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MONDAY. DEC 11. 1833
MOB SPIRIT *'T'HE people say they are afraid the criminals will be acquitted, and they are Justified." That indictment of the system of justice throughout the nation today, was hurled by Circuit Judge Fred E. Hines in Noblesville last week when Hamilton county jurors failed to reach a verdict in the case of Willie Mason, one of several suspects in the slaying of PoliceSergeant Lester E. Jones. Judge Hines could not understand why, fitter days of hearing evidence, and hours of deliberation upon the facts, the jury could not reach a verdict. Judge Hines wanted to know why the twelve members of the Jury, were unable to convict or acquit Mason. Hung juries occur daily. Perhaps they are the proof that these citizens, called into public service, are thinking in a straight-forward manner and refuse to be swayed by the opinions of others. More likely, though, juries which fail to agree are proof that crime is not considered seriously enough and a jury-room wrangle is far more important than punishment Jor a crime. In scoring the Jury Judge Hines pointed to the mob violence that has been prevalent for several weeks. He said that the citizens feared acquittal for criminals. Judge Hines talked stralgnt from the shoulder His statement was letter perfect to the man who believed the law shall take its cour: Judge Hines sees a flaw in law enforcement. But the real flaw is a citizenry which gives one criminal another chance while it howls for the life of another when mob spirit reigns.
TWO WINTERS |N the first week of December, 1932, a band of unemployed men and women marched to tell President Hoover and congress that their situation was desperate. They were met by an army of policemen at the city jimits. They were stopped on a high, wind-swept stretch of highway and were held prisoners for three days and nights. The weather was exceedingly cold. No shelter w’as provided and after trying for hours to keep warm by walking up and down in their small stretch of road many of the marchers lay dow ? n on the cold concrete, with shoes for pillows, and slept. There were no toilet facilities. No drinking w r ater w r as provided for hours. Meager supplies of food were taken to the camp by leaders w’ho had arranged the march. The President refused to see the marchers’ committee. The most daring demand made by the hunger marchers was cash payment of SSO to each unemployed person, with $lO additional for each dependent. It seems longer, but that march took place a year ago. Today four million persons from relief rolls are being employed by the civil works administration at w'age scales fixed by the approval of organized labor. Other unemployed had been given jobs earlier in the year through CCC camps and NRA and public works, so that the still large total of unemployment in the United States has dropped to the lowest point since 1930. Today the government no longer looks on hunger as a personal crime. It is determined that no one shall starve and it is refusing to fight starvation with the bitter bread of charity. More has been accomplished than we realize until we look back to that cold week last December when hunger marchers suf- . sered on a Washington hillside. There still are far too many unemployed persons in the United States and there still are too many persons close to starvation. Economically the shift in distribution of buying power, which alone can revive business on any sound basis, has not taken place to any great degree. Yet this is not the America of last year. This winter will not be the dark, terrible period recent winters have been. Despair and fear and smug cruelty gradually are giving way to hope and achievement. REPEAL AND REVOLUTION / T'HE absence of any revolutionary animus or zeal on the part of unemployed Americans who have been on or near the breadline for two or three years has tended to spread gloom among the optimistic radicals who believed that a few months of want and misery would send American workers to the barricades. It is rather generally and sadly admitted that the prospect of a forceful revolution in the United States is rather slight indeed. Just now. however, some of our revolutionary friends are deriving new hope from the astonishing rapidity with which the movement for repeal has gathered momentum and crashed through to a speedy success. Radicals have pointed out how even few ardent wets believed repeal possible a year ago. The best they hoped for was modification and some liberal law’s which would permit the consumption of beer and light wines. Within less than twelve months, radicals point out, repeal has become the most amazing constitutional snowball in our whole national history. After our experience with repeal, almost any social movement may be regarded as within the bounds of easy possibility. Given the right conditions, radicals believe, we might overturn the whole social order in a year. ' it seems that radicals who argue for the possibility of social revolution on the basis of an analogy with the repeal of prohibition fail to see that the situation is in no way compar■able. The great majority of the factors and forces which have hastened repeal would bo
lined up with even greater zeal to prevent revolution. Opposition to prohibition has savored of thp highest social respectability ever since the eighteenth amendment was adopted. The great majority of the social aristocracy have from the beginning been wets. Through some powerful economic interests, such as Rockefeller and Ford, early were found on the side of prohibition, the general weight of the wealth of the country’ has been steadily on the side of repeal. Moreover, before repeal could gain much headway, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other great capitalists had to come out ardently and openly in its favor. Most of the leading lawyers of the country from Ellhu Root to Clarence Darrow have been ardent workers for repeal over many years. Powerful elements and personalities in both of the major parties have favored repeal for a decade. The metropolitan press has from the beginning been preponderantly wet. The Intellectuals, led by Mr. Mencken, have attacked, ridiculed and denounced prohibition. Anti-dry sentiment has been strong and often prevalent In our more important colleges and universities. Wet speakers freely have denounced the eighteenth amendment before public forums throughout the country- Indeed, by comparison with the* rough road which economic revolution would have to travel in this country, repeal has been a setup and its course amply greased by favorable public opinion. Let one start a movement for revolution and the whole picture would be reversed. All the wealth of the country would be thrown instantaneously and unitedly against the revolutionary program. Revolution would be denounced in the press throughout the length and breadth of the land. All political parties save the Communist would man the breastworks to stave off the revolutionary tide. Children in the schools would be taught antirevolutionary chants and college professors of history would try to prove revolution completely un-American. If this did not prove sufficient, the city and state police and the United States army would be called out to suppress all signs of insurrection. Jn short, whereas most of the powerful elements In our social order, based on finance capitalism, were lined up against prohibition even before the resolution for repeal was submitted to the states, they would be united to the last ditch in battling against revolution. The one hope the radicals have in getting control of the United States lies not in revolution but in the real possibility that finance capitalism will completely fold up as the result of cupidity and short-sightedness. Therefore, if the radicals want to be practical they can leave aside all consideration of training in marksmanship and the heaving of hand grenades and devote their attention to the problem of how to run an advanced mechanical civilization, on a socialistic plan. If they ever get a chance to control America, it will not be because they have seized the country but because the folly of the conservatives has slammed it down in the laps of the radicals.
PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED
TT may seem a long distance from the dis- -*• appearance of the last of the free land in the west to the complexities of the alphabetical groups by which the present administration is trying to promote recovery and reconstruction. The connection, however, is very direct and strong. What is happening is simply that we now are tackling the problems from which we ran away when they first were taking shape. We ran because we had a western frontier to go to; lacking it now\ we have to pitch in and try to solve the difficulties. These problems are many and varied, but most of them stem from the fact that it is hard to make a political democracy w’ork smoothly in a land where economic pow’er continually is concentrating itself in the hands of a few. That development—the tendency of w'ealth to coalesce—is not anew thing. In its modem form it began to appear directly after the Civil war, and the maladjustments which it brought to American society at that time were profound and disturbing. But the country' at large did little or nothing to remedy matters. The w-est was open, and any man who felt that the cards were stacked against him could move to the frontier and start over again. The open west w’as a safety valve which kept the national pressure dow f n. As the twentieth century dawned, the frontier vanished, and immediately we began to feel the loss of our safety valve. Theodore Roosevelt’s fight against the trusts, the rise of the La Follette group in the senate. Woodrow' Wilson's battle for “the new freedom”— these things all testify to the nation's effort to grapple with the issues it too long had Ignored. Then came certain diversions. The war took our minds off these issues for nearly a decade. Then came the skyrocket growth of mass production industry, symbolized by development of the auto industry', to provide a temporary new safety valve. Thce outlets, too. are gone now’. And in the enormous complexities of the new' deal we simply are witnessing our final head-on collision with the problems that should have been attacked two generations ago. We aren’t engaged in anew fight. We are wrestling with changes long overdue. Whisky is doomed and wine will be our national drink, says a famous Broadway charecter. Now see what the bootleggers have done. Midwestern judge, caught hunting without a license, explained he didn't know the law. He wouldn't admit that while on the bench! Mussolini's threat to quit the League of Nations, unless It reforms, will leave nothing to reform, if Hitler quits, too. Georgia scientists have increased Aie vitamin A in eggs by feeding the hens pimento peppers. Now', if ihe doctors would feed the birds spinach, we and be glad to eat the eggs. Now if Huey Long came out against the President’s policies, Roosevelt's success with the people will be assured. Toledo (O.) glass plant is way behind in orders for stemware. Showing the drinkers of America want theirs in glasses, even though they may be In their cups. ,
THE LAW’S DELAY CIVILIZED Americans will cheer President Roosevelt's attack on "that vile form of collective murder—lynch law." and his implied criticism of California's Governor for condoning the San Jose mob atrocity. They will agree that the processes of quick and certain justice have "fallen into a sad state of disrepair.” They will pray for success in all efforts to speed justice in the courts. The law’s delay has come to be a peculiarly flagrant vice of ‘he American judicial system. And to delay Justice is to deny justice. To regain full respect of the people the courts must cut through red tape, remove justice from tanglefoot technicalities. But in freeing justice they should be warned against that very emotionalism that sweeps mobs into frenzid forays of revenge. In West Virginia, in 1922, a Negro was arrested for rape. In less tl43n twenty-four hours he had been indicted, tried, convicted, sentenced to be hanged and was on his way to the penitentiary. Judge Lively, ordering anew trial, said: "A judicial lynching is a graver and more startling crime than a lynching by an irresponsible rabble.” Said Judge Lore of Delaware: "Most emphatically w r e say the remedy is not in hasty and feverish action of courts of justice against the criminal whose offense Is the exciting cause.” Said Judge Woodward of New’ York: “If speed is, in fact, a desirable end to be accomplished in dealing with crime; if it is necessary as a concession to the spirit of savagery w’hich survives beneath the veneer of civilized life, it is within the power of men to provide the machinery by which men charged with crime may be railroaded to their doom. . . . The technical rules which are made use of by the guilty to delay the day of execution are the rules which guarantee to the innocent the preservation of their rights even in face of popular clamor." As the Wickersham commission found, speeded-up trials can be as unjust as delayed trials. There is much to be done to simplify procedure. ‘‘But,’' said the Wickersham commission, ‘‘changes in machinery are not sufficient to prevent unfairness. Much more depends upon the men who operate the machinery.”
ONE WASTE STOPPED A TTORNEY-GENERAL CUMMINGS has the right idea, we think, for dealing with pending prohibition prosecutions. He =ays: With regard to the racketeering groups and persistent offenders thos/ criminally minded, with previous records—each case will depend on the circumstances. There will be no disposition to pursue otherwise decent citizens. Nearly $129,000,000 was spent by the federal department of justice on the futile attempt to enforce nation-wide prohibition. Taxpayers’ money henceforth should be used only to end bootlegging, racketeering and profiteering so far as the liquor field of prosecution is concerned. Foolishness, futility and waste are over. People now are asked to respect law that is respectable. Now Greece would be glad to return Insull to America if it can find a way. Beware the Greeks bearing gifts! A North Carolina resident wants to exchange his $1,400 violin for a farm. Why bother? All he need do is plow under the violin. Owners of dogs in New Jersey now are responsible if their dogs bite strangers. They still have no recourse if strangers bite their dogs.
M.E. Tracy Says:
THE grand Fascist council of Italy wants the League of Nations reformed in two vital respects. First, the league must be divorced from the treaty of Versailles; second, the constitution must be changed so that the great powers will have a freer hand. If these reforms are not carried out at the earliest possible moment, the grand Fascist council leaves it to be inferred that Italy will withdraw. Considering what already has happened to the league, one is inclined to believe that the grand Fascist council will succeed in getting a part, if not all, of its demands. Germany and Japan already have withdrawn while the United States and Russia never have joined. The absence of these four major governments casts grave doubts on the league’s ability to succeed, even if Italy remains steadfast. The league’s critical situation is intensified by a growing dissatisfaction with the Versailles treaty, and with a system of control in which a few very small governments can exercise the veto pow'er over its activities. a a a IDEALISTIC as it may be to give all governments a virtually equal voice irrespective of their size or responsibility, the scheme is hopelessly impractical. Major governments alw'ays have and always will determine the drift of human events, and while it may be proper to check their tendency toward imperialism, it is impossible to place them on a parity with small, impotent neighbors. The enforcement of international law is of vastly more consequence for the time being than its remote objectives, and that manifestly depends on the attitude, co-operation and strength of first class powers. As to the treaty of Versailles, it was obviously designed to perpetuate an artificial setup. Though dedicated to the alleged protection of certain little countries, it smells to high heaven with the purpose of benefiting one European group at the expense of another. Peace can not be established on any such rotten basis. Widespread realization of the league’s failure is responsible for the gradual abandonment of peaceful activities and the reversion to military preparedness. a a a AFTER fourteen years of struggling with anti-war pacts and disarmament conferences the civilized world finds itself hopelessly bewildered. The reason is plain. Humanity was stampeded into a great experiment. In *1919, there was nothing to begin with pxcept a coi> fusion of ideals and passions. Naturally enough, statesmen capitalized idealism as the quickest way to promote their pet prejudices and projects. Civilization was handed w'hat looked like a perfectly good peace machine, but what was really a mechanism designed to carry out a miserable war treaty, and which has broken down because of that very' handicap. From a philosophical standpoint, it requires no stretch of the imagination to discover a deadly parallel between prohibition in this country and the League of Nations in Europe. Both were bom of noble concepts. Both came into existence as the result of war fever. Both were designed to make people good by regulation. Both collapsed in depression.
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(Times readers are invited to express their vietes in these columns. Slake pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25(7 words or less.) By G. Laughery. Does any one know of any good reason why the real estate tax should not be exchanged for a "rent” tax? For example, many persons making good salaries pay as high*as SIOO a month for apartments, tut have no real estate tax to pay. It is of course as much their duty to help pay the school teachers and similar employes as it is the duty of the small home-owners. It is true that such a person has to pay income tax, but this is true also of the home-owner. By suggesting the “rent” tax I do not mean to exempt the homeowner, but this tax could be handled in some such following manner: Procure from the city records the valuation of each building; procure from the gas, light or water company a complete list of occupants. Levy the tax according to the value of the place in which he lives. In other words, tax everybody according to the station in life in which he chooses to live; if he lives in an expensive place he should pay a higher percentage of tax than '•••* who lives in a less-expensive place. If this method of taxing were used,, it would not be long until more people would buy homes and we all know that when real estate is not moving everything’s dead. This change in tax also would enable our executives to balance their various budgets comfortably and to do so without cutting salaries of city employes as will no doubt be done if the present unfairness in taxing continues. By Patience. Your paper, among others, seems to take delight in criticising our state administration for maintaining “a veil of secrecy” in withholding from the newspapers detailed accounts of the effort to apprehend certain criminals. I have particular reference to your comments about the alleged theft of $25,000 in bonds from the teachers’ retirement fund. You often convey the thought that our Governor is not justified in removing appointees of our recent Republican Governors who replaced Democrats some sixteen years ago and had kept them out ever since, until Paul McNutt turned the tables. Your trend of thought seemed to be happy several days ago, that this breach of trust
Depression Brings Increase in Tuberculosis
This is the second of three articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on tuberculosis and measures taken to combat this disease. IN times like these, with their economic depressions, unemployment and resultant suffering, tuberculosis finds the causes which increase its intensity. In the first place, those lucky enough to find work dare not spare the time to be treated for the disease. And in the second place, those out of work can not spend what little they may have for medical care, and the American citizen, by his very nature, is disinclined to accept unconditionality free medical service. With such conditions prevailing today, the attack upon tuberculosis should be more serious than ever. The person who has been Without
IAM reprimanded severely this morning by a Pittsburgh woman who signs herself "A True Mother.” “Why,” she asks, “do you invariably take the side of the child against the parent? After all, experienced men and women must know more about life than their sons and daughters, and should be listened to on the subjects of marriage and the professions.” They must, of course, but do they? That is the question. To prove a superior wisdom men and women are expected to act according to all their acquired knowledge, and that they seldom do. Experience is no good unless one is willing to profit by it. and from general observation adults are as bad as children when it comes to putting their burned fingers right back into Xhm fire.
It Pays to Be Legal
His P(o)int By Geife Cole. In reading your editorial on liquor control, I have come to the conclusion that you are just another one of those cheap hypocrites, who would rather go into a drug store for your bojze. than be seen entering a place that is licensed by the government for that purpose. It commonly is called a saloon. You know, if you know anything at all, that the drug store has sold as much whisky illegally, before prohibition, than ony other agency. And to say that our Governor might bring reprisals on them in case of liquor violations is the last word in comedy. Our state and national government have shown by the way they have administered the new beer laws that they are the foremost grafters in the business, and yet you expect the drinking public to pay for legal liquor and cut out the bootleg. We are just about to enter on anew phase of real bootlegging. You say the government needs the money that tax will bring. I certainly feel sorry for the country, that bases her prosperity on a legalized booze racket. Now that the wets have won, you say be sportsmanlike. I would like to ask you where was the sportsmanship of the wets during prohibition? I never have noticed in your paper before repeal anything about being smart to be legal and I certainly would hesitate to sponsor a slogan so hypocritical now. If this is too much to the point don’t print it, I am not expecting it. (Editor's Note: We see your point, but don’t agree with it.)
should occur under Paul McNutt after he had dismissed some of Governor Leslie’s appointees, and so nagged at Paul McNutt and his administration and coined your phrase of “a veil of secrecy.’” But would you insist that he should have published each day all the action he was taking to apprehend the culprit what stole these bonds? Did you desire to publish for the benefit of the criminal, so that he or she could read about the efforts and plans made to catch them, so that they could successfully evade the law? Would you wish to advise the fugitive just what banks and bond houses and brokers the authorities were watching? It is a
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of th* American Medical Association and of Hv*eia, the Health Magazine.
satisfactory food, whose body is weakened by starvation and by exposure. presents the ideal soil for increasing intensity in the spread of the disease. The famous Edward L. Trudeau, who devoted his life to the study of tuberculosis, found that rabbits inoculated with the disease, if confined in damp, dark places without sunshine or fresh air, rapidly succumbed. while others treated in the same way. but allowed to run wild, either recovered or had the disease in a much milder form. Occupants of cellars and undernourished workers crowded together under bad conditions are like the rabbits of Trudeau. Crowded living conditions, it must
A Woman’s Viewpoint
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
I believe in youth. Nor must it necessarily follow that this means a disbelief in age; only that I never again shall put complete faith in cock-sure maturity any more than in cock-sure immaturity. I can’t see that the papas and mamas I have known have had any comer on wisdom. man INDEED, some of the most loving have ruined the lives of their children. They were not perverse nor stubborn. They were only perfectly certain that they were always right. And in a good many instances, time has proved the grown-ups exactly as ignorant and wrong in judgment as the youngsters could ever have been. Mothers feel themselves actuated by a sincere love when they preach
wonder that after being so posted the theft suspect did not simply destroy the bonds by putting them in the furnace, etc., so that they never would have been caught not the bonds recovered. And .then we would not have learned that the suspect probably is an appointee of our most recent Republican Governor, Harry G. Leslie. Please join with me in complimenting our administration for the wonderful bit of work they accomplished in uncovering this most difficult bit of work which was out of the ordinary. By a Times Reader. ■Just a mouthful regarding Walkathon. My family goes out there about four nights a week. The downtown theater owners are the cause of all this trouble. They charge 40 cents for two-hour shows, and you spend an hour looking for a parking place and finally have to pay 35 cents in a garage. You can spend an enjoyable evening at the Walkathon for 25 cents. Instead of trying to send this clean entertainment out of town, the council better take a look around the "Streets of Paris” on the Indiana Roof, where they are presenting a nudist show. I noticed in the paper today where a hawk entered the "Streets of Paris,” but lost his life trying to clean up our city. (What a pity). You notice he didn’t go out to the Walkathon because they are clean and well dressed. I hope, after the Walkathon has been forced from our midst, that the thousands of fans won’t forget the neighborhood theaters, where a good show can be seen for 25 cents and perhaps they will lower the prices downtown. Let's see you print this. Good luck to a real paper.
Questions and Answers Q —What caused the death of Napoleon? A—He died of cancer. Q —What position does Will Hays hold in the motion picture industry? A—He is president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. Q —How many members has Texas in the United States house r s representatives? A—Twenty-one.
be remembered, not only interfere with development of health generally, but afford more opportunities for contact between well persons and those with this disease than occur in less crow’ded quarters. Moreover, once the disease becomes established, the opportunity for recovery is much less among the poor than among the W’ell-to-do. The poor who do not have the advantages of good nursing or of the best type of medical care. Parents who are attacked by this disease, among the poor, are more likely to convey it to their children. The general state of nutrition begins to become less as the depression goes on. At first the parents feed their children, but later, as food becomes more and more difficult to secure, even the diet of the children suffers.
to their daughters to make good marriages—that’s what the Pittsburgh woman is doing—notwithstanding the fact that in most cases good marriages mean money marriages. Yet thousands of obedient daughters who follow the advice may wake up some morning in the future to find themselves the wives of poor men. Money has a naughty way of slipping through one’s fingers. When that happens the girls are just as badly off in a finnacial sense as if they had given heed to their hearts instead of to their mothers. It is eternally wiser to marry for love than for money. Doubt is the first mother of wisdom, and the parent who can not ever dcubt her own decisions is never a fit oracle for her children. t.
DEC. 11, 1933
It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN^,
NEW YORK. Dec 11—" Dear Heywood (if I may address you in this familiar fashion':—lt has been my custom for several years to send you a birthday letter. "My comments on these occasions have been kindly and yet decidedly critical. But now that you have just turned 45 and are half-way home or closer, I feel that you maystand in need of a friendly pat upon the back. "I can not in consistency award you laurel, but if a few leaves of russet oak will it. any way suffice they are yours for the asking. In other words. I think that within the last three weeks you have done your best work. "In my opinion, you are batting over your head. Frankly, you are not a .300 hitter, but when I see a lad whose lifetime average is approximately .221 going at a 2SB gait I will confess that I And it exciting. Bitter W ith the Sweet “OUT I have no desire to turn 13 your head with this wild praise, and so I think I'll have a try at explaining to you why your column has been better over this brief stretch of time. For years I have been dinning into your ears the fact that you are not a humorist. Rather slowly, but still surely, you are beginning to realize this and to act your age and temperament. Maturity has begun to set in, although at present it is visible just around the edges. “Admonition is still necessary. I had feared that you would live and die a college sophomore. You will be glad to hear that, in my estimation. you have now been promoted to the junior class. And, even so. your graduation remains in doubt unless you can rid yourself of certain handicaps. “I am hoping that repeal may be a vital factor for betterment In what I may facetiously call your 'career.’ I am not referring to your private life, which is deplorable but none of my business. Specifically, I hope that this social change may mean that I have read your last speakeasy column. Those are the days which bore me. Who on earth cares whether you got home at 5 in the morning or 10 at night? And there are several things which interest me more than what you said to the bartender and what he replied to you. “Be Your Age ” THIS preoccupation of yours with the night life of New York constitutes a delayed adolescence. Now that liquor is legal, I trust that you will either take it or let it alone, but in either event that you will not prate about it. The same thing goes for the theater. Really, Heywood, be your age. a stage door is just a door and not a portal to some magical kingdom. You must have wasted your time in college on an overexemplary life. At 45 you seem concerned with frivolities which belong properly in the province of the lad of 20. “Many years ago I gave up all hope that you ever would approach the more serious problems of life in anything but a sentimental and romantic fashion. You will gc on till the end, I suppose, thinking of Marx as just another D'Artagnan. And even in those columns which seem to me your best I catch you acting as if you yourself were Henry of Navarre, bouncing blithely along under snow-white plumage. Detachment is not your line. Make the best of it, and be, if you can, one of the bravest of barnacles. “And so upon your birthday I come to shower you with the compliments of a well-wisher. While it is true that limitations are placed upon all those who view the whole world In their own image, that failing may be something less than fatal. The world calls upon each one to contribute according to his ability and in his own way. Without Weight of Facta I 'HERE is some place reserved -I- even for highly emotional economists like yourself. Facts and figures confuse persons of your type, and yet to an extent which sometimes surprises me I find you operating on the right side through the mere process of a hunch. You drop quite frequently into the proper trench, even though you have not the slightest knowledge of how you happened to get there. “I like it best when the column indicates that you are mad at somebody. Never try to box an opponent. Yoti lack the footwork. Get in there, and slug, and keep pounding at the body. It’s your only chance. Some day you may land a haymaker. "But even when you miss you'll get applause from this ringside spectator. At least, you’ll get my cheers just as long as I feet that you are really putting your back and shoulders into it. "And so, I say, forget that you are fat and 45 and bald and flabby. Keep wading in. Remember they can t hurt us. "Sincerely yours. ' HEYWOOD BROUN." (Copyright. 1933, by The Times'
Wisdom
BY EUGENIE RICHART This is my lesson: pain like a knife Rips the smooth surface of my life. Why did I think love would stay with me When it would not stay with Penelope? When even the song of Solomon Is seeking, seeking, a love that's gone? What could I give you to keep yo" near. Red lips to kiss and gay songs to hear? I brought you little or nothing, save Love that never will know the grave; And the child-like certainty that you Would be forced by my truth into being true. I have learned much, but wisdom is A dull thing compared to primroses.
Daily Thought
The lofty looks of men shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.—lsaiah 2:11. PRIDE that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.—Benjamin Franklin.