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19m. FARLEY ETHICS Westfarook Pegler, who as a sports followed closely Jim Farley's career as chairman of the New York state prize fight commission, doesn't like the way Jim reads Al Smith out of the party "with a contemptuous, patronizing sneer about 'certain people prominent in organizations like the Liberty It was AI Smith who appointed the once humble Jim Farley to the boxing commission. And now Al, a. fine, record of public service, caught in the awful crime of disloyalty to his gang, is cast out in an offhand statement by a man who brings to na-, tional power the same ethics that admitted three ex-convicts to the corners as seconds in a million-dollar fight -in New York-" You may object that the brand of ethics employed by Mr. Farley as boxing chairman and now being employed by him as chairman of the Democratic national committee has no relation to the issues involved in the campaign.

But we submit that the relationship is so close that you cannot separate Mr. Farley and his ethics from the principles which his party professes to espouse. One of the chief issues is created by the determination of the New Deal to transfer power from the states and from the people to a more centralized federal government. The New Dealers profess to believe that they are more moral, more responsible, more sensitive to ideals of social justice than the run-of-mine business man, and the remedy is to transfer power to the New Deal bureaucrats. Henry A.

Wallace, secretary of agriculture, has a book just off the presses in which he foresees the way out through a "cooperative commonwealth," wherein Americans will achieve unity in the face of diversity and the competitive system as we now know it will be no more. Mr. Wallace's book fairly gleams with idealism and religious references. Yet the man who engineers the rractical side of the New Deal, Jim Farley, what does he "do" about all these things which will bring the millennium? The question is not what he "says," but what he "does." The latest racket of the national committee of which he is chairman is a holdup of national advertisers to buy advertising space in the huge convention book of 400 pages in order to defray Democratic campaign expenses. Solicitors were sent out to sandbag corporations wnich goods to the government The New York World-Telegram, which is stronglv pro-New Deal, delved into this Farley business and found that "a sample list of 30 ad- vertisters-- including some of the largest corporations in the country --brings an estimate that those 30 do in excess of $100.000,000 a year in government business The solicitors who sold the advertising space, says the World- elegrsm.

brought pressure tn bear upon the corporations, especially those who had contracts with 1 government, with hints that there might be reprisals against those who did not advertise. Orders to the solicitors came directlv from the Democratic national committee Strangely, federal officials seek to excuse this Farley racket by saying that, after all. most of the government's purchases are made through competitive bidding Here we have an administration, working for the "cooperative commonwealth" excusing a holdup of business firms by the party's national committee with the assertion that competition will prevent any evil effects of the holdup. Here we have an administration preaching the doctrine of business morality and "cooperation" while the.same-time it ite own ex-ample of business morality by sandbagging corporations into buying advertising space, with threats of reprisals for those who refuse, and demonstrating that when the word ''cooperation" is used, it means coerced cooperation for the perpetuation in power of the present incumbents. -It is clear that Mr.

Farley's brand of ethics cannot be divorced from the high preachments of Mr. Roosevelt and his aides. SPEAKING OF VALUES The'opening act at the big show in Philadelphia furnished the news hawks with one outstanding wisecrack to play up in their ttoriei. Senator Barkley, keynoter, said Three long years of normalcy and they had wiped out half values accumulated in this nation since Christopher Columbus and half the total income of all the people of these United States." Mr. Barkley deserves a whole string of demerits for that.

He should get the facts. The values (that is, material) accumulated since the birth of the Republic, and especially during the last 10 or 12 decades of Republican rule have permitted the New Deal to continue its spending orgy; and the spiritual values established during that same time have saved the country from complete demoralization under the impelling hand of a president who would the individual barter away his liberty and his conscience for the sake of a specious "security." WALSH-HEALEY BILL Senator David I. Walsh is represented by one observer at Philadelphia as still possessed of some of his former independence and willing to vote against any platform plank that does not meet his views. This picture of our senior senator is somewhat marred by the fact that he is still a 100 per cent Roosevelt man, and' also by the fact that he was partly responsible for the passage of the Walsh-Healey bill, 'the litle 'NRA-; TffqaTfes" aft" contractors who furnish goods to the government in excess of 510,000 to conform to hours and wage schedules laid down by the president. Have the Democrats repented? Are they aware of the blunder of NRA and the attempt to centralize control over hours and wages in the hands of the president? The Walsh- Healey bill is the answer.

Because government contractors must buy materials and goods from sub-contractors and because they cannot have one set of hours and wages for the government and another for private industry, the president has been handed power to impose NRA upon a large sector of American industry and business. WHEN GHOSTS TALK A ghost writer wrote an article "the-Coluiftbia" uriivefsi'fy magazine for writers in which he lamented the fate of the ghosts, many of whom are destined to walk the night forever unknown and unheralded, while others are doomed to a shorter time of oblivion. Charlie Michelson belongs to the latter class. For several years now it has been well known that he was writing the major speeches of the major leaders of the Democratic party and the New Deal. As many as three of his speeches have been delivered in one day by officeholders at Washington.

And the pies- ent convention at Philadelphia is just cluttered up with identical ghosts of Charlie walking, and especially talking. Yet it has been so far a forlorn parade. Charlie's ghosting has not been the howling success at Philadelphia that it used to be at Washington. The speeches by Messrs. Farley, Barkley and Robinson have aroused only the most perfunctory enthusiasm on the part of Mr.

Robinson last night was reminiscent of the Mr. Robinson who delivered a ghost-written reply to Al Smith's Liberty League speech. He reads Charlie's ghostly stuff as if he were seeing it for the first time. Last night he stumbled even over the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and over the radio it sounded, after a bit of faltering, very much like Rosenbaum or Rosenberg.

"Think what political speeches would be if the politicians wrote them themselves," said the ghost in his article for "Ms." Think that they are at Philadelphia even when the politicians do not write them themselves, Perhaps, however, Charlie is saving his best bon mots, epigrams and wise oracks for Mr. Roosevelt's speech of acceptance Saturday night. So far the best he has done is to pin the title of "quintuplets" upon Al Smith and his four fellow petitioners. Here and There nmmiiminlmtniur'UimrmmmtmmimimmmminBnnmianm One of the hallmarks of the average politician is that he has an incurable tendency to get the cart before the horse. Someone in the Democratic camp seems to have accomplished this entertaining feat by proposing, the final flurry of pre- convention confusion, thaf the party go on record against dictatorship by plunking for a constitutional amendment to limit a president to one term of six years.

This is not a new proposal. It has been kicked around, at odd moments, for a good many years, and in its varied lifetime it has had some distinguished sponsors. But that it should be suggested as the one great, final and fool-proof defense against the chance of dictatorship only shows that someone has been doing his figuring backward. The idea apparently is that if a designing, ambitious and unscrupulous man finds himself limited by law to one term in the White House he will straightway abandon any idea he may have had of making his tenure permanent, bow to the will of the people, and step out gracefully when his time is ripe. But if the constitution will stop a would- be dictator, why put a six-year clause? There is plenty in the constitution -as it stands--to-head-off a dictatorship, once you assume that the dictator is going to let himself be bound by the constitution.

The defense against dictatorship is not as simple as that If it were, we could rest in the assurance of complete democracy of the end of time by the simple expedient of puRing a couple of iron-clad paragraphs in the constitution, shoving it back on the ice and then forgetting it. Unfortunately, there is more to it. The preservation of democracy and freedom rests on a complex and intangible structure of which the constitution is only the visible outward expression. It rests upon the sturdy independence of the average American, upon his age-old hatred of interference and oppression, upon Introducing The W2d Goose cuv? cuess YOU'P BE Roberts and find out what he really means. Four justices, led by Chief Justice Hughes, said the New York statute was distinguisable from the District of Columbia statute and that the Adkins decision did not control.

These four--including the three justices from New York, Hughes, Stone, and Cardozo--said the appeals court hadn'f placed the construction on the law which the majority said it The petition now calls sideratipn of the constitutional principles involved in the Adkins case. The chief coastintutional principle enunciated there was that the minimum wage law infringed the individual's right of free contract ar.J thus violated due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified to protect rights of Negroes in the South and the supreme court is asked to decide whether it still believes, as a majority held in 1923, that it also preserves as an inalienable right the privilege of laundrymen to work for S4 or So a week, whether they want to or not. (Copyright. 1936.

NEA Service, Inc) London Letter McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Squeezes, coupe, and end plays will be among the usual topics of conversation at Asbury Park, N. the week of Aug. 3, when the American Bridge League meets for the summer session of its 10th annual tournament. I have no doubt that i Edward M. Cook of Philadelphia, co- holder with Capt.

Fred G. French, of the sarne city, of the men's pair championship, which they won last i summer, will find opportunity to i recall the interesting hand by which he made a grand dam. which played a large part in winning the cham- pionshjp. Q1836.XEA insistence "tfiat he is his own boss; upon his vigilance to see that his rights are preserved, his readiness to jump up and squawk when those rights are infringed; upon the native intelligence which enables him to smell out the self-seeker and the autocrat. These are things which can't be embodied in any law.

They are the things which have made our democracy work, have brought it through great crises and have insured us against going the way of Italy and Germany. As long as they last, no one need fear an American dictatorship. A party that really 4 in. it one of the most popular hostelries in the city. Furthermore, he potters around the roof garden atop the hotel longer than any of the menials he New York By GEORGE ROSS hlr His special hobby is the spot and baby lights that play upon the KEW YORK, June 25 Because entertainers.

When friends came to call for him on opening night; they wants to protect us from dictator- matically, a playboy. There is ship might think about how it can soun( honest proof to the contrary. Manhattan is overrun by rich young au ht with him in the eiectric- lans corner, taking over the job. men who are always getting into the tlttTmtmimiitttimimnmitutiimnmimiirittmiutmiiitP Behind the Scenes in Washington with RODNEY DUTCHF.R iitufuiiuiliniitiHiiuniiDtitfiiimimiiiiiiuiiittuiiiiiiiii candid camera's eye at night club ringsides and marriage mixups. word has got around that any stripling who inherits money becomes, auto- preserve and foster those qualities and forget about any added safeguard in the constitution.

If the third party talked of by Cong. Lemke and Father Coughlin does get into the field this fall, it will represent one of the oddest assortments of poetical bedfellows ever assembled under one counterpane. There-would-be, first-of all, While the Tommy Manvilles will probably go on disporting themselves with leisure and lucre, there are many youths of fabulous wealth who prefer to work than wobble along on the family fortune. Malcolm Atterbury, for example. Son of General Atterbury.

who heads the board of the Pennsylvania WASHINGTON, June 25 The Republican party has formally declared its belief that states can con- fF stitutionally pass minimum wage laws, despite the supreme court's 5 to 4 adverse decision in New York's Tipaldo case. Railroad, he came to New York last The Democratic party is shying and established un- constitutional issue, although New York au who der an incognito. Back home, he had th ln feel that all the evils oMhVwortd own 8 3 can be traced to an insufficiency He preferred not to become of the last three years. in the supply of cash. They have a rail-share splitter, but turned his Governor London isn sure a long lineage, which runs back longingly upon the thea'er.

whether the states can have such through Bryan, Coin Harvey, and He applied at Hilda Spong's Dra- laws constitutionally, and favors an the greenbackers to the dim mists mauc School under an assumed amendment if they can t. of John Law and the Mississippi i name and for many months was Bubble davs Then, apparentlv, tutored in the rudiments of his- there would be the scattered co- triomcs. He became popular with horts of Huey Long's legions. Precisely what this party stood for his fellow-students and his teachers and once when a Broadway oppor- New York and 11 other states have decided to continue enforcement of their minimum wage laws for women and children despite the Tipaldo decision. was vague enough even when Sen- i tunity beckoned, preferred to bide The attorney general of New York ator Long himself was here to expound it.

Since his departure, it has grown vaguer still. Lastly, there would be the Townsendites. Just how they would draw cards with the others is far from clear. Apparently, they would be united onlv by a restless discontent with the existing order. And that, indeed, seems to be the only bond for this Third party.

It would be, fundamentally, a grab- his time and learn some more. is petitioning for a rehearing of the Then, one day when a cast was case and his petiiton will come be- being assembled for an out-of-town i fore the court for decision next fall, theatrical, he his identity All this needs some-explaining and and appeared in the show under his true colors. Impartial observers said that he could act. So, soon thereafter, Scion Atterbury offered to finance a summer theater for the Hilda Spong Players at Cape May, N. and they, in asked him to be their managing director.

No figurehead is he as the leader heir to the railroad millions is first to reach for the broom and house- bag of people who are "ag'in the i the troupe of mummers. Spies government" for one reason or tron tnere that he is a glut- another--chiefly another. The times being unsettled there are a good IS to many such people; but by all the rules of politics. It would take a TT stronger cement than that to bind i ff Iace He lives in a them together into a permanent I Carding house with the other pby- and influential party. For it is rs des lte th that the Atter- onlv when times are truly desperate 10 1 31 ele ntl that you can build an organization on nothing but antagonism.

Hitler did it. in Germany--but America is not Germany. To lead Americans you must offer something positive. You must be prepared to build up. as well as to tear down.

any lawyer can do it for you--if he is smart enough. Astonishing as it may seem-when you consider the fact that no one seemed to notice it at the time --the court didn't definitely adjudicate the validity of the New York law, as all or nearly all of us supposed. The majority opinion was expressly based on a supposition that the state of New York had not ask- found on the floor the ed the court to reconsidel tjle con- IS a stitutional questions decided in the Adkins case and that the validity of the principles upon which that decision rested were not challenged. The Adkins case involved a federal minimum wage District of Columbia, law for the which the the road. As a model young rich man they also point to Nelson Rockefeller who, at an age well under thirty, shows vThevm ty conc TM the same knack, as his forebeais.

ew or tmsuished court killed in 1923 by a vote of 5 to 3. co not making instead of wasting money. 1 The youngest Rockefeller heir is a st ct of mval da ted A' didn decide that by looking at the cists' medicines and sandwiches. We're expecting a cable from Hit; true what they say about selects the band, the entertainment We don't mind Brazil dumping tons of coffee into the sea, but can't understand why our restaurant insists on buying the mixture. Indian millionaire offers $100.000 for insomnia cure.

He might try counting Europeans under dictators "Termites are not ants; they're cockroaches." Republicans would' have us believe that Washington' one-termites are leeches. as night club proprietors. Here, he A PP eal ha f. construed it as to selects th make indistinguishable from the previous law. Authors of the New York law tried to frame it to meet the quently customers have seen him at the door, consulting the maitre d'hote! on menu matters.

He personally scouts talent and novelties for the fashionable To hear a band recommended to him, he will travel miles and he haunts the de luxe theaters for dancing and vocal possibilities. For recreation, objections raised in the Adkins case. a a lhe jazz. 1 don't know how Dun Bradstreet rates young Jimmy Dona- fully notably With fingerprints, a Cincinnati police expert is classifying scars. It should help at least in identifying the married criminals.

"Inventor of synthetic rubber passes away." Maybe the new chef will turn out better steaks. As part of the campaign against noise, strips of crepe rubber have been laid under the tramlines in the streets of Durban, South Africa. UA uie scions. And if his recent record is i dehvered hue (he is just over 21) next to Nest? York man but once boasted he could "kill a man 5 134 he JS on richest of the! with a look," is seeking a job, knowing 'hat plenty of wives are good at that, themselves. Mussolini should have little trouble settling Ethiopia, since he can always wife political enemies.

in the Nebbia New York milk control law case, hadn't since 1923 modified its position on the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, These issues the majority ducked, except as it said it couldn't go beyond the appeals court's opinion as to indistinguishability of the two Thus Justice Roberts, who had i the Neb- any evidence, he is a considerably reformed playboy. Hereafter, said Jimmy to confidantes, he was going to confine wine, women and song to the other side of the footlights. So he went into theatrical business the other day with Felix Ferry and is now helping to put on a London musical show. He has more than a mere sotto voice in important decisions. The taunt of Playboy was never at Vincent Astor nor is he one of the junior model iet Yet, this multi-millionaire contradicts every symptom of great wealth.

Although his real estate and numerous other holdings are large, he is chiefly bia case, was sble to go along Justices Sutherland, Butler, Van Devanter, and McReynolds, without seeming definitely to reverse his own position. In the Nebbia case he bad flatly denied that "there is something peculiarly sacrosanct about the price one may charge for what he makes or sells" and had sisserted that "sa far as the requirement of due process is concerned a state is free to adopt whatever economic policy may reasonably be deemed to promote public welfare and to MILXO2L LONDON, June 25-- Take a nice fat Italian crow, seethe it in Mediterranean water, flavor with Ethiopian sauce, and season it according to the Benito Mussolini recipe. There you have the dainty- dish that John Bull finds difficulty in swallowing despite the cajolery of Chef Anthony Eden, foreign minister. More than any other event, Eden's iroposal to eat crow by a retreat sanctions against Italy turned spotlight on the uncertainty of ne reactions of the British people government on matters involv- -ii the rest of Europe. The bitter gibes of the opposition and the coolness of the government side of the House of Commons when Eden made his critical sanctions announcement probably were inspired -as-much-by- the effect on relationships with France and Germany as with distaste for reversal of the position on which Britain has pegged its prestige with colleagues in the League of Nations.

This uncertainty and the conflicting currants -of opinion make the tenure of office of foreign ministers the most precarious of the present cabinet. The situation easily might lead to overthrow of the government, which saved its neck once by tossing to the wolves Sir Samuel Hoare, when his part in the Laval- Hoare plan to partition Ethiopia drew down the wrath of the unpredictable British public. It is notable, too, that it was only after Hoare's return to the cabinet, as first lord of ths admiralty, that the cabinet agreed on the retreat from sanctions. On the Italian side the complaint is made that it was only at British insistence that the League of Nations declared Italy the aggressor and law breaker in the conflict with -Ethiopia; that the British -forced the economic sanctions against Italy and closed the world's money market to her. An additional grievance is that now Britain is giving asylum to the exiled and beaten Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie.

The list of British grievances against Italy is even longer. They say that Italy adopted a threatening attitude toward Britain's navy in Mediterranean waters. They are angry because Italian papers keep on repeating that English firms supplied the Ethiopians with dum-dum bullets, in spite of the fact that conclusive proof was adduced to show this was not true. They are angered by a case of Italian espionage into the defenses of the important British island of Malta. They are convinced that Italian propaganda is partly back of the attacks on the Jews in Palestine and the unrest in Egypt.

Looking farther ahead, they see an ambitious Mussolini, not only threatening the independence of Egypt, but the security of the Canal, which is Britain's outlet to India, South Africa and Australia. The Liberal and Labor party press, powerful men in the Church of England, and representatives oJ old Tory families like Lord Cecil ot Chelwood insist that League sanctions should be enforced against Italy, that England shall not acquiesce quietly in Italy's absorption of Ethiopia. To this equally powerful Tory leaders reply that such a course would mean war with Italy; that Britain is not ready for war and does not want one. Furthermore, they hold it is better to be realists and recognize an accomplished fact--Italy's capture of Ethiopia. Having done so, they say it is wiser to restore the Stresa front oi Britain.

France and Italy, so as to face with more composure the menace of a Germany that is rapidly once more becoming the most completely armed and powerful military nation in the world. In this camp of the realists are such men as Sir Austen Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, and L. S. Amery, all of whom in the past have held many and highly important cabinet posts. Sir Austen Chamberlain has always been a friend of France and a foe of a militarized Germany.

Until recently, he had supported the government in its policy toward Italy and the Ethiopian war. Then he made-a-trip-to east central Europe, He talked to Austrian and Czech statesmen. What he heard evidently frightened him. Since his return to England, he has been bitterly opposed to any further friction with Italy. He has been in favor of bringing Italy back into the fold with France and Britain.

During all this mess, the Germans have not been iJle. Hitler in his book, "Mein Kampf," laid it down as a basic principle of German foreign policy that England must be split off from France. For the past two years an intensive drive has been oursued to this end. In the English press it has had the power- 4 8 7 6 A 9 8 6 3 A 4 1 0 5 4 9 6 2 1 0 8 6 5 Dealer South 4 7 A A 5 5 A 1092 7 4 1 0 8 7 4 3 9 5 Duplicate All vuL West North East Pass 3 Pass Pass 6 A Pass Pass Pass Pass Opening lead K. 25 Today's Contract Problem East and West have taken three club tricks, against South's four spade contract.

East now is in the lead. What card should he play? 109 86 A 9 8 5 4 3 None 4 7 5 4 7 3 9 3 2 107 4 A VNone A I 0 8 7 6 4 9 5 3 All vul. Opener K. Solution in next issue. 25 easy, 13 tricks was not at all certain.

The opening lead furnished a slight clew to the distribution, and based on that he planned the play. The ace won the first trick and the three of hearts was ruffed. Next When the dummy was spread, BCV cu Cook saw that, while making 12 was I (Copyright. 1936. NBA Service.

Inc another heart from dummy and ruffed. Then Cook cashed the ace and queen of trumps and led a low club to dummy's king. The king of spades was played, followed by the last spade, and both East and West were squeezed. The last two tricks were won in the South hand with the ace and the seven of clubs. banking circles Germany has always had powerful friends.

The same thing is true of a part of high society with its alliances and companionships of long standing The French have been pressing for definite assurances as to where Britain stands, but without avail But they have one big consolation -Britain's enormous rearmament program. They know it is not aimed at -They- disbelieve-- -such- giant preparation would be required if Italy were the prospective foe. So they can only view Britain's armament as an insurance against trouble with Germany. Our Letter Box I The Same To You! To the Editor of The Sentinel; On behalf of the postoffice department and the employes of postal service in the Fitchburg office, I wish to express my sincere thanks for 'he very efficient publicity given through the columns of your paper to the delivery, certification and payment of adjusted service bonds. It was of great assistance in making it possible for this office to complete the undertaking in a manner that was satisfactory to the veteran, the public, and the postoffice department Patrick F.

Shea, Postmaster. Safe and Sane I Auto Drivin By National Safety Council, Inc. They Say! I LJiUtUUltr i I UICPO frv -enforce that policy by legislation I support of the Rothermere pa- adapted to its purpose. 1 Ipers which have almost been more' Thus the petition for reconsider-I than the Nazi paper? to the perfect management eration backed by the 12 states, in themselves, of the St Regis Hotel, He has rnada in effect an attemnt to out In certain great business and rmunmimimnnimiinmnmiuiimimnnumimuiimnmmimniifmliir 'Maybe you think 96 is ripe old age. Shucks, I ain't been out in the sun long enough to get all the green out of me.

George Isaac Hughes, New Bern, N. 96-year-old Civil war veteran who recently became a father. Men in America lack sophistication They have no idea how to approach a woman. Marlene Dietrich, film actress. When I get into a voting booth I am alone with God "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, former governor of Oklahoma.

The tolerant mind is one which intends to put up with unpleasant ideas, no matter how difficult it may be, and insists on the right of others to express these unpleasant Dr. George E. yincent, former president of the Rockefeller Foundation. There's more than a million 'bos in the country now, most of them rank amateurs. Ben Benson, hobo.

Gold Reserves (Manchester Union) Continued movement of gold to the United States will stimulate new discussion of the possible redistribution of gold reserves among the nations of the world under internationally stabilized monetary and credit conditions. If and when that desirable condition is brought about, it may be found that the main problem is not so much a readjustment of American stocks to European stocks as a redistribution among European na- Hons themselves. In the spring of 1929 American geld reserves were 37.7 per cent of all the gold reserves in the world. Europe's reserves were 435 per cent Just before the latest French gold exports Europe's stock was 46.1 per cent and the American stock 45.2 per cent of all world's total. Gold actually used as a base of credit to promote business not "sterilized" for political purposes -should naturally flow to countries where the- business is done.

The United -States -and western -Europe together do about 80 per cent of the world's business. Roughly the volume of business in a country must correspond to the smount of work done in a country. amount of work done in the production of goods and services is proportional to tie number of human workers, pita the power used to drive machines. Seldom, Jf ever, in the last generation has the work done in the United States been less than 40 per cent of the work done in the entire world. That is true also of western Europe.

it not follow, then, that under normal economic conditions 40 per cent of the world's gold reserves should be lodged in the United States 40 per cent western Europe? Do You Believe in Signs? You might easily decide that many drivers cannot read the English language if you watch busy traffic for a while--and that others are color blincL But traffic signs can be very helpful to any car driver. That, in fact, is just what the multitude of signs and signals on our streets and highways have been placed there for-to help motorists prevent accidents. Consider for a moment what a chaotic condition every congested business intersection would be in if it were not for the clever "STOP- GO" light with its red-yellow-green signals. And the plain "STOP" sign at the boulevard is there to help you pass safely. You drive out into the country, and here is a sign that says "S-CURVE" or maybe "SHARP CURVE AHEAD." You slow down with confidence in your knowledge of how to take the turns safely.

And yonder is. another friendly "RAILROAD CROSSING." It is true that sometimes we think there are too many signs scattered about. But if we are tempted to disregard one now and then, let us remember that the sole purpose of these signs is to help us drive with safety. Boondoggling Supreme (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Tourists in Oklahoma, near the little city of Afton, were rewarded by a new scenic spectacle recently. They saw a line of men carrying buckets of gravel, each weighing eight pounds.

At a point about three miles from the town a railroad overpass has been completed each man emptied his bucket, turned about and strode back down the road to town. What were they doing? They were boondoggles for the government Works Progress Administration. After the overpass was completed, the relief authorities had $1500 left on their hands. To use it up, 62 men were set to work carrying gravel, with the stipulation that each man make four trips daily, carrying no more than eight pounds each time, or a total of 32 pounds for the day. For his day's wo each man received S2.40.

Anyone cai'ght thumbing a ride was told he would be fired. He was warned not to carry more than one bucket at a time or to exceed his eight-pound allowance. So it is that today Afton claims the distinction, in the words of a newspaper report, of having at its doorstep "the most flagrant and non sensical example of misuse of human labor and waste of government funds in the history of the New Deal." This is a pretty broad claim, which may or may not be supported when all the boondoggling reports are in from all over the country. So far as the East is concerned, we have heard of no serious rival to thd Oklahoma claim, as most of our boondoggling is of the official sort, approved by What it may be in the great open spaces of the West, where supervision is difficult, funds plentiful, and the spirit of give and take notoriously liberal, is vividly suggested fay the story from Oklahoma. Congressman's Example Contagious -A-wild-eyed man-rolled -a hoop-in-a Fifth avenue cathedral, jumped through a stained glass window, commandeered a Fifth avenue bus, oft, drove it seventy miles an hour into the Free Public Library, tossed a barrel of sneeze powders into the reading room, forced an old lady to carry him to Thirty-third street on her shoulders and then undressed and' went to bed in Macy's window.

But he explained everything. Asked what he was doing he said simply: "Just zionchecking around," --New York Sun. Add fo Bright Savings Excitement flushed little Hector's countenance as he pointed his fork at the wiggly little wrm in hir salad. "Oh, I see a vitamin." --Jefiersonian..