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SATURDAY. OCT. 7, 1833. BUY IT NOW "AJOW I* the time to buy,” is the slogan ■*-* of a drive beginning Monday and generaled by Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson. Behind this campaign is faith in this country's future, faith that the recovery program not only will raise prices substantially in the near future, but also will increase buying power proportionately. So far the midsummer boom has shot production far ahead of buying power, but the gap is narrowing. From March to July production rose 65 per cent, the workers’ buying power only 11 per cent. But by September production had dropped to 44 per cent above March's and and by August the workers’ buying power had advanced to 17 per cent above March’s. Further such healthy gain in pay rolls occurred in September. To make the Buy Now campaign a continuing performance, the gap must be closed. This will be done if industry holds prices down to reasonable levels and shares its profits with the workers in better pay and shorter hours. In the meantime the shelves are groaning with goods produced cheaply under pre-code conditions. The government’s credit expansion plans are almost certain to raise prices. Buying now will move these goods for the producers and distributors, save money for the consumers and give the recovery program the push that it seems to need right now. To American business, General Johnson says: ‘‘ln order to increase sales at the present moment, we believe that two courses of action are absolutely essential. They are: First give the public attractive up-to-date merchandise, fairly priced, and, second, aggressively promote your products to the public. The modern method is advertising.” THE BLUE EAGLE 'T'HOSE who expected to see the heavens open and to hear a chorus of trumpets announcing the millennium as soon as the last blue eagle emblem was floated over an American factory are going about these days actings as if they had been deceived cruelly. Codes beyond number have been signed, and you couldn't throw a stone without breaking a blue-eagled window; but still the depression continues, men remain out of work, strikes break out across the industrial belt like a rash, and the prestidigitators dowm at Washington prepare to pull new rabbits out of the hat. So you hear some people asking plaintively, What is the matter with the NRA?" And others, less plaintive, assert bluntly that the whole program is a flop. It is easy to point out that we expected too much of the NRA. Reducing working hours, setting minimum pay scales, and grouping whole industries under fair competition agreements could not possibly restore prosperity unaided. All these things simply provide the channel through which the recovery current is to flow. Raising that current to flood strength is something else again. And because flood strength has not been reached, it would be easy for us to assume that the blue eagle is a less potent bird than we thought It was. We could not make a greater mistake in judgment. Through one derice or another, we eventually shall set all the wheels spinning again; and w’hen that time comes, then the value of the blue eagle agreements will be fully apparent. We shall find, then, that we have leaped ahead to universal acceptance of the theory that the nation can not prosper unless its lowliest wage-earner also is prospering; that we have given the common man anew independence, a fairer share of industry’s earnings, a more certain protection in his job; that we have given ourselves the reins by which we seriously can attempt to control the mysterious economic processes that govern our national life. In fact, we shail find that we have put through something very like a revolution—a peaceful, classless revolution that gives our traditional democracy a splendid new significance. The blue eagle hasn't flopped yet. It hardly has begun to fly. A BOOK OTUDENTS of international high finance before, during and after the war. particularly those interested in war debts, should obtain sustenance in ‘‘Democracy. Debts and Disarmament,” by Walton Newbold (Dutton & Cos.). The author* now in the United States studying the American financial structure, seems well fitted to attack the problem from his particular slant, and this he does from every angle. Educated at Buxton college, and at the University of Manchester, where in 1912 he took his M. A. in economics and Roman history, he has spent his time ever since in further study, research, field work and politics of a left wing variety. Once a Labor party pamphleteer, he was the first Communist member of parliament in England. Later Philip Snowden appointed him to the MacMillan committee to examine the workings of the gold standard. A sort of protege of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, he was treasurer of the Manchester university Fabian Society. And so forth and so on. Described as a sort of orthodox Marxist, it is said that, after all, he seems very much the conservative Britisher when it comes to his ideas about money and the gold standard. ‘‘Democracy, Debts and Disarmament” *s>

an analysis of the financial and political setup of the world of today. It tells the whys and wherefores of war debts and reparations, and the part bankers, armament makers and industrialists play in national and international policy. It is a valuable volume for the serious-minded particularly now that the war debts are once more on the tapis. THE NEXT WAR congress against war held in New -*• -York City, the convention assembled in Washington by the National Council for the Prevention of War. the coming of Henry Barbusse to the United States to promote antiwar sentiments and the dangerous situation in Europe all combine to call attention to the possibility of war and to the necessity of arousing public sentiment to oppose it. Nothing is likely to be more effective in awakening people to the menace of war than to consider rather candidly and realistically the probable character of another World w'ar. To help in this matter we now' have at our disposal the magnificent effort along this line made by H. G. Wells in his latest book, ‘‘The Shape of Things to Come.” Here he portrays the next great World w'ar which occupies the decade from 1940 to 1950. For this task I think almost any one will concede that no one else living matches Mr. Wells, with his combination of relevant knowledge and prophetic powers. We do not have space here to describe in detail the military episodes of the war. The powder magazine is touched off when one of Hitler’s followers shoots a Polish Jew whom he believes is insulting him but actually is adjusting an ill-fitting set of false teeth. Poland and Germany make war upon each other and then Italy attacks Yugoslavia. Three years later Russia attacks Poland, France attacks central Europe, and afi of eastern and southern Europe is drawn into the conflict. Great Britain and the northern states remain neutral. There is no decisive conflict because in the air conditions do not exist which make possible a final and annihilating battle. After 1943 the struggle settles down into a war of attrition. ‘‘The attacks on social order increased in malignancy as the impossibility of any military decision became manifest. Crops and forests were deliberately fired, embankments smashed, low-lying regions flooded, gas and water supplies destroyed. The aviators would start off to look for a crowd and bomb it. It became as cruel as the fighting of ferrets.” Every able-bodied adult not engaged in fighting or making munitions is pressed into forced labor on the excavations for bomb shelters and in the reconstruction of buildings to withstand gas and high explosives. Chain gangs on such work are very common and shirking is summarily punished. The air raids themselves bring terrible havoc in their wake: “The big air raids seem to have been altogether horrible. They were much more dreadful than the air raids of the World war. They began with a nightmare of warning maroons, sirens, hooters and the shrill whistles of cyclist scouts, then swarms of frantic people running to and fro, all pride and dignity gone, seeking the nearest shelter and aid, and they ended for most of their victims in an extremity of physical suffering.” Descriptions of these air raids and its results rigorously are excluded from the newspapers as pacifist propaganda and destructive of the morale of the combatants. But in a letter of Sinclair Lewis, who is in Berlin as a war reporter, there appears a graphic passage describing the immediate aftermath of an air raid: “We went dowm Unter den Linden and along the Sieges Allee, and the bodies of people were lying everywhere, men, women and children, not scattered evenly, but bunched together very curiously in heaps, as though their last effort had been to climb on to each other for help. “This attempt to get close up to someone seems to be characteristic of death by this particular gas. Something must happen in the mind. Every one was crumpled up in the same fashion and nearly all had vomitted blood. The stench was dreadful, although all this multitude had been alive twenty-four hours ago. The body corrupts at once. The archway into the park was almost impassable. ...” The morale of the armies becomes progressively lower and characterized more and more by “running away, desertion, apathy, drunkenness, raping, plundering and malignant cruelty.” In due time mutinies, desertions and Communistic uprisings force the authorities to end the tragic farce. In the spring of 1949. under the leadership of President Benes, hostilities are brought to an end. Each power remains in possession of the territory it was occupying and there never is a formal treaty. The war has so reduced the resistance of Europeans that the continent is swept by a series of post-war epidemics which destroy more people than the horrible warfare which had preceded. All in all, this section of Mr. Wells' work may be recommended heartily to those who want another good war to boost the price of what and steel.

WITHOUT SUCH FREEDOM—VX7’ HILE Scotland Yard guarded his person, Dr. Albert Einstein, fugitive from the Nazi terror, spoke to an English audience on the subject of freedom, the -individual freedom which our ancestors won for us after hard struggle.” ithout such freedom,” he said in a voice lacking passion, or rancfor. “there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, Newton, Faraday, Pasteur or Lister. There would be no comfortable houses for the mass of the people, no railways or wireless, no protection against epidemics, no cheap books, no culture, no enjoyment of art for all. “There would be no machines to relieve people from the arduous labor needed for the production of the necessities of life. Most people would lead a dull life of slavery, just as under the ancient despotisms df Asia. It is only men who are free who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.” The world's greatest scientist did not mention the little strutting men of his fatherland who sought to kill him for being a Jew. But what a rebuke to them and their brother fanatics all over the world!

THE LEGION WOBBLES THE legion's program as adopted at Chicago reminds one of Kipling's hero Tomlinson, who was not good enough to go to heaven, nor bad enough to go to hell. It patriotically buried the Patman bonus demand, but it urged another costly piece of class legislation, the waiver of the 34 per cent interest on $1,500,000,000 of bonus loans. It buried a resolution demanding repeal of last spring's economy act. but it sought to destroy the spirit of that act by demanding hospitalization and ’‘full’’ care for widows and orphans regardless of whether the veterans were incapacitated or killed in war or peace. Surely these demands do not square w r ith President Roosevelt's splendid exhortation to the legion to refrain from creating former service men into a “special class.” It joined w ? ith President Green of the American Federation of Labor in denouncing inflation, supporting the NRA program and otherwise backing the administration, but it linked pacifists and radicals with criminals, called for a bigger army and navy, and opposed Russian recognition. . Critics will be inclined to see in this program a patriotism slightly tainted with class interest, a nationalism slightly tainted with Fascism. U. S. STEEL VS. U. S. A. "PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has called the Steel Corporation heads to the White House today in an effort to persuade them to accept the “check-off" system in the “captive” coal mines they control. On the surface, this issue seems trivial. In fact, it is an important element in the success of the NRA program. All of the commercial coal mine owners have agreed to the “check-off.” This means that they promise to collect dues for the miners’ unions along with other charges against the miners’ pay envelopes. The check-off not only is necessary for the support of the unions, but it is a tacit recognition of the right of collective bargaining as provided for in the recovery lav;. Both President Roosevelt and Administrator Johnson understand that the steel men once agreed to the check-off in their captive mines. The steel men, however, particularly the U. S. Steel, have quibbled for weeks in what appears to be another effort to cling to their traditional anti-union policy. The steel industry’s attitude is unfortunate at this crucial time. If this big industry backs the codes in the spirit of the law' it W'ill join up with the commercial coal mine owners and help the disorganized coal industry to work out its difficult problems without delay. If it refuses it will encourage every chiseling little corporation in America to further sabotage the NRA program and retard recovery. IT MUST BE TOLD 'T'HE nation-wide contest for plans to end crime and racketeering, held by the United States Flag Association, has been won by a gentleman w'ho suggests strict censorship of criminal charges, criminal news, and reports of criminal trials. Thus once again we meet the familiar old theory that everything will be all right if only we ignore the existence of evil; the theory which mistakes the symptom for the disease and tries to fight typhoid fever with an aspirin tablet. It is dreary business to see a wealth of crime news in the papers. Granted. But the solution does not and never can lie in suppressing tjie crime new's. It goes right to the fundamentals of our social organizations. Until the causes of crime are removed from the bedrock of American society, we shall continue to have gangs and racketeers; and w'e shan’t know how menacing they are unless our newspapers tell us about them.

M.E.TracySays:

FOR sixteen years we have stubbornly refused to recognize Russia, and little good has it done us, the Russians, or any one else. The policy was born of temper, which explains why it hasn’t worked. Our war leaders were mad because Russia failed to stick with the allies and our busines sleaders were scared of Communism. Between these two groups, we were persuaded to turn our backs on a great and legitimate experiment. What the Russians did was none of our affair, yet we tried to make it so by childish reasoning. First we told ourselves that it could not last, and then we told ourselves that it could not be relied on to meet its obligations. In each case, we closed our eyes to facts and let imagination form our beliefs. We ignored the selfevident truth that no such revolution as occurred could accomplish what it did without faith, enthusiasm and sincerity. Because we did not agree with the doctrines on which it was based, we assumed that it was a sham. a a tt OUR mistaken ideas originated in the habit of tryirfe to visualize all occurrences and all problems in the light of American tradition. The czar was just another George Third and independence just another Fourth of July. We could not conceive of political or economic progress for any people, save along the road which our forefathers took. Even NRA has not shaken us out of this mood as yet. Cheering for the new deal, we wonder if it is quite constitutional. That is our business. Whether we like it or not, we must move forward with definite considerations as to our background, training and experience. Russians are bound by similar limitations and entitled to the same privileges. Just now we would be ready to recognize Russia, but for the rejuvenated nonsense that we can take care of ourselves, that recovery is a domestic problem and that we don’t need foreign trade. We can take care of ourselves as far as sheer pxistsncs goes, but not in the sense of grow th and development. The whole wide world contains none too many markets, materials and ideas for people who wish to advance. Our industrial system was bom of this philosophy. Our political institutions and foreign policy were originally designed to give it free reign. nan FAILURE to recognize Russia long ere this contradicts the principles and standards on which the United States was founded and which have guided her course for 144 years. Outside of that, it contradicts good sense. We accomplish nothing of political value by failing to send an ambassador to Moscow, or to receive a Russian ambassador at Washington. On the other hand, we lose a lot of perfectly good business and that, too, at a time when we can ill afford it. As William Allen White points out, Russia would rather buy from us than any European nation, because our products are better, while we are far enough away for her not to fear rivalry or intrigue. We could put thousands of people at work in this country by merely selling Russia what she wants to buy, and if her bill paying record means anything we could depend on getting our money for 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 £SO words or lessJ By Robert Nordyke. It makes m| absolutely sick and unutterably disgusted to read all the silly tirade against the married woman. For heaven’s sake, let her work and God bless her. Why don’t they get down to the bed rock causes of this depression and apply the simple remedies? Do aw'ay w'ith all bonded indebtedness. Let’s all go into bankruptcy. We all are busted or being busted now anyway, except the capitalist. Then let’s do as they did in the Bible, 'itart over. The Bible and the Golden Rule perhaps would not be bad to try to follow. Instead of throwing and dumping the profits of industry into the stock market or building half-rented skyscrapers filled with delinqueht tenants, why not pour the profits back to the good workers and producers and from then on only into productive enterprises. The word “overproduction” should be considered obsolete anyway and only mentioned, in the. past tense. You all know, deep down in your hearts, the cause of this depression is underconsumption. The cure, well, if this be Socialism, make the most of it. By H. T. Van Ness. I would like to offer through your good publication, a line of admiration for some of the thoughts of Rev. F. S. Wicks, on his article in your issue of Oct. 2 in connection W'ith the liquor industry. I feel that he is perfectly correct in his idea to keep the question out of the crooked political setup of the Anti-Saloon League. It also should be kept out of the hands of the narrow minded grafters called the Prohibition party, which is as we all know from experience the breeding farm for bootleggers and gangsters. Above all keep the liquor traffic free from political control of any kind. The liquor industry, is what one might say anew industry, just starting up, it is starting clean and as an industry has the thought in mind of remaining clean, and does not and will not favor any given faction. The idea of the elimination of profit, however, will carry it into

IN its survey of the physical conditions of athletes with a view to prevention of many athletic injuries, the committee of the National Collegiate Association emphasizes particularly the desirability for a coach who must combine with his functions those of trainer, to watch carefully over every one of his men. Special care must be taken to prevent a boy who has been ill from returning to athletics until he has made a complete recovery. The committee stresses the fact that any player W'ho has been ill enough to keep him out of practice should be given at least a simple test of the heart functioning, preferably by a doctor>- before being permitted to practice again.

THE smartest thing the modern business woman does is to fib about her age. And the way she gets by with it is a joy to see. It is safe to say that two-thirds of all professional and business women are from seven to ten years older than they write themselves. And let a 35-year-old woman repeat often enough that she is 27 and she will become 27 in her mind, which is all that matters. She will assume the mannerisms of youth, acquire more elastic mental attitudes and will fight harder to keep herself looking, acting and thinking young. Thus she will be young. And will remain so for years, although she may get wrinkles and gray hairs like every one else.

Full Recovery Needed After Illness

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

Quick, Watson, the Needle!

Forest Work

By a Times Reader. In view of the fact that the young men are tiring of the forest work, w'hy not give the old men a trial? There has been nothing said or done about making jobs for them. It seems as though they are a forgotten lot and no one cares how they get by, if at all. I am an old man and can’t get a look in on w'ork. I did three years in the regular army and believe I could stand a six months’ siege of camp life better than some of the young ones. The pay is not so big, but to have a dollar on tw'o in my pocket would feel big to me. It seems there are so many salaried jobs connected with the NRA that the man without a job or a dollar is forgotten. Must he be the first to go down and the last to get up? Plenty of spending will put the depression on the run, but no man can spend a dollar until he has it. Why begin at the business end of this? Put the men to work and the business will take care of itself. I hope the forest board reads this. the hands of bootleggers and gangsters, as there is no industry which can survive without profit and a legal, well regulated business will not try to do so. A condition of this kind will just throw the matter right into the hands of the people that the population of our country have been trying for sixteen years to eliminate. The liquor industry does not w'ant an excessive profit, and will not stand for prohibitive taxes, so let’s use some common sense in taxation so that the laboring man can purchase his supplies and get the same materials at the same price as the millionaire. Let us forget the political ring setup, such as they have in Canada, and such as they apply here in Indiana on beer regulations, eliminate the so-called importer or distributor, the designated wholesaler, and let the business flow through regular business-like industrial channels, in order that the political grab bag dealers can look around and find some actual constructive work to do, in place of living off of the taxpayers of the state. Fair and square taxes, common sense license fees are welcome, but the present grafting system is not.

: BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor -Journal of the American Medlcal Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine.

If a player has been compelled to be away from sports for any considerable length of time, due to illness or from any other cause, he should take calisthenics and graded drills of pre-seasonal period before joining a squad for regular competitive athletics. In the old days the training table was quite a fetish with athletic coaches. Much emphasis was placed on certain articles of food which were supposed to have special virtues in certain sports. Today it is recognized that the well-balanced diet contains proteins,

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Upon this fact hinges the ill fate of many homes. It is responsible for the disintegration of households and for the vanishing of many a dream menage. Because the home woman is so irrevocably dated, especially if she has children. a a a UNLIKE her professional sister, she can’t escape the consciousness of her years. If she has been a home-maker for ten years, her huosehold goods will shout the fact to every comer, and her children mark her as a matron, no matter how glibly she may lie about her birthdays. Plenty of girls realize this. Subconsciously they fight against it. Desiring to remain a perpetual 29.

By House and Building: Wreckers

The wrecking companies of Indianapolis form an integral part of the industrial and civic life of this city. The companies are long established, have large investments in their business, and steadily employ large numbers of persons. The owners of these companies help support the local newspapers, churches, utilities and other industrial and commercial enterprises. Their record of their treatment of their, employes and of protecting them against injury is remarkably commendable. When the NRA movement was initiated, a substantial majority of the wrecking companies were among the first to sign the President’s reemployment agreement, and formed the Association of House and Building Wreckers of Indianapolis. These actions deserve appreciation and reciprocation by the citizens of this city, even to the extent of granting concessions in favor of these companies as against companies from other cities. But what is the response? The Denison hotel building was to be wrecked and razed by its owners, and it w'as probably the largest building to be wrecked for a long period of time. Many of the local wrecking companies placed bids for the contract. But this prize job and contract was awarded to an out-of-town concern, the Cuyahoga Wrecking Company of Cleveland, O. Certainly this is not an expression by the owners of this property of an interest in the civic and industrial welfare of the city of Indianapolis. For it will be impossible for the Indianapolis wrecking companies to prosper, if on the large wrecking jobs are flaunted signs to the effect that the contract has been awarded to an out-of-town concern. Furthermore, this Cleveland concern now is using the site of the old baseball park to store the lumber and materials obtained from the wrecking, and it does not require a stretch of the imagination to observe that the money and profits obtained from their sale will go to Cleveland. This is a direct challenge to the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and to the civic clubs and all other organizations and citizens who have in mind prosperity and development of the city of Indianapolis, and it is hoped it will not go unanswered.

fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts, and enough fresh fruits and vegetables to provide all necessary vitamins for a good diet. A low protein and a high carbohydrate diet tends to be most desirable, containing always, however, a reasonable quantity of fresh fruits and vegetables. Any food taken just before a game or practice should be easily digestible. Athletes preferably never should take food less than two hours before engaging in any sport. Certain foods which tend to remain long in the stomach, such as pork, veal and certain kinds of fish, should be avoided before engaging in any athletic competition.

they repel the demands, even the lures, of domestic life. Say what you will in our kind of a world, where women have to be young to get jobs, where they must play the maid though they are wives, where their livelihood often depends upon their ability to look younger than they are, you are sure to have many who will repudiate marriage with its rubber stamps. I grant you it’s silly. Just the same, something wonderful happened to women when they found they could live as independent spinsters, or even as wives without children, and making life stand still, remain a comfortable 35 for fifteen .years. (

OCT. 7, 1983

It Seems to Me HEY WOOD BROUN—,—

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—ln far-off Turkestan there runs a talp about a certain boatman. Proceeding down a river in his frail craft of skin and hides, he had the misfortune to encounter a whirlpool and was straightway thrown into the stream. , The waters being cold and the eddy tumultuous, the boatman cried aloud for help. To his great joy he spied upon the bank, not many feet away, a likely looking fellow who happened to be called Joseph. And this Joseph was known to all the citizens as a holy man. Yet Joseph paid no heed at all to the cries of the sorely distressed boatman. Instead he stood stock still and continued about his occupation. His task was whittling willow branches, which he cut down to a great fineness and a miraculous flexibility. These he disposed of to the caliphs of the town, who prized the wands of indecision and found them vital instruments in dealing with the voters. a a a The Song of Holy Joe AS Joseph whittled he hummed a little tune which ran. “What’ll I Do-00-00-oo?” And all the while the boatman floundered and remained in great peril of his life from the rushing waters. “Help! Help! Help!” he cried thrice and yet again, but Joseph only answered, "In good time and in my own way.” Upon the other bank there appeared suddenly a Samaritan who plunged into the river and by dint of courage and great effort drew the half-drowned boatman to the shore. No sooner had the victim clambered up the bank and set both feet on solid ground than Joseph dropped his willow wands and his little tune and came up intent upon encumbering the boatman with assistance. Quite rudely he pushed the Samaritan to one side and said to the boatman: “I have been watching your plight for some time with great sympathy. And what I can do for you, that I will do with all my heart. How about a pair of water wings or possibly a life preserver? I can provide these goods, and you may be assured that they will be of the better sort. Surely you have heard of me and of my fame for rectitude. My name is Holy Joe.” But the boatman fell into a great rage and answered Holy Joe with scorn. “Be gone, fellow, from my sight!” he cried. “While I struggled in the stream you whittled willow' wands and whistled ‘What’ll I Do-00-00-oo?’ Where, then, were these water wings and this life preserver which you mention so belatedly? But for the help of yon Samaritan I should most certainly have perished, and now you push him to one side and cry your wares of locks for stable doors.” tt tt a Boatman Grows Angry AND I, too, have a song,” continued the boatman as his anger mounted at the effrontery of Holy Jo. “It runs something like this”— In a husky baritone, for he had been sore beset, the boatman piped up, “You say you’ll love me in November, but I ain’t had no loving from you since April, January, June or July.” And in a final burst of rage the boatman shook his fist in the face of the maker of willow wands and cried aloud to the high heavens: “Holy Joe may once have been your name, but from this time forth you’ll be Jumping Joe to me. You are no better than a bank walker, and you leap only when a net has been spread and soft cushions conveniently disposed to catch you gently if you land upon your platform! Take with you your willow wands and dispose of them as you w'ill, for I have no urge to see your face again!” And from that day forth Holy Joe was known to all the folk of Turkestan as Jumping Joe, and hi3 prestige with the citizens was diminished greatly. tt tt u A Local Application IT is quite a coincidence that there should be a legend in far-off Turkestan, which corresponds so neatly with the present situation in New York City’s municipal campaign. Joseph V. McKee happens himself to be a holy map, and a valiant knight in battles with dead dragons. Perhaps he Ls following that scriptural parable which sets forth the fact that “those w'ho arrived at the eleventh hour, every man received a penny.” But the Bible does not say that any of these latecomers claimed a right to the entire jackpot. (Copyright. 1933. by The Times! . .

Riley by MINTA DAVIS Poet of cheer—who wiled our grief and care, Helped us forget the prodding lance of fate. And lightened burdens every soul must bear— Who e’er has been like thee, so good and great? Brimming with beauty, thy verses rarely quaint Have touched the heart of nature close and true, Beguiling both the sinner and the saint To tend'rest Joys and far and finer view. To thee who gave us much, we only can Enshrine thy name while years on years arise, Full sure our love the gulf of death will span And gladden thy blest soul in Paradise. j So They Say | Russia is almost the first country where a man can wander freely without dodging cameramen and ieporters, a game that becomes annoying after the first few years. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, in Moscow interview. The most effective prohibition of all is the prohibition that is fostered by education, enlightenment and self-control.—Chairman Edward P. Mulrooney, New York State Liquor Board * -Jt-im-nifc—it