producing for inventory in the hope of selling its accumulated stocks when its market improves. This means that it can not stabilize its production year in and year out. Yet even with this very special problem, which many industrial plants do not have, its owners were willing to take their employes into partnership in the belief that only by mutual confidence and understanding could the business prosper. The action of the Mallory company is one of the finest and most encouraging that has

been taken in the whole national recovery program. It shows that capital and labor can be brought together in this crisis to fight for the common good of this great nation. It shows that the Blue Eagle means a whole lot more than a mere gesture. Indianapolis well may be proud that one of its big industries was the first in the United States to take such a long step forward in the direction of social and economic justice. MEREDITH NICHOLSON 'HERE is no more important and delicate task in these times than that of diplomatic representative in a foreign country. The whole world Is feverish and ill. Situations of the utmast gravity are likely to blow into a storm overnight. Recent developments in Cuba are an excellent example of this. Thus it not only is gratifying to Indiana, but significant to the United States as a whole, that Meredith Nicholson is to be made American minister. Jost which of several posts now vacant he will receive is still a matter for decision, but the assumption of any ministry is fraught with heavy responsibilities. Mr. Nicholson is precisely the right man for diplomatic duties. Quiet, unassuming and gracious, his charming personality and Hoosier common sense will win tne confidence of any people to whom he is sent. Senator Van Nuys deserves praise for his wise suggestion-of Mr. Nicholson to the administration. President Roosevelt has selected a man of whom he may be proud. Although Indiana will miss him. it is happy to give Meredith Nicholson, a beloved citizen and a good neighbor, to help straighten out this troubled world. THAT HOOSIER CLUB, INC. QOVERNOR M’NUTT has acted wisely in ordering the dissolution of the Hoosier Democratic Club. Inc. It never should have been incorporated in the first place. Here is what the Indiana corrupt practices act says about corporations which make contributions to political causes: It shall be unlawful...for any corporation ...directly or indirectly... to give, contribute, furnish, lend or promise any money •-..t0 any political party... The president, the several directors and every other officer of any corporation which shall violate any of the provisions of this section.. .shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars for each offense, and imprisoned for not more than one year in jail.” A few days ago. Bowman Elder, Pleas Greenlee and Wayne Coy, three earnest Democrats. duly incorporated the Hoosier Democratic Club. Inc. They announced that its purpose was to collect 2 per cent of the salaries of all state employes making more than $75 a month and apply these contributions to the Democratic campaign fund. The Hoosier club already has received at least one contribution, and that was from Governor McNutt. The enthusiasm of Messrs. Elder, Greenlee and Coy is laudable. Their devotion to McNutt is above reproach. But their judgment leaves something to be desired. Os course, a political party should pay off its deficits and accumulate a reasonable campaign fund. There is a right w’ay and a wrong way of raising such money, and the Indiana law points the way with unmistakable clarity. It does not say that membership corporations are exempt. It specifically states "any corporation. That is pretty plain English. The whole idea of the Hoosier Club. Inc., was wrong. It gave the impression that public employes, whose salaries come out of the pockets of taxpayers of every party, must pay rental to one party for their jobs. Tliis organization smacks entirely too much of Tammany. The whole backbone of Tammany’s rapacious control of New York City is the district political club, proceedings of which are private and whose books are secret. Indiana can get along without such a setup. Mr. McNutt is the best Governor this state has had in a long time. His policies are liberal. His record, on the whole, is excellent. But some of the men with whom he has surrounded himself are making idiotic mistakes. The Hoosier Democratic Club, Inc., was one of the most serious of these. COAL CODE TESTS NRA 'T'HE bitter argument now going on in the coal industry over the terms of the proposed blue eagle agreement provides about as good a test case for the whole recovery program as could possibly be arranged. It tests the patriotism, the social conscience and the intelligence of all parties involved—the owners, the miners and the government itself. It brings into the spotlight a sector of the industrial front which needs government regulation. probably, more than any other, and gives us a chance to see whether reforms which have been urgently needed for years can finally be applied under the pressure of a national emergency. Here we have an industry which can not possibly do justice to its owners or to its workers without some sort of far-reaching and drastic corrective being applied fi#.n above. The country has more coal mines than it needs and more coal miners than it can ordinarily employ. Even a sudden return to 1929 levels of business activity would not involve consumption of all the coal that can be mined annually, nor would it provide jobs for all of the miners. The industry, in short, has managed to concentrate within itself nearly all of the major evils of present-day industrialism. This has happened naturally and through force of circumstances, and it is idle to try to blame any one man or group of men: but it has happened. and there is not the slightest sign that the industry can solve its troubles by its own unaided efforts. The blue eagle program offers a way out—the first that has ever been opened ito the coal industry since its troubles became acute. Here, at last, is a chance for the industry to become stabilized, for its production to get geared to consumption, for an arrangement to be made by which owners can get decent profits and miners can get a decent living. But the first response of the industry has not been encouraging. It has split into factions—no fewer than twenty-seven codes have been submitted by different groups of bituminous operators. Certain groups have apparently been ready to forego the benefits of co-operation rather than relax their archaic

anti-union traditions. Others have Insisted that they will submit to no government supervision under any circumstances. It will be a national calamity if some sort of order can not be brought into this chaotic field. Those individuals who stand in the way are shouldering an extremely heavy responsibility. POWER PLANNING 1 pUBLIC attention Is concentrated on the 1 spectacular aspects of the recovery drive to such extent that a number of exceedingly important new deal undertakings receive less notice than they deserve—for instance, the federal power commission's decisions to survey and plan hydro-electric development and to investigate the cost of transmitting and generating power. Rivers and streams of this country contain power resources that are inexhaustible if the forests are preserved. Unlike oil and coal and mo6t other natural resources, there ; is no danger of exhaustion or shortage in case of emergency. If the rivers are developed with regard to a general plan, their hydroelectric potentialities should be enough for every possible need in the future. So far. dams have been built in hit or miss fashion, regardless of whether construction at that point would foreclose utilization of another drop in the river a little above or a little below. Though the national need for hydro-elec-tric planning has been less apparent than the ! need for planned production of oil, the power commission has had vision enough to foreI see a day when this will be extremely important. Its survey has nothing to do with public or private ownership of power resources, but should enable it to grant permits wisely on all streams in which the federal government has an interest. The second part of the power commission program is no less important. No accurate figures ever have been available disclosing the cost of transmission and distribution of power. This great blind spot has made regulation of utilities almost an impossible task. Power generation costs approximately 2 mills a kilowatt hour, while the average cost to consumers have been curious as to where the rest of the money they pay to power companies goes. A variety of charges have been made concerning it. The power commission proposes to explore this no man’s land and learn the secret if it can. Utility companies should welcome the inquiry, because if transmission and distribution are found to be as costly as they always have claimed, much of the complaint against regulation with its companion demand for public ownership probably would subside. Enthusiastic proprietor of a tailor shop in New York has had the blue eagle tattooed on liis chest; but he’d better be careful, for the NRA won’t stand for any skin games. If auto production keeps on increasing, it is not too much to expect that in another year or so the number of cars will be equal to the number of filling stations. Ever since reading that Chicago dispatch that a nude dancer performed on the stage behind two fans, a local baseball enthusiast has complained that it failed to give their names. The new register of the United States treasury is an amateur magician. Just, the sort of man that's needed to make that deficit disappear.

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WIDESPREAD comment on the one hundredth anniversary of Robert G. Ingersoll’s birth hardly squares with the almost unanimous assertion that his doctrines and ideas have been cast aside. It is quite true that the shouting has died down, but the thought remains. Present-day radicalism completely has outstripped this fire-eater of the eighties and nineties. People of this generation would not pay 50 cents to hear a man assail God and the Bible, not because they have turned revolters, but because they regard it as old stuff. What chance would an Ingersoll have to create sensations in this era of irreligion? Where he bombarded Christianity with words, the Russian government has uprooted it by violence. Where he declaimed against the number of clergymen. Mexico has reduced it by law. As has been said, he was no scientist, but who is when it comes to explaining creation? Other! men may claim to have reasoned out what he; felt and expressed emotionally, but what can | they exhibit to prove it? Ingersoll revolted against the intolerance and inhibition with which he found himself sur- j rounded and. like all revolters. he struck at what he thought to be the source. He assumed that religion was responsible for those restraints which go with social organization, regardless of what God is worshiped. mam HE failed to understand that discipline and regimentation are by-products of human nature and that since the dawn of consciousness men have invoked them to carry out their dreams, whether those dreams had anything to do with religion or not. Millions of people have adopted Ingersoll’s 1 ideas with regard to the first chapter of Genesis or even the deity, but they have not found freedom or happiness as a result. Tolerance is not to be found in iconoclasm. The man who seeks liberty by destroying his neighbor's faith or interfering with his neighbor's conviction, except by the slow processes of education, misses the one essential idea. Ingersoll was as bigoted in his way as was the narrowest preachft- he attacked, and so are the men who have followed in his footsteps. The crusade against religion which he helped to form has led to the same kind of intolerance which it opposed. Though from a different angle, men still are being persecuted because of race or belief. All Christian denominations suffer under peculiar l handicaps in Russia; the Jews are being driven | out of Germany, and the church virtually has i been disestablished in Mexico. run WE can argue that such things make for i tolerance, but they do not. They make for the same kind of cast-iron arbitrary rule that strong men always have imposed cn minorities whenever they could mobilize the majority. They hark back to rule by force, which Is and always has been the fountainhead of intolerance. It is doubtful whether a man of Ingersoll’s temperament would have sought to impose his ideas and conceptions on other people by law. but he should have foreseen that other people would attempt it. His radicalism was that of the orator, the rhetorician, the poet, and he undoubtedly was willing to let it go at that. Men of this type seldom consider the risk or responsibility of what they are doing, seldom think the thing through.

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(Timet readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour Limit them to 250 words or less.) letters short, so all can have a chance. By G. B. S. By Time* Reader. In answer to your article in the Aug. 2 issue of The Times, might I remind you. Mr. Martino, that the practice of praising foreign dictators is not in accord with the spirit of true Americanism, especially a tyrant such as Benito Mussolini. While the Balbo expedition was quite a feat, there is no doubt but that it was a propaganda scheme to advertise Fascism. Perhaps the so-called minister you speak of did chide your countrymen a little severely, but after all the credit should go to the fliers and not to Mussolini. We will agree that President Roosevelt is doing his best to restore prosperity under capitalism, but I'm afraid that he is doomed to disappointment. Socialism or technocracy would be a permanent cure for the evils of capitalism and assure all equal opportunity, peace and prosperity, the rightful heritage of America. Here's hoping that if the NRA does fail, our President will try such a program. By J. L. M. Well, I see that the city parking lot administration is functioning again. And in the path of these city hall wiseacres goes the old Denison, a landmark that represents a higher moral plane in Indianapolis affairs than the whole city hall crowd combined. I write this as a Republican-tumed-Democrat—a supporter of NRA ideals and a Roosevelt legionnaire. For apparently sound financial reasons, the Denison must go—and in its stead we shall have another civic eyesore—another monument to selfish interests already holding a parking monopoly in the city. These are grave questions for the dear taxpayer to solve. We read of a fear of the Chicago brand of racketeering, but fail to heed the fact that we have a menace in an imposing government building at Ohio and Alabama streets. We are told that the new Demo-crat-sponsored project will be temporary in nature. There will be a filling station, a bus terminal, and a few stores. Isn’t that just fine? But wait until this “baby” materializes. Its ability to dignify the downtown area already is proven in similar masterpieces near Illinois and

This is the last of three articles on "sleeptnr sickness." THERE develop frequently in the later stages of epidemic encephalitis. or "sleeping sickness," difficulties of behavior in children who tend to become moral imbeciles. These children are cruel, disobedient. destructive, abusive, rather filthy in their habits, and actually may become a menace from the point of view of their lack of sanity. Without a recognition of the disease which is involved, such children frequently are brought before the courts and treated as criminals rather than as invalids. In the same way adults occasionally develop strange mental

A FAVORITE argument used by opponents of birth control is that Benjamin Franklin was a thirteenth child—sometimes they stretch several points and make it the seventeenth. But we hear very little about all the other little Franklins, who somehow are annihilated completely by their brother's glory, and have become in retrospect mere numerals, sort of human stepping stones for his more famous feet. When left alone, nature is prodigal of life. But we've bested nature in a good many other ways and there seems no good reason why we should not wrestle with her on this

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Mentality Affected by Sleeping Sickness l i BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

Welcome, Helpful Stranger

A Kickback By William Murphy. THE editorial appearing under the name of a taxpayer and Fair Minded, issue of Aug. 12. certainly was a gem for brilliance and reason. This brother must think that the life of a policeman or a fireman is a joke. No doubt he is one of the gentry who boasts that he could have had the job if he wanted it, but was too busy making fat wages while these men whom he demands take a 25 per cent cut at this time barely were making enough to live on. It is common knowledge that municipal employes were the most poorly paid of any working class until late years. It is a safe bet that a fireman or policeman pays more taxes than he does. His plea to the mayor sounds rather sour, because that gentleman appears to be enlightened enough tq realize that the wages of municipal employes are the yeast of the taxpayer’s woes. They receive some beneficial service for every cent expended through this medium. His remark that the mayor is spineless is laughable. It would seem that just the opposite is true. In spite of the fact that he has been beset by taxpayers, taxdodgers and various other pests, he has insisted on keeping the wages of city employes as near a living standard as is possible. The country would be in much better shape if more would follow his example, rather than seize every opportunity to cut the salaries of those fortunate enough to have jobs at a time like this. Maryland streets. Spots, indeed, for Indianapolis to be proud of. But what of this new monstrosity? What if the Denison is destroyed? What if the taxi business is in danger of floundering? Thes-> are sad facts, indeed, but sadder still is the fact that political honesty will flounder with it. Bv Perrr Rule. Legalizing by legislative enactment the sale of 3.2 beer was fully j within the jurisdiction of legislative authorities. Specifying the >.*ontainer for the beer was irrelevant 1 The contention that the law does not fully contemplate the sort of | container in which beer may be stored, sold, consumed, and drunk from is substantiated by logical reasoning. Type of container is not paramount and therefore is not a matter of vast importance in de-

Editor Journal of Ihr Amerlran Mrdiral Association of llvrria. thr Hralth Miraiinr. conditions following encephalitis and constitute a problem for those responsible for their care. It should be borne in mind that none of these patients actually is sleeping over months or years, but that the mentality is disturbed seriously and that the rhythm of sleep may be changed. They are not to be considered as curiosities for the delectation of the public, but as sick people entitled to a reasonable amount of privacy. Unfortunately, scientific medicine has not developed any specific method of treatment that will prevent this disease or arrest its progress. % | It does, however, attempt to aid

point. And since no scientist has ' proved indisputably that Ben's genius was a direct result of the Thirteenth visit of the stork to the Franklin home, we can not accept in toto the opinion that human life should be allowed to blossom forth as carelessly as leaves upon a tree. It is cruel to proceed upon the theory that we must waste a hundred. a thousand, or a million, mediocre individuals—that they should struggle, suffer and die, so that one lone genius might flourish, j mum WHO knows? Perhaps if every baby were given the fullest

termining any question of public welfare, and sustains the allegation of irrelevancy of the container question. It readily can be seen that the mention of bottles In the law is descriptive of one class of container and lacks fine precision of intent. Prohibiting the use of other containers does not add or detract from the alcoholic content, which is paramont in public concern. Many, for sanitary and economic reasons, prefer beer from bottle containers. contending that it is more sanitary, more beer and less foam. Beer consumers are demanding cheaper beer, and this will come with the completion of breweries now under construction and resultant competition. Many are in agreement with the obvious conclusion that other than bottle containers are permissible under the present law and that no appreciable menace would result from the sale of draught 3.2 synonym of retrogression. To the casual observer the solution to the container question will not be thwarted by seemingly unsurmountable obstacles. By Rrgustcd. Are you cognizant that milk delivered in Indianapolis today costs the consumer the same as in prosperous 1929? If we could obtain another $6,000 a year lieutenant-governor to arbitrate this matter, would the consumer’s price be increased? Can’t you turn your torch spotlight—the same that appears at the top of your newspaper—on Little Mussolini McNutts and get the milk price reduced? Many of your readers are of the opinion that you should use said spotlight in the interests of the people, rather than to benefit the McNutts. Simmons. McHales. Stottensbergs, et al. Be an editor, not a farce.

So They Say

One-third of our divorcees now remarry. Remarriage should be limited to annulments obtained on grounds existing at the time of marriage. Clarence E. Martin, president American Bar Asssociation. Let Utah remain dry even though all other states vote to repeal national prohibition.—Heber J. Grant, president of Mormon church.

j these patients by what is called i symptomatic treatment, treating each of the symptoms as it develops by well-established methods. A number of serums and vaccines have been tried. These patients have been injected with nonspecific proteins in the forms of typhoid vaccine; malaria germs have been injected to produce shock and artificial fever and artificial heat has been tried, but thus f3r the results are quite inconclusive, and no one can say definitely that any of these methods of treatment actually stops the progress of this disorder. In the meantime, scientific medicine is bending its efforts to discover the cause. When that is discovered, it hopes ' to derive knowledge of some specific method of treatment.

chance at a wholesome physical, mental and emotional existence, we would need no geniuses. Divine nectar thus might be distributed better. Nor can we hark back a couple of centuries to prove our contentions. America is a vastly different country than it was when the Franklins lived in it. To procure sufficient food and clothing for a large family was not then the gargantuan task it is now. Man deserves something more from life than the single primeval struggle for plain existence. If not. we as well may sink back into the slime from which we so painfully have dragged ourselves.

AUG. 16, 1933

It Seems to Me

= by HEYWOOD BROUN—-.: VEW YORK. Aug. 16-Most Os mV newspap-r friends in Washington are in a tough spot Mv particular buddies are the boys who have been viewing with alarm and pointing with scorn for the last ten or fifteen years. Nor did they precisely suffer in those days while they were off the reservation. There was an active market for books articles and newspaper columns concerning the fallings of the current folk in authority. A special technique is required for blistering comment, but it is not too difficult to acquire. Mostly It is done with mirrors and merry-go-rounds. Ei en outside the Washington field I think it is a little easier to pan than to praise. In my days as a dramatic critic I occasionally was perturbed as the deadline thundered closer and closer by the thought "What on earth can I say about this show? Asa matter of fact, it’s pretty blamed good.” When the attraction was without merit I could tear off mv seven or eight hundred words in less time than it takes to say. "Here is another sliced onion " Mam Shooting at. Clay Feet A N’D the same thing which is X *■ true of performers holds good m the matter of Presidents Warren Gamaliel Harding was less than a great executive, but it would be a singularly inept correspondent w’ho could not find copy with Harry Daughertys on every hand. Coolidge and Hoover, also, afforded openings for gentlemen with rapiers, or, for that matter, meat axes Then Franklin Delano Roosevelt w-as elected and immediately charmed the wits out of the entire army of Washington reporters. I think that very probably the extent of his popularity with the press is unfortunate. The self-styled cynics 0l the capital are mostly romantics at heart. Having lived through more than a dreadp during which there was practically no opportunity to toss your hat in the air for anybody they have gone slightly frantic in adulation. Some of the stuff which I comes ovpr the wires from Washington recently sounds very much | like a Harvard cheer with nine "Roosevelts" on the end. With singularly few exceptions, all the news- | paper men are sitting behind the administration goal posts shouting in unison. "Block that kick!” And I think there is still need for some of the kicks being made. Nevertheless, I was squelched effectively by onp of the former leaders of the *‘Ah. hell!" school of Washington correspondents. "John.” I said to him because his name is Paul, "this New Deal must be pretty hard for you. You’ve had to change your whole style of writtragic"” 051 OVernißht - l ls l ’ s Pretty H " We he said, “there have been difficulties. But what do you expcct me to do? For years' I have been rushing around these corridors n ?f e 4 t ,[ ng Imbeciles and crooks, and a w>w ° Ul J? e 1 was “Vi*** in print. n.\ can t we have a government mad- up of people like Frances Perkins and Ickes and Wallace?’ IT' WPVe 801 thpm That jmt the real newspaper tragedy. The real tragedy is the fellow who has been shouting for twenty years ror anew deal and when it happens he hasn’t sense enough to realize that he’s got what h wanted.” * a u The Dogs at Our Heels T THINK my friend was right. It , is puzzling to note the timid reluctance of certain liberals to commit themselves wholeheartedly to the national recovery act or any other factor in in the present dispensation. Probably they have an uneasy feeling that Woodrow Wilson sold them down the river. They feel that during the war they were fooled by a, star-spangled banner and that they want to take nil the time in the world before committing themselves to a blue eagle during the truce. But the trouble with that attitude is that if we are going to get across the river before the bloodhounds arrive we will have to take certain cakes of ice on faith alone. The dogs will be at our heels if we try each floe with one toe at a time. mam Roosevelt's Charm, School THE greatest fault which I can find with the men who are running the show just now is charm. The inquiring reporter Is in danger of getting drenched, even if he wears hipboots. For instance, if a newspaper man ever sat down and tried to imitate the perfect official from a reporter’s point of view the result would be General Hugh S. Johnson. Not even A1 Smith In the days when A1 was AI could do as much with a press conference. Without any sense of strain, effort or previous condition of coaching, the general talks pure headlines. Others have been able to make the eagle scream, but ne can make the same bird # atretch his wings for an eight-column streamer or fold them up m such a way as to fit in a one-line caption. (Copyright. I3S. by The Tlmesi The Sunset BY AUSTIN JAMES I sit upon a little hill And look beyond the sea. And gazing there I wonder still If it was meant for me. This gorgeous picture of the sun As going down and down and down Paints rosy pictures on the canvas Os the sky. and so I frown In question. Behind me In the east The rose has changed to purple streaks And edged the clouds of fleece. Before me little rippling waves Are flamed with scarlet. Again I rest My eyes upon the glorious skies Where silhouetted are the flitting forms of birds As they fly into the west. The sun is going down and down and down. The red has deepened with a hint of gray mist From the crooning sea And still I wonder if ’twas meant lor me. This wondrous vision. Yes. I wonder still As I sit upon a little hill.