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TUESDAY, MARCH 21. 1933. CITIZENS’ COUNCILS IF government economy were not a twoheaded problem, it would not be so hard to deal with. But as soon as one faces the need for drastic saving, the other half of the problem presents itself—the urging need for preserving essential community services, no matter how hard it is to get tax money. Fifty-twi national organizations have recognized that the two halves of the question must be dealt with at the same time, and have announced plans for organization of citizens' councils in ev'*ry town and county in the country. This in itself is a long step forward and the plan offers endless possibilities for governmental good. Citizens’ council will begin by studying the efficiency of the governments which serve them and deciding what deadwood must be trimmed away and what services even may need strengthening in times like these. Police protection, for instance, is more needed than ever before, libraries have greater calls upon them, sanitation is an increasingly acute problem in many localities. Relief activities, of course, are expanded far beyond normal. But at the same time police rolls may be padded with hangerson. Sanitation costs may be higher than they would be if two small governmental units joined forces and reduced overhead. Substitution of the merit system for the spoils system might increase the efficiency of a local government strikingly and at the same time reduce its pay roll. The elementary reform of budgeting might save many a lost dollar. It is altogether possible that the present need of supporting education, public protection, health and recreation from money that can be had only by economizing will result a few years’ hence in a far better governmental structure than we have today. County and city government take much the biggest share of the tax dollar—more than they need to take. Reform under the bitter lash of necessity may bring about planned consolidated and efficiently directed government, without depriving those who pay of anything they now enjoy. If the citizens’ councils work toward this end. they will more than justify their existence. JUST A SMALL TOWN MAN WHEN Louis T. Stone, the newspaper writer whose freakish, Munchausen-like little "nature stories" made Winsted, Conn., famous all over the country, died recently, it was revealed that here had been one man to whom the fame and fortune offered by the big city were no attraction whatever. Stone, it seems, had been offered jobs frequently on metropolitan papers. But he had always refused, preferring to stick in Winsted, and remarking, “I’m just a small town man—l and get lost down there.” In that remark there is a good deal of sound sense—sense of a kind which a good many of us never quite had the wit to appreciate. For general ms it has been the tradition in this country that the really able man is going to gravitate, sooner or later, to the city. The city can pay him more money, it can give him a wider field to work in, it can flatter his ego and fatten his bank balance at the same time. And so, year after year, ambitious young men have been drained out of the small town and dumped into the vast hopper of the metropolis—often enough, to their own bewilderment and disillusionment. But this man wasn’t fooled. He said. “I'm just a small town man"; and in that saying there was not so much modesty as a realization that life in a small town can be more satisfying and wholesomet-can, in short, be more fun—than life in a big city, for the man who is geared to it. For the small town man escapes a lot of grief. He escapes crowds, he escapes the depressing sight of those miles of identical apartment houses and “two-families” which constitute the waste lands of our great cities; he has the open country at his elbow, his life is set at a more leisurely pace, his nerves are not put under a constant strain, he has more chance for friendship, for recreation, for plain loafing if he likes. All of us know this, when we stop to think about it. But most of the time we don't stop to think. We chase success down city streets, going after it so fast that we seldom have time to wonder why life no longer has the kick it used to have. How much better off some of us would be if we, too. had had the sense to say—“l'm just a small town man.” THE DAMAGE OF BANK FAILURES (Bv J. M. Dalter. in Harper'* Monthly) WE need to recognize frankly that we have done more to make money unsound, and business or agriculture unsafe, in each year of our bank-failure epidemic that we probably should do in the next ten years if we resorted to the fiat money inflation of such a scheme as the bonus bill that was sensibly rejected last summer. And we need also to recognize frankly that we should put an end to bank failures, and to the disastrous deflation that results from them, not bv the negative palliative of a governmental guaranty of deposits, but by the positive remedy of putting the aggregate strength of all our commercial banks—the banks that issue most of our national currency —into a uniform system that shall be powerful enough to render a governmental guaranty superfluous, and that shall Itself establish

either an efficient guaranty or it* practical equivalent. For the direction In which we have been moving under the spur of necessity is not forward to radical innovations, but back to first principles, the most elementary of which—so elementary that even educated business men and bankers sometimes overlook it—is that money is, in a pecuniary economy, the one and only thing presumed to be riskless. The failure of a single bank-check-currency institution, the loss by its depositors of a single dollar, are anachronisms that no business man, banker, or statesman successfully could defend. That the purchasing power of money will fluctuate, yes; but that “money in the bank” should vanish overnight, and thus violently diminish purchasing power—no; no nation's economy can survive it. WHERE TO GET FACTS /COLONEL CHARLES W. DECKER, in charge of co-ordinating medical services for the earthquake-stricken area in southern California, discovered when he went to work that one of his biggest jobs was to quiet a current of fear created by panicky and illinformed radio broadcasts. He has expressed great indignation over the dissemination of “ugly, unfounded rumors, spread by quavering radio announcers, starting after the first earthquake shock Friday night in the broadcast of terrorizing messages of tidal waves, vast death lists, famine, pestilence and horrors that could be conjured only in a terror-stricken and uninformed mind.” Southern California had a bad time of it in the quake, to be sure; but things weren't nearly as bad as the radio reports indicated. And the moral, once again, seems to be—when you want to know what has happened, read your newspaper. You’ll save yourself the trouble of cluttering up your mind with a lot of false “news” that originates in some announcer’s skull. A LITTLE THING “TT'S a little thing to do. I didn’t realize so much fuss would be made over it.” Thus spoke James Strode, unemployed carpenter, as he was wheeled into the operating room last week to present 10-year-old Kathleen Carroll w r ith three square inches of his skin. A little thing—three square inches of skin! Pick out a spot on your body where you think you can spare it and measure off three square inches. You could almost get your fist into the hole it would leave behind. A little thing—to save a child’s life, to make it possible for her to romp through the years and reach womanhood, normal and undisfigured. When Kathleen is grown and has babies of her own, she will realize what James Strode, a stranger, did for her. A little thing—that this unemployed carpenter turned down his first chance for a job in eight months and hurried to the city hospital to help a small person whom he never had seen, simply because his blood had a peculiar quality which would blend with hers. That blood of his has one characteristic beyond the measurement of microscopes. It has the sort of stuff in it that flowed in the veins of the men at Marathon, at Waterloo, in the Argonne. Unselfish heroism never preens itself, never makes vaunting boasts. That is why James Strode really thought he was doing “a little thing.” Indianapolis should be proud of this man. But it should be ashamed that in all this city there is no job to save him and his wife from hardship. The community and the nation need men like James Strode in these troubled times. SETTLE THE THEATER DISPUTE /CAJORITY of the city's theaters will close “*• their doors Thursday night, unless peace is reached with union employes before that time. Without going into the merits of the controversy, on which only the theater owners and the organized crafts involved can speak authoritatively, it is to be hoped that suspension will be avoided. Closing of the theaters will mean loss to the owners and to employes at a time when neither faction is in the best of shape to incur this loss. And it will work a hardship on the public when, owing to economic conditions, amusement is especially .important in keeping up the morale of the people. If the show houses do close, and remain closed for any extended time, it will mean that their patrons will be forced to look to other fields for their entertainment. It will mean that they will find other diversions for their spare time which may result in the loss of business for the theaters in the future, and, naturally less work and less money for the organized employes. For the good of the theater-going public, the theater operators, and playhouse employes, a settlement should be arranged with the least possible delay. STUDENT PACIFISTS DRITISH patriots got a shock not long ago ■*-* when student organizations at Oxford and Manchester universities voted not to bear arms for king and country if the empire should go to war again. More recently the young men at Glasgow university followed suit, by a vote of 634 to 568. Here, surely, is a surprising gesture on the part cf Britain's young manhood. But one wonders just how effective it might be if war should come to the empire. Would the first blast of the bugle cause these ardent young pacifists to forget their votes and rally ’round the flag in the oidfashioned way? The stir of patriotic excitement is a powerful force, and it has swept pacifists off their moorings before this. Is it being too cynical to predict that all but a very few of these university men would be found, after all. in the recruiting booths if the emergency should come? CHURCH PEOPLE AND POLITICS ■pERHAPS the most interesting commentary on the Pennsylvania legislature's refusal to pass a bill legalizing Sunday afternoon outdoor sports was a remark made during the preliminary debates by State Senator Leon Prince, who warned his colleagues “not to arouse the church people.” “The church people on the whole are indifferent to political corruption, neglectful of

their political duties, and disinclined to concerted political action,” the senator asserted. “But there are enough of them to revolutionize the state if they want to do it. Pass this bill and they will do it.” Whether passage of the act would have had that effect may be open to question. Meanwhile, however, this little comment is a thing which church leaders well might afford to ponder over. THE AMERICAN LEGION 'T'HERE is a saying among members of the American Legion that the organization always takes its objectives. In recent years a considerable portion of the citizenry has questioned some of these objectives. The legion, founded with the noblest of motives, came under severe criticism as the cost of pensions to persons uninjured in the service mounted along with the national deficit. Today the men of the legion have struck their tents and are on the march again for this republic. Louis A. Johnson, the national commander, has sounded the call to support the economy program of the President. “There is no question of legion loyalty,” he said. ‘The patriotism of every member has been proved. In this hour of emergency we are but eager to serve the Stars and Stripes again under whatever orders our new com-mander-in-chief may give.” There spoke a man! And the legion eagerly has followed him. Resolutions indorsing the President have poured in from all over the nation. Legionnaires once more are where they belong, out in the van, setting a glowing example of self-sacrifice and unselfishness to those who would shirk in the present drive against depression. It is going to be a long campaign. There will be hardship and suffering before the last gun emplacement is taken and the last trench mopped up. The nation needs the legion as never before. And the legion already have moved to the attack behind its standard, inscribed with the words, “For God and Country.” FAIR ENOUGH, SENATOR O AID Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, just before he voted against the beer bill; “On a moral question I propose to do what my people ought to want me to do. If my people don’t like it, their remedy is to send somebody else here.” ( Fair enough, senator. The remedy in your case will be at hand for the people of Ohio in 1934 And Indiana voters also will be given their opportunity to take care of some congressmen who reason like Senator Fess, when next election time rolls around. Papers comment in amazement on shortness of Roosevelt’s message to congress demanding beer. Only way he could have made it shorter would have been to say, “A scuttle of dark, Gus!” “September Morn,’’ famous painting which shocked America twenty years ago, is reported missing. Last seen in Russia. You’ll remember it showed a lady bathing. Probably destroyed as counter-revolutionary propaganda. Statisticians have been busy ever since it was announced that a lemon eighteen inches in circumference had been grown in a Nebraska greenhouse. They estimate it would make six pies or lemonade for a circus crowd of 10,000. Several Hollywood movie studios have stopped production of’ new talking pictures because of lack of funds. Just another indication. perhaps, that there is a shortage of sound money. Many local communities already formulating plans to ben beer by local option. Well, beer today and gone tomorrow.

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, ‘ r T"'HE wealth of this country,” says Roy W. A Howard, “is not sealed in Wall Street banks. It is in the courage and resourcefulness of our citizens everywhere.” That sums up the situation nicely, whether from standpoint of cause or cure. Hope in speculative investments rather than creative work not only brought on the depression, but has prevented recovery. In spite of all the liberal, broad-minded phrases, the prevailing attitude has been negative, reactionary and regretful. Restoration rather than advancement has been the aim. Asa whole, the people of this country have not concentrated on what could be done through the encouragement of new activities and the use of newly acquired knowledge. The idea of saving old capital has played a. far more important part in shaping general policy than the idea of creating new capital. ' a a INSTEAD of recognizing the great fields of endeavor opened up by machinery, we have preferred to weep over the ones it has closed. Improved methods of communication and transportation make it possible for people to spread out over the land as never before and still enjoy the advantages of civilized life. Increased production in most old lines should be regarded as a blessing, because it releases man power for the development of new lines. We are privileged to rebuild a nation, if we only could see it that way, to reorganize the economic and industrial structure, to promote a type of life for average men, women and children such as was inconceivable three generations ago. Trade, culture and social intercourse no longer are dependent on congested centers. A home in the open country no longer implies isolation. We have been freed from those shackles which formerly bound us to the crowded city or some far-away farm. a u n SCIENCE has opened half a dozen doors for every one it has closed and made as many jobs for every one it has destroyed. There is only one reason for our failure to perceive the vast oportunities with which we are surrounded. We persist in thinking of the past, rather than the future. We do not comprehend what can be done with the tools at our command. We think of work as something to be had through possession, instead of possession as something to be had through work. We think of leisure, rather than achievement, as the great objective. We think of money as all-important, because we can rake some together and live in leisure for a little while. This nation was not developed by such philosophy, and it can not be restored, or kept going by such philosophy. There is just one excuse for discovery and invention, and that is their employment for a better, broader life, for improvement rather than repairs, for growth, not stagnation. •

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[Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so every one can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. 1 By Mysticos. One guess is as good as another. When Little Arthur faces Paul V. McNutt for the senate race in two years, the issue will turn on Legion support. If the Indianapolis mob is as warped as it has been, there will be contest over friends in Legion court If I can believe what I hear, Paul has bitter enemies in Legion court all over the country. Therefore, why should not Arthur keep an eye on the bonus for the boys? Again, I can not see Ludlow out so soon. He had won despite two or three terrible books, and handwritten single-spaced • newspaper copy written by himself. There are a good many persons in Indiana who wdll vote dry and keep at it. I doubt not that the next vote will be wet, but just listen to the rain after beer returns. By Frank L. Martino. It is the inescapable duty of every Ameriqan to loyally and wholeheartedly support President Roosevelt. He has become the leader of the national government; he has become the official spokesman of more than 120,000,000 persons; he has become the chief executive of a nation which looks to him for the character of leadership which wdll bring order out of the chaos which grips the country. Mr. Roosevelt has ceased to be an individual. He has become the leader of the American people and it behooves every person not only to recognize his leadership, but to extend to him whatever aid is necessary to proper consummation of the governmental policies which he will espouse. President Roosevelt was chosen by an overwhelming vote of the people. He was supported by both Democrats and Republicans. He is not indebted as a partisan to any group of people, but is obligated not only to uphold every tradition

THE tissues of the eye behind the lens are subject to infections and inflammations. There are the delicate membranes of blood vessels and pigments, the rigid outer* coating, and the retina or membrane of light perception. The large cavity is filled with vitreous, the fluid of the eye. Normally rays of light pass through the vitreous without any hindrance, but occasionally there are small pieces of tissue in the vitreous which cast a shadow on the retina, such shadow's being seen constantly as specks. Inflammations which affect the retina and the delicate membrane associated with it may be associated with the changes that take place in the blood vessels or tissues in old age, with infections elsewhere in the body, and with

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ISAT on the bench before the door by the side of the itinerant gentleman who ate with slow politeness the lunch we had fixed for him. The warm sunshine made a golden blanket for our feet. “Well,” he said in response to my inquiries, * “I’ve been all over this country, and I don’t think we’re sunk yet. not by a long shot. In the main, folks are pretty lively. I always say you can’t keep a good American down. “I used to live in Cleveland. Had a good job driving a truck, but two years ago I lost it. Since then I’ve been hitting around from pillar to post. It ain’t such a bad life for a bachelor, and it’s wonderful how much I’ve seen. “You know, lady, this is a big country when you start to walk across it. Oh. yes. I’ve had a lot of jobs—all kinds. Sometimes I make enough to send my mother a money order. She’s pretty old now, and lives with my sister in Cincinnati. "I always write to her regularly even’ Saturday. She loves to hear about the things that’s happening to me.

Farm Relief!

Back Roosevelt By Milo IDO not think President Roosevelt can be commended too highly for his honest effort to economize in the expenditures of the national government, and I feel he should have the wholehearted support of every redblooded American. The expenditures of the veterans’ bureau should not be overlooked. as this is a much larger leak in the government expenses than most people realize, and a vast amount is paid to men who have good jobs and have had all during this depression. My contention is that if a man is able to hold down a good job he is not disabled to a point where he is entitled to additional help from the government. of the nation, but to do what no previous President ever has been forced to and the worst depression in the history of the nation. It is within the realm of probability that he will be forced to be a dictator to inaugurate the drastic policies which he will conceive for the betterment of his nation. He proposes reforms; he insists upon sharp reductions in government costs; he urges restriction of compensation to veterans. Neither Republicans nor Democrats can afford to harass President Roosevelt or maliciously place obstacles in his path. The nation is at war with depression. To win, the people must pull together. By Associated Employers The newspapers of Indianapolis, and those of the state and nation, deserve the commendation of our people for their complete, prompt, and reassuring presentation of daily events during the emergency banking holiday. The members of our association, which includes commercial and industrial firms of Indianapolis, are unanimous in their praise of the

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia, the Health Magazine. specific damage to the tissue itself. The physician uses an instrument called the ophthalmoscope to look into the eye and to observe any changes that have occurred in these tissues. When the vision of the eye becomes diminished, and without any pain, without any redness or inflammation, the physician looks for the cause. Sometimes he sees changes in the retina which indicate a systemic disorder, such as diabetes, tuberculosis, and high blood pressure. Obviously, that condition must be taken care of before any attempts are made in relationship to the eye itself.

YOU see, it’s like this. Evei since I was a little shaver ] vanted to go places. I guess I took ifter mother. She used to talk all ,he time about riding on boats and .rains and right now she’s got the Dicture of a tall palm tree pinned ip over her bed. Questions and Answers Q —Does a Liberty dollar dated 1921 have any extra value? A—No. Q—Did Chuck Klein sign a S4O 000 or more for the three-three-year contract for $40,000? If so. when? Was he ever a holdout? A—Chuck Klein signed a three-vear contract in the spring of 1931 for 1931, 1932 and 1933. The amount of his exact salary is not available, but it was for $40,000 for more for the threeyear period. He was a holdout for a short time before signing this contract.

unemotional part your paper took in helping to dispel needless fear and panic, the result of which has been a speedy restoration of public confidence, not only in respect to the financial affairs of the country, but also a strengthening of confidence in the entire economic and business structure of the United States. Your editorials and news items on the recent emergency banking situation were sane, unbiased, and constructive, and demonstrated that the newspapers and their press services are indispensable in keeping the business public, as well as the layman, and readers in remote sections, fully and speedily informed on rapidly moving events in any crisis, as well as in the mutiplying ordinary daily affairs of life. tt tt tt By Flo Jordan I wish to write my view in answer to the article in your paper, “Teacher Bars Suspenders.” I think that principal went a little too far in not allowing that boy to wear suspenders without a coat. I don’t know the boy, but I can imagine how proud a lad of 11 would be on that particular morning, dressed like a college boy. Almost all boys wear bright colors in college and I think he chose good taste in ordering dark red ones to match the trousers. If there is any one who detests the looks of suspenders, it is I, but I think if the masculine sex wants to wear them, it is their business. I think, along with lots of other parents, that if some principals and teachers would teach children health habits, they would have “culture and the social graces.” Nothing looks worse to me than seeing a boy or man without a hat in the winter and nothing more uncultured than to see tots with their bare legs showing on a cold winter day. Most doctors will tell you to keep those little knees warm for the child to be healthy later on in life. Don’t think I am an old fogie. I haven’t a son, so that eliminates me from being partial to boys.

Sometimes the retina itself is loosened so that the condition called detachment of the retina occurs. As soon as any part of the retina becomes detached from its bed, the vision controlled by that part is disturbed, and unless it is reattached in a short time the vision is lost permanently. The person who has had detachment of the retina should go to bed immediately. Sometimes competent control of fluid intake helps the situation. In other instances operations have been developed which appear to be useful in aiding reattachment of the retina. Several competent authorities say that reattachment with recovery of vision occurs in about 15 per cent of the cases.

NEXT: Glaucoma of the Eye.

“But she never got to go anywhere much. You know how it is with a woman, married, and then the kids coming along. It must be tough being a woman when you feel that way. “Right now I’m heading for Texas. Some state, Texas. I haven’t near covered it all yet. Once I was three months in El Paso." “Do yoti think you’ll be able to get permanent work there?” I asked. “Oh, I ain’t worrying none about that,” and he stood up, brushing the' crumbs from his shabby trousers. “If there’s any there, I’ll get my share. You’ll meet square shooters everywhere you go in this here old U. S. A. “I ain’t denyin* it’s pretty bad sometimes. Tramping from house to house asking for jobs and waiting in line for soup. But. gosh. I always say to myself: You got tomorrow, you big lunkhead.” He flashed me a wide smile. “No use lettin’ today get you down. Thanks a lot, lady. Good luck.” I didn't wish him good luck. I i think he’s already got it.

.MARCH 21, T 033

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOn BROUN ——

NEW YORK, March 21.—The actors and the stagehands are at odds. I never have been a stagehand. and yet my sjinpathies go to that group rather than to my own. As I understand it. the stagehands are called upon to take a cut upon the plea that unless they help tc modify costs, most of the plays in town will have to close. At the moment their answer seems to be, "Let ’em close.” To many this attitude appears irrational, selfish, and without vision. But the many are composed of those who do not understand the fundamental principles of trades'unionism. The stagehand is both logical and courageous, for. in effect, he is saying. "Better sacrifice the job than the wage scale." It is wholly unfair to say that he is looking after himself at the expense of others. The reverse is true. The temptation to take a cut must be. great. The stagehand does not enjoy being out of work. In that situation he suffers more than the average actor. His refusal to take less than the established rate is based upon his feeling of solidarity to the craft to which he belongs. b a tt Horatius at the Bridge THE union has been and still is a strong one. and its strength lies in its reluctance to compromise. After all, a comparatively high wage level was obtained only by dint of persistence and effort. The question at issue is not the prolonging of the life of some individual show, but the scrapping of an arrangement which it took years to win. I say "a comparatively high wage level,” because even in the best of times few members of the union got anything like fifty-two solid weeks in any year. The present day represents salary plus unemployment insurance. If the pay were computed on the earnings of the average member for the entire year, it would be no more than a trifle a week. The actor ought to understand the psychology of his associates in the theater a little better than he does. After all. many a player has followed a strikingly similar policy. Broadway is quite familiar with the four-hundrod-a-week actor who would rather starve on the curb just outside the Lambs Club than work for anything less. He, too. feels that it would be better to suffer much than to allow a standard which took years of building to be swept away overnight. tt tt tt Asa Last Resort IN almost every instance co-opera-tion has been a last straw, and it has broken more camels’ backs than it has saved drowning men. When a show begins to pluck at the counterpane somebody is pretty sure to pop up and say, “Let’s go co-opera-tive.” With very few exceptions the cooperative principle in the theater | has been no more than a last and futile resort to oxygen. Several of the entertainments which quit within the last few days blamed their fate upon the stagehands. But in almost every case that was an alibi rather than an accurate report. Upon occasion certain managers have posed magnificently by making the superb gesture of saying, "I will turn the show over to the cast.” It ;is the generosity of the departing | householder who says, “You can | have my pet alligator." The actor does not love the stagej hand very much. He is ready with ;a. hundred stories about the man who had nothing to do. but move a table across the stage and play pinochle for the rest of the evening. But I fancy that anybody who was compelled by his job to stand in the wings for 200 nights probably would come away with less than a passionate regard for the performers. tt a tt Still for Stagehands I HAVE heard it said in many quarters which were highly conservative that the only way out of a depression was to preserve the purchasing power. President Hoover undertook to obtain voluntary pledges from large employers not to cut wages. That system did not work well. Wages have been maintained at their old level only in the industries where unions were strong enough to say, “Nevertheless, we won’t take a cut.” If all of them had been as steadfast as the stagehands, we might be better off economically right now. When Miss Peggy Fears begins to weep into her ermines about the poor players thrown out of work I am not impressed. I still am for the stagehands. (Copyright. 1933, by The Times)

Seasons

BY EDWARD 11. HIESE How happy is the world when springtime’s sky Ls arched above, while softly buding trees Uplift their precious promise on high. And wave their priceless burdens in the breeze. How beautiful the world where summer’s song Is echoed back by rivers, lakes and rills! Where nodding daisies grow ’mid grasses long. And purple haze lies on the distant hills! How glorious the world when scarlet leaves Float down at autumn's touch to clothe the ground! When goldenrod the summer’s death retrieves And purple-clustered grapes the vines have crowned! How wonderful the world when shining ice And violet-shadowed snow enwraps the earth! When blazing fires the wearv heart entice And holly wreaths bespeak the Christmas mirth! Each month, each season has Its jeweled days— Each winter, springtide, summer, and each fall; I know not which deserves the highest praise. For each one in its turn is best , Os aIL