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FRIDAY. SEPT 1. !#33

EXIT THE EYE (JOUGERS ( ” F.NERAL JOHNSON S explanation of the NIRA a* the Marquis of Queensbury rules of the business struggle is the best we have seen vet. The kind of freedom Amerira enjmerf m the past was of the ear-biting blowhelm* -the-helt variety. That was fine for the plug-uglies Bin i was not the kind of freedom of much value to the gieat majority who wanted to fight fair. There were no rules to the game. Therefore, victory usually went to the most, ruthless and unscrupulous. It was about as civilized as a too'n and claw encounter of our jungle ancestors. , Purpose of the NIRA and other New Deal recovery legislation i6 to trade the insecurity and chaos of the old dog-eat-dog business turmoil for the security and order w*hich comes with public acceptance of fair rules of competition. That, as General Johnson pointed out in his Boston address, is the only way to protect the individual liberty and prosperity of the honest business men and of the workers, farmers, and consumers who constitute the American masses. According to the colorful but accurate Johnson analogy : “In the days when your fathers were building these cradles of (political! liberty that have become our shrines, the manly art of boxing was not unknown in the Anglo-Saxon world. But it was different. “It was O. K. in those days to insert the ball of your thumb in your opponent’s eye socket and gently gouge his eyeball out or, if the whim seized you and opportunity offered, you could put the point of your knee in his groin and rupture him. Now we have changed all that—in boxing. “In business we still were in the eyegouging era until Franklin Roosevelt began to revise the rules. Throughout our industry— In greater or less degree, the man w'ho wants to fight fair—to practice his rugged individualism. but to practice it above the belt —that man always has been at the mercy of every economic eye-gouger who chose to gouge. It is a cause of depression and an obstacle to recovery and there is no sense in it.” But under the NIRA, industry, sitting down with representatives of labor and consumers, draws up rules for the game. Then—- “ The government says what it is willing to indorse and support, and the result is a code of fair competition -a sort of Marquis of Queensbury engagement to keep the competitive struggle clean and leave as little human wreckage as possible in its wake.” That is what the Blue Eagle stands for—a bird to be proud of. A SLOW JOB NOTHING is more difficult or futile than efforts to lay down a general rule for opening closed banks A maximum of intelligence and care is required, and that means separate judgment for each case. But, since there is growing pressure from both political and business sources aimed at forcing the government to speed the process of reopening banks, it probably is a safe generalization to say that in this matter especially haste means waste. It is all very well to emphasize that frozen assets hold up business revival". But one thing the country can not stand is pnother deflation of confidence. All the new faith and the new emergency recovery machinery built up by the Roosevelt administration could be swept away in short order by another flood of bank failures. Therefore, it is important that the banks being opened do not close again. The administration has been operaitng w ith this basic factor in mind. We believe that the administration should be supported in its policy of making sure that, banks are not opened until they are sound enough to stay open. FORD AND THE NIRA POME kind of showdown between Henry *** Ford and NR Ais due by Sept. 5. Meanwhile, everybody is speculating about the significance of Ford s apparent reluctance to sign t he automobile code and associate himself tinder it with his competitors, from whom he has always held aloof. It may be that ForiJ just Is exercising his genius for getting himself and his automobile talked about. This appears to be likely, in view of the fact that there is not much difference between the terms at which Ford employes work and the terms laid down for employers in the code. It long has been his policy to delay important announcements concerning his business until his competitors have all trotted out their stuff. Perhaps the present argument is just a build-up for the announcement of what Ford Intends to do under NRA. If he doesn t sign, of course, the next move ‘ will be up to to President Roosevelt and his Blue Eagle chief. General Hugh 8. Johnson. If the contingency arises, there is no doubt they will move. RELIGION AND THE NEW DEAL cpHE question often is raised aa to what the •*- church can do in the present social crisis. The answer would seem to be that the church has an ample field for productive activity If It will enlist In the struggle for social Justice, Industrial decency, and world peace. It can, with great propriety and helpfulness get behind the New Deal and oppose the forces of corporate greed. In two articles in The World Tomorrow. Dean Luccock of the Yale divinity school, and Rabbi Bdward L. Israel of Baltimore defend the plica of religion In advancing social radleahana. Dean Luccock concedes that ha the i

peat religion has been an aid to rather than to social progress: “Much organized religion ha* been and Is a reflection of the codes and morals of the privileged groups who make up Its adherents. The churrh frequently has been conformed to this world rather than acted as transforming agent ” Dean Luccock finds four contribution* which religion mav make to social radicalism. It zeal and energy through the conviction that the Individual is acting in rapport with cosmic causes. It inspires sympathy for human suffering. It produces social rebels and reforming prophets. TANARUS, supplies standards by which to Judge greed, social evils and economic oppression. Rabbi Israel believes that he can detect signs of increasing radicalism In religion. The first great movements against the evils of early capitalism following the Industrial revolution were carried out by secular agencies, often in the face of clerical opposition. Beginning, however, with the work of Maurice and Kingsley and the encyclicals of Pope I,eo XIII. the church has come to reckon with the sufferings of those who have been sacrificed on the altar of riches and cupidity. While all* Catholicism can not be Judged by the fearless polemics of Father Coughlin snd Father Cox, still Catholicism frequently has come out against the gross materialism of American capitalism. In Father Ryan it has an unsurpassed crusader for social justice. Among the Protestants the pioneering work of Walter Rauschenbush has borne fruit in the labors of Dr. Harry F. Ward, Bishop Francis J. McConnell, and others, and in the striking Report of the Interchurch World Movement on the steel strike of 1919. The Central Conference of American Rabbis also has taken an aggressive stand for a revision of the capitalistic order. The trend right now in the churrh seems to be in the direction of greater liberalism. It. was the churrh report on Centralia, Wash , which finally secured some semblance of delayed justice in that lamentable situation. It was a band of eminent churchmen who defied the threats of Kentucky coal operators and sheriffs, visited the mining areas there and exposed the atrocious conditions. Church bodies and their affiliates issue more devastating attacks upon unrestrained capitalism than emerge from any secular source save the Socialist and Communist parties. These is one major limitation on religious radicalism. The water of supernatural theology still appears to be thicker thßn the blood of a common devotion to social Justice and human betterment. This not only prevents modernist churchmen from co-operating with benevolent agnostics like Clarence Darrow, but even leads them to shy off from such advanced modernists as the humanists. We never shall have any radical religion worth the name so long as it remains a closed shop, limited to devotees of supernaturalism. IDLE HANDS ' I 'HE New Deal fight against unemployment A is more than a fight against hunger, disease, and want. It is a fight to save a whole generation of young people denied opportunity to grow into useful citizens. A recent survey of unemployment M New York City disclosed that the percentile of idleness is higher among wage earners under 20 than among any other class. With wages battered down to incredible levels, employers have chosen to hire adults rather than young people. Boys and girls under 30 have been left with nothing to do. not even with schools to attend during the time of enforced idleness. And the old copy book maxim about idle hands is as true as lit ever was. In a nation where industry always has been acclaimed as a major virtue, where the climb to financial success has been taught youth as Its principal aspiration, where marriage and home-building must wait on a considerable degree of success in getting and holding a job, the situation of youth denied the right to work is dangerous indeed. Morale and character may be crippled permanently. Youth, not very' surprisingly, has been turning to crime. And those who resist this temptation are forming habits of defeat that unfit them for future success. NRA has attacked the problem of child labor. The problem of child idleness remains. AT LAST! that the matter has been suggested, it seems odd that Huey P. Long has got by for such a long time with so few scars and scratches. For practically every minute during the last fifteen or twenty years he has been living up to the slogan of “Let the fur flv.” He has slung enough mud to fill a dozen Mississippi deltas. He has bellowed “snake” at this man. "burglar" at. that one, thumbed his nose with his right hand and his left. The fact that he always stood behind his constitutional immunity a* an officeholder does not lessen the surprise of it. He is an Incredible tribute to the peaceableness of his associates. The senator has explained that he was “ganged.” In other dars men used to come back with such imprints and tell about-hav-ing amnesia. But the senator needs no explanation for so natural an occurrence. In a career such as his a few shiners are only a mild vocational hazard. Senator Long has been exceptionally lucky. JUGGLING WITH WORDS TT Is hard to escape the feeling that some -*■ one has been playing with words in connection with the automobile industry’s new oode. The industrial reoovery act states flatly that no man may be denied employment on account of his union affiliations, if any, and that all employes shall be perfectly free to organize as they see fit. The code says that employer* may hire and fire worker* as they please without regard to their union connections, if any. To any ordinary citizen, these contrasting sections seem to mean two entirely different things, and it is very hard to see how both of them can be followed strictly. Has someone been Juggling words to save —*’•*'*'*“’ V .

THE COAL CODE cpHK bi’luminous coal Industry has tried anarchy and failed. Now it is back to order and peace. If the recovery act had accomplished nothing more than this, It would have been very much worth while. The new agreement being written under the watchful eye of the Blue Eagle promises better days for the coal miner than he ever has known. But this la not all. It promises stability and security for mine owners such as they never have enjoyed in the era of cutthroat competition. In fact, mine owners probably will gain more Immediate benefits from general recognition of the United Mine Workers of America even than workers. Companies have been mining coal at a loss for years, forced to all sorts of tricks and devices to cut their losses, constantly undercut by development of new fields with cheaper and cheaper labor, markets constantly lost by freight differentials, so that the whole enterprise seemed hopeless. Under the new agreement, labor cost* will be the same In various regions, and calculable in all. With the possibility of disaffected labor cut to a minimum, the prospects for profits rise proportionately. On the other hand, organized labor stands to gain far more than wage and hour scales in* the new coal code and the right to belong to the union of its choice. Labor has suffered from the sickness of the industry. Industry can prosper only when its workers prosper, too, and when they are content in the exercise of a measure of self-gov-ernment. Incidentally, the United Mine Workers’ union should remember that self-government also involves respect for the rights of the minority in the so-called progressive unions. Economic democracy is as important today as political democracy. There were learned men, even at the time the Constitution of the United States was written, who believed that political democracy could mean only the downfall of this government. There are men today who look with equal fear and distaste upon the small measure of economic democracy which unionism represents. Yet a trial of the last will convince, as the trial of the first has done, of its virtues. The recovery' administration, the coal operators, and the United Mine Workers are all to be congratulated, as is the country in which this latest stride toward industrial democracy has taken place. / They're building the world’s largest distillery out Peoria-way. In spite of that, we suppose the old-fashioned man who used to think he could drink it all, still will think so. Trying to prosecute nudists in Philadelphia, says a news item. Probably be a flop. Awful hard to get anything on ’em. Lots of girls get a run for their money when they buy stockings. Probably the punch that landed on the brow of the Louisiana kingflsh was just a hook. Lots of fun figuring out all the other things NRA stands for. But so far we give the prize to “Nominate Roosevelt Again,” or “ 'Nother Roosevelt Administration.” Now that the auto code has been adopted, we hope the industry has been equipped completely with wizard control. Wonder if all those young hogs the government is buying up are destined for the pork barrel.

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NEW YORK real estate men complain that while the government pays farmers to destroy crops, it furnishes money to finance new apartment houses. They say that there is a surplus of apartments in the greater city and that the construction of new ones only makes conditions worse for landlords. They say that good apartment houses can be bought at a less price per room than the new ones will cost. Without pausing to examine this contention in detail, or attempting to pass on its accuracy as to facts, one must admit that it show's up the theory of farm relief in an unfavorable light. If a temporary surplus justifies curtailed production in one line, why not in another? The government now is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to plow up crops or reduce acreage. Through imposition of process taxes, the government is collecting this money from the public. These process taxes, of course, will be reflected in higher prices. Asa matter of bookkeeping, the government will get its money back. As a matter of actual fact, the people who pay more for bread, wearing apparel, and other commodities will not. This is the first time that the government of the United States has subsidized destruction, and it represents a reversal of the theory of progress and prosperity which the American people have followed thus far. m m m IT the tame has come to handle our surplus crops by taxing the people, wouldn't it be more sensible to distribute that surplus where it is needed? There are million* of people, not only in this country, but throughout the world, who would not be injured by a little more bread and clothing. It w'ould not cost us one cent more to give them the extra w'heat and cotton than to destroy it, but it might help to stimulate trade and promote consumption for the future. We have a surplus of silver as well as a surplus of farm products. It has been suggested that the government purchase that surplus by the issuance of paper money and loan it to certain countries, with the understanding that they use it to buy foodstuffs which we well can afford to spare and of which they are in serious need. During the war we found it feasible to loan the allies billions of dollars with which to buy munitions. Why is it not just as feasible to loan countries a vastly lesser amount wiffi which to buy food for recovery? Even if we lost the money, we would be no worse off. m m m GIVING wheat and cotton to people who need it, but who can not afford to buy it, would have the same effect on domestic markets as its destruction, and would cost no more, but it would have a far better effect on foreign markets by putting the breath of life into human beings who now are discouraged with the straggle for a bare existence. From a human standpoint, we have no right to assume that there is overproduction of wheat and cottoa as long as millions of people are going edia and hungry’. From an economic standpoint, it is not sound thinking to pay for destruction of food when arrangements could be made to distribute it among people in want at no greater cost, and particularly when those arrangements might help to stimulate business and Increase consumption on a widespread scale. i

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these, columns. Make your letters short, so all can hare, a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) * By Delos A. Alig. I wish to congratulate The Times on the series of articles exposing stream pollution in Indiana. Every true Hoosier is back of stream restoration and the saving and restoration of our streams and the banks should be the next great work of our Indiana conservation commission. A real and wonderful opportunity now' is presented to the commission. The state is harboring, at government expense, 6,500 capable young men, practically all of whom would like nothing better than to do something worth while for conservation in the good old state. So far as the public knows, no real plan has been formulated to utilize the potentially valuable services of these boys. It were certainly a shame if they be kept at the great expense of the taxpayers and no real and lasting good came of it. One thing which has prevented stream conservation in the past is our system of land tenures. Our system of land ownership is of feudal derivation and is absolute, even against the state, except as to right of eminent domain. On non-navigable streams riparian owners have title to the thread of the stream. Under such circumstances, state governments and conservation commissions have felt that their hands were tied. Os course this is not true, for a state must have power to rectify wrongs, else it could not exist, and it has a broad avenue of action under the police power. Free individualism has been rampant in the United States, and perhaps necessarily so, but it has brought many evils. Anew social order is in progress, which restrains individualism for the common good. The feudal system of land tenure in Europe did not work the harm it has occasioned in America. In the former continent the land was divided in estates, each with its* overlord who conserved his streams and banks, forests and game. But in America the only thought of division of lands was minute and exhaustive exploitation, with no overlord to protect the land for the benefit of the state and posterity. The states never should have surrendered title to their streams and banks and never should have surrendered the functions of an overlord. In late years the states have been trying to exercise and regain

A SUITABLE food supply is the very basis of health. When recruits were examined during the World war, it was found that a substantial proportion were not in good health, due to the fact that they had not received proper nutrition during that period of life when the body grows most rapidly. It is well established that a wellnourished body can resist disease, but a poorly nourished one do** not. All specialists in diseases of children agree that the child fed at the breast by a well-nourished mother is capable of withstanding conditions that would be fatal to a child fed artificially and perhaps improperly. Quite frequently the children of the poor, w'ho are fed by their mothers, show remarkable resistance to disease, whereas children

THE dilemma of the inherently "good girl” in a world gone mad over self-expression and se t is particularly disturbing. From all quarters there come plaints from these puzzled young things, asking what they shall do. “Am I behind the times or what?” they cry. “Is there something wrong in my attitude? Would you consider me prudish? Or do all young men expect you In pet shamelessly with them? Am I making a mistake by keeping them at arms’ length and does it mean that I may become unpopular in my set?” A good many of these girls have been raised by mothers who were products of the Victorian era. And unless a woman has moved a long way in her thinking she can not help much with such an intricate tangle of moral and physical fact. -It may be that only the. young

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Proper Diet Vital to Good Constitution B Y DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : _ by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON - -

The Village Reprohate

Buying Jobs By a slat, employe'* wife. MY husband is a Purdue graduate and obtained his position as an engineer in the state highway commission through his ability, and he has held that position for several years by his ability. Politics did not get him his job, nor keep it for him. During the last year we have taken our salary cuts cheerfully, know Ting It was necessary, and that every one else was being cut, too. But now that the NRA Is in force, conditions are supposed to be improving. Yet we state employes are requested to “buy” our jobs by paying 2 per cent of our salaries to the Democratic fund. Is there any code In the NRA that permits Democratic state officials to sell jobs for a per cent of the salary paid, and especially jobs that can be held by ability alone? If a factory would adopt this policy of selling jobs, the NRA administration w’ould investigate immediately. How’, then, can state officials do this? functions of control and perpetual preservation through their various conservation commissions, but with very -little real progress. Rampant individualism has exploited every foot of ground and every heritage of nature and now is relaxing only because values have been squeezed out. Where values remain, the stream and land exploiters still affront every decent protest. The man who damages or pollutes a stream, even where he owns it and has title, must learn to think, in terms of the state, of the common good, as superior to his own right or power. We long have proudly called ourselves sovereign voters. Well, if each of us, by virtue of the grant of suffrage, is a sovereign, we must learn to think and act as sovereigns. A sovereign must think and act for the common good, else he can not long hold his sovereignty. There is no reason w’hy the principles of the NRA can not be extended In each state to state conservation. despite the present system of feudal titles. The feudal system of individual ownership also applies to our factories and mines and all other activities, but all have agreed to renounce these private rights of absolution for the common good. A really wonderful opportunity now is presented to the Indiana conservation commission by reason of

VMitor Journal at th. American Medical Association, and of Hrreia, the Health Magazine.

of the rich, improperly nourished, fall victims to nutritional disorders. It is well established that tuberculosis is a disease almost invariably associated with bad nutrition. The number of cases diminishes when the food supply is sufficient and correct, and the number of cases increases when food is difficult to obtain and its quality becomes inadequate. During the early years of life a correct diet favors the building of a constitution W'hich in adult life will be able to resist various types of disease. Vitamins in the diet prevent the appearance of specific disorders w'hich occur when they are absent.

ever can advise the young rightly upon such a theme. Perhaps no generation really can help the one that comes after it. These questions of love or physical attraction or whatever you may wish to call them, are so personal, so subtle, so delicate, so different from each other, that every girl, in a measure, must be her own adviser. * * TO all of them, however, let me say: There is but one excuse for a lapse from chastity and that is overwhelming love. To buy dates at the price of your virtue is a sad, sad bargain. To barter your body to please the philanderer, so that you may appear popular in the eyes of the neighbors, will prove the worst possible business for you. Do not, therefore, make the mistake of believing Jhe boy who says

the public acceptance of the NRA. Also, by reason of the fact that the federal government is in effect offering to this state the services of 6,500 young men who by this time should be fairly well trained in the essentials of forestry. Hr W. G. Mr. Wheeler’s letter In the Indianapolis Star of Aug. 22. probably makes very interesting reading to the public and members of the Restaurant Association, but to a restaurant w’orker it is just another subterfuge and publicity stunt. Mr. Wheeler places the food value of food consumed by employes at $4 to $5 a w'eek. This high value is easy to understand when one con- | siders that a certain restaurant | employed several extras who w'orked i all day during the last race for their | meals and no cash. The thing that is hard to un- | derstand is 1m statement regarding General Johnson. “If I w'ere permitted to make a suggestion to Hugh S. Johnson, it would be that he exercise the utmost care in making any comment upon the conduct of any industry and that whatever j general comment be made, it be I made only after a most painstaking | verification of the facts upon which | the comment is made.” All Mr. Wheeler has to .do is to visit the offices of Francis Wells and he will find plenty of sworn statements from mistreated restaurant employes, and for his information, these sworn statements probably were the source of Mr. Johnson’s information. If it w’ere common practice to charge for food, please have Mr. Wheeler explain w'hy many employes In restaurants now’ are receiving less net w'ages than before NRA w r as signed. Granting that food consumed by an employe is worth $4 or $5 a w'eek, as Mr. Wheeler says, please have him explain what would happen to one of his employes if he demanded the minimum wage allow'ed under NRA and wanted to take his meals at home or elsewhere. The chances are that he would be discharged, as workers have in other restaurants, if w'e have any faith in the sworn statements of these employes. Then, again, if Mr. Wheeler’s association is so generous, w'hy did it just recently start charging for linens? His mention of this subject is conspicuous by its absence.

The mineral salts prevent the appearance of disorders associated with their insufficiency. Thus, such conditions as scurvy, xerophthalmia, rickets, and polyneuritis do not appear in the presence of sufficient amounts of vitamins A, B, C and D. When food contains a sufficient amount of iodine and iron, of calcium and phosphorus, there is satisfactory growth of bone and muscle, satisfactory action of the thyroid gland and suitable development and repair of the blood. But even beyond the appearance of specific disorders associated with deficiencies, there is a general welfare of the body which seems to be almost wholly dependent on satisfactory nutrition. The old proverb, “Tell me W'hat you eat and I will tell you what you are,” is certainly true.

that you are old-fashioned because you still are modest, or who laughs at your principles. You would not relinquish your purse to him for any such shabby reasoning. Why give him that which is more precious? Be not beguiled by that destructive voice which tells you that whatever men may do, women also may do. For that is the foulest lie that ever has deluded girls. Believe in yourself. Do not sell the respect of your own soul for this penny’s worth of affection. For the man you will one day love keep yourself clean. Thus you will realize the deepest fulfillment of life. And whatever happens to you after that will be of small significance beside the tremendous fact that you did not betray your true love for any shoddy excitefients. |

.'SEPT. 1,1933

It Seems to Me “ B 1 HEYWOOD BROUNs

NEW YORK. Sept. 1. Herbert Hoover caught the medicine ball, tucked it under his arm and ran into the house As far as I can ascertain, he has not been seen since. Naturally the rest of the boys in the bucket brigade were a little bewildered. Days passed and the weeks went by. When one member of the fraternity met another, he would ask, “Where's Herbert?” And the only possible reply was a somber shaking of the head. Things began to hum in Washington, but to the members of the Swiss guard this was no more than a buzzing noise in the ears. The plight of Mark Sullivan was perhaps the saddest of all. Friends called the water boy and took Mr. Sullivan to the sidelines. The squad physician asked: “What day of foe week Is this? How many fingers, am I holding under your nose? X two. eleven, thirty-nine, punt formation?” And all that Mark Sullivan could reply was, “Around my end.” MUM Lost Among Martians ONLY a few' days ago I saw' Mr. Sullivan in the eagles nest, and it was pitiful to w*atch this veteran of the craft moving among his fellow journalists and listening in a puzzled wav to the latest developments along the battlefront of NRA.

“How about the coal code, General Johnson?” asked one of the bright young men. "What is the latest after-dinner anecdote from the newspaper publishers?" inquired another. But. w'hen it eame Mark Sullivan's turn to speak he merely said, “Where am I?” Friends of this brilliant commentator on things political will be pleased to learn that he finally has come out of the fog and now can count up to 10. * In fact, almost, to 1936. Something clicked into place when Moley’s jaw w’as dislocated “The retirement of Professor Mole.v,” he writes, ‘is the beginning of a process in which Democrats of the old school are about to press quietly and firmly tow’ard bringing the government into closer conformity with historic Democratic principles and aw'ay from recent innovations. “Anybody familiar with the quarter-century record of the Democratic senate leader, Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, knows bow hard he must, have been obliged to gulp to act loyally as official sponsor for some of the legislation passed since March 4.” m m m Just Forgot Them THE theory, as I understand it, goes that such bits of beef or mutton carcass as may now be unearthed really w'ere planted in the White House lawm by Herbert Hoover. After the manner of a great engineer he dug deep. The only trouble was that, after burying his bones he could not remember them. Only the voters could. But now the old verities are to replace the emergency experiments. The Npw Deal is to go the way of all flesh and Raymond Moley. The whole thing was done with the help of God and maybe a couple of other rugged individualists. The Creator, according to Mark Sullivan, votes the straight Repubican ticket. Not quite on a par with the angels. but still on the right side of the celestial tracks, reside the oldfashioned Democrats. “There will be seen a disposition of the Democrats in congress to get back as quickly and as far as practicable to the normal party traditions. It is not meant to imply that such a disposition would be contrary to President Roosevelt’s wishes. On the contrary, the better assumption is that he will be glad to cooperate to this end. Joe Robinson’s in his heaven, and all’s right with the world.

m m a 1 Thore's Another Victim MARK SULLIVAN W'ftfl not the only victim when the big wind hit Washington. There w'as and is a man called Sam. In the case of this avuncular old gentleman, the medical verdict w'as that he had happened to get hold of some very bad rugged individualism. Somebody told him that It was Just off the boat. While the patient w'as flat on hi/? back, did everything the doctors ordered. Now he is under the impression that he can wiggle one toe. He is saying that it must have been the celery and the olives. He is casting longing glances at the sideboard. He feels that another little snifter of the old stuff couldn’t do him any harm. The doctor should talk to him frankly. He ought to say: Sam, it is possible that, I can get, you walking around again, but heed‘my .solemn warning. This isn’t a cure unless it’s a conversion. Lay off the stuff from this time forth. It would kill you to touch so much as a single drop of rugged individualism.” And T#hope that is counsel which all the Robinsons can be made to gulp. 'Oopyrisrhi. lm. bv The Tlmesi

Out of Dark

BY CHRISTIE RCDOLPH I’ve pierced my fingers with rushing green reeds, And purloined the song of weeping birds. Through the atoms of smouldering * earth the words Os the wheat sheaves, the whisper of weeds. I’ve skimmed o'er the surface of pale mist air, And passed music deep in the middle of wind; I've attained far heights, and entangled willows thinned Reaching the wound of flowers. Pulsing and fair. Are the slimy green worms that cross through the ground. Strange are the eyes of great floating mammals, Obscure are the footprints that o'er the sand tramples Most lovely my vision, this new life I’ve found. Again I may walk with my eyes closed and knowing. Find beauty in lower life, yet far greater than I Are these wriggling insects that crawl 'neath the sky. Now I can stand with the trees, and hold the wind blowing.