People rush to lectures on “sex hygiene,” sometimes for good reasons, sometimes to satisfy morbid curiosity, but often with a pathetic hunger for the bread of life. In the hope of forestalling such disappointments the lecturer should hang up before them a sign reading:

“This lecture will not solve fundamental problems. Seek ye the Lord.”

THE DAWN OF A BETTER DAY
A MANUFACTURER SPEAKS

Dudley D. Sicher

[This poem was read at a banquet of the Cotton Garment Manufacturers of New York during the last week of March. The author, a representative manufacturer, dedicated these verses, reflecting a new attitude toward employes, to his business associates.—Ed.]

Do we purchase Toil at the lowest rate

As we buy our cloth and thread?

Do our workers labor long and late

For the price of their daily bread

In gloomy lofts where shadows frown,