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THURSDAY. NOV 9 1933 RECLAIMING $400,000,000 'T'HE new civil works administration, announced yesterday by President Roosevelt, Is a bold and apparently a necessary national relief move. Under it $400,000,000 will be taken from the public works administration funds and poured into quick but socially useful federal and local projects. All local work relief administrations are to be absorbed into the "CW,” and between now and mid-February the government and communities will be spending $200.000 000 a month on new projects not in conflict with previous public works plans. The new plan means that 2.000,000 men will be taken from the relief rolls at once and given thirty-hour-a-week jobs at prevailing local wages. And 2 000 000 more destitute will be given part time work at increased wages. The President is proposing to do more than keep his promise that no home shall feel hunger this winter. If the plan works it should substitute jobs for charity. It aims to free from the humiliating dole system some twothirds of the 3.000.000 families on relief and offer their bread winners useful jobs. Eventually, it w'ill put 2.000,000 additional Americans on a work-relief basis. Ask any self-respecting man out of work what this will mean to him. Unless we remained satisfied to make mendicants of millions this move was unavoidable. Private charity has its limits. Local public relief funds are low. Six state governments, including rich and once-proud Kentucky, are receiving their entire relief from the federal treasury. In some localities relief standards are an invitation to disease, riot and crime. It is hoped that, before another winter private industry can absorb the bulk of these needy and that the states and communities can make themselves solvent enough through economies and tax reforms to assume their share of relief. The federal government can not carry the entire nation’s relief burden indefinitely. MORTGAGE RELIEF 'T'HE new report of the Home Owners’ Loan A -. shows increased governmental activity in getting mortgage relief out to the estimated 500,000 debt-stricken families of America for whom this help is available. But its tempo still is slow. This great federal corporation has had four and one-half months in which to operate. It has a fund of $2,200,000,000 for jiome mortgage relief. Up to Oct. 27 only 3.390 individual loans, amounting to $9,795,529, had been completely paid out. It is true that “tentative approval’’ has been stamped on 98,445 applications, representing urban homes appraised at $277,755,140. But this represents the merest beginning of negotiations. There is hope of more speed from the recent change of chairmen. Chairman John H. Fahey is a Boston merchant and former president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Doubtless he will attack the big problem less hampered by political considerations than was his predecessor, Ex-Congressman William F. Stevenson of South Carolina. During the week ending Oct. 27 more than 1.000 loans were paid out. While this is a much better showing than in previous weeks it means that at that rate almost ten years would be required to get actual aid to the halfmillion families. The staggering burden of mortgage debt on American homes is congealing buying power and retarding recovery. The sooner it is lifted the better for everybody. The government could help by doing something more to support its corporation's mortgage bonds. The 22.000.000 th visitor at the world fair in Chicago received a farm as a prize. That's not a prize, that's an insult. There are 100,000 more males than females in Australia, but the place is so doggoned far away, girls.

Q. —What countries of Europe belonged to the “Triple Alliance,” and what were the provisions of the compact between them concerning attacks from countries outside the alliance? Why did Italy withdraw at the beginning of the World war? A—An alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy was formed in 1882. The compact provided that, if either Germany or Austria should be attacked by Russia, each power must assist its neighbor with all its forces. If. however, the attack should come from any other power, the ally was pledged merely to observe neutrality. At the outbreak of the European war in 1914. Italy refused to join Germany and Austria, claiming that it was not a defensive war contemplated by the Treaty of Alliance. After several months of fruitless negotiations, Italy, on May 3, 1915, formally withdrew from the Triple Alliance. She afterward joined the Allies. Q —Give the inclusive dates of the Civil war, the war with Spain and the World war. A— Civil war. April 12, 1861, to May 26. 1865: the war with Spain, April 21 1898, to Aug. 12. 1898; the World war, July 28. 1914. to the armistice on Nov. 11, 1918. The United States officially entered the war on April 6, 1917. Where is the Unknown Soldier of England buried? A—ln Westminster abbey, London.

Here Are Some Puzzlers and Their Answers

Q —What religion did the late Mayor Cermak of Chicago profess? A—He was a Hussite, a follower of the sect founded more than five centuries ago by John Hus. At his funeral, clergymen of three faiths pronounced a benediction; Rev. John Thompson, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church; Rev. Daniel Frawley, close friend of the mayor and pastor of St. Jerome's Catholic church, and Dr. Louis L. Mann, rabbi of Sinai temple. Q —ls the exact time of the expiration of the term of the President defined in the Constitution? A—Prior to the adoption of the twentieth amendment, the exact time of expiration was not stated specifically in the Constitution or statutes. The twentieth amendment. specifically provides that a President’s term expires at noon on Jan. 20, at the end of four years. Q —What is the unit of currency in Belgium? A—Tire franc is still the unit of currency in Belgium, but the belga is used in international exchange. Q— Explain why wool shrinks when it becomes wet. A—Because woolen cloth is made of many tiny fibers twisted together to make threads and then woven. When the fibers get wet- tjiey twist up more and this makes t-h* threads shorter.

ANOTHER BIG PUSH r T' , HE Public Works Administration's $135000.000 loan to the railroads for new construction and new equipment well may turn out to be one of the biggest factors in bringing about industrial recovery. To begin with, $51,000,000 goes directly to the steel industry. An order of that size can not fail to bring that industry a Strong revival; ana it is axiomatic that a flourishing steel industry means good business in many other lines as well. Furthermore, the new construction which the loan makes possible will affect a number of industries. It means the re-employment of a great many idle men—2o,ooo within a month, according to one estimate. All in all, the loan ought to have an exceedingly good effect on general industrial recovery. THWARTING JUSTICE JF you would like to know about one of the dodges which enable crooks to escape punishment for their misdeeds, consider the plight of Mrs. Clara Alt of Chicago. Mrs. Alt’s home was robbed in 1928. Twenty times since then Mrs. Alt has gone to court prepared to testify against the men who have been charged with the crime, and each time the case has been continued, so that Mrs. Alt has had the fun of going to the courthouse twenty times for nothing. The other day anew hearing was scheduled. Mrs. Alt was on a women's committee to welcome Mrs. Roosevelt to the world’s fair, so she didn’t go to court. She was sent for and fined $lO for staying away. If you can think of any system of court procedure better calculated to help the crook defeat justice, there are plenty of slippery lawyers who would be very glad to hear from you. RELIEF FROM WORRY r T”'HE announcement from Washington that the United States fleet is to be concentrated in the Atlantic next spring—for the first time in about four years—is, when you stop to think about it, good news. Both the battle and scouting fleets have been in Pacific waters of late, and it was impossible to avoid the impression that the government, in keeping them was devoting at least a part of its attention to the possibility of trouble with Japan. Furthermore, the Japanese themselves got this impression. Our concentration off California certainly did nothing to relieve the tenseness of the relations between the two nations. If the fleet is coming back to the Atlantic, it can only mean that Washington has good reason for believing we are going to remain at peace with Japan. And, by the same token, the fleet’s presence in the Atlantic ought to remove from Japanese minds a reason for suspicion and hostility. “THEIR UNIMPORTANCE” TN Mexico recently nine young army officers were arrested and charged with sedition for fomenting a miltary plot against the government. Instead of lining them up against an adobe wall and filling them with lead, the government released them “because of their youth and unimportance.” The strength of the Mexican government is such, War Minister Quiroga said, “that it can afford to dismiss the charges against these misguided officers.” On this side of the Rio Grande we arrest farmers for “criminal syndicalism,” call out troops to quell strikers, keep innocent Mooney and Billings under lock, endow rebel doctrine with power by repressing it. Is America a weaker state than its smaller neighbor republic? GRIM HUMOR TT begins to look as if Henry Ford—or who- -*■ ever writes his public statements for him —had descended to the level of cheap wisecracks in his disagreement w r ith the NRA. This business of instituting weekly layoffs to bring his employes within the thirty-five-hour week average will hardly arouse any loud cheers; and the accompanying explanation—that it was done “in compliance with the new prohibition against work in this country”—is nothing less than indefensible. If Mr. Ford were deliberately trying to create a public sentiment which would support any move by General Johnson to “crack down” on him. he could hardly adopt a more effective course. Germany prohibits its newspapers from analyzing the country’s finances. Red influences have been wiped out of everything German except the budget.

Q —Define the word epopt. A—One to whom the secrets of any body of mysteries is known; one of the initiates. Q—Did General Grant ever practice law? A—No. Q—How long is the Ohio river? A—1,283 miles. Q —What is the area of the state of Ohio. A—41,040 square miles. Q—ls the rope broke when a prisoner was being hanged, would he be set free? A—No. He would be hanged until dead, and in most states his death must be certified by a physician. Q—What is the origin of the term "Nazi?” A—lt is a contraction of the name of the Nationalist Socialist party, of which Adolph Hitler is the head. Q —ls the President prohibited by law from leaving the country during his term of office? A—No. Q —Do bills passed by a congress automatically become law if the President does not sign them? A—During a session of congress, the President has ten days in which to sign or veto a bill, and if at the end of ten days, he has taken no action, the bill automatically becomes a law. But when congress adjourns sine die, and its term lias expired, the

A THANKLESS JOB WHATEVER may be the upshot of Gerard Swope's suggestion for administration of the NRA program by American business men, it at least serves to call attention anew to the fact that being a prophet is a pretty thankless sort of job. It was several years ago that Mr. Swope first suggested to American business men that they would eventually have to devise some means by which the national economy could be run according to a plan. At that time Mr. Swope outlined a tentative framework for attaining that end. The leaders of industry read it, remarked that it was very pretty but rather impractical, and went back to their knitting. And when Mr. Swope remarked that if business men didn't cook up some such plan themselves the government would sooner or later cook up one for them, they looked the other way and began talking about their golf scores, or something. Now Mr. Swope stands as a prophet whose prediction has been fulfilled; and if he had added an “I told you so” to his most recent proposal, no one could have blamed him. Our ideas have changed in the last couple of years. When Mr. Swope first suggested his plan, it aroused only a sort of academic interest. Now it is a live issue; and the interesting thing about it is that the nation has almost unanimously accepted its underlying principle. This principle is common to Mr. Swope’s plan and to the existing NRA set-up as well. And it is, simply, that some sort of widespread co-operative control has got to be instituted over the nation's business and industrial life, for the sake of the individual business man and for the sake of the nation as a whole. Our present regime vests such control primarily in the federal government; Mr. Swope’s plan would vest it primarily in a council of the business men themselves. To be very blunt about it, your choice between the two schemes will depend largely on whether you think the business community can be trusted. But the important thing is that the principle of unified control has been accepted. When Mr. Swope first raised his voice, hatdly anybody would listen to him. Now his underlying principle is taken for granted. The only difference of opinion is about the best way to put it into practice.

M.E. Tracy Says:

EVER Since the great war, w r e Americans have been tormented by the obsession that few of our own problems could be solved unless or until the whole world was first set right. That obsession seems to be responsible for this flyer in gold. Having driven France off the gold standard and forced England to modify her silver policy in India, it is assumed that we could set the stage for an international conference to fix the value of all forms of currency, stabilize conditions and thus create a situation which would make things much easier for American business. You can’t quarrel with the intent, ideal, or theory, but you can doubt some of the premises. If European nations are so kind or dumb as to sell us all the gold we choose to buy, at our own price, there appears no good reason why the program should not be carried out as planned. B B B BUT tsuppose European nations put an embargo on gold, just as we have? Suppose they decline to let their reserves be depleted in exchange for dollars or any other monetary unit? Suppose they simply declare that nobody can sell or export gold, or even keep it, lest the temptation to do so become irresistible? We appear to assume that they won’t, though we ourselves have shown them how the thing can be done. Isn’t that rather uncomplimentary to Europe's financial acumen? On just what ground is it logical to imagine that Europe will take the dose lying down, or that the American people would derive immediate benefit if she did? Os course, every one would like to see such a form of stabilization as would advance prices and wages throughout the civilized world, but isn’t that a rather large order for us to take under existing conditions? Desirable as a depreciated dollar may be from an international standpoint, isn't it even more desirable from a domestic standpoint? n a a 'T'HE crux of the problem has always appealed J- to me as being the awful amount of debt which we Americans owe each other, coupled with the equally awful shrinkage of income, and that our first task was to get the dollar down in this country for the sole purpose of rectifying an impossible situation. The dollar is out of line with commodity prices and wages. The quickest way of getting it back into line is to reduce the gold content, not theoretically through speculative quotations in London, Paris or Rome, but definitely by authority of the President of the United States and in such a manner as would find immediate reflection in a price and wage rise. I am not unmindful of the impotence of flat decrees, but with all the codes in effect and ali the price-fixing machinery that has been set up. it seems as though straightforward devaluation of the dollar could be made the basis of arbitrary w r age and price raises to a substantial extent and thus make it of immediate and tangible benefit to large numbers of people.

President must bills that are to become law, and any bills that he does not sign, automatically are rejected. Q —When was the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary founded and when was it dissolved? A—lt was established in 1867, and was dissolved Nov. 12, 1918. Q—What is the letter postage rate to Italy? A—Five cents for the first ounce or fraction and 3 cents for each additional ounce or fraction. Q —Bo Americans require passports to travel in South America? A—Yes. Q —Who was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence? A—John Hancock. Q —How many senators and assemblymen are in the New York legislature? A—Fifty-one senators and 150 assemblymen. Q—Through what city does the Manzanares river flow? A—Madrid, Spain. Q—What is “Hello” in Spanish? A —Que tal. Q —Can any one subscribe to the Congressional Record. A—Yes. The superintendent of documents, government printing office, Washington, D. C., accepts subscriptions. Q—How many golf balls are sold in the United States annually? A— Sales in 1930 were 19,870,064, ralued at 86,444,727.

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Cutting Off His Nose to Spite His Face

" 11 I : : The Message Center : : ‘- === I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire I

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Haket your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Grant W. Hawkins I do not wish to impress any one with the fact that I am a student of history, but I have had some training along that line. In all. my historical training, beginning in the grades and ending in university, I was taught that Maryland always proudly referred to itself as, “The Free State!” Recent happenings in Maryland have led me, along with many others, to doubt the veracity of that statement. The happenings that I refer to are the two lynchings that have occured in Maryland within the last two years. The pitiful part about the last lynching was the fact that it could have been avoided. The prisoner, a Negro, had been moved from the scene of the alleged crime to a more secure place of imprisonment. However, on the advice of the local judge and the state’s attorney, he was returned. Later a mob gathered, overpowered the police, broke into the jail, dragged the man into the street, and committed their ghastly sin. It is charged that there were approximately 5,000 participants In this grewsome affair, yet the state’s attorney for the county said that he could find no evidence of sufficient importance to give to the grand jury. . Judge Robert B. Duer went to the jail while the mob was in its incipiency. He addressed the persons who were there and told them that he knew almost all of them. Notwithstanding all that, the state’s attorney insists that an investigation had not turned up a bit of evidence. In the author's humble opinion, such gross inefficiency on the part of a public official should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. On ‘the morning after” Judge Duer said that he was deeply grieved. Governor Albert Ritchie said that he was “shocked beyond expression.” I wonder if these gentlemen were expressing pure sentiment or If they were just uttering so many words. We shall be able to tell by later developments.

Repeal Brings New Food Problems

GET ready to revalue your diet, with return of beer and legal wine and whisky in America, if you are at all disposed to sample these liquids at any time. You’ll discover, very quickly, that alcoholic drinks add quite a few calories to your energy intake. For instance, for every pint of beer you drink you will have to play handball for half an hour or walk four miles to take off the excess likely to develop. A fairly large drink of whisky corresponds in food value to three hard-boiled eggs. Very few people who take a highhall or two, remember that the amount of extra calories they absorb is equivalent to those in from three to six hard-boiled eggs. The average person needs about 2.500 to 3.000 calories daily to meet his needs for energy and growth. You get that amount of calories from a fairly good breakfast, a light luncheon, and a glass of milk and a piece of toast about 5 o’clock. If, then, you attend a banquet

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

Opposition to the nra was to be expected. We also should have been prepared for that opposition to take the form of gTave, learned and frequent references to the Constitution. That such opposition emanates, in the main, from those who have sizable incomes or substantial property interests, is neither startling nor strange, because it follow’s the procedure of all such leadership in every great national crisis. The court nobles in France in the seventeen hundreds, and the aristocrats of Russia two centuries later, invoked the same high power and thought themselves safe so long as they could hide behind a throne. But thrones fall—and so do constitutions. Against the slow, cumu-

Best They Know By Willis Maine Rexford. The world needs to know that every one does the best he knows, not the best he can; therefore, it is the function of education to make that best the best. An example of this important truth is that one does the best he knows in regard to his health. If he does not know how to keep well physically and mentally, he won’t. If parents, professors and teachers know how to rear persons correctly, they will. They could produce much better men and women if they knew the facts, but they can do only the best they know. Good judgment based on a knowledge of all the facts is the essence of success and happiness. “It requires a great deal of philosophy to observe once what may be seen every day.”—Rousseau.

Bv Butler Student. In spite of the fact that I object to the unnecessary activities of Butler students in regard to the administrative affairs of the university, I feel that I must express myself in regard to certain items that appeared in your paper. The first is in regard to the called meeting of the junior class in the Campus Club, Tuesday. Oct. 31. Your headline and report that appeared under it seemed to indicate that the group was set on protesting the “ousting” of the president. If that was the purpose for which they met, that purpose was changed before the motion to adjourn. You fail to mention the rousing applause given the speaker who suggested leaving the administrative affairs to those delegated to care for such matters, and who also appealed for support of the acting president. Your report states: “A student in the rear of the crowd interrupted Dean Putnam; ‘lsn’t it true that in 1930 the registration here dropped one-third because of Butler’s ineligibility for the North Central?’ ” Even though you say that the dean replied that the decrease in enrollment was not entirely due to that factor, you fail to say that he also replied that the enrollment did not drop one-third, even though it dropped some and continued to do

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

and partake of one or two beverages, you probably w’ill have to exercise all the next day to get rid of your excess energy. The amount of food actually consumed at any good banquet, at which one or two beverages are available, is enough to demand a tremendous amount of exercise for its disposal. It has been calculated as equal to climbing a fairly high mountain six times, running five miles, walking thirty miles, or sitting thirty hours in a cold bath. If you have a tendency to put on weight, you ought to avoid banquets as you would a plague. Unfortunately, the persons one sees at the speaker’s table at most banquets already have accumulated sufficient avoirdupois to make them sit two feet from the table.

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

lative resentment of millions of hungry men and women, nothing With this in mind, it might be well at the moment for us to recognize the fact that whatever the lawyers and leaders say, the “little man” in the United States is not worrying about the Constitution. He knows he can't eat it. The thing he is concerned about, is how to get a living, and some fragment of security for his family. The little man wants bread and clothes and a roof for his children, and if, under the present Constitution, he can not have these things, then, no matter how that sacred document may guard the interests of those who sit ip high places In industry and business, he is pre-

so each year thereafter. May I suggest also that the student who asked this question was not "in the rear of the crowd,” but rather, was “very near” the presiding officer. Your editorial on “The Case of Dr. Athearn” later, leaves the impression that three gentlemen are responsible for all that has taken place. If you refer to Dr. Athearn s letter to these men (see Times, Tuesday), you will see that these three represented a large group, the board of directors. The greatest favor that you and the students of Butler can do is to leave the administrative affairs of the university to those upon whose shoulders these responsibilities rest. But, if you must print something, please see that you have the correct information, if you would mold public opinion.

So They Say , ■ -= -===•'

Let me give a solemn warning: Do not trifle with the NRA blue eagle. In the confusion of early days, a man may get away with it, but the day of reckoning against an aroused public opinion is sure General Hugh Johnson, NRA administrator. I’ve never taken a drink in my life—laugh if you want to, but I’ve offered SIOO,OOO to any one who can prove that I have, and there aren’t any takers—Tex Guinan, night club hostess. An annual income of SIOO,OOO is a sure symptom of social disease. —Rev. C. W. Tinsley of Cresson, Pa. Don’t build air castles; build a cottage instead. Don't live with your in-laws.—Rev. Ralph E. Stewart of Columbus, 0., in advice to newlyweds. I didn't know my head was w-orth 20.000 marks.—Professor Albert Einstein. A judge is as much affected by his predispositions and prejudices as any one else, and the necessity of a unanimous vote of twelve is some protection—Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney.

Recently, Professor E. C. Dodds, a well-known British authority in body chemistry, estimated the amount of additional calories taken into the human body by the drinking of alcoholic liquors. His comparisons are made with relationship to the game of squash racquets which, like handball, is an exceedingly active game, with considerable demands on energy. A person who plays handball or squash racquets for half an hour uses up about 300 calories, he discovered. This is equivalent to the taking of about two slices of bread, well buttered. It is equal also to the taking of two dry Martinis. Maintaining a certain and constant weight is a matter of physiologic bookkeeping. You use up a certain amount of calories. If you take in that amount and a little more, you are likely to keep your weight stationary. If. however, you exceed that amount, you are certain to put on excess weight.

pared to be credulous about its worth to himself. All the talk of the technicians leaves him cold—as cold as his shaking bones were during four depression winters. All precedents leave him numb —as numb as poverty has made his heart. All editorial, oratorical, and political diatribes about the danger that will come from deserting the old ways are meaningless to him, as meaningless as the words he has listened to for so long: “There is no work for you.” Let us not deceive ourselves with much talking. His constitutional rights are of secondary interest to the average American citizen. He wants to know where his human rights have gone.

.NOV. 9, 1933

It Seems f to Me ~BY HF.YWOOD BROUN=_,

NEW YORK. Nov. 9.—••That.’* said a man, indicating a needle point some hundred feet below, “is the Chrysler building.” We were standing jifst below the mooring mast, of the tall edifice which is administered by the Silent Warrior. It surprises me that A1 Smith has gone backward in philosophic insight since he cast in his lot with ;he Empire State. It was in my •nind to suggest that nobody should ave voted Tuesday without first ting carried to that lofty turret id looking down to see the city as >, whole. Perhaps it is not a good .dea. ~ A1 lives in a room with a view, and the best which he has been able to make out of it seems to be, "Ah, what's the use!" From his particular cloudbank apparently ali the candidates were gray. Asa mere transient on the summit of New York's highest Alp my reactions were entirely different. I could see one or two public squares in which enough citizens were gathered to register as a tiny black speck. Viewed from such a lofty perch, It is quite true that party lines are not particularly evident to the naked eye. a b a Seeing AH the Boroughs BUT, on the other hand. I felt a more passionate interest than usual in the Greater City itself. Instead of sprawling out far beyond my reach or grasp or comprehension, there it lay in dimensions which would not overlap an ordinary bridge table. Indeed, the colored segments suggested a jigsaw puzzle crammed together by some strong hand which insisted upon putting the pieces Into the wrong places. There was too much dull brown of mean houses and jumbled red brick. Only here and there did any fleck of autunn's olive green appear. And this tiny lozenge was Manhattan island, which must have been a glorious garden spot before man came to civilize it. In the days of the Dutch it knew rivers. lake,s and even a spread of jungle foliage. And now looking down upon it this land of natural luxury had become a record of squat squalor \vith a few exciting towers. The magical city for which men have worked and dreamed lay as dull and dun as a conjurer's trick gone wrong. If we were to plan another sort of city with due regard for earth and trees and space to turn around, we must lift from their foundations whole blocks of stodgy dwellings. We have come too close, and one shoulder rubs against another. It is an anthill in which we may have left some slight scope for the elbows of mankind but nothing for the soul. a a a No Space for a Heartbeat POSSIBLY we still can swing a cat in some of the confined cloisters in which we can manage to live and breathe and, after a fashion, have our being. But looking at the setup from an Empire State grandstand it is easy to understand that few of us have any reasonable allotment in which to swing into an emotion. And that, after all, Is more important than swinging the six-teen-pound cat. Again from up in Al’s house one gets some notion of the prodigal waste which we have made of rivers. We sit, or rather we might sit, upon an island blessed by rushing waters. When the Indians went away they left behind them groves find beaches coming down to the water’s rim. All that is changed. Now a stream's edge means no more than a good factory site. And all along our borders stand the tall, the grim and grimy towers which imprison us. * If this were indeed, as Jimmy Walker used to say, the “imperial City of New York,” then some emperor ought to sit upon this pinnacle and, looking down upon gray spaces and those of brown, say, ‘‘With my thumb I will put here a smudge of green and over at that corner a little yellow to indicate a rush of unsullied sunlight.” We must break down our walls and leave a smaller area lying within the shadows. From the tall turret It is all too evident that we have reared canyons against ourselves. Almost we dig ourselves down into the earth like miners seeking coal. Ban Turrets of the Few IT is an exciting thing to see some building spurt up to the sky. The closer you get the better It looks. And yet you can not escape the feeling, “Look at the millions who have been left behind within their sharp and deep-cut ruts.” I did not know a single man among our potential mayors who could bring back the deer and the antelope to Manhattan Island. Not one of them could make the leaves endure after the frost has fallen. But I chose the man who had the broadest and the brightest vision of the magical city. Personally I wasn’t at all dissuaded when he was called a radical. If the fine dream was to b made good in any part, then we had to give this sweeping task to some one who was not all wrapped up in conservative caution.

A Storm BY OLIVE ENSLEN-TINDER A raging storm holds me entranced; the fierce Crash of thunder rolls like drums of doom in far Lands. Its fingers, tipped with lightning, pierce Deep into my soul to awaken it, and leave ajar A door that has been tightly closed to me For centuries untold. I feel a restless power Stir in my being, that pleads with me to see The things life meant for me to do. In this hour Os storm these things I know, and call on * Friendly gods to give me courage, and eyes 1 That see within this realm of thought ere it is gone. But though I strive to enter, a shield defies My feeble dreams, and as earth nestles falling rain So do I sleep in life* strong arms again.