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DRIVE OUT BOOTLEGGING sold at beer bars; bootleggers cornering the local ‘‘corn’’ supply; Chicago racketeers trying to “muscle in” on drug store sales—these are some of the ugly symptoms that have accompanied repeal in Indiana. There are two aspects of the whole liquor problem; Moral and economic. Consider the first of these. America has learned by more than a decade of bitter experience that abstinence can not be forced by law. The people turned away in disgust from prohibition in the belief that there were better ways of encouraging temperance. The obvious way for Indiana to promote the cause of true temperance is to make fermented and brewed beverages of all kinds cheap and easily available. Distilled drinks should be at hand for those who want them, but it is perfectly proper for the state to levy a heavier tax on them than on wines and beers. This tax should not be so high, however, as to provide an opportunity for bootleggers successfully to compete with legal liquor sellers. Above all, the quality of legitimate whisky should be far above that offered by racketeers. From the economic standpoint, legalized liquors should provide anew and ample revenue for distressed government. They are a luxury and it is proper to tax them. But, as any economist knows, there is a law of diminishing returns which operates on all questions of taxation. Up to a reasonable point, the state can expect to increase its revenue enormously from the liquor tax. Beyond that point the tax becomes oppressive and the income from it dwindles with great rapidity. Demands already are being heard that the police act with severity against bootleggers. That is proper. No laxity in enforcement should be tolerated now that legal liquor is available. Police, however, can do nothing without public opinion behind them. Stop patronizing the bootlegger even though you have to make sacrifices for the time being to do so. The only way to drive out racketeering in liquor is to make it unprofitable. It is smart to be legal.

A LIBRARY FOR 52.10 INDIANAPOLIS is one among a number of American cities selected for an experiment in literature, the purpose of which, certainly, deserves high praise. The National Home Library Foundation of Washington, D. C„ is placing on sale at news stands in Indianapolis and other cities certain books of recognized literary merit, at the astonishingly low price of 15 cents each. Fourteen volumes already are available in what the foundation calls the “Jacket Library.” They are: The New Testament, “Green Mansions,” “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass,” Tom Sawyer,” “Under the Greenwood Tree,” “Treasure Island.” Emerson's Essays, "Pere Goriot,” “The Way of All Flesh,” “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” Palgrave’s “Golden Treasury of Song and Verse,” and “The Merchant of Venice,” Postand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac," and Justice Louis D. Brandeis’ “Other People’s Money.” The books are well printed on good paper in attractive bindings. It is difficult to understand how they can be sold so cheaply. And, indeed, the foundation's editor, Sherman F. Mittell, asserts that there is no desire for financial profits, but that the aim is: To offer classics in so attractive a form, and at so low a price, that greater and greater numbers of our people will come to know the delight and profit of great books. Some 2.000,000 volumes have been sold to schools, colleges and through the usual commercial outlets. We are attempting to open up new fields of distribution and have made progress in negotiations even with chain grocery stores. We want books to be considered a necessary, democratic staple. If the American housewife could be induced to make her purchase of “Green Mansions” with her dozen eggs, it would be one step further in breaking down the intellectual snobbiness our universities perpetuate regarding the classics. The advisory board which determines the policies of the foundation and selects the books to be published includes representatives of many large educational and cultural organizations. Among the members are Dorothy Canfield Fisher, James Truslow Adams, Albert Einstein, Robert A. Millikan, Wililam Allen White, Will Durant, John Dewey, Norman Hapgood. Ellen Glasgow, Clara Clemens and many others. The desire of the foundation is, not to compete with standard publishers, but to spread the book-reading habit and sc to increase the demand for good books from all publishers. Such an enterprise, it seems to us. deserves to be encouraged. We hope that the present experiment in Indianapolis will be successful and that it will help to lead to the establishing of the multiplied outlets the foundation is seeking for its classics. CONSUMER PROTESTS FOLLOWING the Washington consumers* conference, protests from consumer groups about excessive price increases probably will become more numerous and insistent if NRA does not take steps to meet squarely the issue they raise. In President Roosevelt’s message to employers asking them to sign the blue eagle agreement, a pledge was included that price increases would be delayed as long as possible, and when made would cover only additional pay roll costs caused by higher wages and reemployment. That pledge has been broken by some. Prices are mounting out of proportion to the ability of buyers to buy. Business can not continue to improve and the recovery program Gao not continue to U employers for.

get the principle that was to save them—general and stable Increase In purchasing power. Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace discusses the whole problem in his annual report. He concludes that profits may have to be regulated. "Redistribution of purchasing power to wage earners and crop adjustments in agriculture can not be relied on exclusively to correct the trouble,” he says. “Processors, distributors and others hold a strong position in the economic system. They can continue to exact an undue share of the consumer’s dollar if nothing is done to stop them.” Going on to point out that the problem is as acute in NRA as in AAA, Secretary Wallace says: “Regulation of production and of producers’ prices would seem to require, as a logical corollary, the regulation of profits. When profits increase greatly out of proportion to wage payments, consumption inevitably fells. “This question of profits goes, of course, beyond the industries that handle agricultural products. Stability in our industrial, as well as our agricultural life, may depend on answering it correctly. It may be necessary to review very critically the influence of excessive profits on our economic life.”

DEMOCRACY IS WORKING PRESIDENT EMERITUS LOWELL of Harvard university has something useful to say in the never-ending debate on the alleged breakdown of American democracy. Writing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs he points out that the collapse has come in the private business system rather than in government. “Have not some managers of large commercial companies made profits by inside knowledge and manipulation that might have accrued to the stockholders?” he asks. “Is there no favoritism in appointments and contracts of tiie kind that in politics is called graft? “In short, is the fiduciary obligation of public officials to the citizens different in kind or degree from that of officers of companies to their stockholders? It is difficult to prevent politicians from making a profit, directly or indirectly, for themselves or their friends, out of their positions, when some men prominent in business do likewise uncensured and uncondemned. Nor can we fairly attribute to democracy evils tolerated in commercial life.” The success of any system depends in the long run on its honesty and efficiency. The serious problems with which American democracy is struggling today were created for the most part by the dishonesty and inefficiency in commercial life, certainly not by dishonesty and ’ inefficiency of the federal government. After private business during several years of depression failed in the salvage operation, it turned to the government for help. The government is now aiding and leading business out of the depression. Whatever the future may hold, the experiment of political democracy in economic action is a record to date of proud achievement. Such weaknesses as have appeared arise from the refusal of a business minority to cooperate rather than from any failure of democracy.

CWA MIGHT CONTINUE THE tremendous program of the civil works administration began as a sort of improvisation—a happy thought, put into execution almost on the spur of the moment, to take as many Americans as possible off relief rolls and provide regular incomes for families that needed them. Before we get through with it, it may develop easily into an elaborate and permanent setup designed to take the place of unemployment insurance and to cushion the nation against the shocks caused by sudden contractions of the industrial system. All this is foreshadowed in a recent statement by Harry M. Hopkins, director of the CWA. Mr. Hopkins points out that the experiment officially runs only to Feb. 15. Under it some 2,500,000 men are at work. Probably no one would propose seriously that the props be pulled out from under these men in the middle of the winter. Sheer force of circumstances will compel us to renew the experiment and carry it at least into the spring. Nor is that all. Mr. Hopkins remarks: “It easily might lead to a scheme of using civil w'orks as a device for permanently providing work on important public projects for the unemployed. The country is not going to be disposed kindly to unemployment insurance in terms of men going up to a window to get a dole.” And there is still another angle to it. The scheme enables the nation to accomplish a lot of jobs w’hich are almost certain to go undone if left to private initiative. The work of the forest army is a case in point. There are many similar projects—the drainage of swamps, the establishment of health and recreation centers, and so on. Now it is pretty clear that we are going to need some far-reaching program to take care of unemployment even after prosperity returns. We either can give the jobless work to do, set up a regular unemployment insurance system—a dole, in plain English—or go back to the old, unsatisfactory method of letting private charity take care of them. One of these three is going to be with us more or less permanently. Doesn’t the civil works scheme look very much like .the best of the three alternatives? AN OLD DOGMA PASSES .TT is interesting to notice that the old legal technicality by which a wife was not allowed to testify in defense of her husband in a criminal case at last has been swept aside by the United States supreme court. The decision came on the appeal of a North Carolinian who had been convicted of conspiracy to violate the dry laws. At his trial his wife was not allowed to testify for him. This ruling was in accord with the ancient common law provision that a wife, in such case, would be an interested witness and hence not deserving of credence. Very properly the supreme court sweeps this aside. The test of cross-examination of witnesses, the increased intelligence oi Jurors, and other considerations, says the court, have changed things. Hereafter a man accused of crime may call his wife as a witness—and an archaic and Illogical quirk of criminal law has been abolish “

HOPEFUL SIGNS COLONEL LEONARD P. AYRES of the Cleveland Trust Company complains that our recovery program can not be permanently effective until some means of reviving the “capital goods” industries is found; and simultaneously come reports that at least a few of these Industries already are beginning to feel a very definite revival. The steel Industry, for example, looks forward to a very busy first quarter period in 1934—due in part to the government’s success in putting over a deal for purchase of new rails by the railroads. Other reports state that orders for about 15,G00 freight cars are about to be replaced. In all of 1932 only 1,739 were rebuilt; the total for .1933 will be around 2,500. Similarly, the railway locomotive manufacturers expect that between 150 and 200 new locomotives will be ordered this winter. Evidently the capital goods revival that Colonel Ayres yearns for already is getting under way. NEW YORK GETS “BRAINS” TT'IORELLO LA GUARDIA, mayor-elect of New York, seems to be another of those people who cherish the odd notion that an official position can be given properly to a man who is distinguished by his possession of brains rather than by his services in carrying this or that district for the party. By appointing Professor A. A. Berle to an important city office, the mayor-elect indicates that a “brains trust” can function in municipal politics as well as at Washington. Similarly, he puts his public welfare department in the hands of a trained social worker, and takes a leader in the Seabury investigation into his official legal staff. A New York used to Tammany methods in its city government well can find something very startling in these appointments. Apparently the nation’s largest city is in for something pretty sweeping in the way of a new deal. ENCOURAGING BAROMETER ■jniGURES on shipping through the Sault Ste. Marie canal during the last year provide new evidence that business is recovering. This canal, connecting Lake Superior with the lower lakes, is closed fer the season now. And it is revealed that during 1933 more traffic passed through it than in any of the last three years—a total, to be exact, of slightly more than 40,000,000 tons of freight. An interesting angle to this is the fact that nearly all this freight consisted of bulk commodities—iron ore. coal and grain. The business done at the “Soo” canal is a pretty fair barometer of general business conditions. On the basis of 1933 figures, we are justified in believing that the long-awaited upturn is getting under way.

President Roosevelt is said to be considering the merger of all radio, telephone and telegraph systems into separate monopolies under government supervision. What makes him hesitate must be his fear of getting all tangled up in the wire business. Bank liquidator in Cleveland offers for sale a “solid mahogany directors’ ” table—although he really meant to describe the table and not cast any reflections on the directors. In the old days, when a man wanted something to eat, he went to a saloon; now, when he wants something to drink, he goes to thefgrocer’s. The price of liquor, we are promised, will be cut. But will it be cut as much as the liquor? Yosemite national park rangers ate meat that was 200 years old. We had some of it last night.

M.E. Tracy Says:

THIRTY years ago this week humanity stood at the threshold of aviation, but without realizing it. The fact that two young men from Dayton, 0., were downed at Kitty Hawk on the Carolina coast, where they proposed to try out another flyihg machine, aroused no interest. Only five persons besides the Wright brothers witnessed the epoch-making performance, and the proverbial reporter was not among them. Publicity and warm weather might have attracted a bigger crowd, but even so nine out of ten would have come to laugh. Like all truly original thinkers, the Wright brothers had to fight alone. Their task was not only to solve a mechanical problem, but to overcome the resistance of a scoffing, skeptical world. In performing it, they were compelled to risk their lives and fortune. That’s what you may call real experimenting. * Now that the science of aviation is well established, we hail every new device, invention and achievement with enthusiasm, and pat ourselves on the back as progressive. It is no longer dangerous to experiment, we tell each other. The race has at last been sold on the idea of change. n a a THAT is just so much bunk. We are just as much opposed to revolutionary ideas as we ever were. Most of the experiments which we applaud merely represent modifications of some basic plan of mechanism, and most of them are with other people’s lives or money. There is a fundamental difference between individual experimenting and collective bargaining. The former admittedly is safer for those who furnish the ideas. Whether it is safer for the crowd may well be doubted. Men are apt to be more careful when obliged to back their own ideas with their own money. There is waste in permitting a lot of visionaries to go it alone. The pioneering days of aviation are cluttered with failure, disappointment and ruined careers. But when would we have learned to fly had the problem been left to government bureaus? a a a FOUR years after the Wrights had made their first successful flight. Lord Haldane, British war minister, calmly declared, “The war office is not disposed to enter into relations at present with any manufacturer of aeroplanes.” It took a war to convince governments that a great discovery had been made. Governments can do a thorough job mobilizing people for this or that specific undertaking, provided taxpayers put up the money, but when it comes to solid, construcitve progress, they are not so hot. The same thing goes for organization all along the line. Orzann ion generally grows up around new ideas, but it gives birth to few, especially of a radical character. Even Communism owes its existence to a few daring individuals and is characterized by the sternest kind of opposition to any opinion or belief which promises a change. For (Hie, I doubt the wisdom of swapping the individual’s right to try experiments for the collective right to impose experiments^

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Mrs. G. K. Just a word of praise for the Indianapolis city hospital. It always has seemed to me that it has had plenty of adverse criticism, with very few words of praise. Being a widow with little children to support, I was unable to pay for mecucal care when stricken recently with a contagious disease. I had just moved, had no fuel, never had called for any charitable aid, was very ill, and had a child who also needed medical treatment. When Dr. Leach of the board of health saw the situation he not only called Dr. Reed of the city hospital, but even took the youngest child into his own home until other arrangements could be made. When the city hospital ambulance came, the sick child and I were removed to the hospital carefully and rapidly. Conditions were crowded and a bed had to be placed for me. I was given a bath, made comfortable and greeted with a cheerful word by the nurses. The contagious ward is operated in a very proficient manner by Miss L. Martin, R. N., and the student nurses. The nursing technique is wonderful and so rigid is their system of disinfecting that I’m sure a cross infection is unknown. The food was well-cooked, well balanced and “service with a smile,” seemed to be the motto. The bed linen was changed often, and I never saw such a. clean ward. I noticed that every order given by a doctor was speedily carried out. I was worried about my children and Miss Miller of the social service department was so kind to me. Miss Holley of the wonderful occupational therapy department kept me supplied with magazines and brought me messages from my child who is in another ward and will be for several weeks. There were three small children in the room with me and the care given them could not be surpassed in any private hospital. Drs. Schriefer and Pfeifer, the internes, were very kind. I am sure the general public does not realize what wonderful care is being given to the unfortunate of our city, operating as it is with a reduced budget, I had no “pull,” in fact was a stranger to all concerned. I always will say “God bless the city hospital.” By Orie J. Simmons. I think the new deal works this way—There is a “Forgotten Man” who is out of work. So he votes; he needs a change and wants a job with the factory which used to pay money that was like gold; only the factory is run by chiselers and tories and dead cats and what can a man live on? Such small wages! If he had a job he could pay cash and that is better than relief. So the NRA is an eagle with only two talons holding the cog so it can’t turn, and which on the other hand looks like a short circuit, but maybe it is lightning. With General Johnson it may be thunder and cracking down or perhaps economic death to traitors, because we are at war and must have a peaceful victory of the AAA and the ZZZ. So every day the RFC buys more gold when you and me are between tax and the deep blue sea. We have the right man as President. Cheap housing will put everybody to work on government bread and flour and salt pork and coal which we can pay for on borrowed money so the Republicans can elect a man like Mr. Coolidge

I CAN’T agree with Mrs. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Chicago novelist, when she says the depression has been a boon for children because it has revived family life. It seems to me a state of affairs which injured and killed thousands of little ones and caused them to go cold and hungry and miserable can’t by any stretch of imagination be called a boon, even though it has forced some parents to stay home evenings. One understands what Mrs. Barnes is talking about. She speaks of- the fortunate children who already have sufficient warmth and milk, and who, because stocks have lost their value, may now enjoy jthe of their fathers

You're Right By D. P. W. Here is another grievance. Two members of the Indianapolis fire department are visiting each engine house and asking a donation of 50 cents from each man to buy Chief Voshell and his two subordinates Christmas presents. If each man did this, it would amount to approximately S3OO. Surely these three men would not want this done if they knew about it. Think of the needy boys and girls this money would care for this Christmas. It would mean food, clothing and shelter, and perhaps a few small gifts besides. These three men do not need that money; these poor children do. What is your choice? in a dozen years and pay some on the debt. Don’t you think so? By Harvey K. Harper. I have read with some surprise the letters in the Message Center of The Times in regard to the Kentuckians and Tennesseeans, and want to add a few lines to the argument. You can’t blame them for crossing the Smith and Wesson line into Indianapolis, for where will you find a better city than Indianapolis? The lads know a good thing, and are on the job to enjoy liberty and happiness under Mayor Sullivan and Chief Mike Morrissey. Can you blame them? We should say not, if you compare life in Indianapolis with Louisville or Memphis. Even a citizen of Pittsburgh will tell you Indianapolis is the ace-high city of America. Where can you go, from Maine to California, and find a better place? To get back into history and give a welcome hand to the fellows from Kentucky and Tennessee, who were those who made America? The Kentuckians and Tennesseeans. They were in the front ranks during the wars of 1776, 1812, 1848, 1898 and 1918. They were there and did their part. Who was with George Washington at the crossing of the Delaware? If you look at a picture of that famous event, you will see Kentucky and Tennessee faces in the picture. They were there, for they knew the British ha 4 plenty of good whisky to celebrate Christmas. And who likes a drink on Christmas day? The Kentuckians and Tennesseeans. Who was with Davy Crockett at the Alamo? The lads from Kentucky and Tennessee! History from the year one doesn’t give a better example of bravery than those who died in San Antonio, Tex., during the Mexican war. They were there and killed enough Mexicans to fill Crown Hill before they died. Who was with Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan hill in 1898? Well, you might know without using 500 words to put over a ten-word idea. Who were in the Argonne of 1918 to make the world safe for democracy? The French girls can tell you who were there and who spent their “francs” on an army pay day. There were no tightwads among the Kentuckians and Tennesseeans. By James M. Mudd. Regarding the article by Ed Oswald. I have sympathy for you if you are only earning $5 a week, for I know what it. is. My family of six has lived on $2.40 a week for two years and I worked hard for what I got and I had to take what was given me. Might you have the idea,

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY. MBS. WALTER FERGUSON

and mothers for the first time. That, to be sure, is something. But it never can wipe out the horrible wrong we have done to countless poor babies babies who have been bom in miserable lodgings, in tents, on the ground; to tots who have had to live for weeks on bread and beans; to parents who have endured the Gethsemane of looking helplessly on while their children starved. ana MOREOVER I hate the smugness of the American attitude that pronounces: “Out of all these multiplied miseries good win come.” What good.? just £ reluctant return

too, that what I and many others got was charity? I didn’t consider pitching ashes in rain and cold and whatever it may be, to be anything to loaf on and then still think I was getting charity. You say you have made application. For what? There must be something wrong, surely, isn’t there? Mr. Oswald, someone has given you the wrong idea. You can have all of your welfare—paid rental houses, trustee groceries, if you can get them. You will learn if you live long enough. I wish you the best of luck in the world. By Tom Polk. Your headline recently, “Tax Rates Cut by Municipal Light Plants,” referring to a statement by the public counselor of the public service commission, attracted my attention. Either The Times or the counselor must be mistaken. The towns he referred to include the following: Bluffton, which “cut” its tax rate from $3.30 for 1932 payable in 1933 to $3.46 for 1933 payable in 1934 Columbia City, which “cut” from $2.10 for 1932 to $2.76 for 1933. Edinburg, which “cut” from $1.50 to $2.20; Greenfield, “cutting” from $2.25 to $2.61; Lawrenceburg, “cutting” from $2.49 to $2.95; Linton, which “cut” from $1.50 to SI.BO, and Rushville, which “cut” from $1.93 to $3.14. To a man up a tree this looks typical of the way governments, whether city or state or national, always manage to “reduce” expenses. I’d like to have The Times or the counselor show some real examples of how the government does a business-like job of running any business. It always has seemed to me that the more things the government does, the higher go the taxpayers’ bills. These Indiana towns may be just typical examples, judging by the “cut” tax rates they have advertised for this year payable next year! By Mrs. Howard Allen. Please renew xr.y subscription to The Times. I am enclosing $1 for the next three months. I also am going to ask you if you could do our community a favor. When Governor McNutt gave the trustees the right to employ the poor, I’m sure he didn’t intend for the work to be given to men who didn’t need it. We have people in our neighborhood who were too proud to go to the county for help when they were asking for something to eat, but now that they are giving work, they feel like it is right that they should have it, but they can’t get anything. Every one who has been employed is a Republican. One man out here who is an orphan. single, and tubercular, asked for help. They won’t either give him food or work. He isn’t lazy nor can any one say a word against his character. Another man, married, has a little boy, 2. The baby hasn’t enough clothes to keep him warm and the mother is sick from worry. I am not writing this for myself because we always have gotten along some way and this isn’t our home, but these poor people down here have been trod on long enough and I know you can do something if anybody can. People all seem to stand back and let our trustee, Chew, have his way. I know Governor McNutt would change things if he but knew and I hope The Times will do all it can to let him know. Don’t think I am a nosey old lady trying to cause trouble, for I’m not a trouble maker. I’m only asking for justice where it is due.

to qpmmon sense by those who have never known want? Is this the good we are to expect from the evils we have seen? If so, then I say to you it is not enough. It never will be enough to obliterate the crime of a generation that refused to think. Good never comes out of economic misery. Good never blossoms from universal greed and selfishness. And what will it profit us to have a slight revival of family life if in our land there are multitudes of men too poor to have homes, and if half the babies bom into it face an existence of insecurity or want? Family life built upon that flimsy economic foundation never will amount to much.

.DEC. 18,1933

Fair Enough "BY WESTBROOK PEGLEB*

NOWHERE in any of the codes which I have tried to read have I discovered any practical attempt to apportion the available work among the class of citizens who are known as brain workers. I sympathize instinctively with General Johnson in any effort which-he has made or may make to control the industry, for obviously there is too much thinking going on in the U. S. A at this time and much of the thought is very low-grade. But the brain worker seems to be beyond bureaucratic control. He is incorrigible and, in a sense, an unpatriotic individual, for nobody can tell when a thinker is thinking, as he is the master of many deceptive tricks. He may indulge in cerebration above and beyond his legal quota when he appears to be watching a prize fight or playing cards, and he may think surreptitiously while shaving or running sot a train. There also is the difficult problem of the nonprofessional thinker who cogitates while following the furrow or carrying the hod, thus adding to the congestion in the most overcrowded profession of all. Obviously, if the government were to treat the recognized, or, as you might say, union thinkers, the same as it has been treating the cotton farmers, and offer them a price to plow under their surplus thoughts, it would be very difficult to reach a fair basis of compensation. a a a Faster and Better IF they were approached on the basis of the 1914 rate of cerebration most of them would be certain to insist that they think faster and better nowadays and reject with scorn any proposition of a penny for their thoughts. I am acquainted with playwrights who have not given outward evidence of any high-class thinking for years who would be certain to tell the government agent when he came around to make the cash adjustment that they had just thought of another Abie's Irish Rose. Mussolini tried something almost as difficult as the control of thinking when he attempted some years ago to suppress the yodel among the Tyroleans in the captive country which altruistic Italy had acquired by fighting for the rights of minorities. The Tyroleans gave every outward sign of submission to their conquerors except that they persisted in singing 00-lee-ay-lee-oo which Mussolini regarded as a seditious noise. Mussolini thereupon forbade the yodel under severe penalties but the resourceful and stubborn Tyroleans were not beaten yet. Patriots took to yodeling silently to themselves and yodel-easies were established in cellars where the Tyroleans gathered and yodeled behind soundproof doors. Some individuals went up into the mountains and yodeled defiantly and ran the Italian soldiers ragged as the echoes bounced from crag to crag and the unfortunate Italians chased them up and down the peaks. nun Mass of Yodels GIVEN certain acoustics one patriotic Tyrolean yodeler could yodel with a hundred voices. It w'as a hopeless task to determine which of the yodels were mere echoes and track down the culprit who had let go the original yodel. Mussolini's genius for the suppression of all expressions of dissent never was equal to the challenge of the bouncing Tyrolean yodel and visitors have told me that to this very day the offensive note3 of the 00-lee-ay-lee-oo affront the ears and the patriotism of the Italian conquerors. There is no question that many thinkers in this country are in a sad situation nowadays and would be willing to entertain a proposition of a penny per thought from the government, which might be an excessive price for some of the product, but a fair average, at that. But I do not see how General Johnson could cope with the element of human greed and overtime thinking. It is one thing to prescribe penalties for brain workers who go on thinking after hours but another thing to catch them at it and get convictions. It is impossible .to tell f"om the look of a man whether he is living up to the code or thinking thoughts in excess of his allowance. I have heard that even outfielders and honorable judges on the bench, two classes which gave a convincing appearance of utter dumbness, often indulge in thought. If this is so it is obvious that any one can get away with bootleg thinking. (Copyright, 1933, by United Feature! Syndicate. Inc.)

Love

BY OLIVE ENSLEN TINDER Your love came as suddenly as the first spring rain, Gentle, warm, assuring, and then you were gone; But the echoes of your laughter still remain Within my heart. I should have known you’d go away Swiftly, as the night fleeing from the red fingers of day, Leaving me to seek the answer to love in vain. Your voice comes whispering in the evening wind. And in a dream I follow the rustling sigh, to find The memory of your eyes in the gray of the misty dawn. My hand goes out to touch you standing there. But I find only emptiness, mocking dreams and despair.

Questions and Answers Q —What are the native haunts and habits cf the Asiatic elephant? A—These elephants keep themselves in the depths of forests, particularly in mountainous regions, where they browse on branches or eat herbage and roots, and from which they issue chiefly in the cool of the night to pasture in more open grounds. They feed largely on the shoots of palm trees and eat cocoanuts, after rollng them under foot to rub off the husks. Q—Why are halibut never marketed with the heads on? A—Because the head is to bulky it would be wasteful to ship it*