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THURSDAY. SEPT 31. 1933. J)E PAUW STUDENTS SPEAK f I 'HE following editorial appeared yesterday ■* in The De Pauw, a student publication at De Pauw university: “Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis newspapers and even a publication in Columbus, 0., have worked themselves into a heat over a supposed military cnsis at De Pauw. Nothing seems really to have happened except that a corps area officer gave a letter to the press severely criticising President Oxnam for the R O. T. C. situation at De Pauw Otherwise the situation is the same as it has been for over four years. “Consistent with the attitude of his own church's general conference and that of organized Protestantism as reflected in the federal council, President Oxnam has taken the only stand that is possible. Bigotry In regard to the military situation has never been present on the campus, but the student body has expressed its support of the university's program by the almost negligible enrollment In the R. O. T. C. courses. With less than onetenth of the students enrolled this year, there can be no doubt of the campus sentiment on the situation. “Students here are only curiously interested In the situation that has developed, and wonder what all the noise is about. On this question they are willing to back President Oxnam and refute the charges that have been lodged against him. "And, among thp students, there are apparently only 102 men who would be sorry to see the department abolished. The rest of us are rather indifferent about the whole thing ” As an indication of just how much freedom of the press there Is among the De Pauw student newspaper it is interesting to recall that Thoburn Wiant, 1932 editor of The De Pauw, was disciplined severely bv President Oxnam for an editorial commenting unfavorably upon a member of the faculty. PREPARE FOR CHANGE /"\NE of the most perplexing things about living in 1933 is that the world's leading thinkers seem quite unable to make up their minds whether we are approaching a sunset or a dawn. If you nose through the books, magazine articles and interviews in which thoughtful men try to appraise the present situation you will find two schools of thought represented. According to one school, the end of all things is at hand, and a great darkness is about to settle down over the waters. Capitalism is done for. western civilization Is about to collapse and the world is about to enter a new dark age. According to the other school, our woes are just the birth pangs of anew order of life. We are going through a great change, and paying for it in misery and confusion, but when the change is finished things will be almost Infinitely better than they were before. There will be more freedom and less poverty, more peace and less war. more happiness and less desperate uncertainty. Each crew of prognosticators can assemble a multitude of facts and a whole string of clever arguments to prove its case. You can get damnation with your morning coffee and salvation with your after-dinner cigaret if you like, and each forecast will seem to be absolutely foolproof. Now all of this, however conflicting it may be, seems to indicate one thing indisputably: that we have reached one of history's great turning points, and that no matter what the future brings us it is going to be something different than what we have had before. For better or for worse, we have come upon a time of change, and those of us who don't like change seem to be very much out of luck. Yet it also is quite possible that the seers are mostly wrong. The disasters they foresee may not be quite as bad as they expect; the improvements may leave us only a little bit better off than we were. The important thing is that we accept the fact that some sort of change is coming and prepare our minds for it. then what? ratification of repeal is in sight -T before Christmas. Meanwhile the states have the Job of working out effective liquor control systems. In preparation for the end of national prohibition." thus says a Washington editorial. It would seem so. We are about to engage In the noble experiment of states rights as applied to liquor control, as in such matters as divorce, mamage. child labor, education and other matters in which is Involved the welfare of the country as a whole. We tried prohibition as a federal measure and It brought crime, death, blindness, rebellion against the United States Constitution and widespread corruption of all sorts. Enforcement became a ridiculous travesty largely because the states, including a considerable portion of their police forces, went to drinking harder than ever, and of worse stuff. But. now the federal government promises to aid each state In enforcing Its particular eystem of control, the government's very own gystem having resulted In a miserable lailure. Prohibition is futile and undesirable, but it meant definite atm and definite system. We now will trade it off for forty-eight different systems. That “meanwhile" of the Washington editorial Is a large step-brother of that terribly trying word “If and certainly indicates a period of chaos, so far as liquor control is concerned. It is safe to say that there are not a dozen states that can decide upon their control system between now and Christmas. \in the majority o t states It will require

months to determine and Institute the details of the system. Legislatures move slowly and congress will be no faster in deciding upon what aid the federal government shall give to enforcement of the various systems. “Meanwhile,” liquor, in most parts of the country, will be as free from control as rainfall upon the parched desert. Out of the eighteenth amendment by Dec. 25 and Into chaos by Dec 26, BIGGER AND BETTER BEER WHEN H. L Mencken speaks on his favorite thesis let no dog bark. For, although he is expert on many subjects, on beer he is the law and the prophet, and he gets his information direct from the spigot. Says the Sage of Baltimore: “During the last four months I have conducted personal investigations in five American cities, and got reliable reports from ten more. In only two of the fifteen are the local brews up to the mark. Elsewhere, the people are being debauched with watery, gassy, preposterous stuff, maybe not downright poisonous, but still very upsetting.” Another thing on his chest is that the beer tax and tariff are too high. The $5-a-barrel tax should be $2, the sl-a-gallon duty a dime. Beer drinkers haven’t struck yet because these burdens “seem light beside the fantastic extortions of the prohibition agents during the last thirteen years of the Anti-Saloon League hellenium." The Mencken formula for a nation of contented beer drinkers is: “Make beer cheap and good—give us a really big glass for a nickel—and very few will turn to whisky. But keep it expensive and the distillers and bootleggers will do a land-office business." PRISON LABOR '"1 A HE tentative code covering prison industry, just filed with the NRA by a group of state penal officials, offers a partial solution to one of the nation's most baffling minor problems. Competition from convict labor is not extensive, but it has had a serious effect in certain localities by depressing general labor standards to workshop levels. The United States labor department estimates that 82.276 prisoners last year produced $7j, 000.000 worth of goods. In only sixty-six out of 116 state prisons w’ere convicts paid w’ages, and these wages ranged from 2 to 15 cents a day. One-third of the shirts, binder-twine and other prison goods were sold in competition with private industry; two-thirds came under the category of “state-use.” Such competition Justified both free labor and industry in complaining. On the other hand, it would be manifestly unfair to prisoners and to the states to shut down prison factories and keep the men in idleness. The proposed code is not as drastic as competing industries have demanded for prison labor in their own codes. But it tends to equalize conditions on both sides of prison w r alls. It restricts convict work hours to those in competing free industries, and sets forty hours as the weekly limit. It prohibits the sale of prison goods at prices below outside costs. It encourages the spread of state-use manufacture by removing such w’ork from code limits. A code authority set up by the NRA would administer the agreement. . All able-bodied prisoners should work for their keep. They should work at occupations that build their bodies and train their hands and minds. They should be paid a small wage to start them in life when they are freed. And the product of their labor should go to tax-supported institutions, rather than into open competition with free labor. The proposed prison factory code seems to be working toward those ends. The states, labor and industry should join in welcoming it. PROMISING FIGURES 'T'HERE is a good deal of encouragement in the most recent figures on employment and pay rolls, as released by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. Although Miss Perkins properly warns us that “this is not the time to throw hats too high in the air,” it remains true that an employment gain of 750.000 in the month of August, accompanied by an increase of $12,000,000 in factory pay rolls, can properly be classed as extremely good news. Perhaps the best part of it is that pay rolls are beginning to increase faster than employment. That, quite obviously, means increased purchasing power for the individual man, and forecasts a continued business revival. For if business is to revive the ordinary consumer has got to spend more money; and he can't spend more if he doesn't get more. Every extra dollar in the wage earner's envelope is an additional stepping stone back toward prosperity. LEGAL BOOTLEGGING 'T'HE pending end of the prohibition era -*■ seems likely to bring a few surprises for some of us who aren't entirely familiar with the ways of the liquor trade. For example: James M. Doran. United States commissioner of industrial alcohol, points out that the nations stock of properly aged whisky is today about 4,000.000 gallons; but he adds that as soon as repeal is in effect this can be increased to 50.000.000 gallons through a process of rectification. And rectification, it seems, is just a business of mixing good liquor with grain alcohol to make half a dozen gallons grow’ where one grew before. It is, in fact, a scientific word for the bootlegger's old stunt of “cutting” his whisky. In our innocence we always had supposed that this “cutting” was a villainous and reprehensible stunt. Now it seems that it is a fine scientific achievement. It is all very confusing. The Democrats may yet pay up the debt they owe John J. Raskob. Bi t they can never pay Herbert Hoover what they owe him. Imagine Irish Fascists In blue shirts marching to “The Wearin’ of the Green”! The world is having an awful time proving to Wilbur Glenn Voliva that it really isn’t flat —broke. New York NRA report* big sales in time clocks. Ringing out the old deal, ringing in the new. Indiana boy swallowed.a key and was all wound up by the time the doctors got to him.

PRESIDENT GREEN’S CHARGES "PRESIDENT GREEN of the American Fed- -*■ eration of Labor has laid before Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson what he says is “the definite, documentary evidence of astonishing evasions by great employers" of the labor section of the recovery act. The evasions, he claims, are setups of "works councils,” company unions and other spurious pretenses at the free labor organization provided for under Section 7A of the law. Some of the evasions are, says Green, “so bold and so hostile to the letter and the spirit of the law’ that I am certain the administrator must take immediate and very drastic action.” , Green's charges are not the first indications that a few large employers still are building on the old methods in their relationship with the workers. The Journal of Electrical Workers declares that the National Manufacturers' Association maintains a highly paid lobby at "Washington that seeks to stir opposition to the labor sections of the codes and connives “to defeat NRA's aim of' increasing buying power.” Others, it would seem, have been speeding production under the pre-code long-hour, cheap-wage conditions. This is indicated by the fact that since March production has jumped 20 per cent, employment only 10 per cent. But Green's accusations are the first of actual law evasion. Section 7A of the law is very specific in declaring that “employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing,” that “no employe . . . shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union, or to refrain from joining, organizing or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing.” If corporations are preventing free unionization, or if they are coercing workers into company unions they are violating the law, no matter whether they give employe representation on councils or otherwise make friendly gestures. General Johnson's record of fairness and liberality toward labor is such that there is little doubt he will give serious attention to President Green's charges. HOT TIME 'T'HE reopening of the disarmament conference at Geneva promises to produce a fine exhibition of pyrotechnics, with giant firecrackers, roman candles, sky rockets, pinwheels ’n everything. France, Italy and Great Britain are positive that Germany is secretly arming, and France and Great Britain propose to give the conference dossiers in detail to prove it. Os course, confession by his near neighbors that they have been snooping around in his proceedings will suffice to ignite all the powder, or gas, that Hitler has in him. Incidentally, but apropos, France and Britain expect their dossiers to have much effect upon the attitude of Norman Davis, by grace of Roosevelt ambassador-at-large to Europe of our United States. Maybe two effects—one to remind Davis that Germany can not borrow war money; and, that the very nations most fearful of Hitler’s warlike disposition are those that propose to settle his w T ar obligations to them at 10 cents on the dollar, provided that Davis’ nation treats its war dues likewise. Yes, big prospects of firew’orks at that Geneva conference! Come to think over it, that’s about all that international conference ever produces. Isn't it funny w’hen sister-and-brother twins grow up, by the time the boy is 30 the girl is still only 22. Columbia university professor says science has added seven years to life of man. Let’s hope the other four won’t be as bad as the last three.

M.E.TracySays:

AVERAGE people are bewildered. They want to do their full part, but don't know the best w’ay. Most of them w’ould like to buy ten times as much as they can afford, but they lack the cash or credit, and that's that. Buying becomes a matter of lorced selectivity in the majority of cases. Outside of the few rich, nobody is able to buy more than a small portion what he or she wants. Here is a man with SIOO in cash, or $lO a w’eek in prospect. What should he do with it? He can blow some of it on the movies, buy a new radio set, take out a life insurance policy, get the wife anew dress, move into a better rent, or do an untold number of other things, but he can not do them all. There is no code to solve his problem. He can get scads of good advice, but in the end he most depend on his ow’n judgment or a compromise with the family. tt tt tt HE finds bargains advertised on every hand, more than he could pay for in 100 years, and all of which appeal to him as being worth w’hile. Salesmen are constantly coming to the door, most of them with a plausible spiel and a worthwhile contraption. The prevailing opinion is that prices are going up and that if he really needs anything, he would better get it just as soon as he can. The car needs new' tires, the kids ought to have shoes, the wife could make good use of a vacuum cleaner. Meanwhile, some well-to-do neighbor drops in to preach the doctrine of thrift. Areas estate man calls to interest him in buying a house “like rent.” This is one time that a man must stand on his own feet and run his own business. No national plan or local committee will repair damages if he makes a mistake. u u a HOW much should he put aside for that proverbial rainy day in comparison tp what he earns and where should he put it? How much of what he spends should go for recreation? The poor devil is beset with riddles. He wants to help, not only for the sake of general prosperity, but for the sake of himself and family. He realizes that his personal welfare is bound up in that of the nation. On the other hand, he realizes that he must look out for his own interests, that nobody will pay his bills if he buys too much on credit and that he can not escape the consequences of blundering. To a certain extent, he has become a victim of mass pressure and is afraid of it. He can see the advantage of planned economy from the wage or production end, but he can not see where it leaves him as a consumer. Asa worker he has ceased to be master of his fate, but as a unit of society, he must look out for himself, or take the consequence. He wants the good things of life, but at the same time he wants to accumulate something against old age and the pitfalls which surround normal existence. What’s the answer?

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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.J By Ben Wilhelm. We would request a little space in your “Message Center” column to’ explain the paragraph in the national recovery act in which a certain sum was set aside, known as the Subsistence Homestead Fund, to provide financing of modestpriced cottages on three to five-acre lots in a place not too far from industrial centers. These are to be sold on easy terms to middle-aged people who are without trades and had been throw’n out of employment by labor saving machinery and thereby giving them an opportunity to raise what they eat and in that w’ay reduce the number in the bread lines and reduce the strain on the tax payer who is obliged to assist in carrying the burden of caring for these less fortunate neighbors. The writer often has remarked, after returning from a day's trip over the farm lands of Indiana, and noticing the thousands of acres of idle land growing up, and the weeds and bushes growing on them, which would produce food for a multitude. Returning to Indianapolis I see a long line of unfortunate citizens aw’aiting their turn at the soup kettle. I know that those responsible, if there were any one responsible, had not made any great effort in allowing these men an opportunity to leave the soup line and get to a place where they could help themselves. Center towmship has spent $1,300,000 for the poor, landlords have lost a corresponding amount of rent, and are unable to pay their taxes, and private charity and the community fund has spent a like amount, and in all we have spent about $3,000,000 in Center township alone. I have thought that even if the Community Fund or township trustee or other charitable institutions had assisted needy citizens in plowing their land, furnishing seed and a cow, a couple of shote and a few’ hens, that in one year they would be self-supporting, and we w’ould

SCARLET fever is ordinarily a mild disease for most children. There are occasional epidemics in which the cases that occur are much more severe. There are, moreover, instances in w’hich the complications are so serious as to be more dangerous to life and health than the disease itself.

The most frequent complication Os scarlet fever is infection of the ear or sometimes of the mastoid, with the production of the condition called mastoiditis. About 10 per cent of children who get scarlet fever also have an inflammation of the internal ear, but the number of cases varies in different epidemics from 4 per cent of all of those getting scarlet fever to 25 per cent. Probably one of the reasons why so many children with scarlet fever have trouble with the ear is the fact that the throat invariably is infected. The condition begins with inflammation of the throat and the

HISTORY does not repeat itself. Movements in history may do so. but the sources and results of such movements are always different. In his slow progress toward perfection, man does not travel in a circle. He makes definite advances. We proceed by a sort of “trial by error” method, but we do proceed. And out of our errors, infinitely repeated, there spring new thoughts that take root and form within the sluggish understanding of men. This is why it never is foolish to dream of and work for better social justice, fuller earthly happiness or world peace and the brotherhood of nations. In New York City the last of this month will be held another congress; against war. Representatives from]

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Scarlet Fever Complications Dangerous —= BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN --- - -

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He’s Still Pecking Away

Let's Think By “For the People.” Let uS all stop and think over this “new thing under the sun,” that is, the destruction of wheat, corn and hogs. Who provided this bountiful harvest for the starving people but God? Was it not God who sent the sunshine and the rain, causing the earth to bring forth food for man? Has any mere man the moral right to destroy that which God has given us? Are w’e all crazy? It looks that way. Let us all get dow r n on our knees and thank Him, the giver of every good gift and use these necessities of life in feeding the starving, instead of destroying it. Suppose there is a failure of crops next year? It W’ould be no more than we deserve if w’e sponsor such a God-dishonoring command.

have no need for an additional amount of taxes to carry us through. We might also state that the construction of buildings, such as we spoke of, and for w’hich this fund has been set aside, w’ould furnish a lot of employment for idle citizens this winter. The Old Hickory Democratic Club, reasoning along the same lines, is making an effort to secure an appropriation from this fund for Indianapolis. The club has set about this matter along the lines of the New’ Deal, taking for granted that the common citizen will receive recognition in Washington, if enough of them make a request for a certain appropriation. The club now is circulating petitions among its neighbors and friends to request the Hon. Louis Ludlow, the Hon. Dr. Larrabee, our two representatives from this city, the Hon. Frederick Van Nuys, our senator from Indiana, to assist us in securing this appropriation. The 'club has nothing to sell in the way of real estate; it has no top-heavy mortgages which it desires to wish on a liberal government, but they have taken for their

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spread of the infected material from the throat to the ear. The spread takes place through the eustachian tube w’hich passes from the back of the nose to the ear. Frequently the inflammation of the ear is so sudden and the organism responsible so virulent, that the first sign of the infection is the sudden discharge of material from the ear. Thus less than twenty-four hours may elapse between the first infection and the beginning of the discharge of the pus. However, there are other cases in which the condition comes on more slowly. In such cases high fever, severe pain in the ear and ringing in the ear are reactions. The diagnosis of this condition can be made certain only by a competent physician who will look into the ear with a proper device for

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

this and several other countries will be present and the list of influential and famous names is impressive. More than fifty organizations are participating in the event. ana BUT,” expostulated the husband of the woman next door, “that looks like wasted effort. Why, we re right in the midst of a militant movement that hasn’t been equalled in fifty years. Were sitting on dynamite. Yet. in spite of that, a lot of fool women, backed by more fool men writers, poets, economists and dreamers, with no practical experience, run around futilely crying up their pale pacifism.” That is true, you probably will say. But what the neighbor's husband forgets, I think, a that we are

slogan .a line from the preamble of the Constitution of the United States, to “promote general welfare,” and the club believes that the general welfare among a certain class of our citizens can be promoted by following the plan above suggested. By Harry Clark. In reply to your question printed in The Times as to what is a jack salmon, I was in the fish business several years and can tell you about this variety. To begin with, there is no such fish as a jack salmon. This name was given to Sanger pike, blue pike and No. 2 w'alleye pike by restaurant ow’ners a few’ years ago. Tons of these fish are shipped from all fishing points along Lake Erie each spring and fall, fresh caught and the surplus is frozen and sold during the hot months in summer and the cold months in winter. The jack salmon, or pike, are caught in traps and gill nets. They are a nice order size for restaurant use, about six to seven ounces, dressed ready to serve. The larger ones are sorted out and sold at higher prices and called No. 1 pickerel, jumbo blues and gill net Sangers. These three species are alike in every w'ay except in color. These fish are plentiful in southern streams. They call them yellow' and blue'salmon.

So They Say

Our goal is an industry operated for service to the nation and its people, guided through the processes of organized labor.—William Green, president, American Federation of Labor. A blue eagle on the window can not hide a black heart in the office. —Rev. Wesley Megaw’, New York. We have been inclined to disregard the tendencies of a changing w’orld and vainly hope for a day that is gone.—Arthur Hopkins, theatrical producer.

lighting and for magnifying the eardrum.

He can tell from the appearance of the membrane w'hether or not there is pressure, and he can tell from its color the severity of the inflammation. Os course, any patient with scarlet fever should be promptly put to bed. The throat may be treated by suitable measures including the use of antiseptic w’ashes and the application of ice bags. When the infection occurs in the ear it is highly important to permit the infected material to escape as soon as possible. There should be an opening of the membrane under such circumstances, for the simple reason that it heals rapidly without any detrimental effects to the ear. Furthermore, it has been shown in millions of cases in which it has been done that the measure actually serves to benefit the condition.

also in the midst of a peace movement that hasn't been equalled in a much longer time than fifty years. We are sitting on dynamite. But we know it’s there. And for perhaps the very first time iq the whole history of mankind we’re not sitting in comfortable ignorance. And what progress that is! More people are talking about peace, tvorking for peace, believing in the ultimate possibility of peace, than have done so since w r ar ceased to be a continuous performance, and man became partially civilized. Our cry as yet is only heard faintly. But it will swell in volume until it eyentually will drown out the clash of arms and resound In the spapes of the universe, when .war shall be no more. • t

EEPT. 21,1933

It Seems to Me

BY HEYWOOD BROUN - New fORK. Sept. 21.—Maybe I’m not very logical myself. Possibly* that is why I can not follow closely the reasoning of certain clients who take acidulous exception to columns about NRA Somebody sends a clipping from “It Seem to Me" which expressed emotion about the parade and attached is a news note concerning a woman found in the wake of the procession who dropped to the sidewalk faint from starvation. The inference seems t<f be that her hunger was in some way caused by the marchers. And yet that can not be so, for others stumbled and fell long before this scheme came into being. Another reader tells me that on the very day 250,000 sought to trample down the grass which Mr. Hoover said would grow in the streets (credit Morris Watson, of the A. P.) her father was evicted from his farm in northern New’ York. * u a Stigma to Beat a Dogma AGAIN I fail to follow the trail of cause and effect. Many individuals seem to think that through the present stipulations of NRA codes every ill and difficulty of our economic situation will be solved promptly. But not even the most optimistic and enthusiastic exponent of the blue eagle has said anything of the sort. The highest claim I have heard, even front its advocates, is the assertion that here is an experiment tending, in the right direction. Around race tracks there is a saying—‘‘You can't beat a horse with no horse.” It seems to me quite fair to say to the most violent critics of the national recovery act: “Some of w’hat you say is true, but what do you suggest as a substitute?” The mast logical answer w’ould probably come from Communists and Communist sympathizers. Their position, in all frankness, would be: “I don't think it will work, and even if it does I wouldn’t like it.” Anybody who is committed to a thoroughgoing revolution brought about by direct action of the workers has some right to say that, he wants all palliatives, effective or ineffective, sw’ept aside. * But even in the case of the unreconstructed revolutionists it is not irrelevant to inquire: “Just when do you think you will be in a position to bring about this upheaval?” An honest answer would have to be: “I don't know’.” Whereupon a sadly distressed community is not out of line if it makes the further query: “But isn't there something we can do before the revolution comes?” To the best of my knowledge and belief the NRA scheme is the first immediate attempt to take the depression in any way but lying down. a a u The Real Eagle Hunters AS a matter of fact, the chief opposition has not come from the radicals, even though they may be the loudest and most articulate groups. Gentlemen w'ho say very little for publication are the chief enemies. As far as I can ascertain Henry Ford has not opened his mouth once about the entire question. The truly damaging blows are being aimed by those who strike, swiftly and silently, iq the dark. Some strange allies can be identii fied as participants in the last NRA | demonstration. But I think a still | stranger parade could be made up | of those who are fighting it tooth i and nail. Mr. Ford, I think, might | properly be the grand marshal ol j this procession and he would be flanked by Mike Gold of the Daily Worker and the bulk of the editors of the Nation and the New Republic. Robert P. Lamont, lately president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, would have a right to express a certain surprise to find his nearest comrade in the march Robert Minor, Communist candidate for mayor. And, for that matter, Mr. Minor reasonably would be justified in expressing a certain wonderment. The same strange alliance would persist down through the ranks. It w’ould be a combination of those who feel that NRA moves too slowly and those who think it goes too fast. The only common agreement could be found in the phrase: “To hell with It!” n n u Rear of Much and Little MR. LAMONT, the former steel baron, remarked sadly upon resigning his post in at least implied protest against NRA: “No one knows how far it may go.” Some of the boys who feel that the whole experiment is designed to forge new chains for industrial slaves ought to sit down and try to cheer up Mr. Lamont. And he, in turn, could give comfort to these radical pep men by assuring them that here is the first step toward the end of the capitalist system. Then they would do well to throw’ dice in an effort to determine which is the sound and true theory. It would be a bold man who would endeavor to predict just what will come out of the experiment. All I can say is that from where I stand it seems to be moving. And after four years of stagnation I count that as a triumph. As the gentleman said about his friend who lay in the gutter: “Oh, no, he isn’t ossified; I just saw him wiggle one finger.” (Copyright, 1933. bv The Timrg) Black Dancer BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH Light she swayed with rythmic thighs, The music crude, The sensual strains Os low refrains That merged up to the skies And fell with the' depths of consuming fires Luted keenly on silvery lyres. The black girl shriek* Her dress aswirL Wild hair flying, Fingers atwirl. A body aquiver. The lights burn low’ Along a muddy river. Wild fire—wind aglow. An abnoxious scream, A vibrant shout, A hilarious dream. The light burnout.