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MONDAY. MARCH 23. IS3B. the sermon and the text J!k V. ISE man “finds tongues In trees, books In running brooks, sermons in stones and good In everything." And a wise nation will find a stirring sermon In the costly floods just now receding all over the East. Nature has been preaching this sermon pretty regularly of late. In Western forest fires, Midwestern dust storms and Eastern floods It has been thundering the warning that America Is following the tragic road that China took and letting its timbermen, stockmen and farmers destroy its basic v/ealth, the soil by which we live. This last sermon Is written in dreadful losses in human life, homes and other property in the valleys of 14 states. Foolishly, the government for years has turned deaf ears and unseeing eyes to the warnings. The Roosevelt Administration has sensed the danger and has done something about it,. Its new AAA, CCC, soil erosion and forest programs look toward the prevention of such calamities. Something of a policy has been evolved in its past spending, a policy based on the scientific fact that wind and water controlled by proper surface growth are benign elements, but uncontrolled are enemies of the soil. Eut probably the most important thing the Roosevelt Administration has done is to write a text for the sermon. This is the able and all-too-little-known report of the National Resources Board. This tells the story of the past, and charts a national conservation policy for the future. This board found that of the total land of the United States, some two billion acres, it could report that on only 800 million acres is “erosion unimportant.’’ Then it pointed out where and how rivers can best be controlled, wind and water erosion halted, land wealth conserved and restored. President Roosevelt has allotted $43,000,000 of WPA funds for emergency repair and renabilitation work in the flooded regions. We believe that Congress also could well earmark considerable of its new work relief appropriation for extending the preventive program. Few projects for work relief offer promise of greater social or material returns.

SHORT SIGHTED A LTHOUGH the forest service paid S4OOO for a •**- handsome prospectus of the $100,000,000 shelterbelt plan, the House haS sustained a committee recommendation and dropped the project without appropriating a cent. Not only that, but the House approved a provision in the agriculture appropriation bill which forbids any funds to be used for this shelter-belt business. The budget had carried a million dollars for the project. After that sum was knocked out in committee, Rep. Ferguson (D., Okla.), who represents the Panhandle dust bowl, where some of the trees were to be planted, sought on the floor to attach an amendment providing SIBO,OOO. But when Rep. Jed Johnson (D., Okla.) spoke against the amendment it was defeated. Mr. Ferguson says he will make one more effort when the bill goes to the Senate, since it means the loss of 60 million nursery trees in 1937 if no funds are made available. Launched by executive order in 1934, the shelterbelt project has been carried on by the Forest Service with work relief funds. The 1936 activities already have been financed by WPA, and the new funds were sought for 1937. According to the Forest Service, the 1936 plans call for tree planting along 1426 miles in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. In addition, 158 acres af nursery stock will be set out in Oklahoma and 304 acres in North Dakota. Added to this will be 6384 acres of farmstead planting of windbreaks with the shelter-belt nursery stock. Last year $1,900,000 was spent on these projects. More should be spent. MORE THAN SNOOPING right of the Senate Public Lands Committee to investigate the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases was questioned in 1924, just as the right Senate Lobby Committee to investigate is being questioned 12 years later. Early in the year, when Albert B. Fall was asked a number of questions by the committee—before it had learned of the “little black bag”—Fall refused to answer. In formal and haughty language he advised the committee that “I do not consider . . . this committee has any authority to conduct the investigation now attemped to be conducted.” About the same time Harry Sinclair—who like Fall was to serve a jail sentence as a result of the inquiry—issued a statement declaring the Walsh Investigation was nothing but politics. Harry L. Daugherty, shortly before he was forced to retire as Attorney General, declared the Senate attacks were “prompted by malice.” The Republican National Committee directed an attack on Senator Walsh (D„ Mont.), and he retorted with a charge that the committee and its news organ were “inveterate liars.” Oddly enough, Silas Strawn, who is challenging the Senate's right to examine his telegrams in connection with the current lobby inquiry, was Calvin Coolidge's first choice to prosecute the naval oil cases for the government. The Senate indicated its disapproval and Coolidge withdrew the name. Senator Spencer <R„ Mo.), a member of the Public Lands Committee, assailed the inquiry as Walsh was conducting it at one point in the investigation, and the Senate discussed removing him from the commrttee. The Public Lands Committee—of which the chairman and a majority of the membership were Republicans, although the Democratic Walsh was its chief inquisitor—subpenaed telegrams in almost exactly the manner used by the Senate Lobby Committee in 1936. It issued subpenas to the local managers of the two telegraph companies asking for all the telegrams sent and received between a number of persons at Washington. Palm Beach and New Orleans. The telegraph officials brought the messages, told the committee they considered them confidential, but surrendered them without question when the committee insisted. The committee then read the telegrams in executive session, determined which were pertinent, and put them into the record. Some of the messages were in code, and the com-

mlttee examined various persons until it learned who was meant in references to “apples,” ' psaches,” and other mysterious code words. It examined telephone officials, and the operator of a private wire installed for Edward B. McLean between Washington and Palm Beach for personal messages and news dispatches. It subpenaed books and records of a large number of brokers and banks. The Federal courts were not asked to enjoin any of these inquiries, but their help was sought by opponents of the investigation in other ways. An indictment was sought and obtained against Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D„ Mont.), who was in charge of the investigation into conduct of the Department of Justice, and a similar attack, unsuccessful, was made upon Walsh. Later evidence indicated a deliberate attempt had been made to “smear” the two Montana Senators. In 1927 the Senate Public Lands Committee again examined bank accounts of citizens in its inquiry into disposal of $8,000,000 profit from the Teapot Dome Lease, through the Continental Trading Cos. Sniping at the Caraway investigation of lobbying in 1929 included a charge that it was violating free speech rights. Also, Senator Bingham, who was investigated because of his employment of a manufacturers’ association man in a position that gave access to executive sessions on the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, had a great deal to say about the “unfairness” of the committee. He was later censured by the Senate, by a vote of 54 to 22. Certainly some Senate investigating committees have made mistakes in the past, but the record is one of large net gain to the public welfare. OUTSMARTING HIMSELF SENATOR JOE ROBINSON, by parliamentary sleight-of-hand, has blocked Republican plans for an investigation of alleged politics in the administration of WPA. The Democratic leader, in doing this, pretty slick, but perhaps not smart—if you get the difference. The cry of “politics,” which he hoped to shush, is certain to rise even more loudly. Doubtless the Administration feels that the Republican move for a congressional probe of Federal relief is insincere, intended only to stir up political slander. Certainly a search-party starting out to find the facts in so vast an operation as WPA with only SSOOO to spend could hardly be taken seriously. But Congress has the right at any time to ask where, how and to what end the billions it has voted are being spent. We believe that, on the whole, relief Administrator Hopkins has conducted his enormous undertaking with a minimum of favoritism, politics and w r aste. It is remarkable that the administering of three billions has not turned up a major graft scandal. However, there have been charges here and there of relief politics. If these are true the people, through their Congress, have the right to know what can be learned of them If they are not true so much the better for the Administration. To block an investigation, whether sincerely inspired or not, isn’t wise. To block it by an obvious trick isn’t clever.

IMPEACHMENT IN all our century and a half of national life Congress has impeached only eight Federal judges, three of whom were acquitted, three convicted, one who resigned under fire and one who did not come to trial. We would like to believe that this remarkable record is due to the unimpeachable character of the Federal judiciary. More likely, however, it is dufe to our clumsy, expensive and antiquated method of trying these judges accused of misconduct on the bench. On April 6 the Senate will begin the trial of Judge Halstead L, Ritter, district judge of Florida, who is under impeachment By the House for alleged irregularities in receivership proceedings. The charges are serious and all too familiar to students of the disgraceful “receivership racket.” They resemble those lodged against Judge Harold Louderback of California, impeached in 1932, except that in addition to alleging exorbitant fees to his friends Judge Ritter himself is accused of accepting fees and other favors from receivers in bankruptcy. As in the Louderback trial this one will take days and possibly weeks of the Senate’s valuable time. And, doubtless, it will prove as farcical an affair, lacking order, dignity and often even a quorum of Senators in the “jury box.” Congress can and should simplify the trial of judges. As Senator McAdoo points out, Federal judges hold their life positions “on good behavior,” and misbehavior is a justiciable matter. Since the Federal judiciary is a,creature of Congress, Congress can arrange any method it chooses for trying Federal judges for misbehavior. It could designate Circuit Court or Supreme Court justices to try impeached judges, and spell out procedure along lines more nearly followed in ordinary trials. The present awkward method is unfair to the accused judges, to Congress and to the taxpayers. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ■JV/TEN'S logic is sometimes odd. In a letter just received we hear from an unmarried lawyer on the subject of women in industry. Yes, it's still a popular subject, and some of the opinions about it are fantastic. This particular fellow, although he claims a legal education, doesn't approve of present trends. Women as well as the economic system would be better off, he thinks, if we could send the females back home. I daresay a good many of them wouldn't mind going back if they had something to do there and a man to support them. That's precisely what our bachelor friend would have to do, if any such industrial upheaval took place. Like his forefathers, he ■would be responsible for the maintenance of a good sized bunch of female dependents. Grandma. Aunt Betty and the parrot, Cousin Sadie and her children would all be moving in on him. I wonder how he'd like that? At the moment he is unemeumbered. He doesn’t pay a dime for the upkeep of any individual except himself, save through taxation. One would suppose this might be accounted real freedom for any man. Yet he's filled with complaints about the injustice of a system which forces him to compete with women in business, and he evidently shares the common delusion that we can exist on air and water and be content to dawdle our lives away. Just imagine the howl that would go up from all these bachelors if they suddenly got what a lot of them profess to want—a world in which no woman was allowed to earn her living. It would put them in a pretty hot spot. They wouldn’t have to compete with women, but they'd certainly have to support a good many. FROM THE RECORD TA EP. BEITER (D„ N. Y.): Let the Liberty Leaguers grow maudlin over America, the golden land of opportunity, with every boy on his way to being a millionaire or President. For those whose days of accomplishment lie in the past, the past will always relieve itself in an aura of perfection. . . . We can not answer starvation with the reminder that an Alfred E. Smith rose from poveny in Oliver Street to richer in the Empire State tower.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

IN one history of early Indianapolis the accounts of the militia come under the head of “amusements.” This is why: When Marion County was organized, the battle of New Orleans was but 7 years old. All the adult male population was organized into a militia (with some exceptions) and divided into regiments by counties and brigades by congressional districts. They had parades every once in a while and every one would turn out. The officers promoted these things, because they were the only ones who had uniforms. Every one would gather at the Courthouse. “There were no guns,” the historian says, “but squirrel rifles, many without them taking canes, pawpaw sticks, broken hoe handles, or pieces of split plank.” They generally marched west down Washington-st, to the open land between Georgia and Louisi-ana-sts west of Tennessee. There, for an hour, they would go through a drilling and marching, interrupted by apple eating. All hands could have stayed at home, for all the military knowledge they acquired. n tt WHEN there was a bona fide parade, the officers wore red and white plumes in their hats and were something grand to look at. Mothers held their children up at front doors, children followed along and cheered, and the even-tem-pered hogs would add a grunt or two to the general bedlam. Peter Winchell and Nat Cox were drummers for the event and they drummed so faithfully that the squeaky fife of Glidden True could scarcely be heard. Mr. True is said to have complained about the matter, but nothing ever was done about it. A Mr. Lewis was elected major of the Marion County regiment, finally, and he was noticeably conscious of the gr£at honor that had been given him. It was a memorable day (for him) when he was to review the troops. The aid-de-camp galloped on to the field in full uniform directly from headquarters, mounted on a splendid gray charger, and commanded: tt St tt "/'"VFFICERS to your places. Marshal your men in companies, separating the barefooted from those who have shoes or moccasins; placing the guns, sticks and cornstalks in separate platoons, and then form a line ready to meet the major.” This was done with a willing, if unmilitary, alacrity. Maj. Lewis was seen at a distance coming on to the field with his aids. The line was formed, the major took position about 100 yards in front of the battalion. Rising in his stirrups, and turning his full lace upon the battalion, he shouted: “Atten ” And then his voice broke and ascended into the upper scales and sounded like a fife. But from the other end of the parade field came a shrill and understandable voice screaming: “Children, come out of that swamp. You'll get snake bite.” tt tt tt THE major was furious. He galloped up and down the line raging as much to himself as to any one, “Who dares insult me?” Nobody answered. But all up and down the line went the cry, “You’ll get a snake bite.” He began to understand eventually that it was the militia at the brunt of the joke, not him. Poor, game, barefooted militia. But he was not appeased. .He dashed his hat to the ground, threw his sword into the earth, tore up his commission and resigned on the spot. The battalion dispersed.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE discovery of three new ringtype or plantary nebulae is announced by Harvard College Observatory. They are in the southern skies and were found by Mrs. Muriel M. Seyfert, research assistant of the observatory while examining photographic plates made at the Harvard Astronomical Station at Bolemfontein, South Africa. Nebulae of this type are exceedingly rare. Only 130 of them are known in the galaxy of Milky Way. (The number of stars in the Milky Way is estimated at 100,000,000,000.) In the telescope, the ring type nebula appears to be a luminous ring surrounding a rather hazy star. “Star-dust wedding rings,” is a description which has been applied to them. Actually, however, the nebula can not be a ring, but must be a great shell of gaseous matter surrounding the central star. All of the nebulae of this class are so distant from the earth that fairly powerful telescopes are needed to see them. The Harvard astronomers calculate that the three new ones must be several hundred light-years distant from the earth. A light-year is 6,000.000,000.000 miles. The diameter of the new nebulae is believed to be several thousands of times the distance from the earth to the sun, a distance of 93,000.000 miles. OTHER OPINION On the Tax Program Robert H. Jackson. Assistant Attorney General No country has permitted so extensive a concentration of cor-porate-owmed wealth as we have, and none has had such a large part of its total wealth locked up in corporate controlled surpluses. Neither has any other country had so intense a depression. This is not enough to prove the point, but it does justify the suspicion that, if this wealth and purchasing power were better distributed, we might not have so many rainy days. It is for these reasons that many business men. who are engaged in industry and not in tax avoiding, are favoring the President's proposal. It erases old inequalities, encourages sound financing, prevents tax evasion, permits reasonable surpluses, and remove;? the obstacle that now stops the distribution of purchasing power.

A TOUGH GUY DIES WITH HIS BOOTS ON

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The Hoosier Forum 1 disapprove of ivhat you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — ‘Voltaire.

(Time* readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relitjious controversies excluded. Make nour letters short, so all can have chance. Limit them to 25 0 words or less. Your letter must be sianed. but names will be withheld on rcauest.t nun REP. FISH REPLIES TO BROUN By Hamilton Fish Jr., Member ot Congress from New York I had occasion recently to read an article by Heywood Broun, your Socialist columnist, who apparently seems much disturbed by my radio answer to Earl Browder, the general secretary of the Communist Party. My reply to Mr. Browder gave quite as much time to the Communist leader as he deserved or as he gave in his speech to communism, which was his announced subject. I believe in freedom of speech and enjoy reading different schools of opinion, but at the same time I have at least an equal regard for accuracy and truthfulness in writings of well-paid newspaper columists. “Peace on Earth,” the Socialists arid Communists pretend to sing, but actually they get no further than spouting poison gas. Facts mean nothing to Heywood Broun, or if they do he has suffered a lapse of memory or fatty deterioration of the cerebellum. Let him bark, yelp and rave, but there is little difference between his political views and those of Earl Browder; at least wr know where Browder stands, but no one, not even Heywood himself, knows a single constructive policy he stands for. He is just “agin” American institutions generally and never misses an opportunity to cry out “down with the government, Constitution and Supreme Court” and to defend the Communists, Socialists and radical termites. He consumed a half-column depicting me as a sluggard and dumb football player 25 years ago, when I was captain of a Harvard football team. It is not for me to defend my record as a tackle and captain at Harvard. Asa football critic and sports writer Mr. Broun has yet to make a reputation, and pending that important event I prefer to stake my reputation as a player in

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN RECENT years have seen the modification of milk into several different forms, including condensed milk, evaporated milk, acidophilous milk, dried, powdered, skimmed and irradiated milk, and many milk products as well. Differences, more or less slight, exist among these milk substances. Generally, the basic value of the milk remains. But those forms of milk that have to be heated down to the desired consistency have been found weaker in one or two of their vitamins. And the milk products have been found to vary in proteins, fats and carbohydrates, as well as the number of calories that they provide. In ordinary industry, condensed milk means a product which has been heated down to a thicker substance and canned. In this case a low temperature is used and sugar is added to aid preservation.

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, N. Vi., Washington. D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q—What is the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey? A—The part of the edifice where a number of famous British poets are buried, or are represented by memorial tablets and busts. Q —Who is the Egyptian minister to the United States? A —Mohamed Amine Yousef. Q —How many Senators and Representatives are in the Ohio Legislature? A—Senators, 32; and Representatives, 135. Q —Name the presidents of the National Broadcasting Cos. and the Columbia Broadcasting System.

the hands of Walter Camp, who placed me as tackle on his allAmerica team in 1908 and 1909, and a few years later honored me by putting me on his all-time allAmerica. Mr. Broun has a fertile imagination and now proclaims, after solemn deliberation for 25 years, that my half backs ran into me for losses and signals were beyond by meager intelligence. It might amaze such an erudite columnist as Heywood Broun, who says nothing at high cost, to know that I graduated from Harvard in three years at 20 years of age with a cum laude degree, particularly as he had much difficulty in getting through Harvard himself. Mr. Broun’s criticism only -shows how far the radicals will go to criticise a man in public life who exposes their tenets. This time it was 25 years and a fictitious and totally false football yarn. Let me conclude by stating that I have had two hobbies for 25 years —Harvard football and the Republican Party. Unfortunately, I have not been able to say much about either one in the last few years, but I am herewith predicting that both the Harvard team and the Republican Party will be victorious next November. u tt tt SEES HOPE FOR NATION IN HOMESTEAD PROGRAM By Bert Wilhelm, Chairman of the National Suburban Homestead Society of America Your editorial of March 17 explaining how the Irish Republic made it possible for every citizen to have three acres of land, a cow and some thickens, and a well-built, lowpriced house might be enlightening to some of our American economists who are prating over a more abundant life. It is remarkable that at the special session of our Legislature, where social security was debated at length, no one stopped to consider how the debts that we accrued in the past are to be paid. Private statisticians have reported that for every dollar of private and public debt that the American people accrued we only had 80 cents in the way of assets. From 1920 to 1929 almost every one was employed, had good wages, and

Evaporated milk is condensed and canned without the addition of sugar. Therefore, much more heat is applied to aid preservation. tt an SUCH milk may be heated almost to the boiling point for from 30 to 60 minutes. Asa result, it has a little i..ore cooked taste than has condensed milk. Fluid usually is added before it is used. Apparently, heating does not do much toward diminishing vitamins A and G (B-2), but it does seriously reduce the amount of vitamins B-l and C in the milk. Dried milk and powdered milk usually are prepared by various processes, such as spraying partially evaporated milk into warm, dry chambers, or spraying milk on hea:ed rollers. Skimmed milk is that from which the cream has been removed, either by gravity or by centrifugal force.

A—William S. Paley, Columbia System, and Lenox R. Lohr, National Broadcasting Cos. Q —Which European countries paid the December, 1935, installment on war debts to the United States? A—Finland was the only one. Q —Please give the cast of the motion picture, ‘Laugh, Clown, Laugh.” A—lt included Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy Fitzgerald, Nils Asther and Gwen Lee. Q—What is the address of Margaret Sanger? A—l 7 W. 16th-st. New York. Q—When are the English letters W and Y vowels? A—-W is a vowel when it has the sound as in how, Y is a vowel when it has the sound as in copy.

i still we all ran hopelessly in debt during that period. Our so-called political economists are undertaking to pay that debt and provide for an abundant life in the future by adopting shorter hours and lower wages. It seems that any school child that has ever studied addition and subtraction knows that this can’t be done. This very problem is one that must be tackled by our statesmen in the near future, and it is not the danger to the Constitution or balancing the budget which is the real issue. The real issue is paying the debts of the past and earning a • living while we are doing so. Those that are hollering the loudest for balancing the budget never stop to consider that it is impossible to collect more taxes from the unemployed or from those working at low wages and working short hours. If the budget is ever balanced, it will come out of the pockets of big business and no one else, and so their shots are in vain and will eventually embarrass themselves. The Constitution is absolutely in no danger, and our inalienable rights are as safe in the hands of a Democrat as they are in the hands of a Republican. The danger is the 12 million idle men that are just about a week away from starvation if relief is not distributed as it has been. A hungry man has little respect for the Constitution, or for inalienable rights, or anything else, until he gets something to eat. And it is a good idea for our patrioteers to remember that when strutting their stuff this coming campaign. America will recover only when we make it possible for every one that is willing to work to have a job at living wages, and produce enough wealth to take care of the debts of the past and lay up some for the future. The shortest distance to this goal is to make it possible for every man and woman to take advantage of owning a suburban home on sufficient acreage, so they might produce enough to feed themselves and their families on their own lot if they are out of employment. “Put the idle man On the idle land With seed in his sack And a hoe in his hand And they both shall be idle no more.” DAILY THOUGHT There be many that say. Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us.—Psalms iv, 6. THE very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not. discovers to me His existence.— Bruyere.

SIDE GLANCES

“He’s just now reading my letter, and oh, boy, is he sore!”

MARCH 23, 193 G

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE —Thl* roving reporter tor The Timet toes where he plemsei. when be pleasei. in tearch of odd itoriei about this and that. BATON ROUGE, La.. March 23. —The spirit of Huey Long hovers over Louisiana. You feel him in the air, you are conscious of him always. In Louisiana they never say Huey Long was shot. Or murdered. It is always that he was "assassinated.” After hearing it a while you get the flavor of martyrdom. tt tt a I CAME up to Baton Rouge just to see Louisiana's Capitol. It is big. You see it for miles before you get to Baton Rouge, a white shaft alone in the sky. It is 34 stories high. It is a startling thing, and it is beautiful. Its beauty grows as you get close. It sits on a rise, at the north edge of town, and all around it for at least a block on each side are landscaped gardens—grass, shrubs and flowers, and fir trees and winding walks. The effect is serene. A hostess takes you through the Capitol. You go into a big lobbv, with elevators and a mail chute in front of you, as in an office building. At one end of the lobby is the Senate chamber; at the other, the House. They are lavish, but lavish in good taste. The huge metal entrance doors to each chamber are paneled in bronze plaques of historic scenes from early Louisiana. The lobby walls are great soft murals of Louisiana working scenes. Behind the elevators, off a little hallway, are the Governors office. The guide takes you back there, and suddenly stops and says: “That door there. That's the one Senator Long came out of when he was assassinated. He fell right there. The assassin stood by that pillar there.” tt tt tt A T the fourth floor, the “base” -U*- of the building stops, and above it the great shaft of the Capitol rises, on up for 30 stories. From here up it is really an office building. All the state offices are in here. Right up in the peak is an observation tow'er. You step outside. You peek over the edge. You catch your breath. All around is the flat countryside of Louisiana, with strips of roads, and farms, and trees; all fading into the timeless blue haze that builds up around the horizon rim. On the west, just a couple of blocks away, is the Mississippi. It runs straight as a ruler past Baton Rouge. It is wide, and dull brown, and seems flat and still. And right down below you, so far down there, are the landscaped grounds. They look different from up here. The w'alks and the trees make a definite pattern.

AS you leave, you stroll along the winding walks' down through the vast gardens, down into a slightly sunken valley, all grassed and sprouting with shrubbery. Down in the middle the walks converge amid a cluster of small fir trees and bushes. And there, in the center of the grounds, about a hundred yards in front of the main Capitol doors, rests Huey Long. There is just a block of cement, about 10 feet across, with one corner of the square pointing toward the Capitol. The block rises only about six inches from the sidewalks. It is ordinary pavement cement. Not even a glazed finish. There Is no statue, or railing or anything. On each of the four corners sits a flower pot or a tall basket, with fresh flowers. And right in the center is a marble marker about two feet high, looking quite common and temporary, and chiseled on it are these homely words: Huey P. Long 1893—1935 “Sleep on dear friend And take your rest They mourn you most Who loved you best.” The is all. Here lies the King. The immense living monument he built for himself looks down upon the simplicity of the grave.

By George Clark