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FRIDAY. DEC 1. 1933. A LIQUOR TARIFF OINCE the tariff conflict between nations , has come down to a point of bargaining, It probably is fair enough to the administration to use a liquor tariff for trading purposes. That is the plan. Many foreign nations have been counting upon a large export of liquor to the United States following repeal. Presumably they will be more willing to level down their general trade barriers against us. if that is the price necessary for them to share in the American liquor trade. That the administration for the first time is beginning to understand the value of fore.gn trade to this country, and therefore is troubled by the international tariff war. is clear from recent statements by Agriculture Secretary Henry Waliare and Commerce Secretary Dan Roper. For several months the President and his aids seemed to be operating on the fallacy that this nation is entirely selfcontained and independent of foreign trade. Today there is anew emphasis in Washington. The goal should be reciprocal lowering of tariffs all around. As the United States, during the Republican administrations, was responsible largely for starting this costly war of trade barriers, doubtless the United States will have to be the prime mover in the opposite direction if anything is to be accomplished. In any event in view of the damage already done to this country by the high protectionist policy, it would be grotesque to use the tariff to protect an infant liquor industry. Here is one line of foreign trade that might be developed with a minimum of consideration for domestic manufacture. We refer especially to hard liquor, rather than to light wines. The liquor tariff should be temporary and for trading purposes only. A START, ANYWAY rp IGHT years ago, in 1925, the country was called prosperous. Five years ago. In 1928, the great ‘Republican boom’’ was at its height. In 1925 and in 1928 farmers everywhere w'ere in bad straits. They were given credit aplenty, public and private credit; but whatever the conditions in the cities, farm prosperity was but a goal yet unattained. v We know now how falsely prosperous those years were; how the bubbles of paper profits burst with a noise that still is rumbling around the land. Some city dwellers may have had warm silk shirts and had chickens in every pot, but the farm folk, relatively Bpeaking, had neither a shirt nor a pot. There followed the long and terrible depression. And then came the new deal. Under it. the effort to bring about recovery is based on making agriculture a paying business. Already the results of this effort are being felt. County agents of the United States extension service, reporting to headquarters in Washington on what farmers are doing with the benefit payments made to them under the agricultural adjustment act, tell pleasant stories. ‘Debts,“ says one report from Texas, “of five to eight years’ standing are being paid, to the great amazement of bankers. Farmers have more cash in their hands than at any time for several years. County banks and small town merchants report that overdue notes and accounts are being paid and that trade in all lines shows a big improvement.” In 1925, in 1928, in 1929, no such picture as this was painted. Apparently the new deal's farm experiment is beginning to produce recovery in some regions. As farm purchasing power goes up. so will city purchasing power, in the increase in purchasing power is the essence of recovery. THEY COULD BE RIGHT TN the news columns of today dry leaders express their attitude toward the slogan. “Make it smart to b* legal.” Needless to say, these views are not our views. However, the statements of these drys should be of utmost interest to those who believe with us that respect for laws and national well-being can come only with repeal of sumptuary legislation and establishment of new laws based on a sane foundation of public consent. The drys believe that the American people will not buy liquor from iegal dealers even when they have a chance: that repeal simply will mean greater expansion of bootlegging and us attendant evils. They count on this to bring about return to the prohibition era just ended. Prohibition may return if they are right. The danger is real. It depends on our behavior in the near future whether the hardwon battle for repeal will stay won. After repeal every purchase from a bootlegger will help prove the drys are right. Purchase from legal dealers, in obedience to whatever restrictions are laid down, will further the cause of American liberty. THE BEST SOLUTION 'T'HE heated discussion that has arisen over the administration's gold policy is a most encouraging sign to all lovers of freedom of speech and of the press Whatever one's opinions in the matter, it can not be denied that the opposition is getting its full share of the debate. But even more satisfying than this is the feeling that such open discussion of the country’s most conflicting problem is certain

to bring about a saner and more effective solution than would consideration of the difficulty from one side alone. Both the sound money advocates and the so-called inflationists have strong reasons to stand their ground Each has rallied to its side the arguments of professors of economics and other experts to prove it is right. And each has no ulterior motive back of its assertions other than the belief that its way out of the depression is the best. Difference between the sound money men and the inflationists lies in the difference between a strict adherence to the economic phase of the gold problem and a consideration of Its political significance as well. For there is no doubt that politics, in the broader, humanitarian sense, has much to do with this matter. While Wall Street looks upon the subject from a cold, matter-of-fact, dollars and cents viewpoint. President Roosevelt is forced to consider it not only in that light, but from the angle of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. This is the politics of the whole matter. And this complicates the problem much more for the President than it does for the eastern financiers and economists. Perhaps, if the sound money men had not risen up in their might and raised the howl they have, she administration might have overlooked the more conservative phase of this discussion. Perhaps, if A1 Smith and Bernard Baruch and other sincere antagonists of the President's policy had approved blindly of his every move, we might have found ourselves sailing fast toward actual inflation and its accompanying dangers. So it is much better, then, that a voice has been raised against the government’s gold policy, if only to keep those In control from running amuck. ANOTHER LOW GRAFT NO matter how worthy the cause, or how high its aims, always there is someone who would turn it to his benefit for ill-gotten gains. The public works administration is dispensing millions of dollars to finance projects in all parts of the nation, giving employment to thousands. One naturally would think that all classes of citizeas would unite back of such endeavor, unselfishly and wholeheartedly. But no! Back of the scenes, even here, the slimy head of the racketeer is upraised. “The easiest money in Washington is being collected today by lawyers, agents, lobbyists and politicians, supposed to have influence with the public works administration,” says Secretary of Interior Harold L. Jckes, who administers this fund. “They collect large sums as retainers and fees, on the claim that they can get favorable consideration for municipal and state projects. “Such influence does not exist. Gullible applicants merely are swindled out of their money.” And. Mr. Ickes adds, persons employing such “fixers” are likely to cast suspicion on their projects, which otherwise might win favorable consideration. THE BOYS FIRST AN intense local rivalry exists between the football partisans of the University of Michigan and Ohio State. And even though Ohio State went through its 1933 schedule with only one defeat, certain factions among the alumni deem the year a failure because that defeat was administered by Michigan. A storm of criticism roared about the ears of Coach Sam Willaman of Ohio State. It was shouted that his coaching methods had been inefficient. Coach Willaman replied; “They boy comes first, the school second, the public third. When I took the coaching job, I promised only that my methods would be beyond reproach, that I would throw my whole heart and soul into it, because my efforts would be for my own university, and that the team would win its share of games.” Willaman's record at Ohio State is splendid. In the last two years his teams have lost only two games. But it is just too bad that both of those games were won by Michigan. “UNEMPLOYED DEMOCRATS” ECENTLY there was brought to the attention of the federal civil works administration the charge that a Youngstown politician had attempted to use civil works jobs to help out “unemployed Democrats.” He was quoted as having instructed such jobless Democrats to register first with the city employment bureau and then take cards to the clerk of the board of elections. The politician further was charg°d with saying he spoke to the mayor and “he promised me he will put as many men to wo r k as possible.” The speed with which Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins met this situation was none too fast. He notified the Ohio state CWA chief that if such conditions held Youngstown would be denied all CWA funds. “The civil works administration will not tolerate political interference,” Mr. Hopkins wired. Cities, counties and states elsewhere should take warning. Some waste, doubtless, is inevitable when the government starts pouring 5400.0C0.000 into localities, many of which are unprepared to use it efficiently. But politics, favoritism or graft is unthinkable. The money, every cent of it. bqjongs to the needy without regard to their politics, color or other status. Any office holder who tries to favor one group of unemployed as against another should be made forthwith to join the ranks of the jobless himself. German scientist found a live flea 5.000.000 years old—making it eligible to feed on pure Aryan stock. Latest Paris edict is to “wear something in the hair.” That must be the evening dress mode for nudists. Remains of an animal of the plaisiadapidae family were discovered in the South Dakota badlands. Must have choked to death when It tried to give its name to the police. “There is always the feeling that something good is around the comer.” says Mrs. Roosevelt. Prosperity has been so overworked. A1 Smith calls it the “baloney dollar,” and he’s opposed to slicing it any further.

A HORROR PASSES 'T'HE world moves! Only yesterday the word “bolshevik” was a scase word to frighten babes and bankers. And on Friday night at the WaldorfAstoria. in the grand ballroom of one of the swankiest hotels of this nation, the babes were not present, but the bankers were, and their kith and kin of American business, not terrified at all, but happy. A great concourse of them. And whom did these toast? A bolshevik, a mighty one, present in the flesh, the honor guest. Beside the Stars and Stripes, an expanse of crimson banner stretched, and on that banner was a hammer and sickle, symbol of that once most fearful economic religion—Communism—the faith of a nation covering, as Colonel Hugh L. Cooper declared, a sixth of the land surface of the earth. And that martial air the orchestra played, the Internationale, the Internationale of the paraders and shouters and sometimes rioters of Union square. The powerful of American capitalism rose and paid respectful thought to the trade, not to speak of the increase in international stability and friendship likely to flow to them through this diplomatic union of the two banners hanging above the dais where Litvinoff, commissar of foreign affairs for all the Russias, genially sat. A strange and confounding and altogether encouraging scene was this. The “red” nation, a horror w’hen it was weak, nad ceased to be fearful in its success and power. And if the appeal of trade was the circumstance which dispelled fear in revealing certain better aspects of a traditionally communal nation waging mighty warfare' against nature, certainly few’ present at the seemingly’fantastic event were unimpressed by that passage in Commissar Litvinoffs address in which he said, in effect; The population of Russia has grown 35.000.000 in ten wears due to cultural growth and a health program which have cut the child mortality of 270 a thousand in half and increased literacy from 30 per cent before the revolution to 90 per cent now, more than trebling the number of children in school meanw’hile. Clearly it is no man's business w’hat faith, religious, economic or political, his neighbor holds, so long as he does not seek to force it upon others and tends to his business and pays his debts. The great banquet of 1,700 in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Friday night was testimony to anew stabilization. anew security, a new’ influence toward peace. Anew Jew’ish state has been started in Siberia. It’s called Bureya—which warns you in advance of the weather you can expect there. A convict in Folsom prison, California, has developed anew hydrogen process, one-forty-fifth as costly as our present process. He will remain in jail. Minnesota schools w’ill have courses on temperance. Thus teaching the children to drink before they know what it’s all about. German professor says there are six distinct races in Europe, and not one of them is pure. He's in America, of course. Why the “knees” on automobiles? Haven't they been crawling downtown long enough? What the autos do need is a pair of shoulders, to shove their way through jams. Chicago university is going to conduct a research on sex. But 1 , whatever the profs discover. the girls will continue' fooling the boys just the same.

M.E. Tracy Says:

POOR old Rugged Individualism, what a razzing it We want no more of it, they say. with its waste of competition, its futile clash of ideas and its ruthless w’innowing of the unfit. What we want is a good man at the helm and another good man in the galley to dish out a balanced diet, conserving our initiative and imagination |or the sportful, happy hours when we are off duty. We want to co-operate under skillful planning w’hich w’ill not only show us w’hat to do, but how much. Well, maybe they’re right, but I'm a skeptic. I don’t believe that we have suffered from an overdose of rugged individualism or that this hcw’l for supervised industry and supervised play originates in the fact that average people have become too smart, independent and ambitious for their own good. A few’ dominating personalities have lorded it at the top, to be sure, but W’hat about the pliability and indifference at the bottom? We Americans are not half so individualistic as one would guess from all the chatter, and have not been for fifty years. We have been joining companies, clubs, associations and movements of every description, submerging ourselves :in order to strengthen the gang. We had gone | haywire over collectivism long before NRA was i ever heard of; had invoked all kinds of organi- ! zation to get rich quick, boost prices and ballyhoo an artificial culture. B B B WALTER B. PITKIN says that about half our people have learned through depresl sion how many things they can do without; that | tttey have lost their ambition and their nerve. ; The physical side of this phenomenon may have 1 been brought out when the boom collapsed, but ! its moral side began to appear long before. Tw’o’generations ago, we began to teach children to believe in the herd idea, not only by precept, but by example. First, we taught them to think of the big school as the best school or the big church as the best church; of the big business as the best business and of the big city as the best city. We carefully and assiduously have developed a quantative viewpoint, have worshipped the tallest building, the largest concern and highest profit; have counted noses to prove the nation’s growth, and the number of shares sold on Wall Street to prove its progress. • a b a WE have taught our children to look for jobs with some gigantic enterprise to fit themselves for cogs in the mechanism rather than self-reliant citizens. We have told them not to think of starting, in business because the day when that could be done successfully had passed Realizing that buying power forms the basis of prosperity, we have preached down the doctrine of creative power. Little people must stand at the counter and do their shopping alone, we have said, but when it comes to contributing ideas they don't count. t am heretic enough to believe that mass thinking, which means individual thinking all down the line, bears the same relation to social progress that mass buying bears to economic progress and that mental consumption is just as important as physical consumption. Also, I believe that the only way to get an overdose of rugged individualism at the top is through lack of it at the bottom.

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: : The Message Center : : I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it. A oltaire

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to z:>o words or less.) By Independent Grocer. This is in reply to the letter of “Taxpayer and Welfare Worker” which appeared Nov. 22. Mr. Taxpayer, if you'd stop long enough you’d have realized that the different items on the so-called “list” consists mostly of staple foods, that the list was made purposely for the people who can not select reasonably. There are hundreds who do not, if they did not that still doesn’t help their stomachs or those of their childion who are perfectly innocent of their parents’ buying. According to your idea you would have script and they could go anywhere and choose. Wouldn’t it be just lovely for the majority of them to go to chai’ stores, one chain store particularly where they send their money across the water? Haven’t you seen enough to see that’s partly what's wrong with our country today? As for farina being a “fixed” cereal, what's wwong with dried peaches, prunes, oats and pancake flour for breakfast? If a department store had a silk dress, a wool or cotton for $1.89, or a few cents difference, would I have to wool or cotton one if I preferred the silk just because they saw fit to advertise the wool and cotton? You said Mr. Bock had soap on the “list” for 5 cents a bar, that you noticed one store had three for 10 cents. Did you overlook the three for 9 cents bars he had directly under the 5 cent bar? I'm not writing in behalf of Mr. Book or the Governor, for there are several things they’ve done I don’t agree with them on, but it seems to me you got off the subject a little. Let’s hear from you again. By F. IV. Torrence. Will you please publish the follow—an open letter to Will Rogers? Dear Mr. Rogers: Until recently, I would, perhaps, have said “Dear Will.” However, after hearing your rotten attack on President Roosevelt, any such apparent familiarity -would be repulsive to me. In one way, your performance was a wonder as a quick change act. I’ve laughed at your stuff, read your articles with pleasure and attended

Guard Against Holiday Accidents — : - BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN —--

This is the last of a series of five articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on winter health and safety hazards, and wavs to avoid them. HUNDREDS of thousands of people are Jiurt every year as a result of accidents that could have been prevented very easily. A great many of these are associated with conditions peculiar to the winter season. One of the simplest causes of accidents is slipping on an icecovered step. Old persons are the greatest sufferers from this form of injury, and physicians have come to realize that a broken hip bone in an older person is very serious, often leading to death. This accident is such a menace that every home in which there are old people should guard against it by having a hand rail on the steps, by keeping the steps clear of snow and ice, or by making certain that ashes are on the steps early in the morning. Another common hazard is the sport of ice skating. The .National

: ; A Woman’s Viewpoint : : = BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON =

LAST night, in a city a few miles j from me. a young man was strapped into an electric chair and j burned to death. Whether he was j guilty of the deed of which he was ! accused does not in any sense relieve society of the crime of having murdered him. With all the progress we have made and in spite of our noble schemes for the betterment of man. we have not advanced one inch along the way of improvement in the matter of penology. What shall it profit us to live in an age of scientific enlightenment il our minds loiter in the Dark Ages? And that’s exactly where they are, so far as this problem is concerned. A nation that will bum any man

Not Exactly Bright!

Well , Hoosiers? By a Times Reader. I was just looking over the paper tonight and I saw an article that I didn't think sounded too nice about the Kentuckians and Tennesseeans. I just want to bring to your mind a few words regarding the answer to your piece in the paper. My father was a Hoosier and my mother was a Kentuckian. The real reason that the Hooriers are jealous of the Kentuckians is because they get up early and are ready for work whenever they can get it, and the Hoosiers are in bed until the last minute, then get up and get their own breakfast, which is a cup of coffee and a doughnut, while their wives sleep because they have been to a card party or to a midnight show and she will get up just in time to open a can of soup, corn and peas, and get a loaf of bread for their husbands’ dinners. There aren't such wives in Kentucky. Well, I want you to print this for me as I haven't the money to pay for it because my husband hasn’t had any work for three years until just a short time ago. your shows. Along with millions of ot.ier Americans, I thought you were funny. You’re not any more. * It is natural for Republicans to attack the President, and to a certain extent they can be forgiven. It’s in the game. You, however, always have claimed to be a Democrat. Moreover, you have posed as the personal friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The way you tried to picture him, as a crawling, cringing, pleading, cowardly President, licking the boots of the Soviet commissar, is a disgrace not only to you and the radio, but to the American people as well. And here's the rottenest thing about it. Andy Mellon himself, for all his opposition to President Roosevelt, would have had more sense than to have done this thing personally. Unfortunately, too many people do not realize that the oil company for which you are supposed to be

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Safety Council says that ice one inch thick is not safe; ice two inches thick will hold one person; ice three inches thick is safe for small groups, and ice four inches thick w’ill hold large groups. Os course, ice skating in a rink is safe so far as weight is concerned, but it is not safe if you lose your balance and deposit the wrong portion of your anatomy on the ice. Then there are the accidents which occur during the hunting season. From November to February. some 7.000.000 hunters will be out w’ith firearms and great care should be taken In their use. The number of deaths from firearms in hunting has not decreased since 1913. The National Safety Council provides a dozen “don'ts” for hunters. They are told not to carry a loaded gun in an automobile or w’agon; not to pull a gun over a

to death is not less barbarous than one that crucified a Redeemer. So long as a single one of us permits such savagery in the name of the laws we make, we are not better than Pontius Pilate, who washed his hands of moral responsibility for the murder of a pod. a b a CAPITAL punishment goes against all the edicts of education, of ethics, of common sense. It had its origin in a state of mind that believed in the right of the strong over the weak, of master over his slave, and of the divine prerogatives of kings. It is one with the benighted conviction that there

working is only another of the corporate names for Andy Mellon and Company. You claim to be an Indian. I don’t believe it. Such treachery as yours is certainly not an Indian characteristic. All of Andy’s money wouldn't tempt a real Indian to do to his friend what you have done to Frank Roosevelt. Os course, in a way, this won't make a lot of difference. Franklin D. Roosevelt is such a big man that your attack will have no effect on him. He will ignore it and smile. So go right ahead. He is more interested in whether my kids and the Jones kids and sixty million Smith kids shall eat, than in what you and Andy think of him. Br Carre Davis. The gist of my thought is that the citizens of Indiana nominate Louis Ludlow’ for the United States senate in the coming election. My reasons follow’: He is a gentleman who is fitted for the place because he is fearlessly honest and of that peculiar intelligence which is necessary to pick the wheat from the chaff. Another thing that is necessary, he is a real runner as attested by the fact that he has been elected three times from a strong Republican district, with mounting pluralities each time. I carefully have pursued his activities in the house for the past three terms and have frankly admired his untiring deliverance w’ith respect to his job and his being constructively right on the questions that have arisen. In view’ of the fact that these are the most trying times that we have ever gone through, I believe with all my might that the time has come to send such a man to the senate from Indiana. Bv E. O. Snethen. I was delighted to see your publication in reference to the munici-pally-owned light plant at Washington, Ind.; also of them taking over the water plant there. I hope you continue to publish articles about municipally-owned plants. I am on the public utilities committee of the Federation of Community and Civic Clubs and we are expecting to ask for an election to determine whether Indianapolis shall take over the water company here.

fence; not to allow a loaded gun to be laid in the bottom of a boat; not to shoot the gun after falling or walking over newly plow’ed ground without seeing that the gun is clear; not to shoot at moving objects unless they are identified; and not to shoot at game until assured that no other living creature is in the line of fire. This will spoil the hunting for some, but it will make the w’orld much safer for democracy. The special season of the winter when children are sacrificed to holiday spirit is Christmas time. By this time most people know that open candles should not be used on Christmas trees; that decorations should be non-inflammable; that trees should be anchored so that they will not turn over; and that amateur Santa Clauses should keep their whiskers out of the fire. All health discussions of this type must, of course, end with that famous slogan, “It is better to be safe than sorry.”

exists an everlasting fire of an actual physical hell. Today, after thousands of years of vengeful retaliation, we can see none of the same evil results from our methods. The gallows and electric chair are like the proverbial dragon's teeth. From one spring innumerable numbers. We sowrevenge and we reap crime. Why do we cling to such an ancient, vicious, harmful system? Because it always is easier to kill than to think. Thought is an uncomfortable process that most of us avoid. And so long as we refuse to think about the causes of crime and concentrate only upon its effect we shall have electric chairs and criminals.

.DEC. 1, T 933

It Seems to Me tBY HEYWOOD BROUN.

NEW YORK. Dec. I—“A fnend of mine informs me,” writes H. L. K., ’that you are just a fake. He says. ’Broun is always doing columns about drinking and going to speakeasies, and, as a matter of fact, the man is practically a teetotaler.’ ” I’m sorry to admit that your friend is quite right. I wanted to preserve and cherish my weakness, which consists of boasting about vices which I don’t possess. Possibly tthe word "teetotaler ' is just a shade too strong. I often take a glass of sherry before dinner, and on many of the better known public holidays I take two. And if anybody can prove to me that it really is her birthday I might be tempted to indulge to the extent of an entire cocktail. But. since I do the bulk of my work at home. I run into compara-' tively few birthday children. b n a Water for the Worker A GOOD many years ago I discovered that the newspaper craft is a hard one and that the man who wants to get his daily stint in on time will do well to keep a clear head about him. The business of sitting down at the typewriter and actually starting to work always has been hard for me. I am inclined to dawdle. But I have cured myself of that failing by the use of a neat device. On such mornings as I find even a tendency in myself to linger in beo after 8 I remark sternly, ‘‘Now’, if you don’t get up this instant and snap into your column you must drink a nice, long glass of cold water.” At times it has been necessary for me to take two of these invigorating drafts before plunging into w’hat I like to call my daily sermon. So far it never has been necessary to take three glasses. If a column were merely a matter of dashing off seven or eight hundred words at random the job wou be simple enough. It is my custom v* gather each night, before retiring, sufficient material for three essays. This material may be in the form of newspaper clippings, marked passages in reference books or notes made on yellow scrap paper during the w’eek. This material is then shuffled in a large wire basket and divided into three groups political, sociological and inspirational. Every morning I take thought and make a decision as to whether I shall be political, sociological or inspirational. This decision rests on what I call “the trend of the times.” It rests upon an evaluation of the needs of the world for that particular day. “This,” I say to myself, “is what readers ought to have w’hether they want it or not.” 808 Three Drafts to a Column FIRST comes the rough draft, then the revision and after that the revised revision. This third process requires the greatest amount of time, since it entails the search for the mob juste. Naturally, not any word at all will do. It must have the right length, thickness, texture and color. Naturally, if the cadence of the paragraph requires a pear-shaped phrase pearshaped words must be found. And that takes time and often a vast amount of research. Given this background, it seems to me natural enough that on certain very rare occasions I feel like throwing all the reference books out the window. I am even tempted to toss my own notes on the floor. “Today,” I mutter. “I just want to let my fingers flutter over the keys as if I were a faun on a dewy meadow’ or an author of mystery stories for the pulp magazines.” “Your duty to your seriousminded publi:,” says the voice of conscience. “To hell w’ith him!” I answer. a b a A Spree in Fantasy AND then I drift into fantasy. Instead of being a studious commentator on the current scenes in the world about me I think of myself as a Broadway butterfly. I am the man in evening clothes who saunters up to the bar and says, “A double martini.” In this dreams world of mine I keep outrageous hours and even reel a little as I picture myself rolling home at 1 o'clock in the morning. Sometimes it is even possible to carry the dream beyond my waking hours. Absentmindedly I set the alarm clock for 7:30 and turn out the lights, as usual, at 10 p. m. But the bed Is a taxicab, and I am telling the driver to stop at the stage door. Slumber becomes deeper and I am doing the tango on a vast dance floor. I sit out the next one and a girl with castanets prances in front of my table. The sound becomes insistent. The alarm clock is ringing. I rise, dress, drink a tall glass of cold W’ater and sit down to write “Throughout the history of the world the gold standard has always been” And even yet I seem to hear from a great distance the sound of the violin. Indeed, on certain mornings the fantasy has been so very vivid that I could almost swear I had a hangover. Naturally, I have read of the symptoms. The human imagination, if taken straight, is a very’ powerful thing. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Timex)

Sonnet

BY ARCHER SHIRLEY People do not interest me, I find. Their loves and hates hold no concern for me; When they go from my sight they leave my mind, I fear like others I shall never be. The names of those I meet I never know, It seems that I forget them as they're said; Is it because my ears and brain are slow? Do thoughts of more importance fill my head? Ah, yes. it is because my mind is filled With images of you—your eyes, your hair. Your voice and lips. I know my heart is thrilled, I see and hear np one, just you are there. Stay near to me—to see you is divine. And doubly so when I feel you are mine.