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FRIDAY. DEC 15. 1933. THOSE LIQUOR PRICES T IQUOR prices in Indiana must come down. Quality must go up. The alternative is not only an increase in bootlegging, but also an influx into the state of racketeers from other communities which have been able to make is economically difficult for the illicit seller to exist. The Times showed yesterday that “blended” whisky was little but alcohol, flavoring and water. Perhaps the flavoring was aged whisky, but it was present, if at all. in mighty small quantities. No doubt this drink is far better than the doubtful drinks purveyed by bootleggers, but it is asking a good deal of the public to demand SI .85 n pint for it. Some say that the distillers are responsible for this deplorable condition. It is true that there is not enough Whisky to go around. The distillers probably are taking advantage of this to make exorbitant profits. Too often the supposedly shrewd American business man Is anxious to cut his own throat merely to gain a temporary advantage. There can be no excuse whatever for a price of $1.50 a pint for pure grain alcohol. It requires no aging and none of the expensive handling of old whisky. The price merely is being held artificially to prevent law abiding folks from making their own gin and thus avoiding high priced liquors. This alcohol price is an outrageous imposition on the public by selfish and irresponsible interests. The retail druggist has been placed in an extremely difficult and unjust position. Every time he buys liquor he purchases a pig in a poke. The distillers do not permit him to analyze samples before he spends his money. If he wants to purchase alcoholic beverages he must place his money on the line and take whatever they choose to give him. These druggists also are finding the heavy license fees oppressive. If the state places a big fixed charge on the handling of liquor the druggist must get a large sales volume to meet it. In order to get a big volume he must actively encourage people to buy. Such a state of affairs does not encourage temperance. Liquor should be available for those who want it, but the licensing system should be such as to discourage high pressure salesmanship. The Times today reveals that bootleggers already are laying their plans to get retail outlets in Indiana. It is to the credit of the druggists that they are rebuffing all such efforts. The Governor's liquor commission is planning to meet in the near future to consider these problems. It was inevitable that new conditions would arise. The public should back its duly constituted authorities. It should drive out the bootlegger. Make It smart to be legal. A PLACE FOR HONESTY SOMETIME before Jan. 1, Governor McNutt Is to name anew municipal court judge. The Governor's office already has announced that Judge Clifton R. Cameron will not be reappointed. One place where judicial honesty is a prime necessity is in the municipal court. Being a municipal court judge is not a picnic. It calls for psychology, for tact, for a sense of humor, and for honesty as well as good judgment. Several names have been placed before Governor McNutt, it is reported. All the names mentioned are those of men of public service. It seems that the Governor can not go wrong. Honest courts mean honest government. And honest government breeds respect for the law. And honesty starts. Governor, in the municipal courts.

DUTY TO THE PUBLIC IN many ways the most hopeful thing about the present moment in American life is the fact that people generally are beginning to see the necessity of adopting anew ethical standard in their dealings with one another.* This new standard can be expressed very simply. It is the notion that a man's first duty is not to his pocketbook but to the public at large. „ You can find a direct statement of it -in a speech delivered recently in Chicago by Earle W. Evans, president of the American Bar Association. In this speech Mr. Evans urged that the lawyers take concerted action to drive crooks and shysters out of the legal profession. “Let it be understood," he declared, “that our duty is first, last and always the public interest and not to the interests of the profession of of the lawyer. The public and the newspapers feel that we ought to be responsible for the crooks. I don't know but what the public and the newspapers are right. “Who else is there who can do it? Let's clean house. It is not enough for the ethical lawyer to be ethical himself and close his eyes to everything done by his brother. He should see that the public is protected, and no ties of kinship or man are more sacred." Here is an idea which goes far beyond the mere matter of driving crooks out of a profession: it calls for a reappraisal of the individual's aims and standards, and it applies not merely to the legal profession, but to all professions and all jobs. The banker needs to learn it—for what does all the current criticism of certain bankers amount to, except that they put their, own good above the public good? The manufacturer needs to learn it. and the politician and the broker and the editor and every one else whose calling touches the lives of the mass of his fellow-citizens. It is only in this way that we can make a lasting success of our capitalistic society. The profit motive by itself never can do it. But If we team up with anew and eq

lightened conception of the duty the individual owes to society as a whole, we may find that the rules of the game need fewer changes than some critics believe. “IT ISN’T DONE” \ FOREIGN colleague once said to us, “Do you know what your country most needs? It's a bit more of the English idea of ‘lt isn't done.’ ’’ rie then went on to point out some things where our country perhaps regards it “smart” to cheat or chisel. He discussed prohibition and some of our attitude toward sports, for instance. % We have often pondered on his remark. The Englishman may be a trace snobbish about his observation. "It isn’t done” but in the last analysis his code makes for gentlemanly and ladvlik- conduct; in other words, it's a code of ethics in itself. The Englishman, for instance, thinks the man or woman who gets drunk publicly is an "outsider,” that is, not a gentleman or a lady and not fit to associate with those who “play the gßme.” We had the idea, before prohibition. During prohibition, excuses were made for the man or woman who drank to excess. It even seemed a joke to many if Bill or Mary got “tight.” There was little or no revulsion of feeling about alcoholic excess. We are sadly In need .of anew attitude toward drink. Not only do we need to regard the drunkard or the drunken person as an "outsider,” but we need to acquire new standards of regard for the law. The slogan, “Make it smart to be legal” will help us; and likewise we can profit beyond measure if we get ihe idea. “It isn’t done,” meaning making pigs of ourselves with liquor or any other indulgence.

LABOR LAW ENFORCEMENT VITARNINGS Issued by Rail Co-Ordinator ’ * Ben Eastman and Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson should cause hostile employers to reconsider their attempts to nullify the labor clauses of the emergency transportation and recovery laws. Mr. Eastman's message to the regional coordinating committees threatened prosecution unless railroads quit violating the spirit of Section 7-E of the transportation act. He listed a dozen types of evasions, the most pernicious of which is the forcing of workers into company unions through economic coercion. He said; “If the railroads fail to act voluntarily, I shall have no alternative under the law except to see to it to the best of my ability that its provisions are enforced, and this I shall do. But there Is no good reason why this should be necessary. By complying voluntarily the railroads will lose nothing; on the contrary they will improve their present position and their labor relations.” General Johnson told the National Association of Manufacturers that employers tampering with Section 7-A of the NIRA will find congress more likely to tighten than relax its provisions. Certain employers interfere with labor's right to organize. Recalling President Roosevelt s interpretation of the merit clauses he said this means that employers can not hire a man and then, on discovering he carries a union card, fire him for dropping a monkey wrench. The recovery machinery was built to insure orderly planning and industrial peace. When industries try to block union elections under the national labor board, as the Weirton Steel Company is doing, when they scheme in other stays to nullify labor sections of the new laws, hurt not only labor and national recovery but their own interests. INSULL INDICTS OTHERS QAMUEL INSULL, according to dispatches from Greece, can not understand why his popularity in America has vanished. Why is it that every one in America seems to be against me?” he asked a United Press correspondent the other day. “What have I done that every banker and business magnate in America has not done in the course of business?” Offhand, one would be inclined to answer that with the words, “Quite a lot.” At any rate, that is the way one would like to answer. For, if the practices by which the Insull pyramid was built up and then undermined are, as Insull says, common to “every banker and business magnate in America,” there are more things wrong with us than we have let ourselves suppose.

FINE BUNCH OF BOYS! 'Y'OU get. a good insight, into one of the A most-discussed angles of “big time" intercollegiate football in the reports of the recent party at Montclair, N. J„ where Yale football players and alumni gathered for a free-for-all discussion of Yale’s current athletic fortunes'. r A member of this year’s somewhat unfortunate football team explained that the fun of playing was more important than ’-oiling up a string of victories; and an ardent old grad then expressed himself as follows: “They're a fine bunch of boys, all right, but if they don't win football games that breaks down one of the strongest ties between us and present-day Yale." Right there you have the traditional alumni attitude in its baldest form. It is this desire on the part of the graduate, to revive his sentimental loyalty by a regular chain of victories, that is largely responsible for the evils of “overemphasis" in college football. THE FIGHT IS OFF! /~\NE of the best bits of recent news is the fact that the guerilla warfare between Henry Ford and General Hugh S. Johnson seems to have come to an end. First Mr. Ford announced that “we’ve all got to pitch in and help the President pull this country out of the hole.” Then General Johnson replied that it did his heart good to hear this, adding. “I certainly am going to enjoy seeing Mr. Ford go in there and start pitching." And all this, somehow, sounds more like it. A lot was said, not long ago, about how the NRA chieftain was going to “crack down" on the auto magnate. A regular wharf fight between the government and its most famous industrialist seemed to be in the making. Now both sides are talking more softly—and the country at large will rejoice. •

MR. SWOPE’S IDEAS HPHERE seems ‘to be a wide difference of Jt opinion as to what was in Gerard Swope's mind when he recently proposed that we turn back the control of American business into the hands of American industrialists just as soon as business gets thoroughly on Its feet.* Most of the progressive Journals and commentators quickly and sharply declared It to be an unfortunate, ill-timed and impatient effort to get American industry back into the hands of those who have all but ruined it. Mr. Swope broadly characterized his plan as one of permanent industrial self-government. The NRA is to be terminated and American industry and commerce controlled by a national chamber or panel of industrialists. Indeed. it is implied that the United States Chamber of Commerce might well constitute the integrating authorities in this new scheme of industrial self-government. The power and activities of the federal government would be limited solely to the protection of public interests. Not only lyseral commentators, sympathetic with the new deal, denounced Mr. Swope’s proposal as an inopportune embarrassment to the administration, but General Hugh S. Johnson, upon mature reflection, made it clear that he took for granted the perma*nence of governmental supervision of American industry, and as is embodied in the NRA and related legislation. An implied eulogy of Mr. Swope’s plan was carried in Vincent Astor’s national weekly. Today. This is owned and edited by persons friendly to the Roosevelt administration. Yet Mr. Swope's plan is characterized in glowing terms as “a charter for industry.” Further, in his signed editorial, Mr. Astor refers to Mr. Swope’s “constructive and timely proporal.” and says further that: "Praise is due Mr. Swrpe sos his ingenuity in bringing forth new ideas for further cooperation between the individual trades and industrial organizations—all with the purpose of stabilizing industry and employment.” In the first place, under the present economic order, ultimate control does not rest in the hands of the industrialists or merchants. It resides in the great Investment bankers. The investigation of the latters’ ethics and methods, which has been conducted by Mr. Pecora since last June, pretty clearly indicates what prospect there is of honor, fairness and competence under such a dominion. Moreover, even the industrialists before 1929 failed to hang up any record redounding to their glory. There are many who concede all this buW contend that Industry has learned its lesson since 1929. There Is little evidence to support this optimistic view. But an important American industrialist voluntarily espoused Mr. Swops's original plan of “industrial selfgovernment” when he set it forth in the summer of 1931. A considerable proportion of American industry has resented any codification of practices under the NRA. In many of the codes submitted by the more important industries an effort was made to retain the abuses of the old order. Moreover, there is a chorus of squawks and squeals throughout American industry against the NRA, to say nothing of the silent but much more dangerous epidemic of chiseling. There is plenty of basis for legitimate doubt as to whether the government itself adequately will be able to enforce the The chances of successful enforcement will be reduced notably if anybody of consequence encourages business to regard it as merely a temporizing stop-gap, not to be taken too seriously. If Mr. Swope actually wishes to avert industrial anarchy, let him understand that this can be achieved only as a result of permanent and rigorous governmental control of American industry. Then he can get busy trying to induce his fellow industrialists to accept this self-evident economic truism. It’s funny how many people are willing even to go to jail for their children—but not to church.

M.E. Tracy Says: ■

THE trouble with this so-called mercy murder at Atlanta is that it can not be regarded as the genuine article unless one ignores the verdict of a coroner’s jury as well as the medical evidence. There appears to be no doubt that John Stephens struck his dying aunt on the head with a flower pot after she repeatedly had called upon him to put her out of her misery. There appears to be no doubt that he intended to satisfy her wish and thought that he had succeeded. Otherwise, he would hardly have surrendered himself to the police and made a confession. Miss Allie Stephens, the aunt, was suffering from cancer of the bone, and, according to the family doctor, was very near, if not at, the actual point of death. An autopsy led those performing it to express the unanimous opinion that Miss Stephens died of her malady, not from the blow. a a a IT is far more logical to regard young Stephens as the victim of hallucination than to accept him as a cold-blooded killer. The very weakness of his arm suggests that We was not himself. The case does not lend itself to anything like a clean-cut argument over mercy murders. It contains too many “ifs and buts.” Some of the comments I have read are quite as slushy and emotional as the episode itself. One writer thinks such an act ought to be placed in the same category as lynchings. Another says that cancer sufferers hswe been known to linger on for fifteen or twenty years, as though that had anything to do with it. Still another declares that Miss Stephens should have been sent to a hospital where she have been kept “constantly under narcotics.” No one with common sense believes that the right to take life should be recognized except under the most rigid safeguards. At the same time/ no one with common sense will deny that our treatment of hopeless incurables, especially those exposed to great and continuous pain, is a mockery of human intelligence. tt a tt AS long as there is the slightest prospect of recovery, we should, of course, keep up the fight for life, regardless of cost or torment. But when the die has been cast, when there is nothing ahead but pain, or dope, it seems as though we might find legitimate ways to be merciful. I don’t want to be hit on the head with a flower pot by some kindly disposed relative. Such a method lacks refinement, if nothing else. If I were suffering with cancer of the b6ne. however, and had ccme to the point where there was nothing left but a few more days of torture, and where I or those around me could no longer bear the torture of consciousness, I would thank a doctor to end it all.. , Most people with whom I have talked feel the same way. The thing that causes them to hesitate is fear of the way in which such a practice might be abused if it became common. Frankly. I do not know whether we can devise a system which would permit such obviously desirable kindness without inviting crime, but the problem always has struck me as worth considering.

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: : The Message Center : : I wholly disapprove of what yon say and will defend to the death yonr right to say it.—Voltaire

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2jo words or less.) By Frank'w. Mauck. This refers to an article published in a recent issue of your paper, relating to an interview with Pleas Greenlee regarding cause for my dismissal as a state dairy inspector. It is very evident that Mr. Greenlee made his statement knowing they were for publication. Up to that time he has felt above answering my friends regarding cause for my dismissal. He told me that Mr. Lang had the complaints. At the health department, both myself and my friends were told the reason was not known there and that my services had been very satisfactory. Greenlee’s use of the word “insolent” with reference to my attitude toward the public is a lie. A petition signed by every dairy in the Calumet region, asking to have me retained as their inspector, is evidence of a very agreeable relationship. My dismissal was over the protest of Mr. Lang, food and drug commissioner for the state. The letter that was referred to, regarding the interest of State Senator Albright in the Cherry Ice Cream Company prosecution, was written as a personal letter and I did not know that it would go into public record. With further reference to that part of your article, the first evidence that I was “in bad” came when Mr. Lang told me that Senator Albright had been in and raised "particular hell” about me and for me to see Mr. Greenlee. Later I found that Senator Albright had a very personal interest in Mr. Cherry of Danville, 111. At the time of filing the affidavits against the Cherry Company a personal attack by Mr. Cherry followed immediately. Mr. Cherry was born and reared near Martinsville and has considerable business connections in this state. However, this was only one of several cases that I had filed at the time I was “fired” by Greenlee. Twenty-two affidavits were filed by

Warns Against Industrial Accidents ■ ’■= ■ ■' ~ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ' ■ ' '

AS the unemployed return to work, there is greater liability of industrial accidents. And so it is more important than ever that you know first-aid in case of accident or shock, and make use of it properly when necessary. When a person is injured, nearly drowned, or in any other way hurt, he may also suffer from shock. In this condition he will be pale, his pulse feeble, his circulation poor and his breathing difficult. First-aid for a person in shock requires that he be placed flat on his back, with his head low and as comfortable as possible. If he is conscious, give him a small amount of aromatic spirits of ammonia as a stimulant. If he Is not conscious, a whiff or two of ammonia held under his nostrils may bring about revival. If a persqn is bleeding freely, the bleeding may be stopped through application of pressure with a piece of clean gauze, with a compress or a handkerchief. In a very serious case, it may be necessary to apply a tourniquet. However, this should be done by those who understand how to do it, because many a person has been

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : = BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

MIRACLES do happen in the twentieth century. A woman’s! organization, its cause won, has actually disbanded. If for no other achievement than this; Mrs. Charles Sabin should go down in history as a heroine. Hers was the'mind that conceived the idea, hers the energy that rallied a million and a half women into a crusade for repeal. Now, although she is chief mogul of the clan, and has won her battle, she calls her women together opce again, abdicates and announces the dissolution of the order. How much trouble and expense we might have avoided if all men and women possessed the plain good sense that distinguishes Mrs. Sabin.

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Game Laws By Homer Haws. Latest game laws, compelling every one to buy a license to hunt and fish in his own county, has caused a wave of hatred. Thousands who are on relief and their children will not be able to have rabbits this year for the first time since this state received its charter. The $lO license for fur buyers gives all the business to the professional buyer. The boy who could buy a few hides and resell, has passed away. Reason for these laws is to dig more money out of the common working man, to festock the streams and fields for the sportsman, wealthy city men and the swivel-chair legislators, and to pay politically-appointed game wardens and their stool pigeons, to arrest the ones snitched on, kill a boy, make a showing in the daytime, sleep at night while the hunters roam the wood, cut down trees, etc. Game laws can not be enforced and these last ones have caused more to hunt without license than before. I am 40, never bought a license and never will as long as such laws exist. When I hunt, I hunt ground squirrels, crows and hawks. No laws are violated. me in performance of my duty. All were Illinois ice cream manufacturers. Two paid fines and two removed their products from the state, the others decided to fight the cases to test the power of our state health department, probably they were stalling, expecting me to be removed from the picture as I was the only one who could continue the prosecutions. Mr. Lang made a personal appeal to Mr. Greenlee to have me retained to complete these cases, as a matter of fairness and a service that the ice cream manufacturers of this state were entitled to. By George A. Stone. In conversation with about a dozen of the Walkathon eliminated

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injured by a tourniquet rather than benefited by its use. When there is a severe wound, it is important to keep your fingers out of the wound. Any of the well-recognized antiseptics may be dropped into the wound. Then cover the wound with clean gauze until the attention of ft competent physician can be had. Remember that an unconscious person gets cold quickly. Chilling means a further strain on his condition. By all means keep every unconscious person warm. For this purpose, hot pads, hot water bottles, or other means may be used. In using these, you should realize that the unconscious person can not tell when he is being burned. Among the most frequent conditions which people try to treat for themselves are hiccups, coughs, nosebleed and splinters beneath the skin. There are a dozen superstitions about stopping hiccups. If a little water or a little food or an ordinary sedative does not stop the

It's the easiest thing in the world to found some kind of club or lodge or movement, but it is practically impossible to end it. Organizations may dwindle in membership, decline in interest or even die slowly of inertia, but they never disband. So long as anybody can be found to serve as president, they go on—obscure. feeble, accomplishing nothing. with collections and dues as their only activity. u a m 'T'HE Revolutionary war has been over for quite some time, but the Ladies of the D. A. R. meet together with complacent regularity and fight it again. The Confederacy is only a dream in a history

contestants as well as two of the Chicago Walkathon contestants, I was informed by each that they are in perfectly normal condition and have suffered in no manner as a result of being in the contest. In fact, of those whom I interviewed every one gained weight but one. Every one of them expressed a desire to enter another contest and have expressed the highest feeling of respect and commendation for every member of the staff and management. The unfavorable comments, complaints and criticisms by the misinformed do not measure up to the standard of clean sportsmanship. The veiled interest of health and future welfare of this group of contestants whom these flannel-mouth egotists do not even know and never have seen is but a feinted cry of certain interests whose business ability is so dull that in their frantic cry of “save me,” they have gone frantically into the red on the wrong side of the ledger. They would curtail everything to their idea of entertainment and threaten, coerce and intimidate the public to patronage. Had they progressed as did one of the theater managers and several of the more optimistic business men, these same wolf howlers would have enjoyed the same favorable publicity as the sponsors of these contestants, and would have gained financially thereby. These business men and these contestants may be interviewed by any one who is in doubt and these statements may be very easily verified. Underhanded* methods, unfair business methods and false propaganda are going to receive more attention from the people in the future. Do you want someone to destroy your business as you are endeavoring to destroy the business of others? I believe God despises a louse and a selfish, unfair business man.

hiccup, it must be taken as a serious symptom that demands prompt medical attention. A cough persistent enough or severe enough to cause pain demands immediate medical attention. Most nosebleeds can be stopped by keeping the head elevated and tipped forward, breathing through the mouth and applying cold compresses over the bridge of the nose. Any nosebleed that persists demands prompt medical attention. Unless a splinter is right under the surface and easily removed, it should be left for the attention of an expert. Picking at splinteds times results in hemorrhage. If the open wound becomes conteminated from the fingers of the attendant, or from the dressing applied, or from the person’s clothing, there may be danger to life. If the splinter comes from a highly contaminated source, it may be necessary to give an antitoxin against lockjaw at once. Altogether, remember that first aid is distinctly a temporary procedure, designed only for immediate safety and comfort, and that any minor injury may become a major one without proper attention to its earliest stages.

book, but the women of the U. D. C. remain actively agitating the lost cause and retracing, with pitiful exactitude, the dim Mason and Dixon line. The W. C. T. U., with prohibition safely written into the Constitu- ; tion, continued to function and convene long after all need of Its work was at an end. I am told, even, tllat in certain sections the Camelias auxiliary to the K. K. K.. appoint committees and pass resolutions. We only hope Mrs. Sabin's senj sible action presages the coming of j anew age—an age when no order j will be allowed to survive unless It j has a definite, important work to do. 1 and may the Lord speed the c^ay.

DEC. 15. 1933

F air Enough “BY WESTBROOK PEGLER —

A GREAT many worthy citizens who desire to drink their counry out of the red are being hammered in the performance of this patriotic service by the official rules ;r.d I have been wondering when ‘.he authorities are going to give the 7ime back to the boys. After all. it is the boys and girls who are going iO play this game and it was my impression that prohibition was repealed in response to a great popular demand that the citizens be allowed to drink alcoholic beverages Mr. Roosevelt contributed the alma mater motive when he pointed out that a drink for personal pleasure was also a drink to the prosperity of the United States treasury. I got the idea at once. It is omewhat. the same in football where a man who scores a touchdown not only acquires glory for himself but* for his team and dear old Siwash. It is true that in the game of football players often feel called upon to continue playing long after it has ceased to be a pleasure and begun to hurt and I think the same enthusiasm can be expected of some of the better varsity drinkers if the rules are ever relaxed sufficiently. But up to this time the patriots who would like to indulge in some real competitive drinking have been restricted to skull practice and dummy scrimmage and if things do not improve I am afraid many of us will turn in our suits and go back to informal, sand-lot drinking. We get action there, anyway, even though the higher motive was larking. u m m Change the Rules I AM Inclined to suspect that the football rules committee might have had a hand in the drafting of some of the rules, particularly the one which forbids the citizen to absorb a drink while he is In an upright position. This one reminds me of the rule which declares the ball to have been downed if the carrier's knee or elbow touches the ground. A carrier who is a great natural creeper is .thus discriminated against. Many a great natural bar drinker will be relegated to the scrub and his contribution to the treasury will be forbidden if he is required to drink in a sitting position. Permitted to stand up to his drinks long enough the best of bar-drink-ers will come upon a time when he will find himself horizontal, whirn is an attitude that should suit the most conservative. My own experience to date has beeen discouraging. With half an hour to idle away I visited a hotel and looked and sniffed about for the location of the drinking department but presently had to inquiie of a bell-boy who pointed to the grill-room. At the door of the grillroom I checked my hat and coat and was taken up by a captain of waiters who showed me to a table. A bus-boy then appeared and laid a place for me. There were a knife, fork, two spoons and butter-knife, a plate, bread plate and butter-dish, a napkin and the customary glass bullets of salt and pepper and a glass of water. The waiter then came over and I said “Bring me a dry martini.” “Yes,” he said, “and then?” tr tt ts Just Another Dinner The result of this was the regular combination dinner, No. 3, with the tongue and spinach, which, with tips sos the waiter and the girl at the hat-rack ran my bill up to nigh .on to $2. I doubt that, the government got more than a couple of cents, if that, out of my dry martini. Can this be a plot to sell tongue and spinach? I claim that in this case, the regulations prevented me from putting forth my best efforts and the price and difficulties set me to wondering whether the repeal had not been nothing but a scheme of the prohibitionists to make the country dry. I am told that in Chicago they have high-chair drinking at long counters which are not called bars but that if a customer shall reach down and straighten out one leg he is deemed not to be sitting and therefore to be standing and thus a disorderly character. This kind of thing is going to clutter up the sport and I wcaider whoever asked for such regulations, anyway. I am certain the drinking citizens did not and they are the ones who will be in there taking it for the dear old treasury. It seems that Mr. Mulrooney, who is helping to make the rules in New York, is the one who opposes upright drinking, although Mr. Mulrooney never took a drink in his life. Weil, his selection is consistent, anyway. They usually try to get at least one tailor on a prizefight commission and ambassadors often are selected for the fact that they do not know anything about the countries to which they are appointed and therefore are open-minded. But It would be cheering to the boys and girls who are going to do the drinking to be told that the Governor had appointed to the commission at least one old soak. > (Copyright, 1.933, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

Prisoner

By HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK Again I am prisoner. Again I am caught. Meshed in clinging fabric Grave Autumn has wrought. Bound just as securely As lover to love. To brown earth beneath me; To steep sky above. Chain-bound by a thistle; Sealed with a wind's sigh You dare not release me With beauty I die! So They Say The ladies may take pleasure in contemplating that it will take the males 500,000 years to attain the smoothness of brow which they now possess.—Dr. H. L. Shapiro, New York scientist. I don’t in the least mind playing for one hundred people.—Arthur Schnabel. Austrian pianist. Perhaps you can't sing. Well, I can't walk and that is all there is to it. —Jean Ferguson Black, crippled dramatist.