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tight COURIER-POST, CAMDEN, N. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934 COURIER-POST The New Books in Review JCVENINq Established 1875 WALTER WINCHELL On Broadway Edited by ARTHUR D. PIERCE PsIlb' TushlnRham. busing. Jltor; Arthur Htor: Frank H.

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rri. 71,509 Bat 20 70.337 Total Dally Average KILL THE CODES! New Jersey's State code system should be abolished. A racket by any other name is still a racket. And the code set-up proposed to dominate business in this State is the greatest, racket in bureaucracy ever conceived. Hiding behind th skirts of K.R.A., it would give a few men a death grip upon the Jjulk of business done in New Jersey, Not only should Assembly Bills 15 and 16 'bje killed, the whole cede system so far established ought to be abandoned.

Let this State's co-operation with N.R.A. be limited to the co-operation which N.R.A. asks. Most of the codes proposed have the primary object of price-fixing. Price-fixing is illegal.

It is illegal under, N.R.A. It is illegal under State codes. The anti-trust laws have not been repealed. i Scrutiny of the proposed meat code, however, will show how it would thwart the whole purpose of N.RA. Article Six of that code sets maximum hours for operation of stores.

The National Recovery Administration repeatedly has stated that it does not want store hours curtailed, only hours of employes, Worse, the code violates the spirit of the President's blanket agreement in fixing a 48-hour work week. Right how General Johnson is moving for a 30-hour week in industry to put more men to work. As if that were not enough, the code is binding upon ALL dealers whether they subscribe to it or not. And ALL dealers can be assessed a certain sum each year to pay for setting up a Code Authority one more bureau at Trenton, The man who dared contest one of these codes might face all manner of reprisals. The situation, indeed, might not be far from the Capone system-Come across or else is not a system tolerable in a democracy.

By all means let us co-operate with N.R.A. We can do that with legislation supplementing N.R.A. -not with a scheme which violates the principles of the national recovery program as well as the laws of the land. THINGS I NEVER KNEW "TIL NOW (You should live that long!) That another reason why eo many people are out of work; In these United States Is that the TJ. S.

Federal postofClce employes' brass buttons are made In England Instead of In this country (And that I've sent the proof to Congressman Walter Nesbit, by golly!) That I still can't understand why funeral begins with FUN. That a new ruling in the Police Dep't of N. Y. gives a uniformed cop a day off every time he arrests a "wicked" woman on the streets. (Why not give a month; off to those who arrest real criminals?) Mr.

Ripley At the Hollywood rendezvous the other night, when the nudists of the chorus came out Gable blushed! That there Is a law in Kansas prohibiting the making of mince plea because you might get drunkee on the brandy in them. Hici That a man attains his maximum weight at the age of 40, loses it at 60, and at 80 his stature is diminished about 2 inches. (Maw! Git me mjr. wheel chair I wanna go places and look at the girlies!) That a baby breathes twice as fast as an adult. (Except when the stock market crashes or he discovers his bank has failed.) 1 i That If you cannot repeat ten digits in their proper order jkfter hearing them once, you're not normal.

(I give up. What's a digit?) i That another parlor game is this one, now making the rounds. You write down the numeral 17 and the word Bed and cover it with your hand; Then you say "Give me a number quick (The usual answer is 7.) Then you say: "Give me a color!" (The usual answer is Red.) If a person says 7 and red-4-they are "normally intelligent." you show them the 7 and red you marked under your hand to "prove" it. That if in the same game the person says "3" instead of 7 he is "normally intelligent" but it isn't so impressive because you marked 7. (I forget why 7 is the normally intelligent answer but people usually say red because that color is the most outstanding.) That my sec'y said 'Six and blue." (Which gives you an idea.) That your personality is iregulated by glands.

If they are healthy you have a sweet personality. Bernie's must be dead.) That Babe Ruth has hit a home run in every major league ball park except at the National! League Phillies. That according to the iPortland Oregonian, for the money yQu pay to see a big league football game you see only 11 and four-fifth minutes of action. The time, plus outs, substitutions, rest periods and the time between referee whistles, make up the other 2 hours. That umpires in baseball wear black bow ties for a good; reason-Many years ago an ump (short for THE MAIL BAG The Famous xMargot' Offers; More of Her Colorful Recollections Her NeW Book of Chit Chat Supplements the Witty Aiitobiography "MORB OR LESS ABOUT MY' by Margot Oxford (Countess of Oxford and A-V quith); -E.

P. Dutton By Laza THIS is the second book from the pen of this remarkable author. She says in the preface, that these recollections are written not as a con. tinuatlon of her "Autobiography," but rather as a complement to it. She goes into closer details, over matters alreadyj mentioned and writes of new persons, places and events.

For those who did not read her first book, it may be well to say here that Lady Oxford "writes of Peers, Politics and Personalities. Her books are intended for intelligent readers, particularly "for those 'Whose knowledge of historically and politically, is broad enough to enable them to appreciate the wit and audacity with which this author presents her intimatje pictures of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Prime Ministers- The author's brilliant mind, her wealth of material, her intimate and her ability to write simply and jsineerely of the! most exalted beings and cherished traditions, are all conducive to the reader's delight in this work. I You may) open this book at any place, choose a paragraph and begin to read. Each page has its share of interesting 'people and things. The reader will become familiar with such dramatic figures as King Edward, King George, Queen Alexandra, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, The Earl of Balfour and the author's husband, Lord As-quith.

Such Is the persuasive power of this writer that one unconsciously defends herf in her likes and dislikes. Her presentation of the facts in the latter case always consists of a list of the virtues as well as of the faults and weaknesses of those unfortunate enough to deserve her scorn. She givea a few paragraphs to her impressions! of "The United States." Not all of them are kind and some are rather sketchy. Her mastery of adjectives seems to desert her here, and she damns us with! faint praise. With her own peculiar brand of sarcasm she labels us a nation of few philosophers and many religions.

She says that our "Constitution" is inelastic. Let's forgive her for that. She has probably changed her mind. Then she believes our spiritual progress has always been hampered by our financial prosperty a phrase she must have penned with; her tongue in her cheek. On Amerfcan men she heaps praise.

She finds them superior to Americanj women. I There is much that Is really fine In this book. All of it is" interesting. Those who liked her "Autobiography" will want jto. read this new book.

And to those who have not had the pleasure of her first work, it will be a treat. It is brilliant, scintillating ana absorbing. "DEATB IN THE WET," by Gladys Mitchell; I Macrae, Smith, Si. xjERE'S he new one by the author XX of that mystifyin' masterpiece, "The Saltmarsh It presents again that curious woman sleuth, Beatrice Bradley, psychologist who can deduce most anything from anything. Three muirders, all curiously linked.

One victim is drowned in the lake at an insane asylum. Another drowns in a bathttib. The third in a plain washbasin lat a school. Four sus pects are handy but it isn't so easy to fieure them out but the figuring makes a lively tale, with I many of the odd and amusing characteriza tions whicl made the author's first book so outistanding. Unfortunately, Miss Mitchell vioi- lates one of the fundamental canons of the literary sleuthing art in arriving at her solution, but you may or- srlve her particularly if you relish being completely hornswoggled to the very last.

An excellent evening's en tertainment, anyway. "WILFUL 'AND PREMEDITATED'' by Freeman Wills Crof ts; Dodd, Mead A tZ. MR. CROpFTS is one of the most reliable! practitioners of the mys tery profession. His "The Cask" is classic, and this new story is not to be sniffed at either.

While "Wilful and Premeditated," like all the author's tales, hangs upon the problem of 'shattering a prepared alibi, it has a new in that it is really two stories I running more or lesp parallel one, the story of the criminal, the other, the story of his pursuer, tne indefatigable In spector French. 1 it an starts witn tne death of a man during a plane journey from London to Paris. Passengers i suppose Andrew Crdwther to be asleep, but police nnd ne is dead, de tectives find traces of poison and suicide is suggested and hen dis- pruvcu. Inspector French steps in, tracks down the meagre clues and brings the business to a whirlwind finish. "END AN ANCIENT MARINER," by G.

D. H. and Margartk' Cole; Doran The Crime Club, FOR ingenuity, this yarn jby the Coles takes high rank. From the start, the murderer's identity is no secret. Butj the method of the murder and the story behind It well, they make -a book which will keep you racing Vith type to the characteristic and appropriate flnale.j Philip Blakeway is happily married to a wealthy, woman.

Then he is found in hislroom with a man whom he has shot-pin self defense, he says. At first there's no question about it. The man is lan old sea dog, Captain John Jay, and he was drunk. More over, dead men ten no This one, does tell tales, however. Two little clues, an empty rum bottle and the an ele of the gun in the dead man's hand tell much to Superinten dent Wilson, I of Scotland Yard.

From those little bits of evidence, Wilson builds up his case, follows it with a desperate manhunt, finds it entangled with some curious marital complica tions, and ends up victor, and yet a dubious victor, in a great battle of wits. I This is a thriller not to be missed. The Coles have outdone themselves. Crimes o' the Week Stephenson's 'Glass' A Dramatic Novel Set in New Jersey It Portrays the Conflict of a Father's Memories and 0 His Son's lopes "GLASS," by Howard Stephen- I son; Claude Kendall, tS.50. I By Ruth Morton rTAHE single cryptic word.

cacjxiob a powerful fascination for us in this particular locale. It hardlv BPPTY1SI tnot)(U it-. j'wooi uiv mat novel, which aspires to deal very thoroughly with glass in any of it. historical or contemporary phases, should not have its roots imbedded soil. Indeed, while the author makes little iBsue of the exact geographical situation or his tale, we are led to' believe that Trenton or its environs might have provided the setting.

Paradoxically, this is a story of one manfs, love of the soil rather than an industrial narrative. The glass industry, in its infancy, has been given the role of the menace in this dramatic tug-o'-war between husbandry and industry. me is fmerB, an' nothin peorge Rood incessantly droned to his son while the red flare from the neighboring glass factory and the; gas flambeau made 'rosy arabesques in-the fields of the Rood farm and inflamed the imagination of the boy, Georgie. The apparation of a consuming flash, accompanied by a deafening roar when the first gas well was brought in, had killed Georgie's mother when he was born. Or; at least, the embittered father was eternally convinced that it wai the gas- which had killed his beloved Evelyn.

The influx of the Belgian glass-' blowers, with their knowledge of glass sorcery the sudden appearance of the little boom-town where there had been rolline fields beforp.ii tuu fliuuu ill HQ, OI the older Rood more intent on wresting jl his living from the soil alone, and if possible, to live to see the day when his black acres would aCVArl rA ma 1 -4-1 ilC4 1 -v Through a queer vdst of fate hit boy doeainot share his devotion to 4-VtA. fawn II V. U. 5 uovo' ut-i uyiil VV 11-11 bit. of glass In his blood, the urging of which cannot' he denied Tn of the tenseness of the situation the auiopr nas not aiiowea tnings to assume a sordid trend.

True, there I ar several good old-fashioned blood-and-thunder fist fights, mainly be-1 tween the elder Rood and his loutish I neighbor, Jake Karcher. The flower-like Mamie, who is the object of the interest of both Rood and Karcher, has been introduced and conducted through the story with infinite delicacy. The- volume itself, In -fanf ttflM niinintriAjQ hennenltlnff -i the age in iwhich hits events evolved. has been made important The situations are rapidly unfolded and built up with a smash that cannot be Ignored. Honeymoon Hill' Another Absorbing Romance by the Author of 'Ro mance Island' "HONEYMOON MOUNTAIN," by Frances Shelley Wees; Macrae-Smith IF you are a lover of light fiction, the publishers of today are turning out enough of the type to satisfy the most avid reader.

Frances Shel ley Wees, 'who wrote "Romance Island" last year, h.s centered her at-- tention on the heights and has produced "Honeymoon Mountain," in the same general vein. It concern Deborah, a shy, retiring young girl, brought uj in seclusion by her grandmother knd suddenly turned into the world as the wife of a man she didn't wantL Of course, it was a family wish ind Deborah, docile as always, obeyed its mandate. How she fools the family by marry-rids herself of 1 l. c- 4 -1 TJllav Tt'lift gins to threaten her happiness, and finds herself in love with her hug--barrd forms the base of, the rather thin plot. It is not, however, the cleverness of plot situation that makes the book really charming.

Its allure lies in the telling. Miss Wees has written lightly but well, which in is, a difficult accomplishment. There is plenty of humor, the characters are extremely likable and the result is a fascinating romance you can't help but enjoy unless you most confirmed of cynics or the most satisfied of bachelors. Your Income Tax No, 13 -Deduction for Business Expenses Deductions for business expenses form a large item in the return of many taxpayers and must have certain' qualities to be allowed. Such deduction must be for an expenditure in connection; with the maintenance and operation of the taxpay er's business or business properties; it must We an ordinary expense and it must be a necessary expense.

In insisting upon the latter qualifications, the Bureau of Internal Revenue is uDheld bv the Board of Tax Appeals and the courts. Ordinary and necessary expenses are omy wudw which are usual and essential in the case of similar taxpayers, "and do not include extraordinary and nonessential expenses." Typical business expenses 01 a mercantile establishment are amounts paid fdr advertising, hire of clerks and other employes, rent, lightj heat, water, stationery, stamps, telephone, property; insurance, and delivery expenses. The expenses of la manufacturing business include labor, supplies, re-pairsi light and heat, power, selling cost, administration; and other s.imi- lar charges. I The farmer may deduct all amounts paid in the production, harvesting, and i marketing of crops, including; cost of seed and fertilizer used, cost of minor (repairs to farm build ings- (other than his dwelling), anc small tools used up in the course oi a year or two.) A taxpayer may con duct more than one business ant claim the business deductions each. I i Scores Again mm 9-.

A 4 Mary Roberts Rinehart, whose new novel "The State Elinor Morton" has been published by Farrar and Rinehart. A Charming Romance SBBSSBSISS1SSSSJ Helen R. Martin's "Whip Hand' the Love Story of a Minister and His Ward "THE WHIP HAND," by Helen R. Martin; Dodd, Mead ti. By Margaret Sherwood Pierce TJELEN MARTIN, the popular XX novelist who gave us "From Pil lar to Post" will delight her public again with this new book.

Dagmar page, granddaughter of an eminent scholar and daughter -of a drunken vagabond, secures a position as secretary to her own paternal grandparent, who never has seen her. She pleases him so much with her quaint observations and fearless convictions about life that he soon finds himself growing very fond of her. At his death he leaves her his fortune with several strings at tached. All the strings are held by a young and personable guardian who happens to be the local Episcopal clergyman. Used to the fawning admira tion of his female congregation, he studiously avoids anything approach' ing intimacy with Dagmar.

Since, of course, she has fallen in love with him, his attitude Is discouraging and she sets out to break down his re slstence. To accomplish that she portrays the part of the questionable Sadie, in the play "Rain," stages a fake kidnaping and several other amusing escapades before he realizes that the only way to tame her is to marry her. Complications ensue when she discovers him with the wealthy widow of his flock seeking solace in bis arms and while the explanation is entirely plausible and enables Miss Martin to wind up her book in tidy fashion, it remains hardly fair to the reader. The tale swings along easy strides with scarcely a dull moment. Hilary Hammond turns out to be everything you could desire and not the prig you might expect.

Dagmar at first is rather alarming, but calms down into a very modern, intelligent, beautiful woman which makes everything easier for the congregation You'll like this book. Perhaps, as we did, you will sit up far into the wee sma' hours to see "the little minister" through. In the Wild West 'Timbal Gulch Trail" the New Thriller by Max Brand "TIMBAM, GVLCH TRAIL," by Max Brand; Dodd, Mead f. By James M. O'Neill WESTERN fiction, a field of literature long neglected by the Intel ligentsia but favored by quite a few hundred thousand less exacting readers, used to have an exclusive clique of popular authors whose works were pretty certain to stand vour hair on end and yet attained considerable lit erary merit.

Along about ten years ago, a story about a fictitious character named Whistling Dan, appeared and its author, one Max Brand, became an overnight success. His subsequent novels were no less meritorious, and rhe was well established as one of the best word-painters of frontier life in the Old West. This reviewer lost touch with Mr. Brand and his works for some eight years, until "Timbal Gulch Trail" wandered to this desk a few days ago. It was with considerable anticipation: that we opened this new est of Max Brand's works.

For a few pages it looked as though Mr. Brand had. gotten himself another best-seller. But the illusion did not remain. i Something has happened.

Here is not the author's former well-knit story, his careful style nor even his deep character study. Walt Devon, Sheriff Naxon, Burchard, Prue May-nard, Lucky- Jack none of these have the warmth and depth and stature of the men and women who formerly walked through the pages of Mr. Brand's books. These are mere automatons. Mishaps are so frequent arid the characters behave so strangely and irrationally that even Walt Devon, necessarily a man of action frequently pauses to won der what it is all about.

He has nothing on the reader. NEW SHAW PLAYS Dodd, Mead Company have just concluded arrangements with Bern ard Shaw whereby the English and American editions of all future works will be Issued simultaneously in the two countries. The next new Shaw volume is a book of three plays, comprising "Too True To Be Good," "Village Wooing" and "(Jn the Rocks," the last being the current success at the Winter Garden Theatre in Londen. Dodd, Mead will publish the American edition on Februarjr 15, Plight of the Old Civil Service Workers and Others That Jess Willard, one time heavyweight quit being a cowboy because he couldn't find a horse big enough to ride, which didn't force his feet to drag on the ground. He was 6 ft.

6 and was 247 at the time. That when big business starts to compute which is the biggest business in the country, it shouldn't overlook fishing." Last year there were over nine million fishermen in the United States who spent more than twenty-five million dollars for tackle and equipment. That in Austria the hangman gets very little for the Job. He cleans up, however, by peddling bits of the rope to the morbid. Via Western Union.

Dear Win chell:" I am properly spanked and big i enough take it, like it and do isomething about it, for I am wrong I I. would like to emphasize. however, that I have been sorely troubled with personal matters. That was i why my co-workers thought I was stuck on myself and too reserved and all thaffrot. The only kind of a big man I want to be is the kind who is big enough to admit he is wrong.

Sincerely, George Glvot. Hokay, grikk! Thott's wot I call a yuman bimm. That because a Mr. Kessler of a Southern radio staUon reported that in an interview with Beverly West (Mae's sister) that she said she is a Jewess and because the Lite Dige so reported and because another mag reported the Wests were of Ger- man-French parentage, the follow ing from Mae's sister is gladly published. "My dear Mr.

Wlnchell We are Irish and German. As to any statement to the contrary I nevei made it down South or any place; and would be only toct happy to prove same. Also wish to take this opportunity to thank you for all the nice things you have written Beverly West." Will all concerned consider them selves poor reporters? That the Feb. 3 issue of Cpllyers Eye and Baseball World on page 9 borrowed several items from Gor don Sinclair's column "Things I Never, etc" recently and also states "Bob Gilmore, speaking of Remy Orr, after the latter had lost a tough bet, relieved himself as follows 'Why that guy worked himself into such lather you could have shaved We don't believe Orr said it. Wilson Mizner said it years ago and we recently reported, and it wasn't but tntyi That I one of the better definitions of friend is revived by Peggy F.

Hawley of Jackson Heights source not recalled: "Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery for the faults of his friends." That i other oldies but goodies include: i The only way to have a friend is to be one and it is chance that makes brothers but hearts make friends. I like this one, too When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets in their hearts and exchange keys. Complaints. I DETECTIVES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE AND ABILITY TO RID CAMDEN OF CRIMINALS To the Editor: Sir Now that we have one of our greatest criminal attorneys for our prosecutor, Samuel V. Orlando, I feel that he should bo backed up by experienced detectives on his staff.

He, also, has with him one of our best criminal assistants, Patrick Harding. As our city is overrun by gangsters we should have experienced men under the new prosecutor and not take men from barber shops, butcher shops or the like, without i experience. I There is no -use of tryinr to make a correspondence school out of the prosecutor's office as our prosecutor will have his hands full In fighting in the criminal courts. I feel that the proseoutor will have no' sympathy with criminals or crant favors, so bondsmen beware as to the criminal whose appearance you undertake to guarantee in criminal proceedings. The Criminals fear our new prosecutor and those who are not acquainted with him are warned by others to beware.

I feel that any bondsman who bails out a criminal, will have trouble srettina: his man to appear in court on the day set for. his trial. i The committee that is about to appoint the new detectives for the "prosecutor's staff should' be careful who they appoint and not think because the man has an education that he knows it- all. particularly in this tame. You will often find that an educated person does not always know how to use his education in the criminal work.

The prosecutor must have men who can jump out and get the necessary evidence, in all his criminal, proceedings without teaching them how to go about it. I -hope that the committee will be careful as to whom they select. (Detective) FRANK H. MILLER. say and his ideas; and tonight we read where, the C.W.A.

chief at Berlin is in trouble. Again, we read Mr. Pohl's statement in reference to the so-called "Court of Inquiry," which is to settle all complaints. i May we ask him if he expected any other answer? Why does he not study the Courier-Post Newspapers more, and he would not have to waste time in appearing before this board. Read very carefully who is on this board and you will see what is going to happen.

Mr. W. Gentry Hodgson, who is he? Where did he get his knowledge as to handling jury cases? Sometime ago he resigned his position, and now we find him back again. Why? I Mr. Horner was a bus driver only a few days i ago, working for the Public Service, now we find that he is gifted with the knowledge of making decisions, and, by the way, some time back, Mr.

Houwen stated in your papers that any person holding a job could not quit his position to accept one with the C.W.A. Mr. Horner might answer this. The balance of the board doesn't mean a thing as far as we know. We believe that if a general vote were taken by your papers on each project you'd find that the only person who has given straight, sensible answers would be this man Lingard.

A fine state of affairs. BUTTON NO. 2414. PROJECT NO. 9L SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934 1 EVENTUALLY WHY NOT NOW? Hundreds of citizens pouring into city hall to protest against the 1934 budget as unbearably burdensome Ominous, this meeting of the city's hard-pressed debtors.

I A reminder that the authorities cannot too soon call a meeting of the city's CREDITORS. Eventually why not now? -I Taxpayers! MUST have relief. Under the existing set-Up the city cannot give them relief unless and until it gets relief itself. Adjustment of the outstanding debt structure is the answer. Facts have made that pitilessly plain.

Later, it is true, the city hopes to get substantial relief through creation of a municipal lighting plant. Bui even if that project could be started at oncehelp from its revenues would not accrue for a year or two; and the legalistic: obstruction practised by Public Service threatens still longer delay. 4 Meanwhile, the problem of aiding botri taxpayers and city is immediate and urgent! With miscellaneous revenues of a million dollars in sight, the municipality undertakes1 to raise more than $6,000,000 by taxation, including needs for the schools. But property assessments the source of tax revenuerhave shrunk $37,000,000. How to balance the budget? Simple enough, the municipal financiers find raise -the tax rate.

Last year it was; $3.58 per $100 of valuation; for '34 the fig-; ure is put tentatively at $4.32, a boost of 74: cents. Any wonder that the taxpayers are feverish and vocal? To slash the assessments and correspondingly increase the tax rate accomplishes exactly nothing, except to change bookkeeping requirements. The estimated amount to be raised by taxation for city purposes is $6,025,000. True, a reduction of $279,000 as compared with 1933. But it isn't the calculation or writing of tax bills that counts in the end its the centage of COLLECTIONS.

What are the prospects or let's be realis- tic and call them certainties? They are delibly written in last year's records. The total tax levy for 1933 including exactions for State, school, county and city was $6,333,000. And of this sum $2,158,000 was unpaid at the glad New Year. With a higher assessment level but a much lower tax rate than that now declared, delinquencies were 34 percent. How can it help to loosen! up on the valuations, while turning the rate screw tighter? i Now what is the thing that brings the "irresistible force" of the city's obligations against the "immovable of the taxpayers capacity to pay? It is the load of the past debt service costs in excess of $1,650,000 a year that is breaking the taxpayer's back.

A first lien on revenues, to be sure. But irreducible? Not in logic or in fact. Private corporations bigger than this public corporation have come up against this probletn, and creditors have had to submit their claims to receivers or bankrupt referees. Must the city resort to such desperate and destructive expedients? Isn't the i rational alternative to move for NEGOTIATION with the holders of city obligationsfor laying before them the fact that without substantial modification, interest and sinktng fund payments are simply impossible? Must there be a forced default or two in the installments to make inviting some form of co-operation that would safeguard values from ruinous evaporation? Playing seesaw with assessments and tax rate doesn't help a bit. rigid economies, though a sound and even imperative policy, can't alone conquer the difficulty.

The impossible cost of the debt service that's the problem which the local officials must solve. The time to face it is NOW. C.W.A. MUST WIN, IN SPITE OF G. O.

P. The battlecry of the Republican National Committee turns out to be a death rattle. The surest indication of party collapse is thei attack on President Roosevelt and C.W.A. in the campaign booklet, "C.W.A. The Committee paints C.W.A.

as a "political makeshift" which is "saturated with corruption honeycombed with political favoritism." "It is unthinkable," says the committee, "that the C.W.A. be. continued." No constructive-suggestions. No definite program. Nothing but the negative: Stop C.W.A.

to save the country. Fortunately, it is a stab with a rubber dagger. i Is C.W.A- corrupt from top to bottom? C.W.A. is spending $50,000,000 a week. About 4,000,000 Americans and their families are actually living on that sum.

Small room is left for graft. I To stop! C.W.A. because a few grafters have horned in would be like stopping the. war because soldiers were found' snitching cigarettes from the army canteens, "It was organized solely to spend enormous sums of money," complains the G. O.

PV Certainly it was. How else put purchasing power into the hands of the people? "It was Organized to spend the money in a hurry i. The emphasis was placed upon putting 4,000,000 individuals on a Federal payroll at once the object of C.W.A. was speed and still more speed in connecting 4,000,000 individuals with a public Well, what should Roosevelt have done? Should he have waited until Spring to fight the rigors of Winter? The speed that put "4,000,000 beyond the immediate reach of cold and hunger seems a dreadful thing to the masterminds of the Republican National Committee. They prefer Mr.

Hoover, who took his time. C.W.A. To the Editor: Sir The millions of unemployed, left struggling for their existence, may keep up hope Of being absorbed by and by into the Public! Works Program or by the final approach of better business development, through the efforts of the N.R.A., besides having a chance for relief by E. R. A.

or W. C. although there are many complaints about inefficiency, slowness of action, politics and favoritism. But besides those unfortunates, there exist also millions of old men and women, who have outlived their working ability and through bank failure, the sudden catastrophal decrease of the values of investments and real estate, loss of dividends and interest, their income reduced to a minimum, are robbed of theirl security of existence and condemned now to try getting alorfg under the most depressive retrenchments and privation, without appeal to charity: Seldom they find kind and sufficient support from children and thus the old folks must carry on this burden of life or succumb, i often enough by own determination. Even a mortgage free home Is no asset today, for there is no chance for sal or a mortgage loan to; carry one over the seemingly last spasm of the depression, not even from the much heralded Home Owners; Loan Corporation.

When one reads and digests the happenings and deplorable conditions described in the daily newspapers, here the fate of the so-called common people is toyed with and greatly depends upon the all penetrating, dominating, greedy, selfish and reckless, political activity of the leaders in every sphere of our commonwealth, one may wonder why the people endure it indefinitely without the utmost efforts for redress, in spite of having the legal power and privilege for it. But to conquer the evil conditions and achieve honest, lust and 'more equalized ones, is a herculian task because of general indifference, thoughtlessness and moral dullness, inocculated bv the examples of gainful and unperished corruption, throughout low and highest ranks. Your newspapers are adequate and Sowerful guides for such a campaign ut a radical cure cannot be accomplished through the two old political parties. PAST FOUR SCORE. Ex-Salesman Answers Postal Clerk To the Editor: Sir This letter from one of! the unemployed to answer the postal clerk, he's wasting his time in the ppstoffice as he has Will Rogers beaten for "kidding." i Let him count the actual hours he works in a year and then divide into the money he receives, and if he don't know I will tell him rthat he is getting more than nine-tenths of those who pay taxes to pay-him, and he should know that the consumer whether he works or not pays the taxes.

Now for his political game, they are in civil service, thus insuring them their jobs, but I wonder if he wrote to his, congressman and senator and had his family and friends do likewise, as requested by the National Association of Letter Carriers and Postoffice Association that they favor such and such a bill, one was increased pay and the other the pension bill, and both are non-political, or is it just another form of robbery? How is it they don't quit at such poor salary? It took President Roosevelt to pry them off, after they were entitled to a pension, to give another person a chance at the American standard of living. state employes. UNEMPLO XEO. That C.W.A. Board of Inquiry To the Editor: Dear Sir In the mail bag we read messages in reference to Mr.

Deth-lefs, of the Department of Labor and how terrible he is; next, we read what a Mr. Henderson has to PROFIT FROM PROPHETS Anti-Christian Russia has the Codex Sinai-ticus, fourth century Biblical manuscript. Antji-Communist England has the bones of Karl Marx, prophet of Communism. Dean Inge suggests, a trade, in place of the purchase of the manuscript by Britainr" On the the Dean's proposal seems to be the perfect solution of the tangle created by the objections of British Laborites to paying $500,000 for a manuscript while the nation's unemployed: are in their present distress. But jeven the stern utilitarianism of socialism has its tendency for sentimental veneration.

It is 1 quite probable that the British Laborites would object even more violently to parting with the bones of Marx than with the $500,000. And may be foxy old Dean Inge was thinking of that very point when he made the suggestion. fy.".