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TUESDAY. MAY 23. 1933

SMASH THEM! T>ROSECUTOR HERBERT WILSON, his deputies, and Indianapolis police performed a real service to the community Monday, one that has been needed for years, when they launched their campaign against the siot machine evil. They should continue their smash against this form of indoor robbery until the last machine is on the city scrap heap. And along with the machines on their way to the junk pile should go the crooked politicians who have fattened their bank rolls with the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters which have rolled into and out of the insatiable maw of these sure-thing devices. It is doubtful if there has been a day in the last five years when these machines have not been operated In city and county, many under cover and many in open and brazen defiance of the law. So rapacious have the operators become that they have installed them in drug stores and lunch rooms in the neighborhood of grade and high schools, even descending to the machines that strip pupils of the pennies that would pay for their lunches. The slot machine player, in the long run, has no chance whatever of winning. He may play it once, drop in a couple of quarters, hit the $5 combination, and quit. But not one player in a score will do this. As sure as he stays with this game of “chance,” he will feed bark his winnings and whatever other money he has in his pocket. Compared with the slot machine, roulette, craps and chuck-a-luck are safe and honest games. The percentage for the house in honest roulette is 5 5-19. Honest dice and a normal craps layout, will favor the house by a less percentage, but good enough to yield a neat profit. At chuck-a-luck or hazard, the house collects on all trebles and earns a fair percentage. But there always is the chance of a streak of luck, with the gampster going away with a killing. But with the slot machine there is no such chance. Not only is the percentage dead against the player, but even a dive keeper of the lowest Intelligence can fix one. Not only can, but often does. Many roadhouse keepers In this county might testify, if they did not fear to do so, that slot machines have been forced into their places of business. There has been no lack of them in the county for years. Slot machines also have been operated in many downtown establishments continually for years. It is extremely doubtful If their presence and operation will come ns a surprise to certain county officials—and city and state officials also. If they have been unaware of the condition, they are too dumb to be holding public office. If they have been aware of it, they are unfit to hold public office. Gambling never will be stamped out of this community or any other community. Crusades may drive it to cover for a few days or a few weeks, but there always is the urge In any normal human being to take a chance, whether it is for a few dimes on a bridge game or at rhum, or maybe playing the ponies. Eut there is no element of chance in a slot machine. It is not a gamble. It is robbery. The hijacker and the footpad must have at least a moment of courage, no matter of how low a brand. But the dive keeper who sits like a greedy buzzard by his infernal machine and watches it take in the pennies that should go to nourish school children and the nickels and dimes that should go home with the workingman to feed his family does not need even a spark of courage. All he needs is the lack of conscience that lets him rake in his dirty profits and split them with a politician who is even lower and dirtier than the machine that is his symbol. ENDING ISOLATION ANY shreds of America's isolation policy which remained after President Roosevelt’s peace appeal to all nations were removed bv the American declaration at Geneva Monday. Last week the President stated the general principles of anew American policy of co-operation. Monday, through Ambassador Davis, the President turned these generalities into action. There may be a few Americans left who fear the hazards of such policy, who still believe in the ostrich policy of isolation, but their number can not be large. Even school Children have learned now that wars abroad involve the United States, that depressions abroad injure the United States, that, for better or worse, thus nation is part of a world community which rises or falls as one. Before the Roosevelt policy of co-operation is misunderstood or distorted, it is perhaps necessary to emphasize again that it does not tie the hands of our government, does not permit other nations or the league to declare war for us or make any policy for us against our Will. The President simply has laid down certain rules that make for peace and has pledged that our government will abide by those rules and help carry them out. provided other nations do likewise. This involves Just one fundamental break with the .old policy. Under the old policy we sat by powerless find idle while Europe made a war which sucked us in. Under the new policy we propose to co-operate in preventing war, and promise in event of war that we shall not take a position that will aid the aggressor. To this end the President, in addition to his offer of an all-nations nonaggression pact stronger than the Kellogg pact, has agreed: 1. To consult with others nations when war threatens. a. To define aa an aggressor one vhope

I armed forces are found on alien soil in violai tlon of treaties. 3. To refrain from any action tend ng to : defeat collective action against an aggressor to restore peace. 4. Join in reciprocal arms reduction, first of offensive armaments, and, as soon as possible, complete disarmament to the basis of domestic police forces. 5. To reinforce the powers of the proposed International commission for effective supervision of the dusarmament treaty. The President's policy already has borne some fruit. It has forced Hitler to change his belligerent tone and has removed France’s opposition to the British-Italian-German-French ten-year peace agreement, which now has been initiated by the four governments. It has put new life and hope in both the disarmament and economic conferences. It has drawn the United States and Russia closer together in their almost identical peace and disarmament proposals. But it has not stopped the Japanese aggressors, who even now are at the gates of Peiping. This will be the real test of the Roosevelt doctrine, or rather of the willingness of the European powers to act in good faith. It takes more than one to co-operate; the United States can not co-operate alone. THE HOUSE OF MORGAN 'P'OR the first time in its history, the House of Morgan today is being called to account by the government. Twenty years ago the Pujo committee questioned the elder Morgan concerning the affairs of his empire. The senate committee now proposes to quiz the entire firm. The present Morgan and his partners will be asked to tell the government in Washington some of the secrets of that other government in Wall street. The famous/'firm which has operated for years without even disclosing its capital setup will have its operations aired in public. There is no point to this proceeding unless constructive legislation is to follow. The word has gone around that congress may adjourn without action on the GlassSteagall banking reform bill. This should not happen. The Pujo inquiry of 1913 was, in part, responsible for the federal reserve act. The Pecora investigation should result in completing the federal control of money and credit. POLITICAL LANDMARK PASSES IN spite of attacks by Senator David A. Reed and Ogden Mills, President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” will be made easier of realization as a result of the passing of one of the more notable landmarks in American economic and political history—the Republican “Old Guard.” The personnel, doings, and disappearance of this notable group are made the subject of an excellent article by William C. Murphy Jr., in the American Mercury. As he suggests: “Unwittingly, doubtless, the lamented Hoover administration made its greatest bid for the remembrance of posterity by burying the Republican Old Guard.” The Old Guard were the political agents through which moneyed powers ruled the United States for most of the time between the Civil war and the World war. They reached the height of their power between the election of McKinley and the defeat of Taft. The Old Guard represented the most perfect exemplification in American history of John Locke’s famous dogma that the main purpose of government is the protection of property. Some of these men were wealthy industrialists and financiers themselves, while others were representatives of such interests. But all alike were faithful devotees at the shrine of the vested interests. Whn the Slavocracy which had governed the country during most of the generation before the Civil war was unhorsed by the defeat of the south, the Republican Old Guard gradually emerged and created a system of industrial and financial feudalism unmatched elsewhere in the modern world. They seized upon the United States senate as the best vantage point from which to work. The senator held office for a long term and was elected by state legislatures which were more easily manipulated than a whole electorate. The control of the senators over federal patronage facilitated their control over state legislatures. The policies and methods of the Old Guard in connection with the protection of property and the crushing of liberal legislation were direct and unabashed. Most of them believed sincerely that government existed primarily to advance the interests of “those Christian men to whom God in his infinite wisdom had given the control of the property interests of the country.” They carried on openly In the senate as Grundy did a generation later in the lobby. But when Grundy was elected to the senate he “realized the impropriety of doing openly in the senate what he had no hesitation in lobbying for outside.” This fact in itself showed that the days of the Old Guard were over. The leaders of the Old Guard were Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island: William Boyd Allison, of Iowa: Orville Hitchcock Platt, of Connecticut, and John Colt Spooner, of Wisconsin. Powerful lieutenants were Quay, of Pennsylvania: Platt and Depew, of New York; Hale, of Maine; and Lodge, of Massachusetts. Together, they formed an inpregnable wall over which the waves of liberalism and radicalism broke in vain until the defeat of Taft in 1912. Not even Theodore Roosevelt's spurts of liberalism were able to overcome their resistance. They kept high tariff laws on our statute books and resisted or hamstrung most legislation designed to curb irresponsible capitalism and advance social justice. Not until they overreached themselves in the Payne-Aldrich tariff in the Taft administration, thus fusing the insurgents, was their hegemony seriously challenged. In 1912 they applied the steam roller to Roosevelt at Chicago, taking the logical position that they preferred to maintain control of a defeated party rather than to surrender dominion over a victorious one. During the eight lean years of the Wilson administration they had tough going, but they took on anew lease of life under Harding and Coolidge. They were no longer, however, the same old powerful autocracy that once had been led by the haughty Aldrich. The old leaders had died. Only Boise Penrose in any way matched the giants of the old days in conscienceless irresppasibiiity and arrogance of manner, a&d fie

died on the last day of 1921. There was nobody to take his place. The direct election of senators brought into office men more inclined to give some ear to popular opinion. Insurgency grew apace, being helped on notably by the scandals of the Harding administration. The era of feudal aristocrats was superseded by the age of bellhops. Moreover, the leaders of what remained of the Old Guard tended to get sidetracked from their main objective of defending property into blind alleys, represented, for example, by Smoot’s crusade against cigarets and naughty books. Further, they allowed themselves to be put on the defensive by their sponsoring of Newberry, Smith, and Vare. The depression came along to give them the death blow. The system which they contended would lead us to the New Jerusalem actually brought us to the breadline. Finally, in November, 1932, Smoot, Wilson, and the remaining stragglers of the once mighty cohorts were smothered under an ava.lanche of ballots cast by the millions who were determined to have anew deal of one sort or another. MAKING BETTER MEN A SIDE from the minor difficulties inherent in so vast a project, and the fact that a few trouble-making radicals managed to draw attention to themselves in the early stages, the training of the big reforestation army seems to be progressing in an eminently satisfactory manner. Perhaps the most encouraging report comes from Ft. Knox, Ky. Army doctors there the other day checked up on the health records of 950 young men who had come down from an industrial city a month before. They found that during their month in camp these young men had gained an average of eleven pounds apiece in weight. Could anything testify better to the benefits of these camps? Whether the reforestation army plants a lot of trees or not, it has at least taken a lot of young men who weren’t getting enough to eat and filled them up, improving both their health and their morale. A SKIPPER’S BURDEN 'T'HE naval board of inquiry into the Akron disaster reports that an error in judgment on the part of the ship’s commander contributed to the catastrophe. But, it adds, very properly, that the commander hardly can be criticised, since everything within his knowledge at the time his fatal decision was made “might have pointed to his plan of action being justifiable.” That brief sentence illustrates with tragic clarity the tremendous burden that always rests upon the master of a ship—an airship, a steamboat, or a sailing vessel. An emergency arises and he has to make a decision in a hurry. He gets no second guess; once and for all, his decision is final. It must be made, often enough, on insufficient data. The course that looks best to him may turn out, in the light of fuller knowledge, to be fatally wrong. That makes no difference. He can’t wait for more light. He must act quickly—and, if anything goes wrong, he can share the responsibility with nobody, Los Angeles and San Francisco both had earthquakes on the same aay. You can’t beat those California towns when it comes to rivalry.

M. E.Tracy Says:

(CONTRARY to all predictions, America slowlv is pulling out of the depression by her own efforts and not through the aid of other countries. If anything, other countries are in worse shape than they were one year or even six months ago. The Japanese invasion of Asia has assumed more gigantic proportions than even its sponsors intended, with the prospect of China losing three provinces instead of one. War between Bolivia and Paraguay has been declared officially. In Europe, Hitlerism has aroused not only the old animosities, but a whole crop of new ones. As Secretary Hull suggests, the civilized world is close to bankruptcy, and, one might add, the bankruptcy includes morals as well as money. The elaborate machinery erected since the war has failed, not so much from mechanical defects as from the way it has been neglected, or abused by men. To an obvious extent, civilization has been paying lip tribute to principles and ideals which it lacked the hardihood to follows A visitor from some other planet would have taken it for granted that civilization intended to do something about the Japanese invasion so China two years ago. There were plenty of threats, protests and tall talk, but what did they amount to? a a a THE same thing is true of the row between Bolivia and Paraguay, the rise of Nazism, the English controversy with Russia over the trial and conviction of some English engineers, and half a dozen other international wrangles. We are not making progress by such a palpable failure to square our promises with our intentions. The time has come to either talk less or do more. The last fifteen years of history represent little but a hodge-podge of empty threats, unfulfilled promises and abandoned hopes. Small wonder that the old feeiing of confidence and security has fled. How can ordinary men be sure of anything in the face of such a collapse as the civilized world has suffered? The certainty of small achievements always has been and always will be more reassuring than the uncertainty of big ones. The world needs nothing so badly as restoration of belief in the determination and ability of its leaders to go through with some scheme, to furmsn one example of a completed program. That possibly is what has given President Roosevelt his amazing hold on public sentiment in this country and what explains all the progress America has made. ana YOU can think of forty reasons for the depression. but when you get through, they all go back to one—lack of faith in institutions, pledges, and the type of leadership necessary to maintain them. It is paradoxical that war waged for the sanctity of treaties and agreements should be followed by a decade of such uniform failure to perform those things, or render those services that solemnly were promised. ! The obsession that if the whole world can be made to agree on something, everything will be all right, regardless of what men or nations do, has proved a boomerang, because what men or nations do ultimately determines what the world must accept. As with the depression in this country, the world must look for recovery at the bottom, not the top, .

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times renders are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2JO words or less.) By an Ex-Depositor. Patrons of banks which have been closed in Indianapolis are putting their faith in Judge Cox and Prosecutor Wilson to clear up the situation. After more than two years of waiting, they are glad that someone has the courage to show up officials who played fast and loose with the public’s money. These officials can feel sure that thousands of city residents are hoping and praying that they uncover the truth and impose punishment on those w T ho are guilty. It seems strange that officers of the Washington bank could “lose” more than a million dollars and no one in authority in city, state, or county be wise to the fact. Where are our bank examiners and other officers on whom the public must depend for protection? Dishonest acts, and some criminal acts also, are charged against these former bank officials. Is it not also dishonest and criminal for officers of the state, county and city to overlook all these things? Are they so blind that they could not detect waste, if we must use such a mild word? If so, they certainly should be kept oat of every public office in the future. By Movie Fan. It has been the fashion for years for critics to deplore the bad movies which were toeing presented all over the country. In this connection, it would not be a bad idea for a little commendation w’hen we get good pictures. I think that the majority of Indianapolis film houses in recent months have shown many pictures which should get praise from the fans. In my opinion, which is not an expert one, of course, we have had some of the best attractions in the last ten years during the winter and spring, not only in the big downtown houses, but in neighborhood theaters. Especially do I think that the owners of outlying theaters should be praised for the class of pictures they have given their patrons.

Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.—Job 14:1. KNOW this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.—Plautus.

IN New York City during the last four years more than 680,000 children have been immunized against diphtheria. Os these, 40 per cent were given the injections at health department stations and welfare centers, 32 per cent in schools, and 28 per cent for 190.000 children) were given the injections by their family doctors. Asa contrast, in London, in which city this type of preventive medicine has not been developed equally, only 18,000 children were immunized in a similar period. Os the children in New York City given these injections, more than 170.000 were under 2 years of age, and 230,000 were under 6. This constitutes the best type of preventive medicine, because these children are being given the inoculations at a time when they will

IF there is any creature under the sun who deserves sympathy, it is the man whose wife boasts that she refuses to leave him even for twenty-four hours. It takes a really remarkable person to wear that well—and I have yet to meet the woman who could put It over successfully. Notwithstanding, there are plenty of us still left who consider that the whole of domestic duty lies in persistent perseverance. Such women will not leave their families, even for a week. They stick to their posts, like the foolishly famous boy upon the burning deck. Their nerves become grayed their- dispositions testy.

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Vicious Pests By R. C. Ford. WHILE the city and citizens’ committees are working to end charity rackets, something should be done about the horde of moochers who pound at your front door in the evenings, with a demand for a “piece of change so I can get a bed.” . They don’t ask for it; they demand it. And you know very well that any money you might be

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Q—ls the marriage age in Anderson the same as in Indianapolis? A—Yes. To be married without the consent of parents or guardian in Indiana, men must be 21 and women 18. Q —State briefly the provisions of the law recently passed by congress giving independence to the Phillippine islands. A—lt grants Philippine independence after a transition period of ten years, during which products and other commodities coming from the Philippines to the United States are subject to an asaanding graduated tariff, while American commodities and other articles of commerce exported to the islands must be admitted free of duty. During the transition period immigration from the Philippines to continental United States is limited to an annual quota of fifty, and the importation into the United States of Philippine sugar Is limited to 850,000 tons and coconut oil to 500,000 tons. Q—How fast did the projectiles from the German long range “Big Bertha” gun travel? A—The shell from these guns left the muzzle with a velocity of 5.500 feet a second and turning at the rate of 107 times a second. In twenty-five seconds the shell reached twelve miles high, where the density of the atmosphere is only one-tenth that at the surface of the earth. In traveling this distance it has lost velocity, from 5,500 at the point of leaving the muzzle to 3,300 feet a second. At this point the air resistance becomes negligible and only the force of gravity slows its motion. In ninety seconds the shell reached the top of its trajectory, twenty-four miles high, with a velocity now slowed to 2,200 feet a second. In sixty-five more seconds it had dropped down to the

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not interfere in any way with their schoool work, and also before these children come into contact with any considerable numbers of children under school conditions. Protection of the pre-school child probably is the most important step in the campaign against diphtheria by the use of toxin-antitoxin and antidiphtheria. The principal assistant medical officer of the London county council, Dr. J. Graham Forbes, points out that death rates of pre-school children in London were double that for the rest of the country. Asa result of a survey made by Dr. Forbes of conditions throughout the world, he recommends that the diphtheria prevention be done

They exude sweetness and light and expect every one about them to notice the fact. By and by, if this course is pursued too long, they are worshippers at the altar of a magnificent superego. The determination to obtain notice and praise for good behavior is a form of selfishness peculiarly feminine. Women, theatrical by nature, dramatize themselves in the role of imposed-upon wives, or noble mothers sacrificing all for their little ones, and they are especially pleased to hear comments upon their excellence. nan THIS bad habit is one we have encouraged And upon which- we

foolish enough to give them wouldn't go for a bed. It would go for a rhum game or a pool game in the nearest poolroom. This class of moochers is especially objectionable, and consists mostly of home guards, too lazy to work at any time. If people would call the police when they get a demand like this, maybe a few of these vicious pests could be sent to the state farm often enough to break up this racket.

twelve-mile level again and regained velocity (by gravity) up to 3.300 feet a second. For a few seconds it continued to gain velocity, and then as the density of the air increased, it lost velocity until at the end of 186 seconds it struck somewhere in Pans, seven-ty-five miles away, at a velocity of only 2,450 feet a second. Q —ls there a prophecy of the coming of the automobile in the Bible? A—Nahum, 2:4 reads as follows: “The chariots shall range in the streets; they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.” This some people interpret as a prophecy of automobiles. Q —Will it be legal to make beer in your own home, for your own use, without manufacturer’s license? A —Under the new Indiana law, manufacture of home brew for home consumption is not subject to civil or criminal action. If home brew is sold, the seller is subject to arrest on the basis of violating the Indiana statute for sale of beer. Q —Please quote the verse that begins “earth's crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God.” A—lt is from “Aurora Leigh,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and reads: “Earth's crammed with heaven. And every common bush afire with God; And only he who sees takes off his shoes. The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.’’ Q —What is the origin of the phrase, “The game is not worth the candle”? A—lt is a translation of an old French proverb, and refers to games of chance, probably originating at a time when candles were costly.

best during the second six months of infancy, especially in the case of babies exposed to contact with brothers and sisters attending school. He also mentions particularly the importance of having this type of inoculation done by the family doctor. It is most important that parents realize the value of these preventive methods for the safety of the child once the child begins to attend school. Under school conditions, children constantly are in contact with other children coming from crowded areas and from homes in which preventive methods are not followed. Their safety depends on giving them resistance from within rather than on the possibility of avoidance of contacts.

base the success of our most glorious career—home making. Yet I never have been able to see the advantage of making human beings uncomfortable to stick to any tradition, however noble sounding, or of imagining that it takes a martyr to be a good mother. Beside creating unpleasant reaction in everyday life, the most vicious result of such a code is that you are likely to become one of these “I've always done my duty” old ladies. And what pests they can be! After you have harped about how much you have done for your family, it is very easy to fall into the habit of harping about how little the family has done for .you...

MAY 23, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEY WOOD BROUN

MY mother’s name is Mrs. Heywood Broun, and quite frequently she writes letters to newsi pa piers and weekly journals of opm- : ion. My mother is interested In the affairs of the day, and her comments are vigorous. , Very often we are on opposite sides. I do a column on Diego : Rivera and warmly espouse his ! cause, and in the same issue I find Mrs. Heywood Broun declaring, "When an artist has painted a picture, canvas, or mural and been i paid for his work, what right has he to dictate what shall be done j with it?" Now. of course. I don’t agree with that at all. I think he has every right. But. then, I'm a painter and a radical, while my mother is a poet and a Socialist. Again, there was some little commotion because my mother protested to the Nation against its printing certain atheist advertising. I wouldn't care about that. In fact, I think my mother’s letter was printed the same week that I was invited to address the annual luncheon of the agnostics. I didn’t go. because I m not really an agnostic. I'm a Unitarian mystic. We haven't any church, which makes my religious duties much fighter than those of my mother. She's an Episcopalian. a a a When Systems Clash THERE are ever so many things on which we don't agree. She plays the Culbertson system, and I lean toward Sims, although I haven't quite got the hang of him. The hand on which my mother says “I pass” ; is my four-spade bid. Indeed, there is so much variation | in our respective points of view that ' certain readers assume that “Mrs. Heywood Broun” must be the signa- | ture of a wifely correspondent. And as far as I know, there is just one Mrs. Heywood Broun. I realize that my mother suffers because of this resemblance in our names. She is ih the telephone book, and I am not, and so she gets the messages about, Will I come to the protest meeting on Sunday night at 8 o'clock, “informal?” Mrs. Heywood Broun has a keen sense of humor. I remember she said to me only a few days ago, after a couple of telephone calls too many: “Heywood, I think you're going to too many of these protest meetings. You ought to have more carbohydrates. Nobody should try to live entirely on protest.” Come to think of it, my mother didn't say that. It was Frank Sullivan. Still, it may serve to illustrate the spirit to which I refer. ft ft ft Limits to Patience BUT there are bounds beyond which parental patience can not go. I more or less gather that | my mother was not too well pleased that time w r hen somebody mistook ! her name and number for mine and called up at 3 in the morning to roar over the phone: “You old soak, why don’t you come down to Tony’s? The gang's been waiting a couple of hours.” My mother never has been to Tony's. I think it's Frankie’s and Johnny’s that she goees to. ; But the numerous readers who clipped out the letter about Rivera and mailer) it to me are quite mistaken in assuming that this indicates a rift. We dont quarrel simply because she would assign rights to the Rockefellers which I would deny them. There wasn't even a ruction when I left the Socialist party and my mother remained with it. Os course, it is true that Mrs. Heywood Broun feels that upon many occasions I bid and I write without much sense or discretion. I can see some points in favor of Culbertson, and my mother by no means contends that Sims is always wrong. And so we don’t try to interfere with the opinions of each other. nun Rights of the Owner I’M not mad, but only terribly hurt, that my mother should assert the right of an owner to do whatever he pleases with a painting once he has paid for it. Surely, I trust, she would not contend that after the check has been signed the titular owner should be allow'ed to call in another artist to add a couple of sea gulls and a few passing motorboats to the original creator's marine. When an artist is both great and dead there is a general acceptance of the fact that the public should have access to his work. Time alone will tell whether the Mexican belongs to the masters, but it is not impossible that a thousand years from now excavators who never heard of any Rockefeller will be digging in the ruins of Radio City under the impetus of a curious legend that once upon a time a mural of Diego Rivera was walled up. Still, if Mrs. Heywood Broun has what seems to me an heretical attitude toward painting, the fault could be largely my own. I’m afraid that if she takes art too lightly it may be chiefly because she has seen so many early Brouns. I Copyright, 1933. bv The Times) Old Cemetery BY MARGARET BRUNER One comes upon them where the hill roads wind, Their quaint old headstones slant in disarray As if they, too, were tired and longed to lay Deep in the earth, oblivious and resigned. Yet something here relieves and soothes the mind Grown tense by crowding too much in a day, And it is well sometimes to muse and stray Where dreamless sleep and peace are intertwined. Their quiet sanctity is never marred By any sound of mower or of shears. For no one comes to hinder or retard The grass and vines—no caretaker appears; Enshrined I keep them, each a hal* lowed spot, Remembered by the gods; by man, • forgot*