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WEDNESDAY. JAN. 3. 1934 CONGRESS MEETS ' I "HE congress which meets today can do much to make or break the recovery program. Senators and representatives during their months at home have had opportunity to study economic conditions and to learn the desires of the people. Conditions are improving slowly, thanks largely to the leadership of the President and to the legislation which this congress passed at the last session. But a great deal remains to be done. In this continuing emergency it is not the function of congress to obstruct executive leadership. Nor is its function that of a rubber stamp for the President. Congress can be an independent and responsible agency of government and at the same time co-operate with the White House. The public will be able to differentiate between partisan obstruction and constructive assistance. In general the task will be to build upon the foundation laid last spring. The NIRA needs interpretation and strengthening, especially its labor and monopoly provisions. Public works and unemployment relief must be enlarged. The agricultural adjustment act can be improved. New taxes are called for not only by the return of legal liquor but also to meet a rising federal deficit. Revision of the tax structure is necessary on the basis of capacity to pay. Legislation touching individual industries is required, including transportation, communications, utilities, food and drugs. Even more difficult and important than these is the task of banking reform, regulation of security and commodity exchanges, and improved credit facilities and debt relief for farmers and city home owners. Less has been achieved to date by the administration in this field than any other. Finally action is due on the world court protocol, the Montevideo treaties, the Platt amendment, a just substitute for the unfair Philippine independence law, and on the administration's resolution for an arms embargo against warring nations. Seldom has the public watched congress so Intently and. we believe, so hopefully. THE GOLD PROGRAM IT is well to remember that not all men influential in the domain of conventional finance believe that the heavens will fall if we modify our policy with respect to gold. This fact is emphasized clearly in a memorandum on the stabilization of the dollar recently set forth by Frank A. Var.derlip. formerly president of the National City bank. Mr. Vanderlip can see no good in any return to the old system characterized by “erratic and exaggerated fluctuations of the price of gold measured in dollars. Nor can he follow' the exponents of unrestricted currency inflation—largely imaginary figures, as a matter of literal fact. Therefore, he sets forth a number of preliminary proposals designed to help us along toward a sensible solution of the monetary muddle. Since gold coin no longer circulates freely from hand to hand in any country’, and since the coinage of gold encourages hoarding, he suggests the following measures: “Permanently cease the coinage of gold. “Convert all existing gold coin into bullion. “Confine the convertibility of the stabilized dollar to exchangeability for gold bars only, with a minimum weight equal to approximately $5,000 in the new’ currency.” An unsettling influence is exerted upon our monetary system when foreign capital is sent in large volume to the United States in order to take advantage of higher interest rates in the country. In 1928-29 no less than $2,000,000.000 of such deposit currency” was created in the United States as result of this desire to exploit our high interest rates. It gave us an exaggerated view of otir gold base when this deposit currency remained in the country, thus creating unwarranted expansion and optimism. Then, when these funds later were withdrawn in rapid fashion, the flight of gold tended to create an impression of shortage and instability. To end this in the future. Mr. Vanderlip proposes that we “prohibit the Federal Reserve banks from receiving deposits from foreign central banks and compel all member banks currently to inform the Federal Reserve banks regarding the total of foreign-controlled deposits in member banks.” Other major abuses of the old monetary and financial system are gambling in foreign exchange, the flight of capital from this country. and the reduction of our gold supply through the sale of foreign-owned securities in our domestic market. To eliminate those evils. Mr. Vanderlip suggests that we “retain the present government control as meaning that gold only will be supplied freely for settling legitimate foreign trade balances. Shipments of gold moved in response to international finance bills or the purchase or sale of securities or merely by the will of frightened owners of timid capital should be controlled by government.” One of the main conventional objections to any new monetary policy is the allegation that it would Impair the market value and sale of government bonds. Mr. Vanderlip proposes a very ingenious and promising method, which both would harmonize with the monetary policy of the administration and. at the same time, increase the desirability of government bonds as an investment. What Mr. Vanderlip has in mind is a bond in which interest and principal would have a fixed and uniform value at any time in terms of purchasing power. This would be determined by the use of the Bureau of Labor price index, based upon the wholesale prices of 786 commodities. The prices existing at the date of the bond issue would be regarded as 100. In case the price

Index later went up to 105, the bond holder would at that time receive sls for each SIOO of interest due. If the price index fell to 95, he would receive $95. When the principal is to be paid oft, the bond holder will receive a sum exactly equal in purchasing power to that which he invested originally in the bonds, no matter what the subsequent fluctuations of the price index. This will insure perfect stability of government bonds, will necessitate their payment in honest dollars, and will, therefore, greatly increase their acceptability as a sound investment. THE NEXT WAR "ITTHEN we wonder what the new year will ’ ’ bring forth we think in terms of domestic problems. Will NRA work, 'will codes and public works provide more employment, will higher wages keep pace with the cost of living, will banks be sound, will farmers be better off, will we be able to meet the mortgage, will happy days be here again for us and our family and neighbors and friends? These are the questions uppermost in all our minds because they are closest home. But there is a more important question, important because it involves all of the other questions directly or indirectly. Most of us are no; worrying about this all-important question simply because it seems so far away and so improbable. That is the question of war. Another World war in 1934 is possible, even probable, unless there is a quick and unexpected change in international forces. This is a fact recognized by virtually all the experts in foreign affairs, despite the lack of alarm on the part of the general public intent on personal and domestic problems. Japan and Russia definitely are preparing for war in the far east. Europe is preparing for a war centering in Franco-German conflict. It is improbable that either of those wars could be localized. Regarding Fascist Germany as a mutual menace, Russia and France have established something resembling an entente which includes Poland and France’s other military allies. Japan and Germany, in turn, are reported trying to get together against Russia. Great Britain is reported trading for advantage between the two groups, wishing to avoid a European conflict, but tacitly supporting Japan against Russia in the far east. Italy likewise is reported playing one group against the other in the hope of getting something for herself. Under these pre-war conditions all of the familiar signs of approaching military conflict are coming into the open. These include: The breakdown of international economic and financial co-operation following collapse of the London economic conference. Final failure of ten years of disarmament effort at the Geneva conference, followed by increased military budgets and naval building in all major countries. Increased international espionage and military spy scandals in Great Britain, France and elsewhere. President Roosevelt in his Wilson dinner speech last w r eek spoke of the danger of war. Many foreign officials have spoken with even more alarm of the approaching conflict. No one can predict the date of a war. The immediate explosion is almost always accidental and unexpected. It might come in a day, a week, a month, a year, or more. But that the dynamite now is piled high and waiting for a slight jolt to touch off the explosion is a terrifying fact which unfortunately can not be disproved. If and when that war comes it will hit all of us, whether America is dragged in or not. It will change in one way or another all of our present problems—unemployment, farm surplus, public works, debts, taxes, credit, currency; and it will create new problems. It will cause us to suffer—for we have learned that no nation can live unto itself alone. In war there is no victor. Even if we escape actual military combat, we shall pay along with the rest of this interdependent world for such a war. But we shall pay more and suffer more if we go in than if we stay out of the fighting. Therefore the supreme duty of the United States government in 1934 is to work for world peace. If our government fails in the new year as it failed despite sincere efforts in nhe old year to check the World war forces, then its grave responsibility is to keep the United States out of the threatened war. THE TUGWELL BILL WHY do we need any revision of the pure food and drug act of 1906? This question is agitating many Americans who have little command of the facts upon which to base a decisive judgment. The controversy will become much more sharp when congress assembles. Last June, Senator Copeland introduced a bill to revise the old act. It was designated as a bill “to prevent the manufacture, shipment and sale of adulterated or misbranded food, drugs and cosmetics, and to regulate traffic therein, v and to prevent the false advertisement of food, drugs and cosmetics.” This bill was formulated primarily by Rexford G. Tugwell. assistant secretary of state. It will be reintroduced in the coming session and may be the center of a struggle matched in bitterness and depth only by that which will turn about inflation and monetary issues. Let us examine the merits of the controversy. The act of 1906 was primarily the work of Dr. Harvey Wiley of the department of agriculture. He was aided by some of the more eminent “muckrakers" of that time. Particularly effective were the pens of Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams. Upton Sinclair's investigation of the Chicago stock yards helped to emphasize the need for a pure food law. More than any one else. Mr. Adams exposed the dangerous and unscrupulous conduct in that day of the venders of worthless or poisonous patent medicines. The act as finally passed was regarded as an outstanding achievement of the Theodore Roosevelt administration. The original law did not compel the manufacturer's label to describe the actual contents of the remedy. It merely forbade the inclusion of fraudulent claims on the label. The government, moreover, had to prove that the manufacturer knew that any unwarranted claims were fraudulent at the time of manufacture and sale. Dr. Tugwell discusses that in Today. f “And so any Tom. Dick or Harry’ can make an unpalatable stew of weeds, label it as a cure for any and all of the ills to which mankina is heir, sell it at a convincingly exorbi-

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tant price, and the government will have to go through all sorts of legalistic gymnastics to prove that hp knew it was worthless before he sold it. Meanwhile, thousands of credulous souls may be taking the concoction in all good faith. In addition to the inadequacy of the 1906 act to control the abuse of that day, there have appeared many new frauds, not covered by the act at all. Among these, Tugwell discloses are “the fiendishly-conceived mechanical devices which guarantee to make short men tall, pug noses classic, bald heads hairy—all outside the scope of the present law because it contains no specific definition which applies to them.” The cosmetics industry has come into being mainly since 1906. Along with many valuable products have come a considerable borderland of fraud. Most important of all, the old act offered little or no protection against fraudulent advertising. Therefore, manufacturers of bogus remedies soon found that they could refrain from making fraudulent claims on labels and then set forth these same fake pretensions in advertising with no fear of prosecution. Hence, we have had preposterous advertisements relative to dubious rejuvenation remedies, obesity cures, saline laxatives formerly used by veterinarians for horses and now dolled up in fancy packages and sold at high prices, weak antiseptics portrayed as sudden death to all types of germs, and a great diversity of scare adds designed to sell one or another remedy or nostrum. The right of self-medication, in any reasonable interpretation, will not need to be affected by any revision of the act of 1906, All honest manufacturers of substantial remedies most obviously stand to gain by a strengthening of the old act. Professor Tugwell expresses this point very well indeed. “I can not believe that manufacturers will not welcome the opportunity of placing their products on markets free from the ruthless competition of a chiseling minority which resorts to cheap, illicit advertising to keep its head above water.” LIVING ARTISTS A RT groups in the country have issued an appeal to museums to buy only the work of living artists during the depression. Museums are now in a position to make a dollar go a long way in buying coveted works of the old masters, whose value has dropped greatly. And there is no disputing the power of old works of art to give pleasure—a pleasure comparable to that of old wines to a connoisseur. But at this time, apart from giving work to artists, museums could help contribute to a desirable fresh, new creative spirit in this country by encouraging contemporary artists and by putting their work on display. Encouragement should be given especially to art dealing with contemporary America and pointing toward the future. By this we do not mean modernistic stuff which would have an extremely limited appeal, but substantial art which would be intelligible to large numbers. The salvation of industrial and economic America lies to a great extent in the development of many new lines of productive and creative activity. We believe that the museums should respond to the appeal in behalf of living artists to the greatest extent possible. THESE LICENSE PLATES npHERE has been so much comment, both Pro and con, about Indiana’s new license plate law, that it seems useless to add anything to what already has been said. The state administration decided that Jan. 1 was the deadline. The present extension, officials say, is not an extension at all. They say they are not making arrests yet because they haven’t been able to handle all the business. But concerning the merits of the Jan. 1 deadline itself there is this to say: The new year does start on Jan. 1. If we’re going to have cars, we’re going to have licenses. And if the licenses run from year to year, w’hy not start on Jan. 1 and go through a whole year? It’s a business proposition and it should be run in a business-like manner. And, in a way, the license law affects all other laws. Disrespect for one breeds disrespect for another. The state should enforce its license law rigidly. It might serve to impress on a lot of people the need for law respect. A SERIOUS PROGRAM TT is an ambitious and expensive program which the navy department is asking congress to approve. The expenditure of SIOO.000.000 a year for five years to bring the fleet up to a treaty parity basis would be a heavy load for the treasury to bear; furthermore, taking such a step inevitably would have repercussions in such capitals as London and Tokio. It goes without saying, of course, that this country would be entirely within its rights in building right up to the treaty limits. For many years we have permitted our navy to Sgjr.ain below the status permitted it by international agreement; if we choose now to built it up, that is our privilege. But before we do so, It would be wise for us to consider just what the consequences might be. We don’t want another armament race; we don't want to strain any of our international relations; we don’t want to increase the suspicion that certain foreign nations harbor toward us. There are. in short, a lot of angles to this navy-building business; we need to consider all of them pretty carefully before we commit ourselves. The new plan is for the government to comer all the gold there is in the country, and then bring prosperity around. The milky way is only one-third the size we thought it was. says a Canadian astronomer. That’s what we get for letting the cow jump over the moon so much. New York Stock Exchange has formed a set of new rules, but none against lceing your money there. Name of Japan’s newly born royal heir means. “Wise and successful prince.” Wise and successful, no doubt, for the parents he chose.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in tiicse columns. J lake your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or lessJ By Frank H. Egan. In the Star Saturday we noticed a long piece by a man who is evidently' afraid to give his name and signs it “Observer,” Williams, Ind., and I don't blame him a bit as it is largest piece of junk that I ever have read, and evidently he is a politician who lost his piece of pie. This man is complaining of President Roosevelt ana his methods of trying to get us back on our feet. The President is not a politician, he is a diplomat and all of our presidents in a row from Lincoln down mentally could not take President Roosevelt’s place today. No doubt the President promised us anew deal and God knows we needed it, and you are getting it. If you can not understand, let me point out to you that if Mellon's puppet had four more years of his “around the corner,” giving big corporations billions of dollars to pay their debts to Morgan, Mellon and other financiers, giving millions to a certain banker to keep him out of politics and not one penny to save the millions of starving citizens, Mr. Observer, you would not have had postage to send your piece to the Star. As far as Messrs. Robinson and Watson go, let me include our Governor McNutt and don't forget Leslie. These gentlemen are dead politically in this state. The condition politically is the citizens’ fault as the politicians have formed a large organization from Maine to California. The citizens are not organized, and from my experiences at the polls there is only about 30 per cent that are intelligent enough, mentally, to vote. So my dear “Observer,” if you are not going any place don’t block the way. By Sherman Lon?. In my opinion, the rehousing program is the most important re-em-ployment project that the devisers of CWA projects possibly could excogitate. There are many workable programs that have been approved officially such as road building, flood prevention and park beautifying. Those are all profitable and are sure to bring satisfying returns. Yei they are lacking in adequate significance in that they fail to reward merit. The ancient theory that merit surely wall receive ample reward is only correct in the event that the proper opportunity is given those who possess merit to prove their efficiency. In other words, if one should be a swimming genius, he never could command the acknowledgment of the audience by being incarcerated on dry land. The destruction of those dilapidated hovels and fire traps in Indianapolis and the building of sanitary homes would send us on the road to recovery speedily in providing employment for architects, carpenters, brick masons and all who are skilled in construction. It really affords greater enthusiasm to both skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers than all the other projects that have been mentioned. It also would serve the purpose of stimulating confidence in real estate. It has been noticed that the owners of real estate are the most prompt opponents of the rehousing program, basing their argument on the fact that the tenants of those shacks would not be able to pay the rent that the rebuilding program tvould bring about. They forget the fact that many inhabitants of those detestable rat and vermin harbors would be receiving the wages of skilled workers during the reconstruction program. I'm sure that the rehousing program is the most durable and profitable suggestion ever offered. Whatya say? Let's get it started. Bt G. M. L. The Blue Eagle now having stepped on a sufficient number of toes, the G. O P. arise,; from seven months’ watchful waiting to issue one long, loud, courageous blast at the NRA. It is a monster, they point out, created to devour individual enterprise, ambition, initiative, thrift and foresight. This is a strong statement. The Democrats will reply that it’s only an emergency measure. This is apologetic and weak. It’s just another evidence that most of the country’s nerve and brains are in the Republican party. Why is that? Maybe it’s just because nerve and brains being acquisitive in their nature, and Republicans being in power most of

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For Labor By Charles Burton. We have been living in an era which has been blind to this philosophy, an era which leaned toward the theory that labor entirely depends upon capital, and that capital must be protected at the expense of labor. Asa result, it has been an era bounded by the accumulation of untold wealth in the hands of the capitalists on the one side and on the other by the increase of forced idleness and starvation for the workers. It has been an era that is forgetful of the basic law of life, the law of self-preservation. Thus, I say, labor precedes capital. It is prior to it and capital depends upon it more so in that sense than labor depends upon capital. No government, except one that is partial and blinded, will extend its major efforts in caring only for the capitalist and the financier. Such efforts remind one of curing a broken leg by poulticing the head. the time, the acquisitive naturally gravitate to the Republican party. You might call it the “Acquisitive Party.” The Democrats, being out most of the time, wondering what is going on, could be called the “Inquisitive Party.” Any one who can’t be fooled by either party all of the time and who carefully analyzes The Republican statement, however, is struck by the fact that the description they give of the Blue Eagle absolutely fits another monster created for the same purpose—the Criminal Code. The code is also embarrassing to individual initiative, enterprise, ambition, thrift and foresight. The only difference is that the code applies to all the well-known operations, while the Blue Eagle has to dig all of its rats out of their rat-holes. The one form of operation, now being well known, is considered crude. While the other, choked with mystery, is considered simply clever. The poor Democrats are blasted for failure to carry out party pledges in seven months. They view with alarm and condemn with horror, as usual, but they do not “point with pride.” Perhaps it’s because wherever they point there would be standing some part of twenty million paupers. So there is only one thing left to and the efforts of the party in power to relieve them. It is absolutely true that the NRA will put some forms of individual enterprise in a strait-jacket. And it will probably have dragged out into the light and identified more new forms of trickery, more clever stickups of greed and heartlessness than were exposed by all the work of Ida Tarbell, Tom Lawson and Upton Sinclair put together, whose labors resulting in the interstate

Questions and Answers

Q —What is the difference between static and current electricity? A —Static is electricity at rest; current is electricity in motion. Q—Give the meaning of the name Estelle. A—Star of brilliancy. Q —What is the title of Robert Browning's poem in which Lazarus, raised from the dead, is the hero? A—“An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician.” Q —What does the initial R. at the beginning of a medical prescription, stand for? A—The Latin word “recipe,” meaning take. The cross bar has been used from ancient times to show that a physician’s recine was intended. Q —How many children has President Roosevelt? Did any of his children die? A—He has four sons: Elliott. Franklin Jr., James and John, and one daughter. Mrs. Curtis Dali. None has died. Q—What does Amen mean? A—lt is a Hebrew word meaning firmly or surely. Q —Give the past tense of o. k. A—The accepted form is ok'd. Q —Name the Governors of Ohio from 1300 to 190&

commerce law, the insurance laws and the pure food law probably have saved for the people what they have left today. It will take many strides forward like the NRA before we arrive at social justice and we never will be satisfied again by “it might be worse." Another sixteen years of free and unjacketed initiative and enterprise likely will take what is left when we come to the next periodical shake-down. Blessed is the spirit of the NRA and whether it succeeds or fails, mankind is the better for having thought of it. It must not fail. By Joseph B. Adler. A machine gun was not made just as a toy, But was made for harm and life to destroy; Average man has no use for such as that, And a lawful man does not need such a gat. Person that holds one is against the law, And constitution should correct this flaw; The criminal has best of it in this game. So without it he’ll probably be very tame. I Government should get them on its call, And no one can make them, otherwise, at all; Every one made will be recorded on a book, And the government then can trace every crook. Any on hand, no matter wherever the place, Must be reported, for he will have to face The court, and explain to whom it was sold, For without a gun a criminal will not be bold. The cause just here is our great trouble, And without same will burst like a bubble; So to root out cause is the thing to do, And that is proper way, between me and you. We should avoid any trouble at the source, But we fail to do that and then of course We lose lives and money, then people we tax Because an official on duty was awfully lax. Instead of going forward we’re go ing back, So on inspection we’re off the right track; We should be candid and admit a big mistake, Then turn around and the right road take.

A—George K. Nash, 1900 to 1904; and Myron T. Herrick, 1904 to 1906. Q—Are captains and first mates of ships required to know how to swim? A—No. Q —Give the name and address of the Polish consul-general in New York. A—Mieczyslaw Marchlew e s k i, 151 East Sixty-seventh street, New York. Q —Name a few of the photoplays in which Dick Grace has performed flying stunts. A—“ Wings,” “Lilac Time” and "The Flying Circus.” Q —Can water rise higher than the level of its source? A—Only by pumping or other mechanical means. Q—How long does it take for flies’ eggs to hatch and how long before the flies obtain the adult stage? A—The eggs usually hatch in less than twenty-four hours, and under the most favorable conditions of temperature and moisture may be hatched in eight hours. Experiments have shown that the shortest time between the deposition of eggs and the emergence of the adult fly is eight days, and ten and twelve day records are common.

JAN. 3, 1934

Fair | Enough j BY WESTBROOK PEGLEX

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3— lt is ' still a little difficult to understand things under the new’ deal because there has occurred since this time a year ago a revision of some of the homely old American virtues which no influential statesman has yet had the candor to acknowledge. When your correspondent came to Washington in the last months of Mr. Hoover's administration, abstinence, efficiency and thrift still were popular in a sentimental sort of way to the extent that they had not yet been discredited openly. It would have been too shocking just then to come out flatly for alcoholic indulgence. incompetent and extravagance as virtues to be admired and practiced, but by this time the citizens are beginning to get the idea in a vague slow way and it might speed the understanding if someone in a position to do so should acknowledge all and get it done with. It is the first Line in the history of this country that virtue has oeen made easy and a pleasure but there is still some holding back out of respect for old traditions. Your correspondent will suggest that once the citizens understand how it is they will feel more at ease and let themselves go. For once, apparently, the citizens can have fun being good. It even may be that they still are teaching the children in the public schools that liquor is an evil which would be an unpatriotic way of doing in view of Mr. Roosevelt’s own declaration soon after his inauguration that prohibition would have to be repealed because the treaury needed the money. a a a UNDER the circumstances it would seem more consistent with public policy and the national interest to teach the little children something about the art of throwing together a decent cocktail and something about the evils of total abstinence which abolished blue Mondays in the factories for thirteen years and increased the workman’s efficiency to such an extent that presently one man did the work of ten and nine men lost their jobs. This efficiency, moreover, traceable so directly to the sinister vice of abstinence from alcoholic beverages, results in the improvement of American articles until American automobiles were being sold which could stand up for five or more years, thus appealing to the citizen’s thrift and removing the buyer from the market for long periods of time. Shoes and suits and tires were serving those who purchased their far beyond the time when the workman, in his deadly, clear-eyed sobriety, had produced replacements and the evil permeated even the advertisements which were written to sell goods but nevertheless promised that the new tube of shaving cream or toothpaste would last six months longer because the subject could get, efficient results on a quarter of an inch less of cream or paste per treatment. So once the customer had been sold it took six months longer than it had before to sell him again. a a u YOUR correspondent has given this subject much thought and always having been suspicious of the virtues under discussion is much pleased to note now an informal abandonment of the same which needs onjy the voice of authority to make it official. Thrift, of course, was renounced by inference when the citizens were called upon many’s the time since 1929 to buy now, regardless of their needs, in ortr that the lathes and looms and aiS such apparatus might begin their merry clink and clatter and clank once more. Your correspondent always has had a notion, wrong-minded though it was for many years, that even if these virtues were virtuous if practiced n moderation, they could lead to dangerous excesses, but the vindication of this belief has been a mitigated pleasure. Considering what it cast, it seems that it must have been more pleasant all around if the citizen had been allowed to spend his money away on his Saturday night binge, as of old. and to show up with his Monday morning Katzenjammer and in this condition produce goods which wouldn’t last forever. There were efficient propagandists during that time and their gifts, still available in great force, now might be utilized to popularize the antidotes. It might do some good to erect some monuments on the public squares to some of the more notorious old soaks, beginning with Rip Van Winkle and descending the scale to history local rum-pots of whom every village in the country has had one or more. They were not efficient, they did not save their money and they, combine all the qualities whic’ seem most laudable just now. Ther. also could be a national day of observance once a year on which Veteran two-bottle men from the local drink cure might be invited to address the citizens on their adventures as an inspiration to those who now take the glass from their palsied fingers. Your correspondent would like, also, to see some advertisements of anew school reading “Just a real bad car” or “When worse automobiles are built we will build them,” and for a motto in the public schools and across the postofficeV facades, not “Do it now” or “jf penny saved is a penny earned,” bfit something on the order of “Go to the sluggard thou ant.” This may not be an accurate interpretation of the new deal. There still is some confusion about it all down here. •(Copyright. 1934. bv Um>3 Features Syndicate. Inc i

Old and New

WILLIAM A. GEARHART The old year turns its flatted leaf And hides forever from my sight The record of its past events Which fade in mem’rys' feeble light. Fleet time decrees that I shall seek Another sphere with less of sin, And do a more completed work With fewer errors creeping in. So forced to go by Father Time \ Who sternly bids me what to do, My back against the dying year, J resolutely face the new.