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MONDAY AGO 2 A 1933 MO LEY RESIGNS ■XJEWS of the wuhdraw il of Dr Ravmond Mi . from the admirustrati :i will bo - valuable rv:ce: as an adviser to Mr Roosevelt Hi br-v friends have realized since if no* before Uie London economic conference that hi-, position at the state department was untenable. The secretary of ta’e is the chief of cabinet in the case of Mr Hull, the secretary of state also Happens to be a powerful party leader By the very nature of the case, it was impossible for one of the President's closest adviser to serve as assistant secretary of state in such manner that ’he authority and responsibili!of the secretary could be questioned Also there wa • the added consideration that Professor Molev was not an expert In foreign affairs It wa unfair to put him in that position at the \,te department in the first plact and hi.-, own indiscretions did not improve the original mistake But in recent weeks there has beep hope that some special position might be created for him in which he would continue m his capacity of adviser to the President in domestic affairs, or that he might be given a key position in the weak department of justice a an expert. Unfortunately, his recent temporary assignment. to that department's racketeering investigation seems to have been more in the • nature of a face-saving than anything else If Mr Molev now feels, as he says, that he can function better in connection with a new liberal weekly magazine than in an official capacity, it is easy to believe that his close personal association with the President will continue This newspaper wishes him the best of luck In the new venture. W ITHOIT A BREAK 'l - 'HE state of Washington Tuesday is rx--1 peeled to become the twenty-fourth state to ratify repeal of national prohibiiton. Saturday. Texas voted for the repeal amendment. So with monotonous regularity, rhe once arid regions of the south and west .tom the wet parade Not one state so far has voted in favor of prohibition in this referendum No wonder that Bishop Cannon, the oratorical big gun of the drys, iust has sailed for Europe He has seen the handwriting on the ballot boxes. As Postmaster-General .Times A Farley in his campaign in Vermont is felling the voters the question is not "shall'' the eighteenth amendment be repealed Ini* when The tune element is important not only to wipe out the travesty of enforcement, but also for financial reasons Ttx relief is needrd Liquor taxes automatically will be- repealed if prohibition repeal beer s eflective before the first of the year But if repeal is delayed until January or later, those special taxes automatically will carry through the entire year Apparently -H i re now is little danger that ratification by the thirty-sixth state will be delayed beyond December. But it would be very foolish for the repeal forces to accept as certainty that which can be assured only by pre ing the fight until the lasi necessary state is in. IF THIS BE DICTATORSHIP - - - PROFESSOR WILLIAM F. OGBURN. University of Chicago sociologist who quite properly resigned last week from the NR A Consumers Board in protest against its donothing police, is in the headlines again. This time it is with a speech predicting the decline of democracy and the spread of dictatorship Handicapped by inability to foretell the future, we ran not compete with the professor as a soothsayer. He may be right or he may be wrong about the future. But we disagree with him as to the present. To imply, as he is reported to have, that dictatorships are more efficient than democracies because they are quicker in meeting issues is muddy thinking, in our judgment. The world's most severe dictatorship just has fallen in Cuba, while the Russian dictatorship survives and grows stronger. The German democracy has collapsed, while the American democracy is showing greater powers of recuperation than many dictatorships These examples are typical. They prove that it is impossible to generalize with accuracy. The fact is that there are efficient and inefficient, strong and weak, dictatorships, just as there are-efficient and inefficient, strong and weak, democracies. The mechanical form of a government, when tested by experience seems to be much less important than other factors Among the factors certainly the ability of the men in power and the spirit of the people are important. The relative success of the Russian dictatorship and of the American democracy today is due largely in both cases to the willingness of the people to follow the government, even at great sacrifice And the failure of the German democracy ,nd of the Cuban dictatorship was due largely to the peoples loss of faith in the governmental leaders, rather than in the governmental forms. When quick government action is necessary to save a situation, a dictatorship has more power to compel such speed than has a democracy—in theory but not always in fact The Russian dictatorship was unable to carry out its farm planning program quickly while the American democracy cut its cotton production almost overnight. Speed in meeting emergencies, which Professor Ogburn finds so important in a government's survival, obviously depends far more on the spirit and temper of the pepple

In relation to government leadership than on whether the form of government is a democracy or a dictatorship A dictatorship, no less than a democracy, depends for its life on consent cf the governed —as many fallen dictators have discovered to their sorrow,-. It is true that m national emergencies the chief executive must have extraordinary powers. similar to those of a cap'aln of a ship in a storm, if he is to pull the nation through. But a? has been proved repeatedly in the historv of the United S’ate? a democracy is capable of delegating ’hose extraordinarypowers to its executive. And when those unusual powers are delegated freely by the people, the democratic executive is apt to be more powerful than any other kind of dictator. Amenra is operating under a dictatorship today, probably the most powerful In the world. But the dictator was chosen by the votes of the people in a free election, and his temporary extraordinary powers were granted bv t|ie elected representatives of the people constitutionally. GET IT CIRCrLATING 'T'HE vast American caravan of recovery A moves forward. But its wheel? would turn faster :f creased by the vast spending power of $2,026,000,000 tied up In the 2.858 national and state banks that still are closed Recovery Chief Hugh S. Johnson is urging the treasury department to speed up the opening of these banks. He is asking this in a general demand upon banks that they loosen up in response to the appeals of reviving business and industry for loans which many banks are reluctant to make. The business men say they must have money to move the goods which are coming new in growing volume from the factories. The treasury department, we are glad to note, promises that the next sixty days will see the reopening of the 897 closed national and ninety-five closed state banks affiliated with the Federal Reserve system. These contain 5817.000.000 and 5204.000.000 respectively. Some 1.866 closed state banks which do not belong to the Federal Reserve system remain $1,005,000,000 in deposits. If measuring sticks are needed to help visualize the volume of spending power represented by the $2,026,000,000 we ofler below several such comparative measurements. The C 2.026.000.000 of deposits frozen up in closed banks represent: Two-thirds of the federal government's 53.300,000,000 public works appropriation. One-half of the total budgeted cost of the federal government for this year. One-sixteenth of the deposits in the nation’s banks now open. One-fifth of all the savings bank deposits in the country. One-twentieth of the total cost of the World war to the United States One-eleventh of the war debt ow’ed this country by foreign powers. One-third of all the money in circulation in the country at the end of June. 1933. These comparisons indicate how’ extremely important it is that the pledge of the treasury department officials be kept regarding the opening of the 992 Federal Reserve affiliates yet closed. And the federal government ought, we believe, to exert more far-reaching effort in stimulating the state to open up the 1.866 closed state banks and to get the $1,005,000,000 deposited in them circulating again in the country’s reviving commerce. Half enough money is tied up in all the closed banks to run the federal government for a year. Get it into the hands of the spenders! LABOR COMES INTO ITS OWN A MERICAN labor can take a hitch in its ** pants and cock its hat over one ear when it celebrates Labor day this year. On every Labor day that any one can remember. the nation has handed the working man a lot of flowery tributes about the nobility of his toil, and has complimented him with sugary phases for being the backbone of the republic. Thus year, for the first time, the nation is beginning to act as if it meant all those things. In that fact then* is signalized the opening of a great new vista for labor. It has its charter of freedom, at last: it has its ny>st valiant friends in high places at Washington: it has a pretty definite assurance that it is not going to get marked cards from the bottom of the deck any longer. And on the coming Labor day. so significant with its promise of anew deal for the man who works for wages, it might be an extremely good thing if the men who own and direct the physical properties of the United States would sit down for a moment and meditate on the debt that they owe to labor. Labor has played ball during the trying years of the depression It has paid for those years in acute hardship—in hunger, in want, in loss of hope, in disappointment, in unwanted idleness. It has been tned as never before. It has seen the promises of former Labor days turned into mockeries by the economic collapse. But i: has kpt the faith. It has not turned radical, it has not opened its brawny hands to destroy the system which let it down. It simply tightened its belt and waited for a break in ihe luck. Now the has come. Labor can celebrate this holiday as never before. Its rights are written into federal law—its rights to a job. its rights to a living wage and a decently short working day. its rights to organize in its own way to protect its status. The federal government is pledged to see that those rights are respected. With all of this, of course, goes anew responslbility. Labor has been given anew charter of rights: it is up to labor, now. to demonstrate that this charter will not be abused, to prove that capital and consumer alike can get from labor the kind of cooperation that will be necessary if the last uphill pull to prosperity is to be completed. That such co-operation will be given is easy to believe. Anew day has dawned for the American working man. His past record makes one confident that he neither will abuse the privileges it brings him nor neglect the duties it entails.

THAT SPARE TIME VI r HAT are the .American millions now being turned loose anywhere from eight to forty hours weekly in that devil's workshop, idleness, going to do about it? Nothing to do at all Monday'or all Tuesday or all Wednesday. Holiday and no picnic to go to. With characteristic vision Grover Whalen, head of the New York recovery administration, leaps to the front with the appointment of a committee to help solve this great problem He says A large percentage of garment workers, who have been toiling in sweatshops as high as seventy hours a week, are about to return to work for a maximum of thirty-five hours weekly. What are *hev to dc with these thirtyfive hours saved?" What are the clerks in the countless stores and shops of the nation going to do wi’h the twenty hours and more a wek that w-ill be left hanging heavy on their hands? Mr Whalen expects that his committee will make New York City a great laboratory for the solution of the problem for the whole country. Tlie committee will find a reservoir of experience in the million Gotham victims of unemployment who can testify well to the effects of a life of no work and also no play. The problem of these in solving itself through new jobs will make a problem of leisure for the now employed. The former has been bearing the whole brtmt of the inevitable consequence of the technological age—a surfeit of leisure. Now leisure is to be distributed. Obviously tlie general solution will cost money and greater effort. It will, doubtless, in great part take the form of community activities, such as cultural, musical, choral and sporting activities. Education will have to be provided along new lines for people all the way from the cradle to the grave. Mr. Whalen and his committee will be pioneers in what is to become the foremost problem of the American people. In the answer to that problem will come a vast new growth of enlightenment and new sinews for true democracy. NO MORE TOOTHACHES T"vR. FRANK M CASTRO, p.esident-elcct of the American Dental Association, predicts that the toothache will be practically unknown in another hundred years. The science of preventive dentistry is advancing so fast, and people are getting so well educated to its advantages, that few teeth ever will reach the stage in which they give pain. All this is a very glittering and attractive sort of picture, surely; and it leads one to speculate idly on the attitude our grandchildren will have when they look back at the conditions under which we are living today. We ourselves look back at Elizabethan times and wonder how on earth people ever endured the manifold u.:/'omforts and physical inconveniences of that era; and, by the same token, we thank our stars that we live in a more enlightened age. May not our grandchildren, reading of the torments we suffered from aching teeth, wonder how’ we ever put up with such things? We haven't read that new laundry code yet. but w'e trust there's something it in that will prohibit divorce litigants from washing their dirty linen in public. That world's fair midget who fired a pistol to attract the attention of a dancer with whom he was in love probably was just trying to make her think that he w’as a Big Shot. The loan shark is a very diligent man—he takes so much interest in his work.

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THERE are two basic theories of medicine. One i. that promising remedies are justifiable for the sake of knowledge. The other is that doubtful remedies should be avoided ffor the sake of the patient. No one has been able to draw a satisfactory lyre between them, and the chances are that no one ever will There are too many doubtful cases and too many premising remedies. Dr Evan says that “many doctors still have to learn that when the operation is more dangerous than the condition to be remedied, the surgeon should not operate." Dr Harold B. Disbrow says, “before you perform an operation, involving any risk for the patient, don't consult your professional views, but ask yourself would I perform this operation, under these conditions, on my mother?” Such sentiments are not only beyond question. but beyond practice. In theory, no remedy should be applied if it is worse than the disease, but if a disease is sure to be fatal and to involve excruciating pain, how can any remedy be worse? a a a IT goes without saying that medicine was made for men. but largely through such blunders and experiments as one does not like to think about. If doctors had hesitated to apply remedies or perform operations where grave risk was involved. they would not know as much as they do today. On the other hand, some of them have been altogether too free with the knife and drugs, not only for the sake of science, but the sake of fame and revenue. It is easy enough lor a doctor or even a layman to sit back while in good health and prescribe rules under which an operation should be performed, but just let a case of cancer pop up or a fractured skull and see how quickly those rules break down. All patients want to live or to be relieved of severe pain. Their relatives and friends feel the same way about it. In critical cases, there always is doubt, and the doubt is such as to make emotionalism, rather than intelligence, the deriding factor. The-, doctor can guarantee nothing, and neither can any one else. OSS IF relatives and friends refuse to permit an operation under such circumstances and the patient dies, thev always regret it. If an operation is performed and the patient dies, they are inclined to say that the doctor took unnecessary chances. It sort of puts the doctor on the spot. He should, of course, place human values above scientific values, but not to a point that woul<* prevent science from being of greater benefit to humanity. Though we would like to believe otherwise, medical progress calls for more or less gambling with iife. more or iess experimenting, guessing, and empiricism. Many operations that once were considered dangerous row are regarded as comparatively safe. That is because some doctors 'dared to take the risk. In the beginning, every new idea which deals with vital forces involves more or less hazard. but unless our notion of progress knd civilization is all wrong, refusal to try it involves even greater hazard.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TOTES

fTimet render* are ineited to rjprett , their t iurt in these column*. Make pour , letter* thort, to all can have a chance. Limit them to 2,10 word* or less.j , Bv Pulilir Srhnot Music Supervisor. I am writing in regard to the ar- J tide which appeared in a recent issue of The Times concerning the present status of the professional musician. First. I should like to qualify my position. I am in sympathy with die professional musician; I respect \ him and his profession; I have been a member of the American Federation of Musicians and at the present I am in service of the state as a supervisor of public school music. In the past the professional musi- , cian has taken a twisted attitude j toward amateur musical organiza- j tions and public school music. They j laughed, they scorned, they ridi- ! culed, and they made public music , teaching most difficult. Professional musicians were so sure, so certain of themselves! Indeed, they may be compared with the railroads. They took the attitude that was fatal. "We have the field and no one can take it from us," was their attitude. Tire economic order has changed the situation. No longer can the professional musicians sell their wares. Instead of dictating, they are dictated to. Music no longer is given to the public in small quantities. but on a wholesale scale, i Science and invention have supplemented the none-too-good music of the "old days" with a method that meets the public's demands. In the public schools we are not attempting to create music lovers. When music education has attained its goal, then the professional musician w ill come back to his own. j But even then it will mean that ! he will have to play a better pro- ; gram much more skillfully than he has done in the past. The standards are climbing higher and higher. The wonderful thing about an amateur organization is that the' members are not playing for money. They play for the love of playing.; Music is one of the greatest socializing subjects on the public school curriculum. Within my experience I have found many amateur music organizations rendering finer service then can be had by a professional group. This certainly is not always the j ease, for there exists some fine professional organizations. This may j be true in the indictments made against municipal bands and the Indiana university band. I suspect that within the organ-

'T'HJJ examination of a sick infant is a much more difficult matter for a physiciian than the examination of an adult; first, because the infant is of somewhat different structure, but more important because thp infant is not able to speak for itsrif as to its feelings of pain, distress or illness. Specialists in diseases of children therefore are compelled to make their diagnoses on the basis of their own observations largely, helped out somewhat by the advice of an intelligent mother or nurse. Thus one such specialist writes: “The theories of the mother and nurse as to the cause of the child's illness are usually of no value; but their opinions as to whether he is getting better or worse never are to be mad° light of."

EVERY now and then the "spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child" theory of punishment stages a puny comeback. For instance. Oklahoma'.' Governor and New York's police commissioner have come out as advocates of the whipping post. "The hardened young criminal." says the commissioner, “is convinced that the law of the land is the dollar." Quite so. And how correct he is With unerring judgment, the commissioner has put his finger upon the vital soft spot, the stain upon our body politic, which no lash, however vigorously applied to the back of a boy. can wipe out. Somehow it's incredible that we should be talking of whipping posts today. 1* illustrates into what

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

Diagnosis of Baby’s Illness Is Difficult

. : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : — BY MRS, W ALTER FLrtGI SON—"" ’ ’—-

Husbands First Bv .? T. Fraier. T BELIEVE the NRA to be a great thing, but it should see that the married man with children is given first consideration for a job. I know r several young boys who finished high school last year who have been given work at the Big Four shops in Beech Grove, while men with children, who have been working for baskets of food from the county, stood outside the gates, begging for a chance to support their wives and children. These young boys, sons of foremen and wealthy men. have taken the jobs. What's to keep us from eating charity, if we are not the boss’ son or a special friend of a boss? izations this unemployed musician indicts are several musicians who can perform better than he. The statements can not be objectively verified by any one. However, I should like to see the secretary of local No. 3 attempt it. It would be most difficult to prove that these amateur bands produced poorer music than a professional band. With the same imbiber in each organization, the difference in the cost greatly would overbalance the music produced! Allow me to generalize and arrive at a conclusion, lest I take an unfair share of the column. Now, when the public is educated musically there will be a demand for the professional musician. His music must be of a higher quality than ever before His status in the economic order will be respected and hLs compensation for his music will be ample. The music profession will be limited to the "artist" type that produces the very best. Canned music never will leave, but it will be reduced greatly. The solution now* depends on education. The public is critical. It can not be fooled with mediocre music. When YOU, the professional musicians, meet the standards, you will find a need for your services. In all. you can not produce what the public is demanding. Bv Rrarirr and S'ormrr Inmatr. In your paper some time ago I noticed th* statement of Mr. Lemon in regard to the penal farm. I wish to make the statement that there should be penal institutions and that Mr. Lemon told the actual truth about the penal farm, only he did not tell half enough. I per-

BY I)R. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of thr American Mrdlral Association of Il%gria. the Health Macarine.

Hence, the doctor is likely, first, to obtain from the mother an exact record of the child's illness, and principally the reason why she thinks the child is ill. While it is possible to tell from the face of an adult much that is of importance in relationship to his health, it is simpler to do this in the case of a child, because the faces of children are not marked by the lines and furrows which characterize those of grownups. A child looks well, probably feels fairly well, but it is not safe to trust absolutely to the appearance of the child on this point. The child who is listless, drowsy, flushed, at.d breathing with difficulty, is obviously ill. That one who

| moral depths we have fallen and • proves how incapable we still are of dealing intelligently with the crime problem. a a a ’T'HE whipping post never has worked in any age as a crime deterrent. It never will do so. It is a veritable breeding place for lawi lessness. the tool of tyrants All the progress we have made in the study of the human mind—and that is much—proves that corporal punishment. physical torture, use of brute power, are methods of creating and not of reforming criminals. ; And how we evade the issue when we speak of these Their mention is a ruse by which we fool ourselves, i a drug to soothe our conscience.

| sonally got at good break there, but | lots of the unfortunates did not. I know where some of the inmates who worked in the shirt factory did not g*t their task out and that Capj tain Armett would take them and boat, slap and kick the men awful. I have heard him call the men vile names more than once and have seen him slap men for talking in i line. I know* of oik o ase where a Tip- • ton man who worked in the carpenter shop was outside of the shop ! and happened to look over the edge of the stone quarry and iie saw* one of the guards beating a man with a club. Tlie guard hapiiened to look up and see him and said, calling him a vile name. "Maybe you want some of this, too." The Tipton man never said a word, and a few days later this guard found out who he was and that night he came to the line where he was and cursed him and threatened to smack him in the mouth. In regard to the sawmill guard of whom Mr. Lemon speaks, that is true. I never heard a man who could beat this guard swearing. I want to say that >omr of the guards should be inmates there or some place else. I know of one case where a man said he rather would spend his time in Michigan City than there and a stool pigeon told on him and . they put this man in chains. As to the grub. I have seen cockroaches in the cornbrcad. I could | sav a whole lot more, but won't at [ this time Now don't cet me wrong. Fot myself. I had a good break, but felt sorry for the other unfortunates.

So They Say

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.— Hugh Walpole, novelist. An annual income of SIOO,OOO i.s a sure symptom of social disease.— The Rev. C. W Tinsley, Cresson, Pa. I know* that prohibition will be repealed this year, for not in fifteen years has the mint, grown so tall. —Former United States Senator Biair Lee of Maryland. It is hard to visit Europe and remain a pacifist.—Mayor James M. Curley of Boston.

is alert, smiling, and playful,-is more likely a well child. When the face is swollen, filled with fluid, and the eyes almost closed, the physician is lik >ly to expect some disturbance of the kidneys or heart, interfering with proper circulation of the blood and with elimination of fluid. The art of observation was in the past one of the most important in thp diagnosis of disease. More recently there has been a tendency to substitute for such observation measurements with instruments of various ttpes. and examinations of various body secretions and excretions. Tlie really competent, practical doctor is able to learn a great deal from his 'observation of the ill child and Is likely to spend a good deal of time in such study.

Thcrp is a way to solve this problem. a difficult, but effective, way. Take the dollar out of the law Work over the entire system from the ground up Reform the lawyer, too Substitute justice for technicalities. Repeal several million fool laws Introduce some simple, understandable mandates that are based on right and wrong. Educate the rich man to set an example of moral uprightness to the humble. Let our leaders in all fields free themselves from the taint of materialism, from greed for too much gold. When we have done these things, whipping posts will be for us what they actually are—relics of barbarism.

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It Seems to Me

!==• BV lIEYWOOD BROUN Jj N r E\V 'YORK Aug 28—A> agfl creeps on, I have b- tun n , worry about the fact that column:? .<? are very seldom loved I mean ,a jour public capacity. I understand ! that in private some of the bo- s are doing very well indeed. That may burn me up. but it do°s not concern me At least, not in open discussion I am thinking wholly of our position :n the great world at Large and I doubt that any code can sate us. There is something of endearment in such phrases as "veteran actor.” "venerable clergyman." "aged bard ” But "old newspaper man" guggi somebody with five weeks growth of white beard who wants to borrow $6

e a a Booth (lot a Br<ok~ X’OBODY evt r held It against Booth, ns far is I can ascertain, that he played Hamlet very many times And w hen a preacher plucks a sermon out from the barrel nobody gets mad Perhaps a few u,i\* awa\ But. after all. they do that to columnists all the time Only yesterday I w.i., talking of the five-day week There is no eifectivp movement a' the moment to make it apply to those who do a daily column stint There should bo such a demand It ought to come from the consumers. Obviously the run-of-the-null columnist is not overworked. II• merely becomes more mill-like with he years. I have a notion that I would be quite a little better if I could only skip Friday This isn't a superstition I .im just making tiie point where the sag is likely to set in. Most Mondays are brilliant. I mean comparatively speaking. Here is the beginning oi anew week and the wage slave says, Now 1 am going to turn over a leaf., and actually settle down to-serious contemplation ’ But what can anybody do on a Friday? It marks the death of aspiration. Four days of disappointment all around already have gone into the record. The best the toiler can do is to resolve that during the next week he honestly means it. Saturday isn't so bad. Saturday is the traditional time for getting fired. In addition Saturday's issue :s t lie one which doesn't get read so much and so many of us use that particular time to let our hair down. It seems to me that most of what I call ni.v best has been published on this day. The impulse ha.‘ been. "Tilts is what I really want to say and thank heaven all my bosses are a wav tor the week-end and nobody will notice it " Even the copy desk seems to proceed hjkui th theory. "After all, this is Saturday. What doe.- it matter?"

tr a a The Old Bien t. St mins IN other arts then is no barrier . against returning to familiar pastures. Musicians hit keys which I they have known before and rej create old rapture among idolators. | Certain painters of undoubted fame I have toyed with the same theme many times. And surely no one would eomplain if Rudyarri Kipling were to return to his earlier manner But we. pitv us. must strike out each day or week upon some trail where w’hfte men have not set foot before. It seems to me that journalism sutlers from a lack of repetitiousness. No man can espouse more j than a limited number of good causes, and these are never won. Surely no man should bo condemned if he made it a practice to plead for free speech on alternate Thursdays through the year even if he had to polish up a few well-thumbed points in order to make his rase. a a a 'Things Worth R<pcating I TAKE great interest in books by men who went to war. [Each new indictment fills me with the hope that perhaps some breach has been made in the citadel of preparedness. And yet I do nor, find that every new author ha a mine of information never before revealed by any commentator. The world in general holds that reformers are somewjiat because they hammer on some tavorite theme. But. it must bo ’f milted that the children of darkness are a tenacious and courageous army. People with memories and clippings ought to remember that they are in a vast minority. The world as a rule forgets. If I myself can not remember that I said the same thing once before why should readers turn into elephants? iCopvr!2ir 'Sty bv Th? TimeM

Creation

BY HARRIET SC OTT OLIXICK Beauty i.s a capricious grand dame, To one she gives a wealth of hair, Spun by silversmiths, and fine as gold. Bit a soulless body, and eyes with a vapid stare. To another she gives lovely eyes. Made from velvet or clear aquamarine; But to this she adds colorless ha;r, And a body both awkward and lean. To another she grants a slim body. Os transparent whiteness and smooth as a rose; But she adds for her own strange enjoyment A face spoiled bv a long crooked nose. To another she gives geniu and a beautiful soul. But a body both misshapen and bent. Do you suppose beauty herself .3 tired of beauty. Or is merely malevolent?

Daily Thought

You can't play golf without concentration: you can't do anything without it —John D. Rockefeller Sr. The Lord awardeth me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.-II Samuel 22 21. WHAT has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?—Horace.