Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1934 — Page 2

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun IUSBD to be a barroom brawler—and not so bad. either—but that was tn my younger days. Probably I wasn’t good enough, for I have grown up with a hatred and a distrust of violence. Recent events have made It hard to defend this opsition logically, yet I hope to hang on for at least a while longer—which may be long enough. But, at any rate, I was never sufficiently illogical to frown on one kind of violence and applaud another, which sometimes goes under the name of

maintaining law and order. I have in mind the recent battle at the Waldorf. If a striker so much as booed outside that august entrance he was set down in the minds of many as a ruffian. - But when hotel dicks slug guests for the sin cf walking out there are those who applaud the hotel's private strongarm men as defenders of the Constitution and the bill of rights. a a a A Double-Barrelled Rule EARLY in the tai/i strike, Mayor La Guardia announced that if the drivers g^t

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rough he could become rough himself. I am waiting to hear him repeat, this admonition to the hotel owners. A hotel is not a little principality where anything goes according to the desire of the management. I think a guest within a lobby should be Just as safe ps a lone pedestrian late at night upon an unfrequented alley. It is my serious suggestion to the mayor that he place cops in those corridors where the hired thugs have shown themselves more than a bit too free with their blackjacks. In fact, if I want to walk into any hostelry in town and say in a loud voice, ‘ I think the working conditions here are intolerable,” I believe that I will still remain within my legal privileges, and I think I would be justified in asking for a police escort to protect me in my rights, even within the Park avenue Jungles which lie somewhere east of Suez. It may be that under the strictest sort of legal Interpretation a young man who starts to make a speech in the dining room is guilty of disorderly conduct. I wouldn't be too sure of that, because I've made a lot of speeches In hotel banquet rooms, and nothing happened except that some of the listeners yawned and departed. But in addition to law there is such a thing as custom and precedent. On numerous occasions I have seen well-to-do patrons make howling nuisances of themselves and get from the hotel management no more than a playful nod of “Naughty! Naughty!” They were disturbmg everybody, but they didn’t happen to be touching on economic questions —and so they got by. a a a The Sins of the Strong ANYBODY with the slightest familiarity with labor wars In America must realize that at least 90 per cent of the violence has been introduced by the employers. If a worker throws a rock a hired guard responds with a machine gun. I still have no belief in violence, but if we are to be rid of it we ought to have mayors and Governors and Presidents who are just as quick to restrain the company gunman as the worker with a slingshot. And there is, in addition, that slow and safe and respectable sort of violence which many employers Impose upon many hired hands. I heard a lady from Larchmont once express high indignation because a striker was carrying his small child with him on a picket line. It seemed to her heartless and ciuel that the child should be exposed to the elements. But neither the lady from Larchmont nor the employer had the slightest compunction against paying a nonliving wage under which that same child could starve quietly and sedately at home. Most of us are peculiarly calm about the outrages and the suffering which go on beyond our sight. And we take precautions not to see too much. a a a About Penance Parties I’M glad I swore off my sense of humor for 1934, because several of the newspapers profess to s j e something terribly comic in the fact that a group of writing men and women went to a big hotel to protest against the treatment accorded to waiters, bus boys, chefs and kitchen helpers. It was the attitude of the press that somehow or otiicr these people did not fit properly into any such sort of gesture. I can’t see why. Certainly the general public has a large and a vital concern in both the hotel and taxicab strikes. Not only does humanitarianism above the general public but sheer intelligent self-interest as well. After all, the salaries of waiters and of taxi drivers are paid largely by the patrors. The employer is in no sound position to say, “What business is it of yours?” Writers are spokesmen of the public and have every reason to be heard. It may be charged that some of us have been so slothful and indifferent to public concerns in the past that recent demonstrations fall under the head of penance patties. Well, so be it. If we came late there is even more reason now for all good, pretty good and indifferent writers to come to the aid of the party. (Copyright, 1934. by The Times)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN =

THE proteins you take in various foods are important for the growth of your body and for keeping it in repair. At one time all proteins were considered nearly alike, but now we know that those found in meat, eggs, milk, fish, and cheese are of the most importance for these purposes. Vegetable proteins are less important. There are various ways in which your body may receive its protein, but in some parts of the world, little choice exists. For instance. Eskimos live entirely on animal foods. Vegetables and grasses are not available. The Eskimos get their protein and their fats from the meat of the seal and from the blubber. Yet Eskimos are healthy and do not seem to develop any special diseases because of their diet of flesh. Incidentally, they do not seem to be bothered by changes in the blood vessels, kidneys or gout to the extent that civilized man develops these disorders. a a a IN contrast to the diet of the Eskimos is the food of a West African tribe, which lives wholly on flour made from ripe bananas and on fresh bananas. This one fruit gives them every requisite, and if the bananas are quite ripe they contain sufficient aminoacids to give the proteins good value for growth and repair. Incidentally, babies in both the Eskimo and in the West African tribe are nursed by their mothers. Artificial feeding is not practical for these people. -With the exception of this banana diet.” says one authority, "no other vegetarian diet provides proteins of good enough biological value.” To every other vegetarian diet, milk and eggs must be added. a a' a IN other savage groups, growth and full rigor can be maintained on milk. The Masai live on milk and blood and their warriors develop good size and strength. In general the biological values of proteins are in the following order: First milk and then meat. Among the meats kidney is first, then liver, and then muscle. The cereal products are useful but, of course, not in the same order as milk and meat. Cereals, therefore, must be supplemented with milk or meat. From the point of view of costs, milk is cheaper for the protein it prorides than meat. Cheese especially is cheaper.

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Jack Howard —Who Loves to Argue —He Bars No Subject

Thu i the twenty-eighth article of T he Indianapolis Times popular series of articles about the members of its editorial staff. Today's article is about Jack Howard. a a a a a a BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Times News Editor “'"T''HERE'B a swell argument going on over in the corner,” said one J. of the boys as he passed the copy desk. Up popped Jack Howard's head with a jerk. His eyes were wide and round. “Argument,” he repeated softly. “Ah.” You could almost see him smack his lips. And off to the corner he marched, there to join in whatever argument was going on. And it will always be that way because Jack Howard doves to argue—calmly and sincerely—about any subject under the sun. Jack—a sturdy young gentleman—has decided ideas about life and he doesn’t pull his punch He is a confirmed wise-cracker, but he detests puns and punsters. Naturally'slightly lazy, according to his own testimony, he works hard because he likes newspaper work and his proudest boast is that he acts according to his pleasures. He is a pipe addict and collects pipes by the dozens. He is the office’s most widely traveled man and only last year returned from a period of working in the far east, right in the thick of battling Chinese and Japanese.

JACK was born in New York, but he has Indianapolis to thank for his name, and every time he explains that his name is not John, but plain Jack, he has to dig into history. When his father, Roy W. Howard, spent his boyhood in Indianapolis his nickname was “Jack.” So when the stork dropped a boy in on the Roy W. Howards on Aug. 31, 1910, the name became Jack in memory of the Indianapolis days. Although the usual number of visiting ladies discovered that Jack resembled his father tsrongly, an equal amount found that he also resembled his mother. Competent witnesses, however, teestify that Jack bears more than slight resemblance to the male side if his parentage. “I remember,” says Jack, ‘‘horse cars in New York way downtown; motoring in high, brass-bound gasoline chariots, the tires of which exploded frequently, and required fourteen men to change; the gentle Spanish padre who lived in the same apartment house, and hours spent in the United Press offices in the old World building, drawing pictures on copy paper with thick, black copy pencils.” Jack moved to Larchmont, N. Y., in 1915, and stayed there until 1918, when he weet to Los Angles. In the far west, young Mr. Howard first felt the strong arm of the law. His crime was emptying the content of a water pistol into the faces of passing motorists, women preferred. Miraculously, Jack managed to escape arrest and a long period in prison. a a a— JACK moved back to New York in the winter of 1918 and when an attack of influenza laid both Jack and hsi father law, the pair made a three months’ trip to South America. They voyaged down the west coast, over the Andes, from the east coast to Europe and from Europe home. Jack remembers that trip well. “Bullfights, bright colors,” he

ROUNDING ROUND rpTTT? A r T K T?T) Q WITH WALTER 1 1 H/IVO D . HICKMAN

RIGHT now is a good time to make arrangements for the legitimate season in this city. The entire problem simmers down to this one question—are we going to have a legitimate starting next fall? The only one who can answer that question are those who buy tickets. That may seem brutal but it is the truth.

The main reason that the splendid touring productions of Arthur Oberfelder were withdrawn from Indianapolis was that there were not enough people present to make the season profitable. If English’s had broken even and not made a cent profit, the season would have gone on. Plans are being made by several important companies for touring next fall. One of these is the Abbey Theater Players from the Abbey theater, Dublin, Ireland. Do we want to see these great people in equally great plays? If we do, then we had better get busy. Please write me and let me know if you want Indianapolis included on the tour. I will turn those letters over to Vincent Burke, manager of English’s. Fred W. Jordan, representing the Abbey Players, has sent me the following letter: Alber & Wickes, Inc., who sponsored the last two successful tours of the Abbey Theatre Players from the Abbey theater, Dublin, Ireland, now definitely announce the return in the fall of these famous players who, with their brilliant repertoire and harmonized beauty of acting, again left an indelible impression on American audiences last season. “They will arrive in Boston the first week in October to start their transcontinental tour, beginning with three weeks in New England, before they arrive at the Martin Beck theater in New York the latter part of the month. The New York and Chicago engagements will be cut to three weeks and Boston to two, so they will be able to fulfill engagements that other cities were clamoring lor last season, but could not be filled on account of the pronounced success in these cities. “The tour next season will take the company from coast to coast and will constitute their longest Americans stay which will, in all probability, be their last visit for some years to come, as it was only because of the recent conference between Lennox Robinson, the managing director of the Abbey theater, and Elbert A. Wickes, that the other directors of the theater decided to let the players make this tour. “The repertoire for next season will contain a whole series of new plays, famous in the Abbey repertoire. including the stirring and vital ’The Plough and me Stars,’ for which American audiences clamored last year. “They will also bring with them such proved brilliant successes as: The Playboy of the Western World,’ by J. M. Synge; ‘June and the Paycock,’ by Sean O’Casey; The Whiteheaded Boy,' by Lennox Robinson; The New Gossoon,*

says, “smooth blue seas, one whale, numerous porpoises, Spanish ‘men-o’-war.’ watermelons, horse races, uniforms, foggy London, and very dead Portuguese royalty lying fully bearded in glass-covered coffins in the cathedral in Lisbon.” In January, 1924, Jack sailed to the Mediterranean and spent several months darting back and forth to Algiers, Egypt, Greece, Italy, etc. From there he went to Paris and saw the Olympic games at Paris that year. He entered Phillips Exeter Academy in the fall of 1924 and was graduated in 1928. In 1926, he spent the summer months in Europe, with special emphasis on France in 1928, got himself a job on a liner and worked his way to England, where he obtained a job in the London bureau of the United Press, working there until the Olympic games at Amsterdam, and then trotting over to that Netherlands city to help cover the games for the United Press. In the fall of 1928, he entered Yale university, with the idea of taking medicine. After two years, he decided that he would sooner be a newspaper man than a doctor, so he turned and majored in history. He was graduated from Yale in 1932. a a a IN 1931, he hurried back to Europe, working in the United Press bureau in Paris for three months, and then going to Moscow, by way of Berlin. By chance, he happened to be on the same train as George Bernard Shaw. “And there went another illusion,” recalls Jack. “He isn’t really God ” Jack had a grand time in Moscow. The night he left the temperature was about 102 degrees above and he donned a Russian shirt for comfort. In the party were a group of American newspaper men and while they were waiting for the train, a heavilyladen Russian peasant approached the group. He surveyed the entire group closely, then walked up to Jack and poured out a flood of fluent Russian. He wanted to know when acer-

by George Shields, and ‘The FarOff Hills,’ by Lennox Robinson. “The list of new one-act plays will be announced later, but they •will again present such celebrated ones as, ‘The Rising of the Moon,’ ‘Kathleen ni Houlihan,’ ‘Spreading the News,’ The Shadow of the Glen,’ ‘Crabbed Youth and Age,’ and ‘Riders to the Sea.’ They will be used again with the two-act plays to round out a full evening of complete enjoyment. “It has long been conceded that the most perfect English is spoken in Dublin and as these plays are all spoken in this perfect English our theatergoer has no need to worry about whether he can understand the dialogue or if he will have to depend on pantomime for his evening’s entertainment. These plays are not what is termed highbrow entertainment written for the intellectuals, but are written with that simplicity and direct- • ness of style that appeals to every class of theatergoer. The same competent cast will visit us again, but especially augmented on account of their new repertoire and ‘The Plough and the Stars.’ ”

DECATUR’S LIGHT PLANT RATE SLASH APPROVED Consumers Saved $15,000 Annually by Commission Ruling. Rate reductions totaling about $15,000 a year for the Decatur municipal electric plant were approved yesterday by the public service commission. The order is effective as of Feb. 1. The commission yesterday set March 6 as date for final hearings on consolidated rate petitions of South Bend, Elkhart and Mishawaka, against gas rates charged by the Northern Indiana Public Service Comi ir.. NAME CADET OFFICERS AT SHORTRIDGE HIGH Eight Students Receive R. O. T. C. Appointments. Announcement of appointment of eight new cadet officers in the Shortridge high school R. O. T. C. department was made today by Ser* geant Melton Rhine. They are Cadet Major James Harris. Cadet Captain William McAbee. and Walter Zeher; Cadet First Lieutenants Foster Clippinger and Murry Dulberger; Cadet Second Lieutenants Arthur Aldous, Robert Hollowed and Richard Ware.

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Jack Howard, seated at his desk in The Times office, may be wondering about some iww angles for an argument. A globe trotter, he is the office’s most widely traveled man.

tain train left. And of the whole group, the gentleman the peasant selected as a Russian was the only one not a fluent spieler of Russian. After his graduation from Yale, Jack journeyed westward, pausing in Hawaii, and then going to Tokio, where he spent three months working for the Japan Advertiser. From there he went to Shanghai, where he worked four months on the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury before packing his bags again and going north to Peiping, via Manchuria. Afte returning to Peiping, Mr. Howard found himself at the fringe of an excellent war between Chinese and Japanese. Jack received an offer to go back to Harbin for the United Press, j Jack flew back to that hotbed at the time the Soviet-Manchuo-

POLICE QUESTION 4 IN ALLEGED HOLDUP City Man Says He Was Robbed of $36. Police today held four men on vagrancy charges for investigation, following complaint last night by Oscar Wolf, 33, of 414 South Gray street, that two men picked him up in a car and robbed him of $36 before throwing him from the car. Wolf, slated on intoxication charges, furnished police the license number of the car. Later they arrested Raymond Morales, 25, Craig hotel, and Robert Pike, 20, of 350% East Washington street, said to have been identified by Wolf, and Joseph Horger, 35, of 130 West Merrill street, and Jesse Acres, 30, of 1704 East Tenth street. Insull Fights Expulsion By United Press ATHENS, Feb. 10.—Friends of Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities magnate, fought today to obtain postponement of the expulsion order against him, under which he has been ordered to leave the country by Tuesday.

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“It’s all right, fellows, he’s going to give me another week to meet that payment.”

kuo fracas over the Chinese Eastern Railway was at its height. From Harbin, Jack headed back to Peiping, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, up to Paris, and therr back to the good old U. S. A. a a a TO freshen up on the old sod, Jack spent six weeks in the New York office of the United Press, where he had served during the summer of 1930. From New York, Jack headed straight to Indianapolis, and plumped himself into a seat on the copy desk of The Times, where he has been ever since. He is in charge of inside makeup and spends half his working day in the composing room watching forms being pushed through into the stereotype department.

Sighs and Silence Largest Number of Slayer Suspects in Years Are Confined in Marion County Jail.

THE machine gunner on guard in the steel cage of the Marion county jail is a grim fellow. All day he squints through a porthole in his little fort across “at murderer’s row,” where sighs, and the steady pacing of prisoners are almost the only sounds. In the heavily-barred cells are confined more persons accused of murder than Marion county has seen in many a year. Mrs. Neoma Saunders, her steaky brown and gray hair disheveled, and her eyes red from weeping, is in a cell between two women, also accused of murder. They are Mattie Ritter, Negro, of 731 Darnell street, who is a poor cellmate because she groans constantly.

In the other cell Irma May Harding, slight and rather pretty, patiently awaits trial for the slaying of an aged salesman in a hotel in East New York street, Nov. 3. Police say that Irma May aided her husband in the robbery of the salesman and then killed him with a hammer. Irma May is not a bad cellmate at all. She has become resigned to her confinement, according to prison attaches, and spends most of the day wistfully contemplating the sunlight in the little courtyard, over which the machine-gunner presides so grimly.

By George Clark

Jack is very fond of dogs and he is a fishing and hunting devotee. He likes anything connected with the sea. He likes Wagner, little else in the way of classical music. His favorite authors are Conrad, Somerset Maugham, John Galsworthy, J. B. Priestly, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Tolstoi, Faulkner and Voltaire. He likes the theater, but goes to few movies. And he confesses to two ambitions. He wants to see some kid carrying a base fiddle to a music lesson, and he would like to see something like chop suey in China. P. S—He’s engaged and he gets a letter a day. It keeps him in good humor. Next —S. J. Doss.

IN the men’s section of the jail “Teddy” Mathers, the embalming student who has confessed, according to police, that he killed the Rev. Gaylord Saunders “for $10,” paces a cell, his curly, dark hair rumpled and his eyes heavy with sorrow and bewilderment. Masil Roe of Coalmont, business college student, held as an accomplice in the slaying of the Rev. Saunders, has been placed in a cell a considerable distance from the one occupied by Mathers. He, too, wears a bewildered expression as he moodily paces his narrow compartment or sits, head cupped in hand, on the edge of his hard, prison cot. He has not slept much since his arrest. Some-, times he converses in low tones with Edward (Foggy) Dean, charged with taking part in the killing of Sergeant Lester Jones. Four Negroes, Herbert Johnson, Thomas Outlaw, Robert Coffey and Harvey Highbaugh, all of Indianapolis, are charged by the police with violating the injunction, “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Still conscience-stricken former Sergeant Otis Edge of Ft. Harrison, reads in his cell or walks up and down like the other prisoners. He confessed, police say, on Dec. 6, that he murdered his wife, in Lawrence, one year ago. The sergeant, a square-jawed soldier, returned to Indianapolis from Brown county to give himself up and confess to the crime which the coroner believed a suicide. tt tt u SMALL and "foreign-looking,” Vasil Papas, who arrived in Marion county jail on Christmas day, charged with killing his landlady, when she is alleged to have turned off his gas in a rooming house in Northeast street has little to say. Nor has Frank Straudt, 1525 Deloss street, who police a?y killed a man in September by throwing a sickle at his head during an argument. “The biggest little ‘murderer’s’ jail in the country” says a deputy sheriff in a feeble effort to make a joke. But the machine gunner on guard in the steel cage is a grim fellow. All day he squints through a porthole in his little fort, across at “murder’s row,” where sighs and the steady pacing of the prisoners are almost the only sounds. V

Today's Science By David Dietz, MANY who think of the name cf Cotton Mather only in conhection with the Salem witchcraft persecutions, will be surprised to hear that he deserves the title of the father of popular science In the English language. A curious little volume which has just come to light in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, shows that he was the author of what was probably the first volume of popular science publshed in English. The book is entitled, “The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements. By Cotton Mather, D. D., and Fellow of the Royal Society.” It was printed in 1721. It is a popular compendium of astronomy, physics, geology, zoology, physiology, anatomy and psychology as they existed in his day. While the modern reader, looking over the old bock, is most likely to be halted by what are amusing mistakes in the light of modern knowledge, the Smithsonian authorities who have read the book carefully say that Mather was right more often than he was wrong. In thus connection, it is perhaps well to point out that Mather has suffered unfairly in the matter of reputation. Historians now agree that it can not be shown that he inspired the witchcraft trials It is known that he had an interest in witchcraft and investigated a number of alleged cases. But it is also a fact that he Warned the judges of their conduct in the Salem trials and that he was convinced that some of the victims were unjustly sentenced. a a a Opposed to Superstition ANOTHER fact, not generally appreciated about Mather, is that he urged innoculation for smallpox in 1712. The Smithsonian authorities say of him that “he was an earnest seeker after truth, and had little patience with the purely superstitious or fanciful.” His book shows that he had a relatively accurate idea of the immensities of the universe. After stating that “the learned Huygens has a suspicion that every star may be a sun to other worlds in their several vortices,” he goes on to say that “the distance of the nearest fixed stars is at least 2,404,520.928,000 miles; which is so great that a cannon ball, going all “he way with the same velocity it has when it parts from the mouth of the gun, would scarce arrive there in 700,000 years. Great God, what is Thy immensity.” I do not know where Mather got his figure for the distance to the nearest stars. The figure is specific to an extent that leads one to believe that it was the result of some rather involved calculation. But the interesting thing about it is that it is of the right order of magnitude, being a figure in the trillions. It is, however, more than ten times too small, the distance to the nearest star being approximately twenty-five trillion miles. But let us not forget that the distance to the nearest star was not measured until the beginning of the nineteenth century—in 1839 to be exact—and that a true appreciation of the size of the galaxy did not come until the beginning of the present century. a a a First Reference to Sun Spots MATHER’S book contains the first reference in the literature of the new world to sun spots. His descriptions, the Smithsonian scientists say, are remarkably accurate and he appears to have been on the verge of recognizing something like a sun spot cycle. “Upon the convexity of the sun,” he wrote, “there are observed black spots which are movable and changeable. These move regularly toward the west and finish their revolution in about five and twenty days; and so testify unto us that the sun turns on its own center; and the axis of the motion inclining to the ecliptic. “These ‘maculae solares’ are probably evaporations which arise from the body of the sun, somewhat as vapors do from the earth, and they form themselves into clouds. That which adds to this probability is that the spots are always changing in their bulk and form and configuration. “Sometimes their number is greater and sometimes lesser; sometimes there are none at all Some of them shine and others that shone become dark Diligent astronomers who have waited on them for nine or ten years together have never found them in all this time to return to the same configurations. In Charlemain s time everyone saw a spot in this great luminary. And there have been divers days together, as in the year 1547, wherein the sun has appeared little brighter than the moon in her total eclipse and the stars have been visible at noonday.”

M. E. Tracy Says—

A TRUCK DRIVER was shot to death in New York the other day. He had a load of cigarets valued at $22,000. When a gang of thugs told him to scram and leave it for them, he put up a fight. I have heard at least a dozen people say that this was foolish. He didn’t have a dog’s chance, in their opinion, and should have known better than to throw away his life. Possibly he would have come to the same conclusion had he been given time enough to psychoanalyze himself. As it was, he had to act on impulse. Impulse is largely a matter of emotional training. In one way or another, this truck driver had acquired the belief that it was his duty to look after whatever was put ip his charge. Such a belief was quite popular with our fathers and grandfathers. Quite a few of them went down with their ships for no better reason than to set the right kind of example. u tt it It Is the Wrong Theory IT is more rational, perhaps, to let thugs and thieves take what they want, but America never could have been settled, or the United States established, on that theory. Nor can the question be decided by trying to figure out whether a truck load of cigarets is worth a man’s life. There are principles which it is impossible to appraise in terms of money, or explain by any known mathematical formula. They exercise a profound influence on society’s ability to maintain peace and order. The Russians, for instance, do not measure the seriousness of sabotage by the value of what was destroyed. It is the principle that worries them. It was the principle that worried our forefathers with reference to the stamp act or tax on tea. They could have paid, but what would the theory have cost had they not resisted It? This truck driver stood for something around which it is possible to create healthy social conditions. The gangsters who assailed him did not. Live cowards never have made politics honest, government sound, law strong or conscience important. tt tt tt Battles Were for Ideals AS Woodrow Wilson once said, there comes a time when you’ve simply got to fight, even though the chance of winning may look slim and even though you couldn’t prove that winning was worth the risk in material value. Most of our truly constructive battles were waged for ideals, not possessions, and our best loved heroes are those who sacrificed their lives for the sake of principle. Modernism may have produced a philosophy that seems safe for the moment, but can it survive the ages? It is intriguing to dream that we have reached a point where resistance and risk are unnecessary, where conduct is right if it pays and where we can afford to determine what ought to be done in a given situation by merely asking ourselves whether it means profit or loss. It is comforting to imagine that we have nothing to worry about, as far as crime is concerned, after we have hired so many cops and elected so many sheriffs. But unhappily it doesn't work, out that way. You just can’t make a government, so strong that the ordinary citizen doesn’t have to do his bit, or that the crowd can stand back and laugh while policemen do the fighting.

JFEB. 10, 1934