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THURSDAY. OCT 12 1933

RUSSEL C. ROTTGER TNDIANAPOLIB can ill afford to lose the unselfish service of Russel C Rottger. The community is confronted with another depression winter. It faces months that will bring heavy problems as the city and nation creep back along the road to recovery. Mr. Rottger always was ready to give himself wholly to public service. He never asked anything for himself. Public commendation embarrassed him. Yet his sound judgment and good cheer invariably were back of every altruistic municipal endeavor. His reward was In just doing things for people. He was a comparatively young man. Hi* company, the Indiana Bell, had advanced him rapidly to a vice-presidency. He was the antithesis of the old-fashioned public utility executive. It was his belief that a public utility was a public trust and his mind was constantly thinking over the problem of how his company could give better and cheaper service. The fact that he was a company official never inflated him. He was not too self-impor-tant to go out personally on a trouble call. Thousands of telephone subscribers came to know him in this way. It is a pity that he now never will have the opportunity to work out Rome of his plans for bringing telephone service even closer than it Is now to the individual subscriber. Most of all he will be missed by his friends. He had a rare capacity for friendship. Mr. Rottger leaves behind the best of all memorials —a life of real accomplishment for his fellowmen. WHERE IS THE LABOR BOARD? ENERAL JOHNSON Is worried about strikes. He should be. The epidemic is spreading. It is costing many millions of dollars. It is hurting employers and labor. It is delaying recovery. But what is General Johnson going to do about it? So far he has made a speech about It. He told labor leaders at the American Federation of Labor convention that strikes should stop. He even descended to cheap talk about subversive influences. Such talk is futile. Labor leaders are not responsible for the strikes—in many cases the workers have gone over the heads of their leaders. Subversive influences are not responsible. The NRA and the national labor board are responsible to the extent that they have failed to perfect efficient mediation machinery to handle the disputes behind the strikes. Disputes between capital and labor regarding enforcement of the codes are inevitable—even though both capital and labor act with the utmost good faith there will be many misunderstandings and honest differences of opinion. Those in turn are apt to lead to strikes by labor or lockouts and shutdowns by employers, unless the official mediation boards are quickly available. So far the administration has fallen down on this essential part of the job. Thousands of complaints and disputes have arisen. But NRA has been too busy—genuinely busy—in code making to face this situation. The national labor board under Senator Wagner, which was named by President Roosevelt for the specific purpose of handling such disputes, has been too slow and too timorous. Doubtless there are excuses and doubtless some of them are valid. It takes time to organize such a board. But whatever the alibis in the past, there can not be much more delay in the administration’s labor mediation machinery without a dangerous increase in strikes. Every day the White House lets the steel trust and Wall Street defy the government in the captive coal mine fight, every time NRA ignores a major code violation, every labor dispute which the national labor board neglects. will encourage capital to exploit labor and will encourage labor to strike for its legal rights under the new deal. Labor Is too near the starvation line to strike for the fun of striking. When there are large strikes now it is because the workers are convinced—rightly or wrongly—that is the only method of self-defense. It is for the national labor board and other official agencies to prove to labor by government action that strikes are not necessary to enforce the law. and that the government is enforcing the law. CRY HAVOC ONE of the chief hopes of developing a successful campaign against war lies in the growing resolution of the young intellectuals to stand out against the conventional patrioteering and "blood-and-thunder” philosophy. Beverley Nichol, a brilliant and popular young British writer, in "Cry Havoc" has prepared a head-on attack upon war and the war system which deserves to be circulated along with Mr. Stallings’ pictorial history of the war. The keynote to MrjNichols book is found in the following sentence: ‘ I believe with every fiber of my being, that the hour now has struck in the world's history when every man who wishes to serve his country must realize that ’patriotism' is the worst service he can offer it.” He thus expresses his opinion of the armament industry and its capitalistic supporters: "More death, more dividends! More blood—more bonuses! Each shell that screams across the sky ... no matter over what forsaken country that sad sky may lower ... is bringing money into the pockets of Armsville shareholders. Perhaps only a penny or two, but every little helps. Thus may the men In Bolivia, in Rumania, in Italy, or wherever the Armsville writ may run, console themselves. Their entrails are blown out? Their leg is banging by the knee? A portion of the brain

is protruding (as the medical reports so often delicately describe it) ? No matter. Bome nice old soldier’s widow in Bournemouth can buy a few extra flowers for her husband’s grave next Christmas, because Armsvilles are paying their dividend as usual.’* There Is no denying the force or logic of Mr. Nichol s scorching book. The real test will come at the outbreak of the next world war, which Mr. Nichol's friend, Mr. Wells, predicts about 1940. WHEN TO PREPARE FOR years liberals urged upon the country the idea that a public works program must be planned far in advance if it is to be an effective weapon against business depression. Today, faced with urgent need to spend public works money for employment and business revival and finding it hard to do, the country is learning this truth. On the face of it, spending money fast seems an easy thing to do. Asa matter of fact, it is not sq easy, as any person who has ever built a house knows. Getting a public works program under way, an administration must first of all examine projects for feasibility, for economic soundness, for value to a community, lor proportion of expenditure that will go to labor directly, and to labor indirectly through material Industries and transportation. When that is done, it is necessary to draw detailed engineering or architectural plans for the job. That is where most time is lost. Finally land must be acquired, legal difficulties ironed out, and bids let. All but these last stages may be attended to in advance under the kind of long-range planning advocated. With such a program ready, government construction could be used to check a depression at the beginning when it would be less costly to do so. Or if this were neglected for any reason, it would be ready for a crisis such as the present one. Now, while the facts are clear in our minds, this country should begin preparing for the future by preparing in detail anew public works program. It even may be that we will need to use it before we are out of the present woods. And if we do we should not repeat the dangerous experiment of being unprepared. J EASTMAN’S EXAMPLE T'ORTUNATELY the emergency railroad A transportation act contained provisions protecting labor from bearing the brunt of the economies that were sought. It was evident, as the law passed, that all the economies proposed could not be brought about; some high in congress even suggested that with the provisions protecting labor retained, the co-ordination act might better be abandoned. Os course, it was not abandoned; it was passed and signed by the President, who took Joseph Eastman off the interstate commerce commission temporarily and made him administrator of the law with the title of federal co-ordinator of transportation. It's time to see what Co-ordinator Eastman has accomplished with this law that some thought faulty. He has three achievements to his credit. First, at his insistence, and with his cooperation, the federal government finally had moved into the steel rail price-pegging issue; and as a result, the steel companies will get an order for more than 800,000 tons of rail, and nearly 250,000 tons of fastenings, if they will reduce prices. Second, he has taken a determined stand to outlaw company unions. Third, he has suggested means for railroads to standardize equipment and save money in these purchases, and he has urged that the carriers no longer subsidize mines by paying higher than the market price for coal. If the railroads really want to help the mines, Coordinator Eastman suggests, they can reduce the freight rates on coal. These three achievements do not mean that 'Co-ordinator Eastman has taken the railroads off the federal “relief rolls.” They are the outstanding results, thus far, of his effort to help the railroads help themselves under the guidance of the federal government. It is not unlikely that they will result In large savings to the carriers, if the carriers cooperate. They illustrate what an Intelligent professional government employe, unhindered by partisan considerations can accomplish. May his example furnish more of them! THE TASK AHEAD r | 'HERE is an old adage that “well begun Is half done.” There can be no better beginning of a task than a clear comprehension of what we are up against. Hence, it is well in application of the NIRA to visualize what must be done if we are to enjoy any considerable period of returning prosperity within the general framework of capitalistic society. Waving aside other incidental matters, the immediate and direct cause of the business collapse in 1929 was the inability of the mass of American farmers, workers and salaried persons to buy the products of American industry. It was not so much excess production as under consumption. In very few, if any, lines of production did we turn out as many commodities as easily could have been used by the American population had it been able to maintain a passably high standard of living. The total income of these classes—the approximately 99 per cent of American consumers—did not rise as rapidly as prices and profits. The proportion of the national income going to this overwhelming majority of the American population was less in 1929 than in 1919. During the last prosperous year we manufactured an excess of approximately $17,000,000,000 worth of goods which our people could not buy with their existing income, and there was little hope of selling this excess abroad. , The NIRA must reverse this picture. It must see to it that the masses get enough income to buy effectively. All other consiaera- > tions in the problem of industrial recovery are incidental. If capitalism can not insure this it mignt as well fold up. Indeed, it will do so speedily. Just what must we accomplish to bring about the desired results? It has been stated j that we must produce a return to the mass ! income of 1929. Just exactly what does this mean? It moans that the total pay rolls in manufacturing industry must be raised 135 per cent and farm wages more than 102 per cent. The decline of income to workers in other industries also has been appalling. The pay roll losses In bituminous mining were 68

per cent; in metaliferous mining, 83 per cent; in quarrying and non-metallic mining, 75 per cent; in the production of petroleum, 59 per cent, and In canning and preserving industries, 49 per cent. This is staggering enough. But we must remember that the 1929 mass income was not sufficient to provide adequate purchasing power and to preserve prosperity in terms of 1929 prices. Especially was this true of the farmers. Ether income must be raised above the 1929 level or prices must be kept down considerably below that level. It is said to be the government’s aim to give us a 1929 income and a 1926 price level. Nothing less than this would perpetuate prosperity even for a brief period. RELIEF MUST COME 'T'HERE is precious little sense In worrying A- about the demand for inflation unless we also are willing to worry about the thing* that caused the demand. That we are going to have something like a final, definite showdown in inflation this winter is becoming obvious. The pressure for inflation that has been put on the White House in the last month or so is only the first breath of a gale that will break loose when congress convenes. And to read some of the indignant outcries being raised these days is to get the impression that demanding inflation is a crime against nature. We are reminded over and over again of the doleful tfcings that happened to Russia and Germany when they sent their paper up in the windstorm. Stick a pin through your newspaper at random and you are likely to Impale an interview with some economist or other full of dark prophecies and dire forebodings. All this pessimism may be entirely justified. That, at the moment, is hardly the point. The important thing is to realize that the clamor for inflation does not arise from sheer human perversity and wrongheadedness, but from the contemplation of wrongs which a great many people have decided they are not going to endure any longer. If you borrow a dollar which is worth one bushel of wheat and find, when you come to pay it back, that it is worth three bushels, you have been gyped, and no fine talk about the sanctity of sound money is going to make you feel any better about it. It is precisely that which has happened to millions of Americans in the last few years. Debt has turned into a self-increasing snowball, and it has become a load which is just too heavy to be carried any farther. Paying for a dead horse is never much fun; when the corpse goes on rising in value before you can get all your payments in, you hardly can be blamed if you decide that the rules of the game ought to be changed a little. Inflation may be the height of folly. But an even loftier peak would be to fight against Inflation without offering any remedy for the wrongs which have made inflation look desirable. If we are not going to have inflation we must have something that will whittle our debts down to the size they were when we contracted them. And it must be something that will work. THE WAY TO RECOVERY A N idea of the possibilities for American industry, which are inherent in the present effort to increase the purchasing power of the wage-eamer, can be gained from Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins’ recent address to the American Federation of Labor convention. Miss Perkins pointed out that two-thirds of the goods disposed of in America each year are sold to people whose incomes are less than $2,000 a year. The moral is obvious. The wage-earner represents the greatest of all markets. Increase his purchasing power and you give industry the greatest stimulus it could get anywhere. And, by the same token, If you decrease it, you make industry’s recovery quite impossible. The best way to induce full recovery, in other words, is to start at the bottom.

M.E. Tracy Says:

ENGLAND offers to pay us 100,000,000 pounds, or about 11 cents on the dollar, in full settlement <of her war debts. Fewer Americans would have lost their homes and fewer American industries would have gone into bankruptcy on terms like that. Ultimately, we shall accept the settlement or one approximating it. because we can’t do anything else. Afterward, we shall try to justify it by all kinds of spurious arguments. We shall have little difficulty in convincing ourselves or posterity that it was unavoidable. You can’t get blood out of turnips, though the civilized world has been trying to make Itself believe you could ever since the war ended. This is the most stupendous default in human history, and we should waste no time attempting to deceive ourselves with regard to its true significance, because there is every prospect that it will be peacefully arranged. a a a AT no time since civilization began has any -V V government openly made the proposition to reduce its debt by nearly $4,000,000,000. And that isn’t the worst of it. Every one of the fourteen governments that owe us is going to follow England’s example. In all likelihood, the default will run close to $10,000,000,000. Every conceivable effort will be made to avoid the words default, repudiation and insolvency, but that might as well be written off as just one more phase of> the quibbling by which civilization has tried to save its face since it went bankrupt. Statesmen and financiers really imagined that, by some hook or crook, a smashed industrial system could take on the burden with 20,000,000 cripples to support, 10,000,000 young men in their graves and an incalculable amount t>f buildings, ships and machinery destroyed. a a a THE delusion accounts for the depression we are in and the boom which preceded it. We have been.dealing with paper values ever since the treaty of Versailles was signed, with fictitious securities and preposterous suppositions. That and that alone explains why forty countries have been pushed off the gold standard, why currencies have been depreciated and why governments have reduced or repudiated their debts by every known method. The most amazing feature of this , whole miserable business is the simple fact that our supposed leaders do not seem to have had the slightest conception of the economic morass into which western civilization had been plunged. They seem to have emerged from the wa? without the slightest idea of the havoc it had wrought and with the sublimest faith in humanity's ability to pay its bills just as though nothing preposterous had happened.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Joseph B. Adler. Loyalty now in true sense of the word Means a sacrifice made in interest of all; Patriotism during war we often heard, But if not loyal to NRA then we’ll fall. In time of peace this is greatest war, Which ever was fought on this great earth; And every one should realize it is for Great benefit of all for our future berth. Some can’t see any further than self, So their interest ought be first and last; But late* may be found back on shelf, And finally see that the show just passed. If it is a failure we’ll sink together, But if success it means prosperity of all; If United, job ’ll be light as feather, So it’s our duty to grant President’s call. Some may think they are just too big, And they don’t want to help our Uncle Sam; But later might dance a different jig. Then find themselves in just terrible jam. This is a time to jump into big race, For we are now traveling on upward grade; We should help President to set pace Which will be fine to get back our trade. If we use judgment like making money, We will see that this is the proper time; If we refuse it will not be so funny, So follow good advice told in this rhyme. t Bv John C. Kirch. I see by all the public press re--ports that we are about to be relieved of one of the most outrageous systems ever forced upon the taxpaying public and our hungry poor.

AGAIN and again I have emphasized the importance of proper sitting and standing for comfort and good appearance. In the first place, every desk and every chair should be designed to fit the persons who use them. If the seat you occupy is too low, your shoulders will become rounded and.your head will droop. / Every’ seat in school should be made so that the child’s elbows may lean on the desk without making him lean over or stretch. Many schools have uniform seats for the children in each grade, while the children may vary considerably in height and size. It would be better if every schoolroom had a few desks of odd sizes to accommodate the children who have to sit at them. Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, famous Philadelphia sculptor and specialist on physical education, em-

THE most surprising aspect of the Urschel kidnaping affair was that a personable young woman could walk into a public store and buy a machine gun for $250. And that is what Kathryn Kelly, the woman in the case, actually did, according to testimony. So far as we know, reputable citizens neither use nor own machine guns. Why such a flagrant act as the open purchase of a deadly weapon could have gone apparently unreported and unnoticed by police at the time is the point that confuses the ordinary citizen. To be sure, many fine points of law evade us. But even now, when so many homes are arsenals and sc many of our best people go armed a'

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Proper Sitting Posture Stressed ======== BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN =======

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Food.for Thought By J. A. L. The NRA is certainly a step in thp right direction, but I do not believe it contains all that it should. The article on first page of Tuesday’s Times has in it much food for thought. When one recalls the shady transactions that have taken place, not only here but nearly everywhere, one comes to the conclusion that at least two more things should be included in and along with NRA efforts. First, I would suggest the repeal of the statute of limitations, as aplied to crimes of any kind. Second, to help those out of employment and the low paid already employed, place a tax of 100 per cent on any and all forms of graft. If this were possible, the depression would soon disappear.

It was up to our national government to relieve us of this damnable system, and that is the poor relief system. It is now about three years since the South Meridian Civic Club first began a fight and adopted a resolution against this system, and it was the only civic club which had the nerve to oppose that method of feeding our poor a $2.50 basket, $1.35 worth of groceries and 67t£ cents worth of food value, and the taxpayer pays the bill and the poor can eat salt and corn meal and some of the sausage they receive. If I had a dog which I loved, I would ot have fed him the sausage, and neither did these people eat it. When I told them to report it, they said they were afraid to; they may be cut from the basket list. When the South Meridian Civic Club adopted the resolution, Mr. Book, then secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, asked us at a central committee meeting of south side civic clubs to withdraw our resolution. I told , Mr. Book what we adopt we will not back down from. Wake up, you civic clubs! Get off your stupor and oppose some of •these things that are forced upon us and oppose them even though some of your members belong to the Chamber of Commerce. Where are you on the matter of building houses in the slum district? Find out who owns the ground. They say it won’t cost the taxpayers of Indianapolis anything. True, but the federal government will have a lot

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

phasizes the importance of change of posture at various intervals, to rest the tissues. The child becomes w’eary unless allowed to exercise and change position occasionally. If a boy sits too long in one place, the upper part of his body will lean forward and press against his desk, constricting his circulation and disturbing his blood supply. To relieve the strain of this posture, the boy is likely to slump back in the seat, resting on his shoulder blades and the lower end of his spine. Then the back is not supported properly, so that it sags down and curves. This position stretches the muscles and ligaments of the backbone so that the back becomes rounded and the chin is shoved forward.

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

to the teeth, it still is surprising that machine guns and their exchange in public markets should be permitted. This "gun toting” is one of our worst national habits. It is often argued that the upright man must protect himself, and that we shall have to fight the criminal with his own weapons. But I can’t put much credence in the theory, because the criminal always seems to get the best of that kind of a contest. a o THE number of good citizens killed by their own guns fax exceeds any slaughter we have wrought in gangster circles. The law-abiding American may just as well throw* his gun into the sea. He’ll never conquer the baa-

of real estate shacks on their hands and you will pay for it in income tax and all sorts .of federal tax. The South Meridian Civic Club adopted a resolution and sent it to General Johnson as being opposed to any such expenditures of government funds. By G. J. B. The American Legion must have done themselves proud at Chicago to win so unreservedly the approval of the -‘special privilege” press. It almost makes one say, “Oh, Lord, how long?” It was not so long ago when the legion swallowed hook, line and sinker for Henry Curran and the league against the eighteenth amendment, and now the innocents are doing the same'for the same old crowd under the name of Economy League. Why should the “leaders” always be members who are independently rich and have no need for a pension or for the bonus? Ask the man w-ho is up against it whether he is interested in the bonus, provided, of course, he can’t get a job. And now the climax! The legion is persuaded to take a stand for Americanism and against Communism. No man not a fool fears Communism in America. Then why should so much stress be placed upon a hatred for Russia and Communism? Simply this: Communism is being used as a scarecrow to keep the legion from favoring any change in American government that would in any way interfere with special privilege. Questions and Answers Q. —Has New York City a larger area than Philadelphia? A.—Yes. Q.—When and where does the Grand National horse race occur in England? A.—This famous steeplechase event is run each year in the latter part of March over the Aintree course, near Liverpool, England. Q. —Give the meaning of the French term vogue la galere? A.—“ Come what will.”

In correct sitting posture, you should be erect. Your head should be poised to bring the center of gravity in the line joining the seat bones. -This posture makes a minimum demand on energy and tends to good -posture when standing. You also should see that your child sits properly w-hen reading or writing at a desk. Children in the higher grades in school should have at least two five-minute periods during their hours of study when they may stand and stretch and perhaps take a few corrective exercises. These should be in addition to the games played during recess. Purposes of the exercises are to encourage deep breathing and to aid circulation of the blood, to counteract the stagnation associated with sitting long in one position.

dits by shooting at them. Sheep in wolf’s clothing hardly ever scare wolves. Our sole defense and protection will be found in the orderly procedure of justice. To clean up crime it is first necessary to clean up the courts as the United States attorney-general has recently pointed out. Men never won redress lor individual insults by dueling, and nations can not stop crime by substituting general target practice for speedy legal action. The weapon with which modern .America must arm herself is moral indignation. Until we acquire the capacity to rouse public wrath against all general corruption, any private- shooting we may do will only confuse th issue.

_'OCT. 12, 1933

It Seems to Me -BY HEYWOOD BROUN’s

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—“And so we stand, my friend.” said the agitator on the street comer, "for revenge and the brotherhood of man." * “The brotherhood of man” is no longer a particularly popular phrase in anybody's discourse. To some its implications seem .too radical, and to others it suggests an appeal for the formation of daisy chains to impede the proper progress of the class struggle. And I think it is still a rugged and compelling call for the only mood by which tpe world may be cured of its mortal illness. I have listened and I have read and I have studied, and, even so. I can not be convinced that we must first be washed .in the blood of the scornful before there can be set upon this earth the everlasting days of peace. a a a Marking the Exceptions I CAN NOT thrill to the words of those who gather together in opposition to “imperialist war.” As far as I'm concerned, there has never been a good war. and there never will be. To my eyes stark insanity is once more parading the highways of the world. Many who rallied to the cry that they should die and suffer to make the world safe for democracy are cured of the fever and fervor of that slogan. But of that number there are those who did not die who will embark as soon as feasible upon anew crusade. By turning their armor inside out they seem to feel that old agonies and reproaches have been removed. They will fight it out all over again to make the world safe for collectivism. Revenge and the brotherhood of man. As I understand it this is to be a brotherhood only of those who remain after the last belt has passed through the guns and the bugles have blown “cease firing.” Before the trumpets can proclaim the new day taps must be sounded. It is not possible for me to subscribe with a full heart to any brotherhood to be made up of those who remain after a membership committee of sharpshooters has passed upon the applicants. n u tt All Men Are Brothers ALL men are brothers, except the dying and the slain. Fraternity is to be that which is left in the wake of the first wave, the second and the third. It isn’t good enough. It will not work. “But you must be realistic,” they tell me, "and remember that these folk who now are filled with love first had to cut down the rebels and the counter revolutionists.” I deny that this attitude is even an approximation of truth as I see it.- "Brother, let us clasp hands in comradeship, but will you pardon me a moment if first I cleanse my palm and yours of certain ruddy smudges?” I have heard it said repeatedly that “the brotherhood of man” is a meaningless phrase signifying nothing. That is quite true unless it is to be accepted by the world with an unfaltering literalism. It is not a namby-pamby doctrine, but one of the most rigorous rules ol conduct of which man ever has dreamed. It is not a fantasy or the mere mirage of pie in a distant sky because those things of which man dreams he will straightway bring to pass, since dreams express the hunger of the world for wish fulfillment. And only through strength and courage and power will the tough surfaces of men and institutions be molded into' their proper order. No Utopia ever has dropped into the laps of a supine people. a a a Force No Avail BUT when I speak of courage and of power I do not mean the force of those who feel that brotherhood is to be obtained by bashing heads or that it ever will be possible to exterminate the hates which torment us by thrusting bayonets into vital spots and crying out, “And this will teach you to love your neighbor.” There is no resting place in any compromise this side of complete co-operation. It is silly to say, as some have done, that the interests of capital and labor can be reconciled since they are similar. One might as well make the attempt to merge the night and daytime. Industrial equality is a vital right far more important than political liberty. It is the very essence of that brotherhood which will not recognize any sort of discrimination or prejudice. But it can not be an alliance to be cemented over any mound of dead men. Brotherhood is a perquisite, a property and a goal to be won by the quick alone. (CoDvrieht. 1933. by The Time*)

Conquest

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK What a fury the wind is in today. How it puffs and blows down the street! My curtains are doing fantastic dances In answer to the mad rhythm in his feet. What a charging wealth of power he has today! H3w he tweaks the flame and gold from the trees. He has the purple asters in my garden Bending pale and humble at his knees. What a storm of passion the wind is brewing! How he presses gowns to young breasts. I shall go out and wrestle with the wind. I shall flaunt my scarlet dress 1 The arms of the wind are roughly eager; How he catches me to him. There is nothing subtle here. I can be primitive with the wind. DAILY THOUGHT I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.—St. John, 17:15. O POLISHED perturbation! Golden care that keepest the j ports of slumber open wide to many ‘ a watchful night!—Shakespeare.