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_ THtrRBDAT. At:Q 17 1933 TO STOP RACKETEERING nPWO outstanding suggestions came from ■*- the early sessions of the senate racketeering hearings. Former Police Commissioner Mulrooney of New York City recommends revival of the lash and a penal colony like Devil’s Island Warden Lawes of Sing Sing would centralize authority, proclaim quasi-martial law. and enact a constitutional amendment abolishing state lines in dealing with crime. Mr. Mulrooney's proposal, the outgrowth of honest indignation, is not likely to be effective. England was using both the lash and transportation in connection with a brutal criminal code in the year 1800. but her crime rate then was far higher than it w*as in 1900, when both had long been abolished. Devil’s island for a long time has been regarded as a blot upon French civilization. The lash might be better than jails and prisons for borderland cases, pending introduction of scientific methods of reformation. At least it would not produce the same degree of demoralization, nor would it prova a school in crime. But for the members of organized criminal gangs and intrenched racketeers, the whipping post would be about as effective as making faces at Vesuvius during an eruption. Warden Lawes’ suggestion is more constructive. The crime which counts today is organized crime, and its repression must proceed on an organized basis. Whether or not state and county officials are supplanted by federal agents, the latter should have complete freedom to enter any community in the apprehension of criminals. The notion of proclaiming martiaV law against crime will alarm many, and it is certainly nothing to be entered into lightly. If, however, wp ran have it in war we can have It now’ if we need it. Criminals and racketeers are more of a menace to us than any foreign enemy. There need be no serious invasion of civil liberties, for. as the name implies, these are not ' criminal liberties." But suppose Warden Lawes is right and that he could stamp out crime in the United States in six weeks if he were dictator. We would not be safeguarded against anew crop of criminals. We can not always live under martial law. We should shut off the supply of criminals and the incentives to commit crime. We should put the idle and poverty-stricken to work. Wo should inculcate new notions of obedience and civic devotion. Tliis is no time for either mossbacks or hysterical folk Organized crime and racketeering call for far different procedure than old crimes, like house-prowling. But they also call most decisively for sense and science if they are to be repressed. Two things here are important. We must catch the culprit. Then we must segregate or reform the convict permanently. This calls for better and cleaner prosecution and police systems, and for scientific methods of dealing with prisoners. There is no place here for half-baked brutality. There is every need for trained and deliberate intelligence.

ANOTHER NAME FOR MURDER T7*OR the lynching of two Negroes in Alabama and the serious wounding of a third, the officials seem to have been partly responsible. According to reports, the sheriff was moving the prisoners from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham without knowledge of the judge. A lonely road was chosen by the sheriff, and after proceeding a few miles one car with deputies turned back, leaving only the sheriff and two deputies to protect the three prisoners. When two cars carrying lynchers appeared and demanded the prisoners, the sheriff gave them up. In the old days this was a common occurrence. Fortunately, it is not so frequent now. More and more officers of the law are acting on their oath to protect prisoners. This accounts in large part for the decline in lynching. In 1931 the figure fell to fourteen, and last year to 10. A mob is made up of cowards. Not many mobs will go through with a lynching without the active or tacit co-operation of the lawofficers paid to combat mote. It would be unfair to blame Alabama for these new crimes. Public opinion in the state Is against lynching. Responsible groups of citizens are trying to stamp out this barbarism. They are supported by many judges and lawofficers. Last year there were no lynchings in Alabama. But. of course, the test here is whether the state of Alabama catches and convicts the lynchers and punishes the sheriff and his deputies for failure to defend the prisoners. By punishing the guilty. Alabama can help In the solution of this nation-wide problem. Despite misinformation on the subject, lynching is not limited to the south, or to Negroes, or to alleged sex crimes. Last year two of the ten lynchings were in the northern states of Kansas and Ohio, and two of the victims were white men. Os the alleged offenses —not proved, but merely alleged. offenses —of the mob victims, only one of the ten was for attempted attack on a white woman. The least offense is sufficient excuse for lynchers or officers who put themselves above the law. On Sunday morning the lynchers killed two Negro prisoners, and that same afternoon near Tuscaloosa officers shot to death another Negro for alleged resistance of arrest on a charge of stealing chickens. And on the same day these three Amer^

lean citizens were murdered In Alabama without protection of law, the President of the United States ordered warships to Cuba to protect American lives if necessary. In no other civilized country In the world is murder by lynchers and racketeers a menace as in the United States. It will continue until we realize that these forms of murder are not a menace to one region alone, but a menace to the nation. MALLORCA WILL BE ITSELF cpHEODORE PRATT, the young American writer, who was expelled recently from' the Spanish island of Mallorca because the Mallorcans didn't like some things he said about them in a magazine article, has returned to the United Btatcs, complaining that Mallorca has lost its big chance to cinch a fat share of the world’s tourist trade. Mallorca Is a pleasant little Mediterranean island, where folk live much as they did In the days of Columbus. During the depression American and English travelers found it a pleasant place to stay, particularly so since its scale of prices was abnormally low. As Mr. Pratt remarks, the island had "the greatest chance in her history to become a permanent world tourist center.” However, the chance seems to have gone. The Mallorcans saw that all tourists were exceedingly rich, by Mallorcan standards, and prices began to go ’way up. Furthermore, as Mr. Pratt points out, the Mallorcans tried to deal with foreigners “with the customs, ways of thinking and stubborn point of view of practically a medieval age ” Asa result, the tourists are disillusioned and the big rush is over. Now all thi£ wouldn't be worth discussing at any length if it were not for the fact that Mr. Pratt's complaint illustrates so perfectly a point of view that has become all too common in the modern world. According to his point of view, an onrush of tourists is the highest blessing that any out-of-the-way and picturesque spot can desire. A way of life that has remained unchanged for centuries, and that has provided its simple people with real happiness and contentment, may be destroyed in the process—but that is a minor matter. Let the dollars pour in and all is well, no matter how’ the existing framework of society Is twisted out of shape. This sort of thing has happened all over the globe. It has debased such an earthly paradise as Tahiti, it has rubbed the glamour off of Ball, it has helped to spoil African desert towns and Swiss mountain hamlets and American seaports and Asiatic trade capitals. It has ruined the lives of innumerable simple and trusting people. Now, at last, we find a spot which seems to be having the good fortune to escape from it. Mallorca, by chance or by design, Is coldshouldering the tourist trade. And there is a type of mind to which this seems nothing but blind stupidity and a vast misfortune!

SALES TAX CONDEMNED TN spite of its theoretical weaknesses and its fundamental contradiction of all principles of the “New Deal,” the sales tax is being adopted widely by our states. It may be that a page out of its history will be of service to discredit this nefarious type of taxation before violent and disastrous opposition develops. The sales tax is no new invention of the vested interests in the United States. Its history goes back nearly 2.000 years. The Roman Emperor. Augustus, decreed a sales tax in 30 B. C. It amounted to 1 per cent on all articles, movable goods, and fixtures sold either in the market or by auction. Passing down into the Middle Ages, the sales tax was employed widely by the medieval city-states in raising needed revenue. In early modem times a number of national states experimented with it. Philip the Fair of France attempted to introduce the sales tax in 1293 and 1314, but popular opposition was so great that he was forced to abandon* it. While it lasted, it virtually paralyzed the famous Champagne Fairs, the foremost market of France. The sales tax was experimented with sporadically in France during the next 300 years, but never for any length of time. Spain introduced the sales tax in 1342 and was the only state to keep it as a permanent policy. It lasted until 1819. The effort to introduce it into the Spanish Netherlands by the Duke of Alva failed and constituted one major cause of the revolt which cost Spain the Netherlands. England fMrted with it during the Napoleonic wars, and a number of states in our country tried their hand at it right after the Civil war. In most cases the sales tax has been a somewhat frantic expedient adopted during a crisis when there was desperate need for additional revenue. Only in Spain and certain of the medieval towms has it ever been a permanent and normal taxation policy. Augustus needed money to reorganize the empire: the French kings required an independent income to enable-them to fight feudalism: Spain w-as warring against the Moors; England w-as struggling against the heavy expense of the Napoleonic wars, and in our own country-, after 1865. w-e had to meet the heavy drains of the Civil war period. In all cases there has been violent opposition to the sales tax. It was felt—and quite correctly—that the ultimate burden fell upon the mass of consumers who were least able to pay taxes. In addition, its administration was often corrupt, inefficient, and inequitable. Even in Spam, where it lasted longest, certain cities had to be freed from its exactions. Moreover, economic historians have often held that the Spanish sales tax. or alcabala. was a leading cause of the economic decline of Spain. Its disastrous result to Spain in losing the Spanish Netherlands already has been pointed out. The main light which historic experiences with the sales tax throw upon its character and application may be summarized about as follows: The sales tax is invariably highly unpopular; it is a temporary expedient, due mainly to the opposition it provokes; it harms business, and. hence, soon aligns even powerful business interests along with the populace in opposition to it; it is very difficult to administer; certain items which would produce the greatest revenue have to be exempted from its application; heavy penalties must be imposed if extensive tat-dodging ii to be

escaped; and, finally. It notably increases the cost of living. The latter is a major objection, since ~he sales tax usually is resorted to in a crisis when the masses are hard pressed and their normal purchasing power reduced. To this verdict of history against the sales tax may be added considerations derived from logic and common sense. The vital principle of taxation is that the chief burden should fall on those most able to pay revenue to the stPte. The sales tax stands squarely on its head by taxing those least able to pay and usually at a time when their normally inadequate income is reduced to a minimum. If our income tax law were revised so that the wealthy were compelled to pay In proportion to the benefits they derive from the present system of society, there would be little need for resort to so fallacious and oppressive a device as the sales tax. CONSUMER’S DUTY HUGH S. JOHNSON seems to have a way of saving something sensible every time he opens his mouth: and his recent speech at Baltimore urging his fellow couhtrymen to trade at stores which display the blue eagle contains a few paragraphs that are abundantly worth consideration. The campaign will work, he pointed out, only if consumers everywhere use their dollar to support blue eagle institutions. But he was entirely right in adding that we should not yet put pressure on concerns which haven't got the blue eagle. Their delay may be due to perfectly justifiable reasons, and until we understand the situation fully we must be careful not to condemn them. And his closing remarks deserve frequent repetition: "What we need beyond all that—in this crisis and all the rest of the time and everywhere—is justice, and common sense, patience, a sincere and long-suffering effort to understand the other fellow's trouble and problems, and a whole-hearted attempt to help him solve them.”

MONROE DOCTRINE JN Senator Key Pittman's plea that the historic Monroe doctrine be scrapped, on the ground that it has outlived its usefulness, there is an idea that Americans might very profitably consider seriously. Senator Pittman points out that the purpose of the Monroe doctrine was to prevent European interference with the development of independent nations in the new world; and at the present time, he remarks, that danger is quite negligible. t Latin America realizes that fact, and occasionally suspects that the Monroe doctrine is kept alive chiefly to cloak imperialistic ventures by the United States in lands touching the Caribbean sea. It Is his belief that formal announcement that the Monroe doctrine no longer is needed would do much to promote good feeling toward Uncle Sam by his neighbors to the south. And while most Americans might not be ready to scrap the historic doctrine entirely, a restatement of its aims to prove that America plans no further interference with the internal affairs of other nations might prove an exceedingly valuable step Just when the government gets busy on its program to promote employment. PostmasterGeneral Farley takes the other course. He's out to promote unemployment—and a lot of it—among Republican postmasters. Beauty expert says stocking tied tightly under chin at night will improve the lines of the face. A sock on the jaw. of course, has just the opposite effect. Most traffic courts dispense justice. Those of small towm "speed traps,” however, merely dispense with it.

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IN spite of accident, defeat and death the stunt fliers keep right on. When a fatality occurs, we are inclined to rail at them, but when they succeed, we are ready to applaud. They play for bigger stakes, how-ever, than are represented by glory- or cash. They are perfecting anew transportation system in the only possible way. Men simply can’t learn to fly by staying on the ground or by meiely doing what has been done before. If machines are to be improved, they must test out new devices, try new- methods and undertake new adventures. The risk involved is nothing new. Most of our achievements have been purchased at the price of courage. Had men been afraid to die. America never would have been discovered or settled. Had they been balked by disaster, we would not be enjoying the benefit of railroads and automobiles. * Twenty-four years ago Blerlot astonished the world and won $50,000 by flying across the English Channel. Last week, an airplane turned out by his factory flew from New York to Syria in sixty hours. If Wilbur and Orville Wright had not taken their lives in their hands at Kitty Hawk in 1903, there would be no Bleriot. no Rossi and Codos. a a a EACH pioneer takes up the work where some other pioneer left off, trying for anew record. charting anew course, testing out anew mechanism. Considering that it was almost the universal opinion that men never would be able to fly two generations back, we have made remarkable progress, but it is more remarkable in what it forecasts than in w-hat it leaves behind. The fact that Post was able to circle the earth in less than eight days may be accepted as a faint suggestion of what average people w-ill be able to do in years to come. Notwithstanding all that has been accomplished, aviation is still in an experimental stage. While most people can see its spectacular side, they fail to realize its possibilities as part of the work-a-day world. We are still a long way from being air-minded. Meanwhile, it should be obvious that the air offers the broadest highway ever discovered, and it should be equally obvious that enough has been accomplished to prove that it can be used. a a a BUT our traditions are deep upon us. Like our ancestors who hesitated to cross the Atlantic for 100 years and more, we are inclined to be skeptical, or afraid of what is new-. We are afraid particularly of investing money. Youth could be depended on to supply plenty of pilots, if age would furnish the cash. Age. however, prefers to play with stocks, buy government tends, or take mortgages. If youth had the bankroll, aviation would be much farther ahead than it is today and the record of disasters would be much longer. The probabilities are that we need the balance which whiskered conservatism guarantees, but it makes one impatient at times. The courage displayed by our so-called stunt fliers stands out in bright contrast to the timidity of those who need risk nothing but moneju

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Timet readers are invited to express their vieict in these columns. Make your Limit them to tSO words or less.) I letters short, so all can. have a chance. By Indianapolis Fruit and Vrcrtable Ass'n. Why is it that President Roose- | velt's administration is not being backed up by local authorities? Why is it that General Johnson has to call the local people to hand almost daily? According to the News of Aug. 9, General Johnson wishes that employers stay open as many hours as possible. In view of this, why is it that the local administrators of the NRA and the various trade associations are going contrary to the wishes of General Johnson and the President of the United States? It is about time that officials follow the wishes of the President. The spirit of the NRA is being violated whenever any group sets an opening and closing hour. They are misleading the people and are using the newspapers to achieve their end and rii fly General Johnson is warning tnem. By Mrs. E. S. Turner. I see in your paper time and again where factories are not paying living wages. And then I read about all the crimes that are committed by boys from 17 to 20 years old. There are boys from 17 to 20 years old employed by gardeners along the Rockville road who work from fourteen to sixteen hours a day for 75 cents a day. Any boy 17 years old or over surely* is worth more than 5 cents an hour. Go there to buy something and see the prices you pay—sl.so a bushel for cabbage; green beans, $2.75 a hamper; eggs, 22 cents a dozen. They charge enough for everything, yet these young men are worked for 5 cents an hour. Why not let the public know about these big-hearted men and maybe they won’t be able to sell so much until they pay these boys enough wages to live on? By Times Reader— Just a few words to some fair believers, as they call themselves, and taxpayers. You surely don’t understand all you know about police and firemen’s wages. If they were paid by the hour as all other later is paid, they would make a pretty fair wage, but they are not

lONG before physicians had any 4 idea of the virtues of cod liver oil in relationship to health and prevention of disease, it was used by fishermen along the shores of the Baltic and North seas. Before modem scientific medicine. cod liver oil was prescribed for rheumatism, tuberculosis, and all sorts of wasting disorders. In 1917, articles began to be written indicating the immense value of cod liver oil for the prevention. of rickets. In rickets these is softening of the bones, due to a failure of the body to use calcium and phosphorus properly. Strangely, there was apparently no rickets in England until the development of window glass. Today it is recognized that the rays of the sun. which produce vitamin D in the human body, will not pass through ordinary window glass. Cod liver oil is especially rich in vitamin D. and therefore is of

THERE’S a good deal of talk about shorter working hours for the American housewife under the NRA. but I imagine that’s about all it ever will amount to. Entry time we begin anew national enterprise, the patient homebody is promised something, and. although she always gives her en-. thusiastic support, she gets very little relief. Sale's like the fanner. Life for her is more promise than pay. But for that, we shan’t biame the President nor General Johnson, nor the brain trust, nor any man or set of men. It’s just our unfortunate fate. Daughters of Eve, you know, suffering the consequences. Somehow codes and time clocks do

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The Message Center

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Virtues of Cod Liver Oil Long Known —e BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Here Is Help for All

Wants New Deal By E. T. Maddox— What excuse or reason can be given for not applying he NRA 1 minimum hour wage to the great army of unempToyed men who are working on city, county and state made work? I, in a family of five, work two days and receive a basket w-orth about $2.50, which is about half enough for my family's needs. This unemployment w-as forced upon the people by unsound and unwise government policies and I. for one, take no blame to myself for our present predicament. Look up my record and you w-ill find that up to the depression I have a good record for work performed. We are all in the same boat and this idea of calling $2.50 worth of groceries for two days work “charity” is, to say the least, disgusting. Many people w-ho live on the township baskets get only half enough to eat. Give us a newdeal. To increase the basket size may increase costs, but the more this depression costs this nation, the more vigilant w-e will be to prevent another like it. Therefore, I say let the minimum hourly wage be applied to the man who works for the public, for he deserves as much consideration. and they put in some long hours, too. They work while we sleep and nearly every month it is some donation here or there, especially ir: winter months when they give to charity. Mayor Sullivan has complied in every way toward economy and lower taxes. He has been compelled by people like you to cut police and firemen and all city employe's wages twice and. under our Republican mayors, Shank and Jewett, they received a raise in wages. I am for the NRA code 100 per cent. By L. Anderson. There isn't' anything wrong with the mayor of Indianapolis, who is one of the finest and squarest to occupy the office, regardless of politics. The recovery act does not pertain to state, city or county employes. The taxpayers of Indianapolis

Editor Journal of thr American Medical Association of Hvfcis. the Health Marazine.

importance for the preven*ion of rickets. For this reason most doctors prescribe five drops three times a day for infants at two weeks of age. increasing the dose after three weeks to ten drops, and gradually increasing it further after a month so that two teaspoonfuls daily are being given at three months of age. From four months of age on, infants should l receive three teaspoonfulls daily. These doses are not. however, the amount of cod liver oil recommended for the treatment of rickets in babies or for curing the disease. It a child has rickets or the tendency to rickets, it should have prompt medical attention, so that suitable amounts of cod liver oil or the right type of cod liver oil concentrates may w prescribed.

A Woman’s Viewpoint -

not fit into our scheme of life. When the baby's formula must be ready and papa yells for more pancakes, we can't stop to worry about whether we are complying with the new deal, or just lazying along under the old one. Codes may come and codes may go, but housework goes on forever. And we don’t much care. In fact, we rather like it. a a a TTFERE going to do our full * * share to get this country back to sanity and prosperity, but we shall not commit ourselves too far as to rules that .seek to regulate how and when we shall put out the wash or do up the dishes. Homes can t be run. like factories

] wouldn't’ stand for four shifts of • firemen, with taxes already high. The salaries of police and firemen have been cut twice. The code is to put more men to work and to raise wages, not to cut. Their salaries are not much, not according to other cities the size of Indianapolis. Uniforms, which are expensive, include white and olue shirts, fire coats, helmets, hip boots, night pants and blue serge pants at $6.50 a pair in which to fight fires. Sometimes there is not much left after a fire, either. Three pairs a year don't last long. Firemen always are ready at a minute's notice to protect lives and property or climb a tree for your pet cat. These men are subject to call 365 days a year. Several years ago we used them the same as police to protect filling stations during a cyme w-ave. They do duty at flood times, too. Don't envy them, for you wouldn’t have these jobs after the war, as they only made $2 a day, while others made $lO. Indianapolis couldn’t get men to work on the police or fire departments then. We have one of the finest departments in the country and the lowest fire insurance rates for a city of its size. Let us keep it this way. Indianapolis has paid her police and firemen during hard times. Firemen, for three years, have given 1 per cent of their wages to maintain the soup kitchens, and they also give to the Red Cross and Community Fund. Besides all help by giving to individuals out of their own pockets. They, too, have wives and children at home. Firemen also pay taxes and income tax. He wouldn’t get his check until he did. Let us be fair to these workers. They do thing that no amount of wages could repay. I have lived near an engine house for years and know their side of the story.

Daily Thought

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.—St. Luke 21:15. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.—Tennyson.

COD liver oil also is recommended widely for cases of a tuberculous type, though it does not have any specific effect on tuberculosis. But cod liver oil aids the food intake and supplies good quantities of vitamins, and. therefore, is especially useful in tuberculosis. Cod liver oil has special value in pregnancy, in which condition there is an exceptional demand on the mother to supply calcium and phosphorus for the infant. If the mother's diet contains a sufficient amount of calcium and phosphorus as supplied by milk or dairy products, she may take the cod liver oil to aid the use of these materials by the body. So important has cod liver oil been found for growth and development, that today it is commonly given to chickens, cattle and other animals, as well as to man.

and we wouldn’t want them to be. So. in spite of modem efficiency, we still like to loiter in the kitchen and to spend a whole afternoon cleaning out dresser drawers, or making a batch of fudge. Home work has to have inspiratiSh behind it; therefore, we hate to be told we must not indulge our passion for cleaning house at unexpected moments, or for moving the furniture when the urge hits us. My heart often has bled for the overworked housewife. However, I'm still opposed to Mama knocking off when the clock strikes. The New Deal is grand and all that, but I have the feeling that we’ll all be better off in the long run with Mother doing overtime, as usual.

-AUG. 17, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN--

NEW YORK, Aug 17—American destroyers sped to Havana "to protect, if necessary, the lives of American citizens, pending restoration of nornal conditions of law and order by the Cuban authorities " And on a lonely road near Tuscaloosa an armed mob took two prisoners from a sheriff and shot them to death. Since this comes hard upon the heels of the Scottsboro case. I am wondering just who is to protect the rights and the lives of American citizens in the state of Alabama. The sheriff. R L Shamblin. advances a curious explanation for the outrage. He blamed "the interference of the International Labor Defense” as beinc "directly responsible” for the lynching. a a a Lynched Either Way IN the Scottsboro case it frequently was said not only in the south, but in many of the northern papers as well, that the strange verdict could be attributed to local anger against lawyers hired by the Communist party. There was a disposition to add that, even if the verdict had been a wee bit monstrous, ,<ne must expect rancor and retaliation against the presence of outside agitators. Why didn't these men go back to New York, where they came After all. the south knew how to handle this problem, with which it had wrestled so long and so earnestly. "We love our darkies, and we understand them.” But in the present case International Labor Defense attorneys offered their services, but the pnsoners and the relatives of the; prisoners refused to accept them. At least, that was the interpretation set upon the situation by Judge Foster. i It seems difficult to understand just how the great and unterrified commonwealth of Alabama alms to deter Negro defendants from accepting the aid of Communist lawyers when a mob promptly kills two men who rejected I. L D. counsel And the story’ of Shamblin. the sheriff, is curious throughout. Indeed. It is being extremely charitable to the forces of law and order in the sovereign state of Alabama to refer to the killers as "a mob” Shamblin says that he decided to move his prisoners from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham "for safekeeping” He chose to take them in an automobile along an unfrequented road late at night. For protection he included two deputies in the party. a a a Making It Very Safe 'T'O make it even safer, other 1 deputies in another car trailed them. But when a very lonely point in the road was reached, the trailing car was ordered to go back home. And. by a strange coincidence, very soon after that "two machines filled with armed men closed in on the car and demanded the prisoners.” Shamblin, the sheriff, and his two deputies carried guns. Moreover, they were triply armed, for they wore badges which identified them as the representatives and guardians of the fair name of the sovereign state of Alabama. They were sworn to defend its w’ell-known reputation for fair play and even-handed justice to all. It would be fine to record the fact that in the veins of Shamblin and his deputies there flowed the blood which was shed almost threequarters of a century ago in defense of the romantic and glamorous doctrine of state’s rights A saga could be written of the manner in which they shot it out, although outnumbered, with the thugs who were minded to rape the reputation of the great and sovereign state of Alabama.

But It Didn't Happen UNFORTUNATELY it can’t be written, because nothing of the sort hapened. Nothing remotely resembling it happened. The members of the "mob” demanded the prisoners, and the sworn guardians of law and order surrendered them. If any of the blood, of the old Confederacy was in the veins of Shamblin and his gallant deputies it flowed sluggishly or it had turned to dishwater. Stonewall Jackson wasn't riding the roads that night. There is no record that a single sh(f was fired or that the sheriff mafe any fight whatsoever in defense of Alabama. He simply turned over his prisoners and went home to .Tuscaloosa to get a good night’s rest. I trust he had the courtesy to say to the members of the “mob” before he left, ”1 hope I didn't keep you teys waiting." There probably is good reason for sending destroyers to Cuba. Law and order are in a sad way there at present. (Copyrlftht. 1933. by The Time*)

So They Say

Putting brandy in a mint Julep is like putting catsup in iced tea.—lrvin S. Cobb, humorist. Prohibition is on the skids. We can’t escape it and we might as well not kid ourselves.—Major A. V. Dalrvmple, national prohibition director. All the reformers I have met have a genuine itch to make the world better, but they irritate more souls than they heal and purify.— The Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst. New York. I can see! And look, look—the flowers on the wall paper!—First words uttered by E. A. Griswold, 84. of Dallas, Tex , upon recovenng night after fifty years' blindness.

Creed

BY HARRIETT OLINICK Life spells freedom Only when you live alone. In cell-like solitude With grass and stone. Life grants freedom Only when you love with flesh, Keeping the soul locked securely In silken, self-woven mesh. Life offers freedom Only when you lean on no one, Caring not if the struggle Be finished, or even begun.