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SATURDAY. SEPT 30, 1933

BETTER TO KNOW 'T'HE senate committee on banking and •*- currency takes up again next week its important work of investigating banking practices. There is reason to believe that the dramatic hearings of the spring and early summer will prove to have been only a modest Introduction to the real revelations in store /or a country trying to get to the bottom of Its economic mystery. Somewhere, before we can take the path to permanent prosperity, must be found the answer to this question: How did it happen that a nation, apparently soaring to undreamed-of heights of prosperity one day. awakened the next to find itself headed downward into an almost bottomless business and industrial depression? The answer, manv believe, will be found only through searching examination of our great financial institutions. A good beginning has been made in this direction, but the senate has a long way yet to go. It is not a job to be completed in a hurry. The committee must be prepared to follow any clew its investigators may have turned up during their summer's work. It must be prepared to close its ears to soft suggestions that further questioning of the bankers is likely to disturb confidence and so retard the business recovery so desperately desired. There will be no real recovery until retl confidence has been obtained, confidence resting on knowledge. Senator Fletcher, chairman of the committee. announced, after a conference with President Roosevelt during the spring, that the inquiry' would be extended into the stock market. That will take time. It likewise will take a larger appropriation than the committee thus far has requested. In its partial report to the congress in January, the committee should be prepared to ask for funds with which to make this investigation as thorough as humanly possible. The committee need have no doubt that the country wants this research completed. In 1928 and '29 the American people may have felt it was fun to be fooled. But they hai e learned it is better to know. THE A. F. OF L. THE American Federation of Labor, meeting Monday in convention, has a right to feel chestv over labor's recent and sudden achievements. Labor has burgeoned into more power in six short months than fiftythree years of bitter struggle have won for the workers. Today, under the NR A. labor theoretically Is an equal with management in the new machinery for industrial self-government. Its right to free collective bargaining is so copper riveted that an employer who wilfully sets out to prevent organization finds himself crosswise with the law. Labor's theory that surplus labor must be absorbed in shorter work hours and that buying power must be built up through higher wages has been accepted bv both government and industry. Under this theory hours have teen shortened measurably in thirty coded industries and reduced to thirty hours a week in public works: the labor of some 200.000 children under 16 outlawed: 2.000.000 jobless returned to work: minimum wages established in some of the most depressed industries, and sweatshops virtually abolished. On paper, at least, labor has won a bloodless revolution. But, as federation leaders well know, their fight for economic freedom and security is just started. And from now on the effort is pretty much up to labor. The federation is growing like a snowball under its recruiting drive. President Green says that since March 324 new charters and 1.500.000 new members have been added to the rolls, but membership still is well below the 1920 high of 4.000.000. The federation's program is a militant one. yet the two most progressive groups of organized workers—the railroad brotherhoods and amalgamated clothing workers, remain outside its membership. Inclusion of groups would not only strengthen the federation numerically, but would vitalize it with new blood. PRICE OF POLITICS IN all the noise that is being made about the mayoralty fight in New York City you can hear, if you listen closely, the ominous howling of a very cold wind—the coldest wind, perhaps. that has ever shaken the fabric of American democracy. Back of the frantic negotiations, campaignings and wire-pullings of the New York situation, where the nation's largest city tries desperately to get Tammany of! its back, there stands the simple and unpleasant fact that our system of municipal government has come perilously close to breaking down entirely. New York is proving—just as Chicago and a host of other cities have already proved—that our familiar type of machine politics is totally inadequate to meet the problems of the modern world. For a great many years we have gone along, innocently handing over our city, county and state governments to men who quite frankly were not interested especially in good government. but whose chief concern was the building up of their own political fortunes. The results were scandalous —but while times were good we could afford them, or we thought we could. The local government became the weakest link in the democratic chain, but the chain was slack during prosperity and nobody minded very much. Now the chain is stretched taut. The weak link is being strained right to the breaking point. Machine politics, in other words, is as anachronistic as one of Columbus' zaravels. We

have got to the point where we simply can't put up with it any longer. And what is happening in New York is an object lesson for the remotest county courthouse, town hall and state capitol in America. Foreign observers long have predicted that if the American democracy broke down the collapse would begin with the municipal governments. Are we beginning to witness that collapse now? Is the cold wind that howls in from Manhattan island going to t a destroying cyclone that finds us with no storm cellar handy? Or are we going to have sense enough to clean house on all of our political machines: sense enough to stop listening to demagogues, to elect capable public iiervants instead of corruptible politicians, to demand service instead of fair words —and, thereby, to replace the weak link in the chain with one that will stand any pull? POWER RATES TIT ATCHING the various elements of the ~ * new deal take shape these days is a little bit like peering into a test tube in which a chemist is attempting an entirely new, elaborately complicated kind of synthesis—with the added factor that at least a few of the chemists on the outskirts are not dead sure that the whole mess won’t presently blow up and wreck thp laboratory. Some of us find one part of the experiment most interesting, and some of us find another; but certainly one of the most striking in its potentialities is that being conducted at Muscle Shoals. A great many reasons were advanced for the Muscle Shoals program while it was being debated, and one of the chief ones was that it would serve as a yardstick by which electricity rates could be measured; and it is pretty evident now that the authorities are going to do everything they can to make the yardstick a good one. It has been announced already that consumers of power from Muscle Shoals will be charged, on the average, 2 cents per kilowatt hour. The significance of this figure rests upon two facts: First, that this—according to power authorities at Washington—is just a little more than half the average power rate for the nation last year. Second, that the Muscle Shoals authorities are taking the utmost care to make the return they will receive from their sale of power equal to the return a privately owned utility would have to receive in order to meet fixed charges, taxes, interest and depreciation. “These rates," says David E. Lilienthal, director of power development at the Shoals, “have been computed on a conservative basis to cover all the costs of furnishing the service, including operation, maintenance, depreciation and taxes. In addition, we have made provision for interest and retirement, although such provision is not required by the Tennessee valley authority act. It is easy to see how far-reaching the effects of this experiment might be. If the plant at Muscle Shoals, operating under precisely the same financial conditions as a private utility might operate, proves able to sell electricity for half the rate the private utilities charge, the general public is likely to get anew attitude toward utility rates in general. It isn’t hard to see why the “power trust" fought the Muscle Shoals project so bitterly. THE LIQUOR TARIFF ONE of the jobs the next congress will have to tackle will be the matter of deciding how much of a tariff to levy on imports of hard liquor; and when the matter comes up for consideration it should be pointed out that importing liquor is on a different basis from importing other commodities. When prohibition ends, the distilling industry in America will be in the typical “infant industry" class. Congress will be urged to give it ample protection; to put the import duties sky-high so that the money Americans spend for liquor will go to American producers and not to foreigners. But we might also consider the fact that doing that will simply create a large liquor industry in this country with a vested interest in any future steps we may want to take on the liquor question. Might It not be wise not to give our distilleries too much protection? Wouldn't it. in other words, be a good thing if the liquor manufacturing teaae failed to grow to the size it had before the prohibition era? JUDGE SEABURY'S VERDICT NOBODY has better right than Samuel Seabury to denounce the proposed McKee candidacy for mayor of New York. Judge Seabury. back from Europe, tears to pieces the Farley-Flynn plot with a vigor and precision worthy of the man who chiefly made fusion possible and who believes fusion can win. We agree with Judge Seabury that “with all signs pointing to an overwhelming Tammany defeat it is little less than a crime to attempt to diride the anti-Tammany forces.’’ We agree with him that Mr. Flynn is merely using Mr. McKee to put over a weak Bronx ticket and rivet Flynn control on the local Democracy instead of Curry control. We are with him in his staunch belief that: “Neither Farley, Flynn. McKee nor any one else can. in this critical moment in the life of the city, betray the interests of its people and get away with it." The only thing we question in Judge Seabury's statement is his apparent acceptance of “the repudiation" (of the McKee candidacy) by the President and Mr. Farley. “Hands off" is not repudiation. Not after the harm already done by Messrs. Farley and Flynn in slyly building up the impression that the McKee candidacy can be sure of the President’s approval and support. a Only the President himself now can stop the spread of this impression. If silence does not affirm, neither does it deny. Politicians are skilled in putting their own interpretation on neutrality—and in persuading voters to accept that interpretation. The Republican side of fusion is showing frankness, straightforwardness, unity. There is urgent need of these qualities on the Democratic side. President Roosevelt, leader of the national Democracy, can not afford to compromise his great and deserved prestige by even seeming to sanction Democratic deriousness and disruption in the situation confronting New York. t •

UNCLE SAM, SALESMAN T TNCLE SAM has had to act- a good many unfamiliar parts this year. One of the strangest of all. however, seems to be the combined role of salesman and price-fixer which he has undertaken in connection with Mr. Roosevelt's negotiations with the railroads and the steel producers. What apparently is going to happen is that the railroads are going to buy something like 700.000 tons of new steel rails. They are going to get them at a price substantially lower than current market quotations. And it all is going to happen because Uncle Sam decided to make it happen. Uncle Sam. in brief, acted as salesman, purchasing agent and price arbiter, all in one moment. The result is going to be all to the good for everybody concerned. But the old gentleman has certainly been filling anew role. COMIC RELIEF TJERSONS with democratic tendencies sometimes wonder just why England continues to support the luxury of a peerage. Now and then some individualistic member of the peerage unwittingly will furnish the answer—or, at any rate, an answer. There is. for instance, the duke of Devonshire, who made a little speech at a horse show in Derbyshire the other day, in the course of which he unleashed t die-hard old Tory’s dislike of the age of modern inventions. The auto was the chief object of his attack: he called autos “foul, stinking things" and “horrible brutes making life hideous,” and he added: “When I first knew this horse show we came here as gentlemen, and not as crashing cads." And there you have it. It must be almost worth while for a nation to support a system which produces old gentlemen w r ho can make speeches like that. “LOW-BROW” MUSIC TYR. ARTUR RODZINSKI. director of the Cleveland orchestra, says that “highbrow’’ music has got to take off its soup-and-flsh regalia and make its appeal to the man who likes to sit around in his shirt sleeves. “The idea that one has to be done out in handsome clothes to hear a symphony concert is foolishness,” he remarks. And he adds that he plans “to take our orchestra to the people who need it most, the workers." If more orchestra conductors had this idea, it is a safe bet that support of the high-class musical organizations in America would not rest so largely on the backs of the wealthy. In too many cases society has made musical functions an excuse to parade in evening dress; and the ordinary man in the street, feeling like a fish out of water in such a crowd, simply stays away. Genuinely fine music can be as popular in America as anywhere—if the people who sponsor it just take the pains to doff the high hat. Maybe there’s something in a name after all. That Michigan policeman who testified against those nudists was named Peek. We still think our girl movie fan was right when she said she enjoyed seeing bull fight films just so she could watch the darling stevedores. It isn’t right for Uncle Sam to furnish food, coal and clothing to the poor. He’s crabbing the politicians’ best vote-getting act. Funny, but Uncle Same still offers farmers pamphlets telling them how to raise more crops—and a bonus to raise less. Vaudeville actress with five hundred pet cockroaches ordered out of hotel. Now we understand why our landlady says she’s had stage training.

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SIGNOR MUSSOLINI has no choice in the matter. In the end he must give Herr Hitler the cold shoulder. Welcome as a comrade in Fascism may be, Hitler can not hope for II Duce’s approval if he combines politics with continuous belittlement of the Latin race. When Hitler embarked on a campaign of glorification of Nordics, he kissed the friendship of Italy goodby. Possibly he can afford this luxury, but the kaiser found it too expensive. In" his zeal for reviving the national spirit, Hitler is reviving some of thoy narrow ideas which led to all of Germany’s trouble. Indeed, he is carrying them to extremes which would have made the old order wince. No doubt 90 per cent of his grandstanding is just bunk, but be has gone too far with his mistreatment of the Jews for other people to be quite sure. tr u OTHER people are beginning to suspect that that wisest course is to take no chances. However successful Hitler may have been in making himself solid with Germans, he has been even more successful in estranging the outside world. The man has asked for isolation and he is getting it. Lloyd George advises other nations not to bully Germany, which is sensible but fails to hit the mark, since Germany is guilty of most of the bullying up to this point. Other nations have shown remarkable patience, all things considered. For the sake of general improvement, they want to see Germany recover. They have thrown no monkey wrenches at the Hitler machine, though they could have found more than one excuse for doing so. They have listened to the Nazi balderdash with commendable calm; have seen armament provisions of the Versailles treaty disregarded without losing their heads and have witnessed the exile, persecution and imprisonment of Jews with an indifference that can only be accounted for by the numbness of exhaustion. tt a STILL, the anachronism can not be endured forever. This is not Russia, seeking progress through the overthrow of an outmoded order, but a madcap leadership trying to restore obsolete conditions. The fact that Hitler is trying to end chaos by organizing his country might be accepted as in line with necessity and as in accord with prevailing methods, but the fact that he is trying to enthuse his organization with medieval ideas can only be attributed to lack of judgment. Present-day Germany is out of tune with the world, not by accident, but because of Hitler’s hypocritical, intolerant attitude toward races, religions and nations on every hand. He has taken in altogether too much territory. His anti-communist policy alienates Russia; his pro-Nordic ballyhoo estranges Latin Europe, and his unjustified treatment of the Jews leaves the whole world cold. He is making the same mistake that kaiserism did. except that he is making it along more extravagant lines. If he survives, he will plunge Germany into another disastrous war.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(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.) B? a Mere Voter. Howdy, fans! Have you had your laugh today? No? Well, then, read about what Jim Watson had to say about the NRA and the Democratic party in his Chicago speech, and then turn to what Burrell Wright had to say about Governor McNutt and the Democratic party in Indiana. Os course you’ll remember that Jim is a famous dead duck (not a lame one), and Brother Wright is treasurer of the state G. O. P. committee and one of the leaders of a “Forlorn Hope.” Both of these goshawful critics are wearing out the seats of their pants with the fidgets because they are on the outside looking in, and not on the inside looking out saying “come, come!” as they did when Dr. Hoover and the Gusty Old Party were telling us all about it, and we were saying “aw, heck!” Keep still, boys, you know there are yet thousands of unemployed looking for that chicken in the pot and the two flivvers in every garage. Every time you say something we just have to burst out in another guffaw. Give somebody else a chance to start a laugh. By H. W. Daacke. In your “Message Center” of Sept. 27, E. F. Maddox has an article referring to the controversy between General Mosely and President Oxnam of De Pauw university, ending with an appeal to drive this unAmerican organization, championed by President Oxnam, from our schools and colleges. If Mr. Maddox will read “The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America” or re-read it if he by chance has read it previously, I wonder which he would consider most un-American, himself as the critic, or myself as the Socialist, who believes in and lives up to that famous document, “with certain inalienable rights,' that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the

THE world on Oct. 4 celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Bernardino Ramazzini. who is credited with haring established industrial medicine and the study of industrial diseases in medical science. Today, physicians everywhere realize that the patient’s occupation may be associated very definitely with certain diseases, or disturbances of his health. There are many industrial conditions in which there is excessive humidity in the workroom. This occurs, for instance, in dye works, slaughter houses, paper mills, jelly factories and large kitchens. It is known that long hours of work and such an atmosphere may be exceedingly injurious to health. These conditions can be overcome by use of fans, exhausts and installation of artificial air conditioning. In the occupation of mining, machinery has been introduced. These machines are exceedingly noisy, so that their use is associated with an

HARVEY BAILEY, now on trial for kidnaping, is called by reporters “The Nation's A-l Bad Man." He is also the nation's outstanding fool. He was born with a powerful personality, and endowed with a large quantity of what passes for courage. He evidently possessed the gift of drawing people to him. He has a healthy body, a bold imagination, a mind capable of' improvement. And he deliberately has turned all these gifts toward his own destruction. He has used his wits for the sole purpose of ruining himself. He has messed up his life irremediably. There is no tragedy within the scope of imagination that equals his. Harvey Bailey, bad man, desperado, gangster, kidnaper, leader of

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The Old Story!

Warning By A Manufacturer. In your issue of Sept. 27, Mr. Maddox certainly hit the nail on the head when he said that anyone having any Socialistic ideas should be put out of the schools. This thing has crept upon us until it is becoming alarming. The school system itself is nothing but a Socialistic outfit and there are the public highways and post office system, the fire department, churches, etc. We are about 27 per cent Socialist, not saying anything about the machine age in which we are living. The thing to do is to prevent it from advancing farther. Os course w r e can’t stand still, but we can go back to individualism by doing away with these things before it is too late. right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” Should his suggestion that “teachers and officers in our schools and colleges w'ho have the least taint of Socialism in their makeup should be discharged immediately as being disloyal to American ideals’’ be complied with, I am wondering just how many of our recognized best educators would be left in the service. The one redeeming trait in his article is “President Oxnam champions the cause of that great international order.” Correct, Mr. Maddox, correct. By R. J. If J. E. K. is half as smart as he thinks he is he wouldn't worry about financing a 'round the world flight for Governor McNutt and his associates, because it isn’t too late yet to spend this money for men who have proven to the public that we can get along without them. Has J. E. K. forgotten Governors McCray, Jackson and Leslie? Mayors Jewett and Duvall? Just because we get a man in office who is interested in saving money for the taxpayers there are a group of diehard Republicans who aren't used to -that -kind of language. Our national government has been using multigraphs for years, and, by the way, they were installed under a Republican administration.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyreia, the Health Magazine.

increased number of accidents. Because of the noise of the machines, the miners can not hear the cracking of timbers or the rumbling which indicates that a section of the coal is going to break away. Use of- automatic hammers is associated with circulatory impairment in arms and hands. Miners also suffer from a disturbance of the eyes known as oscillation, or nystagmus. Telegraphers sometimes have a form of cramp in the fingers that is associated not so much with fatigue or long hours as with a sense of responsibility in sending messages. In other words, this condition affecting the fingers of the telegrapher is much the same as that of stammering in the speech of people who stammer only when under emotional stress.

the forces of outlawry', evil and death; is it not hard to believe that he was, not many years ago. a little bey filled with the fine dreams that little boys cherish; that he had within himself the possibilities for decent manhood and good citizenship, for an honorable career, and happiness? Yet, so it was. a tt tt What delusion of mind could have tempted him to suppose that his evil course was wise, or would end in anything save the fool's folly and ultimate disaster? What course, bitter and cruel, urged him on to such ruthless and extravagant suicide? If we knew the answer to that we would be capable of solving the mast

Some of the largest and leading concerns throughout the world have ben using the multigraphs for years to duplicate printing. If a thing isn’t right it isn’t worth worrying about because it will sooner or later prove itself wrong. Multigraphs have proven themselves for the purpose which they are bought. There never has been a multigraph sold that some printer didn’t go around crying about it because it just means he will have to go to work and find anew customer. Human nature, isn’t it? If J. E. K. ever has been in any branch of the service he will no doubt know where to find sympathy. I presume that J. E. K. is a printer, so when he was referring to numbskulls he was probably thinking of printers and not multigraph operators. Paper stock is a small part of the cost of printing, so no one need fear about wasting a few sheets. Multigraphs are not paper destroyers as J. E. K. thinks. Before he writes another article he had better investigate a little farther and get the true facts about the state duplicating department and its multigraph operators. How about It, Democrats.

So They Say

The Nazis have the conviction that there is a likeness in the facial representation of Christ and the photographs of Hitler. —Rev. Stanley High, Stamford, Conn. General Johnson is not so much an administrator as an evangelist, little as he may like the part.—Prof. Philip Cabot of Harvard. I am just a common garden variety of American citizen come to Chicago to see the fair.—Herbert Hoover. Waving of wands will not suffice to dissipate real economic problems. —U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. The first requisite for good digestion is a pretty waitress.—A. A. McVittie, Denver restaurant man. Spain is finished with royalty for good.—Prince of Asturias.

In the rug industry, as recently has been pointed out, hands are brought repeatedly in contact with the wool in tying knots. The workers suffer greatly from the irritation of the dust and also occasionally from anthrax from wool taken from infected sheep. Workmen in dye factories, particularly where aniline is much used, sometimes suffer from acute poisoning from aniline dyes. The symptoms where such poisoning occurs are peculiar blueness of the lips and a deficiency of the blood, due to this poison. In chronic cases there may be marked dizziness and loss of memory, as well as tremors of various types. Thus medicine today scans every industry as to its passible dangers to health, and working conditions everywhere are being made safer. It is not surprising that the world after 300 years should render such tribute to the Italian physician who first realized the importance of occupation in relation to health.

baffling problem of our age—how are criminals made? Whatever it may be, we can be sure that the real victim of Harvey is Harvey Bailey. No matter what society has suffered at his hands, the actual person upon whom Bailey has preyed is Bailey himself. To be given long beautiful years, and to use them only to promote misery, wickedness and death constitutes the most tragic error man is capable of making. And so I say to you that whatever they may call themselves, or by what ever name we call them, men like Harvey Bailey are fools. Because no matter what life does to us, there is but one thing that can really defeat us—our own behavior.

.SEPT. 30, 1933

It Seems to Me =BY HEYWOOD BROUN=

NEW YORK. Sept. 30.—At the moment of writing it has not been decided whether or not Joseph V. McKee will run for mayor of New York City. I am not at all certain that such a third ticket would necessarily imperil the chances of F. H. La Guardia. While it is true that McKee would split the independent vote, he also would draw heavily fro mthe organization. Only an expert accountant who by a fortunate coincidence happened to be the seventh son of a seventh son accurately could figure out the precise trend of this sudden and unexpected factor. Proceeding only on those things which I think I know from the pricking of my thumbs. I believe it would be a good thing for the major if McKee came into the field. I am not talking of the ultimate vote alone but of the nature of the coming struggle. Fiorello La Guardia has not yet opened the major strategy of his campaign. Possibly it. will be well to wait until his batteries have begun to seek the range. B tt tt Don't Box Him , Fiorello 1 DISTINCTLY feel that the preliminary skirmishes have been disappointing. La Guardia has attempted to suggest that f there are no economic factors to be considered. I heard his first campaign utterance over station WEVD, and if I understood him aright the rallying cry for the voters was to be some approximation of that apeient slogan, “Turn the rascals out!” But even, in the case o£ rascals I think the voter has a right to inquire, “Just what happens after the deluge?” I am not. so doctrinaire as to argue that there is no distinction between honest men and those of easy compliance. I have complete faith in the integrity of La Guardia. And, even so, I say his undoubted incorruptibility is not enough. I can not work myself into a passion over a campaign to be waged upon the platform, “I won't steal anything.” In spite of the low estate of politics within our local borders, there actually are many thousands of men who can say as much, I want to see a campaign waged upon the issue of an entirely new conception of municipal activities and responsibilities. La Guardia has taken such things to heart. He has a definite thought and feeling about housing and unemployment, but if all that is to be taken by the voter on faith I, for one, will decline to give a blindfold vote or other blindfold support. In that event my conscience will give me far less trouble if I vote for Charles Solomon on the Socialist ticket, even though he admittedly has _io chance. As one who has run and said, with utter sincerity, “I can’t be elected, but vote for me, just the same for th% sake of the long pull.” I have no right to rule out Solomon simply because the odds are very long against him. tt a tt Grips With Brain Trust WHEN last I w r as in Washington I encountered a member of the Brain Trust, w’ho asked.* “What are Fiorello’s chances?” I replied that I thought he had a better than even chance to be elected. Indeed, soon after his nomination I managed to lay $2 against $1 that La Guardia would be the next mayor of New York. A price, I may add, w'hich was far less generous to me than current market quotations. However, I could not resist going on and saying to the Brain Trust: “I think that the major lias made a mistake so far in being ultraconservative. I think he ought to cut loose and spread his views of municipal economics upon the record.” Professor Blank looked at me coldly and replied: “You newspaper men make me a little tired. You’re so romantic. La Guardia’s job is to get himself elected. He doesn’t want to kick all the Republicans out of his forces, and he has to get some campaign contributions. What does it matter what he says in his campaign speeches?" St tt tt Those Practical Men THERE is no fool like a practical politician. I cite the case of Mr. Curry. Even his own organization hardly is dancing around the May pole to indicate its joy over the prospect of supporting Mr. O’Brien. And Major La Guardia, wh ois wise in his instincts and emotions, runs the grave risk of outsmarting himself. Asa member of a rebellious minority in Washington he was magnificent. Nor did he spend all his energy in fighting lost causes. He accepted the leadership of a progressive faction which seemed no more than a forlorn hope and won a sweeping victory. Just as soon as he manifests the same degree of contagious courage in the New York campaign he will win again. But let him remember that this isn’t just a taxpayers’ fight. You can’t forget the million or more who can’t pay taxes because they can’t even buy coffee and rolls. If McKee can serve in any way as an incentive to make Fiorello take off his sweater and go in and slug, then I say let Joe run and take his licking along with John. (Copyrieht. 1933. bv The Times)

Last Year

BY HELEN WELSHIMER This is the hour You used to call— Dark blue twilight of earlv fall Would come to life. And the office grew Twice as nice WTien I talked to you. I left the phone With a little glow Caught in my heart— I wondered, though, If you had read My tones to find The thoughts that tumbled Across my mind. Journeying home I would rehearse The tete-a-tete Like a memory verse. And thrill to a whispered Telephone vow— I wonder what girl You are calling now! (Copyright, NEA)