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SATURDAY JUNE 24, 1933.

COMPROMISES NEEDED jA FEW weeks the leading world statesmen were discussing the London conference in terms of the MacDonald-Roosevelt reIriar * c —"We have got to make It succeed.’’ Today this fine sentence seems to have been forgotten, and the various delegates at London, our own included, evidently are willing to come to an international agreement only if they can do so without receding an inch from their respective national policies. A short time ago they were telling us that agreement at London was a matter of the highest importance. Today they are acting as if the conference were some vast sort of poker game, in which the big idea was to get all you could from the other fellow without giving up a thing yourself. America talks of general tariff reductions that will stimulate world trade, but refuses even to discuss war debts, and grows suddenly deaf when currency stabilization is mentioned. England also talks of reviving international trade but clings to trade agreements like the Ottawa pact and the recent agreement with Denmark, Argentina and the Scandinavian countries. France likewise indulges in pious talk, but clings to her gold standard, refuses to pay a dime on the war debts and hints at the establishment of a self-contained economic unit by Fi ance and her colonies. Japan prepares to discuss armament reductions by insisting that she be permitted to build a navy as strong as any on earth. And so it goes, until one wonders whether the people of the world today have reached a state of mind in which any important international agreement is possible. But it may be that thp pessimism created by early activities at London is not justified entirely. After all, thp reasons for the calling of the conference are still as potent as they ever were. The spokesmen for the several countries know that a complete failure of the present discussions would be nothing short of a catastrophe. An attitude of complete intransigeance may go very well at the beginning, but it is quite possible that a general modifications of it will be seen before the discussions are ended. That, at any rate, is the way most of us prefer to look at it. The issues at stake at London are too important to be allowed to fall Just because the various delegates are afraid of compromise. LOW COST FARM RELIEF TLAR. AVERAGE CITIZEN doubtless will hope that Secretary' of Agriculture Wallace was right when he said that the maximum processing taxes on wheat called for under the government current acreage reduction plans should not increase the retail price of bread by more than half a cent a loaf. Secretary Wallace is quite right in pointing out that bread costs do not always follow the price of grain. A loaf of bread, as he remarks, often costs more when wheat prices are low than it does when they are high. If the government is able to increase the price received by the farmer for his wheat without at the same time making the ordinary citizen pay more for his bread, it would seem that the biggest single obstacle in the way of the new farm relief plan will have been removed. TIIE FOREST ARMY AIDS COME of the actual accomplishments of the reforestation camp program are cited in a recent report by Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work. According to this report, the project already has Justified itself. Already, says Mr. Fechner, the 250,000 men enrolled have arranged for the payment of cash allotments to more than 300,000 families, Involving altogether close to a million persons. The arrival of this allowance money, he remarks, will bolster family budgets so that local relief organizations will find their load substantially lighter. Nor is that all. Millions of dollars are being spent on the forest army—s9o,ooo a day is being spent for food alone, for instance: more than $4,600,000 is being spent for clothing, tents and other equipment, and fully $185,000 is being spent for athletic equipment. All in all,- these expenditures should provide a very valuable stimulus for business generally. JUSTICE FOR VETERANS "O EPUBLICAN members of congress who tried to make political capital out of opposition to the Roosevelt reduction of \yeteran payments during the closing days of the session, doubtless will be surprised and gneved by the statement of the American J^gion. After careful analysis of the complex legislation. the legion finds that it restores $96.000,000 of veteran payments and that it keeps many thousands of worthy cases on the compensation list, compared with the original economy program. On the major issue of justice to the war wounded, the legion states that the law, if properly administered, “assures the serviceconnected disabled and their widows, orphans, and dependent parents reasonable protection for the present, and at the same time increases the compensation of totally permanently disabled veterans whose affliction was not of service origin.” In other words, the Roosevelt compromise measure is fair to the veterans, as the President said it was. Those Republicans who plan to make this a campaign issue in 1934

probably will have to look for a better issue when the time comes. There really is nothing in the Roosevelt record to cause any one to believe that this administration wittingly will deal unjustly with the veterans. Os course there always is the danger in any administration—a danger multiplied during depression and budget deficits—that red tape will cause unnecessary hardship. That, apparently, is what happened two months ago when this newspaper criticised the harsh manner in which the economy program was being applied to the service-connected disability cases. The President and Budget Director Lewis Douglas should make clear to the veterans’ administration that red tape is not to interfere with adequate care of the war wounded and that channels of personal appeal for such cases are to remain open always. THE GRADUATE’S PROBLEM from our schools and colleges pour the annual army of graduates, two million strong at least. It is an army no longer, howpver, but just an unorganized multitude of badly bewildered boys and girls. Planned life has come to an end. They now must strike out, each for himself or herself. Through the help of relatives or their own initiative, some have places already provided, but more have not. A few have inherited sufficient wealth to feel secure, but the great majority must pay their way. How to do this is a difficult question. In the first place, these graduates find themselves confronted by a situation in which individualism is at low ebb. They have been trained to believe that a boy or girl has little chance except through a job with some big outfit. When they ask for such a job, they usually are told that only experienced workers are wanted. Unless they have been graduated from some technical or professional school they can not qualify. Their first and greatest shock is the discovery that a general education, no matter how complete, does not fit them for any of the innumerable trades and callings into which modern life has been divided. That is a disappointment which many never will get over. The tragedy of our educational system is its lack of connection with the work a-day world. There is a definite gap between graduation from the average high school or college and a job. Eight of ten boys and girls have to "begin all over again. Though the education they have received enables them to make faster progress, they must start from scratch. The question is whether the high schools and colleges could not do more for vocational training without sacrificing the cultural background. Admitting that a cultural background is necessary, it still is a background and constantly changes in obedience to demands of progress. Art, literature, music, and even democracy are not regarded in the same way they were fifty years ago. Meanwhile, there is a steadily Inoreased call for trained workers. Our educational system must find a way not only to reconcile culture with vocational skill, but to shorten the course. It is wrong to keep youth back so long, particularly in an age which demands experts on the one hand and vitality on the other. It is wrong to force such a vast number of boys and girls to learn so much that they can’t use and so little that they can, to set them adrift with such a discouraging example of Inefficiency. They have been prepared poorly for the drive and discipline of a world at work. They have little idea of what it means to lay brick, pound a typewriter, stand behind a counter, hoe com, or do anything else day in and day out, unless their parents have taught them. In most cases, their parents can not do this because of the way present-day life is organized. IN CIRCLES r J"'HE American delegation at the world monetary and economic conferences says the United States government favors reduction of tariff and other trade barriers “as quickly as possible.” When is that? Nobody knows. It is the sort of pious statement which politicians make during campaigns, a large generalization to which all can agree without action of any kind. When a delegation to an international conference resorts to such platitudes it usually is to cover up a lack of definite policy or an unwillingness to enter serious negotiations. In fairness to the American delegation, it can not be blamed for its own uncertainties. When the American delegation originally favored monetary stabilization, it was carrying out the Roosevelt policy. How was it to know that the President suddenly would reverse his policy? When Secretary of State Cordell Hull, chairman of the delegation, and thte American experts proposed for discussion a 10 per cent horizontal tariff cut, they were carrying out Roosevelt policy. How were they to know that Mr. Baruch’s nationalistic economics unexpectedly had converted the President—if such is the case?* When the President favored an international settlement of war debt, tariff, and monetary conflicts, and a consequent resumption of world trade as a necessary step toward American business recovery, he seemed to have a sound program. It still seems such, for surely it is impossible for the United States to isolate Itself economically from the rest of the world, either in prosperity or depression. If the President has become an isolationist, as reports now state, and as some of the administration's acts seem to indicate, we believe it can not be for long. The pressure of facts is apt to bring the President back to a policy of international co-oper-ation. Meanwhile, it is unfortunate that this traveling in circles should occur in the London goldfish bowl. WALL STREET ABUSES "ITTALL STREET probably never was the "" focus for more public disapproval than has been the case this year. If left to fritter itself out in sporadic

j attacks on Individuals, this wave of disapproval I eventually will waste itself. If it turn£”on the I Wall Street system as a whole, however, it can be made one of the most useful bits of public sentiment the country ever displayed. And In speaking of the “Wall Street system,” it is worth while to quote from a recent article in Harper's Magazine by John T. Flynn, a noted financial writer. Flynn declares bluntly that the stock exchanges nowadays are chiefly “devices for creating excessive debts”; and he goes on to explain just how’ the job is done. # Asa sample, he cites the organization of the United States and Foreign Securities Cos., an investment trust organized by a Wall Street banking firm. The concern was capitalized at $30.000,000. Bonds worth $25,000,000 were sold to the public. Preferred stock worth $5,000,000 was issued and sold to the bankers themselves. In addition. 750.000 shares of common stock were issued and assigned to the bankers as a bonus for buying the preferred. Thus the corporation got its $30,000,000. But that was only half the story. The bankers took their common stock, which had cost them nothing, and had is litsed on the exchange. Very soon it was valued at SSO a share. “How’ much of this common stock issue w-as sold it is not possible to say,” remarks Flynn. “It is conceivable that $50,000,000 ■worth was sold before the market break, in which case it is clear that this enterprise would draw $80,000,000 from the public investor, though only $30,000,000 actually w’ent into the business.” This little anecdote speaks volumes. And no one who Is familiar with the Wall Street system will say that it is an isolated or unusual case. It represents a normal way of floating securities—and it also, as Flynn says, represents a sure-fire way of creating excessive debts. No one would deny that Wall Street has an important and useful function to perform in the economic life of the country. But it is pretty clear that some way must be found of curbing its debt-creating proclivities. SILVER AND WORLD TRADE 'T'HE American delegations proposal at London for an international plan to rehabilitate silver yet may turn out to be one of the best ideas advanced at the world economic conference. The warm support given the plan by such nations as India, China, and Mexico—to say nothing of that which comes from European countries like Germany and Italy—indicates the important position that silver still holds in many parts of the w’orld as a monetary base. Raise silver’s value, and you automatically increase the purchasing power of vast sections of the world’s population. With that accomplished, a very substantial increase in international trade could be expected to follow. And since a revival of international trade is one of the prime aims of the conference, the possibilities inherent in the silver rehabilitation scheme are easy to comprehend. Evidently the news that the new deal frowns upon overproduction hasn’t yet reached Lima, 0., where a hen has just laid an egg seven inches around and weighs nine ounces. The theory that opposites make the happiest marriages seems to be borne out by the fact that you seldom see a family quarrel when the wife Is large and the husband small. A mystery of the great American home is how a daughter who is too tired to wash the supper dishes nevertheless has plenty of energy to go out and dance until 2 a. m. Those noiseless street cars that Chicago is getting ready to introduce certainly should mark an important step in that city’s war on rackets.

M. E.Tracy Says:

PEOPLE understand the language they speak. In gangdom, that means the gun. Society has little choice in the medium of communication, if it •wishes to make itself perfectly clear. When a gangster has something really important to say to an associate, a victim, or the law, he shoots. Neither is he bothered much by the possibility of bystanders getting hurt. The Kansas City affair, in which four officers were killed, is one of the many illustrations of the methods by which gangdom seeks to impress people with its ruthlessness and power. The object of the scrimmage was to rescue a captured convict. It is doubtful if the fact that he perished in the barrage caused the least sigh of regret. Gangdom kills for propaganda purposes. The life of an unlucky comrade, whether taken by friend or foe, is just charged to overhead. Frank Nash was saved from going back to Leavenworth by losing his life. No doubt, his would-be rescuers would have preferred it otherwise. Still, it was an effective broadcast of fear. nan FEAR is the chief stock in trade of organized terrorism. It makes the holdup a little easier, the prosecuting witness a little more hesitant, the racket safer. Also, it is an effective method by which to control industry and enforce a code of ethics. Gangdom calculates the value of a first-class shooting scrape in much the same way the ordinary Business man calculates that of a full page ad. It is institutional publicity, in which the successful getaway counts for more than the damage; an open challenge to constituted authority. The desire to sustain bootlegging at any cost has caused millions of people to regard this particular form of violence indifferently. Many an otherwise reasonable citizen has fooled himself into thinking that most of the gang killings were caused by quarrels for a monopoly of the liquor trade in some particular place. Time and again, it has been asserted that gangsters w'ould presently kill one another off, if let alone. nun , SUCH a notion rests on two assumptions, both false. Gangdom is just as willing to run a racket in milk as liquor, and is interested primarily in holding the law at arm's length, no matter what the excuse or issue. While bootlegging furnished the inspiration and the necessary- revenue with which to start, gangdom since has long ceased to regard it as the exclusive or even the most profitable field of operations. Gangdom is dedicated to profit in every lawless way, and for that reason, is bound to protect and support every lawless activity. It has no object, except to prey on people. A child kidnaped for ransom, a prison break for recruits, a poultry dealer paying for protection. a witness scared into silence, a politician bought with the promise of votes, all go into the hopper as part of the great game, with death threats as the most persuasive argument.

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: : The Message Center : : = I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 tcords or less.) By B. P. Brown. Through your paper I wish to congratulate Will Craig for his article in Monday’s issue of the Star. In my opinion he is right about high salaries and high w’ages. We never can break this panic by high prices, brought on by the wer, when everything went up to the breaking point. Now let us go back to the panic in 1873 brought on by the Civil wax. In 1869 and 1870 everything was high, but when the soldiers got to w’ork and planting, everything came down. Wages got very low’. Men were working for $1.50 to $2 a day and w’ere well satisfied, always had plenty to eat, working eight hours a day and six days a w’eek, but no luxuries. Now let us start all over again by making just living wages for every man w r ho wants to w r ork, starting at the iron mines, then transportation and steel mills and lumber camps. All could be reduced down to 25 cents an hour, making cheaper goods of all kinds. The farmer could by on the basis of what he received for his produce. Let us show’ the w’orld we can produce goods as cheaply and as good as any country in the world. I know’ the labor unions will say sweatshop w’ages. Walking the streets is worse than sweatshops. Let’s put two men to work at 25 cents an hour w’here one man is W’orking at 50 cents. Are not tw’o men better customers than one. Let’s all go to work at sl2 a week and make things that we can sell. By a Volunteer Soldier. In a recent issue of The Times in the Center, Walter F. Smith, condemning the pensions of the Spanish war veterans, like hundreds who have spoken their part in criticism of all soldier favors, prevaricates aplenty in his hatred of ex-soldiers. He states that he know’s a soldier who w’as in the Spanish-American conflict and who w’as advised that if he sent in his discharge he would be granted a pension of S9O; that he did not send it in, but that his

Premature Babies Later in Developing 1 2= by DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ..

THE question constantly Is raised as to whether babies born prematurely have mentalities as good as those of infants bom after the usual time. In a recent review of the subject, Dr. Arnold Gesell points out that the normal time before birth is about forty W’eeks, but that cases are on record of birth with survival after twenty-four w’eeks. To find out whether babies born after six. seven or eight months develop mentally as w-ell as those born after nine months, examinations were made regularly on a number of such habies. Two children born prematurely were studied regularly for a period of two years. One child at the age

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : ; 1 MRS. WALTER FERGUSON——

IN her excellent column on child culture. Olive Roberts Barton points out that whereas 85 per cent of our girls marry, we educate them strenuously and persistently for everything but marriage. It is stupid .this insistence that each girl shall have solid geometry and physics and botany and Latin, while we give her no practical instruction in the homemaking arts and the diffcult job of managing a husband and family. But it seems to me it might be almost as fatal to assume that every maid would profit from the domestic education. After all, girls are not alike. Some of them are entirely unfitted lor household roles, but are

The Modern Joshua?

Bar Politics By Leroy McAllister and Eliza E. Miller, New Carlisle and Olive Township Library Board. Governor paul v. m’nutt: We wish hereby to file a most vigorous and emphatic protest against your dismissing from the state library service such persons as Miss Henley, Miss Hazel Warren and Director Louis J. Bailey. The placing of state library service in politics and dismissing such persons as those before mentioned after years and years of faithful and efficient work and being responsible as Mr. Bailey is for the erection of the state library and historical building is in our minds partisan politics at its worst and we condemn it in no uncertain terms. In dismissing such outstanding persons and substituting untrained and, in most cases, inefficient appointees, you are putting our state library back to where it was thirty years ago, and we protest this practice most vigorously. brother did and that the brother now is drawing the S9O pension. Mr. Smith writes that he knows of many such cases. In the first place, as I understand the Span-ish-American .pension rules, the maximum is $72. If Mr. Smith knows he is right in making such statements as he did, he is in the clear, but the pension department at Washington surely will make him prove his statement, as I am now calling its attention to it and mailing it the page of your paper containing the letter. It is up to Mr. Smith to show the government the one particular case to which he refers and the many more that he says he knows of. If he knows of these cases, I am sure that he is the only one who does.

Daily Thought

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.—Proverbs, 4:19. TO see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.—Confucius.

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of 5 months resembled in behavior equipment a child of 3 months, but many of the difficulties might have been due merely to the fact that it was seriously under weight. One physician investigated the mental equipment of almost 400 premature infants and found tha* in general they do not develop as well as infants born after the normal time. Their mentality is likely to develop a little later. However, the majority of premature infants born after eight months without injuries at birth undergo normal mental development, but progress more slowly

capable of making other valuable contributions to society. The fault of our educational system, as I see it, is that we put forth so little effort to discover what the individual is best fitted for, by nature. From time immemorial there have been soft, gracious, domestically inclined women, but each era has also produced its managerial types. I long have suspected that the reason the early Catholic nunneries were so popular was because they were the only places at that time where women could exercise any executive ability unhindered. And the manner in which some of the lady abesses ran their convents is ample proof of their natural business capacity.

Furthermore, any person familiar with pension rules and regulations knows that it is a rank statement and that so far as the brother getting the S9O pension and many more similar cases is concerned it is all bull, bunk, blarney and baloney. o a a A veterans’ bureau officer today told The Times that the maximum pension for a Spanish war veteran case, total disability. is $72. This official stated that he had known of cases where one man tooK another man’s discharge and used it advantageously. but in his experience, the violator always had been found out. This official did not know how a veteran or his brother, as described in the letter, could “wangle’’ S4O a month out of the government. From $25 to S3O is ihr usual pension for Spanish war vets, he declared. The veterans in the S6O up bracket are hospitalized cases, in need of attendants.

So They Say

I will continue to sing until nobody will listen, and then go out into the desert and yodel.—Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, on her 72d birthday. Homeless young men roving about the country are becoming a menace to legitimate hoboes; they don’t live up to the rules and regulations of the road—Morris Lazarowitz, selfstyled “King of the Hoboes.” One of the chief reasons-for better health among women is the change in women’s styles from the tight-fitting wasp waists to sensible loose-fitting clothes.—Dr. W. W. Bauer, director of the bureau of public health of the American Medical Association. It is significant that since the depression began one out of every six banks has failed, one out of every forty-five hospitals has closed, one out of every twenty-two business and industrial concerns has become bankrupt, but only one out of every 2.344 churches has closed its doors.—Dr. George Linn Kieffer, in the Christian Herald. Today the best education is none too good for the young American; he will need it all. And the country needs to have him have it; for it requires trained intelligence as never before.—United States Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo.

than full-term infants during tht first year. They average walking and talking about six months later, and are somewhat slower in learning to coordinate. There are, of course, many hazards associated with being born prematurely, but nature seems to do her best to enable such children to catch up, so that eventually they do become equal to children born after a normal time. * It is interesting, in this connection, to realize that some of the greatest men of history were born prematurely, including Charles Darwin, the French philosopher Renan and the great military leader Napoleon, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire.

ON the other hand, when we imagine that every girl can be developed into a trade genius, we go to the opposite and equally foolish extreme. Most of them have no qualifications for professional life. I have no doubt that hundreds of excellent housekeepers are making grand business flops. And as an encouraging point of Mrs. Barton’s argument, let us consider that the girl who is educated and trained to be queen of the home might find it much easier to grab a fairy prince—which would be something. The whole mistake was made, I suppose, when we began to talk as if marriage was NOT a career for women.

JUNE 24, 1933

It Seems to Me “BY HEYWOQD BROUN“

NEW YORK. June 24 A child psychologist in Chicago has been making an investigation to find out how many different ways a child can annnoy a parent. I don’t know whether he figures it double if both parents are annoyed. At any rate, he’s figured out 2.124 ways. His system was to ask the cooperation of thirty-two persons. Each went around with a little notebook and kept a record for each day. Whenever Junior got on theiir nerves, they put a small cross in the book and then sent the details to the inquiring psychologist. The doctor admits that in some cases the parents got the children coming and going. Thus one mother would confess her annoyance because the small boy of the house was so dreadfully dirty and untidy, while the father sent in the complaint that his young daughter was always combing her hair and fixing herself up. It seems there’s no pleasing parents. it a a Parents Arc So Touchy I IMAGINE that this record of 2,124 devices to annoy the grownups all could be summed up in the old story of the father who was oppressed by a prolonged silence in the playroom and shouted upstairs, “Johnny, whatever it is you’re doing, stop it right away!" And it seems to me that this compilation would have a more .-cientific aspect if it included some account of the number of ways in w’hich a parent can annoy a child. There should have been little notebooks for the kiddies, so that they could do some jotting on their own account. And whenever the command came. “Go upstairs and wash your face, and don’t forget the back of your ears"—when that happened some father or mother would get a black mark in the book. The whole thing boils down to this: Small persons and large ones have varied interests. It’s rather a pity that children are not constitutionally capable of living in a little kennel behind the house. It’s nonsense to expect divergent generations to get along without friction. a u tt All Right in Moderation, I’M not unfriendly to children. I’m much more friendly than the inquiring psychologist, who seems disposed to put the fault entirely on one side. If I sit down to read a a murder mystery melodrama and a small son of mine wants to beat a drum around the house at the same time there is a clash. I am, let’s say. right in the middle of the chapter v’here the radio announcer is found in the middle of Studio 6, lying on the floor, with an ivory paper knife through his heart. It’s a good story. I can’t tell how it’s going to turn out. There are so many persons to suspect. Almost anybody would like to kill a radio broadcaster if he got a good chance. And just at that moment there comes to my ears the raucous sound of Junior beating his drum. “Don’t beat that blame drum!" i shout at him. He comes back with the wholly illogical query of, “Why not?” Now r . in such circumstances the average parent is stumped for an answer. He’s inclined to give one which isn’t w’holly truthful. He may say that it’s wrong to beat a drum. And that God doesn't like little w’ho make too much noise. That's stretching the imagination. The parent ought to be wise enough to put morals out of the question. I think his proper reply should run like this: “I want to read a book, and you want to beat a drum. I’m a great deal bigger and stronger than you are. I can lick the life out oi you. And so I’m going to read the book, and you're not going to beat the drum.” That’s a fair and square answer. It represents the parent as a bully, which he usually is. But it doesn't make him a hypocrite at the same time. Lots of children don’t mind spankings so much. What they resent is the moral overlay. o a a Spanker is Selfish * THE truth of the matter Is that a father or a mother punishes his or her children just for his or her ow’n convenience—to make them something less of a nuisance around the house. Even the system of putting Willie to bed at 7 o’clock in the evening isn’t just for Willie’s health and w’ell being. It represents an attempt to get him out of the w r ay and keep him quiet, if possible, so that the bridge game can begin right after dinner. This notion that there is a special kind of morality in early hours runs all through society. Many mayors and police commissioners fall for it. Even in New York we have a 3 o'clock curfew law for all night clubs and cabarets. H. I. Phillips of the Sun once explained that this is based on the theory that if a gunman can’t make up his mind whom he’s going to shoot before 3 a. m. he deserves to be put out. (Copvrizht. 1933. bv The Times)

Platitude

BY EUGENIE RICH ART “Surely.” I thought, “such fires of faith as these That burn in me will leave a mark forever. “Surely,” I thought, “time's cruel wizardries That break so many ties will touch ours never.” "Surely,” you said, “through sorrow and want and fasting, Through trials that eat love’s heart like fatal acid. Our love—ours, ours, alone!—is lasting. Stanch as a rock, like a calm lake deep and placid.” All that was long ago. It has been so long That I hardly remember the frantic foolishness Fainter than faint last echoes of a song. Worn quite as threadbare as your favorite dress. Even the memory's almost faded now. Love’s pink petal fallen from the bough.