Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1933 — Page 10

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MONDAY. DEC. 4, 1833. CONTROL BY CUSTOM ' | 'HE states are at work on various plans of control of legal liquor to take the place of prohibition. Tills is necessary and important. But there Is something stronger, surer, and more effective than the best regulatory laws that can be devised. That is social custom. With repeal accomplished let us build social customs which will wisely govern the use of liquor. The customs which grew under prohibition are out of date. So are those which preceded prohibition. Though we learn from our experience in both eras, we must have new customs for anew day. These customs can not be established by edict. They will grow up. What the majority does in each group eventually will become the custom. Each of us will contribute to the building of those customs by the standards and practices which we choose. With the attempt at prohibition out of the way. It is now up to the individual, it is a responsibility which each of us should welcome. The legal right to drink should imply the social right not to drink. Prohibition made' drinking a vice. Repeal should not make it I a v;rtue. It is neither. It is an Indulgence which adds pleasure to life for many good people. Other equally good people do not find it enjoyable. Still others enjoy it but think it not worth the price. A few think simply that they "don’t need it.” The way of life of each of these groups should be respected by the others. This is a truth that was lost sight of under prohibition. Because of that tyranny, drinking became a "cause.” Liberals failed to see that it is just as illiberal for drinkers, by social pressure, to force drinks on non-drink-ers as it is for non-drinkers, by legal pressure, to try to take liquor from those that want it. The reformer who is horrified at liquor is no more intolerant than the drinker who calls the non-drinker a poor sport. Both attitudes are two phases of the same intolerance. Under the new era a guest should not be urged to take liquor he does not want. It should be considered bad taste to draw attention to the fact that any person is not drinking. It even might be considered thoughtful hospitality to provide, unostentatiously, nonalcoholic drinks for such people. There are some people, who, when drunk, feel an instinctive disapproval of the sober. The remedy for this is to withhold social approval from drunkenness. Make it smart to be legal. Also make it no longer stylish to be stewed. Drunkenness will not be made unfashionable by merely calling it so. That can be accomplished only by abolishing the occasion which produces it. That occasion is the “party.” The “party” is a child of prohibition. It did not exist before prohibition and should go out with the eighteenth amendment. The “party” is a social gathering in which the guests drink before dinner, take their cocktails to the table, and resuming drinking after dinner, keep it up until everybody is drunk, nobody wants to go home, and things are done which sober people would not do. The "party” is degrading. It should go. It should be anew social custom to serve cocktails only before dinner. Wine with dinner, and liquor after dinner, will not make it a drunken party. But the fact should be faced that to make an unlimited supply of hard liquor available to a group of people throughout an evening will almost always result in drunkenness. Outside of the home, sobriety depends on our ability to prevent treating. More than any other one thing, the abuses that resulted from the custom of treating brought on prohibition. The only treat that public opinion should 'sanction is the Dutch treat. That is the good old German custom in which every man pays . for his own drinks, and has as many or as few as he wants. It has made Germany a sober nation. We can make America a sober nation. By the customs which our individual acts build, let us do it. MILKING THE UTILITIES ’ \ SERVICE company in the Byllesby utility group collected $22,244,044 in five recent years as fees for serving operating utilities in the group. In performing these services it -Spent just $11,449,991. The profit is figured by the federal power commission as 98.5 per cent. The commission comments: , "Such profits resulting from holding company control and intercorporate contracts are not only unreasonable but shocking when considered in the light of their direct influence upon a business affected with a public interest.” It adds, making the whole picture very clear: “The public utility does not stand in a competitive field in which a customer may exercise a free opportunity in an open market to buy where he can buy at the lowest price; it is a business monopolistic in character, where there are many customers but only one vendor . . . who, unless restrained by the regulative power -of government, may charge its helpless customers what the traffic- will bear.” It. remains only to add that neither service companies nor the holding companies, which 'receive their excessive profits, are regulated by state utility commissions. In recent years they have been one of the favorite devices for draining utility profits from regulated companies to unregulated ones. In pointing out this situation and describing it in its true terms the federal power commission has done a real public service. In

disallowing claims of the Louisville HydroElectric Company of the Byllesby group based on service fees above cost the commission has freed the public from the necessity of paying these “shocking” profits if it ever seeks to recapture the company’s project. Recently one of the large holding companies announced that it would do away with the service fee system of draining Its utilities. If other holding companies do not follow its lead, the rate-paying public will find a way to stop the system through the federal government. AN ANTI-LYNCHING LAW T TNLESS Governors and local officials display more courage in curbing blood lust of mobs, Senator Costlgan of Colorado will find the sentiment of the United States rolling up behind his promised federal antilynching bill by the opening of congress. On Wednesday occurred another revolting lynching in Missouri, following the recent mob crimes in Maryland and California. None believes that the federal government is repository of the nation’s conscience. We are not ready for the federalization of police powers. But just as it took the federal government to make effective war on kidnapers so it is necessary to invoke federal power to stop lynching. Civilized America will not, can not brook these barbarous outbreaks against the law. If sheriffs fail to hold their prisoners secure the state governments must move in and help them. If Governors, like California’s Rolph, invite and condone rabble rule, or, like Maryland’s Ritchie, delay adequate state protection, what is left but federal action? A federal anti-lynching law has been discussed for years, Dyer bill almost passed congress in 1922, when it went through the house on a vote of 230 to 119 to be filibustered to death in the senate. In recent years the old evil of lynching appeared to be diminishing gradually. This year the embers of lawlessness have flamed. There have been twenty-seven lynchings already this year, compared with ten for 1932. Since only a few states have passed adequate anti-lynching laws a federal law is required. It should have teeth enough to insure that the lowliest American, regardless of his race or the charge against him, gets the protection of due process of law as guaranteed by the Constitution. A NEW CENSUS 'T'HE civil works administration is studying plans for anew national census in the fall of 1934. From every viewpoint such, a mid-decade count would seem to be worth the $10,000,000 or so it would cost. The depression has played havoc with our population. Like a great wind it has swept people from city to farm, from upper to nether class, from region to region. It has cast many from social moorings and left them adrift. In the four years since 1930 America has undergone changes more radical than at any time in its peacetime history. The 1930 census is useless. Census bulletins now go out marked "not reliable.” Anew census will give work relief to that unemployed class so far most neglected, the white collar men and women. It should employ some 10,000 or 15,000 in preliminary plans and some 100,000 in actual enumeration work. If the United States intends to plan its industry and farm production along intelligent lines, it must have a chart. Anew census will help to provide such a chart. LADIES AND PRIZE FIGHTERS SOCIETY lifts an eyebrow as Mrs. Madeline Force Dick is married to Enzo Fiermonte, an Italian prize fighter. Mrs. Dick happens to be the widow of Jacob Astor, who stepped aside as the Lusitania was sinking to permit his then youthful bride to take her place with other women and children in a lifeboat. Discussion of the marriage makes much of tragic background of Fiermonte’s bride. To think, say the dowagers, that Madeline would do such a thing as marry a prize fighter, after Astor’s noble act in permitting her to be saved, while he himself went to certain death! But then Mrs. Madeline Force Dick is a woman, after all. Enzo Fiermonte, even though he be a prize fighter, is a man. It is the inalienable privilege of any woman to marry any man, society's eyebrow to the contrary notwithstanding. STABLE GOVERNMENT IT is a common thing for students of the science of politics to complain that the American system of government is unduly rigid and inflexible as compared with the parliamentary systems of such democracies as England and France. Those systems, it is said, reflect far more directly the wishes of the people. As soon as a government loses the confidence of the masses, It falls. All this may be quite true, but recent events in France seem to indicate that a parliamentary system can be altogether too flexible. One premier follows another in dizzy succession in Paris Just now. The ill effects of such continual changes are too obvious to need mentioning: one only can add that a little more rigidity in government, after the American fashion, might be an excellent thing for France Just now. 1 An antidote has been found for bichloride of mercury poisoning. It's formaldehydesulfoxylate. Trouble is. the poison is apt to kill before the victim can ask for the antidote. The white ant produces 84,000 eggs a day, says science. Still it doesn’t worn,- about an NRA code at all. Persons over 35, it Is revealed, have the fewest automobile accidents. That’s to be expected. since people over 35 have the fewest automobiles. You don’t see so many earmuffs on the streets in winter any more, because they’re used inside during some of the radio programs. J. P. Morgan had his eyes examined before he went duck hunting. He doesn’t have to use eyes much when he goes fishing for small fry. Two nudists Just got married in the nude. Question: How did the bridegroom get the ring out of his vest pocket?

LIFE OF VAIN REVOLT npHERE is a pathetic note in the otherwise amusing announcement of beautiful young Nila Cram Cook that she is through with the life of abnegation she had led as a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, and that henceforth she will seek the freedom and gayety of the world. The discordant note rings out from the fear that Miss Cook will become just as disappointed, Just a3 disillusioned, In the new life as she had become in the old. This is no sad commentary on life in general. It is based, rather, upon what is known of the Cook temperament and personality, and the rebelliousness that characterized the Cook tradition. The talented novelist and playwright, George Cram Cook, died a broken-hearted and disillusioned man when he failed in his revolt against the “false” pleasures of the modern world. Now his daughter, inheriting his emotional traits, would cast off the very mantle of despair that he had left her. The tragic life of the “Great Soul” of India, the miseries of those millions of untouchables, brought about the same feeling of revolt which previously had caused her to turn from the ways into which she had been born. Miss Cook’s experience is worthy of serious consideration by the thousands of young men and women who today seem to see nothing but despair and frustration before them, in their struggle for the finer things of life. They may cry out against the selfishness, the greed, and the materialism of the day. They even may simulate the experience of Miss Cook’and devote themselves to a regimen of self-denial and protestation against the modem world. But they will find themselves returning to the very life they abhor, and then they will discover that the true protest, the most effective weapon they have, is one of participation in this world to the end that It may become a better means of existence for all. In avoiding this roundabout way of making themselves felt in this life, our youth of today also will avoid the tragic disappointments to which Miss Cook seems to have foredoomed herself. WHERE PROFITS SHOULD GO OUT of the fog of argument and confusion of plans aroused by the effort to draft efficient laws for liquor control after repeal, come one unassailable fact—whatever system is devised, it must prevent huge private profits. Greed, given free rein, will wreck any control plan that is adopted. Greed and the lawlessness that it engendered swung the nation’s sentiment against prohibition. It can ruin repeal even more easily. Already, in many states, political strings are being pulled by those who hope to reap a harvest of gold from dealing in liquor. They are a menace comparable to the bootlegging fraternity, in the campaign to assure success of repeal. One of the facts that wielded immense influence in the fight for repeal was that huge revenue would accrue to national and state governments from taxes on liquor. Let the country’s legislators see to it that this is the case. Let the millions in tax money and fair profits from sales flow into the people’s treasuries instead of into the pockets of greedy profiteers, that the burdens may be lifted from the thousands who are being taxed beyond endurance. Eight thousand New Yorkers have applied for licenses to sell liquor. There still will be a few people left to drink it. Boy babies come from dieting mothers, says a London scientist. The girls do their own dieting later. If sound money is the clinking of coins in the cash register, we believe in it. Doesn’t the Nazi swastika remind you of a burnt-out Fourth of July pinwheel?

M.E. Tracy Says:

ECONOMISTS are perplexed by the prosperity of three small countries—Finland, Lithuania, and South Africa, By every law of logic, these countries should be suffering from depression like the rest of the world, if not more severely. They are not only weak but are largely devoted to agriculture, and not only far removed from the principal markets but surrounded with strong competitors. In spite of apparent handicaps, how’ever, Finland increased her foreign trade by more than 50 per cent last year, while we Americans rejoice in only 10 to 15 per cent increase and while not one of the other Baltic states can show anything like such a gain. Defying a world-wide movement such as England and the United States were unable to withstand Lithuania stayed on the gold standard. As a result. Kovno has becc-me the banking center of the whole region lying between Russia and the Baltic Sea. B B B AS for South Africa, though local regulation and British preferential tariffs deserve some of the credit for her recovery, one finds it hard to believe that they furnish the whole explanation. It is quite true that her fruit exports have been increased by the exclusion of competitors from the British market and that diamond prices have been stabilized by reduced output. Even so, she hardly could have made the progress she has without a capacity for doing things and managing things which is sadly lacking in some of the greater nations. These three countries offer a vivid illustration of what can be done by people who mind their own business and refuse to believe that they can be stopped by general conditions. B B B FINLAND, Lithuania and South Africa have not been conspicuous participants in those world conferences which were supposed to save everybody, nor have they been loud in the complaint that nothing could be done at home until everything was right abroad. As Charles F. Murphy once said: “It’s no use to go behind the returns.” These three countries have found prosperity where their larger, richer and more powerful neighbors \:ould not. We could do worse than study this simple fact, It represents a bright light in the midst of a world given over to theorizing and gloom. It is an unanswerable argument, not only as to what can be done but as to the way in which it should be done. I am not in favor of that kind of nationalism which expresses itself in tariff walls and trade barriers, but I certainly believe in that kind which stimulates faith in people’s power to take care of themselves. It seems to me that this gigantic failure to overcome depression is due largely to the time, energy and wealth which has been squandered on futile efforts to persuade or compel other people to provide us with prosperity.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By C. V. Small Since intelligence has been an asset of mankind, there have been, are and will be certain ones among us who class themselves and are classed by most of us as inventors. But does man invent? Can man invent? There are two words often used in the same sense, but are different in meaning. They are “invent” and "discover.” My dictionary informs me that the first means “to originate” and the second “to find” or “to reveal.” We point here and there and say, “That man invented the steam engine. That man invented the automobile. That man invented the radio.” But is that so? The invented part of anything is the “working principle.” Man can not invent a working principle. It always has been in existence. It is a law of God, or in other words, law of nature. God is nature and already has invented everything that ever shall be. Man only discovers those working principles, builds around them and puts them to practical use. He must work in harmony with them or they will be of no avail. Some laws of nature can not be altered for an instant. Some can be altered for a while, but not for long. Consider the laws of economics In particular, under which we are governed. They are not man-made laws. They are God’s law’s or laws of nature and can not be altered for long. But they have been altered by certain ones who constitute a very small minority, have gouged here and there until they have accumulated vast amounts at the expense of the great majority. How much longer can this violation of the laws of economics keep up before we take the fall we are riding for, By Tom Berliner Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them, but we have- many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much

This is the first of two articles by Dr. Fishbein in which he discusses aids for those who are hard of hearing. THERE is no reason to feel discouraged or defeated if you happen to be hard of hearing. On the contrary, there are numerous instances of men and women who have becomes famous despite this handicap. The list of such successes includes the great musician Beethoven, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Oliver Goldsmith, George Meredith, Lord Chesterfield, and many others. With modem advances in science and with the aid available for persons with progressive hardness of hearing, there is no reason for any change in their attitude or behavior. They need only cultivate the will to overcome the trouble. The physician realizes that there are several different causes for progressive hardness of hearing, some of which are controllable by good medical care. Those forms due to infection in the tissues concerned may, to a considerable extent, be controlled. Those forms due to what is known

A CCORDING to all standards of good sense and humanitarism, we should do our Christmas shopping early, and I admire very much energetic and public spirited women like Mrs. Roosevelt and Frances Perkins who, so the papers say, already have finished with theirs. Year after year I make the same good resolutions. I promise myself, on the first of November, that I will listen to worthwhile advice. So I write down lists; I pore over the diminutive bank balance; and I almost cry thinking of all the worn out sales people forced to be nice to rambuctious customers who seem bent on buying out the stores on the

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Scottsboro By Granville Trace. If murder on the judgment seat Doom innocence to death, How shall our people stand to meet The anger of God's breath? How shall a nation keeps its life When comes the testing time, If all its sinews then be rife With consecrated crime? Can solemn perjury avail To save us in that day When august justice holds the scale And casts the false away? Was ever nation yet so strong, Or in dominion wide, It crushed the right and throned the wrong And fell not in its pride? Is murder foul more just because With coward mouth you prate Os ancient majesty of laws And dignity of state? O you that thirst for guiltless blood, Not such as you should name The honor of our womanhood To wipe away your shame! by our pride and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes, the commissioners can not* ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice and something may be done for us. God helps them that helps themselves. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service, but idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth or doing of nothing, with that which is spent in idle employment or amusements that amount to nothing. Sloth by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth like rust consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? We may make these times better if we bestir. Industry need not wish and he that lives on hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains, then hold hands! For I have no lands, or if I have, they are taxed heavily. “He who hath' a trade hath an estate and he who hath a calling

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. as otosclerosis, In w’hich the tissues involved in hearing gradually are hardened so as to be unable to function, are treated with much greater difficulty. The situation is particularly difficult for the school child with such a condition. The father thinks the child is inattentive, the mother thinks the child is a dreamer, the teacher thinks the child is stupid, and the other boys and girls hardly know how to take him. The child thus is shut in and tri6s to cover up his malady by various deceits or devices which react to his dsadvantage. If he does not hear a question, he prefers to say that he does not know, rather than to ask the teacher to repeat the question. As he grows older, the child tends to cover up the severity of his deficiency and thus,,sooner or later, may develop an inferiority complex. Some children have been driven into

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

last three days before the 25th of December. But deep as those compunctions are, and noble as my sensations become, those last three days always find me in the thick of the throngs. And how I love it! I wouldn't miss that week-before-Christmas-melee for anything in the world. It compensates for a. whole year of trying to behave as if one were born to be dignified. n b n THEORETICALLY speaking, the Buy Early campaign is an excellent movement, but actually it probably will never be much more than another noble experiment. We always shall have enoilgh procrasti-

hath both an office of profit and honor. But then the trade must be V’orked at and the calling well followed, or neither the estate or the office will enable us to pay our taxes.” Ben Franklin wrote thus in 1757. Franklin Roosevelt is acting thus in 1933. From the first day of office, he has fought openly against prevailing conditions. His voice coming over the radio is sincere, his explanation so clear to all that it wins immediate confidence. He is no longer a Democrat but a great American. J don’t think lie intentionally insults anybody. When he spoke of money changes, I rather got the impression he meant the banker. You local boys in the banking game will have ta admit that for some time, your principal activity has been giving two fives for a ten or five ones for a five. Like Achilles, Roosevelt has a vulnerable spot some place, but A1 Smith did not hit it the other day. I have learned through experience the value of co-operation. Anybody who doesn’t enter into Roosevelt’s train of thought does his country an injury today. But I don't think Roosevelt will answer A1 Smith just now. Just because a jackass kicks you is no reason for you to kick him back. Here’s hoping that the Happy Warrior will quit sulking in his tent and act out his legend instead of becoming a bushwhacker. Roosevelt is trying to put us to work. Are you going to help him? The building trades have reduced wages. You never will get building material cheaper. There are three projects in the downtown district w’hich could be built. Why is the postoffice addition so slow in coming through. Instead of watching Washington so closely, let’s start something in Indianapolis.

Daily Thought

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. —Colossians 2:8. THE cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.—Adam Ferguson.

misbehavior and even crime as a result. Difficulty in hearing for a man in middle age turns out to be less of a handicap than for a woman. The business world regards a man as successful with or without his handicaps, but because woman recently just has come out of the home and into business and public life, the w’oman who develops hardness of hearing has a much more difficult time. She gradually is forced back Into her home and out of the work in which she finds the greatest of interest. Some men take disability much more seriously than do others. When ringing in the ears is superimposed on deafness, the condition is more troublesome, and when vertigo or dizziness accompanies, most serious reactions occur. Martin Luther w r as troubled by such hardness of hearing, ringing in the ears, and dizziness. To what extent these defects molded Martin Luther’s career is a matter for thought by the psychologists.

nators to set Christmas shopping apart from all other kinds of shopping and to keep the festival the most galvanic and thrilling period of the twelve months. And what would it be like if. on those three days preceding it, we were as tranquil and unhurried as we';are told to be? The whole spirit of the holiday would be lost. Imagine us all sensible beings, with every parcel tied a week beforehand, journeying sedately on our monotonous way during the Christmas season! It couldn’t be. For Christmas is our one vivid, breathless, gloriously hectic moment when somehow we all manage to be crazy and happy together.

DEC. 4, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

; YORK. Dec. 4—A woman of San Jose, now living in New j York, writes to me and says: “When I think of the day I shall go home and must inevitably pass St. James Park, with its hitherto \ pretty green lawn and gentle trees, | where it happened, I shrink. Somej thing has been taken from the old : home town that will never belong to it again. "The stain is there, as you say. Not only did the 15.000 who were present see the lynching; all of us who were away and who will one day go back must also ’see’ it and shudder. "With an almost personal sense of guilt I have 'been wondering whether any of the many with whom I went to grammar, high school and college in San Jose could have been participants in that grewsome spectacle.” B B B i Art Inhuman Document TAMES ROLPH JR., Governor of " California, has Issued an extraordinary document upon which it is difficult to comment. If it represents any sincerity of thought whatsoever the statement stamps Uncle Jim as a mental illiterate. If, as seems more likely to me. ; this is no more than the mouthj ing of an unprincipled politician ■ rejoinder may again seem unnecessary, since the plea is as hollow as an empty hogshead. Take, for instance, a sentence such as the following: “Lynchings are not pleasant, and as a matter of policy I do not either personally or officially condone them.” This is either impertinence or imbecility upon the part of Uncle Jim. He spoke of the lynching as “ a lesson to the nation.” He said that anybody who took part in "this good job” would be pardoned. Indeed, in his present statement he says, "Today all California except the criminals themselves feel safer.” If Uncle Jim has a dictionary and can get somebody to help him look up the word I wish he would inform himself of the meaning of “condone.” Uncle Jim has not yet made the leader of the mob an ! honorary colonel on his staff; nor has he, as far as I know, caused medals to be struck off and presented to all who kicked and beat the two criminals as they were dragged across the square. Short of that I can think of nothing w’hich the Governor has not done to show r his approval and even his enthusiasm for the lynching. B B B Duly of the Courts OVERNOR ROLPH'S argument is that our system of judicial procedure has broken down. "The processes of punishment are slow and cumbersome. Many escape by technicalities: others are subjected to punishment that is farcically inadequate with the heinous atrociousness of their crimes.” Governor Rolph then goes on to j say that the Lindbergh case made people feel that this condition should be changed. In fact, he makes two additional references to that kidnaping. Somebody ought to remind the Governor that the case was never solved and that no arrests were made. I can conceive of no legal procedure adequate to mete out proper punishment to criminals wholly unknown and at large. It seems very much as if Governor Rolph leans to the familiar lynch philosophy that when an atrocious crime has been committed it is a good idea to kill somebody even if you don’t happen to catch the right person. This is by no means a fantastic interpretation of lynch law. A careful examination of a number of lynchings in the course of a year in the United States revealed the fact that more than half the victims were probably innocent and that at least one-third w’ere undoubtedly so. Only by a very narrow margin did the San Jose mob avoid lynching a prisoner, w T ho had no connection whatever with the murder of Brooke Hart. Fortunately the error was discovered just before he was swept out the jail door. Once in the hands of the mob no protestations of mistaken identity w’ould have availed him. B B B u Are You Certain?” GOVERNOR ROLPH feels certain that the lynching has ended kidnaping in California “for a long, long time.” All the weight of evidence is against any such supposition. The scheme of attempting to discourage crime by mob violence has been tried in this country over and over again. Many hundreds of men have been hanged, burned and tortured by mobs on the charge that they were guilty of rape. There is no indication that this has diminished the incidence of the crime. But there is one thing which can be said with surety—lynching begets lynching. James Rolph Jr. says that the philosophy which causes criminals to cringe is that “those who live by force and violence must expect to take their chances of dying in the same way.” Lynching is crime. Lynchers are criminals. It is just as sure as tomorrow’s dawn that the enterprise to w’hich Governor Rolph gave his benediction wlil live to plague him all the days of his life. Not till the day of his death will James Rolph jr„ pick up a newspaper without being gripped by that terror which he set lose. He is not a sensitive man, but the thing will beat and beat upon him until his defenses are broken down. He will carry with him the thought, “Where has it broken out now?” And depend upop it—Uncle Jim will cringe. (Copyright. 1933, by The Times)

Recipe

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLIMCX Feed on love carelessly: Mix it with song. Even the best of loves Never last long. Take your love easily’: Kiss with a smile. The tenderest kisses Last a brief while. If you would know love And yet not be fretting; Take your love casual