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THE STATE JOURNAL, LANSING, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1931 HEROES ARE MADE NOT BORN! The State Journal Wider Highways New York Day by Day ruunuau AftUlj 28, 1355 Commended and Wheat Noticed Published dally except Sunday, by The State Journal from Its home ortlce. Grand Ave. at Ottawa Lansing, Mich Entered as second- class matter at the post ollice at Lansing, under Act of March 3 1879 By O. O. McINTYRE NEW YORK, Nov.

6 country home posing as the reigning police commissioner. The talk is one of great familiarity. The result has Dally Commentators about States Deal With Matters Brought under Their Attention by Events nPHOUGHTS while strolling: What nice people one meets on street cars these days! Jack Benny and Phil been the banker has never had a theft DELIVERED BY CARRIER IN LANSING AND EA8T LANSING PER WEEK 1.2c PER YEAR 6.0O MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS IN MICHIGAN, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE PER MONTH SIX MONTHS 2.25 THREE MONTHS 11.25 ONE YEAR S4.00 MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS OUTSIDE OP MICHIGAN PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE MONTH .75 SIX MONTHS 4 00 THREE MONTHS SI.25 ONE YEAR J7.00 by servants. Bankers know a few tricks. Ask the nearest investor.

manner not to be escaped, yet, in the face of the showing, Tammany is given its greatest popular victory. Democracy as a theory may not work in New York, but as a definite organization it surely does. Perhaps the situation should not be viewed too disparingly. Perhaps the mass of voters of New York did not mean to particularly commend political corruption. It may be that they had another idea in mind and so chose to ignore the showing of corruption.

Quite likely the electorate of New York was sore oppressed by what is commonly called the depression, and so took the first means handy to register in as definite a way as they could their objection to a situation which definitely oppressed them And, beside the very evident intent of the voters of New York, like the Michigan voters of the eighth Michigan district, to vote against the republicans In a national sense, the fact was in New York that the voters had no alternative in city matters. The republican organization of the metropolis represents an entity not as fitted as Tammany to rule. The voters merely voted their personal resentment and let it go at that. There was little else they could do. Baker have cow like eyes.

The raw color of West 47th street between Broadway and Sixth avenue. Tight mouthed talkers. Sleazy rayon frocks. Over bright lips. Italians outnumber other racial Harry P.

Burton, a Cleveland, boy, who made good in the city. Over groups in New York official figures are 1,070,358 and include natives whose parents were born in Italy. Irish, supposed to be second, are not. But Russia is, with 945,000, Ireland third with 612.000, and Germans fourth with 600,000. heard: "When they cant diagnose FOREIGN OFFICES London Trafalgar Building, Northumberland avenue Paris ...10 Boulevard des Capuclnes, corner Place de l'Opera Berlin 14 Unter den Linden Pelpinj 3 Hsi La Huntung Rome 25 Piazza Magnanelll Roma 6 (Piazza dl Spagnai your case, they snatch your tonsils." The original house in the stage ver sion of "Street Scene." A fellow who jOMMENTS offered by various papers in recent days on circumstances of the hour must seem of a serviceable nature.

They deal with matters that come close to public interest. The Grand Rapids Herald, from its viewpoint, lays its sanction upon a matter already sanctioned for the Lansing vicinity. On highway widening it comments: "Widening of the US-16 grade for a distance of seven miles east from Grand Rapids has been authorized. This comes pretty close to being the most urgent highway job in Kent county. US-16 carries a heavy traffic load between Grand Rapids and Lansing.

The stretch from this city to Cascade is further burdened bv con I skip a paragraph like the one owes me 100 berries becomes suddenly interested in the sky. Wonder if Pepy de Albrew has his hair waved! Jane Cowl's queenly carriage. But above. Figures bore me and those similarly affected who hippity-hopped over It, too, may like to know they didn't miss a thing. MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By resolution of the Executive Committee members were directed to keep the following notice standing in the papers, the second sentence therein to be published at the option members.

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Advertising, Circulation, etc. I prefer Patsy Kelly's 10th avenue slouch. She's funnier than Hope Wil THERE, DEAR, AFT6 THE. ARMISTICE ll DAY I KNEW Fpp" tv You'd be hungrso 1 I THOUGHT I'D PX A I ffr GRAMD SURPRISE FOR. I (if I 1 YOO-TO REWIND YOUOF dSSSbx Every newspaper shop used to have liams, too.

Who, also, walks like a Bowery belle of yesteryear. George one fortunate pointed out to cubs as Jessel walks as though his head was writing a book." Today every news FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1931 siderable local traffic. Eventually the paper in town has several full-blown authors. One, indeed, has nine recog lime win come when the entire length VOLUME 77, NUMBER 165 nized novelists on its staff. of US-16 in Michigan will have to be wider.

Forty feet would be none too wide. For the present, however, the The first author I ever saw in a 'House Beautiful' Was That It was a "bum" show. It seems rather too bad to descend at once to the vernacular in dealing with anything so superbly fine as Charming Pollock's play, the "House Beautiful." It was so poor as a "show" that it was no "show" at all. Having at once set the production completely aside as something different from the ordinary run of commercial offerings of the stage, the ground is cleared to get back to some discussion of the superlatively Impressive stage production. The play is due for some editorial discussion in addition to the usual review in the columns devoted to the theater because it so completely represents an close up was John Uri Lloyd, whose job must be done piecemeal.

Right Doing Well with 'Gas' Tax What about the collection of the "gas as the revenue from the tax oh gasoline is commonly called? The question is thrust up for some examination by various references that have been in the news in re haltered. And Alexander Woolicoit doesn't walk at all. He skips. A blind woman sings "Silver Threads" sweetly in Columbus Circle. Some day part of a city's enormous graft may be diverted to care for such human tragedies.

That International wanderer "Tippy" Gray. Claude P. Greneker and James Montgomery Flagg bear a resemblance. I like talk over the coffee cups these days. Thinking people are in dangerous revolt against things they used to tolerate Tammany corruption, blackmailing lawyers, loose living among highly paid officials and banks that preyed on innocent inves now tne entrance into Grand Rapids is pressingly needed.

The state has done well to authorize the grading. A novel, "Strlngtown on the Pike, was best seller of the day. As a ululating underling I was sent to interview him and told him of my Big Dream to write a book, too. And asked if there were any formulas. "Keep warming a chair until it's finished," he said, and paving contract should follow as soon as the grade The Flint Journal noticing the rise it's still grand advice.

H. G. Wells in the price of wheat, adds: once said every man with an urge to "The financial editor of the New York Times points to an interesting tors. Governor Roosevelt and Al Smith situation he has discovered. 'In our write should first read Platos Apology.

Successful authors pack a certain glamour. Also the customary disillu past he says, 'reversal of in are not exactly like that! They say the Waldorf emptied most of the hotels in its neighborhood. And is filled to capacity. That pulsating dustrial conditions after such a period of hard times has almost invariably been preceded by a spectacular recov sionment in a close up. The only on idea.

Contention frequently has been made in these columns to the effect that the stage Is now, and for long past has been, such a superb instrument for the transfer of ideas and ideals, that it is unthinkable that the modern day should permit the loss of anything so vastly serviceable. The theme of the "House Beautiful" has been dealt with in one way or another a million times. The theme is the possibility of human happiness and human worth in spite of poverty and in spite of nearly every material limitation. The theme has been told in poetry and in prose, in sermons and in lectures and in an unending array of advice. But it may be doubted if the theme was ever more vividly, ever more whine as a subway express rounds a ery in wheat.

On such occasions, it has always been discovered that a dejected market had grossly underval curve. Like the aching cry of a thrush. I like Will Cuppy's line: If man did descend from monkeys, it shows a little more on some people, Lyrics of Life By Douglas Ms not disappointing me In personal contact was the late John Fox. The novelist who looked the least like I had pictured him was Hugh Walpole. The least literary looking is Sinclair Lewis.

Stayouts report the current high voltage spots for hale frolic after midnight as Barney's in the Village, Tommy Guinan's Club Napoleon, and Harlem's Cotton club. Want ad: "Lady with a body twitch for medical demonstrations." Any little Egypts in the audience? (Copyright. McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Frances Williams always Bounds to me like she is singing off key. Ward Morehouse's S. A.

(Southern Accent). Ealr Carroll's secretary Miss Ruth. Joe Frisco never shows the slightest embarrassment over stuttering. And spins the most hilarious yarns along convincingly, ever more movingly told than Channing EVERYDAY QUESTIONS Answered by DR. S.

PARKES CADMAN Pollock has told it in his way. The play illustrated another contention. It illustrated that the realest, the highest drama lies not the Big Apple. LIKES AND DISLIKES There's folks you take a fancy to The minute that you meet 'em; You like the way they talk, they do, The minute that you greet 'em. There's folks you never give a smile, At intervals a New York banker's in material but in the a physical cent days.

There have been no specific charges of crookedness, but there has been a good deal of seeming hint and half suggestion and a general tendency to arouse public suspicion in one way or another. Should people who like to keep faith in their state, in the ability of their officials take anxious cognizance of the situation? 1 The State Journal does not pose as knowing all there Is to the situation. It is not attempting here to explain the situation entirely. It is merely suggesting to its readers that they be not unduly disturbed at this stage of the game. There is a considerable basis for this attitude of assurance.

The attitude of assurance assumed here by The State Journal Is that In the collection of the gasoline tax last year something like $21,000,000 was collected Into the state To collect that vast sum required relationship with many concerns wholesaling gasoline in the state. It was, as might be said, a business relationship, betwaen the state and the wholesale dealers. The point to be remembered just at this time is that in the course of the business relationship in which some $21,000,000 was collected, the loss on collections amounted to only about one-quarter of one percent. Most business concerns, thinking of their own collections, will be inclined to take off their hat to the state in the face of such a record. The record must compare tremendously well with the rate of collection of other forms of taxes.

The collection of the gasoline tax is entrusted to the department of the secretary of state. Immediate supervision of gasoline tax collection is placed with Burton F. Browne, director of the gasoline tax collection division of the department. He has made a good record, and it is unthinkable that his system and his diligence has suddenly collapsed. The records of his office on collections may be inspected.

What is said here is not intended as a defense of anybody. No defense is needed. What little has been said above is wholly to the end that people of Michigan may keep confidence in their own institutions. In confidence, rather than in anxiety, the public may watch any investigation that appears things, not in the affairs of the earth, realm of the spirit. There was not encounter throughout the play, but, from beginning to end, there was the secretary calls him at his town or Although youve known 'em quae a incessantly, while.

Evansville, Ind. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler makes out a strong case against our democracy in his speech given at Berkley, on March 23, 1931. Do you agree with his conclusions? SCARCELY agree with your Interpretation of that remarkable ad Washington Sidelights ued farm products, that it had misinterpreted actual conditions, and that eventually it had to bid for them." The continued strength in wheat has certainly contributed a most unexpected and welcome tone of cheerfulness, with the hope frequently expressed that wheat will be able to get back to its normal levels and hold them." The Port-Huron Times-Herald is another paper to see significance in the price of wheat. It asks: "Just what we might be able to do in the way of stabilizing prices if we really had an organized system of orderly marketing, we do not know.

We have really no means of knowing because it never yet has been tried, except in odd lots. And that is not a real trial. The present world situation in wheat, however, gives us something more than a mere suggestion of the possibilities. In spite of all that we think of as surplusses and overproduction, it is probable that, taking the world as a whole, there never yet has been anything approaching overproduction of the things the world really needs. Surpluses are probably merely temporary and local conditions, but the problem is even more than national it is worldwide." The Jackson Citizen-Patriot Is an By RODNEY DUTCHER soundless crash of high spirit battling with low.

There was no "happy ending" in the sense the stage has long built "happy endings." From beginning to end there was sacrifice, renunciation, of things wished for, but with all the sacrifice, with all the renunciation there was no bitterness. Robert Louis Stevenson has said that renunciation without bitterness is the highest test of a man. No, there was no "happy endings" except some might dimly see happiness in dress. After reading it carefully It appealed to me as a noteworthy plea corded him here. He warred on the sickly, the aenemic, the conventional and the pretentious; and in this he did well.

But hla weapons were not always clean, and he sometimes selected low ground for the fight; and in this he did ill. Notwithstanding, time Is merciful to poets, and we shall remember the gray-headed singer oi a stalwart strain, who chanted the nation's requien over the fallen Lincoln when we nave forgotten the spots on Whitman's sun. Those who deny the spots on his sun do him dis-service. Those who ignore him and refuse to believe that so true and profound an artist was simply a poseur, can find stimulus for life and action in Whitman. He was not the paragon a certain school of criticism has claimed.

Nor was he the pretender another and a very small circle has denounced. Figs do not grow on thistles. The best of Whitman's poetry carries with it surpassing credentials; the worst of it, like that of Wordsworth, will fall forgotten by the way. Great Falls. Mont.

What do you think of the popular idea that the ethical training of children is sufficient, and that religious training is a violation of the individual's right to decide religious questions for himself upon reaching mature age? Is not the same right violated when ethical training Is given? Why teach for genuinely democratic sovereignty. I have increased 27 percent In the last Ifive years. I Pparp lpflrlprs kau tip(r rmlir hrn WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 JTFFICULTY has fallen upon the peace workers. This winter, long and fondly anticipated as bringing the great international disarmament conference at based on the ideals of Washington and Jefferson, especially those of the latter, to whom Dr.

Butler paid a deserved tribute. at Geneva lies in a strong manifestation of public opinion. It is hard to that faith and trust were rewarded by still more faith and trust. A triumphant widowhood came to the one believe the manifestation will His remonstrance was aimed at the the audience had first seen as blooming bride. Her And then along will come a rover And make you smile, and smile all over, I've tried to reason matters out, Just why we separate 'em, Why some we like to have about, And others meet, and hate 'em.

It makes me wonder just how I Appeal to people passing by, If other folks I'm just a snake to, Or I'm the kind they kind of take to. The number of the friends I own That seem like sisters, brothers. Depends on me, and me alone, And not upon the others. So I've stopped wondering a lot Why some are likable or not Not what I think of them, you see, But what, and why, they think of me. Tomorrow: EXAMPLES (Copyright, 1831.

by Douglas Malloch) strong enough to change the poor re abuse of our institutions which sults now probable, but petitions bear causes "politics to abound in shams ing several million signatures will be long life of happy poverty was not rewarded by a new motor car in her old age. She merely kept happy memory of her husband and her son. That was all. presented. And there will be a couple of million signatures from this Geneva, now seems to be the winter of their greatest discontent.

The peace organizations will continue to fight with the few weapons they have. They will intensify propaganda, raise millions of signatures to peace petitions, and din disarmament into the ears of the world's statesmen as often as they can corner them. that must be treated reverentially by every politician who would succeed." He argued for party Integrity and party responsibility as essentials of our form of government, and proceeded to show that the present con Perhaps not many have eyes to see, much less appreciate the "House Perhaps, as Eddie Guest would say, "It must take a heap of to come at much appreciation of what the play is all about. To glorify those who never "succeed" is a strange new doctrine to the stage. ife lashes But the poor prospects for arms reductions after the Hoover-Laval conference, the unsettled conditions of fusion of parties conferred illegitimate political control upon minority factionists.

You may not concede President Butler's conclusions. But as I understand them they follow logically from his premises. Not our Europe, and the demonstrated impotence of peace treaties in the Man-churian affair have turned hope into despondency. democracy, but those who are charged As the World Whirls (By the Associated Press) a child that it is better to De trutn-ful than a liar, clean than dirty, City Hall Grouch By EARLE R. PITT obedient than rebellious? If he is to be left to his own choice about religion, why not about morals? As it is, every youngster is born to accept JVEW YORK Miss Sarah Mat-thews has the answer to the tired business man's worries.

She teaches him jig-saw puzzles and, presto! Goodbye worry. certain conventional standards and restraints. These create a favorable or unfavorable predilection in given directions. Who could have it other wise? What Do State Democrats Say? Wonder what democrats are phoning and writing to each other these days, here in Michigan? May not the burden of the conversation be to the effect, "Since we can carry the eighth district, why not turn in and carry the state?" Of course, there is a difference between stealing up on the Grand Old Party and giving it a kick In the ribs when it is down with the "flu" or infantile paralysis or something like that, and taking it for a fall when it is in training. But, even at that, there is encouragement to democrats to get our their war paint.

The war paint having been gotten out, it is more than likely Michigan democrats from now until next June or July will put in the time smearing each other with the battle sign. But even If they do their worst to one another, perhaps not many months hence will see a political contest afoot such as has not been on in the state in years. Maybe some of the republican warriors who have been sharpening knives for one another will begin to think differently. The ethical idealism which protects childhood and adolescence has its best TDABEL, Okla. Charley Draper, cn trial for a double slaying, doesn't have much hope of escaping the death penalty.

He is trying to interest authorities in a plan to take up a collection among spectators at his trial to raise a burial fund. sources in religion. If you question this, read the precepts of Israel's prophets and the counsels of the New Testament. They prevail in the child's education because they are rooted in to maintain its traditions are at fault, as he views the situation. Quite apart, however, from the Doctor's Berkeley address, public guides are not wanting in Europe who advise their constituents to look to Russia and to Italy and not across the Atlantic for the challenge to representative rule Russia declares that the economic and not the political rights of man are the basis of sovereignty.

Italy commits her fate to the rule of a patriotic tyrant. These two striking developments of contemporary world politics regard the state as a corporate entity with a popular idol as its despot and economic prosperity or national aggrandizement as its goal. We who believe that the constitutional freedom of the citizen is the foundation of government are obligated to make our democracy the envy and the admiration of the world. It is far from being that just now, and the reasons for our loss of political leadership are blazoned in the press of the country. There is too wide a gulf between the general principles of American government and the political methods of its application by the citizenship.

These will have to be more closely ar spiritual beliefs which ennoble human life. Certainly as you say In your letter other paper to deal with the income tax suggestion recently left by the Michigan State Grange. In that connection it argues: "Regardles of opinions from the attorney-general's office, the limits on an income tax should be fixed in the State Constitution. And the specific purpose of taxation on incomes as a substitute for property taxation should be set forth in the Constitution. No future state legislature should be given the opportunity to indulge in an orgy of spending by Imposing both income and property taxes.

It is doubtful if the voters of Michigan will approve an income tax proposition. But it is certain that they never will vote for one unless irrevocable limits for the rates are fixed and unless It is definitely stipulated that income taxes may be imposed only as a substitute for the property levy." The Muskegon Chronicle feels that Senator Couzens is saying to business that it must somehow provide against unsupported unemployment or else take the consequence. The Chronicle continues: "But its present significance would be that it would relieve the great industrial forces of the nation from the haunting fear, which their experience of the last two years has demonstrated to them is altogether too well founded. It is this fear that is driving industrial and other workers to political radicalism, but nobody has any right to blame them. As between the political dole and this fear, they will take the political dole.

And they have the power to take it. They are the majority, and of that fact they are also conscious. They are slow to radical action, but there is a certainty that is absolute about the trend. The issue lies wholly with American Industry." The Pontiac Press with a holiday from armament building in mind, remarks: "Dino Grandhi, Italian foreign minister who proposed the one year arma TVTEW YORK William Faulkner, the youthful southerner who Arnold Bennett said "writes like an angel," is going back to his five acres of cotton in Mississippi disgusted with Broadway. "I feel," he said, "like a dog under a spring wagon." some professedly religious people ex hibit repulsive behavior, while some non-religious people are attractively honorable and benevolent.

These are perplexing exceptions, but they only prove the rule sustained by followers Detroit Practices Voting Ninety thousand school children of Detroit, Tuesday went through the complete form of holding an election, pertaining to their city. They exactly simulated as to candidates and process what their elders were doing the same day. Pupils from the sixth to the twelfth grade, inclusive, participated. It wps not a suddenly thought of stunt, but was part of the training afforded by the schools. It is not at alt likely that the practice election greatly disrupted the usual routine.

"Here, you, Smike! Spell horse," said the master in charge of the class of forlorn orphans and cast-offs told of by Dickens in his story of Nicholas Nickel-by. Smike spelled out h-o-r-s-e, and then the master added, "Go rub mine down, or I'll rub you down." following through with a threatening gesture. "What's the use of spelling horse unless he goes and knows 'em?" asked the hard master of Nicholas. "What, answered Nicholas. In this instance Dickens is not making out a first class case for the direct application of knowledge.

Still, Dickens' idea was not to deprecate first, hand knowledge. He was merely inveighing against hard and selfish application of the practice. To merely read about an election and how it is held, is well enough, far as it goes, but who can help feeling that the young Detroiters get a vastly-more vivid and lasting impression of elections by near participation? To go to the booth instead of to the stable makes application of the Dickens idea. It is not much of a trick to vote. Anyone may do iX without much training, but without vivid realization of what an election is, what it is like, is it not possible that there are vastly more young people who lyive come of voting age and yet never voted than is commonly supposed? Is it not possible that a considerable portion of the inexplicable absences from the polls have come about because the youth of the land has not been somewhat especially looked after in the matter of their first vote? The Detroit practice system may not afford so much, in the way of training how to vote, but very possioly it does put into the minds of the young people the definite thought that they will vote as citizens at iheir first opportunity.

Not much training, as has been said, is necessary in showing how to vote, but very apparently many Americans are in sore need of training in the habit of going to the polls. of God who do justly, love mercy and It Is reported that there are 70,000 unlicensed motorists In Michigan. Is that all? (AXACA CITY, Mex. So severe was last Sunday's earthquake, that a hill called "El Sombrerazo" traa cracked wide open. It now is feared the hill will disappear altogether.

walk humbly with Him. I believe that the United States suffers few deprivations more In jurious and far reaching than the denial to its children of sound re- Roosters are reported all out of crow. The rising price of wheat might encourage a little practice game. Some of the peace leaders, adopting what they consider a realistic attitude, now talk in such terms as the necessity for a "hundred-year educational program." Others, also claiming to be realistic, declare that the strength of the peace movement must be directed at such aims as revision of the Versailles treaty, cancellation of war debts and reparations, and Russian recognition, which, they insist, must precede any real disarmament. This program, endorsed by Senator Borah, is that of the more radical peace groups.

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was the first organization in the world to protest the Versailles treaty when it was signed. The peace workers find no more comfort in America than in Europe or Asia. Ask them how about President Hoover's $60,000,000 slash In our naval budget and they give you the ha-ha. Don't you know, they say, that last year's naval budget was $360,000,000 and that this year the navy sent in an estimate for And that when Hoover sent the estimate back to be cut to $340,000,000 it meant no more than a cut of $20,000,000, which is half the cost of a battleship? And that even the $20,000,000 is being taken out largely on navy yards, which congressmen and politicians are sure to protect and save? The Inter-Organization Council, representing 60 peace organizations or peace committees of other national organizations, last spring adopted a policy of trying to get this government to urge some such armaments cut as 10 percent a year for 5 or 10 years, although "left wing" peace societies separately declared for a 100 percent disarmament treaty which migit cover 5 or 10 years. Undersecretary of State William R.

Castle recently said that nations would be just as safe as now if they cut down their present military and naval structures by 50 or 75 percent. Just what program the United States will have at Geneva, in February, has not been revealed, although it is expected to be far more drastic than France will stand for. Peace organizations hope our delegation will be empowered to agree to a combined program of budgetary and direct lim ticulated before the people can get the iigious culture. No nation can pro- woman," observed the Willing Juror to the Grouch, slumping Into a city hall seat, "and her furrin missionary society buddies, is organ-izln' a league to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarets. "They are to have a meetin' in the church tonight to elect a president and organize a political club for to down them damed coffin nails.

And I am for it, too. I'd rather outlaw cigarets than to teach the furrin heathen to wear corsets and rubber heels. "At last the woman's dumbed missionary society is doin' something worth while. The cigaret oughta be druv out the country." "You like movin' pictures?" asked the Grouch. "Sure I do," answered the Willing Juror.

"I go every time I kin come by any cash money which we can spare, and I take the grandson, too. You bet I like them movin' pictures, mister. But I don't see how the cigaret has anythln' to do with movin' pictures." "It has everything to do with movin' pictures," declared the Grouch. "What kind of actin' would we have If a film actor didn't light a cigaret every five minutes? "What would you think of a picture, neighbor, that didn't have a half naked female in It, a puffin' a cigaret and blowin' smoke rings from her nose? Why a picture without a woman smokln' a cigaret somewhere in it, wouldn't be worth Tain't natural and natural pictures is what art is strivin' for. "Take for instance ope of those pathetic pictures of an Arctic explorer with his legs wrapped around the north pole, a dyin' of hunger.

After he has et his last overshoe and has laid down to die, what would you think of him if he didn't light a cigaret in his last moments, and give us natural actin'? "Man, you got to have cigarets or the movin' picture industry might just as well be turned over to the gentiles as far as bein' a success is concerned. Lightin' a cigaret at the right mo duce a sufficient moral foundation 7VDRRISTOWN, Pa. George Caull. 17, was on trial for stealing apples. Throughout the proceedings he wep noisily.

The court cautioned him. "You are too big a boy," said the court, "to act that way." The jury acquitted George. for Its safety without such a culture. Humanists may Insist on the ade The league of nations has just sent another notice to Japan, in spite of the fact that the first one is still in the mail box. quacy of secular Idealism, but their arguments are contradicted by expe rience.

So why hesitate to instruct the In the voting at Auburn, N. the other day, 5.000 votes were cast for a dead candidate. Perhaps many of us would do better as candidates than we suspect. children In the home, the schools tTAGERSTOWN, Md. Benjamin Gift has been sentenced to two years imprisonment as a "common criminal nuisance." In a fit of pique at being discharged by the gas com-Dany, he tamed off all the gas.

and the town went gasless for 12 hours. good government they ought to have in the way they ought to have It. Brooklyn, N. T. Why was there such delays in placing Walt Whitman's bust in the Hall of Fame in New York city? Had he written nothing but his majestic "Ode to Death" that would have entitled him to high rank as a poet.

But Edwin Markham's fine tribute composed for the occasion of the unveiling of Whitman's bust In the Hall of Fame on University Heights, New York, was sufficiently discriminating to explain why the honor you acclaim was delayed. Whitman received appreciation in Great Britain long before it was ac- and the churches upon these vital issues? Consult "Morals of Tomorrow," by Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, who deals with the question in a wise and salutary way. He shows that the re Maj.

Gen. Guy M. Wilson, commander of the Michigan National Guard, has taken to himself a wife. One who gives orders must have to get 'em from somewhere. ligious consciousness clarifies moral Ideals and invests them with the ment building truce, is expected to visit this country within a few days and after consultation with President powers of renewal, imitation and achievement by giving them a back Hoover he may make the official YESTERDAYS IN LANSING Taken from the Files of The Lansing State Journal ground of eternal values.

(Copyright, New York Tribune, Inc.) promulgation that will dispel the uncertainty that now prevails as to an armament holiday. Eleven govern OCHESTER, N. Y. The Rochester Gas and Electric corporation did net want to cut wages. now nil employes earning more than $1,200 are investing 10 percent of their salaries in 8 percent bonds of the company.

OCHENECTADY, N. Y. The averags criminal in New York prisons is a young man between 23 and 27 who left school In the fifth grade. Dr. Walter N.

Thayer, commissioner of correction, says. Two out of every, three prisoners paroled make good. ments have to date expressed approval The World and All of a holiday In armament building, but as there is no definite procedure in the machinery of the league of nations covering the subject and as it is more or less a 'gentleman's agreement' no one seems to know just when By CHARLES B. DRISCOLL NEW low temperature for present season Is reached as mercury dips to 20 degrees. Adrian D.

Smith, graduate of St. Mary's high school and M. S. C. student, Is named first alternate candidate for vacancy at Annapolis naval academy.

Student opposition to Governor Green's plan to ONE TEAR shift Tj. of S. C. football game 4GO MicniBan bowl at Ann Arbor takes concrete form with circulation of petitions on Spartan campus. Carnegie medal is posthumously awarded Miss Luella Ruth Scott, student nurse at Sparrow hospital, who drowned last year in attempt to rescue another.

the holiday becomes operative." ment has saved the reputation of itation. Wayside Pickups By EARLE R. PITT many a great film actress. It's the greatest demonstration of artistry. "No, neighbor, I'd say you got to keep the.

cigaret or bust the picture industry and leave you and me seek in' amusement of winter nights In library books or pop com." Writes His Name On Fan's Slipper A 25 percent arms cut, which is more than anyone expects, would only put. tne world back where it was in 1926, as military and naval budgets T71IRST concert of Philharmonic course pleases large jj audience here at Prudden auditorium Cameron McLean, baritone, and Rata Present, pianist, are artists on program. Aerial bombs tonight mark close of preparations for Community Welfare Fund drive- It Happened Back in 1881 Writing a Book ETLOYD DELL was in my work-shop the other day and I asked him many foolish questions about his method of getting a novel written. Farrar Rinehart have just published his eighth book, "Love Without Money." Dell is still a young man. His whole time is devoted to writing.

By the time he is 70 he will have written a bigger shelf of fiction than Dumas turned out, I predict. He writes with a pen (not fountain) and ink. He finds good fountain pens too stiff for his use. They tire his writing hand. A very cheap fountain pen, with no iridium on the point, is possible to use, he says, but he generally dips and writes.

He uses many kinds of paper. Dell Is a sensitive individual, with the psychological personality of a poet. He finds colors stimulating or depressing In his writing, and, therefore changes colors of paper and ink when he feels he needs stimulation. Freshmen Have High 'I. DELAWARE, O.

(JP) The 1931 class of freshmen at Ohio Wesleyan university is the most brilliant In the history of the Institution, intelligence tests show. Six co-eds scored perfect-marks. Sixteen percent of the women and 14 percent of the men were graded above 95 percent. TEN YEARS AGO slogan is "Give, that love and help may aid." Crowd estimated at attends "hatchet burying" ceremonies at annual homecoming day Tammany Gets 'Vindication "Corrupt and contented" were the words used by Lincoln Steffens something like 30 or more years ago in describing the politipal condition of large cities. His point was that the electorate of the corrupt cities were habitually satisfied; the way things New York city has been holding an election and the result is a sweeping hactory for Tammany.

Inasmuch as there is rising promise that Tammany will loom large in national politics at a perhaps not distant day, people in the hinterland may be partially interested. "Tammany Sweeps tie City with Record Majorities" was the top, six-column streamer headline of the New York Times the morning after the New York election of the other day. Further down in the news it was related that the Tammany organization "won the most smashing victory in the city's political history In the organization's fight for 'vindication' from the charges leveled against the organization in current and recent investigations." The result in New York must be considered In the light of recent developments. The investigation has been in quite a degree partisan, it must be admitted, but, on the other hand, it has been conducted by probably the fairest, most dispassionate, the most independent, the most level-minded man who could be found for the task. Justice Samuel Sea-bury has succeeded in fastening guilt of political corruption of all kinds ori the Tammany organization in the way of time, place, manner, and degree, in a way seldom if ever surpassed in point of conclusiveness.

Arithmetic could be no more conclusive in its handling of two plus two. The case against Tammany has been proved in a EMBERS of his congregation gave gether, but In recent years has changed from one ink to another, and lately has found a kind of shiny black ink that seems to do a world of good to his writing. I found Dell a very Interesting person. He is wholly unpretentious and natural. He seems a bit shy, as many writers are.

He wears sideburns, and I fancy there's something psychological about them, too, though I did not like to He lives with his wife and two young sons in a big house outside of the town of Croton-on-Hudson, less than an hour out of New York city. He has a large study in which to write, and the house Is quiet enough, but he doesn't like to work too long in absolute quiet, so he often takes his gear and follows his wife out to the dining room, so as to write in her company, while she does some work. He doesn't mind having the children in the room with him while he writes. He has no special hours for writing, but when he starts on a novel he stays with it very faithfully until the job is completed. You may remember "Moon Calf." That was Dell's first novel, and a best seller for a long time.

He was working on -a newspaper in Chicago when he wrote it, and the Inspiration came from a conversation with a great nov- tne rtev. x. p. Prudden Kilt of $200 at Michigan Agricultural college Prof. R.

S. Shaw, acting president of college, gives main address. Mrs. Julia Kraus of Lansing is elected vice president of the district W. C.

T. U. at meeting held here. TT WAS nothing to find circulars, handbills, in ones' car after the theater or shopping tour, but to find stray kittens Inside the only family bus well, there should be a law "agin" it. It seems that on account of the depression many Lansing families are getting rid of their livestock.

And they don't dispose of it by public auction as do the farmers. The other night Frank Sallows, member of The State Journal staff and "city farmer," brought his family into the village for a round with the local movies. When the Sallows family left the theater and opened the car door, everybody was welcomed by a cat Somebody had parked the cat in the Sallows' bus to be rid of the animaL And the Sallows family thereby gained a cat, returning to the old homestead out on US-16 in better shape as to cats than when they cranked the old flivver for the city lights. Vincent Lopez, whose band is hear regularly through NBC statfcsr often has been asked to autograph menus, sheet music and photographs but he recently encountered a strange request. His band was playing for a dance in Connecticut and during an intermission a pretty girl stepped up to Lopez, took off her white satin slipper and asked the conductor to autograph it.

Which he did. At the same aff8ir Lopez autographed gloves, handbags, and handkerchiefs. Poland's Army 265,980 GENEVA, (jP) The league of nations secretariat published Poland's armaments statement showing an army of 265,980 effective troops, a navy of 3,108 and an air force of Total budgetary estimates of expenditures for 1931-32 are $93,236,000 of which $80,850,000 is for land forces. Bement and Sons was about to manufacture new magazine stove for burning soft coal without disaerceable soot. He may start out writing on long yel Painters at the A.

Clark fc Co. carriage plant went on a strike because they were not allowed to light gas lamps and work full hours. elist whom he went to interview. The great man sensed that the youngster wanted to write a novel, and said: "Write a bunch of notes on your childhood and adolescence; everything you can remember. Just see if it does not start you off on a book." He did, and it did, and so he's a novelist.

He was born in Barry, 111., and worked and lived In- Quincy and Davenport. His wife, who was Miss Kate Crone, used to live in Minnesota and California. Dell has used the atmosphere and scenery of most of the GOV. FRED M. WARNER is re-elected governor of Michigan majority Is upwards of 90,000 Walter S.

Foster is elected prosecuting attorney of Ingham county, and Harvey Cline is elected sheriff. Twenty-three local grocers sign petition agreeing to HTVTV have phones of Michigan State ephone company removed from YEARS AGO stores if majority of Lansing grocers will follow suit action is taken following increase in service rates. New artificial stone sidewalk is being laid in front of Y. M. C.

A. Word is received by M. A. C. athletic officials that Notre Dame wishes to play game here on Thanksgiving Day.

Ernest Rossi, Italian tragedian, had 'taken New York by storm." low sheets with rules on them, such as axe used for first drafts in many law offices. If the book isn't going so well he will go out and buy a box of new paper of different size, color, and texture. Sometimes he uses white bond paper with a rule-sheet underneath to keep his lines going straight. He formerly used green ink alto Traveling without a load of nectar. Detroit advertiser offered $2.50 per thousand for from $1,000 to $1,000,000 worth of Confederate bonds.

The direct cost of the World war to the United States was less than $10,000,000,000. towns he has lived In, in his novels. a Honeybee mascs about 2s miles an hour. (Copyright, McNaugbt Syndicate, Inc.).