Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1933 — Page 10

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TUESDAY. OCT. 10. 1833

TIN SOLDIERS?

\ UNION miner was reported to have been arrested yesterday In Sullivan because he called a company of national guardsmen “tin soldiers." We say “reported,” because all Information on the incident was withheld by the troops' commander. Furthermore, this hapless miner is rumored to have cursed the guardsmen. No one, of course, likes to be cursed. Nor do militiamen care to be called “tin soldiers.* We do not at all subscribe to this miner's excited opinion The Thirty-eighth division, of which the Indiana national guard is a part, has been built by General Robert Tyndall Into an outfit that is the envy of the rest of the country. Its members are far from “tin soldiers.” The point is that this union miner had a perfect right to express his opinion, however deluded, about these soldiers. The troops were called out by Governor Paul V. McNutt to preserve law and order. That is their sole duty. In their official capacity they may have to tolerate comments for which they would not stand were they acting as individuals. The Constitution of the United States, which the national guard has sworn to uphold, still Is in force in Indiana’s coal fields. Free speech still is guaranteed and the right of orderly and peaceful assembly upheld. Neither may men be arrested by the military or civil authorities and held incommunicado. If the original dispatches are correct, the national guard has itself been guilty of an illegal act in seizing this hysterical miner. It is the business of the military in a peacetime emergency such as this to deal out evenhanded justice. Mine owners, union and nonunion workers must have their civil liberties equally protected. All the taxpayers support the national guard and r.o special group has any particular claim upon its services. The state’s troops make an odd impression upon the citizens when their first act upon entering the coal fields is an illegal one. America has no place for cossacks. It is our guess that some subordinate officer has made a serious blunder in arresting this man. Indiana's national guard is something for the state to be proud of, but if its members can not keep their heads under the curses of a solitary individual, what would be their conduct under enemy gunfire? Tin soldiers have nothing in their small heads but solder. Indiana's soldiers have repeatedly proved a far higher mental equipment than that. It would be a downright shame if a few crackpots in the national guard were, by their conduct in the coal fields, permitted to damage the w'ell-earned reputation of the whole organization.

MODERN KNIGHT ERRANT NEARLY a hundred hard-headed business men, members of the Service Club, sat breathlessly for two hours yesterday after- * noon listening to a modem knight errant. Os course, they did not think of Samuel S. Wyer, consulting engineer and independently wealthy, as a crusader, but that is what he is. At his own expense he is traveling throughout the country bringing his message to all who care to listen. That message is a somber one. It is printed elsewhere in this news- ' paper in a story by Basil Gallagher. * Speaking as a capitalist, he flatly states ; that unless capitalism voluntarily decides to take less, much less, and gives labor a great I deal more, our modern civilization is doomed i to go the way of Greece, Rome, Egypt and Assyria. Asa highly successful engineer and mathematician, he has the facts to back up his thesis. “Unless capitalism changes, the end is not far distant," he says. But Mr. Wyer is not entirely a Jeremiah. He has enormous confidence in the intelligence of the common man providing he knows the facts. He does not believe the members of his own generation with their "set” minds can be depended upon. He looks to the present-day high school students for the salvation of the modem world. He prefers to talk to them. The school board should see to it that he delivers his speech in every high school in the city.

WORTHLESS EDUCATION THE schools of the country are open and the great national educational game is under way again. The vital relation of education to the solution of our major national problems is conceded in theory by both the most reactionary and the most radical publicists. They admit that, in final analysis, everything comes down to a matter of education. And in the latter it is coming to be seen that the social sciences are of crucial importance in guiding us toward any mastery of our economic and social problems. Nothing else which ever has happened in American history has been of such sweeping and far-reaching significance as the achievements of the Roosevelt administration: the new deal and the national recovery act. Through reliance upon his “brain trust” President Roosevelt has indicated his recognition of the importance of social science in formulating the new deal. The implications of his experiment for the data of social science are of the utmost consequence. How far have our schools taken this fact into consideration? To what degree have the text books been revised to take cognizance of the revolutionary developments of the past six months? The new deal will enter our educational system chiefly through the sources in civics and economics. The great majority of the text books were written in the spirit of 1910

Brass TacKs on the Budget ’ === An Editorial

'T'HE state tax board should reduce the city budget. To date there has been a murky cloud of hokum about the discussion of it. It is time to clear the air. Granted that Mayor Sullivan’s administration has succeeded in reducing municipal expenditures by $1,800,000 since 1930. Granted that there is no graft in the 1934 expenditure program. Granted that the Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Board have made doughty efforts to slash the city’s expenses. All this is extremely worthy, but it does not butter much of a mess of parsnips for the taxpayer. What he wants is not conversation, however entertaining, but tax relief. He has proved that by his shocking inability to pay this year's taxes! There is nothing willful about the fact that many a taxpayer has defaulted. He Just could not pay. He did not have the money. Eight days ago The Times began a series of articles containing specific suggestions whereby municipal expenditures might be reduced. Six days ago our worthy neighbor, the Indianapolis News, joined in the fight with a series of front page editorials discussing the general aspects of the problem. We welcome the News to the battle. It was a generous gesture for it to lay aside competitive advantage and follow The Times in a matter of such grave public import. The News’ action sharply demonstrates that all elements in the community are united in a determination that the cost of local government shall be reduced. After all, death and taxes fall alike upon Democrats and Republicans, Socialists and Communists. The Times declared that the utility costs of the city were overbudgeted to the extent of $185.0000. Friends of the city administration promptly denied this. Yet this newspaper arrived at that figure by comparing budget estimates with amounts actually expended for heat, light and power as set forth in the comptroller’s reports of money actually spent for these items. Persons close to the administration replied that the accounting system of the city was misleading, that this system was a heritage of years' standing. Where in the world should a newspaper or a taxpayer go for accurate information on the city's financial situation except to the city’s own books? The mayor has ordered anew bookkeeping system installed. That is a long step in the right direction. It means that accurate information will be available. Indianapolis should have had Such a setup years ago. Tomlinson hall, in which the city market is located, costs $10,500 a year to maintain and —some of them with a perspective which would have been acceptable in 1850. Most civics text books still hold to the old formalism. Instruction in civil government is limited mainly to a description of the formal machinery of government under our Constitution. The latter is represented as a unique document, perpetually adequate to meet the problems of our rapidly changing and complex civilization. The old myths and traditions about it are handed down from generation to generation. We hear much about the sharp separation of powers—executive, legislative and Judicial. Government is presented as the collective policeman designed only to protect life, liberty and property. Only in the newer text books has there been any recognition of the government as a positive agent for the control of human life from the community to the nation. In economics the accepted theory is still that of laissez-faire, unlimited competition and rugged individualism. The distribution of the social income is represented as an automatically controlled process expressing the will of the creator of the laws of the cosmos. Adam Smith and Ricardo still wield more influence over our economic doctrine than the senior La Follette or George Norris. Our text books still imply that government should keep out of business and they render due deference to the surpassing wisdom of our business giants who produced the Hoover prosperity. Under Mr. Roosevelt the practical foundation of all such generalizations have been swept away. There has been a revolution producing a greater change in political and economic practice than has taken place in the previous hundred years. Students of civics and economics whose instruction today is based upon the assumptions and activities of the Taft or Coolidge administrations are not unlike pupils studying astronomy from text written before Copernicus. If our pupils are to gain any insight into the new world which they are entering, a heavy burden will be placed upon the teachers who must dig out and expound this essential information almost entirely on their own.

THE WAR DEBT QUESTION THE renewal of serious discussion of the war debt question will cause many to regret that Dr. Raymond Moley is no longer chief adviser of the Roosevelt administration. Just before his transfer to the department of justice, prior to his resignation, it had been announced that Dr. Moley would be placed in charge of the impending debt negotiations. Dr. Moley was not a specialist in international relations or the debt problem, but he brought to the subject an open and skeptical mind. Asa result he was able to develop an attitude on the debt problem far more sound and sensible than that held by many specialists whose cerebration has been paralyzed by long-standing stereotypes. Professor Moley's position on the debt problem was the very ’essence of common sense. It was, briefly, that when and if the American people cancel any portion of the war debts, some way must be devised so that the improved credit of the foreign countries involved can not be immediately capitalized by the American international bankers who lend to these countries. Consequently, the international bankers in Wall Street developed a deep and implacable antipathy to Dr. Moley. What they wish is to have some good Wall Street man like Norman H. Davis in control of our debt policy. The bankers' program is simple and clear enough. They want the United States to cancel all or a large part of the remaining war debts. Asa result, the credit of Engiand, Prance, Italy and the other debtors—especially that of England—would be greatly improved

produced only $245 in revenue last year, The Times series pointed out. The works board yesterday began a discussion of how to remove this burden from the taxpayers. That is fine; let the board move fast. This newspaper has also pointed out that Coffin golf course is operating at a loss of more than $4,000 a year. It either should be closed or leased to private enterprise. In ordinary years it might be wise to let it develop to a paying basis, as it probably would. But this is an emergency. The taxpayer can not wait. Then there are the professionals on the city golf courses. They return not one cent to the taxpayers, although they are granted the privilege of selling their services to those who play on the taxpayers’ courses and also have the concession to market balls and clubs to all comers. The man who sells hamburgers and soda on city property has to pay for the right to do so. The golf professional who sells sendees and equipment does not. This is unfair to the soda vendor and unjust to the taxpayer whose property the golf professional is using. The city's golf courses have been making money. Here is a chance for them to make more. Charge the golf professional for the privilege of operating on them. City hospital, ably managed by Dr. Charles Myers, is jammed with patients, but it is operating at heavy expense. Private hospitals have many empty beds and they, too, are hard pressed to meet expenses. This is silly. City hospital is treating many patients who are able to pay something. Private hospitals are turning away many—who go to city hospital and become a charge on the taxpayers—that might return them small sums. All Indianapolis hospitals, public and private, should get together with the social agencies and the merchants credit association and formulate a policy which will bring relief to the taxpayer and additional revenue to the private institution. These are merely a few of the suggestions The Times makes. There are many others which it will make from time to time. People should take a broad, non-partisan view toward the problem of government costs. The national income, governmental, corporate and personal, has shrunk to forty billions of dollars a year. Cost of government—city, county, state and national—has risen to thirty-seven billions. These figures simply will not wash out. Government costs must be reduced. And a good place to begin is right here in Indianapolis.

and these countries would immediately come into the market for American loans. Our international bankers in Wall Street then would float some fat issues of foreign paper and pocket the profits. Middle class Americans would proceed to pay the canceled war debts through increased taxation, while the bankers would hope to escape much of this added tax burden through various loopholes In the income tax law as well as by tricky manipulation of tax returns by clever lawyers. Any sensible and decent person would be in favor of canceling the war debts if he could see how the general level of well-being throughout the W'orld could be increased by six billion dollars. It is very hard, however, for most of us who have studied this problem with an open mind to discover how this could possibly be the case. Woman Communist in Philadelphia had herself chained to a post so the cops couldn't hustle her away. Os course, her mouth was free. Bishop Cannon faield to vote in Virginia's repeal election. So that’s how Virginia went dry. The next thing we might expect from Hitler is a way to keep people from thinking.

M.E. Tracy Says:

THE old w r orld is not only changing, but in an unexpected direction. A war to save democracy from the Prussians seems to have resulted in wholesale conversion of the Democrats. Even Communist Russia is quite Prussian when it comes to management and control, while Mussolini could take Bismarck's place without serving the slightest apprenticeship. Such kings as have survived the holocaust show surprisingly liberal tendencies. His highness, the prince of Wales, for instance, has a shocking way of hobnobbing with all kinds of commoners and of disregarding the conventions which have governed his forbears for a thousand years. The prince of Wales merely is displaying that innate intelligence which has not only kept the British empire alive, but British kings on the throne. 0 0 0 THE secret of kingcraft is to stay with the crowd. Six hundred years ago a young British king saved his crown by riding boldly up to the great rabble with which Wat Tyler threatened to invade London, w T heeling his horse and crying, “I will be your leader!” Like all highly organized movements, modern industry is inherently dynastic. Like every other age which has been characterized by progressive changes and disciplined activities, this one tends to throw up an aristocracy. Without realizing it, we have developed oligarchy by means of organized wealth and mass production. For fifty years government and society throughout the civilized world have obeyed a comparatively few financial and industrial magnates. Germany suffered no more than the rest, but we mistook the emblems of royalty for the real thing and fought a windmill. The real.war developed after the treaty of Versailles was signed, though the Russian revolution, which occurred two years before, should have warned us of what was coming. 000 THIS war does not mean the end of capitalism, as some of the more radical leaders would have us believe, but it does mean a drastic modification in the laws and custoftis regulating capitalism. It means the end of arbitrarily acquired power through a saner distribution of profit. It means the end of that rugged individualism which meant everything to the few at the top and nothing to the many at the bottom. It means the end of a system by which great industrial organizations could virtually supersede the government and the law. Civilization is in the process of recreating statecraft along the lines obviously demanded by a sensible appraisal of human needs and human interests, is in a struggle to regain those liberties that have been lost through blind faith in material achievement and mechanical methods. - # -

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES'

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your Utters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By National Association of Women. At a meeting of the National Association of Women, held Thursday, Oct. 5, the following resolution was read and adopted by the members and is herewith presented for publication as an answe'r to the many letters written by your readers which have appeared in this column: “Whereas, The National Association of Women is an organization which believes in the right of every human being to work, and which believes especially in the right of women to engage in remunerative occupations; and “Whereas, Women have fought valiantly for the right to vote, but to vote in a country where you have no right to work is. a travesty on freedom and a denial of an American citizen's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: and “Whereas, It has been shown that of the millions of women gainfully employed, 95 per cent are working because of economic necessity, turning over all their earnings to their families, and “Whereas, The Constitutions of the State of Indiana and the United States do not permit discriminations, be it hereby “Resolved, That the National Association of Women request that the New Deal provide a Square Deal for the forgotten women as well as the forgotten man, and be it further “Resolved, That the public recognize that each individual, who is willing to contribute his labor to the wealth of the community, has a right to an acceptable minfinum of economic security.” Note—Reforestation camps have been provided to care for the great numbers of unemployed men. Little has been done to provide a haven for the unemployed women, whether they are young, single, married, widowed or mature. By L. A. Kirkpatrick. There have been numerous editorials of late in regard to the laxity at our state penitentiary. Fortunately, newspapers have taken more of a militant attitude than I have observed in the past. After desperate characters who “break out” of prison become a constant menace to our people, wdiat do we find? There is the usual 'investigation on every hand. An attempt to discover how the guns were secured and how the escaped convicts were able to plan things so well. To do all this I think is,

TOSSING away your football headgear at the height of the conflict may be a magnificent gesture, but don’t do it. There have been far too many cases of concussion of the brain and even fracture of the skull in football to take a chance without adequate head protection. Most important of all, however, is to get a player promptly off the field when he has sustained anything resembling a serious injury to an ankle of any other joint. The extent of the injury should be determined immediately. If there is any evidence at all that the injury is serious, such as a fracture, he should be taken prpmptly to a hospital for an X-ray picture and suitable medical attention.

AT this time, in every sizable city in the United States, a ‘ Woman’s Crusade" is under way, a crusade led by the person best fitted for the job—Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. Already millions have rallied to her call, and are being made increasingly conscious that one’s community is as much a part of feminine responsibility as one’s house. And our houses must be set in order for the winter. While men work together to prevent an economic breakdown, we must band together to prevent moral collapse. And no community is too unimportant to be the vulnerable spot that may cause a disintegration of the whole. It is a truism that woman’s place is in the home. But the meaning of that word is very different from

The Message Center

' I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire

Headgear Is Important in Football BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

Waiting for Der Tag—l 933

Pay the Workers By H. L. Seeger. The comedy, or rather the tragedy, of the “buy now” publicity campaign, like its predecessors, is that those whose buying pow’er has been destroyed are ballyhooed w r ith noise, instead of restoration of purchase power. The folks who have the money have bought all they need and want and their number is small, while the multitude which has lost its purchase power needs everything, but iacKS the money. Noise won’t correct the situation. It’s the same story as the queen’s solution, who said it the people of France have no bread to eat, let them eat cake. We ignore all the sign posts leading to the right road, and parade down all the pathways of illusion. “How buy now?” Workers’ pay envelopes well filled open the door to increased consumption. Inflate purchase power first.

of course, necessary and may result in findings that might help prevent future occurrences of this kind. Yet why should we not go back to what is considered by authorities to be one of the chief reasons for this prison “break?” The release of a large number of old, seasoned guards. Just who are we to blame for this The person or persons who made appointments when it had been a matter of common practice in the past to make changes wherever possible at the change of administration? My answer is “No” to that question. No individual is strong enough after being elected to office to break away from precedent and refuse to give his supporters jobs in any institution or at any post, regardless of responsibility, where he has the opportunity. It is we people who are responsible for a system that permits appointments on a wholesale basis in fields that should be removed from the hands of politicians. Now is the psychological moment for the press, for nonpartisan organizations and individuals not interested in furthering selfish interests in politics to work up sufficient sentiment to change this scheme of things. By a Reader of The Times. I have read the messages in your message center concerning city firemen, their pay cuts, living, etc. N6w I would like to ask how are they supposed to conduct themselves when off duty? I saw one curse, push and attempt to kick a lady on the street. Also heard him use

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Most serious of all injuries are those affecting the brain and the skull. A concussion of the brain means that the brain tissue actually has been bruised, with possible small hemorrhages into the tissue. The first sign of such injury is loss of memory for recent events. The least important sign is a slight dizziness. But coaches and trainers should not, however, be unimpressed when a player comes out of a sudden impact with another player merely slightly dizzy or dazed. The first thing to do in any such accident is to put the player immediately at rest, to determine ex-

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

What it used to be. Our home boundaries have widened until they now take in the expanse of the nation. even of the world. Therefore, the woman who only keeps her dishes clean, her house neat and her clothes mended, important as these things are, still is shirking some of her duty, if she does not find out* the state of affairs in her community. Her children go out very early to take their part in neighborhood life. a a a THE schools, the churches, the slums, the political situation, ail these have certain reverberating traditions within our little dwelling places. This year, more than ever, the national welfare is our welfare. If the recovery plan we shall

’ vile language to her and so all near could hear him. His badge was in plain view on his shirt and he is well known on the south side. If the lady will call at the corner where she parked her car, she can see the writer, as such a man is not worthy of the job he holds when gentlemen are waiting to take his place. By George Huff. I read the article written by a “Tired Husband,” and I must say that he Is a very poor type of husband and a poor support for Indii napolis. Why razz the police department? If members didn't do their duty, he still would yell. Did he ever go to church himself? Yes, that was a pretty weak excuse for being there. I bet he stood around with his hands in his pockets and kept both eyes peeled “just to see what it would be like.” Was he ashamed to sign his name because he was afraid his wife would know he was there? What If he did see some of his friends and church members there? I must say they are poor supporters of their chinch. Mr. Tired Husband, don’t you think that if you were at home with your family, you might feel rested after awhile? Don’t you think yor family gets, tired of you running around some place (where you have no business? Try taking them to church and don’t forget, cod liver oil will cure that tired feeling.

So They Say

Life is somewhat like a game of bridge: those of you who play the game out will realize at the end how much has depended on your discards.—The Right Rev. Latimer Burleson, Protestant Episcopal church. The votes in Alabama and Arkansas decided definitely that repeal of the eighteenth amendment will be completed in 1933.—Jouett Shouse, president of Association Against the. Prohibition Amendment. Nobody ever got anywhere by waiting. Doing something—even if you do it wrong—is better than doing nothing at all.—Patrick H. Joyce, president Chicago & Great Western Railroad. Friendship, the most precious thing between individuals, is also the most precious thing bet ween nations. —Ramsay MacDonald.

tent of the injury. When a player has had a head injury, he should be put into a reclining position, questioned as to headaches and dizziness, and given the test as to his memory for recent events. If he can not remember the names of his opponents, which side is on the offensive, the score, the day of the week, or similar matters, it is not safe to permit him to play again. If, however, he merely is dizzy, he should be permitted to stand and move about, to determine whether he has lost his sense of balance. Any sign of a loss of sense of balance is serious, and the player should oe removed from the contest.

sink with it. If there is a moral collapse our children will suffer. If there is hunger and misery in overwhelming measure during the winter, you may be sure the sheltered woman will be as involved in the ultimate results as any beggar. There is plenty in the country Sufficient food, clothing, shelter for all. No human being need lack if we can but muster the forces of our intellects and our hearts to see that their wants are supplied. To do this, we shall have to lend our aid to the social agencies trained for the work. Get out of your homes, women! Find out how’ surrounded they are by turbulent seas of w’oe, that may one day engulf even your small island of safety.

OCT. 10, 1933

It Seems to Me “BY HEYWOOD BROUNs

NEW YORK. Oct. 10.—You ask me why columnists look gray and haggard as they peer through the windows of their limousines? You ask me why they toss about upon their penthouse parapets? Maybe nobody asked, but. even so, I'll tell you. It's on account of people who send in manuscripts. Here is a letter which came this morning, all hot and bothered, with extra stamps for special delivery: “In these days you will not believe that any one can have written a book that Is somehow a cracker jack, scintillating with crackbrained humor but deadly serious beneath—something that will hit the bullseye—but I've done it! • “And now. by thunder, I can't get any publisher to read a page of it! It's in nine parts, and will you take my word for it that it is written in your own kind of eerie, unusual vein and you’ll get a lot of chuckles out of it? “Anyhow, I'm sending It to you today by express, prepaid, value $lO, matter of third class, and when you return it to me will you send it back the same way. instead of valuing it at a thousand dollars, which it deserves but which increases the cost of expressing damnably? “If I had asked you if I might send you the book you would have said ‘No.’ They all say ‘No.’ Therefore, I'm just sending it.” ana Not a Publisher IF I can catch this novel on the fly I'm going to bat it right back at the young man. I am interested in good literature. It is possible that a novel in nine parts might still be magnificent. Young authors and older ones should have a ready and sympathetic hearing. Genius may be lurking just around the comer. The man who comes with the laundry may write the great American play or novel. Perhaps he already has. But why pick on me? I’m not a publisher. I can't look through a manuscript and say, “This is better than Balzac,” and then, with a wave of my hand, have it immediately set between covers. If that power were granted to me don’t you suppose you’d be hearing a great deal more about “The Works l of Hey wood Broun”? You know as well as I do that there are none in existence today. Asa matter of fact, a couple of years ago I found it necessary to shoot them. And so when manuscripts come from budding authors or playwrights I curse feebly and stick the damn things in one drawer or another. And there’s the rub. After. one or two years the budding author wahts to know what I fhink of his novel. The best answer I can give is that I think it isn’t lost but only mislaid, nun Digging into Memories Afternoons of agony ensue, i rummage through cedar chests and in tin boxes of a non-lucrative sort. My heart is broken in almost every layer of papers and mementoes which I unearth in, drilling through the rubble. There is the broken fan which Elmina gave me back in the cold winter of 1905. Here is my short story, “Harper’s Heel,” which bounced back so rapidly from twenty-seven magazines. These lads from the hinterlands — how on earth do they expect me to be of service in placing their wares when I have so many doorstep babies of my own? The net result of an afternoon’s work is the elimination of maybe twenty-five or thirty letters which are so out of date that there would be no possible point in attempting to answer them now. But there is never a trace of the autobiographical novel, “The Hero Isn’t Me,” which the young man from Dubuque was so anxious to have me return. I know that I promised to read it “in a few days” and that two years have now elapsed. When I made' the promise it was my firm intention to keep it. But ever so many things can come up which sound more enticing that a book by an unknown author in nine parts. My syntax is slipping under the strain. It is, of course, the book and not the author which is divided into nine parts. nan A Pledge of Reformation MORE than a year ago I made a solemn pledge to reform. I took on the vow of being hardboiled, and at least twice in this column I have announced that I would not read anybody’s manuscript and that if he sent it to me I would almost certainly lose it. It is a pity that any Milton should be mute. But what can I do about it? If genius sprang up from the page and jogged me in the eye there would still be no power resident in me to proclaim it. And. even more than that, the young man who has just written a masterpiece in crack-brained humor had best be told the truth at once. His book may be “verything he says, and, even so, doesn’t he realize that the chances are at least * thirtyseven to one that I wouldn't know? (Copyright. 1933. by The Times)

Confidence

BY AUSTIN JAMES I may be rich in worldly goods, I may have wealth in gold and such, But I am poor if I have not The feel of friendship’s faithful touch. For what is life without a friend Believing in the things I do, With confidence in all my thoughts Who trusts that I will e'er be true. For I am but a lonely man, As paltry as the plainest dust, Though I may own the gleam of gems, But have no soul in me to trust. I’ve learned that wealth In all its prime, Has naught by way of recompense, Tis only this that makes me rich, A friend’s unfailing confidence.

Daily Thought

TRAIN up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.—Proverbs, 22:6. Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.—Milton.