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MONDAY, OCT 30. 1933. STEEL TRUST VS. NEW DEAL THE steel trust and Its associates, apparently, have not yet learned that there Is anew deal, Intended to protect consumers of this country and to put men back to work. While 85 per cent of the rail mills of the United States Steel Corporation are idle and have been for two years, while thousands of steel and railroad workers are unemployed, the steel trust tries again to thwart the government's plan for increasing employment in these heavy industries. On Oct. 3. after a presidential conference with the steelmasters, Joseph Eastman, federal co-ordinator of railroads, wrote them inviting bids on about 800,000 tons of steel rails to be purchased by the carriers, chiefly with government-loaned money. It was the understanding that the steel companies would submit base prices “independently of each other and without collusion or consultation.’’ Seventeen days later these steel companies submitted prices; all their letters were dated Oct. 20; each quoted a base price of $37.75 a ton. One offered to refile lower prices if a competitor bid under it. All this time the steel companies w'ere operating under their NRA code of fair competition. Co-Ordinator Eastman, speaking with the authority of the President and for him, has just rejected these high bids. Why? Because the steelmasters, in violation of the White House agreement with Mr. Roosevelt, gave him clear evidence of “consultation and collusion in arriving at the new and uniform base prices "; because to Co-Ordinator Eastman and the President it was evident that theirs were “noncompetitive prices lacking the safeguard to the consumer which competition provides.” Was the code to blame, as the steelmasters hinted? Manifestly not, for the code, as Mr. Eastman pointed out, is “by its own terms a 'code of fair competition’,’’ and “not intended to eliminate competition.” In his first letter, and speaking then also for the President, Mr. Eastman suggested tAat the steel companies should not ask more than $35 a ton on rails. This was $5 below the prices strangely maintained for a year. The * steel men proposed to cut the price by only $2.25. But, even though they have disregarded the Roosevelt-Eastman suggestion, the steel companies have been given another chance to put their idle equipment to work, to re-em-ploy men in their own) and the railroad industry. Mr. Roosevelt and Co-Ordinator Eastman have opened the way. The steelmasters have been told that, if they will not make the requested price concession, then all the government asks is the fight to “full and free’’ audit of their books and cost records. Thus they can meet the government’s price or prove that their higher price is fair. If they can not do one certainly they can do the other. If they refuse both, the way will be open for the government to invoke the full power of the anti-trust law’s, PARENTS’ RESPONSIBILITY /~VNCE more Halloween is here, and once more weary householders find themselves faced with the unpleasant problem of trying to decide where healthy youthful effervescence ends and plain rowdyism begins. That youngsters should go about the streets on Halloween ringing doorbells, tapping on window’ panes, and so on is natural and harmless enough. That they occasionally should upset the dignity of staid citizens is only to be expected. But the antics that accompany Halloween don’t always stop there. To smear the bodies and windows of automobiles with wax, thereby causing the owner a couple of hours of hard work, isn’t quite as screamingly funny as it might be. To begin the Halloween parade two weeks ahead of time, as some youngsters do, is carrying a good thing just a little too far. To destroy property and create a neighborhood disturbance hardly comes under the head of harmless childish fun. The remedy is up to parents. It’s about time some of them began keeping their children from making nuisances of themselves. . RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE DURING the next three months a Protestant minister," a Catholic priest, and a Jewish rabbi will tour the United States together, to preside in thirty-seven cities at interdenominational discussions of religious tolerance. Nothing has happened in this country recently to indicate that any revival of religious intolerance is to be feared. But it has had a fearful flare-up across the ocean, and of all menaces to the peace of mankind it is one of the most contagious. This tour can be looked on as a kind of vaccination, and it can be made an exceedingly valuable thing. Full religious tolerance is one of those blessings whose true worth usually is not appreciated until they disappear. It is a comparatively new thing in the world. Its roots have not sunk as deeply into thf substratum of civilized society as might be wished. If it is to be preserved, we must be eternally vigilant. We need to realize, too. that it is one of the essential ingredients in the democracy which we cherish. As the first nation to make a go of democracy, we have an especial reason for defending it. Democracy is more than just the abolition of autocratic government. In its broad sense, it is a scheme of society under which each individual is permitted to live his own life as he sees fit. He not only has his vote, and his free and unchallenged choice of occupation; he has the right to worship as he pleases, and t**do

it without suffering the slightest discrimination, in any form, because of it. Any Infringement on this right is a denial of the very essence of democracy. A democracy must have full religious tolerance, because of the simple fact that the moment it ceases to do so it ceases to be a democracy. All Americans who think their democracy worth preserving automatically must be defenders of religious tolerance. All this is worth repeating these days, even though there is no sign that a revival of intolerance threatens us. Unbridled intolerance is aflame bey ond the sea. There is in America, unfortunately, enough ignorance and prejudice to provide a feeding ground for it if embers should fly our way. By re-examining the question now, and reaffirming our determination not to let intolerance get a foothold, we can strengthen the foundations of our free society. DIVORCE LEGISLATION TF there is any matter upon which anew -* deal is desirable it is in our antiquated and diversified legislation on divorce in the United States. There is the widest diversity in divorce legislation, all the way from tlfe ultra-medieval condition in South Carolina, where there is no legal ground for divorce, to the free-and-easy procedure in Arkansas, Nevada and Idaho. It usually has been taken for granted that the trend of opinion here is toward the civilized divorce laws of many European countries. But this is not unqualifiedly the case. Only a few weeks ago the president of one of the leading legal associations in the country demanded that there be no divorces granted save for causes which would have permitted the annulment of tfie marriage In the beginning. Therefore, one may welcome the proposed uniform federal marriage and divorce laws proposed by the National Divorce Reform League. It is in general harmony with the enlightened view that marriage should be made more regular and difficult -and divorce easier. It also would tend to give uniformity in divorce legislation throughout the nation. The chief provisions as to marriage would run as follows: Will forbid marriage ceremony without license, for which application must be made by either party two weeks before its final issuance. Both parties must be present when it is issued. Application to be posted in the county clerk’s office and published in newspaper. Marriageable age, with consent of parents, 16 for girls and 18 for boys. Legal age, without consent of parents, 18 for girls and 21 for boys. Will forbid the marriage of imbeciles, the insane, feeble-minded, epileptic, paupers, of those afflicted with tuberculosis or venereal disease, or of those related within and including the degree of first cousins. Two witnesses besides the officiating clergyman or official must be present at the marriage. Penalties shall be imposed on those who issue licenses or perform marriage ceremonies contrary to these provisions. A marriage which is legal in the state where contracted shall be legal in all states. The specifications as to divorce would be more liberal than those prevailing in many states and would accord men and women equal rights in the divorce courts. Grounds upon which a divorce may be granted, interpretations to be alike for men and women, are as follows: Adultery, cruel and inhuman treatment, abandonment of failure to provide for a period of a year, incurable insanity, and the commission of an infamous crime by either party. Defendant in divorce suit must appear in court. If he fails to do so the court shall appoint someone to appear for him. If defendant is resident of state in which suit is brought, he or she must be served with a personal summons; if not a resident of said state, summons must be published for three weeks in certain newspapers as directed, marked copies of which must be mailed to defendant’s last known address. Alimony shall be paid according to the financial condition and circumstances of the individuals in the case. The custody, support and education of the children shall be a matter of equal justice, with the children always the first consideration. whichever parent is deprived of the guardianship and care shall be allowed to visit the children and have them visit him or her. Upon the granting of a divorce an interlocutory decree shall be entered, but such decree shall not become final until the end of three months, during which interval neither party can contract a second marriage within the law. A divorce which is granted in one state shall be recognized in all .states. Certain improvement could be suggested, notably, the provision that high-grade feebleminded types (i. e. morons and dull normals) may marry if both parties are sterilized in application for license. Also, incompatibility certainly should be added as a legal cause of divorce. This would eliminate the prevalent hypocritical and dishonest plea of “extreme mental cruelty” and the like. Most divorces are. as a matter of fact, asked for on the grounds of incompatibility and we might as well be honest about it in any reform legislation. BOLD, BAD MEN / T'HE big shot gangsters of the modem un- •*- derworld thrive on terrible reputations. They like to be known as “Machine-Gun So-and-So.” much as the Texas bad man of former days liked to be called “the terror of the plains.” But very often their reputations are more blood-and-thunderish than they really deserve. Joseph B. Keenan, assistant United States attorney-general, tells a senate subcommittee that the notorious George (Machine-Gun) Kelly really is an arrant coward who had his hands on a machine gun only twice in his whole life. When Kelly was trapped at Memphis, says Mr. Keenan, he had better than a 50-50 chance to shoot his way to freedom. Instead, he meekly surrendered, raising his hands as high as the length of his arms would permit. It is rather important that facts of this kind be brought out. The really bold desperado moves in an ominous sort of glamor; the cowardly rat who hides behind a synthetic reputation has no glamor at all. And that’s the kind of ' bad man” the ordinary gangster really is. A Londoner is making a 50,000-mile business trip by air. His is no fly-by-night business. either. George Getz has succeeded Joseph R. Nutt as G. O. P. treasurer. Now let’s see if Getz is as good as his name. v -

TODAY WE welcome Today, the new publication of Raymond Moley and Vincent Astor, which appeared this week. “A political weekly, national in interest, liberal in outlook, and sincerely dedicated to independent thought and action,” is the description given by Mr. Astor In his publisher’s announcement. Any addition to the ranks of free and liberal journalism is welcome at any time. In time of crisis the need for independent thought is even greater. Much of the first issue is devoted to a militant attack, by articles and cartoons, on NRA chiselers. The tone Is good-humored and not pompous. The, appeal definitely is to the rank and file rather than to a little band' of intellectuals. But the gay crusading spirit evident in most of the articles and cartoons, and even in Mr. Astor’s announcement of aims, is somewhat lacking in Dr. Moley’s page editorial entitled “Wolf, Wolf!” The professor is much worried over the question whether the new deal Is dictatorship or revolution, or Just the .simon-pure democracy of the founding fathers. He is sure it is tl)e latter—and ends by putting “a curse” on all who disagree with him. His purpose seems to be to convince the prospective reader that this magazine is very respectable and safe. With that academic question of revolution out of the way, and with the assurance of respectability given, Dr. Moley in future issues will proceed to the more practical business of throwing light on actual economic and political problems of today. Unless all signs fail, the chiselers and snipers are out to bring down the blue eagle. Dr. Moley knows a lot about the blue eagle. He and his magazine can do more than defend that bird. They can help it to fly higher. WHAT PRICE JAIL? 'T'HE county commissioners of a certain Ohio county had a difficult problem in human values to determine this month. Some time ago a citizen of that county was arrested for murder. He was tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and lodged in the death house of the Ohio penitentiary. For twentytwo months he stayed there, awaiting what looked like certain doom, with other condemned men for his only companions. Finally, another man confessed to the crime. The first man was exonerated and was given his freedom, all stain removed from his name. So finally he asked the county commissioners for compensation for those twenty-two months in the death house, and they awarded him a verdict of $12,000. How much money would it take to make up for so long a sojourn in the shadow of the electric chair? Does the sum agreed on seem fair to you? American gold seems to confuse French economists. Not us. We have no gold to be confused about. Columbia university freshmen voted they’d rather earn Phi Beta Kappa keys than varsity letters. They have three more years to learn. The most useless activity in the world today, we believe, is figurng the result of the coming German vote of confidence in Hitler. One chewing gum company reports $6,000000 net profits in the last nine months. Showing that the depression hasn’t yet hit us in the jaw. A mechanical heart has been demonstrated in Boston. Just the thing for our stenographer, who’s lost her own. Austria has adopted the blue eagle in its war against unemployment, so long as the bird doesn’t hold a. saber and a gun in its talons. If the prohibitionists want to do any good at all, they should organize a campaign against beer for breakfast.

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THE possibility of Russian recognition comes as a welcome relief to that smug, selfcentered attitude which has guided this country’s policy since the war and which is mainly responsible for the idea that we Americans could wall ourselves in and still be prosperous. For one, however, I would feel happier about it had we not w’aited for depression to open our eyes. Alluring as the probable trade advantages may be, it is pretty raw to make them the principle excuse for doing something which is in strict accord with our best traditions. Failure to recognize Russia has not only hurt us, but complicated the whole international situation. This is because it w T as wrong morally. You can’t have good times as long as people use political power to accomplish false, impractical ends. bob THE anti-Russia complex has amounted to little but a great delusion, born of prejudice and fostered by selfish hopes. Many statesmen both here and abroad thought they could smash the Russian experiment by standing aloof. That was w’rong, even if true.. The Russians have a right to experiment. The kind of government they want is their business, not ours. It took a major disaster to remind us of our simple duty, to convince us that w’e were not ordained by God to run the world. We should take the lesson seriously. It reveals a blind spot in our vision. We should remember that the establishment of our own government jarred the world of 1776 quite as badly as the establishment of Soviet Russia jarred the world in 1917. Had we kept that thought in mind, history might have contained a very different chapter concerning the last dozen years. We had nothing to fear from Russia, as the result plainly shows. The Bolshevist regime has. turned out stronger and more successful than most of us expected, but it. has not affected our institutions or conceptions, except by example. BBS AS a matter of common knowledge, more Americans have been sold on the doctrine of Fascism than on that of Communism, though the former is as much opposed to American principles as the latter. We find it compatible with our traditions to recognize Mussolini and Hitler, which is right, but why couldn’t we have seen the Russian problem in a similar light? Needing the business, we come around to the idea that our grandfathers were not so dumb when they made recognition , contingent on a government’s responsibility rather than its form, but not without leaving ourselves open to the charge of being commercially minded. It’s all right to be commercially minded up to a certain point, but not to the extent of subverting principles which have been proved sound by thousands of years of experience. One of those principles is that nothing can be gained by trying to hurt people, especially when they are working to improve their own condition.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in thsse columns. Vahe your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By H. H. . The President’s speech to the American Legion at Chicago has inspired me to write this letter, trusting you can find room in your Message Center to print it. The President’s worc’s were thus: “All able-bodied veterans get out and make their own living.” We will head my letter as “An ablebodied veteran.’ On page 337 of volume XVIII, Book of Merit of the Indiana Historical Collections, you will find my picture and war record. It shows I have the Distinguished Service Cross. I also have other medals and citations that I merited in France. It shows I was gassed and received two slight wounds. Until a few months ago, I have been able to supply the proper needs of my family and have not called on my country for any special favors, nor do I want to. All I ask is a job —a chance to make a living for my loved ones. Who will give this ablebodied veteran a job so he will not have to ask any favors from his country. I am a chauffeur and mechanic willing to do anything to make an honest living. I have letters of reference from Indianapolis’ leading men. If you can favor me in this matter, I will be most grateful. Editor’s Note—The Book of Merit of the Indiana Historical Collections jfives the following data on the writer of the above letter: _ Born Dec. 26, 1900, at Colt. Ark., and came to Indiana in 1914. Enlisted from Tippecanoe county, July 7, 1917. A private in the medical detachment of the First gas regiment, he served in France from June 29, 1918, to Feb. 2, 1919. Present in the battles of ChateauThierry, St. Michiel, Muese-Argonne. Gassed. D. S. C. awarded Sept. 26, 1918, for service near Montfaucon. Citation sets out that he rescued wounded and gave first aid under heavy machine gun fire, because of his efforts several lives were saved and his personal bravery was a source of inspiration to the combat troops, the citation said. He was honorably discharged March 1, 1919. By X Y Z. There comes a time, I suppose, to speak frankly of all things and you did it Wednesday in your editorial questioning the experience of the present director of public safety for

MORE persons die from pneumonia in the United States than from any other disease except tuberculosis. In the ten years from 1920 to 1930 the deaths from various forms of pneumonia in this country alone amounted to more than a million. It is important, therefore, that you do your best to prevent any trace of the disease in your own family this winter. Control of pneumonia has not been established completely by the medical profession. It was thought for.a while that the quarantine of people with the disease would stop it, yet this has not proved practical. Means have been sought for developing inoculations against the disease, but thus far all have been ineffective. One attack of pneumonia does not protect. This means that the immunity created by an actual infection doesn’t last very long and the artificial immunity created by inoculation would not endure long, either. The most that medicine can do, therefore, with the present state of

I DARESAY we never shall have done fighting over morality. Nothing so arouses differences as discussions over what constitutes goodness. Yesterday I heard from an enthusiastic correspondent that there is now a decided trend toward the old-fashioned, “I feel sure,” she bubbled, “that we shall see a return to Victorian principles.” I'm sorry I can’t agree with her. There is a movement in the direction of common sense, but none of us would really want to dress our minds in the stiff garments of othei days. Morals are simply our codes of behavior and they alter just as everything about us does. Even todays truths are not the same as

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The Last Man’s Club!

We Hope So Bv J. Goodman. After reading your editorial “Undermining Hitler” I felt that you really placed anew word to the controversy. I heartily agree with you that the only w’ay to do is to circulate Hitler’s mad book “My Struggle,” under conditions that you outlined and let everybody see what a mad man he is. I hope that your article comes before the proper people and they see that your idea- is carried out. Indiana. Congratulations. But all this should have been pointed out at the time of the appointment of this man, who had had no experience at all with crime or with criminals. In fact, his close friends, admiring him for his integrity and his basic morality, might with good sense question even his sophistication. A football player at Notre Dame, several years in the furniture business left by his father, some months in a brokerage office at South Bend, membership secretary of the Hoosier Athletic Club, work and certain political work last fall mostly in Lake county, following in the footsteps of Micky Hanrahan and “Doc” McGinty of the Republican state committee—all this is not the sort of experience to direct state police in the suppression of crime or the capture of escaped convicts, desperate in their battle for liberty. The plunder group, dividing the spoils of last fall’s political victory, selected this man for the wrong job. That was a most serious mistake. There were many he could have filled acceptably, but not that of director of police. And what is needed now for that job, as you point out, wisely and timely is a veteran schooled in the way of criminals, able to direct men with courage to capture them. The state police force should be made up of men from top to bottom who know their business. Police knowledge comes of long experience. Frank J. Wrigrht, D. C. Dr. Morris Fishbein, whose writings appear daily in The Times, recently discussed air under the topic,

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

our knowledge, is to try to bring about recovery in every case of the disease. In this, medicine has been aided greatly by the discovery of the fact that there are various types of pneumococci the organisms which cause the disease. Moreover, it has been possible to develop specific methods of protection against certain types. Some investigators have found that the germs called “Type I” and “Type II” are most often present in the noses and throats of people who live in families in which there are cases of pneumonia. These germs are much less often present in summer than in winter. Apparently, also, there is some relationship between appearance of frequent colds among members of a family and the appearance of pneumonia. * Not all types of pneumonia yield equally to the serums that are available. A Boston physician developed a concentrated solution of

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those we believed in yesterday. There is no such thing as static goodness. And we never go backward, although now and then like the poor frog in the well, we may slip to lower levels in our efforts to move forward. a a a ONE need not be a thorough idealist, however, to hope that we soon shall see improvement in certain phases of conduct. The question of sex promiscuity which, without blinking facts, has been steacfily increasing since the war, is one that could stand some intelligent consideration. The problem is not one of morals only. It concerns itself with simple

“Air Is Real Substance of Life,” pointing out that man may live forty days without food, four days without water but can not live more than three or four minutes without air. Air is vitally important and its absence is immediate death, one might say. However, food, water and warmth, also are substances of life and to have good health, one might well add, sunshine. On emerging from heated rooms, stores or street cars during the fall and winter months, pause for a minute and make especial effort to inhale as much pure air as seems possible in order to get more oxygen into the bloDd stream, always depleted by crowded rooms, overheated or poorly ventilated. This precaution will prevent colds in many instances and perhaps other troubles. Poisonous gases and germs are in the air of crowded, overheated buildings and street cars and attack those whose resistance is low or subnormal. Also get as much sunshine as possible, keep the feet dry, sleeping rooms well ventilated, build up your resistance —think health and build health. v Questions and Answers Q —Where is British Honduras? What is the capital, and of what nationality are the inhabitants? A—lt is a British crown colony bordering on the Caribbean sea and on the east coast of Central America, between the Mexican state of Yucatan and Guatemala. The capital and chief port is Belize. The population is composed chiefly of Indians, only 1 per cent being Europeans. Q —Could a person travel to South America through Mexico and Panama by automobile? A—There is no automobile road through Mexico and Panama to South America, but the route has been traversed by auto, with great difficulty.

the substances that can be developed from the pfieumoccucus. When patients with pneumonia caused by Type I, pneumoccucus were treated with this solution, the deaths'were only 10.6 per cent, as contrasted with a death rate of 29.5 per cent of patients not treated with this serum. Such statistics are very encouraging in the attack on this exceedingly fatal disorder. Interestingly enough, the type of pneumococcus producing pneumonia in children varies from the type that produces pneumonia in adults. Much of the attack by modern medicine on various type of infectious diseases depends on making the most careful and detailed study of the germs which cause the disease. In laboratories everywhere studies are being made of the nature of the germ which causes pneumonia. It seems likely that this condition will be brought under much better control when the innumerable types of pneumococci that now are known are classified propertly.

happiness. Personally, I don’t think much of our cherished surface virtues, but I do not believe moral fiber is something one helps to build for oneself and that it is never created on the theory that one does as one pleases all the time. We have seen men and women seeking release from inhibitions and troubles through many love affairs. We have watched while marriage has been made a sort of matrimonial exchange and rummage sale, and what has it brought us? Very little, except momentary excitements and additional sorrows. We are all sentimentalists when It comes to wanting “a happy ending” for our own life stories. And one doesn't get happy endings that way.

OCT. 30, 1933

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NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—1 don’t see why politicians refuse to act like ordinary human beings. Most of us are perfectly willing to admit in the light of another day: “That stuff I said last night doesn't go. Understand that.” The aberration may have explained on the ground of too much Scotch, not having heard the original question or a tough day at the office. But when a politician has made a statement, however wild, he seems to feel that this is his story and he must stick to it. I can not remember a single instance in which a candidate has frankly confessed, “Well, if I said that I was just cockeyed at the time I said it.’’ Mr. McKee set down some very silly things in a comparatively obscure magazine many years ago. But instead of meeting this decidedly irrelevant research with the comment, “I said that when I was just a young squidge knowing nothing better,” he has attempted to interpret his original indiscretion and maintain that he was right all the time. Why must a politician always be right? Os course, he isn’t. I do not think that elections depend upon infallibility. Indeed, I predict a huge majority for the first candidate who has the nerve to say, “Os course I was wrong. Tire best thing I can say in my own defense is that *l’ve changed my mind. And I mean to keep on changing it as occasion arises.” B B B Count Aqaint La Guardia LET’S leave McKee for the 4 moment and take up the case of Fiorello H. La Guardia. In a campaign speech the other night he most unquestionably became confused in his Flynns. I can not accept the notion that he pointed in the wrong direction on purpose, because he is sufficiently versed in municipal fights to know that an immediate newspaper checkup is imposed on every campaign utterance. I think that he merely said, “Ah, Flynn—that’s a word I know,” and proceeded to cut loose in quite the wrong direction. I am not the one to blame him for his confusion. I once wrote a column under the temporary delusion that Rosalind was a character in "Twelfth Night.” In spite of my illiteracy I do know better than that. And the very next day I admitted my fault very freely, although’ not quite honestly. I said that I had mqde the error just to find out how many people were reading the column, and the eleven letters of protest which I received cheered me up rather materially. , Asa matter of fact, I did not think the explanation would be accepted as literally accurate. Although I lied, I did not expect to be believed, and that, I think, takes the curse off. BUB The Joy of Confession AND so it seems to me that Fiorello H. La Guardia, having made a fearful blunder, ought to admit as much or think up some excuse which is very fancy. If he fails to take what seems to me the decent course after such a blunder I rather think that I may abandon the whole fusion movement and go home to my old friend, Charlie Solomon, on the Socialist ticket. And that not a bad vote in any event. It Js going to be tough for me to get very excited the next time Bob Minor wraps himself in the folds of the American Constitution and cries out that his right of dissent has been trampled upon by the dirty capitalists. If free speech means anything at all—and I think it does —the hardest fight must be made for those spokesmen whom you like the least. b b a Praise for Two Martyrs SPECIFICALLY, I know perfectly well that neither Morris L. Ernest or Harry Weinberger has the slightest sympathy with Germany’s anti-Semitic campaign. But both gentlemen have had the courage to stand up and say, “To hell with the Hitlerites, and, even so, I think the yhave a right to speak.” I want to get in on the same side. If Mayor O’Brien bases his refusal upon a fear of disorder it seems to me that such a decision rests upon a lack of confidence in his own police. In a very belated and minor attempt to follow in the footsteps of my great idol out of all the dead Id like to tag along with the tradition of Voltaire and assert that free speech must be preserved even when it appears to the nose and eyes of me and you and you to be simply poisonous. (Coovrieht. 1933. kr The Times)

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BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I shall be done with poetry. With trivial songs and rhymes. I shall be done with rhythem's beat, With rough and unscanned lines. All this I said in frustrate WTath Finding no words w'ith breath of life. A I shall do useful, simple tasks. I shall be a true housewife. All day I labored with a broom, Flung windows open to the air; Razed the closet of its store, Escaped from Beautys clinging snare. With With tomatoe’s flame and mangoe's jade I made a lettuce salad prink. I cleaned a cupboard; polished cups, And left no time to think. I polished panes of window glass, And dusted books ’till 4 o’clock. And then to breathe some autumn air I walked around a city block. Filled with glowing happiness I found again my green front door; With trembling fingers eager To worry words once more. DAILY THOUGHT O give thanks to the Lord of 1 lords: for his mercy endureth forever.—Psalms, 136:3. THE greatest attribute of heaven is mercy.—B eaum on t and Fletcher.