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MR. FARLEY ONCE MORE TF President Roosevelt is to carry out his splendid program he must do two things: He must keep his hold on Progressives in all parties. And he must break the hold that Wall Street has had on the two old party organizations. At least, he must break the hold it has on the Democratic party. This means that he must find a way to undo the harm being done to his program by his friend. James Farley, postmaster-general and Democratic national chairman. Mr. Farley's ambition to seize political control of New York City is in a fair way to wreck the President’s greater ambition. Last week by knifing Major La Guardia, independent candidate for mayor, Mr. Farley aroused the distrust of Roosevelt's Progressive supporters throughout the country. This week, by drawing Ferdinand Pecora into the New York City campaign, Mr. Farley has given anew lease of life to Wall Street manipulation of national affairs. Mr. Pecora has been engaged for several months in the Investigation of Wall street for the senate banking and currency committee. He has been dragging to light the banking practices which have had so much to do with the country's present desperate plight. He has done a great deal, but his job is little more than begun. He has not even made a start on the stock exchange, the very heart of the whole mad financial mess which President Roosevelt has undertaken to clean up. At this stage he is commandeered for the Farley local political enterprise. He is placed on the ticket beside Joseph V. McKee, banker candidate for mayor. Without at all impugning Mr. Pecora's integrity, it is no tribute to his intelligence to report that he has accepted the offer. Mr. Farley thus has done a complete job for his President’s bitterest foes. He has put the prestige of his position behind the bankers’ candidate for mayor and he has curtailed the investigation of the bankers themselves. For the investigation, a first step toward freeing American industry from financial strangulation is being curtailed by this move and there is no use to blink that fact. Mr. Pecora can not investigate the bankers in Washington to any real effect while running as their candidate in New York City. He may say, as he does, that he will do all his running on his week-ends at home. And he may say, in all sincerity, that he isn't the bankers’ candidate. But did you read the news dispatches in which his acceptance was announced? Then you read this paragraph: “One of the first to congratulate Pecora was Clarence Dillon, head of the investment banking house, now under investigation.’’ Mr. Dillon's congratulations came straight from the heart. As one of the “solid elements,” whose support Mr. McKee is seeking, he no doubt felt much more solid the moment he heard the news. The President is a resourceful person. He may be able to keep his hold on the country’s nonpartisan progressives despite the blunders to date of his political manager. But give his political manager time in which to make one or two more moves and even the resourceful President will not be able to break the hold that Wall Street is regaining on his party. POLITICAL PATRONAGE NO high administrative officer of the government within recent years has spoken more frankly about political patronage and its evils than did Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, before the Public Ownership institute at Chicago. What many have thought, the eminent doctor said. "I speak deliberately,” said he, “and not without intimate experience, when I say that very seldom does the person who is appointed through political influence prove to be the best person available for the position.” His picture of congressmen and senators... “able men who desire mast of all to be effective In solving our pressing national problems’’ . .. “spending their days tramping from office to office” hunting jobs for constituents ... is in many respects true and in all respects neither pleasing nor inspiring. The TV A chairman became almost autobiographical when he spoke of how pressure Increases upon administrative officers, how “gradually the storm cloud gathers.” and how, finally, “the wrath of the whole patronage system of the nation will burst” on the head of the administrator who shuns political influence. He recognizes, as all reasonable persons do, that it is essential to good government to remove administrative functions from the sphere of political influence. And he finds that the present administration has made the larger portion of its appointments on the basis of merit. But Dr. Morgan does not recognize so quickly the practical aspects of the patronage ;problem. So long as congressmen and senators are elected as they are. so long as re-elec-tion is so important—lmportant, it might well be said, to the solution of those “pressing national problems’’—the problem of patronage probably will remain. Meanwhile, reforms in the system might well be accomplished by administrative officers. but only if they have the co-operation of those same tramping congressmen and the constituents behind them. If Dr. Morgan's candor about patronage belps bring that reform any nearer, he will not have spoken in vain. A TIME FOR TRUTH •npHIS is the time.” said President Roose- * velt in his New York address, “when you and I know that though we have proceeded

a portion of the way. the longer, harder part still lies ahead; and that it is for us to redouble our efforts to care for those who must still depend upon relief, to prevent the disintegration of home life, and to stand by the victims of the depression until it is definitely past.” No Pollyanna optimism there. No coating of the truth with the sweet icing of misinformation that turns bitter so quickly. President Roosevelt, we believe, judges his fellows correctly when he assumes that they want facts. MEN AND MILLIONS TF thp new deal is to have any significance "*■ in American life it must mean primarily the defense of the ‘‘forgotten man” against the depredations of finance capitalism. * One per cent of the population no longer can be allowed to absorb so much of the social income that the remaining 99 per cent are incapable of purchasing the necessities of life and culture. This will involve increasing the power of the laboring classes at the expense of speculative banking. It will be a reversal of the trend of the last half century. We have here a group of Important books which bring into clear relief thejxiwer and the glory of the great speculative bankers set over against the sad tale of labor's futile flounderings until the NRA gave unionism some semblance of respectability and some iota of public support. Lewis Lorwin and Miss Flexner have written a very useful and much needed book in “The American Federation of Labor; Its History, Policies and Prospects.” It is the first competent, comprehensive and up-to-date history of the American Federation of Labor, the most powerful labor organization in our country. The authors are fair, but not sentimental. Their excellent volume brings out both the contributions and weaknesses of the federation. On the positive side, we have the fact that Gompers and the A. F. of L. took over the labor movement when the Knights of Labor had fallen into disrepute and chaos and saved unionism from temporary extinction. The A. F. of L. also did very good work for the skilled laborers. It built around them a powerful labor group which was able to make some headway in the face of plutocracy, republicanism and judicial animosity. For the two decades after 1890, the federation was a creditable organization. Among the major defects of the federation may be noted its failure to adapt itself to the changed economic conditions and to espouse national industrial unionism; its inadequate attention to the mass of unskilled laborers; the loose and incoherent character of its organization and administration; the retention of Gompers long after he had outlived his usefulness; the woeful absence of intelligent and aggressive leadership since the World war; its opposition to a labor party; and its tendency to be more friendly to capital than to radical unions. The American Federation of Labor has an organization, a tradition and a momentum which labor can ill afford to lose. This should be conserved and made the corner stone of the future labor movement in this country. Unless, however, the American Federation of Labor snaps out of the spirit and policies of the “gay nineties” and adopts itself to contemporary needs, it never can lead labor into a position of power, dignity and security. The most critical test of the future power of labor has come in connection with the application of the collective bargaining section of the NRA. Oidway Tead and Henry C. Metcalf have brought out the only thorough study of the relation of the NRA to organized labor in ’’Labor Relations Under the Recovery Act.” It is a very readable and illuminating book. It will need some revision in the light of what has actually been done by the administration since the volume was written. Fortunately, the NRA officials have had less respect, for company unions than the authors and have made less concessions to them than Tead and Metcalf apparently believed would be necessary and legal. The main reason for urging greater concern for the income of laborers and farmers is not a sentimental or partisan one. It is the immensely practical consideration that unless the majority of the people have a reasonable income they can not buy goods. If they can not do so, capitalism winds up its career, government aid or no government aid. The main pilferers of the deserved income of farmers and laborers have been the speculative bankers. Guy W. Mallon advocates escape from their exploitation by giving congress exclusive control over money and credit and by issuing a “national dividend” to consumers for a period of two years to increase mass purchasing power. This is all to the good, so far as it goes, but Mr. Mallon overlooks the main source of the banker menace to American society. It does not lie so much in the control over money and credit as in speculative manipulations in connection with holding companies, receiverships, mergers and other ways of 'gathering in millions without any service to civilization. The book needs to be supplemented by David Coyle's brochure on "Business Vs. Finance.” The most overwhelming picture ever drawn of the manner in which bankers have ruined consumers, and with this the capitalistic system. is contained in Harvey O'Connor's life of Andrew William Mellon. Many will regard it as a personal indictment of Mr. Mellon. But it is much more fundamentally an indictment of American civilization today. One can not blame Mellon for getting away with his billions if he could. But we can denounce a society which permits a man to accumulate over two billion dollars without rendering as much positix'e sendee to mankind or civilization as many a poor inventor of scientist who never earned more than SSO a week in his life. John Flynn asserts that the book “ought to be read by every American who wants to know what is the matter with his country.” He is right. There is no other single volume which will tell him quite as much on this subject. Squirrels in Connecticut have begun migrating. according to an official report. Does that mean that the state has rid itself of nuts? No matter how high Commander Settle thinks he can go with that stratosphere balloon of his. he should realize that eventually he'll have to come down to earth. Lloyd George thinks the World war should have ended in 1916. And Woodrow Wilson would have gone down in history for having kept us out of it ,

THE CHRISTIAN WAY npHE administration's recovery program so far is in keeping with the Christian teaching implying “the practicability of a more cooperative economic order, socially controlled for the common good.” So says a pronouncement from the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and the form that the verdict takes helps one to understand the opportunity that confronts the nation today. “A more co-operative economic order socially controlled for the common good;” those, when you stop to think about it, are new words in the land. It is only recently that we have come to see that the economic order can be controlled by any one. Until this year we talked about “cycles” and “economic laws” and so on; we looked on ourselves as helpless in the grip of forces that could neither be understood entirely nor appreciably controlled, and the most we hoped was that we somehow might ameliorate the abrupt downswings of the lines on the chart. This notion that the economic order can be controlled, then, is new; and once it is accepted we immediately are called upon to answer a question of the very highest importance. If it can be controlled, by whom and for whom is the control to be exercised? By and for the proletariat, to the exclusion of all other classes, as in Russia? By and for the capitalist class, with all other folk reduced to the position of mere cogs in the machine? Or, as these churchmen suggest, is it to be controlled “for the common good?” A nation with democratic traditions such as America possesses hardly can hesitate in its choice; and once the choice is made, several things become clear. It becomes clear, for instance, that industry does not exist solely to produce dividends, but also to provide goods for people who need them; that agriculture’s reason for being is that it furnishes food for the hungry, and not just profits for the farmer; that, in short, every man who makes a living from society must render a suitable return for it, and that the return he renders, rather than the living he makes, is the real reason for his importance. We come, in other words, to the necessity for a complete democratization of our society —social control for the common good. The developments of the recovery program well may be measured by that yardstick. WE’RE STILL HELPLESS Tj'IGURES on automobile accidents for 1933 are, as usual, pretty discouraging. To be sure, deaths In traffic during the first nine months of the year are nearly 4 per cent below the total for last year. But the number of fatalities per accident has gone up by 7 per cent, and the number of persons nonfatally injured per accident has gone up 216 per cent. Reduction in the total number of deaths can be attributed to the fact that fewer people have been driving cars this year than last—the registrations for the first half year were 5 per cent below the 1932 figures. The fact that the accidents themselves are getting deadlier only can mean that we are driving more dangerously, more carelessly, more selfishly, than before. The situation, as a matter of fact, is a national scandal, and so far we have shown no sign that we knew how to do anything about it. Now we learn that furs may cause hay fever. We weren’t so sure of that, although we knew furs have brought tears to many a woman’s eyes.

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SOME weeks ago, the government set out to buy 4,000,000 little pigs and 1,000,000 sows about to bring in litters. The object of this flyer in pork was to curtail production on the one hand, and provide food for conservation camps or needy the other. Experts figured that this wholesale slaughter of existent and prospective pigs would sew up the market and cause the price to soar. They were right except in one little item. The hog raiser is not so dumb. Willing enough to dispose of his little pigs, he prefers to hang on to the sows. With the sows he can produce more little pigs for the government to buy. Fifty per cent more of the little pigs came to market than the government asked for, but only one-fifth of the sows showed up. The hog raiser’s attitude smacks of caginess and nonco-operation, but it may turn out to be right. We may need all that pork before we get through. Last spring, some optimistic folk thought we would be through with depression before another winter set in, but now they know better. According to William Green, president of the A. F. of L„ 4,000,000 families will need help, and the government is prepared to mobilize a fund of $700,000,000 with the help of the states, for their relief. 000 NEXT year may see conditions improved greatly. Every one hopes it will. But we have no right 'to assume too much. Under existing circumstances relief is comparatively easy. There is an abundance of all needed supplies. We face no harder task than to provide the necessary funds. But suppose the markets were drained? No one is sure what the employment situation will be a year hence or what the weather will do to crops next summer. If this mad rush to curtail production should happen to be accompanied by a severe drought, an epidemic of hog cholera, or some other general misfortune, the country might find itself with a most distressing problem. As long as an adequate supply of materials is available, we can find some way to distribute it, but what could we do in case of an actual shortage, and what right have we to imagine that such a shortage can not occur? 000 AS one who lays no claim to technical expertness. but who had the common experience of learning what terrible havoc the vagaries of nature can create, and the equally common experience of discovering how the best laid plans of men can miscarry, I think we are tinkering with a dangerous theory when we encourage the destruction of necessaries. I certainly would hate to be in public office a year from now, if next summer should prove disastrous in the wheat, cotton and cattle growing sections of this country. I would not know how to explain the philosophy of willful destruction. or how to justify the conditions which it helped to make worse. I would not know where to turn for relief, if relief should be required. I can see the apparent soundness of lowering production in certain lines, but I can not see the wisdom of putting products beyond recall. It strikes me that such a course takes altogether too much for granted. Isn’t there some way to sequester part of this surplus, to get it off the market without destroying it?

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them, to 250 words or less.) By R. E. Morsran. Since the dawn of the “new day,” promised us by the “new deal,” has commenced to break up, scatter and drive away the clouds of gloom and despair and illuminate our skies skies with the beauty of morning, permit me to express through your columns a few words in defense cf the NRA. After watching the many effective swings of the “big-stick,” and witnessing the spectacular drive for national recovery take form and go forward, and after observing the steady rise of the barometers of trade and business throughout the nation, and feeling the invigorating confidence which our great progressive leader is inspiring, I am convinced that the NRA means what the three celebrated letters stand for, “National Reconstruction Assured,” and that the so-called “new deal” is not a misdeal as claimed by its enemies. While the movement is running into many bumps and knocks, and is encountering many harassing and opposing trade-winds which are making the pull hard and difficult up the grade of the rough and unmarked detour, and while our faithful driver and his skilled mechanics are being hissed and snapped at from beneath every rock and bush by those who do not like to be disturbed by the advance and roar of progress; and while many of us do not like to surrender our selfishness and greed long enough to get off to relieve the load, yet, I believe the soar and screams of the blue eagle will soon lead us to the top of the hill, and back on our old national highway where we can smoothly coast down to the valley or land of milk and honey which they have been telling us for the last four years was “just in sight.” Like the Bible, the “NRA” has a plan of salvation for us. True, we may not understand and may not agree on the several verses, chapters and commandments contained in it, or the several denominational codes and creeds drawn under it, yet we should all recognize the fact that the plan as a whole, like the Bible, has extending through it a silvercord of truth, charity, mercy and

er\HE chief attention in the examA ination for athletics always must center on the physical condition of the heart- Various tests have been developed for determining what is known as cardiac reserve, or the ability of the heart to respond to increased strain. Some of these tests are exceedingly simple, involving, for example, the rate of the heart when lying down, when standing, and then after some exercise again taking the rate lying down and standing. Normally, the rate when lying down is about 66; when standing from 66 to 74. After exercise, the rate for the first quarter minute should be 96, ‘ and the second quarter minute about 88. In other words, the heart must have the ability to return to normal rate rather promptly after exercise. In the case of some persons the heart rate may be 72 when reclining and 92 when standing, with the rate after exercise 132, and 15 seconds later still 132 or 136. - Such an increase in the heart rate after exercise and the delay in returning to normal rate are

IAM fortunate in numbering among my friends many school teachers. The term, of course, includes several types of individuals. I have known scholarly college professors, high school principals with a touch of Rotary, very good and very poor grade instructors, and many an ignorant girl doing her first term in some shabby rural classroom. Generally, I have admired their patience, but only in rare instances did their good judgment arouse my enthusiasm. Most of them were square pegs in round holes which is the chief thing from which the business of school teaching suffers. Entirely too many teachers who do not like to teach hold the jobs and, conse-

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Heart Condition Goal in Physical Examination - - - BY' DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN - - =

: ; A Woman’s Viewpoint : : BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON - -

It’s a Great World — Yes?

Here's the Answer By a Court Employe. I noticed in Tuesday’s Times that another person, who knows little about governmental functions, has taken it on himself to criticise. The telephone conversation from Mr. Justa Taxpayer regarding the absence of judges from their benches is another example of somebody not knowing what they’re talking about. For Mr. Justa Taxpayer’s information, I wish to tell him that Monday was “general term” day in county courts. He probably doesn’t know the meaning of general term, but it is the day, once a month, when county judges hold a meeting to discuss rulings, and to settle claims against the state. No cases are set at this time but, if necessary, a pro tern, judge can handle any emergency matter. Every county judge could have been found in the private chambers of Judge John Kern, in Room 1, last Monday, where they probably were doing more work than Mr. Justa Taxpayer does in a week. beauty. This being true, like the disciples of old, we should follow him who is honestly and conscientiously attempting to preach and spread the gospel of industrial righteousness and social justice. We should encourage him who is trying to break the chains of economic slavery and free a suffering people. We should uphold the hands of him who is attempting to save our nation and its flag, and the fall of civilization. We should prevent, if possible, the crucifixion of this righteous leader upon a cross of cankered gold. The NRA is forcing upon us the issue. Shall the people who made and constitute this government run it, or shall it be continued to be run and controlled by the money power? This question must be now and forever settled. Let us all pump and pump hard while our courageous President primes the pumps. And in lieu of our services for pumping let us insist that he inflate the pumps. Let us demand an immediate operation by the transfusion of more blood or money into the arteries and veins of

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

quite certain indications that the individual is in poor physical condition and certainly should not Indulge in vigorous exercise or hard training until his condtion has improved. Physical educators place a great deal of value on pre-season training to put the athlete in good shape before he undertakes a difficult sport, particularly one such as football. A good condition is developed by getting a moderate amount of physical evxercise each day and enough rest and sleep each night. The old-time calisthenics were especially valuable for strengthening various parts of the body which might not be particularly called on in the sport to be undertaken. Football requires more pre-season training than do other sports, except for long distance running, which may require an exceedingly long training period. Wind and endurance are developed only by repeated exercises day after day, gradually increasing length and intensity of work. The athlete can determine his

quently, are not doing them very well. Just as we never have been able to put the profession ot motherhood upon any actual business basis, so it seems to me a mistake to think w’e can force educators to conform to rules. After all, the mind is not so easily bound with red tape. a a a ANY college or high school graduate knows that certain teachers were able to arouse his enthusiasm. and that certain others presented him only with dry facts, which are the equivalent of nothing. The most important instructor is personality and you can't bring personality into such an atmosphere

our weak, run-down, anemic body politic. Let us insist on our Godgiven right to a double standard of blood of red and white corpuscles, or gold and silver. Let us have sixteen of white to one of red. With all of our pumps going, and with plenty of good, rich blood or money circulating through our system, containing the two necessary sets of corpuscles, red and white or gold and silver, we soon will have an overflow of national wealth and health, and will be able to kill, upon the return of the two lost republican prodigal sons, “prosperity” and “normalcy,” not only the fatted calf, but the pigs also. By Pink. A tragedy that was news a week or so ago concerned the leap of a young lady from a third story apartment window in order to escape from two men. As the papers recorded it she was earning $4 a week and is said to have been told that her job would be taken from her if she didn’t attend this party. She went and, as a consequence, is in a hospital. That was the story. Now here is ours. We were just wondering how many ministers, last Sunday, missed the chance to build a powerful sermon around this tragedy. Here is a young girl asked to live decently on $4 a week. Here is a depression that makes jobs so scarce that she is alleged to have unwillingly consented to the demands of a man higher up so she wouldn’t lose the poor one she had, and here is a rotten, vicious capitalist system that breeds a thing like this. Is there a minister in town militant enough to denounce this system? You say you know of several? We say, “Oh. yeah?” Editor’s Note—lnvestigation has shown the girl was employed only during the mid-day rush hour.

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It is my opinion that possibly economists write the laws of economics after the event.—Banker William A. Harriman. I wish it was only by book-burn-ing that intolerance vented its madness.—H. G. Wells. German nationalism today is a pagan revolt against Christian civilization.—Ludwig Lewisohn, novelist.

physical condition very simply by watching his weight and by finding out whether he does his work with more ease and with increasing endurance. The weight chart perhaps is the simplest method of determining how any individual is reacting to the training program. There always is some loss of weight during any active physical exercise. Most men lose from one and a half to threee pounds during a game of golf, and football players may lose from seven to ten pounds during a game of football. A man in good condition tends to regain his weight in less than twenty-four hours. If any player fails to regain his lost weight for many days and constantly is dropping away from his “best weight,” he should have a special physical examination to determine the reason. If the weight reduction is too rapid or too great in extent, it throws a burden on the heart, kidneys and other tissues which is not safely borne. It is recognized that the chief signs of overtraining are staleness, inability to sleep, loss of weight, general nervous irritability and sometimes excessive changes in the heart.

unless you really love to teach. The qualifications of the good teacher, even above all degrees, is the ability to interest the child, to inspire the adolescent and to whet the cariosity of the youth for knowledge. This is the beginning and the end of the instructor’s art. I believe, as a consequence, that we shall live to regret—if we are not already regretting, although we may not know it—our foolish insistence that teachers conform to regulations, age limits, conditions of matrimony, motherhood or sterility. Good teachers in fact are rare beings and wherever we can find them we’d do well to see that they enter the American schoolroom and stay there.

.OCT. 6, 1933

It Seems j to Me ‘— BY HEY WOOD BROUN__

NEW YORK. Oct. 6.—Two new heroes have come up into the ! hearts of Manhattan a little after the manner of dawn and thunder. I am referring to that part of the community which takes its baseball seriously. Only a season ago, maybe half a season. Bill Terry and Carl Hubbell were In China ’cross the bay as far as the fervor of the fans was concerned. Everybody knew Terry as a superb batter and fielder, and Hubbell was accounted competent. But neither young man was spoken of in the same breath with the great names of the past. America forgets the novelist of the last decade, the actor who was so very- good season before last, and | the motion picture star who thrilled j the country six months ago. But ;he name and fame of pitchers and j hard-hitting outfielders lingers on. There is a finality of feeling toward Donlin and Matty and Doyle. * a a For Remembrance I WOULD not quarrel with this tradition or rosemary in a land | where idols are scrapped with all the speed of skyscrapers. But it has made it very tough for the younger generation of ball players. In no other field of native culture does the same situation hold true. The nascent poet, painter, or short story teller has the edge upon his rivals who have gone before. Those who are not with us are Victorians and outmoded. After a while or so every Longfellow, Tennyson or William Dean Howells is regarded not only with indifference, but even a certain hostility. “You don’t mean to say you still are reading that stuff?” says the high school lad with great disdain. But the immortality of big leaguers seems to be much more securely anchored. The raving of a present day fan can be stilled in a second by any old timer who chooses to say, “You may talk of Lou Gehrig but, of course, you never saw Hal Chase.” As one who has lived through a vast number of generations I am in a position to say that some of the reputation of the men who have passed into the little leagues and even more remote spots is partly legendary. Chase never saw an afternoon in which he was fit to play in the same league with Gehrig. Ruth towered over Donlin, Wagner, Lajoie and any of the famed hitters of the past. The Babe, indeed, has become himself a myth and even his mightiest performances will soon be told with the accretion of romance. Those drives which sailed into the center field bleachers will presently be swats which hurtled all the way across the Hudson. a a a Life for the Living IDO not like to live in a world too much dominated by ghosts and the fabulous reputations of men who are dead or for any other reason inactive. There is nothing quite so discouraging as the belief in a golden age which once glistened in the sun and is not now and never will be any more. I prefer to se my heroes sliding down the sides of Olympus to join the mortals in the plain rather than watch them mounting the slopes to join the mortals in the plain rather than watch them mounting the slopes to join a remote and everlasting fraternity of demi-gods. I’m all for Socialism and supermen in our own time. Accordingly I hail Hubbell and Bill Terry. There has never been any southpaw much better than Carl Hubbell. I doubt if there have been two or three as good. His performance in the first game of the world series was a little less than a masterpiece. He gave two passes in succession, and when Hubbell does that it’s news. But like the great ones of baseball tradition, the slim left-hander of the Giants has the genius to put the pressure on at the precise point where it is necessary. They can hit him when it dosn’t count, but he brings up his reserves and heavy artillery in the tight spots in any game. a a a Terry Through the Ages 'T'ERRY, I believe, will class with A the great of the game, not only because of his individual prowess, but on the basis of his talent for popular psychology. He has taken an ordinary ball club and turned it into a pennant winner. Whenevei any man can convince a somewhat nondescript lot of associates that they are men of destiny, things happen to boundary lines"and ball games. I’ve been wishing for months that I could meet some such miracle man who would give me a pat on the back and say, “You can’t be as bad as all that.” In fact, the world stands in need of prophets pouring oil. We could dispense with some of the Jeremiahs. As far as I’m concerned, I mean to use the success of the Giants as a sort of cheering symbol for myself. And on those afternoons when I feel that I’m hitting a little less than my weight. I’ll try to force a smile and mutter to myself, “What of it, kid? Don’t forget Blondy Ryan.” iCoDvrieht. 1933. bv The Timesi

Unselfish

BY AUSTIN JAMES Should fortune smile upon my face Bestow her riches unto me, Lord grant that I may never grow A Miser in prosperity. Hide not the lot in life I have, Find solitary fun in it But share each hour of pleasantness That other folks might benefit. Hoard not my thoughts nor iny ideals, Store not away the days I live In happiness; but doff my cloak And joy to others freely give. Should I I’arn how to live in feace Preparing 'or Eternity. Lord grant that others I may give The seed of my philosophy. If I should learn to do a task With expert hand; this task I'd do But share the knowledge that Id gained That other folks might do it too. A genius though I may become Or yet again be swathed in pelf, Lord grant that I may never he A Miser ol my lowly self.