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F. D. R. AND THE FARMERS TT took political courage for the White House to t'irn down the appeal of midwestern Governors for agricultural price-fixing. Mr. Roosevelt has no taste for attempting economic “miracles." he told the nation a week ago. His own plan, the agricultural adjustment plan, is an outright experiment. Under it a sum approaching half a billion dollars is being paid by consumers in processing taxes for direct payment to farmers who reduce their crops this year and next. Thus far the experiment has been helpful. Cotton prices, for instance, are about double what, they were a year ago; wheat prices are up None of these new and higher prices is yet high enough to restore prosperity to agriculture. our basic industry. And no one knows this better, nor states it more frankly, than the President. . It was undoubtedly a bitter pill the farm state Governors were given in the White House refusal of their “miracle" plan. But such a statement as that made by one of the Governors on the White House steps is ridiculous. "The farmer is the forgotten man,” he said. “Everybody else has been here before him, the banker, the insurance man, the railroad man, and got all the money. There is nothing left for the farmer.” This Governor seems to have the idea that farming is an industry set apart, wholly unrelated to the recovery of other industries. If the iron and steel industry were prostrate, does he think Pittsburgh, for instance, could be a normal consumer of agricultural products? The recovery program is so mapped as to affect each section. As public works, for instance, lends $135 000,000 to railroads, these and the iron and steel and other industries will benefit; employment will be increased and stabilized; workers will have money with which to buy—buy the products of the farm; the farmer will have more money with which to buy the products of other industries. President Roosevelt has said that he intends to raise commodity prices one way or another. The farming sections, peopled by reasonable, sensible Americans, can afford to go along with the President.

HELPING HEAVY INDUSTRY ■p\OLLARS go places and buy things. It is the government s chief aim now that dollars should do this very thing. So the government has agreed to lend $84,000,000 to the Pennsylvania railroad to complete electrification of its line from New York to Washington. The railroad will spend out of this sum about $16,000,000 for 132 locomotives. This means that coal will have to be mined in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, copper in Arizona, timber from Texas and Tennessee will be needed. The road will spend a similar sum for 7.000 freight cars. Here again, dozens of localities will benefit, thousands will be employed. This loan, accompanied by the $51,000,000 allocated for the purchase of steel rails, is the government’s first big boost for the heavy industries. Railroad purchasing power, normally one of the greatest factors in our economy, is being restored. The public works administration is to be congratulated on taking this Important step. Following expenditures for slum clearance and model housing by the federal housing corporation, this marks an advance toward recovery. THE PERQUISITES OF PATIENCE 'T'HE Hon. Lewis Douglas, director of the -*■ budget, counseled patience with the new deal in a recent speech. He maintained that we can expect no hasty return of recovery. The country was in such a desperate economic plight on March 4, 1933. that rapid recovery is not to be expected. It may be conceded readily that Mr. Roosevelt has accomplished more in seven months than any other President has ever achieved in four or eight years. It may also be granted that he has probably done much more than would have been accomplished by any other prominent candidate for the presidential nomination in either major party in 1932. The sad fact is. however, that the President is in a position where he must not only do more than any predecessor, but also accomplish enough to put us back unquestionably upon the road to recovery. He must certainly have realized the desperate condition of the country before he actively sought the nomination for President. Therefore, he requested the responsibility which is now his and he can hardly complain when he finds it resting upon his shoulders. We can afford to be patient at a fire if water is pouring upon it from all the available hydrants, if all the available extinguishing chemicals are being played upon the flame, and if every available fireman is straining to the uttermost to end the conflagration and to rescue life and property from its ravages. But we can hardly be expected to be patient if the firemen are casually throwing buckets of water on the fire and the fire chief is solemnly leading aloud, however engagingly, a splendid set of rules regarding fire prevention. In his excellent book. "Money for Everybody." Mr. W. E. Woodward aptly compares overcoming the depression to pushing a man cut of a deep ditch. If we do not get the victim safely out and on solid land, all our efforts are worse than vain. At the end. both the would-be rescuer and the victim are in the ditch together, sputtering, exhausted and helpless. It Is exactly the same with business. Unless we give a sufficient impetus to business activity so as to speed up the faetpries, in- , crease employment and make possible the sale

of goods, all our expenditures will end up by being nothing more than a dole in a hopeless relief system. The one hope which Mr. Roosevelt had of success was to "shoot the works” with every possible device available, while public loyalty and expectation were at a fever heat. Under such circumstances, he had at least a desperate gambling chance of saving capitalism and establishing his reputation as the greatest American statesman of all time. If, instead of bunching his efforts in one grand slam, he strings along his remedies for depression, futilely trying each out singly, a paralyzing failure Is Inevitable. In the end, he and the depression will both be at the bottom of the ditch sharing a common and miserable fate. We can not afford to wait or be patient unless everything possible is being done to get the necessary results. Every month of lagging business brings about a loss of prestige for the President, breaks down the unity of his following, encourages his partisan opponents and invites a congressional rebellion.

„ CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS THE problem of crime once is again uppermost in the public mind. The kidnaping epidemic and the prison breaks carried on by desperate criminals have put the subject in the headlines for weeks past. With repeal now imminent and inevitable, we are likely to have a still greater orgy of crime. The organized gangsters who have made their money out of the illicit liquor trade now will turn their activities toward organized bank robberies, train robberies and the like. Therefore, anything which throws light upon scientific modes of checking crime is a public service. Professor Robert H. Gault has brought out a Century of Progress edition of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology which treats of the evolution of criminal science in the western world during the last century. Here we have the story of the advances in criminology from the whipping-post to the centralized and well-organized department of correction in the state of Illinois which has pretty thoroughly adopted scientific methods of dealing with the crime problem. Due attention is given to the progress of crime detection, the evolution of criminal law, the development of penal and reformatory institutions and the application of psychiatry and the social sciences to the crime problem. One who wishes to get comprehensive and authoritative information on the progress of criminal science will find this volume the most useful and up-to-date document in English. The progress of criminal science during the last century has been extremely gratifying, but we have failed most notably to apply this valuable information to our actual practice in handling criminals above the juvenile level. The procedure in the court room and the average prison bears no more resemblance to real criminal science than astrology does to astronomy. Until we make thorough use of the best available knowledge there Is little probability that we will catch the crooks or deal with them effectively when apprehended. Arthur Garfield Hays has made a most valuable and striking contribution to the further exposure of that farce known as the jury trial. This is a near burlesque even when strong prejudices are not involvedWhen the mob spirit pervades the court room the possibility of getting an accurate and reliable verdict in any important case is much slighter. The thirteenth juror, by which term Mr. Hays describes any prevailing prejudice, is likely to override whatever intelligence and poise are possessed by the “twelve good men and true.” Mr. Hays gives us a clear summary of the more notable cases in which prejudice has played a conspicuous part in the verdicts rendered. Among these are the Scottsboro case, the case of Mooney and Billings, the SaccoVanzetti case, Centralia, the case of Leo Frank, and the Mitchell case. While prejudice usually works In the way of securing the conviction of the innocent radical in the face of mob psychology, it sometimes operates the other way round and obstructs the prosecution. Mr. Hays cites as evidence of cases of this sort the Herrin trials in Illinois where public sentiment was in favor of the defendants and the case of banker Mitchell where the jury itself was markedly prejudiced in favor of the defendant. Mr. Hays also calls attention to cases in which a very clever criminal lawyer has been able to overcome popular prejudice. Cogent illustrations here are the Haywood case in Idaho and the Sweet case in Detroit, both won through the clever court generalship of Clarence Darrow. The cost of crime is probably the largest single burden imposed upon the public as the result of any one social problem. Chronic illness is. however, a continuous charge of no slight proportions. In New York City alone it is estimated that there are 70.000 persons incapacitated through chronic illness. The cost of maintaining them, including loss of earning capacity, amounts to about $100,000,000 a year. At such a time as this, when the city has to make frantic efforts to get hold of a few more millions to meet running expenses and when there is an annual drive for relief funds amounting to about a fifth of this figure, chronic illness is a subject which can not be ignored by the public official any more than it can by the social worker. Much of this chronic illness could be prevented if the cases were caught in time by social workers and referred to proper medical treatment. Miss Jarrett has prepared a most competent and thorough work on chronic illness in New York City, indicating the extent of the problem, how it is being met today and offering constructive suggestions for future improvement. EDUCATION WEEK EVER Since the wartime draft uncovered widespread illiteracy American educators have set aside a week in which to magnify free schooling and to educate America on education. American Education week, beginning today, finds the schools, from kindergarten to college, in their most alarming crisis. This week's theme is “Meeting the Emergency in Education.” Emergency it is. Debt-ridden towns, counties, cities and states, loaded down with new relief burdens have slashed school budgets to the quick. The National Education Association reports that 110.800 children of school age are being denied education, that 150,000 art go-

ing to school in temporary shacks, that 250.000 more are getting only part-time schooling. More than 18,000 rural schools are closed. Someone hundred city systems and 4.500 rural schools have reduced their terms by a month or more. Some 80,000 teachers are jobless, 30,000 are on relief. School capital outlays fell from $411,000,000 in 1926 to $154,000.000 in 1933. The de nands on this crippled system are heavier than ever. The total public school enrollment has risen from 24.741,468 in 1926 to 26,526,700 in 1933, yet total expenditures have fallen. The codes have released 100.000 new pupils from wage-labor. Many jobless graduates are back knocking at class-room doors for more education. We hope this crisis will force communities to clean their civic houses, to throw out parasitic politicians, reduce duplicating subdivisions of government, revamp their tax systems. It may result in a better type of education, higher teaching standards, more modern plants, a wider use of the expensive school plant by adults. Meantime emergency aid is needed.

SENATOR KENDRICK CJENATOR JOHN B. KENDRICK of Wyoming, who died in his 77th year last week, was a good cowboy, a good cattle rancher and a good millionaire. He was also a good senator. Perhaps it was because he preferred his saddle to a club armchair, stayed rooted in the prairie loam of his 200,000-acre ranch and remained intimate with starry western skies. At any rate he never lost touch with the plain people. He fought for our entry into the League of Nations, was co-author of the Kenyon-Kend-rick act to regulate meat-packing, aided the late Senator Walsh in exposing the Teapot Dome scandal, favored repeal, farm relief and liberal laws. He died, one might say, with his boots on. He had just won government aid for the Casper-Alcova reclamation-power project, his hobby for a decade, when he was stricken at his desk. His cup was full. UNREST, OLD AND NEW 'P'IGURES made public by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins throw light on another of the new deal's services to industrial peace and progress in America. The depression immediately following the World war was mild compared with that from which we seem to be emerging. Yet strikes and lockouts from April to September of 1921 numbered 1,453 as against 900 for the same period this year. Disputes in that period were long and bitter, and involved 895,048 men; those of this year have been short-lived and have involved only 584,006 men. At one time in 1922 more than 1,000,000 men were out, 600,000 in the coal fields alone. Today two benign forces are operating that are new to the peacetime industrial front. One is a strike-abating mechanism, the national labor board and its regional branches. According to Senator Robert Wagner, the board’s chairman, more than 200,000 Wageearners have been returned to work as a result of the board's operations. The board has taken jurisdiction over 110 cases, of which seventy-five were strikes and three were lockouts. It is interesting that Senator Wagner holds 70 per cent of these strikes traceable to difficulties over the simple and lawful right of workers to bargain collectively. The other force *s what Secretary Perkins calls "the will to agree,” a will common to a great bulk of blue eagle employers. “If employers had In all cases accepted without struggle,” said Miss Perkins, “the requirement of the law that collective bargaining is permitted and required where desired, there would have been a reduction from 50 to 75 per cent in the number of disputes in the last few months.”

M.E. Tracy Says:

Theoretically the dollar is now worth less than 65 cents. If this meant anything to average people, they would be getting more than $1.50 for the amount of goods or labor which brought $1 eight months ago. They are not, which is the real fly in the ointment. Setting a price on the little amount of new gold that may be mined has no effect on the general value of money. Because of the antihoarding law, gold is not a marketable commodity in this country. Other governments know this and are paying little attention to the grandstand play. On an average, this country produces 40 or 50 million dollars in new gold each year. A 50 per cent increase of the price which the government is willing to pay might conceivably step up the output, but to no considerable extent. The trading in gold which has been authorized is surrounded by too many limitations to make it of any importance. Instead of the dollar going down in foreign exchange, as many of our bright economists expected it would, the dollar went up. 000 ADDED to that, foreign governments were not impressed sufficiently to raise the price of gold after the first flurry of excitement, while in this country, the stock market displayed anything but the buoyant tendency which was looked for. The point is, of course, that theoretical devaluation of the dollar fails to satisfy the obvious need. People are not demanding cheaper money for the mere sake of having it cheaper. They don't give a whoop whether financial speculators can make a profit by swapping dollars for pounds, or vice versa. What they want is a change that will find immediate and dependable reflection in an advance of prices and wages so that they can meet their obligations on an equitable basis. The high dollar has led to a shrinkage of income throughout the nation. A low dolla will do no good, unless it leads to an expansion, not in theory, but in fact. 1 ’ nan WITH the NRA as a basis of operation, there is no reason why the dollar could not be lowered by a specific percentage and wage scales raised by a similar percentage all along the line. That would square devaluation with earning power. If something of the kind is not done, the debt load can only drive this nation farther into bankruptcy. The American people face obligations which they can not meet under the existing setup. The idea is that they can borrow, drink, or speculate their way out is ridiculous. The philosophy of curtailed production as a cure-all is even worse. We are not going to make more by doing less. Our need is work, not idleness, and our hope lies in a gradually expanded consumption, both at home and abroad. First of all, however, the financial setup must be so rearranged that average people can meet their debt installments, pay- their taxes and take care of running expenses. vks : .. , „*• f '

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By F. W. Roekafellar. In an editorial on Oct. 30 you state that “nothing has happened in this country recently to indicate that any revival of religious intolerance is to be feared.” You certainly are very much uninformed, or are trying to hide the facts from your readers./ In one city in New Jersey in one day fiftyseven men and women were arrested for preaching the Gospel as they see it and nineteen women were held, all in one cell built for one prisoner. Fifty-six were convicted and sent to jail for ten days each without a just or lawful trial, even being compelled against the law to witness against themselves. ' This is only one of many similar cases, some even in our own fair Indiana. Am sending under separate cover a magazine that covers some of these and the cause. Hope you will read it. I have been a subscriber of your paper since it was first printed and am an admirer of the bold and fearless stand you take on many evils that oppress the people. By a Taxpayer (Not Braugin*). I wish to reply to “Another Taxpayer” who seems to have plenty of ccmment, but evidently does not know much about the subject chosen. He? or She? raps our police chief for looking after "matters of the 14-year-old boy type” and would probably be the first to complain the loudest if the police did not watch the crossings for the school children. “As the twig is bent so grows the tree’ and our petty offenders of juvenile court today will be the bandits and gunmen of tomorrow. It is a fact well known by the underworld of this country that In-

NEXT to seeing that your children eat well, be sure they get plenty of rest. Remember that the child requires both food and rest not only for maintaining the energy of its body, but also for growth and for repair of tissue. Sleep is the most satisfactory way of resting. Even when we are asleep, however, the heart, lungs, and other organs are carrying on their functions. Moreover, sleep is not, as we now know, complete quietude. The average child makes some decided muscular movements once every nine minutes even during its most intense sleep, which occurs during the first hour after it goes to bed at night. This varies, of course, as some children lie especially quiet for as long as one-half hour after falling asleep—but these are rare. Children between 2 and 10 are likely to be intensely active during every wakeful moment. Any mother who has herself taken care of her child for an afternoon will confirm this fact. Asa result, the child demands many hours of sleep during its

OUR gay young sophisticates rather like making jokes about the romantic attitudes of the past generation. Grandma remains the butt of many wisecracks. The chief thing against her is that she was sentimental, and being sentimental with us is the one unpardonable sin. It needs, however, only the most cursory study of history, biography and fiction to make us realize, once and for all, that we and not they are the true sentimentalists. In marriage for example the oldfashioned wife can hardly be said to have been a "softie.” She was in very truth the sternest of realists. When she took her vow she considered herself bound and would no more have thought of abandoning her job than would a good soldier of deserting * his post.

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The Reward of Virtue

All in One Boat By Perry Rule. The deliberations by state senators on Oct. 28, on state administration affairs was not serious, calm and searching, but was shallow and petty. The accusations were smirking, garrulous and designing. The damage to their own political fortunes was intractable. They were boring holes in their own compartments while attempting to sink McNutt’s boat. They lost sight of the fact that their political fortunes all were in the same boat. It would have been better had they licked their own wounds than to bark at the heels of the Governor.

dianapolis is a bad place to land and that they are due for a “knockoff” if they come here. It must be more than idle gossip, for we do not have the organized gangs of racketeers that other cities in a 300-mile radius have. You can take the police department as a whole and find men that not only can fight, but will if the occasion presents. They are the sort of men who if they knew where “bandits are hiding in our city” would at least divulge the information to someone who would go get them. I might add that any citizen has the legal right to arrest any one wanted for a felony, so let us see some results from these chronic cranks who are always ready with the old hammer. By Leonardo. Indiana artists still do not rate. First, the contract for murals at Chicago goes to an outsider; then, the contract for murals in the new Indiana state library goes to an

Children Must Get Rest - BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyifcia, the Health Majaiine.

early years of life, the number being reduced gradually as the child grows older. The average routine is twelve hours in bed for the child of 6 years of age, and fifteen minutes less each year after that until it matures. That means, a child 6 years of age should go to bed at 7 o’clock, 10 years of age 8 o’clock, 14 years of age 9 o’clock, and 18 years of age 10 o clock. Some children require even more sleep than do others. These are the youngsters who like to sleep late in the morning. If you let any of your growing children stay up late at night, merely because they are large and seem grown up, don’t accuse them of being lazy when they oversleep in the morning. If a child lies in bed awake for a few minutes after being aroused in the morning, it may be lazy; but

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Her words was even better than her bond. Sorrows and tribulations may have battered her down and cruelties may have crushed her, but she remained true to her code, however foolish that code may appear to us. a a a 'T'ODAY, alas, we have no codes to which to be true. We are utter sentimentalists, theatrical in our approaches to life, artificial in our attitudes, pantomimists, making fine gestures of sincerity and wisdom. Why? Because we continue to act as if love were something to be caught in one’s hand like a bird. We chase it in and out of divorce courts, through fornications and adulteries, and seek * before many

outsider. It may be that Indiana’s best is not good enough. If this is true we can expect to see a flurry of Indiana art pouring forth from many Hoosier windows. Many of our past patrons of our wares will begin to feel a tinge of regret in harboring something that is not up to snuff, something that the state turns its nose up at. What prestige could have been Donald Mattison’s if the award had been given to him. It is under Mattison’s guidance that aspiring youth here now turns its head for formal instruction in the fine art of painting. But alas—the gods waxed lazy and Mattison did not receive the award. I am still a member of the group that labels itself “Indiana Artists.” I still have confidence in Indiana artists —maybe more so now than before the creation of the murals depicting the history of Indiana. Wouldn’t it be fun to see what a group of Indiana artists would select for the people of Indiana to look at, probably enjoy, and incidentally pay for?

So They Say

I can not see any vision, any imagination and enterprise in our oolicies. We have not even any brain trust.—David Lloyd George, M. P. It isn’t a matter of how many words you speak, but how well you speak them.—Marie Dressier, actress. Herr Hitler has done what no one else has—Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. I’m an old man and if I smiled people would think I were pretending.—John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

if it sleeps soundly, it is trying to get sleep that it actually needs. Training in periods of sleep must begin early, because sleep is distinctly a matter that can be controlled by habit. The child who once has formed the habit of wakefulness, or the child who rouses at the slightest noise during the night, is difficult to control in matters of sleep. Mothers must learn to disregard slight wakefulness and not to rush into the child’s bedroom every time it turns over. For this reason, it is inadvisable for you to sleep in the same room with your child, where you would hear every sound and movement. And don’t assume your children will sleep better if they are allowed to stay up at night until they practically fall asleep on their feet. If a child becomes too tired before it goes to sleep, it will be irritable and excitable. It is much better to develop a routine and to make certain that the child goes to sleep at a set hour every night.

marriage altars. What's worse, while engaged in this naive, even childish quest, we talk about what hard-boiled relatives we've turned out to be, and how w’ell we know life. Our behavior, in short, does not reflect any particular discredit on grandma, as we foolishly think. Sometimes it leaves us with our faces red. Grandma, poor deluded soul, believed in the sanctity of the home and willingly sacrificed the individual for the group. We believe in the sanctity of the individual and often sacrifice both for our opinion. Grandma accepted the bitter with the sweeter of life, whereas we refuse to swallow our doses. She may have been less wise, but it sounds a little silly to go on calling her a sentimentalist, x

JNOV. 6, 1933

It Seems to Me s BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Bv now, I imagine, almost everybody ! has made up his mind. We vote I tomorrow. This has been one of the most interesting municipal campaigns ever carried on in New York. For the first time in almost a decade the candidates actually got excited. At least seme of them did. I am not much concerned with the charge that there was too much b.tterness. That is five-and-a-half times as good as apathy. There has been an enormous amount of irrelevance. I regret that, but there has never yet been a poliician who could resist the opportunity of embarking on a detour. Bob Minor of the Communists wins the silver shaving mug offered annually for the politician who managed to get farthest away from the point. At a hearing in city hall on the question of the use of an armory for a German meeting. Mr. Minor devoted 90 per cent of his time to a savage attack upon NRA. You can't tie that. Still there were excursions by other candidates into lanes leading well away from the main road. I never could understand just why Mr. McKee's felicity, or lack of it, as an essayist eighteen years ago should have bulked large In the campaign. a tt a Warming to His Task IN the beginning I was very much disappointed in the campaign carried on by Fiorello H. La Guardia. but in the last two weeks he has amplified and broadened the base of his appeal. Os the three major candidates it seems to me that he is the only one who has shown a sense of social consciousness. The biggest laugh of the campaign has been McKee's charge that La Guardia is at heart a Communist. The major might very readily have answered that by reading some of the editorial references to himself in the Daily Worker. The party organ has ranked him as Public Enemy No. 3. Only Hitler and J. P. Morgan outrank him. He seems sure of a seat in the first tumbril when the revolution comes. Charles Solomon, running as candidate on the Socialist ticket, has made an excellent campaign. I might as well confess that his platform and program are closer to my heart than anything which La Guardia has offered. , But I can not honestly see my way clear to voting for a candidate who has no chance in a year when it is distinctly possible to twist the Tiger's tail. Only yesterday afternoon I ran into a man whose name comes back to memory vividly under the present situation. William Travers Jerome proved to a skeptical city that it was possible to down the organization. It can and will be done again. The minute La Guardia is elected plans must be made to keep the victory won. But it is a necessary part of the technique of bringing freedom back to New York to kill your tiger first before you begin to discuss the best manner in which to nail the skin against the door as a permanent exhibit. A few people .say that La Guardia has been too violent. And when I saw Jerome yesterday that seemed to me a little ironic. Fiorello’s most fiery utterances would seem somewhat tame if placed beside the talks which Jerome made when he was running for district attorney. tt a u Half a Bow to O'Brien IN spite of the fact that the defeat of Tammany and the triumph of fusion seem to me of vital importance I can not help admitting that John P. O'Brien will go out of office with a good deal of grace. Naturally, I may be wrong in my estimates, but it will surprise me very much if the order at the finish is not La Guardia, McKee, O'Brien and Solomon. John P. O’Brien is not in any way the type of man who should be the chief executive of the city of New York. And even though he were far more admirably equipped for the task, I would still be against him as the pawn and symbol of an organization which should be, must be and will be expelled. And yet I want to testify to the good taste and courtesy of Mayor O'Brien in the present fight. To my amazement I have suddenly come to the realization that the man has authentic charm. He has been placed upon the rack of ridicule and, on the whole, taken It gamely. His talent for picking the wrong phrase is a legitimate matter of satirical attack but I don’t honestly think that the election ought to be decided on pictorial propaganda. Every camera man in town seems to have made it his business to snap Mayor O’Brien with his mouth open. Mayor O'Brien doesn’t look like much when his mouth is open. Who does? a a a Campaign Bogged Down THE epitaph to be written over him will probably not be the most inspiring in the world, but it should, in all justice, include phrase. "He did his best.” I think McKee might have made a fair mayor. It seems unlikely that he will get the chance. He has only himself to blame. His has not been a good campaign. McKee and Minor just couldn’t seem to untrack themselves. • Copyright, 1933, by The Times.)

Window View

BY MARY B. MOYNAHAN A morning sky of palest blue, With gold flecked drapery; The lace-like leaves of maple trees— So near—bewitching me. And 'neath this spell, my soul forgets— j On earth the shadows lie; I Forgetting—While yon bird awing, Soars ’gainst the blue of sky. DAILY THOUGHT For I will give you a mouth and i wisdom, which all your adversaries i shall not be able to gainsay nor I resist—St. Luke, 21:15. j THE god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his j oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness 'and of none effect.—Plata