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THE MARYLAND REBELLION SALISBURY MD is in rebellion against the state. Its citizens attacked state officials and state troops, driving them out of town. The issue is no longer merely th" apprehension and punish men of the Princess Anne lynchers. The issue now is whether the state of Maryland will re-establish authority over its rebellious citizens. The" duty of the Governor is plain. Local authorities having failed—-if indeed they tried —to prevent anarchy and wholesale violence, state troops should be kept there until the reign of law is recognized and respected. Whether state officials and police by their inaction partly were to blame for the lynching last month is still an open question. Nevertheless. Governor Ritchie deserves credit for his belated attempt to use the power of the state to capture the lynch leaders protected by the local authorities. But the fact that only four of the nine lynching suspects were captured, coupled with the fact that the attorney-general and the troops yesterday retreated from the town under attack by another mob. leaves a much more dangerous situation than existed after the lynching By yesterday’s violence the mob spirit was encouraged. Lawless elements all over the state will grow. Maryland, like any other state, is made up chiefly of peaceful and law-abiding citizens. The purpose of law is to protect the community from the lawless minority. Governor Ritchie can not compromise with mob rebellion. THE NEW FRONTIER A SYLVAN wall behind which lay a vast rich continent, laced the Pilgrims as they gathered about a fire to celebrate the first Thanksgiving at. Plymouth. The social frontiersmen today stand before a wilderness within which lie oossibilities for collective well-being of which the Pilgrims never dreamed. The old pioneers rolled back the frontier. ■ laid out farms and railroads, planted tow ns and cities . . Depressions came but these were only signals for new shouts of Westward Ho and further treks toward cheaper land. Now. as President Roosevelt has said, "our last frontier long sine° has been reached.” The first lomantic chapter of the conquest of America has closed. Must America then settle down to the drab and decreasing standards of a static state? The men of vision and courage at Washington 'think not. They see another untamed wilderness here in the United State.'-. It is the social jungle peopled by unemployed, low-wage farm and factory workers, under-nourished children. Behind its frontier are the mill towns of New England, the coal coves of the near south, the copper guicnes of -the west, the city and rural slums, the haunts of the underprivileged in every part of the Republic. There are cities to be rebuilt. Os tne nation's 30 000.000 families 9.000,000 live in unfit homes. There are comforts to be brought to housewives. American homes are equipped with only 23.000.000 sewing machines. 7.000,000 washing machines. 14.000.000 gas ranges, 9.000,000 vacuum cleaners. 2,600.000 mechanical refrigerators and 1.000.000 electric ranges. There are farm homes to be modernized. Os 6.000.000. less than 1.000.000 have running water. 040.000 have electricity and 530.000 have bath rooms. There are cultural enrichments to dispense. Only 3.500.000 families own pianos; 12.000.000 radios and 21.000,000 private automobiles. We need 4 000 new rural schools, new libraries and art galleries, more parks and play grounds and public baths, adult education There are inventions yet to be popularized, such as air conditioning of homes and cities. There are diseases to be conquered, lands to be restored to use, endless ways to make America's life richer. The frontiersmen of the new deal are driving into this wilderness. As President Roosevelt has said, it is a “soberer, less dramatic task" than the first drive. But. just as the Pilgrims gave thanks for their opportunity, so should we today be grateful for ours. WHY CALL ON UNCLE SAM? THE last few months have seen federal authorities moving swiftly and effectively to strike at organized kidnaping gangs It has been pretty clearly proved that Uncle Sam's men can do a better 'ob of rounding up such crooks than local police can. The result has been widespread agitation in favor of extending the power of federal law enforcement agencies over all fields of crime prevention and detection. Joseph B Keenan, the assistant attorneygeneral under whose direction some of the most spectacular anti-kidnaping drives have taken place, recognized this net long ago, in s speech in Ohio "There is increasing demand for the federal government to ignore the law and make a cleanup,” he said. "President Roosevelt even has been asked to declare martial law and rout out the crooks. “This is unsound. Purely local crimes can be suppressed locally, but some—once local—have become national because of improved transport anon, and in these the government can act. But it is not going to violate law and order to get at criminals for violating the law.'* The clamor for martial law and a Musso-lini-like drive on all fronts has died down somewhat in the last week or so. But there

remains the underlying issue: Would it be profitable for us to reorganize our entire system of police work and put a much larger share of it in the hands of the federal government? The facts of the situation make this look very attractive, in many ways. Every citizen of a good-sized city is familiar with the way police talk about "known gunmen,” ‘prominent racketeers, ’ “the so-and-so gang,” and so on. without accompanying their words with action. The contrast between this frequent admission ol police helplessness and the efficiency with which federal operatives strike at gangsterism is too striking to overlook. Yet the problem is far from simple. Federalizing our polie° would call into question our whole system of local government. The "home rule” principle we are so fond of certainly would suffer. The movement might carry us a good deal farther than we w r ould wish to be carried. Back of it all there lies the simple fact that a local police force can be made just as efficient for combating local crimes as any police force needs to be. The one thing that pi events it from reaching this efficiency—in the vast majority of cases—is politics. In the long run. v,e shall get the kind of police work we want when we get honest, decent and efficient local government. If we do that we won’t need to call on Uncle Sam for help. FICTION IN FACT / r ~YSCAR WILDE, or somebody, once remarked that nature frequently mimics art—by which he seems to have meant that things often happen in real life which might have been copied directly from the pages of some work of fiction. Bearing this in mind, one is almost inclined to suspect that that “operating table” murder in Chicago was devised by someone who had read deeply of Mary Roberts Rinehart or S S. Van Dine. For here, surely, is an affair that copies the most imaginative sort of fiction. A gloomy house in a decayed neighborhood, a strange slaying, an air of somber mystery, a nude corpse in a basement- room—about all that is needed is to have Philo Vance stroll in, light a cigaret, and exclaim, “Gad. I don’t like it—something horrible has happened here!”

A GOOD LABEL 13 RESIDENT ROOSEVELTS recent denunciation of the enemies of the new deal as ' -ics” was a very timely revival of a highly * .opriate epithet. We long have needed anew and suitable term of opprobrium for our public enemies of high estate. The labels usually employed, such as “Pirates.” “Plutocrats,” “Wail Street.” and the like, either have been overworked, or are too loose in their implications to serve the purpose with any precision. The term “Tory” is adapted admirably to the requirements of our time. The first extended recommendation that the word “Tory” should be applied to present day reactionaries appeared in a recent editorial Common Sense. “A word is coming back into use that has been forgotten sos a long time. The word ‘Tory’ once more is being used to describe all those who block progress. It is a good word worth reviving. “Like the Tories who fought against independence and democracy in 1776 the chief reason for Toryism is of course economic, selfish. Those who sit on top of the pile, who own immense productive wealth, who direct the lives and welfare of millions of their suffering fellow-humans, are those who are most likely to consider the status so divinely ordained. The banker, the big business man, the great industrialist, they will as a group be the most vicious foes of radical change.” Not only the general implication that the Tory is a reactionary makes the word very timely. The specific meaning of the term as originally employed is also peculiarly relevant. Tiie great opposing English parties of Whigs and Tories came into formal existence in 1680. The Tories were the church and landed party. Their rivals, the Whigs, called them Tories in derision. The word had been used earlier to describe a notorious band of brigands in Ireland. It will be well for us to bear in mind today that our leading Tories are actually our most dangerous brigands. It may not be formally illegal to steal a railroad or a bank or a public utility corporation, but to do so is certainly more of a threat to social welfare than the minor thefts and larcenies for which men are railroaded to state penitentiaries for long terms. The Tories, of course, believe that they are preventing change and are preserving the existing order intact. In reality, they are sowing the seeds of violent revolution and destroying the possibility of gradual and scientifically planned social progress. This fact has been stated very concisely by the editor of Common Sense. “It is a fact not always recognized that revolutions are made by Tories and not by revolutionists. In times of normal rate of change a fairly steady balance can be maintained between Tories and liberals. But in a time when tremendous changes must be made rapidly the radical leads the way to the new era. and it is the resistance which the Tory sets up to radical change that may eventually lead to a clash. "We are in one of those periods of radical change today. The Tory, the die-hard standpatter. the arch-conservative who raves about saving the American home, is today the man who is wrecking American homes, keeping millions on the verge of starvation, breaking up families. By means of “chiseling - tactics he is even blocking the mild and well intentioned control that the NR A would set up. “If the strength ftf the Tories does not grow, if the mass of the American people can see clearly where their interest lies, and are not misled, it is possible that we can leap this hurdle in front of us, the necessary change from capitalism to a planned social order, without violence. “If the Tories resist, if they continue to use tear-gas and machine guns on veterans, strikers, workers and their families, farmers, as they have been doing, if they continue to biock the path of progress the misery and anarchy and brutality that may ensue will be on their own heads. "There is only one way forward for this country. It means eventually a completely

planned publicly controlled economic system. Will Toryism block the road, bringing on the terrors of a civil war and possible collapse of our civilization, or will the power and strength of the American people be massed in sufficient strength to overcome it?” FROM THREE LEADERS THREE liberal Americans in the front line of the fight that won us repeal of the eighteenth amendment agree with the ScrippsHoward newspapers that the next great battle must be waged against bootlegging and bootleggers. Alfred E. Smith, with his rare gift of driving home the point in few words, says; “The people now- have the opportunity not only to be law abiding, but to help their country by increasing the taxation revenue so that the budget can be balanced. Realizing that the government needs more revenue and that he can do his part only by buying his supplies legally, no good citizen will patronize a bootlegger after repeal.” Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, whose mobilizing of American women in the cause of repeal was one of the big factors in the victory, now appeals to the men and women of the nation: “To lay on the shelf the drink consciousness engendered by prohibition, to help formulate laws that will drive the bootlegger and the racketeer out of business and then to live up to those laws explicitly.” Newton D. Baker, whose report as member of the Wickersham commission, back in 1930, began with the words “In my opinion, the eighteenth amendment should be repealed,” now recommends “great liberality with regard to beer and light wines and rigid nonpolitical, incorruptible administration of the dispensing of hard liquor,” and declares: “With that as a basis education in temperance is possible, and in the long view education must supply the answer by gradually transferring more and more conduct to the area of voluntary compliance.” These three leaders voice, we think, the reasoned convictions and purpose of millions of citizens of these United States as the day draws near when repeal becomes effective. Bootleggers must go; speakeasies must go; surreptitious, “intensive” drinking must go. Thirteen years of ever deepening disgust at these things should be enough to teach any civilized people a lasting lesson. Patriotism, revenue needs, good citizenship and good sense—all combine to urge Americans to buy alcoholic beverages only openly and lawfully, in that spirit of “voluntary compliance Air. Baker rightly holds essential. Make it smart to be legal! MEDIEVALISM TODAY ■A LTHORITIES at Windsor, Ontario, seem *** to have brought to light one of the most depressing stories of the year in their investigation of alleged mistreatment of children at a luvenile aid home there. Reading the charges is enough to make one heartsick. It is said that the children were whipped, that those who didn't feel like eating were stretched out on the floor and fed forcibly, that fists and pieces of wood were applied to tiny bodies, that children’s tongues were daubed with burning astringents. Every so often something of this kind comes to light. Whether these particular charges are substantiated is beside the point; this sort of thing has happened before, often enough to prove that homes for children not infrequently get into the hands of people who are shockingly cruel. * And the 'whole thing is almost enough to make you lose your faith in human nature. Os all forms of cruelty, that which vents itself on -a child is by all odds the most horrible. General Johnson says Ford has complied with the NRA code. So the whole argument has turned out to be a flivver.

M. E. Tracy Says:

FROM the dawn of consciousness, men have longed to get up in the air. They have climbed trees, scaled mountains and built towers. Looking on heaven as above, and hell as below, theii ambition was to rise. No doubt birds, on the one hand, and volcanoes on the other, had something to do with this idea. The discovery that men could become aviators easier than they could become angels has seived to switch the motivating source of their ambition from religion *to science. However, they still seek far-flung excuses for pursuing a perfect natural road to adventure. Just now, it is the cosmic ray that calls for an ascent into the atmosphere, the thought being that this ray holds the secret of creation. It is based on photons, according to one theory, and on electrons, according to another. If on photons, the universe may be regarded as reproductive and dependable. If on electrons, the universe may be, regarded as having been produced by an explosion and as likely to blow up. a tt a THUS we come to another parting of the ways, in which man's mastery of the great problem is visualized as depending on some single discovery, and thus we send our balloons into the air. not for the sake of accumu'ating a little more knowledge which might prove helpful in our struggle for existence', but in an effort to fathom infinite wisdom. Meanwhile, we have not been able to scale | the highest hill on earth after ten thousand years of striving, or dig a hole two miles deep, or find out why millions of people in the most civilized country on earth should go hungry with a surplus of wheat, pork and other foodstuffs on hand. I am not arguing that trips into the stratosphere should be discontinued. They represent a type of pioneering and adventure which iis very important They may lead to informa - tion which can be translated into human comfort and conveniences. They reveal oportuni- ! ties which appeal to the courage and ambition of youth We can well afford to encourage and promote them. We also can well afford to ignore some of the illusionments which are being paraded as justifying them 800 AS the late E. E. Slosson puts it. we live on an isolated island with self-preservation as our all-important task and with every sort of exploration as desirable, not only because of the increased knowledge it promises, but because of its stimulating effect on human character. It is enough that the stratosphere remains an unknown region, and that we have a limitless field in which to pioneer It is enough that nothing prevents us from going higher than we have except lack of ability, and that there is every reason to believe we can attain new heights with improved devices. The notion that we can not solve small and intimate problems without first setting the world right or figuring out the origin of the universe has become something of a nuisance. What We need is to become human, to recognize our limitations and admit that our job is not to imitate the Diety, but to help each other &Zong a very, rocky, pathway.

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’ (Times rentiers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SjO tcords or less.) Editor's Note —This letter, written hy a hizh school pupil, presents the view of a member of the younger generation on the Walkathon. By James Kuril. A walkathon is a contest in which the contestants either are eating, sleeping, singing, or walking—all for the entertainment of the pimpleminded public. Now r , Leo A. Seltzer’s feature at the Indiana state fair ground is an excellent example of a walkathon. Seltzer has hired an orchestra, five announcers, a nurse, some floor judges, an expert dietitian, and several contestants for his money-making scheme. A certain number of the people of Indianapolis are interested in seeing how a human body will react to fight off sleep and weariness; and how far it will go when the muscles are in their worst condition. We are returned to the medieval and are seeing a mild repetition of the ancient days when slaves were thrown to hungry flesh-eating animals. while thousands of people watched the poor fellows being torn to pieces. There was nothing constructive or uplifting about those events; neither is there anything constructive or uplifting about the walkathon, either mentally or physically, to either the spectators or the contestants. In fact, according to medical theory, after the contestants have dropped out of the contest none of them will enjoy the normal life that most of us expect. However, this walkathon is well on its way and little can be done to stop it. But the fact that oher destroyers of human life, otherwise known as walkathons, are springing up all over the country should be opposed. We, as members of modern youth, can well register our disapproval by steering clear of medieval fun. By William B. Harsel. I feel that it is my duty to call your attention to one of the most careless and lamentable conditions of the motorist world today. Posi-

This is the third of a series of five articles by Dr Morris Fishbein on winter health and safety hazards, and ways to avoid them. V 7 0U wear clothes for three particular reasons. First, to satisfy our view's regarding modesty. Second, as protection against the elements. Third, to attract the opposite sex. In warm countries, people are not concerned with the wearing of clothes for protection to the skin. The weather is not likely to affect them even during the rainy season. They accustom themselves soon to the sun and the rain and they even may overcome the annoyance of being bitten bv insects. However, those who live in the temperate or cold regions of the world find it necessary to wear some covering for the skin,' since they are not capable of withstanding extreme cold. The noted London physiologist, Professor Leonard Hill, points out that the civilized man when naked and quiet, finds water at a temperature of 95 to 98 degrees Fahrenheit

IT'S the time of year when we begin to hear questions as to the why of Thanksgiving. To the skeptic the celebration smacks of superstitious piety: to the pessimist it serves to call attention to our economic miseries. Only the sentimentalist still finds a good word for it. and most of us remain sentimentalists in spite of everything. If this holiday, long cherished bv our fathers, had its inception in a sincere desire to express gratitude for blessings that man can in no wise obtain for himself, then there is never a year when we reasonably can neglect its observance. And in this one, least of all.

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Ail Answer By Orie J. Simmons. W. Williams, in his letter, Nov. 21, did me a favor. For once, there is a collectivistic argument with only one flaw, so I can answer it without being two or more fellows at once. He assumes a pair of “rugged individualists,” after getting married, pooled their money and got a cow. Rugged individualists wouldn’t have pooled their money. One of them would have gotten a cow 7 (on credit, paying half down), and paid out by selling milk to the other. Or, each of them would have bought a. goat, or a calf apiece, if they were willing to wait a w'hile for milk. The record show r s the baby did not arrive until about the time the calves had become milch cows. Come again, Air. Williams. I solved that one.

tively, I can not see why the motorists will not take it upon themselves to see that their cars are within the law abiding condition. The writer just happened to be within a few hundred feet of the accident on Aladison road Saturday evening when the 9-year-old -girl and grandmother were killed. In fact, I personally placed my hand on the child's pulse and noted the condition in which the two persons were killed within a few second time and all on account of a motorist's powerful non-adjusted headlights. The glare of such lights are awful and I have stopped my car half a hundred times in order to allow other cars to pass, otherwise I surely would have collided with other cars. Some of the cars have only one powerful light and that light can be seen half a mile ahead; others have two lights and a piece of cloth over the left hand light; otheis have two lights, one 21CP and the other 32CP and no attention given as to correct adjustment. There is a law controlling this condition. Why is it not enforced? I am well aware that our police department has its hands full as it is;

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not unbearably warm, and temperature of 76 to 86 as pleasant. However, when the temperature in the room is 60. it seems cold, and 40 to 50 degrees is very cold. There are few people, indeed, who can stand exposure to freezing temperatures on the naked skin. While you are at work at a desk or in a shop, you expose about 20 per cent of your body surface to the air. The rest of the body is covered with clothing and the temperature under this clothing usually is about 95 degrees. It long has been recognized that you can accustom yourself to colder temperature by exposing gradually more and more of your body to the cold weather For some time there was a fad of having children go with their legs bared during the cold weather, with the idea that this would accustom them to the cold and make it much harder for them to each colds. Alany a child suffered acute

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

The generosity of nature has been as great as ever. The earth has lavished her gifts upon us; the rain has fallen, as of old. upon the just and the unjust. The sea has bestowed her offerings of food. The sun has warmed and nourished us. The skies have smiled; the trees have burgeoned and borne fruit: and all the vast mechanism of the universe has worked to proffer boons in their season. a a a THE woes we suffer have their origin in our own incompetence, our stupidity. We can not I justly blame them upon an unkind I God, or inimical nature. Man has

however. I do not, see why a more strict discipline can not be given this matter. Perhaps if some of ou: higher-ups should be unfortunate enough to have one or more of thc.r family killed, we might get more consideration. It is surely a fearful calamity to have life snuffed out like this. Bv a Times Reader. Concerning your letter printed in The Times, Nov. 22, about the pitiful story of a neglected mother. I regret that I am also one of these mothers. I have reared a large family, slaved, toiled willingly to sacrifice to give them the advantages of life. But what is the consequence? I have four healthy, strapping 6 feet sons and two daughters. As long as I had a dollar, I was a wonderful mother. I have been a nurse from 1891, but for eight years have not been able to work. My health broke down and I was sick and crippled from arthritis.

I made a p ca to my children to help me along in life, but none offer me any help. One son called one day last winter. I was hungry and cold so many times, I asked for just a loaf of bread. He refused, although he carried a roll of bills on him. Another son who is on the police force, turns a deaf ear. God knows I suffer, having been thrown on county relief for about a year. The youngest son has done his part. He worked one day each week for a basket. He has been out of employment twenty months and he is trying to get a job on the relief board. His application was signed up four months ago and now that the government has taken this over he hopes to get work as a skilled laborer. But he will take any job so as to have work. Suppose there are a lot of mothers thrown on mercy. The rest of my children treat me like I was a dog. I’ve got no home as I have orders to move because I can’t pay rent. How I would appreciate it if someone would find me two or three rooms The trustee knows all about my case, but makes no effort to get me a place to live.

discomfort, with his knees rattling like castenettss while he walked beside a mother clothed in a woolen skirt and covered with furs. A child ought to wear enough covering at all times. This does not mean that the child is to be overclothed. which will interfere with the condition of its skin and subject it to a sudden change of temperature when the clothing is removed. It does mean, however, that insufficient clothing of the child leads to overexposure and overexposure is associated with illness. Sharp changes in temperature are alleged to be responsible primarily for lowering ot resistance and catching of cold. Unfortunatley, the majority of men dress rather heavily and are fairly comfortable outdoors, whereas women are likely to cover their somewhat scanty garments with heavy coats and furs. However, when they come indoors, the women find the amount cf covering insufficient and demand high temperatures in the room, while the men suffer because of the excess clothing they wear in a temperature satisfactory to women workers.

gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to manufacture his miseries, and he is indeed when he accuses the divinity of any petty desire to inc r ease them. Yet this year our stupidities noticeably are less than they were last year. The fund of our social justice is increased. Such a fact in itself is sufficient reason for thanksgiving. Tromendous heroic things have been done in the name of humanity since November, 1932, within these United States. Millions of men idle last year now are working. For this alone, if for no personal gratification, we should “sing unto the Lord anew song. ’ *

NOV. 29, 1933

It Seems to Me -BY HF.VWOOD BROUN.

N r EW YORK Nov 29 Gnd-by, Al: take care of yourself “I am too old now." writes Alfrpd Emanuel Smith, "to be regular just for the sake of regularity ” Anri to indicate the violence of his repugnance against things conyent.onal. respectable and upholstered, M r Smith has written an open letter to the Chamber of Commerce of he state of New York denouncing xperimentation Moreover, in order to pound home the full extent of his rebellious prngressivism. Al Smith has come out lock and stock and barrel for Grover Cleveland. I still want to feel that Al is more liberal than some of the other leaders and publicists. I try to console myself with the thought that, after all, Walter Lippmann has come out for both Hamilton and Jefferson, and that Carter Glass is probably grooming George Washington. Yet it isn't age but solitude which puts Al out of action. He has been living too long in that ivory tower. It's a long way from Oliver street up to that mooring mast imbedded in the clouds. BUM Whisper of the Croud his office window Al can nod to any passing plane, but the noises of the .street, the words of the people and even their cries come faintly to his casement. For instance, we had but recently a city election of no little importance. and since Al Smith ventured no opinion I suppose it is charitable ;o assume that the matter was not called to his attention. If Mr. Smith had been informed that LaGuardia, O'Brien and McKee were running, I haven't a doubt that lie would have boldly declared himself for Peter Stuyvesant. As one who no longer cares to be regulai just for the sak? of regu'arity. Alfred E. Smith would have delivered hammer blows to free the c y from the grip of Tammany had he but known what was afoot. In my heart there has been a d~ep devotion to Al Smith. The appy Warrior was worthy of his I am not saying, even now. n ‘ ire has let down people who c' oved in him. He has let down red E. Smith. The Governor and to say, “Look at the record .” * v;rs his battle cry in every argils' it. In those days Al could make a fact or a figure ring like a bugle note.

*4 Little Off the Record AND there is no evidence whatsoever that Al looked at the record before he prepared his open letter to the Chamber of Commerce cf the state of New York. Hp wrote ■ that piece while he looked out his I tower window and gazed at the setting sun. “If I must choose between the leaders of the past,” writes Al. “with ! all the errors they have made and all the selfishness they have been guilty of and the inexperienced young college professors who hold i no responsible public office but are willing to turn 130,000,000 Americans into guinea pigs for experimentation. I am going to be for the people who made the country what it is.” Now, the first person to say “baloney” to that would have been exGovernor Alfred E. Smith. It might, be well to remind the °x-Governor of an appointment which he made to the state labor board When he appointed Frances Perkins people said exactly the same thing which Al is saying now about “inexperienced young college professors.” She was “a woman,” “a social worker,” “a radical,” “a wife who kept her own name,” “a visionary” and “a theorist.” Al and Afiss Perkins worked together on some very experimental labor legislation. Chambers of Commerce hollered their heads off. The legislation was passed. It worked. By now it is accepted. 808 An Echo from Chicago IN a famous verbal duel with Cordell Hull at the last Democratic convention. Mr. Hull reminded Mr. Smith that the prohibition plank presented by the dry wing of the party was almost the same plan which Air. Smith had espoused in 1928. “Sure,” said Al as nearly as I can remember, "but it took Cordell Hull four years to catch up with me." Is this the same Al Smith who new wants to go back to Grover Cleveland? Indeed, Al seems minded to go even further back “What the people need today js what the Bible centuries ago described as ‘the shadow of a great rock in a weary land ’ ” This is, indeed, a weary land, but the men and women grow weary of living in that deep shadow which is east by the existing order. Al should have his desk moved to a window with an eastern exposure. He has looked too long at skies in which the flaming red dulled down to green and purple and to darkness. And as the light faded he has thought of famous fights in which he dared the spears of giants. And does he think that with him died the impulse to take a crack at the forces of gre°d and error which he now nominates as preferable to the experimenters? Look to the east, Al. and remember that the sun also rises. (Copyright. 1533. bv The Times!

The Brave

BV POLLY LOIS NORTON Always men have leaned an ear Alert to catch war bugle’s blast. "For home and loved ones!’’ In the past This cry has caused strong men to cast Aside their laboring tools and tear Forth to do battle. I'm just a woman, yet I think Men yearn to go. Awake, asleep, They start at war-dawns very peep— We are the brave, who stay and weep. It’s too small glory' to fix the sink And watch the cattle! DAILY THOUGHT For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an ocean; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly. shall be stubble.—Malachi. 5:1. PRIDE hath no other lass to show itself but pride.—Shakespeare.