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_ SATURDAY DEC. 16 19J3 THE TARIFF PARADOX TJ EPORTS that the administration has swung back to a position favoring quick action on international tariff reduction are premature. Foreign trade statements by Commerce Secretary Roper and Agriculture Secretary Wallace, and the formation of a special foreign trade committee followed by the appointment of Mr. Peek to encourage exports and imports, all led up to the statement by State Secretary Cordell Hull at the Montevideo conference. The preamble of the Hull resolution says that the governments at the conference— " Are impressed with the disastrous effect of obstructions to international trade upon the full and stable business recovery of individual nations, as well as upon general world prosperity; are desirous of abandoning economic conflict and of achieving some measure of economic disarmament.” But the resolution then sets forth sweeping “reservations and exceptions” which “expressly shall include the operation of temporary, emergency, or other extraordinary measures comprising domestic programs, primarily for national economic recovery, now or hereafter in operation in any country party to this undertaking.” t Lest there be any misunderstanding the White House then indicated that the President, though favoring eventual general tariff cuts, thinks that the time is not yet ripe for much more than bilateral treaties. According to the White House, general tariff agreements can not be expected even within a period of months. There appears in this to be a tendency to face both ways at once on this tariff issue, but we believe this is not so much the fault of the administration as of the inherent paradox of the economic situation itself. The United States, acting in harmonious agreement with the world on economic problems could move faster than by acting alone. But in the unfortunate state of world disagreement of ecenomic solutions, the United States dares not ■wait for an international recovery program, but must improvise a national program. Having embarked upon a national recovery program which conflicts with immediate reduction of American tariffs, the administration has no choice other than to see the present program through to success. Since that is obviously the administration’s intention, it is doubtful that any good purpose is served by discussions now of hypothetical general tariff reduction in the future. The Hull proposal at Montevideo evoked an attack on our tariff and our sincerity of purpose. Its passage would not amount to much. Until we are ready to act, our talk is apt to be misunderstood abroad and thus increase rather than diminish international friction. When we are ready to act—and that may not be as far off as the President fears—our action will be more eloquent than our premature words.

PROBLEM STILL TO BE SOLVED ■JV/fOST of our energies today are devoted to the immediate problem of recovery. To start the wheels turning again, to put idle men to work, to set money flowing through its old channels—these make up a colossal job. Until it is accomplished, no one has time to think of much else. But it is worth remembering that back of it there lies still another problem; one which took shape before the depression began, and which will be around to plague us long after the depression is over. It is simply the fact that this efficient and mechanized age continually is finding ways of using fewer men to make and do more things. ‘Technological unemployment” is the lengthy name that has been given this development. Ten men can do a job today that would have taken thirty men a decade ago. Tomorrow the job probably will be done by five men. That's all there is to it. But if the problem is stated easily, it can be extraordinarily puzzling. Every modern business operates under the necessity of being as efficient as possible. It has to do what it does in the quickest possible manner at the least possible expense. If it can find a machine to do the work that formerly was done by a dozen men. it has to install it. If it can arrange its operations so that one man can do what two used to do, it must do so. Temporarily, as a means of reducing unemployment, we have made certain arbitrary moves to halt this process. The federal railway co-ordinator, for instance, has refrained from instituting various consolidations in our railway set-up, because to do so would throw men out of work. For the time being, we probably can continue to swim against the tide m this manner. But this simply is dodging the problem. Eventually, when full prosperity has returned, we shall be forced to find- a sokitiorx The task won't be easy. On the one hand, we aim to make it possible for eyeo' man who wants a job to fin! one. On the other, the very nature of our productive machinery tends tcf whittle down the total number of jobs. The biggest single puzzle of the modern age Is apt to be-the task of harmonizing those opposing trends. Compared to that task, the job of getting out of the present depression is apt to look almost easy. CHASE NATIONAL’S “REFORMER” ALSO comes Wmthrop Aldrich to poke his head out of the muck of banking scandals and proclaim his dislikes for Roosevelt’s banking reforms. Mr. Aldrich is a gentleman of much prominence, being son-in-law of our esteemed old fellow-citizen, John D. Rockefeiler, who is his time suppressed many a coal

oil reform, and also is serving as president of the Chase National bank since Wiggin thought it well to quit that job. Mr. Aldrich much dislikes the Roosevelt idea that a bank should be a bank and not a hive of stock investment agents into which are coaxed innocent little human flies having 'money to bum. Also, the bank deposit guaranty act draws Mr. Aldrich’s strenuous disapprobation. It is much more dignified and complimentary to the management to have scores of ten thousands walk in with full reliance upon the innate ability and honor of said management, as in the cases of those busted big banks in Cleveland, Detroit and elsewhere. Os particular abhorrence to Mr. Aldrich is the provision requiring security houses to give full and exact information as to what they are trying to put over on the wild and woolly get-rich-quick suckers, of which there still are multitudes left that were only partly skinned and eviscerated in the 1928 crash. This proposition is scaring capital, says Mr. Aldrich, and checking investment in the heavy, durable industries. The gentleman seems to feel that the heavy, durable industries have abandoned the policy of knowing just exactly what they are doing when making investment and object to Mr. Roosevelt’s making their knowledge more definite and certain. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt grins at his critics and goes right ahead toward -wherever he is going to get. SECOND STORY WORKERS /'CHAIRMAN JOHN H. FAHEY of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation warns home owners against shyster lawyers and others who wheedle fees from mortgage-ridden citizens by representing that they have pull in Washington. "Even Washington is full of second story workers who claim that through special influence and connection with high officials decisions may be expedited,” Chairman Fahey said. The law prohibits attorneys employed by the corporation taking fees or commissions. Outside lawyers or firms selling spurious influence can be prosecuted under the fraud law. This particular form of exploitation just about plumbs the depths of human meanness, for it further impoverishes the poor. One way to thwart it is to speed up the refunding of home mortgages and remove the distress upon which it preys. ' Under the corporation’s new chairman a better record is being written. Loans closed by the corporation in the week ending Dec. 6 totaled $12,655,065. This is an increase of 32.6 per cent over the week ending Dec. 1, and means an average of $2,100,000 a day. To date, however, only 19,972 home mortgages have been refinanced under the act, or a total in dollar volume of $57,548,536, of which all but about $500,000 has been effected by the exchange of mortgages for corporation bonds. Out of some 500,000 distressed home owners to be benefited this is not an impressive showing. EVERYBODY HAPPY! 'T'K.E highly publicized controversy between officials of the department of agriculture seems to have been settled in an eminently sensible manner. Secretary Wallace wins a confirmation of his authority, and the period of crossed wires and opposing purposes within the department is ended—which, regardless of the soundness or otherwise of the opposing views, at least will end confusion and discord, and enable the administration to drive straight ahead, without lost motion. At the same time, the very marked abilities of Mr. Peek are not lost to the government. As head of the agency for the increase of American exports, he has anew field in which he can be exceedingly useful. Thus the administration has been able to end a controversy without depriving itself of the services of any of the men involved.

OUTSPOKEN JUSTICE /CIRCUIT JUDGE J. V. GADDY of St. Joseph. Mo., indulged in some very sensible plain speaking when he instructed the grand jury to return indictments in the lynching of Lloyd Warner. Negro. “The danger of the mob.” he pointed out, “lies in the letting down of individual responsibility. It wasn't a desire to administer justice or prevent a recurrence of Warner’s crime which sent the mob against the jail. It was hate, the same passion that engenders any murder. “When you find the real leaders of that mob, you will find men of not much higher moral standards than the man they murdered.” Here is straight talk, and intelligent talk. A little more of it from persons in authority and we might have fewer lynchings. STRANGERS IN OUR MIDST TNTO every large city annually come thousands of strangers without money, friends or destination. Jobless, they scraped together money to get to a big city, where, they assume. since there are so many people, there ought to be jobs. There is one organization which has been looking out for these helpless strangers since 1885. It is the Travelers' Aid Society. You have seen its representatives at the railroad terminals and more recently at the bus stations. These are the gladhanders of the people's committee for the reception of helpless and bewildered guests. They receive vicariously for all the other people of the city—the lone children who pour into the city, the girls, runaways, stranded and broken families, the .unmarried mothers, the helpless old people and deserted brides. In nearly every person there is an instinctive readiness to help a stranger in the city. But very few individuals are ever faced with thaf opportunity or responsibility. The Travelers' Aid Society day. after day through the years fulfills this duty for you. Samuel Insull can’t understand why he's so unpopular in America. He isn’t. Thousands of Americans would like to have him come back. Germany’s new reichstag assembled, voted yes and adjourned. Now, there's one reform for which Hitler deserves credit. Some scientists believe that the north pole used to be near where New York is now. It moved, when the town got too hot for it.

TAXES ON GREENBACKS Tlfß. MORGENTHAU, in his first appear- ■*-*-*- ance before congressional committees as acting secretary of the treasury, made a good impression presenting the Roosevelt tax attitude. Unfortunately, the details were withheld. but some of the general principles were expressed. With those Roosevelt principles a large majority of citizens will be in substantial agreement. The Ideal is to tax according to ability to pay. Therefore the treasury head agrees that surtaxes should be increased, that separate returns for husband and wife be abolished to prevent tax escape on the notorious Charles E. Mitchell model, and that the tax on unearned income be larger than on earned income. "It long has been recognized both in this country and abroad,” the secretary pointed out, “that earned income should be taxed at a lower rate than income from investments.” In fact, this was not recognized by American law until 1924 and then was throw r n out in 1932 because of the pressure for more revenue. No effort w r as made yesterday to prevent a complete Roosevelt tax program. Rather vaguely, Mr. Morgenthau said: “The committee may wish to discuss, as well, other forms of taxation on large-scale businesses such as the excess profits tax. Recommendations as to these are beyond the scope of this statement. The detailed plan will come later.” Presumably congress faces the customary fight in which the rich will try to prevent taxation on the principle of capacity to pay—whether in the form of higher rates for unearned incomes, for inheritances, for upper bracket surtaxes, for excess profits or whatnot. And yet the wealthy have a good reason for not making their usual fight this year, if they are wise enough to see it. Their chief fear now is extreme currency inflation. They should realize that the alternative to printing press inflation is high tax revenue from those who have money to pay. The government is going deeper and deeper into debt as the price of recovery—to loan money to banks and industry, to float public works as a market for industry and as employment for the jobless, and otherwise prime the recovery pump. The political temptation—the easy way—for a government in debt is to pay off in greenbacks and thus start on the thin ice of uncontrolled inflation. The hard way, politically, the unpopular way, is for the government to increase taxes. This is also a hard way financially because the mass of people in depression can not stand more taxes. The increased burden must be borne by the rich, if at all. President Roosevelt, who Is damned by many of the rich as an inflationist, apparently has the financial wisdom and the political courage to turn to increased taxation instead of to the printing presses. NOT EMBARRASSED WjxEN that chief stow’away aboard the incoming La Guardia administration, Henry Hesterberg, the defeated borough president of Brooklyn, was named to the $10,840 vacancy in the board of water supply on Tuesday, the following remarkable colloquy took place between Mayor O’Brien and the new holder of the lifetime job threatened with abolition by Mayor-Elect La Guardia: Said Mayor O’Brien, in effect, "I thank the new incumbent for his willingness to take the position.” The willing new incumbent, in effect: “Not at all, your honor. I do not believe there will be anything in the new position that will embarrass me.” Unless it be Mr. La Guardia when he abolishes the job. That ought to be a bit discomfiting, to say the least. The Lindberghs are doing their Christmas hopping.

M.E. Tracy Says: 1

ACCORDING to Senator Black of Alabama, this country has very little to show for the vast sums of money it has handed over to ship owners for the promotion and development of a merchant marine. “At the end of the present ten-year program, he says, “this government will have paid out more than half a billion dollars to. ship operators in subsidies.” And then he makes the startling declaration that, thought we began the program with a fleet of 5,000 ships, we shall end up with a fleet of seventy-five. That represents not only a bad showing but a great disappointment. Ten years ago it looked as though the United States might, with prudent management and wise use of the public credit, build up a great merchant marine. a a a IN theory, nothing seemed to be needed except such subsidies as England and other European countries were granting. In theory, the task included little more than a sale of our government-owned fleet at reduced prices, the granting of juicy mail contracts and the passage of laws which would protect American shipowners against foreign competition. All these tilings the government has done only to find that our merchant marine has shrunk by more than 90 per cent. Senator Black charges that most of the money has been used to fill the pockets of operators or owners, while the promised construction of new ships has been ignored. He says that some have made thousands of per cent on their private investments, while failing to use the taxpayers’ contribution either wisely or profitably. The gravity of the situation lies in what we are going to do next rather than in what has been done.. A merchant marine is of vital importance not only from the standpoint of trade, but as an integral part of the national defense. A country like the United States can not hope to develop its commerce, or guarantee its citizens adequate protection, without a great fleet of merchants’ ships. a tt a BY every rule of the game, the American merchant fleet should be larger than tJjat of any other nation. Our resources, industrial development. potential power of production and place in the family of nations warrant no less. We can not hope to achieve the desired end, however, by following a program which has failed so completely. More than half a billion dollars has been squandered to no worth-while purpose. Some people think that we have become incapable of successful competition with foreign countries in building and operating ships, and that we might as well throw up our hands. If that is true, we have lost* something of great value. Our great grandfathers found it possible not only to meet but to beat their foreign rivals. In the roaring forties, when this country had no such resources and no such trade as it boasts today, it was able to develop a merchant marine equal to England's. What is the matter with twentieth century America that She can't do an equally good job?

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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

(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 lessJ By Charles Burton. President Hoover's conference called in 1929 to consider the needs of children made many startling admissions about the condition of 10,000,000 who are undernourished and of thousands who suffer tuberculosis and damaged hearts. And it pointed out that only fifteen out of 100 children get any medical attention. But they had nothing to propose to remedy the condition of the children. The national government, speaking for Wall Street, made the hypocritical gesture of calling the conference but washed its hands of any measure of relief for the millions of children who are starving. In the fourth year of bitter crisis, they have unmasked themselves as hypocrites and enemies of the unemployed and children. Big business actually checked off the voluntary contribution weekly from the pay envelopes of the workeers in thousands of shops and stores. This is done in order to shift responsibility and expense from the bosses to the masses. Millions of dollars collected in this way never went to the unemployed at all, but, have been used for purposes of graft and to maintain highly i>aid officials who insult and intimidate the unemployed when they come for help. Countless numbers of men and women have been turned away empty handed or have waited for weeks before the pleas for help have been acted upon. Those workers who have voiped their bitterness against this treatment have been manhandled by the police. Men, women and children in a breadline in the heart of Indianapolis is a tragic witness to the humiliation and degradation to which the children of unemployed are subjected by the generous philanthropy of the capitalists. From a Heartbroken Mother. First, I want every one who reads this to say a prayer for me because I won’t get to spend Christmas with my darlings. I always was taught that Christmas brings happiness and good cheer, but it’s surely bringing me anguish. Mrs. Trook has told the reason I was forbidden to see my children was that X tried to take Virginia away with me from Sunnyside, but as God in heaven looks down on me as I write this, I never tried at any time to take her away with me. If Mrs. Trook has any children. I wonder if she every stops and thinks about that precious little mite when it was laid in her arms, and how she held up its tiny little hand and kissed each tiny finger and with heart bursting with mother love and thanked God for sending that little precious life into her keeping? My mother had twelve children and she has told me many times about how every pain was forgotten as each and every one was put in her arms. It just seems like everything in the whole world is against me and some times I think when Jesus went and scattered sunshine and happiness to every one, he just forgot me and passed me by. Even if I can not be happy for Christmas is no reason for me not wanting someone to be happy, as I am blue and sad. Wishing one. and all a Merry Christmas and a more than Happy New Year I also thank The Times Reader and family for their sym-

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THE finest boon life offers us is experience. When, therefore, a woman refuses to accept the normal experiences of existence because she is afraid of their consequences, she turns her back upon precious gifts that are tendered her. For example, a girl in Cincinnati writes: “I am 24 and very much in love with a boy only one year my senior. My parents do not want me to marry him because they feel he is too young for me and that he does not show the stability of character they think a husband shoud have. I love him. What shall I do?”~ Os course, my dear, you hear it said on every side that one must deliberate long before trusting one-

There’s More Than One Way

Wynekoops By A Times Header. I have been reading in your paper the articles Dr. Catherine Wynekoop has been writing concerning the early life of her mother. What is her motive for this unless it is to obtain sympathy from the public? If my mother had committed this heinous crime and disgraced a highly honored name such as the Wynekoop’s must have borne, I would feel like retiring into obscurity instead of keeping this awful thing before the eyes of the public by having these articles printed. Anyone who deliberately can take the life of an innocent young woman the way Dr. Alice Wynekoop did is a murderess in the eyes of God and man and should be dealt with the same as any other criminal regardless of family name or education. pathy in answering a heartbroken mother. I would be glad to hear from her again. By William A. Sprowl. In the Message Center of Saturday’s Times Was a girlie’s views done up in rhymes. It seems she thinks employers should frown On all their help who live out of town. She says that she will stand by those Who have before expressed in prose Their hatred few us, and what a pity! For we who live outside the city. If forced to give up home or jobs Because of cries or wails or sobs From owners of repossessed idle real estate, Or just from thoughtless, jealous hate. I wonder why people just can’t agree And keep our country a land of the free. Remember that we, too, must live; When help is needed, we always give. One writer just couldn’t understand or see Why they should hire a man from Tennessee. Another moaned and heaved a sigh Why they even hire folks from old Ky. Tennessee, Kentucky, or any other state, They’re all united, “there are fortyeight.” Now get on your toes and set the sail, This battle-scarred ship will weather the gale. ’Tis true, this has been a terrible test, But most every one has done his best. It doesn’t help to fuss or growl, With that I’ll sign off. By A. L. I can’t place him, he has a right to his views. I have seen as he sees, but smart men change their minds. Maybe he is old and set in his ways. I belong to the younger generation; the economic system of my father does not cope with modern machinery. I refer to Mr. Mat-

BY. MRS, WALTER FERGUSON

self to marriage, which is considered woman's most important decision ini life. To a certain extent, the truth of such an argument can not be denied, but only to a certain extent. It is almost as unfortunate to deliberate too long as it is not to deliberate at all. a tt o THE worst enemy of happiness is fear. So long as you are afraid marriage will not reward you as it should and your fears will probably !be justified. But once make up your mind that you expect the best—and will work like the dickens to : get it—the breaks are apt to come | your way. Emphatically, I do not agree with | those authorities who say that a

tox, contributor to The Times’ Message Center. The majority of people are wageearners. We must look to human beings to consume what is produced. Machines do not eat nor wear out clothing—the owners of the machines can use but a small amount of production goods—the unemployed have no wages, the geese that laid the golden eggs are turnfed cut to starve. The markets are glutted. The overlords of banking and industry flock to Uncle Sam for a generous helping of the people’s money and relief legislation for themselves. Thievery is just illegal where the thieves are not big enough to demand laws. There is no peace in the lives of the wage earners; they have no security now; what about old age? People hungry and in rags forced to pay others to curtail and destroy usable goods. Mr. Mattox, the patriotism you spoke of is being squeezed out of a people as you would squeeze the water from a sponge. The real patriot could not be an exploiter on Wall street—using an Abe Lincoln phrase—they are found back there behind an iron-weed. And these patriots some day are going to re-read the Constitution and take the literal meaning of: “We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, is is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” The logic of events, in our antiquated economic system, is proof enough to any student of economics that our next step is chaos or cooperation. Socialism points the way to true co-operation. Ask your questions, Mr. Mattox, make your criticisms. I am sure someone will answer them. By Reader and Theater Fan. In answer to “Times Reader” in your paper, Dec. 11: I, too, am an ardent reader of The Times. How any one who lives and works in Indianapolis can stand up for such a thing as the Walkathon, a fly-by-night outfit, and run down their own established theaters, owned and operated by Indianapolis men, is more than I can understand. I also made one trip to the Walkathon. Yes, they have a 25 cents admission price, but I sat on those board they call seats, and listened to a lot of bla-bla and so-called entertainment, I didn’t even stay two hours. If you care to gd and stay any time at all, they have very good seats for 40 cents—funeral parlor chairs. Every week I patronize a downtown theater. It costs me 25 cents and I can stay as long as I wish, sit in an upholstered seat, see real entertainment and I am privileged to dance afterward—all for 25 cents.

bad husband is worse than none at all. Because it seems to me that we only grow through our experiences in the art of living. And if all our experiences are not happy, we can still develop and enrich our characters and become finer women by means of the sad ones. Naturally no one would be so foolish as to advise marriage with a man whom you might recognize at once as a ne’er do well or a rogue. But s’lrely love—often as it betrays us—is worth risking something for. Playing safe often means sorry. We must take our chances with life. So the old-fashioned slogan is as good as any for tackling matrimony —“Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.’’

DEC. m 1933

Fair Enough BY WESTBROOK PEGLEB

MY friend, Connie Mack, the baseball man. has taken apart and distributed the pieces of another of his great baseball clubs because they could not win their weight in ball games for him It might cheer Mr. Roosevelt to know that a man who did this once before has been well-enough satisfied with the method to try it over again because there seem to be points of resemblance in their way of doing. Os course, it might not cheer Mr. Roosevelt to be told that Mr. Mack spent eight years in the cellar of the American League after he broke up that other team and that it took him fifteen years to win another championships and I do not know what my object is in bringing that up. However, there is nothing binding about that part- of the Connie Mack plan and Mr. Roosevelt might get his club up there, or thereabouts, as the baseball people say, within a four-year term. Nobody ever will sue him for that. Mr. Mack always aims to retain a locker room boy or bat caddy as a holdover from a broken-up ball club to preserve in a nominal sort of way the identity of the Philadelphia Athletics while the new team is being organized. a a a Mr. Farley's Job PERHAPS if you were to hunt around in Washington now you w r ould find some tender of a nailedup and forgotten door down in thf catacombs of the Capitol who datei back to the Hoover administration and thus preserves the continuity of the familiar American government. I would not wish to wager on that, though, because Mr. Shamus Farley has been doing a very thorough job of heaving the rascals out, to use the old patriotic term, and the presence of a Republican in a job which might be adorned by a deserving Democrat w r ould be a great humiliation to Mr. Farley. Recalling the Connie Mack plan of reorganization and reconstruction as it operated in those years between 1914 and 1928, I find much that resembles certain goings-on which have occurred in Washington since Mr. Roosevelt stood up there on the temporary platform, which looked like a lemonade stand at a county fair, last March 4, and announced that he going to start all over. When Mr. Mack dispersed his old club there then began to appear in the lineup of the Philadelphia Athletics such a succession of wildeyed, wild-haired nuts and lefthanded catchers and shut-eye hitters and tangle-footed first basemen as never had been seen outside the funny papers. Figure This Out HE caught them fresh in the morning, served them in the afternoon and, in many cases, fired them at night. No grocer’s boy passing Connie Mack’s ball yard was entirely safe from Connie Mack’s scouts, who lay in wait and prowled the town, hauling respectable w r agon helpers down off their trucks and pressing them into service as heavy-hitting outfielders, although some of them w'ere knowm to protest that they couldn't hit a balloon with a banjo. Once a hotel clerk named .Rettig pitched a game of ball for Mr. Mack and shut out the St. Louis Browns, who w r ere leading the league, and finished only half-a-game behind the champions that year. Three days later Mr. Mack let him go. “I knew from the start that he couldn’t pitch,” said Mr. Mack, “but he beat the Browns and struck out Sisler twice. How do you account for that.” But at the same time and by the same process Mr. Mack was catching and detaining in his service some very able ball players and after a long while he found some other able athletes to team up with them. Then he had a champion club again. Like Mr. Roosevelt, he didn’t particularly care whether they were duly registered members of his league or not. He tried fallen-aw-ay National Leaguers and even outlaws on his ball club. Their baseball politics made no difference to him if they could play his kind of ball and win their weight in ball games for Connie Mack. And some of the best ball players that Mr. Mack acquired during those years w-ere young men w r ho had the appearance of wildeyed, wild-haired nuts when he got them. Though lacking in professional style and grace they played him some competent baseball to the puzzlement of experts who said baseball just couldn’t be played that way. a n tt Experts Strike Out' IT has looked to me as though Mr. Roosevelt was reenuting some of his talent by the Connie Mack system for he has brought in men who never worked in the government trade or handled big money before and the turnover in personnel is brisk these days. Mr. Mack, on his part, found that a lot of seasoned, highly professional experts were playing his baseball firm into debt and he just concluded that it didn't take experts to do that for him. They were perfect in everything but the important matter of net results and he had nothing to lose by experimenting. Maybe some of Mr. Roosevelt’s team don’t know T anything about governing a country, but Rettig didn’t know how to pitch either and he struck out Sisler twice. (Copyright, 1933, by United Features Syndicate. Inc.)

Word to Wise

BY FRANCESCA Werther was fond of his Charlotte, Fa us? had his heart-throb, too. Dante was thrilled by Beatrice, The same way I'm thrilled by you. , Raphael loved his Madonna, Poe had his Anna belle Lee; A love unrequited was won by the smile Os Mona, from great Da Vinci. Wilde wrote his verse to Delores — The great lover, Romeo. Was faithful forever to sweet Juliet And Anthony fought for Cieo. All the world loves a lover, 'tis said. Though they lose more often than win; i <1 wonder how long I must sit on a tack? I Just when will you ever give in?)