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TUEBDAY NOV 14. 1933

RIVERS OR SEWERS? "TT is a question of the first magnitude X whether the destiny of the great rivers is to be the sewers of the cities along their banks or to be protected against everything which threatens their purity”—Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States supreme court, in a majority opinion written in 1905. “Michigan City, Nov. 8— Opponents of the plan to build a sewage disposal plant won in Tuesday’s referendum. A light vote was cast.” —A recent news dispatch. Compare these two sentences. Twenty-eight years ago one of the world’s most distinguished jurists pointed to the gravity of the stream pollution problem. A few days ago the voters of an Indiana community casually rejected the Idea of civilized disposal of sewage. Only a handful of citizens were interested enough even to go to the polls. Evidently thought on public sanitation in Michigan City is still the same as it was in the days w'hen automobiles were “horseless carriages.” Indiana has a foul record on stream pollution. Its once lovely waters have been changed Into malodorous ditches which only a backward Asiatic society would tolerate. They are a menace to public health, an offense to common decency, an ugly evidence of public and private greed. Even from a narrowly selfish point of view the action of the Michigan City voters is unjustifiable. The proposed disposal plant would have cost $450,000, of which the federal government would have paid about one-third. Asa part of its re-employment program the Roosevelt administration has offered financial assistance to cities constructing public works. Application for federal aid must be made before Jan. 1. Michigan City has lost its chance for such aid. In addition to this advantage to be gained by building disposal plants now there is another. Building costs are on the increase, but prices of labor and material still are lower than they may be for many years. If any city, industry or individual thinks that the citizens of Indiana indefinitely will permit the befouling of streams, he is mistaken. People are alive to this menace. They are thoroughly disgusted with it. Nor are they helpless to remedy it. Recalcitrant polluters may be forced now by court action to clean up their barbaric sanitary systems. The legislature in its next session can promulgate laws which will bring pollution to an abrupt end. A city should think twice before rejecting the present opportunity. Remember, Jan. 1 is the deadline for federal aid. TIIE HITLER RACKET JUST what purpose Herr Hitler hopes to serve by his fake election is not clear. Certainly no one in Germany thinks it was a free election. And the Nazi dictator has only to read the foreign press to discover that the rest of the world is not deceived by his bayonet ballots. The remarkable thing is not that 90 per cent of those allowed to vote did so, but that almost 10 per cent had the great courage to stay away from the goose-step polls. The aged Duke Albrecht, a World war general, was expelled from the steel helmet organization and sent to jail for failure to vote. What will happen to less famous and powerful persons? Three factory directors were imprisoned in one of the terrorist concentration camps for the '•crime" of walking away from a loud-speaker while the vefee of Hitler was issuing therefrpm. Considering that most of Hitler's opponents had either been murdered, imprisoned or disqualified. the fact that more than three million citizens dared to vote against the dictatorship is astounding. Until Hitler and his terrorists conquered Germany, the world was rapidly coming to support that nation’s just demands for revision of the unfair peace treaty of Versailles and for equality of disarmament. Under that public pressure France and Great Britain were being driven to lift the German yoke. But Hitler has changed all of that. Germany today has fewer friends than at any time since the kaiser's day. Judged by results, Hitler is Germany's worst enemy because he has turned the world against her. Unfortunately, the havoc does not stop there. Not only Germany, but the other nations "also are victims of Hitler's madness. For he has wrecked the hopes of world disarmament and stronger peace machinery. STII.L IN THE MOOD WHATEVER else the voters may have on their minds, they at least sent a roll of thunder crackling along the horizon in the recent municipal elections, and no weather prophet worth his salt can fail to read a warning in it. No one party and no one issue triumphed. Instead, it seems that the electorate arose once more with blood in its eye and swung • heavy club. New York gave Tammany Hall a terrific defeat. Pittsburgh elected a Democratic mayor and Cleveland elected a Republican. A Socialist sailed into office in Bridgeport. Conn., the Vare machine took a licking in Philadelphia, and Detroit elected the son of Senator Couzens. What does it all mean? Chiefly, it means that the voters still are on the warpath. They still are in the mood that possessed them a year ago—which is to say that they are anxious to vote “against,” that they are exceedingly critical of the “ins” everywhere. It would be impossible to make a worth-

while appraisal of the reconstruction now being attempted in Washington without taking this into consideration. The profound dissatisfaction which blew the lid off a year ago has not died down. People are tired of empty promises and mediocre performances. They are serving notice anew that no officeholder who fails to take the demand for anew day into account can hope to survive. That all this puts the national administration to a severe test goes without saying. It has promised much and it has started mu?b. These promises and these actions must run the gantlet of a nation that is tired of fooling. They have got. in plain English, to be good. The promises must be sincere and the actions must be effective. For the municipal elections simply reaffirm a temper that was made evident a year ago. There is a grim earnestness to this temper that no one can fail to notice.

THE COMPANY UNION INDUSTRIAL feudalism as represented in the company union is fighting hard for life. This institution, which had survived three decades of labor attack and recruited an estimated 1,500.000 membership, was crippled by NIRA's Section 7-a—“employes' shall have the right to bargain collectively through representation of their own choosing.” It was given a second blow when President Roosevelt ordered steel companies to allow 40,000 miners in the captive coal pits of Pennsylvania to choose their own unions by secret ballot. It was given a third setback when Colorado miners voted 3 to 1 to affiliate with the United Mine Workers rather than with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's twenty-year-old “Rockefeller plan” company union. In other contests also the workers have won over those new plant unions hurriedly organized since last June and dubbed by Labor Secretary Perkins “war babies.” It is too early, however, to sing requiems over the company union’s grave. In the coal fields of western Kentucky and Alabama, shoe factories of Massachusetts, auto works of Detroit, Pennsylvania steel plants and hosiery, textile and needle industries, the company union still is an issue. At its best the company union is benevolent paternalism. At its worst it is a weapon for intimidation. It is a caricature of the real collective bargaining provided by the law. STOP THE CHISELERS ONE of the commonest criticisms of the NRA program is that the authorities are not “cracking down” with sufficient speed and firmness on chiselers. Talk to any small tradesman who flies the blue eagle and you are apt to hear him voice this complaint; that he is doing the best he can, but that certain of his competitors flagrantly are disregarding the conditions under which they got their NRA emblems. A similar complaint was made the other day by the 1,275 members of the Indiana Restaurant Operators’ Association, who complained that the NRA authorities have failed to drive the chiselers out of that field. These men proposed outright withdrawal from the NRA unless conditions are corrected. These are perfectly valid complaints, and Washington would do well to act on them promptly and decisively. The man who chisels on his blue eagle is the meanest kind of cheat, and deserves summary treatment. THE BLUE EAGLE IS HEARD TT rather looks as If the American people are perfectly willing to go out of their way to trade only with dealers who fly the blue eagle. Theodore Rahutis, dine-and-dance place proprietor of Gary, Ind., lost his blue eagle on Oct. 6, after it was charged that his wage scales and working schedules did not conform to the NRA standard. Rahutis went to' the compliance board, demonstrated finally that he was paying more than the minimum and working his employes less than the maximum allowed, and got his blue eagle back. He had operated without it for just one month. And during that month, he says, his business fell off 50 per cent. As he put up anew the six blue eagles that decorate his windows, he said, “Oh. boy, am I glad to have ’em back!” A neat little demonstration, this, that the NRA insignia have a very good cash value for the business man.

“HANDOUTS” FOR TEACHERS CHICAGO'S school teachers haven’t been paid in heaven knows when, but at least they aren't going to starve this •winter. The Illinois emergency relief commission has announced that it will prbvide them with food, fuel and clothing throughout the winter, accepting salary assignments in payment. Right here there is an ironic commentary on the breakdown of our public school system. Suppose you were a teacher, and had worked hard to get the education necessary for your job, and had toiled for years in your chosen profession—and then, in the end, found that your reward was to get packages of groceries and bundles of coal precisely as if you were a down-and-outer subsisting on charity. Wouldn’t you, in that case, begin to feel that there was something tremendously wrong with the profession you had’chosen? The plight of our school system really is one of the most shocking features of the entire depression. POLITICS TO ECONOMICS 'T'HERE is something deeply interesting -*■ about the reorganization of the governmental structure which Mussolini is reported to be preparing for Italy. Instead of a chamber of deputies, it is said. Italy will have a sort of parliament containing delegates representing commerce, agriculture and industry throughout the country, grouped in some fifty “guilds." Political representation practically will cease, to be replaced by economic representation. It is worth remembering that someone ironically suggested this for the United States a generation ago, urging that we have senators representing coal. iron. corn, wheat, oil, and so on. And the idea really isn’t altogether silly. It will be interesting to see what Mussolini does with it.

PROBLEM OF REPEAL 'TVHE confusion that some people expected to follow repeal of the eighteenth amendment already seems to have begun. In most big cities the speakeasies have thrown off almost all pretense at concealment. Drug stores display packaged whisky openly on their counters, certain hotels and restaurants serve dinners with everything from cocktails to champagne, and in some places bars are running wide open on downtown streets. This sort of thing, probably, was inevitable. There was bound to be a rebound from restraint, and the peculiar interim period between the death of the eighteenth amendment and the institution of new regulatory laws makes any very effective control of the traffic extremely difficult. But most of all this reflects the confusion which is in the mind of the public as a whole regarding the next step. We got rid of prohibition without ever getting any very clear idea about the set-up that we would adopt in its place. It may be that success in the repeal fight was too easy. The campaign could have been an educational affair, in which the public seriously devoted itself to study and discussion of the alternatives to prohibition. Instead, it resolved itself into a band wagon movement, in which a huge majority agreed that it wanted federal prohibition ended—but went no further than that. So now we get—what? Chains of government liquor stores, selling in packages for offpremises consumption? A return to the old license system, modified in the light of the lessons that have been learned? Restriction on sale to hotels and restaurants? We hardly have begun to make up our minds on these issues, and the time is just about at hand when one or another of them has to be put into effect. We have plenty of chances to make mistakes, and we probably shall accept a good many of them. What we need to remember is, first, that we want to find some way of avoiding both the evils of prohibition and the evils of the old license system—which were many and glaring; and, second, that whatever course we adopt now will be in the nature of an experiment. We probably shan’t hit on the right solution at once. It may be years before we find the best way out. Meanwhile, it is high time we did some very earnest and serious thinking.

THE PEOPLE ORDER 'I"'HE value of a referendum system, by A which voters can lay their hands directly on an issue which their elected representatives refuse to tackle, is shown by Ohio’s experience this fall with an old age pension law. For years people had tried to put such a law through the state legislature. Time after time the legislators contemptuously snowed it under. The battle went on for sixteen years and each time the law failed. Finally, this year, fraternal, labor and church groups united to get signatures and have a referendum on the issue. The proposal came to a vote at the recent election—and carried by the overwhelming total of 1,386,107 votes to 526,055. It is pretty clear that the legislature had been going directly against the strong majority sentiment of the state. But if it had not been for the referendum machinery, the voters would have been utterly helpless. President Roosevelt wants to remove restrictions on the liquor output, but what many of us are interested in is not the output; it’s the intake. The World's Fair will be repeated next year and we now can sing “God’s in His Heaven, all’s right with the World’s Fair.” Litvinoff may do all the talking he likes, but what we hear best is the money Russia offers to spend with us.

M.E. Tracy Says:

NO lack of sympathy for farmers is needed to realize that President'Roosevelt adopted the only possible course in turning down the program laid before him last week by five western Governors. Roughly stated, that program was based on a licensing system by which the government would take virtual control of the production and distribution of farm products in this country. As the President pointed out, it would necessitate supervision of every field. Even in this era of fantastic schemes, such an attempt sounds ridiculous, especially when coupled with the declared object of boosting farm prices by 70 per cent. Even if the government could make such a scheme work, where would the hard-pressed consumers get the money to pay for it? Where would the overburdened cities and states find the funds with which to pay the added cost of relieving the hungry? a a a * I 'HE five Governors showed President Roose--1- velt nothing so plainly as a good place to halt, and he halted. The nation has gone far enough toward price-fixing, regimentation and bureaucracy. The beautiful dream that we could legislate, organize or strike ourselves into prosperity has about run its course. There are services w'hich the government can render to help industry and agriculture, but they are only services. The government possesses no magic w'and with which to conjure wealth out of the atmosphere. and while systematic planning can coordinate work, it is virtually powerless to make work. The idea of shortening hours of labor in order to put more people on the pay roll and less on the bread line is sound, but it should not be taken to mean more than it obviously does. It opens no road effortless millenium. a a a SO. too, the* idea of establishing minimum wages, especially for those at the foot of the line, presents an effective way of stopping cutthroat competition, but offers no proof that we have discovered a way to boost the price and wage level by law. To sum it up. the American people can not work themselves out of depression by leaning on the government, borrowing money, or increasing taxes, and most of them know it. Most of them are against a permanent expansion of the bureaucratic idea, or a permanent enlargement of the regulatory powers. When they voted to change the administration last year, they did not vote for revolution, but for a new kind of leadership. A certain type of ballyhoo has caused large numbers of susceptible souls to imagine that this country was headed for Fascism, Communism, or some other kind of "ism.” That simply is not true, as some of our dreamers are going to find out before long. Down deep, the people of this country have lost faith in its essential traditions, \

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Timet 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 G. B. G. Sound economics in operation is the parent of liberty. Unfair distribution will deprive many of natural rights and enslave them. Proper proportions in opportunity and products are only just. The administration of justice is a governmental function. Injustice to the many is an unsafe policy. Times of economic and social injustice have existed when one class ruled over another to their own destruction. Employes have natural rights in natural resources and industry. When they are denied, it tends to slavery; and to even worse—banishment, no place, unemployment. Lincoln feared, through monopoly of natural resources and the dictatorship of capitalists, the resultant wage slavery would be more difficult and horrible than chattel slavery. Better to be in bondage to an individual who is interested in you than an unfeeling industrial system that turns you out every time the captains accumulate a season’s supply. Are we on our way to better things? Perhaps, but what a rough, uncharted and unnecessary detour. Destroying in order to have, when in need, will not do it. A high processing tax that, under present conditions, will make the article almost a' luxury for the masses, will not make good markets. Taxing the overburdened tax victim is no relief, finally. A 60-cent dole for' each person each week solves nothing fundamentally. But let us hope we are learning important lessons that finally will liberate all. The super-capitalist should bear the price of reconstruction. Sooner or later they must, and thereafter be satisfied with less, or get out of the way in the construction of a system in which he, as such, will have no part.

This is the first of two articles by Dr. Fishbein on amebic dysentery, which caused a serious epidemic among visitors of a Chicago hotel, and which health authorities say brought about the death of Texas Guinan. RECENT death ol Texas Guinan, famous night club hostess, brings into national prominence the outbreak of amebic dysentery that has been prevalent In Chicago for several months. Miss Guinan's sudden death is ascribed to this disease. The epidemic is believed to be under control. Amebic dysentery is caused by invasions of the body by an organism larger than the bacteria, known as entamoeba histolytica. This organism undermines the upper layers of the large bowel. The symptoms begin with frequent, scanty evacuations, often containing mucus and blood, severe abdominal pain and depression. Sometimes the early symptoms relating to the abdomen are so severe that, in the failure of an accurate diagnosis, surgical operation for ap-

npo the girls of Italy, Mussolini no doubt appears a benevolent being. Since the right to have a husband should be considered one of the fundamental privileges of the female in any society where marriage is the custom, these young ladies are justified in their high opinion of II Duce. The great wedding' party in Rome is proof that he means business. Seven hundred swains were persuaded by national edict that marriage was the goodly state for them and if a few may have popped the question half-heartedly, they probably will not make any the worse husbands for that. In anv country where it’s cheaper to be married than to live alone, men will marry. And the bachelor

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\ N Amebic Dysentery Is Slow-Acting — BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

The Innocent Bystander!

Slaps Walkathon By A Subscriber. I have been a spectator at the Walkathon contest a few times and wish to call your attention to something. The Indianapolis Times has been fearless so far in dealing with certain things, so I wonder if you would give this your attention. The police department is barred by an injunction and the sheriff’s force seem not to care and it seems to me a fraud is being committed. , If the contestant does not complete a certain number of laps, he is put out of the contest. Yet Sunday night (Nov. 5> Tim Murphy did not make the required number of laps but is still in the contest. On this evening, he also slapped two other contestants and was not disqualified as is done in real sporting affairs. Now it is rumored that Tim Murphy is to be the winner by pre-arrangement, and it looks to be true after seeing what I did. If this contest is fixed, then it is not a contest at all but is a fraud put over on the people and something should be done about it. Who will do it, if not your paper? Os course, it probably is silly but lots of people attend this contest I suppose because it is something different and affords an evening of amusement, but it should be conducted fairly and on good sportsmanship. So, wall you give this your attention, as we cannot depend on anyone else doing so? By J. A. Perkins. In previous letters I have pointed out a gross injustice done the veterans of all wars. Time takes its toll. We find today thousands of honorably discharged soldiers jobless, hungry, physically disabled, and without funds. Why? Because of an act of a cowardly congress to appease the whims of the National Economy League, United States Chamber of Congress, Wall Street and big business. This is the

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine.

pendicitis or peritonitis or for other abdominal infection may be performed. Until rather recent times, this disease was associated universally with the tropics. More recently it has been found that it can be transmitted by food handlers in any part of the world. It was by this method that the epidemic arose in Chicago. In 1927, seven or eight cases were traced to a large hotel there. Apparently a person still carrying the germ in the spring of 1933 obtained a position in another hotel. Cases of amebic dysentery are not usually reported in Chicago; in fact, the average is one or two a month. However, about the middle of August, 1933, two cases w-ere reported, and by the end of August thirteen cases had been reported, all to the same hotel. Therefore, examinations were made of all food handlers in this hotel, and by Oct. 1 it was found

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

tax in Italy is excessively high. What is more to the point, however, and the force that probably moves them most, is the fact that the Italian bachelor is losing in popular esteem. And popular esteem has been the main sustenance for bachelors in every country for many generations. n a a BECAUSE of some incomprehensible tradition, some queer quirk in our thinking, the unmarried man has been regarded as a person somewhat superior to his fellows. This opinion has been prevalent of late in the United States. The very fact that he can have his cake and eat it too enhanced his merit. Because he was adamant to feminine wiles, we considered him entitled to universal respect and acclaim.

bunch that said: “Take away the pensions of these treasury robbers to save the credit ot the nation. What care we for their widows and orphans?” Who shouted louder than these hypocrites when the boys marched away? When did they ever go over the top? The only thing in war they would face would be reaping the profits and gouging the victors when they return after the war. Did your taxes come down? They did not. Why not? Did the big boys come through with their hon-est-to-God income taxes evaded for three long years? Here lies the real cause of our depression. The men who demanded robbed the veterans of all wars. Merchants over the country miss the green checks now. Public opinion rights all wrongs. And it shall right this one. By Cecil F. Scott. I am informed by the radio and by newspaper articles that real "state taxes have caused many small home owners to lose their homes. This is quite an absurd statement in view of the facts that most homes are lost to real estate companies because the purchaser has lost his job and can not have the monthly installments. I realize the companies are getting a great number of these places back and are having to pay the taxes on them but what have they done with all the installments that have been paid? I never hear of them buying the former owner’s equity or refunding the taxes he paid for several years before they took it back. The only difference I can see between this procedure and the present reign of terror in Indiana is that realty firms don’t use a machine gun but use a justice of the peace and his constables. I am trying to buy a home and am furnishing homes for my aged parents and the parents of my wife. At present I am able to make ends meet, but if I get more salary cuts I will have to give up my place and it won’t be high taxes that caused it.

that of 412 food handlers examined ninety-two were infested. The figures indicate that the outbreaw was at its height during June, July and August. In the meantime, cases were reported from other cities. Eight persons in Indianapolis who had been patrons in the Chicago hotel were infected, and one died. A convention of 125 delegatesm held in this hotel in the end of June developed a large number of cases. Six have died of intestinal diseases, three certainly from amebic dysentery. The examination for the presence of the organism is a highly technical procedure which can be carried out only by a competent laboratory investigator. There is an incubation period of from nine to ninety-four days after the invasion of the body before severe symtoms appear. In fact, the cases investigated by one group of authorities indicated that the averafe time the infestation by the orgaonism to the first appearance of the intestinal symtoms was sixtyfive days.

Now all this might have been very well, provided the unattached woman could have been given the same amount of respectful approval. But that, alas, was not the case. She, poor thing, was held in utter scorn for long periods of time. Something was supposed to be wrong with her if she could not by hook or crook, by lure or lie, succeed in getting a husband. In spite of our bravado, this idea has not disappeared entirely from the public mind. American bachelors have been wont to speak boastfully of their cleverness in evading matrimony. The income tax gave them their first nudge in the ribs, and now comes this discouraging Italian news. It behooves them to lay down and keep quiet. No more strutting, gentlemen, no more strutting.

NOV. 14, 1933

It Seems to Me -BY HEYWOOD BKOUN’i

XJEW YORK. Nov. 14.—1 always am puzzled by the dogmatism ol certain clients. For instance, I have before me a letter from G. T. L., who writes: “When I pay 3 cents for a paper some small portion of that is spent because I want to see your column. I do not like your column. Very often it seems to me terrible, but I feel cheated when you run a communication from anybody. Even if I don't like Broun I have a right to get him hot or cold when I lay down my pennies.” This does not seem to me a healthy state of mind. If Mr. L. merely wants to punish himself he should buy thumb tacks and place them in strategic places around his apartment. Asa matter of fact, I don't use many contributions. All too infrequently I get a piece from McAlister Coleman. Comerade Coleman can write rings around me and around some of the other columnists, too. if I had a paper I should certainly hire Coleman. I might fire him iater on, but I would hire him. Moreover, McAlister Coleman's stirring victory as justice of the peace when he was running for the assembly and the borough council was first page news hereabouts. I feel that I am a reporter first of all and a columnist second. Having at hand a confidential communication from Mr. Justice of the Peace Coleman I would be a traitor to the best traditions of the press if I did not take an afternoon off and print it. So here it is:

Letter from Mr. Coleman “ A S I write this I am staring at a front page story in the Bergen Evening Record saying, ‘Coleman Elected.’ “Now and then I gather in the neighbors and ask them to read it over to me. They read; - Mr. McAlister Coleman was elected to an office yesterday for which he was not running. Thirty-eight Radburn and ,two Fair Lawn voters inserted the name of the Socialist in a space left blank for names for candidates for justice of the peace. His nearest rival received seventeen votes.’ “Honest, Heywood, do you suppose this can be true? You will recall that with your support I was running pretty fast for both assembly in New .Jersey and councilman of Fair Lawn. Well, we did all right here in the old home town. I beat both of the Democratic councilmen hands down. However, there are still a lot of Hoover Republicans in these parts. I know this sounds well-nigh incredible, but that’s a fact. Ploover Republicans! West Bergen, N. J„ ought to be a happy hunting ground for political archeologists. Anyhow, Tuesday they (the Hoover Republicans) turned out in droves and rolled up a ‘great big’ enormous vote for rugged individualism, etc. So I went down with the Democrats under the vote amassed by these corporeal hereditaments of Harding, Coolidge & Hoover, Inc. The chicken in every pot retains its ancient allure in these parts, where the mere thought of a fricassee is enough to set the mental mouths of the underlying population to watering.

ana Using a Little Strategy “OUT there are more ways to win .D a game than a straight-line buck. (And, parenthetically), I wish the Columbia team had discovered that in the first half of the Princeton game. It will take a heap o’ fining, as Eddie Guest would put it, to get back what I last on that unfortunate afternoon.) If you know your game, however, when you can’t go places through the line you just start what looks like an off-tackle play, spin, reverse and shoot around the end. “That’s what we did out here. “Now that I whirlwinded into this job, there are several important matters of policy to be considered. First, what is the Marxian interpretation of J. P.? I would hate to be accused either by the Daily Worker or the New Republic of any Right deviation on this assignment. Second, about my uniform and badge. A man named Edward Levinson, of 41 Union Square, in charge of publicity for minorities, just called up with a rather tempting offer to supply me with a uniform once worn by the head of the secret service of Santo Domingo. It consists of a scarlet beret, with the words ‘Secret Service’ written on the front; a sky blue shirt, green seersucker pants and patent leather bootees. He says that he can work up a badge to go with this with an NRA eagle on top, my name in the center and an American flag (stand up—the J. P. is passing by) at the bottom. ana Just a Handful of Silver “cpHE third consideration is a bit X delicate. You see, I have to post a bond to keep the p°ace or something. You have to post this before you can begin to fine. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Times)

Blue Begins

BY ARCHER SHIRLEY ‘Where does the blue begin?” I cried. For I saw days of summer pass And nights that all too quickly hide The happiness I longed to clasp. I grew impatient with my lot And longed to seek a place afar; A place where happiness is got, A land beyond some flaming star. I searched the world for that bright place Where blue horizons meet the earth, For Paradise, I though, was space Wherein new joys would find their birth. But soon I found that peace and light And joy within each mortal dwells; That flee or journey though we might We can ne’er hope to escape ourselves. Within each heart do horizons loom, In homes and loves, in hopes and friends, In sunny smiles that dispel all gloom, I know that’s where the blue begins.