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MONDAY. OCT. 23. 1933. MONEY AND WAR the chances for anew war in ™ * Europe are discussed, the American is apt to have in the back of his head a notion not unlike that which possesses the mind of the village undertaker who watches by the door of a mortally sick friend. He hopes nothing tragic happens, but he can't help knowing that if it does it at least will put some extra cash in his own pocket. If Europe, that is to say, goes to war*again, Europe will need an Infinite variety of the commodities America produces everything from wheat to poison gas, from auto trucks to shells. An America which has sold steadily diminishing amounts of these and other commodities for years hardly can be blamed for thinking about this. But it might just as well be pointed out that this time those expectations might be disappointed very sharply. Europe would want to buy those things just as much as in the last war; but Europe might have a very hard time figuring out what to use for money. In 1914, Europe held vast quantities of American securities. American railroads had used enormous amounts of foreign capital In their construction; so had American mines, American factories, American street railway systems, and so on. But things are different today. The amount of sound American securities held today by Europe could almost, as they say, be put in your eye. The shells that could be bought with the money these securities would bring wouldn’t last a week. After that, Europe would have to borrow. And any one who looks at the present state of foreign loans in this country knows without being told that there would be a different story this time. European bonds would not go like hot cakes now; as a matter of fact, they probably wouldn't go at all. There are various ways in which American prosperity might be restored. Anew European war, however, is not one of them. NO MORE FIGURE FIXING NO part of the new deal is more heartening than its ceaseless search for facts. Following those dark days when even federal figures on unemployment were juggled, it is a relief, to say the least, to see the government making extraordinary efforts to find the facts. First, anew central statistical board was set up under capable direction to co-ordinate all the fact-finding agencies of the government; new and more accurate figures on the cost of living are being gathered; new statistics on consumer purchases are being sought. NRA is asking employes to report on the blue eagle's added employment. Now the federal emergency relief administration, not content with its already important tables which show for the first time the exact extent of the unemployment relief problem in every county, is undertaking anew census. This will provide a large, a factual basis for dealing with this vital and delicate task. Because of it. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins will know the age, the sex, the race of the millions depending upon the government. This is an Intelligent, reasonable approach to the problem. TRAGEDIES FORESTALLED SINCE the federal government set up the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, foreclosures on small homes have been prevented in no fewer than 17,957 cases, according to figures just made public at Washington. It is hard to get the full flavor of this achievement out of those cold figures. You have to use your imagination a little. Think first of what ownership of a home means to a family of modest means. Think of the tragedy that ensues when such a family is forced by economic pressure to give up its home—the home for which sacrifices have been made, and which symbolizes a realized ideal as well as a paifully built-up accumulation of savings. Then you can begin to understand what an excellent job the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation has done. It not only has prevented a heavy economic loss; it has averted a great deal of plain, unadorned unhappiness. And it will continue to do so in the future. WALL STREET IDOLS THE most important single element back of all the experiments of the new deal is the general public's state of mind. And an excellent way to get a sizeup on this mental attitude is to review the case of Mr. Albert H. Wiggin, former head of the Chase National bank in New York. Mr. Wiggin retired some little time ago on a pension of SIOO,OOO a year. But it is the disclosures about the salary he received before his retirement which give you the interesting slant on the public’s outlook. Mr. Wiggin drew down $218,000 in 1930. and In 1931 his pay was boosted to $250,000. And less than a fortnight after he had received this pleasant little increase, he issued a public statement, recommending that the wages of Industrial labor be reduced. High wages, he explained, do not make prosperity. He suggested that “many industries can ask their labor to accept moderate reductions of wages to decrease costs and improve the buying power of labor.” And he himself just had been lifted to a quarter million a year! -> There is abroad in the land today a pretty conviction that we need a much fairer distribution of our national income. In the face of a disclosure like this about Mr. Wiggin. can you wonder at it? Or—to get to the point—can Wall Street wonder at it? For what we get out of this disclosure is

‘We Are On the Way’ An Editorial -

A GAIN the President impresses the country with his courageous honesty. He knows there is discontent and impatience. He knows the people want an accounting from the White House. Instead of resorting to the usual political hokum of the “all's well” variety, he went to the country in his speech last night with an honest estimate of the progress made, but an equally honest statement of the long road ahead. “Obviously, and because hundreds of different kinds of crops and industrial occupations in the huge territory which makes up this nation are involved, we can not reach the goal in only a few months. We may take one year or two years or three years.” There it is. It is a very discouraging truth to face for those who still believe in economic cure-alls and political miracles. But it is very encouraging for others to know that the man at the wheel is not fooling himself. Indeed, to any leader who saw the problem as a continuing cycle of temporary prosperity followed by another depression, and the country growing weaker with each debauch, the temptation of temporary relief and more political popularity probably would be irresistible. Perhaps the President sees so clearly the impossibility of reviving for long our old suicidal system of cut-throat individualism, he knows he has no real choice other than building a better system. The extraordinary thing is that so many citizens seem to agree with the President that basic change is required if America is to sur-

a peek at a thoroughly Bourbonized ruling class. The financial and industrial oligarchy represented by Wall Street could see nothing wrong with recommending general wage reductions at a time when the compensation of its own inner clique was going up beyond all reason. And if the general public at last has decided that it wants no more leadership from that kind of outfit, has Wall Street much reason to be surprised and shocked? The fallen idols of today are not important as individuals, but as symbols. That is true of Insull, it is true of Mitchell, it is true of Wiggin. What the new deal must do, if it is to satisfy public expectations, is to get us away from conditions in which national leadership is exercised by the class which produced them. And if that class objects, it has only the antics of its own members to blame. BILLINGS AND MOONEY giving seventeen years of his youth to penal servitude in California for a murder he did not commit, Warren K. Billings has asked for a parole. Tom Mooney holds firm for a pardon that four Governors have refused him. Few will blame Billings for taking freedom on any terms. A mere youngster he was when the passion of San Francisco class war swept him along with Mooney into the hard routine of a felon’s cell. Since then he has stuck by Mooney and refused to ask for parole, although he could have taken this easy way out. By accepting parole Eillings does not intend to admit guilt. He merely says in effect that the state has punished him enough for having been a labor leader. Mooney says he will remain in prison until a pardon both frees and vindicates him. When California selects anew Governor next year the nation will hope she picks one with manhood enough to wipe her court clean of the Mooney-Billings scandal by pardoning both victims. GRIM REMINDERS r dark and horrible depths to which human nature may sink never are revealed more frightfully than in stories of lynchings. The latest—the affair in Maryland, where a mob broke into a jail, dragged out an accused Negro, and hanged him—is a case in point. After the Negro had been hanged and the body burned, news dispatches relate, “the rope was cut into small pieces and distributed as souvenirs among members of the mob.” Just what kind of person is it, do you suppose, who would enjoy having a souvenir of that kind? For a glimpse of human nature at its lowest, that paragraph about the distribution of those bits of rope is about as horrifying as anything the newspapers have printed in a long time. ENCOURAGING NEWS /~\NE of the best bits of news of the year surely is the revelation by the American College of Surgeons that five-year cures of cancer have been reported in no less than 12,476 cases in the United States and Europe. As Dr. Beckwith Whitehouse of the British radium commission says. “The statement that cancer is curable is the greatest contribution the profession can make to the public.” Surgery, X-ray, and radium irradiation were the weapons used in these cases; and the important thing to notice is the fact that the surgeons all agreed that even more cures could be recorded if patients would apply for treatment earlier. A cancer that is just starting is far easier to handle than one which has been allowed to have its own way until it has become painful. The time factor is a tremendous one in the war on this malady. Why worry just because a girl swam that treacherous mile from Uncle Sam's “Devil's Island'' to the San Francisco shore? There will be no girls on the island. That careful driver in front of you isn't really a beginner. He has just finished paying for the car. It’ll soon be that we’ll wonder whether ■ Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity or for the violin he’s always seen carrying. A single distilling firm in the United States is prepared to make 32,000,000 gallons of whisky a year. And we haven’t put in our order yet.

rive as more than a soft spot for the few and a breadline for the many. The NRA—to take only one of the “pillars" as the President calls them—represents a revolution in the attitude and organization of American industry and labor, a drastic change believed utterly impossible less than a year ago. And yet the people, with surprising vision and determination, are making this fight side by side with the President. The President is able to report with accuracy that : “In the vast majority of cases in the vast majority of localities—the NRA has been given support in unstinted measure.” It is that public co-operation which enables the President to say: “We have a long way to go. but we are on the way.” On only one point the President was vague —on monetary policy. In making the important announcement that he will establish and maintain a government market for gold under which the R. F. C. will buy newly mined gold at home and buy and sell gold abroad, he described this as a move toward a managed currency. Whether this experiment works or not, it probably is worth trying. But, meanwhile, there is growing uncertainty in the business community as to exact price level at which the President is aiming. His reaffirmation in favor of “a sound currency” will quiet some fears. But the time is rapidly approaching, if indeed it has not already arrived, w’hen the President must take the public more fully into his confidence regarding monetary policy.

BUILD THIS CANAL MONG the major prospects to store and use the priceless waters of “the last water-hole of the southwest,” the Colorado, is Boulder Dam. An integral part of this project is the all-American canal, a giant ditch that will carry the stored waters of the dam to Imperial valley directly across American soil instead of by detour through Mexico. Completion of the $125,000,000 dam is being rushed under the work-relief program. For some reason the public works administration hesitates to loan the $26,000,000 needed to build the canal. This canal was authorized three years ago by congress in the Swing-Johnson act. All legal and international treaty questions were settled at that time. Urging its construction are not only the 60,000 Imperial valley farmers now depending on the Mexican canal for their water, but San Diego city, that looks to it for a future water and power supply. Construction of the canal would employ 9,000 men for two years. According to former Congressman Swing, spokesman for Imperial valley farmers, the same private power companies and Mexican land interests which unsuccessfully fought the canal before congress are in Washington fighting the loan now. They were beaten in the Hoover congress by Senators Johnson, Norris, Copeland, Black and other progressives of both parties. Is it possible that defeated opposition now can succeed under the progressive Roosevelt regime? Why complain against those fat figures our industrial leaders have been getting? Hasn’t Mae West brought them back into style? Hosts of Dr. Einstein have appealed to the newspapers not to bother the scientist. If he doesn’t make the team, he won’t be bothered. Fascists plan to form a “fourth internationtional” to oppose liberalism and democracy. They'll never get anywhere in this country; the politicians have beaten them to it.

M.E.TracySays:

BEFORE getting too excited over the situation caused by Germany’s withdrawal from the disarmament conference and the League of Nations, wouldn’t it be a good idea to recall certain basic facts? To begin with, Germany has a perfect right to withdraw. Both the conference and the league are voluntary associations. Any nation can enter or stay out, or even get out after entering. There is no ground for assuming that a contract has been broken, or that the status is any different from what it would have been had no conference been held. Internationally speaking, we are back where we were a year or so ago with respect to disarmament, or ten years ago with respect to the League of Nations. The Versailles treaty still is in effect. If Germany intends to ignore it or the allies do not intend to enforce it, that’s another matter. Meanwhile the world has lost nothing for the simple reason that it had nothing to lose. it a a MANY people hoped that the League of Nations and the disarmament conference would accomplish something to diminish war, but it was only a hope. All nations entered the league with the understanding that they could withdraw at any time on two years’ notice. They entered the conference with the understanding that they could withdraw without notice. In this particular case. Germany made certain proposals which were rejected by England, France and the United States. Germany had a right to make withdrawal contingent on the rejection of her proposals and other nations had a right to reject them with the knowledge that she might withdraw. Not a government concerned was bound by contract to act differently than it did. Not a government concerned has adopted an attitude that conflicts with the doctrine of state sovereignty. The trouble is that many people assume that we have established superbodies for the control of international affairs, when we have not. They are all creatures of sentiment, hostages of hope, shadows without substance. a it a SPEAKING roughly, there are seven first-class powers in the world—England, France, Germany, Italy. Russia, Japan and the United States. Os these, or.iy three are now members of the League of Nations, while four—Germany, Russia. Japan and the United States are nonmembers. That should be enough to make any one realize how weak the league really is. These conferences on disarmament are even weaker. They lack anything like a covenant, and sometimes they lack anything like a program. What they stand for is little more than a voluntary effort to try and see if some kind of an agreement can not be reached whereby nations will agree to spend less or do less on preparations for war. When they break down, nothing has happened, except tho explosion of one more dream. We ought to be getting usea to that by this time.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By H. P. C. The letter published in your paper Oct. 16 under the heading of “Maybe So” and written by one S. M. is, I think, one of the worst statements of untruth that I have read. True some things happen every day that never get into print but almost everything that the American Legion does gets some publicity and some things happen at the national convention that the Legion gets credit for that they do not do. If S. M. wishes first hand information in regard to this, he should attend a convention of this size some time and he will see for himself that the vets can and do hold their liquor like men. There is a very small per cent of the men and women who are members at the convention who are drunk. I do not know who or what this narrow-minded S. M. is, nor do I care, but his letter shows his character very plain as a bigoted nitwit and not to be trusted in anything he has to say. I have read The Times ever since it was the Sun. For truth in its articles, always have found that it ranked very high. I also found that The Times is ready to print it, no matter who it hits. The man or organization is not too big or too small for them to print the truth and I take my hat off to them. So Mr. Clodhopper S. M., when you wish to take issue with a newspaper, please find out about the things that you wish to write about beforehand. If you wish to know, I belong to the American Legion, am proud of it, and was in Chicago and stayed at the Sherman hotel while there, and I saw nothing of the great destruction of hotel property you speak of. By T. C. W. The crime situation in Indianapolis and the state as a whole seems to be getting out of hand. Granting that Mike Morrissey and A1 Feeney are two of the most efficient peace officers we possibly could find, I think that something has got to be done and done quickly before Indiana is turned into a Chicagoland. Criminals driven out of Chicago and the east seem to be centering

DEATHS from diabetes in the United States have risen as much as fifteen times the rate of a little more than half a century ago. In New York, for examp’e, the rate per 100,000 population in 1866 was 2.1. In 1932, it was 29.2. Perhaps even more serious is the fact that more women have been dying of diabetes than men. The death rates for men and women were about the same until about 1905. Then the rate among women began to rise more rapidly, so that by 1932 about twice as many women as men died of diabetes. Sound conclusions regarding diabetes, however, can not be drawn, because insulin was introduced around 1923, and diagnosis has become more frequent. Apart of the reason for the greater number of cases found among women in recent years has been the improvement in diagnosis and the fact that women are being examined more frequently and regularly than they were in an earlier day.

“'T'HE Single Woman’s Dilemma” X as outlined by an anonymous writer in Harper’s constitutes the married woman’s problem. The author pleads her own case. A spinster who desires love without marriage, and who confessing to having lived through several passionate affairs with married men, she argues that the strong woman who sets forth upon such a life course must be content with what she calls “half a loaf.” The argument would sound more honest, especially to wives, if she had said, several half loaves. By the time she gets around she has accumulated what looks like a pretty well-stocked larder. #And her plea would move us more perhaps if she had confined herself to one affair. Now there is no doubt that such a woman has a very good argument

The Halloween Spirit in Europe

Diabetes Deaths Mount Rapidly

: ; A Woman’s Viewpoint ; :

Slaps Cops By a Taxpayer. Why does the city not favor excombat doughboys for policemen? I do not refer to men only in camp. The present type of policemen is amusing. If an infantry man who saw service on the front was shot in the arm, he would not stagger and his buddies would not forget the enemy and stop to put him in a car and let the enemy get away. And show me any case where a German, unarmed, relieved a doughboy of three guns and kidnaped him. And another amusing case was the famous chase through Indianapolis streets where a bandit fell out of the car and they could not get him, and the bandit car could stop and turn around with an ordinary car, but the police could not do it. It looks like the police could have got out of their car and ran on foot and at least known in what direction the bandit headed. What do you think? their activities in Indiana. Indianapolis has had more than its share in the last two months. Machine gun thugs and bandit mobs have no business in any state. Repeal has spelled their doom and now is no time for the state and city to be tinkering around with inefficient police staffs. We need men who will shoot and shoot to kill. If Mayor Sullivan and his cronies insist that the timehonored political method of picking police officers is to be kept up, then it’s about time we got anew mayor with new cronies. It’s about time for a wholesale cleanup. What is the Indianapolis police department going to do about it? So far the answer has been “nothing.” By Fred A. Boyce. In response to L. A. Kirkpatrick’s letter of recenit date, I think Mr. Kirkpatrick is all wet. To begin with, Mr. Kirkpatrick, let’s take former Governor Leslie’s statement just after the prison break. I believe he said he could have told Governor McNutt that the break was going to happen, but he

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

Not all the people who have diabetes get an early diagnosis. The condition appears insidiously, and the symptoms are relatively mild in the early stages. Moreover, a laboratory examination is required to make a positive diagnosis. This, and the fact that women are appearing more frequently in industry and similar occupations requiring physical examinations, likely explains some of the increase in diabetes as found in women. An interesting change brought about by the use of insulin in relationship to diabetes is the manner in which death occurs. In an earlier day, people who died of diabetes used to die in coma—a form of unconsciousness which resulted from chemical changes in the body. Today the number of deaths from this cause has decreased greatly. For instance, from 1900 to 1930

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

r on her side. We all know, if we will be honest about it, that getting a ; husband these days is often a difficult if not actually an impossible performance. Perhaps it is the transitory nature of sub-rosa romances that makes all talk of love ; unconvincing, although we must remember that love of a sort is there in nearly every case. But sex experience is what they actually amount to, if we put it frankly—and sex experience, according to our present moral code, justifies them. I only like it better when we call things by their right names. 808 may see then that although the single woman is in a i dilemma, the wife who hopes to i keep h°r husband is confronted by j a real problem. Not only is he be-

didn’t because he thought that Pleas Greenlee would not allow him to take up Governor McNutt's time. What a poor ‘excuse for a man of Harry Leslie’s standing, and just think, the people of this state trusted its welfare to a man like that and Mr. Kirkpatrick, don’t you really believe that Mr. Leslie didn't come forward w'ith such valuable information because of politics? Os course you do. Now' just be frank with us, Mr. Kirkpatrick. You refer to the experienced guards at the state prison b"'ng removed? Don’t you think, Mr. Kirkpatrick, that it sometimes pays to replace some of the old heads who become lax in their duty for new men w r ho are more on the alert? Now, Mr. Kirkpatrick, you know' as W'ell as I do that the Republican party has started more propaganda on Governor McNutt than any Governor w r e ever have had in the statehouse? And w'hen this investigation simmers down, you will find, I believe, another Republican piece of dirty w'ork, which they are so capable of doing, and if I were in Governor McNutt’s place, I w'ould remove every guard regardless of how f long he has served, if he were a Republican. No, Mr. Kirkpatrick, I am not an employe of the state although I am a Democrat of long standing and have applied for a position. But my drag wasn’t strong enough. At the same time that does not turn my thoughts against a man like Paul V. McNutt. It’s been a long time. Mr. Kirkpatrick, since we have had a Governor like McNutt. Show me one man who ever has tried to shoulder the burden Paul McNutt has shouldered. To my way of thinking, Paul V. McNutt is one of the smartest Governors w'ho ever sat in the Indiana state capitol, and if the people of this state w'ill give him just a little more time, he will prove to them that he is not only the best Governor that ever took office but is a man to be reckoned with. And before closing, Mr. Kirkpatrick, some of those experienced guards could have sold out just to show up the present state administration for removing some of the old heads. And I hope some day the Republican party will learn how’ to say something truthful.

the number of diabetic deaths due to coma dropped 50 per cent. At the same time there was a rise of about 35 per cent in the deaths from diabetes associated with changes in the heart, the circulation, the kidneys and with gangrene. Persons who have diabetes live much longer nowadays than those of former years. Asa diabetic lives longer, he dies of other conditions. It must be realized that the person who develops diabetes has a lifelong problem. He must watch his condition carefully if he is to gain the maximum benefit from methods of treatment. It is knowm that in some cases the changes that have taken place in the body resulting from diabetes are hereditary. By use of insulin, children with diabetes—w'hich used to be especially fatal to youngsters—now live and are likely to have children. Hence, the question of hereditary in diabetes will, in the future, be an increasingly important problem.

sieged by such women as the author of the Harper article confesses nerself to be, but he is beset by hordes of other married women dissatisfied w'ith their own husbands and bent upon amorous adventure. It may be the time soon w'ill come when there will be no such thing as fidelity in the married relation. We may not even expect it. If women continue tc be more numerous than men—and with war in prospect what’s to prevent it —we must face the cold truth. Millions of women are not going to live celibate lives. We have no right to ask them to do it. Do you believe that the wife of tomorrow—survivor of the next war —will be generous enough to share her husband with other women deprived of mates by the folly of stupid men?

OCT. 23, 1033

It Seems to Me —BY HEYWOOD BROUN—

NEW YORK. Oct. 23.—' Tire Rockefeller liquor survey speaks with disapproval of the drink on the house. This is point 8. Nothing of such vital import should be allowed to slip by without the fullest possible debate. It has not been any privilege to set the complete text of the report submitted by the dedicated young men endowed to go out and look upon the wine when red. I would like to compare their findings with my own experience. I doubt that they have had the time to pass final judgment upon so complex a problem. It is my impression that no man, woman or child has ever been gravely imperiled by those rounds set up through the generosity of proprietors. Now. of course, the Rockfeller commission may have had far more luck than I have ever known. It is entirely possible that wherever the Rockefeller investigators went some white-coated benefactor said, “I wouldn't think of charging you boys for this one." Them as has gels. a a a Customs of the Country IDO not want to mar a scientific discussion of an important social ; phenomenon by becoming unduly citter and cynical. The fact that my own liver would be far more .brant if it had fed wholly upon house drinks is quite beside the question. No generalization may fairly be laid down. I will admit I that on Fifty-first street I have been \ at various times showered with magnums, jeroboams and even methuselahs. But within the radius of a block or so I could cite another establishment where things are very different. It is a place which prides itself upon the authenticity of its tradition. And, according to the legend, whenever the house buys a drink four coal-black owls hop out of the fireplace and hoot in unison five times, thunder crashes even in midwinter, Jupiter steps five paces to the left and the heavens are rent with myriads of shooting stars. Whether or not the myth has foundation I can not say. I have made a searching investigation, but none of the customers seems to be in a position to deny or affirm the rumor. To the best of their knowledge and belief these miraculous things have never The cue has not been given. u a a Against the Report BUT though I will admit that there may be something to be said on both sides. I am inclined to line up against the Rockefeller report. I have a feeling that it is the purpose of this small group of sad young men to take the romance out of rum. Now that all the excitement of prohibition is on the wane they feel that it may be possible to deflate the alcoholic impulse. They are shrewd in their generation. Quite possibly it will be difficult to preserve drinking once the ban has been removed. But in the early and dark days of Volsteadism, when it seemed as if an ancient institution had perished, certain brave spirits drew together and said, “Unlike the Dutch lad of the story, we will save our country by taking our fingers out of the dike.” This stalwart minority managed to keep the franchise in spite of the Jones law and spirits less than potable. Even now they are not inclined to surrender when the new tiap is sprung and the Constitution is amended in such a way as to make adventure a matter of dull routine. In those dreary days ahead of us, after passwords, signals and admission cards are gone, let all sincere converts do their very best to reserve the chance and hazard which during a glorious era enlivened the traffic of spirituous liquor. We reject the Rockefeller report. We demand the right still to sit and wonder and wait. The drink upon the house must be preserved in theory even if we never get it. a a a Changing the Mood I WONDER what a member of a lynching mob thinks about when the embers have ceased to glow. Does he sleep well of nights, and is he still proud of his activities after the months and years have passed? A story such as that of the tragedy in Princess Anne, Md„ fills me with horror not only because the details of the lynching are unspeakable, but even more since I am moved by a complete mystification as to the motivation of the men. I have never had any faith in the theory that punishment solves crime. I hope the leaders of this mob will be caught and convicted. I hope that because there is need to study the abnormal psychology which makes such things possible. Quite obviously none of the traditional excuses is found in truth. I suppose the lyncher might fall back upon such staples as the argument that he was “protecting American womanhood” or'“preserving the purity of the Nordic race.” But at that point the examining magistrate should hand him without comment a newspaper clipping reading: “The dead man was lifted high by a half dozen men and flung to the flames. Hundreds of persons, packed so thickly about the fire that police could not fight their way through, watched the body burn.” And were they still in these last savage rites iprotecting virtue and purity? Good Lord, spare the bodies of poor victims from the mad fury of the lynchers, and, Lord, spare, too, the souls of those who go down into utter degradation in the lynching! (CODVrlsrht. 1933. bv The Timen A Creed BY ARCHER SHIRLEY It is my plan and lot in life To see that things are right and just; To pay my debts for kindnesses. It is my duty and I must. For friendships that I have received I can not break my word or trust; I must strive on to keep the faith, It is my duty and I must. Forgive me when I fall far short In hope of selfish gain or lust; Help me to fight for things of right, It is my duty and I must.