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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2S 1935 THANKSGIVING f N 1621 Gov, Bradford of the Massachusetts Colony '..ssued a Thanksgiving proclamation. The Pilgrims had gone through a cruel first winter that left alive only 55 of the 101 colonists who had come over in the Mayflower. Sut the harvest w r as bountiful, and. after the manner of men, their hearts being full they filled their stomachs also. On “deere,” wild “fowle” and cod fish they feasted for three days. Ihe harvest season of 1935 finds Americans thankful in much the same way. The winter of their worst depression has strewn the country with wreckage, but better times are here. We, too, like the Pilgrims, may fire a cannon salvo, march to church and then sit down to a more or iess merry feast. And, like (he first Pilgrims, our prayers of gratitude will be mixed with prayers for the future. Their challenge stood before them in forbidding mi"n. a \a,-t primeval wilderness of known and unknown terrors. So does ours. 'The early frontiersmen had heart-breaking work to do. It was to roll bark the wilderness, till the rifh new soil, plant cities and build railroads. Their work is done. Our job is more baffling, for we must conquer the less tangible social frontiers all about us. Before us today is the forbidding economic jungle of low-wage workers, sweatshops, slums, disease, unemployment, insecurity, want—and war. Our work is just beginning. For three years American statesmanship has been peering into this jungle with a measure of will and courage, tackling what. President Roosevelt calls the “soberer, less dramatic task," the social conquest of this vast and rich continent. “The future of many generations of mankind wi'l h- greatly guided by our acts in these present years,” said the President. “We have anew trail.” Across the centuries the Pilgrims of 1935 can hail those of 1621 in thanksgiving for the great and common heritage of America and the opportunity to make it, a more blessed abode of men. TINKERING WITH TURKEYS | TNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULv"' TURE experts are trying to breed smaller turkeys of the streamline variety. They w’ant them with short legs, broad backs, plump bodies, “more the shape of a duck." A duck, indeed! Whither are we drifting? In the Rood old days on the farm a turkey could be big enough to warp the table or eclipse the view of Dad, the carver, and no one complained. There were plenty of us to eat it, and we all liked food with our meals. We might have liked it better if it had been bred without a neck or wings and with more white meat and as many drumsticks as a centipede has legs. But the bigger the better. There were always days to come when the good old turk would appear in regular incarnations, sliced cold, turkey hash, turkey soup. Those were days of sweet reminiscence of the Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts, when the great, bird was the symbol of gratitude, plenty and joy. Now, we are told, housewives want smaller turkeys to go with smaller apartments, smaller families, smalley appetites and smaller ovens. We may be old-fashioned, but we believe the experts would do better to work out some way of making turkeys, not smalle:, but cheaper so more families could buy them. Or, better still, some way of breeding larger pocketbooks. THE EXPERTS DISAGREE OHALL the government abandon all thought of controlling production, hours and wages, and adopt a let-alone policy? Or shall it follow the rocky New Deal path oi AAA and NRA in further attempts to maintain living standards? This issue, posed academically in a controversy between Brookings Institution economists and their critics, is the subject of a current battle of statements between two warring groups—the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Federation of Labor. The N. A. M. issued a committee report opposing all production restrictions and warning against any Federal attempts to regulate hours and wages of workers. The A. F. of L.'s monthly survey of business declared there had been a 25 per cent rise since 1929 in the average worker's producing power, and demanded shorter hours. It added that while production increased 8.7 per cent this year, the workers’ buying power increased only 1 per cent; hence it called for higher wages. Behind this battlefront the economists have been waging a bitter argument for weeks over the series of four books issued by Brookings. Liberal economists protest that, after proving that, industry maintains a great unused capacity, under-feeds and un-der-clothes the multitudes and piles up great masses of unproductive savings, Brookings concludes with this answer: The trouble with capitalism is the capitalists and the answer to the maldistribution of income is to decrease prices. ts a a Brookings' first study, "America's Capacity to Produce." proves that our gigantic farm and factory plant could have produced 20 per cent more wealth than it did at its best in 1929. or 96 instead of 81 billions worth of goods and services. At its worst <.1932) it turned out one-third less t'lan in 1929. Brookings' second, "America's Capacity to Consume,” showed why one-fifth of this giant plant was loafing in its best year*. Even in 1929 almost 20 million families, or 70 per cent of the total, had incomes of $2500 a year or less, and hence spent practically all their income on bare necessities. In that year of “plenty” only two million families, or 8 per cent, had incomes over SSOOO. If all families had a "reasonable” living standard it would require a 70 per cent increase in production. Brookings’ third. "The Formation of Capital," showed that largely because of concentrated income too much of the national savings goes into investment channels for productive goods, not enough into ma>s buying power to create markets for consumptive goods. There was a maladjustment in the distribution of buying power. What to do? Brookings’ latest, "Income and Economic Progargues that taxation, the raising of wages and

other controls are limited measures In a competitive system to bring about redistribution of Income. Price reductions, on the contrary, would extend capitalisms benefits not only to wage workers, but to farmers and professional classes. a a a In comments published recently in the magazine Fortune, the price-reduction cure is cheered by Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, Colby M. Chester of General Foods, John W. Davis and Walter Lippmann. But Secretary of Agriculture Wallace says efforts at price reduction would bear down harder on farmers than on industry, which maintains effective price controls. "The upshot.” he said, "would be a return to unlimited competition only in agriculture.” President William Green of the A. F. of L. said that voluntary price reductions "in a system of giant corporate and industrial aggregates is out of the question,” And Stuart Chase in Survey Graphic charges that the Brookings series "ends on a pathetically weak note.” "Drookings surveys one proposal after another," he writes, "and then throw’s up its hands and g oes to ,-leep on the broad bosom of old mother laissezfaire. "The realistic solution to my mind is the obvious one: A deliberate modification of the income stream so that enough of it will be spent and not too much of it saved; so that the increasing demand for consumers’ goods will be satisfied by a planned and nearly as possible calculated increase in plant year by year, in a dynamic upward spiral.” The Chase formula is: Progressive income taxes on the higher brackets; inheritance taxes on large fortunes; conversion of public and private debts at lower interest rates; composition of principal at lower figures; public control of banking and credit; public control of new investment; establishment of minimum wage levels, as in NRA; financing of public works by non-interest-bearing public credit. MAKING IT TOUGH UP to now suggested specifications for a G. O. P. candidate to beat Roosevelt seem to point to a combination of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Kipling's Tomlinson and Caspar Milquetoast. Ex-Gov. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray of Oklahoma thinks the occasion calls for sterner stuff. He should be a sort of sea-faring Lincoln, “w’ho will boldly meet the opposition, without wigwagging to the right or to the left, but push straight ahead with the spirit of Admiral Dew’ey at Manila Bay.” "He must," says the Sage of Broken Bow, “be an honest, wise and brave man; too honest to be bought, too wise to be deceived, too brave to be intimidated.” This formula is going to be hard for the Republicans to fill, having in mind that "Alfalfa Bill" is a Democrat. CARNEGIE, DISTRIBUTOR ANDREW CARNEGIE, whose birth a century ago is being celebrated this week both in his native Scotland and his adopted America, was not a mere giver, but a profoundly wise distributor of millions. Before he was 75 the old ironmaster had plowed back into America 435 million of the dollars he picked up so easily over here. He kept only 15 millions, which proved ample. His benefactions in libraries and in health, scientific and peace foundations "grubstaked a regiment of prospectors on the frontiers of learning” and understanding. They will bear fruit in a more civilized humanity for generations to come. Had Carnegie's example been followed by other multimillionaires it might not have been necessary for the government now’ to take measures for sowing, the national wealth more widely. In a country where multimillionaires have ceased to be a novelty, the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Harknesses are all too rare. Too many of the very rich took all their savings and reinvested them in their own plants, in an effort to make more money or for want of any idea of what to do with their excess. That is why our most prosperous years found the industrial plant, so overbuilt that one-fifth of it was loafing, and the masses so poor that they couldn't buy what it cjid turn out. As an earner Andrew Carnegie was a rugged individualist, but as a spender he was a social-minded and broad-visioned humanist. FROM THE HIP TY AYMOND MOLEY, ex-brain-truster, criminologist and editor of Vincent Astor’s "Today,” wasted no time in whipping out his blunderbuss to open fire on the new Canadian-American reciprocal trade agreement. He objects to the “furtive character of the negotiations.” Like Mr. Hoover at Chicago, the impetuous Mr. Moley shot from the hip. and like Mr. Hoover, he shot wild. There was nothing furtive about these negotiations. Public notice of the pending treaty w’as posted by the State Department last Januuary. in March open hearings were conducted for four days, to which both proponents or opponents were welcome. Perhaps Mr. Moley might feel embarrassment in seeking information from the State Department, from which he .was ousted right after his own rather furtive performances at the London Economic Conference. But the facts w’ere there for his asking. Does Mr. Moley prefer the political log-rolling, favor-swapping, trade-killing “negotiations” in Congress that gave .birth to such monstrosities as the Hawley-Smoot Act? If he does, it can only be in his capacity as a student of the more morbid manifestations of human nature. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON WHEN lam very old, I know my happiest memories will be of the hours when, with the children pretty much of all sizes from 5 to 17. the family sat around the fire reading aloud from "Huckleberry Finn.” It was always the one sure way of keeping them at home. Mark Twain really lives in our house; his books are frayed from much reading. If I have failed in many ways as a mother, of which there can be no doubt. I console myself with the thought that I did acquaint my children with this man, perhaps the greatest of all Americans, and certainly the first truly American writer. Men and women of the Middle West are especially partial to Twain, because they understand so well what he was saying. The surge of the Mississippi pulses through his books like the beat of a mighty heart—the real heart of the United States, which he freed from European tradition and New England bigotry. For Tom and Huck were strange fiction types when they first appeared, and in many circles their welcome was not a warm one. It seems almost incredible to us that they were barred for years from the library shelves of those who then called themselves cultured. But the prigs are dead now’, and Tom and Huck survive, forever young, forever free, and will survive until books are no more. The masses of America will not tolerate a return . . . they will not indefinitely endure existence upon relief, they will not be silenced indefinitely by slogans and claptrap.—Msgr. J. A. Ryan, in Pittsburgh address.

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Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

According to most of the leading soothsayers this is the best Thanksgiving since the big headache. Those who count them say there were more turkeys on more tables at noon today than at any time since 1929. And they add that most of those who did not have turkey today will have a chance at it before the winter is over. Which reminds me of how much more often people eat turkey than they used to. Not many years ago a family had turkey on Thanksgiving and Christmas and called it a year. For no particular reason the bird was reserved for the two holidays with which it had become identified. But recently, stimulated perhaps by the big turkey interests, many hostesses have made it the customary party dish. It is whacked up in the kitchen and makes its appearance on a silver tray, each guest being invited to spear whichever pieces please him. a a a YOU have seen hardy gourmets kedoing the waitress waiting while they look the platter over, turning this and that morsel over with the fork unrtl they find just the choicest slice in (he assortment. This is not good manners, but it is good eating. Fortunately on Thanksgiving, W’hen the meal is usually family, the turkey is brought in whole and set before the master, who is expected to carve fast enough to supply all the members at once and neatly enough that the carcass will be in good shape for the second day. tt tt tt I have always thought that the best of the turkey came w : hen, late at night, one stole to the pantry and picked the cold remainders. There is one Indiana town where picking the cold trukey has been socially recognized. A party of friends will get together, bringing their turkey carcasses with them to be pooled for a grand session with slivers of white meat and slabs of stuffing. The fact is, the turkey-eating business is still in its infancy. It is indeed a noble bird, lending itself to festivity probably more than any other fowl or beast. tt tt tt OF COURSE, one should not heap Ossa on the top of Pelion by offering other main events when turkey is to be served. .1 went once to a house where the waitress brought around such a tempting assortment of relishes, cheese, cold meat and that sort of thing in the living room that I thought it was a Dutch lunch and proceeded to eat my fill. When I was replete, we were bowed out to the dining room and confronted with a turkey. With no appetite left the dinner was a sad occasion. Another time, when some special guest of honor was being feted we went through a turkey in leisurely fashion, and then, to our amazement and consternation, they carried in a roasted pig. tt tt tt Hoosiers are pretty good trenchermen. One of the sorrows of the depression has been that they had to cut down on their meals as on their clothes and cars. And one of the gladnesses of today lies in the fact that more of them can get down to the serious business of eating again. Like a well-known physician of the state who, when he went to a j public dinner, always got himself a place among vacant places so he could scoop up the extra rolls, ap- 1 petizers and soup of the absentees.; OTHER OPINION SOLDIERS WILL BE BOYS [Gary Post Tribune] Any one who has ever read of military campaigns and ways of soldiers will find something homely and familiar in the news that the Italian soldiers in Ethiopia have christened their most advanced hospital post “Mae West.” The name of the native town that houses this post, it seems, is Mae Uecc, which is also spelled Mai Wesc and is, apparently, pronounced in a way vaguely similar to the way the movie star's name is pronounced. So, to the Italian privates, it is Mae West, and that’s that. And this seems to prove that soldiers are soldiers, wherever you find them. Remember how the Britisn Tommies turned Ypres into Wipers, and Ploegsteert into Plug Street, in the World War? NEW DEAL INJUNCTIONS rSouth Bend Tribune] New’ Deal legislation and executive acts have generated a flood of injunction suits. Enjoinment of AAA processing tax collection has assumed substantial proportions. The utilities holding company act, has promoted one application for an injunction which apparently will cause others to be filed. One of the larger coal companies is resorting to the injunction process to avert application of the Guffey “little NRA” law. a group of Louisiana rice millers. rebuffed in a district court and a Circuit Court of Appeals, carried its injunction petition against the AAA to the United States Supreme Court and has just won a favorable verdict.

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tTimes readers are invited to express their views in these columns, rclinious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short so alt can have a chance. Limit them to SSO ivords or less. Tour letter must he sinned, but names will be withheld on reaucst.) tt tt tt t YOU'RE FIGHT. SIR! TODAY NEEDS NIPPY WEATHER Bv Herman Schilling Well, why not a column about the weather? Especially now that so many are trekking to Miami to get away from the weather and enjoy life? They are entirely unaware that geography hasn’t a thing to do w’ith contentment. It is simply a burst of pleasure for the time being or a chance to brag about it, like belonging to a riding club or being a pitcher on a polo team; or is it a chukker? We chanced in on an old residenter near our weed patch. The wind was howling and the rain stinging cold. Inside was a sea of bright spotless linoleum and a still brighter stove in the middle of the room. Our friend was draped in an old low rocking chair reading. We remarked about the weather and he said. “I never notice no weather. If I can’t go out I just catch up with my reading.” "How about Florida?’ said we. "Shucks,” said he, "I was there once, but you know what I missed the most? Well, you can't enjoy the smell of roasting turkey or the bang of a mince pie unless she’s real nippy outside.” Carrying on with the weather: Geologists tell us that the north pole is shifting south at the/rate of six inches a year and you know at that rate we will slip down to where Miami is now, in about a million years. So you see, everything comes to him that waits. a tt tt WHY. NOT BONUS FOR PRIVATE EMPLOYERS? By S, H. L. If we are to have prosperity under the capitalistic system it will be necessary for private industry to find jobs for all those now on public relief work. Restoration of the construction industry to a normal level would reduce the number of unemployed to about five million. Exorbitant rates of interest for mortgage loans are responsible for the stagnant condition in construction. If private lenders do not meet the situation with loans below 5 per cent interest, the government will be compelled to step in to supply the necessary low cost construction credit. Great Britain’s gigantic rehousing program is primarily responsible for the so-called recovery there. Government there resorted to condemnation of slum areas and provided low cost financing for new

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau. Le;al and medical advice can not he given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mail is addressed to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. Frederick M. Kerby, Director, 101S Thirteenth-st, N. W.. Washington, D. C. Q —Do army regulations forbid a soldier on leave to 'wear civilian clothes? A—No. Q—Where and when did the accident occur in which Mrs. Christy Mathewson Jr. was killed and her j husband, Lieut. Mathewson, was in- ; jured? A—Jan. 8. 1933. The airplane piloted by Mathewson crashed on the banks of the Whangpoo River,' near Lunghua, China. Q—When playing poker with a deck stripped of the deuces and j treys, can a hand containing an ace. four, five, six and seven be called a straight? A—Yes. Q—How many canaries are imported into the United States annually? A—ln 1934 imports amounted to slightly more than 200.000. Q—What is the standard weight

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If private industry intends to survive it must display intelligent selfinterest to meet public need. Failure to meet public need is more dangerous to the continuance of private industry than all the propaganda of international communism. The New Deal has bonused the American farmers with processing tax. If the New Dealers want private industry to take over the load of re-employing those on relief work, it would be a simple matter to get private employers to add additional employees to existing pay rolls, if the government offered to “bonus” private employers to the extent of paying 20 per cent of the wage for every employee taken off relief work for a period of six months, average pay rolls to be the base for starting bonus payments. None could afford not to hire more men if competitors took advantage of the bonus. It is better and cheapI er than relief also. a tt tt i COUGHLIN PRAISED FOR FIRM ATTITUDE j By Hiram Lackey Until the Scripps-Howard press is willing to rise to the level of clear, unselfish thinking, it scarcely becomes it to speak to Father Coughlin about fairness. The spirit of Father Coughlin is the logical result of the black injustice of other leaders who favor the forces of greed. For example, consider the attitude of many other ministers: “We want listeners who are thoughtful (but not too thoughtful), learned (but not too learned), serious (but not too serious). who are not ashamed of their feeling, that, the situation being as it is, it would be nice if something were done about it.” Jesus had a name for that attitude. ' I do not declare that Father Coughlin is sponsoring anything strong enough to break the stranglehold of the legalized thieves of industry and finance. The trouble seems to be that the majority of our leaders are afraid to advocate anything sufficiently drastic to ruin the other man’s racket. There is a reason for their fear. * I hope that American democracy and religion will not be so completely identified with the sins of capitalism, but that justice and wisdom can spare the best in Calvanistic idealism from selfishness anc avarice. Now is the time to tdk of mercy, not then. tt a a “CONSERVATIVES” FLAYED FOR SMUG FEELING By June Davis It is amusing to observe the socalled conservatives smugly con--1 gratulating themselves that they are

for bronze turkeys, and where are they chiefly raised? A—The standard weight for cocks is 36 pounds and for hens 20 pounds. They are raised chiefly in the Dakotas, Minnesota and California. Q —Has an airplane carrying a man ever attained an altitude of 84.480 feet? A—No. The greatest altitude rearhed by airplane was 47,352 feet. Balloons have reached 72.395 feet, but no man-carrying aircraft has ever attained 84,480 feet. Q —What does perfidious mean? A—False-hearted; violating good faith. Q —How many legal executions occurred in 1934 in the United States and in New York State? A—ln the United States 162, and in New York, 14. Q —Can women vote in the United States at the age of 18? A—The voting age for both males and females is 21 years. Q —What is the nroper way to address tile President of the United States orally? A—Mr. President. Q— Did the horse "Silent Shot" ever run in the Kentucky Derby? A—No. He was entered in the Derby in 1933 but was scratched*

not radicals, reformers, pacifists or, worst of all, those who would reinstate the God-given laws for redistribution of wealth. Actually, by supporting the bloated system of plutocracy which promotes political graft, moral degeneracy, and munition-makers’ wars, they have forfeited the right to be called “conservatives.” The true conservative is the one who adheres staunchly to the laws of God and the highest truths discovered by men of all eras. These Pharisees have put themselves beyond the pale of all ethical teachings on the subject of wealth distribution. The scriptural laws for redistribution of wealth, the great scholars of Greece, Rome and modern times all rebuke the folly of their greedy system. Every precedent of history and precept of scholar proves that intense concentration of wealth leads to depression, economic thralldom and, finally, to bloody revolution. These miscalled conservatives know all that. Yet, when cornered, they prate about the sanctity of property rights, and that in the very faces of those whose property has been filched by the ultra-rich. Let those who are void of understanding be deceived by their cheap crys of “Communist” with which they drown the wholesome words of reformers. We want no Communism! We would but profit from the example of the Russian revolution and halt this evil by peaceful means before the real Communists unload their wildcat stock upon the intellectually bankrupt and gain enough power to halt it by other means. ELEGY BY ETHEL H. ALLEN What care I for belated fame Or place in the mighty's hall; The drooling praise of fawning men— I would that I might have instead Today’s fair meed of bread; A warming sip from Love’s sweet cup— Let that suffice—when I am dead! DAILY THOUGHTS That the triumphing of the! wicked is short, and the joy of the \ hypocrite but for a moment.—Job 20:5. HE who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.—Hare.

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.NOV. 28, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. TVWASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—' VV who have been sitting in on some of the conferences between British t and American diplomats during the Mediterranean and Far Eastern crises, say that probably never before—not even during the World War—was there such complete understanding and sympathy between the heads of the two Eng-lish-speaking countries. Here is one significant illustration of this which has escaped general attention. When the Canadian Treaty was signed it was only natural to expect an outbreak of indignation from the British press. The effect of the treaty virtually was to nullify British Empire trade preference m Canada. The lowering of tariff* against United States goods a definite blow’ to British sales to the Dominion. Yet there was not a single peep from the British press. Reason was that the British Foreign Office, which usually can guide the press in its attitude toward foreign relations, had given it a quiet hint to lay off. The Foreign Office did not want anything to disturb the new Anglo-American entente. Reason for this entente is no secret. It accrues from RooseveltBritish fears that Japan will engulf all Eastern Asia, coupled with the knowledge that the British and American navies each is powerless in the Far East without the supports of the other. This is behind the appointment of Under Secretary of State Phillips as a delegate to the London Naval conference. Actually, this conference will move more to solidify AngloAmerican policy in the Far East than it will to reduce navies. Note—Senator Hiram Johnson has written friends that he will stage onp of his - old-fashioned League of Nations forensic battles against the Roosevelt neutrality policy or—as he says—lack of it. He claims Roosevelt is taking the United States into the back door of the League of Nations. it tt tt YOU'D be surprised at Rejc. He knows a lot about, bugs!"says Lee A. Strong, chief bug expert in the Department of Agriculture. “A lot, of people don’t know the difference betwen the cotton boll w’eevil and the pink boil worm, but Rex Tugwell does.” says Strong. “He know’s all kinds of bugs—fruit chinch bugs, grasshoppers, or t!t€ wire worms in Walla Walla.” Strong's enthusiasm for Rex Tugw’ell as an entomologist grow’s out of a recent trip to Mexico with the Undersecretary of Agriculture. They drove a thousand miles together from San Antonio, over the new highway to Mexico City. “We took it easy so we could see the countryside. Every once in a while Rex would get out and pick an orange from the orange trees that grow wild in the hills. “And if he got ahold of an insect, he knew’ it every time. I tell you, there's nothing amateurish about Tugwell's knowledge of bugs." Note—Though TugW'ell’s main j'ob is administrator of resettlement, he remains Undersecretary of Agriculture. tt tt a IT is Harry Hopkins’ boast that he has brought new hope to New York’s Greenwich Village. Authors and artists of the “Village” have discovered that not all WPA projects w'ere designed for wielders of picks and shovels, and as a result, many a well-known w'riter has been taken from relief rolls. - Maxwell Bodcnheim is one. HarrV. Kemp is another. Bodenheim was famous in 1925 as the author of the novel, “Replenishing Jessica,” and he has published a lot of verse. Kemp is the man w’ho made a trip around the world, starting with 25 cents, and wrote about it in the book, “Tramping on Life.” He also founded the Poet's Theater. Both men w’ere destitute and on relief when their old friend Henry Alsberg came along. Aslberg is the man Hopkins picked to manage writers’ projects. He is editor-in-chief of The American Guide, a WPA project on which unemployed authors in every state are collaborating. Alsberg is excited about the zest he finds among writers who. once famous, are glad to get $93 a month from the government, and work for it. fCopvrieht. 1935, bv United ' Feature Syndicate. Inc.t

By George Clark