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NOVEMBER !J4 STILL TIME IF you have not voted when you read this by ail means go and do so NOW, Our whole system of government depnds upon every cu.zen performing hus plain duty on election day. Slackers who fail to go to the polls in these troublous rimes are unworthy to be called Americans. So even If you are planning to vote for Arthur Robinson—and we certairiy hope you are not—get out and VOTE. Many of our readers, we believe, will wish to split their tickets. Do not be alarmed over the fact that you are allowed only one minute in the booth. Last your candidates in advance and that minute will bn ample. If you run a little over the time do not let that excite you. Election officials will be reasonably lenient. Everybody always Is interested in how the other fellow voted. If The Times were a citizen and allowed to cast a ballot here would be its selections: SHERMAN MINTON. Democrat, for United States senator; JOHN KERN. Democrat, for mayor: The Democratic candidates for congress as an expression of confidence in the Roosevelt administration; Four independent and progressive Republicans for the legislature in order to assrre a fighting minority; these are: ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE JR.; LAURENS HENDERSON: CONRAD RUCKELSHAUS; ROBERT LEE BROKENBURR; We should pick our other legislative candidates from the Democratic slate although we'd be sure to include: ROBERTA WERT NICHOLSON (Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr.); MORRIS H. COERS; THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, for state senator. We don't like some of the Democratic candidates on the county ticket so we should select the following Republicans: JOHN F. ENGELKE for juvenile court judge; JAMES L. BRADFORD for recorder; CHARLES W. MANN for auditor. Aside from these scratches we should vote for the Democratic candidates throughout. We believe that the party has earned the right to public support. Nationally the Roosevelt administration has made tremendous strides toward recovery. In the state the McNutt administration has lowered governmental costs, laid the groundwork for an efficient state government, kept the schools open. Locally the Sullivan administration has restored the credit and good name of Indianapolis without impairing any of the city services or permitting graft to creep in. But no matter how you vote be sure and VOTE. The polls do not close until 6 o'clock, .here Is still plenty of time. A REMINDER T ET us not forget that there is one cam- ■*-' paign in progress upon which both Democrats and Republicans are in complete agreement. That is the community fund drive. Under the able chairmanship of Arthur V. Brown the fund has reached $600,000 today. There remains $145,000 to be raised. Elections are important—but not nearly so important as the welfare of our underprivileged children. It is to theise youngsters that we must pass along responsibility for the onward march of society in the coming years. One of the great tragedies of the depression has been the damage which it has done to the coming generation. Civilization wnil feel that damage for nearly a century. We hope that the political candidates we have supported will find favor with the people, but we hope even more earnestly that the citizens will not overlook the old and infirm of this community—the folks who have given the best of their lives to us and now find themselves without friends or support as they approach the Great Divide. There is little that can be said about the Community Fund beyond expressing appreciation for the splendid efforts of Mr. Brown and his associates. Everybody knows about the drive. Everybody understands and agrees with its purpose. No one really means to overlook participating in this great, co-operative community's enterprise. But people are sometimes forgetful. So we pnnt this merely as a reminder. REVOLUTIONIZING RAILROADS RAILROAD modernization actually is under - way. The record-breaking performances of the streamline trains are only the publicity reflections of a real work program to revolutionize railroading, now being pushed in the thops and along the rights-of-way. Non - . 11 the zephyr of stainless steel and Diesel power, with 28.000 miles of test runs behind it. begins regular daily service over the Burlington line's 250-mile track from Lincoln. Neb. to Kansas City, via Omaha and St. Joseph. Paralleling this track is a paved highway. so we shall soon see how a luxury tram with a 75-mile-an-hour average cruising speed competes with modern highway traffic. Two more trams of this type now are being built for the Burlington, which has straightened out the curves along its right-of-way, rebanked the outside rail, and adjusted caution signals and the mechanism for closing highway-crossing gates for speedier operation. Two more aluminum streamliners are under construction for the Union Pacific for service with the M-10001. Orders also have been placed for streamline trains—some of which are nearing completion—by the Boston & Marne, the New York. New Haven Ac Hanford and the Gulf, Mobile Sc Northern. Two large trains, of eight cars each, not

as heavy ss standard units nor aa light as the streamline units, are being built for the Baltimore Sc Ohio. One will be powered with a Diesel engine and the other with a modernized steam locomotive. They will be put In service on the New York-Philadelphia-Bal-tlmore-Washington route to give stiff competition to the Pennsylvania railroads parallel electrified system also nearing competition. Not only are the railroads striving for greater speed, but also for greater comfort and better operating economy. And it is well they are overlooking nothing, for the recent motorbus show at Cleveland revealed that the chief highway competitors of the railroads also also experimenting with the streamline, the Diesel engine and more luxurious accommodation. This revolutionary transport development emphasizes the need for the federal and state governments to keep step by speeding plans to eliminate grade crossings. Hundredls of thousands of idle men should be put tb work thi' winter building viaducts and under-passes. HELP NEEDED FOR HEALTH ONE of the most baleful effects of the depression has been a great decrease In financial support for health organizations throughout the country. This has so hampered the work of those organizations that we may expect a considerable increase in illness and mortality this winter; furthermore, some of the most vital of our health agencies may have to go out of business altogether. Thus warning is sounded by a committee of the national health council, in a report made public by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, president of the council It is pointed out that the government can not take over these health agencies at the present time; it has all it can do, and more, to support such agencies as were already under its wing. Unless private citizens give liberally to support them, such activities as visiting nurse service, child welfare clinics, infant feeding stations, and so on will be badly crippled. Such a result would be truly disastrous. THE AIRSHIP PERSISTS IT is interesting to notice that while many Americans have taken it for granted that the large dirigible will never have any practical use, the Germans are going calmly ahead with plans to put these big ships to work. Next March the Zeppelin workers at Friedrirhshafen will complete anew dirigible even larger than the United States navy’s Macon a giant that will contain twenty-five staterooms for passengers, and elaborate equipment to insure every one's comfort. The Germans have by no means given up their confidence in the dirigible. On the contrary, they are planning for a day when airship lines will be as common as airplane lines are today. Is there not, perhaps, in that fact, an indication that we are a trifle hasty in assuming that the dirigible is and always must be impractical? COURT ON PRICE FIXING 'T'HE supreme court says the Constitution does not protect the inefficier . business man's prices. It so states in unanimous decision rejecting the plea of a New York milk wholesaler, who contended that New York's minimum prices, set up under its milk control law, have become maximum prices, and also that he could not make money at that rate. If such price-fixing orders “are not arbitrary fiats, the court will stand aloof.” This is of major importance to the whole NR A and AAA code setup, particularly to those interested in the plight of the small business man. It means that the state legislatures and congress can regulate business for the public welfare, without being compelled to guarantee profits for every one concerned. “True, of course, it is,” says Justice Cardozo for the court, “that the weaker members of the group (the marginal operators or even others above the margin) may find themselves unable to keep pace with the stronger, but it is their comparative inefficiency, not tyrannical compulsion, that makes them laggard in the race.” Such a policy if followed by law-makers and administrators might lead to a regulated monopoly. But there is not much danger of that under present administrative policies. The recovery act forbids the breeding of monopolies through codes. How closely NRA is following this and other limitations of the act is shown by its record court victories in more than 90 per cent qI its litigation. On the other hand, if price levels were fixed to save little fellows—and they have been in some cases—it appears that the big fellows may make excessive profits. In cases where price-stabilization is necessary as an insurance against economic suicide, therefore, the responsibility is plainly up to law-makers and administrators. They do what they can to see that producer, distributor, consumer all are treated fairly. In most cases, however, the government trend in our judgment should be away from price-fixing of any kind. CHEAPER POWER 'T'HE Federal Power Commission reports that more rate cuts for electric current consumers have been reported during the last year than in any other year on record. This may be a reflection of the governments entrance into the power business, as in the Tennessee valley, or it may come from some other circumstance or set of circumstances. The power commission refuses to say. But whatever the cause may be. it is evident that the consumer is getting a long-needed break —for which he should be exceedingly thankfuL The prices of most things we buy these days are going up. To find a broad field in which the trend is downward is encouraging. Isn't it possible that this may eventually mean anew prosperity for the power companies, as well as a break for the consumers? The banks which busted a few years ago because they didn't have enough money are now reported bursting with too mu:h. Kids don't play hookey from school as much as they did twenty years ago. the National League of Compulsory Education officials reports. No, and they never did.

Liberal Viewpoint BY UK. HARRY ELMER BARNES -

'T'HE Morro Castle case now is at the parting of the ways. We may learn the lesson that it holds and take steps to prevent another like disaster. Or we may let it drift into oblivion until it is recalled in the historical introduction to another news account of a similar holocaust. Hence, one may turn with profit to an article on ‘The Lesson of the Morro Castle” by William McFee in ‘ The Forum.” This is a very sensible and penetrating analysis of the whole situation, devoid of indignant desire to saddle the blame on any individual or company. He well summarizes the usual course of such a tragic event; "However widely recent sea disasters may have varied in detail, the attitude of the public has remained stable, and can be predicted with reasonable accuracy. “There is a first period of emotional hysteria, organized and intensified by expert newspaper and camera men. This is followed by a wage of ignorant indignation, during which various political personages, seizing the chance to make the front page, go off at half cock, blame the foreigner line or the native reds, and introduce legislation that would have the effect of keeping practically every vessel off the sea. “The third period begins w’hen another news story pushes the disaster from the front page, and it ends in complete forgetfulness—until another ship goes down or burns up.” But the public is not primarily to blame. The ship owners come in for their major share of responsibility. During the last fifteen years water transportation has been subordinated to the profit motive to a degree unmatched before. “A large number of men who had no tradition of shio owfiing behind them entered the shipping business, and they have bedeviled ship owning ever since.” B B B WITH this background the making of money has been put first. Little consideration has been given to insuring working conditions which would produce a crew alert and charged with professional interest and devotion. “Nothing will be of any avail unless the continual smoulder of discontent, among the officers and men, with conditions of work at sea, is quenched by concessions that will send them out keen on their work. “If a shipowner can not make money without sweating the men who hive the lives of passengers and millions of dollars of ship and cargo in their care, he had better go out of business.” When the crisis comes the shipowner demands a type of behavior from the crew which he has done everything to discourage and is the opposite of what he himself displays: “What the shipowner demands, in a moment of crisis, is that his employes display the courage of ancient knights, while he himself hides behind a squad of high-priced lawyers. “If the shipowner showed as great a lavishness with his money before the crisis, in the way of insuring better hours and wages for the crew, as he does in paying large legal defense fees after a needless tragedy, much could be accomplished to avert sea disasters. “The passengers can not be freed from a real share in the responsibility for such disasters as that of the burning of the Morro Castle. They insist upon a speed and luxury which sacrifices safety at many points. "The passenger insists upon getting to his destination at a faster and faster rate of speed and in a luxury and splendor beyond anything the degenerate Roman emperors ever conceived. The passenger is the first to utter loud cries at the slightest delay. He must be housed and fed as he never dreams of housing and feeding himself ashore and he must have the speed of an express train. nun ‘‘TIE must have penthouses and solariums, Al. swimming pools and night clubs, orchestras, gardens and gymnasiums. He must have elevators to save him exercise and deck games and horseback riding on an electric horse to give him exercise. He must have toys given him when he eats, to distract him like a child. The trash, most of it inflammable, which is carried for one ‘captain's dinner’ would fill a box car.” This conditioning to luxurious ease makes passengers resentful over any inconvenience afforded by fire drills and other precautions for their safety. They do not even wish to be reminded of the position of the life-belts or lifeboats. “They never must have a moment to think of possible peril. Time enough when the ship is going down to have the orchestra play ‘Nearer, My God to Thee.’ ” If we wish safety at sea, we must be willing to pay the price in decent wages and treatment of seamen, in safety drills that may interrupt for a few minutes a cocktail party or a bridge game, and in the divorcement of Inquiry from inspection. This latter farce literally allows the defendant to become the judge of his own delinquencies.

Capitol Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

INTREPID Giuseppe Tommasi, Italian diplomat and sportsman par excellence of the royal Italian embassy, has gone to Virginia for a week to hunt grizzly bear. The valiant Tommasi. who has shot bear in the Carpathians, chamois in the Swiss Alps, reed bird in the purple Apennines and grouse In the Dolomites (at least, he has eaten grouse in the Dolomites), heard about Dismal Swamp, Va., and wanted to hunt there. “I want to shoot a bear,” he announced. So he borrowed a heavy Springfield rifle from Gerard Walravens. the young Belgian who has the greatest collection of fire arms in the diplomatic corps (if one excepts the collection of ancient duelling pistols of Minister Finot of Bolivia). Baron and Baroness Beck-Friis of the Swedish Legation went with Signor Tommasi to Dismal Swamp, also carrying guns and ammunition. So far they have not returned. But Giuseppe is a dead shot and no one has any fears. “When he returns with a bear skin,” announced one of the hunter's friends, “I shall give a dinner in his honor.” “Suppose the bear returns without Tommasi?” said another. “Then I'll give the dinner for the bear.” nan OFFICIAL mourning for the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia still goes on in Washington. although the assassination happened weeks ago. There was the official memorial service in memory of the murdered king in which the diplomatic corps wore its collective full-dress uniforms. There was the cancellation of formal entertaining, even of dinners and receptions, the hosts of which had never even seen Alexander. (Would it be too much to say that some of the diplomats who went into mourning would have been hard pressed a few days previously to recall the name of the Yugoslav monarch?) Latest manifestation of mourning now is an engraved announcement that Greek Orthodox memorial services are to be held in memory of His Late Majesty at the Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, on Sunday, Nov. 11. A number of diplomats are planning to attend. nun YOUNG MILLARD TYDINGS, Senator from Maryland and recognized Beau Brummel of senatorial circles, has come out as a supporter of Governor Ritchie in a big way. WTienever one sees Tv dings these days, he enthuses about Ritchie. At cocktail parties, tea parties, dinners, buffet suppers, formal banquets or political banquets one can.not listen to him for five minutes without the magic word “Ritchie” popping out in terms of glowing eulogy. Democratic leaders who gathered to hear eloquent Millard discourse about Ritchie at a big rallv of voters in Prince Georges County were frankly delighted at his enthusiasm. But bridge-playing matrons and dancing debutantes are less fervid. They feel that Millard should pay more pi tent ion to remembering that hearts are ♦“ and not tread absent-mindedly on thei; hen the orchestra plays “Lost in a Fog.” _

'THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

The Message Center

(Titnea readers are invited to express their vieica in these oolumna. Make i/our Limit them to 850 usorde or leaa.) tetters short, so all can havs o chance. n n B TOO MANY EMPLOYES, NOT ENOUGH EMPLOYERS By Daniel B. Lutcn. In your issue of Oct. 9 I replied to a Times Reader. There now have been four rejoinders to my reply, Oct. 12, by “A Working Fool,” Oct. 17 by “Another Waster,” Oct. 18, by “Weary Willie,” and Oct. 19, by “A Times Reader” again. This seems to have exhausted your editorial pseudonyms. Would any employer be encouraged to employ any of the four? Evidently their advice can not be very helpful in solving unemployment problems. There are too few employers and relatively too many employes, or there would not be so many of the latter unemployed. The solution for unemployment is not a free gift from someone else, but rather the production of something that can be traded to others; that is, purchasing power. Those who have complained of employers are themselves mainly to blame for the conditions of unemployment they have created. Labor is a poor saleman. With the best of intentions of securing a job it antagonizes the employer by calling him an exploiter, and charging him with paying low wages and making excessive profits. Let the critical employe undertake to become an employer himself. The purpose of profits is to point the way to more effective efforts. Instead of envying the other his profits, let him emulate him. Condemnation of profits in the hope of thereby of increasing wages, Is the surest way to destroy the conditions that ultimately would restore high wages. Hearts of gold, heads of ivory. In your issue of Oct. 12 “A Working Fool” replies to my letter published Oct. 9 by stating that in 1929 profits and wages in textiles were equal, while in 1933 profits got $156 to wages SSB. These figures are absurd on their face. The United States Abstract, available at business branch library shows wages in textiles for 1929 more than $1,700,000,000, while profits of textile corporations were $177,000,000. or onetenth as much. No figures are available for 1933. but the textiles lost in 1930 $248,000,000. Textiles may include cotton and wool and their pducts, the term is not specific. However, we know from the recent strike that about 700.000 workers were employed in the kind of textiles that I was discussing. If they received the minimum of sl2 a week, it would make their total wage for the year over $400,000,000 or more than twice the total corporation profits of 1929. And if we multiply this by the ratio of 156 to 58 quoted above it would make the profits for 1933 over sl,200,000.000. “A Working Fool” becomes cynical about goods left in warehouses, and not produced, because of low paid workers. If workers received more their employers would have less. It is the employer who buys the kinds of goods that are now overproduced. “A Working Fool” demonstrates that the greed of the employe prevents recovers-. Perhaps that is one reason why he is “A Working Fool.” Hearts of gold, heads of ivory. BBS VETERAN PROTESTS CLAIMS OF NEW DEALERS Bt Burlfith G. Warner. In reply to James F. Walker’s letter in the Message Center Nov. 1, you say the veterans should admire the Democratic party for their action of the veteran. You say you

FROM SOUP TO NUTS!

Sensible Voting Is Needed

By C. W. R. The voters of Indianapolis and the state today are faced with some of the greatest test issues since the New Deal and the institution of the McNutt administration. In the city election they have the opportunity of carrying out the constructive program instituted by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan by electing John W. Kern, present superior Judge. More than that, the voters in the same stroke of the voting machine lever have the opportunity to give Coffinism another smash that probably will send it on its way out, despite the fact that previous lickings seem to have failed to erase this threat. For the majority of voters who

have brushed up on the political situation for the last forty years. Mr. Walker, you had better brush a little deeper. You seem to think most of the boys peeled potatoes all during the war. Where were you? You must have been with the potato peelers. I never heard that one before. I’ll tell you right now. they didn’t hurtle me into the army, but they did after I got in. You say the injured or disabled veterans always have been taken care of. I’ll tell you right now that is wrong. I just wish I could meet you. I could tell you a few things on how this good government takes such good care of its disabled veterans. Come out here where I live, north of Greenfield, and I'll take you around and show you some of these veterans the government is taking such good care of. You say no party will turn the United States treasury over to the uninjured soldiers. We don't ask that, if you please. If we had asked for it in 17 or 18, they would have given it to us. Didn’t they say we could have anything? Don't you worry—Arthur Robinson isn't fooling us. You say he voted for the economy act and now is damning it. If you will look at the Congressional Record of March 13. 1933, you will see as soon as the bill got to the senate, he started to fight it, and on Marclj 16, 1933, Page 517 of the Congressional Record, it says “Except Senator Robinson, all Indiana members of congress voted for the economy bill on final passage.” Your good friend, Mr. Roosevelt, said he would take away the ve”-er-ans’ pay or reduce it and balance the budget. He did, didn’t he? He took veterans’ pensions away and put them in the soup lines and caused many to die of sickness by discharging them from the United States hospitals and gave our oeds to tree planters. I am a veteran and not a potato peeler; nor were any of my buddies, and I’ll give you to understand I got the right treatment, as Mr. Roosevelt calls it. I went overseas weighing 160 pounds and came back weighing 110 pounds. I nearly died before I got into a hospital, had to sue the government on my war risk insurance, got my pension taken away and am permanently and totally disabled. I am telling you right now I want no more Democratic New Deals. nan TOINTS TO ERRORS OF DEMOCRATIC REGIME By Independent. In considering the money and brain trusts, which of these “trusts,” in the opinion of the voters, is the most trustworthy is to be indicated tomorrow. I say indicated because the decision can not be made definite and mandatory until 1936. Local issues will, as they should. i be the factors which will influence

I 1 wholly disapprove of what you say and will I defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

believe that the New Deal should have the support of the nation, Sherman Minton is the only logical candidate for the United States senate. To return Arthur R. Robinson with his backward tendencies and the general “stop” attitude of his entire party, would be carrying on proposals that no longer are permissible. The legislature, it seems to many of us in agreement with The Times’ policy stated yesterday, would be the ideal place for some Republicans with sufficient intelligence to thwart plans that might be far-fetched, but not interfere with a program that actually will benefit the people. To fail to vote the right way today may bring hardship on us later.

the voters at the coming election, and even a casual survey of the situation will show a definite reaction from the Democratic poll of 1932. The Democratic party, in action, never has been known as politically bright. The opposition can, and does, confidently rely on it to eventually make some blunder, or a succession of them, which will alienate the independent voter, without whom its efforts are futile. It fails to understand that an “independent” vote has just twice the value, when counted, as has a Democratic vote. And failing- to understand this, the independent voter is snubbed consistently in Indiana, regardless of any Roosevelt loyalty that he may hold, and the failure, or refusal, on the part of the dictator to appoint one of such to office is now a matter for boasting by the dictator himself. True to expectation, and to form, a veritable panorama of blunders has emanated from the dictator’s office. as, witness the following: The legislative creation of a oneman “superstate” and his tie-in with all the old, as well as the newly created, sources of public revenue. The pretense of lowering taxes, but actually to greatly increase them, by taking 20 per cent from real estate, and adding 50 per cent tax on “bread and butter.” The dictation of the nomination of Minton, thus splitting the party. The creation of a “booze ring,” thus alienating the Democratic dry vote. The school book, chemical and brick roads matters. And many other blunders that could be mentioned, to all of which should be added the latest, and to the opposition, the most amusing of all, the McNutt-Barce, Crown Point fiasco. The writer supports Mr. Roosevelt. He was, and is yet, convinced of the honesty, courage, and humanitarian intent of the President and believes that the depression began, and still continues, because of a strike of the “money trust.” That there is such a trust is easy of discovery by any one who will inform himself of the tremendous sums, in cash and liquid securities, held inactive, and at great loss to the owners, in the vaults of our large insurance companies and national banks.

Daily Thought

Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned, repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. —St. Matthew 27:3. NONE but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance. —Hosea Ballou.

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VOTERS SHOULD NOT HEED POLITICIANS’ WORDS Bv L. B. Evans. A few days ago, you published a letter from E. Louis Moore, in which he criticised a Negro for supporting the Republican ticket this year, because of the fact that this man supported the Democratic candidate for President two years tgo. Os course, we ordinary Negro citizens, who are not on pay rolls, or have jobs at this time, or have jobs promised us, do not accept these men as spokesmen or leaders. Consistency is the failing of these politicians, and Mr. Moore is just as wrong as the man he criticises. It seems that most of these men have some selfish motive, and the ordinary voters should pay little attention to them. a a a PLEA IS MADE FOR OLD AGE PENSION By August H. Newburg. No more striking proof of the need for a change in Indiana’s old age pension law is afforded than exists in Randolph county, where the commissioners appropriated $1 for old age pensions. Doubtless such an appropriation is within the provisions of the law as it now stands, but the acuon in Randolph county violates every precept of justice and humanity. I note that the Fraternal Order of Eagles, so long and ably the leader in the campaign for decent care of the aged, intends to ask the next session of the legislature for changes in the pension law. The present maximum of sls a month should be made $25. The law should be changed in such a manner that every old person otherwise qualified would be assured of an income of not less than $25 monthly, taking into consideration of course any income the pension applicant might have and deducting it from the $25. Another needed change is the reduction of the age limit from 70 to sis. Rightly, the 70-year-old clause is called a graveyard provision. In view of the fact that many factories hestitate to hire men even half of 70, is proof enough of the pressing need for lowering the age limit. nan ANOTHER READER FILES FROTEST ON RELIEF Bv Winifred Wilson. My father is another project worker trying to make enough to keep seven of us. He is making SIO.BO a week and Hannah Noone won't let us have the government surplus food because we are buying a truck. I wonder if she thinks we can eat a truck and drink gasoline. She has done many other project workers the same way, but they're afraid to do or say anything because of their jobs.

Speak up boys, stand on your own feet.

Hollyhocks

BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM Bright Hollyhocks, you have a way Os staying cheerful all the day, You seem to get a lot of fun Just standing still in the red hot sun. Os dry. hot weather you don’t cuss, And sigh and cry and raise a fuss, Like many people I have seen. I like the way your cheerful beam Brightens the comer where you stand. Gay Hollyhocks, I think you’re grand. I’ve learned a worthy thing from you— If the weather’s wrong, just smile right through.