Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1933 — Page 14

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WEDNESDAY. DEC. *. 1933. THE G. O. P. ATTACK TF there is anything the Roosevelt adminis- •*- tration needs it Is intelligent criticism. The President himself has said so. It is unfortunate that the attack by the Republican national committee does not meet this need. The Republican campaign pamphlet entitled “Tories, chlselers, dead cats, witch doctors, bank wTeckers, traitors,” lacks conviction. It hides behind criticisms of the administration by certain Democratic newspapers. The glory of the new deal is in the fact that it is a series of experiments in co-opera-tive climbing out of the deep hole we dug for ourselves in the tawdry twenties. But an experiment to get anywhere must be guided by intelligent criticism. The curious—and distressing—thing is that about the only creative criticism of the new deal has come from the new dealers themselves. President Roosevelt In play after play outsmarts the other team. That is all very tine for the President. But, after all. no one leader or group should have a copyright on cleverness. By long experience we have learned that two parties are better than one. Out of the conflict of half-truths, truth emerges. So long as the G. O. P. has nothing to offer but a return to the old bankruptcy, it may as well save its pamphlet-printing bills. Because the public is determined to have anew deal of some kind. The public may not be 100 per cent sold on the particular Roosevelt brand. But even the minority of citizens who are dissatisfied with the Roosevelt results are asking, what is the alternative? The G. O. P. has no alternative. If the Repblican national committee will go back and thumb through the worn political copybooks, it will find Its forgotten maxim: “You can’t beat somebody with nobody; you can’t beat something with nothing” A VOICE IS NEEDED TF there is anything this country needs, it Is •*- a person who will be brave enough to lead the American audience out of its state of placidity and forbearance. For if there is any group of individuals that has suffered from the strain of all sorts of public speakers, it is the American public. The other day came the climax, the final stinging blow, to this great tolerant tribe. Eva Le Gallienne and Ethel Barrymore, leading actresses in their own right, rase before a meeting of Philadelphia women and hurled a bolt of temperamental rebuke at them. It was unexpected. It was devastating. It left the audience cowed and dazed. All the comment that could be heard from the women, as they left the auditorium, was a vague “impudent” and “insolent,” to ease their feelings. No one got up at her seat to berate either of the speakers. They simply took it, as nearly every other audience has taken it from year to year, without protest. Os course, this is an extreme case. But in its extremity it is an excellent example of the lengths to which speakers will go in haranguing their listeners without incurring their open displeasure. It shows how docile, how unprepared, how tractable the American audience is. Yet it should not be so. No speaker is infallible. No public character—not even the great Barrymore—is perfect. Yet speakers do not hesitate to tell their audiences from the rostrum things they might think twice to utter on the same level. They do so. safe in the knowledge that not one of that placid mass before them will have the courage to get up and challenge their remarks. Some day a liberator will arise. Some day someone will lead the American audience out of its lassitude, toward a type of expression so sorely needed to protect itself against the declamations of self-appointed authorities. AGAINST WAR 'T'HERE really isn’t anything patriotic about war. Oh. of course, the bands are nice, and lots of men are better looking in khaki than in gray tweeds with dark blue and white polka dot ties. It is true. too. that hearts like to march along to martial music. That people step higher. That minds become exalted because the flags that float so proudly in the parade are going to be protected by wholesale massacre. There is something about a troop train pulling out in the rainy darkness, while the crowds cheer, that leaves a heart strangely torn in two. which may be good for hearts once but in a while. When Mrs. Franklm D. Roosevelt the other day made the assertion before a group of educators. that an educational campaign should be conducted against war. she was speaking most wisely. When she appealed for the cultivation of a state of mind, in the young, which would look to settle difficulties by some means other than tear gas and bombs, she was voicing the sentiment that women have held ever since the first Spartan mothers gave their sons their swords and cheered them as they ran to battle. Child psychologists may say that children should not view the sordid “official pictures” of battle scenes which are shown so often in the cinema. But it may be that these very scenes will develop a hatred for war in the hearts of the watching children. When one interest is taken away from a person it must be replaced by another. Other Interests, which appeal more than firing squads and machine guns, must replace war themes. There Is plenty of humanitarian work * ...... .*?

to be done in the world. Youth should be taught to marshal for living service. We have photographic histories of wars, today, which do much to lessen the gilded glamor that we have associated •with the spirit of ’76 and that other more recent spirit which attempted to make the world safe for democracy. Youth today sees war as it is. This alone should rob it of much of its unwholesome appeal. The cool, deliberate preparation for war (acting on the assumption that outrages and battles are the only method of reaching an agreement) sponsors a mental attitude, according to the President’s wife and many other women, that is sadly at variance with modem civilization as It conducts itself on other occasions. If it Is the panoply and pomp of war we want, we may have it. We may have parades. We may have drums throbbing, bugles blowing, soldiers marching, banners waving. We may even put the troops on the train and take them down to the first railroad crossing and bring them back again, if that will help. Human nature, somehow, loves to take a risk. It loves to plunge into danger, with uncertain odds, and fight its way out. The encouragement of that spirit has produced the wars—the gallant, splendid, shining wars that give history students something to write orations about. Oh yes, in opposing war, Mrs. Roosevelt and the great army of wives and mothers and sisters of men who march in her train, have many things to contest. For the whole stage of life favors the settling of disputes by arms. Education is a slow and tedious process. Not even gold stars, dimmed by the years that they have been packed away in dusty trunks; not the memory of the slim green graves in foreign fields; not the white-faced remembrance of those telegrams from the war department that told of a soldier’s death can quite display the transient glory’ of the bearing of arms. STARVING OURSELVES RICH NOT a few farsighted observers have been alarmed at’the seeming cordiality of the Roosevelt administration to the outworn notions associated with the dogmas of a pain and scarcity economy./ There has been no little concern lest the administration fail to realize that we actually are living in a pleasure and plenty era of economic development and that permanent prosperity never can be attained without a recognition of this basic fact. , Some reassurances on this point will be obtained from a recent article by Mr. Mordecai Ezekiel. “Can We Starve Ourselves Rich?” in Today. Mr. Ezekiel is a leading economic adviser to the administration and his views must be accorded considerable respect therein. He calls attention to the persistence of the old-fashioned conceptions of the scarcity economy: “The methods which many business groups are proposing for curing the depression all come down to one essential —produce less and collect more. Rule out new capacity or improved methods; restrict the output of present plants; eliminate price-cuttin| and other cruel devices of unrestricted competition; base prices on the high cost of producing little; produce only as much as can be sold at cost —these are typical of the suggestions which appear over and over again in codes and agreements, as submitted to the federal recovery agencies.” That Mr. Ezekiel has little sympathy with any such policy as a permanent measure in the battle against depression is evident frofh the following straight-forward declarations: “Ultimately we must restore our total output to what it was in 1929, and even raise it far above that level, if we are to give all our citizens even modestly satisfactory standards of living. ... We want higher standards of living: therefore, we constantly must increase our output of industrial products. ... If the centralizing and guiding force of the industry and trade associations which government agencies are helping to create should be directed by short-sighted policies or private profit, and not by broader policies of national welfare, they may in the end destroy the very economic system they were created to help restore.” With the exception of a few notoriously glutted industries, the real problem before us is not one of limiting production. It is a matter of producing more and of enabling the masses to buy an increasing range and volume of products. Some were scared off by the striking figures produced by the Technocrats, relative to what we could manufacture by the most efficient recent methods. What we really need to do is to put such high-speed methods to work and to cash in on them in a properly socialized fashion. This fact has been wellemphasized by Robert H. Hemphill. The depression was not caused primarily by excessive production but by defective consumption. The latter was an outgrowth of inadequate purchasing power on the part of the American public. A notorious lack of balance developed between productivity and purchasing power, as a result of the hogging of the social income by the favored few. This fact was stated forcefully by George B. Parker in his commencement address before the University of Oklahoma: “And let us make no mistake In our understanding of these terms, overproduction and underconsumption, about which there has been so much confusion of thought. This is not a depression due to overproduction. It is a depression due to the lack of balance to which I have referred. So long as there is a slum in a city, so long as there is an unpainted house on a prairie, or, to carry it farther, until every home as well as every railway car is both air-conditioned and operating, so long as there is ugliness anywhere on any landscape, so long as a peon in Mexico ekes out a sordid existence on a few pesos a day, or a Chinese coolie subsists on his pitiful ration of rice, the human market for mass production is there, eager to consume, but as yet not possessed of the wherewithal to buy.” Super-men are predicted for 100 years from now. And they’ll have their super-problems, too. Wouldn't it be grand if the administration could get our young men and women to plow’ under some of the wild oats they sow? The telephone code will be limited to regulation of hours and wages. When it comes to wrong numbers and overcall charges, the government knows when it’s licked

THE DIFFERENCE WRITING on jury trials of criminal cases in England’s courts. Raymond Fosdick tells the Rockefeller Foundation folks: “Counsel on both sides give the appearance of striving to arrive at the truth by the quickest and most direct route.” What a change in the administration of American justice, should our laws, lawyers and judges strive for justice by the quickest and most direct route! America plays the game exactly the other way. Take this ilustration: On Dec. 29. at the Huntsville (Tex.) penitentiary, one Dewey Hunt Is to be hanged— If legal red tape or executive clemency does not interfere. Hunt has been in the Dallas Jail during the last five years and thirty days, and it has taken a court of appeals two years to decide as to Hunt’s appeal from a conviction of murder. Hunt's victim being only a street car operator, his lawyers have had over five years to try the legal loopholes for escape, with no danger of a lynching by a community enraged by delays and miscarriages in administering justice. The cause of lynching lies far back of sporadic mob madness. England has practically no lynchings, for the reason that her people have confidence that their lawyers and judges strive for justice by the quickest and most direct route. HEALTH PAYS /'OPPORTUNE is the warning of Collier’s that communities and states are cutting their health budgets at their own and the nation’s peril. Word comes from South Dakota, Alabama, Mississippi, from Atlanta, Paterson, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and even from Washington that serious cuts have been ordered in the usual health service expenditures. Now, of all times, ample public funds are needed to guard the people’s health. Their own incomes reduced or shut off, millions of families depend entirely on public health services. To fail them is not only perilous to these families. Epidemics spread from poor to rich. Due to mild weather conditions, the reduction of industrial hazards, the lack of a big epidemic and other causes the death rate fell last year to a low’ of 10.9 a 1,000. Infant mortality, too, fell from 68 a 1,000 in 1929 to 58 last year. As Collier’s editor says, “with victory apparently within our grasp, we are confronted by forces which may unleash epidemics, boost the already rising cancer rate and carry us back to the health conditions of years ago.” States and communities w’hich can see economy in cutting health budgets have not profited by the lessons of history. Amelia Earhart says old men should be the first to be called to arms in case of war. Only, they're sure to be hard of hearing. Smithsonian scientists have discovered that a bee stings hardest sitting down. Now we need only sign the national anthem to keep bees from stinging us. Tests by a Chicago university professor show that 3.2 beer is not intoxicating. The students he tried it on continued to cut their classes. Another set of scientists exhausts the aid in big radio tubes down to one and one-half billionths of an atmosphere. But they can’t cut down on the hot air that goes through it. A Russian professor says we can live to be 150 years old. But who wants to?

M.E. Tracy Says;

I HAVE found newspaper comments on the California mob which lynched two kidnapers the other day very interesting. Asa general proposition, they condemn the proceeding, as well as Governor Rolph’s attitude, but with a sufficient sprinkling of “ifs, ands, perhapses and thoughs,” to satisfy every conceivable opinion. That very’ attitude of mind strikes me as responsible for the anomalous situation in which we find ourselves with regard to law and law enforcement. During twenty years of newspaper work I have found it necessary to comment on dozens of mobs. In each and every case I have taken the position that lynching w’as wrong per se and ought to be suppressed. With few exceptions, I have found Governors, judges and prosecutors on my side. Time after time I have seen chief executives solemnly promise to uphold the law, and urge juries to call special grand juries and district attorneys to take the most drastic measures. But —and this is the important point—l never have seen very’ much done about it. Catching and punishing mob leaders has been largely a matter of conversation in these United States, while condoning their offenses has been the general practice. Theoretically, w’e are all against the mob. n tt tt WHEN it comes to doing anything effective, our record is a perfect blank. A similar inconsistency characterizes our attitude toward the administration of justice all along the line. We are a legalistic people until it comes to enforcement. There never was a nation on earth that produced a greater volume of perfectly good statutes, regulations and inhibitions, or made a worse mess of carrying them out. There never was' a nation that paid higher lip tribute to ideals, aims and objectives, or did less to uphold them. The very mountain of law under which we labor has created an equally mountainous accumulation of resistance. The very clumsiness and inefficiency of our judicial system has developed lack of faith in it. We have mobs for the same reason that we have nullification of less important law’s. tt tt tt DISCOVERING that the cumbersome system which we have created doesn’t w’ork, we turn more and more to the idea of taking it into our own hands; of cutting aw-ay the red tape, of disobeying the very’ rules we have made in order to free ourselves of the abuses their multiplicity involves. The prohibition farce not only typifies our frame of mind toward law and law enforcement but furnishes the explanation of such outbreaks as occurred at San Jose. Eight months ago, we were all for superregulation of industry, not because we had thought the thing through, but because it tickled our fancy. Now. we are not so sure we want to bear the burdens and endure the hardships of carrying it out. ’ The use of that free speech and freedom of the press in which we take such pride has been confined largely to lookir backward rather than looking forward, to exp ssing dissatisfaction with what we have done on impulse, rather than encouraging sound, constructive criticism beforehand. Mobs are not only disgraceful, but should be accepted as a warning of worse things to come. They will continue, how’ever, until measures are taken to bring law enforcement eSec- , lively in line with the law.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Slake your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Tom Berlin?. Friends and neighbors, taxes are 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 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. Gold helps them that help 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 help hands, for I have no lands or if I have, they are smartly taxed. He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. But then the trade must be worked at and the calling will enable us to pay our taxes. By O. J, Simmons. I disagree often with The Times’ editorial opinions. And for this very reason, I want to praise your articles with which I am in agreement. In your editorial of Nov. 7 on the Maryland Rebellion, you state the issue fairly and correctly. “The purpose of the law is to protect the community from the lawless minority.” Lynching is lawlessness. In your editorial of same date, “The New Frontier,” it would seem you have gone counter to President Roosevelt’s statement, “Our last frontier long since has been reached.” Os course, your statements in this editorial are correct; the only question being

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Warns Against Rabbit’s Disease

npHE rabbit season has brought out a great many hunters, this year, and has exposed them and their families to a vicious disease. Populariy it is called rabbit’s disease. Among physicians it is known as tularemia. The disease usually begins with symptoms much like those of a common cold. In most cases an ulcer develops at the spot where the infection entered the body. Many times the condition lasts so long and the fever is so protracted that the disease resembles typhoid fever. The doctor makes his diagnosis by tests of the blood and by examining the wound and getting the history of the case. As an indication of the extent to which the condition has spread throughout the country, more than one hundred cases have been reported in most states since 1928.

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

IF you sometimes wonder why so many eligible men do not hurry to the altar, you may be interested in the following letter. And, remember, please, that it is authentic, and was not written by an old fogey, but by a young man of marriageable age who believes that women have changed for the worse during the last “mad, idiotic decade.’” He finds themodern girl without charm or appeal. Here is the lowdown on what he thinks about her: “Instead of being the individual she believes she is, the average young woman is a prize example of conventionality. This reflects itself chiefly in her smoking and drinking, x and very many, ot^ex

A Saving?

By H. H. Haus. I read in your paper where seven million dollars had been saved by the Indiana highway commission. Here is the truth how some of it was saved—something that never happened under the other administration. The contracter who tore up and cemented state Road 50 from the Bedford city limits east, paid his men 15 cents an hour. Ralph Rogers, contractor of Bloomington, whose firm asphalted state Road 7 from Columbus, paid 20 cents slave wages. One of the foremen kicked a laborer down when he could not work faster. The foreman was fined in court here.

whether individualism shall drive into another wilderness, or the job be done collectively. I prefer individualism. It has worked before. In “Why Call on Uncle Sam,” you prefer states rights rather than calling on Washington to police our towns. Fine. Much better than another “code.” In “A Good Label,” you fairly define “Tory.” I disagree with your quotation from the editor of Common Sense. Either my individualistic ideas are all wrong, in which case I am a Tory, or the collectivists are all wrong. It will take more than the epithet “Tory” to change my opinion. As to “From Three Great Leaders,” I disagree with the idea that just where the drinker gets his narcotic is a cause for worry. True, Alfred E. Smith is near-great from brown derby to the sidewalks of New York; Newton D. Baker, I have heard of (Pershing thought him a fair boss) and Mrs. Charles H. Sabin is not an acquaintance of mine. She is probably near-great, too. But I like the slogan, "Make it smart to be legal.” In short, there is a lot of logic in your columns the last few days. Keep it up and you will leave those of opposite opinion no ground to stand on. Too often, liberals reason by jumps: proceeding not continuously from the known to the unknown, but leaving large gaps in their logic. I would rather be wrong-con-vinced by a quiet logical argument that looked error-proof than right

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magaxine.

In lowa, a housewife dressed several rabbits which her husband had brought home from a hunting trip. Three or four days later a sore spot developed on one of her fingers, then the glands in her elbow and in her arm began to swell. Soon she had fever, chills, headache, and a lot of aches all over the body. A physician who examined her discovered she had tularemia. The incident is a warning to women who prepare the spoils of their husbands’ hunts for cooking, and it may be a warning, also, to the hunters. First to the hunters: There's just one simple precaution. Don’t pick up a rabbit that is not quite well. The hare that runs and jumps is a healthy ani-

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

young men have no desire to marry a woman who carries the smell of a combined cigar store and saloon. “Secondly, young women are almost ludicrous in their affectations. I can not find delicacy and fragrance in today's girls. (No, Dora, he does not mean perfume). Am I looking for something which ceased to be with my mother's generations? B tt tt IS it impossible to find a girl who can play Schubert's Serenade,’ instead of ambling to the radio with grotesque hip movements, to give me ‘lt’s the talk of the town.*

and led thereto by epithets, slogans, and mob psychology. So, dear, opponent, if you wish to convince me and other Tories (or whatever we are) stick tight to the careful calm logic we Tories so dearly love. By R. Sprungcr. An article by a Times Reader on Dec. 1 intimated that Hoosier wives are lazy. That statement is false and you know it, Times Reader. You say there are no such wives in Kentucky. That is partly true as some have moved to this state. My mother was a farm girl and did a man’s work in the fields. She gets my breakfast and lunch ready for me to go to work. She also keeps her house in order. I also know a partly disabled woman, who walks with the aiej of a cane, who can do more work than a few of your younger able-bodied Kentucky citizens. There are numerous reasons why we resent some Kentuckians. If you want to see one, take a thorough look at the disgraceful condition of West Indianapolis. It didn’t look like that fifteen years ago when Hoosiers lived there. This state welcomes desirable citizens and industries, but we don't care for the other kind. If there are any who don’t like this state, they are free to leave if they choose. Some of our Hoosier employers preach to us to support our home industries and they will support us. Why don’t you practice what you preach? Fill the jobs with Hoosiers first. Will the gentleman who says he might show Hoosier unemployed how to find work get several thousand jobs for them. By that, I mean a real job and not a slim-slam sales proposition that would starve a microbe.

So They Say

The racketeer now has grown strong and the tribute exacted by him is said to amount to nearly $1,000,000,000 a year. AttorneyGeneral Hugh S. Cummings. No amount of statistics and no number of bulletins will take the place of a lamb chop and a glass of milk at the right moment.—U. S. Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins. There is not much difference between the religions. It is what results in service that counts.—Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda.

mal. The one that seems stupid or dazed is likely to be infected with tularemia. Now to the women: In preparing the rabbit for eating. play safe by wearing rubber gloves. And see that the meat is cooked thoroughly before serving. And to both hunters and their families: See that you have no open wounds on your hands when you come into contact with a rabbit. The disease may be contracted sometimes through the bite of a tick that is infected, or even by crushing the tick on the skin. Finally, it is well to emphasize that the chief danger from tularemia lies in direct contact with infected tissues and that the person who likes to eat rabbit meat can avoid the disease by making sure that the food is cooked fully.

“My third complaint is their promiscuous love making. Kisses are as common as handshakes used to be. There is no difference between a great many respectable girls and the women of the streets. The compensation amounts to about the same. “We can not ignore the fact.” he continues, “that the prevalence of a bad habit or a vice does not make it a virtue. At present men can not raise their faces upward to women, in the matter of marriage, we feel that we are licked before iwe start.”

DEC. (5. 1932

It Seems to Me —BY IIEYTYOOD BKOI N

YORK. Dec. 6.—“ That lNi wasn’t such a terrible bad audience.” said the chairman of the netting consolingly. ’ After all. you boys must remember that you were in conflict with Father Coughlin.” “Is he here in Newark this afternoon?' I asked. "Not in person." replied my informant. “In that case you wouldn't have had any audience. I merely meant that as you three were finishing up Father Coughlin was beginning and there are a whole lot of people here in New Jersey who don’t miss a word he says. How about coming over and having a drink?" The first thing that struck me in the speakeasy was the presence of a dozen men who sat about a table drinking nothing, eating nothing. saying nothing. They were listenng to Father Couhlin's broadcast. The New York delegation ordered cocktails and the bartender seemed a little surly as he filled the order. “He don't like it if you order mixed drinks,” explained our hast. "He doesn't want to miss Father Coughlin.” "Do you mean to tell me.” I asked, “that all over Newark people are sitting goggle-eyed and fascinated by a sermon on free silver?” a a a Bigger Than Amos and Andy ALL over Newark: all over the country." answered the man who knew Father Coughlin. “In fact, some of the radio cabs here are putting out little placards saying that in their cars you can hear Father Coughlin and get where you're going at the same time.” I don't know just where Father Coughlin is going, but this clerical crusader is certainly on his way. In a knockdown fight between A1 Smith and the recto? of the Church of the Little Flower, Mr. Smith simply stands no chance at all. It isn’t a fair fight. Father Coughlin, is so much better known at the moment that even the best argument of A1 come to the millions as no more than a whisper. I have heard the words of the radio priest only in part and on a few occasions. Save at the time of some particularly bitter controversy the newspapers do not print very much about him. This is decidedly an error in judgment. Right now anything which Father Coughlin says is news. I am not sufficiently familiar with his talks to say whether all his theories are justified from my own point of view. In general I am on his side, although there wot and be sharp disagreement as to details. Father Coughlin is preaching the doctrine that the immediate choice of Americans lies between “Roosevelt and ruin.” The clergyman contends that the President of the United States is engaged in a life and death struggle with the spokesmen of big business and that the bankers and the rest are intent upon destroying all the vital factors in the new deal. nan The Anecdotal Urge IT seems to me that in this respect Father Coughlin speaks truthfully. When he gets into more minor things such as who visited which Wall Street office at what time I think that he is getting a little off the track. I do not think anybody immediately should be thrown out of the society of useful citizens simply because somebody reports that Mr. X was observed tiptoeing into the house of Morgan and that when he came out his face was wreathed in smiles. That seems to me circumstantial evidence at its worst. Mr. X has denied, I believe, that he ever called upon Morgan to get a sufficient loan to swing the Empire State building. I am convinced that the enterprise proceeded under its own steam and that none of the traditional leaders of Wall Street greeted the project with hurrahs or hat tossing. But the issue between A1 Smith and Father Coughlin goes a good deal deeper than the credibility of an anecdote. Neither one is under the necessity of calling sharp names, since each in all sincerity advocates an economic scheme which is repugnant to his rival. antt At Should Announce Himself AL ought to be frank enought to stand up and get himself counted in the roll call of conservative American leaders. I haven’t a doubt Al’s intellectual honesty in calling for a return from experimentation back into the waiting room where the general public cools its heels and waits to hear from the corporals and captains of industry whether or not it eats today or tomorrow. I think that Father Coughlin is right in urging the necessity of a new deal and one yet newer. He has every right to go back to Papal encyclicals to prove his point that the church stands for better distribution and a check on swollen fortunes. I think it is an extraordinary phenomenon that the most successful radical leader in America today should be a priest. In 1928 Bishop Cannon, the Methodist Mauler, won a decision from Al, but it was only on points, and if a return match had been granted the Mauler would have had all the worst of it. But Father Coughlin is not trying for a decision. He’s after a knockout. in my opinion, he has Al lying on the ropes. (Copyright. 1533. by The Times)

First Snow-Fall

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLIMCK I can not doubt this evidence That lovely autumn now has gone; For here are trees that shake with chill, And here are dry leaves on the lawn. And here are winds that sting Ilka steel; And here are skies with clouda hung low. And here comes gently, lightly down The first frail flakes of virgin snow. DAILY THOUGHT Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.—St. John 20:23. VIRTUE pardons the wicked, ai the sandal-tree perfumes the ax which strikes it. — Saadk