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THE BIRTHDAY *“TT is here at last—dry America's first birthday,' said a statement given to the Press by the Anti-Saloon League on Jan. 15, 1920. 'At one minute past 12 tomorrow mornir.fi anew nation will be born. An era of clear thinking and clean living! The AntiSaloon League wishes every man, woman and child a happy dry year.' ” We quote from Charles Merz's “The Dry Decade.” Nearly fourteen years later, a very different. national birthday—a rebirthday—finds the dry leaders standing by their battered guns and predicting an era of lawbreaking so serious that the country “will turn back to prohibition.” We think the liberals of the nation, in their victory, can afford to be generous and kindly toward all drys who are consistent and sincere. The latter have a right to their opinions and prophecies. They have a right to fight on, if they fight fairly. The prohibition party is their natural and proper refuge and should take on anew lease of life. But it will be many a long decade, we think, to America’s second “dry birthday.” If the Anti-Saloon League adopts the attitude of its Indiana superintendent, L. E. York—“We stand for the slogan ‘Make it smart to be legal,’ but we stand against liquor whether sold legally or illegally”—its aid need not be disdained in stamping out bootlegging. This should be the immediate, major task for both wets and drys. After the first exuberance of restored liberty, which need not be taken at more than its real meaning, we believe Americans generally speedily will settle down into new habits of temperance and respect for law. It’s smart to be legal. LOOK AT THE RECORD THE country is learning another thing about a public works program. That is, that it actually will produce Jobs in large numbers. We first learned that we would have to pay for such a program in taxes. We next learned that $3,300,000,000 could not be put to work overnight, or even over a period of two or three months. We now are learning that once under way, a big public works program will yield millions of jobs. We finally will learn that the spending of this money will have another beneficial result. That Is, it will give us, collectively, a high standard of living. The figures on public works employment have been made public by Interior Secretary Ickes. the public works administrator. About 3,000,000 men have been recalled to jobs because of PWA expenditures. Approximately 1.183.267 men have been re-employed through the civil works administration; about 347.623 have been given jobs by reason of the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the remainder are at work on jobs financed by PWA funds. “The facts speak for themselves,” said Administrator Ickes. They do; they speak happily and emphatically. RELIGIOUS PROGRESS IN BOSTON "DACK in 1635-36, the governing. authorities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was scattered about what has since become the city of Boston, drove out of its boundaries two of its important members because their religious views did not exactly conform to those held by the governing clique. The outcasts were Roger Williams and Ann Hutchinson. the earliest notable figures In the history of the struggle for religious liberty in America. Neither Williams nor Mrs. Hutchinson was in any sense ungodly. In fact, they were very devout. Indeed, Mrs. Hutchinson was thrown out because she was too devout. She had asserted that the Massachusetts Bay parsons were more concerned about “good works” than they were about the indwelling of divine grace. In the autumn of 1933. the Boston Transcript, the most aristocratic and respectable Boston newspaper, has taken on as its religious editor, the Reverend Doctor Albert C. Dieflenbach, author of the best book on religious liberty in the United States today. It may be debated whether or not civic ideals have advanced greatly in the Boston area in the interval between Governor Bradford and Mayor Curley, or between Cotton Mather and Judge Thayer. But it is most obvious that religious liberty and tolerance have made enormous strides in the Bay state in the last three centuries. Having often called attention to instances of religious bigotry and intolerance in various parts of our country, it is only fitting and proper that we should be equally alert to comment favorably upon this almost astonishing example of religious courage and enlightenment. It required real nerve on the part of the Transcript to take this step. Upton Sinclair valiantly has contended that newspapers axe terrified and bulldozed by the bankers and advertisers of the community. It is a fact, however, that newspapers are far more timid In dealing realistically with religious problems than they are with regard to stepping on the toes of the vested economic interests. Dr. Dieffenbach is probably the most aggressive figure among the advanced modernist theologians of the United States. He has even vigorously criticised Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick on the grounds that he is too timid and evasive in his theological position. If the Transcript had wished to wave a red flag in the face of the bull of Boston fundamentalizm*

It could not have done better than to have chosen Dr. Dieffenbach as its religious editor. Dr. Dieffenbach has had a distinguished career as editor of the Christian .Register, for the last fifteen years. In articles and editorials he has done as much as any other American to make us realise the tremendous changes in religious thought which have come about since the close of the World war. He long has been recognized as the most effective fundamentalist baiter among our religious writers. His onslaughts upon religious reaction have been dignified but devastating. His writings did more than anything else to bring to a head the latent feeling which lay behind the Scopes’ evolution trial in Tennessee that did so much to make extreme fundamentalism appear ridiculous to the thoughtful American public. He will now have an opportunty to make equally uncomfortable Boston fundamentalism which centers at Tremont Temple and elsewhere. There are two schools of thought prevailing among those who do any progressive thinking in religion. One holds that religion today is an outworn nuisance which never can be effectively brought up to date. Another large group, and by no means a benighted one, holds that religion may be a great social asset if modernized and brought into harmony with the elementary facts of psychology and the natural and social sciences. Whether one belongs to the first school or to the second, he can welcome the installation of Dr. Dieffenbach in a position of larger responsibilities and opportunities. Religious issues are bound to be with us for a long time and we should encourage every effort to have them dealt with in a broadminded and tolerant fashion. The Boston Transcript may be congratulated for having the alertness, imagination and daring to take a step which will place it in the vanguard of American journalism with respect to religious enlightenment.

UNCLE SAM, ART PATRON A S the loveliest flowers often grow out of muck so an American folk art may grow out of the depression. Assistant Treasury Secretary Robert has announced that the Civil works Administration will set aside a substantial sum to employ jobless artists in the decoration of public buildings, federal, state and municipal. A committee, of which the artist, Edward Bruce, is secretary, is arranging details. Here is an adventure in beauty. It is a doubly happy plan. Hundreds of artists, many too destitute to buy food and clothing, will find wages and freedom of expression in their chosen craft as government workers. And the United States, singularly lacking an art tradition of its own. may find itself the richer in murals, sculpture and other works interpretive of the American scene. It is interesting that while we have let our artists sell their wares at the wnim of rich patrons, our neighbor Mexico has been subsidizing such great artists as Diego Rivera and Jose Crozco to paint majestic native murals on the walls of her public buildings. We are glad that the new deal administration has the idea that men do not live by bread alone.

WE CAN TAKE IT! THE salvation of America lies in its ability to take a licking with a. smile. A severe licking it has taken, there is no doubt; as have nearly all other nations of the world. But the American people refuse to take life so seriously as to believe that this is the end. that happiness is only for the unseeing and illusioned. that the state of affairs in which we have found ourselves will continue ad infinitum. The brightest exemplar of this philosophy is President Roosevelt himself. No president since Lincoln, not even Wilson, had more reason to worry and fret over his troubles than does he. Yet there is hardly a picture of him that doesn’t show his contagious smile, there Is hardly an interview that doesn’t carry a line of happiness and hope. Imagine a Mussolini, a Hitler, a Stalin in the same situation. A photograph of any one of these dignitaries with a smile on his face is worth remembering for all time. Perhaps the Italians, the Germans and the Russians have much more cause to be somber and sad than have we in America. To be sure, they have had to suffer the consequences of the last war much more than we. But it has not helped the European peoples any to acquire such dour leaders to help them out of their troubles. It is a serious business, of course, to be wanting for clothes and nourishment. But is there anything so serious as to lack a gleam of brightness and cheer somewhere within its folds? There is misery aplenty in this country, and those of us who are more fortunate than the rest should keep this in mind. At the same time, however, we never should relinquish that sense of humor which distinguishes us from the other nations. It is our saving grace. It prevents revolution and turmoil. It gives us a point of view apart from our very condition and permits us to judge ourselves from a cool and sane attitude. It is such that, if we had a Hitler instead of a Roosevelt to lead us, we long ago would have laughed him down. BASEBALL AND THE NR A r T'HE idea of putting organized baseball under NRA, with a code for players, has been broached by an official of the Washington American League ball club. How would this work out? At most, the ball player puts in only three or four hours at the park in the afternoon. Perhaps he could spend the rest of his time sweeping out the grand stand, raking the diamond, etc. One thing is pretty sure. The average ball player is a canny bargainer. It's a safe prediction he would want time-and-a-half pay for double-headers. This business of an NRA. a CCC. an AAA, and so on. is just the government’s initial attempt toward recovery. France has drawn up a set of rules telling the American traveler how to conduct himself. He needs no rule to tell him with what. Working for President Roosevelt has its compensations, if it’s only from writing columns after being fired*

TO INVEST IN HOMES TT seems incredible that nine million families, -*■ nearly one-third of the whole number in the United States, are living in houses unfit for human habitation; yet Dr. Edith Elmer Wood, consultant for the new Federal Housing Corporation, says this is a fact. Slums of our large cities are notoriously bad—they suffer by comparison with almost all European cities. Yet the shameful record does not end there. Small towns, country villages, where the air is supposed to be pure and healthful, have homes with open cesspools, with polluted water supplies, with flimsy houses giving insufficient protection from the cold and wet. Fifteen billion dollars a year, says Dr. Wood, is the cost of bad homing in sickness, premature death, and crime. So when she proposes federal expenditure of two billion dollars for decent, low-cost homes, the amount does not seem too great. If housing reform were the only thing to be bought with this money—if it were to do nothing but remove a national disgrace—the money would be well spent. But the government economists tell us we can buy still more with dollars spent in this way. They tell us we can buy ourselves back to economic security if we spend liberally for housing. We can provide the same sort of business revival through construction and consequent aid to heavy industries that expansion of the automobile industry brought about in 1920. When the country was at war we spent $42,000,000,000 and did not count the cost. The investment brought us troubles worse than we had known before. If we spend for decent housing there will be no such aftermath. There will, instead, be an advance toward civilization rather than away from it. American dollars, borrowed by European countries after the war, have provided workers of those cities with comfortable, sanitary and attractive homes. It is time American dollars were put to work doing the same thing for our own people.

TOO TOUGH TO LIVE HE was so tough that even the gangs couldn't stand him.” This is the epitaph that might be written on the tombstone of Verne Miller, war herosheriff, turned gang killer. Miller won a great reputation with the A. E. F. as one of the quickest “on the draw” of all our soldiers, a dead shot, and fearless. He came back to win acclaim as a brave and capable sheriff. But money ran through his fingers like water. He stole county funds. He went to prison and came out to start on the garish career that ended when foes beat him to death in Detroit and threw his body in a ditch. He slew without mercy, wielding a machine gun as an ordinary marksman handles a revolver. He shot down four peace officers in the Kansas City massacre, according to the best police evidence, and in his zeal killed even the outlaw he had started out to rescue. The moral to all this seems to be that even gangsters can’t stand ’em toe tough. Even they apparently tire of killing someone just to see how the gun is working. Inflation would be tough on bank robbers. They’d have to back up trucks to haul off their dough. The headchae usually comes after the liquor, but the states are having theirs before repeal is in effect. Roosevelt shouldn’t be too hard on the Republicans. He needs them to assure his re-election. American chewing gum is gaining a foothold in Japan. That ought to hold the Japanese, anyway.

M.E.Tracy Says:

IHAVE a grandson. He is nearly 1 year old. As far as I can see, he acts the same as babies did before the depression. He looks out on the world with unclouded eyes, and laughs just as if there were no great problems to be solved. I often wish that I could see the world as he does, could ignore the gloom and pessimism with the same nonchalance. I could once, and that is the all-important point. What have I learned that should make me scared and perplexed? What is there about age that creates all this alarm and apprehension? Sometimes it seems as though the older we grow and the shorter time we have to live, the more we worry about what we can get or what we can’t. Sometimes it seems as though the more things we have, the more we want. Sitting down alone, I find it easy to argue that knowledge, science and machinery have given us untold advantages. Sitting down with the average group of people, I find it easy to fall in with the universal spirit of dejection and the universal perplexity as to what will happen next. tt a tt ICAN not get rid of the thought that our socalled communion of minds is on the wrong track, that we are inclined to see the dark side rather than the bright side of things and that our alleged appetite for criticism is not only emotional, but dominated by the emotion of fear. No doubt fear has a place in the scheme of things. Without it, we would get into a great deal of unnecessary trouble, but in the main it is something to be overcome, not encouraged. Justifiable as it may be to avoid mistakes and accidents, we must keep that confidence which characterizes the unspoiled outlook of childhood. After all. what are we but grown-up children, playing at games which may be a little more complicated, but that are games nevertheless, and learning little except to refine and control our elemental feelings? I believe that the doctrine of child leadership is as sound today as it was when first put forward nearly 2,000 years ago. I believe that all of us can learn something important and something valuable by studying the carefree viewpoint of those who have just emerged from the darkness into light. tt a tt THERE comes a time when we have lived in the light too long to appreciate its advantages, when we have thought too much about our own ideas, schemes and ambitions to realize of what little consequence most of them are, when we have grown unreasonably afraid, not of realities but of bogey men conjured into being out of our fancy. There is no denying the pitfalls with which human existence is surrounded, or the blunders to which human nature is liable, but there is also no denying the fact that courage, intelligence and alertness represent the only way in which to overcome them. We only make ourselves worse off by worrying too much about obstacles in the path. Obstacles, as Dr. S. G. Howe once said, “are things to be overcome.”

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Edgar A. Perkins, Sr. Asa subscriber I wish to express my appreciation at noting the label of the allied printing trades at the head of the editorial column. To those of us who have been advocates of certain theories throughout the years this means much. To us it speaks more perhaps than to those not informed. For instance this insignia of fair dealing is expressive of peace and tranquillity in industry; not armed neutrality, but concord and understanding. Further it is indicative that the employer and the employe are working together in an effort to bring about better conditions for those who put forth the manual effort; that this element is taken into consideration and given a voice. It is noticed that The Times is lending aid and encouragement to those of the mechanical departments in their efforts to help their less fortunate brethren bear the burdens of these times of stress. It tells that this paper is at one with these workmen who have given freely of their incomes, running into the millions of dollars to help those of their kind that have felt the pinch of adversity ride out the storm; that those of the composing room have since the first of this year donated one day a week to meet the industrial depression in their own trade; that this organization alone (typographical) is spending more than $125,000 a month to its old members in the way of pensions; that it is spending thousands of dollars each month in death benefits; that it is caring for its sick and disabled in its home at Colorado Springs. Now we are hearing so much about the help that is to flow from the beneficence of government, and to which organized labor is giving such loyal support, the union label, which has through the years been the indicator of those conditions now being advocated, its use is doubly significant. And The Times is to be congratulated on its recognition of this emblem and its courage in proclaiming faith in its possibilities is to be commended. For the union label is guaranty that the article on which it appears was not produced under sweat shop conditions; that

Deafness Minimized by Science

This is the second of two articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on hardness of hearing, and how to overcome it.

T IFE, for those who develop progressive deafness, can be just as complete and happy as for those more fortunate in hearing. It is only necessary for the hard of hearing to equip themselves in ways that will help them overcome this handicap. The child who is hard of hearing can learn lip reading in many schools, particularly in the cities, where such courses are available to aid the teacher in instructing the children. As the child grows older, he finds that modern electrical science makes available hearing aids which are more sensitive, less expensive, and easier to carry than these devices used to be. True, they have their drawbacks, but with the combination of hearing devices and lip reading, most of those who are developing pro-

WELL, girls, today we have a new idea about courtship. It emanates from the brain of a San Diego young man. who longs to see marriage made more beautiful and permanent. Briefly, his scheme is this: Let girls and women finance all wooings from start to finish. No going Dutch, you understand. The lady pays everything. You can see what he's getting at. If we girls spend our money e naturally will be more particular about the kind of gallants we lavish it on, and we won’t go around with every Tom. Dick and Harry we meet. With an eye to the future, we will invite only the estimable and eligible bachelors to dinner and the ipo vies.* The no-accounts will be

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Bless ’Em Bv A. E. F. Veteran. Here is a toast with best wishes to the passing of the rumrunners and bootleggers who took a risk on life and liberty to furnish drinks to those who were too poor to buy a ticket to Canada from 1919 to 1933. God bless the brave and bold for all they have done to alleviate the suffering of the thirsty for fourteen years in spite of the wails of the reformers and goody-goodys. They didn’t serve free lunch with a drink but they were on the job day and night, giving service to those that needed service. There were no closing hours, and many a life was saved by a drink when a drink was needed. Men, you did your part—l9l9 to 1933.

child labor was not incorporated in its being; that equal wage w'as paid for equal work without regard to sex; that hours of labor were compatible with health and recreation demands; that wagets is so far as possible in an anarchic industrial setup were fair and equable. In the fifty years since the union label has been an agency of the trade union movement this has been its story and this its objective. Had all industry the courage and the fairness of The Times and did all industry have that tranquillity enjoyed by the printing trades which has its inception in collective bargaining might it not be that much that now is bothering us industrially would be dissipated? By W. Williams Don’t speculate. Put your money in high grade securities and make sure you are high-jacked. Don’t gamble! Play the stock market against the other fellow’s sure thing. Don’t hide your money in ar. old mattress. Put it in a safe bank and lose it without getting turned over in your sleep. Don’t monkey with blue sky salesmen. Ask your banker where to invest it and be done brown. Don't sell America short. Sell it long and get gyped shortly. Don’t listen to the Reds. They may tell you why you see red when you are in the red. Don’t howl at the blue eagle when he howls, “Buy Now.” Just ask

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

gressive hardness of hearing can get along fairly well. For some people in certain occupations impaired hearing may be an asset rather than a liability. The deafened bookkeeper or machine operator minds his job and does not spend time in gossiping with those about him. Deafness decreases distraction, fosters constructive thought, and aids reason. The cultivation of lip reading is an exercise in perception which tends to develop the intellect. A great deal depends on the attitude which the deafened develop toward their handicaps and toward life in general. If they tend to accept the handicap and to adjust themselves to it, they can make their lives satisfactory.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

left cooling their heels and feeling rather sold, I should say. My correspondent, optimist that he is. insists that his system will result in a great improvement in men. They long to stand in the good graces of the fair sex anyway, and therefore will cultivate the virtues if the responsibility is placed upon the women for making advances in courtship. a a a MOREOVER— and this is a very important item—it will enable them to get a running start on their big job in life—supporting the ladies after marriage. It sounds very fine on paper. But I wonder whether its originator has carried the idea to its logical conclusion. If the gir'* financed the

what we will use for money. Don't believe you are busted when you are gusted. Repeat, "Everyday in every way, I am getting richer and richer,” and keep repeating it until your grocer believes it too. They say faith moves mountains, so why not grocery keepers? Don’t imagine that love is the only thing that’s blind, because there are about thirty million working stiffs who vote Republican or Democratic every four years. When thieves fall out, honest men get their dues. The only catch is that the thieves never fall out over the basic principles of thievery. By L. V. E. I am not a mental unfit, and don’t need a keeper from any insane hospital, but I surely would attend the Walkathon every night if possible. One night last week, I heard them call for a judge to call at the box office for a telephone number, and I have heard no end of calls for different doctors. Os course, I realize that a lot of narrow-minded people have a grouch at the whole world or perhaps they are the ones whose businesses are hurt by the good clean entertainment that the Walkathon provides for a price within our means. So here’s wishing the Walkathon could continue on and on. By Demarec Campbell. We don’t know who to take our trouble to. We live in the vicinity of Blake and New York streets. For the last month and a half, we have been bothered by a continuous buzzing noise in our radios. We have had men out to look at our radios and we have bought new tubes. But that doesn’t seem to help. We have kept the wires hot calling WFBM and WKBF and also the Power and Light Company. WFBM told us that it would cost too much to have the master looked into. As you stand up for the people, maybe you could do something to give us some help on this matter. Sunday, we couldn’t even hear the Indianapolis stations. I'm not asking you to take my word for it. If I would get a petition with all our names, would it do any good? I know you don’t do this kind of work any more. But we thought you might help us or tell us some way we could be rid of this interference. Thank you.

To help people with this defect in adjusting themselves to life, the following “commandments” have been suggested for the deafened: 1. Thou shalt frankly confess thy deafness to thyself and before thy fellow-men. Let there be no deceit nor false pride. 2. TT ou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s hearing, but shalt rejoice that thou livest in an age when thy handicap can be made so small. 3. Early and again shalt thou consult thy otologist and accept every scientific aid he can render. 4. Eschew the quack and his devices. Easy and broad is the way to his door and many there be that find it. 5. Thou shalt join and work for a League for the Hard of Hearing, where thou wilt receive encouragement and stimulation for thyself and wilt find happiness in serving thy brother. Thus wilt thou march forward with the federation army that is alleviating deafness throughout the world.

courtship, it certainly would be up to her to pop the question of marriage, and how could any true gentleman refuse after he had enjoyed her dinners, theaters and cigars? The ingrate would find himself up to his neck in hot water by the time he had devoured a couple of thick steaks. As for the girls, I should hate to see them fall for the plan without thinking seriously of its possibilities for disaster for themselves. Men, as we know, often are very obstinate. Suppose you spent all your spare money on the community’s most eligible bachelor, and after you were practically broke, he would sugg' t that he’d like to be a brother to you .alwttys?

DEC. 5, 1933

It Seems to Me -BY HEYWOOD BROUN-

XJEW YORK. Dec. s—The TN trouble with professors isn’t really with professors. The leaders of scholastic thought suffer from the things which are done to them in comic strips and on the stage and in the talking pictures, A good gag is a precious heritage from our ancestors, and the American public will fight to defend it. The same is true of a bad gag. For at least half a century a familiar figure in fiction has the old gentleman with oversized galoshes who comes into the room at just the right wrong moment and exclaims —“Why, bless my soul! Martha, whatever can you be thinking of?” tt tt tt Tell It to the Morons ’JWTOW. of course, none of us acN tually believes in any such fantastic figure save in the amusement field or in politics. The legend that a professor in politics is an extraordinarily comic figure still clings to much American thought in spite of proof to the contrary. Woodrow Wilson was a tragic or an heroic figure, according to your point of view, but I can't remember that anybody ever thought of him as comic. Indeed, even Mr. Wilson’s bitterest foe would be compelled to admit that he was of a stature to dwarf Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who followed after him in direct succession. And even so, Will Rogers or A1 Smith always can get some sort of laugh from their followers in an attack upon the administration by saying that somebody or other m power is a “college professor." It is strange that this identification should so readily be used as a successful indictment. Many American families make grave sacrifices to send their sons and daughters to college, and they hardly would do this if they actually believed that their children were about to receive instruction from men somewhat smaller than Harry Stimson or Charles Francis Adams. To be sure, there is no such thing as the “college professor.” He may vary in age from late 20s to the early 70s and run all the way from a stanch standpatism to a revolutionary Communism. On the whole, the old legend is almost a topsy-turvy concept. Taking the professors by and large, I think that any neutral observer would be inclined to complain that the bunch yielded so small a strain of visionaries and impractical persons. tt tt tt Financiers Know Better ¥>IG business has been only too successful in snaring a professor here and there to carry on its propaganda. And in the legitimate field of technical advice and consultant work our corporations have been very glad to secure the service of some of the pundits of the universities. ■ But let any one of these gentlemen turn up in Washington as an executive or as an adviser and somebody like A1 Smith is certain to pull something, such as the assertion that here is a fledgling who wants to experiment upon 130.000,000 Americans as if they were ho more than guinea pigs. The phrase “Brain Trust” has been used over and over again in a punishing way, as if it were the greatest joke in the world that-a President of the United States should attempt to gather experts in his official family. Naturally, I am not contending that any man becomes a profound authority upon a subject merely because he happens to occupy a chair in some university. Obviously, not all the professors can be right on any economic or political problem because they differ so widely in their views. I am merely maintaining that it is no disgrace to be a Ph. D., and when some stalwart Republican senator gets up to flay an administration measure on the ground that it was conceived by crackpots from the college, I am often moved to ask that some senator, “But whom did you ever lick,” u a a At Replaces His Coat TOURING the last campaign A1 Smith was going to take off his coat to fight any demagogue in his own party or among the Republicans, but I know of few things more demagogic than Mr. Smith’s recent attempts to convince Americans that we all are being turned into laboratory animals by callowcabinet youths intent on experimenting just for the fun of it. Mr. Smith’s reference to the 130,000,000 guinea pigs seemed to me particularly unfortunate. A1 wants to turn these millions back into the hands of the old leaders in spite of their record of greed and vital errors. Guinea pigs get food and shelter. Under the old regime of rugged individualism, which A1 , has begun to sponsor so vigorously, there was a good many human beings not quite as well off as that. By now I am beginning to understand why A1 Smith took up the practice of wearing a brown derby. He feared, and he had reason to fear, that without it nobody would be able to distinguish him from Herbert Hoover. 'Copyright. 1933. by The Times)

Age BY EUGENIE RICHART I suppose that I shall live Really not to care— When I'm old!—how our love was Too fine to bear. I suppose that I shall nod Sleeping in my chair, j There’ll be ribbons and rosettes On the cap I’ll wear, And all my grandchildren will think They hope they never do Live to be so old they’ll know* When living’s really through. And then I'll wonder what they’d say If I mentioned you. I’ll think bow very shocked they’d be If they knew.