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OXXAM AND THE R. 0. T. C. ' I H HE row over whether De Pauw university ■*’ shall continue its Reserve Officers Training Corps has been renewed. President Oxnam s attitude indicates that he is for its removal, although he has not been courageous enough to say so. He merely has contented himself with saying that General George Van Horn Moseley made an “erroneous’’ statement in attributing the decline in R. O. T. C. membership to Dr. Oxnam. General Moseley's career in both civil and military life is the best answer to this. He is not given to "erroneous” statements. If President Oxnam has not discouraged students and faculty from supporting the R.' O. T. C. he certainly has permitted the undercover sabotaging of the unit. The De Pauw R. O. T. C. has a long and distinguished record. Indiana is Justly proud of it. Most of the alumni want it retained. The war department thinks highly of it but, under the law, it can not be kept if its membership falls below a hundred students. It looks very much as though Dr. Oxnam were encouraging, if not actually directing, a policy by which the membership may be chiseled away until it is below the legal requirement. Then the war department would be forced to abolish it. This is weaseling. If Dr. Oxnam does not want the R. O. T. C. at De Pauw he should have the fortitude to request its withdrawal and gather to his bosom all the spears of criticism that will result His present policy looks too much like an attempt to carry water on both shoulders. He gives the appearance of trying to force the responsibility for the unit’s abolition upon the, war department and at the same time get himself in a position to claim personal credit for the disappearance of the R. O. T. C. with the pacifists. Such a scheme may be smart, but it is unworthy of the president of a great educational institution.

FRONT PAGE NEWS XT TARS tfre fought incessantly and lives oc- * " casionally are lo6t in the laboratories of the world. But this is a war in which Croix de Guerres are seldom handed out. The soldiers, not a pushing lot, seek their adornment mainly in the knowledge that they have advanced science a little further. The names of a few medical and research heroes have been lifted high after death from inoculation with the virus of some diseases they were comoating. There are many who receive germs in their blood stream who recover, and few except their associates and families know that they had descended for a sime into the valley of death for humanity’s sake. Now comes a report from St. Louis, where "sleeping sickness" has taken 150 victims, that three scientists have allowed themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes which had bitten sufferers in testing the theory that insects transmit the disease. For weeks the scientists have been trying to solve the mystery by letting insects bite patients and then animals—monkeys and rabbits, but with no result. Now the three men have volunteered. It is characteristic of this breed of men that they are anonymous. When they go into a laboratory they enlist for the duration of the war. like policemen, firemen or soldiers. It will take from ten days to two weeks to see if the experiment is successful, by which, we hope, is meant that the disease germ will be captured and the patients live to tell the story! NOT SO STARTLING FROM a letter written by a man who has just passed his eightieth birthday and whose long and useful life has been distinctly on the conservative rather than on the radical side of things: “What a change in the public mind! But no greater than I saw in my boyhood. “My father was an abolitionist, when they were looked upon much as Bolshevists are now. “In that day human slavery had the same public, church and political approval as other property ” To those who are disposed to register alarm about the rights of individualism in the present time of change from laissez faire to co-operation, it may be well to consider the fact which that letter recalls. Nothing in the whole 1933 program represents so drastic a transformation in terms of Individual or property rights as did the events in this country over seventy years ago. ELMER’S MILLION MARCHERS SENATOR ELMER THOMAS of Oklahoma. leader of the inflationist bloc in congress, now is proposing the march of a million men on Washington demanding that the President use the power he possesses to inflate the currency. The senator, sincerely and vigorously pushing his ideas, wants one result- Higher purchasing power for farmers and city dwellers. Being a fair man. the senator no doubt will admit that the President’s aims are exactly the same. As long ago as May Mr. Roosevelt said that “the administration has the definite objective of raising commodity prices to such an extent that those who have borrowed money will, on the average, be able to jepay that money in the same kind of dollars which they borrowed.'’ Thus, the difference between Senator Thomas and President Roosevelt is a differ?

STINK is a crude word. Yet it Is the only one that adequately describes the situation existing throughout a large portion of the city. Rudyard Kipling once wrote a clever essay on "The Great. Calcutta Stink.” He should have gotten a whiff of Indianapolis. Calcutta never was like this. For years this foul odor has spread over the business district, drifted into homes and made suffering patients in the city hospital uncomfortable. Thousands of visitors to Indianapolis remember the community by its smell. This is unfair to a city whose residents are rightly proud of their lovely park system. It is unjust to this community which is really one of the most beautiful in the United States. In recent weeks this stench has increased. This -s due to the fact that Kingan’s plant Is slaughtering many more hogs in connection with the government’s farm relief plan. It is to be hoped that this particular situation is temporary, but, government hogs or no government hogs, Kingan's odors have been a nuisance for years. Every time in the past that even a mild protest has been raised the word went out that Kingan’s might take its big pay roll out of Indianapolis if any one mentioned the way it smelled. That may have been true during the boom years when municipalities had huge funds to spend on paying moving expenses, taxes and real estate costs to entice new industries to them. But those days are over now. Cities have all they can do to pay their teachers and policemen. If Kingan’s moves now it will have to do so

ence of of methods to employ, not ends to attain. The President, naturally, is thinking very hard about inflation. He knows, as Senator Thomas does, that he might pick up the telephone, call the bureau of engraving and printing, and order the presses to start printing money. But Mr. Roosevelt hasn’t reached this decision; many economists, quite as sincere and patriotic as the Oklahoma senator, hope he never will. Until he does, he is depending upon the recovery program to accomplish the same ends: NRA to put men back to work at better wages and on shorter hours; the public works administration to "prime the pump” by construction that also will furnish jobs and purchasing power; the agricultural adjustment administration, to cut away unwieldy and depressing surpluses, make crop outputs more in line with national needs, give farmers more for their produce, raise their purchasing power. There is another inflationist in the Roosevelt administration. He is Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace. He favors controlled inflation. And yet he understands the difficulties that lie in the path of that program. Speaking Tuesday before grain dealers in Chicago, Secretary Wallace said: “Please remember that inflation is not a cure-all , . .** A million men marching on Washington will not make it a cure-all. Nor two million men. And we believe Senator Thomas will realize this fact before he calls on his cohorts to take to the road.

EATING AND SLEEPING CODES npHE eatiqg and sleeping codes, those governing the restaurant and hotel business, are bristling with problems of the bell hop, the waitress, the porter and the chambermaid—not to speak of the traveling and eating public. Battles over the tipping system, hours of work, deductions for meals and the like will be fought in public hearings on both these codes within a few days. An interesting possibility is that the NRA will permit a separate code for the tourist camp, that offshoot of the motor age which pops up at the traveler on every side as he speeds across the country. It is a distinct growth with problems of its owns. The tipping system will not be eliminated by the NRA. By a recent ruling the NRA held that tips can not be considered a part of remuneration of any employes. This applied to the modified presidential agreement. The restaurants and hotels have inserted a similar provision in their proposed permanent codes. But the tipping system may influence the rate of minimum wages. The Hotel and Restaurant Employes Union is seeking a Sls minimum w-age and a forty-hour week, exclusive of tips. Hotels and restaurants claim they can not pay this, and are. in effect, seeking to make tips accountable for part of wages. Hotels propose In their code a wage increase for bell hops, porters, waiters and waitresses, barber shop and beauty shop employes to the average weekly rates paid in 1929. But in many cases this rate is very low, often as little as $2 or $3 a week. This type of employe depends largely upon tips. There are cases where bell captains make more money than the managers of hotels. The hotels and restaurants have impressed NRA officials with the argument that the minimum wage should not be very high. Indications are that tips will be taken into account in fixing the minimum wages. In the temporary presidential agreement, the NRA permitted deductions from wages for meals up to $3 a w-eek, with a charge not over 25 cents a meal, where such deductions were made prior to June 16. In the permanent code, the NRA expects to continue this policy, but give the worker the.option of buying his meals outside. Some hotels feed their employes an inferior type of food, according to NRA officials, while some restaurants are very generous in their feeding of employes. Proposed wage differentials of 2 cents an hour lower for women employes in the hotel code, as well as a 20 per cent differential for the south, have, aroused serious opposition which will break out at the public hearings. NRA officials also plan to lessen the “apprentice" period for hotel employes from the six months proposed, which is considered far too long. Apprentices may be paid 70 per cent of the minimum wage. North Carolina pastor has written code for his congregation, stipulating they must attend his sermons regularly. Wonder if it contains a clause regarding snoring? All in all, framing that soft coal code seems to have been a pretty hard Job.

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at its own expense. It certainly would cost the packing house far less to buy the necessary equipment to eliminate the stench. Besides, its plant is located on Route 40, one of the most traveled through highways in the country. Tourists from all over the nation pass it daily, and we wonder what they think of Kingan’s products after smelling its establishment. By permitting this nuisance to continue, Kinganfc, it would seem, Is not even giving its own excellent product very good advertising. It is said that “even her best friend wouldn’t tell her.” We are going to try to be the unique “best friend” to Kingan’s. We are saying to the packing plant: "You are a flrst-class industry. Your plant is sanitary. We appreciate the money you bring to the community. You are an estimable organization, but you are a bad neighbor. You have a case of halitosis that belongs in the Listerine museum. Your stench is damaging to property values for blocks and blocks around you.” No matter how worthy an individual may be nobody likes him if he stinks. The same goes for an industry. Indianapolis has tolerated the intolerable reek from Kingan’s long enough. It is to be hoped that the stockholders and directors of the corporation will act of their own accord to eliminate this nuisance which has grown into a community scandal. If they refuse, then the health authorities and the city government should take immediate steps to force a remedy.

HITLER BOYCOTT NEVER was there more occasion for careful judgment in the leadership of a cause than that which is called for in the conduct of the anti-Hitler boycott in this country. American Jews, and the vast majority of other American citizens wjro sympathize with the Jews in their protests against the ruthless Hitler program, should not forget that the vicious thing called anti-Semitism is not confined to Germany. It Is also here. It is latent —but it is here. It is only necessary to project the memory back a few years to realize the extent to which it can go in America. Less than a decade ago, that noisy and poisonous minority, the KuKlux Klan, was raging with insensate hysteria in intent if not in execution as that which intoxicates Hitler. The rabid intolerance which lighted the fiery cross is not dead. It is merely sleeping. And may the sleep be forever. A move to draw cur government into controversy now is appearing, urged by tlqe more enthusiastic leaders of the boycott. As individuals we have a right to express our opposition to and contempt for the persecution of the German Jews—our admiration for and appreciation of the achievements they have contributed to the world. Let the American citizen, as an individual, register his protest in any way he sees fit—by speech or pen—by refusing to buy. That is his privilege. But don’t seek to involve the government. For, as a nation—as distinct from our status as individuals—we have no more business mixing officially in such an internal dispute than we have in taking a hand in the domestic controversies of any other country, be that country Nicaragua, Russia, India or Iraq. Nothing would be more potent in the promotion of a revival of anti-Semitism in the United States than for the American Jew-bait-er to be able to say that Jewish citizens and sympathizers in this nation are so acting as to involve our country in an European situation which might mean war.

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IF we could parade or ballyhoo ourselves into prosperity, we would have been sitting on top of the world long ere this, but we can’t and the sooner we realize it the better we will get along. A certain amount of hoopla is necessary to the success of any great movement, but when dealing with such stern realities as production, buying power and industrial reorganization, something more is required. We are in danger of shouting the NRA to death, of choking it with false hopes and expectations, or crowding the public mind with absurd predictions until disappointment is inevitable. A four-year depression hardly can be broken overnight, especially-when it involves the whole civilized world. Even under the most favorable conditions, such a stupendous program as that outlined by President Roosevelt would take years to organize, much less to complete. Why should any one suppose that three months will tell the story, that if everybody isn't at work by Christmas, we ought to pronounce the thing a failure. 0 a u WE are not buckling down for a hard fight as we should be, but trying to tell ourselves out of the mire. Such a frame of mind reveals utter inability to comprehend the size of the job ahead. We look on the Russians as rather flighty, but they have set to work on a second five-year plan, after completing the first, without whine or complaint. Whatever may be said of their theories, they didn’t fool themselves about the time or work required. They stood off and measured the task man-fashion, which is what we ought to be doing. Instead we are kidding ourselves with a lot of silly assumptions and still sillier assertions. Our trouble is a gadget philosophy and a get-rich-quick attitude. The idea of turning night into day by pressing a button or making a fortune through real estate or stock speculation has gone to our heads. 000 ABETTER system of distributing profits does not mean a quicker way of accumulatingwealth in the aggregate. It will be a long time before the national income is back where it was in 1928, and a still longer time before the losses have been overcome and the reserves replenished. The depression cost us more than the war, and we are not through paying for the war by any means. Nothing has gone wrong with NRA, except extravagant optimism with which some of its addle-pated sponsors have led people into chasing rainbows. We are up against a condition, not a theory, and the condition is such that it can not laughed away. A good deal of the wind we are squandering should be saved for scratching gravel. Some of the shouters are going to get tired before this job is finished, not because anybody else made a mistake, but because they failed to save their breath.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By William B. Shearer. Will someone please inform oiy: war department that the president and faculty of De Pauw university is not to blame for the decreased enrollment in military training at that school. The teachings of Jesus have had a lot to do with it, and there has been a little help from Ghandi, Sherwood Eddy, Briand, Kellogg, et al. In addition, some influence may be attributed to an unbiased reading of history, with emphasis upon Kaiser Wilhelm, who used to play some at the war game. Add to this the inane remarks of some of our patriotic societies and the case for the faculty is complete. The De Pauw situation is only incidental to the purpose of my letter. It simply served as a reminder. I am writing to call the attention of our Real Estate Board and Chamber of Commerce (and other groups interested in government costs) to the program of military training being carried on in our public high schools in Indianapolis. Do these gentlemen think that because this program is not being paid for out of local taxation that it does not cost anything? And do they think that because it is being paid for by the federal government that we do not pay it? They have hired experts and lost all kinds of sleep cutting out night schools at a saving of only a few thousand dollars. They have cut teachers’ salaries below the limit of a decent living wage and greatly handicapped the carrying on of public services which are necessary for the common good. But they blithely close their eyes to wasteful expenditures not contained in the local tax rate. It is time we draw up a complete picture of the cost of living in this community, including in it all factors, such as utility costs and military expenditure. Long ago, in public hearings before congressional committees, officials of the war department admitted that military training in the high schools had no military value, except perhaps for propaganda purposes in keeping alive the war spirit. Congress was prepaid to abolish the expenditure, but such a flood of protest came from every city against it that they retained the program. And from whom did this protest come? from Chambers of Com-

THROUGH the United States bureau of fisheries, a study recently has been made of the exact vaiue of the oyster in human diet. From time to time it has been pointed out that the oyster is of special value in the diet because it contains various mineral substances and vitamins not usually found with similar richness in other food substances. For example, calves’ liver is recognized as one of the richest sources of iron and copper, containing approximately 5.4 milligrams of iron and 4.4 milligrams of copper in each 100 grams of liver. In contrast with this, oysters contain 6.2 milligrams of iron and 4.5 milligrams of copper in each 100 grams of oysters. No other commonly used food, except liver, surpasses the oyster in the amount of iron and cop-

TRUE as it may be, it nevertheless is disturbing to learn that if you are a woman your children will have a better chance for happiness in marriage if you, yourself, are tucked away safely in the cemetery. Yet most authorities who have investigated this statement assure us of its veracity. And I haven’t a doubt in the world that the facts bear out their contention. Because mothers, both by instinct and training, are meddlesome Matties, and it’s nearly impossible to impress them with the idea that the time will come when their children’s business will not be their business. # Mama’s attitude, however, comparatively is easy to understand. After you have put your whole heart and soul into the care of a person, you may, I t ink, be exonerated to

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Oysters Rich in Mineral Food Value !s = BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

The Hunting Season Opens

Thanks By Lester J. Swank. Permit me to express my appreciation for your courageous support expressed in your article appearing in Saturday’s Indianapolis Times, Sept. 9, entitled “Legion Demands End of Waste by Federal Machine.” More power to you and your paper.

merce, acting on behalf of their members who furnished the guns and uniforms and other supplies used by these R. O. T. C. units. The courses attract only a very small fraction of the boys enrolled in the high schools. It is simply an extravagance carried over from the hysterical days of the war and should be abolished. News of the abolition of the R. O. T. C. would be carried around the world and would have a good effect in those countries which believe that wo have in this country a system of universal military training. The Indianapolis school board can abolish the system here. The board may be known to posterity only as the board which cut teachers’ and librarians’ salaries and abolished night schools for underprivileged adults. By Regular Subscriber. I do not believe the writer of the recent article who styled himself “Friend of the Newsie,” is as much a “friend of the newsie” as he would have us believe. I talked to a newsie who has delivered Sunday morning papers for fifteen years, and he stated that not once in that time was it necessary for him to hawk his papers. He delivers the papers to his established customers each Sunday morning. Wouldn’t “Friend of the Newsie” be a better friend if he became an established customer of a carrier? I wish to commend heartily Chief Mike Morrissey for taking the action which he did to prevent the unnecessary noise by newsies hawking Sunday papers at an early hour. I believe Morrissey should have gone a step further and prevented all hawking of newspapers on Sunday. Why should it be necessary to be rudely awakened at 6 in the morning by having some newsie yell at the top of his voice directly under your window? This is the only day

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. per found in the average serving. Such foods as spinach, peas, beans and beets also are rich in both iron and copper, but not so rich as is the oyster. The investigator for the bureau of fisheries made a special s’udy to determine the value of oysters in the diet for people with anemia, who require iron and copper for aiding development of blood cells and of red coloring matter in the blood. The experimental animal used was the rat, which most frequently is used in studies of nutrition. The rats were fed a diet containing milk and dried oysters, and it was found that the oysters served quite efficiently for purpose of blood regeneration.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

a certain extent from the crime of showing undue interest in his or her welfare. BUM AND while the kids undoubtedly suffer from this maternal oversolicitation, the mothers also are to be regarded with a pitying eye. Tor we must remember that they have been taught to think of them- \ selves as the cornerstones of civilization. They are—or so they constantly are told—angels in the house, arbiters of human fate, guardians of morals and potters at the wheel of life. It’s hardly strange that they should become somewhat impressed with their importance. First they are complimented, flattered and cajoled; next they are asked to remove themselves from the picture, and like Lot’s wife, they must not look regretfully backward. **

of the week that the laboring man can enjoy a few extra hours of hard-eafned rest. “Friend of the Newsie” would have us believe that every one who enjoys sleeping after 6 a. m. is a high-ball and cocktail drinker. Indianapolis is becoming a city of some size, and we should not cling to small-town practices. I trust our chief of police will go a step further and prevent all hawking of newspapers and other wares on Sunday. By William Post. At this time when we are all doing our part, or at least professing to, wouldn’t it be a good plan for every married woman, who is not dependent on her work for a livelihood, to step aside in favor of someone who really needs the work? While it is doubtless true there are countless cases where, due to the husband’s meager income, the wife must work to keep the family name off the charity list, there are, on the other hand, I believe, innumerable instances where the husband is receiving sufficient remuneration to provide a comfortable living for every one concerned, and yet the wife, for some reason, continues to. hold on to her job, thus depriving someone more in heed of the money than she. It is my opinion that if a girl thinks so much of her job that she does not want to give it up, she should not consider marriage. Or can it be that either the husband or wife or both wish to enjoy so many of the luxuries and pleasures of life as possible without regard to the hardships and privations of their neighbors? In my estimation, no employer, whether or not he has signed his NRA agreement and is abiding by it, who continues to carry such a married woman on his pay roll, nor any husband who permits his wife to work under such circumstances, nor the wife herself, is doing his or her part to end the depression.

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The youth of my generation was denied information and allowed to live in a secretive world, while the children of today are told everything they might wish to know.— Dr. William J. Mayo, noted surgeon.

Oysters are known to contain all mineral substances necessary to maintain health and to promote reproduction and lactation. Rats fed on these simple diets grew and were capable of reproducing and nursing their young. The oyster is high in protein and also is known for its special content of vitamin E, the so-called anti-sterility vitamin. It is interesting that oysters derived from waters in various parts of the seacoast vary in their content of mineral substances, south Atlantic oysters being much richer in iron than north Atlantic oysters, as are also oysters from the Gulf of Mexico. Oysters from the Pacific coast fall between the two. This probably is due to the mineral contents of the water in which the oysters are developed.

No doubt the Victorian mother-in-law played great havoc, too, but very few vituperations were cast upon her at the time, largely, I suppose, because she came in very handy for pickling and preserving and cleaning and quilting and taking care of the babies, of which there was always an oversupply. Then along came birth control—and with it began the movement against all sorts of ,in-laws. The cubby hole modern apartment, the empty nursery, sounded the knell for mama. The radio now furnishes advice for the family, the electric gadgets do the work, and .so about the only thing she’s good for is help make up an occasional foursome. Do you think there’s any chance that repeal will bring about the renaissance of the American mother-in-law? fv

.SEPT. 20, 1933

It Seems to Me = BY HEYWOOIt BROUN_

NEW YORK, Sept. 20—As the red light flashed the taxi driver | turned around and said. "Do you i believe in God?” I was taken a couple of shades aback. It had not been my notion that the question would come up in a six-block ride to No. 21. But I did my best to meet the inquiry in the same spirit which had prompted it. I said. "Yes.” Then I added, “ But, of course, it takes a certain amount of definition and explanation.” It was my intenton to go on into a somewhat long-winded and murky | mysticism, but he cut me short. | The "yes” had been enough to nettle him. "I don’t,’’ said the taxi man. "‘Look here. Yesterday was the NRA parade and I made 50 cents. Not a drop of rain all the time. Fifteen minutes after it quits it comes, i Quarter past 12. Too late to do me j any good. | “I'm not kicking yet. I'm thinking tomorrow that big Jewish pageant at the Polo grounds is good for one long haul. What happens? It rains like hell. There can't be a God. How could He do that to us?” I didn't have a chance to give him a good knockdown argument in reply. We had arrived at 21. a a tt Letter From Coleman THIS morning In my Jersey bath,” writes McAlister Coleman, “I was singing the first stanza of our good old collegiate school song. You will remember it. It was the song we sang back in 1905 when we were overwhelming your Horace Mann basketball team. ‘Let the foeman stand and tremble, our meeting he shall rue, while Collegiut stands defender .of the Orange and the Blue.’ “I was just swinging into the rousing chorus, “Hooray for the Orange and Blue! to Colleg-iut we’ll ever be true, she gives us the knowledge that sends us to college, hooray for the Orange and Blue,’ when I happened to look out of the window. Instantly the song died in my horrified throat. For I saw that our tree was turning. "You will be interested in this tree. It started out with every apparent intention of becoming a poplar. Then something happened, someone blew cigaret smoke on it or spilled gin over it or whatever, and now it has grown into a combination of a weeping willow and a Japanese dwarf pine. Worse than that, a few weeks ago a caller ran into it with the front fender of his automobile and bent it badly. a a tt Skepticism in New Jersey “npHE caller came to tell us that A he had just seen an alligator in the Passaic river, near Belleville, N. J. He was so persistent about this that we finally humored him and assured him that the Passaic river was teeming with alligators. Now it turns out that he had seen an alligator in the Passaic river. This morning’s papers tell how Ernest Gregor of 79 Main street, Belleville, killed an alligator swimming up the river and how George Fitzsimmons, a former police court judge, of 84 Garden avenue, Belleville, nearly had his small dog, a terrier named John Marshall, eaten by two alligators. Which shows you that it doesn’s pay to be a skeptic in New Jersey. “Members of the Coleman Spare That Tree Club, who came over after our caller had left, suggested that I tie the tree to the house in order to straighten it out. Like so many suggestions emanating from well-mean-ing idealists, Socialists, Communists and the like, this one proved a flop. Because no sooner had I tied it up than a high wind blew in from Secaucus and I had to run out and untie it for fear it would bring down the house with it. “Anyway, now its leaves have begun to turn. To you, city-hemmed, the turning of the leaves in the park may mean nothing more than the enhancement of your penthouse view. To me it is ominous. For when the leaves begin to turn I begin to run. “This year I am running down the double political track of councilman and assemblyman. It is a novel experience. I go out one night and run for councilman, assuring the five little boys on roller-skates, the nice old lady who thinks that’ Sowould do better if it somehow tied up with the New Thought movement and the atheist comrade who wants me to ‘crack down harder’ on God that they have nothing to lose but their chains. The next night I tell much the same mass movement that they have a world to gain by voting for me for assemblyman. tt a u Getting to Know Voters “IN a way, of course, one of the A charming features about running on the Socialist ticket is the intimacy that springs up between you and your audiences after a few minutes. When any one comes in late, he waves at you as he takes his seat and hollers, ‘How are you tonight, comrade? That’s right, give ’em hell.’ “I have to go now and address the local Hi-Y group on ‘A New Way of Life.’ The leader of the group tactfully suggested that I say nothing: about Socialism or politics, ‘just give the boys something to take away with them.’ ” (Cocyrißht. 1933. bv The Times) The Pagan BY EUGENIE RICHART I pass old women in the street With a song in me— Poor old women, unaware Os the things I see. They can only hope to die, Life holds no more for them; But I have my youth to wear, Brightly, like a gem. They do not knw the thrill of night, Os pagan hands, of kissing; Their faces have grown desolate. From all the joy they’re missing. The old women in the street. Think themselves so wise; The sils things! They look at me, With pity in tfrelr eyes.