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THURSDAY. SEPT 28. 1933

SCHOOLS NEAR COLLAPSE 'T'HE next session of congress probably will be asked to vote something like $60,000,000 for the relief of the nation's public schools. When the question comes up for debate we likely are to get a look at one of the most critical phases of the entire depression. In a way. the whole business is a sample of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. The irresistible force is the schools’ need for money—a need that simply must be met. The immovable object is the fact that thousands of cities and counties simply haven’t got the money and can't possibly get it. In consequence, the problem becomes one of the great number that is being tossed on the receptive lap of Uncle Sam. Superintendent Charles A. Lee of Missouri, head of a committee of education officials appointed to present the schools' case to congress. lists a few of the ways in which the depression has crippled the schools. This year will see 80,000 fewer teachers on the job in America than were employed last year—although the NRA has released at least 100.000 boys and girls of school age for further study. Teachers' pay has been reduced, on the average, by 20 per cent. In some regions the cuts are as high as 60 per cent. Half of all the teachers will get less than S4OO for their year's work. Some actually are getting less than $35 a month—the day labor wage in NRA codes. In many localities schools will be in session for only three or four months. Many high schools have had to go on a tuition basis, which means that thousands of youngsters won't get the education they are entitled to. On the other hand, there is not a city nor a county in America that is not pressed for money. Tax revenues have fallen off, both because of the depression and because of antiquated tax systems. Furthermore, we are beginning to hear a wave of propaganda in favor of still further economy in the schools—propaganda backed, for the most part, by wealthy individuals who have far less reason for complaining about school expenditures than the ordinary middleclass citizen who pays his taxes without a whimper. It is a critical situation. The school system is in the process of collapsing, and it is supremely important that the collapse be averted. If no one but Uncle Sam can do it, It looks very much as if he would have to dig down in his pocket for whatever funds may be needed. PLAY THE TRUMPS THE progress of the NRA is most gratifying. But it will be very unwise to place the whole burden of assuring recovery upon this one act alone. To draw an analogy, the NRA resents the rule of the game rather than the trump cards. It is primarily a body of directions as to how to run the capitalistic economy once recovery has been regained. Even though it rests upon the assumption that more men will be put to work and that wage levels will be raised, it will be hard for industry to go very far along these lines until increased revenues are available. The real tmmp cards in the game of beating the depression are those which will provide more money to buy goods and will reveal some method of escaping, in part, at least, from the staggering burden of debt which threatens to crush our whole capitalistic economy. It would appear, therefore, that the real trump cards are public works and inflation. It is high time to Play them if we do not wish “Old Man Depression” to take the tricks as he did in the days of Hoover. Therefore, one may well read with anxiety the statement made by John T. Flynn in the New Republic that: "It is plain perfectly now that the public works program, as an instrument of recovery, actually has been abandoned, if, indeed, it ever was accepted seriously by the administration. It has sunk to the place of a mere relief measure—a kind of emergency 'made-work’ plan to provide jobs as a sort of substitute for the dole, while the other measures of the administration do the actual work of recovery.” Mr. Flynn makes this statement after having visited Washington to make a careful firsthand study of the public works problem. He assigns the blame exclusively to the President himself, aided and abetted by the conservative and conventional Budget Director Douglas. He concedes that Interior Secretary Harold Ickes is doing his best under the limitations imposed upon him. The appropriation of $3,300,000,000 was far too small to achieve the desired results, even if spent completely and rapidly. Mr. Roosevelt's most competent economic advisers have recommended a sum twice as large. This is a very significant point, for. as W. E. Woodward and others have made clear, inadequate expenditure on public works gets us nowhere at all as a mode of increasing the mass purchasing power of the nation. If we can not actually push the country out of the ditch and over the top. we simply exhaust ourselves with vain efforts when doing anything else. We are worse off at the end than at the beginning. The utilization of this insufficient $3,300,000.000 has been ridiculously slow and trivial. In spite of all the recent talk, the Hoover administration in August. 1932. contracted for six times as much public work as did the Roosevelt administration in August, 1933. Even the large Hoover public buildings program, which it particularly would have been hard for 'he Republicans to attack, has been sidetracked or abandoned. The public works administration ,was two months behind in getting underway and. to date: has not authorized more than half a billion dollars worth of new projects. Such 1 ielay is, in some cases, especially serious. The

$400,000,000 set aside for state roads should have been made available in June so it could have been expended during the present summer season. Now much of the construction will have to be delayed until next spring. The number of men put to work has been, in many cases, trivial compared to what easily could have been achieved. For example, only 16,000 men are employed on roads and road supplies %here, at least, 260,000 already might be at work. It was said that 5,000 men would be at work at Muscle Shoals by July 1. Scarcely anyone is employed there today. These delays, with respect to the public works programs, have postponed the revival of the capital goods industries upon which recovery actually depends. Reliable figures indicate an alarming decline in business of this sort since July. Steel has dropped from 57 per cent of capacity to approximately 40 per cent. If these industries are allowed to go into another collapse, the NRA will never save the capitalistic system. Mr. Flynn believes that one major reason for Mr. Roosevelt's amazing sloth in pushing public works, is his fear of petty scandals. It will be well to remind him that a thousand petty scandals could not react possibly so unfortunately upon his administration as the one great scandal of failure to restore prosperity. I know of no first-class economist in this country who believes we can restore prosperity unless we spend speedily at least $5,000,000,000 on public works to make available a large reservoir of effective purchasing power.

KENTUCKY GENTLEMAN TF there is one thing in whi'h a Kentucky senator takes pride it is in the dignity of the senate. And if there is another, it is his courtesy and consideration for the ladies—God bless 'em! In the person of Marvel Mills Logan, junior senator from the Blue Grass commonwealth, these splendid attributes have, perhaps, reached their finest flower. Let us tell you about it: Some time ago the ladies of Louisiana, wearied by the ill-smelling antics of their fishy Kingfish, wired Senator Connally, chairman of the senate sub-committee named to investigate the Louisiana election, to ask why the sub-committee was not doing same. Chairman Connally, at home in Texas, was preoccupied with the problem of next year's campaign. The other members of the subcommittee, who had received copies of the telegram, likewise were too busy to reply. All except the chivalrous son of the south to whom this little piece is dedicated. Senator Logan never is too busy to serve the ladies. He saw instantly that they were placing themselves in danger—in danger, indeed, of affronting the dignity of the senate. He rushed to their rescue. He wired: “Attribute your telegram of Sept. 10 to inexperience or ignorance or both. Therefore, I hope that the committee will not proceed against you for contempt. But do not offend again.” The dictates of chivalry thus having been satisfied, we are certain Senator Logan will allow the ladies to go their own headstrong way, withdrawing his protecting arm from their frail shoulders. He will not quarrel with them. He will not even deign to reply to the scorching telegraphic response which his kindly meant admonition called forth. (It really was a pip. the ladies’ telegram to the senator.) No, the senator will turn his attention to that other thing closest to his heart—the dignity of the senate. Anc that is all to the good. For the senator will find that somebody in Louisiana, besides the ladies, has been making a monkey of the senate. He will find that his esteemed colleague, the king scuttlefish, has been doing just that. And won’t the senator be sore! As he looks further and further into the matter, as he reads the record of the contemptuous conduct of Huey Long and his friends before the senator's own subcommittee down in New Orleans, the abuse poured upon his gentle colleague from Nebraska, now dead, in response to courteous senatorial questions, the senator is going to get mighty upset. He is going to insist that the committee’s experienced investigators be sent down to Louisiana right now to begin preparing the way for a real inquiry when the sub-committee reaches New Orleans next month. Which is what is being asked for by the ladies—God bless ’em!

SOCIETY IN A. D. 1933 about what the historians of the future are going to put into their textbooks is a futile and profitless pastime, ordinarily. But it seems a pretty safe bet that they will find at least a couple of paragraphs for that kidnaping trial now going on in Oklahoma City. More than any other criminal trial in years, perhaps, this case is symbolic of the present era. Not since A1 Capone was sent to prison for failing to pay his income tax has there been a court room scene that spoke so eloquently of the kind of society we have put together in modern America. For the trial does not simply represent an effort by the courts to fix responsibility for a peculiarly insolent crime. It is a test whether the courts can even make such an effort in the first place: 'whether society's ability to inquire into the acts of the underworld is to be at the mercy of the underworld’s own defiance. Consider the situation for a moment. To begin with, we have a vicious attempt to extort a large sum of money from a wealthy man—a enme whose mere occurrence indicates a crack in the fabric of society. Then the man suspected of having cooked up this crime is caught. He forces his way out of one of the strongest jails in the land, is caught again, and finally comes to trial. At his trial the authorities feel it necessary to turn the court into a veritable armed camp. The room is guarded by machine guns, riflemen patrol the corridors, officers in court are ordered to open fire on the chief defendant if anything suspicious happens. Meanwhile the underworld puts pressure on the state's witnesses. Written threats of death are received. One witness is bluntly asked. “Are 3'ou fool enough to think the government can protect you forever?” The chief defendant makes “sinister asides” whenever the chief prosecutor rises to speak. Now all of this simply means that there are desperadoes in this land whose power is almost as great as that of organized society itself. The mere task of bringing them to

trial taxes society’s resources to the utmost. The whole story of the trial will tell future students volumes about American life in the year 1933. . OTHERS MAY FOLLOW ONE way of getting a line on the things our government is doing these days is to find out how they look to people in other lands. It is rather instructive to note that the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, for instance, unanimously has indorsed the NRA program in the United States and has urged the adoption of a similar plan for Canada. A few days before this happened, the Trades Union Congress of England passed a resolution calling upon the British government to adopt similar measures. The South African parliament is considering its own NRA plan. The NRA, of course, is not a cure-all, and it has handed us some problems which will probably keep us busy for a long time. But foreigners find that it is a program of vast promise, and they would like to copy it themselves. The fact speaks volumes for the impression which the campaign is making on disinterested observers. SENSIBLE RELIEF -pRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S action in or- -*• dering the prompt expenditure of $75,000,000 to buy surplus farm products for the use of the needy seems to be one of the most sensible things he has done since he entered the White House. It provides a way out of an exceedingly contradictory situation—a situation in which vast quantities of the raw materials for food and clothing were in the process of destruction at a time when millions of people had neither enough to eat nor enough to wear. It is an expensive action, of course; but in the long run the money should prove money well spent. So long as people are hungry and cold, the greatest conceivable waste is to throw away the materials that might feed and warm them. Even if it costs a good deal more than the announced $75,000,000, this step is very much worth taking.

SPECTACLE AND WARNING npHE navy department now is preparing to send six or twelve seaplanes on a mass flight from San Diego to Honolulu, according to recent reports. Such a flight would be the longest single over-water hop ever attempted by a mass formation. It also is reported that if this flight is successful, a group of at least twenty-five planes may be sent to Europe next summer, as a gesture to balance General Balbo’s flight here this year. However much the layman may quibble about the utility, or otherwise, of such flights, they at least make gorgeous and exciting spectacles. Furthermore, they are excellent demonstrations of military strength. A nation that puts on such flights tacitly warns its potential foes what they can expect if they start anything. There’s a lot of wild speculation now over the future of the liquor problem, but it’s our own guess that when repeal comes folks will get down to cases. Waiters in Brazil become insulted then tips are offered them, says a news slory. Our average night club waiter probab^ 1 regards these fellows as Brazil nuts. Russian balloonist rose only 20 feet on attempted flight to stratosphere. Another case where inflation failed? A husband can usually produce harmony in the home if he is content to play second fiddle. f

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THE political tangle in New York City grows complicated, with fusion hopes high and prospects for a third party good. Frank J. Prial, running as an independent candidate for comptroller, beat Tammany in the recent primary. That leaves him a regular Democrat, but an anti-organization man. As he frankly says, he owes nothing to Boss Curry and the machine. Prial’s victory brought out the latent spirit of revolt in a clear light. Many New Yorkers now are ready to admit that Tammany is not the invincible thing they supposed. Among others, Joseph V. McKee is wondering why he allowed somebody else to steal the show. McKee, you remember, became acting mayor when Jimmy Walker resigned last year. For one reason or another, he was not acceptable to the bosses, so they sidetracked him with trades and promises which he shallowed like a good little boy. He knows now that he could have beaten them had he stuck, and it makes him not only sore but ambitious. 000 NOW that a more courageous man has broken the ice for him, Joe McKee would like to run for mayor, and quite a few misguided friends are ready to encourage him. I say “misguided,” advisedly, since nothing worse could happen at this particular moment. The New York stage is set .for a fusion triumph over Tammany. An independent, or third party movement, with a man like McKee at its head, easily might spoil this prospect. Such a movement would draw strength from fusion, because the Tammany support has dwindled to that hopelessly blind following which can not be reached or persuaded. Tammany’s one hope lies in a split of the opposition. If only two parties go to the polls, La Guardia will be the next mayor of New York. This is due to several circumstances. First, the Seabury investigation revealed an unwholesome amount of corruption and incompetence. Second. the refusal to economize has brought New York City to the verge of default. Third, the special taxes which the O’Brien administration obtained legislative permission to impose are very unpopular. Fourth, President Roosevelt will give Tammany no help. 000 IT is fair to say that high taxes probably have done more to turn the average New Yorker against Tammany than any other single factor of discontent, but largely because of the story back of them. Compared to other municipalities or private business, the Tammany-controlled administration of New York City has shown little disposition and less talent for cutting down expenses. Time and time again newspapers or volunteer committees have pointed out how money could be saved by abolishing useless jobs, consolidating departments and lower excessive salaries, but to no purpose. The Seabury investigation seems to have impressed everybody, except the bosses and their henchmen, who have proceeded on the old assumption that it would “soon blow over,” and that the machine must be kept well greased, regardless of how taxpayers suffered.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their vieios in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SoO words or less.) By John A. Friend. This is an appeal to the veteran who, if sound, must save himself, and in behalf of all disabled veterans who have had their pensions taken from them and face a winter of despair and hunger. I ask you to publish this for their benefit. After each war, dozens of veteran organizations spring up, but only two of any importance survive the first ten years. The Civil war had its G. A. R. and its Confederate Veterans; the Spanish war, its U. S. W. V. and the V. F. W., and the World war, the Legion and the D. A. V. All the above-named have certain requirements for membership, but all lead to a common cause, “the betterment of its members in regard to pensions, hospital treatment, grants and bonuses.” A man who had nerve enough to join the service in time of war to defend his country should now have nerve enough to join his respective war unit and help defeat the element who wish to destroy his birthright. Every disabled veteran, regardless of what war, is entitled to a pension liberal enough to care for him and his from a grateful government. Within the last year, veterans have been deprived of their pensions, men totally disabled with families, men thrown out of hospitals on cots and clad only in underwear. Veterans have been lambasted from c >ast to coast by members of the Economy League. They are helpless to defend themselves and will seek relief only through the united action of the veterans of all wars and their respective units. These war organizations need members and finance. Every ex-service man is needed on the rolls, and all must fight for the repeal of the infamous economy act. Asa member of the V. F. W., American Legion, D. A. V., and First Division Society, I appeal to you one and all, join up tomorrow in some active veteran organic ition and help remove the stain placed upon our flag by ungrateful and dis-

THERE was a time when any woman thought herself quite capable of taking care of a child and helping to rear it. Now so much has been learned about child training, about proper nutrition in childhood and similar subjects associated with the development of the child, that the care of the child has become a distinct profession. There are in this country, as well as abroad, so-called mothercraft schools and other organizations for training women in this special vocation. Once upon a time the position of nurse or governess was considered among the menial occupations, but today it is recognized that the proper training for this work is useful regardless of the future plans of the girl who undertakes it. As was pointed out recently by Miss Liddiard, leader of this form of education in Great Britain, if the girl marries after having had this training, she becomes a competent and careful mother; if she does not marry, she may carry on

I AM thrilled with joy to see all these gay young spitfires of girls, making faces at men and at life. Because I think that the delicate sensibilities of the female have been very much overestimated in the past. As virtues, I mean. A bad woman may be a disgrace to the community, but a sensitive one is a misery and a woe. Nothing can be said or done that is not misconstrued by her into a personal slight or insult. She keeps her feelings wrapped in cellophane and danger signals you against handling them roughly. And she always gets her way. If you really wapt to meet the person who never gives in, but who suavely,

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Criticism By W. Wheeler. Much has been said of the NRA and much has been done by the administration to speed up employment through the NRA, but I feel that many of our employers in this fair city are falling short of their duty, both to the NRA and the welfare of our citizens. I am referring to the many buildings in Indianapolis and their employes. I do not think a 48-hour week has helped the janitor or maintenance man. It has reduced his hours very little and in many cases they receive less wages and no new employes added to the pay rolls. There are employes who risk their lives every day in helping maintain these buildings and who receive no consideration whatsoever from their employers. They are supposed to be under the NRA but yet they work many long hard hours and receive from $2.50 to $3.20 a day. These men are the window cleaners. May better days come to these men through the NRA.

loyal citizens of the Economy League. I write this as an uninterested veteran personally, as I receive no pension and never have, but feel for my buddy who was gassed and wounded and now “cut to the bone.” By Futurist. Arthur Brisbane, the wavering, inconsistent, false prophet of the Hearst Press, who unfortunately is supplying most Americans with opinion, has branded the NRA as socialism. Since many people, including Governor Eli, seem to have become victims of this falsehood, I find it timely to voice a protest. When the NRA fails, Mr. Brisbane easily might explain to his daily worshippers, that being socialism it simply had to fail, to which his herd will add their amens. But the NRA is not socialism. The NRA is a frantic effort to keep capitalism from being counted out. If miraculously it should succeed, the old system might stagger about for a couple of rounds more, and that’s all that can be done for it. The designers of the NRA, recog-

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcia, the Health Magazine. in this occupation for many years with a surety of a good home life and an important influence upon boys and girls of the future. It is pointed out that the girl that takes such training first should be healthy, because parents do not want to trust their children to delicate or unhealthy people. The girl must be practical. She must have not only a sentimental love for children, but an enthusiasm for the work balanced by steadiness in her character and attitude. Many of the British schools demand the equivalent of our high school education before a girl may enter for this occupation. Some of the schools limit themselves to the care of children from birth to the age of 2 years, whereas other schools train the girls for the care of the children up to 12 years of age. In the school that specializes in the care of infants, the student first learns general principles, then spends

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

sweetly but surely does as she pleases, let me introduce the sensitive woman. She’ll tell you how crushed and broken she is by the inconsiderateness of those about her, and how they do not understand her delicate sensitiveness; she’ll pose as a frail, lovely flower —but she will not surrender. 000 IF I were a man I would a thousand times rather marry a girl who gave battle than one who spoke always with the vocie of the cooing dove. Beware of the swee| woman, my son; She is the Jabberwock of

nizing at last that the workers are also the customers, found it necessary in the interest of capital to attempt to improve conditions for the laboring class. This is an unusual step, but by no means a radical one. In fact, the ruling class had no choice in the matter. The fundamental idea of socialism is that production should be cai'ried on for consumption purposes only, with a complete elimination of profits. While working towards this end, the socialists, in the meantime, do their utmost to relieve the sufferings of the unfortunate victims of a cruel system. While these humanitarian efforts of the socialists outwardly appear similar to the principle ideas of the NRA, the motive is vastly different. The tale of the wolf in the grandmother’s bed, and Little Red Riding Hood is also the tale of the NRA and the workers. It becomes more and more evident, that the loudly advertised aims of the NRA are pointing in one direction, and the actual proceedings in the opposite one. To Mr. Brisbane and his followers, including Governor Eli, I want to point out that the NRA is not socialism, and that socialism never has been tried anywhere except in Russia, where it seems to work fine. To those who might reply that communism is not socialism, I will say, that economically it is, politically it is not.

Questions and Answers Q—ls a person living in an Indiana courtty is granted an old age pension and then moves to another county, can the pension be transferred? A—No. New arrangements must be made in the new county. Q—ls there any way in which rancid butter may be made fit for use? A—lt may be sweetened by putting the butter in a vessel of hot water so it will melt and then skimming the fat from the surface. This butter may be used for cooking and baking, but is not suitable for the table.

time in nurseries and diet kitchens. In the diet kitchens she is taught to be clean, to measure accurately, to prepare vegetables and all of the special foods eaten by infants. She also learns the simple points of first aid and hygiene and the elements of sewing for the baby. Later each of the trainees is given actual practice for a period of three weeks in the care of the baby. One of the most eminent authorities in this field, Sir Truby King, who is credited with having brought infant mortality rates in New Zealand down to the lowest of all in the world, has this to say about the child’s first six years: “Every child is more or less made or marred before the ordinary school age of 5 to 6 years. These years are of far greater formative and constructive importance than the next sixty years, not only from the standpoint of bodily form, physique and freedom from disease, but also as concerns the mind, moral nature and whole future habits and character of the individual.”

matrimony. Her voice may drip with sweet sentiments, her tears spout forth like a fountain and her tongue be oiled with saccharine, but she is more terrible than an army with banners, more destructive than a plague of locusts, more devouring than a scourge. She’ll wear you down. She’ll eat you alive. You will be more completely in her power than a fly in the clutches of a spider. For deceit is her middle name, and her heart is a well of selfishness. For help, co-operation and sportsmanship give me the virago any tufeie, somebody who is ready to go tep the bat with you on an issue, a.nd gets things settled and done wi h.

SEPT. 28, 1933

It Seems to Me —BY HEYWOOD BROUN_

NEW YORK. Sept. 28.—1 wonder what's become of Senator Borah. I spent almost a week in Washington. and in that time the names of many were mentioned with admiration. indifference and complete abhorrence. But Borah, who once loomed so large in every political discussion, seems to be completely forgotten. Os course. I know that the senator was ill during the summer, but he now is restored to health and yet not to articulation. It may be that when congress convenes as winter rolls around this year the voice of the gentleman from Idaho again will be heard in the land. Perhaps it is premature to place him among those who have been trampled into dust by the march of time. To my taste Mr. Borah has been for years incomparably the best debater in either house. Henry Mencken had a strange preoccupation with Jim Reed and insisted that if those two statesmen ever had clashed it would be a battle of the Titans. Fairly small fry are left for Borah's big-gun attack, and even so I doubt that there will be any bombardment. an a .4 Lack of Ammunition A GOOD debater must be possessed of something more than a facility for marshaling arguments. He must have something to _ talk about. Borah seems to have run out of convictions. He can not be moved to any pyrotechnic enthusiasm for some of his own favorites. A few days before Idaho’s vote on the question of repeal the senator was approached by the newspaper men and asked to express himself on prohibition. Beyond saying that he was still in favor of it William E. Borah ventured nothing, and there is no record that he made any last-minute attempt to stump the state in favor of a lost cause. And yet not so many years ago he offered to die or run for President for the sake of the Volstead act. At the time it proved unnecessary for him to adopt either method of pleasing the public, and now he is taking the new dispensation bitterly but lying down. I never have felt that this particular progressive was a very valiant champion of minority causes. All too often he has left his fight in the gymnasium. On many occasions he has manifested the greatest eagerness to capture an issue for his very own and to defend it singlehanded. But again and again the performance has been put off or has seemed half-hearted. Indeed, as often as not the Boise Bruiser will not be found in the ring at all but repre- 1. sented by some preliminary battler who has been drafted at the last minute as a substitute. Mr. Borah swings a mean towel, but he can’t seem to let his righthand punch go when he is himself a principal. He can feint an opponent into knots, but just as the big slam seems all set the domesticated bull of the pampas taps lightly with’ his left and dances away. tt a a Except When Pinch Came THE man from Idaho was equipped with almost every qualification to lift him high as ft political leader. He can deliver an oration and also talk plain sense. Although known for many years as a “liberal,” the “safe and sane” no longer tremble at the mention of his name. Indeed, like all the rest Os the politically minded, they simply don’t pay any attention. It would not be fair to mark him as one who has been all things to all men. He merely has been versatile enough to please very many. I believe his tragedy is glandular. In time of stress he lacks adrenalin. When the alarm sounds, down the pole, with a great whoop, slides William E. Borah. That is as far as he ever gets. Having done that much, he goes back to bed again and lets others fight the fire. If there remains a role for him to fill in the days to come I’m afraid it will be that of a strict constitutionalist. Such folk never have been loved very much, and they are not likely to win enthusiastic approval just now. A strict constitutionalist is a man who waits until some vital and necessary measure is almost ready for adoption and then hops in with the news that it clashes with section something-or-other. a a a Reason for Resentment POSSIBLY there is too much animus in these observations. It even may be asked why anybody should invade Borah’s present privacy in this matter. It’s all the fault of a Washington taxi driver. He turned to ask me, “Aren’t you Bill Borah?” Still, I don’t suppose that even that should make me angry, because another driver two days later assured me that I closely resembled Huey Long. I blame it on my failure to get my quarterly haircut last week. “I drove Huey over to the senate a couple of months ago,” the taxi man continued, “and as we were going along he leaned forward and said, ‘Not so fast, brother, you might hurt the Kingfish.’” “And so,” said the driver, “I went a little faster. It sounded like a good idea.” (CoDvrißht. 1933. bv The Times!

Memories

BY BERTRAM DAY It was a place just occupied by two, Who sat in meditation by a tree And near a silver stream that threaded through The fields in rippling waves of melody. No spoken word, expression through a smile Told everything—it was a mystic dream, A quiet mood, another blessed while In paradise, with happiness supreme. From out the silent Great Unknown was heard Soft loving music strange and glorious: But still more strange that hearts without a word Could truly vibrate so victorious. Oh. memories of music and of thee. Dear countenance, that shone in love lor me.