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TUESDAY. JUNE 8, 1333. A NEW TAMMANY? 'T'HOUGHTFUL citizens will do a good deal ot thinking about the election yesterday of J Malcolm Dunn to the superintendency of Marion county schools. Mr. Dunn chose a queer way to qualify himself for this post, which is of such vital importance to the children of the community. His educational qualifications were the least impressive of any candidate in the field. He has had no executive experience in school work. Many of the teachers whom he will supervise have far more scholarly attainments than he. Mr. Dunn was a botany instructor for a W’hile. Then he went actively into politics and became a township trustee. The township trustees elect the county superintendent. They presented their fellow trustee with this fat job. Os course, Mr. Dunn is a Democrat. But so were the candidates who were In the field against him, with one exception. Dr. Hightower, one of them, is a doctor of philosophy ana an experienced school administrator. Mr. Dunn is neither. Mr. Beavers, another contender, holds a master’s degree, and has made a fine record as a school principal. Mr. Dunn has no such qualifications. The conclusion is inescapable that Mr. Dunn received his appointment because he was a trustee and because he had been a hardworking party man. The trustees simply ignored everything else. Their action was a piece of unqualified insolence to the taxpayers of Marion county, who have a right, in these hard times, to get the utmost for their children. Damage done to a t hild during the formative years is irreparable. Voters will scrutinize the conduct ot these trustees in the future with extremely critical eyes. Recreant to their public trust in this matter, all their future will be suspect. As for Mr. Dunn, he is a personable and ambitious young man. He chose the wrong way to go after the superintendency, but he won it. Now it is up to him to demonstrate whether he is working for the children of Marion county or for the politicians. Malodorous Tammany long since learned to keep its paws pretty much out of the educational system. It never would have dared to pull off such a brazen stunt as did the trustees yesterday. Is the Democratic party of Indiana, after its fine start, now going to develop anew Tammany here, on the edge of the prairies? SCRATCHING THE SURFACE r T' HE House of Morgan is doing too much to sidetrack the senate investigation. Whenever the senate counsel starts an important line of questioning, John W. Davis, the Morgan lawyer, intervenes. Then the point usually is argued out by Mr. Pecora and Mr. Davis in the secrecy of an executive session of the committee. We can not understand the committee vote to suppress information. The business of the House of Morgan has become public business, because it uses—in some cases misuses—the public’s money. Congress never will be able to draft effective lomedial legislation to plug income tax holes and to regulate the machine of high finance if the facts are shut up in a committee room. Nor can the public judge whether the committee and congress are protecting the Morgans instead of the public interest unless the facts are known to all. Virtually no reform came out of the equally spectacular Pujo investigation. Congress did not do its job then. If the present congress is moved by the same spirit which has caused its committee to withhold facts from the open hearing, there is cause for public apprehension. The test of congress will come when it votes on the resolution to increase the funds and powers of the committee and investigating staff. Mr. Pecora and his able staff have achieved much, but they have not begun to reach bottom. Is the investigation to be hampered by lack of funds while congress goes home for the summer and autumn vacation? Is the investigation to be hampered by inadequate committee powers, which can be challenged at every turn by the bankers’ lawyers? Congress should vote SIOO,OOO for the purpose—the investigation is costing the government nothing, in fact, because it already has resulted in changing the revenue measure to save the general taxpayer much more than the committee appropriation. Presumably there will be no difficulty in getting all the money necessary 7 to continue the investigation. Apparently, however, there are some in congress who would restrict the powers of the committee. Its present powers are inadequate. Mr. Pecora repeatedly has brought out In the hearings the failure of the Morgans to co-operate with his investigators. In the future this should not be left to the temper of the Morgans. The committee should be able to go into the Morgan books without hindrance. The authority should be so clear that it can not be muddied by a clever Wall Street lawyer. That is the only way to get the whole picture, which is necessary before intelligent laws can be drafted for regulation of the money trust. Three things are essential for completion of this im-estigation. none of which has been provided. They are: Adequate funds. Complete authority. An end to secrecy. ‘•Midget Sits on J. P. Morgan's Lap”—Headline. Nothing unusual; numerous politicians have been sitting on Mr. Morgan's lap for a long time, and doubtless they now feel just about as small as the midget.

'T'HE arguments for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment are familiar to every one in this state. The depression has merely pointed them and made the need for action more immediate. Indiana decides today whether it will move in the direction of true temperance or stick to 1 a law which has proved utterly unworkable and which has yielded revenue only to the criminal classes. There is little doubt of the true sentiment throughout the state. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment says that it has received more individual contributions from Indiana during the last year than from any other state in the Union. The voters themselves approved the wet platform of the Democratic party at the polls last November! Today's election is more than a purely local affair. The eyes of the nation are upon it. Nine states already have decided to get rid of

A WISE DECISION r teeth in the industrial recovery bill have been restored by the senate finance committee, in voting back the licensing clause. When the committee originally threw out that clause, it left the matter of co-operation largely to discretion of employers. Experience in war time showed that such voluntary system would not work; therefore, the w’ar industries board was given effective power. National experience during the depression has proved that a minority of selfish or short-sighted employers can wreck industry by unfair methods. The problem, as stated by President Roosevelt, and by officials of the United States Chamber of Commerce, is to control the 10 per cent of employers who refuse to go along with the 90 per cent. Unless the government has power to force the minority to respect the wage, hour, and planning agreements of the majority of employers and of labor, the sweatshops will continue to drag down the nation, regardless of fine phrases and generalities in any industrial recovery act. For that reason, the licensing or enforcing clause is the key to the entire bill. THE PENALTY UNTERMEYER, who, as counsel for the Pujo committee on banking and currency, examined the elder Morgan in 1912, acquits the present firm of Morgan of any criminal act. He also asserts that there is nothing unethical in its procedure, according to current American standards of business | and finance. As he implies, the trouble is with these standards. They are what have broken down our economic system and must be rooted out before there will be any hope of a revived and purged capitalism. Mr. Untermeyer puts the blame for the : present defects and evils in American finance and banking upon the federal government because of its failure to adopt curative legislation, such as suggested in the report he prepared for the Pujo committee. If adequate regulations and restrictions then had been imposed, many of the major economic evils from which we since have suffered would have been eliminated or reduced greatly. Indeed, we even might have been spared the depression, for it was caused primarily by the insidious ramifications and practices of speculative finance. Certainly, with the exception of the income tax revelations, there are no essential facts with respect to the “money trust” and the dominion of finance over American industry, transportation, and utilities which Mr. Pecora is unearthing that were not exposed by Mr Untermeyer. And they were heading the country for a major depression when the shot at Sarajevo plunged Europe into war, created a great market for American goods and loans, and saved us from a serious and prolonged slump in business. The war made billions for the speculative financiers, who became bankers for the allies as well as Americans. Then came the pliant administrations of Harding and Coolidge and with them the utopia of the money trust. Banking became an adjunct of the brokerage business and the great speculative era was upon us. Then came the dawn in October, 1929. Once more there had been ample warning.' Drawing to a considerable degree upon the findings of the Pujo committee, Senator Robert M. La Follette made one of his greatest speeches in the senate at the very close of the Wilson administration. On Feb. 21 and 22. 1921, the Wisconsin statesman fully revealed the centralization of American financial control in the House of Morgan and showed the dominion of finance over industry, transportation, mining and the utilities. But the philippics of La Follette fell on deaf ears in a generation which was yearning for “normalcy.” We have paid the penalty since 1929 for this delinquency of Presidents and congress. Hardly had the depression settled down when ihere appeared another revelation of the power and methods of the House of Morgan. This time it was not a lawyer who played the leading role, but an economist and publicist, Lewis Corey. His complete and masterly book, “The House of Morgan,” appeared in 1930. This is the most complete and authoritative work in print on the Morgan firm and its grip on American economic life. It brought Untermeyer and La Follette down to date. But it did not cause a ripple. If congress again fails to act along the line of the regulative policy suggested by Mr. Untermeyer away back in 1912, we shall deserve another thorough licking at the hands of the autocrats of speculative finance, and there is little doubt that we shall get it. When all is said and done, the servants of the people have been more at fault here than the servants of mammon. PEACE IX THE ORIENT TT is evident that Japan’s triumph in Manchuria and north China is about to be cemented more or less permanently in a SinoJapanese treaty; and whatever may be said in criticism of the treaty, it at least will be a welcome thing in one respect—it will bring to an end an “unofficial” but singularly bloody and expensive war. Early reports indicate that the treaty will

Vote for Repeal ’- AN EDITORIAL J=

R. F. C. Chairman Jesse H. Jones announces that corporations will not be granted loans unless high salaries are cut. To leave no doubt, he lays down specific conditions. Salaries of SIOO,OOO and more must be cut by 60 per cent, including previous reductions; those between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO by 50 per cent, and so on down to those of SIO,OOO, for which a 15 per cent cut is prescribed. Such a ruling is no more than just. The already overburdened taxpayer should not be compelled to furnish money for corporations that still grant officials unnecessarily high pay. The salary and bonus grab has developed into a racket by which corporation heads, operating through a hand-picked board of directors, mulct not only the public, but their own stockholders. As long as the President of the United States works for $75,000 a year and members of his cabinet receive only $15,000, there is no possible excuse for the enormous compensation granted officials of certain private corporations. tt tt a THE theory that because.a corporation made five or ten million dollars through a deal or campaign engineered by its executive head he deserves $500,000 or $1,000,000 as a bonus, is tommyrot, since the organization at his back, the capital at his disposal and, above all else! the vast number of employes working in disciplined co-operation made it possible. Individual ability is entitled to recognition and reward, but no less in the middle than at the top. Ferdinand Pecora. counsel for the senate committee now investigating our great financial houses, gets $9 a day. While that is obviously too little, it comes nearer being in line with common sense than the absurd pay voted corporation heads who owe much to a corps of faithful lieutenants. These alleged supermen are furnishing a vivid illustration of what they can do to meet an emergency by calling on American taxpayers for help, and by conceding that they and their institutions would go broke, if the government did not come to their rescue. If the new deal calls for anything, it is a drastic readjustment of pay as reflected in the preposterous inequalities which now exist between the golf-playing end and the working end of an office. tt tt a TT'HE time has come for us to give consideration to the maximum wage. Both have a definite effect on mass buying power. If there is an amount of money below which the average man can not live decently, tjiere is also an amount which he can not spend, without being foolishly extravagant. If the government must come to the aid of private business through loans and regulations. as now seems essential, it has a right to insist on a more equitable distribution of returns. Taxpayers should not be compelled to furnish money for bigger salaries in private business than they are willing to pay in public business. The new deal will be neither new nor effective, unless it includes this phase of corporate enterprise which has been carried to nonsensical extremes and which not only has led to unjust discrimination, but to a lot of office politics within corporations. Business has been handicapped seriously by the striving and maneuvering of those in high positions to rig things so that they can extract i a little more for themselves, regardless of what it costs the consumer or the stockholder.

the prohibition amendment. Indiana is the tenth to go to the polls. And Thomas Beck, editorial director of Collier's magazine, voiced the opinion of shrewd observers throughout the country when he said that if Indiana decided for repeal the eighteenth amendment was doomed. The dry's have not been doing much talking, but they have been working. Make no mistake about that. They realize that they can win only through the indolence of wet voters. Never in the history of the country was the plain duty of citizenship so solemn. There is no excuse for not voting. A telephone call to Lincoln 5411, repeal headquarters, not only will bring all necessary information about where and how to vote, but transportation to the polls will be furnifehed. A vote for repeal is a vote for lower taxes, for new markets for the farmers, for honest temperance. Get out and vote!

strengthen the foundations of the puppet state of Manchoukuo, that China permanently will lose the province of Jehol, that Japan’s prestige in the Far East will be increased greatly and that the rhle of the “war lords” in north China will be ended. This much could have been predicted months ago. In some respects the treaty is reassuring. Japan apparently has no desire to dismember China proper. Her new influence in Manchoukuo and Jehol eventually may turn out to be a stabilizing and civilizing force badly needed in those provinces. - g EDITORIAL ON MONEY POWER (By Nicholas Murray Butler) ✓CONTROL of money and constant association with money is perhaps the most demoralizing of human occupation. Small wonder that in the ancient world it w 7 as thought to be a fit occupation for slaves! There is something about this contact and control which obscures moral principles and human values, and tends to develop a stiffly legalistic attitude toward every human relationship. This contact and control are accompanied uniformly by secretiveness, and secretiveness without any actual falsehood whatever is one of the most effective instruments' of deceit. Until a condition can be brought about in which money is looked upon and treated as the symbol jvhich it is, and not as a commodity with a value and a purpose of its own, men never can shake themselves free from the shackles of what they so long have described as the “money power.” Dr. Hans Luther, German ambassador to Washington, says he is working for more friendly relations between the United States and Germany. Another case of Hans across the sea? Moths, says a scientist, are among the least aggressive of all insects. After getting out our last summer’s bathing suit and looking it over, we are convinced that they are whiling to take a back seat. Kansas convicts made a wild dash for liberty while watching baseball game. It’s a wonder that fans in the Philadelphia National League park wouldn’t be tempted to do likewise.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 icords■ or less.) By a Hard-Working: Democrat. Who is Governor of Indiana? Echo answers, Who? We are much edified that Judge Treanor, presumably elected by the Democrats, dons his armor and, like unto Don Quixote, breaks a lance in behalf of downtrodden officials who probably have been employed sufficiently long to step aside and give the others a chance, We overwork this efficiency Stunt. Others, even Democrats, can be efficient, given a chance. “A long service of many years” doubtless has enabled the lady in question to save enough to live comfortably, or let Don Quixote employ her as private secretary. This mandate “put her back at once or I'll raise plenty of noise” smacks somewhat of the mailed fist.Do go on, Don, raise plenty of noise. It would amuse us mightily and in these dark days of financial distress without employment, we might at least get a grin out of the windmills you tilt at so valiantly. Why not attempt to succor some deserving Democrat? Governor McNutt promised to clean house, -which so far he is somewhat belated in beginning, Our Governor owes Marion county a grand housecleaning, or will he sell us for thirty pieces of silver? The city hall crowd has sold us sufficiently. We look to McNutt to save the party. Wield the broom with unsparing hand and defy those who interfere with his appointments. Bv a Democrat. In reply to. Joe Kelly’s letter, published in The Times, June 3, in which he asks all fair-minded people to thank Judge Treanor for using his judicial whip on our Governor to retain a Republican on the pay roll. Considering myself a fairminded citizen, politically Democratic, I shall request all fair-minded Democrats that said judge be denied the right to use the Demorcatic emblem as a ticket to any office, he should not be given another chance to pay his personal debts with Democratic money. The main trouble with the Democratic party, especialy in Marion county, is that our leaders permit bi-partisans on the public pay roll when elected to office, and ignore faithful Democrats, taking for granted they always will vote Democratic. That word efficient sounds fine.

MILLIONS of words have been written about shoes, and every shoe manufacturer seems to have his own ideas. There are shoes with flexible shanks and shoes with rigid shanks, as well as shoes with semiflexible and semi-rigid shanks. People without any foot troubles, according to Dr. Philip Lewin, will do well in flexible shank shoes. Those who have foot troubles, however, and who require both exercise and support, sometimes will feel much better with shoes with a rigid shank. It is believed that the best type of shoes have round toes, medium width shanks, and are made over a last with a straight inner border.

•‘-fttOMEN are more understandW ing, more idealistic, less impulsive, and less egotistical than men, therefore we would be in favor of a woman for President of the United States”—This is the verdict of two-thirds of the senior class at the New Jersey College for Women. Although it is unlikely the matter will be put to a general vote soon, the reasons voiced by these girls are not at all naive. They smack of sound, good sense. I liked the last one. especially, because I feel that most humanity’s colossal blunders can be traced to the egotism of its male leaders. The major foolhardiness of nations have their origins in brain cells that are set in cement. Women are vain. Men are ego-

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Save Libraries By Chalmers Hadley. MY dear Governor McNutt: As a native Indianan and a librarian, I wish to express sincere hope that you will not permit the turning back of the library clock for many decades by returning the Indiana state library to politics.

Questions and Answers

Q —Was Napoleon, the title of Bonaparte, or his first name? A—lt was his first name. Q —What proportion of the employed inhabitants in the United States work in automobile factories, garages and repair shops? A—Census statistics for 1930 show 7 that out of a total of 48,829,920 persons, 394,188 were in automobile factories, garages and repair shops. Q—How many times has Richard Dix been married? Has he any children? A—He has only been married once, to Winifred Coe, in October, 1931, and they have a daughter, born January 26, 1933. Q—State the proportions of males and females in the population of the United States. A—ln 1930 there were 62,137,080 males and 60,637,966 females.

I wonder if this lady in question were to meet with any accident and perhaps death, would the Democrtic party in office have to resort to finding another person in the Republican ranks to fill her place? As to her efficiency, she received her job for being a faithful party worker and gained her experience in that line at the expense of taxpayers, and now 7 considers herself indispensible. If she and her family voted for the judge while she was holding a Republican job. she w T as a traitor to her party and should have been fired at once, and not permitted to play the game at both ends and in the middle. I claim no acquaintance with our Governor, but admire his business methods, and hope he will get rid of all bi-partisan leeches. That done, our state, counties, cities, towns and j townships will have better efficiency : and honest officials, if made to con- j duct their offices and be responsible j to rules of our party.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvecia, the Health Magazine. „ Extremes in the height of heels are undesirable, and a good heel is neither too low nor too high, nor is set too forward or too far backward. Few people understand how to take care of their shoes properly. Shoes will last much longer and give much better service from the point of view of protecting the feet if they are changed at least once daily, and if the pair that is not in action is kept on a suitable shoetree or shoe-form The rubber heel has proved so well its advantage in minimizing

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

tistical. And there is a vast difference in the meaning of the words. A woman may be vain of her figure, of her hair, or her voice, of her speed on the typewriter, of her cooking of her disposition, or of some particular achievement that is hers. But the egotist is absorbed completely in himself, certain he is all that mortal can be, sure he is right on every question, and utterly deaf to any opinion save his own. And he walks about in trousers in every commnuity. tt tt a T? ACH cross-road has its miniature Napoleon. The earth has been tom and littered with human debris because six or seven or a dozen super-egoists of the male sex

Not only can successful library service be done through professional training and ability rather than political preferment, but any attempt to substitute politics for ability would be a humiliating blow to confidence in an educated leadership. LIBRARIAN. CINCINNATI PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Q—Who won the world baseball series in 1919? A—The Cincinnati Nationals. Q—ls Morpheus the god of sleep? A—He is the Greek god of dreams; Semnus is the god of sleep. Q —Who administers the government in the Panama canal zone? A—lt is a military reservation administered by the war department. Q—Who invented the bath tub? A—lt is impossible to say who invented the bath tub. The most ancient historical accounts as well as popular myths make mention of bathing. In Palestine, the wealthier Jews had private baths in their houses. Among the Greeks, also, bathing was very early in use. A bathroom, containing a clay tub was found in the prehistoric palace at Tiryns. The warm bath is mentioned frequently by Homer in connection with the entertainment offered an honored guest. Q—Does Mrs. Alice Longworth receive a pension from the government? A—No. Q—Have Russian rubles, issued during the late czar's reign, any intrinsic value? A—No. Q —How far back are immigration records available in the United States? A—To 1820. Q —What is the New York address of Bernard Baruch? A —l2o Broadway. Q —ls there an American consul in the Fiji islands? How should he be addressed? A—Quincy F. Roberts is the American consul. His address is, the American Consul, Suva.

I shock to the feet and thereby to the other organs of the body that there no longer is need to emphasize its virtues. 1 It now is well established that the > circulation to the feet must be w 7 ell maintained if the toes are to be healthful. Such circulation is not maintained when the upper leg is constricted too greatly by tight gar- . ters or by rolling the stockings in a . hard ridge or knot. This constriction causes interference with the regular flow of blood in the veins, resulting in varicosity. A recent improvement is the development of stockings with a slight flexible top. thus preventing constriction and making garters un- ; necessary.

have reached a given moment in time, simultaneously. Greek meeting Greek is nothing to compare with egotist meeting egotist. The thing that has kept woman more idealistic and ‘understanding is the fact that she has been trained to believe she knows less than men. The tradition has preserved her mental resilience and given her the gift of changing her mind. Man. on the contrary, bred to the belief that he seldom is wrong, does not possess this saving grace—and he suffers and his world with him. Anyway you look at it, you see that the outstanding quality of the male character has been egotistical sentimentality, a vicious combination capable of wrecking better worlds than this one.

JTONE fl, 1933

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NEW YORK, June 6.—1 have been fascinated by a newspaper series on “Young Women of New York Society.” I think my favorite is the youthful person’s whose name and fame have been proclaimed under the title of “Diana of Society.” Possibly you can't guess but no more could I. so let us start by saving that our heroine is Mrs. Marshall Field 111. Unfortunately, she is not the one who was identified as "the simplest in her set.” That was another, and yet my loyalty is such I am convinced Diana did not surrender the title without a hitter struggle. And I gravely suspect that the umpire failed to give her the corners. a a a Slightly Sung Heroine OTILL. if we must take second place in simplicity, it may be argued for our champion that she leads all the rest in downright heroism. Consider, if you will, the sad plight of Mrs. Marshall Field 111. “She moves.” I read, “beyond the confines of her hautmonde set not as a decorative motif in Languorous chiffon, but as a definite, integral personality, livid as a Neon light.” And yet. again. “She offers a flip challenge to the butterfly sophistries of the so-called smart set.” So let us get down to cases with this paragon who is smarter titan the smart and brighter than the mazdas. It would be trifling to approach her with other than a serious subject and the interviewer obligingly complies by making the inquiry, “And will education and the definite trend that is leveling society eventually obviate the slums?” He anticipates the answer by adding, "Mrs. Field, being practical also, is skeptical.” Accordingly, the practical paragon replies, “It's a beautiful idea, but I doubt that we can over get away from it. You know, it s peculiar—rather, it seems to me, an idiosyncrasy, in England, anyway—that some of our tenement livers resent bathrooms. Really, they get perfectly furious about drainage systems and such. And. I suppose, until we arrive at the millennium, we’ll always have people like that.” tt a a Touch of Thoroughbred AND there you get the true touch of the thoroughbred. She will forgive the erring not only seventy times seven, but wait patiently even up to the edge of Utopia, hoping and praying that the poor shall forget to be impoverished and put off their pose of misery and squalor. And how tolerant is her criticism! What right have these people to resent bathrooms? Particularly, those who haven’t even got them. I could have wished, of course, that Mrs. Marshall Field 111 had elaborated on the interesting point which she raised. There is such a thing as being generous to a fault, and Diana need not have let off the slum dwellers quite so lightly. Here in America we have millions who seem to have developed the curious and unprepossessing fad of walking about without shelter and of standing on street corners and shivering and eating the most illassorted and scanty kind of food. Some have even gone to the gross length of dying on the doorsteps of respectable householders. They’re funny that way. And their children get rickets, because they haven't the foi-esight to send them to the mountains in summer and to Palm Beach when winds grow cold and penetratihg. And they have the most terrible taste in shoes and clothes and overcoats. It's all very distressing. u tt a An Impractical PERHAPS the national, state, or local government should take over all forms of ministration to the needy? Mrs. Field does not think that this would work out practicably.” But, though Diana retains the fine, sharp edge of her realistic skepticism, she has not allowed herself to grow cynical and bitter over the perversity of those who insist on remaining poor. On the contrary, her Neon light shines that men may see her good works. “Last week she chairmaned tt charity beer party on the sixteenthfloor terrace of River House, that ultra in apartment houses whose stories honeycomb the hearths of our roving property classes.” Brave little Diana, drinking bitter beer alone, because when she says, “Yoo-hoo! Won’t you come over?” to the poor they purse their lips and answer obscenely. But Mrs. Marshall Field 111 carries on. There will always be a light in her bathroom window. (Copyright. 1933. by The Times) The Oak BY MARGARET E. BRUNER Across the street there stands a stalwart oak. While not another of its kind is near, It towers in kingly grace, a mighty peer, And wears for armor faith's invulnerable cloak; Sometimes it seems as if it would invoke A blessing, when the earth is bare and sere. It bids all weary things to persevere— Gives sheltering peace to hosts of feathered folk. I think it once knew others of its kind. And lived in woodland silence, calm and deep; And yet it grieves not, nor is it resigned, But memories of the past it seems to keep, And always as I gaze it breathes a song, So brief, yet beautiful: “Be strong, be strong.”

Daily Thought

Ye shall waik after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.—Deuteronomy 13:4. GENUINE religion is a matter of feeling rather than a matter of opinion.—Bovee.