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THURSDAY AUO. 11. 1933 THE COAL AGREEMENT ' I 'HE nation's coal miners finally have won their fight for collective bargaining. Under the code practically completed at Washington, the United Mine Workers of America will be recognized by both the northern and southern operators. That represents a major victory for the union—perhaps its greatest since the signing of the famous Jacksonville agreement. But it also is a victory for those progressive operators who have recognized that the only hope for a strife-free coal industry rests in collective bargaining. And of course, the agreement is a crushing defeat for the anti-labor policies of the Mel-lon-controlled Pittsburgh Coal Company and the Rockefeller-owned Consolidated Coal, which have fought bitterly since 1927 to “break" the union and keep their mines open shop. Asa matter of fact, the open shop operators' fight on this cardinal issue—collective bargaining—was doomed from the start. The national recovery act specifically guaranteed to labor the right to organize and to collective bargaining. Furthermore, the United Mine Workers had been active since the NRA’s passage, enlisting new members in the nonunion field. They claimed 300,000 new recruits in the last three months. The result was that the union went to Washington as the undisputed spokesman for the majority of the nation’s coal miners. It was recognized as such by the government and the progressive operators. And the MellonRockefeller group ultimately had to face the facts and accord the same recognition. Once that disputed point was passed, it became correspondingly easier for both sides to reach an agreement. The union leaders showed their willingness to compromise on the matter of working hours and wages. The fact that the operators finally surrendered on the collective bargaining issue does not mean, however, that they obtain no benefits from the code. In fact, their benefits are just as great as those of the miners. For the first time the operators will be protected against cut-throat competition and unfair trade practices. And they also will be safeguarded against unwarranted strikes and walkouts, such as have occurred frequently in the last few months. By recognizing the United Mine Workers, they recruit that organization as an ally to help police the industry'—to help keep peace in the strife-tom coal fields. With all these benefits that will go to operators and miners under the new code, the public is likely to be the greatest beneficiary. For years the coal districts have suffered because of low wages paid to miners. Such starvation rates of pay virtually have deprived the miner of any purchasing power; they have made out of him a public liability, instead of a public asset. This has cost merchants, banks, and industries millions of dollars in business. It has cost the taxpayers other millions in relief funds to care for these underpaid miners and their families. And the frequent strikes of the past few years have laid additional burdens upon the backs of every resident of these regions. Now the way is open for the restoration of the miner's purchasing power, through higher wages. And the end of Ihe disastrous strife between operators and miners seems definitely in sight. That is the best news the NRA yet has brought to the country.

GIVE ’EM SILENCE THE greatest flaw in the otherwise splendid record of Grover Whalen as New York police commissioner was his tendency to go ga-ga at the mere mention of Communism. The wise action of Commissioner Mulrooney In banning the clubbing of martyrdom and publicity-seeking Communists quickly took the reds off the first page in New York and set a wholesome pattern which police of the rest of the country were quick to copy. Now the extraordinarily valuable and effective service of the chairman of the New York City NRA is being jeopardized by Mr. Whalen's pet phobia. Every one except the NRA chiarman knows, or should know, that the latest manifestation of his anti-red complex—evidenced in his war on strike pickets—is a play directly into the Communists' hands. Publicity is pure oxygen to the nation's handful of gasping reds. If Mr. Whalen will just keep up his sham battle with the red windmills the local Leninites will rise up and call him blessed. The one weapon Communists most fear is deadly silence. OLD ORDER PASSES SERIOUS discussion of almost any question ends with the concession that "it all comes down to a matter of education.’’ Yet this gets us nowhere so long as it is left merely as an abstraction. In what way does dynamic education fit in with the conception of the new deal in American institutional life? The best brief answer to this is contained In two John Day pamphlets—A. Gordon Melvin's 'Education for the New Era: A Call to Leadership - ’ and * A Call to the Teachers of the Nation,” issued by the committee of the Progressive Education Association on social *nd economic problems. Perhaps the most valuable phase of Professor Melvin's work is the broad perspective It supplies for understanding the fact that we are really moving into anew era. He thus summarizes the old order which is passing: "The social structure which we are shuffling off is that of the oenod known to his-

torians as 'modem times.' The 'modem' period of history is over. “Its structure was laid down in the fifteenth century in unequivocal terms. Founded on the idea of freedom of the individual, it developed into democracy. Fathered by the reformation. It allied itself with prosaic Protestantism. “Drawing to its support the burgher and commercial classes, it flowered into capitalism. Caught in the upsweep of national structures, it led to militarism. “Seeking anew mode of secular self-pres-ervation, it discovered public education. The pattern of modern times became an interweaving of those modes of social existence known as democracy. Protestantism, capitalism. nationalism, militarism, and public education.” This system reached its culmination at the very close of the nineteenth century. In the last three decades it has begun to dissolve. Tne World war gave it a final death shock. A JOB FOR THE LEAGUE IN response to Hitler's menace to Austrian sovereignty. Premier Daladier announces that France will guard the political and economic independence of that country. Great Britain recently joined France in representations to Germany in the Austrian dispute. Italy also protested to Hitler, and in addition is forming a Danubian bloc against Germany. The Czecho-Slovakian foreign minister says he expects the big European powers to prevent a war. All that sounds well—the great-hearted and peace-loving powers getting ready to devour poor little Austria. But what has become of the League of Nations? All these powers are members of the league. So is Germany. The chief purpose of the league is to prevent war. There is elaborate league machinery for receiving and hearing complaints when peace is threatened. And it happens that the league is dominated in absolute fashion by the very powers now acting on their own in the Austrian muddle. In Geneva it is said that every effort is being made to keep the Austrian-German issue from reaching the league, for fear that it might destroy the league. The answer to that one is fairly simple. If the league can not function in a relatively easy case such as this, in which virtually every European government wants Austria protected from German Fascist encroachment, the league is dead already. The league's reputation is low, to be sure, and with good cause. But a decisive victory in this case would do much to revive the league's reputation and future usefulness. Germany, if haled before the international body, could not destroy the league by trying to withdraw. Only the league can destroy itself by cowardice and inaction, by failure to live up to its own covenant.

PHILOSOPHY IS NEEDED WORKING out a national philosophy to go with the vast experiment now being conducted at Washington is apt to be one of the most perplexing jobs the nation ever has undertaken. It is a job that must be done, for the present edifice of NRA, agricultural readjustment, bank control, currency experimentation and all the rest has arisen like a house without a foundation. We have not yet taken time to say exactly what it is that we want. We seem to be building a brand new form of society, but we have not the faintest notion what it is going to look like when it is finished. and we have been content so far to make up our blueprints as we go along. Fundamentally, of course, what we want is fairly simple. The whole country, rich and poor, radical and conservative, is united on one thing—there must not be a repetition of the collapse of the last three years. A land which is incomparably rich must not again let itself be racfcd by dire poverty. But beyond that the path is uncharted. No one seems to know whether we are drifting toward Fascism, Socialism—or neither. No one yet has advanced a coherent of economics, politics, or social organization to account for what we are doing. It is easy to say that we have left “rugged individualism” behind, but when is someone going to tell us precisely what we are going to have in its place? Nor is all this as unimportant as it may seem. Right now we still are pretty well bound together by the centripetal force of the emergency. We have shelved our differences of opinion to accept the program that has been offered us, knowing that any sort of program was better than continued inaction. Soon, however, the tension will ease, and when it does it will be in the highest degree necessary' for us to have some reasoned philosophy on which to base our “new deal" permanently. We will have to know just what it is working toward, just what it is designed to do. just how far it is intended to change our traditional system. In no other way will we be able to subject it to the intelligent argument and thorough debate which it must have. A DARING THEORY 'T'OR YEARS, the average male has forced himself to believe that women are superior drivers. He did so reluctantly and at times even skeptically. His skepticism was particularly strong whenever he had the misfortune to drive behind some woman motorist who wasn't quite sure where she was going and what she ought to do to get there. But Mr. Man's skepticism always was promptly squelched when the accident statistics made their annual appearance. There were the figures in black and white. No one could dispute their accuracy. And the statistics always proclaimed that women, not men, were the better drivers because they had less accidents. But now comes the Pennsylvania state highway patrol to the rescue of the downtrodden male. With the courage traditional to the force, it defies statistics and the glares of the fair sex. In blunt language it says: “Men are better drivers than women.” Then the patrol, which conducts all drivers’ license examinations in Pittsburgh, elaborates upon its daring theory. Women applicants, it says, know all the answers to such questions as “What is the speed limit in Pennsylvania? and "How closely can you follow a fire truck?” But when it comes to putting these answers

to practical use, the men do a better Job, says the patrol. They also pay more attention to traffic hazards and stop signs and usually are more skillful in handling the wheel. We don't know what that proves, but we venture to say <knowing the fair sex) that it doesn't end the argument. In fact, we doubt if it would be wise for male drivers to do too much crowing over their new victory, if it can be called a victory. Likely as not, the ladies will find some new champion to dispute the patrol's statement. And then the downtrodden male driver will be right back where he started. BEHIND INSULL’S DOWNFALL ANOTHER attempt is being made to get Samuel Insull to come back to the United States and answer for the way in which hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money slipped through his fingers; and it looks, this time, as if the effort might be successful. It would be gratifying, of course, to see Mr. Insull appear before the bar of justice. But there is no sense in letting all the public's indignation over the losses caused by shifty financiers be concentrated on his head. For Mr. Insull, after all, was only a symptom of an underlying malady. When a country goes in for frenzied finance as we went in for it, it is bound to have its Insull cases. To focus all our anger on the man himself instead of on the system under which he operated is to miss the point entirely. STABILIZING WHEAT THE international wheat agreement recently reached at London eventually may turn out to be one of the most important moves in the complicated game being played to bring the farmer back to prosperity. Behind the agricultural depression there has stood the simple fact that the world as a whole is able to raise a good deal more wheat than can be sold profitably. And because the wheat-growing areas are so widely separated and so diverse, it has not been possible for any one nation, acting alone, to do anything very effective about it. .The new agreement is designed to stabilize world production at a point which will give growers everywhere a decent profit. If it can help to assure that for the American farmer, we shall have taken a long step on the road back to good times. RACES AND BETTING TNDIANA legislators might cast a glance at the large revenues from pari-mutuel race betting established this year in New Hampshire. Increasing crowds rolled up, during the first twenty-eight days of racing at Salem track, state taxes of $183,351. And the track owners got $340,890 out of a betting total of $5,244,472. Indiana, multiplying these revenues, would be able to lighten the general tax load by a large figure if it passed the pari-mutuel law. Tennessee financier reported to have an option on 40,000,000 pounds of tobacco, giving him a monopoly on the crop. He’d better be careful; such holdings are apt eventually to go up in smoke. Prince of Wales had to sell his farm because he couldn’t afford to pay its losses any longer. He'd better move to the United States, where he’d be paid fer destroying the crops. Roosevelt administration has ordered slaughter of 5,000,000 hogs to promote recovery. Rather drastic, but a lot better than the politicians’ time-honored attempts to promote recovery by merely shooting bull.

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SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE predicts that not more than 25,000,000 acres will be planted in cotton next year. That should be encouraging to those who look for farmers’ economic salvation in reduced crops. But, and this is something to keep in mind, farmers would raise more cotton on 25,000,000 acres than on 40.000,000, by employing more scientific methods and a greater amount of fertilizer. Crops never have been and never will be a matter of acreage. If they were, the modern farmer could not compete with his jungle brother. We plant some 300,000,000 acres each year. We could produce twice as much on one-half the land, if we had to. France, not so large as Texas, supports a population of 40.000.000. Germany, about the same size, supports a population of 60,000,000. Intensive farming is the secret. If American farm land were as, well handled as Belgium farm land, the question of what to do with our supplies would be even more puzzling than it is. Meanwhile, changed habits of life have had and will continue to have a marked effect on farm products. ana COMPARATIVELY speaking, we are not consuming as much wheat, potatoes and corn as we once did. Automobiles do not eat corn, while the modern fad for reducing calls for less starchy foods. If we really are going to regulate produce markets, we must go into dietetics. Any one of half a dozen fads such as have cropped up during the last decade easily might convert a shortage into a surplus, or vice versa. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the world was getting along very nicely with a cotton crop of 1,000,000 bales. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was consuming 20.000.000 bales. A demand for explosives during the war pepped this up 15 or 20 per cent. Indeed, the demand was so great that we thought it necessary to have women shorten their skirts and reduce the weight of undergarments. The steam-heated house and closed car made it possible for millions to discard oldfashioned heavy clothing. a a a THERE is an overproduction of cotton, not because we have planted too much, but because we consume too little. The trouble is that no one knows how much we really need, or which way it will be affected by styles of the future. *'■ Among other things, paper napkins, paper tablecloths, and even paper underwear promise to play a part in the cotton market. Such innovations can not be ignored if we are to have planned economy. Production can not be adjusted to consumption merely by regulating the former. To know how much he should raise of a given commodity, the farmer must know how much of it people will consume. When you take the gamble out of agriculture you will come pretty near taking it out of everything. At present we are insisting that crops be curtailed, while at least half the people in the world lack enoughHo eat and wear. That may be all right from tn economic standpoint, but it looks pretty tough from a human standpoint.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a. chance. Limit them to 2~>o icords or less.) By believer in fairness Thanks to The Times for inviting its readers to express their views on different things. Why not the budget be cut for the city and help the overburdened taxpayers? Much has been said and done in regard to schools and teachers’ salaries. Why not ask our council, mayor and safety board president to see what can be done about city firemen and police vacations. Why not let them take vacations without pay? Firemen’s vacations alone without pay would save the taxpayer something like $50,000 a year. A fireman’s salary is better than $lO a day. Os course, he only works half time at that. He is off twenty-four hours at a time. Why not take the kitchens and beds out of the engine houses? Seems only fair, as the expense of maintaining these is on the city. This seems only fair, as it was too much expense to keep the semaphores for the police because they leaned too much on them and they needed repairing so often. In times like this, why should not the firemen at least have a 10 per cent cut in salary? Taxpayers should look into these expenses, anyhow, and see that something is done to cut expenses where it can be done. Mr. Taxpayer, get busy! By K. O. H. Is it possible that NRA means No Raises Available? That seems to be the outlook for the employes of our company in the future. We have but little to look forward to under the New Deal. My case is quite similar to that of D. A. C., whose letter in The Times last Saturday revealed that he was earning only sl7 as fountain manager in one of the stores of a large drug company in Indianapolis. I am worse off. As fountain manager in my store, I make the minimum salary of $14.50. My store is on the busiest corner in Indianapolis. The fountain sales are unequaled by any other store. I have to assume all responsibility, yet I am paid exactly the same salary as the fountain girls who work here. Under the New Deal my company takes $1.50 out of my salary to pay for my' meals —something it never did before. On the remaining sl3, I attempt to support myself and pay doctor bills for my wife, a near invalid. Here is an example of the methods my company employs. One

HABIT spasms often appear in children, both boys and girls, between 6 years of age and adolescence. They appear most often in children who have been ill or who have been nourished badly, or who suffer greatly wtih nerve strain, due to mental difficulties at home. The most common forms of habit spasms are those affecting the face or head, with blinking of the eyes, sudden shaking of the head, or shrugging of the shoulders. Sometimes there also is a jerking of the hands or a motion directed by the hand toward the face, or a repeated clearing of the throat. The condition called “habit spasms’’ is not to be confused with chorea, a rheumatic disorder. The movements of habit spasms differ from those of chorea by being

AT Puve, N. M., for a fleeting half hour, life stands still, the breathing of the earth ceases. On top of the high mesa, haunted by the race that lived there 3,000 years ago, you are transported into another age. The sighs of the wind in the little pinon trees are dirges for a lost people. There before your eyes are the stones upon which they ground their corn, the earthen bricks their fingers fashioned, the walls they built. And below are their caves, the homes they carved in the steep rocks, still blackened by their fires and worn smooth by the tread of their feet, gone so long ago. And you wonder about life, about men and. their ambitions, about &U

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Habit Spasms Often Affect Young Children

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Just Stupidity By IV. Williams. IF some natural calamity swept some twelve million American families on to a barren island and left them to starve and rot, you might be pardoned for calling it an act of God. But when a perfectly human institution developed

Questions and Answers

Q —ls it correct to speak of a “tentative” engagement? A—Yes. Tentative means something done as an experiment, an attempt, a trial or conjecture. Q —Which section of the Constitution guarantees religious liberty? A—The first amendment, which reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Q—How does the coast guard dispose of the vessels it seizes and confiscates? A—They are sold for cash to the highest bidder, at the place where they are in custody.

of the fountain boys who works on Sundays asked for the day off. After much haggling the store manager granted his request, The manager then told me to work the employe’s six-hour Sunday shift. He then docked the fountain boy for the day he took off and refused to pay me for my extra hours. In another case some sales girls complained because they were forced to work beyond the maximum hours provided by NRA. When the general manager of the company’s stores found out who made the complaint, he ordered the girls fired. In my fountain department we are working the maximum fifty-four hours and more. We have taken on no extra help. Consequently, during the hours we are on, we have to work harder. As fountain manager, I am responsible for everything in my department and draw the minimum salary. It seems to me that those in charge are able to stack the cards just as effectively under the New Deal as before. As long as some companies fail to observe the spirit of the NRA, the small salary employes are going to be handicapped. How can we benefit by the New Deal when such conditions exist?

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine.

quicker and also by being repeated continually in the same way. The movements of chorea are irregular and vary constantly. A child with chorea is likely to have worse movements when being watched by adults, whereas the child with habit spasms is likely to discontinue the movements. The child with this bad habit is likely to have also excitability and obstinacy, to sleep badly and to suffer with headaches. Because of the initiative nature of children, such habit spasms sometimes develop almost like an epidemic in schools.

the universes beyond this thing we call space. Whence came these cliff dwellers, and whither did they go? Whence come we and whither do we journey? a a a f'T''HIS silent spot, once filled with the turmoil of thousands of busy people; this high, bright tableland from which you may gaze out upon illimitable vistas, purple mountain, golden sands, and snug, green valleys, sheds over you a benediction. Here at last is peace. What is it we strive for? Very little else save that for which the cliff dweller toiled so many ages ago. A few fleeting desires, an empty ambition or two, a dream that soon is forgotten.

by human beings and directed bv human beings sweeps twelve million American families into the abyss of poverty, you have nobody to blame but your own fool self, for there is no more reason why human beings should starve and rot in the midst of superfluity than there is for fish drowning in water, except human stupidity.

Q—Are there authentic records concerning the antiquity of crossword puzzles? A—For many years, archeologists have been trying to solve what is believed to be the oldest cross-word puzzle. It was made by a Cretan about 2,000 years ago, and a copy of it is in the archeological museum at John Hopkins university, Baltimore. It is called the Phaestus disc, and was found on the island of Crete by an expedition many years ago. Q —What is the forest area of Africa? A—Approximately 797,458,000 acres. Q —What is the history of the umbrella? A—They are depicted in Egyptian inscriptions and murals as early as the eleventh century B. C. Originally, they were used solely as protection against the sun, and their first use against rain is said to have been by the Bishop of Salisbury, England, in 800 A. D., but they were not generally employed for that purpose until several centuries later when Jonas Hanway, of England (171286), set the fashion. In the middle ages, umbrellas were a mark of rank and honor, much used in ceremonial processions. The first umbrella seen in America was carried by a man on the streets of Baltimore in 1772. He purchased it in a Baltimore shop that imported it from India. Q —Does an automobile tire weigh more inflated than deflated? A—The weight of the air Is added to an inflated tire. Q —What kind of hogs produce the best bristles? A—Lean wiry hogs from the colder sections of Russia. Q —How does the present population of Rome compare with 1900? A—ln 1901 it was 424,943, and in 1931 it was 999,964.

As such conditions are largely mental, treatment must be applied to the mental side. It is important to find out the difficulties in the home that are associated with the trouble and to regulate these. All sources of distress, such as fear of punishment, must be stopped. Such children do well with encouragement and pleasantness. It is not well to find fault constantly with the child because this keeps his attention fixed on his habit. If the child is nourished badly or otherwise ill it should, obviously, be removed from school and given an opportunity to recover. Plenty of sleep is of the greatest importance, and also plenty of good food.

Today on the mesa, every little flower nods contented, each in its humble place; the light changes perpetually over the wide plain, and shadows gather above the mountains, just as they always have done. Only the feet of curious sightseers, and their voices, questioning, break the silence of a thousand years that brood there. It is good to come into a place like old Puye. There is medicine for the soul of you and balm for the spirit. Some day, perhaps, anew, bright race of men, as high above us in culture and intelligence as we are above the caveman, will gaze upon our abandoned crudities and wonder how we lived.

AUG. 31,1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN_

NEW YORK, Aug. 31. There used to be a play—there always will be a play—in which the heroine says, "I never was more serious in my life.” And in that phrase, while thousands paid not the slightest attention. I could write my autobiography. Only yesterday a young man said, “Now, honestly, Mr Broun, these so-called radical columns of yours merely represent what seems to you shrewd journalism? Am I right?" And he was not right. It is perhaps a little less than logical to demand that everybody who means what he says should put on a hair shirt and go into the desert to eat locusts and wild honey. But if there is no other way, I will do that. My weakness and infirmity of purpose are such that I should prefer not to make my reservations for another two years. But I could be speeded up. If you grin upon occasion, or take a drink, or stay up after 1 a nv. you become immediately a playboy who is fooling around with notions merely for the thrill which he gets in shocking people. ana Fun to Shock People IDO think it’s fun to shock people. It seems to me a square deal all around. And yet I have not been conspicuously successful in achieving anything of the sort. And on the few occasions in which I have succeeded. the result has come quite unwittingly. My great surprise lies in the fact that people are startled by postulates which appear to me self-evident. We live in a cockeyed world and I am astonished at such times as fellow passengers fail to grasp that fact. Today I can pick up any paper and find that somebody honestly believes that there will be an end of crime if only justice is "fast" and includes the electric chair and the whipping post. How can they think anything so fantastic? Boiling oil. the rack and thumbscrews never have worked so well, and so I do not understand why anybody should beiieve that, effeminate modifications of ancient tortures can prevail. And I'm not fooling. I read of Hitler and his scheme to make over a dowmtrodden nation in its own image and I am not only puzzled, but aghast, that he seriously should believe that any such scheme can possibly work. The conquering countries imposed terms upon the German people which are preposterous. But is it reasonable, logical, or even sane to say, "Because we have been beaten with whips, we will attack with scorpions a minority within our own community to prove that we are virile and unterrified?" a tt a A Neurotic’s Way Out AND wfyen I read of those who are exiled, disfranchised, scorned, expelled, I observe that these are the very names upon which the glory and the fame of Germany repose. Just who is crazy and insincere if I venture the mild query as to how culture can be created by uprooting its most significant exponents? And w’hen I turn from foreign news, I observe that there is a movement on foot to prove the superiority of the white race by the commission of things unspeakable and cruel and wholly insane. “I'll showr you the proof of our high civilization by lynching you to a tree.” Does that make sense? It does not. And through the w’orld and its byways today the great push seems to come from those who wish to save face by treading with hobnails upon the heads of others. I am a little sick and tired of being classed as soft, bourgeois, and sentimental if I say that human brotherhood could solve overnight the problems concerning which men shake their heads and say, “It is too bad, but insurmountable.” Who says so? It is said by those w'ho never have given even a passing trial to understanding. It is said by those who can not grasp the notion of a world in which we work for glory and not for profit. It is said by the keepers and the purveyors of mean advantage and destructive selfishness. And I never was more serious in my life. (Copyright, 1933. by The Times)

Prophecy

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINTCK. Love will not last; it never stays. Those who seek to pin it with welded, silken ties Find that it blossoms but for a day. The petals fall; it slowly dies. Love will not last, no matter what you can do; It will creep silently away. Though you clutch forcefully, And cling, it never will stay. Love will not last, it withers and grows sere; Thus they told me, whose love was dead. But I am young, how could I believe them When my love and I just have been w f ed?

So They Say

Few things are so likely to cure the habit of hatred as the opportunity to do constructive work of an important kind.—Bertrand Russell, philosopher. The public, through the NRA’s bloodless revolution, can lift civilization to greater heights than it has ever known before. —A. L. Raffa, field co-ordinator of NRA. I am convinced sincerely that most of the nudists, naked as they are, are better men and women than some of our ‘best citizens' who go about fully clothed.—The Rev. Isley Boone of Oakland, N. J. It is natural for a man to fall in love with another man’s wife and for a woman to fall in love with another man's husband.—Captain William B. Bradford, United States army, who recently “traded wives'' with another officer.