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102 TO GO? TWENTY- NINE persons have lost their lives in Marion County traffic accidents thus far this year. In 1934. the county's traffic death toll reached 131. It almost seems as if Indianapolis and its surrounding towns axe fighting a battle against time, a battle to reach or exceed 1934's total. Many accidents of course, are the result of tricks of fate. Nobody can be held at fault. Many of the accidents in which lives are lost are the direct result of negligent driving, and last driving. It is tune to slow up. A minute more on the trip downtown may save YOUR life or your neighbors life. Twenty-nine are dead thus far this year, an average of one death every two and a half days. There is going to be a thirtieth for too many people insist on driving more than a ton of machinery at speeds too fast for safety. Make sure YOU are not the thirtieth. Slow up. Speed is the root of ail traffic evil. Repeat it. memorize it, remember it every time you step into your automobile. HOPE IN ALASKA ONE of the unexpected by-producis of the depression is going to be a renewed attempt to tap the unused agricultural riches of Alaska. The Federal government will finance a “simple migration,” transporting 200 families and 400 single men to the Matanuska valley beyond Anchorage, this spring. The move is admittedly an experiment. The climate of the valley is said to be very like that of the "drought states” back home, and the colonists are all to come from those states, so that that part of the transition is expected to be easy. These colonists will, furthermore, be taken from unproductive land which is to be retired from production; and the soil in the Matanuska valley is said to be fertile enough to provide excellent farms. This experiment seems to be well worth making. Alaska is potentially a rich, productive land, aside from its gold deposits. It is logical that a serious effort be made to see if its potentialities can not be realized. •RED DEATH’ ''T'HE society folk of gay Vienna have found machine guns and target practice a diversion just too ducky for words, according to recent news dispatches. One cable has it that such sideshow diversions as shooting galleries, introduced to the best Viennese circles recently by young Fascists, have made a great hit, and finally, at a great ball In the former imperial palace, ladies in evening gowns deserted the dance floor to let fly with machine gun bullets at cardboard targets representing enemy soldiers. Every one. apparently, had the best of good times, and the home of the Strauss waltzes found machine-gunning much more fun than dancing. This hort of thing, of course, is nothing but the froth which any spirited society is apt to throw off every now and then, and there is no sense in taking it too seriously. But to read about It. against the background of the war threat which is steadily rising higher and higher over Europe, is to get a creepy' and uncomfortable reeling. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote a story entitled “The Masque of the Red Death.” It told about a land ravaged by a horrible plague known as the red death. Sundry titled folk locked themselves In a remote castle and with feasting and dancing tried their best to forget about the plague outside. But it couldn't be kept out. At the height of the merry-making, the dreaded infection suddenly appeared in their midst, and the revel abruptly dissolved in a frantic scramble as ladies and courtiers fled vainly from the des* rover. There is something about this story from Vienna that reminds one of that tale of Poe's. No red death menaces Vienna. The threat Is infinitely graver. Unless every thoughtful student of modem affairs is mistaken, war in Europe today would bring in anew dark age. Famine, revolution, massacre, the collapse of government and the decline of all those graces which make modem society worth while —these are the prices that Europe would inevitably have to pay. Each month sees the war clouds mount higher on the European horizon. And well-to-do, cultured, intelligent folk, who ought to be moving heaven and earth to avert the danger, find it amusing and "chic” to play with machine guns . . . dancing the masque of the red death, while the fatal Infection draws nearer and nearer the castle. SPURNING THE LIFE-LINE T AST January the Transportation Coordmator. Mr. Eastman, proposed a plan for saving the railroads from the effects of their own mismanagement. He urged regulation of rails and competing carriers by a reorganized Interstate Commerce Commission; revisions of the bankruptcy act to aid refinancing of distressed roads; enlarged and permanent powers for the co-ordinator; provisions to ease hardships of displaced workers through Jobless Insurance, old-age pensions and dismissal compensation. The plan was a government life-line to an industry that has all but committed suicide. But, it seems, the railroads as a whole have neither grasped the line nor cheered the rescue crew. According to Mr. Eastman, their attitude "has generally been one of resentment.” “From the beginning,” he said In a sjyech

before the New York State Chamber of Commerce, "there has been a feeling of puling against deadweight or even active resistance. To me the railroads have seemed more zealous to prove my staff was wrong tnan to find out, with the help of our reports, w *ys and means of improvement.” The roads m general, he added, have done little to provide cheap, quick, comfortable, frequent or flexible service to meet competition. There are, apparently, only three ways to approach the railroad problem. One is to eftt them loose from government financial help. Another is to extend regulation along the line Mr. Eastman proposes. Another is for the government to take them over. On the very night that Mr. Eastman was charging the railmen with non-co-operation, Senator Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, was telling Pittsburgh business leaders that, due to “gross mismanagement of financiers and promoters,” the railroads were making government ownership inevitable. If. he said, the government has •to pour millions into the railroads in loans it might as well pour in a few more and enjoy the fruitr of ownership. There is little popular agitation today for public ownership of the nation’s railroads. If the government is forced to take over and run this essential industry it will be only because private ownership has failed and has refused constructive aid. DANGER OF WORLD CONFLICT ''P'HIS Greek rebellion is acquiring some exA tremely disquieting overtones. First of all, it brings Turkish soldiers to the frontiers, mobilized against “emergencies." This, in turn, brings protests from Bulgaria, and sets that nation looking to its weapons. Then, to cap the climax, it is rumored in London that Mussolini is fishing in these troubled waters, and that the Italian troops recently dispatched to Africa are really being held in readiness for some international complication in Greece. We have all the outlines there for a really serious international tangle—precisely the kind of confusing situation from which a great war might develop. Let us hope that the affair can be confined to what it was originally—an internal revolt without outside interference. THE MAVERICKS "O EGULARS in Congress seem to think it great sport to poke tun at the newly organized liberal bloc which they have named "The Mavericks” because Rep. Maverick of Texas happens to be one of the leaders. Webster defines a maverick as “an unbranded animal.” This definition seems to apply well to the 35 Congressmen—Democrats, Republicans, Farmer-Laborites and Progressives—who disregarded party ties and met at the call of Rep. Kvale (F.-L., Minn.) to formulate a legislative program. They adopted as their major objectives: Government ownership of natural resources, industries, government control of bank credit, guarantee of farm profits, shorter hours for labor, higher income taxes, removal of tax exemptions and repeal of House gagrules. It is an ambitious program, and one not likely to succeed in this session of Congress. But the formation of this bloc is significant. It is another indication of the disintegration of old party lines. It is indicative of a trend of public opinion, because pressure from home is largely responsible when 35 mavericks walk voluntarily into a corral of their own choosing. Congressional regulars might do well to duplicate the strategy by which Bismarck kept the Socialists a minority party in Germany. Bismarck adopted the best of the Socialist proposals as his own. FEAR RULES THE WORLD 'T'HE potent force of fear in international relations is clearly shown by Great Britain’s recent “white paper," announcing that England is going to strengthen her military establishment at once because other great powers are doing the same thing. The paper mentions among others. Germany, Russia, Japan and the United States as nations which are increasing their armaments. And when you examine things closely you will discover that each of them is doing it for exactly the same reason that England is doing it—fear. Germany looks at her ring of potential enemies and feels the need of weapons. Russia looks at Japan in Manchuria and feels a similar need. Japan looks at powerful Russia, eyes the United States fleet and opens the throttle. The United States, with a jittery glance at Japan, builds up its fleet. And so it goes. Is there a more expensive emotion in all the world today than this same fear? “OF NO IMPORTANCE” ‘‘Tk/fY health is good. I lost no one of any *■ importance. I put my losses at three thousand killed and wounded.” Thus Napoleon wrote to his wife, Empress Marie Louise after the battle of Bautzen on May 20, 1813, in a letter published for the first time in The Times a few’ days ago. It is a further revelation of the attitude of the military conqueror. These three thousand men with selfless devotion had gone into battle shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” But the Emperor did not return their devotion. Whatever Napoleon might say to them in his oratorical exhortations to do or die, in this private letter to his wife he shows that he cared nothing for them. To him they were people “not of any importance.” The poet Whitman has pointed out the tragedy which lies in masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men. Today, as it was 121 years ago, the common soldier, tricked by fine phrases, is sent into battle to die for political and military leaders, who regard them as “people of no importance.” The more serious-minded of our citizens were glad to hear that Brown University was going in for more weighty education until they found the report was based on the fact that a Brown student ate 20 doughnuts in 18 minutes. A scientist says that the moon pulls Europe and America apart by 63 feet. But Mars has kept America apart from Europe by centuries. While the Administration is trying to find a way to raise prices, mo6t of us are trying to find a way to raise cash. %

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

IF there is any social problem which is handled with greater stupidity and futility than crime in this country it is that of prostitution. The usual procedure is tolerate the situation for a time with a few sporadic frame-ups by a vice squad and stool pigeons. Then comes a dramatic “vice war” in which the more sensational clergymen lay down a verbal barrage and the police move in on the madams and girls. Some leave town, but most of them hide for a while, scatter into new hang-outs, and soon the business is resumed. For a time thereafter repression becomes more difficult. There is no consideration of the deeper economic causes of prostitution—the economic pressure which makes it difficult for many girls to earn an honest living and for young men to marry at a reasonable age. Nor is any direct attention given to modern medical science and effective ways of combating most successfully the venereal menace, which is the worst aspect of prostitution. Time without end, this farcical procedure has been tried in most major American cities, with the result that the solution of the problem of prostitution is no closer at hand than it was in the days of the Rev. Parkhurst. In his authoritative work on the subject “The Repression of Prostitution in New York” (Columbia University Press; —Professor Willoughby C. Watterman of Brooklyn College has summarized the experience of New York City with these methods and has amply demonstrated their ineffectual and unintelligent'character. a a a THEREFORE, the proposals of Magistrate Anna M. Kross seem almost incredibly sane and commendable. It is almost the first time that a person in such a position has possessed either the enlightenment or the courage to speak straight from the shoulder in behalf of sense and science in dealing with prostitution. The crux of the whole matter is well put by Magistrate Kross: “We must first of all recognize that prostitution is a social problem, not an offense, misdemeanor, or crime, and that this problem does not belong in the courts. “We have by our police and court methods been proceeding against the victims of prostitution rather than against the structure of commercialized vice.” Equally sensible is the magistrate’s proposal of new and competent authorities to deal with prostitution, in the place of police, stool pigeons and the Women's Court: “Socially trained, w’ell-paid medical workers, empowered to apprehend all persons engaged in the practice of prostitution and therefore liable to have contracted a venereal disease. “An informal tribunal consisting of a doctor, a psychiatrist and a lawyer.” u a AND she proceeds u T ith scientific enlightenment to outline the wise methods to be followed and the equipment needed: “A scientific, modern viewpoint which will seek the fundamentals of the problem, and make an honest endeavor to reach the causative factors of this social manifestation, as well as to treat its symptoms. “A complete medical, physical and mental examination, social history, and invironmental investigation, obtained prior to any hearing. “A liberal, modern, scientific health code, applicable to both men and women, giving full power to this tribunal to apprehend and detain. “A medical, psychological and social diagnosis, on the basis of which appropriate treatment will be prescribed to meet the needs of the individual offender, utilizing all the community’s present resources for protection, correction, medical relief, social service, education and guidance.” Here are words of wisdom which should inspire liberal and socially-minded New Yorkers to “get out and get under.” If Magistrate Kross’s timely and intelligent injunctions are followed, New York City may ultimately get somewhere in dealing with the social evil—rightly so-called.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

SENATOR HUEY LONG is going in for muscle building and weight reducing exercises. The other morning, Mr. E. Sipoff (pronounced “Shepoff”), Hungarian professor of physical culture, who is teaching fashionable dowagers of the Capital how to lose weight and look more beautiful, received a sudden telephone call. “This is the secretary of Senator Huey Long,” said a voice. “The Senator would like to start your course of treatments. He wants an hour early in the day.” “I'm sorry,” said Prof. Sipoff, “but I won’t be able to do it. My time is all taken.” “But do you realize who I’m speaking for,” barked the caller. "This is for Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana and ...” "I don’t care who he is,” retorted Prof. Sipoff. “I can’t take him.” Prof. Sipoff hung up the receiver with a click and went back to his class of fashionable ladies. So if Huey Long wants to reduce his waistline or prepare for another fistic encounter, he must find someone else. ' Note—Prof. Sipoff was "discovered” in Argentina by Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, wife of our former Ambassador to Buenos Aires, whose fortune comes from Castoria (Children Cry for It). Arriving in Washington in the entourage of Mrs. Bliss, the great Sipoff entranced plump society matrons by his course of calisthenics. He has become the "rage” of the smart set. and a score of prominent women daily follow his beauty regime. a a a THE fact that Ambassador Freyre y Santander of Peru is to be seen strolling about the Capital’s streets these days without an overcoat is no sign that spring is here. Envoy Freyre walks around on even the coldest days sans overcoat. He strongly disbelieves in overcoats. He follow’s the British fashion of discarding them and looks healthier than any Britisher in town—except ruddycheeked Sir Ronald Linday. Glimpsed dow’n town without an overcoat, while wintry blasts blew and pedestrians shivered. Ambassador Freyre explained: "You know, I'm afraid that if people saw me wearing a coat, they might suppose I came from a warm country and couldn’t stand the cold.” a a a WORD from Boca Raton, Fla. (ultra smart resort where those whom Palm Beach wearies go to recuperate), is that the golf game of Controller General John Raymond McCarl is “doing nicely.” In other words, even-tempered Mr. McCarl is not letting this little trouble with Navy’s Swanson spoil his golf game. He wrote personally his now’ widely quoted message scolding Swanson for ignoring previous decisions affecting the United States Navy. Then he packed up and went to Florida, and since then has been playing beautiful golf. Recently, he broke “80” for 18 holes, and is reported jubilant. Note—Among other visitors from the Capital lately in exclusive Boca Raton are Argentine Ambassador Felipe Espil and his lovely American wife who. sun-burned and fit, returned to town yesterday. A mldwestem city’s municipal light plant showed a large surplus and no excuses were made to the competing utilities company, either. An old-age pension bill in Nevada would raise the needed money by taxing bachelors $lO a year each. Nevada always did have a grudge against bachelors and good married men.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2.10 words or less, Tour letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld at request of the letter writer.) a a a LAWLESSNESS SHOULD BE TAXED FOR PENSIONS By J. A. L. The Indianapolis Times is, by odds, my choice of the Indianapolis daily papers and I enjoy the Message Center. The article in The Times of March 9, by L. L. Hopkins, is good, but I disagree with him somewhat in the manner of raising money for the Townsend or any other pension plan. As there is so much w’rong-doing all over this country, I believe the w’rong-doers should pay, and then the balance to be raised for any kind of a pension would not be difficult. I firmly believe that three things, carried out, would raise practically all money needed for pensions and taxes. First, I believe the statute of limitations should be abolished all over the United States. Second, transactions of more than SIOO should be notarized. Then a tax of 90 or 95 per cent should be levied upon law violations w’ith a tax on graft. This, if enforced, would either raise an enormous amount of money or w ? ould make the country better. A law like the above should be applied to one and all alike. a a a CAN’T UNDERSTAND 40 AND 90-DAY PENAL SENTENCES By George S. Purcell. I see that they sentenced Chuck Wiggins for 40 days for drunken days, skipping bond and whipping the police department. Yet, they will sentence an old man 67, ruptured, not able to work, for 90 days and $lO and costs on the penaffarm for only being drunk. I would like to know why they sent Chuck Wiggins to jail for 40 days but send an old man to the farm for 90 days? a a a ROOSEVELT PROGRAM IS RAPPED BY READER By M. Everts. I w’ould like to have space in your Message Center to answer a couple of letters, one by J. L. Watt Sr., and another by Robert E. A. Crookston, who seem to think that the Rev. Mr. Carrick is such an awful person. - Mr. Crookston, the Bible referred to Christian rulers and never told any one to obey a bunch of boozecrazy, money-mad human bloodsucking parasites as we have sos rulers today. You have never been on relief, or you couldn’t call it decent. Also, saying that Mr. Roosevelt is the greatest and only true humanitarian since Christ is taking in a lot of space and is nothing but bunk. You say he gave us jobs. Yes, but did he give us a living? You say he helped the hard-hit fanner. •He did by taking it out on city people. He had plenty of power to raise prices to w’ar-time levels and now he wants to prevent any one on relief from making more than SSO a month. These are starvation wages and you know it; so does he. As for Mr. Watt, if you will show me or anybody else, an honest millionaire I will respect him and not say a word if you think any man honestly earned a million dollars. I am afraid your judgment of honesty is sadly out of place. The poor people asking for the right to live are just bums, according to you. Listen, Watt, don't get out among the relief workers and say those things or you will wake up in a hospital wondering whether a steam engine or airplane hit you. Two years ago President Roosevelt had our confidence and support

THE WILD WAVES

Profit Motive Must Go!

By H. L. At the time of the Bryan-Dar-row debate on evolution, the comics stated that the monkeys of the African jungles sent this telegram to Tennessee in defense of the silver-tongued orator: “Mr. Bryan, we are with you 100 per cent. We of the jungie absolutely deny any relationship whatsoever with the present so-called human race.” With a little of this outraged English dignity which is said to have swayed those exclusive monkeys, I w’ould like to defend our human race from the attack which Charles L. Blume makes against man in his letter: “Individualism Must Stay,” in The Times Feb. 25. While this young man still has youthful energy surging through his brain cells—the fire which alone enables a man to adjust himself to new truths, may I remind him of the high levels of greatness and nobility to which man can and does rise when given the proper encouragement and inspiration. True, man' has his w r eak. ugly, selfish side. But, when you cleanse him from the incentive to work for sordid profits and sanctify his mind by ideals of service, you reveal the finer man. Why do you doubt, my boy? You have read history. Do I need to remind you of that wliich men

but he threw it back in our faces. If he w’ants us to stand by, let him stand by us. He is commandsr-in-chief of the Army and Navy and he can break this depression in 24 hours if he wants to. I don’t suppost you will see this in print, but if you do I dare you to prove it isn’t so. a a a ALLEGED ACTIONS OF COPS ARE SCORED By Mrs. M. Bonsuery. It seems to me as a taxpayer that the police of Indianapolis would have to pay carfare and other things. Some policemen come in every w’eek to the beer joints, where they sell baseball tickets, for their w’eekly payoff. The people pay taxes to have piotection and a clean city; they try and run one. When a person goes down S. Illinois-st they see boys, mere babies, looking at pictures of naked women—pictures not fit to be standing on a public street. I am a mother of children and I think many a mother will agree that these theaters should be closed. Editor’s Note—The Times suggests you supply Chief Mike Morrissey with the names of these policemen. a a a HISTORIANS WILL REAP RECORD FROM NEW ERA By John Kennedy. The last few years will surely be described by historians as the period of corrupt banking, insane credit, expansion and irresponsible bankers; the period when our Democratic government relinquished its constitutional right to coin and regulate money to the Neros and the maniac fringes of the financial circles. The period of credit inflationists and currency deflationists, short sellers, 42 per centers, cold-blooded mortgage holders and confiscators, also the era of machine worshipping, sweat shop, profit, mad industrialists, the era of monopolizers, corporationists, national price setters, chain system greeders and food speculators. The historians wil probably write also of the bloody bond holders and

r / ivholly disapprove of what you say and will 1 [ defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

on the battlefields have sacrificed for friends and honor? Does your soul not burn within you when you recall that which w’omei. have done during the stress of war, famine and disease? What would poets, musicians and other artists not suffer for the joy of beauty? We know’ of the years of labor of unselfish scientists who think mainly of the happiness of achievement and the glory and honor of giving creative w r orks of service to the world. You know of the service of the Red Cross organization. You would not deny the sacrifices which radical agitators, such as Jesus, Marx, Debs and their millions of followers make from higher motives than that of profit. And will you please reconsider the significance of the 19 centuries of sustained efforts of our missionaries to thrill the world with the Supreme Socialist’s conceptions of the abundant life. Why can you not believe in man? We can and will rise above the monkeys and other animals of the wild. Our *ugged individualism, which man dragged with him from the jungle, must go. Once stealing was not condemned. The day will come when the profit motwe will be as harshly stigmatized as is stealing today. Even so, come quickly!

their munition manufacturing buddies, the ones who demand 400 per cent profits and then cry against the government paying honest wages to our soldiers which they call a bonus. They will probably tell of the international bankers, the ones who control kingdoms and to whom kings and dictators are but puppets. These same bankers and munition makers back monarchies on one side and at the same time back Fascism, Communism, Socialism, in fact every type of government in existence, all while the liberty loving, social justice loving forgotten man waits in vain for his emancipation. a a a SANE LAWS AND TAXES TO SOLVE LIQUOR PROBLEM By William Lemon. I notice in one of your recent editions a headline, “Plunder Charges Hurled by Senators as Liquor Bill Passes,” which, as everybody knows, is the absolute truth. As long as our chosen representatives pass this bill to favor our politicians, and we have a few local favorites, they will only help promote the bootleg industry. By reducing liquor and beer prices, which can only be done by lower taxes and eliminating the importer, so that legal liquor dealers can compete in prices with the bootlegger, is the only sane method that will destroy the illicit liquor traffic. Uaws and drastic penalties are only a joke, for as long as there is profit in moonshine or alcohol it will be sold. Before prohibition very few knew the method:, of distilling

Daily Thought

O Lord, why hast Thou made us to err from Thy ways, and hardened our hearts from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants’ sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.—lsaiah 63:17. SOMETIMES we may learn more from a man’s errors than from his virtues.—Longfellow.

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liquor or fermenting beer, but at the present time it is known by most school children. The chief cause of prohibition was the unlawfulness of the liquor business and the contributions to the various political machines which gave liquor leaders the privilege to violate any law they chose not to obey. , Prohibition was a failure and will always be, It bases its right to designate what ftnd what not people shall drink. Besides being a miserable failure it created lawlessness and graft, and is still defended by hairbrained grafters who individually profited by it. If sane liquor laws were passed so the average citizen could afford to purchase lawful liquor, the bootleggers would soon be extinct as the dodo bird, and if we are ever intelligent enough in the future to elect honest officials to represent us, we may be able to rid ourselves of the bootleg parasites, and by sane and decent laws, return to a temperate nation. a a a COUNTRY MAY NEED NEW “FATHER.” By a Reader. The Ku Klux Klan had better get busy! George Washington was the father of our country; who will be our next father?

So They Say

Two underlying forces are today creating and shaping the politics of Europe—the fear complex and the inferiority complex. Gen.' Jan Christian Smuts, South African minister of justice. Dempsey is my pal, but I could have licked him.—Max Baer. We should find a system not merely of relief, but under which relief shall be, in so far as humanly achievable, unnecessary.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The man who, after enforced reg- / ulations of war and post-war busi-' ness, still tries to issue price dictums belongs before the criminal court.— Dr. Karl Goerdler, price dictator of Germany. Knockout drops have never been a part of my technique. What woman would not give herself freely to a prince?—“Prince” Michael Romanoff. I feel that the social effect of the teaching of the survival of the fittest has been profoundly unfortunate.—Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace. I am terribly glad I did not have to serve on the Hauptmann jury. While I don’t believe in capital punishment, where it is the law it must be applied.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt*.

MOODS

BY AUSTIN JAMES Sometimes I want to laugh and sing, Because I'm feeling swell, And try to others gladness bring Because I'm doing well. Sometimes I want to sit and talk And kind o’ 101 l about, While other times I want to walk, I even like to shout. Yes, most the time I want to smile. But I don’t feel so gay Tonight—l think I'll cry awhile And wash my blues away.