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FRIDAY, APRIL 21. 1933

MR. MACDONALD'S VISIT a* r I ''ODAY the -country welcomed Ramsay MacDonald. No foreign statesman is more popular here than the British prime minister. During his last visit that was demonstrated. This regard is partly, for his country, a great sister nation, but it also is for him personally. Especially now. with the world depressed, Americans appreciate the courage which brings Mr. MacDonald here to seek with our President a way out. It is a mission of friendship and co-operation. In that spirit he was invited, and in that spirit he accepted. Since he sailed from England the situation has changed. The Presfdent has confirmed the policy of going off the gold standard and staying off until the domestic price level is raised and exchanges stabilized. This American policy has surprised many ol the prime minister’s countrymen and even angered others. Some of them interpret this policy as aimed definitely against the interests of Great Britain. Some of them demand retaliation. They urge a kind of currency depreciation war in which Great Britain would attempt to drive the value of sterling lower and lower to keep the dollar at a permanent disadvantage of dearness in world trade. That would draw other nations into the folly. It would amount to a suicide* pact. Wc can not believe that Mr. MacDonald will be influenced by such hysteria. Having taken his own country off the gold standard for what he considered to be the national ir.terost, he would be the last to deny the same right to us. He would be the first to appreciate our motives. It is true, of course, that our gold policy will have not only domestic results, but also foreign results. Just as Great Britain's policy touched us, so ours will touch her. But it is exceedingly doubtful that the American dollar ever will fall low enough to give us the unusual trade advantage which Great Britain has enjoyed as a nation of depreciated currency—our position as the chief creditor . nation and the largest holder of gold would tend to prevent that, even though our government desired, as it does not desire, a contest in depreciation. Our departure from the gold standard merely can equalize the position of the two countries, without giving us any unfair advantage. Though such restoration of the dollar in relation to the pound would appear to some short-sighted Britons as a blow to their country, it would, in fact, operate to the eventful advantage of Great Britain. Even Great Britain, with all her apparent temporary profit, has lost much more than she has gained by world monetary chaos. Great Britain can profit in the end only by a restoration of world economic health and stabilization of foreign exchanges. This is true of all nations in this very interdependent s modern world. For- that reason the stabilization of exchanges was made a primary purpose of the world economic conference and of the preparatory negotiations in Washington. President Roosevelt, by going off the gold standard and allowing the dollar to find its own natural level, is preparing the w-ay for later fixing the dollar at anew and just gold level. In other words, he has put the United States in the same position as Great Britain. International stabilization can not be achieved by the United States remaining on - the gold standard virtually alone —w-e tried that, and it failed. But international stabilization can be achieved, now that the two greatest financial powers, Great Britain and the United States, have the same general system of managed currency and the same general interest in eventually returning to the gold standard at a level which will work, and work Justly. So our friend, the prime minister, will find In Washington not less, but more, opportunity for international cooperation and service. In that spirit Americans hail the arrival of Prime Minister MacDonald. A WORTHY ENVOY MEREDITH NICHOLSON has served his city and state with distinction. For years he has participated quietly in a host of enterprises which sought the improvement of the community. In his chosen profession as an author, his pen has gained him international renown. Dispatches from Washington yesterday indicated that President Roosevelt is seriously considering him for minister either to the Netherlands or Sweden. There is no doubt that his appointment would be excellent for the diplomatic service. It is to be hoped that the President soon will announce it. If Meredith Nicholson does go to Europe, he will bo missed in his home state, where he has worked and lived all his life. Hoosiers know, however, that when he has finished his tasks for the country at large, he will return to them once more, the same genial Indiana gentleman. —— _ ' OUR NEIGHBOR’S TROUBLES TT isn’t very likely that Congressman Ham--I- ilton Fish’s demand for outright United States intervention in Cuba will be adopted. Any such program would present a great many thorns to the hands that tried to grasp it, and the government at Washington today has. beyond question, all the troubles it cares to handle without going out of its way to find any more. Nevertheless, Congressman Fish is quite right in calling our attention to the fact that Cuban affairs have reached a critical situation;

and he likewise is right in pointing out that the United States has a pretty direct responsibility there. We gave Cuba her freedom thirty-five years ago; we have something of an obligation to see that that freedom is kept inviolate. Just how we are to do that without infringing on Cuban sovereignty and stirring up anew batch of trouble Is something of a problem. INVITING TERRORISM / T“'HE news that an attempt on the life of -■-Adolf Hitler was thwarted by German police leads one to hope that, in the interest of the oppressed minorities in that suffering country, no more such attempts are made—and, above all, that no such attempt ever succeeds. - That Hitler should be a target for assassins is not, everything considered, to be wondered at; but that no one could do the German minorities a worse turn than by trying such an act of violence ought to be obvious. So far the Nazi oppression, grievous though it has been, has been kept within certain limits. An assassination, or even an attempted assassination, would provide an excellent excuse for tossing all such limits in the discard. Autocracy’s commonest reply to such a threat is unbridled terrorism. One shudders to think what might happen to German Jewry if the Nazi leadership should think itself justified in making such a reply. THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE 'T'HE strike of 14,000 high school pupils in protest against Chicago's $28,000,000 unpaid salary bill to teachers dramatizes a na-tion-wide situation, becoming steadily more intolerable. Alabama has closed schools in fifty counties, and ow-es its teachers $7,000,000. Oklahoma pays its teachers in scrip, and may not open its schools at all next fall. In South Dakota twenty-five schools have been closed. South Carolina seriously considers closing all its schools for the rest of the year. Cleveland faces a school deficit of $2,800,000. Kalamazoo, with a monthly pay roll of $70,000, has only S3OO in cash. Up to April 1, an incomplete report of the National Education Association shows 2,571 schools had been closed, affecting 300,000 pupils. If all the schools were closed that are not paying their teachers, more than 1,000,000 pupils would be turned out of classrooms. A lockout of a million American pupils calls for some serious self-searching by states, counties, and cities. Three remedies are proposed. They are: 1. Modernization of the tax system. Nearly 90 per cent of school tax is raised through what sometimes is called “the world’s worst tax,” the general property tax. The burden should be spread through more just tax systems. 2. State assumption of responsibility for education. New York, for instance, appropriates $100,000,000 annually to guarantee minimum school advantages for its children. Other states should do the same. 3. Increase of the size of the local school unit for administrative and financial purposes. To make one administrative unit grow where a half dozen grow now is one of the biggest economy tasks before the American people. School units these days need be no smaller than the county. Minor economies can and will be made in America’s educational plant. More fundamental reforms are needed if this cruel and disastrous betrayal of children is to be halted and schools put on a sound financial basis. THREE POINT TWO return of beer has been orderly and profitable. The quiet good nature of beer's first fortnight is a reply to some of our fears. Here, if any time, w’as the time for an intoxicated jubilation by those who liked their brew in the old days, and by the youngsters who have grown up on bathtub gin. But it hasn’t turned out that way. Reports from major cities all over the country, in the twenty-one states which started sale of beer on April 7, show that there was no increase in arrests for drunkenness. In many cases there were heavy decreases in such arrests. The revenue, to federal, state and local tax units, is surpassing all expectations—so much so that the brewers are afraid their supplies of properly aged brew will be exhausted before the next batches are ready. All this goes to show that congress was right when it said 3.2 per cent beer was nonintoxicating, but it does not meet the great issue of national prohibition. We still have national prohibition, honored mostly in the breach, it is true, but diverting millions of dollars in revenue from the government into the pockets of bootleggers. COMMON SENSE DOCTRINE "npHE fact that the federal government grants to a brewery in this state a permit to manufacture and distribute beer is not binding on this board. If any brewery is not licensed by this board, it can not engage in business in this state.” The policy thus clearly announced by Chairman Mulrooney of the New York state alcoholic beverage control board is sound state rights doctrine for this period of departing prohibition and also for the future, after full repeal. The Mulrooney statement is extra pertinent in view of the move to revoke the federal permits of five New Jersey breweries on the ground that these permits were obtained by misrepresenting ownership. The New Jersey mess has roused the federal commission of industrial alcohol, James M. Doran, to special watchfulness to prevent federal permits from getting into the hands of racketeers or allies of racketeers. But it stands to reason that state and local control authorities can keep a sharper eye on local conditions and local racketeers than can any federal commissioner. Hence state responsibility and state control in the matter of permits should prevail. ONE IN 480,000,000 person, and only one person, was killed in a train accident in this country last year. Four hundred eighty million passengers were carried— a record number of passengers and a record safety showing. When the first primitive railroad trains were started going, the press and the public

warned of the great danger to life and limb. The personal injury record was relatively heavy throughout the earlier stages of railroading. Only in recent years have disastrous wrecks been infrequent. You seldom hear of one now. Now the safety record is one person killed in 480,000,000 carried. This is phenomenal. Aviation is traveling more rapidly over the same pioneering course as the railroads. The evolution of the railroads toward safety ought to be a good omen for aeronautical transport. DON’T BE SILLY ’ WHEN a lady of the W. C. T. U., at Columbus, 0., the other day, warned that if prohibition is repealed then women's suffrage will be attacked, she said a silly thing. There is a very fundamental difference between the eighteenth amendment, instituting prohibition, and the nineteenth, granting woman’s sufferage. The eighteenth w'rites a police regulation into the Constitution. It never should have been put there and will be repealed. The nineteenth amendment settles a proper constitutional question and will remain in the Constitution as long as there is a Constitution. Any move to take it out wouldn't get to first base. CANNES PLEASANTRIES “T HOPE,” said Mayor Cazaignaire of Cannes -*• after he had completed the Jimmy Walker and Betty Compton marriage ceremony, “when you are recalled to America to take another official position—probably as mayor of New York—you will remember Cannes pleasantly.” Perhaps this comes under the head of mayoral etiquet induced by the romance of the moment, but it has a strange air of being the farthest something-or-other in the way of pious hopes. Forest sharper has invented a way to cut eucalyptus trees so they stay alive even though a biennial crop of w’ood is harvested from them. Might try the same process on taxpayers. University of Washington crew celebrates victory by tossing the coxswain overboard. Whereas, banks toss their president overboard only in case of defeat. Begins to look as if the talk of inflation was more than just hot air. Surgeons trying to get SIO,OOO fee from Tom Mix, movie actor, for operation. After taking Tom’s appendix, he now wants the Table of Contents. Army tailors, fifteen years after the war, have made plans to provide soldiers with uniforms that fit. Better hurry up or there won’t be any army to wear the uniforms. When congress adjourns for the summer, the members ought to play a better golf game than ever before. They’ve had a lot of experience with the driver. Spain is being urged to repeal decree expelling the Jews signed by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. That’s the trouble with republics—always rushing off and doing something hasty. France plans to spend millions in propaganda to get Americans to believing once again that she is a swell country. Millions for the dense, but not a cent for creditors. j Many a man who bought foreign securities and thought he was a bondholder found out to his sorrow that he was only a bagholder.

M.E.TracySays:

I WISH I could be as optimistic over these forthcoming economic conferences as are some people, but frankly I'm not. To begin with, most European governments are in no frame of mind to sit down with us or with one another and lay their cards on the table. They are in a horse-trading mood, trying to wiggle out of debt or avoid war by any expedient that seems available. The background of their clamor for stabilization is just a hodge-podge of conflicting aspirations. They don’t want trouble and they don’t want to pay, which is good, but each and every one of them is looking for a way out at the expense or disadvantage of someone else, which is bad. Europe is a mess of political discord and experiment. For the time being two hundred million Europeans have surrendered their liberties with the hope that dictatorship, no matter for what purpose, will enable them to restore order. Italy, Germany and Russia are ruled by cliques that obtained power and retain power largely by preaching the possibility of war and the consequent necessity of a united and disciplined front. a tt COMMUNISM, Fascism and Hitlerism find their strongest support in the fear of attack by other countries. To keep this fear alive, it is necessary to beat drums, blow trumpets and recruit armies. We have heard more talk about disarmament smce the war than during any similar length of time since the world began, but what has it amounted to? In spite of all the pow-wowing. pact-signing and resolving, the fact remains that there are more men under arms in Europe today than there were when the war broke out. The same poverty of results stares us in the face when we come to review the economic situation. In spite of the Versailles treaty, the Young and Dawes plans, and the various debt agreements, we are in worse shape today than we were ten years ago. the point being that each and every new arrangement was just a wiggle, a compromise, an attempt to stave off the inevitable. *r n n THE majority of governments still cling to that illusion, still hold the thought that, if the squirming can be kept up long enough, some miracle may occur. The tariff walls which we would like to break down merely are monuments to the prevailing desperation. There has developed no comprehensive, sincere vision of what must be done, no willingness to make the necessary sacrifices. If anything, the old game of intrigue and secret snooping is worse than it was in 1913. We just have seen a British officer sentenced to prison for five years because he told a German girl about the design of a tank. Six Englishmen are on trial in Russia for sabotage and spying. Governments can not put the world in order by pursuing such tactics. They can not even talk purposefully as long as they tolerate such taCtiCS, - - *.*M'

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their vieufs in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25 0 words or less.) By Aaron M. Neustadt. Although we are living in the twentieth century in a country considered enlightened and progressive, we still see symptoms of ignorance, bigotry and 4 superstition on all sides. Alexander Pope, the great apostle of religious liberty, declared, “For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight. He can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.” I, for one, agree with him. There are a thousand and one ways of worshipping God, the Eternal Father. He serves God best who helps his neighbor the most and promotes brotherly love among the various elements that go to make up his community. Let us abhor bigotry and intolerance in every form. Why should we cast aspersions and sneers at those who differ from us in religious belief? They may be nearer the truth than we. Infallibility is not as yet one of man’s fundamental characteristics. The great “I Am” loves all humanity of every race and clime. He prefers no particular people. He desires the prosperity and the progress of all of His children. It is true that He may have revealed Himself more clearly to some than to others. As one of humanity’s greatest teachers once declared, “The children of Israel ■ were the channels through which God often brought messages of hope and cheer to a distracted world.” It even may be true that the people of Israel were the center of His affection: nevertheless, they were not the circumference of His love and compassion. I am making these observations especially with reference to the unChristian attitude manifested today in Germany toward Jewish citizens. There is little ground for the persecution to which they are being subjected. They have been living in that country for thousands of years.'

A PPARENTLY, some 60,000 crippled children in the United States are the result of accidental injuries to the brain at birth. They may be handicapped early in life, even though endowed with normal intelligence. In a recent survey of this subject in Hygeia, Phelps says that the control of this condition must be brought about by greater attention to the problems of obstetrics. The parents of the child with birth injuries naturally are anxious to know what the likelihood is that the child •will make a complete recovery. In cases in which the child mentally is deficient, little can be accomplished. For those w’ho are mentally normal, progress necessarily is slow and naturally is associated with the progress of general

TT is possible that many of our cherished institutions will be swept away on the changing current of modern opinion. But I for one hope that monogamous marriage will not be one of them. Although Mrs. Anita Block, School of Social Service in New York City, points out that it first was designed to make me sure their sons would inherit their property, we must not forget that through long cycles of time it has been woman’s chief security. And, strangely enough, now that we have demonstrated our ability to take care of ourselves, it is proving a masculine haven. For men are not content to live an aimless life, detached from dependable family affection. They, too, are unhappy in a world where marriage is a temporary arrangement rather than *• permanent institution. We modems have made many mistakes. But our grossest error has been that in casting away certain hampering traditions we, at the same time have discarded spiritual

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Injuries at Birth Cripple Many Children ==•■■ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ■■

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The Gordian Knot

Great Advance By J. Pierce Cummings. The old age pension law enacted by the 1933 Indiana legislature and signed by Governor Paul V. McNutt is a notable advance in the field of social welfare. Eventually, this law will wipe out the poorhouse as w’e now know it. Sane, able-bodied old men and women will live in places of their own choosing. The feeble, insane and other unfortunates will be housed in institutions manned and equipped to give them proper care, which no poorhouse can give. The leadership of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, in obtaining the law, is an outstanding example of unselfish public service. It is to be hoped the order will continue its leadership, to the end that the law shall be honestly, fairly, and economically administered. Twenty states > have old age pensions, three having acted this year—Washington, Indiana and Oregon. Thus the great movement for Christian care of old men and women goes on heralding the day when the poorhouse will be only a black and shameful memory. They have helped to build it, supplied it with men of genius, men of vision, men of achievement, great scholars, great poets, great financiers, great engineers, great industrial leaders. According to history, Jews have been living in Germany from the time of the holy Roman empire. By their undeviating loyalty to that country in all its vicissitudes and trials, they have earned the right to be looked upon as fellow-citizens of good standing. Surely, they have not merited the vilification and excoriation of the Hitlerites. It seems to me that the Christian world should rise in protest against the outrages perpetrated against Jew’s of Germany in the last six months. I do not condone the evil acts of

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyseia, the Health Magazine. education and with the chance of recovery from the injury. Modern methods of orthopedic surgery have done marvelous things for such children. If these invalids remain untreated until they are 6 or 7 years old, they develop contractures of muscles, and they may develop unusual habits in the use of muscles due to an attempt to overcome their disabilities. It therefore is important to get a diagnosis of the condition as early as possible, to apply suitable corrective measures at the earliest moment. The trained expert re-educates the muscles of these children through suitable exercises, some-

stabilities without which we can not live. tt tt tt NO matter how eagerly the individual may seek freedom, disillusionment always follows upon its possession. It was not meant that men and women should be comQuestions and Answers Q —Was Winnie Ruth Judd sentenced to die April 14, or April 21, 1933? A—Mrs. Judd was to be hanged on April 14, but because it was Good Friday, she was granted a week’s reprieve. She was to be executed on April 21, because a sanity hearing then was called. Q —Who made the speech nominating Governor Roosevelt in the Democratic national convention last June? A—John E. Mack of New York. Q —ls there a black rose? A—Horticulturists class the “Prince Camille de Rohan” as black in color.

individual Jews, even as I do not condone the individual sins of Christians. Every man should be judged individually according to his own deserts; but the processes of law should be duly carried out. As far as the attitude of the American government is concerned, I am willing to leave that to the wisdom and the discretion of that truly noble man w'ho now occupies the White House. Not only is he wise and prudent, but he is at the same time the greatest lover of man who ever has been elected to lead the American people. By Jim Fitzgerald. With reference to the letter from the lady from Baltimore regarding our police force, I think this action of the police only goes to show that they are on the job at 2 o’clock in the morning, just the same as they are at noon. I have lived in this city all my life and what I know of the members of the police force, they are the finest of the finest. I really believe that if all the kind letters that they have received from visitors W'ere placed end on end, they would reach from Indianapolis to Baltimore. There was—and I guess it still holds good—an old rule of the police here to stop and question any one out at a late hour. I have been stopped several times on the way home from work early in the morning, but felt that the police were doing their duty. Our police are, as a rule, gentlemen, but they are also gentlemen on the job.

So They Say

In the year of our Lord, 1933, in the year of our progress 157, ndividually we stand—collectively w r e reel. —Senator F. C. Walcott of Connecticut. It is my personal impression that Germany never was so quiet as now’.—Max Schmeling, German boxer.

times associated with mental training. Before the finer muscle education is done, it is necessary to re-edu-cate the grosser muscular performances. Obviously in large cities where there are centers for such work much can be done in aiding the proper development of handicapped children. However, in rural districts and in places far removed from good centers of orthopedic training, opportunities for the child are relatively slight. There are in this country few institutions for the care of children over long periods of time, and hospital care lor a matter of three or four years or even for a matter of three or four months is far too costly to be considered by the vast majority of people.

pletely free of each other. Nor will they ever be satisfied without the ideal of something that is permanently steadfast in their world. Hitherto the home, with monogamous marriage as its basis, has constituted that ideal. When we abandoned it we courted confusion and sorrow. I agree entirely with Ludwig Lewisohn, who reminds us that half of the dream of love and marriage in the hearts of the young is a dream of permanence, a desire for their romance to partake of immortality. We have tried all sorts of substitutes for old-fashioned marriage. They have given us nothing. We have married this year and been divorced the /iext, and remarried again in six months. Yet happiness still lurks around the corner and is even more elusive than she used to bs. And with all our experimenting, many more of us are going into old age alone The truly wise are those who expect little from marriage, but much from themselves. They know only how to create happy and permanent unions.

APRIL 21, 1933

It Seems to Me = Bl’ HEYWOOD BROI’X

NEW YORK, April 21—“ Your disillusioned reporter correspondent, Cub.’’ writes Frank Sullivan, “says newspaper men are a futile crowd, all of them Boswells, incapable of being ‘men of action.’ “I think he's a little unfair. I’ve known a few newspaper men and heard of others—and so have you—who smacked more of the Warwick than they did of the Boswell. They stood behind these ‘men of action’ Cub talks about and told them how to act. “Ask any United States senator how many of his pronouncements have been written for him by friendly newspaper men with too much sense to be United States senators. Scratch a statesman and you'll find a correspondent, I always say. “I speak as a former reporter, now a man of action.” ana The Terrible Meek I THINK that. Frank Sullivan is right. Indeed, Cub hurt his own case when he spoke of newspaper men being all Boswells. Although I wish to defend the profession from the charge of futility, I don’t think we are as important as that. Boswell, of course, was one of the most successful Warwicks of all time. Indeed, he was a little too successful. for he completely swallowed the man whom he delighted to honor. In referring to the Great Cham of Georgian literature, one generally feels impelled to add, “Os course, I mean Boswell’s Johnson,” lest the listener think that you are talking about Tom of the three-cent fare, or Jack, who once held the heavyweight title. There is nothing quite so ironic in literary history as this story of the planet who rode into posterity by clinging to the coattails of his satellite. Hardly a man now is alive who would give a thought to the old thunderer if it were not for the meek little Scotsman who sat around at parties jotting things down. t Even today Samuel Johnson is not remembered for any of his own writings. In the entire civilized world there can not be more than a handful of people who ever turn to “Rasselas” or “The Lives of the Poets,” and those readers are conscripted recruits who happen to be taking a course on the great man and his circle. ana Great ‘Leg Man ’ THE lexicographer never would have reached the age of 75 if there had been anybody about competent to tell him of the manner in which he would go down through the ages. He would have died of a stroke upon the instant. There sat Dr. Johnson, a sort of eighteenth century Bernard Shaw with meat stuffing, and somewhere behind the potted palms was little Jamie, making notes in his own curious shorthand. Whenever he opened his yap, Dr. Johnson blew his head off. Mostly he was not very much noticed. People who were aware of his presence seem not to have liked him. Apparently he crashed into parties by the simple expedient of whispering behind the palm of his hand to the man at the door, “Why, you know me—l'm a friend of Sam Johnson.” Oliver Goldsmith once remarked of Boswell that he had “the faculty of sticking.” In one sense he lived a little before his time. The camera had not yet been invented. James Boswell would have made a great newspaper photographer. Failing that, I think that he should be honored some day by the journalistic craft with a statue. It might be inscribed quite simply, “The first and the greatest of leg men.” aaa Picked His Spots HE had a sort of ship news approach to celebrities. Dr. Johnson would be settling down into a big chair after a large meal. The third helping of veal and kidney pie may have been a mistake, and the fourth bottle of port obviously was an error. Deeper into his chair settled the big English literary criticism, and from his pocket he drew a great handkerchief to mop his trow. That would be the precise moment that the man with the pencil would pick to pipe up in an atrocious Scotch accent, “Well„ sir, and what do you think about the immortality of the soul?” James Boswell always was a stooge and never a lion. He was a pest and a fool and a pain in the neck, and he will live forever in the annals of English letters. And he went to his eternal fame and rest because of his jottings. One little word after another. But he got them down straight. To him every word the old man uttered was precious. They had to be right. And so here’s to the clan of all Boswells living and dead! The world may scoff and it may scorn us, but sooner or later it must return to find that X marks) the bodv. And when they ask. “Were you there, James or Charlie?” we can pop up in our glory and say, “Heie’s your story.” (Copyright, 1933, bv The Timex) Viewpoint by JOHN THOMPSON Last night I felt a silver star Whistle by my ear, The magic of its thrilling speed Made me crouch with fear. Today I found a silver star, Lying in the snow, The same that frightened me last night? How am I to know?

Daily Thought

Intreat me not to leave, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge: thy people shall be my people and thy God my God—Ruth 1:16. AS the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.—Ovid.