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TUESDAY, DEC 18. 1933. COMPANY UNIONS of ordered industry will watch with interest the court contest between the national labor board and the Weirton Steel Company testing the government's right to supervise an election in which the workers choose between a union and a company union. The issue is fundamental to the purpose of the recovery act. The core of the NRA philosophy is that free industry and free labor, with the help of government, shall co-operate In the creation of a planned, decent and intelligent industrial order. Section 7A of the law states that labor may choose its own spokesmen unfettered by company domination. New figures gathered by the national industrial conference board indicate how unfounded are the cries of employers that union labor is fettering industry. Studies of 3,314 manufacturing and mining concerns, employing 2,585,740 wage earners, reveal that 45.7 per cent of the workers still deal with their employers Individually; 45 per cent through company plans for employe representation} only 9.3 per cent through labor unions. That the recovery act has failed to stimulate labor unionization as much as company unions is shown also by the report of 400 employe representation plans formed since June 16, 1933, and only 174 union labor agreements. Employers eager to speed recovery by real co-operation between capital and labor will hope for victory of the labor board in the Weirton case and a better showing from labor unionismln the nation. CHRISTMAS SEALS NEEDLESS suffering and death is probably the most cruel thing in our existence. That is why the annual appeal for funds with which to fight tuberculosis tugs at so many heartstrings. For tuberculosis can be fought. Well established means of prevention have been worked out and also means of arresting the disease in its earlier stages. If the appeal is disregarded and thousands of children waste away for lack of a little care it is we who must bear the responsibility now, not providence or fate. The need for generous giving to fight tuberculosis never has been greater than at this time when lack of proper food has weakened the resistance of so many persons. HAITI AND MONTEVIDEO TF Haiti is represented intelligently at the Seventh Pan-American Congress now assembled at Montevideo, it can make the occasion rather embarrassing for State Secretary Hull. The Roosevelt administration announced a “new deal” with respect to our imperialism In Latin America comparable to the new deal which it proposes for American industrialism. In many cases, the President has made good his pretention. Particularly has this been so In his policy with regard to Cuba and in his part in forwarding the exposure of the international bankers who played the dominant role in our Latin American financial penetration. In Haiti, however, the administration has, consciously or not, perpetuated without any notable change one of the most indefensible examples of American imperialism in Latin America. It might have been expected that Haiti would have been one of the first places in which the Roosevelt administration would have applied its new deal in foreign policy. The constitution of Haiti, which was forced upon the island by the United States in 1917, was drawn up under the direction of President Roosevelt, who was at that time an imperial-istically-inclined assistant secretary of the navyIt would have been supposed that he would move with special celerity in the effort to undo the damage associated with his activities in the period when he entertained opinions on our foreign policy quite different from those which he has enunciated during the last year. This has not. however, been the case. There is an excellent summary of the Roosevelt policy in Haiti to date in a report by Hubert Herring in the Nation. Mr. Herring is one of our leading authorities on Latin America and stopped in Haiti on his way to Montevideo. Therefore, his account is both authoritative and thoroughly up-to-date. Every effort was made to induce President Hoover to terminate the American military and financial occupation of Haiti. But it was unsuccessful. In 1932. Mr. Hoover submitted new treaty to Haiti. It made a show of concessions to Haiti in providing that the marines should be withdrawn in 1936. But, according to the treaty of 1916, they had no right to stay beyond May 1, 1936. The Hoover treaty further demanded that the American financial control be extended during the life of the National City Bank loan, namely until 1952: “For that period, according to this new treaty, American officials would collect the customs and internal revenues, making the eervice of the loan the first charge and their own expenses of salaries and supervision the next. Haiti and its interests, its schools, its government salaries, its national life—these all came after. ‘‘During the life of the loan the treaty provided that American officials appointed by the President of the United States should have control of the budget. Moreover. Haiti could not modify its taxes or tariff without the permission of the American financial controL Indignation reached a new high pitch in Haiti. “When the Hatian congress met, It rejected the Hoover treaty without a single dis-

senting vote. A ‘new deal’ was expected from President Roosevelt. Nothing of the sort came. Essentially the same conditions, providing for American financial dominion in the interest of American Investment bankers, were embodied in an executive agreement. In this form it did not need to be submitted to the Haitian congress. It could be signed by the minister of foreign affairs. “The financial clauses virtually are Identical with those of the rejected treaty. They provide that a fiscal representative, who doubtless will be the same one now in control of Haitian finances, with employes and assistants not to exceed eighteen, shall have control of the customs service. Again the service on the loan is the first charge. Again the expenses of the American collectors become the second charge. Again Haitian affairs come last. Again the government of Haiti is forbidden to reduce its tariff or modify its taxes without the consent of the fiscal, representative.” It has been stated that State Secretary Hull has not favored the investment bankers in his policies. President Roosevelt certainly has encouraged the exposure of their methods in our domestic economy. Therefore, Mr. Herring is quite logical when, in commenting upon our recent policy in Haiti, he says: “It is amazing to see the administration that repeatedly has denounced the money changers playing the game of the National City bank and its bondholders in this helpless country. At home the United States senate, presumably with the consent of the administration. is disclosing how the bankers have mulcted the American people. New 7 legislation is designed to prevent more of the same kind of looting. But in Haiti nothing is changed. The chicanery of the past is reenacted solemnly. That, say the Haitians, Is all the new deal amounts to." FORCES BEHIND MONEY POLICY THE strangest thing about the long argument over the government’s monetary policy is that so many of the arguers seem to be trying to conduct the debate in a vacuum. What we are getting is, in the main, an academic discussion of the relative values of money which is anchored firmly to an immutable gold base and money which is flexible. It is an argument, for the most part, which might fust as well have been held in 1928 as in 1933. Most of the time the surging waves of public unrest which make up the background of all this argument get ignored entirely. We get plenty of scholarly expositions on the way inflation starts and the things it does before it stops, and plenty of historical analyses of what happened in Germany and Russia, but very little mention of the way in w r hich recent economic developments have put pressure on our social fabric. A monetary policy doesn’t come into being in a void. It is the product of innumerable forces. The economic laws in the text books may be important; so, too, are farmers sunk in debt, home-owners burdened with mortgages they can not carry, cities that stand on the edge of bankruptcy. All those things produce dissatisfaction with an inflexible currency system. This dissatisfaction may be illogical, mistaken and highly unwise; nevertheless, it is the prime factor in the situation, and any attempt to settle the soundness or unsoundness of our monetary policy is worse than useless if it fails to take it into account. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma announced the other day that three different congressional money groups would combine to put through a mandatory inflation law this winter, if the dollar should be stabilized at a devaluation of less than 50 per cent. That statement is the tip-off on the real issue of the day. If the administration should adopt the course urged by the “sound money” group, it simply would be asking for an explosion. All the inflationary sentiment in congress—and there is a lot of it, reflecting the sentiment of the people back home—would get up steam to blow the lid off. The chances are very good that it would do so. Any arguments over monetary policy which fail to recognize this fact are not worth listening to. MEN AT WORK RELIEF ADMINISTRATOR HOPKINS’ formal announcement that the federal and state governments have reached the goal of turning 4,000,000 indigents into CWA wageearners is about the cheeriest preholiday news America could read. The almost incredible speed in transforming these millions of charity wards into workers in one short month proves that the American genius for organization is as effective in peace as in wartime. Unstinted credit goes to the leaders who achieved this. It is difficult to overestimate what this latest project means to the new 7 employes and their families. Ask a jobless man who has walked the streets for months in search of work. Ask his wife and children w r hat humiliations they have endured. There is no substitute for a job, and the Roosevelt administration from the President down has earned a special Christmas benediction for recognizing this. Os course it is a costly expedient for the government. Probably the better part of a billion dollars will have been spent in wages and materials by next spring. Besides this there will be distributed some $55,000,000 worth of surplus wheat, hogs, butter, apples, mutton, eggs, cheese and other produce. But the money will go into children’s bone and muscle, into salvaged self-respect, into needed civic improvement and cultural progress. Who, remembering the billions we spent to destroy life fifteen years ago, will not be glad that now we are spending to save and enrich life. The magnificent adventure we are watching can be betrayed by selfish and partisan interests. In this war on hunger and unemployment political profit and graft are treason. Movie couple got married again on their first wedding anniversary. After a whole year together, they had to go through some such ceremony, or get a divorce. Agriculture Secretary Wallace reports a billion-dollar gain in income of United States farmers. Don’t forget to report your share in your next income tax return! a Mk

STRONG WOMEN

TT TELL, the strong woman wins! Might ' * makes right—or at least votes. Brains are nice to have, of course. That is, if there’s a treaty to be drawn up or anew law to be enacted. But when It comes down to the real business of government, that of conducting bigger and better wars, nothing can compare with a strong right arm! At least that is the attitude which the Nazis are adopting. They have had their doubts about women all along. But they couldn't deliberately take the vote away from them. Women are smart, you see. They used their mental powers to WTest the suffrage from the dominating male element. There was a chance that they might exert mental power to keep the ground they had won. But German men are a little smarter, we’ll have to admit, than the fraus and the frauleins. They held a meeting. They began plans to abolish woman suffrage by limiting the vote to the persons who bear arms. Cripples, old men, and women are nicely removed from the polls. Anybody who can’t fight can’t vote. It’s a gun for a ballot along the German Rhine. ' But if a woman is a strong woman—if her strength is as the strength of ten because she has developed her arms over the washboard or behind the plow—and she wants to go to war and shoot at other women’s husbands, well—we wonder what the third reich will do about It. Yes, it would seem that modem women had better look to their shooting. Their political equality depends on their technique with arms. If they can’t pull the trigger, they can’t cast a ballot. It has taken centuries for women to reach the stage where men recognize their thinking prowess. Now, when the gentlemen are finally convinced that women are mentally capable of doing more than ordering the milk for breakfast and the children’s woolen underwear, the. privilege is being taken away because thS ’ women aren’t strong enough physically. It Is pathetically astounding that women must take a step backward because their husbands and fathers have taken a dozen steps in the medieval direction. Physical force has little to do with the great battles of the world. It doesn’t paint pictures, write books or sonatas, or send tall buildings starward. Women have made contributions to the cultural and humanitarian sides of life. But because they can’t lift sledge hammers and hear the bell when the blow comes down, they aren’t worthy of voting in the land of the liverwurst. But a moron, who gets four when he adds two and three, may make laws—for he can carry a gun! .There are foul means and fair of accomplishing good and ill in the world. If the Nazis want to keep their women out of politics, why don’t they admit that they are walking backward and let it go? The round-about means of basing the vote on the arms is rather juvenile. Unless, of course, they thought that the women couldn’t see through It. Then, too, there is a fallacy. Weak men are out, and strong women are in! Samuel Insull has been asked to leave Greece. If he knew what’s good for him, he will return to the United States and enjoy perfect freedom while his attorneys keep him out of jail. Man can exist on earth alone, says a scientist. And with considerable effort, at that. The practice of Initialing names of new deal organizations may become so general that F U C NE thing like this, U 0 2 B able 2 decipher it. I— - Senator Fess of Ohio says Roosevelt’s brain trust is suffering from delayed adolescence. Well, that isn’t as bad as decayed adolescence. Don’t let Wall Street fool you. The American dollar is just as sound as ever—although you buy less for it now than you used to. Knees on automobiles are nothing new, especially on climbing into the rumble seat.

M. E. Tracy Says:

'P'OR the second time since depression gripped the world, Italy will be subjected to a sweeping reduction of prices and wages. This is made necessary by the slump in export trade, according to Mussolini and his advisers. They find it impossible to compete with countries which have depreciated money or abandoned the gold standard. Instead of joining the inflation parade, however, they propose to go to the other extreme. Every person under the Fascist government will be affected directly or indirectly. Rents will be cut as well as wages, and the price of electricity as well as that of food and clothing. While the rest of the world puts money down in order to put wages and prices up, Mussolini puts wages and prices down in order to keep money up. There is not a great deal of difference between these two methods as they affect conditions within a country. Provided the average earning capacity exceeds the average expense for those necessities and luxuries which go with a reasonably high living standard, the theoretical value of money is of no great consequence. a a a T)UT it Js no longer possible to rely on conditions within a country. International trade has come to play a vital part in the lives of all civilized people. Economic policies can not be framed on the theory of isolation without exposing capital and labor to grave risks. People dwelling in a country where wages are low and money is high might get along all right with regard to purely domestic needs. When they undertake to travel or buy things abroad, however, they find that their surplus does not mean much. People dwelling in a country where wages are high and money is low enjoy a distinct advantage when it comes to buying things or traveling abroad, while they are under no disadvantage in the export trade. a a a \ NOTHER thing: Low wages and high money tend to depress the living standard, while high wages and low money tend to elevate it, more because of the psychological effect from anything we can prove mathematically. Mussolini's program is the antithesis of President Roosevelt's program. The question of which is better would lend itself to a more evenly balanced argument if Mussolini had not been experimenting with his hypothesis for more than three years. His first attempt to build up Italy’s export trade through a general wage and price reduction, was made in 1930. It didn’t work. If it had, he would not be trying it again. Italy’s export trade has shown a marked decline, espec- | ially during the last twelve months*

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: : The Message Center : : 1 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 less.) By A Reader. What is the matter with man? The worm in the peach belabored its way, on and on, seemingly content and satisfied with plenty to eat, unmindful of the size of the fruit wherein it was living its day of comfort and happiness. Poor man, worried by want and harried with distress, winds his way to some soup kitchen for a little sustenance to enable him to live until the next day for another round of worry and consternation. What ails man, he who is endowed with an intelligence and a technique far superior to that of the worm? The size of the fruit does not deter the smart worm in his plowings toward the security and comfort so necessary to his living. Man in the face of plenty remains bewildered and starves. Perhaps he has had too much of the prattle of the “seven lean years and the seven fat years”? Or, mayhap, he is awaiting the rift in the cloud which will reveal the “silver lining”? Does man know that the world is richer today than ever before with all things needed by him for his comfort and security readily attainable? Does man realize that never before in the history of the industrial world has a greater per cent of the useful workers been in such need of the bare necessities of life, finding it utterly impossible to secure those things that constitute security and comfort? If man does not know this and if the worker of hand and brain will not bother to educate himself to know himself, then our children’s futures are indeed pitiful ones. Man is to blame and no one else for the conditions which are shaping such a hopeless future for your child and my child. Man himself is to blame, that is to say specifically, that man who persists in the face of want and misery to keep smiling and mumbling prayers of selfish appeal. And yet, man believes himself to be smarter than the worm. By Sympathizer. “Cannon Fodder’s” message oi Dec. 14 is very interesting and I hope you will receive your reward in heaven. Goodness knows there is no justice in the world today. It might have done good to start people thinking what actually took place diming the war, if they had seen the play at the Ohio theater a few weeks ago called “Forgotten Men.” These were actual pictures on the front lines showing soldiers’ bodies blown to bits, others being stabbed and left to die, and being wounded and left on the battlefield to be forgotten. Not only those left out there were forgotten. No number of medals of bravery would be too many for you as a reward for aiding your “buddy” in the midst of gun fire, no job could be too good for you today, but “there is no justice, especially for the deserving. To receive praise and honor now one must be a political crook, an unworthy ruler, unfair employer or other faker who pockets all the money that we earn. By Charles Ford. Always I have stood for freedom of speech and freedom of the press. One who knows the facts involved always deplores an attack upon an individual or an institution thatevi-

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : :

A YOUNG lady from Santa Fe sends word that even though this column considers nobody a bore there are plenty of bores In her neck of the woods. Gracious sakes, and that’s where all the poets and artists hang out, too! So mad she almost sputters, this girl flings in my face a woman she knows who is always talking about her operation. Does that woman live down there, too? I thought her home was up my street. I suspect she is omnipresent and lives just around the corner from all of us. It is a nuisance to have to hear about that operation, especially since all the rest of us are just aching to talk about our own operations, or our automobiles, or our

Still With Us!

Is This True?

By J. W. Asa visitor at the Marion County home, I do not think there is an institution in the state that is so badly managed as this. There is a superintendent needed very badly to direct the work that should be carried on in this institution and attendants who should do their work are needed. The Marion County home has been in bad condition for more than two years and it seems to me that the taxpayers of Marion county should get their eyes opened before long. Through interviewing the inmates, there seems to be two classes, and the Marion County home should be a home for one and all alike, as all who are admitted are on an equality. I wish to state that I am a subscriber of this paper and have been for four years.

dently grows out of malice, envy or spite. The attack upon President G. Bromley Oxnam and De Pauw university is a gross and indefensible ignoring of facts and a malicious perversion of a situation. While in the city the other day a friend of mind bought a Times and called my attention to the contents of an article which I very much wanted to believe. But I said to him, “Knowing the untrustworthiness of the articles against Dr. Oxnam and De Pauw university, I must hold that in question until I have other evidence.” I am not a graduate of De Pauw nor am I in any way connected with Dr. Oxnam, other than having positions that locate us in the same town. I wish we might be able to trust our newspapers to be honest and fair agencies of worthwhile news. By A Times Reader. I am a reader of The Times and hope you will put these few lines in your paper. Why is it that men who live here can’t find work? I, for one, can’t find a job any place. I have to live off the trustee. Another man comes here from a town in another part of the state. He gets a job in a store, works one day in the store and five days on the road. He sends his money home to his people and doesn’t spend one cent here, for he is living off the trustee’s basket. He ow r ns his own home in the town from which he came. I think it is a shame for people who live here to walk the streets for work when a stranger can come here and hold two jobs. By A. V. H. So many people criticised Chief Morrissey for arresting of people at the Walkathon. Don’t you folks know the chief isn’t his own boss? True enough, he has thousands of men who know’ him as boss, but he has many bosses. The business men and theater owners put up such a squawk that- there was nothing else to do. We have a good chief and if the people of this city would only help him and abide by the law’ and every one do his or her part, we wouldn’t have anything to complain of. $p you folk who are down on Chief Mike Morrissey stop and think that he did only as he was ordered, and perhaps not as he wished.

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

1 sweethearts, or our jobs, or our ; theories about NRA. j We’ll never be able to remove this subject of uninteresting people from 'the realm of the personal. A bore is always somebody who doesn’t interest us, but he may, nevertheless, be an enthralling personality for other souls who are of his temperament and tastes. a a a I’VE known lots of men and women who found evangelists entertaining; and think of all the really intelligent individuals who enjoy reading books on contract bridge. So long as there’s no accounting for tastes, you can’t put your finger down on any person and say “Here

By Patience. The comments of “A Reader” in The Times Dec. 13, purportedly an answer to “Patience” who made certain references to debauchery of our educational system by one highly esteemed gentleman of the present state administration sounds like a “misleading hypothesis” of some amateur attorney-at-law. As probably w T as realized by “A Reader,” “Patience,” like most of our citizens, is glad to await the day in court to learn the facts about the disappearance of the school fund bonds. The casual reference which I made to debauchery of our educational system was just a little stab at one esteemed gentleman within our official family in this state, who understands his guilt too well, and who is also proficient with his own stabs at our Governor as often as the opportunity is present. No reference to the bond theft was either meant or implied. If “A Reader” will only await the next campaign in this state this esteemed gentleman may easily be identified by his lukewarm support of our Governor, his sallies to test his own strength, then most likely as usual his acquiescence to our real leaders and friends of the people, Governor McNutt and his loyal supporters. He seems to know 7 just about how far to carry his sort of opposition. My sympathies, “A Reader,” shall be with Miss Steele until her conviction or acquittal on the charges against her and all facts and motives are exposed. Even then they might remain. By A Times Booster. I saw in The Times one evening that there would be no politics played in these jobs given out to the unemployed. Mr. Editor, where did your reporter get this information, and do you believe it? If you do, go around to these jobs and see how all these timekeepers and foremen get their jobs, and they were not from the ranks of basket men, either. I thought these 75-cent an hour and $1.20 an hour men would be taken from ranks of basket men, if they could do the job, but I see if you w r ere a basket man, I guess you have not got the brains to do these jobs. Another thing: Why pay these timekeepers 75 cents or $1.20 an hour for sitting around the fire all day and just calling the names morning, noon and quitting time. I will take any of those jobs for 50 cents an hour and give one more man a job. I think that someone should put a stop to paying any of these timekeepers this much and if The Times will not write to any official in charge of this work, if you will just put the official’s name and address in the paper I sure will w 7 rite them myself. This is something to look into because we will all have to pay this money back some day and why let these dirty lowdown. grafting politicians get by like this for their relatives and good friends? By Aver are Citizen. If the police are sincere in attempting to speed up north-bound traffic in the evening, why do they not enforce the “no parking” on the east side of Meridian street from Ohio to Sixteenth streets from 4:30 to 6 p. m.? I should like to know’ W’hy the Chamber of Commerce, the American Legion and the auto salesrooms have parking privileges that the average person does not have. The situation is a peril to the average citizen.

we have a bore.” Because, after all, the intellectual is as great a bore to a moron as a moron could ever be to an intellectual. Hence it strikes me that the woman who talks too much about her children, for instance, only is behaving like a human being and is breaking no particular rule of etiquette since she perpetually will be encountering other people who will want to talk to her about their projects, peeves and principles. A similarity of interests is the only real basis for enjoyable conversation, and even then we can get mighty tired of the other person having the floor. For most of us, then, a bore is a person who insists upon talking when we want to talk.

.DEC. 19,1933

F air Enough

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER A COUPLE of years ago I happened to be in Naples . No. that’s not honest. I didn’t happen to be in Naples. I got to Naples after a lot of saving and planning and, on my first night in town, being something of a hack-driver and a visiting fireman at heart. I went around to the office of the morning paper to meet ths journalists and talk a little shop. For a city of such size the newspaper plant was a grubby little den. equipped with primitive and rickety machinery. But I would not dwell on that for beautiful buildings and expensive apparatus might be bought with the wages of sin, and rags are royal raiment under certain conditions. The journalists around the shop seemed to be waiting for something and when I asked them why they didn’t sing out to the printers to take it away, they said they hadn't yet received their wire from Rome telling them just what pieces they were to play that morning and which to throw away and what to use on page one and under what sort of heads. I exclaimed. “What,” meaning, of course, to strut before these fettered slaves the freedom which we enjoy in the newspaper business in this country, and one editor said sure, that in Italy the press was edited and censored entirely out of Rome. And that any editor who felt an attack of journalistic independence and ran a story or refused to run one contrary to instructions would, to phrase it in Americanese, get slapped in the boob for a term of years. tt a a The Owner’s Right “I 'vui'rr you nave any censorship U at all in the United States?” he asked, and I said, carelessly and with perhaps a tone of superiority, “No, they wouldn't stand for that in the United States.” “But the owner of the paper,” said my friend the Italian journalist, “He can order the editor to leave articles out of the paper can’t he? Or he can order the editor to publish a certain article if he wants it printed, I suppose.” “Oh, sure,” I said. “The owner is the owner. He can print what he w T ants in his own paper.” “I don’t suppose though,” the Italian said, “that an owner of a newspaper would ever wish to publish an article or suppress one for some reason of his own, would he? If he happened to be in favor of some law or some policy of the gov-< ernment which happened to favor some property in which he was interested financially, he wouldn’t permit that fact to affect his new 7 s judgment would he? a a tt Very Fortunate “ A LTHOUGH, of course,” he xV said, “in a country where anybody with capital to do so has a right to run a newspaper just as he pleases I should think some men would buy newspapers just to promote their interests with propaganda, or might it be that some man who happened to own a newspaper, would be willing to sell his support for some law or tax or politician just to make money? Or oppose something for the same reason? “Any kind of man might make money enough to buy a newspaper. You must be very fortunate in the United States if it has just happened that the only men who have bought them are men of the highest ethical type who will permit their own papers to oppose their own business and political interests in the interests of truth and journalistic integrity. “Here we have neither privilege nor obligation but of course where a paper has complete freedom from censorship or government control the owner must realize that this freedom also entails an obligation to strike at his own private interests if those interests conflict with the public interests. That would be a curious situation, wouldn’t it? A publisher, in his newspaper, prints articles day after day denouncing some company in wliich he had invested a great fortune. Or he attacks some statesman for promoting legislation which would help that company to make money. a a a Freedom of the Press “TS there any other qualification A which a rnan must prove beyond his ability to support a paper financially in order to enjoy the freedom of the press in your country?” I have been quoting him not literally, you understand, but In substance. About that time the phone rang and it was Rome on the wire with the instructions to the journalist's in chains in the Neapolitan dungeon. The editor clapped a head set over his ears and took the schedule down. Then he put his pages together. There wes surprisingly little stuff to be dumped into the hell box for his experience under censorship had taught him just about what he might use and what he mightn’t. We went around the corner to a little all-night place for sandwiches and wine and my friend, with a leer on his mouth which I tell you was almost personal, raised his glass to me and said. “Come, my colleague. Drink. The freedom of the press.” fCopyright, 1933. by United Features ‘ Syndicate. Inc.)

A Confession

BY’ POLLY’ LOIS NORTON I’ve really never seen a pine Inked in against a sunset glow, Or standing lone upon a hillcrest. Or massed in shady glades below. A few I’ve seen, tall, dark and old, Gnarled and ragged, windtossed and windtom, Black areen in sparsely foliaged spots. Unloved, unlovely and outworn. But I can praise them, I know— As long as I can read or hear — For friends and poets tell me true And I can love pine trees by ear!

Daily Thought -i-

Ye can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye can not partake of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.—l Corinthians, 10:21. ONE country, one Constitution, one destiny.—Daniel WebsteA