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Ail commulnicationis and contributions intended for publi- cation must bear the name and address of the author, not necessarily for.,publication, but for our îles. Sucli iaterial muet reach the editor by Tuesday noon to b. in ime for the. current issue. "MEN,.WoRKING!"0 It is not an-unusual thingwhen driving on streets and highways. to corne upon the warÏning sign, "Men Workinig.": It is an indication, for the most part, t1hat a federal*.project. je under way ini which sone men Who would otherwise be' unem- - ployed are enabled, to. meet 'at least à part of the cost of living. True, the r e mi u ii e r a tion ie email, $55 per month if. the menI are fortunate enough $0 get -i full time, otherwise on the basis of that figur e. But it is soeething-and rnuch better for men and nation than that they should be on relief and doing nothing. We al, are, or should be, hopeful that the timne je not far distant when these "Men Working" signe will begin to disappear-or rather that they will be transferred from streete and roads to the gates of, industrial plants, commercial concerfis, mineé5 and Police officiais of the New Trier villages, or at least corne of them, are just now doing a heap of swearing-under their breath, of course. We ýdo flot'blame them in the ernalleet measure, nor do we think the reader will after learning the, reason. Some weeks.ago >a couple.,of holdup men invaded the North Shore and committed'several robberies, one vctim: being a police sergeant.> Diligence on the part of the various, police departments, and some good work on the part: of the Kenilworth> police, reeulted in the capture of the crimfinals. They, were given- preliminary examinations and bound over to the grand jury, which returned indictrnents. When the cases came to trial a Wilmette man, one of the victime, pleaded withi the j udge to let the men off, giving as. a reason that he had investigated and found that the holdup men came from good fami lies, and he did flot- want to see themi punished. For- tunately, the men were not discharged, but received. se ntences of from one. to fourteen, years ini the' penitentiary. What ýthe police complain of, je the lack of co- o peration on the part of the villager. They assert that after apprehending the criminale and securing the return of the vîllager'e property, the least that he could have done was to 'cooperate with them ini securing convictions. Tfhey asIc, with cutting sar- casm, whether, if the judge had released the men; the villager would have insisted that their gunis be returned to thern so they could continue ini their' profession. STRIPPING THE MINERS * .i -ttif h1ect make it appear that pro- testing telegranis by the hundreds. of thousaride came f rom a few selfish industriai royalists are futile. The plain, blunt fact is that in those tele- grams the people served notice on the- President and, onFaly Hopkins, Wallace and the ther sycophantic kow-towers, coattail-riders and crumb-. catchere that this country will not stand for dic- tatorship, even though the dictator be. a benevolent one with a genial smile. Even the. President's- deniale that he had -dic.tator amibitionàs had a hollow s ound -in view of past performanices. The sooner the administration drops its cock--eyed alien 'isme and gets down to the business of conductingthe affaire of government in a sensible way, .the better off we. ail will be. If this experience doeen't teach them the fûtility of pursuing the path. to a totali- tarian etate, they should ail. resigni. That pair of 'Chicago mutes Who allegedly .at- tempted to murder the hùsband ofý oneQ of them'in order that they might m arrywere dumb in more ways than one. Reports from Sweden are that Greta Garbo has bought a $205,000 diamond. Contradictory reports are that someone else bouglit it. No matter. The report is ahl a movie actrees requirs Next Sunday is Easter., It is, to be hoped that the prinary candidates did not exhaust the vis ible supply of eggs. *And now cornes Dictator Stalin and, says that sometning ro b dne-uu ou ie iac, u tuLi"i jobs now and then that need attention. Why flot give corne unemployed men and women the oppor- tunity to earn an honeet dollar? Suppose you have planned to do the work yourself!1 Take a. day off now and again and give men who sorely. need work a chance. Remember, the more of these odd jobs you give out the better it'.je for* the grocer, the butcher,, the coal man, the dry goode meérchant and the whole community. Stretch a point and help sorneone else to make a living! powerfui. "Industry cannot pay wages unless they earn not only the wages but some profit on their inveet- mente." In grapbic contraet' to the above satie and sensi- ble policy of cooperation with industry is the course of .the more radical unions in forcing strikes, con-_ "In recent years, niining coal by the, process of 'stripping' the earth that overlays a seamn of coal, bide fair to strip thousande of niiners of their jobs. The procese is simple. Engineers énter a coal field, take borings, determine the thicknese of the coal seam, the quaiity of the coal and the amount of oiverburden. They reckon that from 10 to 20 feet of earth caîi be profitably rernoved for every foot of coal underneath. A plant consisting of a steam, gasoline or eIectric shôvel together with a load- ing apparatus je set up. The earth le scooped Up. and depo>sited to one side. Then the-coal, is scooped Thé dean of women of a prominent university tates that there 'are more Arnerie'an girls hanging over bars (barBuies, they caîl 'enm) and mooching drinks tfrmn there are in the colleges and universities. Which does flot s<rnnd 80 good. in i s owvn c( the others > niow can nhe expect -to 0 it i Chicagoland is nothing if not -versatile in its weather. Summer*temperature that brought vegeta- tion into leaf and-bloom were fôllowed a week ago by a drop thatbrought heavy freezes for two or thiree- nights. Theti on Tuesday night a. terrifie show storm that continued until late Wednlesday, with drifts that made roads impassable and left a blanket on the level of seven or eight inches. Thursday brought another storm that added to the 1vUght Mat 'ne îsn't the frst preacher wl Zion and lost his shirt. Now let's think of business for a while. went THic PHANTOM RE PORmic. 111'