Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1933 — Page 4

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SATURDAY OCT 21. 1933

AMERICA AND RUSSIA! T)RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S invitation to the Soviet government to send a representative for discussions here is much more than a gesture toward diplomatic recognition. It may prove to be one of the most momentous decisions reached at the White House. Two problems now overshadow all others. One is to get out of the depression. The other is to keep out of war. For both purposes the President's outstretched hand of friendship to Russia has special significance. Russian trade may help to pull us out of the depression. American-Russian friendship may help to prevent war in the far east, in Europe, or even world war. In the light of these grave issues, the misunderstandings which have kept the two governments and peoples apart since 1917 seem unimportant, unreal. America feared Russian interference and propaganda; forgetting that it was we who had violated Russia’s sovereignty by sending troops and money against her in an undeclared and cowardly war. forgetting that the only revolt that need concern us is home-grown revolution caused by our own failures. We objected to her opinions of our form of government; forgetting that ours was once a revolutionary government also suspicious of the governments of imperialist nations who feared our example; forgetting that now Russia was not outlawing us but we were trying to outlaw her by withholding recognition while we extended friendship to all the reactionary and barbaric dictatorships in the world; forgetting that the Russian form of government is none of our business. Russia’s failure to pay back the small Kerensky loan and to meet private American claims resulting from the overthrow of czarism seemed very important to us—until most of the world defaulted on American loans, not to mention the American defaults at home. Now we are not even surprised that she, with better grace than many other governments, appears ready to negotiate a just settlement of the obligations she inherited. We are not surprised because we long since have become accustomed to hearing that Soviet Russia is the only country in the world which has a 100 per cent record for meeting all her payments on foreign commercial contracts. For several years our largest corporations have dealt with the Moscow government and found it unfailingly honorable. But the lack of regular diplomatic and commercial relations has prevented much trade and credit expansion. Now we desperately need Russian trade for our closed factories and unemployed. Now Russia needs American goods and credit. But we need, and Russia needs, something else much more Both of us need friendship, active co-operation in a world drifting toward war. Such a friendship is possible because it can be based on more than sentimentality, because it can be built on the realistic rock of mutual interests. Os all the nations, America and Russia have fought hardest for disarmament. Os all the nations. America and Russia have most to gain by world peace and are striving most consistently to maintain peace. Meanwhile, military blocs are forming all around them, leaving them isolated. America is more alone today than in many years. If President Roosevelt and Foreign Minister Litvinov bring together for mutual prosperity and peace the world's two strongest republics, history will enshrine them among the great statesmen.

CLEAN UP POLLUTION 'T'HE McNutt administration has ordered five Indiana cities io spend 57.065.000 on sewage disposal plants. This is good news. No right-minded citizen. Republican or Democrat, can possibly condone the unspeakable pollution of the state s beautiful streams. State conservation and health departments have swung into action in recent weeks to wipe out this disgusting condition, which not only ruins the streams for sportsmen, but which also menaces the health of every Indianian. When Governor McNutt’s regime is history this work of his undoubtedly will go down as a major achievement. Now is the time for municipalities to act. As an unemployment relief measure the federal government has made funds available to them for public works. The local federal works board has set aside $23,000,000 to enable cities to eliminate stream pollution. All the communities have to do is apply for their share before Jan. 1. There is no doubt that the cities will be forced to act in the near future whether they use these federal funds or not. The citizens of this state have too much regard for decency to permit the present mediaeval methods of sewage disposal to continue. Only such backward nations as China allow gigantic pits of filth to be poured into their rivers. And such streams, after generations of abuse, have become nothing but reeking, unsightly carriers of epidemics. Indiana never will pass such a heritage along to its future generations. HUEY WALKS OUT 'P'OR some time it had been apparent that the United States was getting out of step with Senator Huey P. Long. The other day. at a state fair in his own Louisiana, the Kingfish came right out with the staggering truth. Huey ain’t backing the President. The NR A “ain't done nothing." The new deal is a lotta you know what. Tm running my job.” stormed the washroom hero, "and Roosevelt ain’t got nothing to do with me. The difference, I was elected

without his help, and he couldn’t have been elected without the help of Huey P. Long .” And when hisses and boos greeted this modest utterance he offered to prove himself right by giving his critics doses of castor oil and laudanum Ain't it too bad that Huey is agm’ the government? But maybe America can pull through without his help. AUTUMN npo America, autumn should come “nodding o'er the yellow plain" as a right welcome guest. Crops, it is true, have not been extra large this season, but that, under our strange economy, means better times for farmers. Though bumper harvests are lacking there is enough for everybody. In the country the bins and bams, the cellars, smokehouses and bee hives are filled with the summer's gleanings. In the cities shelves groan under the weight of food and clothing and the coal yards are piled high with fuel. It is a benign time of year. An early frost has touched the maples and elms and vines with scarlet, yellow and mottled browns. Pumpkins dot the fields reminding us of Halloween and fat Thanksgiving pies. The season of cooling winds, of slackening toil, of "mists and mellow fruitfulness" is here. The harvest song is in the air. Why is it that in this land of peace and plenty the autumn holds so little of contentment. so much of fear? We think we know, and we hope we are on the way toward a reconstructed society of less man-made misery. Meanwhile there are 3,500.000 destitute families of us who must be fed and clothed and sheltered. Fanners, reading nature's signs, expect a hard, long winter Whether they read the signs rightly or not it will be a hard, long winter for millions. To let a single family suffer from lack of food and shelter is to betray the spirit of autumn.

ICKES-MARGOLD CENSORSHIP r | ''HERE are times when government bureaus **■ have confidential information that should be kept confidential. For instance, when the petroleum administrative bureau is preparing to fix prices, its deliberations might well be kept confidential until price schedules are agreed upon. But for the chairman of the petroleum administrative board, who is solicitor of the interior department, and for the cabinet officer in charge of that department to forbid goverment workers in two bureaus even to talk with members of the press is nonsense. Knowing their records, we are amazed at the new gag rules just issued by Solicitor Nathan R. Margold and Secretary Harold Ickes of the interior department. Not content with merely attempting to keep confidential information confidential, they have signed an order addressed to the department’s legal staff and to workers with the oil board which includes this rule; “No oral interviews are to be granted to, nor shall any conversations be had with, any members of the press under any circumstances." This certainly does not bespeak any great confidence in their assistants upon the part of the solicitor who drew the order and the secretary who approved it. Attempts to censor or gag the press have no place in this country; not even when only two small bureaus of the government are concerned. Particularly, they have no place in this Democratic administration whose head has made every effort to' give the people the facts.

A SHAMEFUL INCIDENT JN the little town of Canton. S. D„ in an insane asylum there were found ninetyfour Indians confined under conditions described in an official report to the Indian bureau as “sickening” and “intolerable.” Examinations made by Dr. Samuel Silk, medical director of St, Elizabeth's hospital at Washington, disclosed that no more than thirty were mentally sick enough to require institutional care. One patient, entirely sane, had been confined eleven years. A defective boy, not insane, was padlocked In his room and confined in a strait-jacket. Another patient had been locked in one room for three years. Many were shackled to beds and waterpipes. Commissioner Collier ordered the sane patients released and the insane ones transferred to St. Elizabeth's. He condemned the place and ousted its superintendent. As the orders were about to be carried out the government’s hands were tied by a court injunction from a local judge. Local boosterdom, evidently, preferred the blight of an insane asylum full of sane Indians to the loss of a few government dollars! Against this dark background the humanity of Secretary Harold Ickes and Commissioner Collier stand out in sharp relief.

STILL LAGGING TF the social sciences only could catch up A with medical science, this ought to be a pretty fair sort of world before very long. Dr. George W. Crile of Cleveland, a medical man who sees visions and dreams in the laboratory where he examines the riddles of life and death, told the recent congress of the American College of Surgeons that the human race will be a much finer and healthier outfit inside of a century. Doctors then will prevent disease rather than cure it: indeed, the doctor who has to treat a disease will have to confess that he has failed in his duty of preventing its inception. Such plagues as diphtheria, typhoid, smallpox. malaria, and typhus will be eliminated: tuberculosis, diabetes and most diseases of the heart will be mastered; cancer and the social diseases will be reduced sharply, and childbirth will be made safe. And yet Dr. Crile does not believe that this healthy race of 2033 A. D. will be a very' happy one. The race, he believes, will be menaced increasingly by the development of technology. The pace of day-to-day living will continue to increase, so that there will be more disorders of the mind and the nervous system than ever before. This bit of prophecy seems to indicate that we have mastered just about every science except the simple and homely one of conducting every-day affairs so that human beings can be happy instead of unhappy. We can conquer the toughest problems the physi-

cal world has to offer us. but we can’t seem to solve the simplest riddles of human nature. We ride in airplanes and automobiles instead of springless ox-carts of primitive man, we tunnel under mountains and dam up rivers and cure disease and weigh the stars and send out voices across the seas. But when it comes to the business of getting along with one another, and giving every human being a decent break in life, we don’t seem to be very much wiser than the citizens of Augustan Rome. The great untouched field before us today is the field of human relations. The great problem is the one of putting our triumphs in the physical sciences to work so that they can provide the greatest good for the greatest number. MEDIEVAL LOGIC JUDGE THOMAS A. GREEN of Chicago be- ** lieves that habitual criminals ought to be electrocuted, and that moving pictures of the executions should be taken and exhibited for the education of first offenders. The habitual criminal, he said, the other d.ay, has forfeited the right to live in society and should be done away with; and if beginners in crime could see, on a moving picture screen, all the details of executions they would be so filled with horror and fear that they promptly would give up the life of crime and return to honorable ways. The only trouble witn all this is that it has been tried before, and it hasn’t worked. A century or so ago England tried hanging as many of its criminals as it could lead to the gallows; and it made the hangings public, as a lesson to youth. Instead of providing a useful lesson, these public hangings became popular spectacles; indeed, unperturbed young criminals used to attend them to pick the pockets of other spectators—although that crime itself was a capital offense. Our crime problem needs a more up-to-date solution than this one.

INDUSTRY LEARNS AGAIN JT begins to appear that Uncle Sam may be the boss, after all, in the field of industrial relations. The head of the National Steel Corporation, at whose Ohio and West Virginia mills there have been protracted and disorderly strikes, went down to Washington just as a matter of courtesy. The company would not arbitrate, because there was nothing to arbitrate. It did not recognize the right of the federal government to intervene in the case. So what? So the government intervened and made the steel company like it. The company agreed to take the workers back, to let them decide for themselves what sort of union they wanted, and to deal with the union after the decision was made. Uncle Sam, maybe, Is boss, after all.

A NEGRO NEW DEAL ' I 'HE new deal Is anew deal to Negro workers on the Mississippi river levee system. Grave charges of peonage stirred the senate last session to vote an Investigation. But along came NRA and the public works administration. The latter has stipulated that projects to which it lends money shall be built on a thirty-hour week; minimum pay scales are provided; protection for labor in other ways is demanded. Now War Secretary George Dern has told the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that in all other war department work done under contract, he will insist that contractors live up to the codes of their industries. This means justice for the Negro. Mr. Dern and Mr. Ickes deserve praise. The latest style in coiffures will expose young women's necks, since there is nothing more to expose down below. With winter coming on, we shall soon begin seeing women dressed.

M. E. Tracy Says:

COINCIDENT with the opening of debt negotiations, British cabinet ministers begin a campaign to create sentiment for stabilization of the dollar. It sounds lofty and practical, but its objective is to lay the groundwork for a horsetrade. In spite of the fact that President Roosevelt has barred the discussion of currency reforms, the British are determined to link them with debt settlement. Walter Runciman's declaration that England is the strongest financial country on earth finds a sardonic reflection in the simple fact that she can't pay her bills. It finds an equally sardonic reflection in the striving and straining to obtain an agreement by which the dollar will be stabilized. The British are very much worried by President Roosevelt's tactics, especially since he can pursue them much further than he has because of the authority conferred on him by congress. They would be very glad to raise their offer of 100,000,000 pounds as a cash settlement, if by so doing they could be assured that the United States would not mess up their schemes in the future by devaluating the dollar. a a a FURTHER than this, the British are peculiarly anxious to establish most cordial relations with this country. They realize that they soon may need our moral if not financial support. None knows better than they the desperate character of the game which is now being played in Europe or the grave consequences to which it may lead any moment. None knows better than they how completely American sentiment has soured on European credit, or how faithfully President Roosevelt’s chilly attitude reflects public opinion on this side of the Atlantic. But instead of coming clean with their regrets and perplexities, the British fall back on their old habit of plausible propaganda. To begin with, they insinuate, however, strong their government might be financially, it would be much stronger if Uncle Sam had not played monkey shines with his currency. a a a THEY assert that America has not only failed ; to make her proper contribution to the war. but that she has greatly increased the trials and ! tribulations of a hard-pressed world in order j to further her own ends by manipulating the I value of money. Thus, they develop a thesis by) which they hope to drive us into a comer and make us glad to promise stabilization in exchange for a bigger payment on account. They forget, however, that the payment is on account, and that no settlement that they j are prepared to offer can square it. They forget that they are offering us what amounts to neither more nor less than repudiation and that in spite of that “financial strength,’’ about which Mr. Runciman boasts, they are defaulting on a .large portion of an honest debt.-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your litters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By H. L. Seeger. High-priced dollars the American people are forced to buy today with their labor, and the products of labor, in order to get an exchange medium for other products, are the basis of the collapse of industrial production. Short weight on the scales, short change in trade, and high-priced dollars all have the same effect, except that in the first two instances we have legal redress by arresting the offenders while in the last case we surrender, with the laconic attitude of a martyr, and call the game of cheating with changing money values, sound money. Our national debt structure of 203 billion dollars, built on the former 500 billion paper values, now rests on a 201 billion physical value. Our money earning power has fallen 50 per cent. Either our earning power in money will have to increase 50 per cent or the debt structure fall 50 per cent. By Janies H. Foster. This is the charge of the basket brigade! The South Meridian Street Civic League, as stated recently in Mr. Kirch's letter, did originate and sponsor the objection to the basket system in unemployment relief. Mr. Markun officially has given his commendation to the to the discontinuing of this practice, but what about the privates who actually obtained facts and data as to the system used last winter by the township trustee? In the winter of 1932, under the auspices of th*e Central committee of South Side Civic Clubs, a subcommittee of delegates from all interested civic clubs was formed to investigate the basket system, not with a view of finding fault cr criticism, but to ascertain whether or not numerous charges of abuse in the system were justified. That the state board of accounts in an audit conducted upon the petition of this committee found nothing to condemn, speaks well for the financial integrity of the trustee’s office but does not prove that the

YOU may recall the story of the highly emotional young man w'ho was told to eat an apple every time he became worried or frightened. One day he stopped at a hotel and, on entering his room at night, he found the chambermaid had hanged herself there. The man rushed down to the hotel desk and cried: “A chambermaid has hanged herself in my room. For goodness sake, give me an apple, quick!” Os course this is an exceptional example, but it points to the necessity of controlling your emotions by finding some outlet for them. In the case of the hotel guest, it was eating apples. In your case, it may be counting to 100 before expressing anger, or walking off worry and unsatisfied desires. In any event, it is important to control and direct your emotions before they get the better of you, since proper control of the emotions is necessary for the best mental health. Unupleasant incidents occur in the lives of all of us. The man who trains himself to take each

npHE other day I attended a meeting, the purpose of which was to make women NRA conscious. The organization for recovery has been set up. Everything is ready to go. It only remains for the public to move forward. In this movement, the consumer is the important figure. And Mrs. Housewife, as usual, is the one cog that must slip into action if the entire ♦machine is to run smoothly. The business and professional woman is also a vital part of the buying public, but her experience in industry has taught her the value of co-operation. She knows that unless she does her part she may be responsible for the failure of- the greatest- economical and

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Control of Emotions Aid Health

Is This True?, By South Side Resident I noticed in last week’s paper, and also today, about free lance garbage collectors. I would like to say to Maurice Tennant if he would have his collectors take all the garbage out of our cans, they wouldn’t lose so much. They leave half of it. They throw your can halfway up your yard or spill it in the alley. I'm getting tired of buying garbage cans because of bad treatment. If the collectors can’t take it all, then let the fellow have it who will take all.

basket system was fair, adequate, or satisfactory. How badly the baskets failed to meet the needs of the unemployed, only the committee can testify. Wherever complaints were made, the committee called, and not content with rumor, personally inspected baskets, sampled coffee, and tested weights. A semi-official follow-up by a newspaper representative about three months later disclosed a decided improvement in quality and quantity from which it would appear that the work of the subcommittee had not been entirely in vain. Let us, therefore, in approving the discontinuance of basket relief, not forget to voice cur appreciation for the work of that little group of fact-collectors who represented the unemployment relief committee of the Central committee of South Side Civic Clubs and other civic leagues, also the recipients of baskets who so patiently and cheerfully co-operated. By “We Sadists.” Society calls for blood! Let’s all get together behind Councilman George Henry’s registration ordinance to help our police. They need it. If we are not able to weak vengeance on those who lead the police on the proverbial wild goose chase, why not those near at hand who have at some time strayed from the socalled straight and narrow way? What a grand opportunity for blackmail. Think of all the “stoolpigeons”

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia,, the Health Maeailne.

situation as it comes without too much stress is likely to live longer than the one who literally tears himself to pieces over every trivial disturbance. The most unhealthy of all emotions is worry. It is especially bad because it is well known that worry never helps any situation. It is far better to try to do something about every situation over which you worry. If it is such a matter as sickness or death, in which no amount of brooding or worry can be of help, it is best to accept a philosophical view of the situation and try to be helpful by taking over as' many of the duties and responsibilities and other associations concerned with the sick or dead person as can be assumed. Many a person has taken himself out of the worry associated with the loss of someone beloved by assuming charitable, social, or similar constructive work for the good of the community.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

spiritual endeavor America has ever made. It is the home woman who is slowest to act, and to whom so many appeals are being voiced. She has less social conscience than any other group. One easily can guess the reason. Hasn’t she heard so often that her place is right at home looking after household matters? In many instances she has forgotten, if she ever knew, that the security of her household depends upon the stability of the social structure. e n CONSEQUENTLY, at this very moment we are obliged to batter down the tradition that married women must have nothing to do with business or politics. Tha

we can make out of those poor unfortunates who already are handicapped in making good. Let’s brand them. Why not compulsory horizontal stripes for street wear? Yea! though we are inefficient and unable to capture our “headline felons,” let's have vengeance by the assassination of these rebuilt characters ntor at hand Even though we wreck the lives of a few blameless wives and children (a mere trifle) let's have somebody’s blood now. By E. B. The “calamity howler” is abroad in the land. First comes young Lloyd Claycombe before the Women’s Republican Club, laboring under the impression that he can tear down all the great work President Roosevelt and the NRA have done since March 4. His efforts remind the writer of a mole hill trying to push over a mountain or a gnat tugging at an elephant. Next comes Jim Watson, the perpetual candidate, in a veiled speech at Chicago, telling our great President what to do, and none of which he ever did or ever tried to do in his service in congress. Jim is a great statesman out of congress and a great fizz in congress. Next comes Mr. Groninger, erstwhile corporation lawyer (how the people love such lawyers) In a tirade against centralization of power in the state administration. If Mr. Groninger knows the history of his country, he should know that the Republican party and all its antecedents back to Alexander Hamilton have been the party of centralization. Next comes the Irvington (Standpat) Republican Club, that thinks it can tear down our great President. This is the club that, in the last campaign, had one of its members read a political speech of the late Bob Ingersoll before it, and, by so doing, adopted the speech as part of its creed. Bob Ingersoll was the arch infidel who spent his life trying to tear down the Christian religion. This shows the extremes to which parties can go, and this, in classic Irvington. But none of the above can wrest from our great President the love and loyalty the people have for him. The people do not forget.

Indeed, worry may become so allabsorbing as to develop eventually a state in which a person enjoys worrying, exactly as fear and worry over a disease may develop that condition called hypochondriasis, in which one enjoys ill health. A hypochondriac is a person who is overanxious concerning his health, who constantly is washing himself and everything about him with soap and antiseptics,, who buys every gargle and mouthwash available on the market, who brushes his teeth ten times a day. and falls a ready victim to every cure-all, panacea and health builder that anybody has for sale. Such persons enlarge every tiny ache into a major disease, and they are constant possessors of phobias concerning tuberculosis and cancer. Almost every one has a stomachache at some time or another. The hypochondriac magnifies every stomach-ache into appendicitis. Scientific observers know that your digestion will get on much better if you pay relatively little attention to it.

tradition is the greatest obstacle in our recovery program. That, and the distrust of our leadership that has been growing slowly in the minds of the people, through long years when betrayals were many. Who can measure the harm we have brought upon our own heads by our negligence? We have elected demagogues and incompetents and nit-wits to office so long; we have let poor old Uncle Sam’s business strictly alone; we have been fooled so many times, it’s no wonder we are suspicious. We shall accomplish our economic recovery. We’ve got to. But while we are doing it, it is to be hoped we also shall accomplish a greater end. Renewed and rightly placed trust in our Washington leaders will be the greatest boon the gods ttould, grant us.-

OCT. 21, 1933

It Seems to Me “BY HEYWOOD BROUN-

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.— Phil s. Hanna, editor of the Chicago ] Journal of Commerce, said in addressing a conference of midwestem newspaper publishers; 1 Would anybody have dreamed the time would come when a government official would stand up and talk about boycotts and cracking down on employers who differ with politicians about the method of bringing back recovery?" The easiest answer to that query is to ask another question; ‘Would anybody have dreamed the time would come when there would be more than 12,000.000 men out of work in the United States?’’ Apparently, the bitter enders against the new deal are finding many recruits among the ranks of publishers. Only the other day that venerable editor, Senator Carter Glass, came out with a statement saying in effect: “Nobody is going to tell me how to run my business.’’ n an Need of Telling WELL, as a matter of fact, somebody is going to tell the senator. And somebody is going to tell other newspaper proprietors who think that nothing has happened in the last four years to put a crimp in rugged individualism. Naturally, any editor has a right to declare that he is opposed to the provisions of the national recovery act, and that he wants to see Hoover prosperity established once again by Hoover methods. But few of them are as frank as that. And some of the very men who carry editorial commendation for this or that in NRA want to take the attitude that, while it may be fine for others, it can’t be made to apply to the newspaper business. It would save time alii around Jf General Johnson had written large across the wall of his office the quoted words: “But, of course, you understand our business is different." Every group of employers which has gone to Washington has begun with the assertion that some peculiarity in coal or ships or sugar or sealing wax made it impossible for the industry to be put under the workings of a code. The business of getting out newspapers would be peculiar indeed if it were not "different.” These variations have received due consideration. In some cases too much. But the whole program will bog down if any particular group can set itself up as so exceptional that it can operate only under a blanket exemption. nan Using the Wrong Label ' NOR do i think it is'fair for publishers to attempt to conceal their opposition to co-operation by calling it “a gallant fight to preserve the freedom of the press." I am sorry to say that I fell for this dodge myself a couple of months ago, and wrote a column in which I said that it might be a dangerous thing for newspapers to consent to a licensing system. I wrote out of the most abysmal ignorance. Since then I have had the privilege of reading and hearing some of the arguments advanced in favor of the publishers’ position, notably an assortment of delicatessen put out by Carl Ackerman, dean of the Columbia school of journalism. He set his pupils a very bad example. He said that only the vigilance and courage of the American newspaper publishers had saved the country from a Fascist dictatorship. He put everything into his article except evidence. The truth is that nobody in Washington has offered the slightest threat to the freedom of the press. Some publishers want open shop conditions. Some want no sort of minimum wage or restriction of hours. None of these things has anything to do with the freedom of the press. It ’Just Isrit So FEAR, has been expressed that ths American Federation of Labor is striving to bring reporters into its organization and that any such alliance would mean a coloring of all news in the interests of unionism. I might reply mildly that this would be a partial atonement for the fact .that in certain publications the coloring at the moment is all the other way. But it is silly to debate an Issue which has not arisen. I am in a position to state of my own knowledge that the A. F. of L. is making no effort to organize newswriters. There is a reporters’ union in Scranton and one in Milwaukee, but these are not of recent creation. A well-known labor leader told me: “I don’t think reporters’ unions are good things. If you don’t mind my being frank, it hes been my experience that you newspaper men haven’t the co-operative spirit. You 11 rat on one another in a way printers wouldn’t think of doing.” Publishers are human beings, no better and no worse than other men. In a cruel and competitive world in which business has not been so hot they want to keep costs down as much as passible. But why don’t they say just that? Why not call a perfectly normal thing by its right name? Why wrap self-interest in the American flag and call it “the freedom of th press" ? (Copyright. 1933. bv The Times)

Hilltop BY MARION NEAL A hilltop is the place for me. Scattered far by all winds free All my cares are snatched away Leaving to me the lovely day. A hilltop is a place I love. Summer rain; fresh from above Steals away all trace of toil, Leaves the fragrance bf new tilled soil. A hilltop holds a world of charms. Oft times I cradle in its arms And and dream ’neath sunny skies. A hilltop is my paradise!

Daily Thought

For I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of th* wicked —Psalms, 73:3. Arrogance is the outgrowth •of prosperity .—Plautus.