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THURSDAY. FEB 2. 1933. BALANCED BUDGETS Business men from every part of the state have joined in a protest against the sales tax, or any new tax, for that matter. The objection to the sales tax is fundamental. Many merchants see bankruptcy as a result. They claim that they can not pass the tax to the consumer. If they did, it would mean less business and more hardships for the wage earners of the state, 7 whose pay envelopes have shrunk and who find it difficult to live. Aside from this, the machinery for the collection of such a tax is likely to be so cumbersome as to add cost of government, rather than reduce it. The fairest tax, of course, is an income tax, but unfortunately the incomes of the rich and better protected have fallen so low as to make this source of revenue unattractive to those who want to raise money for government. It is quite agreed that taxes must be lifted from real estate. For real estate, whether it be a farm or a sky scraper, can no longer afford to carry the cost of government. No matter in what direction the official mind may turn, it will discover that raising money for government in these days is a difficult matter. Many believe that no plan will raise enough to support the regular institution and services at the present levels and standards. The business men have offered some timely suggestions as to places where expenses can be reduced. They would transfer the funds from the highway to the general funds and suggest a two-year moratorium on road building. The state can probably get along without more roads much better than it can get along without schools or policemen, prisons or asylums. The one other way is to cut expenses. This, obviously, can only be done by cutting out numbers of employes and cutting the wages of the rest. The vast number of applicants for state jobs 'suggests most strongly that these positions are much more attractive than the hope of a job in private business or industry. If that be true, reductions in wages is not a hardship. Men today are asking for minor jobs who would have scorned the suggestion of getting on a public pay roll tw r o years ago. The way to balance a budget is to cut to the bone. Some salaries of higher officials can be slashed without lowering the standards of available men for them. Whatever happens, the sales tax should be defeated. That means disaster. JUDGES AND POLITICS The bar association of this city has anew plan to take the courts out of politics—and out of the control of the people. The lawyers are quite correct in condemning the present system of selecting judges by forcing candidates to run in regular elections on partisan tickets. To some extent,. every candidate must become a politician. Some of the judges remain politicians after election. The suggestion is now made that the lawyers alone vote for judges and that the Governor make the appointments, dividing the judges equally between the two old parties. While the delays in justice, the frequent iniquities perpetrated by judges of violent temperament, the evident favoritism in cases have caused the people to lose much confidence in courts, the plan of making all judges appointive will not furnish the answer. As between the federal judges in life terms and elective judges for limited terms, the batting average for impartial justice is about even. Neither have much to boast about. But to place the selection of judges in the hands of the lawyers who wall practice in the courts seems the sure way to invite even more suspicion. Small groups of lawyers could, conceivably, control meetings and elections inside this one group. There is one very definite way in which reform could be had. It works in other states. It could be adopted now and should be adopted before another election. All judges should be chosen at a separate election. held on different date and year from general elections and all party designations should be removed. The people must not lose control of their courts. Nor should the politicians be permitted to dominate them. The way to get rid of politics in courts is to take the courts completely out of politics, not to provide more politics. RETRIBUTION The house in committee took a stand for decency when it cut from the justice department appropriation all funds for hiring stool pigeons and purchasing liquor for evidence and then, in a 2-to-l vote, forbade the use of evidence obtained through wire tapping. The house’s cut in funds for prohbiition enforcement for $10,250,000 last year to $8,440,000 this year, a slash of 18 per cent, is in line with its economy pledges. Its refusal of public money for deception and snoopery will ease some of the burdens the American people must endure befor the nable experiment goes unhonored and unsung to its last resting place. We trust that the senate will prove an equally responsive body. Signs so far are not auspicious. Monday the senate finance committee approved the unsatisfactory judiciary committee’s beer-wine bill as a revenue measure. One doubts that this measure for 3.05 per cent beer and wine would bring in as much tax as the more honest house bill. We will, of course, have prohibition until the eighteenth amendment is repealed. But we need not endure such criminal and crime-breeding practices as the use of stool pigeons and wire tapping. Some three years ago, in his minority opinion on the Seattle wire-tapping case. Justice Brandeis warned against wire tapping and other illegal practices carried on under cloak of law. “Crime,” he said, “is contagiou. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law tinto himself; it invites anarchy. “To declare that in the administration of crim- *

Inal law the end Justifies the means, and to declare that the government may commit crimes to secure conviction of a private criminal, would bring terrible retribution.” Every city today is undergoing retribution from a bad law, lawlessly enforced. Congress, by the effective method of cutting appropriations, can eliminate some of the lawless enforcement. WHAT IS THE ANSWER? The Hoover credit inflation exists, but it can not get beyond some of the large banks. The January report of the federal reserve board of New York, just published, points out that "excess reserves for ail member banks rose well above $600,000.000. Most of the increase in excess reserves soon was concentrated in New York banks, which already had a large amount of funds above their reserve requirements.” Obviously there is no shortage—theoretically—of credit, as there is none of currency. We have a billion dollars more of federal reserve credit than a year ago. and almost a billion dollars more money in circulation than in the boom. But there is 14 billion less in bank loans. Yet among the very banks which are gorged with excess reserves are those to which the Reconstruction Finance corporation has been paying further vast sums in return for railroad paper. If any outfit in the country has proved its friendship for the banks up to the hilt, it is the R. F. C. And yet even the sympathetic chairman, Pomerene, of the R. F. C., just has testified to a senate committee; "1 have the feeling that some of our larger banks that are from 75 to 100 per cent liquid ought to play a larger part in financing of these railroads. . . “Thats where I have cause for complaint. I think, when possible, the banks ought to carry these* loans. . . "I agree perfectly that the banks have not done their part.” AMERICAN 'WASTE Every so often some American scientist cries out against the mad riot of waste w’e have come to consider necessary to machine age prosperity. The latest is Professor Ross Aiken Gortner, University of Minnesota biochemist. Dr. Gortner told fellow-scientists at Atlantic City that in the last century the tools of science have wrested from the earth from one-tenth to one-half of its available natural resources. No country has been more profligate of nature’s gifts than America. At the present rate of consumption, its iron, industry’s basic metal, will be exhausted in 100 years. Its copper, zinc, tin and oil will have disappeared long before that. Its sulphur w’ill fail in fifteen years. Recently, Stuart Chase indicted his country’s wisdom with the charge that for every ton of wealth America uses it wastes another ton. He found that we have all but ruined one-third of cur original land endowment. Our gigantic forests will be gone in a decade. Annually we waste 750 million tons of coal, one billion barrels of oil, 600 million cubic feet of natural gas, five billion cubic feet of lumber, wild life, fisheries and other resources in measured quantities. These, of course, do not include the wickedest waste of all, the squandering of human lives. What economist can figure in terms of dollars the annual waste that goes with 12,000.000 jobless men and women? With 2.000,000 children working for wages? With slum housing, prohibition-bred crime, preventable sickness and premature death, neglected old age, wars and preparation for wars, the widespread suffering that comes from insecurity? Conservation means not hoarding, but the wise use, of nature’s endowments. Until now, conservation in this country has been chiefly conversation. Fortunately, President-Elect Roosevelt has showm that in this field he can act as well as talk. Perhaps his New Deal will include some effective measures to save what industry’s great orgy has left of our natural and human resources. Domestic allotment may be new to the farmer, but it’s just a weekly occurence to the wage earner with a wife, six kids and a pay check. At any rate, Roosevelt's critics can’t charge that his “brain trust” was organized to operate “in restraint of trade.” t —• It's better for children to get their feet wet than to be told at the age of 15 to put on their rubbers, says Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. As if telling them, at 15, made any difference.

Just Plain Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON =

IF it were not for the fact that so many people are hungry and miserable and hopeless, this period of transition through which we are passing in the United States would be one of absorbing interest. Indeed, I think it is of absorbing interest to those who, Lke I. A. R. Wylie, ca nregard life “either as a tremendous adventure or as nothing.” It is because we do not have the vision of our existence upon earth as an adventurous and daring pilgrimage that we so often come to grief. A large share of our present trouble has come from our reluctance to accept change as an important part of living. The idea of a different social order frightens us. We shring from the thought of adjusting ourselves to new ways, new customs, new jobs. We suffer from fatty degeneration of the spirit. tt tt a ■\7'ET I feel sure that there is not one cf us who at J- some time has not experienced drastic change in his individual life. One is compelled to leave a well-loved spot, to give up a well-ordered plan of living, to tear oneself up by the roots and transplant them in anew place. And how dreadfu lthat can be in prospect and how often it. is a happy event in retrospect! One leaves old friends, old ties, old ways. It is hard. But always new and perhaps dearer ties are formed .new friends are found, new ways developed, and all at once assumes a splendor it did not have before. How can this be? Because the person has had the courage to adjust himself to alien surroundings and he is repaid for that courage. The last five years in America have been positively revolutionary in the changes they have wrought. Nothing is as it was in 1928. We have been pushed from the moorings of security which we then thought durable and permanent and now are sweeping over the precipice. But we shall survive the precipice, too, in some fashion. Everything today is pointing to that fact. For if all our tall buildings were razed to the ground, all our sanctuaries destroyed; if all our culture were swept away, and we were left as bereft of our possessions as Adam was bereft of Eden, we would still go on. Anew life, anew order would spring immediately from the old.

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It Seems to Me .... by Heywood Broun

IAM not one w r ho would have this "buy America” movement extend to the arts, but I am a little curious as to why Noel Coward's "Design for Living” should be attracting more attention than a much better farce-comedy on the New York stage called “’Goodby Again.” This statement is not intended as a patriotic gesture. I merely am indulging myself in that fantasy which is the right of every free-born American. They told us in school that any one of us might grow up to be a dramatic critic. Asa matter of fact, Allan Scott and George Haight, for all I know, may be just as British as Mr. Coward, even though they have chosen Cleveland as the scene of their drama. Again, I must insist that if I happen to rate "Design for Living” a good deal lower than the New York reviewers, I am not moved by any stern moralistic urge. “Goodby Again” hardly is

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—l am a reader of The Times and I want to say to Clouser of Colfax to come on again with his 15-cent corn as a medium of exchange for paying debts and interest. Three years ago I was out of debt, owned 140 acres of good corn land here on White river and one-half of the corn has failed to pay one-half of my taxes and insurance, causing me to borrow money of the local banks and pay 8 per cent. If something isn’t done soon to get the poor farmers out of this condition, we are doomed to lose what we have worked a lifetime for. I am an old man, have farmed all my life, and I never say anything like this. There was two years that farmers made money, in 1919 and 1920, when wheat sold for $2.73, corn at $2.20, and hogs at $21.40 a hundred. So right away they began to cry out about high cost of living and at that time, Mr. Hoover, food inspector, soon reduced the prices of everything we farmers had to sell, after they had gotten our taxes raised nearly 300 per cent. This is getting to be serious, and, let me tell you, if the government in time of war could put a minimum price on our stuff, it could now in time of peace. At that time they set a price of sl6 a hundred on hogs, $2.20 on wheat, and something near $2 for corn. So let us work for cheaper money and higher prices for the products of the more basic industry of the world. JOHN W. CALVERT. Worthington, Ind. Editor Times—One, and only one, just tax law is introduced in the legislature. That bill is the income tax bill. Os course there is a tremendous fight against it. It is only natural, with people as they are. that the bill will be tied up in the courts for an indefinite period over the question of its constitutionality. What class of people is fighting this bill? Naturally, people with good incomes and those whose money is hidden away in nontaxable bonds, and who do not pay

= r= DAILY HEALTH SERVICE = Sick Headaches Hard to Trace -- . BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ~

This is the second of three articles by Dr. Fishbein on sick headaches. SOMETIMES sick headaches come on without any warning. but in most cases they are preceded by a feeling of depression, by an unwillingness to work, or to go about the daily affairs of life. Since there seem to be many possible causes for headaches of this type, the attack on them must be made from varying points of view. It is believed that they may on occasion be associated, as has been said, with eyestrain or disease of the sinuses. Obviously in such cases careful examination, must be made by a competent specialist in diseases of the eyes, to make certain that the vision is corrected properly with suitable glasses. It should be made certain that the eyes are not abused by working under conditions of improper illumination. The nose must be examined most

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likely to earn a place on any white list, since it deals intimately, cheerfully and jovially with a lecturing author who finds that it is convenient to take his secretary along. Her name is Anne. n n tt Life in Label Land THERE is, perhaps, no special reason why the two plays mentioned should be considered jointly, but it so happens that I saw them on successive nights, and I was impressed with the vast effect which labels have upon the minds of playgoers. When the names of Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Noel Coward appear in a cast there is a disposition upon the part of both press and public to clap hands instinctively. And this tendency is reinforced by the fact that in this case Noel Coward is playwright as well as player. Os his high talent for the theater there can be no possible question. At the moment he is the

their share to the support of the government. The small property owner, who has been out of work, in some cases, for three years, and the farmer, who, on account of low prices for his produce, is operating at a loss, no longer can hold out to pay taxes. They patiently have borne their unjust burden of taxation these many years. Now, unless the burden of taxation is shifted where it belongs, and our “iniquitous and antiquated” tax system revised, we will lose our homes and our schools for which we, the common people, have fought and sacrificed. Will our lawmakers have the moral courage to pass the income tax bill and save these two institutions, on which our republic rests, in spite of the pressure brought to bear? We hope they are made of such stern stuff as they claimed to be when we elected them. MRS. BERTHA RANDALL, Noblesville, Ind.

So They Say

It's natural that a member should want .to -know what his secretary will look like. Some, you know, are very particular.—-South Trimple, clerk of the house of representatives, explaining photographic file of applicants for secretarial jobs with congressmen. The sales tax is a “painless” tax. And that is why it is dangerous tax. It operates like creeping paresis, like monoxide gas. The taxpayer is not conscious that he is paying.—United States Senator Thomas P. Gore (Dem., Okla.). More wealth has been dissipated by unwise political action since the armistice than was destroyed during the entire course of the World war.—Professor William B. Munro, historian and political economist.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvsreia. the Health Magazine. carefully and. if necessary, Xray pictures made of the sinuses, to make certain that they do not contain polyps or infection. tt tt tt THE physician will use the ophthalmoscope to look in the back of the eye, to make certain that there is no pressure within the skull, due to any disorder. Sometimes it is necessary to X-ray the skull for possible •observation of an abnormality in the brain. It is believed that migraine is associated with such disorders of hypersensitivity as hay-fever, eczema, asthma and similar conditions. It is possible in such cases to test reaction of the patient to various foods and proteins by skin sensitivity tests or perhaps to try elimination diets, in which food substances are eliminated from the diet when their consumption

white-haired boy of the AngloAmerican stage. But I rather think that it may be a pity when his occasional descents into mere fiashiness are hailed as sheer brilliance. Only a very jittery community could be quite so enthusiastic over “Design for Living.” It meets the mood of a society which is very loath to think a great deal about realities. Many people rather ■would listen to Nero than the sound of fire engines. But I have contended many times that the mere fact of slightness should not be held against either play, poem or novel. Shakespeare himself did not feel under any obligation to deal eternally with Lears and Hamlets. And so if I were reviewing “Design for Living” I would complain of its stodginess rather than its sallies, tt tt tt The Jack Horner Touch TT is a superb second act entirely surrounded by dough. It is this morning’s raisin in little old yesterday's bun, and I could wish that when Noel Coward stuck in his thumb he had remembered to pull it out before he came to the composition of a really dreadful last act. I am never much amused when the bright people in any light comedy are empowered to score again and again at the expense of stooges made of straw. Indeed, I feel that even in the highly diverting second act there is just a tinge of excessive self-conscious-ness of cleverness both in the playing and the writing. "Do you think the talkies will kill the stage?” asks the young reporter in the second act. “No. I think the talkies will kill the talkies,” replies Noel Coward in the role of the playwright. And when the young man goes into a great and continuing guffaw, the playwright remarks, “It isn’t really as funny as all that.” I could wish that somebody had said just that to Mr. Coward at some time during the third act. Incidentally, I quoted the lines from memory and no doubt inaccurately, but the idea stands. tt tt a Best in Town AND I would like to touch rather diffidently upon just ohe more point before ending my argument that “Design for Living” has been praised quite a little beyond its worth. I have never held that the theater should always deal with normalcy. The variations in human behavior and philosophy are infinite and interesting. But lam a little fretful when a play seems to declare that departure from the norm is of necessity the bravest and finest jest in the world. I think there are better jokes. I like the humorous concept upon which “Goodby Again' is founded a great deal better. It is in its own way just as bawdy and a great deal neater in its economy of construction. Os course, nobody has asked my opinion, but for my taste Osgood Perkins and Sally Bates are giving in this same entertainment the best light comedy performances now on exhibition in this town of New York. fCocvrisht. 1933. bv The Times)

seems to be followed by an attack. Apparently not all cases are due to such sensitivity, but a considerable number may be. tt tt a IN some instances the attacks seem to come when the digestion of the person concerned is not working properly. In these instances, it is well to have a thorough study of the gastro-intestinal tract to make certain that there is neither constipation nor a residue of putrefactive matter in the bowel. In other cases, the glands of internal secretion may be involved, and it is necessary to make a thorough study of the body, with a view to determining that all glands neither are overfunctioning or underfunctioning. This is merely an indication of the necessity for studying every case of recurrent sick headache * with all means known to modern medical science. Next—Relief for sick headache sufferers.

M. E, Tracy Says:

WE BAR INFLATION. AND LOSE

WE are going to fall back on the tariff as'a cure for depression if Resident Hoover and Congressman Snell have their way. True to Republican tradition, both gentlemen feel that the country needs protection aga.nst cheap goods made possible by the depreciated currency of most,other countries. The scheme is faulty in one important respect. While we can keep goods out of this country by raising the tariff, w ecan not keep them cut of other countries. If depreciated currency

has enabled foreign producers to undersell American producers in this ccuntry. it also has enabled them to undersell American producers in othe countries. The idea, of course, is to compel a*rise in currency values throughout the world, but considering that this calls upon the United States to oppose practically all nations, one will be pardoned for doubtins its efficacy. B 8 St Others Accept Inflation; We Do Not OTHER nations have accepted inflation in one form or another as the proper method by which to adjust money vaiues to service and commodity values. We have not. We argue that they deliberately and unnecessarily have lowered the value of money. They argue that we deliberately and unnecessarily have maintained the value of money. Our position is something like that of the lone juryman who said that he "never saw eleven such obstinate men.” We have made it virtually impossible for other people to buy otir goods or pay what they owe us. We have allowed, if not encouraged, the dollar to rise, until we are finding it very difficult to pay each other'. We call the process “maintaining sound money," though it is destroying capital in other lines. Senator Reed says that inflation would only enable one class to steal from another, but is not that exactly what is happening now? We have forced people to make tremenodus sacrifices to protect what some of our statesmen and financiers call "the honest dollar." a tt tt If This IsNt Usury , What Is I WE have thrown people out of their homes, caused landlords to go bankrupt, shut down mills, destroyed industry through reduced buying power, and shriveled the national income to about one-half. The "honest dollar” nas risen by comparison. The man who borrowed it four years ago now must pay 40 or 50 per cent more than he exected to pay, while the man who loaned it profits by that much. If that is not usuary, what is it? When this depression started we tried to restore the balance by boosting prices and stimulating work. To that end, the government made vast credits available, but in the main those credits have been used to shift bad or doubtful loans on to the taxpayers. We were trying to get inflation, jus tas distinctly as other nations, but while they cheapened money we took the old-fashoined route of price-boosting. Whatever else may be said of the relative merits of these two processes, there is no getting away from the fact that other nations have put themselves in a position to sell goods, while we are losing markets.

SCIENCE— = There’s Silver in Films —BY DAVID DIETZ -

OUT in Hollywood the moviemakers always hope that there will be gold in anew film. Sometimes there is a headache, instead. But whether the box-office return from a film consists of gold or headaches, there is always silver in a film. Asa result, a kind of silver mining has become a collateral industry in the Hollywood studios. There is silver in all photograpic films and plates in the form of silver salts, chiefly silver bromide and silver iodide. It is these silver salts which are sensitive to the light. When a photographic film is developed, the develop.ng solution “reduces” or changes the salts which have been affected by the light to metallic silver. Films, after they are removed from the developing solution, are placed, as all amateur photographers know, in a “fixing” or “hypo” solution. This solution dissolves out the remaining silver salts. This means that the image which you see upon a photographic film is composed of blackened metallic silver. It also means that the “hypo bath” contains a certain amount of silver in the form of salts which it has dissolved off the film. tt it a Saving of $ 17,000 THE amount of silver in the hypo bath in an amateur photographer's workshop isn't enough to bother about. The same tiling holds true as well for the average professional. But out in the Hollywood studios, where millions of feet of movie film are developed, the story is different. Consequently, inventors have been working for several years to develop processes by which this silver might be recovered. It is not an easy task, for the silver is present in the form of dissolved salts. Several methods have been tried in the past, one of which changes the salts to silver sulphide, which is not soluble and therefore is precipitated from the hypo bath. The silver then is reclaimed from the sulphide by means of smelting. Recently, however, a process of electrolysis, by which an electric current is employed as in electroplating processes, has been found satisfactory. In this process the silver is deposited in the form of a coating of pure silver. This method, tried out during the last six months at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, Cal., has resulted in the recovery of 60.000 Troy ounces of silver, valued at $17,000, it is reported. The new method is described by Messrs. K.. Hickman, W. Weverts and O. E. Gochler, all of the Eastman Kodak Company, in a report to the American Chemical Society. a tt tt Silver-Plating Cell THE device used to recover the silver is known technically as a silver-plating cell. “The first successful silver-plat-ing cell to be operated in a motion picture laboratory was the airagitated unit buit by Frank Garbutt and associates at the Paramount studios in Hollywood.” the Rochester scientists report. “This is a long, rectangular wooden box containing alternate carbon and monel metal plates. “The solution which flows through in a rapid stream in the space below the plates is agitated vigorously by air blasts. The device has given excellent service ar.d reflects the greatest credit on the inventors who had few facilities for chemical research.” The installation at the Culver City studios, does not use an air blast which now is believed to have a number of bad effects. In^ead,

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a number of paddles are used to agitate the solution. The recovery of silver at Culver City averages from 1.200 to 1,300 Troy ounces per million feet of film. Large cells, each containing 100 square feet of electrode surface are used in the Culver City plant. A current of 300 amperes is used. The voltage is very low, however, ranging from one to one and onehalf volts. “The adjustment of the bath to secure good plating must be made within critical limits,” the Rochester scientists say. “Vigorous agitation, together with the presence of acid, sulphide, and certain promoting agents, is essential.” Questions and Answers Q—What are paste jewels made of? A—Although imitation jewels have been made for many centuries, the manufacture of paste jewels has been stimulated enormously in modern times. A special kind of glass, known as “strass” is used, which is made by fusing white sand, red lead, borax and several other elements. When colored gems are desired, pieces are crushed into a fine powder and coloring substances added, and the mixture then is fused and annealed. Q—When were secret service agents first assigned to protect the President? —A—After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901. Prior to that time it was the custom to designate guards for the President only as occasion arose. Q —Which heavyweight boxing champion held the championship . longest? A—John L. Sullivan, ten years, Q—How many pensions are being paid on account of the Civil war? Those drawing pensions according to the last report are veterans 31,072, widows and children 139,924, and nurses 13. Q —What percentage of the population of the United States is t employed by federal, state and local government? A—About two million, or between 112l 1 2 and 2 per cent of the entire population. Q—What was the original name for Constantinople? A—lstanbul is the old Turkish name. It was changed to Constantinople in honor of Constantine the Great, and recently the Turks have returned to the former name. Q —Were the Jewish and Roman days calculated on ths same basis? A—The Jewish day was counted from sunset to sunset and the Roman day from midnight to noon, and noon to midnight, divided into watches of four hours each. Q —Was Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur, an American? A—Yes. Q—Which state first adopted pensions for widows and children? A— Missouri and Illinois enacted laws in 1911. Q —Which state has the largest number of wild horses? A—Probably Montana.

Daily Thought

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.—Hebrews 3:12. WHAT a glorious thing human life is . . . and how glorious mans destiny!—Longfellow,