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TUESDAY, NOV. SI. 1933. THE FASCIST PHOBIA ' | 'HE last decade or so turned the tables in the epithet industry in remarkable fashion. Back in the days of the Luck committee and the Inquisition directed by Attor-ney-General Palmer after the World war, any one more enlightened or progressive than Judge Gary or Calvin Coolidge was likely to be called a radical. He was then placed upon one or another roll of honor in the form of a "black list" prepared by some patrioteerlng committee. Now the tables have turned. Radicals are freely and fluently calling anybody more practical than W. Z. Foster a "Fascist." Not one article in a hundred written by an American radical on any aspect of the new deal will fail to use the ppithet "Fascist” at least once. Indeed. it now has become almost automatic to try to damn any one we do not like by denouncing him as a Fascist. This practice now has gone to the point of absurdity. As with most labels, it is being used so loosely and indiscriminately as to become utterly meaningless. William Z. Foster and the official American Communists have frequently denounced Calverton and his associates as Fascists. It is common practice for the Calverton group to assail Norman Thomas as a Fascist wolf in the sheep’s clothing of modem Socialism. Norman Thomas in turn warns that the new deal is bringing us dangerously close to a Fascist regime in the United States. Mr. Roosevelt's supporters caution us that if the new deal does not succeed the Fascists led by "Dave” Read and other conservative Republicans will get us. And when Dave Read in desperation called for an American Fascist chieftain his mind conjured up the image of Mussolini. Finally, the German admirers of Hitler all are alleging that Mussolini is a piker as a Fascist and contend that the "supreme knight of the swastika” is the Fascist par excellence. It is quite apparent that a term which actually and recently has been used to designate representative figures all along the line from V. F. Calverton to Herr Hitler has become so meaningless as to be merely ridiculous. Like the term “hell,” it has become valuable chiefly as a handy epithet. It is high time for us to return to sense and sanity on the Fascist issue. After all, what does Fascism really mean? According to the prevailing radical definition—when the radicals really get down to business and are not merely tossing off epithets—Fascism means the use of the state or political force to preserve capitalism. This however, is a very incomplete definition, for political institutions may be used to support capitalism under completely democratic forms and methods. Fascism certainly implies more than the suspension of democratic political methods and institutions, however, for Communism does all of this. Therefore, Fascism, viewed broadly, means the suspension of democracy and the establishment of dictatorial policies to save the capitalistic system. This dictatorship, to qualify as Fascism, must be a deliberate, rational and permanent program. There is nothing truly Fascist about a temporary dictatorship to meet an emergency. Least of all would extensive executive powers, temporarily and voluntarily delegated by the legislature, constitute Fascism. But this is all we have under Mr. Roosevelt at the present time. It will be high time to fill the air with the bricks and dead cats of Fascist epithets when a dictator really appears in this country, denounces democracy and proclaims that he is going to save Wall Street with machine guns, air bombs and poison gas. It will be most sensible to keep the term Fascism in its exact meaning so that we will recognise it and can denounce it when it gets here. Meanwhile, let us deal with the opinions and activities of our opponents on their merits and not try to evade them or discredit them by carelessly slinging around inaccurate and irrelevant epithets. EVASION OF NR A WHEN General Johnson told President Roosevelt that infractions of the NRA codes in America are numerous and that a widespread spirit of evasion is manifest in certain quarters, he touched on the Achilles heel of the whole NRA program. All in all. this program can be an exceedingly valuable thing for the country as a whole. But It is an open secret that chiselers and slackers have vitiated its force in many localities. You can not sit down at a luncheon table to discuss the NRA without hearing plenty of remarks about firms which fly the blue eagle without living up to the regulations. If the government is preparing to see to it that fuller compliance with the various codes is forthcoming, it will correct a very large flaw in the recovery program. MUSSOLINI’S PLAN WHATEVER else may be said about Mussolini’s scheme for the government of Italy, it is at least one of the most interesting departures from orthodox political practice ever attempted. To understand fully what it means, it is Instructive to make an imaginative transfer of the whole business to the United States. Pretend that Franklin Roosevelt is Mussolini, and that the Fascist scheme replaces the present setup over here. What happens? Congress to begin with, is permitted to die * of malnutrition. It is suffered to exist for a few years longer as a sort of vermiform apijjpendix. but its functions are gone, t Is its place rises a council of corporations. V

Here we have representatives from the great industries. One group represents the steel trust, another the coal trust, another the oil trust, another the tobacco trust, another agriculture, and so on, down the line. It is a nice question whether you could say that these Industries are under government control or that they control the government. At any rate, we go on down the line and find all our existing labor unions put on the scrap heap, to be replaced by huge vertical organizations, or guilds. All the workers in the steel Industry are grouped In one body, all the automobile workers In another, and so on. And these unions are not like any labor unions we previously have known. They can not call strikes. They are not Independent. And politics? There is only one party—the Democrats. It Is a rubber stamp for the President and his advisers. Its members never dissent from the policies of the inner circle. They are disciplined perfectly. Republicans, If they open their mouths, are sent to the new prison on Alcatraz island. Newspaper editors submit their editorials to Jim Farley for correction. Herbert Hoover and Norman Thomas migrate to Canada. William Z. Foster is shot. It would be pretty hard to think of a more topsy-turvy arrangement. By imagining what life in such a castiron strait-jacket would be like, we can get anew conception of the supreme importance of bringing our democratic institutions througn the present trying times intact. NEW ECONOMIC ORDER IT often has been contended that a high class journalist is a more reliable reporter of contemporary history than the trained historical scholar. The illuminating survey of the Roosevelt regime today by Cleveland Rodgers, editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, helps to strengthen this conviction. I have read all of the books which have been written on this subject and Mr. Rodgers’ volume is quite easily the most useful summary for the general reader which has thus far been published. Mr. Rodgers’ history of the last six months Is comprehensive and reliable. It covers both the domestic and the foreign policy of the administration. It is no pollyanna volume, pouring syrup or oil on the American system and the Roosevelt policies. The work provides a searching analysis of the weaknesses of American capitalism and indicates the manner in which the Roosevelt program is designed to remedy the old defects. In a most fundamental sense. Mr. Rodgers looks upon the new deal as the decisive test of whether economic and political democracy can be preserved In the modern world. If It collapses, we are headed toward either Fascism or Communism. While Mr. Rodgers admirably has placed the new deal against the background of the weaknesses of modem capitalism which need Immediate attention, Professors Megee, Atkins and Stein of New York university have prepared a concise summary of the essentials of the new deal, arranged under the general headings of the national industrial recovery act, the farm program and the reforms in money, banking and finances. The booklet will be extremely useful for the general citizen and Invaluable for the teacher w r ho rarely will find anything about the new deal In any of the available textbooks. The authors venture few personal opinions and hold themselves rather strictly to concise exposition. Mr. Smitley has had a long and varied experience in Wall street as a practical broker and an editor of important financial publications. In this book, “Popular Financial Delusions,” made up of nearly a hundred short chapters, the author takes a wallop at all kinds of economic ideas and processes from Moscow to Wall street and pays his respects to publicists from Huey Long to Walter Lippmann. His vrtume makes diversified and juicy reading. While some of the sections, like his appraisal of technocracy, are trivial or absurd, his active participation in finance capitalism has far from completely undermined his judg--ment or good sense. The intellectual gulf which separates Aristotle from Einstein is no greater than that which sets off Walter Polakov from Mr. Smitley. The former is one of the best informed of modem engineers. He discards as utterly outworn and useless the old categories and terminology of finance capitalism and talks to us in terms of the thoroughly up-to-date ideas and problems of the power age. He offers cogent and convincing arguments that there is little hope of realizing any new deal if w’e stick to the same old pack of marked cards. There is much evidence that statesmen of the old school, however well-intentioned, never will be able to master our intricate and dynamic power age. If there is one thing certain about our future, it is that we shall have more leisure. Whether this be the leisure of unemployment or that produced by shorter hours remains to be seen. The National Recreation Association and the National Education Association have co-operated in a careful study of American schools in relation to the leisure problem. The study treats of the manner in which school life can solve the problems of leisure for children. as well as train them to handle more effectively the problems of leisure once they attain to adulthood. SAVING THE FARMS npHE value of the work of the "forest army" A is familiar to every one by now. What is not realized so often, however, is the fact that a good deal of this army's work is connected only indirectly with forests. Right now' a considerable number of the forest army lads are at work on an ambitious scheme for preventing further loss of soil through erosion. In southeastern Ohio, for example, ten camps are at work on this job. Streams which traverse country which formerly was wooded, but which now is under cultivation, tend to form gullies, or washes, which become progressively larger each year. As they grow larger, they carry away increasing quantities of farm land. The forest army is building checks, dams, and the like to keep such streams under control. Good farm land is no longer to be carried downstream to the Gulf of Mexico. The forest army, designed to save the forests. is to save the farmer.*

STEEL LIKES THE CODE XJRA naturally is gratified that an industry which fought codification as bitterly as steel did three months ago should report Itself well satisfied with operation under a code and should ask continuance of that code. Even more cause for gratification exists in the report showing that 92,155 men have been put back to work in steel though production is low’er than when the code went into effect. An increase of 28.3 per cent in employment and 32.1 per cent Increase in pay rolls is a record of which any company might be proud, and is the sort of stuff of which recovery must be made. It remains questionable, nevertheless, whether the government has done right in permitting the steel industry to continue operation under a basing-point price system similar to the Pittsburgh-plus plan which was adjudged monopolistic years ago. The basing-point price system requires the purchaser of steel to pay heavy phantom freight charges whether he buys from a plant that is near or one that is far away. No more effective means of shutting off competition ever has been devised. It protects the obsolescent high-cost mill. Under direction of the strongest steel companies it can be used to stifle all independent competitors. Steel used in public construction this winter, paid for with public dollars, will be bought at basing-point price system rates. Apparently no statisticians have calculated whether the government would save enough to itself to employ the 92,155 men hired back by steel companies if it did not have to pay basing-point prices, but the calculation might prove interesting. Steel production probably would be higher if prices were fairer. The worst of it is that if a monopoly price system becomes Imbedded in our economic structure more firmly than ever we will go on paying for years to come. This is too big a problem to put aside for future reference even If NRA officials are having to work at the limit of human capacity. The federal trade commission is eminently qualified to report on the subject, as It has several times In the past. Its recommendations, when made, should receive prompt and earliest, attention. BREAKING THE RULES ONE thing Maxim Litvinoff has done in his visit to the United States is change our conception of the typical red Russian official. For one reason or another, most of us got the notion that the Communist was a dour, fanatical, intensely curious chap who wore bushy whiskers, was careless of his attire, frowned portentously and went about always as if the last trumpet had sounded and he found himself among the goats instead of the sheep. This Litvinoff, however, seems to be something else again. He is not exactly a dandy, but he is careful of his dress. He smiles frequently, evinces a child-like freshness of interest in things, jokes with reporters, beams upon the world at large—and. in fact, wins from feminine newspaper readers the adjective, “cute.” He doesn’t, somehow, fill the bill. A Communist diplomat ought not to be getting quite so much fun out of life. Six out of every ten persons have one leg shorter than the other, say scientists. They should let the politicians pull the other leg, for a change.

M.E. Tracy Says:

STOCKHOLDERS of the Chase National bank have brought suit against Albert H. Wiggin, its former president and 135 directors in an effort to cover alleged losses from negligence and mismanagement. While this is a civil action, involving no question of public policy or changes in the banking system, it probably represents the sanest way of determining whether what occurred represented a violation of existing statutes, or whether new ones are needed to prevent similar occurrences in the future. The sensational testimony of Mr. Wiggin before the senate investigating committee left many people in doubt as to the course which should be pursued. The practices admitted generally were regarded as completely out of line with sound banking, if not repugnant to business ethics. At the same time, it seems to have been taken for granted that no regulatory law was violated. Mr. Wiggin frankly acknowledged that he had formed personally-controlled corporations which not only enabled him to deal in stock of the Chase bank but also to save on his income tax. In addition to this, he acknowledged selling the bank stock short and makiijg large profits out of the transaction. nan HIS personal knowledge that the bank was about to pass a dividend and that the stock would probably decline can hardly be dismissed. Assuming that the bank stock would have declined anyway, it is the prevailing idea that short selling represented an effective way to drive it down faster and further. If that is so, Mr. Wiggin caused his stockholders unnecessary loss and they would seem to have a remedy at law. If there is a remedy at law, the investigating public possesses a powerful weapon by which to enforce a due regard of its interests by bank presidents and bank directors. After all, that is the real issue. We can not hope to get better results through regulation than would be possible through upright, conscientious conduct of our financial affairs. If there is any way to compel such conduct, without added regulation, it should be sought, because no matter how well regulations work', they have a stultifying effect. ana IN my opinion, the most important point of this whole problem lies in the simple fact that Mr. Wiggin did not need to ask for a raise in salary when he was getting $218,000 a year, and at the very moment he was suggesting that other employes take a cut; did not need to accept bonuses when his own activities showed that he realized the bank was headed for bad weather; did not need to form personal-ly-controlled corporations for the purpse of speculating, when he had a job. which, if properly performed, would have taxed his time and ability to the limit. No one can review such cases as that of Mr. Wiggin and many other financial or industrial leaders, without being forced to the conclusion that an inordinate love of money has played a stupendous part in bringing on and prolonging the depression. If men can not control this appetite when they have more than enough; if there is no limit to what they want, or will do, regardless of general conditions, the public has no choice but to surround them with handicaps and inhibitions. The public does not prefer to do this because it realizes the evil effects of too much interference in private affairs, but men of unbridled ambition leave it no choice.

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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 250 words or less.) Bv W. Williams. The family is a thoroughly communistic institution, but once two rugged individualists got married. They didn’t have enough money to buy a cow apiece, so the “he” of the happy couple bought the front end of the cow and his wife bought the rear. The next day he started out to milk Bossy, but his wife came out in a great rage and told him not to trespass on her property. As he respected the sacred rights of property, he acknowledged his error and sneaked away. However, his property at once became a frozen asset in his eyes, so he quit feeding Bossy’s front end. When his wife started to feed her, he in turn ordered her not to trespass on his property. Being a rugged individualist, there was nothing for the wife to do but obey and so the cow died. Os course, they might have owned Bossy in common and shared more or less equally in the milk she gave, but that would have been rank socialism. Did you ever think that the rugged individuals who make up the great United States of America are behaving just like those silly fools who bought the cow and then let it die? If that doesn't soak in quickly enough, get your pencil and figure how much the railroads of America would be worth if the only inhabitants of the country were their owners, the bondholders. Oh, yes! And before we forget it, gold is a medium of exchange. Exchange for what? Sweet liberty for hoosegow. By E. B. Another “calamity howler” is abroad in the land. Don Irwin, chairman of the Republican state central committee, is asking Governor McNutt a series of questions, every one of which has been answered by the Governor both by actions and words, and the people have the answers. Since Mr. Irwin has opened the gate to questions, he certainly can not object to answering a few. Where were you, when the odious Goodrich tax law of Indiana was passed fourteen years ago by a Republican legislature and signed by a Republican Governor? Did you lift your voice or finger against that tax law? Where, when and how? Don’t you know that this is the tax law that put the burden on real estate such as

Mouth Infections May Be Dangerous 1 ■!=■ - = BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

THE gums, the tongue and lining of the cheeks are susceptible to a variety of infections. Usually they are of slight importance and heal rapidly. But they may become serious, if associated with infections that affect the whole body. In this type of cases, the so-called mouth antiseptics will not cure the condition, so it’s not worth the expense and trouble of trying them. Dr. Lawrence Curtis states that these antiseptics have more taste and smell than efficacy. The majority of cases of infection of the mouth occur in infants and are caused by materials coming from contaminated nipples on milk bottles, sometimes the infection occurs through damage to tissues by erupting teeth.

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■pvURING the last month I have received several clever cracks from certain gentlemen who profess to believe that the suggestion of a Sabbatical leave for wives, would be just too wonderful for husbands. In several instances, I also happen to know that these men are the sort who dont like to have the little woman visit homefolks for the week-end. Husbands swagger a good deal, but that swagger only covers up a tremendous and deep-seated need of their wives. They are just kids: they like to think it would be grand to get away from home and discipline and they imagine they want to do it, but only so long as the

The Anvil Chorus

One for Walkers By James E. Lear. My home is in New York, and, while passing through your city, I visited the Walkathon. From people and papers, I have gathered various opinions. Here is my judgment. First, I have seldom more thoroughly enjoyed anything better than the Walkathon. Secondly, the financial compensation to state and city is indeed greater than would have been in the absence of the contest. Thirdly, the serpent of intolerance is yet living, and, for them, around w’hose necks it is entwined, we can not draw too closely. Hence, through the medium of the. press, we may. These serpentine holier-than-thous, can not tolerate anything which offends their pharisee interior complex, hence, condemnation is thundered, but who cares. Fourthly, as I judge the matter, the contest is held on state ground, therefore only the state police have any jurisdiction. City and county officers are trespassers. The Walkathon is unique, hence a minority weep—only because of that.

homes, farms and business houses? Don’t you know’ that this is the law that the Democratic legislature of 1933 erased from the statute books of Indiana, Where were you when a Republican Governor was violating federal and state laws, and afterward was sent to prison? If you ever lifted your voice or finger against this Governor, the public never learned of it. Where were you when another Republican Governor w'as charged with attempted bribery and a Republican prosecutor permitted the statute of limitations to intervene between that Governor and the state prison? Did you lift your voice or your finger against the act of that Governor? If you did, the public never heard of it. Where were you when the KuKlux w'as over-riding the state, led by one D. C. Stephenson, now serving a life term in the state prison for murder? If you ever lifted your voice or finger against that reign of debauchery, the public never heard of it. Where were you when the same Klan w r as debauching the public schools of Indianapolis and of Indiana, Did you lift your voice or finger against this? Where, when and how'? Where were you when a rotten Republican administration permit-

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hysreia. the Health Magazine.

In such cases, treatment of the eruption by a careful dentist and proper cleansing will result in prompt recovery. In some cases the mouths of children are infected with molds which attack weakened tissues. This type of infection is associated with the appearance of grayish spots in the mouth. Sometimes ulcers appear, due to nervous causes, but without infection. In cases of severe infection of the mouth by germs of various types, ulcers appear. It is necessary to apply substances like hydrogen peroxide to destroy these organisms. The mouth also may be washed with solutions of sodium perborate.

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

women are there, serenely or anxiously waiting their return. But these wise cracks about how delighted they are when wifey leaves for a visit are just that much -foolishness. Empty words, cockadoodledoos, meant t fool their cronies, and which fool only themselves. n n n THE ordinary husband whose wife is gone, soon sinks into a terrible state of loneliness. He may try to kick up his heels like a wild colt for the first few evenings, but he is soon bored and miserable. Generally he will go meekly home and there brood upon his martyrdom, feeling sorry for himself. This is a perfectly natural reaction, since

ted the notorious Teapot Dome and Elk Hills scandals? Did you lift your voice or finger against that administration? If you did, where, w’hen and how’, Where were you from 1929 to 1933 when a lethargic Republican President and a Republican congress idly sat by and never lifted a finger to stave off the most appalling panic that ever overtook this country, or any other country? Did you lift your ■voice or finger during that time? Yes. you did. You used both in defense of both President and congress. Do you think “calamity howling” and vituperation will win a victory for you now? If you do, you have another think coming. The above are but a few of the questions that will have to be answered by you and your party in the near future. For your information, permit me to say that this writer is not in any way connected with the present state administration or the national administration. He is just a “high private” in the rear ranks You are a public official and will have to answer as such. By Broken-Hearted Mother. I am going to try to express myself just as if I were talking to you. In 1929, the police made a raid on my home. They found a still which they said my husband was running and they took my babies away from me. One girl will be 16 her next birthday and a boy 14, and all this time I have not had the pleasure of seeing them but three times. The girl, Virginia Lee Hall, is in Sunnvside sanatorium, with T. B„ and Mrs. Trook has given orders that I can’t see her or the boy and she won’t let her write to roe- The boy is in White’s Institute, worse than criminals, because the criminals in prison can WTite to their mother. I w'rote to the Governor, but he did not think enough to answ'er, and my heart is breaking. If I could see those babies of mine once more and just hold them in my aching arms once for just an hour, I would be glad to give my life, because then I could die happy. I would like for you to put this letter in your paper w'here every one can see it, to let them know that there is one mother who is willing to do anything to get her darlings back. I am staying with my mother now because I haven’t any other place to go, hoping and praying that I will get help from someone, because it will soon be Christmas time.

When the mouth has been infected by the parasite of trench mouth, it is exceedingly difficult -to bring about a cure. To produce satisfactory results in such cases, it is necessary first of all to build up the general hygiene of the patient and next to attack the organism through the body generally. Moreover, it may be necessary to have a dentist or a physician swab the infected areas regularly with antiseptics of sufficient strength to kill the parasites. The tissues of the mouth may be affected by poisons of various kinds, particularly by mercury, bismuth and phosphorus. When the mouth constantly is ulcerated and sore, it is desirable to look into the possibility of poisoning by these metallic substances.

there’s no fun at all in getting into michief when there’s nobody around worrying about w’hat you are up to. At the first symptoms of restlessness therefore the clever young wife will take herself quietly away and let her lord and master find out how stale, flat and unprofitable life and home are without herMen have a number of fond delusions by which they soothe their vanity, but this "Horray, My Wife's Gone to the Country” stuff is perhaps the greatest of them all. The well-managed husband is a remarkably tractable animal. He may think of himself as a wild thing, bridled by marriage, but the truth is, he was born domesticated and he loves it.

3TOV. 21,1933

It Seems to Me ~BY HEYWOOD BHOITN —

NEW YORK. Nov. 21—We have recognized Soviet Russia, and it seems to me that there should be general recognition of the fact that President Franklin D. Roosevelt has done a wise, an effective and a singularly courageous deed. It is quite irrelevant to say that common sense dictated such a step and that it should have been taken long ago. For sixteen years the breach has lasted, and it endured not on account of the sincere conviction of previous Presidents, but largely because Harding and Coolidge and Hoover were timorous men who feared the political consequences of such action. Possibly it is true that in the last four or five years some of the wildest misconceptions about Russia have grown less pestiferous, but even now the decision of President Roosevelt is a leap against the current. u n a Strong Opposition HE has made his choice in spite of the opposition of many large, closely knit and powerful American groups. Both the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion have been persistent in passing resolutions against recognition. The Catholic church has not favored it, and some of the Protestant groups also have been in opposition. The President is not going to come out of the situation without the most savage sort of criticism. He has taken the statesmanlike position of being willing to expose himself to the rap for the sake of doing the thing which seemed to him right and proper. I might as well admit that the conduct of the President has for the most part aroused my enthusiasm and also filled me with a great embarrassment and consternation. At the Democratic convention in Chicago I assailed him with all the venom which I could muster. I pictured him as a weak and irresolute man, whose nomination and election would be tragic in a time of national crisis. I said that because I utterly believed it to be true. Even now I am not by any means a 100 per cent Rooseveltian, but I would hate to 1 be called upon to defend the charge that Franklin Delano Roosevelt lacks the ability to make definite and difficult decisions. Os course, the only explanation is that in this respect I was cockeyed completely. a a a Coup Gone Wrong WHAT a sweet two-horse parlay a gambling man could have put over four or five years ago if he had foreseen the power of the Roosevelt drive. Suppose, for instance, any one of us had gone to a bookmaker in 1929 and said, "I want to bet that before 1934 prohibition will be repealed by the United States and Russia will be recognized. What odds will you give me?” If the layer had offered you anything less than 200 to 1 he would have been a chiseling miscreant. And yet these things have happened and both have been brought about almost entirely through the power of the personality of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Os course, the recognition of the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics seems to me of far more moment than repeal. And I think it is well to addd the warning that we are not yet out of the woods. I hope there will be no misunderstanding here of the pledge which runs according to the preliminary announcements, as a guarantee on the part of Russia that there shall be no propaganda here by the Russian government or any "organizations under its direct or indirect control.” Naturally, it would be a violation of the letter and spirit of this pledge if the Soviet ambassador or any consular agent should leap on a soap box in Union Square and urge the overthrow of our system of government by force and violence. I think the pledge should also mean that neither the Soviet republics nor the Third International should spend money here for Communist propaganda. But, as a matter of fact, I doubt that a dime has been sent over in the last four years. nun Chance for Communists THE agreement does not mean, can not mean and should not mean that Mike Gold, Clarence Hathaway or Bob Minor must immediately declare his intention of voting the straight Democratic ticket at the next national election. Naturally, Communist propaganda will continue in America. A not very large but an extremely vigorous and articulate minority of persons in this country sincerely believe that the Communist technique offers the only remedy for the undoubted woes of this nation and of tiie world. I see no reason why they should not continue to say this as frequently and as often as they choose. There is no reason why they should feel themselves muzzled by any agreement between Roosevelt and Litvinoff. If I ever become converted to Communism I am certainly going to preach it, recognition or no recognition. Not altogether irrelevant I wish to applaud the choice of William G. Bullitt as the first American ambassador to Russia. In this appointment the President might, through political expediency, have attempted a straddle. He could have recognized Russia and then sent as our representative a most respectable, skeptical and reactionary representative. Mr. Bullitt is well known as a sympathizer with the Russian effort. President Roosevelt has not only cast the dice but he has decided to shoot the works. No matter what happens to his administration, history should peg him as a leader who dared to earn* out a bold stroke to the uttermost. (Copyright, 1333. by The Times)

Brown County

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON Painter with skilled but human hand. Try as you will, You can not capture on canvas as planned The glory from Weed Patch Hill! Painter, numbly, humbly stand With God’s palette at your feet. While the Infinite brushes such shadow's in With sun and cloud that you can’t repeat. You do well, painter, if you find A mental picture the worthiest kind.