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THURSDAY. OCT 5. 1993. THE LABOR ELECTIONS 'T'HE NRA elections in local factories have ■*- resulted in a draw for the American Federation of Labor. Employes of the P. F. Mallory Company rejected their brand new company union for the A. F. of L. Workers at the Real Silk, by a 2-to-l vote, decided to continue their own independent union and emphatically refused A. F of L. affiliation. There can be no doubt that J. F. Dewey, NRA supervisor of the elections, conducted the voting and counted the ballots in a fair and Impartial manner. There can be no doubt that Mallory and Real Silk employes have made a clear-cut decision. Indianapolis, struggling along the steep road to recovery, has watched with growing anxiety the dark cloud of labor troubles rolling up during the summer. For a time it looked as though the city might be beset by a storm of strikes. Industrial warfare is bad for labor, bad for capital and extremely bad for the community. Prompt and just action by Mr. Dewey has cleared the air. The losing sides in both these elections are bitterly disappointed, but they will accept the inevitable. The winners must take care not to let their victory make them arrogant. Good sportsmanship is all that is now needed. REAL EXCLUSION 'TT'HE Asiatic issue has become a question of whether we are more interested in real exclusion or in going out of our way to affront another nation needlessly. Representative Dickstein of New York, chairman of the house immigration committee, reports that at least 4.000 Japanese and Chinese are being smuggled into the United States annually in violation of the Shortridge exclusion amendment of 1924. Passed over the protest of Japan, as of President Coolidge and State Secretary Hughes, Japan, of course, has no part in its enforcement. Now. says Chairman Dickstein, he hopes to promote an agreement with Japan by which it would co-operate to stop smuggling in return for the repeal of the Shortridge amendment and the extension to Japan of the quota system. Under the quota system, not more than 185 Japanese and 105 Chinese could be admitted annually, as against 4,000 annually that Chair•jnan Dickstein says now are being smuggled into this country. Experience under the ‘ gentlemen’s agreement" to prevent Japanese immigration, negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt, showed that Japan can, and will, control emigration according to her agreement. What can the stirrers-up of racial prejudice say for themselves in view of the situation disclosed by Chairman Dickstein? They always have insisted that exclusion was their sole aim. Then let them support the Dickstein plan, which would reduce emigration of Orientals from 4,000 to 290 a year, and. at the same time, remove a source of friction and strife in the Pacific. SOCIAL PROBLEMS ry ''HE concentration of public interest on economic recovery and the realization of the New Deal must not distract our attention entirely from the basic human and social problems which plague us, depression or no depression. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, the eminent and so-cially-minded Harvard physician, writes pleasantly and in dignified fashion on the prolegomena to social ethics in "The Meaning of Right and Wrong." The admirable urbanity of the book is. however, purchased at the price of some loss of realism. There is little effort to come to grip concretely with the more pressing issues of right and wrong, which, through our failure to solve them, prevent us from enjoying a life of sanity, decency and good-will. One would certainly expect from a doctor some reference of adulterated drugs, poisoned foods, birth control, abortion and the like. For a long time criminal justice embodied the supposed vengeance of the gods quite as much as the avowed justice of man. Dr. Ranulf examines the evidence in Greek literature for the rise and spread of the belief that the gods pimish human offenders for their earthly deeds in “The Jealousy of the Gods p.nd Criminal Law at Atflens.” These matters are not devoid of practical interest even for today. Many of our current crimes have a purely religious and superstitious content, and the fact that we have twelve men on a Jury Is to be explained by the old views of divine vengeance. George W Wickersham once said that the damage done to society by criminals was far less impressive than the savagery inflicted upon criminals by society. James R. Winning's book. ‘ Behind These Walls,” is a most important and convincing exhibit in the case against society. There have been plenty of books which have tried to convey to the outside public some notion of the crushing and demoralizing character of convict life in prison. Those who believe the prison is more human than the whip-ping-post or that Sinclair Lewis exaggerated contemporary prison evils in "Ann Vickers,” Tull do well to read this gripping and disconcerting volume. Most of our attention in recent years has been devoted to crime and crime repression in cities. We have been interested in gangsters and racketeers and in the formation of special groups to mitigate their impact upon urban life. Nevertheless, about 44 per cent of the country still is rural and conditions relating to crime in rural areas can not be neglected. Bruce Smith has made an excellent and c .early presented survey of the agencies for the

repression of crime In rural America in “Rural Crime Control.” We find everything from the old-fashioned justice of the peace, sheriff, constable and coroner to the newly established state police system which has been set up in many states. The hangovers from the colonial age obstruct the introduction of the methods and personnel which are needed to deal with crime scientifically in rural regions. The main hope for the immediate future lies in the greater ultilization of state police and the substitution of the county Judge for the Justice of the peace. The telephone and radios greatly have facilitated the work of state police in country districts. Professor Moley has found time out of his responsibilities to return to his personal specialty of the administration of criminal justice. He and Dr. Schuyler Wallace have edited an excellent symposium in the "Administration of Justice,” in which specialists on courts, crime detection, criminal jurisprudence and legal education discuss authoritatively the ma jor problems connected with adapting our clumsy and archaic court system to the needs of a dynamic twentieth century civilization—a situation not dissimilar to entering an oxcart in the automobile races at Indianapolis. Social works statistics have been charged by some critics with making the facts uncovered keep mum rather than speak for themselves. In any event no profession is more dependent upon a mastery of fact-find-ing technique than social work, and Dr. Philip Klein has made a very substantial contribution to this field of ‘ Some Basic Statistics in Social Work.” It Is more than a sample study in statistical methodology. The author brings together facts and conclusions of basic significance to actual social work practice. We have become so accustomed to the exercise of women’s rights at the polls and elsewhere since the World war that the fierce battles of twenty years ago for suffrage seem almost as much a matter of ancient history as the witchcraft trials. It Is well, however, that we should be reminded of the valiant crusade and its principals. Certainly nobody could tell the story more authoritatively or graphically than Sylvia Pankhurst In “The Suffragette Movement.” While votes for women have not produced Utopia, the victory of woman suffrage was an important episode in social history and we may be glad that the English developments have been so competently chronicled. Os all the cruel and barbarous situations prevailing in human relations today, our notions and practices with respect to abortion easily stand first, it- is cause for gratification that some doctors are indicating sufficient intelligence. nerve and humanity to tackle the problem realistically. Dr. Hongy recently published a very serviceable little book on the subject and now' Dr. William J. Robinson, a pioneer in the American birth control movement, has produced a somewhat more outspoken volume on the subject in “The Law Against Abortion.” He cites many concrete medical cases illustrative of the downright savagery of present conditions. In undermining bigotry in this and other fields of sexual problems, psychoanalysis has played a prominent part. William Galt has written a clear primer on the subject in “Psychoanalysis.” He has been influenced particularly by the group methods of behavior analysis which has been elucidated and promoted by Dr. Trigant Burrow’. The movie has come to vie with home and school as a formative influence in the lives of American children. About 77,000,000 persons attend movies each week in the United States and more than a third of this number are children—about 11,000,000, often under 14. Making use of the best studies of movie impact on American culture, Henry J. Forman attempts to assess the significance of the movies in shaping the ideals of American youth in “Our Movie Made Children.” There are many good educational influences on the positive side. The worst effect lies in the impact of the crime and racket movies, sex movies and scenes of w r ealth and luxury w’hich stimulate dissatisfaction with life conditions among the masses and suggest illicit w’ays of acquiring riches. The movies are here to stay and they constitute a socio-educational issue of vast moment. BORROWING TO PAY That delightful air of utter unreality which hangs over most of the war debt discussions seems to be investing the latest phase of it—the renewed effort to get a settlement of the British-American debt. One of the suggestions, for instance, is that the debt be settled by payment of a lump sum equal to about a tenth of the capital valuesomething like $360,000,000. But it is added that if this were done, Britain w’ould w’ant to borrow money from the American public to make the payment. A bond issue would be floated in'the United States, and with the proceeds England's debt to the United States \Vould be paid. One might inquire, playfully, if such a bond issue would get by under the new federal blue sky law; or one might ask just what the sense is in this business of borrowing money from the left-hand pocket to repay a loan made from the right-hand pocket. Either way, it all looks sort of unreal. LET THE BOY ALONE Franklin and. roosevelt jr., now a student at Harvard, seems to be learning what an unenviable position that of President's son can be. John Coolidge. trailed across the Amherst campus by a secret service man some years ago. learned the same lesson, and it's not the pleasantest lesson a youth can learn. Young Roosevelt planned to go out for football. He drew his uniform, started out on the field—and saw such a crew’ of photographers awaiting him that he turned back and surrendered his outfit. Then he decided to try for the crew—and again the photographers were awaiting him. This time he threatened to punch one cameraman in the nose. It's natural, of course, that the photographers should be eager to get lots of pictures of the lad. But it's a foul break for the boy himself. He has a right to a normal life at college—the pleasant obscurity that is even- young undergraduate's birthright. It isn't fair that he should be denied it just because his father is President of the United States. \ Guglielmo Marconi, now in this country, will admit he's responsible for the radio. But |dpnt blame him for the programs. 1

OPTIMISM NOT MUCH HELP SUICIDE has a tragic quality all its own, unlike that which attends any other form of death. Relatives and friends are not only left to mourn a departure from life; they are forced to think that life itself, through some mischance. had got so unendurably difficult that the strongest of all instincts, the instinct of self-preservation had been killed. Robert E. Farley, former president of the New- York state Rotary Club, was found hanging from a rafter in his home the other day. And what gave his death a peculiarly tragic quality was the fact that only three years ago he had written, for the Rotary Club magazine, a code for living. In it he included these rules: ‘‘Don't worry—smile; laugh it off; serve with sacrifice; do it now and have peace; relax—ease mind, nerves and muscles; do not get out of poise; get next to God and stay there; think of the things that make you happy and not of the things that make you sad.” It was a good code. He had it printed on cards and hung them where he could see them constantly. And somehow, when things went very badly wrong, the code seerhs to have been a broken reed. There are philosophies that will carry a man through almost any despondency; this one, apparently, wasn’t of that kind. And one is moved to wonder if the code did not, perhaps, share a little too greatly in a very common American fault—the habit of persistently looking only on the bright side of things. Such admonitions as “laugh it off” and “think of the things that make you happy” are very fine w’hen all one’s troubles are minor ones. But most of us aren't lucky enough to have only that kind of trouble. Sooner or later we get badly bumped; and w’hen we do we are apt to go under unless we have learned how to look the very worst in the face without flinching. We are, or we try to be, a nation of optimists. It has made us a likable and a friendly people. But it has also left us vulnerable to sudden shocks. The best preparation for trouble is the readiness to know the worst, to accept it, and to plug along in spite of it—not laughing it off. but grimly accepting it and making the best of it. PART OF THE PROBLEM SINCE the cotton textile code became law’, NRA has received 641 complaints from w’orkers. Os the complaints, 194 come from those w’ho have lost their jobs, “the aged, the slightly incompetent, the partially incapacitated, the so-called substandard, and those w’ho are naturally slow and unable to produce a volume of production sufficient to justify their being paid a minimum wage.” And so w T e And that our job is only half done when w’e as a government have intervened to secure decent living wages for the main body of w’orkers. The aged, the slightly incompetent and these others who are not worth sl2 and sl3 a week to their employers while better w’orkers can be had for the same price, must be taken care of. If the young and vigorous workers were receiving wages large enough to care for these others the problem would not be a serious one. But they are not. Some other way has got to be found either to make these folks self-sup-porting or to care for them. Old age pensions would be the answer for part of the group. For the others w’hat? This business of bringing about real recovery is indeed a terrific problem in social inventiveness. Out of the $2(1000,000 the government is loaning the railroads, there ought to be enough now’ to buy the right kind of drinking cups for the passengers.

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REFERRING to the unexpectedly large number of disputes that have arisen between capital and labor since NRA was instituted, Edward P. McGrady, assistant secretary of labor, says: “The question is. do w'e want to settle these problems in a democratic way, or do we want dictatorship?” One could write a book on the issue and not make it any clearer. It was the hope of those sponsoring the new’ deal that w’orkers and employers would co-oper-ate for the common good, if provided with the right kind of machinery. To this end, business was subjected to certain restraints on the one hand and granted certain privileges on the other. tt tt u WHILE obliged to accept codes with hours and wages specified, business was permitted to form associations and make trade agreements on a scale hitherto not allowed. The right of labor to bargain collectively was recognized, but not without safeguarding the individual’s right to bargain for himself. Under the national recovery act. workers have the right to form or join any kind of a union that suits them, but, and thia is a point that will eventually come to play more of a part, they don’t have to join a union and they can’t be coerced into doing so. The government is doing everything possible to leave industry in private hands, not only as to management, but as to the settlement of its internal problems, but it has not turned the field over to irresponsible leadership. a a a WE might just as well face the realities bound up in this package, and not kid ourselves with a lot of half-true slogans. The government has not exposed every worker to the necessity of joining a union, nor has it abrogated its authority to intervene. The stage is set for dictatorship, if dictatorship becomes necessary, a type of control by which the government coifld supersede every business and trade union in this country. The President has been given authority not only to accept codes but formulate them and to see that they are carried out. Leaders of labor and industry have it within their power to determine how far the President must go. What the country wants is a return of those conditions which make work possible and living comfortable. This calls for an increase of buying power at the bottom, which means an increase of the number of steady jobs. Nothing is gained by putting 100.000 men at work one week, if 100.000 go on strike the next. Nothing is gained by guaranteeing better wages and shorter hours, if unwise leaders use them as a pretext for provoking unnecessary trouble. The government has provided boards of meditation to handle complaints and disputes. Strikes are unnecessary, unless or until these boards fail.

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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 SSO words or less.) Bv C. E. Bowler. There are millions hungry, other millions half naked all over the w’orld and our government spends hundreds of millions cutting down production of food and cotton. Why? Because we do not know how’ to distribute. An explanation of that may be asked on the Judgment Day. The problem is not to do away with machinery, which is man’s greatest blessing, but to change selfish human nature that can but will not distribute what the machines produce. France developed an idea that NRA must borrow’. French W’orkers in certain key industries, fathers and mothers, will receive extra pay for every child in the family. This is expected to increase the income of three and a half million w’orkers, enabling them to take better care of their children. If that is Socialism, it is the right kind. That is making use of Christian teachings and according to St. James that kind of faith has works and is not dead as faith without good work is void. By a Tired Husband. By what right had Indianapolis’ big, brave minions of the law to enter South Side Turners Monday and break up the party of “tired husbands.” who were out for a little fun? Did the police have a search warrant? Os course, there will be a certain element in this goody-good city who will get up in the pulpit Sunday, raise their voices high and draw forth a few’ amens and, best of all, easy money from a few church members. Too much reforming—lndianapolis—too many cod liver oil dispensers. Such things go on among the rich and are unmolested. Poor devils put it on and get raided. I was there just to see w’hat it would be like. I saw many of my friends and many church members, too. But why raise hands and howl about perdition? You can’t take ail the fun out of life, and if you do, husbands will be pretty hard to live with. By Jay Lon?. Would like to cal! the public’s attention to an association recently formed by a band of Indianapolis contractors w'ho call themselves general contractors, w'hose only purpose is to cut wages in this locality and to create hardships on the working man. The building tradesmen entered

THE chief value of examinations made before any student regies up athletics is to determine whether he is fit for the type of athletic competition that he has selected. It serves also to protect him from taking part in sports in w’hich he will be in opposition to stronger competitors. The medical examiner may advise the inexperienced, untrained student against taking part in such athletics as long distance runs, hard basketball games, football or rowing. Finally, a medical examination helps to prevent the development of staleness and protects the man w’ho has been injured from being re-

THE editor of the Columbus Citizen, a friend of many years, calls me a militant feminist. Today this is rather a dubious compliment, but I like it. It does, however, carry with it certain unpleasant implications, and so I wish we might have some other title —we women who still believe in ourselves and who try to make the gentle nen believe in us. Actually the militant feminist is as dead as Mr. Hoover's farm board. In her stead we have anew kind of individual who is saner and a more experienced somebody, and whom we might, for want of a better name, call a militant humanitarian. Those who fought for their own rights haw now taken up cudgels

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Old A,cje Pensions By Old Age Pensioners. We have talked to the old age pensioners from different parts of Indiana and their feeling is at a high pitch against any political party reducing their pay and refusing to give to them their legal rights, which the past legislature gave to them and is on the statute books of Indiana. The present party, in campaign speeches, agreed to make things so an old person could have a comfortable living. Now let them make

Questions and Answers

Q—To whom should one apply to redeem a Fourth Liberty bond? A —Division of loans and currency, treasury department, Washington, D. C. Q—What is the area and population of Vatican City? A—Area, 108.7 acres; population, census of April 15, 1932, 1,006, of w’hom 716 were citizens of Vatican City. Q —Give the derivation and meaning of the names “Meek” and “Gottlieb.” A —Meek is a German family name derived from a locality, Meckel, Eiffel, Germany. Gottlieb is also a German family name, and means “God’s Love.” Q —What is the nationality of Rudy Vallee? A—He is an American of French and Irish descent. Q —Who w r as Mary Pickford’s leading man in “Coquette?” A—John Mack Brown. Q —From w'hat college did Herinto an agreement with these contractors in January, 1932, duly approved and signed by these men. Said agreement was a reduction of 20 per cent of the then existing wage, with the understanding that when material raised, wages w’ould raise accordingly. Now’ material has raised, also the cost of living. This wage cutting association not only refuses to live up to its agreement but demands another 20 per cent reduction and refuses to let the men W’ork only at a wage set by the dictator. Surely this w’age cutting can not be in line with our President or the NRA.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine.

turned too early to practice or competition. An examiner who is investigating the physical condition of men who propose to go into athletics must be exceedingly careful to find out what previous illnesses the man has had that might have left permanent troubles. For instance, scarlet fever and other infectious diseases may disturb the kidneys. An infected throat may be associated with rheumatic disorders and with infections of the heart. An ear that has been infected

for the rights of all people. It is not women but the race that occupies their attention. u a a V7'ET the militant feminist, who disappeared some time ago, and who is often vilified, does, I think, deserve a good deal more credit than she gets. That belligerent, vociferous, clamoring person was a necessary link in the slowly forged chain that will some day safeguard mankind. She was a torch bearer, even though a pestiferous one, and her era marked a complete : change in human thought. S Feminism was not so much a sex | revolution as it was an evolution in j mental attitudes, a step In .progress. .And it set a standard of

good. If they w'ant to cut any one’s allowance, let them cut these high paid office holders that are more able to stand a cut and not take it off of poor old people who are not able to work for a living. There are a good number of competent people in this county that can handle these offices and would be glad to have them at one half the salary they are paid now'. Every old person that W'e have talked to declare if the old age pension is cut he is done with the present party for all time to come and is ready to fight any cut of their pensions.

bert Hoover graduate, and w’hat degree did he receive? A—He graduated from Stanford university, California, 1895, with degree of A. B. in engineering. O—ls chewing gum classed as candy? A—No, it is classed as a “confection.” Q —Does the Fox Theaters Corporation ow’n the Roxy theaters? A—ln March, 1927, Fox Theaters Corporation acquired controlling interest in Roxj Circuit, w'hich in turn owns a majority of the common stock in the Roxy Theaters Corporation. Q—Where and when w'as William Henry Harrison born? A—Berkeley, Va.. Feb. 9, 1773. Q —Who invented the “Yo-Yo” toy and when? A—The “Yo-Yo” toy has been in existence for many years. Filipinos are credited with coining its present name. When the duke of Wellington played with one, Englishmen called it a “quiz.” Most dictionaries, however, stick to the old name of "Bandalore.” The Bandalore was known to the ancient Greeks. It is represented in more than one vase painting as a child’s plaything, and one Is preserved in the National Museum at Athens. Q —On tyhich finger should a birthstone ring and signet ring be worn? A—Birthstone rings generally are worn on the third finger of either hand. Signet rings may be w’orn on the little finger or the third finger of either hand.

may continue to discharge and by discharging be a constant menace to life and health. Tuberculosis in a very mild form may not be visible or easily detectible and yet for such men to undertake athletics might be fatal. The examiner studies not only the height and weight of the individual but the state of nutrition in relationship to the height and weight. He looks also for signs of any of the complications of diseases that have been mentioned. He examines the groin particularly for the presence of rupture, because such a condition may be seriously aggravated by the strain of sport.

aggressive action that all of us, men and women together, shall have to match if we set up any decent social order. Until women have rights, men will never have them. You may be quite sure of that. There will be the few on top and the millions suffering at the bottom. Because justice should and must protect, not a sex. but all humanity. And it is humanity with which women are now concerned. The individual man also may feel reassured. He will get a squarer deal from the militant ladies than he e\ r er had from the mousy homebody whom his chivalry crushed into the straight jacket of nvwjfcal servitude. it .

OCT. 5, 1933

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NEW YORK, Oct. s—“As Thousands Cheer" is just as good as the critics said This new show byIrving Berlin and Moss Hart is. if memory serves me, the best revue I’ve ever seen. But having said this much. I wish to attack one phase of it bitterly. The enterprise at the Music Box gives aid and comfort to some notions which may in the near future ruin the finest flowering of the American drama. Naturally, I refer to our native musical comedies and revues. Because Eugene O'Neill sings sad songs it has been the custom of the literati to point to his products with pride. Things such as the various “Vanities." “Scandals” and “Follies” have been received with enormous enjoyment, but because they were good fun it has always been the custom of the critics to treat them with condescension. In my own ancient days as a reviewer it w r as always the rule for the first-string man to select the so-railed 'straight” show’ if it happened to conflict with a musical. a a a Putting It Up to Mars IT is my belief that as soon as it becomes possible to import a messenger from Mars this dispassionate observer will report that the plays written by living Americans, from O'Neill up and down, are of little consequence, but that Broadway has managed to achieve the finest popular musical shows devised upon this planet. The messenger from Mars even may say "the finest in the universe.” I wouldn’t know’. It all depends upon the problem of whether other celestial bodies can offer any performer like this Miss Ethel Waters. The visiting critic from across the stellar spaces would be quite correct in contending that "As Thousands Cheer" is a far more sensitive interpretation of American life than “Mourning Becomes Electra” ever was. Americans are a shy and diffident people. Except, of course, on trains and steamers and in hotels and bars. We apologize for those cultural elements of our homeland which are the best of all, and instead of boasting of such things as "St. Louis Blues,” “Old Man River” and "Mickey Mouse” we try to interest Europeans in the architecture of the First National Bank of Paducah, Ky„ which w’as modeled after an old French chateau! We talk of Eugene O’Neill to intelligent cosmopolites w’ho would much rather hear something about Irving Berlin. a a a The Broadway Visionaries BUT the pity of it is that Mr. Berlin and.his associate, Sam H. Harris, have begun to go arty on us. The first thing you know they will be gingerbreading the show shop in Theatre Guild. At the moment this evil tendency is no bigger than a man’s hand holding a tiger lily. I am speaking of the recognition and house room W’hich Berlin and Harris have given to an alien thing called “modern dancing.” It is the camel’s head within the tent, and unless the customers rise up in protest w r e will get the w’hole damn dromedary. Theatrical managers in New York 3 re insufficiently commercial. Any one of them will fall if a young man in a green smock and an aggressive smile comes into the office and says, “But you understand, Sam, this is something different.” They are all heretics in the belief that there is some necessary virtue in variation. The Shuberts lie aw’ake at nights trying to think up something they can do to induce Stark Young to write a pleasant piece about them in the New Republic. I can see no other explanation for the epidemic during the last few years of Albertina Raasch dancers, Agnes De Mille dancers and Charles Weidman dancers. If Johnny Boyle, Bobby Connolly or Bob Alton had an opportunity to put on a rousing tap routine in Moscow or in Athens he would be hailed as an exponent of a significant art form. But because the chorus routines which have become familiar are distinctly native we can not realize their artistic integrity. ft tt tt Thin k ing of Ha rlem EARLY in Mr. Berlin's show Ethel Waters sang magnificently the composer’s ditty about a heat wave. I sat back with the confident and pleasurable anticipation that presently I w’ould see a stimulating dance done after the manner of someone of Mr. Danny Healey’s Cotton Club epics. Instead I found myself facing a dull pink set and watching languidly two sad young men going through gyrations w’hich were to me quite meaningless. I will admit that each of the young men had taken the precaution of removing his shirt. And even so I didn’t find it interesting. The intellectual Broadway manager may answer, “Ah, but you forget that, our audiences have seen ladies’ legs before.” But it does not seem to me that custom stales or withers. I prefer the Victorian limbs. I remain singularly indifferent to what even the most agile and arty young man can do with his abdomen under a pink spotlight. Indeed, the cry of this particular crusader for American culture would be. “Put on your shirt and give the girls a chance.” (Copyright 1933. bv Th- Timp.ii The Elm BY AUSTIN JAMES I love to sit and look at trees And hear them singing to the breeze. I love to watch them swing and sway And listen to the things they say. It seems to me a lovely tree Is just as human as can be, You see I watched an elm last night. That’s why I’m positive I'm right. Some trees are staid and some sedate, While some are crooked—others straight. Some trees are cold, quite true to form, But my old elm is nice and warm. It has a heart as pure as gold, I know it—never need be told, Tis certain— this old friendly trea Has got a heart, the same as me.