Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1933 — Page 12

PAGE 12

The Indianapolis Times < a *rrprn-HOWA*n mEwmraa \ ROT W. HOWARD rrel<l#ut TAIXOTT POWF.LL . Editor EaKI, r>. BAKER Bn*tnei Ma&sgpr I’bono—Rll*y 5.V51

—* ■A. -

Member at fn!t*d Prep*, S ';:■*• Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper Information Service *od Audit Bureau of Circulation*. Owned and publtihed dally tezrept Sunday! by The Indtanapnli* .’ublishin* Cos.. 214-220 Went Maryland tre et, Indianapolis, Ind. Price In Marion county, 2 cent* a copy ; elgewhere. 3 rent* —delivered by carrier. 12 centa a week. Mail Hnn rate* In Indiana. #3 a year: outride of Indiana. 65 cent* a month.

tfl'Mf • •<!

Gi>- Li'/ht and iht Ptapls Will Find Their Oven Wap

THURSDAY. SEPT. 7. 1933

WE CONSULT LATIN AMERICA ' ■ 'HE President's sincerity and skill in deal- ■* ing with the difficult Cuban situation is shown by his action in calling Latin American diplomats into consultation. There is no effort on the part of the administration to wield the big stick. The President knows that the United States can get nothing but misery out of an arrogant policy. Latin American governments have been assured—as our own people and the Cubans have iyen assured—that the United States does not want to intervene. But not stopping with that negative statement of policy. Mr. Roosevelt has requested other Latin American governments to co-operate to prevent the necessity of intervention. How? By appealing publicly to the Cuban people to support a strong and effective government to curb chaos. There is no guarantee, of course, that such a Pan-American appeal, if made, would be sufficient, but it should do much more good than a lone appeal by us. It would tend to quiet the fears of those Cubans who distrust the United States, for they can not believe that all Latin America is in selfish conspiracy against them. Apart from the effect of this Roosevelt policy upon Cuban public opinion, already it has helped our relations with Latin America. At least the Latin American diplomatic corps in Washington is pleased and appreciative of the co-operative spirit which moves Mr. Roosevelt. -This is a far cry from the swagger of the colossus which many of these same Latin American representatives have observed in Washington in past years. The fact that the President is trying to act in concert with other American republics is especially significant in this particular case. Unlike the Haitian pnd Nicaraguan cases, in which the United States moved alone and without sanction, we have special treaty rights and obligations in Cuba. Whether the Platt amendment and the treaty are wise or unwise, they definitely pledge the United States to the maintenance of Cuban liberties and order when threatened. But even this formal treaty has not been used by the President as an excuse for intervention to date. Despite the pressure of certain business interests for intervention, and despite the treaty which encourages such intervention, the President withholds the marines and turns instead to joint peaceful action with Latin America. May this policy of peace be successful.

NO CURE-ALLS IT'S the honesty of these new dealers that impresses us. It is their frank declarations that theirs are exDeriments, not cure-alls. They are seeking out a planned economy; they. too. want to banish the poorhouse from the land. But they are not claiming that their efforts will bring about its banishment overnight. Those who deal with agriculture are endeavoring to restore farm prosperity by balancing the poor years against the good. They are aiming at the fundamental troubles, but they realize, fortunately, that theii methods up to now have been “catch-as-catch-can." Upon this honest facing of the facts, they probably will attain their fundamental aims Secretary of Agriculture is an example. *‘l have enough of the old-time farming tradition in me.” he said, “to feel a twist inside, as I recently did down south, when I saw thrifty cotton being plowed under. Nevertheless, the farmers who did that plowing were facing reality. Next season the cotton south .. . will . . . plant some fifteen million acres less cotton than it planted last year. "The present hog control plan is just as crude and just as necessary as our first year's cotton plan. If it does not develop next year and after into a larger effort to adjust, the corn crop. also, it will be only another piece of patchwork, and may lead to disaster. "All that we have done so far is only the catch-as-catch-can beginning of a long-time effort to put our land and our immense agricultural resources of skill and energy to better use.” Upon this frank basis, long-time effort has a bright chance to succeed. Secretary Wallace is just as frank about currency inflation. He has no doubt that inflation will lighten each farmer's debt and tax burdens and—this is the important part—that “it also advances the prices of what he buys.” Secretary Wallace knows that “it is perfectly possible . . . for a situation like the present one in agriculture to work itself out.” The toll is high, though. “It merely takes time and suffering and bloodshed," he said. The new deal has declined to permit this sort of solution, the secretary explained. Hence he and the other new dealers are experimenting: experimenting honestly. That's . their saving grace. ATHLETES’ CLOTHES ATHLETIC Co6tumes. particularly the leg coverings, are a matter of curious convention. Taking sports by and large—baseball, basketball. tennis, track, soccer—they all call for about the same degree of freedom of movement. Golf calls for a little less; in addition to freedom of movement, football and hockey call for a little extra protection. But each of these sports has a conventional : garb v Generally speaking, men play tennis in long pants. They play baseball in flannel knickerbockers and long stockings. The golfer wears another kind of garment, much baggier at the knee; at Its typical worst, bagging down about to the ankle. A track athlete on the other hand, wears

what looks like a suit of athletic underwear. Tennis players and baseball players have to run fast, but they contrive to run fast in a different kind of costume. Women athletes appear to be tending toward a simpler convention, which, whatever the sport, consists of a shirt and shorts. The new national tennis champion. Miss Helen Jacobs, has even established this garb on the courts. Before long, we doubtless shall find it on the golf course. Short shorts are standard on the girls' baseball diamond, notwithstanding that men ball players go about clothed in a manner that women athletes would regard as unduly restrictive as well as prudish. The formula adopted by the girls for sports —the fewest clothes possible—actually seems a good deal more sensible than the elaborate conventionalism of the men. It happens at the moment to be the subject of protest by the ladies of an Ohio W. C. T. U. They seem to think girls’ baseball games are leg shows as well as athletic contests. It is true that the legs do show; but this is a sight that most of the people are used to by now and is generally enjoyed without terror or ecstasy. We venture to predict that it will become more rather than less common in sport generally. Viewing this aspect of the future, we do not view it with alarm.

NR A IS STEP AHEAD and more it becomes clear that no matter what direction the great NR A program is taking us, it hardly can be regarded as more than a tentative first step. If it fails, the second step undoubtedly will be productive of even more fundamental and far-reaching changes than those which already have taken place. We can not cancel a year’s endeavor and sit back to wait for something to turn up. We are committed to a course of drastic action; if the first act flops, we only can make the second one a double dose. But we do not believe that the step will fail. And it is in looking ahead to the course we must follow if and when this program has succeeded that we shall have to call on all the brain power that the country possesses. The NR A program admittedly is an emergency measure. It is an effort to surmount a crisis; as such, it has to meet the problems of the immediate present and let certain longrange objectives wait. Taken altogether, it is a magnificent thing. But it does leave untouched the fundamental issue of the modern world—the queer, illogical way in w’hich the tremendous increase in mankind's productive capacity has been accompanied by rising unemployment and poverty. For the present we are trying to meet that problem by imposing sharp checks on production. We are spending vast sums to keep down our production of such basic commodities as wheat, pork and cotton. We are putting oil production under a curb; we are fixing things so that the great manufacturers may keep from making more goods than they can sell. For the period of the emergency, such steps are good. Sooner or later, however, we must find a better w r ay of meeting the problem. It is physically possible now' for the world to produce at such a rate that every mortal can have all that he needs of everything. Somehow, once a lair measure of prosperity has been restored, we must find out how to do that. We shall have to start thinking about increasing production instead of checking it—our fields, our mines, our factories and our wells must bring forth more instead of less. That is the direction toward which the next step after the NRA program must i carry us.

THE QUALITY OF MERCY r TT'HE existence in the ordinary human heart of a soft spot for any living creature which is in a bad jam never was better demonstrated than in the elaborate efforts made to rescue that venturesome deer which got itself isolated on a mountain ledge at Watkins Glen, N. Y. Ordinarily sportsmen head for the woods to shoot deer. They spend lots of money on the attempt, take a great deal of trouble, walk their legs off—and, occasionally, shoot one another by mistake. But one lone deer, scrambling along a mountainside and getting itself hung up high and dry at the edge of a cliff, can cause men to make arduous and expensive attempts to rescue it—just because it is so utterly helpless. Running through the woods, the same deer would get shot by the first armed man who came along. Stranded on a mountain, it becomes the object of genuine sympathy.

DOTTED STATE LINES 'T'HERE probably is no issue in American politics more confusing than that of states’ rights. A sample of the confusion is to be had in the activities of the American Bar Association meeting at Grand Rapids, Mich. Assistant United States Attorney-General Pat Malloy told the assembled lawyers that police powers must be centralized in the federal government if the war on rackets is to succeed. He urged that county prosecutors, sheriffs and state police be sworn in as federal deputies. so that the war on crime could be pushed forward in a unified manner. Ana the same convention which applauded this speech approved an executive committee report opposing the federal child labor amendment, on the ground that the problem should be left to the states. A truly consistent attitude on states’ rights is pretty rare. Second thought is probably all right except when the other fellow happens to have It first. You don’t have to organize a holding company to hold the bag. Any home owner can testify there's a lot of difference between carrying a mortgage and trying to lift one. Prince of Wales’ airplane was forced down the other day by fog, but dispatches fail to state if It was that arising from the London economic conference.

AFTER REPEAL THOUGHTFUL people, wets and drys alike, will be cheered by the news that President Roosevelt is looking to control of the liquor traffic. This question is one of the biggest confronting the January session of congress, assuming repeal by that date. It is one on which we can afford no more mistakes. The mistake made thirteen years ago was catastrophic. Representative Emmanuel Celler of New York Is conferring with Attorney-General Homer Cummings and treasury officials on the problem, as suggested by President Roosevelt. Public interest and government interests are involved vitally. Distillers’ profits should rank after public safety and federal revenue. There should be purity of product, and reasonable prices. There should be no monopoly—unless a government monopoly. Already there are reports of unreasonably high prices for medicinal liquor, despite the liberalized prescription rules of the law passed a few months ago. Already, too, there are reports of sale of blue sky stocks in distilleries and breweries. The proposal that the distilling business be put on a limited dividend basis will bear consideration. Indeed, if distillers In the early days after repeal pyramid their profits and pollute their product there will be justification for government manufacture or sale, or both. Representative Celler is starting with the idea of strict control of ardent spirits and liberality in regulation of beer and wine. The field of conflicting state and federal controls remains to be surveyed carefully, but it appears that the questions of monopoly, prices, stock selling and other business practices, as well as a major part of the tax revenue, are distinctly within the federal province. Regulations as to sales, highly Important from the public -standpoint, are state functions for the most part, and several legislatures already are at work to meet this phase of the problem. Control boards of disinterested, pub-lic-spirited citizens have been set up in various states. National sobriety and revenue will be the test of any control system.

GOOD, BUT NOT ENOUGH / T'HE president of an Ohio board of education recently drew up a list of rules for being a good teacher. Among his requirements were the following: Read detective stories, own movie cameras and radios, read twelve good books a year, keep a close mouth, attend community dances, and use the rod on juvenile offenders in front of other pupils—but do not use it often. Now without trying to be snooty, one very easily could say that one of the things wrong with our public school system is the existence of board of education presidents with ideas like those. The various planks In that platform are all good enough, to be sure—but is it not a trifle surprising to have in charge of a school system a man who thinks those are the chief requirements for a good teacher? Los Angeles couple get remarried every year “just to remember the things we said when we first were married.” Lots of people are glad to forget ’em. Theme song writers reported pestering officials at NRA headquarters in Washington to write NRA songs. Seems to us it would be a good idea to plow under every second the'me song.

M.E.TracySays:

LEAVING for Europe on the very day that Texas took her place as the twenty-third state to line up for repeal, Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Church, South, issued a statement in which he offered six reasons for the anti-prohibition drift. Former Governor Alfred ’A. Smith was one, depression was another, and what the good bishop is pleased to describe as ‘'false vjet newspaper propaganda” was still another. But the real and all-important reason, in his opinion, was the government’s failure to enforce the law. I am inclined to believe that the government's failure to dry up this country has a lot to do with the change in public sentiment, but it was neither optional nor deliberate. In the beginning at least, the government made an honest effort to accomplish the impossible. It appropriated millions of dollars and mobilized a veritable army of special agents. It obtained active co-operation from most of the states, increased the coast guard to the proportions of a second navy, and choked federal courts with an endless procession of pintpeddlers. The government did not fail without trying, nor did the people turn against the “noble experiment” until they had convinced themselves that it was a farce. a a a FORMER Governor Smith was one of the few outstanding leaders who had the intelligence to see the result and the courage to name it. Depression merely accentuated the folly of turning over all the liquor profit to bootleggers when the government needed money. As to drinking, most of the diminution was in quality, while most of the proceeds went to support racketeering. What Bishop Cannon calls “false wet newspaper propaganda” was only that disagreeable element of truth which is bound to crop out with a free press. Newspapers, whether wet or dry, told the public what was going on. It didn’t look good from the prohibition standpoint. It didn't prove that the “noble experiment” was a success. But it was not manufactured in editorial rooms, and it was not propaganda, in the accepted sense of the word. Bishop Cannon falls back on the pernicious logic of a crusader when he attempts to explain the anti-prohibition drift on any other ground than that of a disgusted, disappointed and disillusioned public opinion. tt an THE eighteenth amendment was incompatible with the traditions of American life and the principles of American government. It took the people twelve years to discover as much. Leaders did not make them change their minds, but merely voiced the change. Depression merely confirmed a judgment that already was being formed. The eighteenth amendment was not adopted as the result of deep conviction or mature thought. It was written into the Constitution by virtue of a war fever which caused us to do many foolish things. It belongs to the era of wooden ships and mule breeding, when we regarded the price of wheat as fixed at $3 and every farm could be mortgaged for double its real value. We are giving prohibition up just as France is giving up German reparations and for about the same reason. It was impossible.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

NOTHING Is SO dramatic as sudden death. Any one who has witnessed a case is likely to remember it ever after. The causes of sudden death frequently have been analyzed by coroners and by physicians in various parts of the world. During a period of twenty-one years, 198 people were brought dead to an infirmary in Leeds, this excluding people killed by mechanical injuries or by suicides. In cases of death through accident or suicide, the cause usually is promptly apparent. In the 198 cases mentioned, postmortem examinations were made to determine definitely the reasons for these sudden deaths. Strange as it may seem, only three of the cases were due to hemorrhage into the brain or apoplexy, as it is commonly called. On the other hand, in 104 cases, which constituted more than 53 per

LAST year when I was in New Mexico I visited the state penitentiary at Santa Fe. This year I went through the girls’ welfare home at Albuquerque. Both excellent institutions in their way, but what a difference! I was struck by the brave efforts made in the latter by superintendent, teachers, and girls to brighten the place where they lived with beauty. Little touches of color, girls painting and white-washing, handdecorated walls and doors and chairs, spoke, eloquently of making the most of a little money. Although the home sadly is overcrowded. there is a happy atmosphere there; a sort of sisterly communion of spirit, and nothing to indicate that either constraint or force is used with the girls. Wherever women are. there you

Among the Newly Created Positions

W ; * Uv'V ' - : *•' * . , V . . I

The Message Center

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

(Times readers are invited ta express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By W. J. Wilson. To a Believer in Fairness: Why, you don’t know what the word means. It is too bad we had to cut our teachers’ pay j.nd couldn't pay their last twenty days of salary, but we will soon. We have some wonderful teachers in our state. But there are many citizens with children in school w’ho never pay taxes on their household goods, w r hich are pitifully small enough. Why pick on police and firemen? They have had a cut in wages—twice, in fact; 14 per cent. We citizens furnish them nothing. We don’t buy their kitchen equipment. It is from their owm house or given them by someone else. The firemen buy their own food and ice; pay for gas and the next time you go into an engine house to use their telephone, just remember that the city does not furnish it. The firemen pay for it. The telephone does not belong to the taxpayer. The fireman just is extending you a favor to let you use it. Also, he pays all laundry for his beds and buys his uniforms, which are expensive. We furnish nothing. All firemen don’t use their kitchens. Some carry their meals. The wives of others carry it to them, or they have it sent in. No fireman makes $lO a day, unless it is the chief of the department. The fireman makes about $4 a day, 16 cents an hour for 365 days a year, and works for the taxpayer one day every four years free, as do all state, city and county employes. We pay police more than our firemen, but not $lO a day. Doesn’t it mean something to you as a citizen to have one of the first ranking fire departments in the country, less crime than other cities, lowest fire insurance rates? Too bad we had to cut pay of our teachers, police and firemen, but Indianapolis has been able to pay them. We citizens want an date city and should have one. We have beautiful parks and airports, but they all cost money. We don’t need the Chamber of Commerce and Real Estate Board to run Indianapolis. We employ a mayor and councilmen to guide us. And they have done some wonderful things for Indianapolis—but, again,

Many Sudden Deaths Due to Clot !_i B y DR . MORRIS FISHBEIN ■ -

Rebukes Critic ; By C. W. W. A City Fireman. ''TWHANKS to The Times for in- -*• viting its readers to express their view's on others w r ho are wrong. To the one who signs himself “Believer in Fairness,” to place you right, the police and firemen have taken three cuts more than the teachers ever have taken. I, as a fireman, have given more to keeping the city’s soup house than my vacation costs the city.. The police also keep the soup house. Our salary never has been $lO a day, and each fireman keeps his bed at no expense to the city, and has taken a 25 per cent cut. Now go to the city hall and check these, before you talk too much. harm. They have caused some large corporations to stay aw r ay and others to leave us. It is a wonderful thing we can all have a voice in our civic government and civic pride to keep taxes in reason, but there is such a thing as having taxes too low r . Better study your city and find out details; how T it is run, and visit other large cities. Indianapolis is a pretty fine place after all. Appreciate all the different departments. I am a taxpayer and wish them all luck, for the public is hard to please. By O. S. Bair Sr. In your issue of Aug. 30. I read an article signed by Worried Reader, asking the question, “Who is Perry Rule?” Living in Carroll county and in a neighboring township to Perry, and having known the gentleman for twenty years, I feel qualified to answ r er his question and.relieve his anxiety by telling him briefly just who Perry Rule is. Moreover, if “Worried Reader” ever has business up this w T ay on State road 39, if he will make himself known to the WTiter, I will be happy to take him over and introduce him to Perry and let him decide for himself just who and what the gentleman is over whom he seems to be worried. Perry Rule is a substantial citizen of Madison township, who owns, lives on, and operates his own farm

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hveeia, the Health Magazine. cent of the total, or 65 per cent of all of those over 40 years old, the cause of death was due to disease of the coronary arteries, the blood vessels which supply blood to the heart. These blood vessels are, of course, affected by various conditions which affect blood vessels generally, such as hardening of the arteries, inflammation because of syphilis, sometimes by blocking due to small clots w’hich get into them from the blood itself. Indeed, blocking by a clot, socalled coronary thrombosis, is coming to be the most common cause of sudden death, especially interesting examples in recent years being the death of President Coolidge and Senator Walsh. On Oct. 16, 1793, Dr. John Hunt-

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

will find these attempts to bring a homelike atmosphere into the drabbest spots. Men, in charge of such institutions, seldom show this trait, yet boys as well as girls can not grow wholesomely or normally without some beauty in their lives. a a a “rvH, you’re wrong about that,” disagreed the man in my family, when we discussed this idea which I had mentioned. “Boys sometimes are incorrigible. That sort of thing would have no effect whatever upon some of the worst types of bad boys.” Well, husband or no husband, I don't believe it and I told him so. There’s no such thing as an incorrigible boy or girl. There are sick and warped and twisted personalities, but the average child

of something less than 300 acres. He is a real dirt farmer and not an “agriculturist.” I once heard a lawyer define the terms farmer and agriculturist. A farmer, said he, is a man w'ho lives on a farm and tries to make the farm furnish him a living and money enough to pay his taxes. An agriculturist, he said, is a man who owns a farm and w’orks at something else to make money enough to run the damned farm. Perry is not an agriculturist. About twenty years ago, the people of Carroll county elected him to the lower house of the general assembly, where he served with credit to himself and his constituents. He recently has served his towmship two terms as trustee. Aside from this, I know not of his holding any other positions, either elective or appointive. He is at this time simply a private citizen, trying hard to make a living for his family and pay his taxes, and I am very sure he is not on the state pay roll or any other public pay roll, and receives no revenue whatsoever from beer. Perry has one distinction that few T men have. He is the father of trip- [ lets, two boys and one girl, all living, all grown and all good citizens. The daughter, Golden Rule, has been for several years a Carroll county teacher of high standing. Perry Rule is abundantly able to take care of himself with his pen in a discussion with “Worried Reader” or any one else, and needs no defense from me. Being a modest man, however, he would not care to make free use of the personal pronoun, I, so I have done this much for him. Judging by the general tone of his article, I should conclude that “W. R.” might stand for “Worried Republican,” who seeks through the columns of The Times to vent his spleen on Paul McNutt by lambasting Rule. If so, he is a very, very poor sport. Why doesn’t he take his medicine with good grace, as we Democrats used to do when “W. R.”, Goodrich, McCray, Jackson et al. were running things in Indiana, and ladling out appointments galore to those of their owti political faith? In conclusion let me say that I am neither a farmer nor a lawyer and not related in any way to Perry Rule or any of his family. I simply am defending a neighbor.

er, eminent founder of an epoch in medical history, himself died of this condition, having been irritated by some of his friends in an argument. Since that date it has been known that such irritation is exceedingly serious to a person with hardening of the blood vessels of the heart; in fact, the great Hunter said that he was at the mercy of any one who chose to anger him. In recent years, postmortem examinations of the bodies of those who have died suddenly have brought to light important evidence as to the cause of sudden pain in the heart and sudden death associated with it. It is likely that at least one-half of all of the sudden deaths occurring in this country are due to changes in the small blood vessels w’hich supply the heart with nutrition, or else to blocking of these vessels by some mechanism.

whom we call incorrigible is the victim of adult stupidity, of brutal mismanagement, or misunderstanding. Yet in nearly every state right now there is a constant effort to save money by depriving the children of adequate care, training, education, and love. And at the very same time the cry goes up that we must have more funds to apprehend and punish criminals. If there had been maintained during past years several institutions in New Mexico like the girls’ welfare home and similar places for neglected boys, there probably would have been no need for such fine penitentiaries. And that goes for every state In the Union. Each dollar we keep from the children we spend eventually for the upkeep of criminals.

_SEPT. 7, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN _

NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—A gentleman who preached about Labor day assailed the NRA with the hope that it would be but temporary. And his reasons were that short hours are not good for man. “There is," said the Rev. Dr. Raymond L. Forman, “a prevailing fantasy that the best job is the easiest one. I never have seen a capable man in an easy job who did not first lose his courage, then his character and, finally, his self-respect.'' When I read these sentiments it practically ruined my whole day. On numerous occasions I have stated that I knew few jobs easier than my own. I wonder whether it has wrecked me. or can it be that things would have turned out about the same, even if I had toiled twice or four times as hard? a it a Idle Hand 1 Love NATURALLY, I am averse to accepting the good doctor's premise. I can remember back to a brief period during which I w'orked very hard. If my recollection serves me, my ethical and moral standards were no better than in these days, when the pressure of long hours has been removed. Under any sort of microscopic examination it seems to me that my courage and character have remained about the same. As for selfrespect, I do believe that it has burgeoned slightly with a shorter working day. In fact, it is my opinion that the Rev. Dr. Raymond L. Forman is deep in error. May I quote to him the Book of Ecclesiasticus, or Wisdom of the Son of Siraeh, who spoke of tho.se things which come “by opportunity of leisure?” Dr. Forman is quoted as remarking, “Immorality is greater on holidays than at any other time.” ' Os course, I do not know what Dr. Forman's experience has been, but I myself am much more likely to go on a bender when obligations to labor press closely all around me. Just let me make a solemn date to rise at 9 on Tuesday morning and straightway plunge into some useful and gainful occupation and it will be on the precise Monday night preceding that I run into Norman, Joe, or Charlie and watch the dawn come up. Give me a holiday of a w'eek-end or more and I am likely to go native and strive through close contact with nature to get in tune with the infinite. But work me just a shade too hard and I’ll turn nasty and sit about picking fights with inoffensive strangers in the most boisterous of the night clubs. a a it Can't Be I 1 hat Tired IF I understand the philosophy of the preacher, I think he is arguing that labor may tire a man so deeply that he will take no interest in any of the vices. The truth, according to my observations, lies quite in the opposite direction. I have known men so worn with work that they gave little heed whether blind beggars stumbled or came safely through the traffic. Few of us commit any Boy Scout deed when the flesh is weak, for the spirit is inclined to droop with it in sympathy. Conversely, those most persistent in crying, “Let’s have one more round of jackpots,” are the very ones who hardly can keep their eyes open. And at times I have known even the most weary soul to brighten and gain second wind at the suggestion: “Let’s all go over to the Ha Ha Club. I mean just for a little while.” The tired man is generally ready for a fight or frolic. Virtue resides chiefly with those who are bounding with vitality. It is not the idle hands but the tormented ones w’hich make the easiest prey for Satan. That is no more than reasonable. If a man is comfortably located in an easy chair, with an iced drink at his elbow, the devil has very little to offer which will suffice to make him stir. Under such circumstances it is not difficult to say “Get thee behind me, Satan, and while you’re up I'd like another rickey.” tt a a Offer to the Devil BUT if the devil were to pop up through the floor right now and catch me in the act of w'riting this particular inspirational column, I think his arguments might go far in luring me away from righteousness and duty. Just suppose he said: “Never mind writing anything original. Just paste up any old column. After all, I can steer you to a poker game just around the corner.’ Or maybe. ‘‘She is blond, with violet eyes, half Malay and half Mexican.” Under those circumstances do you suppose that I would be much protected by the fact of engrossment in the production of belles-lettres? f think I’d go. In fact, I know I’d go. By a curidus coincidence the devil just has popped up through the door. He’s urging me to chuck it. I mean he’s mentioned a poker game. Moreover, he says she’s got a friend. Good "light. Dr. Raymond L. Forman. Don’t be silly. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Time*)

So They Say

The Germans are at heart a most mild and peaceful people. The vast majority of them do not want to fight. They want to work, to love, to raise children, to make a garden, play games, drink beer and wine and listen to music in the evening. —Edward J. Meeman, Memphis (Tenn.> newspaper editor, upon return from Europe. Engaged couples are like a couple of explorers starting off with a bagful of sweetmeats as provisions.—Mary’ Borden, in “The Technique of Marriage.” We are international guardians over a ward whose actions we can not control until it gets into major trouble.—U. S. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, on Cuba. I am through with love. Men play too carelessly with women. I don’t trust them any longer.— Claire Windsor, movie actress. A decision by majority vote never means a victory’ for reason, but for unreason, mediocrity, un--certainty, weakness and cowardliness. —Adolf Hitler.