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FRIDAY, APRIL 13. 1934.

POOR JUDGMENT 'T'HIS editorial is addressed tp the parents of Indianapolis school children. Police Chief Mike Morrissey has ordered policemen from their regular duty of guarding school crossings and assigned them to an “emergency” in connection with the Real Silk strike. This transfer was made suddenly and secretly six days ago without previous warning to parents, and department officials even felt it necessary to lie when The Times asked them if such a move had been made. Asa result hundreds of children, many scarcely out of babyhood, have failed for a week to receive the protection they need in making their way through traffic. Why were the police so secretive? Why did they fail to notify the parents so that they might accompany their children yesterday? Are the police a private force subject to whimsical orders from the Real Silk management,? Or are they maintained by ALL taxpayers for the benefit of ALL the citizens? It Is well to remember that a 6-year-old child, confused and endangered at a street crossing, is a citizen as much entitled to protection as the great and powerful Real Silk factory. Someone has made a serious error in judgment here. There has been no disorder at the mill since the strike was called. Certainly there is no reason for the presence of fortythree policemen there. An official explanation should be immediately forthcoming from the city authorities setting forth fully why those forty-three policemen were transferred from school crossing duty. If the safety of children is to be endangered by an “emergency” at Real Silk the public has a right to know in detail w'hat it is. The only “emergency” we know of at the hosiery plant is that a group of its employes have demanded the right of collective bargaining by representatives of their own choosing in accordance with the labor policies of the Roosevelt administration. OTHER “REVOLUTIONISTS” NOW that the public has had its laugh at Dr. Wirt, whose revolutionary plot bomb turned out to be only a firecracker, a more serious question arises. Why is Dr. Wirt and his group of the committee for the nation so anxious to destroy public confidence in the Roosevelt administration and the new deal? And w'hy do they stoop to such methods? Governmental red bugaboos of this kind are not new; every two or three years they are manufactured. But they usually are not taken seriously by any one but the illiterate and ignorant. Mr. Rand, the big industrialist and active head of the committee for the nation, is an exceedingly intelligent and reputable citizen. It was he who first peddled the Wirt stuff to congress and forced national publicity. Mr. Rand must have known then, as the world knows now, its puny and contradictory nature. The country is accustomed to irresponsible old ladies of both sexes shadow-flirting with such goblins. The country is also aware that unscrupulous men sometimes use these red fakes to mask their own selfish business, as described some years ago by R. P. McGregor, head of the National Electric Light Association's Illinois branch: “My idea would be not to try logic or reason but to try to pin the Bolshevik idea on my opponent.” Unwilling to class the reputable leaders of the committee for the nation in either of those two irresponsible classes, we wonder how and why such men as Mr. Rand got involved in this performance. If they were fooled and were not trying to mislead the public by smearing the new deal, is it ndt about time that they say so? After all they are a propaganda organization working for what is described as a “revolutionary” monetary change. Is it not fair that the full purposes and operations of such an organization be as open as the Tugwell and Wallace public speeches out of which the Wirt hoax was spun? HITLER AND ALASKA TWTOW at last we know the place where there dwells a woman after Herr Hitler's own heart. If the dictator doesn't mind cold weather he will find the lady living in Alaska. He will find, also, that she is the mother of afcoui twenty children. You see, she lost the count a few years ago and never regained it. She can’t think of anything that is more fun than having babies. So she has them. The German ruler has done his best to rriftke members of the feminine contingent of ms realm understand that it is their duty to multiply that their descendants may inhabit the earth. Mussolini has also tried to make the Italian tribe increase. 1 But it took a woman from the land of the midnight sun to agree voluntarily that giving birth to children is to be expected. The snow lady doesn't think that babies are a bit of trouble, either. Yes, Hitler and Mussolini would exhibit her proudly. No one has any fight at all to make with a woman who of her own volition wants and has children, yea up to the number of thirtylive! But for a man to suggest that she should, is an utterly different matter. Besides, the Eskimo lady wanted babies. She had her own way about it. Few German or Italian women honestly take the roll call every year hoping to increase it within the next nine months. They want families, of count. But when a family partakes of the nature of a children’s home, we might as well have state Institutions lor child care. A family

that is reared on the wholesale plan can't be trained In certain fine points of living. There isn't enough money, either, for the necessary education and doctors’ and dentists’ bills, as a rule. However, if it is only to bear guns that sons are wanted, it isn’t necessary to trouble with the niceties of living. Nobody ever will know which boy read Shakespeare and which one never got beyond *he street corner where Tom started his shoe-blacking. Ever since the first tribes grew angry with each other, made weapons and tried to decrease one another's populations a certain per cent of the world's energy has gone into protective agencies which spell death for enemies. As long as one country likes to sing its national anthem while the soldiers parade the rest will have to have reviews and drums and naval academics, too. To have children and rear them for army life is a brutal thing to do. If we must have war why not make millions of nine-pins and give the gold cup or the ten square miles of somebody's little lost kingdom to the country with the best shooting average? We could parade and sing and hold balls when the boys come home. There wouldn’t be any ghosts watching from the corners. There wouldn’t be any green beds In strange and alien lands where homesick men sleep fitfully In unwelcome graves. There wouldn’t be any women, weary from too much childbearing, who wonder, brokenheartedly, why life has no rhythm but the beat of challenging drums. To have children because one loves to have them a pleasing incident. If the ice lady wants ten more, may she have them, and we'll wish her twins and triplets gladly, too! But to have them because an order has gone through the land— Wouldn’t Hitler love ruling Alaska? JOBHOLDERS ALL ALIKE ' I 'HOSE who feel that the payments to -*• Worjfl war veterans constitute an undue drain on the American treasury, which no government can reduce without running great political risks, should cast their eyes for a moment at the difficulties the French government is having with its bureaucracy. The French government has some 800,000 employes. They are well organized and militant. For years they resisted efforts to reduce either their numbers or their pay. Successive parliaments shied away from the job of cutting the federal pay roll. Now the government is moving. A tenth of the 800,000 have been ordered discharged, and 10 per cent of the pay of those who remain is to be slashed. Otherwise, the French budget can not be balanced. And the workers are up in arms. New riots are feared as a result of the move. All In all, the French face a problem so knotty It makes our difficulties over veterans’ bureau expenses seem rather mild. THESE SMART CATS A LBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, the novelist who has written so eloquently of his fondness for dogs, broke down the other day and admitted that cats really are smarter than dogs. They’re smarter, that is, in that they’re always looking out for number one. A dog will give you his loyalty and stick to you when there isn’t anything in it for him. But not a cat. “You, maybe, have had a cat for years and have treated it like a king,” says Mr. Terhune. “I come along. I have a warmer kitchen and more milk and liver. Your cat gladly will come to my kitchen and desert you. To find a cat with loyalty would be like finding one with five ears.” Few people who have owned cats will be inclined to quarrel much with this assertion; indeed, the odd thing about it is that it is precisely this unruffled selfishness which makes the cat a nice pet. For if the dog flatters the ego by plunging headlong into the most uncritical and selfless loyalty, the cat does it in a more subtle way by means of a haughty condescension. A dog goes about the house humbly, looking gratefully at you for permitting him to stay there. A cat goes proudly, regally, look- ' ing through you or past you and quietly letting you understand that it is a rare privilege to provide the daily ration of milk and chopped liver. Even when It submits to being petted or, for that matter, even when it comes over and demands petting—it does so with an air that lets you know that it is strictly an impersonal matter, and that it is not committing itself in any way by accepting such a favor from you. And all this, for some reason, Is rather agreeable. The unmitigated snootiness of the cat actually is flattering. In a world where most people, in one way or another, have to put up with a good deal to keep the daily bread in the pantry, it is somehow cheering to find one pensioner who neither scrapes nor cajoles. “If,” says Mr. Terhune, “I could sponge like a cat, please God, I’d do it. The only thing a cat will ever do is something for herself.” RARE OCCURRENCE ' I x HE riots in Minneapolis, following discontinuance of the CWA work there, were singularly tragic, and the accounts of them make very depressing reading. And yet their occurrence merely serves to emphasize the fact that we have come through four very difficult years with an amazingly small number of such disorders. The endurance of many citizens has been strained almost to the breaking point. Yet the country, on the whole, has been extremely orderly and long-suffering. Riots like this one in Minneapolis have been the exception, not the rule. This being the case, it is the duty of the authorities to lean over backward in handling such outbreaks. America’s unemployed have earned the right to lenient treatment when they do kick over the traces. Our new leisure, says a professor, will be used in thinking and running for public office. But you can't do both at the same time. The Sonet embassy at Washington has rugs that contain fifty shades of red. That's rubbing It in a little too much. President Roosevelt’s walking has improved. Let’s hope he soon will be able to walk as well m ha ran In 1832.

Liberal Viewpoint ~By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

r I 'HOSE who believe that religious problems have been banished from the modem world are unduly optimistic. Hitler is attempting to revive the primitive mythology of the Germans, while even m Russia the attack on one type of religion has been accompanied by a vast increase in the power and enthusiasm of another brand, namely, Communism. Professor A. C. McGiffert wa3 a distinguished student of Adolph Harnack, the foremost authority on the history of Christian thought. Doctor McGiffert easily was the outstanding American scholar in this field. He had planned a long series covering the entire history of Christian thought. His death prevented him from carrying the task beyond Erasmus (A History of Christian Thought by Arthur'Cushman McGiffert. Volumes 1 and 2. Scribners. $3.) The two volumes he was spared to finish are remarkable for both clarity and scholarship. Fortunately, earlier works of his on modem religious thought will enable the reader to carry the story down to date in reasonably satisfactory fashion, Mr. Lipsky begins where Dr. McGiffert leaves off and gives us a very satisfactory introductory biography of Luther. (Martin Luther, Germany's Angry Man. By Abram Lipsky. Stokes, $3). There are no novel or revolutionary contributions made by the volume, but the author has familiarized himself with the leading works on the field and he writes in illuminating and intelligent fashion. a a u T> ELATIONS between church and state are -TV bound to remain important for many years to come. Hitler’s difficulties are indicative of this fact. Therefore Dr. Walsh's study of the Concordat of 1801 is not only a fine piece of historical scholarship but a timely contribution to the study of one of the most important of all historic adjustments between church and state (The Concordat of 1801. By Henry R. Walsh. Columbia University Press. $3.50). George Seldes has made a very important contribution to religious and social history in his comprehensive study of the pope and the Vatican as it exists today (The Vatican; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. By George Seldes. Harper’s. $3.75). It Is a frank, thorough and nonpartisan picture of the capital of the Roman Catholic world in our day. It could be read with profit by protestants who, have developed all sorts of curious notions concerning the papacy and the life and activities of the pope. Those who confidently expect a great revival of supernatural religion turn back quite naturally to the Oxford movement of a century ago. There have been several good studies of the religious aspects of. the Oxford movement, but it remained for Dr. Peck to provide us with the first thorough study of the social background and consequence of this important revival, led by Newman, Keble, Froude and Manning (The Social Implications of the Oxford Movement. By William George Peck. Scribners. $2.50). The volume is a valuable contribution to English religious and social history. The practical fiscal aspect of religion is exemplified in the vast extent of religious and charitable property exempt from taxation. This is a ticklish subject and, hence, we may welcome Mr. Saxe’s thorough financial and legal analysis which shows that in the city of New York about $4,650,000,000 worth of property out of $25,000,000,000 worth is exempt from taxation (Charitable Exemption From Taxation in New York State on Real and Personal Property. By John Godfrey Saxe. Lincoln Engraving and Printing Corporation. $1). nun ONE of the outstanding English free-thinkers of the nineteenth century was Charles Bradlaugh. A volume celebrating the hundredth anniversary of his birth has been brought together. It is composed of appreciations by many eminent Englishmen, addresses of Mr. Bradlaugh and articles on his contributions to social and intellectual progress by men well acquainted with his work. (Champion of Liberty. Charles Bradlaugh. Bradlaugh Centenary Memorial Volume. Freethought Press. $3). It is a valuaable body of information on an Englishman whose thought and activities should be better known.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL=:

THE proletarian “hot dog’’ has made its formal debut into Washington diplomatic society, under the high-sounding title of “Hot dog ala Mussolini." This humble delicacy, transformed into a new and smart dish, was the piece de resistance at an elaborate bal masque given by three romantic bachelors of the royal Italian embassy— Signore Tomassi, Ferrero and Migone. The three bachelors determined to inject novel features at their party. Five hundred guests gaped at the figure of a hot dog vendor who appeared on the floor of the grand ballroom, peddling his wares—politely termed “Hot Dog ala Mussolini." Champagne was forgotten. Caviar was neglected. Delicious antipasto remained untasted. as eager groups gathered about the vendor. “Hot Dog ala Mussolini" threatens to become a staple dish on the Italian diplomatic menu. Costumes at the Italian party were fanciful and brilliant —often amusing. Rumanian Minister Davia was a poetic symphony of blue and silver. Someone said he represented a heavy rainfall outside Bucharest. Baron Paul Shell of the Hungarian legation came as Harpo Marx or Karl Marx. He wore an old coat, a red wig, a silk hat and his customary expression of polite boredom. The Italian bachelors themselves wore peasant costumes. Signor Migone, however, added the aristocratic touch of a tight pair of boots. tt tt tt TALL, herculean Signor Ferrero seized a big megaphone from orchestra leader Sidney and announced the various, arrivals. “Empress Eugenie!” he shouted, as that historical personage strode into the room. “Mickey Mice!" The Mickey Mice turned out to be two charming diplomatic ladies—Mme. Rose Nano, wife of the Rumanian counselor, and Mrs. Sims of the British embassy. Counselor Nano also was disguised. He omitted his monocle. Once, apropos of nothing In particular, Signor Ferrero bellowed in his rich Neapolitan basso: “Nuts!" Some guests thought he was speaking Italian. A visitor wearing a lion’s head was the only animal at the party (Ambassador Bosso's pet Spaniel having been locked up>. “Beeg bad wools!” boomed Ferrero. The lion seemed surprised. Surrounded by popping balloons and showers of confetti, diplomats munched hot dogs ala Mussolini, cavorted and applauded Ferrero’s capers. Jules Henri. French embassy counselor, who once wore a brilliant purple costume with purple silk stockings to a masque at .his own embassy, was dressed more formally. Diplomatic Jules takes no chances with the imperial purple in Fascist circles. a a DRESSED in bright uniform, Rubio Vivot, Argentina's crack 1 pistol shot, popped a few balloons and champagne corks. Albanian Minister Konitza, who was expected to arrive as Falstaff, failed to appear. The Spanish embassy group, headed by young Ramon Padilla, received an ovation. Castanets clicked, the orchestra played an appropriate paso doble as Ramon capered. Sidney's heroic orchestra played Without pause from 11 until 5:20 o'clock. At that hour, Signor Tomassi approached and whispered: “The music must stop The nsu to gvt aesM sleep.*

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(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.) n a tt TABERNACLE BOOSTS CITY ON NATIONAL SCALE By a Reader From time to time we hear people in this city knocking the work of the Cadle tabernacle, but I have yet to find one of these knockers who has any foundation for the knocking. I think it would be well for them to start boosting, for that is what E. Howard Cadle is doing for Indianapolis. From the altar of this institution go converts who, in many cases, become the best workers in the churches. Recently equipment was installed in the tabernacle to hook up with the WLW radio station. Now the programs from the tabernacle are reaching the nation and other countries. It is time that Indianapolis people, and especially the Chamber of Commerce, awakened. It is a compliment to our city for it to lead the nation back to the family altar that our fathers and mothers knew. More than one thousand letters are pouring into the tabernacle daily thanking Indianapolis for gospel messages in song and word. In fact, so heavy is the mail that extra stenographers are w'orking from morning to night to answer these letters. The good will which Cadle tabernacle is building for Indianapolis is priceless. While Cadle tabernacle is now a national institution, the same policy, that of bringing to Indianapolis the leading evangelists, is prevailing. I belive that Dr. A. P. Gouthey excels any man who has been in this city in the last fifteen years. nun HE BELIEVES CWA OFFICIALS WERE FAIR By a Times Reader There was a letter by a CWA worker in which the writer seems to be trying to impress upon the minds of Times readers that persons in authority at School 12, at 733 South West street, were more considerate of the needs of Negro children than they are of white. I have an idea that if this matter were investigated it would be found that the school officials can and will show just and legal cause for their actions. In this case it seems that the good old Message Center is being slowly murdered by biased minds. The CWA has been accused of showing favoritism to citizens or natives of another state. It is useless for such accusations to be made for I believe that the majority of Times readers are aware that such accusations and write-ups as were sent into the Message Center by CWA worker is the work of some one who paid a price to be taught by leaders of an organization of prejudice. I am a man past the half century mark, and a poor one, but I can not and do not hold with some of the ideas of my fellows in need. Thus far, I only have asked the trustee for coal. On two trips to the CWA relief headquarters, while waiting in line, I have heard remarks made by men to the effect that they would get the official “told.” Be fair with the officials by giving truthful answers to all questions, and they are kind and courteous, telling you of the things to which you are entitled they permit you to have aid as soon as possible. nun LAWS SHOULD AID LABORING MEN* By Byron McCarthy What kird of laws have you in Indiana that protects the laboring man who does not ask or probably is afraid to ask what an employer pays for kls help, for fear bo nay

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r l a I\/T 12*000 rf/2* 1 wholl V disapprove of what you say and will 1 X \_ defend to the death your right to say it — -Voltaire. \

INCONGRUOUS COSTUME

By O. I noticed in The Times last night an editorial calling attention to the laxity of someone in not fixing such traffic hazards as the one at Eugene street and the canal, where a Lebanon woman lost her life Tuesday night. Persons living in the vicinity, I know, have long been perturbed over the dangers of this location. The fact that the railroad tracks and spur are slightly higher than the street surface is no protection to the motorist. Any automobile traveling between thirty and forty miles an hour can leap the curb-high tracks and plunge into the canal. This probably is what hapened to those women. A poor set of headlights on a car would make this site even more dangerous at night. Four women, coming from a lodge meeting, naturally would be discussing the events of the evening. Although the woman who was driving was watching the- road closely, she would not have had much of a chance at this traffic hazard. And if she were in discussion with other members of the party, her chances of avoiding a crash were reduced materially. The queer turn of fate in the . case is that less than a half block north of this site and on the other side of the canal, there have not get the job? It is about time the laboring men or the great American Federation of Labor did something. Is there a United States law against contract labor? If so, why isn’t it enforced? I am going to make one suggestion. Make an employer tell you what he is going to pay or let him have a sign in his place stating what, he is paying and how often he pays. If a person goes across the pond and hires laborers he is violating United States laws, but the man who hires you today doesn’t have to pay you if he doesn’t want to. I merely am asking for some information that will benefit me and also a great many other poor devils. u u n HERE’S A CHANCE TO OPERATE A STREET CAR A Street Car Motorman Please print this letter in your Message Center in reply to E. E. Taylor’s letter asking why street car motormen are not brought into court and fined for not stopping at preferential streets. I am a street car motorman and I would like to have Mr. Taylor put in my place one day and for him to see the grief that we have to put up with. If all the automobile drivers were as careful as street car operators, then the city would not have to spend money in erecting stop signs. I guess Mr. Taylor has the idea we are making a lot of money and are, therefore, not classed as poor persons. We make a little more than the average working man, but I am sure we earn it in a day’s time. Ask any street car man about our working conditions and I think you will change your mind. a u u DEMANDS COMPANY OBEY NRA CODES Br a Times Reader I am a reader of The Times and I like the paper. I would like to know why some places don’t obey the NRA code by establishing shorter hours, anl putting on more men, instead of laying them off? They are making one man do the work of two. If married women whose husbands work would stay at home and rear their children and let the boy* and girls who have to pay board take their places, I know this would help many people who haven't jobs.

Act Noiv!

been several white, sturdy posts erected. The.se would block the speed of any automobile. Why hadn’t this been done on the Eugene street side? The fact is that the street should be blocked before an automobile could reach the railroad tracks. These tracks are dangerous, not only from a train traffic standpoint but from the injury that might occur to auto passengers if the front wheels struck the steel rails with sufficient force. The Hoosier Motor Club. I see, is willing again to erect a warning at the spot. It seems to me that the Hoosier Motor Club has done its bit. Although the club's sign was old and the paint had fared badly in the weather, at least the organization was humanitarian enough to take precautionary measures. If the Indianapolis Water Company is responsible for the protection of citizens on the canal banks, it should act at once. This company should put a barrier on the bank, but the city should have a warning light or barrier twenty feet east of canal bank. There is no time for squabbling. Let’s have action. And while this is being done, there are many other similar places in the city and county which should be fixed so such tragedies do not occur again. CITY SCORED FOR FORGETTING CHILDREN By a Reader Who Is Not a Striker Why does Mayor Sullivan have the police watching the silk mill when the taxpayers are paying the police to protect the children coming from school. SUM PROTESTS END OF SERIAL STORIES Br Mrs. J. E. J. We have been readers of your paper for more years than I can think of at present. It has had three different names since our family first began taking it, and we still like it and think it gets better each succeeding year. What has happened to the continued stories? We liked them very much. We always began at the front and read straight through, saving the comic page until last, then read that and laughed away our worries for the day. u u * LETTER WAS PUBLISHED SEVERAL DAYS AGO. By H. I- F. Last week I wrote a letter for the Message Center. lam a taxpayer, and have just as good right to know where my tax money goes as well as any one. I failed to see my letter published. Plea.se, why not? There was about a 300-w-ord letter in the Wednesday Times. Another one by Chester Thurman Contained 625 words. I feel if It is not worth printing, the paper is not worth paying for. So answer if you choose or throw it in the waste paper basket. Your letter appeared April 3 under the signature “H. L.”

Daily Thought

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. —St. Luke 21:15. IN the oommon run of mankind, for ona that la wise and good you find ten of a oontrary char-

APRIL 13,1934

u u u READER GIVES HIS VIEW ON BEAUTY By R. K. T. I would like to answer Friday’s editorial, “No Dreams Walking,” in which as a reply to Dr. Louis E. Bisch’s claim that men are the more beautiful, you say “to think we ever dared offend them by thinking them strong, vigorous, muscular!" Don't you know that “strong," “vigorous” and “muscular” are adjectives defining beauty? You wonder why there are no men’s beauty contests. All through history up until comparatively recent times, men have been the more important sex. Girls never Were welcomed to a family. Boys, however, were trainee! and educated and they inherited Naturally, men were the sex to be entertained. The use of girls on the stage and in beauty contests is a holdover from ancient times—masculine entertainment. A woman goes to beauty contests, too, because the beauty and styles exhibited there are well worth her own imitation. A woman never could enjoy a men’s chorus as much as a man enjoys a girl's chorus. Man still is the more aggressive; he does the courting. In a girl s chorus, he is having beauty lined up before him for his approval. No woman could hope that an attractive man in a men’s chorus would single her out of a vast audience to court her. A woman must make herself attractive to the opposite sex—that's all she can do. A man can be particular. He takes ’em or leaves ’em. He does the courting. Therefore, girl choruses are more popular. In all animals, birds and mammals, especially, we find that the male is the more beautiful. Who would dare say that the little green female cardinal is as beautiful as the full-throated, high-chested, fiery-red male of the same species? Who -would dare say the male lion in all the golden beauty of his fierce, brute strength, was less beautiful *han his smaller, drabcolored unmaned mate? Isn’t it reasonable to suspect that there are just as many ugly women as ugly men? Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll have said that they knew only a few really beautiful women. Your editorial writer seems to imagine all women are beautiful. Are witches ever depicted as men? Haven't you seen women with knock-knees, bowlegs, flabby chests, and feet broken from high heels? n u HE HAS A SOLUTION TO SINGER’S FATE Bt a Reader You don’t hear anything about the Morton Downey singer because that was all there was to it. How many votes tvere left at the radio station which never were taken over and which counted for a certain one of those young singers.

Renunciation

BY M. E. BARLOW This plain that every hour with you Tortures my soul; fain would I be From your too poignant beauty free; Dawn-fires, rainbows, fierce diamonds’ blue, A glacier steeped in sunset’s hue, Bring me their thrills incessantly; ! Such lovliness is warm to see While yours Is cold, austere, untrue. A sculptured stone, devoid of life. Cinctured with gloom and immobile, Twas this, perhaps, unsheathed the steel That smites at your inconstant strife; Lot* sought a boon with bated breath Bat fcmnd a friend whose name was Death.