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_ TUESDAY. OCT. 24. 1933. THE RETAIL CODE of the parties in the long and bitter dispute over the NRA retail code is pleased entirely with the code as finally signed by the President. But it was impossible for the administration to satisfy the conflicting interests. Those conflicts are real —as between the large merchant and small, the chain store and the independent, the merchant and the manufacturer, the city and the rural communities, the seller and the buyer. Inevitably the resulting code is a compromise. On the surface it appears to be about as fair a compromise as could have been worked out. If not, time will demonstrate its unfairness. And that is the important thing about this code, which its sundry critics should be fair enough to recognize. It is quite definitely an experiment. It is put fonvard as a temporary expedient for three months. On or before Feb. 1 a representative and responsible committee will report on its operation and submit recommendations for changes. Had the President accepted the original code provision banning sales for less than cost plus 10 per cent, it would have put a heavy load on consumers before their purchasing power was restored fully and it also might have destroyed just competition. On the other hand, if the President had subjected rural stores to the same code provisions as the larger establishments, it doubtless would have killed many small businesses almost over night—four years of depression already have driven 400.000 small merchants out of business. Such practical considerations explain in large part the code compromise which now merely prohibits retail sale at less than invoice cost plus a portion of wages paid by the retailer except in the case of bona fide clearances, perishable merchandise, damaged goods and discontinued lines. Likewise, it explains the exemption from the code of stores employing fewer than five persons in towns of 2,500 population and less. Clearly the NRA could have produced a better code if its sole task had been to wipe out maladjustments and inefficiencies in our wasteful distributing system, thus protecting the consumer by encouraging only the most efficient form of retailing. But the immediate practical problem was not so simple—to have bankrupted thousands of stores and to have thrown their employes on the streets would not have solved the problem of re-employment and increased purchasing power. This retail code and its paradoxes are typical in greater or lesser degree of virtually all of the problems inherent in administration of the new deal, whether represented in a single code or in the general effort to keep wage increases and price increases balancing each other. It is the same conflict which is constantly occurring between the NRA and AAA, and between the interests of producers and consumers within both the NRA and AAA. Stated another way. it Is the inevitable conflict between the needs of long-range planning or basic reform versus emergency demands. Those who take the trouble to understand the vast complexity of the administrations problems will not be inclined to hunt for petty inconsistencies and imperfections in the provisional retail code. THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER THE present crisis calls for both realism and vision. On the one hand, we need to co-operate with whatever may relieve immediate misery and suffering. On the other hand, we should be able to visualize what may lie ahead of us if we have sense enough to apply our intelligence to the thoroughgoing reconstruction of human society. H. G. Wells is far and away our most productive Utopian. In this, his latest volume, “The Shape of Things to Come,” he once more proves that he has no close rival in ability to size up the potential future of man. The present book is his most extensive, complete and thoughtful Utopia. Tracing the history of the world for 100 years following the outbreak of the World war he arrives at an ideal society in which both capitalism and nationalism are absent. We shall attain the world-state and an economic system devoted to service rather than to profit. Speculative piracy will be a thing of the past. In the interval, however, we must pass through the ordeal of another terrible World war which breaks out in 1940. It lasts for ten vears. Out of the ruins there arises anew civilization which, at last, justifies the life of mankind on this planet. Though the book will offer little assistance in the way of helping us with the new deal, it will provide encouragement by indicating that something much better may lie ahead of us. Professor Overstreet has gained an enviable reputation as a facile and effective popularizer of progressive psychological and philosophical conceptions. In his present volume, “We Move in New Directions,” he reads the obituary of the capitalistic system. Its profit motive and its rugged individualism. With it must go the associated emotions of cupidity, bigotry, prudery and oppression. Anew social order must be created which will rest upon five elements, bodily health, education in sane human relations, adequate esthetic and intellectual appreciation, intelligent mastery of the work problem through proper vocational guidance and adequate leisure. and finally, a true understanding of the fundamental purpose of life. The book is dedicated frankly to the thesis that we have reached a turning point in civllieation, but the author holds himself sufficiently to generalities so that he is not likely to get into any trouble with authorities. Robert Segal has composed an enthusiastic program In Triopoly—or Class War—to recog-

nize society In such fashion that labor, capital, and the consumer will be safeguarded properly. He is particularly effective in his attack upon finance capitalism. Mr. Segal indicates his realism and courage by advocating the abolition of political institutions and the establishment of direct government through the new industrial organization of society. There Is certainly much to be said for the abolition of a pre-industrial type of social control in an advanced industrial age. Leon Samson, one of the intellectuals among American Communists, endeavors to prepare the minds,of American workers for a communistic age in “Toward a United Front; a Philosophy for American Workers.” He believes, perhaps rightly, that communism will be resisted in this country primarily because it is regarded as an alien philosophy. Mr. Samson strives to bring into clear relief what he regards as the substantial socialistic tradition in the history of the United States. He hopes thereby to lessen any opposition to communism which is based upon the assumption that it is made in Germany and Russia. NUTS TO CRACK TF human nature is .still human, the administration at Washington must be lying awake nights thinking on liquor real hard. As the post-repeal period near:; two problems have a tendency to promote official nightmare. First, with many of the states "dry” for some time after repeal is voted, prosperity for the bootlegger will be just around the corner, and such prosperity will be stimulated tremendously if the government taxes liquor high enough to yield the income which government badly needs and most eagerly desires. Competition of legitimate trade with the illicit and the latter having $2 to $3 advantage a gallon means a sure enough problem. However, it seems as if the government might greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the handicap against it by certification of the quality of the liquor—a United States certificate as to quality, backed by heavy penalty for counterfeiting, on every container of liquor. Secondly, the Democratic party is much set against high tariffs. In its recent national campaign its spokesmen attacked the "Grundy tariff outrage” from every political stump in the country. Yet England, Scotland, France, Italy and practically all the rest of Europe are stocked up mightily with wines and liquors to be dumped upon Uncle Sam when he legally quits the barrenness of the prohibition desert and steps into the soggy mudhole of varied chaotic liquor control; and, naturally, our wine-makers and distillers are going to march an “army” on Democratic Washington to demand real high, if not prohibitory, tariffs on wine and liquor imports. At this point, too, enters the matter of tax. A tariff on imported drinks high enough to "protect” American distillers and wine-growers will be joyous to American bootleggers, whose tribe seems bound to increase, in accord with what glimpse we now get of future prospects. However, let us hope for the best. Possibly nothing interferes with President Roosevelt’s brain trust thinking up a code for America’s illicit liquor traffic. WE’RE IT “YF there is a European war, it will not be our war.” Thus the conclusion of a Washington editorial which despairs of League of Nations, all peace pacts and present moribund conferences as peacemakers. Verily, it seems wise to get our war bonnet on straight. The last European war wasn’t “our war,” but we came mighty near paying for it, having invested some two millions of our best young men and about thirty billions of dollars in it. In final effects, it means small difference whose monogram a war bears. The fallen heroes rot and the money vanishes, just the same. Experience teaches that it is easy to make a foreign war “our war,” to all intents, provided that our past policy toward foreign war is not radically improved upon. Another Lusitania would make us a war and heaven only knows to what overt act any, or all, of the fighting European nations would resort in order to get us into the war. Villa provoked us to invasion of Mexico. There’s Nicaragua. It will be remarkable if, as a final resort, some strong faction doesn't provoke us to gunpowder interference with our god child, Cuba. We had to lick the native Filipinos to preserve the war loot we bought from Spain. Behind our provocations are trade, or business considerations and there are few spots in our imperialism which ugly foreigners can not use as the fulminate for an explosion. Thus the foreign potentialities, to say nothing of the jingoes and war profiteers in our midst. We have tried, in vain, appeal to moral obligation, resort to league covenant, treaties and conferences on disarmament, peace, finance and trade adjustment. All were hopeless failures. For fifteen years, the experts say, Europe has been preparing for another war and the chances are ten to one that, in most essentials, it will be “our war.” But. we have not aimed our peace measures at Europe’s pocketbook, a very weak and sore spot. Suppose, for instance, that we notify Europe that her war is not going to be “our war," for the simple reason that, upon a war’s inception, we will suspend all of our export trade with the fighters and prohibit loans of money to them. Absolute neutrality! We've tried everything else. Is there any other preventive? Or, must the lives of millions of our youth and billions of our wealth continue in jeopardy because we cower in fear of drastic policy and isolation? Isolation? Europe already has got us about isolated as her well-punched meal ticket. HOBOES, OLD AND NEW RALPH DALTON, president of the Hobo Fellowship, says that his is a member of a vanishing tribe. The familiar and picturesque knights itinerant who neither toiled nor did they spin, who spoke a language of symbols as mysterious as that of the birds they seemed to follow, who lived gypsy lives on handouts and jungle fare are disappearing from the roads. The modern pace is too fast for these leisurely parasites. But the new hobo is here. He is a creature of the mass production age. His army numbers more than 1.500,000. He roams not from wanderlust, but in a vain search for work. The government estimates that more than 90 per cent of the depression's transients are sincere Job hunters. Fully 15 per cent are un-

der 21 and apparently 10 per cent are women and girls. For four winters their lot has become progressively more hazardous, their morale has sunk to lower levels. The emergency relief administration Is determined that the fifth winter will find their condition improved. "The government is anxious that the states co-operate with the relief administration to furnish adequate and standardized shelter, food, work relief and constructive cultural opportunities for these transients,” says Morris Lewis, head of transient relief work in Washington. “So far twenty-four states have met our standards and are slow in complying. “We must hasten in setting up relief projects before winter sets in. America can not afford to neglect this problem much longer." THE LAST REQUEST TT is a little bit hard to see why any one should have objected very strenuously when that condemned murderer in California’s San Quentin prison was given a bottle of good whisky to solace his last hours before going to the scaffold. It isn’t, perhaps, exactly pleasant to think of a man going to his death with his brain muddled by the fumes of alcohol. But neither, for that matter, is it pleasant to think of a man being hanged under any circumstances. No civilized person can contemplate a criminal’s final hours in a condemned cell without a feeling of revulsion. Capital pumsnment still seems to be a necessary feature of our civilization. But if we’re going to break a man’s neck with a rope, we might at least make his last hours a little more endurable by granting his last request, whatever it may be. NOT LICKED, YET TT is good to leam that the federal govemment has not yet thrown in its hand in connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping. Attorney-General Cummings says that “the case never will die until we get our men”; and the ordinary citizen undoubtedly will applaud this statement, and hope that the federal investigators will eventually be able to solve that tragic puzzle. There have been, probably, more “important” crimes in America than the kidnaping of Baby Lindbergh. There never has been any that aroused such a wave of public indignation, or that made people realize so fully the immunity with which some types of criminals can operate. One of the best bits of news we could get would be an announcement that the men who committed this crime had at last been brought to justice. MARK UP ONE FOR NRA A STATEMENT issued by George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, says that employment in the textile industry has returned to predepression levels under the textile code, with wages increased and working hours reduced. The total weekly pay roll has advanced nearly 100 per cent over the pay roll averages for March. Right here, it would seem, you get a pretty good answer to the question, "What good has the NRA done?” It hasn’t done as much as some of us hoped it would do, to be sure. It hasn’t abolished unemployment or ended industrial strife or restored prosperity. But it does seem to have accomplished some very important results, just the same, This revival of the textile industry’s employment and pay roll figures is an achievement worth all the NRA has cost. There seems to be less popular sentiment for Uncle Sam’s recovery act than for Sally Rand’s uncovery act. We’ve been bothered by so many sea serpent stories of late, we hardly can wait for repeal.

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IN connection with the present crisis, it is interesting to recall that Japan was the first great nation to stalk out of the league. Asa result of that unfortunate scrimmage, the state of Manchukuo sprung into being, fullpanoplied from the cogitative brow of Tokio. Consistency suggests that France should have been disturbed and should have said some of the things to Japan which she is now saying to Germany. But, for some reason, France was not disturbed. In fact, she gave a splendid exhibition of that calmness and coolness which M. Daladier declares she is once more trying to teach the world by example. Meanwhile, certain French capitalists are reported to be putting up 1,000.000,000 francs for a loan to Manchukuo. It is not an intergovernmental loan, since it will be made by private parties to a railroad corporation, but one finds it hard to believe that such a transaction could take place without the knowledge and consent of the French government. a a a AT first thought, there would seem to be little relationship between a French loan to Manchukuo and the present disarmament rumpus, but both go back to that spirit of collaboration by which, according to M. Daladier, France is being guided. Also, a French loan to anybody can not help interesting us Americans, since our money, or what ought to be our money, is involved. During the last thirteen years, France always has pleaded poverty whenever pay day came around, even to the extent of defaulting on interest as well as principal. Still France has found it possible tc cash for Poland, for military campaigr and Africa, and now she comes forwarc a sizable amount for a venture which we j not favor and which the League of Nations condemned. To call a spade a spade, France has been able to find money with which to strengthen her position or develop alliances all over the world, while telling us that she had none with which to pay her honest bills. a a a THAT is obviously her privilege if she can get away with it. which she has thus far. By the same token, it is our privilege to recognize the idea of helpfulness and co-operation which such a policy embodies. France is out to work for France, regardless of whose beans are spilled. She will disarm, provided other nations agree to come to her rescue in case of an emergency. One is forced to admire her patriotism and singleness of purpose, but that should not involve a wilful misunderstanding of either. Coupled with her determination to be secure, France suffers from an overpowering fear. In spite of her apparent triumph in 1918, she is scared to death of Germany, because she realizes it was made possible only by the intervention and help of other nations. • France has fixed her heart on the accomplishment of one of two things, either to keep Germany disarmed, or obtain a security pact as the price of her consent to general disannament.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SoO words or less.) By Frank J. Wright, D. C. Your Mr. Tracy, who writes so interestingly, marvels that a minority in every community, men live to be 70 or 80 and even 90 without serious illness or major operations. He wants to know how they do it, what is their secret or their ability to avoid, or resist disease? He adds, “we do not know, and the worst of it is, we are making comparatively little effort to find out.” He suggests that physicians study these men and their health as much as they study disease. Mr. Tracy has raised a question worth while. One has but to stop for a moment and think and its importance becomes a real vital thing. A truth found by a single soul will carry conviction to a multitude, and Mr. Tracy, by his questions, suggests a truth. Let him continue to comment, to carry this important health question to his readers. Something good will come of it. To answer Mr. Tracy’s questions would entail too much space in this paper. However, it is the writer’s opinion that he can answer the questions pretty much to the satisfaction of any inquirer giving the questions thought. Asa drugless physician for twenty years, he has given study to health as much or more than to disease. Should one aspire, as I have, to correct or assist nature to repair the human body, he first should understand the workings of the body when operating perfectly. The same logic would hold good in the repair of any machine, one should understand that machine as it runs perfectly. Let Mr. Tracy ask himself this question, what operates the hu-

SCIENTISTS only recently have discovered that germs are like human beings. And that is why some diseases are so hard to cure. The similarity lies in the fact that germs change their nature from generation to generation, just as we do. Therefore, protective vaccine made from one generation of a certain organism may not be able to protect you again infections caused by later generations of the same family of organisms. Furthermore, it seems likely that certain types of disease may be caused by combinations of germs working together, as for instance a virus working with an ordinary germ. This may be the case with the common cold, in which various types or organisms have been incriminated from time to time. Recently, investigators in Denmark and in this country found that a vaccine for whooping cough made from the commonly found germ, the Bordet-Gengou bacillus, is not effective if made from old organisms that have been raised in tubes for a long time, but may be quite successful if made from organisms freshly raised from a species taken from the throat. The world's knowledge of germs is

HPHE most reassuring aspect ot our life on this planet is that we have certain noble citizens who always are ready to protect the dumber element. You may be ignorant, your knowledge of world affairs may be limited, but these organized saviors will look out for your interests. Hence, while you and I have been careless with no thought of danger from without, the “Silver Shirts of America” mobilized to save us. An official statement from their headquarters says so. Now isn't that just too wonderful of them? To be sure, they can't do it entirely for nothing, and so. in much smaller type, they ask ‘ How much are you willing to do for us?” 'The usual ten-spot would be about right, wouldn't it, Majors Pelley and Powell?) Probably you are not aware of it, but you are in deadly peril. There’s

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Lauds Police By Buford Cadle. I read with interest an article in your good paper written by a resident of this city and reprinted in the Message Center Oct. 19. This man asked why the Indianapolis police department did not try to catch jail-breakers and stick-up men instead of trying to direct traffic and issue traffic violation stickers to so-called unsuspecting motorists. The letter sounded as though the man in question had received a sticker himself and had to pay. If that is the case, here’s to more and better stickers and cops to place them on just such motorists as the gentlemen in question. It is a known fact that almost every city in the United States is envious of our police department, its methods and its men. Members of our police force are efficient, capable and honest, with very few exceptions. Our chief is a man of his word. He will stand for no “monkey-shines” or dishon-

man machine and then consider that thing of the utmost importance in furnishing a solution to his now' bewildered mind. Understand this much, in brief effort to help him and others to solve the questions. Health means a perfectly working body, all parts in harmony, working as a whole. The operating power or energy must reach every part in proportion to its particular needs. There is within the human body an intelligence from birth, from inception, which built the body and continues to operate it as long as that body is habitable. When the body is no longer habitable or unable to repair, this intelligence, power (life) moves out. You may choose your own name

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

less than 100 years old. Yet of all the knowledge we have, this is among the most significant. Today we know' that there are many varieties of minute organisms and that their effects on other living forms are tremendous. There are germs of every shape and size and many that are so small as to be invisible. There are, in fact, germs so small that they can pass through the pores of a clay filter. These are called filterable viruses. Among the troubles due to such viruses are foot and mouth diseases and probably also smallpox and poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis. Interesting studies are being made by chemists, w T ho determine not only chemical composition of germs, but from that the type of sugars and similar materials on which the germs must live to multiply. The control of germ species of various types is much simpler w'hen their habits are known in such intimate detail. An example of the w'ay in which knowledge about germs and diseases progresses is the story of the attack

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

hair-raising news gathered by our little busy bee Silver Shirts. While the rest of us have been occupied with the NRA, they’ve nosed around and unearthed a lot of skulduggery. Had you guessed, for instance, that the Russian Communists let loose the hoof and mouth disease plague in the land? a a a rvON’T you know that the rascally Reds are tampering right now with the great western canning factories and by and by they'll cram some dirty little germs into our peas and corn and then, pouf! the whole population will be wiped out and they can help themselves to the U. S. A.? But pray don't break a blood vessel worrying about it. The Silver Shirts will do that for you, because they're right on the job. They are

esty in his department and he demands capability from every member of his force. The fact that Indianapolis is free of gang members should prove the efficiency of our guardians of the law. Some roving gangster or criminal may wonder into our “no mean city” but you can bet your bottom dollar he w'on’t stay long—that is, alive. When one thinks of the great catches made by our police and detective departments he realizes it is nothing short of phenomenal. There are the Jones murder suspects, the L. A. Jackson killers and others too numerous to mentionAny police department with such men as Captains Pettit, Johnson and Ray and Sergeants Heuber, Marks and Yoh should be lauded to the skies. Who are we to criticise. Here’s to our chief and to every one of his men. Our thanks for their success in making Indianapolis a place safe for every one. Believe it or not, I’m a Republican, too.

to define this life within the body, nerve energy, vital force, human electricity, life, God, it makes no difference as to the name, the power to operate remains the same and its normal, unhindered transmission assures health, other living conditions in accord with personal hygiene. I will be very glad to write Mr. Tracy at length if the editor will give me his address. DAILY THOUGHT What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?—Job, 2:10. THE history of all the world tells us that immoral means ever will intercept good ends.—Coleridge.

on diphtheria. This began many years ago with the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin, which was used not only to cure the disease, but also, given immediately following exposure, to aid in prevention. Then the Schick test was discovered and at the same time it was found possible to prevent the disease by injecting into the child who had been exposed to a mixture of the toxin, or poison of the germ, and of the antitoxin. Later, when it was found that the toxin is an active substance which stimulates the formation of resisting substances in the body, means were developed for inactivating the toxin by adding to it some formaldehyde. This gave rise to the substance called toxoid, which can be injected into children with little or no severe reactions and thus produce immunity against the disease. Today campaigns are being carried out in many parts of America leading to the possibility of protecting every child against diphtheria. In some cities from (?) to 75 per cent of all the children under six have been given this type of protection. If this is carried on with the greatest possible efficiency, it eventually may be possible to stamp out diphtheria.

the deadliest foes of Communism. They are a “great Christian militia ready to uphold the spirit of the Constitution.” 'D. A. R club notes will please copy.) From their modest recommendation we gather that ‘‘the Silver Shirt roster represents the cream, the bead, and the flower, of our Protestant Christian manhood.” Moreover the likeness of the irreproachable Sir Galahad adorns their escutcheon. The Silver Shirts stand ready to save us once again from the Jews, the Catholics, the Negroes and the Communists, and after that they will deliver us up bag and baggage to Herr Hitler, who according to their literature, they represent in America. Rather a dubious salvation if you ask me, popping us into the Are, just as they have snatched us from the frying pan.

OCT. 24. 1933

It Seems to Me :~BY HEYWOOD BROUN

TKJEW YORK. Oct. 24.—1n the present campaign John P. O'Brien has stressed the issue of “loyalty.” But the word means nothing without some definition. The question must be asked. “Loyalty to what?” And if the answer comes. “Loyalty to John P. O'Brien,” I think we have a right to yawn or to make other noises. Even before this campaign I was a dissenter. I thought it was silly when I used to hear assembled hosts sing, "For God. for country and for Yale." Os course, it would be difficult to fit a melody to any such affirmation as “I am for the God of Spinoza, but not the God of Aimee Semple MacPherson, and I am for my country except when its would like Yale to win the football actions seem to me unjust, and I am game even though I think that there is quite a lot wrong with Yale, in spite of the fact that Maine was defeated by a score of 14 to 7.” All that. I think, is rather too long for an anthem. It might be simpler to say. “I'm an agitator." In recent years the word has been used as a term of reproach. And yet the most casual survey must show that all causes—conservative or otherwise—have been furthered by agitation. The chief complaint leveled against the agitator is that he takes people who are content with their lot and makes them dissatisfied. This is the charge hurled against labor leaders who organize strikes in districts where unionization was not heard of before. And the manufacturers like to say, as in the case of Ambridge, that everybody was peaceful and happy before the agitators came. n n n Quick and Content IT may be true that, even in certain industries where pay is low and living conditions are severe, a bovinity can exist until some outsider calls attention to the rigors and injustices of the situation. But this process of rousing men and women to a thought of something better or at least different is most certainly not confined to radicals. Many wholly conservative people subscribe large sums of money for foreign missions. Now t , obviously, the missionary is always an agitator. He may go to a South Sea island, w r here trousers are quite unknowm, and stir the savages into putting on garments by making them ashamed of their previous lack of attire. non Wilson the Agitator TAKE the case of Woodrow Wilson. When he returned from Paris and began to preach his theory that salvation from international disturbances lay in the League of Nations, he qualified as an agitator. I happened to be in favor of the agitation which he conducted. Nevertheless, it would be foolish to deny that he went into communities and endeavored to place in the hearts of men a dissatisfied feeling about foreign relations which ha d. not been there before. These communities were content with the old order of national rivalries, or, rather, they gave small heed to them. And so I deny that it is an intrusion to tell a socially maimed or wounded person that he labors under a disability. A striking case was much reported in the instance of a young man who had been blind from birth. The anti-agitation school, in all logic, should have been against the operation which gave him sight. Never having seen the passing show, he could not have worried about it a great deal. And yet it was within his due that a window into the world should be opened up for him. In somewhat similar fashion it , seems to me an excellent thing that men should take occasion to teli workers in backward communities that sls a week is a pitiful wage, even if it is the rate to which they have become accustomed. And going back into historical precedent, it easily can be maintained that Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Patrick Henry and the rest were agitators. It was not in the mind of every colonist to rebel under the slogan “No taxation without representation.” In all truth, many of the inhabitants of the original thirteen states suffered no palpable burdens under British rule. They had to be aroused to their disabilities. u a a A Divine Impatience THE agitator in all fields of human endeavor is the person w r ho insists, sometimes with violence, that the world as it stands is not good enough. This insistence partakes of a very necessary quality of life. Contented organisms have already felt the touch of degeneration. In man or beast or microbe life consists of the desire to push out wider borders, to grow and move and explore domains which have been barricaded. Posterity has picked practically all its heroes from the agitators. They are the saints and the holy men of our religions. And, since this process of honoring the despised and the criticised has become so universal, we might sharpen our wits enough to refrain from hasty condemnation of all who would shake us out of lethargy. They may be a nuisance. But they are the corpuscles of the corporate being through which the waste and the stagnation of the status quo is turned into living tissue. (Copyright. 1933. by The Times) Hill-Top BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK Here on this hill-top beauty is complete ; Each swerve and line of green and grey in place. And yet it i3 not primly placed, or neat. But bears a primal, sturdy grace. This tree; this wood; this sweep of ground; This curve of creek cut deep in slate; This sweep of hill-crest, only bound By wind and the sky’s blue weight. Here on this summit lurks a peace That sings into the dim blue air; Which never wanes but does increase Till beauty looms too great to bear. Here are wind and sky and sunbrowned sod. Here are peace and beauty, and my God*