Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1936 — Page 10

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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1930. WHY HE WAS GREAT ‘ Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the Great, Where neither guilty glory r^ws. Nor despicable state? Yes—one—the first—the last-* b best— Tne Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate. Bequeathed the name of Washington. To make men blush there was but one!” —Lord Byron. non A MONG the most abused words in the King's English Is the word “great,” yet no American will dispute this English poet's appraisal of our first President. There have been greater generals, greater statesmen, greater thinkers, yes, greater American Presidents than he. But he had two ingredients of greatness to a superlative degree—integrity and courage. What a contrast was this simple, honest Virginian to those tin-horn and tinseled dictators who now tt,rut across Europe’s scene! When he accepted command of the tiny army of Freedom's soldiers he refused all pay as commander. He declined a salary as President. He refused a third term. He warned against “overgrown military establishments” as “hostile to republican liberty.” Although trained as a* soldier he said: “My first wish is to see war banished from the earth.” And when he surrendered his commission at the Maryland State House, Annapolis, he rebuked as traitorous the urgings of some of his generals that he make himself a dictator. Instead he mounted his horse, and set out for his farm on the Potomac as plain Mr. Washington. In courage he was a rock. Not even through the tragic winter of Valley Forge, himself surrounded by intriguing officers and his dwindling army starved by a hostile Congress, did he waver. On his deathbed he said: “I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.” W. E. Woodward, writing of Washington, said: “The keynote of his personality was character, not intellect, nor imagination, nor feeling. He was the perfect pattern of will and self-discipline. He possessed iortitude. steadfastness, dignity, courage, honesty and serT-respect.” The oppressed peoples of the earth always have needed liberators like the patriot Washington. Never have they needed them more than they do today. SPAIN; DEMOCRACY AT BAY T IKE the strong wines for which Spain is famous, the victory of the left front in the parliamentary elections seem to have gone to the republic's head. Once more mobs are burning and pillaging churches and destroying religious images. Conservatives and members of the old aristocracy are fleeing the country, as they did in 1931 when the monarchy fell. Jails are being stormed and the release of some 30,000 political prisoners has not appeased the mobs’ appetite. In one province, they even are insisting that, inmates of a leper colony be given their freedom. To add to the seriousness of the situation, the new government, headed by that astute politician Premier Manuel Azana. already is in hot water with its followers. The leftist' front—consisting of the Socialist. Communist and Syndicalist parties—is split badly. Some of the Socialists want to establish a “Union of Iberian Soviet Republics,” which would embrace all Spain and possibly Portugal. The Communists, naturally, are heartily in accord with this idea and are doing their best to promote it. And the Syndicalists are adding fuel to the fire by clamoring for greater power for their labor union followers, at the expense of the wealthy industrialists. tt tt tt WHETHER Spain is headed for civil war, no one, probably not even Premier Azana himself, can say. The new regime undoubtedly will have to apply the brakes and quiet down both its unruly supporters and opponents. And yet. unless it moves cautiously it may tear down the very democratic structure upon which the republic was founded. Various left-wing factions are urging Azana to apply “strong-arm methods” and are talking about scrapping the present constitution in favor of a radical dictatorship. They also want the defeated conservative coalitiop ruthlessly suppressed. Either of these steps would be disastrous and would lead to immediate and bloody strife. The conservative coalition, representing a half-dozen political parties, polled 4.800.000 votes in the 1933 general elections and is still powerful, despite its recent defeat. If pushed to the wall, it undoubtedly will fight back with bullets instead of ballots, rather than submit to arbitrary dissolution. AND so, whatever course the new government decides to pursue, we hope it will not be foolish enoagh to establish a radical form of Fascism in Spain. The path of true democracy is not always a smooth one. especially in Latin countries where political passions run hot. But even at that the road is easier to travel than the route the people of Germany and Italy and other dictator-ruled countries must follow. Having the trains run on.time does not make up for the loss of free speech, free assembly and a free press, the very guarantees of which enabled Spain’s radicals to come into power. The Spanish people will find that out speedily if they are forced to surrender their recently acquired democratic birthright for a mess of dictatorial pottage. THE BEST LIBRARY THERE are 127.600 borrowers' cards to the Indianapolis Public Library and, like Capt. Applejack's, they are all aces. Aces, at least, to those who use them intelligently. Books, like real art treasures, belong, in the final analysis, to the people and the public collections of each are greater, more valuable and more complete than any private collections. To you. at no cost and at practically no inconvenience, is available the best library in Indianapolis. And ready to assist you in every way are scores of trained librarians. There are text books—late and authoritive ones—on practically all fields of human endeavor. There are the classics of literature and the latest bestseller. „ 1 The library is up to date, in books and periodicals.

Some libraries in the country haven’t a periodical or book that dates later than the beginning of the depression. Indianapolis is more fortunate. All of us should spend more time at the library. POSTOFFICE PORK PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S outspoken sponsorship of the move to put first, second and third class postmasters under civil service should assure passage this session of one of the pending measures now agitating Capitol Hill. Enactment of such a law now would go far toward adding the ring of sincerity to what heretofore has been largely platform cant. The Democrats have always urged this belated reform while the Republicans were in power, gnd the Republicans have shouted it while the Democrats were in. If the -latter. now in power, make it part of their New Deal they will, indeed, write history. For years the postoffice has resisted the march of the merit system. The 33,000 fourth-class* postmasterships have achieved a more or less permanent status by being required to pass competitive classified civil service examinations, although even among them partisanship counts. The 14,000 postmasterships of large towns and cities have been candid pawns in the game of party spoilsmen. President Roosevelt says he has been fighting for this change since 1913. He can prove himself a real friend of expert government now by helping to turn the Posioffice Department into a career service, manned by capable men and women regardless of party. Postmaster General Farley is represented as favoring this legislation. He can prove his sincerity by divorcing his own role as Democratic National Chairman from that of head of the great governmental postal service. But he probably won’t. His many promises to resign the Cabinet post and devote himself to the party’s organization have come to mean as little as the late Sarah Bernhardt’s threats to retire from the stage. THE ILLIBERAL MR. MILLS "I Y 7"E have too many prohibitory statutes now, but ’ ’ if any more are enacted, one of them might cover such mislabeling as that, of Ogden Livingston Mills, Mellon-Hoover Undersecretary of Treasury, who has just published “Liberalism Fights On.” Os course the electorate may he accustomed by now to misused words which conceal rather than disclose ideas. Mills’ volume is a collection of statements setting forth the well-known Hoover-Mills theory that the war, and not the ducks-and-drakes credit inflation by statements to the press that everything was all right, t;cs the chief cause of the Hoover depression. Illustrative is his charge that the Recovery Act “undertook to give the Federal government cohtrol of all industries, including the regulation of prices, of hours of labor, of wages, of the flow of capital, and of the expansion of plant and production.” NRA merely tried to set up industrial self-government with a minimum of Federal supervision. What happened? Business management ran away with a lot of arbitrary and uneconomic industry controls, and many succeeded in evading the law which said that in payment for these anti-trust law exemptions they should maintain labor standards. NRA didn’t originate in the New Deal. It originated in the Chamber of Commerce. Mills is against crime, speculation, etc., and for budget-balancing, sound banking, accumulation of capital for sound investment, and individual initiative., He fails to mention such special privileges as the tariff and patent monopolies. The truth is that Mills is a Tory, a vestigial remnant of the Mellon philosophy of political irresponsibility and benevolent distribution of governmental favors among the very rich.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Ahoy! Where are we going? What are we working for? You wonder about that, when you observe the groups that congregate annually at Washington for their conferences. Thousands of their members actually support both sides of vital national issues. It happens this way. A woman who belongs to the local D. A. R. chapter is often affiliated, too, with the local Y. W. C. A.; or a member of the League of Women Voters may also be a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. A Gold Star Mother can be enrolled at the same time on the roster of the American Association of University Women. And, although "he individual may not always realize it, these organizations have definite national policies. Each is lined up on one side or the other of grave issues which are important to the welfare of the country. Such being the case, the member is in something of a dilemma, once she begins to think seriously about the business. The situation certainly casts some reflection on our common sense. It is much easier for a man to be a good Democrat and a good Republican at the same time than it is for a sincere member of the Y. W. C. A. to subscribe to the policies of the D. A. R. These two groups are violently opposed to each other in all their major projects, no matter how friendly their community relationship may be. The first favors a reduction of armaments; the second wants a bigger Navy and Army. The former believes in collective efforts toward international peace, and more neighborliness between ourselves and Europe. The latter favors isolation and will have no dealings with international leagues. Is it really possible for a woman to work sincerely in both organizations? The line between the objectives of women's organizations is sharply drawn. When we straddle it, we stultify our own efforts. FROM THE RECORD TANARUS) EP. KNUTSON (R.. Minn.),: Avery remarkable address was delivered in another body a week ago today that I feel should not go unanswered. In that address the speaker virtually served notice on Japan that if the Japanese do not live up to the obligations which she has assumed in certain treaties this country would go to considerable lengths to compel her to do so. In view of the fact that the speaker to whom I have reference occupies a position unusually close to the Administration, I am wondering whether he spoke by the card . . . lam wondering. Mr. Speaker, if . . . we are going to be plunged into war with Japan before election sc that an appeal may be made to the American people to not change horses while we are in midst of an emergency. tt tt m Rpp. Maverick <D.. Texas): The attitude in Washington now seems to be "noi now—maybe later." No; do not let us pass legislation of an effective nature now, but wait until later. Pass up old-age pensions, social security, unemployment, all real questions involving fundamental economic problems, until after the election! And pass up neutrality until after war! -#r - ■

THE INDIAXAP.OLIS TIMES

Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

COLD weather trivia: Frank Wallace, state entomologist, who is more or less of a demon driver, wants more than anything else to get his car to a good-sized frozen lake and practice skidding . . . he says the mosquitoes and houseflies will not be bothered by the extreme cold, and that no other insect is likely to be . . . but the nematodes, or eel worms, which attack flowers and vegetables at their roots, probably are suffeing heavy losses. Moreover, he says there is a report of experts that the chinch bug is.suffering a mortality of about 50 per cent because it can’t breathe under the ice, but he doubts it . . . he thinks most of them will come back to life, worse luck . . . fish and game men of the state department say there is little ice fishing because the ice is so thick the fishermen can’t chop through it . . . they have reports that ice 26 inches thick is being cut from the Maumee River at Defiance, 0.. about Fort Wayne’s latitude, and that they are preraring to blast ice jams at Toledo, 0., in the Maumee. tt tt 8 IF Lake Michigan freezes over, as sometimes happens, and a cold wave comes immediately, the fruit belt in Michigan will suffer ruinous reverses . . . the state highway department is supposed to figure that motor traffic using the highways as soon as they are celaned pays for the cleaning with taxes by burning enough gas it otherwise couldn’£ . . . the state law says ice fishermen can’t put up shacks at their ice holes but there’s no attorney generals’ ruling on driving a closed car over the hole, taking up the floor boards and fishing from the rear seat . . . the conservation department is figuring on slim spring business because so much ice in the lake will keep it cold longer. tt a a TWO working-men strap hangers were talking about a brighteyed friend on the way home the other night. One said: "His system is this. He bets, say $7 on a dog. If he loses, he bets sl4. If he loses he bets S2B. If that loses he bets $56, and so forth, until one wins. Then he’s even.” The other seemed interested. “That’s easy enough. Where is he now r ?” “Down south.” The side door opened to deposit a passenger and an icicle blew in. One shifted his dinner pail. “Pretty sensible,” he said. 8 a tt CONTRIBUTION from J. A. Murphy, recruiter, United States Navy: When the U. S. Navy kept a station ship at Constantinople, our sailors taught the Turks to play baseball. In a championship match between the Turks and the sailors, the first Turk came to bat said: “O Allah, give me an eye to see the ball.” He struck out. The second Turk said: “O Allah, grant that I may make a two-base hit.” He likewise struck out. The third Turk stepped up and said: “O Allah, vouch-safe me the skill to succeed.” He also struck out. The Navy came to bat and a bluejacket stepped up swinging three bats. He threw two of them down and faced the pitcher, exclaiming: “You know me. Al,” and with the first pitched ball knocked a. home run. >t tt CONTRIBUTION from Roy E. Smith, editor of the Hoosier Sentinel: The other Sunday I hailed a taxicab. When I was inside, the driver asked: “Did you notice that I haven't any tire cover?” I replied in the negative, and then he explained. “We got a call from a woman who wanted to taxi to church, but didn’t want a cab with a beer sign. We all have beer signs on the tire covers, so I took mine off and made the call. The woman told me that it was embarrassing to get out of a cab in front of church with a beer sign on the tire cover. Well, I've got to put the cover 'on again, but at least she was a satisfied 1 patron.” a u tt EVERY day, about 11:30, an oldish man. nicely dressed, walks into the archives of the State Library, the newspaper division, and asks politely for a Boston Transcript. He takes it and settles himself at a table. He reads it thoroughly for a fialf to three-quarters of an hour, sometimes longer. Then he returns it, murmurs thanks, and leaves. He always looks a little more rested when he leaves. TODAY’S SCIENCE BY SCIENCE SERVICE HAWKS are still lumped in the single damnatory classification. “chicken hawks,” by an astonishingly large proportion of the population. Even to farmers, who might be expected to know the difference between good and evil on the wing, a hawk is merely something to be shotgunned if it comes within range. The lack of intelligence in this undiscriminating hostility is sharply brought out in anew bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, written by W. L. McAtee of the United States Biological Survey. It is called “Food Habits of Common Hawks.” The Govern-' ment Printing Office sells it for a cents. Many of the hawks are candidly admitted to merit the ill opinion and the hostility of man. But there is a good-sized list of | other hawk species that range in human significance from “ordinarily neutral, sometimes injurious” up to "almost entirely beneficial.” These are the hawks which the farmer, the sportsman, the outdoorman generally should learn to recognize and to salute w’ith "Pass, friend,” when ' he sees them. A whole group, known to hawkmen as the Buteos, Mr. Me Ate lists as “mouse hawks”—an apt characterization, when he explains that thqy prey, predominantly on fieldmice and other small rodents.

GOING TO GET AT THE BOTTOM OF IT!

The Hoosier Forum I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Timet readier3 are invited to express their views in these columns. reliaious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all con have a chance. Limit them to !o0 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will *be withheld on reauest.) tt tt tt COUGHLIN IS FLAYED AS WOULD BE DICTATOR By E. F. Maddox The attack of Charles E. Coughlin upon the President of the United States, and his attempt to intimidate and dictate to members of Congress in the performance of their duty as legislators, is the climax of arrogant egoism by this would-be dictator. Charles E. Coughlin has overstepped the bounds of common decency and has perverted his right to free speech by presuming to publicly threaten the members of Congress and by inviting and inciting the farmers of this nation to arise in armed rebellion unless the President and Congress accept and submit to his dictatorship. This must be stopped. Father Coughlin may be a Fascist. If so he has no right to dictate to either the Democrat or Republican parties. We do not approve of New Deal Socialism. We highly disapprove of this arrogant attempt to establish a radio dictatorship. We wish to inform the National Broadcasting Cos. publicly that we consider such tirades as we hear each Sunday from Royal Oak, Mich., a menace to domestic tranquillity and a violation of American liberty. U tt tt NATIONAL GUARD DEFENSE BRINGS RETORT By Hash B. Howe I have all the respect in the world for Lieut. Roesinger’s title, but I am surprised that a man of

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN STARVATION is a serious business. When you fast, your body goes right on using energy, and you fail to supply the materials necessary to make up for the loss of tissue. Under such circumstances, your body actually is consuming itself. If this goes on long enough, death will occur. Our tissues, however, are so constructed that, as I have frequently said, they provide factors of safety, and the human body offers considerable resistance to destruction by starvation. Actually, a human being can live about 40 days without food, but there are many people who have lived much longer. Once, alaw r yer named Viterbi, who was condemned to death, starved himself to avoid execution and kept a daily record of his sufferings. He lived 17 days, but he abstained almost wholly from water. McSweeney, mayor of Cork, Ireland, in 1920, went on a 74-day hunger strike. From time to time, professional fasters including a man. named Sicci, who fasted from 20 to 30 days at a time—have appeared on the scene. Succi used to take laudanum to numb the pains in his stomach. He submitted himself to many studies by scientists, and some of the most important facts now available relaIF YOU CAN’T ANSW Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13th*t. N. W.. Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be riven, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q —How many births and deaths occurred ih the United States in 1934? A—Births, 2,158.919; and deaths. 1,396.903. Q —Of what race are the Finns? A—They belong to the great Turanian or Ural-Altaic family, which still predominates in North and Central Asia. About the end of the seventh century’ the Finns, driven, it is supposed, by the Bulgarians from their settlements on the Volga, took possession of the country they now occupy. They belong to the white race. Q —What isathe Mexican quota of immigration t ithe united States?

the caliber he should be would make the remarks he made in a letter to the Hoosier Forum on Feb. 12. His article was titled “Comes to Defense of National Guard.” It seems that Lieut. Roesinger has a single track mind with a rich mar's conditions. He doesn’t seem broad-minded enough to see two sides of a question at the same time. Lieut. Roesinger, if he is interested in the true condition of affairs. should make a tour of Indianapolis. especially between Washing-ton-st and Troy-av along White River. There he could see how human being are forced to live. Conditions found there are the same as in every part of the United States. He might ask himself if he would like to live under such conditions, and who is responsible for them. Any person of ordinary intelligence can enlighten him. It is the element his National Guard is. protecting that is responsible. The last paragraph of the article is surprising and amusing. Can it be possible that a man with the intelligence that Lieut. Roesinger is supposed to have would suggest boycott as a weapon for organized labor against capital? Any fourth grade student knows boycott is unlawful. If this came to the attention of Lieut. Roesinger's superior, he would very likely be severely reprimanded. u 8 tt SUBSIDIZED INDUSTRY IS ADVOCATED By H. L. S. There can be no real prosperity in this country as long as we attempt to maintain an economy of scarcity. Prices mean nothing if w*e fail to produce and distribute the products of industry and agriculture on a continuing larger scale. The breakdown of production and

tive to starvation were determined by experiments on his body. 8 8 a RESULTS- of all studies that have been made indicate that, during starvation, the glycogen stored in the body is immediately exhausted. The fat then is consumed to provide energy. Eventually, proteins begin to disappear, which is exceedingly detrimental to health. Moreover, the lack of sugar produces a disease state known as ketosis, which also is unfavorable to health. When a person has been starving, his body Is in a disturbed state, so that, after he starts eating, he continues for some time to lose weight, until equilibrium is attained. To reach equilibrium, it is necessary for him to take about three times as much nitrogen and twice as much carbon as he lost every day during the period of starvation. Moreover, the body temporarily is unable to take care of the sugar that is taken in, so that altogether starvation is a dangerous process, and those who wish to reduce weight rapidly do so at a considerable risk, which may be lessened by having competent advice. Even under the best of circumstances, however, physicians recommend that reductions seldom exceed more than 2 to 2’i pounds a week. 2R, ASK THE TIMES! A—lmmigration from Mexico is not restricted by quota. Q--What is the relationship of my uncle to my son? A—Great or grand-uncle. Q —What was the total revenue of the United States Postoffice for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935? A—5630,795,301.97. q —what is the state flower of Pennsylvania, and by whom was it chosen? A—The Legislature chose the mountain laurel Q —When was the song. “In a Little Gypsy Tearoom.” published? A—lt was copyrighted in 1935. Q —When did Irene Dunne make her screen debut? A—ln 1930 in “Leathernecking.” Q —ls Walter Damrosch, the musical director, an American. A—He is a naturalized American.

consumption is due to efforts to raise the price of goods beyond the purchasing power of the consumer. Every relief policy is based on the fallacy that a reduction of production will raise the price of the goods and thereby create prosperity. Neither of the two major political parties have any sound plan for the abolition of unemployment and poverty. Government is now the ally of the producers: the consumers are totally ignored. Nothing but a high consumption of goods can bring leal prosperity. High consumption brings down the cost of production and overhead, so that the savings may be passed on to the consumer in lower prices. For six years we have been barking up the wrong tree. The 12,000,000 unemployed put to work in industry, where they wfere formerly employed, would produce goods and services in huge quantities, which in turn would lower the cost of production, permit a small profit on each article, and produce taxable revenue for balancing the budget. An assignment of each unemployed person by the Federal government to the industry in which that person has had previous employment, with a commitment to pay the prevailing wage for the labor of this person out of the Federal Treasury, thus removing this person from non-productive labor to the real production of goods, would start us on the road to real prosperity. Prices of goods would fall to the consumer’s level, which is the first prerequisite for a balanced economy. Taxation by the government of the industry so subsidized for the cost of this labor would produce a balanced budget. Why not try working as a wav out? SUICIDE BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK Last night I saw a desperate star Dive into a darkened lake. All was blackness but a bar Os light the moon cast in her wake. Hungry water gulped with silken mirth. The glittering body sank into the lake. D ALLY THOUGHT The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.—Proverbs x, 7. THE evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.—Shakespeare.

SIDE GLANCES

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Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

Newport news, va . Feb. 22. During the World War. a German submarine torpedoed and sank the Diamond Shoals lightship, off the coast from Norfolk. Va. The submarine skipper put the distressed American sailors into a boat, handed them a Norfolk newspaper of the day before and sent them safely ashore. How the submarine captain got that newspaper was one of the mysteries of the war. A couple of years later one of the regular harbor pilots here was easing a German freighter across Hampton Roads into her berth. Suddenly the German skipper, standing on the bridge beside him. said: “I was in Norfolk during the war.” The pilot, amazed, said: “How did you get to Norfolk during the war?” “Why, I sank the Diamond Shoals lightship,” the skipper replied. "We pulled in close to Virginia Beach the night before and I came ashore in a small boat, and went to a movie in Norfolk. After the movie I rowed back out to the sub and next morning we torpedoed the lightship. Sure, I remember giving them the Norfolk newspaper.”’ a a OF course, a harbor pilot doesn’t bump into a yarn like that every day, but the pilots do meet a lot of interesting people. Take Capt. Fred Cock, for instance. He's been meeting ships from across the oceans out at. Cape Henry, and guiding them through ; the Hampton Roads channels into j their berths at Norfolk and New--1 port News, for 46 years. Yes, sir, 46 years. He's been on ' so many ships and knows so many captains he couldn’t begin to count them. And yet he's been across the ocean only once. That was in 1900, when he went to Europe on a va- | cation. He never has been to sea as a sailor. He still lives in the ! house where he was born at Hamp- | ton. It takes a staff of 42 pilots to move the 1500 ships in and out of Hampton Roads each year. Few of the pilots ever have been to sea. Most of them, like Capt. Cock, started right here as apprentice pilots. They are turned out at any hour of the night, and in all kinds of j weather, to bring ships in. But they | have pretty nice jobs at that. [They’re off three or four days bei tween each trip, and if they behave ! they have lifetime jobs! a it CAPT. COCK is 62 and has snowy hair. But he's still bringing them in on his turn. Right now he's silting at a. desk in the pilot'soffice, directing the others. But it's just while somebody else is sick. He doesn’t like desk jobs. He's a huge, jolly man. and when he speaks he yells. He kids everybody, and when pilots’ wives call up to ask when their husbands will be home, he tells them they’re stuck on a mud bank and won't get off for a week. During the war, but before we were in it, Capt. Cock was taking | his turn out at Cape Henry orte morning, when lo and behold a Ger-, man submarine showed up to be pilotcd up the bay to Baltimore. It was the Deutschland. Some people might not have known what to do, but Capt. Cock sent her right up to Baltimore, .justas the skipper wanted. He was called on the carpet for it; but he I told them the skipper had papers' ias a commercial vessel, and the papers were mads out correctly, so who was he to be stopping a ship | with proper papers? He was right, i too. The sub fueled at Baltimore, I and was allowed to take to the sea I again. Two British and one French ! cruiser were waiting for her at Cape, Henry, but they never even saw HeY leave. a a it WHEN Capt. Cock started piloting ships into Hampton Roads, most of them were sailing vessels. !He hasn’t seen a sailing ship in three years. But he thinks sailing ships will come back. Nobody else thinks so, but Capt. Cock does. He. says steam vessels are getting too. expensive to operate, and there’s a lot of cargo that isn’t in that big a hurry. The little finger on Capt. Cock's right hand is gone. I had visions of some adventurous struggle with a storm-bogged freighter, or maybe even' a fight with an East Indian ; skipper. | “No,” said Capt. Cock. “Years ago 1 1 was monkeying with my rowboat at home, and stepped on a stick, and | it flew up and mashed my finger against the boat.”

By George Clark