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_ FRIDAY. AUO 18 18)3. FOOLING THEMSELVES TF the coal, steel and other employers fightin? ojfalnst prompt application of NIRA unders'ood that the national emergency still exists they probably would be quick to sign Industrial codes as a means of survival. Instead, they act as though the temporary beginnings of recovery are an automatic guarantee of prosperity. Asa matter of fact, the Industrial activity chart, which has shown an uninterrupted rise since the middle of March, nas turned and has been falling steadily during the last three weeks. Latest reports of the emergency relief administration showed 15,000.000 persons exis’tng on charity Employers who were frightened into supporting NR A two months ago. but now belie’, e the country can get along without the recoveiy simply are fooling themselves. Much is made by these employers of the figures just Issued by the United States labor department, indicating that 400,000 factory workers went back on the job in July. But they apparently miss the much more significant report of the labor department that In July the number of unemployed war, 11.000.000, With approximately one-fourth of the industrial population out of work and with another winter not far off. President Roosevelt obviously can not wait much longer for the large holdout Industries—coal, steel, oil and automobiles-- to Increase jobs and purchasing power under recovery codes. The President and Administration Hugh Johnson have given these big industries mar.y weeks in which to accept code principles already agreed to by other industries. Aside from the unfairness to the present Blue Eagle Industries of permitting the big industries to stay out much longer, the delay is jeopardizing the entire recovery program. No wonder the President has cut through the fog of evasions and technicalities with an order for Administrator Johnson to write cod<*s for the big industries which are unwilling to write codes for themselves in conformity with labor provisions of the law. CONSERVE NOW \ R the administration persuades employers to conserve the nation's human resources, It should not neglect to aid them in conserving also those natural resources from which they draw so much of their wealth. The recovery act offers to the exploiters of timber, oil. gas. metals, and other natural wealth a chance to co-operate in orderly development. This should appeal to industry's enlightened self-interest. Stuart Chase tells us that for every ton of such natural wealth used, a ton is wasted. He gives these estimates of annual waste: Coal 750 million tons Oil 1 billion barrels Natural gas 600 million cubic feet Lumber 5 billion cubic feet Water power 50 million horse power Metals, soil, animal life, by-products and rawmaterials lost in manufacture Unknown The lumbermen's code, while promising "co-op.’rative action with unenforceable performance’’ In conservation, lacks an administrative setup to insure a halt to the destructive practices that have all but ruined the forests. The oil men, too. need the government's strong arm to assist them in stopping the wastage of oil and gas. The government itself is taking praiseworthy steps toward conservation. Its projects for fireproofing the national and state forests, its enlargement of forest lands, its water pow-er development, its erosion control works and gam n refuge plans should set industry an example. The time never was more opportune than now for a revival of effective conservation.

WHO CONTROLS AMERICA? NOTHING rould emphasize more powerfully the need which President Roosevelt has for popular support in his effort to rescue the country from financial and industrial piracy than the bare and indisputable facts of finance capitalism. James \V Gerard ventured the opinion some time ago that sixty-four men control America. It is not unreasonable today to hold that those who control our wealth dominate our life and institutions. Certain it is that less than 500 men dominate our economic life and control at least the material facts of human existence. One of the best summaries of the cogent facts is contained in K. W. Stillman's article on " Who Controls Business?” in the New Republic. The total national wealth of the countin’ amounts to some $367 000.000.000 Os this total th* business wealth may be assigned around $210,000,000,000 Some 78 per cent of all business wealth corporate wealth. The degree of concentration of this corporate wealth in the hands of a few Individuals is incredible to all except technical students of recent American economic and financial history. Some 200 of the largest corporations, representing only seven-tenths of one per cent of the total number Os corporations. control $81,000,000,000! namely, about half of all corporate assets, and 20 per cent of out total national wealth. Within each of these great corporations is a high degree of concentration of control, which rarely is based upon any actual ownership of a majority of the stock. The divorce of control from investment and ownership is lit times amazing. The Van Sweringens have jbuilt up control over eight Class A railroads, with assets of more than *2.000.000.000. on the basis of an actual investment of only **20,000.000. (| Henry L. Doherty and his a** '*" **rol

the Cit:* Service interest* with acme 11.000 000 000 of asaet* through the unbelievably small investment of 11.000.000. Likewise an investment of SI.OOO 000 has given control over the billion dollar assets of the Standard Oa* and Electric Company. This Is only part of t,he story. Os these 300 corporations, there were forty-three with assets of more than 1500,000.000 each at the beginning of 1932 These are controlled by 166 individuals, who serve as Interlocking directors between these forty-three corporation* and tn leading banks and three great insurance companies. Only one of the forty-three, the Ford Motor Company, is controlled through ownership of a majority of the stock. In fact, these ten banks and three insurance companies not only In practice control these forty-three corporations, but also the ten billion dollar corporations of the country, with the exception of the Ford Company. Th* implication* of the picture are well summarized by Mr. Btillman: “There are about eighteen million stockholders of record In this country, including an unknown number of duplications, who really own our corporate assets. There are fortyeight mUlion person* who normally work for a living and depend to a large extent upon these corporations for their livelihood. “Then there are T 22 million of us who buy the products of these corporations and are interested deeply In the prices and quality of the products they offer for sale." If Mr. Roosevelt is able successfully to buck this massed financial power, and buck it he must If the New Deal Is to amount to anything. he will deserve far more credit than we showered upon Abraham Lincoln for coping with the much weaker foe of political secession.

WOMEN'S WAGES TF, under the new deal, women are allowed A to do the same work as men for less pay, women are going to get a lot of jobs that men otherwise would get. Yet men workers or men seeking work—have not been heard to protest the proposed NRA codes which contain this wage discrimination. And more and more such codes have been presented to the recovery administration in the last few days. In some instances the differential Is explained on the ground that the work done by women in the particular industry is different from that of the men in that Industry. In such cases the character of the work should be defined clearly: wages paid should be on this basis and not on the worker's sex. Otherwise, there will be a general lowering of wage standards, through increased employment of women. And much of the new purchasing power at which NRA is aimed will be lost. CUPID KNOWS NO WAR RULES TN reporting an attempted middlewestern holdup the other day, the newspapers incidentally cast a revealing sidelight on the ways of Cupid in time of war. It all happened when three men tried to rob a Cincinnati restaurant. An 18-year-old waitress grabbed a pistol, killed one robber and routed the other two; and the sidelight on Cupid's activities came when it was revealed that this girl had been a sure-enough "war baby." Her father was a German soldier and her mother a Belgian girl, and they were married near Antwerp in 1914. Now 1914 was not a time when Germans and Belgians were getting on well together. That matchless host in field gray was pouring across the Belgian plain like an irresistible flood, seemingly proving that might is the only right. Belgian sovereignty almost had vanished. Cities and towns were ruled by German officers. Civilians had been executed by firing squads. Thousands of people had fled from their homes. The age-old tragedy of invasion was being re-enacted, and out of it was arising that stream of ''trocity” literature which was to help so greatly in creating a war spirit in England and America. In the' history books, that scene is painted in solid blacks. But apparently, to some of the people on the spot, it wasn't that way at all. Apparently there were young German soldiers to whom the Belgian girls looked like desirable companions, and not like the outcast daughters of bitter enemies; and there were Belgian girls who could find among the conquerors handsome and glamorous boys who could make first-rate husbands. We never heard much about those romances. But we might have known they were taking place. They are as old as war. Even when Mars is running the whole show. Cupid is bound to be busy on the sidelines. Invasions are great tragedies, and the thudding of siege guns drowns out many cries of anguish; but always there are soldiers and girls who make their own arrangements about such things. * Young love can leap boundaries of hatred, conquest, and war. It was so when Alexander marched into Asia, and it is so today. All the wars in the world can't stop youth from going ahead with its romance.

MACHADOS DOWNFALL IT is not in the least surprising that the downfall of Machado in Cuba should be followed by a good deal of bloodshed. If ever a government sowed the wind, it was the Machado government: if its adherents now are reaping a bit of the whirlwind, no one can be astonished greatly. Prior to his overthrow, Machado was called, by his foes, "the man of a thousand murders.” No one knows just how many victims were claimed by his ruthless terrorists, how many men were tortured to death in dungeons, how many were put on the spot by illegal gangs of special police; but from all accounts the figure of a thousand represents a moderate estimate. The result was that a resentment infinitely more bitter and deep than anything we in the United States easily can comprehend, was created In Cuban hearts. If the Cubans have seized the opportunity to even up a few old scores with blood, no one can wonder at it—however much the bloodshed may be deplored. Cincinnati doctor says pre-digested food of future will make human teeth unnecessary. Does he look forward to the day when will not chews to sat?

GEN. JOHNSON WALKS OUT \ GOOD many humble Americans probably will feel that not the least of General Hugh S. Johnsons admirable achievements was his recent action in putting a snooty hotel clerk in his place. General Johnson stopped overnight at Dayton, o. and through some mischance his baggage went astray, a newspaper reporter accompanied General Johnson to a hotel and established his identity for the benefit of the night clerk. But the clerk, noting the absence of baggage. Informed General Johnson that in spite of his exalted position he could not get a room without paving in advance. Business was business and rules were rules —and, one supposes, a hotel' clerk s majesty was a hotel clerk s majesty. So General Johnson, remarking, “To hell with this place." walked out. There are in this broad land many hotel clerks who are courteous, obliging, and intelligent. There are some, however, like this chap in Daytcn; and a long-suffering nation of travelers is apt to wish that General Johnson could ca’l on all of them before he gets through. A NATION OF AUTOISTS TT Is worth noticing that the most recent A figures on automobile registrations show' that the United States still is far ahead of all other nations in the matter of making the automobile a part of the daily life of the average citizen. There are in the world today somew'hat more than 33.000.000 autos of all types; and of these, more than 24.000,000 are owned and operated in the United States. The United States still has one auto to every' five inhabitants, while the world ratio is one to every sixty. No# it is substantially more than thirty years since the auto was made practical That the United States continues to rank so far ahead of other nations In putting it to work indicates that the much-talked-of “American standard of living’’ continues to be something that is unequaled overseas.

FLYING UPSIDE DOWN r I 'HAT California flier who set anew world’s record by sailing around in his airplane upside down tor a flight of 125 miles may have accomplished something that no other flier ever did before, but it is a little bit difficult to see just how he has added anything very definite to the science of aviation itself. Daring fliers discovered a long time ago that the average plane can turn over on its back without falling. Stunt fliers have elaborated on the feat, and the ability to cruise about bottom-side up for a short time is probably useful to army combat fliers, who have to get used to performing all sorts of odd tricks. But outside of those restricted fields the stunt doesn't seem very useful. Aviation as a science is just about where it was before this inverted flight of 125 miles w’as begun. Story refers to James D. Dole, newly appointed chief of the agricultural administration's food products section, as the father of the pineapple industry. That's strange; we always thought this distinction belonged to A1 Capone. Both sides have expressed satisfaction over the NRA's recent settlement of a strike of Philadelphia neckw'ear workers. Apparently, the dispute ended in a tie. Circumstances alter faces—as well as cases.

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IT is not an easy matter to decide what this government ought to do about Cuba. Direct interevntion means the continuance of a policy which many people disapprove. Tn the other hand, failure to take some kind of constructive action means scrapping the Platt amendment. There is a definite conflict between our historical attitude and present-day aspirations. Asa general proposition, the people of this country would like to get away from interference with Latin America. Past experience convinces them that such a policy falis to produce satisfactory results. They have found it much easier to disestablish bad Kivernments than to set up good ones. also have found that interference exposes them to a bitterness of sentiment on the part of Latin Americans which is highly undesirable. The idea of maintaining order in such countries as Nicaragua. Haiti, or Cuba for the benefit of bankers at home and creditors abroad does not square with the principles on which this government was founded, or the newer conception of international relations. While it came aobut as a natural by-product of the Monroe Doctrine, it commits this country to responsibilities which that doctrine never was intended to impose. a a . THE Monroe Doctrine was designed to safeguard Latin America from European interference, but not by substituting American interference. That, however, is what it has done. By setting up the claim that since we would not permit them to take direct action, it was our duty to see that their debts were collected and their interests protected, European governments have maneuvered us into a false and embarrassing position. For fifty years and more, we have played the part of a collection agency and a policeman in Latin America. The Platt amendment, which confirmed our right to do this in Cuba, merely was a phase of the general policy. By the Platt amendment we virtually are bound to intervene whenever Cuba gets into trouble, to send our fleet and marines down there, take charge o£ the government and restore order by force. As Senator Pittman, chairman of the foreign relations committee, points out, we appear to be confronted with the necessity of repeating the performance or of adopting anew course. ana /'"tUBA admittedly Is in serious trouble because of depression on the one hand and a corrupt government on the other. Many Cubans not only have lost their political rights, but their opportunity to earn a living. The duty we imposed on sugar must share responsibility with the Machado administration. We could change the latter by intervention, but whatabout the former? The people of Cuba want a chance to work, more than anything else. Lack of that chance is the basis of their discontent. If the Machado administration had brought about prosperity, it would have been forgiven its tyrannies, like some other administrations in this world which received great applause in spite of the fact that they have disestablished about every principle of decency or free government. Now the question is whether we should bend our efforts toward giving Cubans an opportunity to get something to eat or see that their political rights are restored, even though they go on starving in the process.

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(Timet render* are invited to express , their vieies in these column*. Make i/our j Limit them to 210 word* or less.) j letters short, so all can have a chance. By J. S. To all men over the age of 40 years, and the officials of our government: We are the men who have worked and helped to make this country all that it is today. Now. when we apply for a job, the first thing that we are asked is, “Howold are you?" We say that our age is 40 and over. They tell us that, they cant give us a job on account of the insurance laws and the big insuYance companies that carry compensation insurance on all employes. Now. we are all human and entitled to an honest living if 40 or 65 or 75 years yld. We are just as able to w'ork and produce as the man who is 18 to 40 years of age, and in many cases we are better qualified to do a day’s work. We are better mechanics, better workmen, and more dependable. Now I think it is a dirty shame that we are cast aside after we are 40 years of age, and can’t get a chance to work ai\l make a living for our loved ones. The majority of all men over the age of 40 have families, and are all willing to work. It is work that we want, not charity. We are tired of these soup lines. Now I appeal to all men over the age of 40 to get together and rise in protest against all these insurance laws, and all employers who refuse us work and a chance to earn a decent living. I am a man past 50 and just as able to work as I was when I was 30 and more dependable. I have been out of a job since the last days of November, 1930, and have had to scuffle for all that I have got. I have dependents and can t get a chance to earn a living, all on account of these big corporations and the damnable insurance laws. When I say fight. I don’t mean to destroy or to do violence to any man’s holdings. Let’s get laws passed that will give workers the right to toil. I am a union man and I say to all workers, now is the time to organife for the one purpose of collective bargaining, this is the first and only time in our lives that w’e have had a chance to get togeher with our employer. Now that our government has given us !

EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the first of two articles on cvanosls. or blueness of the skin. IN certain forms of diseases of the lungs, such as pneumonia and bronchitis, and also in bronchial asthma, which causes a construction of the bronchial tubes, it may be impossible for a sufficient amount of good air and oxygen to get into the lungs, in which case naturally cyanosis. or blueness of the skin, follows. Irritant or poisonous gas may inflame the lungs, and there are also cases in which objects associated with industry block the passages in the lungs and fail to permit circulation of the blood-carrying oxygen. Then there may be a condition affecting the heart, which makes it impossible for the heart, because of its weakness, to force the blood through the lungs, so as to permit a sufficient amount of oxygen to come in contact with it.

-t DON'T feel the least bit deX seated," writes a Denver woman. • after reading what the young ladies said. They still have to prove their words by deeds, and to take oneself too seriously simply is fatal." The subject under discussion, friends, was the recent Youth meeting held in Chicago and several of the blanket indictments that were brought there against the older generation. The Denver correspondent takes the other side of the question and has some pretty pertinent things to say for herself. For instance: “I am fed up with hearing and reading how much cleaner-minded and superior this generation is. If we believe all We are told about the preceding generation, it would have

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Misleading By H. Holtzman. IT happens on Virginia avenue. A shriek, a howl, a moan, a groan, a thunderous shattering noise, a woman screams, children cry and run and hide for fear. A policeman hurries to the scene. "What’s up?" says the law. "Oh, officer, save us. This terrific noise, an earthquake. The world is coming to an end." “Oh. shucks” says the officer. "That’s just the Beech Grove car going by." Headline, "Bank Bandit Caught.” I wish you would be more explicit. Was it the president, the cashier, one of the stockholders, or a receiver? Don't keep us in such suspense. We'd like to know which one of the culprits was caught.

a chance. I plead with all workers to organize against profiteering and cutthroat competition, to ask for a living wage. We have the bull by the horns, let's push him along and gain our freedom. Bv O. S. G. I see where the P. R. Mallory Company has put into effect in its plant employe representation, or what is known, perhaps, as a modified industrial democracy, and what always turns out to be the old-time company union with new shoes on. Usually these "plans” are mere subterfuges for trade unionism and brought about to keep employes from organizing into trade unions of their own choosing. When all is said and done, the management of a plant has the final veto in any kind of company union. As long as the "problems” of the workers consist of where to place the drinking fountains, or where the next picnic or dance should be held or other similar momentous questions, the plan goes along swiminglv. But when matters appertaining to hours of work, vacations with pay. grievances against some pin-headed boss, or increases in wages come before the joint representatives, or “congress," as it. sometimes is called —well, it's just too bad! The workers can’t win for losing. One mill in which a real industrial democracy has been operative

BY DR. MORRIS FISIfBEIN

Editor Journal of thr American Medical Association of IlTffeia. the Health Maraxine. There are diseases of the blood in which an exceedingly large number of red blood cells, associated with large amounts of hemoglobin, makes it impossible to supply all of the red blood cells with this material. In some cases, as in poisoning by illuminating gas. the carbon monoxide combines quickly with hemoglobin; in fact, thirty times as quickly as with oxygen. Hence, suffocation with illuminating gas is invariably associated with a blue or purple color of the body. Anything which will relieve the cyanosis and reduce the demand for oxygen in the tissues and which will aid the failing circulation of blood is helpful in controlling cya-

been incapable of producing this socalled wonder crop. "And this frankness we hear so much about. It's only license to talk about sex, and does not commend itself to me. It may be a part of life to know about sex. but it is not all of life. And the subject should be relegated to its proper place, as only one amid a number of important subjects. a a a ‘'\rET sex has been exploited in X every way by bathing beauty contests and the like. Do you think it is all right for girls to submit their almost unclad forms to the gaze of vulgar men, to be compared with others and commented upon? "Is it necessary lor them to wear

for several years, issued an order for a 20 per cent cut in wages, after the workers had voted to take a similar cut a short time before. The "congress" met and on secret ballot rejected the company's proposal unanimously on the workers' side. Whereupon it was announced at the meeting that the company was sorry, but the cut would be operative any way. It was, and the industrial democracy plan blew up with a sound like a wet firecracker. The only thing left was the smell. Bv A Tfirber Why is it that the local Y. M. C. A. has to break the NRA code by hiring teachers from the local high schools who are employed already in the day schools of the city schools? These people are regular teachers on the staff of the day schools and are hired by the Y. M. C. A. to teach their night schools. In view of the fact that many deserving teachers are out of employment and some quite as competent as those already employed, it would! seem that a society or institution such as the Y. M. C. A., depending largely for support from the community fund, would be the first to realize that actions in this matter is entirely wrong. Further. It also shows the greed of these teachers. Do they not have enough to do in handling the public school jobs in the day time, without having to take jobs in the night time? In this connection it might be worth investigation on the part of the city school superintendent who has courage to stop such practice. or know the reason why. It certainly is not a case of need, as Indianapolis teachers have fared well above the average through the depression and teaching hours in the night time do not aid their work for the day classes for which the taxpayers pay them. Daily Thought He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse. —Proverbs 28:27. WE are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.—Madame Swetchine.

nosis. Rest is, of course, of the greatest importance, since it lowers the amount of oxygen demanded by the tissues and gives the tissues opportunity to recover from the deprivation of oxygen associated with cyanosis. Obviously, the presence of any obstruction to breathing is in itself an Indication for its removal. In cases of poisoning with illuminating gas or of asphyxiation, the use of artificial breathing devices which supply a mixture of 95 per cent of oxygen and five per cent carbon dioxide hasten the elimination of toxic substances and permit the introduction of excess oxygen to supply the terrific demand of the tissues for this substance. NEXT—Various causes of cyanosis. -

shorts for bicycle riding? If we are candid, we know that girls who expose themselves almost to the point of nakedness, subject themselves to obscene remarks by men. "What we need as a nation is balance. Can't we be earnest without wholesale condemnation? I am oldfashioned only to this extent. I love beauty in living and we r,eem to have thrown all dignity to the winds. "Modem ways leave a great many desirable qualities on the shelf that once were in flower and the world better for their blooming. There are fine young people now, but there always have been fine young people, and those we have with us at present did not invent the virtues." _ How's that for a defense for the old folks? Do you agree?

-AUG. 18,1983

It Seems to Me - BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. Aug. 18.—Apparently I was guilty of some measure of exaggeration when I said, the other day, that Mayor O'Brien has no admirers, even within his own organization. There is at hand ' a letter which effectively controverts my assertion. "What a nerve you have to try and slander a man like Mayor I OBrien!” writes Intelligent Voter. | Why. you could not breathe the same air as a man like him. And then you want to criticise him! ‘ Why. you r nothing but a big, lazy dutchman. You should be on one of those beer trucks Juggling beer You say nobody Is for Mayor O'Brien. What about that million 100.000 people who voted for him last Nov. 7? You certainly are not consistent in your stuff “That K K. K. paper you are writing for will be put out of business here soon don't forget it this town belongs to the Irish they made it when it was nothing and they fought for this country to a man. “They are the rightful rulers of this city—Mr. Broun I know you a long time you were lousy as a baseball writer now you are lousier as a writer of a column. “Id like to meet in a speak some night and I will take a nice sock at your big dutcl) head. “Mr. Broun. John Patrick O Brien is our next mayor so put that in your pipe and smoke it and you are going to be out of the picture in a short time with the help of God and the Irish citizens of this city. We are starting a boycott of your paper and you know we can do it. Then you can ask La Guardia to get you on some paper in Russia. They pay good money over there. Well so long muttonhead Broun, here’s hopping you answer my note.” a a a There Is No Answer BUT what answer can I make to the gentleman who evidently studied Horace along with John O'Brien? It was very wrong of me to say that the mayor has no friends and friendship is a beautiful thing which overlooks all faults and deficiencies in those who are admitted to its fraternity The true friend sees the soul and never heeds the moles. Since John Patrick O'Brien has friends, all the more enthusiastically will I oppose him. It had seemed to me at first a little less than chivalrous to attack a man suffering from reputed disability. a a a / Hove It By Hearsay 'T'HE story was related to me by JL a Tammany office holder, and I assume that there are other incumbents of city jobs and seekers after jobs who can confirm it. According to the anecdote, when John Patrick O'Brien was a little lad in srhool issiduously devoting himself to his Greek, a prankish companion. on a certain April 1. pinned to the seat of his pants a strip of paper plainly labeled. “Kick Me!” Generally this is merely a transitory jape, which soon is forgotten, but, by some mischance, in O'Brien’s case he never discovered the trick which had been played upon him. And if my informant is accurate, the label still flutters in its original position even to this day, and. worst of all. even the mayor's best friends won’t tell him. But I am emboldened to speak as vigorously as I can against the Tammany candidate, now that I know there are some who love him in spite of circumstances. It is heartening for one who likes to think of himself as a sportsman to feel that John Patrick O'Brien has cronies and that they sit across a board, raise their glasses high in amity, cry "Chin, chin!” and toast the lost leader. a a a Goinq A Bit Too Far NOBODY likes frank and honest criticism more than I. At least, that is my story It does not irk me to be informed by “Intelligent Voter.” that I am a Dutchman who should be on a truck juggling beer. It is true that my grandfather was a German, and. though I’ve never made a truck, in private practice I have done my very best. Moreover, when my correspondent goes on to express his doubts as to my columnar abilities he is but echoing the opinion of the vast majority. But there is no point in being fantastic and in saying things which are palpably false. I was a swell baseball reporter. iCopyright. 1933, by Th TUnem

Morning After BY KENNETH R. SHAFFER The deepness of the night Hangs 'round. And I am dreaming, dreaming. Dreaming of the mad pirouettes of the ballet dancer, Os the last difficult note Os the great singer, And then the applause Bursting forth like a thunderbolt in heaven. I catch a fleeting glimpse Os crowded stalls . . . brilliant costumes. And gleaming eyes. —All these pass, confused. Before me, And in my dream I settle back. And am happy.

So They Say

Let the president of the United States declare a modified form of martial law—superseding civil rights and civil courts only in eases of gangsters and racketeers—and well soon see the end of rats who live on ransom money.—Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, U. S. M. C., retired. We have come to the place in history where w’e are rearranging the values of life.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Inner life, the unfolding of the subconscious, the enriching of the psyche—these can only flourish m solitude, and for the good citizen the only solitude is in the bathroom.’’—Nancy Hale, writer. I always suffer. Suffering seems to be what I do best.—Richard Barthelmess, movie actor. Equanimity Is the curse of American citizenship. Fixers dominate our political life.—Dr. Louis L. Harris, former N. y. police commissioner.