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LIQUOR PRICE GOUGING IF Indiana wants to get rid of bootlegging and racketeering the price of liquor must be reduced. Costs of legal drinking are so high that the illicit whisky salesman has a tremendous advantage. One of the worst features of prohibition was that the rich could drink as much good liquor as they pleased, while the poor had to do without or consume poison. This injustice still exists in Indiana. Whisky costs from $1.85 to $4 a pint. Wines run from $1.85 for a fairly good domestic product up to $7 a short quart for imported champagne. Retail druggists are not responsible. Their markups are moderate. It is the wholesalers and distillers who are doing the gouging. There is no legitimate explanation for such a situation. The profiteering is best illustrated by gin. This drink requires no aging, and, as every one know;,, is merely a mixture of distilled water, grain alcohol, juniper essence and glycerin. It is potable five minutes after manufacture. Yet Indiana consumers are being charged $1.50 a pint! Grain alcohol is being held at the same price level for no reason at all. Indiana’s plight becomes even more absurd when liquor prices in other states are considered. In Chicago gin is selling for from 69 to 95 cents a pint. In Buffalo it is priced at 85 cents. In San Francisco it may be bought for 99 cents. The proportionate difference in whisky prices Is the same. Wines are far lower in other states than they are here. Thoughtful people hoped that repeal would bring back greater use of mild wine and a corresponding reduction in consumption of hard liquor. This actually is taking place in other states, but it can not happen in Indiana until the price of wine is such to make it generally available. On the face of it there seems to be some sort of scheme in operation to hold liquor prices at artificially high prices. If this state of affairs continues our state is likely to have an influx of booze runners, racketeers, trigger men and “musclers in” from New York and Chicago. They naturally will seek communities where business conditions are favorable for bootlegging. The Governor's liquor commission would do well to make a thorough investigation of prices. The authorities should make it possible for persons in moderate circumstances to buy their beverages through legitimate channels. It is smart to be legal. THE THIRD DEGREE EPORTS that the United States departmen? of justice has rejected the use of the third degree in its war on crime indicate that detection becomes more intelligent as it becomes more effective. Recently, also, the American Civil Liberties Union announced a nation-wide campaign to abolish this practice through better police regulations and state laws. New school penologists will see in these two assaults on an ancient evil another victory in their long fight for just, humane and efficient law enforcement. The third degree harks back to the days of the inquisition. Asa means of getting at the truth, the torture of suspected criminals is the same as the old ordeals of fire and water. It is the device of policemen too stupid or lazy to get the real facts of a crime. And. denials to the contrary, even in this day of scientific research the third degree is being practiced widely throughout America. In his report to the Wickersham commission, Investigator Ernest Jerome Hopkins reported proofs of sixty-seven cases of forced confessions in appellate court records between 1920 and 1930. In the last twenty years there is not a single record of such practice in England. "To defend the third degree is to advocate lawlessness." the Wickersham commission found. "Tlie practice of coercing confessions is a violation of constitutional rights. Many forms of the practice are crimes.” Government can not stamp out crime by turning criminal. LONG DISTANCE LOVE IfOU must hand it to love. It always finds a wav. Romeo scaled Juliet's balcony. Leander swam the Hellespont to give Hero a watery kiss. And Bertil Clason was married to the girl he wanted on a trans-oceanic telephone hookup from Detroit to Stockholm, Sweden, the other day. Love isn't letting science get ahead of it. It gets by the law without any trouble. There are some who contend that It wasn't ethical for Clason to marry his bride by long distance in order to bring her into America, since entrance was barred unless she came as his wife. Stockholm being where it is. the trip to Scandinavia and back was rather a long way round for the bridegroom. So he telephoned. The girl, who became his wife by answering in monosyllables, is now permitted to join him. After all. we are featuring internationalism in our present economic and social setup. We are shouting bravely that no country can live to itself alone and are sending ambassadors to assist in the getting acquainted process. Therefore, if a girl from Lapland or Siam wants an American citizen as a husband—well, the wedding ring is on her finger. The •conomy of a man and woman receiving their thrills over an enchanted distance isn’t desirable. But they are the ones who arrange the ceremony. No one insists that they take vows while separated. We want lasting marriages, those that are a solid rock—marriages that will not fall though the oatmeal have lumps and the waffles stick and ashes be spattered across the *%

best, crocheted rugs. Two people who loved each other In another country, and were willing to take their vows across a separating ocean, won t mind socks with lumps, or coffee stains on the best damask. Marriage will mean more than that to them. Maybe the Clasons did get ahead of the law. But they did it legally and in good order. Teen age boys and girls, 16 and 17 and 18, are slipping across the borders of states with worthy marriage laws to those that issue licenses to anybody, every’ hour of the day and night. They are seeking a thrill. They want marriage merely because it is something they haven't had. It's something new. And their chances that they will establish homes and hearths are as slim as yesterday's fashion silhouettes. But when two people are so sure that they belong together that they will spend $47 telephoning to make the connection legal they should be given an international blessing and the bands should play the ‘Star-Spangled Banner” and the Swedish national anthem. Yes. love finds a way. Close all the roads of all the world, and it will detour. Or take an airplane. Or do a deep sea dive and come out in China. Or telephone. True, Romeo and Juliet didn’t live long enough to learn how they would have managed had they set up housekeeping and Leander perished in the river on that stormy night. But there wasn’t anything the matter with the telephone connection. The Clasons are married. The bride should be welcomed to her husband's land. She didn’t marry him to become a citizen. She became a citizen because it was the only way she could marry him. And love, as anybody knows f is considerably more important in a woman’s life, than citizenship any day.

TO AMEND? TT is smart to be legal!” An inspiring slogan, but there’s room for some doubt as to its being “catching” with the majority of drinkers, such will be the postrepeal conditions. Very much depends upon the difference between the prices of legalized drinks and those of the illicit traffic and the greater that difference the greater the profits in smuggling and bootlegging. In times of depression, it is natural of the drinker with limited means to be partial to the lower-priced drinks, and it has been pretty thoroughly demonstrated, during the last thirteen years, that such drinker is not con-science-smitten in the presence of the cheaper drinks, be the same illegal or otherwise. In other words, while it undoubtedly may be smart to be legal, there are millions of drinkers who will feel that they can not afford to be smart. No sort of doubt as to the supply. An armada of foreign ships is lying off our Atlantic coast ready to deliver millions of gallons of beverages to our eastern ports. California has under consideration between 50,000 and 100.000 applications for license to disburse drinks, and similar conditions exist in several other states. Nor is there any question but. with a number of the states dry, or with drastic restrictions against transportation and sale, the fields of smuggling and bootlegging will be multiplied and suppression of illicit traffic a bigger arfd fiercer job than enforcement of the “noble experiment” with which Uncle Sam has been monkeying since 1920. However, the status has one redeeming feature. Some 90 per cent, say, of the higherpriced, but legal drinks, will be made by their manufacturers under government supervision and contain little, if any, poisonous ingredients, while the fellow who drinks bootleg risks, besides his standing for smartness, eyesight, paralysis, insanity and death. Indeed, it might be well to amend the slogan to read: “It is smart and safer to be legal!”

PROFESSIONAL FEES . A READER of this paper asks why, if pricefixing of store keepers’ goods fills the bill, should not fee-fixing for professionals also help to relieve the depression, and he offers this peculiar instance; J. J. Harpell, publisher of the Montreal Journal of Commerce, served three months in jail for making defamatory remarks about a life insurance company president and when he came to pay his lawyer, Superior Court Judge Fortier cut the latter’s bill from $5,000 to $3,000. Fee-fixing in Canada by judicial order. Unfortunately, Judge Fortier’s reasons for feefixing are not at hand. Perhaps, the judge considered that $5,000 bill as plain extortion, in view’ of the fact that the lawyer’s client had to put the three months in jail, which would suggest the policy of fixing lawyer’s fees in all instances of losing the case. And, if lawyers' fees are to be fixed by courts, why not those of doctors, dentists and other professionals? Perhaps, Canada looked over into our territory, saw us cutting the salaries of big corporation managers and decided that the scheme would w’ork when applied to fees. At any rate, Publisher Harpell is to be congratulated on not having to pay $5,000 for a three months’ jail sentence. TRIUMPH OF SANITY TAMES JOYCE'S famous novel, “Ulysses,” J at last can be Imported legally into the United States. Federal Judge John M. Woolsey rules that, while the book is uncommonly frank here and there, it does not anywhere contain “the leer of a sensualist,” and hence is not obscene. The ruling ends a ban which has existed ever since “Ulysses” was published; and it is a ruling which all people interested either in literature or in freedom of expression are bound to applaud. In any book it is the spirit and not the letter that counts. The wording of "Ulysses” easily may be shocking to a sensitive person. But no one can fan to see that in spirit the book is serious, dignified and completely sincere. Its moral tone is infinitely higher than that of a dozen cheap sex thrillers that you can find on any drug store book counter. That It is at last to get by the censors can be regarded only as a triumph for common sense. Only Britain's threat of armed force, says De Valera, keeps the Irish Free State from declaring its independence. But what Irishman ever turned aside just for a little thing like armed force?

PEEK AND THE SURPLUS that Mr. Peek has failed as head of -LN t he agricultural adjustment administration he is to be given anew job as supersalesman to barter farm products abroad. Probably it would not be fair to prejudge his fitness for the new post. But it is accurate to say that he did much more harm than good at the AAA. He was insubordinate to a very able chief, Agriculture Secretary Wallace. By pulling in the wrong direction he made teamwork impossible. There also was the matter of personnel. Unwilling to work with capable officials such as Assistant Secretary Tugwell and General Counsel Frank, Mr. Peek resorted to the questionable tactics of setting up a kind of organization of his own which neither was efficient nor altogether in sympathy with the purposes of the administration. , Deeper even than these organizational difficulties was the split on policy. When it came to codes and agreements, Mr. Peek and some of his coterie seemed to be better friends of the milk ring and the packers than of the farmers or the consumers. Mr. Peek appeared much more sympathetic with the development of business combines than with their necessary corollary, government regulation. The foundation of the administration’s farm policy is croD control. Though nominally going along with this program, at times there was the suspicion that Mr. Peek actually was trying to delay it. However they may disagree on other panaceas, virtually all economists are of the opinion that a closer adjustment of farm supplies to consumer demand, or rather consumers’ capacity to buy, is basic to a solution of the farm problem. The surplus must be cut at the source. That was and is the RooseveltWaliace approach to the problem, and by standing in the way Mr. Peek was in siime degree responsible for the recovery sag. Now that the farmers are getting somewhat better prices for their products and therefore are tempted again to overproduce, it is essential that all Washington officials forming and administering farm policy everlastingly shall harp on crop control. As President Roosevelt said yesterday in his message to the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation: “In a few short months the whole complexion of the agricultural outlook has been changed. Money is getting into the hands of the people who need it; it is coming from higher prices for the things farmers have to sell; it is coming in the form of government checks for those co-operating producers who are willing to swap a hazardous present for immediate improvement and a stable future. . . “But, in all candor, I think a brief moment of gratification is enough; we seem to be on our way, but we are not yet out of the woods, and it is of the utmost importance that we guard against letting a rise in farm income tempt us to forget the realities of supply and demand.” Maxim Litvinoff. Russia’s ace diplomat, stopped a whole day in Berlin without seeing Hitler or any of his yes-men. Such ingratitude, after all Hitler has done to arouse world sympathy for the Communists! A man in Oregon went crazy arguing with his wife. So is any other husband. Washington scientist says babies are born practically brainless. And so many stay that way through life. Philippine women have just gained the vote, while German women may lose theirs. The women still have the men guessing.

M.E. Tracy Says:

'i ''HIS will be a tin soldier Christmas for German children. Older people are to blame. They not only make the toys, but pay for them. In other countries, the paraphernalia may be lacking, but the thought is present. Santa Claus is due to hear more drum beating, trumpet blowing and heel clicking than at any time since the great war ended. Shallow thinkers take this as a sign of immediate conflict. European booking agencies are recording bets that war will break out somewhere on the continent within two years. True to an age-old weakness of human nature, jumpy souls assume that a thing is here just as soon as they can guess its likelihood. Because of the volcanic nature of general conditions, it is conceivable that strife might break out anywhere at any time, but the world is too exhausted to promote it in a deliberate way. It is justifiable to believe that war is in the making, but the chances are that we shall have to wa’it for the generation now playing with tin soldiers to grow up. If we only realized it, that is the way the last war started. a a a AS a usual proposition, wars involving the same nation are thirty years or more part, j The reason is obvious. It takes about two generations to pay up and forget. The second generation usually has recovered sufficiently to provide its kids with tin soldiers, toy cannon, paper airplanes and illustrated maps of old battlefields. Also, it is far enough removed from the suffering and distress to look back on the spectacle as a rather fine show. This old world is running true to form. A few years more, and our veterans will be old enough to take grandchildren on their knees and tell them all about the great adventure. That will help to promote the tin soldier philosophy. So will the monuments that are being erected on every hand. Though losing sight of what it was all about, if, indeed, it was about anything worth w r hile, millions of people are beginning to look back on the war as an interesting drama; beginning to regard it in a speculative, impersonal way. By and by they will be wondering if it would be such a 'bad idea to put on another, and the children who have been brought up to play with tin soldiers will chorus their approval. a a a SINCE the da woof consciousness, history has been made in the nursery, the schoolroom and the trend of youthful sport, with other people steering the performance by trying to rehabilitate the memories and romance of bygone days. Strive as we may to look back on the record of the last two decades as unusual, if not enlightened. it grows commonplace as it recedes into the past. We begin to understand that it was not the first time people shouldered guns in “a war to end war.” The delusion was. perhaps, on a little grander scale than ever before, but apart from that, it was the same old delusion. Men have been fighting for peace since they knew the meaning of the word and have been justifying w ? ar on that ground. So, too, they have seen their mistake after a few years, and have reasoned themselves into believing that the job had to be done over again. It is at about that time that tin soldiers nrnko their appearance.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

“ A WOMAN of 50,” Martha x"Y Bensley Bruere speaks in current Scribners. What she has to say is important to the voluble younger generation as it is to their less articulate elders. “I can count on myself,” explains Mrs. Bruere. and forthwith enumerates the virtues of today's mature woman. It seems to me, however, that she fails to give enough credit to circumstance, which is the principal good fairy of her era. These women who are 50 belong to a fortunate generation. Most of | them married at the proper time! j for mating. Many of them had children and ; lived a normal, secure domestic ; life for a time. They developed, moreover, in an age when the idea ; 1 of a -fuller 'uf for woman was up-,

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The Message Center

I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire 5

(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 a Reader. Nineteen seventeen revealed patriotism again by proven love for land and flag. Consideration of the other fellow never existed many times. Stations and ships were overcrowded; hatred and skepticism are two of the wox’st leftover existences from w’ar. Some can’t forget and forgive. Many think a pension an easy possession, and these do not understand and know the veterans’ physical handicaps. We can thank God for the patriots of the country. We can thank the Almighty again for officers and doctors who were human, sympathetic and understandable friends along with good fellows and mothers’ prayers for those who were in w’ar. War was a trap for young American manhood beginning the career on the outside. War has ruined many veterans’ health forever. Their opportunities are gone. In the spring of 1932 while hospitalized in a veteran’s hospital in Indianapolis, I met wonderful chaps. Righteous consideration of fellow-men existed and good friendships and comradeships were made. Good wishes here extended for all. Service has formed a veteran comradeship, that never will be known by any other class of people. May God and his thinking people continue to bless my fellow veteran comrades, whatever may prevail. By E. B. A friend of mine owns a large, magnificent St. Bernard dog. He is the friend, guardian, protector and pride of the family. He accompanies the children of the family on their walks and excursions in the neighborhood, and watches them with jealous care. Recently the children and their dog were passing down the street. Across the street on a vacant lot was a pack of mongrel dogs, some brown, some black, some spotted and some yellow mostly yellow. They were snarling and snapping at each other. On seeing the St. Bernard on the other side of the street, they stopped fighting among themselves for the moment and with yips and growls, they rushed at the St. Bernard. As the pack neared him he turned and faced them as much as to say, “Come on, I'm ready.” Instead of coming on,

Purchase of Christmas Seals Urged ■■■ : BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN 11 ’ ’ ll

This is the last of three articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on tuberculosis and measures taken to combat this disease. THE great campaign against tuberculosis has been going on since 1904. At that time there were only forty sanatoriums in the United States for the care of this disease and only 500 beds available in institutions for the care of the tuberculous. Today, according ho the latest figures of the American Medical Association, more than 65,000 beds are available. In 1900, ft was estimated, there were 750,000 cases of tuberculosis in the' United States, out of which there were 154.000 deaths annually. Today, the number of cases is more than 1,500,000, and yet there are only 100.000 deaths. If the death rate for tuberculosis that prevailed in 1900 had continued, about 1.500,000 more people would have died of that disease since that time than actually did die. All this improvement has been brought about by public recogni-

At the North Pole

Preferred By Earl M. Ross. Regarding the article by P. S. Thomas, I would like to comment that I have lived in a district which is populated by Kentuckians and Tennesseeans for the last ten years. I have accompanied many of them in a search for work and have seen plenty of preference shown to them. I know a Hoosier and a Tennesseean who applied for one of the Governor’s new jobs. The Tennesseean went home to Tennessee and was recalled to go to work, while the Hoosier is waiting like he has been for the last few weeks. I am rot your Mr. Hoosier Loaf, but I sign my name and address. the pack turned and went yelping down an alley in the opposite direction. The St. Bernard, with his charge of children, moved leisurely down the street as if nothing had happened. We have a magnificent President, friend and guardian of the people, giving—we may say—his very life’s blood in an effort to lift the pall of the depression from the shoulders of the people. At his heels is a yelping, snapping pack of “calamity howlers” (the wandering Irwins, the wobbly Watsons, the snarling Snells, the pestering Fesses) who, for partisan purposes, would tear down the great work the President and his advisers have done since March 4. The purpose of the pack is plain to the people who are standing so magnificently by the President. He will turn and look at the pack presently and it will dissolve. By Ed Oswald. Do you dare publish this unedited? Why is it men trying to be selfsupporting are permitted to pound the street all day in an attempt to sell potato chips, kitchen utensils, newspapers, etc. (with average earnings below $1 a day, which is far below family needs for coal, groceries and clothes) are not called on this sls a week, while the independent carefree who sat home, in welfare-paid rental houses, trustee groceries and coal supplied, government flour and pork supplied, are called to work at sls a week? In Indianapolis, there is a penalty

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. tion of the importance of this disease and by co-operation between the public and the medical profession in an attempt to study it and control it. It is first necessary to find out where cases may be. This is accomplished by use of the tuberculin test, which, if possible, should be applied to every child in the community. Second, every child who has a positive reaction following the tuberculin test should have an X-ray examination to find out whether there is any evidence of the disease. Then the physician should study carefully the entire physical condition of the child by all methods known to modem clinical medicine. The last step is to find out where the child caught the disease. Whenever a case of tuberculosis is found in a family, every member of that family should be examined to find

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

permost in the public mind. Thus, i most of the gifted ones were able j to have their cake and eat it, too. i They did not feel the effects of the World war as so many older ana so many mdre of the younger women did. Their husbands were too mature and their sons too juvenile to go. In short, these women marched forward in the flood side of American advance and prosperity and were well enough established in their various professions to feel only lightly the cold blasts of i the economic depression. a a a THEY did. however, as the author points out. master one vij tally important lesson. They determined quite definitely and finally Ithe things they could not have—a tremendous .personal • achievement, i

for trying and a reward for idleness. Why? I have not earned $5 a week for a year. I am out of coal and winter clothes, as are thousands more triers. Why is the loafer fed, clothed and warmed and then employed? Why? We, too, made applications. Why? • Why? Why? By Mrs. Helen Smith. An article by a Times Reader on Dec. 1, intimated that Hoosier wives are lazy. That statement is false, for I am a Hoosier wife and I have had experience by living with a Kentucky husband for five years. I have three children by him and when the third one arrived, I asked him who was going to take care of these children and he said. "Why let the taxpayers take care of them.’ When I married him, there was more work here than there is now and there was no need of living off the taxpayers or county. But when he did work all he would do would be to tinker with an old used car. I would like to ask that Kentucky woman how she should like to have worked and supported that husband and three children for five years? I don’t think that there is any Hoosier housewife who needs to be jealous of any Kentucky wife, as they can not be as lazy as Kentuckians. By C. OverJy. I hered of a feller called A1 Smith, A right intelligent cub he be, He sez Roosevelt’s a lot of baloney, But he’s pork and beans to me. I hered this same feller Smith Oncet run fer the President’s chair, But in the hustle and bustle of politics He fergot the folks who'd git him there. Seems kinda like he’s nursin’ a grudge, A little disappointed so to speak, And seeks consolation in bawling “baloney,” Which to me sounds sorta weak. I’d ruther not perch in the scorner’s seat Nor sling ere a cynic’s ban. But using jest common horse sense, I’d say F. D.’s a dern good man. My advice to this feller Smith, If he’s of a mind to run again, Is to close up his “Baloney Shop,” And folk might axidently put him in.

out whether there are other cases which may perhaps be responsible for the case that occurs in the child. Once the disease has been discovered, the child should be given every possible opportunity to recover. This lessens the possibility of the adult, or fatal, type of tuberculosis later in life. The educational campaign in the field of public health has come to be one of the most important aspects of all public health work today. The Christmas seal, to provide money for the attack on tuberculosis, is in itself one of the most important educational ideas ever occurring in the public health field. It focuses attention on the disease, and on the fact that vast numbers of people are interested in controlling the disease. It provides funds for lectures, circulars, posters, newspaper publicity, and every oother means of reaching the public with a problem of this character.

for the basis of all success and most happiness lies in the. courage with which one meets this particular issue. Let us use a simple illustration, which could be multiplied in countless ways. The girl who, while young, understands that she will never take prizes at a beauty pageant, is by the way of learning such a lesson. Having mastered the first hard fact, she can proceed to cultivate other talents. Se may set herself to be sweet, or charming, or skillful or learned. But she will know that what she gets from life must be secured by something other than the appeal of physical beauty. At such a point she, too, will have learned tej count on-her seif.

DEC. 12, im

It Seems to Me ~BY HEY WOOD BROUN ~

'HVTEW YORK. Dec. 12—Morris L. IN Ernst, the young lawyer who beat a pathway for “Ulysses" to come back to this country, says that the decision of Judge Woolsev constitutes a repeal of squamishiness. In the eyes of Mr Ernst this is rather more important than the repeal of prohibition. Perhaps there is something too impetuous in this attitude of Mr. Ernst. My guess would be that fifty years from now he still will find himself engaged in the practice of defending some printed words from the fear of those inclined to ban them. But naturally. I have not the slightest hesitation in agreeing that the present court victory marks anew high in judicial liberalism. ana Principle of the Thing IT is merely the principle of the matter which interests me. I can’t read “Ulysses." I can't even get through page—whatever the number is. I mean the one to which you are referred by Joyce enthusiasts about the time you complain, “But when does the blame thing begin to get dirty?” Wiser men and women have assured me that the novel belongs to the ages, and no doubt they are right. I will grant, of course, that it is a serious work of art, even though it bores me. Possiblv I should have written “and therefore” in place of “even though.’’ I am pleased by the decision chiefly because it is a step toward the liberation of certain words which are highly essential if the gusto of speech is ever to be accurately represented on the printed page. At the present time it is quite impossible to give anything like faithful color to stories about stevedores, stokers, prizefighters, newspaper columnists or children's hour broadcasters. ana Noble in Purpose SOMEBODY may object that the words I am thinking about are evil in intent and ugly in sound. I hold no brief for—well, any of the Anglo-Saxon brevities. I didn't invent any of these words, and I use very few of them since I swore c/f playing poker. But, as far as intention goes. I never have been able to understand why a long, fancy word should be accepted as in some ways cleaner than a short and simple one. As for sound, one man’s mate may be another man's dash-dash-dash-blinkety-blinety-b. It all depends upon what sounds you happen to> like. ' The question of mere verbal limitations has practically nothing to do with moral intent or lack of it. Evil conduct might be encouraged in words all of which were of the utmost propriety. But I have no intention of quibbling. I would rather boldly take the stand that anybody who restricts his reading to moral books will miss much delightful literature. When I was in college a book agent came around with a combination offer. You could get the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and also Guy de Maupassant illustrated. The price was $5 down and $1 a month for quite a long time. Emerson was without pictures, but the agent showed me a prospectus of the de Maupassant illustrations, which were in five colors—chiefly pink. He assured me that Emerson actually had made an enduring contribution to the philosophic thought of America. When the books arrived I found that some of the illustrations were missing. I have a suspicion that the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson were less than complete, but on this point I never did make a wholly complete checkup. a a a A Taste for Literature THE books revived in me a taste for literature which at that time was rather dormant. I read them all and one volume of Emerson. De Maupassant was just as great a master of the short story as the agent had informed me. The next year I bought Thomas Hardy complete, with Balzac’s ' Droll Tales” as a bonus. I think that book agent did just about as much to encourage literature at Harvard university as anybody in the faculty. In spirit I owe him much. I have heard a great deal—far too much, in fact—about books which are calculated to inspire love of country or clean living or a passion for gardening. All these things are excellent in moderation, but ii is a great pity there is not more being done for books the only purpose of which is to encourage reading. (Copyright. 1533. by The Times)

So They Say

Dogs are the most affectionate of animals—the only animals that prefer the company of man to their own kind. Cats can’t be trusted a second.—Dr. Glenn Adams, Cincinnati dog fancier. We have entirely too many governments in the United States. Nobody knows exactly how many there are, but counting federal, state, county, and city governments, the school districts, the moth and mosquito districts, and whatnot, we have a total of between 250,000 and--500,000 governments. Prof. S. E. Leland, University of Chicago. Okra is never good unless It breaks like a cracker.—Bernard M. Baruch, financier. Churches that live in the past, die, —Dr. Paul Lindeman of St. Paul. Racketeers and gangsters are organized for a guerilla warfare against society—Judge Harry S. McDevitee of Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court.

Resolution

BY FRANCESCA I’m weary and tired of the fight. And the strife, the clamor and din I have lost the battle for right, I'm beaten, but I’ll not give in. I’m battered and scarred, and I'm weak, , My hope of winning has fled. But it’s only the craven or meek Who yield before they are dead. I’m down! But, God, I’m no quitters It’s back to the clamor and din-* Defeat, for me, is too bitter! I’ve got to go baok, And Wi wart