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WEDNESDAY. OCT. 11. 1933. THE WAR ON CRIME ' | 'HE three-day conference on crime abatement, opening >in Washington under auspices of the United States Flag Association, will have the benediction of a country harassed by a peculiarly ugly outbreak of robberies, kidnapings and killings. We do not know where the association gets Its figures, for lack of accurate crime statistics has been the bane of every American penologist. But if they are anywhere near the truth they make a terrible picture. We hear that every year 12,000 people are murdered; 3,000 kidnaped; 100,000 assaulted and 50,000 robbed in this land of the free. The annual dope bill is two billions; racketeering costs twelve to eighteen billions annually; crime prevention and punishment casts thirteen billions. A "scarlet army” of 400,000 criminals makes war on socirty, and it te increasing. We trust that the anti-crime crusaders delve deeply into this baffling problem, and urge remedies less obvious than the usual clamor for harsher laws and punishments. Contributing to crime in America are social evils as well as the perversity of bad men and women. There are such crime-breeding influences as politically-dominated police and courts; the unholy wedding of privilege and crime; a jumble of forty-nine separate systems; police inefficiency; false economy that closes schools, libraries and recreation centers, a public cynicism made more serious by revelations of legal crime in high places. And there are those evils that the new deal is trying to combat—unemployment, insecurity, hunger, hopelessness, wretched slums. We need not accept crime as normal, nor bow to the invasion of its ruthless army. We can and must fight it. But we must fight it with intelligence and understanding as well as with passion. FREEDOM IS AT STAKE A LBERT EINSTEIN’S statement in London that modern life will not be worth living unless the liberty of the individual is preserved comes to us with especial force just at this time. ' Professor Einstein points out that the powers which seek to suppress intellectual and personal freedom are stronger now than they have been in years, without such freedom, he reminds us, there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Faraday, no Fasteur, no Lister; we would not have comfortable houses, or railway trains, or protection against disease, or books; most of us would lead a dull life of slavery, just as under the ancient despotisms of Asia. Now this assault against freedom is succeeding, not because the mass of mankind suddenly has become convinced that freedom is worthless, but because the terrific pressure of economic calamity has forced people out of the old grooves. In Russia, in Italy, and in Germany freedom has been discarded because it has seemed that only a ruthless despotism could straighten out the tangle of modem life and keep people from starving amidst plenty. Fascist and Communist, alike, share that belief. They differ only in their ideas about who should be the despots. And all of this becomes especially significant when viewed against the background of our present recovery program in the United States. What is being attempted here is an experiment quite as far-reaching in its potentialities for mankind as the experiments of Stalin and Mussolini. We are trying to And some way of settling the almost Insoluble economic problems of the twentieth century without resorting to despotism at all; trying to straighten out the crossed wires of production and distribution on the one hand and to preserve individual liberty on the other. It is an enormously difficult job. Three of the greatest nations of Europe already have given it up as utterly impossible. Other nations are drifting slowly to the same conclusion. If the freedom of the common man is to be preserved in the world, the job will have to be done in the United States. And it is nothing less than that which is at stake today in our vast recovery program. THE PAY-OFF BEGINS EXPERTS bn the problem of crime, some of them of the most pronounced wet affiliations and prejudices, have predicted that the end of prohibition will be followed by a criminal orgy without precedent in American history. The kidnaping epidemic seems to be a forerunner confirming this prophecy—which in one way partakes of a dry argument. Most of those who feel that we face an unprecedented crime wave believe that repeal is necessary and that we must take our chances on the crime matter. The basis for a future crime orgy has been laid comprehensively by the developments of the last twenty years. It is a law of social psychology, formulated by Gabriel Tarde and others years ago, that the socially inferior tend to ape the socially superior. The latter capitulated pretty thoroughly to the prevailing “something-for-not hing’ psychology of the era of speculative finance capitalism. Freebooting in railroads, banks, utilities, receiverships and other high-toned racketeering became shockingly frequent. It was inevitable that, sooner or later, we would succeed in "Americanizing” the small fry— especially the foreign small fry. Their ancestors, if they lived in this country, usually had made an honest living conducting shoe-shining parlors, clothes-cleanlng establishments, fruit stands, restaurants and the

like or at hard labor on roads, streets and railroads. The younger generation looked with envy, not at the bowed and wrinkled brows of their parents, but rather at the achievements of the American buccaneers who had made away with their millions, with little or no service to society. If our usurers of high get theirs, why should anybody drown themselves In perspiration? About the time this something-for-nothing psychology was filtering through the skulls of the small fry, along came th£ Noble Experiment. This was a “natural” for the budding racketeers. Nothing could have beene designed consciously which could have suited their purposes more perfectly. Public opinion in many sections of the country was definitely against prohibition and not a few regarded the bootleggers as crusaders for the old American liberties. Prohibition promoted other rackets—the hijacking racket among the wet outlaws, rackets in foods, milk, transportation, building construction and the like. All was relatively safe, since the legal profession, already ethically impaired through its affiliations with the reputable racketeers in speculative finance, was only too eager to defend tlie lesser racketeers for value received. The depression further stimulated the growth of racketeering since it threw out of work millions who might otherwise have preferred to earn an honest living. From these millions it was easy to recruit the few thousands needed as the underlings of the master minds of the racket world. Revelations of the doing of our financial moguls only strengthened the conviction of the racketeering element that they should get theirs, get It quickly and get It good and plenty. The idea that when prohibition is ended the boys who have made millions in illicit selling of booze will meekly and contritely turn to blacking shoes and slinging hash is downright silly. They will apply the technique they have mastered to the dope ring, kidnaping, bank robberies, train robberies, hi-jacking of legitimate liquor supplies and the like. They will find crafty lawyers all too willing to defend them from the “strong arm” of the law. A GOOD PLAN 'V¥ / TIDESPREAD hunt for convicts who escaped from the state prison has served to bring sharply into the foreground of public consciousness repeated assertions of A1 G. Feeney, state safety director, that the state police force is “woefully deficient in vitally necessary equipment.” Mr. Feeney has not contented himself merely with bringing the charge—he has supplied an answer by suggesting that $4,000 be transferred from the state athletic fund. State boxing commissioner as well as safety director, Mr. Feeney points out that there Is $16,000 In idle money in this fund now and that sum is being increased at the rate of SI,OOO a month. Mr. Feeney’s plan calls for the expenditure of half <3f the $4,000 for equipment and the remaining half for operating expense. He would purchase a high speed squad car; ten light automobiles to replace motorcycles whose use is impractical in winter; ten shotguns of the riot type; four automatic rifles; two gas guns; ten sirens and eight red lights. This proposal for transfer of the idle athletic funds was made a week ago to Governor Paul V. McNutt. Attorney-General Philip Lutz says no legal obstacle is in the way. Why not. Governor? THOSE SIX MILLION TF the depression’s four years have not rendered America entirely shock-proof the report of Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins to a group of child health experts at Washington should arouse every public and priva ,e agency to the winter’s task ahead. He said that there are 6,000.000 children now on relief rolls who are not being properly fed! These youngsters, Mr. Hopkins said, are not the children of ne’er-do-wells, but of the finest citizens of the land, “the workers who have taken a licking in the depression.” Many of their homes have fallen to a pauper level where the standard is 50 cents a day for the family food basket. “There is no reason in the world,” he said, “why relief funds can not be used in the great cities of America and the rural districts as well, to provide special diets for children on the relief rolls. “It can be done. It must be done. It is inexcusable in this country that these 6,000,000 children are not being properly cared for. We have the money. We have the organization. Above all. the American people have the determination. We are going to take care of these children this winter. That’s all there is to it.” The federal government, thank the stars, no longer shirks nor meets its duties with pious platitudes, false optimism and halftruths. It is willing to help with both money and farm surplus food, and it is out to raise relief to a decent level. If the states, cities and private agencies fail they will be guilty of something close to criminal neglect. AN ORCHID FOR UNCLE SAM IT may be quite true that our diplomatic representatives in Cuba have not been very successful lately in estimating the strength of the various revolutionary factions there. But it does seem that our state department as a unit deserves a few bouquets for the patience with which it has handled a very difficult situation. We have come to realize that American intervention in Cuba is a thing to be avoided as long as is humanly possible. It Is to be avoided, if for no other reason because it would hamper American interests in Latin America as a whole. And the state department has done a pretty good job of holding off. Under all ordinary precedents, we long since had ample excuse for intervention. So far, however, our marines have remained aboard ship and our naval guns have been used for nothing more serious than target practice. The responsible officials in Washington deserves a good deal of praise for their - intelligent forbearance. Dairy cows in Idaho must not be fed beer, rules the state welfare commissioner. Well then, how can the farmers keep the cows from going-dry?

’ THE MARKS “'T'HE mark of age lies on the legion that ■*- was the flower of America’s youth in 1917.” Thus a United Press comment upon the great American Legion parade at Chicago. One hundred fifty thousands men marching in the streets of Chicago who, only sixteen years ago, were in the flower of youth and are now’ marked by age. They should be in the prime of life and showing no marks of age that would warrant sympathy. The material part of them should exhibit none of time’s ravages during the sixteen years since they w’ere taken in the Lower of their youth and devoted to human slaughter. It isn’t the sixteen years of time following the flowering of youth that cause these veterans to bear “the marks of age.” War experience has engraven in their spiritual being marks of age. war destroyed the bodies of comparatively a small number of the two millions of our youth whom w’e consecrated to that foreign war. It left, in the vast majority of the survivors of that conflict, w’ar’s marks—low appraisal of human life, weakened regard for the rights of others, gnawing regret over the wasted visions of flowering youth, and, in many cases, downright atheism. War’s marks are those of age, age of the spiritual. A man of even 80 years may have spirit and character that obscure the marks of age. But, not if war slaughter has been his business in the flower of his youth. It takes war to stamp age’s marks upon the •character and spiritual attitude of men by the time that scarcely forty years of life have passed over them. In no particular does peace escape paying heavy, deadening and sad tribute to war. TEACHING ADULTS npHE federal emergency relief administration’s decision to spend a substantial sum in hiring jobless teachers and others qualified to Instruct idle Americans in idle school rooms is another proof of vision in Administrator Hopkins’ organization at Washington It is estimated that there are 80,000 workless teachers in the country, 30,000 on relief. Many rural schools now closed could be opened by day and city schools could be thrown open at night to give these teachers work-relief at their own profession. The depression and machine industry are forcing more and more leisure on the people. What is more logical than to open the schoolrooms to all who seek knowledge and put the government behind the most neglected of worthy causes, adult education? Possibly it is because of a mistaken notion in this country that folks stop learning when they quit high school or college. Possibly it is because we have been too busy making things that satisfy primitive wants to think of the universal human hunger for knowledge. Possibly it Is because the cause lacks drama and goes by clumsy Latin names. But it is a fact that this country has lagged far behind England and other European nations in offering education to its grownups. The ground has been broken by such pioneering enthusiasts as Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Dr. Harry Overstreet, Spencer Miller and others. For more than a decade the workers’ education bureau and its labor institutes have done splendid work. Workers’ summer schools, university extension, the national advisory committee on the radio in education and other groups have extended teaching beyond the classrooms. States like New York, Wisconsin and California have sizable adult education programs. But aside from aid to vocational education, the federal govern- . ment has not put its shoulder to the wheel. Its determination to do so now under its work relief program is another silver lining to the depression cloud.

M.E. Tracy Says:

or dictatorship!” says President ButLN lex of Columbia, which sounds all right as *a slogan, but which narrows the horizon of political possibilities beyond good sense. Conceivably we might have both or neither, when it comes to the final show-down. Let us keep in mind that we are trying to meet an emergency, that we are very much upset mentally and that it will be time enough to talk about permanent changes, if any seem desirable, when we get out of tile woods. Codes, mediation boards, and virtually forced unionization appear necessary as the bases of temporary co-operation, but riveting them into law should not be undertaken without more mature thought. War hysteria led us into prohibition, and we have spent thirteen years not only regretting it, but trying to find a way out. Depression has resulted in a similarly dangerous state of mind. We are in a mood to grasp at most anything which promises relief. That is perfectly natural, but it should not be mistaken for clear or unemotional thinking. a a a WHAT men or nations do when desperate is not necessarily good for normal times. When a city is threatened with fire, there can be no question about dynamiting whole blocks of buildings. When New Orleans seemed likely to be inundated by the Mississippi, engineers cut the levees and turned, the torrent in another direction. Just because NRA appears to offer a quick road to recovery is no reason why it should be regarded as made of concrete, or why it should be accepted as unalterable in order to prevent the advent of a Mussolini. For people who have faith in discovery and invention, we are altogether too strong for nailing things down. Give the future and human ingenuity a little chance. No nation has done exactly what we think is wise in meeting the depression, and none has found a perfect remedy. There is still room for America to be original, even if NRA fails to look good as a permanent system. a a a WE have tried and abandoned several experiments without smashing the republic, and it is possible we could do the same with this one. The idea that just one plan stands between us and dictatorship is. to say the least, childish. Even if forced to accept dictatorship for the time being, would it necessarily follow that we had accepted it for all time? Os course not. no more than that an operation means the patient must spend the rest of his or her life in a hospital. We are dealing with abnormal conditions, which means that w’e are obliged to seek abnormal remedies. President Roosevelt has prescribed what looks like good medicine, but he is not advertising it as a cure-all or telling us that we will go to the damnation bow-wows if we don't continue taking it for all time. He says very frankly that if it fails to work, he will be the first to try something different, and he has given no intimation that he regards dictatorship as the one and only alternative.

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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 lessJ By H. B. Being a constant reader of The Times, I w’ould like to put in a few words for “the treasury robber” as the ex-service man is called. The man who stayed at home received from $5 to sl4 a day. We got $1 a day. Did he go through what we went through? Hardly. Yet, when the w r ar is over, who was it to whom the government paid a bonus? Railroad workers, after making from $l5O to S2OO a month, received a big bonus. We got half of ours after a fight for it ten years later, and now’ are paying interest of 3Vt per cent on the other half. Who has gotten the most? Our President in his speech said we should not expect more than the man who stayed at home. We don’t, but we should have half as much as he received. It is time we get a break before it is too late. Most of us are starving or are on the verge of it. a a a Editor’s Note—Only a few well publicized workers received the civilian wage H. R. mentions. The average wage in 1918 in this country was just under $4 a dav for the civilian, out of which he had to support himself and his dependents. The private soldier’s $1 a day was clear. In addition to free food, housing. clothing, free medical attention, he also received cheap life insurance' and family allotment. H. R.s statistics are in error. By H. L. Seeger. If religion is a personal matter, relating to personal conduct, and not an abstract philosophy dealing in platitudes, then it would seem logical that our leaders of business, education and religion would find it more corresponding to real religion, to see that charity becomes unnecessary. Justice done to those who create wealth by labor would provide a share in the products of labor, equal to a decent standard of living for the workers, and make doles a matter of history. Recognition of human values would blot out practically all of our crime, low living standards, slums and unnecessary sickness resulting from exploitation. Our economic system seems to be built like our political system, on spoils. Its operators rather would cqst charity crumbs to their victims, than give recognition to workers as the real creators of wealth who are

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Eyes Reveal Tendency of Passing Years

WHEN you find you can see better at a distance than close by, and the type in the telephone directory seems to be smaller than ever, it’s a sign that middle age has crept up on you. For investigators have found that the eyes reveal the first tendencies of the passing years. Women begin to complain of greater difficulty in threading needles, and bookkeepers find figures blurring before their eyes along toward evening. Presbyopia is the scientific term for this natural weakening of the sight. The term is derived from two words meaning “old man” and “sight.” The condition is not a disease, but it represents a gradual change in human tissues which comes on with increasing age. Your body is a living organism which passes through a definite cycle, and all the cells of the body pass through their own individual cycles. The tendency of the human organism is to live some seventy years.

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TODAY we have an extraordinary communication. “My husband.” it reads, “is giving me SI,OOO and a year’s leave of absence.” To a pessimist this may sound as if there was a rift in the matrimonial lute, but we are assured that such is not the case. It is only that for a number of years this couple planned a twelve-month vacation together. Now circumstances you can readily surmise have made the husband's going impossible, but the generous man insists that the wife should have her reward. And so he makes what is, I consider, a truly magnificent gesture. In fact, he sets up a revolutionary precedent. The wife gets what we may call a Sabbatical year, a period whei

‘Tight Little Isle/ Is Right!

Justice?‘ By Mrs. Sidney Critser. I understood this reforestation plan was to help the poor people who have no work and have to have help from the trustee. Why is it then the boy that went for us can stay in there four months, then have his money transferred to his uncle, who is working for the Big Four railroad, making around $6 a day, and his wife keeps two boarders at $6 each? We have two small children. They have none. Is this what this country calls justice to the poor people? Why not let the married men go to these camps. There's plenty of them who would be willing to go and send their money home to their families. entitled to just as good a living standard as the leaders of industry. No wealth is produced without workers, any one cf whom is just as important a cog in wealth production as the engineer, architect, manager or financier. Nonproducers would starve if workers would do the paying off! By E. F. Maddox. It is gratifying to any angler to catch two suckers on one line and when at one cast I caught both Forrest Rogers and G. Fink on a line baited with some good sound Americanism, I was not very badly surprised. Socialists are quick to strike. If I have presented “a jigsaw puzzle with several pieces missing,” as Mr. Rogers asserts, I feel that it is my duty to supply the missing pieces. I was also accused by Mr. Fink of failing to understand the “simplicity of Socialism.” I am an expert on detecting subversive propaganda. For several years, I have made a thorough study of subversive literature. I know the aims and methods of Socialism and it takes more than a mere denial of guilt to convince me that there is not a well organized drive being made to undermine and disorganize our national defense forces. Every Socialist is a potential enemy of our democratic form of government. Only a few weeks ago, I read a book written by the great Socialist, Jack London. Here is what he says, “The class struggle is here and the wise American leader had bet-

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

But the tendency of various cells in different parts of the body is to replace themselves at certain intervals. The change that takes place in the eyes after middle age in-' creases slowly but steadily to about 60 years of age, when it remains fixed. The chief change associated with middle age is the tendency to see well at a distance, but not so well when looking at objects near by. But these changes in the eyes are similar to other changes taking pari in the body as a whole. The lens of the eye in the child is elastic. This facilitates accommodation of the eye to see at various distances. But the elasticity of the lens gradually disappears with age. An investigator compared the length of life of various people with

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

she can do exactly as she pleases, be utterly free. Leave of absence from marriage! How does that strike you? Do you think it can work? Now, it’s my guess that it would be the saving of many a home. To be sure, twelve months hardly would be feasible for most of us, but a week, a fortnight, thirty days, every now and then—what a boon for married life that would prove! a a a A ND so many housewives are perishing for lack of it, so much fine love is dying, because the state of mind induced by the average concept of marriage is slavish. Not that women are overlworked in every case, or mistreated,

ter gird himself for the fray and help put a stop to it.” Otherwise Socialism will wreck our nation. Socialism works by arraying one class against another. Its object is not peace but war, and war of the worst kind—civil war. Here is another quotation taken from Jack London's book, “Night and day, tireless and unrelenting, they labor at their self-imposed task of undermining society.” That’s a good description of Socialist activity. Mr. Fink's effort to create the impression that Socialism is founded on the teachings of Christ is a fine specimen of propaganda. Karl Marx is the* founder of Socialism and his doctrine concerning religion is this: “Religion is the opium of the people.” Socialism is founded on atheism. It is anti-Christ. Our ancestors crossed the ocean to found a nation where they and their posterity could enjoy both religious and political freedom. This article is written in defense of those wise and just principles and against our worst enemy—Socialism.

So They Say

Repeal of the eighteenth admendment will not constitute a panacea for all the ills to which mankind is heir.—Jouett Shouse, president, Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. One of the most astonishing delusions of mankind today is the idea that happiness is associated with moral looseness.—Rev. Henry Emerson Fosdick, New York. I cannot help but wonder at times whether there is not a certain amount of hypocrisy involved in our scientific pretenses.—Prof. Arthur W. Kornhauser, Chicago university. There is no choice to American business between intelligently planned and controlled industrial operations and a return to the goldplated anarchy that rr asqueraded as “rugged individualism.” Donald Richberg, general counsel of NRA. I laelieve that for the moral and political prestige of the nations, it would he advisable to place an embargo on conferences. Premier Mussolini.

the time when the changes in the eye come on. He found that the person whose eyes change more slowly is likely to live longer than the one in whom these changes come relatively early after middle age. If you have passed middle age and your eyes have begun to change you should see a competent physician as soon as possible, to secure lenses which will aid vision. The artificial glass lenses help to take the place of the actual lens within the eye which has begun to fail in its power to function. Nowadays eyeglasses have been improved so tremendously that it is possible to obtain a set which will permit vision at different distances and which are at the same time sightly and comfortable. You’ll find that eyeglasses not only will benefit your sight, but they also will lessen the wear and tear on your body coming from eyestrain.

but that the dull grind of domesticity, the monotonous routine of housework wears them down and crushes out their inner fire. Every man who possibly can afford it should, I believe, arrange for his wife to spend a week occasionally at some good hotel, where she need not cook her own breakfast nor make her bed. No doctor could seli her a better tonic, and she could never find such an excellent beautifier in any shop. It would save the expense of breakdowns, operations, even funeral expenses. Moreover, a preservative for the disposition is always a good investment for any home. And never fear, gentlemen. Giving the wife a week off, with pay, means that she would be back on the run in about three days.

_OCT. 11, 1933

It Seems to Me =BY HEYWOOI/ BROUNi_—

NEW YORK. Oct. 11.—The Hon. Alfred E. Smith: Dear Al: Where do you stand? Your attention must have been called by now to the fact that we are about to elect a mayor of New York. You have read in the papers, or learned through other sources, that La Guardia. McKee, O Brien, Solomon, Minor and one or two others are running. What do you say? From wholly unofficial and rather roundabout sources I have heard that you think McKee is a honey, O'Brien a fool and La Guardia a shade too radical. But naturally we all want to hear what you think directly from you. We feel that you owe us a clear statement on the situation as it seems to you. We feel that you owe it to yourself. a a a To a First Citizen TO a great many of us you are the first citizen of the City, of New York. Mayor James J. Walker, an acquaintance of yours, was in the habit of making speeches, whenever he got in a tight place, in which he proclaimed the fact that he loved this town and that he wouldn't stand by and hear anybody abuse it. You haven't gone up to the housetops to proclaim your affection and therefore we accept it as deep and sincere. And I think that even though you may be “that way” about New York you're not blinded to those things which are desperately wrong with .both our municipal mechanism and much of our municipal personnel. I don’t suppose there has been any city election within the last sixteen years in which you couldn't have been mayor practically by acclamation if you had only said the word. Certainly your political friends and your political foes are now in complete agreement that you are the greatest expert on state and municipal government now resident in these United States. So it is natural that we should turn to you for advice and counsel at this time. But in spite of these bouquets it might as well be said frankly that we don't want it unless you are willing to speak with complete candor. There is, I regret to say, a certain feeling that things you would say in a private conversation about municipal affairs would not be uttered by you in a public speech. a a a One of the Ugly Rumors FOR instance, there is a prevalent impression that you will make one or two speeches in favor of John P. O’Brien, but that these addresses will be perfunctory. This isn’t a time for anybody to be perfunctory, least of all, you. Nor will New York be silent if you maintain a discreet silence and embark on a long fishing trip. After all, Al, you never were much as a fisherman. I shouldn’t think fish would be any particular treat to you. Very probably many embarrassing personal problems beset you in your decision as to what stand you should take in the forthcoming election. If you \rill pardon my saying so, it’s been a terrible pity that you are so temperamentally committed to being an organization man. And wrapped in there with your virtues you have another terrible failing. You call it “loyalty.” But now, Al, In all commonsense you must put certain limits on that. The organization owes you a great deal more than you owe it. You owe most of all to the City of Isew York. You’ve settled that obligation in part, but it really is a debt which never can be paid in full. a a a Straight From Shoulder THESE are serious times, so don’t try to kid us. If you get up In open meeting and pretend an enthusiasm for John O’Brien you will not convince us, yourself or even John. It just isn’t in the cards that a man of your intelligence should actually go for so palpable a dumbbell. And don’t try to get by merely by making a speech in which you tell us that Mr. O'Brien leads a beautiful home life and is personally honest. That isn’t important. I could say exactly the same things about my Aunt Maria, and I think she would be very little better than O’Brien as mayor. * As for McKee, you knew him when. Give us the lowdown and all the dope. The same goes for La Guardia. It won’t do to say that you can’t support him because of party loyalty. Your party’s split like a kippered herring and the time has come for everybody to unmask and tell the truth and the whole truth. Like other people, you have your personal whims and jealousies, and it is perfectly fair for you to state them in explaining your choice among the candidates. Nobody has a right to say that you must be for that man or this, but I don’t think the citizens of New York are expecting too much if they ask you to answer as fully as possible a couple of simple questions. "Who, Al?” and “Why. Al?” (Copyright. 1833. by The Timex)

Remembrance

BY FRANCIS If. INSLEY It never was your wont to shrink from sorrow Encountered on the pathway of delight; You cherished beauty, careless of the morrow That was so soon to bear it from your sight. You could not fear the darkest, loneliest night Once you had seen the stars, however dim. For all the flaming winter skies were bright Within your dreams as any cherubim. The deep wine foaming to the goblet’s brim Is merry with the song you loved to sing, Os shadows poised on quiet fountain's rim, Os music in the full heart travailing. This was your magic: that the world is fair. For laughter lives though death goes everywhere.