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FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1940

WE NEED THE WHOLE TEAM HE President asks $1,182,000,000 for defense, in addi- | tion to the two billions already ticketed for that purpose. Congress shows ‘every intention of voting the money, and ‘we think it should do so, with all possible haste. Republican leaders on Capitol Hill have iaid aside partisanship | and are co-operating ‘with the Democrats, ‘which is ‘what | they should do in times like these. But Congress ‘will not have done its duty if it merely | votes the money and then goes home, ‘which seems to be | what the President has in mind. To be sure, he promised to call Congress back into special session if the national defense requires it. “The Congress and the chief executive,” he said, “constitute a team where the defense of the land is concerned.” ' For the Congressional part of the team to sit on the bench ‘while the chief executive carries the ball ‘without interference—that is not what this emergency demands. »

~ » » “lI know that our trained officers and men know more about fighting and the weapons and equipment needed for fighting than any of us lavmen; and 1 have confidence in them.” So have we all. Yet if our experience in the last ‘war and observation of the struggle now raging have taught us anything, it is that modern war is not merely a contest of officers and men in the field. It is even more a conflict of economic and industrial systems. It is no longer enough to “get there fustest with the mostest men.” The side that ‘wins is the one ‘which can also “get there fustest ‘with the mostest and | bestest ‘weapons”—and ‘which can count on the largest continuing ‘volume of the same. Mr. Roosevelt spoke dramatically of the “hours” of flying time from possible énemy bases to our shores. But his admirals and generals are still dealing in months and years required to get deliveries on their orders. They have muddled with this procurement problem vear after year, | unable to spend money as fast as Congress appropriates it. Is there any reason to believe that the problem will be solved by merely doubling the appropriations to be handled by the same men and the same methods? No. The situation. clearly calls for a change. This President and his admirals and generals need the help of men who know the methods of industrv—who know how | to turn the cranks of this country's great mass<production machines, and how to convert blueprints into actual weapons coming off the assembly lines. Call it a Defense Industries Board—call it ‘whatever | vou ‘wish-—so long as it has men who know how to get the job done; “economic royalists,” perhaps, a little ‘while ago, but today men who should be drafted into the country’s service because they have industrial brains. No one who heard Mr. Roosevelt's speech yesterday could fail to sense the wartime atmosphere, the feeling that we are in an emergency which demands sacrifice from every man—and, from every man, the President as well as others, the willingness to lay aside past prejudices and work together until the last unit of our economic system has been mobilized to make our country strong. Congress has rallied to the chief executive's leadership, but Congress should not go home until it has also taken steps to rally the forces of private industry, from which our weapons and means of defense must be drawn.

a " | We entered the last war with a national debt of one billion dollars. We came out owing more than 25 billions. Now we face the threat of a more terrible conflict ‘with a budget 11 years out of balance and a debt nearly 45 billions. Is this ‘generation so decadent that, not having vet paid for the last ‘war, it wants to pass on new costs of selfdefense to posterity, on the theory that those to come will have no social problems or defenses of their own to burden them ? We think not. But the President vesterdav said not a word about how to raise the extra billion for defense. He is reported to | believe that responsibility belongs to Congress, | And indeed it does. The legislative branch has the constitutional power to appropriate, and the obligation to tax. Congress should not go home until it has met that re.

sponsibility.

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ALMOST TOO LONG

Tr things go on as they are, in less than a hundred billion years the spiral nebulae will have receded out of sight; the radio-active atoms will have run down; all but the fainter stars will be going out, and the universe will be thoroughly ‘uninteresting.”—Dr. Henry Norris Russell, Princeton professor of astronomy. Well, in & universe which just now is as excruciatingly | interesting as a permanent attack of acute delirium tremens, | that prospect is attractive. What worries us is that we may | not be able to stick around for a hundred billion years.

| ‘of a new era in civilization.

UNION HOUSE CLEANING

HEALTHY sigh of lessons being learned in organized labor is the plan of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to give their top executive board hew con. | stitutional powers to expel racketeers, protect funds and safeguard dues-paving members in local unions. By going through with the plan this big C. 1. 'O af. ate can deal a further blow to the old excuse that the autonomy of & local union must be respected, regardless nf the grip local labor tsars may get on its members and their ‘money, and of scandal and discredit reflected upon | the parent union and all organized labor. The Amalgamated, progressive and ably led, will

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By Westbrook Pegler

| Labor, and numerous other defendants.

| the money received from the contractors did not go | into the union treasury.

| ‘apparently was taking the sun in Miami. This check

| the unemployment fund, this time for $1080, cashed

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| to Burope apparently don't fear the censors. | rach hew country is invaded by Nazis, a bulletin

| year.

| ahead, or so the seers, pdlitical, economical and edu-

| With tyrant minds, eannhdt stop the progress of

| turity at a time which fs chaotic and filled ‘with | opportunities th all those who ate not afraid to tackle

| understanding, compassion and

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Head of Chicago Glaziers Shared $86,000 from Employers ‘With Two Other Union Officials, U.S. Claims

EW YORK, May 17.-—The Federal Grand Jury in Chicago recently presented an indictment

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

With a Mad Man at the Controls!

TRIDAY, MAY 17, 1000 | |

against George H. Meyers, business agent of the Chicago Glaziers’ Union of the American Federation of This indictment is a typical Thurman Arnold bill, | setting forth that the union ‘and the employers con- | spired to maintain fixed prices for material and other- |

wise to restrain trade, \It also is alleged that Meyers |

and two other offizers of the union—Charles Pfeiffer, |

the president, and Max Glass, like Meyers, 8 business agent—accepted money from the association at ‘vari- | ous times. Leo Tierney, the special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General in charge of the case, estimates the total amount of the payments at $86,000. He contends that the payments were made at the rate of $1.50 per day for, but not to, each employed member of the union. There are 425 members, about half of whom are employed, the work being rotated, at a scale of $13.80 a day. 'The members pay dues of $100 per year and an initiation fee ranging from $1000 to $1500. It is Mr. Tierney's contention that

If it be assumed that 200 members of the union were steadily employed five days a week the payments to the union officers would be about $300 a day, roughly $1500 a week, or $78,000 a year, is is alleged to have continued for three

years.

HE investigation turned up some interesting material. It was discovered, for example, that the union had an unemployment fund which became inactive in 1932 but thai Mr. Meyers nevertheless con- | tinued to check money into this fund and out of it. | In fact, he checked money out faster than he checked | in. as will be seen presently. It was further discovered that he cashed checks from companies in the association made payable to himself. There is a record of a check for $841 drawn on the union's unemployment fund on Jan. 2, 1937, ‘when he

was indorsed by B. Costello and the Biscayne Kennel Club of Miami. It was a rubber check, and it bounced. Nine days later Mr. Meyers bounced another check on

by a Mr. Maher, and on Feb, 15 in Jacksonville, he bounced another rubber one, for $950, also drawn against the unemployment fund. which was indorsed bv “Jacksonville Br., F. B. R. of Atlanta.”

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LTHOUGH all these checks ‘were protested, | they may. of course, have been made good later. | On March 15 Mr, Meyers casheq a good check, for | $350. pavable to himself, from the Hamilton Glass Co., | one of the present defendants. The Biscayne Kennel | Club took another chance in cashing this one. Mr. Meyers maintains a farm ‘at Valparaise, Ind. | where he sometimes gets away from the problems of | the working stiff, ‘which, naturally, are like to break | the heart of a labor leader, and in a Valparaiso bank | his ‘Wwite carries an account the deposits in ‘which have | maintained an average of $1000 a month. Mr. Meyers was fined $5000 in Federal Court in February, 1929, for violation of the Sherman Act, and | the presumption is that the half-time ‘working stiffs |

of the glaziers’ union. chipped in and paid the fine for |

their faithful servant, Mr. Meyers is about 65 years | old, but is a snappy dresser and exceedingly fond of | the good things of life.

Inside Indianapolis Our local 'Faceilifting' Job; Speedway Dilemma And Censors.

HERE'S a lot of “face-lifting” talk going around todav. And if the plans materialize, architects builders instead of plastic ‘surgeons will do the work. Some architects, ete., gathered around the luncheon hoard ‘with the Construction League vesterday and discussed the possibility of giving Indianapolis’ Mile Square a going over. Backers of the program sav that if every merchant or owher in a given area would co-operate in “co-ordinated modernization inside and out” it would work out to their individitl benefit. Dress the old place up and the people start pouring in, they sav. As we get it, there will be no commissions or committees to push this program. Maybe a big civic organization ‘will take it over later. Some of the men at yesterday's meeting were talking in wholeblock terms that ‘would surprise you, They also talked of “gutting” some of the older buildings, rebuilding the inside modern and pretty. A start has been made. More than $1,200,000 has been spent. Take a ‘walk around town and you'll see the difference, A little more of the same sure ‘would look better.

40 businessmen,

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TWO RACING AUTOMOBILES arrived in town yesterday ih sealed box cars. They're (and listen closely because ‘we can’t mention it again) Italian Maseratis. From now on, they will be known as the Schell Specials. They belong to Mrs. Lucy O'Reilly Schell, an American living in Paris. When the French government granted permission to ship the cars over for the 500-mile race, it said they musn’t be called Maseratis or the Frenchmen scheduled to drive them would have to stay home. “Growing tension between Italy and France” was the reason given. Rene Drevius and Rene LeBegue have been released from military service to come over and drive the “Schell Specials’ because if they win ‘the French Government wants it to be a “complete French victory.” But ‘what about the relief driver, Luigi Chinetti? He's heen living in France for years, but really he's an Italian national. » » INDIANAPOLIS PERSONS WHO ‘write letters After

comes to the postoffice fromm Washington saying the mail to that country is being held up a few days so that any individual ‘who ‘wished to %eep his

| letters or packages from the ocehsor's eves may re- | | trieve them. Postmaster George Ress, ho local letter ‘writers have |

But sb far, according to Assistant

seen fit to recall letters for changes,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IME is nearing ‘wheh ‘We must prepare to listen to the annual “Advice to Graduates” stufi., No doubt it ‘will be filled with gloomy prophecies this

The tone of everything heard or read at the moment is gloomy. There's haught but catastrophe

cational, say. Which is all hunky-dory for the graduates. One thing certain, they ‘won't De bored to death, for they are coming into a horrid but vastly exeiting period of history. If ‘we dared to venture a guess, we might say they will be privileged to see the dawn

And TI, for ohne, don't believe it ‘will be another Dark Age. Maybe they'll be destined to keep = death ‘watch oh Imperfalisth but certainly one little man ‘with a mustache, or even several little men

human freedom, hor kill the dream of individual liberty ‘which has bacde deeply rooted in the heart of humanity, This is a dream ‘which ‘will Hever dieu part bf our immortal heritage, a truly Divine Mght for which mankind ‘will ‘eternally struggle. The college graduate of 1 fs ‘coming into ma-

strife, and which for that very teasoh offers mighty

the big tasks, Only ‘rarely in history has there been such need for men and ‘women ‘with initiative, vision, wisdom

A new ‘world Is now in ‘the ‘making. How Jucky are those ne

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but will

defend to the death your right to-say ib.= Voltaire.

LAUDS STATEMENT OF DEFENSE COMMITTEE

| By Stanley Coulter

| The statement issued May 11 by | e Indiana Committee for Na- | tional Defense should ‘appeal to ‘every clear thinking citizen ahd | serve as a clarion call to. a duty which is vital not merely to the Ipresent, but to the future security | lof the Americas, and beyond that to the personal rights of every human being. This call to a manifest should not de lightly put aside, but ‘death.

(limes readers are invited fo ‘express their thete columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letiers short, so all can

views in

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have ‘a chance. letters must

be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

febundance. Por several years the

Then as a remedy each

should command the immediate at-' family was given a plot of ground 'ih a less biased position to sheak. |

tention of everyone who loves his ch ‘which they could ‘work as they country and prizes hot only na- would ‘and establish their own tional, but individual freedom and standard of living. These ‘who [security could produce most 'most. The first harvest was 0 sur[prisingly great that the first | Thanksgiving was pioelaimed and where Socialism had failed the American system of individual ini-

» » »” [CAPITALISM NECESSARY IN

‘SOME FORM, TS CLAIM "By Volte In fe Crowd. Washington, and Adams were not Tories, they were not reactionaries. Why then American”? uid a man who believes in the Why 1s it that when business is Government that they established pood and employment high, those be called a Tory or reactionary? who employ others ate parasites | And why should a person ‘who fs ahd exploiters, and ‘when business ‘tired of the responsibility of self Is bad they are condemned because ‘support from individual effort, ‘who they are not “exploiting” ‘more would sell his birthright and be- labor? [cote a vassal of the medieval po'litical State for a guarantee of Sprungeér whether my name is Ras{cakes ahd coffee, call himself a!putin or Show White? 1 make my Progressive? [owh ‘way and do not have, nor do | Why do people believe that they I want a Social Security card. would be away from capitalism if ‘they took the control of capital aT away from millions of capitalists RESENTS SLUM OWNERS as Re & via gave that con- STAND ON HOUSING rol to the hands of one man or ’ 0 Nhe group of men who formed po- Bn or Sieh en Bui iti rer? | : , ay ning power en Be oy en No intelligent taxpayer fs fooled ‘have private capitalism or State Dy the statements made recently feapitalism. If you like the wauto-'by one of the leading realtors of feratic, bureaucratic ‘way that the! this city. Tt fs th Be expected that [political State handles money, with real estate men Who ake money ‘special favor to the pressure groups out of shims should say that they ‘and the boys Who get out the votes, ‘will “Be werfously harmed” by slum {vou might Ifite State capitalism, clearance. Most people would not, What We as faxpayvers do proThe first organized society formed test fs the $106.000 of the taxpayers’ by first settlers in Massachusetts money that went directly into the was “Pure Soclalism.” The hunters, | pockets of just a féw slith property the ‘wobddchoppers and the ratsers owners for disgraceful relfer hous-

prise was born. Who ate We to say 'tivat this 300-year-old system fs un-

lof grain pooled the fruits of their! ing rented By the township tristees labor that all ight share jh equal land recently exposed by the press. be

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Of Marion County Department

Gen. Johnson Says—

Stock Market Gyrations Foolish Ih View of Fact That War Newds

Are Bound to Bring Industrial Boom

PW YORK, ‘May 17.—What fs the matter ‘with the stock market? Was it Josh Billings who Arst said: “Congress fs a uss?’ Buperficially it would seem that ho group of ‘More or less independent individuals ¢an be “A uss,” but thére is such a thing as ‘a ‘Mob Mmassthind=—especially in panicky times, This ‘county's safety just at this stage depends hot ‘nearly so much on its Army, its Navy or its Air Porde ws it does on its industries. They are going to

have to po to ‘work overtime hot only to supply our defensive needs but to take up the burdens of for merly competing nations, now cut off by war in supplying the needs of the world. Happily or otherwise, it will create a Boom, This nation has not vet Begun to function on the industrial side of building up ‘defenses, This Admiiristration remains allérgic to consequences and comtinues to shoot éraps with destiny. The current dumb statements that we can’t get for two years the pitte fully insufficient armament yet asked for, are an ii sult to industry, » ® T ‘must be admitted that under present statutory and ‘administrative regulation, orgahization, method and personnel, it will take as long or even longer to get this small snag of stuff—which is only a startér. We might us well not get it at all if this ts to be our pace, The war in Europe will be over Before ‘We get it, and then we shall either not need it ‘at ‘all or realize that our need fs many {Imes greater and that it Is hopelessly too late To say that the greatest and most efficient indus= trial system in the world ean't do this job for us is to confess utter fonorance of that system, Industry is just as mich of a profession and just as much an arm of defense as the Army and Navy-—-a “third column.” Our Arst step fs to recruit some Industrial brains, We don't so much need an investigation of past errors as We need two other things: (1) Masterful coordination of all arms of defense, and (2) a small n= dustrial general staff sitting constantly in Washing- | ton and oh the job. An investigatioh might do some

| pood as a guide, but just now we most need action. { » ” AM not talking ahout a new war industries hoard, I but the production problem of this hatioh should Be put Before a committee of such production experts as Menry Ford, Bill Knudsen, Fred Zeder—names just

taken at random for illustration Just as anothér example, it

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fs sald our “Bottle-

| week” is a shortage of such skilled workers as pattern,

tool and dfe makers, We ¢ould get as many as we need by simply freezing, during the emergency, the creation of new and changed models of automobiles at their present apex of production—requiring no decline in production at all. Another example—we hear that there ish't enough gun making and plane making capacity, Th the World War we erected a complete gun plant ih a few months. We expanded our ship building éapacity 1000 pér ¢ént, We need airplane plants in the intérior. Let

| the ‘Government put them up as a combined mear-

of Public Welfare funds, approxi- |

ute of te-employinent, recovery and defense, or subsidize their ereation. All this situation needs is drive and direction—<intelligent direction, To date it has Wad neither and inh present prospect there is no sigh

[mately $370,000 annually goes for | of either,

| rents, ‘and some of the housing isn’t |

[worth mueh better than relfef hous- |

ling. We {he taxpayers are paying {thore ‘enormous sums directly to slum property owners, If ‘We put

[the money into a public housing |

[project ‘we'd clean up the shims and

money,

Meanwhile as soon as these shim | duty ‘colony almost starved and froze to spokesmen get off the ‘list of those |

receiving trustee rents, they ‘will be

As it 1s, they ‘aren't the proper

persons to advise taxpayers on pub- |

lic housing projects. ” ¥ » FAVORS EXTENDING 'OREDIT TO ALLIES By Likerty The desk (humping savior of "America evidently eares nothing for actual facts, Depite he Gallup Polls which show 66 per ¢ent favorling aid to the Allies (Which Very

Ilfkely ‘eomves nearer being 98 Per

‘eent at this time) he fs still holding forth oh ‘war debts and hopes to get by with it until after election, | Every mah fh power ‘who has watéhed this situation develop and done little or nothing about it should be retired as unfit for the task ih hand. , . . Plenty of water has flowed under the bride wince we destroyed out ficet ‘while the militarist practiced

what we e¢all the pokér face until |

it hurt to eonceal his satisfaction. Acquiring air and naval ‘along with armament fs the immediate business ih hand and Feredit to the nations between us fand the militarists and that with ho delay,

Business By John T. Flynn

- have something to ‘show for our | I Talk of Credit a Device Yo Get

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Us Involved on Side of Allies? FW YORK, May 17 About {wo weeks ngs 1 ow ported stories going about the eommodity markets of New York that an English eommiszion in | Washington was Working to get eredits to buy food stiffs. 1 reported, also, that it was being said that this commission was making heacway, Apparently it fs making Weadway. Yor now |'afre told that the chairman of the House Military Afrfairs Oommittee wants to change the Johnson Act, | ‘which forbids any extension of eredits to eountries that already are in default to us The fact that the head of tlie Military Affairs Committee is prepared to take the step that wa vowed to Heaven we would never take must éertainly be significant, No man éan travel through the Middle West and Northwest without being struck by twa things, One fs that those people are unaltérably opposed (ob Peing drawn info this war. The othér is that they helteve the President is really tiving to keep us out. Of ‘eourse the President, or certain Congressional leadérs, may wish to put us oh the side of England ahd France. Many good mén want to do that, But thote who feel that way ought to be honest with the Ameérican people. They should not pretend to be ‘pacifists, to be opposed to entering the war, While ut [the wame time working to put us more and more {oh the side of {he combatants, The British do not need eredits here, They have immense holdings of American #ecuritfes and othér

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bases | properties,

Why, then, work for this exténsioh of aredits? Thére can be ohly one objéct—to get ux fhvalved oh the side of the Empires, to get our hearts and our pocketbooks deeply implicated on that side,

Nine-tenths of wisdom we well Are People Being Deveived”

las wafety f= doing the right thing at the right tinye,

» » > WANTS BALLOTS COUN ED IN POLLING PLACE My Rarmond W. Srawe

Otte thing We must remamber, Tr we grant cradi | the ‘money will Wever Be repaid. Fhpland has never bHeeh able to pay what she Borrowed 20 vearz agh, | We will ‘Wersly Be laying up another store of ills [will bared on unpatd hills | Offe More thing. The people af the #aiihiry Whh | think the Administiation fs frving te keep them oii

The ballot box ih America should of war way well feel they Wave Been deceived when

opendd where the ballots are

‘placed in it,

Iw their own precinct to see to it that

only regular ballots £0 into the bal

Tot box. Men will cease to be free When [they are incapable of fairly eoiint | Ing the ballots at five place where |

[the ballot box.

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APPLE BLOSSOMS By FRANOER RICHMOND

vear through, | Wouldh we enjoy their fragrance as mich as we do? spring Wheh the fowers start blooming ahd the birds to ving That we cherish each blossom dh the old apple trees And wWateh them with sorrow blown Way on the breeze? | Their pink and ‘White petals wre wa lted away, But their loveliness fh our ‘minds will wtay. After the winter's dreary days, whd grime, We welcome again, apple blossom time,

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DATLY THOUGHT

Verily, verly, T say hts vou, The wervant fs Hol greater (Hah his ord; welther he that tx #eht greater than he that sent him, wwJohh 13:18,

COMMAND THY SERVANT ad visably With few hinin words, fully, freely Wid positively, With a grave sountEnmhoe wetbled

those ballots have been placed ih |

If ‘apple Blossoms Tasted the Whole |

Or fs ft because they come fh the

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they awake to discover that the Presfdent and eeprtaih of his agents in Congress are all the time work.

Only free meh ean remain free ng, slowly but persistently, to put us th=Hrzi with ho will depend upon themselves ih «

ale of planes, then credits for food, then general oredits, then battleships. The President fx reported th have told wpversl | people that he Will never #énd hien to Biurope. What [We ‘ean fs that, If we are drawn into the war, we will ‘merely send ships, ammunition, supplies, The people should know this, Ald ‘what fs more, what Would happen to Amarica if ‘we went into the war, sant ships and Bins and sold munftions, but refused to send men to fight a war of Which We ‘Were a part? Does ahyohe suppose that will happen?

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‘Watching Your Health By Jame Stafford

TH life for mdults growing daily more complex and difficult, parents and educators face a bigger job thah ever bafore fh preparing ehildren for the world’ they will have to live ih tomorrow, It | ehildren wre hot Properly trained to meet adult ves sponsibilities, they are lkaly to mulffer Feustin tion: and mental breakdown, Our hospitals for frenting the mentally sek ure nlvendy crowded With patients Whb Were hot prepared to cope With life ws 1 Was yeptors day and today, A peyehintiint, Dr, ©. ©. Burlingame, of the Neiifos Payohintiic Trntitute, Hartford, Conn, WHO has wee the tragic results of disorders that have thelr rans ih the “trivia of ehildhood and (he frastimbion: of rly manhood,” gives the following Apecific advice oh traihing ohildren “Prom the beginning, teach them (hat He f=

| Whruggle, emphasize their duty th contribute wore

thing to Jife, strengthen their morale woe spirit Natures; tougheh them for competition; nh the VernmoulnY, teach them ‘to take ft’ Whe vou dn them A TaVor, BVEn though during the sdusaiive process it Way ®e3im less desirable than spooh-fesding ahd overs protection, "No oie ever wiooesstully Yen the veer of lie” he sontinues, Wit Bh joyed the TuRhing Without fires

Nrodgh a period of hi ining and

But ‘ohee a » Joy -