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WEDNESDAY. NOV. 15. 1933. THE EARLE INCIDENT TF the American minister to Austria is inter- ■*" sering in the religious and racial quarrels of that country, as reported, he will not last long. Minister Earle is quoted as saying that Austria will sacrifice the sympathy of America if she goes anti-Semitic. We believe it is true that a majority of Americans hate religious and racial persecution, whether such bigotry is practiced at home or abroad. It is equally true, however, that it is not the business of an American diplomat to pass judgment on the internal affairs of the country to W’hich he is accredited. We Americans are very suspicious of foreign interference, diplomatic or otherwise. That is proper. Indeed, a congressional committee now is beginning an investigation of such alleged activities on the part of German agents here. Unfortunately, the American government not always has been as zealous in keeping its nose out of the affairs of other nations as in protecting its own sovereignty from alien encroachments. We have just gone through a lamentable period in which the state department tried to use diplomatic recognition as a club to force other governments to conform to American ideas. Happily, the Roosevelt administration —as witness Its Russian negotiations—has returned to the older Jeffersonian recognition policy of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries. As regards the anti-Semitic movement which threatens to spread from Germany to Austria, there is nothing to prevent Americans as individuals from thinking and doing about it as they please, even to the point of boycott. But such matters come within the proper function of the United States government and its diplomats only when the foreign government violates international obligations or the rights of an American citizen. WHO HIT HUEY LONG? NO, we don’t know the answer yet, but we are getting closer. Three more names have been eliminated. They are Tom Connally, Sam Bratton and Marvel Mills Logan, United States senators, respectively, from the commonwealths of Texas, New’ Mexico and Kentucky. On the word, the impassioned and sizzling word, of John G. Holland. It w r asn’t one of these three. They wouldn't harm a red hair of Huey’s head, if Holland is to be believed. And there is reason to believe him. He is the chief investigator of the senate committee named to investigate the manner in which Huey Long elected his colleague, John H. Overton, to the senate. The three are members of the committee. Yesterday, down in New Orleans, Holland let loose the disgust and anger that has been accumulating within him the last year, during which all his efforts to bring about a real inquiry into that far-smelling Louisiana election have been circumvented mysteriously. He told what the committee has been doing toward bringing the truth to light and it all summed up to so near nothing that you could hardly tell the difference. For a long time it has seemed likely that this senate committee would have a lot of explaining to do when congress reconvenes. Now it seems certain. CIVIL SERVICE BOOST 'T'HE decision of President Roosevelt to •*- place first, second and third class postmasters under the classified civil service is a sweeping stroke in favor of training and efficiency in public sendee and a body blow to the spoils system. There have been plenty of instances in which a President has extended the civil service at the close of his term of office when the posts already had been filled with “deserving” members of his own party. But it is rare, indeed, that any President has shown real devotion to the principle of civil sendee by taking a large bunch of plums Immediately out of the reach of hungry members of his own party at the outset of his term. Plenty of precedent exists in the Roosevelt family for such a policy. Theodore Roosevelt, as civil sendee commissioner under President Harrison, was one of the main figures in putting civil sendee on its feet in our federal government. Later, as President, he retained liis devotion to the principle. The civil sendee movement represents the chief mode of undermining the pernicious spoils system in public administration. While it had been adopted rather extensively in Europe, especially in Prussia, before the end of the eighteenth century, there was no place for it in American politics until well after the close of the Civil war. Some of the earlier presidents had recognized the importance of merit and experience in public sendee, but Andrew Jackson, emerging from a coon-skin economy, believed that special training and long experience disqualified rather than fitted a person for public sendee. From his “reign’’ onward the bars were down for the spoils system. The origins of civil sendee in the United States came as a phase of the general revolt against the corruption which has reached its nadir-point in the administrations of Grant. The pioneer figure was Charles Sumner, who studied in detail English and other European systems of civil sendee. As early as 1864 he began to urge civil sendee reforms in the United States. A congressional investigating committee published a report on European civil semce systems in 1868. The movement attracted the support of some of the most •minent reformers and publicists of the era,

including Carl Schurz, William Cullen Bryant, Oeorge William Curtis and E. L. God kin. These men finally secured the creation of a civil service commission in 1871 and Curtis was put at the head of It in 1G72. Grant yielded to the spoilsmen within a year and Curtis resigned in disgust. President Hayes was a friend of civil service but could get no funds to carry on the movement. Congress was in the hands of spoilsmen. The chairman of the house committee on civil service, for example, was none other than Benjamin F. Butler, probably the most unscrupulous spoilsman in the history of American politics. Strangely enough the first real foothold for civil service was made possible by the action of Chester A. Arthur who had been a notorious spoilsman before becoming President. The Pendleton act, drawn up by Norman B Eaton, a leading apostle of civil service reform, was passed in 1883. Eaton was made head of the commission. Cleveland did his best to support civil service, but it was a hopeless battle in his first term against hungry Democrats who had been out of office since Buchanan’s day. President Harrison at first gave full sway to the spoilsmen, but later made amends by appointing Theodore Roosevelt civil service commissioner. The latter showed his astuteness by bringing congress to terms. He refused to hold examinations in the districts of congressmen who voted against civil service. From this time on the civil service movement has advanced steadily, though with its ups and downs. Cleveland, in his second administration, Roosevelt and Taft did far better than McKinley, Wilson and Harding in checking the raids of the spoilsmen. In 1884 there were 13,780 in the federal classified civil service and on July 31, 1930, 462.083. There were slightly less than 150,000 outside of the merit system in 1930. The federal civil service system thus has grown to be a formidable bulwark against the spoils system. What W’eneed is equal progress in state and municipal government. And, if democracy is to survive, we shall require rigorous civil service methods for legislators and judges. There is no earthly reason why the merit system should be limited to the executive department alone. BETTER HOUSING IT Is reported in Washington that the huge federal public works program is going to get another shot in the arm. All the $3,300,000,000 fund originally voted for this program will be allotted by Jan. 1. It is doing the recovery effort a great deal of good, but it begins to look as if there is not quite enough of it. So now it is expected that the administration will boost it to a total of $5,000,000,000. This being so, the next question to decide is, for what shall the money be used? We certainly need few more public buildings, such as postoffices and courthouses. Highways and waterways received a huge slice from the original program. So did naval construction. There remains, however, one field in which almost unlimited sums could be used properly; a field in which money spent not only revives industry and puts men to work, but erects a sounder and safer foundation for all American society. This, of course, is the field of housing. There are in American cities today some 9,000,000 homes that belong in or close to the slum classification. No program that we could finance now could replace all of them with decent dwellings, but it is at least evident that we can not take too big a'bite for the size of the problem involved. These 9,000,000 slum homes present a job that the nation could work on for years. Now, spending money on housing is one of the most direct of all ways to promote a business revival. It puts a great many men to work, it restores realty values, it stimulates trade in many basic raw materials and semifinished industries. If we want to get back to prosperity, the more money we pour into plum clearance plans, the better. Yet that is only half of it. Even in prosperous times, money put into slum clearance would be money well spent. It is hard to build a healthy society when a large part of the society is housed unhealthfully. Slums breed crime, disease, vice, and poor citizenship generally. They cost us infinitely more than the cost of replacing them. They are perhaps the greatest single drag on democracy’s feet. If the public works fund is to be boosted, the administration will do well to pour every dime available into a housing program. RECEIVERSHIP GAME W-ILLIAM G. MADOO, United States senator and attorney at law', informs through the medium of a press association telegraph operator who isn’t a law’yer, that the senate investigators at Los Angeles are after data upon which to base reform in the procedure in receiverships, or words to similar effect. Mr. McAdoo will take his data back to Washington and, eventually, a congress made up largely of lawyers may struggle with reform of the receivership game. Game is the name for it, as millions of skinned creditors of insolvent firms in receivership will make oath. One can not help but admire the patriotic spirit of that senate committee. To be sure, the whole American Bar Association always has "known” the rascalities perpetrated in receivership procedure as well as it knew the first page of Blackstone, if not better—and always ducked its patriotic and moral duty to wipe out receivership rascality and chicane. But. when a specially selected committee of a lawyer-packed congress points its finger at any rottenness in legal procedure, possibly a reform is really in its makings. From the viewpoint of the public, barring, perhaps, the legal fraternity, the unselfishness of Mr. McAdoo’s reform endeavors must appear to be adorable. In legal practice, there are three things that might be vulgarly called “snaps.” Only the abnormally greedy lawyer will ask more than the receivership of a sizeable concern, or a fat divorce practice, or attorneyship for a large corporation, preferably a merger, to keep the same posted as to how far to go and avoid jail and how to evade income taxation. Apparently, Mr. McAdoo’s committee has got the finger of suspicion stabbing at the most luscious of the "snaps.” We expect that Mr. McAdoo’s committee will turn the full light of publicity upon what it unearths. Also, congress, upon evidence

already on hand, might well require full publicity upon the doings of corporation directorates. Give light and creditors and stockholders will find their own way. IN RETROSPECT "PROBABLY the most far-reaching lesson which may be drawn from the experiences of the last fourteen years is that prohibition exposed, in shocking fashion, the fallacy of the old dogma that the populace at large is very peculiarly qualified to launch and press to a successful conclusion a great moral crusade. Prohibition represented the third great American experiment with popular crusading for supposedly high moral ends. The results were as illuminating and as disastrous as in the two earlier cases. The first example of a popular uprising for •Tight” was the abolitionist movement. Its supporters were brave and honest men who hated a great injustice—human slavery. They sought to hasten its end by drastic legislation. They were not willing to w'ait until economic and cultural conditions should put a natural end to the anachronism—as they were bound to do in a few decades. The outcome was sectional bitterness and friction, civil war, chaos in the south, and a postponement of the ultimate settlement of the Negro question. Next came the crusade against gambling—race track and other venerable and relatively harmless games of chance of all sorts were outlawed ruthlessly. So far did this go that four Chinese were arrested and thrown into jail In one of the largest New England cities for playing dominoes for stakes. It was not long before our legally suppressed gambling proclivities found new expression in another and much more dangerous field—taking fliers on the stock exchange. The barber and the stenographer rubbed elbows with the professional broker and the millionaire in dabbling with margins and selling short. The results were disastrous not only to personal savings but also to the very economy of the nation. We entered upon the “noble experiment” in 1919. Billy Sunday confidently asserted that: “The reign of tears is over. The slums soon will be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corn cribs. Men will walk upright now', women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever to rent.” It hardly will be necessary to remind us that prohibition actually brought an orgy of irresponsible alcoholic indulgence, especially among the young of the land, such as our country had never known. For the first tim£, intoxication became socially respectable. We had to build more spacious prisons and jails and the slums remained to disgrace us. The task of creating an era of civilized drinking will be much more difficult in 1934 than it would have been in 1919. The chief lesson w'hich w’e can draw from these tragic experiences with popular crusading for moral causes is that morality is a highly difficult and complicated problem which must be left to science to determine. Even our biological, psychological, sociological and medical experts, in collaboration, may go slightly astray in such matters. Now that the w'ets have come into their own, let them demonstrate themselves more astute than the drys. If they are wise, they will recognize that civilized drinking is the only procedure that decent men will long support. Folly on the part of the wets only will give the drys anew lease of life and apparent vindication. The dollar is lower today than it has been for seventeen years, says Washington. But it’s just as hard to get. Has your wife skinned you yet for her furs? Italy is thinking of introducing an entirely new form of government. But Mussolini, by any other name, still is Mussolini.

M.E. Tracy Says:

IF $3 a quart for whisky is high enough to make bootlegging profitable, it is too high. Bootlegging is the most important factor to be considered. It ha3 been the curse of prohibition and it easily could be made the curse of repeal. Much as we need revenue, we need restoration of respect for law more. Ten years of racketeering not only made possible, but financed largely by the illegal liquor traffic, has brought this country to the verge of lawlessness. Not since the Civil war has there been such a widespread disposition to ignore, or even violate public regulation. One has only to stand by an unguarded traffic light to realize how common it has become to disregard law when there is no officer present. It will take at least one generation to live down the anti-social complex developed by bootlegging and allied rackets. The first consideration in shaping new liquor regulations should be to prevent a continuance of all possible incentives to violate them. Taxes and license fees which would make bootlegging profitable are not worth the revenue they promise. Neither can w’e assume that the legalized trade will safeguard us. a a VI T E have educated a veritable army of moon- ▼ \ shiners and rum-runners. As long as there is money in the business, that army will take chances. The place to begin in fixing the price of liquor is what bootleggers would have to charge in order to eke out a bare existence. Anything above that means continuance of the kind of lawlessness from which we have suffered since 1920. The value of liquor represents about the same kind of a problem as the value of dollars. The administration has decided that it could not fix the latter without study. Why not apply a similar rule to the former? In view of the trouble we have experienced, a little honest experimenting would seem to be logical. Up to this time, we have proved nothing so definitely as an abysmal lack of knowledge chiefly because we have started out vidth the assumption that this or that scheme would correct every evil. tt U tt THE eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act came as a climax to our assumptions Considering all they have cost, isn’t it about time that we quit jumping at conclusions? One can only marvel at the thought process which led to the conclusion that $3 a quart was the right price—not $2.99. or $3.01, you understand. but exactly $3. without any leeway for the imagination. Os course, such a price may be the one and only happy medium, but from conversations I heard in various places, quite a few people appear to think that it bears down rather hard on the consumer, while leaving the door open for bootlegger*

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 200 words or less.) By John Kleinhenz. This may appear trivial to some, but I wish to inrorm those who may be interested that those letters signed “J. E. K.” were not written by me. By George Stephens. In the name of all this is decent, how under the sun can people in Indiana stand the things that are happening daily? If ever there was hatred in my heart for a political system, that hatred lives there now. When a man is elected to office, the votes of the people place him in a position to serve, to administer the affairs of office honestly and justly. The Governor of Indiana was elected in fatih. Mothers and fathers, workers, teachers, business men, gave to him the privilege of serving. It is as far from justice as black is from white that one honored so highly shall build a criminal fortress within his political alliances. Hoosiers aren’t blind, even though they may keep their eyes closed too long. We’re the laughing stock of the country, we’re being robbed of our money by a bunch of political racketeers. It is costly to every citizen, and still many sleep on. Politics don’t belong in our educational system. Politics will ruin our state institutions. Political graft will squeeze every possible dollar from the poor citizen until he aw’akens. Tammany has been defeated in New York because it was a vicious leech that sucked the city and state for all it was worth. McNutt, the “terror gang,” Greenlee and the rest must be ousted before decency returns to Indiana. I demand his resignation. Who’s with me? Let’s clean house. By Lorraine Pyles. Any one who saw Indiana’s exhibit at the world's fair would conclude erroneously that the only Hoosier celebrities were McNutt, Riley, Nicholson and the murals. What about the car factories, Kingan & Cos., the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and picturesque Technical high school, which is one of

Dysentery Symptoms Are Confusing

This is the second of two articles by Dr. Fishbein on amebic dysentery, which recently caused an epidemic among guests of a Chicago hotel and might have been the cause of Texas Guinan’s death. AMEBIC dysentery is likely to be confused particularly with another condition called chronic ulcerative colitis, w’hich may result from invasion of germs of another character. Quite frequently, also, there are pains in the appendix, due to the fact that the protozoa which cause amebic dysentery may invade the walls of the appendix. If the disease has persisted for some time, there may be secondary involvement of the liver or of other organs of the body. This usually takes the form of an abscess. Chances of recovery from this disease depend, of course, on the extent to which it invades the body. In some epidemics there has been a

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

IAM asked to write on the subject “What - kind of people should adopt children?” A succinct reply to that would be: “Those who want and love them.” The question of income undoubtedly must enter into the matter nowadays but to a far less extent than our normal fears would have us think. Because your home is humble and your income small is no true argument against the adoption of a child. Babies are happy in little houses, happier there than anywhere else, it may be, and the main thing they want besides sufficient plain food and warm clothes l; love. The fact that a man and women in such a situation would hesitate before acting, however, seems to me excellent prooffchat they are of the

The Same Old Story!

Attacks Athearn

By Butler Grad. I read the editorial on the sensationalism of Dr. Athearn’s attitude toward his dismissal, and I want to add my voice to those many others heartily in sympathy with the board. The only unfortunate phase of the whole matter has been the attitude of Dr. Athearn, and although he did lose his position, he is no more to be pitied than the thousands of others who have occupied higher positions than he but who are now walking the streets. Dr. Athearn was conducting a one-man show, in which he was the author, hero and stage carpenter, but he may have forgotten that the public some time will get bored and walk out on a play which has no more interest than the one he was presenting. Any one who feels that Butler university is on its last' legs is about as pessimistic as can be. We have survived without Bismarck, Abe Lincoln, and all the other great heroes; so Butler probably can struggle along without Dr. Athearn, although he would have us otherwise believe. If he were such a success at Boston university, why isn’t he there now? Why did he go to England? The board certainly has the confidence of all Butler alumni, and that’s all that’s necessary. Dr. Athearn won’t get to see Butler close its doors after all, and isn’t it a pity to deprive him of the pleasure?

the largest schools in the world, as well as a former fort? What about the rural beauties of Brown county, the Limberlost, the famous Wyandotte cave and Vincennes? Many of us like the simple pleasures of seeing canned fruits, seashell hats, samples of coal, limestone and corn. Those of us who have not been educated to the nth degree, did not appreciate the artistic effort put forth itt the Indiana exhibit. Since it is customaiy for all states to have Governors, the fact that Indiana has one is no novelty. Nothing is quite so decorative as a likeness of Governor McNutt, but,

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

great deal of mortality, whereas in others the mortality has been much less. This is particularly the case in recent years, when efficient methods of treatment have been developed. There is no way in which one may protect himself against amebic dysentery except to live wholly on cooked food which he p"epares himself. Health officials guard the public against this condition by eliminating as food handler any one found to be a carrier of this disease. In treatment of the disease, a drug called emetine, which Is the active principle of ipecac, has been found most efficient. It usually is given by hypodermic injection. In the very acute type of the disease, the patient suddenly is at-

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

stuff of which foster parents should be made. It is a serious step, and one that should be carefully, even prayerfully, considered. For who is there among us who does not often shudder thinking of the future and its possibilities of unhappiness for the children? Who can ignore the dark pasasge of time through which we have just moved, and in whose shadow we still linger? 000 BUT babies go right on being bom whether the sun shines or not, disregarding utterly the hazardous state of the world. Therefore, I hope the final decision of this and all other such couples will be in the affirmative, and that they can find % baby, preferably a wee one, for their own. t v

after all, every one knows by now we have him. We wanted to discover if Indiana consisted of anything -except one elegantly framed McNutt photograph, some murals with a New York accent, several politicians’ benches, a few letters, a book or two, a bust, a garden with a naughty little boy holding a turtle by its tail; a “September Mornish” girl, a pan-like creature and a couple of bears or something. Don’t store the murals. Place them in the wide, empty spaces in the statehouse. Then all deserving Democrats really could appreciate art. Most of all, their presence would lend dignity to any conference, no matter whether it was a discussion on how to make jailproof convicts, bank-proof bandits or Governor-proof departments. By E. W. White. I was impressed greatly by your editorial on “Government by Amateurs,” and also surprised greatly to learn under item six of your appraisal of the assets of the state administration that there had been a saving to the taxpayers in the first nine months of 1933 the sum of $9,427.821.89 by the present administration —“Believe It or Not.” In order to convince your readers, have you the records and the facilities to enable you to publish an itemized statement of this remarkably meritorious action of the administration just how and w’hen the saving was accomplished? If you don’t, well here’s one who Is in the “Not.” (Editor’s Note: Itemized statement published elsewhere in today's Times.)

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And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.—Jeremiah 51-37. EVERY inordinate cup t* unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.—Shakespeare.

tacked while in the midst of apparent good health. There are severe abdominal cramps and diarrhea. There often is toxemia with high fever, the abdomen is sensitive, and in some cases the symptoms become progressively worse, so that the patient may die in less than a week. Where there is a chance to recover, a tendency toward improvement begins about the fourth or fifth day after the illness. However, even in these cases, the dysentery may last for weeks. In other cases, the condition tends to persist over a longer period, and there are mild types of the disease in which the onset is graduel and the condition itself not sufficiently serious to force the patient to bed. In this type of case, particularly, the true nature of this disease may be overlooked, yet such a patient becomes a carrier of the germs, and thus may infect others.

Such a decision reflects as much credit upon their good sense as upon their altruism. No adult truthfully can be said to bestow all the favors in such an arrangement. For always the child gives to him immeasurable treasures, before the last word in their story is wTitten. A baby offers a hundred boons, a thousand joys a million benefits, that are not to be described with anything so clumsy as words. Also there comes an hour in every life when man must snap his fingers at fate and thumb his nose at fear, the nasty lurking devil. And that hour is upon you when you begin to discuss the adoption of a child. My advice may not be wise but it is hf nest. Fortify yourself with a baby . <nd defy the future to do its woLtt.

.mV. 15,1933

It Seems j to Me J—-BY HEYWOOD

YORK. Nov. 15.—1 went to ; the funeral of Texas Guinan and came away thinking about survival after death. If there is no continuation of individuality the cosmic scheme of things is built upon a blunder and I shall oppose it and all its works. Possibly it is a mistake to generalize upon a particular emotion, but unless the dead have the same senses as the quick a very large and ornate ceremony was held lor no important purpose. I heard two pallbearers in conversation as they waited while a lane could be cut in the crowd to make way for the coffin. One said: “I know now that I would like to be buried on some quiet Connecticut hillside and not brought to Broadway to be a disturber of traffic.” "Yes,” said the oth£r, "but this was what Tex wanted. She would have loved it.” There came up then a member of the mob, and tears were streaming down his cheeks. He wanted consolation. “Don’t you think,” he asked, "that this is as big as Valentino's?” • m m Traffic Halted THE police cried out, “Get back there, you!” A photographer shouted, “tell the pallbearer with the eye glasses to look over toward the camera!” The newsreel men cranked furiously, and not a wheel turned for five blocks up and down Broadway, so great was the crush of people. Every window in the hotel across the street was occupied by those who wanted to be told that this w'as Paul Whiteman, Mark Hellinger or Earl Carroll. It w T as Mark who printed the story about the deathbed conversation of Texas. The doctor said she had only a few’ hours to live, and so she called her manager and discussed in detail the plans for the funeral. “I want,” she said, “to lie in state at Campbell's. I w'ant for once to give the people a chance to see me without a cover charge.” All afternoon I had a strong feeling that this w r as not so much a funeral for Texas Guinan as a funeral by Texas Guinan. All her own qualities of showmanship were evident. In life she always selected a room w’hich was a shade too small because she felt that it was good business to crowd them in or even turn a few customers away. It was her contention that anybody who is turned aw r ay always comes bark. The funeral certainly packed them in even though 2 o’clock of a Sunday afternoon is still a little early for that part of the Broadway crowd which waits for the sun to come up to signalize the end of Saturday night. n ts tt Solemn Words Spoken TEXAS was dead. That much was certain. We heard the words of a priest, a ritual was read and, outside, “Taps” was sounded by a naval bugler. All of us were wary. No one gave a hand to the priest or to the chaplain. Texas was dead. And yet I swear I seemed to hear the sound of wooden hammers striking tables, laughter and the click of cleated shoes against a hardwood floor. There was something grotesque about the funeral. It wasn't just the slightly florid character of the ceremony. It wasn’t that any wandering eye met some eloquent mask which plainly said: “I wouldn’t have done this for anybody but you, Tex. And what wouldn’t I give for a drink!” In fact, it seemed just being dead. She remained a far a little silly to talk about Texas more vital living force than numerous ones among haggard hundreds in the chapel. I didn’t go to the cemetery. That seemed far less appropriate than anything else in the ceremony. They had to drive all the way to White Plains. I think it was Texas who said, “Once you leave New York any town you strike is Bridgeport.” tt u a Planned for ’Joy of. Texas I HONESTLY believe that Texas N saw the funeral and took a very great pride and joy in the performance. It was almost as big as Valentino’s. The universe is intricate, and very nice adjustments are necessary to keep the planets from running into one another.. It wrould be a fearful error if by any stipulation Texas were barred from the knowledge that the police had to fight back the thousands. “The columnists made me. I want them to follow me at the end,” Texas said before she died. They w r ere there. And certainly it would be a pity if Texas did not hear e. prayer in which the hope was expressed that she should be “a companion of the holy angels.” Not everything is for the best in this universe, but at least It does make sense. Somebody like Spinoza, let’s say, may not even have leaned down from the gold bar of heaven to watch the camera men and the radio announcers. But I’m sure Texas saw it all and gloried in it. And if my notions about the hereafter are wrong in this respect, all I can say is that there must be something mightily amiss with the management. (OoDVriuht. 1933. bv The Times)

Loving Heart

BY AUSTIN JAMES There's joy in a burst of sunshine, A song in a dash of the rain, There’s joy in the lilt of laughter, And there’s even some gladness in pain. There’s joy in a strain of music, And pleasure in bits of art. But exultant and free And most precious to me. Is the joy of a loving heart. There’s strength in majestic mountains, And strength in the loft of the trees. There's strength in a tower of water, And though gentle there’s strength in a breeze. There's peace on a lake at midnight. In the tide as it washes the sands. But strength at its strongest And peace—for me lies In a woman who understands.