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FORK OK KROFIC IKNOY? PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, apparently, is giving in so pres, 'ire from pork-hungry Democrats m the House. Following a ser.es of House patronage caucuses, he promised that a personnel officer will be installed in each government department to listen to their complaints. Disquieting also was the cheer that went Up when Speaker Joseph Byrns told the cau ; of 10.000 jobs for foremen and superintendents in the Civilian Conservation Corps. These chers will not find echo in the country. For month- both the Army and the political ramp followers have been b sieging the CCC with hungry eyes. If the President wants to k ep ht-s pride in this splendid service he will tell bolh to kep the;r distance. If mere is on* tiling that will turn the New I> al into an old deal it will be surrender to the spoilsmen. So far onlv a few emergency servief - have been tainted with partisanship A 193*> approaches the political pressure will become harder to resist. Recently, a commission of inquiry on public err vice ;>*rsonncl made a nation-wide survey nf the 175.000 Federal, state and local administrative units of government. It found “an overwhelming mandate of the American pcopl* for tlie establishment of career in place of political ervices. Well-paid experts, under civil rvice and retirement and pension syst* m should man the eilk of the 3.250.000 public places. Partisan politicians. sc sights are lowend to the |>ork and pu •>unter and whose cars are attuned only for t*. tinner call, must r*lizr that this country no 'ger can afford this type of government. The axpavers every yrai spend some $4,500,000,000 .n salaries for public sonants. They should get 54.500.000.000 worth of service. “In fact." warns the commission, “withoui, *uch an effective personnel, it may well be doubted whether it is possible for democracy lo continue." I . S. SAVINGS BONDS A SIDE from the obvious advantages to the *■ government in getting the rank and file of people to become its bankers the Treasury's new "baby bond" plan has many good points as a sheer investment proposition for the citizen of small means. For $1875 paid through the window of a postoflke. a citizen can purchase a bond which he can ca>h in 10 years for $25. He can buy a SSO bond for $37 50: a SICO bond for $75: a S“>GO bond for $375. or a SIOOO bond for $750. The bonds can not be depreciated in market value below the purchase price, as was the case with the widely held Liberty bonds shortly after the war. After 60 days from the date of purchase, the bondholder jean sell the bond back to the government lor the purchase price, up to the end of the first year, and for the purchase price plus interest any time thereafter. A bond bought for $75. for example, will be redeemed after five years for SB4 after eight years for $92, or \t the end of 10 years for the maturity va Ur, SIOO. A wage earner entering seriously into this method of investment saving can pay $18.75 a month through the postoffice window and at ihe end of 10 years hold 120 bonds costing s2*so, redeemable immediately for more than $2500. and which have a maturity value of ss:’(o. collectable in $25 monthly installments. A higher-salaried person investing $75 a month, will at the end of 10 years have paid S9OOO for bonds which have an immediate redemption value of more than SIOOOO and a maturity value of $12,000. He might then collect it at the rate of SIOO a month for the next 10 years. Or. if he chose, he might reinv>st $75 as each bond matured, enjoy an income of $25 a month for the rest of his life and leave to his heirs an estate worth more than SIO,OOO Or savings thus amassed could be convened into a life annuity. Long before the end of 10 years, the government probably will be in the business of selling life-time incomes SYMBOL OF BOOM DAYS | IMMY WALKER, one-time playboy mayor J of New- York, tells 3 British chancery court that he is broke and can't pay his bills; a: and that simple admission puts a period on a career which could have developed nowhere but in the United States during the giddy boom of the 1920'5. The dapper little man who once the very quintessence of Broadway painted a sorry picture of himself. His income, he says*, totals just $lO5 a week, of which 40 per cent goes to a collaborator. He is living with his wife and mother-in-law m the latter's house and his wife paid the bills on their recent mp to Spam. Evidently something pretty drastic has happened to Jimmy during the last few years: and if sits down to figure it out. it might be some comfort to him to reflect that it didn : reali> happen to him so much as to his fellow countrymen. For Jimmy Walker was never anything but a symbol, capping the summit of boom-time New York like the useless dirigible moonng mast atop the Empire State Building: an ornament. expensive and charming, in which a whole city took pnde during those days when the watchword was easy come, easy go. And m his deflation there is one of those old-fashioned moral lessons—not so much for the dapper Jimmy as for the rest of us. Jimmy Walker never was much of a mayor. Nobody ever pretended that he was. His best friends would have admitted that he was ornamental rather than useful. But during the hectic days of the boom, the pressure on city governments -as so light that it was possible to put up with that . kind of mayor—and with the kind of gov-

eminent which such a mayor brings about with him. Hard times changed the picture. Shrinking revenues and increasing demands on the public purse suddenly showed us that boss rule of the traditional type is the most expensive luxury in w hich a city can indulge. The Jimmy Walkers, light as so many feathers, nevertheless were a load too heavy to be earned any longer. That Jimmy Walker is on his uppers today is r.o’ important to any one except Jimmy himself. The important fact is that *he Jimmy Walker kind of government is on its uppers. We have been getting an expensive but valuable object lesson in municipal affairs. If it leads us to d’seard the old, carefree system of turning our city governments over to the nearest boss and telling him to go the limit, it will be worth all it has cost. NOT SO CHEAP LABOR A SURVEY by the United States Immigration Bureau reveals that out of some 60 000 Filipinos in the Far West at least a third are eager to return to their island homes. Before Congress are Administration-supported bills to provide passage money for their homeward trip. Repatriation is a thrilling word. But to most of these litlte islanders it will spell failure and disillusionment. Stirred by dreams of success in what they had been told was a rich and hospitable land, they poured into eery Pacific port. The recent Filipino migration made up the third great wave of unassimilable oriental labor to wash over the western shores. Like the Chinese and Japanese immigrants before them, the Filipino workers were welcome as long as they were content to fetch and carry at jobs no white man wanted. When the Chinese coolies, brought in to mine golJ, moved into the California cities there were anti-Chinese riots. When Japanese peasants tired of doing casual work and began buying farms, there were anti-Japan-ese riots and an exclusion law. When Filipinos took jobs that unemployed whites considered their own, their occurred the recent anti-Filipino riots on the Pacific Coast. As long as the imported Orientals did not take too seriously American ideas of equality they were welcome. When they became Americanized they were in danger of being ganged, stoned and excluded. We appear to have made some progress in the treatment of the strong-backed men we enticed from the Far Ea*t. Now, at least, we propose to pay their way back at S6O a head. Whirh is just another proof that so-called cheap labor is never cheap. WORK VERSUS MONEY TpUGENE GRACE who drew down $3,669 - •*-' 000 in bonuses from the Bethlehem Steel Cos. during the war years, tells the Senators who are investigating the munitions business that to pay an industrialist an Army officer's pay in wartime would just naturally disrupt everything. “Greatest efficiency comes from having the individual interested in the results of the work he performs.” he said, adding that nothing had ever been invented that would make men work as hard as the lure of money. One wonders if Mr. Grace has not done himself and other industrialists an injustice. The Army used some of our greatest industrialists in France during the war. giving them the pay and emoluments of colonels and brigadier generals, and got a tremendous amount of highly efficient work out of them. It is a fairly safe bet that it would have got the same kind of service out of Mr. Grace himself. The challenge of the job itself can be a more potent incentive than the fattest of bonuses. SLOW IN GETTING STARTED 'T'HE housing division of the PW’A. put into A operation a year and a half ago with $150,000,000 at its disposal, has provided lowcost living quarters for just 124 families to date. This has been done through three private limited-dividend corporations. Slum clearance jobs are under way in various congested metropolitan areas, but not one of them has been completed. Only $2,500,000 has actually been spent on Federal projects to date. Contracts totaling 53.500.000 more have been signed, and 37 developments which will cost $121,500,000 have been approved. Work on these, however, can't get going until June. This record is far from a bright one. Rehousing offers a great chance to stimulate capital goods industries and also to achieve a greatly needed social reform Unless it proceeds at a much faster pace, however, it will do us very little actual good. DRUNKENNESS STATISTICS compiled by the Methodist Board of Temperance. Prohibition and Public Morals seem to indicate that intemperance has spread since repeal of the Eichteenth Amendment. A survey of 226 cities, the board says, discloses a 26 per cent increase in arrests for drunkenness in the first year of repeal compared to the last year of prohibition. This may be a true gauge of the rise of intemperate drinking among a people unaccustomed to such liberties. Or it may only indicate that drinkers are frequenting public places rather than "blind pigs" and therefore are mor® under the scrutiny of law officers. Or it may only indicate that since repeal the police are less tolerant of drunkenness. Doubtless all of these factors enter into the startling statistics which emphasize the truth that repeal d’d not solve all of our liquet problems. "It appests." the board says, “that where hard liquors are dispensed through a state monopoly drunkenness is not increasing so rapidly as in the license states.” This statement may be the handwriting on the wall for the licensed establishments. It should warn them to be more strict in enforcing sobriety regulations, lest they achieve the unenviable reputation of the old saloon and have their business taken away from them. This cold spell that hit the country recently had one good effect —we didn't hear a word from Huey Long while it lasted. A midwestem judge ruled that an 8-vear-old girl must be taugnt to love her divorced mother. No riches were involved, so the Gloria Vanderbilt case didn't apply.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

THE inflation bloc in Congress is on the ram- ! pace again. Before the present session of Congress is over the President may have to make some concessions to it in order to get his more important measures passed. Hence, the new flock of money books are highly relevant to current political problems. Probably the best historical background of the present monetary tangle and the discussion of the gold problem is contained in Harold Fisher's “The Inevitable World Recovery” * Doubleday, Doran): "An observer from some other planet, looking down on the speck of cosmic dust called Earth, might have seen the play something after this fashion: "When the curtain rises in 1914, millions of puny men are discovered struggling to restrain the thing they call ‘The Mad Dog of Europe.’ broken loose after 50 years of growls and threats, to infect them all with madness. And in their urgent need, he sees them consuming all that the world can offer in the struggle, and he sees them promising and promising what would take generations to pay. But what they promised to pay for did not take generations to proA'ide. since it was all provided and consumed in less than five years. Strange that it should take generations to pay for what can be done in five years! nan AND after the first act, he sees them, all these puny millions, gathered round a huge ball, many times the size of any of them. And the ball looks like gold but is not. But they have promised the spirit of gold that they will treat it as if it were his own pre-war self. They are trying to push it up a hill, and, like the ball of Sisyphus, it forever rolls back upon them. “So they bring Avedges. to bolster it up, and it absorbs the wedges into itself and grows larger and bigger than ever. The more they wedge it, the bigger it grows, for the hill is time, and the wedges are gold loans, and the gravity pull of time on the Avhole ball increases. "But the time comes when it grown so big they can roll it no farther, and when it grows bigger still, it rolls back on them in spite of all they can do. And after millions more have suffered in the struggle, they suddenly lose faith and say. If it must go. it must go,’ and they scatter, each nation going to its own place. “And behold, when they scatter, the ball collapses and shrinks to a ridiculous size, and there, in the middle, like a caraway seed in a football, is a very tiny piece of real gold. . . . "The mountain of debt is crashing, its prewar gold valuation has been cut from under it and the newly freed protential of goods and services ascends beyond the horizon, like the sun at dawn.” ana MESSRS. WILLIAM BROWN (“The Inherent Function of Money,” McAllister, $1) and Frederick Soddy (“The Role of Money,” Harcourt. Brace) likewise argue strenuously for a sweeping reform of the whole money system. Mr. Brown asserts that “all other reforms wait on money reforms.” while Mr. Soddy, a- very capable student, goes so far as to assert that our present monetary system is a veritable challenge to civilization: “The monetary system is actually based on the very error, to the point-blank denial of which Western civilization owes its greatness. It serves only the convenience of a parasitic and upstart plutocracy practising a world wisdom the exact opposite of that which is the foundation of the age. “It prefers the dark in times when all men seek the light, and is sowing the seeds of hatred and Avar in a world weary to death of strife. It is poisoning the wells of Western civilization, and science must turn from the conquest of nature to deal Avith a more sinister antagonist, or lose all that it has won.” Nothing more completely reveals the chaos and inadequacy in the scientific theories of money than the symposium edited by Mr. E. G. Riegel of the Consumers Guild of America. He has consulted eight out of the 10 authorities named by Irving Fisher as competent to discuss the problem of money and has compiled and analyzed their responses. Do these men present such a unity of opinion on fundamentals as will allow us to build a solid structure of monetary theory? They do not: "The time has come for ruthless scrutiny of the storehouse of economic knowledge to find, if possible, sound timbers with which to construct the edifice of economics. We have found none here.”

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

TT was colorful —it was crowded and it was A. very, very hot —the reception given at the White House recently by President and Mrs. Roosevelt in honor of officials of the Treasury, Postoffice, Interior. Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Departments. When one was pushing through the barrier of shoulders, epaulets, elbows and diamond stomachers <yes, there were two diamond stomachers at the party!), it seemed as if the whole world had decided to shake hands with poor Mr. Roosevelt. Actually, only 1254 persons attended. But it was bv far the biggest and bulkiest party of the season. To dance in the East Room was as easy as skating in a market place on fish day. From 9 o'clock until 10:20 a solid mass of guests edged its way in phalanx formation up the red-carpeted stairs. Aids and ushers valiantly kept the crowd in order. Head usher Muir carefully inspected the long lines waiting patiently in the East Room. A new system of handling the crowd was being given a second tryout, and still required attention from the head usher. Instead of allowing more than 1000 men and women to crowd into one corner of the East Room, preparatory to their being received by i the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, they were shepherded into three double lines the length of the long room. Alternately, these lines were moved through he door from the East Room to the Green Room and thence into the Blue Room to be received; as one line disappeared, a White House attache admitted enough more men and women to replace it. General consensus of opinion was that the system was a success, reducing confusion, crowding and speeding the movement of guests. a a a A BLACK-BROWED, tall man in faultless evening dress stood almost beneath the portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in the Red S Room. Up to him came many persons, bowing, effusively shaking his hand. He attracted attention. and a many guests wondered who he was. A report circulated that he was somethins or other in the Labor Department. Madame Labor Secretary Frances Perkins was consulted. “No. he isn't in my department,’’ she i laughe' “He's John L. Lewis of the Mine Workers' Union " a a a MRS. HAROLD ICKES. wife of the Secretary of Interior, made her way through ! the iam to the East Room door. As she walked, she peered over people's ! shoulders. “I’ve lost a six-foot cousin," she wailed. earn MISS MARY ANDERoON, chief of the Woman’s Bureau of the Department of Labor, in black velvet, and wearing a gardenia, talked in the ear of Sidney Hillman, member of the National Industrial Recovery Board. Handsome Rexford Tugwell. Under-Secretary of Agriculture, appeared debonair and in excel- . lent spirits, accompanied by Mrs. Tugwell in black satin. Recent political moves apparently ' have not ruffled his complacency. Incidentally, the good-looking young woman with Dr. and Mrs. Rexford Guy Tugwell looked i like their but was introduced by t Mrs. Tugwell I Slaughter, Tanis."

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(Times readers are invited to express r their views in these columns. Make your j letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2.50 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at request o / the letter icriter.) n tt n LEGION BLAMED FOR VETERANS’ WOES By H. E. Thlxton. Being one of the bojs who followed the barrage, I was more than delighted to read that Norman Glenn, like so many others, would prefer a special distinction separating the combat veteran from the rest of the croAvd. Those personal sentiments portray a man of unquestionable character imbued with the spirit of fairness and immeasurable unselfish qualities. While I agree in principal with Mr. Glenn, I believe that he is not in full possession of facts concerning veteran legislation. An examination of veteran administration files will clearly show the injustices and discriminating features existing in our present laws. In the list of denied claims you may find records of combat veterans wounded in battle rated as below a compensable degree, and others suffering from disabilities of a tubercular nature and, according to the findings of the rating board, not service connected. Contrary’ to those injustices you will find numerous cases of home service veterans receiving subsidies in excess of SSO a month. If any and all who may be interested may desire further evidence, I will gladly produce, a veteran who suffered a bullet wound through the neck and now existing on public charity. I also will produce for your approval another veteran of combat suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and depending on his wife for a livelihood Neither veteran receives government aid and both are survivors of bayonet encounters. Those deplorable conditions have not resulted from the efforts of opposing forces, but were the direct iesult of strategy resorted to by the tenacious American Legion through its efforts to consolidate its political front, sacrificing common sense and fairness —and motivated by the desire for individual and private gains. Unfortunate it is for the nation and combat veteran that the unselfish qualities which characterizes Norman Glenn have not been shared more abundantly by the individuals who compose the rank and file of the American Legion. n n n DESTRUCTIVE CRITICS OF ADMINISTRATION RAPPED Bt J. L. Watt, Sr. ■Why is it that people must berate an Administration or an individual when they are doing all in their power to bring the country out of chaos and the present depression. I read with interest the first part of the Rev. Daniel Garrick's letter in this column but before I had finished I became revolted at the total lack of constructive criticism. He said: “We are robbed, we are exploited, we are doomed.” Tommyrot! If I believed one-half of what he wrote I would be joining the red army or Hitler’s black shirts. It seems unsportsmanlike, to me for every one to start talking "down with the capitalists, down with eA'erything” when they are out of work, many times through their own fault, or have been given a so- ! called raw deal. I venture to say that if the reverend had a few million to his credit it would be a different matter. I do not begrudgp any man a few millions if he worked and strived honestly to obtain them. I always look up to the man who is a millionaire today but was a poor boy years ago selling papers in order to pay for his education or to help his family and through hard

WHERE AM I?

Rugged Individualism Scorned

By Robert Keating. Hurrah for Mr. Blume! By all means let us have rugged individualism. If Mr. Blume has a car and wants to go to Chicago, let him build his own road. But with rugged individualism Mr. Blume probably wouldn’t have a car because he would have to make it himself. You say Mr. Blume’s house is on fire? Well, let him put it out himself. This is an individualist’s country. Every man for himself and let the devil keep us if he can. Why is everybody digging wells and building outhouses? Haven’t you heard? We are enjoying a gay return to the rugged individualism of our forefathers. No more police, firemen, judges, sidewalks, sewers, garbage collectors, streets —no more anything. Ah, what a life! No more anything! Mr. Blume says: “It takes suffering to make great men. You would take away the incentive to better themselves.” My! My! Mr. Blume should preach his profound philosophy upon the highways and byways. There are millions who would be cheered to know of their splendid opportunities to become great men. He further states: “The dreams of idealists are seldom practical.” Now, I wonder where he read that? Hasn’t Mr. Blume heard of Edison, Fulton. Curie, Marconi and thousands of other idealists? Nothing is practical until it is practiced Avith success. Nothing 1 is practiced with success until it is j tried. Hasn’t Mr. Blume the rug- i work and toil made himself what he j is today. To me a person who talks about taking the money away from capitalists is nothing but a loafer and wants something for nothing. He should be in Russia or Germany and not in the U. S. A. Many times I have been without a cent in my pocket and starving but I never blamed the capitalist or the administration then in power; I placed it where it belonged—on myself. If others would try this perhaps they would remedy their faults and have a little more cheerful outlook on life. The present Administration has been in power a little more than two years and people in their false beliefs are beginning to blame the present conditions and crisis on it. Give it a chance. You can not change the entire economic condition of a country like ours in two years or even four. You might in Bolivia or Switzerland or some other equally small country, but not here. It was the previous Administration that put the country in the depression and it went in over-night. It will take a long time to get out. Instead of people giving destructive criticism why not make it constructive and speed up recovery instead of retarding it? The present Administration has helped conditions; give it a chance and let it bring the country entirely out of chaos. Read The Times business section and you can get a good idea of the trend toward better times and prosperity. Factories are enlarging present quarters and hiring additional help. OPPORTUNITIES OPEN FOR EDUCATION Bv .limmy Cafotirou*. The Federal government is trying very hard to interest adults in education. giving opportunities and teachers, in various centers such as the Kirshbaum. the Public Library and the Y. M. C. A. The strange thing is that so few realize the benefits they can reap by attending these classes which are free of charge and which 7 can do so much

ged courage to push an ideal through to practical completion? For Mr. Blume’s information, we have not forgotten that “this is a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” In fact, two years under an Administration which actually tries to live up to the quoted ideal has hardly worn off the novelty. As for Mr. Blume's questions, I can only say that they are rather vague. I can not. see that they refer to either principle or policy of the New Deal. But I have a question for him. Does he believe in allowing predatory interests to so domineer in this nation that they are able to name wages, prices, utility rates, manipulate supply and demand to their own advantage, starve producers and gouge consumers, undermine small business men with low prices, then shoot prices up through monopoly, pour worthless stock into security companies and banks and leave Mr. Average Citizen holding the bag? That is not a rhetorical question. Thase things happened. Does Mr. Blume believe in allowing such liberty to continue? The object of the New Deal is not regimentation as its opponents would like eA'erybody to believe. Through mechanical and economic revolution we have become dependent upon each other. Rugged individualism, once a driving force., has now become a conflicting force against a changed and changing world. Realizing this, the present Administration is attempting to establish in its stead the policy of co-operative individualism. good, yet are handicapped by a lack of interest. Psychology. dramatics. public speaking, voice culture and whatnot are at the grasp of any one who is interested enough to attend. In fact, all are called, but few attend. 808 PREDICTS RETURN OF PROHIBITION By H. S. Bonsib. I see the politicians are at it again. They are trying to patch up the “unpatchable,” and are trying to do the “undoable.” The leopard has not changed his spots. Nothing is settled until it is settled right; and as to settling the liquor traffic, it never has been regulated nor controlled. Allow me to reiterate again and again—what can t be mended must be ended. The liquor traffic is not controlable. If if is right it ought to be free, and if it is wrong it should never be licensed. If the Prohibition party were in power it would be dealt with as a crime and not as a busines, and we would have a party in power which is in sympathy with the prohibition law, which we have never had. Christ said, "Every tree that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.” I would not want to insult the Almighty by saying that He has planted the Booze Tree. I know of nothing that describes our present predicament better than these verses from Isaiah 59: “Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. “For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. “Therefore is judgment far from j us, neither doth justice overtake us; 'we wait for light but behold ob-

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. scurity; for brightness, but wc walk j in darkness.” There is need for our politicians i to view the whole problem of the ! liquor traffic from a different angle. Until they do this they will ac- | complish nothing. The only solution jof the problem is no compromise, ! no regulation, but annihilation. Proj hibition is coming back. a a a DEMANDS ACTION ON 'crossing INCIDENT ! By A. Stokes. What is the matter with the Board , of Safety that it continues its pol- ! icy of inaction concerning the rei cent arrest of a train conductor by i policemen who had already violat!ed a city ordinance by driving i through a railroad warning signal? What is the matter with Chief Mike Morrissey that he continues to report no progress in his “investigation” of the incident? Are the board members and the chief doing nothing because they fear that any public rebuke or punishment might reflect on the efficiency of their administration of the police department? The people of Indianapolis have a | right to know the answers to these I questions and the answers should ■ be made at once. a a a CRITICISM DIRECTED AT DEMOTION METHODS By Ex-Cop. It is interesting to notice that responsible city officials are still approving the recommendations of the police and fire chiefs that certain police and firemen be demoted at their own requests. Os course this may be perfectly true in the two cases brought up at the board meeting Tuesday, but I happen to know that in the past some of these requests have been | made to cover up some scandal or 1 even a personal grudge and keep the real reason for the demotion a secret except to a few men in the department. It seems to me that the Safety Board is particularly stupid to pass I these recommendations without any j investigation 'of the matter other i than to ask a few questions of the I chief. If a cop or a fireman is to be punished, th news should be made public so that the people may j know the sort of officers they really have. n n ts DENOUNCES JURY FOR VAUDEVILLE ACT By Harriftt Drake. Is it possible that eight men and four women can be so utterly low 1 and degraded as to take pleasure in the fact that they have sen- | tenced a man to death? So great | pleasure and pride in that fact that they contemplate a vaudeville tour; putting themselves on exhibition for other low-minded persons to pay money to merely gaze upon them. Possibly it was with this end in view that the ghastly verdict wa3 agreed upon. Who knows? Had they found Hauptmann not guilty, or recommended mercy, certainly they would have received no offer for a stage appearance. And does the world at large believe the verdict a just one, evidence , of first degree murder being purely ! circumstantial?

Daily Thought

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. —Job 5 18. GOD sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.—T. L. Cuyler.