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NO GOLD lorn? as the treasury department and the author of the new resolution on the gold standard disagree as to its meaning, the public can not well be expected to understand the proposal or the necessity for it. It is exceedingly unfortunate that this confusion exists in the administration, and even more unfortunate that the recent legislation on this subject so was drafted as to require a clarifying amendment at this early date. Wild rumors have resulted from this confused situation—such as the report that the recent authorization to reduce the gold content of the dollar 50 per cent is not sufficient and that the present purpose is to depart from gold 100 per cent. The real explanation probably will prove much less sensational. We are already off the gold standard, and, so far, with good results in business upturn. We were not forced off the gold standard by a gold shortage; we had and have the largest gold reserve in the world and the largest in our history, with one brief exception. By stopping gold payments and gold exports we prevented the loss of a single gold dollar from that huge reserve, which still is Intact, as the foundation for our currency. In addition to protecting our gold reserve there w r ere two other main reasons why we chose voluntarily to go off the gold standard. One was the need to reflate the dollar to an honest level, so that persons who borrowed dollars, say in 1926. could pay the debt with dollars of approximately the same value instead of paying in dishonestly dear dollars of today. The other reason was the unfair relation of the dollar to fluctuating foreign currencies and the need to stabilize foreign exchange. Following the presidential emergency decree in early March, taking us off the gold standard, this action was regularized and extended by congress through passing the Thomas amendment to the farm relief law. That amendment made all coins and currencies of the United States government legal tender for payment of all debts, public and private—regardless of any gold payment clause. Nevertheless, the language of that amendment apparently was not sufficiently clear. Many persons still believed that, if they held bonds or other obligations specifically providing for gold payment, they would receive gold. Neither a decision by the British courts that so-called gold obligations could be paid in any legal tender, nor a similar recent decision of the New York supreme court cited by the secretary of the treasury, has stopped the argument about the gold clause. Doubtless the debate will continue until the United States supreme court decides a test case on the constitutionality of the new law. Meanwhile, as a matter of public information and also to clarify the legal record, the administration proposes to amend the new law. Apparently the new resolution does not materially change the recent law insofar as past and present obligations are concerned they still can not be paid in gold. But it does add the provision that future obligations, public and private, shall not contain any gold payment clause. We do not believe that either the justice oi the necessity of making all obligations payable in legal tender is open to serious question. As the British court stated, the gold clause fs a contract for a payment in money and not in gold as a commodity. Money is legal tender. If legal tender can be refused legally a s payment for any monetary debt, it obviously ceases to be legal tender —which would be a denial of the right of the government to fix legal tender. A government which could not fix legal tender could not govern, it would cease to be a government. Asa practical matter, it is. of course, impossible for an individual to pay any debt in gold, because he can not get the gold, all of which has been taken out of circulation by the government. Thus the law and the proposed amendments merely record on the s*atute books a condition which already exists in fact. Concerning the justice involved, we can not see that persons holding so-called gold clause bonds are any more entitled to payment in gold than are the millions of citizens who deposited gold certificates in banks and can not withdraw gold or gold certificates. The real test of justice here is whether there is discrimination. Gold payments to gold clause bond holders would be an injustice to the others, because it would be discrimination. What is legal tender for one must be legal tender for all. Otherwise, money is not money. ,

SALES TAX? NO! W ITH the people indignantly demanding that the income tax law be amended in •uch way that Morgan and his kind can no longer escape, somfe short-sighted members of congress ask, Why not substitute the sales tax for the income tax? Th answer is simple. Morgan and his partners paid an income tax of about $11,000,000 for 1929. How much tax would they have paid under the sales tax method? The senate should follow the house in rejecting the sales tax as an alleged substitute for more effective income taxes on the rich. J. P. Morgan reveals he paid no income tax in 1930. 1931 and 1932. And we always thought prosperity was just around the corner of Broad and Wall street*.

HOW MORGAN DID IT T. P. MORGAN paid no income tax last year, yet he lived like a man with a very’ adequate income. Many people would be glad to take what it cost to keep up his fleet of automobiles, his yacht, or his Glen Cove estate as a salary. That is one reason why many people find themselves perplexed, if not suspicious. How could Mr. Morgan escape without paying a cent, if he still took in enough to live so sumptuously? ' Men who earn their incomes have to pay if they receive more than a stipulated amount, and there is no doubt that Mr. Morgan did. The point is that, the law permits him and all others in a similar position to offset income with capital lasses, which is something that those without capital can not do. Here is how it works. A man worth SIOO.000,000 loses $25,000,000 through the sale of stocks, or bad debts. Under the law, he can write it off against his income during the current year, although he still may be getting two or three million in profits, dividends, or salaries. The map without capital is, of course, unable to take advantage of such law’. He must pay, regardless of how hard times are, or how sharply his income has been reduced, provided it exceeds the exemption limit. Now the question is, should capital losses of any kind or description be allowed to offset income which actually is received? The man who owns a home and who sells it at a loss is not allowed to deduct it, because framers of the law forgot to include the home in thase classes of property on which losses would be allowed. Indeed, after twenty years of experimenting, this law’ seems to contain many flaw*. With the exception of salaried people and wage earners, there are convenient loopholes in it for mast people, provided they hire experts themselves in its complicated provisions. Theoretically, it is just law, placing the burden on thase who best can afford to bear it. From the standpoint of practical efficiency, it- is a cumbersome, complex, bewildering method of taxation, requiring an enormous force of collectors to protect the government's interest, with a surprisingly large percentage of unsatisfactory results. One need not be an income tax expert to wonder whether some of the headache could not be eliminated by a straight tax on net income. meaning what an individual or a business institution receives above the expenses actually incurred to get it. Most people are firmly convinced that the theory of offsetting income by the deduction of capital losses is wrong. There is no justice in letting a man who actually collects and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars during a given year escape a tax which comparatively poor people must continue to pay, because his investments have shrunk. He should be given all the benefit that his reduced income warrants, but no more. If we are going to have an income tax, let us confine it to income and not attempt to balance things by digging into the capital account. It is the only way that w’e can be fair to those w’ho have no capital account.

BRITAIN’S PEACE SABOTAGE YX/'HEN President Roosevelt recently made his great peace appeal to all nations and offered to enter an effective nonaggression pact, it was assumed that other large nations would follow that leadership. Though it was supposed that Japan, having outlawed herself by continued aggression and treaty violation, might not co-operate, the American public would not suspect Great Britain of obstruction. Indeed, the British monarch, in his prompt acknowledgment of the Roosevelt letter, expressed sympathy with its purpase. But now it appears that the British Tory-National govei nment does not share the peace policy of the British king and the British people. The official reply which the London government just has made to the Roosevelt nonaggiession pact proposal does not even mention that proposal. This is not only bad diplomacy, it is exceedingly bad taste. An even stronger word could be used to describe this British action without injustice. The practice of blocking peace moves is getting to be a habit of the British government. The British government emasculated the Kellogg anti-war pact with reservations which made it virtually meaningless. The British government tacitly supported Japanese treaty violation and aggression in Manchuria and repeatedly blocked league action against Japan. The British government now is trying to kill the Roosevelt nonaggression pact before it is born. This anti-peace policy does not represent the British people; it is dictated by the Tory imperialists of the British war office and admiralty. But that does not make it any the less disastrous for the world's peace plans Thts is the sort of thing which makes it so easy for the American big navy group to argue that the American fleet should be built up to parity with the British. For our part we grow weary of the constant British charge that the United States will not co-operate for peace—accompanied by British moves to defeat American peace co-operation. It is not necessary to go to London to find Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy. We have had plenty of it in American foreign policy. But in the case of the Roosevelt nonaggression proposal, our hands are clean.

Allegheny stock, then worth $35. but sold to Morgan's “favored customers" for S2O. now is quoted at $2. Maybe some of the fellows who thought they were ‘ getting i n on the ground floor" found they got into the basement instead. Navys no-cusing order came as a big surprise to the fleet, says a dispatch. Well, probably it did leave a lot of the fellows speechless. Ever since the government removed the limits on liquor prescriptions, we've noticed an increasing number of persons who are eager to sit up with a sick friend. Presbyterian church has decided to omit "obey" from the marriage ceremony. Just as if it made any difference! t Perhaps Mr. Morgan’s idea of "the forgotten man" was the tax collector.

THE NAVY ‘GOES MORAL’ A DMIRAL R. H. LEIGH, commander-in-chief of the United States fleet, must be a man of an optimistic and sanguine turn of mind. His recent order that the practice of profanity be eliminated on all American naval vessels seems to be the sort of order that only a hopeful man would issue. Sailors, of course, are not nowadays the tough, horny-handed chaps that their predecessors were. Taken by and large, the young men of our navy are as fine a group as any man would care to see. But tliey do have excellent vocabularies, and there seems to be something about a sailor's life which makes that necessary. Take, for example, a busy coxswain engaged in bringini’ a motor launch up alongside a pier in a stiff cross wind against an adverse tide, with no one on the dock to take his lines but a couple of rookies who don’t know’ a rope from a necktie. One shudders to think of the emotional strain he will suffer if he complies literally with Admiral Leigh's erder. Maybe we don’t understand the artistic point of view, but it looks to us like this: A man builds a $100,000,000 building and pays an artist $21,000 to persuade him to exercise his artistic right to paint anything he pleases in the $100,000,000 building. Federal Judge James A. Lowell of Massachusetts told a jury that w’hen a witness wipes his hands it is almost a certain indication that he is lying. Well, every young man should come into court with clean hands. The greatly maligned doughnut is not indigestible, assert Yale scientists. Well, if a doughnut lover with a w’eak digestion wants to play it safe he can do so by eating only the hole. Sicentist claims people in the city are more intelligent than those in the country. Must be true. A million of them have moved to the country in the last three years. Department of interior recently changed the name of Hoover dam back to Boulder dam. Now we know who “the forgotten man” really is. We didn't realize how severe the depression in the United States really was until we read that Canadian liquor sales have dropped onethird in the last two years. The town of Blaine, Wash., is issuing dollars made of wood. It ought to be an easy matter to float a loan there. Western Kansas towns are turning out their street lights on moonlight nights as an economy measure. Don't they know t<hat moonshine still is against the law? Railroads are planning anew high-speed train that can run 100 miles an hour. Now let’s see a motorist beat one of those trains to a grade crossing. A leading question of the day is: “How many quarts of this new 3.2 beer does ft take to make a quartet?” New York police report that the pickpocket is disappearing. Perhaps he’s merely getting discouraged. A1 Capone plays third base on the Atlanta penitentiary baseball team and enjoys the noisy rooting of the fans, says a released convict. Well, A1 always did like the racket. “People are going through life at too fast a pace,” says Dr. Charles H. Mayor. Yes, any speed cop can testify to the same thing.

M.E.TracySays

UNLESS I am mistaken, there is a definite need for re-education as to the meaning of liberty in these United States. We continue to preach that each man’s liberty begins where that of another ends, but we do not practice it. We insist that there should be no limit to the exercise of certain rights and privileges. Proceeding on the idea that it is the individual’s right to earn and accumulate all that he can legitimately, we pool and pyramid wealth for the specific purpose of stifling competition, creating monopolies, controlling natural resources and developing arbitrary agencies through which to levy tribute on people who can not help themselves. The unlicensed liberty acquired by small groups through the power of concentrated wealth is reflected in the last liberty of millions. Officially the United States lives under the same form of government that its founders established, but unofficially its people have become subject to a network of interlocking tyrannies. nan BIG BUSINESS, as we call it, has come to dominate America, not only in an economic sense, but in a philosophical sense. It has trained us to think of size as the all-impor-tant objective and of money as the all-impor-tant medium. Most of our young people start out in life with the sole idea of getting an income. What will, they do for it. or with it, becomes a secondary consideration. The success of college graduates generally is rated by the cash income they receive, and the worth of business enterprise or individuals by their liquid, rather than by their permanent assets. We have reached a point where we think of capital solely in terms of money or securities which can be moved on the instant. Asa matter of common sense, our real capital consists of land, buildings, machinery and natural resources, without them the cash and securities we possess would be of little value. The land and natural resources come to us as a gift from nature. The buildings, tools and machinery we have created, and we have created them largely by virtue of an ingenuity which owes much to liberty as conceived by otir forefathers. 800 THE patent office at Washington is, perhaps. this couuntry’s greatest monument. It represents a vast amount of folly, waste and disappointment, but it also represents progress. More than any other institution, it has enabled us to take the lead, to convert our raw materials into wealth and comfort, to develop the best-housed, best-clothed and best-fed nation of all time. \\ e would do well to think twice before swapping such an advantage for a monopolistic form of society, in which originality, initiative and experimentation would be sacrificed for the sake of theoretical security. We would do well not to take this depression too seriously except as it reveals the folly of tolerating unlicensed privileges as some of our great industrial and financial institutions have been permitted to exercise. We need emancipation, but to be genuine it must come through less rather than more control, which means the definite restraint of private interests as represented by corporate power.

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Aptograms By Jo Judd. A NYWAY, you don’t need a license to hunt a job. Change is all that remains of the medium of exchange. Many “secrets of success” can be used openly. Many a “self-made” man has lost the “makin’s.’’

Q —How’ much was expended for federal enforcement of prohibition in 1931 and 1932? A—ln 1931 the cost w r as $13,998,881.88 and in 1932 it was sll,369,500.00. Q—Give the altitude of the highest mountain in the world and in continental United States. A—Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, is 29,141 feet, and Mount Whitney, California, is 14,496 feet. Q —What birds have been adopted as representatives in each of the states? A —The national association of audubon societies says that the following states have adopted birds; Kansas, western meadowlark; Florida, mockingbird; Kentucky, cardinal; Maine, chickadee; District of Columbia, woodthrush; Louisiana, brow’n pelican; Alabama, flicker; Missouri, bluebird; Virginia, robin; Maryland, Baltimore oriole; Oregon, western meadowlark; Wisconsin, robin; Texas, mockingbird; Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana, western meadowlark. Q —How do platinum and gold compare in hardness and weight? A—Platinum is harder and heavier than gold. Q —Has the kingdom of Iraq any consul or diplomatic representative in the United States? A—No. Q—How large is the Japanese navy? A—lt has ten capital ships, six-ty-nine submarines, seventy-two destroyers, twenty-nine cruisers and four aircraft carriers. • Q —Are there any federal laws relating to inter-racial marriages? A—No. The enactment of marriage laws is the special province of the states.

IN many instances, feet are exceedingly painful because of a condition affecting the main bone of the foot, the astragalus. This is particularly the case in the condition commonly called fallen arch, which occurs more often in women than in men. People who stand long hours, such as motormen or saleswomen, are especially likely to be disturbed by pain in the feet due to extraordinary stress on the arches. There is pain and rigidity of the tissues and at times even spasms of the muscles in the effort to overcome the pressure. Relief frequently occurs when the person is able to stay off,the feet, but in most cases this interferes with occupation and earning power. Hot applications and massage ijf the feet are helpful. The padding

IT seems a great pity that so few men read novels, especially those designated as feminine fiction. A good many are no good, of course, but the best ones do give an insight into the mind of the modern woman—and this is territory that the modern man would do well to explore. Problems of marriage make up most of the plots, and we take it for granted that men as well as women are concerned with this subject. It is encouraging to note that there is a distinct trend away from divorce in our best current fiction. There is strong propaganda for the preservation of marriage and the advantages of old-fashioned stability. "Damned If They Do” is the title tint should have a certain appeal

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Bankers went berserk on credit; now they're crazy for cash. That fault which we would have discovered last betrays us first. Some people are too busy to be bothered with their own convenience. The ‘ due process of law, too often, is overdue or overdone. Since beer came back, the “flapper” has quit "neckin’” and gone to “lappin’.’’

Q —How many American consuls are there in Italy? A—Three consul-generals and eighteen consuls. Q —Who exhibited a child covered with gold leaf, on a festal occasion? A—The story is contained in “The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci” by Dimitri Merejkowsky. The occasion was the ball given by the duke of More, duke of Milan, at the close of the year 1496, or the opening of the year 1497. Q —Where and when was the first public school in the United States started? A—lt was the Boston Latin school established in 1635. ■ Q —When was the first issue of Indian head 1-cent pieces? A—1859. Q—How many motor vehicles of all kinds are there in Egypt? A—As of Jan. 1, 1932. the total registration was 29,368. Q —What is the home address of Clark Gable? A—Brentwood Heights, Los Angeles. Q —Who was the leading woman in “Tiger Shark” with Edward G Robinson? A—Zita Johann. Q —What kind of food is most frequently mentioned in the works of Shakespeare? A—Bread and wine. Q —Name the Governors of Oklahoma between 1919 and 1927. A—J. B. Robertson from 1919 to 1923, and M. E. Trapp from 1923 to 1927. Q—How many airplanes are in active use in the United States? A—A total of 9,983. Q—On what date was the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr. found’ A—May 12, 1932.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hv?eia. the Health Magazine. of the shoes in such cases is very comforting. The shoes must be fitted so as to aid in supporting the arch with a rigid shank of medium -width. A competent authority usually will insert felt pads to support the depressed structures. A series of exercises has been developed for building up the tissues that support the arch. The following exercises have been found of special value. 1. Towel Exercise—'The patient sits in a chair. A large hand towel is spread on the carpet, with the narrow edge facing the patient, Both feet are placed on the towel so that half of each foot is on the towel. The towel is grasped with the

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

for men. And it is a story that should interest both men and" women. The author, Helena Huntington Smith, who I am told is Mrs. Henry F. Pringle, certainly knows her married life. a a a SHE presents a plea for the woman who so often is misunderstood by her husband during the period of child-bearing and babytending. The dilemma of the modem wife here is set forth in all its stark reality, that dilemma which has become a commonplace of our civilization; that she is likely to lose her husband's interest if she has children, and practically certain to do so if she doesn't. It is not such a pretty picture of the modem married man. who, if we can believe the novelists, seems

(Times rentiers are incited In express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so oil con hove a chance. Limit them to 250 words or lessJ Bv Rod I.exineton. I read your editorial of Thursday in which you state that Mooney should be freed and that he never was fully proved guilty. Perhaps you are right, and maybe Tom Mooney is innocent and does not deserve life imprisonment, but have you ever considered that he might be guilty? And that California might be making a great mistake in freeing him. Os course, public sentiment is with him because of his seemingly unjust incarceration, and because of his aged mother, who wants to live until her Tommy once again is a free man. But, on the other hand, what about the ten people or more killed in the blast on that memorable day in San Francisco, and their relations that are living with no hope of ever seeing their kin alive again? What would be the result *if Mooney is freed? A known anarchist and trouble maker, he probably would start lectures immediately against the government and the state of California for their crooked courts, etc. Then probably someone of those men who were responsible or connected with his trial and sentence would be found shot to death, mysteriously. Mooney has a lot of followers who would do most anything he commanded. His recent trial was a blank, proving nothing, disproving nothing. There was no need to submit any evidence of guilt. He already is serving time for the crime and besides it was an added expense on an already overburdened taxpayer who has not the time to worry about costly trials in which nothing can be gained. My personal opinion is, and I have been an inhabitant of San Francisco for six years, that Mooney if freed will be back in jail within one year after his release, for additional trouble. 1 say, let him rot in jail as he is a menace to peaceloving citizens. Mooney hardly can be criticised for being hardened against the people, after seventeen years of penitentiary life, but he can not be excused for his attitude or lack of respect for this country’s government. with which he never has been in accord, and never will.

toes of one foot then with the toes of the other. As the toes of one foot grasp, those of the other foot relax. Continue until the entire towsl is under the feet. 2. Golf Ball Exercise—A golf bail is placed on the rug and rolled under the metatarsal arch for one minute. Then it is picked up with the toes of one foot and placed under the toes of the other foot, and the exercise is repeated. The patient alternates in this manner six times. 3. Marble Exercise—The patient sits on a chair and picks up marbles of various sizes with the toes. 4. Pencil Exercise—A round pencil is placed on a bare boor, and by means of the toes curled downward the patient pushes and pulls the pencil around the floor with short, quick movements.

to thrive in New York City, where most of the scenes of the books are laid. <1 can't help but feel that our country yokels are not quite so selfish.) Nevertheless, though the facts may be exaggerated and the men slandered, it does give a vivid idea of the fears that beset the woman of today who has been educated in the belief that once she has lost her complexion and her figure, her husband will walk out on her <and, in the books, the brute always does). Personally, I do not think so harshly of the American husband But just the same I recommend this novel for his consideration, even though I seem to hear his snorts of rage. Anything that will help men and women to understand each other better is worthy of praise.

3TAY 27, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEIfWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, May 27.-r m tired of getting shot against a nice j clean wall. Here in New York after 1 o'clock in the morning there always is a good deal of talk about the revolution. Whether this advances or retards the day. I m not quite sure. And yet it makes a difference to me because I always seem to be the fellow who is going to get shot. Perhaps I bring it on myself on account of my insistence that I see no sense in shooting anybody. This is the point where some young man at the table breaks in to say; The trouble with you, Broun, is that you're just a fat, middle-aged ■ sentimentalist. You don't understand what it's all about, and the j only thing to do with you is to stand : up against a nice clean wall and j shoot you." ■ 1 don t know why it should always be "a nice clean wall.” I have no preference as to walls. But I am ! against being shot. a B a I Needs Much Rehearsing : nil ßht not do it well. Either j * the featured player or some i members of the supporting cast | could botch the job. Latin Amerij cans are the only people who have learned to do these ihings gracefully. I don t know whether that is natural temperament or the enormous amount of practice which they get in such matters. This afternoon I was reading Thomas Carlyle's account of the guillotining of Louis. It did not strike me as a satisfactory performance. “He advances to the edge of th scaffold, ‘his face very red,' and says; ‘Frenchmen. I die innocem. It is from the scaffold and near appearing before God that I tell you so. I pardon my enemies; I desire that France'—A general, on horseback. Santerre or another, prances out, with uplifted hand; ‘Tambours!’ The drums drown the voice. ‘Executioners, do your duty!’ ” Now. obviously that was a bad piece of stage management. Louis, “his face very red,'' was not very likely to make any important address from the scaffold. Only in the most technical sense was he innocent. He, too, was a fat sentimentalist. But instead of drowning his feeble words the drums magnified them. Because it was not heard, his dying speech took on a magnificence and an importance. a an Magnified bij Exit BOTH Louis and Marie Antoinette were tawdry folk of no consequence whatsoever, but they have carried into posterity a sort of romantic glamour, because the people who executed them for good and sufficient reason did not have the imagination to carry the job through with even a reasonable amount of grace. It can be done. Captain John Craige in his delightful book, “Blark Bagdad," relates an incident in the history of Haiti in which both the executioner and the executed came off with flying colors. The narrator was Monsieur Chevalier, a charming Haitian, whom I had the privilege of meeting in Port au Prince a few months ago. The elder Chevalier was a contender for ascendancy in Haiti against two rival generals. After some indecisive action in the field, the leaders agreed to a truce during which an election should be held. Asa result of the balloting, Chevalier was chosen as president. He started from his headquarters in the hills to Port au Prince to meet his cabinet. But he neglected to take his army with him, and on the road he was waylaid by the two rival generals. They informed him that they had decided not to abide by the result of the election, but to stand him against a wall and shoot him. Most of the walls in Haiti are not too clean, and so I do not know what concessions w’ere offered to him. But he asked for one. General Chevalier was dressed in his field uniform, which was travel stained and muddy. Only one hour back on the heavy roads a mule was coming with his luggage. Would they be so kind?

a a a A Reasonable Request TO Haitian gentlemen and generals it seemed the most natural request in the world. And so they sat to *kill an hour and talk of past campaigns in which they had fought as comrades or in contending armies. Time flew, and many cigarets were smoked, said there was banter and the exchange of information. Finally the pack mule arrived, and General Chevalier put on his red pants and his white coat, with all the medals. He borrowed one final cigaret, asked for a light, waved his hand, and the shots rang out. Honor, drama, economic, and political necessity had all been satisfied. And so I- hope it may be with me when I come to my white wall. I have the cigaret all picked, but I can’t quite make up my mind whether to wear the light brown suit with the two pairs of trousers or the blue with the purple stripe. iCopvrieh!. 1933 bv The Times) Lone Beech BY MARGARET E. BRUNER It seems to voicp humanity's deep . cry. Although it wears a cloak of reverie. Like one who peers in space that he may see— Whose heart would learn the great, eternal why. It has known lightnings dart, wind's eerie sigh. Bright song of bird, the droning of the bee; It bears the mark of storm's fierce tyranny— Joy touched it lightly as it fluttered by. I think that it has found that strange, deep peace The dreamer finds who goes his way alone, Who, from the sting of scorn has found surcease. Though his beliefs all others may disown— It has a faith and poise unknown to me, Yet I am kindred to the lone beech tree.