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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1937

LET'S HAVE A SHOWDOWN T is a straight-down-the-line proposition which the Steel Mediation Board has made. . . . 1. Let the steel-company heads and the Steel Work“ers Organizing Committee bargain collectively, reach an agreement and sign a contract; ; 2. Meanwhile call off the strike and permit the men to go back to work; 3. Permit the National Labor Relations. Board to go

-into the steel plants and conduct an election, by secret ballot of the workers;

4, Then if the C. 1. O.s sil union wins a majority

“the contract becomes effective; if not the contract goes into “the wastebasket.

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(OHIO Mahoning Valley and Pennsylvania’s Johnstown

area are sick of strikes and violence and trouble. Citi-

zens’ vigilante committees are organizing; back-to-work ~ movements are rolling up like snowballs going down hill; ~martial law is relaxing before the popular will to restore — order, production, pay days and peace.

The Republic Steel Corp.’s Tom Girdler, the rough-and-

ready spokesman for the management’ of “Little Steel,”

reads the riot act to a Senate committee, declaring that the

employees of the independent: steel companies don’t want lhe C. I. O. any more than he does, and blustering that even if C. I. O. should win an election of ‘his employees he ~wouldn’ t sign a contract with that organization.

Of course the Steel Board's peace formula can’t be

~worked out unless Mr. Girdler stops his swashbuckling and plays according to the rules of the Wagner act, which provide that workers may organize into any kind of union they choose and then bargain collectively with their employers ~through agents chosen by a majority.

But here’s the test.

Tom Girdler is either a bullhead,

~a bluffer, or he knows what he is talking about. If he’s so ‘confident that he has John L. Lewis and the C. I. O. across “the barrel; if he’s so cocksure that the trend is away from “unionism and back to work at company terms, then let him

~prove his case at the ballot box.

If he isn’t sportsman

“enough to do that, if he hasn’t the industrial statesmanship “to submit to a democratic verdict, then the sooner Tom ~ Girdler departs from industrial management and retires to ~ his orchard, the better off the country will be.

-KNEE-HIGH EARLE

HE concluding sentences in Governor Earle’s state-

ment . . . “l am for Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President in

©1940 unqualifiedly and finally.

“I have never discussed this matter with the President

“and this statement is made without his permission.”

— last sentence.

~ new to the ways of politics.

There certainly can be no doubt as to the truth of the

Pennsylvania's George Howard Earle III is But not so F. D. R., whose

~ years of experience have given him a sixth sense of timing - that amounts almost to political genius.

And starting a third-term “boom” three years and five

“and one-half months ahead of election, at an hour when charges of dictatorship fill the air and Congress is in revolt ~against one-man rule, surely cannot be called a good timing.

There's no disputing it. Earle’ Ss own idea.

Making the statement was

It’s the work of an amateur. Note par-

~ ticularly the declaration that there are no other men in the ~ country “who reach knee high in stature, mentally and _ morally, to Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

That “knee-high” phrase may prove as haunting to its

: author as the “chicken in every pot” did to Hoover.

HOT WEATHER WORRIES TR. H. SPENCER JONES, England's astronomer royal,

startles London by announcing that ‘the moon is

~ moving off its calculated position.”

But a colleague in the solar laboratory at Cambridge

- clarifies the news by explaining that the real trouble is not _ with the moon but with our mathematical system of chart- - ing the moon’s course. Our mathematics is crude, he says, ~ it lacks precision. It is so faulty, he explains, that astrono- . mers undertaking to calculate where the’ moon will be 20 = years ahead may miscalculate the exact spot by as much as ~ two full seconds.

And, as if that weren’t enough to make us lose sleep

these nights, Col. Lindbergh breaks the news that it is x - doubtful whether airplanes can ever be built that will - attain a speed “of above a few hundred miles an hour.”

- THE MALEO MENACE : DE WILLIAM E. MANN of the National Geographic-

Smithsonian Institution. expedition in Sumatra, sends

: word that he’s bringing home some maleos.

A maleo is a bird. And what a bird!

A maleo, only

~ half the size of a domestic chicken, lays eggs 10 times as

= large as chicken eggs.

ounce eggs. - This, according to Dr. Mann, and surely he wouldn't be ~ spoofing us.

“Say a 6-pound chicken lays 21/5Then a 3-pound maleo lays 25-ounce eggs.

But what we want to know is whether one of iboge

~ 25-ounce eggs represents a maleg’s lifetime, annual or daily < production, If the latter, we demand protection for the ~ good old American hen against this insidious foreign com- - petition.

*E am EMERY, PROPHET AMES A. EMERY, general counsel of the National Asso-

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ciation of Manufacturers, told the joint Congressional ommittee that it would do Congress little good to pass the age-hour bill, because the Supreme Court without quesiion ould hold it unconstitutional. He is the same James A. Emery who made a radio speech one night saying that the Wagner Labor Relations Act was undoubtedly unconstitutional. And then the next

dar the Supreme Court. dissented, x hi

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Give Autos Bearing lllinois License Tags Road Room, Columnist Warns On Getting Drivers" Law Low-Down

(CHICAGO, June 25.—Illinois is one of the eight backward states in the happy American Union whose motorists are not required to meet any tests as to their physical or mental fitness or mechanical ability, but

may just hop in and drive. A legless or armless man, a paralyzed -man, a known lunatic, a person totally blind or one who has never before sat behind the wheel of a car has

a legal right to pull out into the traffic in town or country, because there happens to be no license law on the books. The subject is one of particular interest at the moment because there is a bill up in the Legislature providing a rather mild form of regulation which is about to be licked, because of a politicians’ wrangle over the patronage or

"jobs or graft which the new bu-

reau would provide. It isn’t much of a law to be sure, because it gives the Superintendent of Highways permission to issue licenses without examination to all applicants who ask for them prior to next New Year's Day. That would protect the driving privilege of all those who are driving now, and, indeed, of all others who think they might want to drive at some future time, but feel bashful about their qualifications. It is a typical Illinois law designed to do the least possible good, while providing the maximum number of jobs for politicians

Mr. Pegler

“under the circumstances.

Originally the bill provided that administration of the law should be placed in the hands of Division of Highways of the Department cf Public Works and Buildings. The Director of Public Works and Buildings is F. Lynden Smith, who was Governor Horner’s campaign manager in his fight with Ed Kelly, the Mayor of Chicago. So the jobs, it appears, under that proposal, would be Horner's to be distributed by; Mr. Smith. " ® 8 HE bill carried an appropriation of $750,000 to set T up the bureau, hire special highway police and examiners and so forth, and was passed by the lower house of the Legislature. When it went to the Senate, however, it was amended to turn over the new department to the Secretary of State wha is Mr. Kelly’s. fellow, and the appropriation was cut to $375,000, just half. I did hear why the appropriation was reduced, but it is a long story, and you need only be assured that economy was no part of the reason. Or more likely you don’t need telling. So now the bill is back in the House again, and the boys are trying to get together on a political compromise. But the time is short, and the probability is

‘that they will disagree and leave their subjects still

unprotected from crazy drivers of all kinds, which would be no new hardship, because the people are used to the hazards of the road. However, for the safety of citizens of other states it might be a humane act to point out the backward states in this respect, which are Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming.

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TYOMING did pass a license law this year, but it was disqualified on a technicality. Tennessee and New Mexico passed valid laws and withdrew from the dwindling company of the backward states, but unlicensed and unqualified drivers from Illinois and the seven other primitives still have the privilege under reciprocal arrangements of driving cars in the progressive states such as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and the rest. Even if by some political miracle the bill should pass, it would be well to remember that it doesn’t actually compel Illinois drivers to take any mental or physical test and to give them plenty of road room wherever the Illinois license is seen.

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but wili “defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

ROOSEVELT’S ISLAND TRIP

CALLED HUMOROUS By E. A. E. =

President Roosevelt and © the Democratic members of Congress are going to spend three days together on an island, the week-end of June 25-27.

True, the Jefferson Island Sports Club in Chesapeake Bay won’t accommodate all‘ the Democrats in Congress at once. So the Senators and Representatives will attend in relays—about 135 of them a day. But all who go will be welcome, the White House announces, to talk over with the President any matter or question they may ‘wish to bring tip, . thus -disproving newspaper charges that Mr, Roosevelt is aloof from the Democratic majority and individual members of Congress. It’s a fine idea, except that the date seems a little late and the stay on the island all too brief. Many a Democratic Congressman, given the whole ‘three days alone with the President, wouldn’t have time to bring up all the matters and questions that have accumulated to disturb him during the last few months. : After all, however, the important questions to be discussed on Jefferson - Island probably can be boiled down to a very few words: Shall Mr. Roosevelt and the huge Democratic majorities in Congress work together? Will Mr. Roosevelt recognize that Democrats who differ with him on issues like the Supreme Court plan may be as sincere as he is? Or will he insist on regarding support for details of his program as a test of party loyalty, and so risk the loss: of Demacratic help in reaching the broad objectives of his program? ‘There’s something humorous in the notion of so many Democrats getting together on an island. But the necessity that. brings them together is not funny. What happens on Jefferson Island may have a very serious bearing on the future of Mr. Roosevelt, the Democratic Party, the New Deal and the countrv.

”n n ” AGREES-WITH BRITON ON RECOGNITION ADVICE By M. S.

Looking us over with the eye of a master economist, Sir Josiah Stamp of England concludes that America’s “most difficult hurdle” is its problem of labor-management relations. America, he finds after an exiended visit here, is about at the same crossroads where England tound

herself 20 years ago, trying to make

up its mind “whether or not to recognize labor.” British industry decided to recognize unionism and never has regretted it. Our own tardy arrival at that viewpoint, he says, will bring us face to face with complications that England avoided. America’s problem, he said, is not one of higher wages. “It comes down to a question of recognition.” ~ “And I am struck by the fact that the antithesis now is between the old state of mind and the element of force,” he said, “whereas before it ‘was. the old state of mind met with conciliation and argument. Force is too much in the foreground in your dispute.” Since 50 per cent of our strikes are over questions of recognition and since the present chaos in the steel belt is directly traceable to the in-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Pleas for Right to Work Should Come From Workers, Not Tom Girdler; Peaceful Election Is the Way to Put End to Strike and Its Rough Stuff

EW YORK, June 25.—Pleas for the “right to work” would come with more persuasion from the workers who want to work than from Tom Girdler.

Every worker wants the right to werk, but does:

every worker want it during this steel strike? Obviously some thousands don’t. How many do? Nobody knows—there has been no vote. Who is to speak for the antistrikers? Not Tom Girdler—he seemingly doesn’t believe in workers having any collective voice wholly independent of the company. Who then?

That is Tom’s dilemma. Since he doesn’t want work- |

ers to speak in undominated collectivism, there is no voice but his to say how many workers don’t want to strike—and his voice can’t be clearly accepted as the voice of labor. If ever a situation needed a peaceful election as an alternative to hard-boiled rough-stuff and consequent bloodshed, this is it. Phil Murray says he will abide by an election. Tom Girdler says he will raise apples first. Here's one vote for the apple farm for Thomas. : ”» ® ”

OU can’t know Tom Girdler and not like him. But his likeability lies in part in a lusty, blustering boyishness. He wouldn’t deliberately do anybody dirt. But this isn’t any time for mail-order cowboys or Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn playing at being pirates. ; Out in Cleveland, Tom wouldn’t go to a dinner when he found Jimmie Roosevelt was to be a guest, because he wouldn’t sit in the same room with any man named Roosevelt. He has constantly obstructed negotiations because he won't sit at any table with that—John L. Lewis. If you took the blanks out of

.all of Tom’s conversation it would-be a pity because

they .are brilliantly ingenious and original, but there wouldn't be much of anything left but proper names. If you have a try of the

ong the old-time

Army mule-skinners, iron-puddlers, longshoremen and Gulf Coast pirates, you could delight in Tom’s dis-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

dependent steel companies’ refusal to negotiate sincerely with the C.I1. 0. Sir Josiah’s comment is timely. “You’d better recognize!” was. Sir Josiah’s parting advice to American industry as he left for London. I agree. ” ” ”

SEES SPAIN AS FOUNTAIN DRIPPING BLOOD By D. F. In Spain there is a fountain dripping blood—the nations of peaceful intent have their hands clapped over

its nozzle, but one slip and their hands will come away and the stream will shoot up into the skies, which falling, will drench the whole world. “The general belief that grasshoppers make an excellent turkey feed was not upheld in experiments at Oklahoma A. and M. College,” reports a press dispatch. They should have that copyrighted, such an important piece of news as that! The movie page of a paper says: “Jaffrey Dean, playing the lead opposite Margaret Lindsay-in ‘Song of the City,’ was an onion farmer before he entered pictures.” And his acting still makes me weep . . . . 7 “

C., Logansport

" SCIENCE MAY BE

TOO MARVELOUS By Worried Science is marvelous, but the vistas it! opens are fearful to contemplate, Dr. ward C. Halstead of the University of Chicago reported a brain surgery experiment to the American Medical Association convention at Atlantic City. The patient, he said, was an unsuccessful ' stock broker, suffering from a brain tumor. In the operation it was found necessary also to remove about three-fourths of the left frontal brain lobe. .The man recovered, quit the brokerage business, went on the road as a salesman and had such phenomenal success that within a few weeks the factory he worked for had to enlarge its plant to take care of his orders. He soon became vice president of the company and a millionaire. You can’t pass this off with a quip

WAR PILOTS

By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY We dream all night Of our last flight— Only at dawn to awaken Finding it still to be taken.

DAILY THOUGHT

And Moses said unto him, ®=nviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them.—Numbers 12:29.

Ex has no 10 other quality but

that of detracting from virtue. —Livy.

about how it doesn’t take brains to become a millionaire. For there are other phases of the experiment that have ominous possibilities. After the operation the patient’s acquisitiveness and business acumen increased and he became a tireless worker. But at the same time, tests showed, his general intelligence declined. . We have in this country some 10 or eight or six million unemployed —nobody knows exactly how many.

| Suppose the same operation were

verformed on all of these. We wouldn't have to worry about providing work relief for them then. With their acquisitiveness and business acumen sharpened, they could take care of themselves. But they might go about it in such thorough fashion that they would take the jobs away from us who are now employed. Then, being in the driver's seat, and more acquisitive. and less intelligent, they might make things pretty tough on the rest of us poor mortals who would be panhandling around with our skulls full of brains.

#8» CONFUSES STRIKES AND SPANISH WAR

By D. K.

It’s getting difficult for picture editors to keep the Spanish war and U. S. strike scenes straight. . . . “Loyalists Threaten Use of Merciless Air Attacks,” says a headline. Who ever heard of a bomber dropping cream-putfs?, is certain, if we take sides in the next war we will be just as sure as the enemy that our cause is just. If there is a ghost in that Honeymoon Castle the Duke should be able to frighten it off with those bagpipes. . Surely those taxdodging millionaires should be able to list their Liberty Jengus contributions as a total loss. . Practically Broke: John D., one-time billionaire, left only $25, 000 ,000. a SAFETY EDUCATION OFFERED BY NYA

By George E. Currier, Council

More thdn 5000 American high schools now teach traffic safety. Similarly, hundreds of elementary schools are .building safe drivers through more general safety instruction. The National Youth Administration offers help to public safety committees. A. V. Rohweder, chair-

man of the Minnesota Public Safety Committee, says, “The offer is an opportunity. Let’s make it count.” Minnesota did. At present 112 schools, in which NYA plans and projects are under way, have begun collaboration by assigning enrolled youths to definite safety activities. According to interest and qualifications they are: Serving as aids to public safety committee secretaries, checking accident hazards and keeping records of accidents occurring in and around schools, making traffic accident spot maps, assisting in and arranging for conduct of statistical traffic violation counts, ete. It’s practical education. It will affect the future safety of Minnesota’s citizens.

National Safety

. One thing |

It Seems to Me

‘By Heywood Broun

Broun Grows Older If Not Wiser, But Sometimes He Even Concedes Latter in-Self-Analysis Tests

NEW YORK, June 25.—In cleaning out my desk I came across an old printed blank entitled “Don’t Fool Yourself! Try a Self-Analysis!” It was too wet to play golf, too cold to go swimming and too dark to try

painting, and so I thought to myself, “What have I got to lose?” and tackled the examination. Ree= turn postage or something else must have heen misse ing for I couldn’t quite make out whether it was from an uplift society or a life insurance company. But in either case let's go. : “What is my name?”’—Hey« wood Campbell Broun, pros nounced to rhyme with tune. “Age?”—Forty-eight. ; “What is my occupation?”’— Newspaperman. “Am I making a success of it?” —There seems to be a decided difference of opinion. “What is my character and reputation?” — Unreliable and charming. “What do other men think of me?”—Unreliable. “What do I think of myself?”—Charming..

“Am I invariably just in my judgment of others?”

Well, I try very hard not to be, but without much success. I'm too fair-minded. I need a lot more prejudices.

Mr. Broun

” n a M I cleanly?”’—Very much so in the summer. “Punctual ?”—~No. “Courteous?”—To a fault. “Do I drink?”’-—I'm sorry to seem rude, but I make it a rule, to touch nothing until after 6 p. m, Whas time is it: by your watch? “Am I profane?”—No. “Have I any definite object in life?”—Yes. to be a writer. “Am I on my way?”—-Not precipitately. “What am I worth in dollars and cents?”—I can afford to pay about 25 cents on the dollar. “How did I acquire this?”—Thrift. “Why am I where I am financially?”—I always in= sist it was just bad luck. They quit early on me. ‘<2 “Why am I what I am moraliy?”—It’s all part of the general letdown which started 'way back at the end of the war.

I want

" 2 ” M I God-fearing?’—I would like to say “No,” because I think it’s a rotten bad frame of mind for anybody of any decent sort of religious feeling. It is the ultimate blasphemy. But.I must admit that I get nervous during thunderstorms. “Am I working to make the world wiser?’ ‘That sounds like a pretty big order, but I'm going to say “Yes” just the same. “Happier ?”’—Yes. “How ?”’—By trying to do my part movement. But now I find I've done it all wrong. At the bot= tom of the questionnaire I discovered—“Take ‘your time in answering these questions. Read over, think over, every question before you answer any. Show the answers to no one. Six months later go over youl answers to see what progress you have made, and again at the end of the year. Try to make a showing.? 2

HEARD IN CONGRESS— :

Rep. Rich (R. Pa.), discussing the Inland Waters ways Corp.: It is a crime for the Government to continue in business. - Rep. Martin (D. Colo.) : The Inland Waterways Corp. was created under the Coolidge Admipistratiol and is a Republican. baby, (Laughter.) Rep. Rich: Well, it is a sick Republican baby (Laughter.) I will say that. I am glad the gentleman brought that out. If the Republican Party is re: sponsible for its birth, then the Democratic Party ought to have common sense enough to get up and kick it out. I hope they will. (Laughter and applause.

in the labor

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Ex-Secretary of Agriculture Booms Hoover as Republican Party Head; Administration Worried Over Mrs. Norton's House Labor Chairmanship

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, June 25.—Arthur M. Hyde, Sec-

.casion as this strike.

sneaking admiration for the sheer in cussing ’

course when he is really warmed up for such an ocBut it serves here more to obstruct than to advance a national problem that must be solved. : It can be solved through an election by the workers to see what they want to do and that is the only way it can be solved without more labor bloodshed than this country has ever seen—Homestead and the Haymarket not excepted.

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: THs is no time for that. There is too much bally-

hoo for class warfare already. Killing workers in the street isn’t ballyhoo for class war. It is the beginning of it. This Administration has advisers who think that making these class issues and fanning to flame every spark of class hatred and resentment is the sure way to political victory and perhaps to other more sinister and less clearly disclosed purposes. Some of them seem to think our problems are too serious to be solved by a democracy and that only a dictatorship can save us. They seem, to think that the only way to a dictatorship is to stir up and solidify the proletariat. . Killing workmen is the way to do that. “The dictatorship of the proletariat’—that’s what we call that thing over in Russia. Killing workers was the way that came. The advisers who appear to play with these thoughts seem to be gaining on Administration counsellors who believe we can solve all our problems within the framework of our old democracy. Such hard-boiled rough stuff as we are seeing here is a dumb-bell play square into the hands of the so-called left wing of the Democratic Party. There are, fortunately, few real Communists in this country but we have in Government our own pink intelligentsia with similar aims g industrial altitude is jus

retary of Agriculture in the Hoover Cabinet, has launched a quiet movement to restore the former President to titular leadership of the Republican Part The Missourian has sent letters to a number of prominent Republicans urging that they unite with him in a demand that Alfred M. Landon step out and make way for Hoover. Mr. Hyde's letters caustically arraign the current leadership of the party, and declare its sad state, lacking program and cohesion, is due entirely to Mr. Landon and National Chairman John Hamilton. Only one man has the prestige, vigor and vision to revive and revitalize the G. O. P. Mr. Hyde asserts, and that man is Hoover. Mr. Hyde’s drive lends credibility to reports that Hoover is chafing at the bit over the silence of Republican leaders on the Supreme Court and other Administration issues. He is said to favor an aggressive policy, and to feel that Mr. Landon lacks the nerve and caliber to carry it out. Hoover did issue a blast against the Court bill when it was offered, but Republican leaders .in Congress sent him word to pipe down. « " 2 2 HERE was considerable excitement when Senator Lewis proposed a .plan for federalized medicine to ‘the American Medical Association. There would have been much less if it had been realized that Uncle Sam, with his doctor’s bag in“his hand, already has a thriving practice. This latest development of the New Deal was conceived by the Resettlement Administration. RA has made thousands of loans to farmers. A

|* sick farmer cant, raise a crop to pay back a loan. So

business to keep the farmer

nd the Tom Girdler

because th th

Two different plans have been tried. Under one of them, money was lent to farmers to pay doctor bills, and a corporation was created that entered intd an arrangement with doctors whereby they cut their fees one-third. This has been done widely in North Dakota. The other is socialized medicine, pure and simple. Resettlement sets up medical co-operatives, each member paying a certain sum, and the doctors receive a fixed income. 5 u ” = - HE installation of Mrs. Mary T. Norton of Jersey City, N. J., as successor to the late Chairman William Connery of the House Labor Committee, adds one more handicap to the many already facing the

President’s wage-hour reguation bill. -

Rep. Connery was wholeheartedly for the legisla

tion, as well as an able anc popular parliamentarian, The Administration counted heavily on his strength to help it weather the storm facing the measure in the House. : Mrs. Norton’s attitude on the issue is unknown. She is a political ally of Boss Frank Hague, who h displayed little corcliality to liberal labor measures organizations. Further, she has had no experience ih handling major legislation. Her SPol ei is very serious for the wage- hour bill, on which the Adminisiration will need eve ounce of good will it can muster. Mrs. Norton will be no help; in fact, she may be a distinct liability. : Democratic bosses of the House made a strenuous effort to prevail on her to remain as head of the Diss trict Committee. But she insisted on taking adv. tage of her seniority rights as ranking member of the Labor Committee to assume the vacant chairmanship. Mrs. Norton was very anxious to grab the job; firs nittee is mich more important thas second, because her lack of sh |