Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1933 — Page 16
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LIQUOR CONTROL TT is entirely too soon to pass considered *“■ judgment on the merits of the Indiana liquor control plan. It must be tried for weeks, even months, before it Is tested thoroughly. No one is entirely satisfied with its provisions. In the nature of things it must be a compromise. Rural dry communities undoubtedly will feel that the control scheme is too liberal. "Wet urban centers will be irked because they will think it is not liberal enough. Governor McNutt's problem is to handle the liquor problem so that it will not be too unsatisfactory to both extremes. We believe that he is wise to limit sales for the time being to drug stores. Indiana’s druggists are substantial, self-respecting business men. They will not allow the establishments which they have been years in building to be turned into speakeasies and common taverns. If a few of them show a disposition to violate the law the Governor has every opportunity to punish both swiftly and sternly. He may remove their drug store permits. He even may go further and revoke their pharmacists’ licenses which would put the offenders out of business forever. One disquieting tendency has manifested itself already. Many restaurants and cases are violating the law by serving drinks stronger than wine and beer. This must stop. The present regulations must be obeyed and if changes are needed they must be made in an orderly and legal manner. Public opinion can do much to eliminate law violation. It no longer is fashionable to encourage bootlegging. The individual who, by his patronage, encourages bootlegging is not only robbing the government of sorely needed taxes, but is guilty of mighty poor sportsmanship. The wets have won. Let them take victory with temperance. It is smart to be legal.
WORKS BOTH WAYS A CITIZENRY imbued with the spirit of ’76 is needed, if the country is to cope successfully with gangsters, according to the International Police Chiefs’ Association in recent convention. The police chiefs ask, in effect, that every citizen “put himself on the spot " and banish all fear of testimony against gangsters. And citizens, on their side, plead with police all over the country to afford every protection to the person daring enough to take such risk. It undoubtedly is true that scores of citizens who could give evidence against racketeers and gangsters are held back from such action by fear of consequences. And rightfully so. No man or woman cares to invite a shot in the dark, just because he did his civic duty, especially when he suspects that a policeman is likely to look the other way because the shooting was done by someone “in good” with the big boss. Give our citizens protection and they will do their part, :But the police have been far from diligent enough in their pursuit of gangsters to give us the confidence we need to step up to the wintess stand and tell our stories without fear of deadly reprisal.
OUR NAVY w \ THEN Navy Secretary Claude A. Swanson ’tells President Roosevelt that the United States should proceed promptly to strengthen its naval defenses, since more than a decade of sincere work for armament reduction has gone for naught, he voices an attitude which undoubtedly has the approval of a great many Americans. At the same time, by calling attention to the navy's present incomplete state, he emphasizes the fact that we not really have had a naval policy since the end of the World war. We have not had a policy, that is, in that we have not had a definite goal or a definite program for our fleet. On the one hand, we have insisted that our navy be classed as one of the two strongest in the world; on the other, we have been content to let it fall below treaty standards. The result has been that the navy has gotten along as best it could, an organization that pleases neither the pacifist nor the militarist. Prior to the Washington conference of 1922, our avowed aim was to build the greatest fleet on earth and maintain it in fighting trim. In ships built and building we had that goal within reach; we needed only to wait for the new vessels to slide down the ways and we would be pre-eminently the greatest naval power in existence. But we didn’t do it. Os all forms of human folly, # a naval armament race is the most expensive and the most dangerous; and we averted such a development by throwing away the magnificent new ships that were halfbuilt and by voluntarily accepting a rating lower than we could have had. Now. says Secretary Swanson, the time has come to tighten up our belt anew. And before we can decide on his program properly, ■we need to restudy the whole problem and decide just what we want our navy for and what we expect it to do. If we have given up all hope of further co-operation from other naval powers—if we feel that future naval agreements are impossible. and that we shall have to stand absolutely alone henceforth—then it is up to us .o do as the secretary says and make the fleet ready for anything that can happen. But if there still is a chance of continuing the agreements of the last decade, and of avoiding the expense and danger of naval competition without crippling our foreign
politics, It would seem wise to get along "as is" for a while longer. For we can not forget one thing. If we add to our fleet, other nations will do the same. And no one knows what the end of that might be. ALUMINUM AND NRA HT'HREATS to impose a code of fair competition upon the aluminum industry will not amount to much unless the code imposed is to contain fair trade practices as well as wage and hour provisions. So far reports coming from NRA have mentioned only the second half of this problem. Yet where aluminum is concerned public interest lies almost wholly in prevention of monopolistic control. That is why the Aluminum Company of America has refused to submit or subscribe to a code containing fair trade practices. That is why a code omitting such provisions will be a victory for the mighty Mellon concern. This Is the situation: The Aluminum Company of America controls the virgin supply of aluminum on this continent. It also owns fabricating plants. Independent fabricating plants are in operation also, but they have to buy their raw materials from the Mellons. Independents say they can not operate In competition unless they are assured that fabricating plants of the big corporation will get raw materials on the same price basis they do. Unless they can compete monopolistic prices will prevail. Aluminum is becoming of more importance in our national life. The navy soon will buy millions of dollars worth for use in new cruisers and destroyers. The Tennessee Valley Authority recently bought a large order for use in connection with its power development. Aluminum is going into public buildings. It is part of every household’s equipment. Monopoly charges are serious, and there is plenty of evidence to sustain them. Though recent administrations refused to recognize this evidence the federal trade commission went into the courts years ago with a charge of monopoly against the Aluminum Company and secured a consent decree forbidding certain practices. Since then the only changes which have taken place apparently have been in the direction of circumventing the decree. The industrial recovery act contains plain prohibitions against monopoly, which can hardly be ignored by NRA. It also gives the President power to impose a code wherever "abuses inimical r.o the public interest and contrary to the policy herein declared are prevalent in any trade or industry.” There should be no doubt on the part of NRa as to what it should do under the circumstances. If it is going to code the aluminum industry at all it should see to it that the code prevents monopoly.
WOMEN’S WORLD "lITOMEN. so some feminists announce ’ ’ every so often, now may go any place that men go. Well, perhaps they may, but fortunately there are still a few places where they don’t want to go! The national bicycle races, for example, which are a feature of the November program at Madison Square Garden in New York. For a week now men have raced round and round the circle. The idea is to see how fast the riders can go, or in other words, who can get nowhere first. Nearly 17,000 men—and a few, a very few women—have watched the circular speed chase. The expressions on the men’s faces are as beatific as those of a small boy with his first bicycle. They glorify in the physical endurance. Men sit by the hour and watch women, wearied in a few minutes, turn away. Perhaps men of the sporting world are glad to know that their prize fights, bull fights, bicycle races and like events are still theirs. But it may lessen their joy of possession to know that they hold the lease merely because women don’t want entrance. We have invaded their barber shops, their offices and the voting booths which were sacred to masculine ballots. Livery stables, whose red and yellow posters flaunted the charm of coming circuses, have gone, or men might rule supreme among the harnesses and sawdust. But we have looked over their sports, according to the popular count, and decided that we don’t want any. At least not often. In Mexico and Spain the men leave their women at home when they go out to celebrate. After all, they reason, a lady with nice manners has no place at a bullfight. Far better it is for her to sit on her balcony and make lace and give her lord and master the pleasure of telling her the bloody details of the sports event. They love it. too. these dark-eyed senoritas. They like being treated as something fragile that must be protected. Deep down in their warmly pulsing hearts they don’t want to sit in the sun and watch two bulls charge at each other, anyway, so everything is all right. American women, emancipated as the general proclamation declares they are, have the same reaction as their Latin sisters. Instinctively they know that it is .slightly difficult, when the lights are low, for a man to grow romantic over a woman whose interest can outlast his at a physical endurance contest. They give thanks secretively that they are bored with—well, bicycle races! Men and women are still as different in their personal reactions as they were back in the days when only men wore gardenias in their buttonholes. Women didn't always faint just because it was a helpless gesture in the petticoat days. They had their limp moments because they experienced honest fright. Fortunately, contact with the economic world has helped us to learn "elf-control. But it hasn’t made us prefer prizefights to Leslie Howard and Noel Coward as a steady entertainment diet. In fact, if women suddenly should insist that they must accompany their husbands and sons and sweethearts to every place of entertainment the good old Spanish custom of locking up the feminine element of the household might develop. Men stay awav from the sewing societies and quilting bees and fashion teas and cooking schools and book review clubs. Not because we ask them to. Because they couldn't be coaxed to come! For the same reason we let them go round in circles when the bicycles get on the track. We don’t call it fun. At ieast, the great majority of women don’t.
LIQUOR PRICES WE have been urging as a national slogan after repeal, “make it smart to be legal.” The President in his proclamation asked for a popular boycott of the bootlegger. There is a general sentiment in the country in favor of outlawing illicit liquor now that the legal beverage is obtainable. But this sentiment is not apt to translate itself into action unless legal liquor can be obtained at fair prices. The day of hfghpriced bootleg liquor is gone. During the months immediately preceding repeal it became not only plentiful but very cheap. It is against this cheap liquor that the legal product mast compete. Obviously effective competition would be impossible if the government were unwise enough to lay down a prohibitive tax. Some months ago there was danger of this. Latterly, however, officials in Washington seem fairly well agreed that a high tax would be a mistake. The President speaks' of a “reasoriable” tax. But even a reasonable tax can not keep legal liquor down to a reasonable price for the consumer if there is profiteering either by the producer or the middleman, if they are so foolish as to try to gouge the public, much of the business will turn back to the bootlegger and the cheaper product. Therefore the initial prices charged for repeal liquor are very disquieting. For instance, posted prices for whisky range from $2.75 to 57.50 a quart. This has brought a threat from the federal alcohol control administration to act under the NRA codes to force dewn prices unless there is a speedy change in the situation. Already members of congress are talking of an official investigation of liquor profiteering. The liquor industry by its abuses brought prohibition upon the country. Hasn’t it leafned its lesson yet? Let the liquor industry not make the mistake of supposing that it is the only alternative to prohibition, and that since the voters are through with national prohibition the liquor industry therefore is free to do as it pleases. There is another alternative. That is abolition of the private liquor industry and creation of an absolute federal-state monopoly. The tremendous vote for repeal was a vote to get rid of the illegal liquor racket and crime. If the legal industry, with which the voters now have replaced bootlegging, foolishly profiteers to the point of reviving bootlegging, the public soon will demand that government take over the industry.
LOOK IN THE WOODPILE Nr,W party has arisen in the west, and at first glance at its program one would think it ought to become the savior of mankind in America. But. like many other promIsing ventures, it doesn’t seem to ring true to one’s sense of proportion. Under the name of “National Party,” its leader, a hotel man of Oceanside, Cal., promises practically everything to everybody except the buttons off his own shirts. He would do away with depressions; he would abolish capitalism and taxes; he would disbar debts and bills and lawsuits, the rich and the poor. In short, all would share alike and would have most of the time for leisure. The program of this National Party looks so good to us that we have an idea there’s a selfish reason back of it—and that is perhaps an attempt to bring more National Party advocates out to the glorious bathing facilities of Oceanside. Harvard students have been found to carry an average of 22 cents in their pockets. Now the Wellesley girls will hear about it and the boys soon will be carrying no money at all.
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DURING the last fifteen years this country has been exposed to an epidemic of crime and racketeering seldom equaled and never surpassed in the record of civilized government. The collapse of its financial and industrial leadership is paralleled by a complete breakdown of its moral and judicial leadership. It is worth noting, however, that the two do not synchronize. The crime wave preceded the depression by nearly a decade, and displayed its greatest strength, not in a season of poverty, but in a season of prosperity. Os course, there is a plentitude of alibis and explanations of this anomalous condition. The fact remains, however, that the same boom which produced speculative fortunes also produced the great racketeering organizations, the outbursts of political corruption and the innumerable scandals which will help to make this page of American history immortal. tt a a WE have displayed some alertness in recognizing some of the possible effects of an economic collapse, and have not hesitated to sanction the adoption of drastic measures in order to forestall them. We have shown nothing like the same degree of understanding with regard to an equally grave moral collapse. On the contrary,'we have tolerated customs, methods of procedure, and a low degree of conduct in the administration of public affairs which expose us to every form of crime and crookedness. One can not help wondering whether we have become much more sensitive to pain in our pocketbooks than anywhere else. It is almost axiomatic that no such thing as permanent prosperity can be possible without a background of law and order. Why should people build homes, start enterprises and accumulate wealth only to be preyed upon by thugs, racketeers and kidnapers even if they could? We need safety as much as we need the cHance to earn a better living. Indeed, we can hope for no such chance without safety. For that simple reason, lack of safety leads to the same kind of resentment, chaos, and violence as lack of prosperity. tt tt a WE are shocked by recent manifestations of mob violence, but not as thoroughly as .we are doomed to be shocked unless something is done to rehabilitate law enforcement. Back of these sporadic upheavals is a deep-seated conviction on the part of millions of people that the existing system and the existing leadership can not be trusted to protect the public; that a thief, murderer or kidnaper is much more likely to escape than to be punished, and that a powerful collusion has been established between our criminal elements and certain political interests. We do not deny the necessity of eliminating industrial evils in order to restore industry’. Why not apply the same reasoning to the problem of law enforcement? We face a condition, not a theory. The Ur., i States of America stands forth as the most lawless civilized nation on earth and. of course, we pay for it. We pay for it, not only in dollars that are taken from us at the point of a gun, or by threats of violence, but in moral fiber; in loss of confidence, in a growing belief that people have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.
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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 John F. White. The Times Saturday, Nov. 18, printed in the “Message Center,” under the name of j. R. Collins, what seemed to me a vicious attack on the city’s proposal to take over the Citizens Gas Company through a national government loan. The letter said that “the leading citizen who engineered the Butler-Fairview deal is the same gent who just now is engaged in putting over the Citizens Gas Company grab.” Unless Mr. Collins has more proof to offer than appears in his article he is more likely laying himself open to be charged with malicious innuendo, bordering on the libelous, than he is offering evidence to convince any one that a “grab” is behind the effort on the part of the city to enter into the final arrangements to acquire the Citizens Gas Company. These acts on the part of the city officials are but carrying out the original intent when organizing the company as a benevolent trust, and as supported by a series of court orders up to that of the supreme court of the United States, after attacks by stockholders who tried to “grab” the company from the city, and which, by the way, is the only attempted “grab” visible to the naked eye in the whole transaction. It would be interesting to have Mr. Collins name the “leading citizen”—if he knows—who is engineering and is to be the benificiary of this “grab” which is to make Sam Insull turn green with envy. And what is it that is to be “grabbed?” Following the law and the court decisions the city officials—out in the open and without any visible “leading citizen” urging them to promote a “grab”—are fulfilling the original covenant, to pay the stockholders par value for their shares, plus 10 per cent dividend, and thereupon assume ownership of the plant for the city. Is the $2,000,000 common stock and the $1,000,000 preferred that the city is to acquire the coveted “grab” Mr. Collins deplores, or is it a hidden thought in his mind, of which there is intimation in what he says, that the city forego its right and its obligation to assume ownernship and allow the stockholders to “grab” the plant, as was the original intention? Interested persons first have tried to wreck the original contract, by which the city was to secure the plant, and
YOU’VE heard much about high blood pressure. But do you know that more persons have low blood pressure than have high? This condition has existed since the influenza epidemic of 1918, according to insurance statistics. But, according to one authority, it is due not only to the epidemic, but to many other factors. Among them are the decreased popularity of exercise, walking particularly, and the extraordinarily strict diet in which many women have indulged tn recent years. High blood pressure is much more serious as a menace to life than is low blood pressure. The chief trouble with low blood pressure is that it takes a good deal of the kick out of life. A person with low blood pressure is weak and tired much of the time. He has little interest in what is going on.
DID you know that plans are ’ under way to spend several million dollars upon the construction of a series of floating airplane landing fields straight across the Atlantic? The things look perfectly grand. The idea of stopping at a midocean restaurant for lunch, of walking about an enormous platform extending for miles on top of the waves, and then of winging one's way on to Europe is tremendously alluring. It's exactly as if one were living in the imagination of a Jules Verne. But what's the sense of trying to get to Europe in eight hours so long as we don’t want to have anything to do with Europeans? In fact, it seems a little more than silly to go to the trouble of setting up trade
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Low Blood Pressure Is Prevalent
A Pleasure By a Walkathon Tan. I would like to send a word by way of your paper to those so bitterly opposed to the Walkathon. I can not see where there was anything detrimental either to the health or character of any of those contestants. Where can a poor man and his family go in this city for the same price as charged by the management of the Walkathon and get as much clean entertainment? If the politicians of this city would put more time into fulfilling some of the promises made before the recent election to the poor man and family instead of taking every pleasure away from .them, I share with many others the belief that our city would not be known as the "end of creation."
interested persons have been and are now either trying to wreck the efforts of the people to make it city property or to wreck the company itself, so that private interests can control the gas situation. Mr. Collins may not consciously be a party to this purpose, but such criticism as he. is offering certainly gives comfort to this purpose. However, Mr. Collins at least has the nerve to write under his own name (it is presumed), and possibly it might be interesting to know just who he is and what interest he may have other than that of a citizen in the Citizens Gas Company affair. By Fair Flay. Denseness unexceled, is “the raid of the Walkathon'' by the boy police chief, 'well-remembered as a good railroad employe, whose ambition seems to be to increase your taxes, decrease spending power and eliminate seventy-five people from employment. The Walkathon management spent $7,000 in Indianapolis before they were assured of an opening—a game sportsman’s daring chance. They spent $5,000 weekly in Indianapolis. They pay $2,500 a month for the hall—about SIO,OOO to the state to assist in the reduction of your taxes. Seventy-five people are employed and would be thrown into the field of unemployment if the sentiments of a selfish group are expressed—a real patriotic and helpful feeling by a few. Food, clothing, shelter are furnished the contestants, all of whom were unemployed, and who desire to
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIX
Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine.
He feels sickly and he is likely to say that he feels low. Just how long low blood pressure endures in any individual is dependent, of course, on a number of factors. Sometimes the pressure may rise as the result of a good deal of rest and recreation and improvement in the general diet. Sometimes an extra cup of coffee or tea will step up such blood pressure to the point where the body feels better. Sometimes it is desirable to make a study of the basal metabolism, or rate of chemical change in the bocy, and if that is found to be exceedingly low, to administer small doses of thyroid, to which the low’ blood pressure will respond with a rise. However, thyroid is a dangerous medicine and never should be taken except under direct instruc-
A Woman’s Viewpoint ---■ - BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON -
barriers and constructing our splendid walls of isolation, and then spending our money to build contraptions that will enable us to shake hands across the sea. as it were. tt a IF the correct thing is to remain rigidly exclusive, aloof from any actual contacts with the rest of the world, and to preserve our national integrity by refusing to nod to the neighbors, then I think all that money might as well be spent at home' With another war in prospect this highway between the continents will be just something else to blow up. No intelligent man builds a nice, stafe sidewalk to the front gate of his enemy. 4
assist their parents or pursue a training. Floor shows, sales of pictures and gratuities are given contestants. One couple received more than $300; one boy $200; another $69; another SIOO, etc. One hundred thousand people of the state have seen this contest as fans, and it does not imply that because they select this manner of entertainment and reject the whines of the selfish hungry wolves, that they are idiots, lunatics, imbeciles, or what-not. Suppose that 100.000 people refuse to go to a show in retaliation for the interference of their enjoyment, or refuse to spend their money here. Perhaps they may remember, at election time, the ones who lent their ears and were helpful in abridging their pleasures. Now why not eliminate the great slaughter and maiming in the national Decoration day endurance contest? Also wrestling matches, prizefights, football, basketball, tennis, golf and croquet? Someone might get injured. And most important, let us revive the blue laws and close the theaters on Sundays and save the morals of our people. What! Oh. you don’t like it! You can’t take it! In conclusion, I desire to state that of all the Walkathons ever conducted, not one person has been killed, died or has suffered in any manner physically. One hundred thousand Walkathon fans can’t be wrong. By Nellie Wilder. Talk about a lot of baloney, bolona, balonie, bolonie, balony, balogna, bolognie, bologny; bologna is correct. With all that bolona, the depression should be over. This is the first time I ever, heard of so much balona from The Times. If I should hear of any one suffering from hunger, I’ll refer them to The Times, because I know that The Times can at least give the needy plenty of balonie. All this bolonie has gone to my head instead of my stomach. This is a case where bolony is just bolognie whether you spell it bologny or balony—the grocer knowing that in the end, it will turn out to be bologna anyway. I’ve decided that bologna is correct. Edftor’s Note—The Ravmond Murray whose letter to the Message Center appeared on Page 12. Nov. 2*. is not Raymond F. Murray, an Indianapolis attorney. The writer of the letter was Raymond Murray of New Bethel, Ind.
tion of a physician, w’ho bases its use on a careful study of his patient. There are, of course, some people who incline, by the very structure of their bodies, to have low blood pressure. Slender, narrow-chested, low-wraisted people, whose hearts are on a lower level and whose blood therefore is pumped around sharper bends than occur in the blood vessels of people of different types, are likely to have low blood pressure. Asa class, people with low blood presure live longer, but life without go, without the joy of living associated with health, is not altogether a blessing. The person with low blood pressure has one advantage over the one who suffers from high blood pressure. His doctor is likely to tell him to drink what he wants to drink and to have a good time by eating foods he enjoys.
Indeed the whole thing is a monstrous stupidity. Here we all are, citizens of the earth, living in our particular countries simply because we happened to be born there, and in the main wanting to get along together. But how do we go about it? We poke guns at each other out of all our upstairs window’s and hustle more and more armaments in through our back doors and fill our cellars with dynamite. And at the same time we fix everything so that if we ever do decide to be real friends we can visit back and forth with comfort and speed. But no one except an idiot could believe we can be friends until we take the bombs off the front porch, at least.
DEC. 7, 1033
It Seems to Me -r BY HF.YWOOD BROUN.
! ]WJEW YORK - Drc- " —"The day I Ty will come." writes Bruce Barton in his weekly inspirational editorial, “when, compared to the I word ’professor,’ the word 'banker' will be a term of endearment.” Mr. Barton is agitated because of the brain trust.” who is not identified in the inspirational editorial, recently made a speech in which he suggested that the profit motive need not be the backbone of a happy society. Bxuce Barton Is definitely shocked by the suggestion. And the speech reminded him. of an experience of his own. He was coming in from the country on a chilly morning, with a cold in his head and a temperature of 101 degrees. In the morning paper he read that Secretary McAdoo had taken over the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies. This didn't clo Mr. Barton's temperature any good. He began to see spots dancing on the wall, and disturbing visions filled his head. a st a Barton Sees a \ ision 'T'HE following thought popped A into my mind: Suppose, in- ! stead of taking over the telegraph j companies, the government had taken over the advertising business | in which I was employed), would i I be coming into town this morning? Answer: I would not. I would send a note to the office that I was ill, and I would apply for a thirtyday furlough. . . .” I challenge Mr. Barton's answer, and I challenge it on the basis of his own testimony. He seems to have a horror of any sort of syst: i in which a sick man may be excused from toil, and the thought of a furlough for the ailing appears to him fantastic. In other words, Bruce Barton loves work for work’s own sake. Carl Sandburg once wrote a poem about a man who was “terribly glad to be selling fish.” I think Bruce Barton gets a lot of fun out of peddling advertising. This is not cited as a complaint. I think that people who have the capacity to get all steamed up about a job are potentially of great usefulness. Some of this energy is wholly wasted at the- present time ! because the job may be one which has little or no communal utility. “I came into town that morning,” writes Mr. Barton, “beca 1 ~e I was engaged in starting anew business in a highly competitive field. I was too sick to work, but I worked, anyway. And by that kind of work we made our business a success. It’s the kind of work men do gladly when they are on fire with a vision of happiness and security for their families. It is the kind of work men who are merely cogs in a bureaucratic machine do not and never will do.”
Shock Troops of Soviets AP UREAUCRATIC machine has been set up in Russia, and I under its sway a good many things I cake place which are not to the j liking of a few Russians and a very ! great number of Americans. But j not even the most severe critic of j the Soviets ever has successfully ! put over the charge that the Rus- ! sians are loafing. They piobabiy are working harder than any other | people in the world today. Even | the energetic Bruce Barton prob- | ably would be called "Old Lazybones” in Leningrad. You see, the ! Russians, like Bruce Barton, are i animated by “a vision of happiness j and security for their families.” Only they don’t happen to see it in terms of the profit motive. But the truth is that, with a vision or without it, man is the doggondest worker of all the animals. The beaver builds dams and houses, but then he quits and sleeps or plays contract. The beaver doesn’t bother to paint the dam or cover it with ivy. a a it Inability to Quit I WAS in a show once which closed at the end of a ten-day run. On the last night the audience consisted of two men and a boy, who had been passed in by the pressagent. Along about the middle of the second act a dancer sprained her ankle severely. She had two more numbers to do and she insisted on hopping on in great agony in order to finish her stunt. To the best of my knowledge this painful tribute to the cause of art didn’t even have the inspiration of a vision of happiness for her loved ones. , I, who am well below par in energy, contracted a bad case of f’.u last winter because I insisted on going out into a raging blizzard to do a five-minute broadcast. My family had nothing to do with it. They screamed and yelled at me. I just didn’t want to have to sit home and hear somebody else doing my stuff. ’ A revolution , might very well snuff out both Bruce and me in the first week, which would be a grave error on the part of the revolutionists. At least, I’m sure it would be a mistake to shoot Bruce Barton. Advertising would be quite different m this world without profit. Instead of taking over teas and tooth powders, Mr. Barton might be appointed by the government to popularize collective farms or to make people machinery conscious. Mr. Barton would be in heaven if he suddenly found himself the boss advertising man in charge of all the Lords, Thompsons and Thomases. Why, in a world like that Bruce wcuid be blithely skipping down to work with a temperature of 110. • Copyright. 1933. by The Times) Masterpiece BY RUTH RICHWINE SMITH Won't you come into my studio? I’ve my colors all laid out, Gleaming gay, row by row. A master’s palette, without doubt. My kitchen is the studio, The palette my table gray. My colors are bright vegetables I’ve fixed for you today. A salad I shall make Os jade peacs, some carrots gold And ruby beets; I’ll take A lettuce leaf on amber plate My masterpiece to hold. Daily Thought L't not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart,—Proverbs, 3:3. IF thou hast fear of those who command thee, spare those who obey thee.—Rabbi Ben Azai.