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THURSDAY, NOV. 30. 1933. ON GIVING THANKS / T'HREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN YEARS ago today a handful of grimJawed folk huddled on the forbidding and stony shore at Plymouth. Hemmed in on one side by a mighty and almost unknown sea and on the other by an unexplored wilderness where strange savages wandered, they were giving thanks to the Almighty. Although thoy.did not realize it, they were the forerunners in one of those strange, restless movements which periodically cause the human race to strike its tents and march for new horizons. The Pilgrims could not foresee that destiny had decided that a great nation was to spring from their loins. They only knew that at last they were free to live their own lives and they were glad. Doubtless there were some in that tiny group who stood on the high bluff to look out beyond the trampling surf toward England. These must have remembered that Christmas was drawing near. Perhaps they longed for the carols in the streets, the shadows of holly wreaths on the snow in the home towns that they never would see again. How they must have missed the security of that life they had left and all the pleasant neighborliness of familiar, well-loved scenes. Plymouth’s scrub pines, bavberry tangles and bogs must surely have seemed a sorry substitute for old England. There is no record that any Pilgrim whimpered on that first Thanksgiving day. Their rugged spirit never would have permitted them to show the white feather. They were humbly giving thanks to God for one thing—opportunity. Today America once more stands hemmed in by mysterious forces. All around lies a strange new wilderness of economic forces in which only a few bold explorers have ventured. bringing back fragmentary reports of mysterious perils far more dangerous than hordes of redskins. Some on this Thanksgiving are looking back over their shoulders at the old days of security when economics was some vague, academic subject interesting only to graybeards and cranks. These homesick ones long for the times before depression when life was simpler, when all they had to do was to work hard, save money and follow the precepts of their elders. Once more humanity is stirring restlessly and moving toward the unknown. But since when have Americans feared the unknown? It merely has meant one more chance to advance. The pioneers are still with us. There is anew world to conquer. So the United States kneels again today on the shore of a huge and terrible ocean and once more gives thanks for opportunity. SOUND MONEY A TIMES subscriber, L. E. H., writes to ask us to define “sound money.” We are not surprised that L. E. H. is somewhat contused. For the last few weeks the air has been thick with such strange terms as “reflation.” “inflation." “rubber dollar.” “baloney dollar,” end “sound dollar.” It’s enough to drive one to the insane asylum. First, what is money? That is not so easy to answer as it seems. Even the dictionary can’t make up its mind. It gives six definitions and you can take your pick. Perhaps the widest use of the term would come under the second definition! “Any written or stamped promise or certificate which passes currently from hand to hand as a means of payment.” Tltis does not include bank deposits, which are really money in a broad sense. Orthodox bankers deny that they actually manufacture money, but when a banker grants loans and overdrafts the effect is to increase purchasing power. Such loans may or may not be backed by actual cash in the banks’ vaults. So. perhaps the best definition of money Is that it is a conglomeration of bank deposits, bank notes and coins, important in the order named. Under the gold standard the paper money and coins have a general backing of a certain amount of gold. Bank deposits do not necessarily have to be bolstered by gold. The “sound money" men evidently want a return to the type of money that was in existence in the boom days. Under conditions at that time the government rigidly restricted its issue of money by tying it to a single commodity. gold. At the same time the banks were minting all sotts of money b\ extending credit and thus swelling their deposits. If a man borrowed a dollar in 1921 without interest and paid off the loan in 1929 he would have to pay something like $1.43 in purchasing power to clear the indebtedness. That was in the era when the “sound money” men were in the saddle. Such a situation was of enormous value to the creditor class. President Roosevelt is striving for a managed credit and currency system in which the dollar can be stabilized so that over a period of years it will serve as a reliable measuring stick. The “sound money" men evidently believe that if the dollar stretches upward so as to benefit the creditor class then it is a “sound” dollar. If it stretches downward to benefit the debtor class, which, by the way, is in a huge majority, then it is an unsound, "rubber" dollar. They forget that rubber can stretch In more than one direction. They are for maintaining the economic status quo because, to their near-sighted vision, they will benefit most by it. They cling desperately to a part of what the past teaches, but* forget history’s most Important lesson — the Inevitability of growth and change. Does this fully answer your question. L. E. H.? Do you now understand exactly what ■ “sound money” is? No, of course you don’t. P

Neither do we. And neither, we might add, do the “sound money” men themselves. INDIANA ARTISTS A T no time in the world’s history - has there been greater need for sheer beauty. It rises above economic depressions and political distress. Weary humanity may turn to it and find sure rest from transitory difficulties. Indiana is fortunate in having an unusual number of distinguished artists and it is to present their work to their fellow citizens that the Junior League is opening a special exhibit In the L. S. Ayres Company galleries on Monday. The League’s Arcs and Interests Committee, of which Miss Rosamund Van Camp is chairman, has worked unfiagginglv to make the exhibit a success. There is nothing exclusive or snobbish about the affair. No entrance fee Is charged for hanging a picture nor does any jury pass upon the vork.s that are to be exhibited. The choice is left entirely to the artist. He may show what he really considers to be his best work without any outside information. This is a fine, democratic idea. It guarantees that the exhibit will be full of life and imagination. No one can afford to miss this exhibition. Indiana is known all over the world for the creative work of its artists and writers. No one needs go beyond the borders of our own state to find beauty. LABOR’S STUPIDITY MOST of the manifestations of stupidity that have blocked progress of NRA have come from the employer group, but not all of them. Organized labor’s jurisdictional disputes equal in stupidity anything that has co-me from the other side, and the national labor board has done well to rebuke them. The most ardent advocate of a strong labor movement will have difficulty in discovering just why it is important to that cause whether organized millwrights or organized elevator constructors should construct moving conveyors on the new Philadelphia postoffice. Yet a general strike has been threatened for weeks over this question. It would seem to serve the real interests of labor better to have work on the postoffice—and weekly pay checks—continue than to have work and pay checks stop while a dispute between two unions is being fought out. To the national labor board this seems clear, and it has directed that the contractor on this particular Philadelphia job assign the work where he sees fit, regardless of the labor dispute. Its decision comes only after the two unions involved had been allowed a month to settle their troubles themselves. A country which is ready to sympathize to the utmost with the worker’s need for work will have little patience with a labor movement whose leaders put their own desire for power first. If craft unions existing today continue to delay recovery measures by their rivalry, advocates of industrial unionism will find in this their most compelling argument. Approaching the problem from a different angle, company union employers likewise will use this condition to advance their cause. Labor has its greatest chance, today, to work out its own destiny. If its old leaders stand in its way it should seek new ones. GOVERNMENT BY DESIGN ’Y*7'HETHER or not the Brain Trust is on its way out. its members primarily were responsible for the formulation of the new deal upon which the destinies of capitalism and democracy hang. Professor Tugwell ranks second only to Professor Moley as the bestknown member of the original Brain Trust. In the “Political Science Quarterly” he states even more clearly than he did in his book, “The Industrial Discipline,” the fundamental arguments for a planned economy tid a governmental policy sufficiently resolute to make It possible. He lays stress upon the point that we must accommodate ourselves to the fact that we are living in anew era of economic life. The present economic epoch is one of “maintenance.” as against the earlier era of “development.” The cutthroat competition and anarchy which might have been permissible in the period of development is likely to prove ruinous in our age of economic maintenance. “Our circumstances have changed. The plowman no longer homeward plows his way; he rides a tractor. Natural resources no longer can resist, with the same effectiveness, our instrumentalities for their exploitation. “Our economic course has carried us from the era of economic development to an era which confronts us with the necessity for economic maintenance. In this period of maintenance, there is no scarcity of production. There Is, in fact, a present capacity for more production than is consumable, at least under a system which shortens purchasing power while it is lengthening capacity to produce. “In this period of maintenance, the fact, and it is a fact, of dependence of all production upon a monetary market, vitalizes not only problems of transportation, distribution and exchange, but also the fact of Indispensable co-ordination of these factors of our economy. “Even more, this dependence of our total economic life upon the market makes more and more conspicuous the dependence of our economic existence upon the purchasing power of the consumer—upon wages.” The new economic era also has made It necessary for us to revise archaic views of the function of government and of the inevitable beneficence of business which prevailed in the past epoch of economic development. With the abandonment of these outworn doctrines must go the theory of constitutional law which they produced: “At the center of this constitutional law was the conception of government as policeman. Government was to stop flagrant abuses and no more. It should be negative and arresting, not positive and stimulating. Its role was minor and peripheral. It was important in this on? sense: It was to, prevent interferences with the competitive system. Behind that system (so it was said and thoroughly believed' was an invisible hand which beneficently guided warring business men to the promotion of the general welfare. "The jig is up. The cat is out of the bag. There is no invisible hand. There never was. If the depression has not taught us that, we are incapable of education. Time was when the anarchy of the competitive struggle was t

not too Co6tly. Today it is tragically wasteful. It leads to disaster. We must now supply a real and visible guiding hand to do the task which that mythical, nonexistent, invisible agency was supposed to perform, but never did.” The fact that we are living in anew, complicated and precarious economic epoch carries with it new responsibilities. We can no longer pursue the happy-go-lucky policy of bygone years: “In this era of our economic existence, I believe it is manifest that a public interest well within the functions of government and well within the authority of government under our Constitution, commands the protection, the maintenance, the conservation of our industrial faculties against the destructive forces of unrestrained competition. “Certainly the Constitution never was designed to impose upon one era the obsolete economic dogma which may have been glorified under it in an earlier one.” If we wish to do so, there will be no trouble whatever in adapting constitutional law to the essential aims of the new deal. The concept of constitutionality always has been very flexible, and anything has been constitutional which the supreme court has wished to make constitutional at any time. Those who raise this issue are, for the most part, only trying to throw dust in our eyes. Their only fear is lest their own pet racket may be exposed and abolished under the new plan of government. WELLES OUT OF CUBA IT probably would be a mistake to assume that Sumner Welles has been rebuked by being recalled as ambassador to Cuba. Mr. Welles was not sent down there as permanent ambassador. He had a specific job to perform—to grease the skids under Machado —and he did it with skill and promptness. That job being done, he can be recalled to his earlier duties in the state department, and Jefferson Caffrey can take the place he was designed originally to take in Havana. It begins to look as if the Grau San Martin regime in Cuba is going to be a lot more lasting than Welles expected. That being the case, there is another reason for Mr. Welles’ recall. Cuban officials feel that he has blocked recognition of the present government. If the government endures, and we do recognize it formally, ’Welles would be in an awkward position as ambassador. The shift is a logical one, but it does not necessarily reflect on Mr. Welles. AL SMITH MEANS IT SAY one thing for A1 Smith, whether you agree with him* or not; when he expresses himself on a public issue, he uses language which the most casual reader can not fail to understand, exactly and completely. When he looks, for instance, at the administration’s monetary policy and expresses the hope that the Democratic party will not always “be the party of greenbackers, paper money printers, free silverites, currency managers, rubber dollar manufacturers, and crackpots,” he may make a lot of people angry, but he at least leaves no doubt just how he feels. And when he adds “I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars,” he says in a sentence what some men spend whole pages in saying. To be sure, the soundness of his views may be open to much argument, But you have no trouble figuring out just what his views are. Canton, China, has banned short skirts because they distract auto drivers. Not to mention the drivers’ interest in what is in the skirts. Frank J. Gould’s $5,000,000 gambling casino at Nice has been burned down. Many a loser will kick himself for not having thought of that first before committing suicide.

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TWO Portuguese aviators are reported to have been eaten by cannibals the other day. Where and under what circumstances are unimportant, the important point being that while some men have learned to fly, others remain content to subsist on their fellow-beings. What we call civilization has covered a very small part of this earth, and that rather thinly. You don’t have to go very far to find the jungle, whether from a physical or moral standpoint. More significant than that, you don’t have to be subjected to great pressure in order to discover that there is a very savage person squatting at the back of your head. Two-thirds of the human race still live under conditions which we look upon as barbaric, while the other third is constantly breaking out in some kind of barbarous spasm. They burned a Negro down in Maryland recently, which represents a very old-fashioned and primitive method of treating offenders. tt a a HARDLY a day goes by without some evidence of our diabolical side finding its way into the headlines. You would have to go a long way back into Africa, or back into history for a more wicked, causeless or wanton crime than the kidnaping and murder of young Hart. All this shows us how much work there is to do not only abroad, but right at home. We have fallen far short of doing anything like a complete job when it comes to educating or civilizing ourselves, much less other people. The trouble is that we fail to comprehend the problem, fail to realize how little has been accomplished. A little prosperity has served no purpose mote distinctly than to blind us to our conditions. With gasoline in the tank, we find it very hard to believe that some people actually are starving, or that more than half the people on earth never enjoyed what we think of as an ordinary meal or what we accept as an ordinarily good house. a a a IN the same way, we find it hard to understand how people can be driven mad by untrained emotions, or how necessary it is to teach the old-fashioned doctrine of self-control not only by precept, but by example. Even if we forsake “fundamentalism” we car not afford to forsake the missionary spirit, especially as shown by the way we live and the things we strive to attain. We have greatly enlarged facilities at our command for spreading the gospel of enlightment. For that very reason, we face enlarged responsibilities for seeing that it is spread. In this hour of exhaustion we flee to “nationalism” as offering an easy way out of our difficulties. Nationalism is all right insofar as it inspires people to do the best they can with what they have at home, but it is all wrong insofar as it causes them to believe or deny the advantages of free intercourse with their neighbors.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. J lake your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) Bv H. V. Allison. Writing the obituary for Old Man Prohibition is a few days early, but the end is near. Some will rejoice to see him put away. In his youth, he was very popular in the churches and with the temperance cause, and a guide for the coming generation. In his later years, he lost the confidence of the people. Getting in politics, he was successful in having laws passed. That got us to where we are today on the liquor question. The offices his men held benefited them only. And failure to perform their duties helped to wreck the prohibition cause. The main cause of his illness and approaching death was “Doc” around the corner losing his job. And the new doctor, Franklin D. Roosevelt refused to take the case. I believe the increasing activities in the churches and the experience of the past will reform the prohibition cause to a temperance education, with a fair and impartial law for all the people. There should be a severe law for the violator driving a car under influence of liquor. Under the NRA many families will rejoice to think of sitting at the table with wholesome food again in front of them. That is only a part of its success. I say, NRA through thick and thin. By P. S. Thomas. Say, “Mr. Hoosier Loaf,” who signs your name “Times Reader,” I moved here from another state but not the states you mention. I moved here fifteen years ago and felt I was welcome. Have lived in three other states and felt the same. Besides, as a traveling salesman, I have been in ten other states and only once felt that I was intruding, and that was down in Georgia. I was selling sewing machines, house to house canvass, when an old lady told me I had better go up north where I belong. How an imaginary line between our so-called states can make any difference is more than I can see, so, “Mr. Loafing Hoosier,” get busy and go to work. And when you write again, sign your name and address. Maybe I could show you how to get work. By a Times Reader In regard to Broken Hearted Mother’s letter, we read it and she certainly has our sympathy. This Mrs. Trook never has known the

Exhaust Gas Is Winter Hazard

This Is the fourth of a series of five articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on winter health and safety hazards, and ways to avoid them. A SPECIAL hazard of the winter season is death from inhalation of carbon monoxide gas, the exhaust gas of automobiles, particularly in large cities. With the appearance of cold weather, the newspapers begin reporting cases of death from this gas. Year after year the medical profession has warned that it may be fatal to run a motor in a closed garage, because the carbon monoxide gas coming from the motor exhaust is sufficient to bring about death in the absence of any suitable intake of fresh air. The usual story is about as follows: The car owner goes to his garage

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

THE unusual and spectacular al-1 ways attracts us. For this rea- - son the death of the young Florida widow who got into her sparsely fueled plane and headed for ethereal heights over the sea appeals to the popular imagination. Fa I *® as such a gesture may be, i f r .mains a little glorious. She is loot in illimitable space. Sh' spurned the earth, scene of her bereavement. Like some Viking of old, she sought her extinction in the waters of the ocean—first mother of man. The question always remains: What is it that induces otherwise sane beings to end their days before they are well begun? Is it sorrow, is it ennui, is it rebellion against a fate which they imagine to be dosing about them?

A New Door Is Open

Thanksgiving By a Times Reader. Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is done in heaven, Be with us in this time of spiritual need. Lead us out of the crisis into a greater and better civilization. Give our President health, and endurance and the vision that he may carry on to a success undreamed of in his great plan to help humanity. Show him the way and put into the hearts of men and women the right way to think and achieve by cooperating with him. We have faith in Thee and let us be thankful for the blessings we now have and for Franklin D. Roosevelt in his efforts to solve the social and political problems ahead of us, so that this nation may become a beacon light through which the whole world will find peace, safety and a larger life.

love of baby arms around her neck or she hasn’t any heart. Imagine a girl with tuberculosis and not even allowed to write her mother a line, and a boy shut off from the world. What do they think he will turn out to be, a gangster, or to have a grudge against the law? The Bible speaks of the sins of the fathers shall rest upon the children, and in this case it’s true. Also, the mother is suffering. I don’t call that justice. There surely could be no harm in a mother visiting her children. By Arthur J. Krause. Several weeks ago, I witnessed the Walkathon at the state fairground. It w - as the first marathon I ever saw and it shall be the last. The contestants must walk fortyfive minutes and rest fifteen minutes. This is continued all day and all night without variation. At the end of each w - alking period, the contestants are forced to drill and walk as fast as they can. Several contestants fell from exhaustion but they were forced to their feet and continued their tiresome journey. With very few exceptions, the contestants look w - orn out. Many of them are asleep while walking. We have a humane society which prosecutes any person who mistreats a dumb animal but we have no society for the prevention of human torture. Is someone receiveing a rakeoff for permitting such a disgraceful contest? Can no person or society.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN = Editor Journal of the American Medlcal Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. on a cold morning. He finds it difficult to start the car. Because the temperature outside is freezing, he locks all the doors and windows while he w'orks on the vehicl. Once the engine is started, he runs it at a very rapid speed until it w - arms up. Under such circumstances, usually, enough carbon monoxide may accumulate to bring about death. In 1924, a total of 123 deaths from this cause was reported, rising to 487 deaths in 1931, and 608 in 1932. This increase, of course, is due to the fact that the number of motor cars used has increased, but it is especially important because accidental deaths in general have decreased by about 10 per cent since 1931.

by. mrs. Walter ferguson

It is none of these things. It is simply a lack within the person himself—a lack of spiritual perspective. Only the individual who possesses no mental reserves is capable of suicide unless we except those who are unbalanced, as most suicides are. it m • DOUBTLESS all of us have flirted with the idea of self-de-struction at one time or another. There comes to every man a dark day when he asks himself whether life is worth the trouble of living, and when he questions the intelligence of a universe that appears dourly inimical. i But the truly heroic individual tresists the temptation. Somehow

of the higher principles of life stop this contest? Most of the contestants are still in their growing years. The winning couple only recieves SI,OOO. How any one can walk for this length of time without injuring himself physically and mentally is unbelievable. Such a grind is sufficient to cause insanity or permanent injury. A SI,OOO may not be sufficient for the doctor bill. It is true that these contestants should have better judgment, but when they do not, it is time our societies should act. I hope Indianapolis never will allow such a contest to be held again. Bv Wiley Perry. The man who seems to be so much aroused avoer the fact that citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee are coming into Indianapolis and securing jobs should not lose singht of the principle that we are all one nation and the fact that we were born in one state or the other does not compel us to confine ourselves within the borders of that particular commonwealth. I am a Tennesseean by birth and served my country overseas for twenty-five months and consider it my right to migrate to any section of the country which I see fit to. The remark that a silver dollar looked like a cart wheel to some of the natives of the above mentioned states would hold good, no doubt, for millions of people all over the United States and more so during the last five years. There may be a few cases where Hoosiers were told to go back to their own state for employment, but chances are that they were not any more than were told the same thing in other states. Thousands of people in the southern part of the state work in Louisville and there is not much of a squawk heard from that sourse, so the whole thing amounts to just this much, “live and let live and everything will come out all right.”

Daily Thought

Not that I speak with respect of want: for I have learned, In whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.—Colossians 1-11. HE is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.— Hume.

On the other hand, deaths from carbon monoxide gas have increased about 400 per cent since 1931, Sometimes death occurs through riding in a car completely closed. The exhaust pipe becomes choked, then the carbon monoxide gas and the exhaust comes into the tightly closed car through the chinks in the woodwork, and brings about deaths. Such deaths occur particularly when autoists are parked along the roadside and the motor is kept running to keep them warm. Last winter several instances were reported in which two, three and, in one case, four members of a family died under such circumstances. The moral is, see that you have plenty of fresh air while you are warming up, or driving your car, no matter how cold it is.

he senses that life is more important than any individual sorrow. The years between birth and natural death are so filled with unknown possibilities, with unimagined joys, with sudden vital discoveries, that to voluntarily deprive one’s self of even a day of earth’s sojourning, is to miss, it may be, the very event toward which one moves; the moment when one grasps, in a flash, the true meaning and purpose of existence. We must all pass through ink black corridors of grief. But it is only when we walk through them unfalteringly, determined to fulfill our destiny whatever it may be, that we are truly loyal to our dead. To endure, not to die, is heroic.

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It Seems to Me k—s BY HEY WOOD BROUN.

NEW YORK. Nov 30. Comment on the San Jose lynching constitutes an obligatory column. In the beginning it seemed to me as if thus thing were so monstrously and obviously evil that it would be enough to say calmly and simply, “Here is one more sadistic orgy carried on by a psychopathic mob under the patronage of the moronic Governor of a backward state.” To my amazement I found not only condonation but actual praise for the lynchers in no less than three New York newspapers. I read of “the vigilantes" and “the pioneer spirit" and so on. Let us examine the evidence to see if there is any reason at all to ascribe the deed to the full flowered resentment of an aroused public spirit. Here is the story of the lynching as told by an 18-year-old ranch boy who asserted that he was leader of the movement, • * tt A Mob Leader Explains “T WAS the first one of the gang A to break into the jail. I came to town in the afternoon and saw the crowd around the jail. I decided to organize a ’necktie’ party. Mostly I went to the speakeasies and rounded up the gang there. That is why so many of the mob were drunk. The word got spread around that it was going to be a Santa Clara university student lynching. But I’m not a Santa Clara student. I didn’t go to college. I knew Brooke Hart by sight, but never had spoken to him. I thought that his terrible murder should be avenged. I found that several hundred others thought the same thing.” In other words, a farm boy who came into town for a spree managed to hit upon a drunken crowd which w r as willing to defend the American home and its institutions for the fun of it. Governor Rolph has called it “A fine lesson to the whole nation.” And a New York newspaper says in its leading editorial "Nobody that we’ve heard of or talked to appears to disagree with the mob or disapprove of what Governor Rolph said.” All right: talk to me. Or better still, read these selections from a United Press dispatch: “Thurmond was unconscious, and probably dead, when the noose was placed around his neck. He had been beaten and kicked senseless. A boy, not more than 16, climbed to the top of a shed and shouted in a shrill voice, ‘Come on, fellows!’ He was the leader the mob had been waiting for. Anew cry went up, ‘Let’s burn ’em!’ Thurmond’s body was cut down. It was drenched with gasoline. A match was touched to it, but only his torn clothing burned.” tt a a Governor Explains Governor james rolph jr. has been quoted as saying that he would like to turn over all jail inmates serving sentences for kidnaping into the custody of “those fine, patriotic San Jose citizens, who know how to handle such a situation.” And so the fine old pioneer spirit of California, under the leadership of that fine old nature lover, Jim Rolph, has ended kidnaping in the great commonwealth of California. And what has it left in its wake? It has left an obscene, depraved and vile memory in the minds of thousands who stood about and cheered lustily. “Some of the children were babies in their mothers’ arms.” If it were possible to carry on a case history of every person in the mob who beat and kicked and hanged and burned two human beings I will make the prophecy that out of this heritage will come crimes and cruelties which are unnumbered. The price is too high. Every mother and father of a son wants to have him protected against the danger of kidnaping. But how would you like it if it were your 16-year-old boy who climbed to the top of a shed and shouted in a shrill voice, “Come on, fellows!” Governor James Rolph Jr. has said with audacious arrogance, “If any one is arrested for the good job I’ll pardon them all.” a a a Expiation to Come IT does not lie within the power of the Governor of California to pardon the men and boys and women and children who cried out, “Let's burn ’em!” For them there is no pardon this side of the Judgment Seat. To your knees, Governor, and pray that you and your commonwealth may be washed clean of this bath of bestiality into which a whole community has plunged. You, James Rolph Jr., stand naked in the eyes of the world. I’ll pardon them all,” you say. Is this to be the measure of justice in California? Men with blood and burnt flesh on their hands are to be set free. Mooney must remain in jail. Freedom for the guilty. Punishment for the innocent. Governor, very frankly, I don’t believe you can get away with it. There must be somewhere some power which just won’t stand for it. (Copyright. 1933. by The Time*)

Thanksgiving

BY THOMAS E. HALSEY Today this nation looks to God For progress won and hopes renewed. From humble layman to synod We raise our voice in gratitude. The doubts of yesterday are gone; The promise of tomorrow stands To give us courage with the dawn, A greater faith, and steady hands. We shall not bow to feast and song Or let our souls be dulled with care. Americans—both old and young— Shall think or speak a grateful prayer. Reflecting on the waning year With thankful hearts and simple pride. No future problems shall we fear Nor solemn duties wave aside. Supporting every righteous cause By thoughtfulness and vision broad. Let’s forge ahead, but ever pause, En masse, to offer thanks to God.