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WEDNESDAY, DEC 13. 1933. ANOTHER KIDNAPER TF a gang of kidnapers should kidnap and kill one child a day, every person in this state would demand that something be done about It. The entire police force of the state would be put on the Job. The state militia would be called out, and it is not unlikely that the standing army of the United States would be made available to put a stop to such an atrocity. We have a kidnaper in our midst who is stealing one of our Indiana children every school day during these months of October, November and December. He works insidiously. He wakes up your child, my child in the middle of the night with membranous croup. We thought it was merely a cold or some minor Infection. We locked in the child’s throat and saw nothing wrong, not knowing that the fatal germs were lodged in the nose perhaps. The fli'st thing we know, our child is gone, stolen away by as ruthless a kidnaper as ever stalked our community. Vital statistics from the office of the state board of health show that for the months of October, November and December for the past several years the death rates from diphtheria in Indiana have been at such levels that approximately one child died for each school day. This brings to our minds the importance of diphtheria as a menace to children of Indiana. The kidnaper killed 172 persons in Indiana last. year. Diphtheria caused 2,500 cases of illness. It cost SIOO,OOO to pay the bills. The .state is aroused and through its health authorities and medical men is engaged in a finish fight with the kidnaper, diphtheria. Immunization is the weapon. For those who can not pay. the state is furnishing $15,000 worth of toxoid. Its administration causes hardly a moment's discomfort to the child. Immunization against diphtheria is one of the most effective measures known to medical science. Let all parents and all public-spirited citizens join in this fight against the kidnaper in our community.

IT IS UP TO YOU TN promotion of the prompt and certain ad- ■*- ministration of justice, President Roosevelt calls for abolition of mob violence through reform of the judiciary. For entirely too long have the interests of the people, including liberty of speech and actions, been under dominance by tho high financiers and the judiciary. This is made clear as daylight by the recent congressional investigators' disclosures as to the operation of these two elements, which really have been the United States government. Moreover, there are comparatively few Americans of consequence who have not personally suffered from the effects of such invidious dominance. Neither our financiers nor our judiciary is corrupt, as a whole. But, both have submitted to the practices, or precedents of leadership merciless, arrogant and predatory in its ravenous greed for money and power. Mr. Roosevelt's dictatorship, through his drastic and unprecedented policies, certainly is reforming the financial leadership and It is certainly with the approval of the aroused victims of that leadership, and the distinguished critics of his new deal might as well save their breath, and their writings, too, unless they can apeishly mimic the late Calvin Coolidge and draw $lO a word, more or less, from some syndicate. Rare are the instances in which an element whose reform is of vital importance reforms itself and its “system,” when the latter means self-advantage, and President Roosevelt is exactly right in advising that any effort for reform of the judiciary must have the organized.’ persistent and strenuous backing of the people. There isn’t a lawyer worthy of the legalized right to practice his profession but he is familiar with outright judicial outrages and the chronic habits of courts to connive in or consent to all the delays of justice that sharp lawyers' brains can concoct or discover in the books of precedents. Let the people no longer be indifferent but rise in determination for their birthrightprompt. and impartial execution of justice—and they will get judicial reform. Otherwise, they will continue to get whatever is handed out to them by a Judiciary largely devoted to first consideration of the comparatively few who have much of power and cash with which to beat off prompt and exact justice. It is up to the people, as are all other reforms of a general nature, and as are all the features of Mr. Roosevelt's new deal. The President has a real clear view of the bull's eye; he usually has. SOCIAL CONTROL IN describing the aim of the new deal as “a prosperity socially controlled for the common good,” President Roosevelt has handed us anew yardstick. Extent of the reconstruction which accompanies recovery will depend largely on how much we insist on applying this yardstick to the various measures which come before us for adoption. Those eight words can be just about anything we want them to be. They can be an empty phrase or they can be the bannered slogan for anew order. They can leave us Just as we were or they can produce the most profound changes. It all depends on how seriously we care to take them. A nation which was truly determined to control its prosperity for the common good would not have room for a number of the things that this nation has had room for in the last decade. It scarcely would have room for an Insull, for example. Insull profited mightily, built up a great financial empire, tied holding companies together Intricately, won fame and

power and riche*—and left the rest of the country holding the bag. It would hardly have room for a Wiggin, who contrived to put his own interests ahead of the Interests of his stockholders; or for a Mitchell, who introduced high-pressure salesmanship to the world of banking; or for any one of half a dozen other financiers, who easily might be named, who collected enormous sums by peddling worthless bonds to their countrymen. It certainly would have very little room for a system which placed the farmer at the mercy of the money lender, and kept depressing his income at the same time that it boosted the price of his necessities. It might not have much room for an industrial leadership which was responsible for some of the coal-and-iron towns of the eastern mountains; it Ls very hard to see how it would tolerate some of the deeds of the coal-and-iron police. Nor, by the same token, would it be able to use a labor leader who had been graduated to his job from the ranks of the racketeers. You easily can go on for yourself and think of other things that hardly would fit in an era of social control for the common good. And when you get through, you will realize that this new yardstick could cause a lot of changes —if it were applied strictly. So the big question now is: How are we going to use it?

PROOF OF NRA A CRESCENDO of praise for NRA from those actually putting its recovery program to the test gradually is drowning out sour notes from those who still stand off and view it with suspicion and fear. No Industry was more difficult to bring under a code than bituminous coal. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson and his aids struggled with it for months. Today the National Coal Association, composed of bituminous operators, is on record as believing its code will be very helpful to its executive secretary, that established wage scales have introduced a muchneeded element of stability in the industry. A few weeks ago the Iron and Steel institute publicly acknowledged benefits it has received under a code. Now’ the steel casting industry follows writh a statement that Its code has proved of “pronounced value” in speeding the industry’s return to “normal, satisfactory and profitable operation.” The shoe industry reports stabilization for the first time in history. Louis Kirstein, retiring chairman of the industrial advisory board, reports that “in practically all coming to the attention of the board the early experiences (of industry under codes) have been beneficial.” These words of praise do not come from theorists or radicals, but from practical, profitseeking men. They are therefore all the more impressive. There is, incidentally, food for thought for other business men in the coal association’s indorsement of established wage scales. The bituminous code does not stop with fixing a minimum wage. Instead, operators bargained with tne United Mine Workers of America and a uniform scale for all kinds of work was agreed upon. Employers who are afraid to bargain with their workers similarly should be encouraged by the satisfaction of a group that once was frankly skeptical of such an orderly course. GRAFTERS AND SWINDLERS V\z rITH the government spending billions on work relief it is, perhaps, inevitable that a few public enemies try to divert what they can of the people’s dollars into their own pockets. The Public Works Administration has its eye on two types, the public works grafter and the land-swindler. An engineer inspector will be named for each important state, and city, and on large projects, especially on slum clearance, and will stay on the Job until It’s finished. These inspectors will see to it that every $1 spent means $1 worth of works and services, that NRA codes are adhered to, that “a maximum amount of unemployment relief is afforded by this money.” So far there have been no major scandals in the spending of new deal relief money. Real estate swindlers are less easy to deal with, for they operate under cloak of legitimacy. But they can hold back and actually wreck attempts to rebuild slum areas, and they can impoverish families now solvent by means of get-rich-quick colonization and subdivision schemes. At Muscle Shoals, Bonneville Dam site in Oregon and other centers of government enterprise land sharks are swarming. “I would do anything in my power,” says Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, “to spike the guns of these brigands.” It has been suggested that the postoffice department issue a fraud order barring land swindle schemes from the ipail. Then let the department of justice bestir itself. LEGAL ORPHANS /”\NE of the rqjnor problems accompanying repeal ls that of deciding what to do with the people who now are in prison for violating the eighteenth amendment. According to official records, there are at present 3,765 persons in federal prisons for violating a law which no longer exists. What are we to do wi*:h them? It is pretty obvious that no blanket rule can be adopted. Many of these people, probably, ought to be released forthwith. They are men who were law-abiding in all respects but one, and they are not apt to violate any other if they are released. But there are also many who ought to serve every day of their sentences. Some of our prohibition law violators were fairly tough babies. A general amnesty which turned them loose to find some other way of preying on society would be a very expensive mistake. Orit, not whisky, makes our navy fight, 6ays Secretary of the Navy Swanson. It would make us fight, too, if we found it in our drinks. 8o many interests are against it that the government’s new pure food bill may prove to be just another poor fool bill for the consumers. Smithsonian scientist aavs he can predict weather twenty-three years ahead. But we’ll bet he's still caught out in the rain without his rubbers and umbrella.

VICTORIOUS WOMEN MRS. CHARLES H. SABIN and* the 1.500,000 members of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform, having fought the good fight through to victory, held their final meeting at Washington last week and disbanded. But the great work these women did for the cause of repeal, the influence they exerted in the 1932 national party conventions, their backing of the Democratic platform plank regardless of party affiliations, their Invaluable aid in rallying the states to ratify the twenty-flrst amendment—all these things will be remembered, we think, as long as the nation remembers its historic deliverance from a dire national mistake. Mrs. Sabin, Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, Mrs. John Sheppard, Mrs. Edward S. Moore and many others have shown leadership and organizing ability of the highest order. Women are said to be lacking in logic. Yet Mrs. Sabin’s logic is excellent in holding that since control of liquor has’been restored to the states, the influence of women likewise should return to within state lines. She says; We recognize the fact that the fortyeight states are now, in effect, forty-eight laboratories wherein experiments in liquor control will be carried on for years to come. The educational program conducted by our organization during the last four years and a host of sincere and enlightened women leaders is our insurance that these experiments will be carried on intelligently. ... We must not repeat the mistakes of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League. It is not alone in the field of legislation that women can. henceforth help. Their influence should prove even greater on the social side. Now that repeal is secured, no one can do more than wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts toward spreading habits of moderate, socialized, discriminating use of alcoholic beverages. Not only can they make it smart to be legal; they can make it seem as silly to swill down liquor as to “hog” food. They can’t cure all drunkards, but they can make it increasingly “bad form” to be drunk. SHIP SUBSIDIES AND LABOR 'T'HE International Seamen’s Union of America is urging ship owners to include in the pending shipping code provision for a national maritime board to adjust labor disputes and evolve an orderly give-and-take relationship between owners and the men who go down to the sea in ships. It is significant of the labor hostility of certain big eastern ship owners that this proposal is being opposed in Washington. Such maritime boards have been operating successfully on the ships of America’s two chief competitors on the seas. England has had such a board for twenty years, Japan for ten years. The history of our own shipping in these years has been one of constant bickering, constant warfare in congress over legislation. No single industry has been showered with so many golden favors from its government as has American shipping. Senator Hugo Black's committee now investigating ocean mail subsidies hears that ship owners are getting an average of $36,000,000 a year from the taxpayers in mail subsidies, that they have collected $140,000,000 since 1928. Loans at 316 per cent and under for building and reconditioning vessels have totaled $144,000,000 in the past decade. Since 1924 the government has sold to private ship owners 438 vessels which cost $560,000,000 to build. They were sold for $40,000,000. Congress, by the recovery act, hoped to create an orderly system of Industrial management, with government, capital and labor co-operating. Most industries are acting in good faith. In view of the startling disclosures of the Black committee, ship owners would seem to be in a poor position to adopt an arrogant attitude toward the government or labor. An argosy so laden with special favors as this should bring back something of industrial statesmanship, if nothing more.

j M. E/Tracy Says:

ANSWERING a recent questionnaire, Fellows of The British Royal Society expressed belief in the existence of “a spiritual domain,” while thirteen denied it. Seventy-four regarded the latest developments in scientific thought as tending to support religious fsith, while twenty-seven took an opposite view. I venture to say that a similar group of distinguished scholars would have shown about the same relative divergence of opinion fifty years ago, or even in the time of Marcus Aurelius. I also am inclined to believe that it would be found in a group of ordinary folks, provided the group represented a fair cross section of life. Great minds and little minds divide along the same lines and in about the same ratio, when it comes to answering the riddle of creation. The reason is plain. None is great enough to know; none is too little to guess. * SCIENCE and religion find a common meeting ground at the border line of the unknown. While that border line may have receded somewhat, still it is irritatingly close. The veriest ignoramus can lead the most profound thinker right up to it with a few simple questions. Infinity is still infinite, whether approached through the microscope, or telescope. We have discovered nothing yet incapable of division or multiplication. Faith ranges downward from absurd superstition to an exalted sense of responsibility. Science ranges upward from a few known facts to the weirdest kind of speculation. The former finds itself constantly yielding to what we call rationalism, while the latter is just as constantly obliged to confess ignorance. u * n THE alleged conflict between science and religion is manufactured largely by those who see a chance in it to grab the spotlight. It certainly has no foundation in abstract logic. A spirit of iconoclasm runs throughout the ages. It has overthrown as many false scientific theories as religious concepts. We accuse theologists of forcing people to believe that the earth was flat. Asa matter of record, they merely accepted what geographers and astronomers were supposed to have discovered. Science and religion are playing a better part in the world of today than ever before, because people take them in a saner way. The ancient attitude of stark, unbending certainty has given place to a frame of mind that mdkes us willing to listen, if not to think. We can admit that religious teachers of the past have made mistakes without dethroning God. In the same way, we can look back on preposterous scientific conceptions without doubting the wisdom of pursuing scientific methods. In comparison with its hard-boiled attitude of by-gone days, humanity has learned much about the values of tolerance in overlooking the mistakes of enthusiasm and about the value of patience in the everlasting struggle to improve con diti on*

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THE water you drink makes up 90 per cent of the fluid part of your blood. It carries through your body the essential food substances, the salts and the waste material that is to be eliminated. Water is absolutely necessary to life. Although you may be able to go forty days or more without food, you can live only four or five days without water. Practically all physiologists agree that six glasses of water daily is a minimum for health and that elgnt glasses should be the average. But it is also important to bear in mind that you should not overdo the drinking of water and that too much may be as bad as too little. You even may get drunk on water. There is known to be a condition called water intoxication. If you are a normal person, you may drink one or two glasses of water at a meal. Water, therefore,

: : The Message Center : : ! I wholly disapprove of what you nay and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire '

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or. less.) By M. M. Miller. Much has been said for and against the proposed housing project in Indianapolis. It is my opinion that this project has been grossly misrepresented to the public by the opponents. In the first place as a part of the government program of recovery the slum clearance was conceived as a national project. If it is good for oth,er American cities it is good for Indianapolis, and all patriotic citizens should co-operate. The spending of $5,000,000 here would be a great stimulating force in business. It is estimated that this money will turn over at least ten times in the next year, as a result, Indianapolis will enjoy $50,000,000 in business. Can we afford to turn this vast amount of business from our city? The only argument I have heard against this project is from selfish interests. The popular argument is it will increase housing and work a hardship on present rentals. This program is designed to destroy almost as many houses as it creates, tear down shacks and hovels and build in their places livable, fireproof homes. If any one doubts the need of this project, let him visit the district east of the city hospital to Blake street, go through the side streets and alleys and see if after his visit he is of the same opinion. By destroying this blighted area owners of other properties will benefit if they put their property in good condition for rental. The Indianapolis Real Estate Board has just come forward with statistics to show that Indianapolis is facing a housing shortage. If this is true this project can not hurt but only help conditions. The unemployed of Indianapolis are entitled to the work. It is estimated that 2,000 men in the building trade will be employed for one year, as well as hundreds of others employed in the business of furnishing the building materials and the owners of these businesses who have their investments on which they have not been able to make a profit for the past four years. Let me suggest that every working man, building material dealer,

Water Drinking Important to Health

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

I CAN’T work up a mite of enthusiasm about the new drinking conventions. I don’t care whether the women stand or sit or whether they are all thrown out of the whisky parlors. Alcoholic equality simply doesn't interest me at the moment. I live in a dry state, anyway. But I do wish we could share equal rights with men on the hat question. The restrictions we endure —or on—this head are intolerable. I never have a very good time at public gatherings because I am so occupied with envying men who automatically take off their Fedoras the minute they step inside the room. We women, on the other

Not the Place to Grind It!

Tribute By Mrs. May Tow. Asa friend of our beloved Bishop Chartrand for thirty-eight years, I wish to thank you for your editorial in Saturday’s Times. It was a beautifully worded picture of his life, from the first word to the fhst, every word an honest statement, and I feel you deserve the lasting gratitudte of his people for whom he lived and died.

merchant and small shop owner interested in seeing employment increased, pay rolls increased and business stimulated in Indianapolis write to Harold L. Ickes, Department of interior, Washington, D. C., and tell him you are for the national project for recovery and that the $5,000,000 allocated for Indianapolis housing urgently is needed and desired. There is one other feature of this project that has been overlooked. The shacks and hovels in this district pay very little taxes owing to their low value, but according to statistics gathered by the Chamber of Commerce, the greatest drain on tax money comes from this district for social service, hospitalization, police and court cost, etc. This project not only will clear up this condition but will yield’taxes year after year to help lighten the load of the already overburdened tax payer. By W. Williams. In Russia, the government gives prizes to farmers who raise large crops and any one caught destroying farm products is dealt with severely. In the United States of America the government pays the farmers to destroy crops and to let their land lay idle. In Russia, there are no unemployed and McAdoo says the people seem “well fed ana well dressed.” In the U.'S. A., millions beg for work while going hungry and in rags. In Russia, things are produced for use, not profit. In the U. S. A., things are produced for profit, not for use, and there must be scarcity in order that there may be profit. In Russia, the standard of living constantly is rising so production increases, while in the U. S. A. destruction of farm products and curtailing production must necessarily lower the standard of living. This" is the difference between Communism and capital-

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyxeia, the Health Magazine. may be taken in moderation between meals and at meals for the good of your health. Because of the necessity for adequate amounts of pure water to be consumed by every human being daily, it is desirable that a good water supply be easily available, both at work and at home. Good drinking water is preferably cool, but not ice cold. It should be available in a clean, well-lighted place. Possibility of contamination must be avoided. Nowadays, paper cups are provided freely in most places, and where the paper cup is not available, the drinking fountain should be so constructed as to make it possible to drink in comfort and without contaminating the faucet.

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

hand, have to sit for hours with a tiny pancake affair sliding about on our heads, or with one eye blinded, or with our ears clamped down, according to whatever the fashion happens to be at the moment. Yet we fatuously imagine ourselves free and liberated citizens. u n a A HAT is always a nuisance, but a hat in the house is a pest, a torment, a burden, a curse. Why on earth a sex that is clamoring for the privilege of putting its feet on the brass rail should endure the misery of a head covering all day long—outdoors, indoors, at shows, at teas, at church, everywhere —is one of the mysteries of the feminine

ism. co-operation and competition, common sense and craziness. By a Reader. I have just read the message by “Patience” upholding the new administration and shifting the blame of a $25,000 theft to our ex-Gov-ernor’s regime. It Is too early to be convinced in the matter of who is guilty of this theft, so that “Patience” should be patient a bit. None of us readers knows who is guilty in this instance and even though the old lady school teacher is tried and sentenced it easily could be possible that (during these cruel times when our officials easily may be covered up by some defective legal entanglement, and the guilt shifted to the shoulders of one who has no proof of innocence) she is taking the “rap” for an educated fool of which the world is full. If she really did take these funds, I want her punished to the full extent of the law for there are too many crooks nowadays, on both political sides. By Paul Greer. In the last few years, Indianapolis and all other cities have had an enormous crime wave. One-half of these criminal acts are committeed by young America. And why? The younger generation, just out of school, has a grave situation to face. Unemployed young people have to cope with idleness and there is a feeling of unrest. The seed of crime is planted in this idleness and unrest. As I look upon the younger set holding down the street corners, I think of first-year classmen who will enter Michigan City. If work is not secured for us, the country soon will be flooded with harened criminals instead of smiling youths. If this is published, it will convince me that the Message Center is not a racket. By Clarence B. Lynch. In reading the article in regard to the thirty-five pound turkey for the President’s dinner and knowing of the great things he has accomplished, I could not help but think that through the drastic action of the economy law, it has been realized how many homes it made impossible to have even a chicken dinner.

The best modern types of drinking facilities provide a nozzle or jet in a fountain of impervious material, such as china or enameled iron. The nozzle must be protected so that your mouth, when you use the fountain, does not come into contact with it. The water should not touch the guard, resulting in splattering. The bowl should be cleansed easily and placed high enough so that you may drink in comfort. In view of the great possibilities of infection from contaminated drinking water, measures should be taken in every industry to make certain that diseases are not spread by the drinking fountain. Particularly in places where employes are ignorant or careless, it is desirable to have adequate information as to the proper method of using and taking care of drinking facilities.

mind that even a woman can’t understand. It's perfectly silly, isn’t it, for a man to uncover before a woman who is trying to drink him under the table? But how much more silly for the same woman who downs beverages and brews like a Barbary Coast pirate to be all dolled up in a sweetly feminine bonnet! I have no doubt, however, that we soon shall see specially designed millinery’ for the smart debutante to wear at the bar. ‘Milady's newest mode for saloon wear"—and won't that be chic! Which reminds me that there’s one thing I like about nudism. The ladies never appear anywhere in hats.

DEC. 13,1983

Fair Enough -BY WESTBROOK PEGLER”

NEW YORK. Dec. 13— A* one member of the rabble I will admit that I said “Fine, that is swell - ' when the papers came up that recent day, telling of the lynching of the two men who killed the young fellow in California. I haven't changed my mind yet for all the storm of right-minded-ness which has blown up since. I know how storms of right-minded-ness are made. The city editor calls a fellow over and tells him to call up a lot of names on the office right-minded-ness list and get about a column of expressions of horror and indignation. There are various standard lists in all shops. One is the list to be called up when some police captain in Boston bars some dirty book from public sale. This one includes 1 a lot of one-book novelists who will say that the Boston police captain undoubtedly Is just an ignorant cop who ought to be out shooting hoodlums. There is another group to be called up for expressions on tha restlessness of modem youth when some young girl falls out the window of a penthouse. There are a feminism list, a nudism list, an is-jazz-music? list and so forth. tt tt tt A Corpse Is a Corpse WELL, the city editor tells the fellow to get about a column of horror and indignation over tlje lynching and he sits down at 'a phone and comes up half an hotlr later with a mess of copy paper all scratched up with chicken-track notes. He has mailed the president of the university, the head of the locjl bar association, a couple of public-ity-crazed judges, the Governor, the head of the local crime committee and several prominent ladies who go in for right-mindedness in a grim way. Now the storm of right-minded-ness is gathered together in tb* forms and a little while later it. begins breaking over the community. But all the time the two men who kidnaped the young fellow and took, him out on a bridge, where they knocked him on the head with a concrete block and threw hitji into the water, are permanently dead. They did it and they got theirs and however hard the storm of right-mindedness may blow one certain thing is that no lawyer is ever going to get them loose on a habeas corpus or a writ or error based on the fact that some stenographer, in typing the indictment, hit a commfjy instead of a semi-colon. Neither is any Len Small, come to the Governor's office ten or fifteen years later, going to turn them loose in payment for some service which some hoodlum politician performed for him in the last election or might perform in the next. Not even Ma Ferguson can pardon a corpse. * tt 11 This Lawyer Business THE fine theory of all expressions of horror and indignation is that punishment is not supposed to be vengeance, but a protective business, whereas the rabble which constitutes by far the greatest element of the population wants to make the murderer suffer as the victim or his family did. And, though they would be willing to let the law do it for them if the law could be relied upon, they know too w’ell what lawyers will do when they get a chance to invoke a lot of legal technicalities which were written and passed by lawyers to provide lawyers with opportunities to make money. I claim authority to speak for the rabble because I am a member of the rabble in good standing and I claim to know how lawyers work because I have worked around the courts in the newspaper business long enough to observe that there never is a criminal so vile but that his lawyer, under the pretext of obedience to his duty and by virtue of a lawyer’s law enacted to help lawyers cheat other laws, will try to get him loose. I have talked this over with several men who took part in the preparation of the recent storm of right-mindedness over the California lynching and every one of them said that he, and his wife, both, said "Fine, that’s swell” or words to that effect when they first heard the news. But they distinguish between their private, personal feeilngs and opinions in the matter, as spiritual members of the rabble, and their public actions and utterances >s members of the right-minded element. Having no public position, myself, I can be consistent. an u Get Those Lawyersl I AM aware, too, that the purity of the California lynching was fouled up by the indorsement of a low-grade politician who happened to occupy the Governor’s office and who should have kept still. I am told, also, that there have been four other lynchings since those and that the statement of the Governor of California probably acted as an incitation in these cases. These lynchings will be matters of horror to the right-minded group, the more so if there happened to be an innocent man among them. But, in the same period of time since the California case there probably will have been fifty murders in the country and the victims will include quite a few innocent men'' and women, too. I would pay more attention to storms of right-mindedness if they ever blew against the attorneys at law who argue and plead that one-to-ten years is a fair price for a good man’s life and play dirty tricks on the law to cheat the rabble “of even that little if they can. (Copyright, 1933, bv United Feature* Syndicate. Inc.) Heywood Broun’s column hereafter will appear on the first page of the second section.

Last Night BY ANONYMOUS Have you ever seen In a lonely church A taper, burning clear, In a rush of wind From a far-off door Suddenly dip and veer Then leap into lovelier Dancing flame? Somehow I felt A little the same Last night at your touch When close to my ear A low voice whispered, "I’m a realist, dear."