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THURSDAY. AUO 24. 1533 WRECKING THE SCHOOLS 1 R all our alleged worship of education as ■ foundation of democracy, schools are the v st sufferers in the depression. Teachers are go * unpaid. The school year is being shortened and many schools are closed altogether. Cities and rural counties refuse to carry the primary burden of public education, but they continue to cling to the inefficiencies, extravagances. and graft which virtually have bankrupt local government and taxpayers. Reports show that 80.000 teachers have been dropped from schools in thirty-three states, which indicates more than 100,000 in the entire country. That means the denial of normal education to about 3,000.000. In addition fifteen more states have cut the school term Some have reduced it to one or two months a year. This collapse in the "American educational system occurs at the moment when it Is needed most. Besides the normal enrollment of children now being turned away from full school terms, additional millions of children are being taken out of industry by the depression and the recovery act. This applies not only to former child laborers. who now are supposed to go to school; it applies also to young people who should be kept in high school and college to reduce unemployment. This problem is too grave and far-reaching to be solved by tinkering expedients. But as a temporary measure, we at least may be thankful for the decision of the Roosevelt administration to use the federal emergency relief administration. Relief Administrator Hopkins has notified Governors and state agencies that federal relief funds will be used in part to pay wage relief to teachers of rural schools hitherto ordered closed or curtailed for lack of funds, and to pay wage relief to teachers for adult education in English' of illiterates in country and cities. Sucli a stopgap can not save the situation. But for a few months it may prevent worse disintegration of the school system, pending more direct and adequate action by the responsible states or, if the states fail, then action by congress.

HE JUST TOOK THE MONEY TOSEPH ZITIELLO. recently president of a ** small bank in which he also owned fourfifthr, of :he stocks, says he wants to go to the penitentiary. Mr Zitiello says he took SIO,OOO of the depositors' money. He wants to go to the penitentiary |nd have it over with. Mr. Zitiello appears not to have been aware of the refined methods by which some other bank officials have been able to get away with their depositors' money without going to the penitentiary. He might have voted himself a SIO,OOO bonus. He might have increased his salary by $13,000 a year. He might have borrowed the money on worthless security. He might have incorporated himself, lent the new corporation the money, and paid himself SIO,OOO as president of the new corporation. He might hove incorporated himself as a coast ruction company, lent himself some money to build something for himself in the guise of some other corporation, ar.d paid himself (in his capacity of a construction company! cost plus SIO,OOO. All those things have been done by bankers. and we find no record of any of them going to the penitentiary for it yet. Mr. Zitiello. according to his own account. Just went and embezzled the money. And all bank officials that we ever heard of agree that embezzlement is a very horrid thing indeed. RADICALISM IS SHUNNED THE Engineering Foundation, in New York. recently set out to discover just how unemployment affects the morale and the ideals of men who are out of work. It learned, oddly enough, that engineers as a class are not filled with radical notions when they lose their Jobs. They get resentful and discouraged, naturally—but they don't swing off toward Communism or similar panaceas, as sonv* jobless men do. Most of them are content to have the old system continue. All they want is to get their job® back. And all of this simply shows how little meaning that word “radicalism'' really has nowadays. Engineers are generally ultraconservative in their political and economic beliefs This survey has shown that they mostly stay that way. even under the pressure of unemployment. And yet engineers as a class probably have done more to change our form of society, our scheme of government and our economic organization* than .any other class alive. To be sure, they have done it without in the least intending to. But they have done It. just the same, and they will continue to do so for a long time to come. The engineering which gave us railroads and steamboats made it possible for the United States -*o expand over a continent without splitting into a group of independent nations. It was engineering that doomed Jefferson's dream of a land of small farmers and small cities; engineering that gave the south a cotton empire; engineering that developed our big cities, exploited our mines, and gave us our factory civilization. It was the engineer, blithely thinking of nothing on earth except the age-old problem of how to get the most work done with the least energy, who gave us mass production, automobile*, electric power, modern communications and a network of good highways,

And in giving us all these things he set in motion forces which have changed our form of society almost beyond comprehension and bid fair to make equal changes in the future. The engineer is not “radical.” it seems. Well, why should he be? He ignores politics, economics and sociology—and remakes all three of those perplexing sciences overnight. He may think he is the very essence of coaservatism; and yet he sows the seeds of greater changes than all the long-haired theorizers that ever lived. LET HITLER SPEAK A N American publishing company Is about to issue a book written by none other than Adolf Hitler; and it hardly is surprising that the American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune has printed an editorial assailing the publishers for the step, charging them with “an attempt to cash in on the misery and catastrophe of an important section of the human family." But although it is easy to understand this protest, it is necessary to point out that to try to stop publication or circulation of this book would be to commit the very error which Hitler himself has committed. Hitler shocked free people everywhere by suppressing books of which he did not approve; a Jewish organization that tried to suppress his book would be following squarely in his footsteps. The very essence of free speech is that you are obliged to let vour bitterest enemy speak his mind freely, no matter how violently you are opposed to what he says. BANKERS AND ETHICS SENATOR JAMES M. COUZENS of Michigan made a remark during Detroit's current bank investigation which deserves a good deal of consideration. “A lot of things happened in national banks for which no criminal prosecution can be brought," he said. “But if civilization is to exist and rely on criminal law and not on morals and ethics, we might as well give up.” The ethics of banks here and outside could not be prosecuted, out some of the acts were as vicious and as shameful as could be.” Isn t it possible that one of the big things wrong with us in the last decade was that we got to relying—in all walks of life, and not just in the banking field—too much on criminal law' and not enough on ethics? We let ourselves assume that whatever a man could get away with was all right. It might be morally wrong, it might be against public policy, but if it were legal there was nothing to be said—especially if it made money for somebody. We shall not have a sound national life until we get anew attitude.

IS PRESIDENT TURNING LEFT? I> ADICALS are predicting that just as soon as business finally turns the mystic comer that will lead to a certain revival of prosperity, President Roosevelt will turn an equally sharp corner to the right in his political and economic philosophy. Liberal supporters of the President will, therefore, read with pleasure the opinion of Paul Y. Anderson, expressed in The Nation. t 0 effect that the President already is turning to the left rather than to the right. Certainly Mr. Anderson is in a position to know, if any Washington journalist is, and he Is far enough to the left himself to resent any reactionary trends on the part of the administration. Mr. Anderson bases his judgment, in the first place, upon the growing strength of Secretaries Ickes. Perkins, and Wallace at the expense of Farley, Woodin, and Douglas. Secretary Ickes, for example, has been put in charge of the $3,300,000,000 public works project. He is in favor of spending it all. Mr. Douglas wished to curtail the expenditures. on the ground that prosperity already is here, in spite pf the fact that more than 12.000.000 adults are still unemployed. Moreover, in spending this vast sum. definite word has gone out of Washington that the administration will be especially congenial to grants for the construction of municipally owned power plants and water works. The blanket code for American industry certainly is as far from Coolidge and Hoover as it is from Moscow. The influence of adtanced liberals on the administration is evident beyond the activities and policies of liberal members of the cabinet. As Mr. Anderson observes: "Liberals and labor are in the saddle at recovery headquarters to a degree that would have seemed impossible and even preposterous three months ago. Its policies up to the present have been overwhelmingly influenced by the view’s of Donald Richberg, Alexander Sachs. Edward McGrady, Leo Wolman. and Frances Perkins. If liberals and labor can not trust them, who the devil can they trust? Something of the same sort might also be said of the Roosevelt administration at large. Here, as if in answer to the liberals’ prayer, we are confronted with a program which represents, in very large pan. the hopes, aspirations, and labors of such men as Justice Brandies. Senators Norris. Wagner, and La Follette, Joseph B. Eastman. Harold Ickes. Frances Perkins and Henry Wallace—(adopted! by an administration which, when it was unable to obtain Felix Frankfurters personal services, accepted his recommendation in filling nearly half a dozen of the most important legal posts in the government. And still the liberals are not satisfied. What do they want?” Mr. Anderson does not mention the influence exerted on the administration by Bernard M. Baruch—the chief nightmare of many liberals. Theoretically, Baruch certainly would bring no assurance to progressives, but he may have seen much light since 1929. If he can "stomach’' the National Industrial Recovery Act. he is not likely to do much harm at Washington. The best proof of the pudding is in the eating. With the exception of his banking taxation policies. Mr. Roosevelt has. to date, gone about as far to the left as a President serving under a capitalistic system could have been expected to advance. It is to be hoped that he will stick here. Such a policy is good for the country Ruin and collapse will be the only result of any surrender to the pleas or threats of the "usurers of high estate." In the second place, reasonable people will wish to see liberalism get a complete and fair trial. There is a persistent opinion on the part of radicals to the effect that liberalism

has no chance. This is probably the only opportunity we shall ever have to test this view. Liberals should hate to see their cause go down in failure because of any half-hearted experiment. The new deal is all that stands between us and a decisive confirmation of the radical dogmas. THE ST. LOUIS EPIDEMIC T ETHARGIC ENCEPHALITIS sleeping sickness—is prevalent in St. Louis. Since July 30. 131 persons in St. Louis have fallen ill of this disease. Thirteen have died. It is one of the most dreaded sicknesses; when not fatal it often leaves the patient with his mental powers impaired, although this is not always the case. , This disease is different from the other kind of sleeping sickness which used to be such a terrible scourge in Africa before science learned that it was carried by the tse-tse fly. The virus of encephalitis has not been isolated and the means by which it is transmitted is not known definitely. St. Louis is endeavoring to wipe out the breeding places of mosquitoes on the chance that these insects, unusually numerous this summer, are the carriers. Meanwhile, the United States public health service is joined with dity officials in an effort to locate the source of the epidemic. It is possible that the very intensity and gravity of the St. Louis outbreak will be the means of affording science with the data by which outbreaks can be prevented elsewhere. MR. HALLE BECOMES PILOT A T the age of 65, Samuel Halle of Cleveland receives an airplane pilot’s license and orders anew plane. He qualified for his license by fifty hours of successful solo flight from a field near the city. He is to be congratulated on his initiative at taking up anew sport that is bound to keep him young for a long, long time. Mr. Halle’s example is one worth following by more men of his age. Not many, to be sure, are able to afford flying lessons to say nothing of the purchase of a plane of their own. But most of us would have a better time if we would turn from time to time to some hobby, some new activity that would give us a fresh view' of life. To find some such new interest is not a question of wealth, but only one of the initiative and will. There’s one fellow’ who still can smile when everything around him goes dead wrong. He—darn him!—is the caddy who carries our clubs. Ambassador Welles is being roundly praised for bringing peace in Havana. Apparently, all’s Welles that ends Welles in Cuba. Officials announce Chicago world's fair will close Nov. I—probably on the theory that after that date it will be too cold for Sally Rand to continue her act. Enterprising dealer in Kansas City is offering free fire insurance with every radio set installed in auto. That’s a mighty big risk to take in these days of so many hot times. All should be well for the Inveterate fisherman who gets a day off under the five-day-a-week plan, provided the fish do not decide to take the same day off. The old-fashioned girl believed in kissing and making up. The modem girl believes in kissing and make-up. The average mosquito is a most ungrateful cuss. It doesn't hesitate to bite the hand that feeds it.

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TRUE to the American habit of getting unnecessarily het up, we have allowed enthusiasm to put some very nonsensical ideas into our heads with regard to NR A. From the beginning it has been touted and advertised too much as a self starting, hair-trigger remedy. For no reason in the world, absurdly short periods have been announced for its success o’ failure. In sixty days, this or that would happen, or if the program is not in full swing byninety days, we might as well kiss it goodbye. Such chatter is ridiculous. Whoever heard of a system like that proposed in the National Recovery Act being perfected in a few months? President Roosevelt has not presented this country with an Aladdin's lamp. He merely has laid out a program whereby the people can work their way back to prosperity. It is going to take time, however, and not only time, but courage and energy. We are not dealing with a magic grab bag which holds a prize for every one who signs the code, or puts a Blue Eagle in his window. Whatever we get we are going to pay for in the end, and our willingness to pay is the determining factor of its success. You simply can't collect on a crop until you have sown, cultivated and harvested it. a an WE are in for-a long hard pull. The President merely has provided us with a system by which we can pull together. It is absurd to imagine that we can reach the millennium with a single jerk, or that we can reach it at all unless every one does his or her part. Higher wages and higher cost of raw material are bound to be reflected in higher retail prices. That is where the consuming public will meet its job of helping to bring about recovery. The thought of buying cheaper goods, getting work done at a lower price, and waiting for bargains must be set aside. There are two ways of raising the general level of values in this country. One is by reducing the dollar; the other is by paying the bill and paying it cheerfully. We already have reduced the dollar to a considerable extent; whether it should be reduced still farther by arbitrary decree is questionable. If it is not. we have no choice but to accept such an advance in prices as the new wage scales, farm relief and other plans obviously involve. ana THE program outlined by President Roosevelt is not only complicated, but stupendous. It represents changes that are little short of revolutionary in our business methods. It compels hundreds of thousands of employers to readjust their cost systems, accounting methods, and schemes of operation. It calls for reorganization all along the line, as well as a sweeping establishment of government boards, supervisors, and inspectors. We should not expect this summer to reveal more than a reasonably good idea of how the program works and some of the major difficulties which must be overcome. We should not regard it as having failed aecause certain of these difficulties were unforeseen. or present perplexing problems. Tc. sum it all up, we should not invite disappointment Jy feeling foolishly optimistic, ■

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complains a young man, VjF “but I'm tired of reading about how mothers sacrifice themselves and work their fingers to the bone and cry in the dark because their families never appreciate them. That’s the biggest piece ol hooey I ever heard." All right, all right, young sir. We'll let it pass, although there's another piece of equally silly hooey that you swallow without any straining, the theory that men slave at their desks so that they can earn money to buy pretty things to bedeck mama. You can't make me shed any tears over either of these sad stories. I despise women who always are whining about their sacrificial urges, and about how they make themselves perp£ual offerings on the

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(Times readers are Invited to express their vietes in these columns. Make your Limit them to SSO tcords or less.) letters short, so all can have a chance. Bv One of the Goats. This letter is meant only to set forth facts on the present unfair method of taxation. The home owner is the goat. He foots the bills of city, county and state governments, and this method is all wrong. People who do not own homes and pay little or no taxes enjoy all the services of the above-named governments, such as police and fire protection, public schools, parks, playgrounds, ash and garbage collections. improved streets and alleys, sewers, etc. These things are all made possible by taxes paid by the property owners. If you think not, just investigate and see how long these things would be possible if tax was eliminated from real estate. The person who does not own property would be admitted readily to the city hospital without any charge, while the property owner would be barred, although he actually is the one who makes this institution possible. The property owners should organize and revolt against such an unfair situation. One person’s share in the expense of these governments should be just as much as another’s. There is only one fair method of taxation, and that is on income only. Then every one's share would be the same. Whether great or small, he would be doing his part and. after all. the difference in income makes the difference in people. This method of taxation would be fair to all. rich and poor alike. All income should be taxed, no matter what Its source, and the home owner should receive an exemption of SI,OOO to partly repay him for the excess he has paid all these years. Encourage people to own homes. It is the fine residential districts that make a city, and not the cheap rental property. Br H. R T. Like the vast majority of the working class, I am for the NRA program 100 per cent. I wish to protest, however, the exempting of an industry that is responsible for about 5 per cent of the unemployment In this country, I refer to the steam railroads. According to my information,

Noise, Light, and Vibration Induce Fatigue --'-j-ijl - BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN —; ■ l_=t=!

This 1* thr second of two articles on fstirne. THERE seems to be no doubt that light, noise, and vibration associated with the development of numerous machines in our modem lives have become important factors in producing more general fatigue. For example, the driving of an auto involves constant subjection to all three of these stimuli to human sensation noise, vibration, and light. A study of human beings after a ride of 300 miles as passengers in an auto indicated loss of body coordination. delayed speed in performing mental work anc. an increase in the body chemistry. Similar symptoms of fatigue are found after long journeys on the railway. All symptoms occur in a much more marked form in the person who is driving an auto for a,

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

Hits ‘Slavery ’ By F. A. F. IAM a Times reader and laborer. I would like to know if a large packing plant has the right to have clock men stand and follow you as if you were a dog and put three persons’ work on you instead of getting more men and women. I want someone to come in and see for himself and change things. Even the women have taken men's jobs—not because they want them, but because they have to. there are 700.000 furloughed railroad employes, of whom I am one. When the newspapers first announced the blanket code, saying that all industries would be required to shorten working hours to thirty-five or forty hours a week, I found a ray of hope in the thought that I soon would be called back to work. But that hope began to wane when I noticed that the papers never specifically named the railroads in their NRA and PRA discussions. Then, about a week ago, I found an obscure paragraph in The Times where General Johnson stated that the railroads were under the Interstate Commerce commission and therefore out of his jurisdiction. That rather seems to me to be another case of passing the buck. No doubt the railroads are not making as much money as formerly, but they are just as able to shorten hours and still maintain decent wages as some of our other large industries. The coal industry, for instance. Is in bad shape, but it is being forced to subscribe to an NRA code. Exemption of any major industry is bound to have a harmful effect upon the President's recovery campaign. By Fair Play. Why be so particular with barbers? Asa reader of the different daily papers of Indianapolis. I see where they have to take an examination equal to civil service. If this be the case, why not have an examining board appointed by our Governor to examine the public before they can receive any barber work? In the 38 other states where the barbers’ license law is in effect, the barber receives a health certificate

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long time,'particularly at night. There are, of course, innumerable cases of fatigue associated with deficient functioning of certain glands and organs in the body responsible for secretion of substances which stimulate the nerves which control circulation of the blood and which have similar important functions in relationship to activity by the human body. Particularly the thyroid, the pituitary. and the ardenal glands are concerned in questions of fatigue. Therefore, a physician who studies such cases invariably looks into functioning of these glands. It is obvious that a feeling of fatigue is an important sign in relationship to the condition of the

family altar, a sort of sweet smelling savor in the Lord's nostrils. But I can't see that they kid themselves any more than the men do who actually profess to believe they work hard just because they love their wives. nan A MAN toils first, last and all time to satisfy his own ego; so that he can stand high in the community and obtain power and see his name in the newspaper and have people point him out m crowds. He doesn’t long for money merely so he can pass it along to mama. There are too many rich bachelors to refute that idea. He wants it because he loves himself and likes to feed his vanity. , Therefore, he dres** his wile and

from his or her family physician and, if O. K., receives the license. This is working a hardship on the barber, as some of them have sacrificed the best part of their lives at the profession, and the law comes along and makes them quit at an age where they can not get employment elsewhere. I think this is unfair to the barbers of Indiana. I am not a barber, but I look at this as unjust tactics to the barber profession and hope it can be adjusted so it will not hurt those who have investments which they will have to sacrifice because they are not up to standard, but a man can come to a barber shop with some contagious disease, unknown to the barber, and expose the worker who has been passed as in perfect health by the board of examiners. The law does not say that there shall be a doctor's examination board, but a barber's examination board, the three members to be appointed by the Governor. So They Say - ■ 1 America's greatest need today is to breed a generation of children who would rather die than be dishonest.—The Rev. Joseph A. Vance. Detroit. Just as every loyal American was behind Woodrow Wilson in the World war, so every loyal American must support Franklin D. Roosevelt in this great war on depression. This is no time for slackers. —Secretary of War Dern. The world simply was not quite ready, for it.—Delegate James M Cox. on failure of London economic conference. America just has pas.<bd through a genuine revolution. It will move forward to a definite goal—either Socialism, co-operative government or Fascism.—Norman Socialist. “La-la-la” Is the same in all languages. Edwin Franko Goldman, musician. I do not look upon the New Deal as Socialism. However, there is some Socialism in it. Essentially, however, it is educated democracy.— Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.

human body. If persistent, it never should be disregarded, but have most careful study, with a view to obviating its cause or causes. In addition to physical causes of fatigue, it is necessary to consider possible causes on the mental side. Women, more frequently than men, suffer with psychogenic fatigue. When ambitions are thwarted, when one works constantly at an occupation in which he is little if at all interested, when conditions in the home are irritating and uninteresting, there may come a constant feeling of tiredness, passing on indeed in some cases to serious neurasthenia or psychasthema Obviously, the important factor in the control of psychogenic fatigue is to find out the basic mental causes. It is only by an understanding of these causes that relief can be secured.

children in fine things, buys them high-powered automobiles and all sorts of gewgaws, so that, in making a splurge, they will reflect credit upon his ability as a speculator, a financier, a tradesman or a genius. I believe men deserve the highest commendation for their generosity. That I freely accord them. I know many who are supporting wlvez who are not worth two whoops and who do it graciously, kindly, even magnificently. But isn't it about time they also realized that some of their cherished virtues are only different names for selfishness? When it comes to a real high sense of duty, men and women are about evenly matched. We've got some mighty poor and some mighty fine specimens ii; both sexes. 4

AUG. 24, 1933

It Seems to Me =? BY HEYWOOD BROUN

XTEW YORK. Aug. 24—They tell ' me that newspaper columnists are prone to arrogant attitudes. At times they lay down the law arid speak as if they knew it all. This. I admit, is evil, and I spak with the humility of one who has sinned on many occasions and probably will dr> so again and again. But we are all miserable sinners. And this includs s tne people who write letters to the columnists, as well as the columnists themselves. An irritated reader will take in as much territory in a single page of note paper as ever was covered in the entire acreage of “It Seems to Me.” For instance, here is a note from a Mr. Thomas O'Hara to my editor, exclaiming. "It is difficult to conceive how a publication like the World-Telegram could publish such a column as that written by Hcywood Broun in your issue of the 16th inst.. which is a direct insult to all Irishmen and those of Irish descent in New York City." non .4 Few Precincts Missing NOW. that is at least as arrogant as anything I ever have set down in the column Who has given Mr. OHara the power to speak for all Irishmen and those of Irish descent in New York City? Asa matter of fact, my great-grand-father was Irish, and I didn't resent the column at all. Mr O’Hara merely means that he. a single representative of the Brooklyn O'Haras, was annoyed. Why doesn't he say this—no more, no less—and let it go at that? And it even may be that the Irritation of Mr. O’Hara would evaporate if he only knew’ that he has been laboring under a misapprehension. "The letter supposedly written to Mr. Broun by "Intelligent Voter’ is toe transparent for even the dullest reader to see through.” I assume Mr. OHara means to suggest that I made it up myself. But I didn't. lam not going to put on an attitude of lacerat< and sensibilities and say, "I never faked a letter in my life.” Almost twenty years ago I began to column, and the boss said; “I want you to be contentious. Anything that arouses opinion for or against is helpful to the paper." The morning after my first contribution appeared I sent two letters to the editor. In one I said: "Your newest acquisition, Heywood Broun, is magnificent. This young man will go far." In the other I wrote: The effusion under the pen name Heywood Broun is the purest drivel I have ever read. I hope this is the last of him." . That was my notion of controversy. and I thought it might pique the interest of the editor. Looking back on it, I am surprised that I could have been so vitally wrong in both letters. a a a Originals Are Better THAT is the trouble faking contributions. Other people can do it so much better. Fortunately, with the years I have mellowed and grown considerably more offensive. It is indolence rather than either judgment or character w ~;ch has kept me from writing letters to myself during the last ten years. In the course of any reasonably good month, I generally manage to insult ten or twelve people a week. And at times I have done much better than that. Aside from the Swiss and the Unitarians. I think that at one time or another some member of every racial and religious group has taken a column, a sentence or a phrase amiss. My great-grandmother was a Swiss. She was the one who married the rabbi just after he came north following the emancipation proclamation. I can not truthfully assert that every direct hit has been a matter of careful aim. Some of the most violent complaints have been caused by verbal infelicities which were not premeditated. I remember that my uncle shortly before he took holy orders warned me of this very thing in his fine, rich brogue. And at home we have a German saying on this very point, which unfortunately escapes me.

An Unethical Practice THERE was. I will admit, one phony thing about the letter. The gentleman did not sign it "Intelligent Voter ” He simply wrote "McCarthy.” I regret the unwarranted liberty which I took in making this slight change. It was the additional touch, the false note which inspired Mr. O'Hara and others to think that I manufactured the missive out of whole cloth. * Please accept my good faith In this matter. The truth is as I have stated. I swear it by the memory of my sainted aunt, who died at the Norwegian hospital with the words "Vive la France!" upon her lips. <Copvri*ht. 1333. gy The Time*> Pastorale BY EUGENIE RICIIART I shall buy a country house As soon as I am able, With a red plaid cloth On the kitchen table. I shall plant a garden there With burgamot and, phlox. I won't answer my door If any one knocks. I shall take my books with me To read by candlelight. When I go to bed I shall bolt the door tight. And no music will be heard But sighing in the trees. My companions will be Only quiet, and these: Yellow plate:; upon a shelf The color of canaries. Sun and moon and wind and rain— And sometimes fairies. Daily Thought Be strong, therefore, and let not your hands be wea£; for your work shall be rewarded.-—II Chronicles 15:7. FEAR to do base, unworthy things Is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is iralor, too.—Ben Johnson,