Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1933 — Page 18

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FRIDAY. OCT. 30. 1933. THE COMMUNITY FUND CPHE city is facing another winter of sufA sering. Business appears to have turned the corner and gotten its feet upon the road to better times, but there will be many casualties before the depression is over. Upon every citizen who is fortunate enough to have an income is laid a solemn obligation to share it with those who, through no fault of theirs, are in bitter want. Society has learned in the last three years that if it can not arrange to pay a man for working, it must pay him for not working. Human beings thrown out of employment do not simply disappear into thin air. They linger about the streets and in their ruined homes as a pale and mute reproach to the Inability of man to operate his own affairs with wisdom and decency. They are the price thp industrial system must pay for its own incompetence. Indianapolis has been more fortunate than other cities. It has not been lacerated by the spectacle of actual starvation upon its highways. Nor has it had awful bread riots and lawlessness. There are two reasons for this: The hungry people of this city have been patient; the Community Fund has been amply filled and ably administered. The time has come again when that fund must be replenished. Indianapolis will respond as it always has in the past. GOOD POLICE WORK INDIANAPOLIS police are to be congratulated upon their arrest of William O. Dillman, who is charged with an attempt to extort SB,OOO from three prominent citizens. Nothing is more cowardly than the extortioner who cloaks himself in anonymity to terrorize his Victims. Evidently the prospective victims, William H Coleman, Blaine H. Miller and Ward H. Hackleman, are not gentlemen who scare easily. Despite dire threats that their homes would be bombed from the air they turned the case over to Chief Michael Morrissey. They certainly got action. The threatening letters were written only ten days ago. Now the case apparently is closed by a confession which Dillman is said to have made. The prosecutor and the courts should move with the utmost speed to show the underworld that Indiana will not tolerate extortioners. This prompt and clever piece of detective work is particularly gratifying since It tends to cancel some of the recent blunders of the law enforcement authorities. It shows that Indianapolis still may have confidence in its local police.

THE PRICE OF GAS TNTERIOR SECRETARY HAROLD ICKES, *“• the oil administrator, is exercising his power to fix petroleum prices with discretion. Instead of using this authority in a decree effective overnight, he has wisely postponed the date to Dec. 1, and meantime scheduled open hearings wherein protestants may appear. The secretary’s welcome to the consumers’ advisory board of NRA, long an opponent of price fixing* is in line with his reasonable use of authority. Price fixing is much more justified when applied to a natural resource industry such as petroleum than to any other industry. The secretary might well heed the petition of the NRA board that maximum prices should be fixed to protect consumers. He is depending upon competitive conditions in the Industry to keep prices within the minima he has proposed. But the question of whether there is enough competition in the industry to guarantee this is debatable. Thus. Secretary Ickes’ assertion that he •will hear the arguments and wdll fix maximum ■rices if necessary to protect consumers, is cautious. THE TOLERANCE TOUR A JEWISH rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Frotestant minister are being sent forth through thirty-nine American cities by the national conference of Jews and Christians for the purpose of ’’resisting the duplication in this country of the outbreak of intolerance abroad.” Newton D. Baker, one of three co-chairmen of the conference, describes the project as a purely domestic campaign. "The national conference.” he says, ‘‘feels that the outbreak of intolerance abroad must not be duplicated in this country. The American ideal is inconsistent with that spirit, and the conference therefore aims to emphasize the American spirit, to instill sympathy and co-operation in our own country.” Must the ideal of live-and-let-live be “sold” again to our America, founded by religious and political refugees and built by the toil of many races? Unfortunately, yes. Fear of want and Insecurity increase hatred and violence. Danger signs are not lacking. In Maryland free state a mob of frenzied whites Wednesday night lynched a Negro. In Oklahoma a misguided group of youths, calling themselves the •■silver shirts." ape Hitlerism’s mouthing against Jews and Communists. Elsewhere the spirit of the K. K. K., that grew in strength after the 1921 depression, is stirring again. Strikes and lockouts are rampant and in California farmers fired on striking cotton pickets, killing three. The tolerance tour will organize groups of thoughtful citizens and seek to iron-out racial, religious and other friction spots. Even.' American family should be such a group. This country has endured enough without the torture ol internal strife.

Tax Exemption Evil An Editorial

ejpHE taxpayers of Indianapolis are the victims of a vast, legalized racket which will cost them $1.252 000 next year unless It is checked. The humble citizen who has a $2,000 home will contribute $5 to it in 1934. A man with a SIOO,OOO store will pay $250. And they will pay whether they want to or not. By some legal hocus-pocus $40,000,000 worth of property has been exempted from all taxation. This will increase the 1934 tax rate by about 24 6 cents on each hundred dollars of assessed valuation. This favored property is masquerading as real estate used for philanthropic and religious purposes. But it is not. It is being utilized to earn an income for its owners and has nothing whatever to do with charity or religion or education. It is competing with real estate w'hlch has to pay taxes. Is the English hotel a religious institution? Is the Guarantee Tire and Rubber Company, South Illinois street, a philanthropic enterprise? What type of divine service is held in the Fame Laundry Company, Fourteenth and Illinois streets? Neither the rubber company nor the laundry is responsible. They merely rent from the owners, who are the Presbyterian home mission and Indiana university. People need not be mystified by all this. It is easy to dodge tax responsibility, easy to be a leech on one’s fellow citizens. Here's how it can be done: Mr. A owns an apartment honse worth SIOO,OOO. He receives a pleasant income from

PAST ILLUMINES THE PRESENT p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has talked much about the “forgotten man” and certainly the workers and farmers are in a deplorable condition in our day. Yet, by comparison with the middle ages, they rank high. In that period the fourth estate had no legal or political rating whatsoever. Only the nobles, high churchmen and burghers received any recognition in the formal social system. If we have a good way to travel to secure real economic and social democracy, it may hearten us somewhat to recognize that progress which has been made in the last lour centuries. While our age differs in a fundamental fashion from any earlier period in human history, the seeds of the present were laid in the past. Professor Hayes has written one of the most thorough and entertaining accounts of the evolution of western civilization from the close of the middle ages to the coming of industrial revolution. These three centuries constituted the critical period in which the agricultural civilization which had prevailed for thousands of years was gradually but surely supplanted by the new industrial and capitalistic age. The two most characteristic aspects of twentieth-century civilization are nationalism and capitalism. Professor Hayes describes with admirable clarity how these forces and institutions arose in early modem times and prepared the way for a thorough revolution in human civilization. It may seem a far cry from the esoteric philosopher, Fichte, to the bigoted fanatic, Hitler. Yet the nationalistic enthusiasm aroused by Fichte, especially in his “Lectures to the German People,” played its part in the creation of German nationalism which has reached its most absurd expression in the Nazi regime. While he did not subscribe to the race notions of Hitler, he helped along the race myth by stressing the alleged purity and uniqueness of the Germanic language. * Twenty years ago leaders of the feminist movement predicted that the enfranchisement of women would revolutionize American civilization for the better. The experiences of the last two decades have failed to bear out this benevolent hope. Gur political life reached the lowest level in our history after 1920. Never was there a more banal, brutal and materialistic decade. Our international policy during these ten years was especially stupid and illadvised. Yet the women did not rise up in revolt against these repugnant conditions. At the same time, there is no proof that the men alone would have done any better and our civilization is still “man-made” despite the nineteenth amendment. Only a most prejudiced fossil could wish for the return of the subjugation of women. WAR AND IMPERIALISM 'T'HE fruits of modem imperialism are apparent today in such unhappy areas as India, the far-east and the West Indies. The struggle between British imperialism and Indian nationalism will drag along until some bitter and expensive termination settles the perennial struggle. Japan, having learned the ethics and technique of imperialism from the western states who partitioned China, now threatens the pea'-e of the world in the most frank and aggressive imperialism which the world has known in modern times. American banking and public utility interests have subsidized for years the most cruel and barbarous regime ever known in the history of Cuba. W hile others may have written more voluminously and enthusiastically as propagandists of Imperialism, few figures in the nineteenth century figured more profoundly in the practical campaign for imperialism tnan did Cecil Rhodes. Known chiefly for his part in the dramatic struggle for South Africa, he was a powerful factor in the development of British imperialistic spirit after 1870. Indeed, the kaiser asserts that he was the real father of German imperialism in western Asia. He contends that Rhodes urged him to go ahead in this area in the hope of reducing the German pressure on Africa. There is no doubt about the ability of Rhodes or the colorful character of his career. There already is doubt, however, whether he was an asset to the British empire. Imperialism helped to bring Britain into the calamity of 1914. She never is likely again to regain the political or economic position which she then held in the society of nations. She is likely to undergo much more strain and stress before her imperial problems are solved successfully. Perhaps no other individual played so large a part as Rhodes in throwing upon her the crushing burdens of imperialism and colonialism. Caritoa Be&U is one of our foremost au-

it. But he would receive a much larger yield if he could duck paying taxes. So he gives it to some church or school to be held in trust until his death. During his life he receives whatever the property earns. That is part of the trust agreement. The property then is exempt from taxation as is the income that comes from it. Any one with an intellect above the moron grade knows that sucn a performance Is WTong morally. And what is WTong morally can never be economically right. It requires no special intellect to realize that this situation, which now extends to nearly one-twelfth of all taxable real estate in the city, is outrageously unfair to honest property owners who are paying their fair share for the city’s services. During the boom years Indianapolis got under the heel of a horde of selfish special interests. Real estate promoters were able to saddle upon the taxpayers as a whole the cost of useless water mains and street lights to “developments” that never developed. The taxing authorities, as shown in a series of articles by James A. Carvin, Times staff writer, have been liberal about reducing the big fellows’ assessments which meant the small home owner had to carry additional burdens. It is time to stamp out these special privileges. The city is inevitably and surely veering toward bankruptcy. There is only one way to get out of the depression and s hat is for every good American, be he rich or poor, to lay aside selfishness and pull an oar with his neighbor.

thorities upon Latin America, a talented observer and journalist and a relentless opponent of economic imperialism. He sees in our imperialistic venture iA Cuba little of benefit to either state and much of disaster and expense to both. If anybody has profited notably, it has been the few American capitalists with lucrative investments in Cuba and the corrupt Cuban politicians who have fattened on their subsidies. SAVING TREES AND BOYS r J~'HE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION is sound in urging that the civilian conservation corps be made a permanent institution. It argues that increased machine efficiency will mean unemployment for a long time to come and that for many years there will be no place in industry for boys who finish their schooling at 18. The association realizes, apparently, that the social importance of thus caring for the national forests is only less vital than the importance of caring for the nation's youth. Just as it is true that no provision for unemployed youth could be so healthful and wholesome as this, it is also true that no other use of surplus man power could return such large dividends to the general welfare. The fertility of our farm lands, our safety from destructive floods, depend on the preservation of our forests—to say nothing of a hundred other useful purposes they serve. We can not keep our forests if we neglect them. We can not raise a crop of useful citizens if we fail to give them either employment or occupation, it is good economy to solve both problems with one social institution. Wp are in Geneva solely for disarmament purposes, says United States Ambassador Davis. So Germany disarmed the other nations by quitting. Opportunity knocks at many a man's door, but the trouble is there's nobody home at the time.

M.E.Tracy Says:

/~YNE easily could be facetious over the Brit-V-f ish attitude toward agreements, but to what purpose? When Stanley Baldwin assures Germany that England can be depended upon to keep whatever contracts she signs, he merely is setting the stage for a horse trade, and when a British delegation comes over here to get the war debt agreement revised, it is doing the same thing. Britons are human like the rest of us, apt to bite off more than they can chew when excited. sure to be affected by any change that may occur in general conditions and wholly incapable of foreseeing the future. It is quite true that they “hired the money,” as the late President Coolidge was so fond of reminding them, but they were not thinking about pay day when they did. They were in a jam and grabbed the first thing at hand. They were concerned with victory at any price, while we were concerned with trade at any risk. It was not a commercial transaction in the true meaning of the phrase, but a deal rigged up under desperate circumstances. a a a ' I 'HE sanctity of any contract is measurably A contingent on the situation out of which it grew, and that goes for the treaty of Versailles and the Locarno pact, as well as war debt agreements. There is no sense in making fish out of one blunder and flesh out of another. Not only England, but a lot of other countries signed contracts that they will be glad to eat before civilization emerges from its present trouble. The war debt agreements are going to' be revised for one very simple reason—the debtors can t or won t pay what they owe, and we are not going to take such measures as collection would require. But. and this seems to be an important point, the revision should be brought about in such a way as will square the record with the facts. In other words, the business should be so conducted that pcsteritv will have no difficulty in recognizing it as a clear case of default. Nothing would do more to discourage future wars than a plain, unvarnished statement that victors failed to pay up in this case. a a a WITH bad debts added to all the other losses, later generations should be able to see the folly of it all. If we are really interested in promoting peace, we will spare no pains to make them see it. The war plunged civilization into virtual bankruptcy, which is its most important lesson Not even the money lenders made a profit out of it. The lopsided twist it forced on industry definitely was responsible for the depression with which we have been struggling for four years, and which a shell-shocked society was in no condition to withstand. If we have any sense of moral responsibility left, we will see to it that unborn generations get the true story of the cost—the story of blasted hopes, smashed ideals, wweeked governments and unpaid debts. That is about the only worth while service which the stupid waste of

life and property makes it possible for us to reader.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or lessj By Just a Taxpayer Your page of comics is exceptionally good but there is one thing you could add to it that would cause many additional laughs by the readers. Call it “Daily doings of the Indianapolis Police Force.” Boy, what a farce instead of a force. It seems that all the police force can do is arrest someone who has parked in front of a fire plug*, some spooners parked on a dark street or someone stealing garbage. It would be interesting to see a list of real criminals who have evaded the police and crimes unsolved in this city. Why can't we have a real police force? We pay for it. The position is not one for public sympathy, they take the job knowing the risk of life goes with it. If men do not want the job with that in mind then they should leave it for men w'ho are willing to take this risk. Remember a few years ago when a bull was running wild through downtown and a policeman tried to shoot it with a rifle and failed. At a holdup of the Broad Ripple bank a policeman appeared in time and shot everything but the bandits. Any number of things like these have happened to show the caliber of men we have labeled as police. We need real police protection against crime instead of having four or five police on each comer to direct traffic where there is an electric stop and go sign, and there is no good reason why we can not have a whole new force to replace the farce. By Then Hewes So many ways are being suggested to bring money into* circulation and furnish employment to labor that one gets lost in the maze of suggestions. Some of the schemes are so visionary that one can not but wonder how they ever were conceived. Indianapolis does not need help if we w T ho live here could only use our own money. There is enough money tied up in building and loan stock in Marion county to put every idle man to work. I am only one of thousands in this city who want to spend money—my own money. It is money that I have saved for just such emergency as the present. If the stock we hold in these com-

THE old saying, “A sound mind in a sound body,” never was established more truly than it is today. If your body functions badly, the power and efficiency of your mind will be reduced. This may be associated not only with weakness of the blood supply to the brain, the organ associated with thinking, but equally with a failure of the blood to supply suitable amounts of oxygen. If you body is fatigued greatly, toxins and poisons accumulate in the system, and these poisons in themselves have a destructive effect on the nerve tissue. However, aside from the help that you may give your mental functions by taking suitable care of your body, you should also train your mind suitably, to derive from it the greatest amount of happiness

WHERE do you suppose we ever picked up the idea that women hate women, and that they are always unfair to each other? It's another one of those silly “hand me downs” that we have accepted as a matter of course without examining it intellligently. It hasn't an ounce of truth in it, except on the human side. The statement can just as honestly be applied to men. Men, too, are hard on each other. Men are unfair to men. Men hate men. So far as I ever have been able to see, men are cruel, unjust, mean, despicable and often utterly vicious to one another. Theirs is no beautiful sex solidarity. They betray each other; they lie to each oth fl r* tiiify fijiflf whon~

j : : The Message Center : : - I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire “

Fatigue Effect Is Destructive

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

The Robber’s Prey

A Suggestion By Mrs. Frank Walton Union miners scorn a wage of $4.57 a day. Many men would be glad to work for $1 a day. Farmers with several thousand dollars invested in land, stock and tools do not average anywhere near $4.57 a day. In fact, many are not making expenses. Taxes are unpaid. The labor union chiefs are presumably intelligent and think they know how to manage all great industries. If so, why don’t they buy the factories, coal mines, etc., which they want to unionize and allow other people who are not interested in union labor carry on in our own way? The unions, in that way, could do their collective bargaining among themselves and there would be healthy competition between union and non-union business, but no strikes, no bloodshed, no ill feeling involved. I do not believe our business world should be turned over to the rule of labor unions. panies is good, and in the majority of cases they are good, then we do not need to borrow from any one. Let our government agencies underwrite this good list of securities at a rate not to exceed 3 per cent and sixty days will see Indianapolis jump out of distressed conditions. Don’t think for one minute that this money would not go into circulation. Ninety-five per cent of the stockholders immediately would go to work making improvements. Repairs on buildings, construction of new buildings; in fact, the very things that would make the government loan more secure. If the building and loan companies were in a position to release the money of their stockholders, we would find $10,000,000 of tied up capital in circulation within sixty days. Not only would we find this money in circulation, but we would see this money used judiciously. Men and women who have saved when times were good will be just as conservative in spending as they were in saving. We have been compelled to let much-needed improvements go by, for the reason we could not use our own money to make these improvements. Turn this money loose and every part of this city will hum to the

“ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine.

and the least amount of suffering and pain. The human being is subject to emotions of various types. He may be happy or sad, pleased or dis- ! gusted. frightened or courageous, calm or angry; he may love or hate. All these emotions have their effects on the body as well as on the mind. The very word “emotion” means disturbance. When you become angry, the rate of your heart beat changes, your breathing speeds up, your digestive juices stop flowing, your muscles tremble, and you lose control of yourself. When you are exceedingly sad. your energy seems to be dissipated, you feel lackadaisical, your respiraI tion is shallow, your muscular eni durance is lowered, and you find it

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

;ever they can; they kill each other without reason or cause. | In spite of all this, however, they !do love to chant roudelays about ! their strong affection and their j stern loyalty to their kind. And they love even more to call attention ; to the way women knife each other in the back, steal each other’s husbands and generally misbehave. a a a THEY have talked so much during the course of several thou- ! sand years about our pernicious qualities, they haven't had half enough time to contemplate their j own. They're way behind on their home work in this subject, j The truth is obvious. Every fault : woman possesses is slightly exagIgerated in the mascuijpe character,

note of the hammer and other tools of labor. We will see happiness in homes that have been dull for three years, and we will see our streets filled again with contented, happy, home-loving people. By a Reader The crusade of Samuel S. Wyer, capitalist, the account of which appeared in The Times, is interesting to a group of Indianapolis men and women who, although not engaged in a crusade, are impressed with the age in which they now are living and are endeavoring to find themselves into some sort of philosophy of life. This unique organization is called the FO-RI-FS, and it was organized a few months ago to study current events and their relation to man’s evolution in society. The insignia is the acrostic of the name, Fellowship of Research in Fundamental Sociology. The FO-RI-FS now numbers twenty men and women, with a waiting list of many more who, too, are tired of the superficial and the Pollyannic in life’s wanderings and are anxious to meet with fellowbeings who crave the companionship of thoughtful discussion. Sociology is not the only interest absorbing the dicussions, for the group also is interested in the appreciation of good music and literature all of which has its part in a thorough cultural and scientific development. The basis for membership is a native intelligence above the mediocre stage and a realization that in spite of technical and mechanical skill the worker of hand and brain is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel which is driving men to degradation. In other words, the FO-RI-FS is trying to accomplish with lecture discussions and good fellowship the same thing which The Times is seeking to accomplish and is successful in pursuing, that is: “To give light and the people will find their way.”

Daily Thought

In the multitude of counselors, there is safety.—Proverbs, 11:14. COUNSEL and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtues and corrects all the vices.—Clarendon..

difficult to concentrate or give serious attention to various problems that arise. It also is well established that pleasant emotions are beneficial to the human body. When you see food that you enjoy, your' gastric juices begin to flow to prepare for digestion. If you are happy, you are likely to be confident in your ability to perform a certain type of work. If you are content, you are free from the unrest associated with discouragement and exhaustion. Since these emotions are so significant to both the mental and physical health of the body, and since it has been well established that emotions can be controlled to some extent by suitable training, all of us owe it to ourselves tc give some attention to the adjustment of our mental reactions to our daily lives.

because the masculine character is the stronger of the two. Vanity, love of gossip, backs-biting, malicious determination to “get even,” cruel, deceitful and petty reyenges. The men are not free from these unpleasant traits. We are altogether a pretty po r lot, men and women alike. Both sexes could stand improvement. An excellent way to start that improvement would be for us to ,*J ourselves of such utterly absurd and entirely false traditions that have crowded common sense ou; of our minds. It is not woman’s cruelty to woman, nor mans cruelty to man that constitutes our problem. It is the dreadful fact that human beings are cruel to human beings. **

OCT. 20, 1933

It Seems to Me —BY HEYWOOD BROUN_

TAJEW YORK. Oct. 20.—When a 1\ columnist gets a dozen proHitler letters in a single mall and finds that three are signed “One of the American People" and two “A Lover of the Truth." I think he has a right to suspect that perhaps , there is a Nazi in the woodpile. As far as my own experience goes, there has been a vast increase in missives favoring the cause of the National Socialists. Incidentally. I might have made a very striking collection of obscene epithets by | saving and culling the more blatant bits from letters and from post cards. Not only is there at least circum- | stantial exidence of the existence of a Hitler propaganda bureau in this i country, but there is now a definite effort, which seems to be organized, to heighten anti-Semetie feeling here in America. “It is apparent,” writes a corre- ! spondent., “that, the Jews tremble for i their safety in America, because I sooner or later there will be a religious war. It is inevitable. In any country where the Jew takes the | upper hand there is disaster, if you'll recall your history." ana Myth or Legend? UNFORTUNATELY, verse and chapter are not cited. I recall no such disaster recorded in history. On the contrary, the persecution of the Jews almost always has marked the last dying ga~p of a political system. When a leader feels that the fury of his followers is beginning to curdle against him he almost invariably attempts to divert them into religious riots. An uneasy ruler who can not or will not effect reforms offers a pogrom in place of a program. But the difficulty of the German situation is that the personality, the prejudices and the outrages of Hitler have obscured many elements in the German case which are worthy of the serious consideration of the world. Hitler is a bad advocate for his people. He comes into court with an excellent case which has been all mucked up by his bloody hands. But no matter what Hitler says or does, the fact still remains that the Treaty of Versailles did a great wrong' to the German people and that there is no possibility of peace in Europe if Germany is to be kept defenseless while the ring of countries ’round about remain armed to the death. Nor will the peace or welfare of the world be augmented by any moves to make Germany economically prostrate. Germany constitutes a grave danger to the world today, not because Germany is strong but because Germany is weak. I do not care how Hitler shouts or how many Nazi fists are raised to the sky; the sound and the fury of it all offer loud testimony to the fundamental weakness of the regime. The tyranny which marches through the German towns, the beating and the brutalities all argue the fear which fills the land. a a a Picking Upon the Weak WITHIN the borders of the Reich force has been used to the uttermost upon the weak and the defenseless, but this is no true show of authentic power. It is the wild rage of the backyard bully. It has been said by some, including many to whom Hitler's name is an abomination, that the rigorous suppression of free speech is an earnest of governmental sincerity and keenness of purpose. I hold precisely the opposite view. When a state says that those within its borders must march and think and speak in unison I suspect that all the palaces or other places of authority are haunted by accusing ghosts. Stability has never come until the head men have the nerve to say: “I recognize the gentleman of the opposition. He has’the floor. Speak your damn fool head off!” I find that here in America these are going to be tough days for anybody unless he is prepared to say that everything about the German case is all wrong or everything that Hitler argues is just swell. “What right has a runt like you to speak ill of Hitler, you dirty Bolshevik?’’ writes a gentleman who signs himself “One of Many.” On the other hand, the Communist Daly Worker accuses me of trying to drug the popular mind with Hitler poison because I have stated that the case against Hitler rests upon his own words and deeds rather than on atrocity stories, however well authenticated. ana Considering the Causes AND that is a very silly thing for the Worker to say, because I beg leave to remind the Marxian scholars that there is such a thing as economic determinism. Atrocities are the fruit of Fascism. When Hitler lays down a set of principles about the position of Jews in the state it is inevitable that all kinds of bloody and sadistic persecution will follow. But certainly any war against evil must be chiefly concerned with the root. In fighting a hydra one should aim not at the recurring heads but straight at the spine of the monster. Indeed, I might cite to the Worker its own wise philosophy that in dealing with lynchings in America it is well never to suggest that any episode was complete in itself but that each individual episode came out of an underlying and fundamental economic background. I think 111 go on as I have been going. tCopyright. 1933. by The Time*)

Reverie BY ALICE E. DYSON Wandering clouds lave heaven’s misty gray, Wild winds lament in solitude, A sombre sadness sears the face of Day, And autumn's requiem fills the wood. Southward the gray geese plume their way, While in unvarying mood. Blue rings of smoke 'round chimneys play From homes content that God is good. A yellow leaf, in fleeting gold Drifts listlessly—an unsaid prayer, The fields of grain are fraught with foam. And amber fires unfold' Vague fantasies of highways strange and fair, But I thank God for hearth and hfimt