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MR. BROUN, MEET MR. HULL T TEYWOOD BROUN, in his column on the resignation of Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley. say.it "Now certainly no national executive of any caliber willingly would choose Cordell Hull for any cabinet post. ... I have never regarded Raymond Moley as an authentic whirlwind, but he certainly is a man of far more ability than Cordell Hull. After all, who isn’t?” Our disagreement with Mr. Broun’s opinions are frequent and pass without comment. We are replying to the columnist in his instance not because of his opinion, but because we think he is wrong in his facts. The standards which we and Mr. Broun would fix for a cabinet officer, and particularly for a secretary of state, probably are similar. Secretary Hull, with all his faults, is superior in intelligence and integrity to most of the secretaries of state since Mr. Broun can remember. Indeed, Mr. Hull has two virtues which probably would commend him especially to Mr. Broun if the latter were familiar with his record. Mr. Hull is not on terms of Intimacy with the international bankers and business interests which hitherto usually ha\e dominated American foreign policy. Though not a radical, Mr. Hull has not taken orders from those special Interests, as most of his recent predecessors have done. Secretary Hull has another virtue which Is not common in the Roosevelt or any other cab.net. He is not a yes-man. He had the courage, the conviction, and the ability to fight—virtually alone among Democratic politicians—for tariff reduction when Raskob and his party worshipped the Hooverian gods of protectionist prosperity. That is not the w r av a political hack operates. At the London conference. Secretary Hull had sufficient courage to attack economic nationalism even to the point of holding apart from the new' Roosevelt-Moley policy. He continues to oppose economic nationalism. And the fact that Mr. Moley, rather than Mr. Hull, has resigned, is fairly strong evidence that the President is turning toward the Hull foreign policies. Now', of course, Mr. Broun is free to agree or disagree with the Hull policies. But he is not free, if we understand the Broun code of sportsmanship, to hit below the belt. When Mr. Broun Implies that Secretary Hull is merely a political hack of no ability, we believe he Is guilty of a foul-doubtless because he is unacquainted with the man and Ignorant of the man’s record. Mr. Broun could have a good time, if he liked, discussing the inadequacy of Mr. Hulls old-fashioned brand of economic liberalism. But that’s another matter, one which Mr. Broun, busy calling names, didn t bring up.

MILK AND BREAD TO balance the lean years against the_ fat and to plan agriculture. Secretary Wallace announces that American wheat acreage will be reduced 15 per cent next year. This is part of the new deal plan to raise farm purchasing power and bring order to a basic industry that heretofore has been operating on the basis of “rugged individualism to the detriment of itself and the whole world. The basis for world agreement on wheat production, wheat export and import has been laid at the London conference. No greater step In international co-operation has been taken in recent years. Now, in line with that agreement, the American government, with the American farmer co-operating, is prepared to reduce acreage planted in wheat by nearly 10,000,000. If the plan works, if the international accord is fulfilled, this means that those who need bread in this country will have a better chance of getting it, for farm prosperity, especially wheat farm prosperity, helps national prosperity. The secretary's announcement of his wheat plan coincides with the decision of a District of Columbia Judge upholding the constitutionality of the agricultural adjustment act. The court, with congress, recognizes the national emergency in agriculture and on this basis, chiefly, approves the law that permits the government to do its utmost to meet the emergency. The court decision upheld the right of the government to impose licenses upon milk dealers in the Chicago area. In the agreements between processors of farm products and the right of the government to license these markets lies its ability to enforce its plans to increase farm purchasing power. A HERO OF HEROES FIRE CHIEF JOHN B. LONE of Kearney, N. J, is dead because he tned to keep a Christmas from being spoiled for a group of orphaned children. The story goes back a long way—nearly six years, in fact. On Christmas eve in 1927 a Kearney orphanage caught fire. The orphans were all saved, but after they had been rescued Chief Lone noticed that they stood around watching the flames, crying disconsolately. "Why the tears?” he asked. And he learned that all the Christmas toys for the youngsters were stored inside the building. Santa, it seems, had left them there, and he was due to come back and distribute them very shortly; now they were going to be burned up, and Santa would be so disappointed that he probably never would visit the Kearney orphans again. So Chief Lone—well, if you know firemen you don't need to be told, do you? He made a dozen trips into the burning building, cornbag out each time with his arms full of toys,

until he had saved the whole lot. Then he collapsed. Next day he came down with double pneumonia. He got over it, but his health was ruined; and the other day an illness arising directly from the over-exposure and overexertion of six years ago took his life. Now that’s all there is to the story. And It’s not especially remarkable, because the woods are full of firemen who w'ould have done precisely the same thing. But there is something about it that puts a lump in one’s throat, Just the same. Every once in a while some perfectly ordinary human being comes along and does something which proves that the human race has a whole lot more nobility and splendor than most of us ever imagine. Self-preservation may be the first law of nature, and selfishness may be the motive power for most of our actions —but a sweating fireman can toss his life into a burning building to keep a few ragged kids from having an unhappy Christmas, and can consider the achievement well worth the cost. If you like to hunt for proofs that human beings can be, after all, only a little lower than the angels, you must chalk this stunt of Fire Chief John B. Lone up near the head of the list.

EDUCATED DETECTIVES -pvR. RICHARD H. PAYNTER, psychologist of Lofrig Island university, makes an appeal for college trained sleuths in the nation's police departments. Police efficiency and progress, he declares, depend upon thorough training in detective science. Detective work is one kind of work which, in a way similar to engineering, ought to require scientific preparation. Too iquch fuss, however, is made over mere college training. Colleges, by delaying entrance into active life, harm many a person while helping many another. Certainly an Individual gifted with a fine detective sense w’ould be wasting his time if he spent too long in academic halls. But it seems that police departments far from inviting, place obstacles in the way of bright minds who naturally would take to crime detection. The foremost barriers are the low pay and the long period of night club swinging required, for detectives are drawn from the ranks of patrolmen. Too often they are promoted to detective grade not because of special gifts in that line, but because they performed some heroic senice. The higher detective pay was the only material way of rewarding them. Large cities, it seems, might well set up departments of detective science in their institutions of higher learning, and even in some of the high schools. They should also provide pay high enough to attract more skilled and trained minds. In saying this we do not disparage the great skill and mental gifts of many detectives now in service.

THE WHEAT AGREEMENT 'I"'HE large wheat-producing nations have signed an agreement which promises restoration of better times on the farms, one basis of prosperity. Enthusiastically, one of our delegates to that London conference hailed the compact as assuring dollar wheat. We hope it does; certainly this expert is better able to prophesy than we are. Even if this peak is not attained, but instead wheat prices are stabilized at a somewhat lower figure, and the dangerous surplus of grain removed, the wheat agreement will be about the only important accomplishment in international co-operation during the depression to date. Upon the basis of this agreement, the Roosevelt administration now may go ahead with its program to reduce wheat production here, knowing that while it endeavors to plan United States agriculture, other nations will not dump millions of bushels of grain. Generally, and when artificial pegs are not used, the United States price of wheat is set in the world market. Reduction of production here would have been in large part a useless gesture if other wheat-growing countries meanwhile increased their acreage. Not the least important phase of this international agreement is that providing for a general scaling down of wheat tariffs when the bushel price is stabilized at about 63 cents gold (about 91 cents at present) exchange rates) over a four-month period.

A PRESIDENT’S POWER \ VIRGINIA coal mine owner, irritated because his employes insisted on joining unions—as they are entitled to do, under the industrial recovery act —is said to have declared angrily that “neither Franklin D. Roosevelt nor any one else can run my mine.” It isn't hard to understand the gentleman’s state of mind; but someone ought to point out to him that he made a pretty broad statement which might, just conceivably, have to be taken back some day. More than a quarter century ago there was a Roosevelt In the White House, and he came within an inch or so of demonstrating that the President can run any coal mine he pleases. He was ready to march the United States army in and operate the mines himself, to break a strike deadlock; the operators, however, yielded, and he didn’t have to. Today’s emergency is more serious than that of twenty-five years ago; and the present Roosex’elt seems quite as ready to take drastic measures as the other one was. BAN THE MACHINE GUN 'T'HE New York legislature has passed a law putting the submachine gun, favorite weapon of gangland, under the ban. This law makes it a felony for any person except a peace officer to possess such a gun. It provides that the presence of a machine gun in any dwelling or vehicle is prima facie evidence of guilt upon the part of the occupants. Here Is whaf seems to be a very excellent law. and it is hard to think of any good reason why every other state in the Union should not copy it at once. The way in which sale and possession of murderous weapons like submachine guns—which can not conceivably be needed by any honest persons—has been permitted to go cm unchecked is nothing less than astonishing. A law like New York’s, properly enforced, ought to put quite a crimp in underworld activities.

EXPERT TESTIMONY? MARRIAGE, according to Clyde Kinsey, is a very fine thing. Mr. Kinsey thinks he Is qualified to speak as an expert. He has been married nine times and is about to be married at Springfield, Mo., a tenth time —this time to wife No. 8 again. Mr. Kirfey’s case reminds us that all of us do a great deal of generalizing on Insufficient evidence. Most of us who are married have been that way only once, but we all have our firm opinions about marriage, anyhow. Os course, the same word is capable of meaning different things to different people. It is possible to hold the view that Mr. Kinsey is the one who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. We can imagine some couple celebratfng a golden wedding anniversary who might take the view that Mr. Kinsey's views about marriage are quite worthless on the ground that in one sense of the word he had never been married at all. And they might be right.

A HOSPITAL’S MISTAKE A MAN who was taken for emergency treatment to Lakewood hospital, Cleveland, was turned away without adequate care and died shortly afterward in jail from a skull fracture and brain concussion. It is reported that the hospital attendants thought the man was drunk. They say they smelled liquor on his breath. Investigation is going forward to determine whether the man had had any drinks, before or after the accident in which he received his head injuries. Whether he had anything to drink, and whether he actually was drunk, bears not at all on the question of the hospital’s negligence. A drunken man is susceptible to serious injury no less than a sober man, and the examination should not be any less thorough in such a case. Doctors probably make fewer mistakes at their business than the rest of us do at our business; but the consequences of their errors are far more serious. At hospitals treating emergency cases, vigilance must correspond to responsibility. Pennsylvania dispatch says man was injured seriously by bursting truck tire. Another argument against inflation? We've just been waiting for some reformer to insist that the nudists should be covered by a blanket code. California’s governor refused to approve state income tax law, on ground it was “unsound in principle.” No doubt Californians received this news with a great deal of interest. In the opinion of most husbands, the man who “tells his wife all he knows” doesn’t know very much. Research experts at Ohio State university are trying to develop better chinaware. How about a self-washing dish for tired housewives? A palmist seems to devote so little thought to his work—he always gives his opinions just ofj hand. Scientist claims blonds are the most economical women. Probably it’s because of the lighter overhead. That leather-lunged Illinois farm woman who won a “husband calling contest” at Chicago fair shouldn’t be too proud of her laurels. Plenty of soft-voiced city women are experts when it comes really to “calling” a husband. The clothing industry deserves a lot of sympathy. Just as it thought it had the depression licked, along came this nudist fad, Judging by the experience of many farmers, the hardest thing to raise on a farm is money.

M. E.Tracy Says:

FRANKLY, there is one phase of this recovery agitation hwich I do not understand. If shorter hours and higher wages are good for private business, why aren’t they good for public business? If increased buying power is the big idea, why all this campaigning for retrenchment by cities, towns and states? I am not talking about the waste or extravagance which should be eliminated in every kind of business, but about the commotion in favor of those economies which are bound to reduce public pay rolls. If private business can get its money back through increased buying power, why can’t taxpayers? We are asking people to pay more for bread and cotton goods to give more people work. At the same time, we are yelling for municipalities to cut expenses,- even though they must reduce the number of employes. If the object is to put more people to work, and if we are justified in forcing private business to cut hours to attain it, what is the excuse for taking an opposite course with regard to schools, police forces, fire departments, and so on? 00# IKNOW the stereotyped answer. Taxes are too high, government is too costly, politics is too incompetent, and all that. Still, w T e are going in for a great public works program, just as though it meant something of constructive value to fire a school teacher, a cop, or a street cleaner and then find them jobs on a bridge, a housing project, or in a*forest camp. Ia mwe,l aware that many people think that all branches of government need to be developed and that much of our public service is in the nature of a.luxury, but the same thing can be said with regard to a lot of things we buy and that we must go on buying if business conditions are to be improved. It strikes me that the cry for retrenchment insofar as it throws people out of work and curtails legitimate activities is opposed to the basic idea of our National Recovery program. This cry has little to do with honesty or efficiency, but concerns itself with a definite demand for reduction of taxes, even when it is perfectly obvious that such reduction will hurt, rather than help, the employment situation. 000 \ S a general proposition, we are taking a very different attitude toward public business than toward private business. While we insist on expansion for the latter, we want the former cut down, particularly in all phases of local self-government. When it comes to the federal government, we are more liberal. This paradoxical attitude is one of confidence or lack of it. To a measurable extent, we have lost faith In local government, which is curious, since ws obviously can exercise a greater voice in its conduct than in that of the federal government. The question is, if we can’t run things at the bottom, can we run them at the top?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times leaders are invited to empress their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 150 words or less.) By M. K. In The Times recently, I read an article regarding the drug code, exempting registered pharmacists from minimum hours and salary. This stirred me up. I have been looking for a position as drug clerk for two years and could not find a job. There are several unemployed pharmacists in Indiana. What is the NRA sign on the drug store windows for? The pharmacist today has to work more hours than anyone else, seven days a week, from twelve to fifteen hours a day. I thought that sweatshop hours were abolished when the NRA came into existence. How can I obtain employment ..when they work one man where two men should be? The most remarkable thing about the drug code is that it does not pertain to druggists, only to the restaurant and cigar part of the store,'and still it is called a drug code. Under this code, the pharmacist’s hours are increased in some cases so that he also can work at the soda fountain and other parts of the store when a soda dispenser is released from work due to their shortened hours. He receives no extra pay for working extra. Why? Because he is exempt from the NRA code. Is a pharmacist a professional because he works for someone else long hours and receives a starvation salary? He never was regarded as a professional until the NRA came into existence. The big drug interests who have helped cause this depression still are at work. They have blinded the eyes of those at Washington. I appeal to you to investigate why the pharmacist did not come under the blanket or any other code while everyone else did, and write a statement in your paper, so the unemployed pharmacist will know why he can not get a job under the NRA. I enjoy reading the pink Times immensely and couldn’t do without it. Yours for success.

IF the average person takes a pint to a quart of milk daily, one egg, a half glass of orange or tomato juice, one or two vegetables, either fresh or canned, and meat (including liver, kidney, heart, or sweetbreads at least once weekly), he probably will not have to worry about getting a sufficient quantity of vitamins. These are the substances which are richest in the vitamins now 7 known. It is well established that orange juice and tomato juice are the best available sources of Vitamin C. It has been fairly well established that orange juice, for its vitamin C, aids the growth of the teeth and gums. Vitamins D and A are both found most richly in cod liver oil, but are also present in egg yolk. The banana is rather rich in vitamins A and C, but also contains

ONE must admire the courage of the prohibitionists. W. C. T. U. rallies go on with punctual regularity and speeches still are being made about the glories of the eighteenth amendment. At a recent gathering of this kind, a minister talked at length of the moral degeneracy of the American woman. According to him. that once pure and noble being has become a whited sepulcher of evil. “How,” he thundered, “can we expect to improve conditions when women set such bad examples to their men and children?” The only thing left, as I see it, is for us to abdicate as “example setters. and let the men take over the job for a while. We’re ready to admit failure. It's their turn next.

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- Meat, Eggs, Milk Are Rich in Vitamins ... . . ——BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN t.

A Woman’s V ■ ■——pi MRS, WALTER

Who Is Rule? By Worried Reader. WHO is Perry Rule? Lately this gentleman placed the same announcement in the public forum of each Indianapolis newspaper as a defense of the McNutt administration and, as usual, each of the three Democratic newspapers of the capital city gave him space. By any chance, is Rule a McNutt appointee who, appearing in the role of a citizen in private life, spends his time as a defender of Indiana’s unconstitutional government? Several months ago there was named as '“public defender” a man named Minton, attached to the public service commission. His salary is $6,000 a year, and a law partner of said Minton, E. B. Stotsenburg, also was named a highway commissioner. Much discussion arose of late how the highway commission is locating

Questions and Answers

Q—How many persons are employed in first, second and third class postofflees in the United States? A—There are 184,355 employes, including postmasters. Q_Give the number and bed capacity of the hospitals in the United States. A—The American Medical Association lists 6,852 hospitals with a bed capacity of 9974,115, not including 51,500 baby cribs. Q —Name the United States senators from Missouri. A—Roscoe C. Patterson, Republican; and Bennett Champ Clark, Democrat. Q—ls it true that man is the only animal that can not swim instinctively? A —All animals except man, some of the monkeys and perhaps the three toed sloth, either swim instinctively or go through the motion of swimming when sud-

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both parts of vitimin B, or as it is sometimes known, vitamins F and G. Practically, all fresh fruits are fairly rich in vitamins A and B, including particularly peaches, prunes, cantaloupes and cherries; and many of the berries, such as the strawberry, are rich in vitamin C. Spinach, the clown of the vegetable family, is the best available source among all the vegetables for all the vitamins. Furthermore, it provides reasonable amounts of iron and other mineral salts. The amount of vitamin B in a vegetable may be determined roughly by the color. The yellow vegetables, such as carrots and yellow corn, are rich in vitamin A, whereas

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The idea that a nation’s women set its moral standards is pretty much bunk. A wide reading of history will prove its fallacy. And the theory that we must be noble and pure, inciting the males to holiness and good works, is very sweet sounding, but it has been disproved and worn out. Therefore, i dislike to see women sit quietly under such blanket indictments of their sex, even W. C. T. U. women. So far as the eighteenth amendment is concerned, it failed because men refused to obey and enforce it. Every other law fails for the same reason. No nation is better than its fathers. When these United States were in the making, the men pos-

roads, with Minton appearing in the background to advise the commission, which leads many of us to believe that state roads in the present organization will be located, paved, or improved, if by doing so the political fortunes of Minton can be advanced until he looms as a senatorial candidate. To aid Mr. Minton and also make it appear that the public service commission is accomplishing marvelous feats at utility rate reductions —please cite one major reduction, as I don’t wish to overlook any—a newspaper man was employed to popularize the P. S. C. Yes, his salary is $5,000 a year and a liberal expense account. As you may judge, I am curious to know what McNutt is paying Mr. Rule, his civilian publicity champion, who in his role of W'riting on all subjects, defending King Paul, occupies sc- much so-called valuable newspaper space. Please investigate if Mr. Rule is on the state pay roll, obtains a check from private state funds, or is paid through the beer fund.

denly immersed in water. There are several animals that drown easily, such as rabbits, mice, moles and the smaller cats, because their fur becomes saturated and drags them down. Q —What does the name Vernice mean? A —lt is a variant form of the feminine name Bernice from the Greek. It means “bringing victory.” In Slavic languages, the “b” and “v” frequently are interchanged. Q—When was the alarm clock invented? A—lt is not known w'hen the alarm or striking mechanism of the clock first was applied. It was an early invention, and the oldest clock, of which there is a complete description, had a striking mechanism. This was the clock in the tower of the palace of Charles V of France in 1379, made by a German named Henry De Vick.

white corn has -none and letttuce relatively little. Leaf lettuce is much richer in vitamin A than head Ltttuce, and indeed richer also in vitamin B. Turnip greens and the tops of beets also are well recognized as excellent sources of common vitamins. Many meats formerly consigned to the garbage can now are recognized as the most valuable in vitamin content. Liver, kidney, and heart are rich in both vitamins A and B. and contain also mineral salts and jgood protein for body growth and repair. Milk, which long has been considered perhaps the best single food, contains vitamins A and G and also appreciable amounts of vitamin B. It is customary, however, to supplement milk for children with both orange juice and cod liver oil in order to make up the deficiency of vitamins normally present in milk.

sessed an unfalterable individual integrity, a code of honor that was the pride of half a hemisphere. They deemed it expedient to carry themselves morally upright before the eyes of theiir children, and their civilization, although crude, was not built upon hypocrisy and deceit. It’s no use flinging charges at women. For no mother, however excellent her intentions may be. can raise good children in a society that is evil. We are, more than we imagine, the victims of our environment. And the real martyr of this period is the good woman who tries to bring up her family rightly and who sees her hopes crushed and her dreams dissolved in the cursed materialistic codes of a machine age. She is vanquished before she starts.

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It Seems to Me =s BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—1 think that both Helen Wills and Raymond Moley erred gravely in defaulting. As far as the public weal goes, the retirement of Professor Moley probably is the more important happening. His resignation marks the first breach in the brain trust. In spite of the easy paragraphical kidding of the various men from universities. this group represents the best hope of the administration. You can’t expect anew deal from old political hacks. The Roosevelt cabinet and its accessories represent the sort of compromise which is all but inevitable after a national election. In spite of Mr. Farley’s optimism. Franklin D. Roosevelt hardly could have expected such easy sailing into office. And when a candidate faces a fight you hardly can blame him for accepting succor from any quarter in which he can find it. tt tt U Stuffed, Shirts Woodrow wilson, though labeled an idealist, made a grotesque appointment when he named William Jennings Bryan as his secretary of state. Mr. Bryan had been useful at Baltimore. He was just so much dead weight after all the missing precincts had reported. Now certainly no national executive of any caliber willingly would choose Cordell Hull for any cabinet post. But, like Bryan, Mr. Hull was of strategic importance in the convention. Something had to be done about him when the smoke of battle had cleared away. It is a pity that it was not possible to make him content with the post of minister to Liberia. Possibly the state portfolio was not a bad substitute. In the cabinet of a weak President, the secretary of state may be a dominant figure. But if the President is strong, the job is a mere sounding board. Franklin D. Roosevelt has run foreign affairs pretty much himself, and accordingly the ineptitude of Hull has been moderately academic. Until the clash came Moley represented a secondary check and muffler upon the gentleman from Tennessee. It is reported by newspaper men that on numerous occasions Mr. Secretary Hull has answered questions in a bewildered way, and answered, “Well you see, I really wouldn’t know anything about that. You’ll have to ask Professor Moley.” a a a Let Best Man Win MANY observers have noted the fact that the Roosevelt administration contains men of various views and kidney. It has been said that the President has been content to let these advisers fight it out in the hope that the best man might win. This is not a bad arrangement in the case of a candidate who originally represented a coalition of various groups. But it will be tragic if the palookas are to push over the people of greater consequence. v I never have regarded Raymond Moley as an authentic whirlwind, but he certainly is a man of far more ability than Cordell Hull. After all, who isn’t? I do not know what sort of pressure or persuasion brought about Moley’s retirement. I think he should have stuck to his post. Indeed, I believe that if he had only filled his lungs and exhaled once, he could have blown out Mr. Hull as readily as a candle on a birthday cake. If things are to go on this way, the first thing we know somebody will be getting out because Mr. Woodin doesn’t like him. President Roosevelt has done an amazing amount of work, and his later appointments, on the whole, have been better than those which were dictated by the afterglow of the campaign. Yet, after all. It is time for him to realize that this a four-year job at the very least. And surely nobody could want to have Cordell Hull hanging around him for any such span of time. Baa The Case of Helen Wills THE retirement of Helen Wills is neither of economic nor political significance, but it is a reflection on American sporting modes and manners. Although I do not hold that anybody should die for dear old Rutgers, it seems to me that even when Miss Wills was at her best her game somewhat outstripped her courtesy. I am in no position to know just how acute her symptoms may have been, but she could have gone through the motions of losing the necessary three games in a very few minutes. According to all accounts, she failed to shake hands with her conqueror, and the * statement which she gave to the press after mature deliberation was ungracious in the extreme. Since the spell once has been broken, I doubt very much whether Helen Wills in the months to come will dominate the courts as she once did. I think this is a consummation not to be deplored. I think her tennis epitaph will have to read, “She was a good player and a bad sport.” (Copyright. 1933, by The Time*)

Preserves

BY MALO TOPMILLER In th’ summer ma begins T makin’ peach preserves; Thet’s th’ time us kids begin T gittin’ on 'er nerves! Then Billy starts t’ ask Fer all th’ pans t’ lick; But ma puts him t’ the task An’ runs him wit’ th’ stick! Then we’re all a-standin’ ’round When ma begins t’ pour, Not a one t’ make a sound, Till a knock comes at th’ door! Thar’s a shuffle an’ a scuffle When ma goes t’ th’ d00r,.. Ma comes back t’ stop th’ bustle; But it seems thar ain’t no more!

Daily Thought

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. —St. Luke. 6 31. JUSTICE always whirls in equal measure.—Shakespeare.