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FRIDAY. JUNE 30 1933 "TOKENS OF APPRECIATION” ■pROBABLY the public will not be so -*• shocked by the senate committee revelations of the Kuhn, Loeb bargain stock list as by the earlier Morgan bargain lists, because of the repetition. But the fact that these bankers’ practice of making virtual gifts to heads of insurance companies, railroads, and industrial companies is a common racket makes it all the more significant. While the bankers involved have borne most of the criticism growing out of these revelations, the relationship between bankers and beneficiaries is reciprocal—to use the word of Mr. Raskob in his letter of thanks to the House of Morgan. What did Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb expect to get in return for these favors, which Mr. Kahn on the witness stand Thursday described as "tokens of appreciation.” Appreciation for what? Take the case of railroad executives who accept such doles from Kuhn, Loeb, in the business of buying railroad securities. The head of the road is paid a big salary by the stockholders to represent their interests. When he dickers with Kuhn, Loeb is he a representative of his company, the seller, or does he function as a friend and benefactor of the buyer, Kuhn, Loeb? Has he betrayed the interests of his own company and stockholders? Or if he receives presents from the banker merely becaus% the road is a customer, then by what right does he pocket the financial gift instead of turning it into the company treasury? If this railroad executive should discover a mere purchasing agent of the road accepting gifts from a manufacturing company selling to the road, wouldn't he fife that purchasing agent? Or take the case of the insurance company head who accepts “tokens of appreciation” from Kuhn, Loeb, from whom he buys securities for his insurance company. Does the insurance agent who sells a policy to John Jones explain that the safety of the insurance depends on the company’s investments, and that the head of the company is personally indebted for financial favors to Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb, with whom he invests John Jones’ money? The senate committee well might call to the witness stand all business executives and public men revealed as such close friends of the big bankers that they have been given “tokens of appreciation” amounting in the aggregate to millions of dollars. These business executives and public men should be given a chance to explain under oath what services, if any, they rendered for these secret gifts. A FORWARD STEP GOOD news comes from the statehouse. Replacement of trained library workers by “deserving Democrats” is at an end, according to Pleas E. Grpenlee, secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt. No other issue growing out of the change in administration has aroused a greater furore than the clash over library replacem ments. From all parts of the country have come bitter protests from noted educators and leaders in the field of library work. The Governor has been censured from all quarters, with a vigorous demand that the library be kept out of politics. If the Governor finally has decided to base appointments on merit and experience instead of on service to party, and keep trained workers on jobs where they have proved their worth, he has reached a wise decision. If this course can be followed in city, county, and state schools, the state will have taken a great step forward. DR. MORGAN’S WISE COURSE DR. ARTHUR E. MORGAN, chairman of the government organization which will develop the Muscle Shoals project, has done a wise ai\d high-minded thinr? .n filing, before he began his new job, a complete statement of the property, real and personal, owned by himself and members of his family. When he leaves office, he intends to file a similar statement. In that way Dr. Morgan proposes to make it crystal clear that he does not profit personally, directly or indirectly, by his work for the government. Here is a standard that all men in public life might well adopt. What many of them fail to understand is that a high government official must avoid even the appearance of evil. It is not enough for him to refrain from taking outright bribes. He must not even permit people to suppose that his government service has enriched him in an indirect manner. Dr. Morgan seems to have a healthy and intelligent recognition of this fact. DIVORCE CHARLES R. METZGER of Indiana university. at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in C” "'to. said that since 1887 about sevenjpjp the divorces granted in this nation wci m tested cases, “indicating undou. . in a majority of the cases,” he declared. “that they were obtained through the mutual consent of the parties involved.” Mr. Metzger rightfully thought that the time had come to make law agree with the customs of the American people. But he did not propose a one-day Mexico divorce. He suggested that six months elapse between the filing and granting of an open . consent divorce based <xa mutual consent

This would give time for the husband and the wife to think things over carefully. Daily the nation's courts are the scenes of collusive divorce actions. The judges know In most cases, no doubt, that collusion exists, even though they can not prove it. The parties, or one of them, swear falsely. The children of the marriage are stigmatized in their own eyes to some extent by the dark proceedings. Justice is cheapened. To many this degradation of justice and its processes is necessary for the fulfillment of the strict letter of a moral law established when customs were different and the power of authority more uncompromising. Prohibition spawned the lawlessness of racketeers and gunmen. Unrealistic divorce laws, existing to be broken by perjury more than to be honored in open observance, have created institutionalized perjury. It is time to eradicate this deeply harmful hypocrisy by the establishment of a rational and uniform system of divorce laws based upon the beliefs and practices of the vast majority of the American people seeking or contemplating divorce actions. NO APOLOGY NEEDED /CABLED dispatches from Europe indicate that the people overseas are beginning once more to shake their heads sadly over Uncle Sam's misguided and deluded refusal to save the world from disaster. For a long time it was Uncle Sam’s refusal to cancel the war debts that convicted him of selfishness, blindness, and obstinacy. Then it was his action in raising his tariff rates; more recently, it was his decision to go off the gold standard. Now, it seems, he is wrecking civilization by his stand at the London conference. He won’t stabilize his currency, he won't agree to a sudden horizontal tariff slash, he won’t do this, that and the other thing; and as a result he is once more the target for the pitying scorn of the super-civilized altruists across the Atlantic. The only way in which all this criticism can do any harm is that some Americans may begin to take it seriously. What we must realize is that we need not apologize in the least for our country’s course at London. Our government is looking out first and foremost for the interests of its own citizens, and it is doing it in what seems to be a hard-boiled and effective manner. In that, there certainly is nothing to be ashamed of. We are remaining off the gold standard until we can get back on in our own way and at our own terms? Surely—and so is England, whence a good part of this sorrowful headshaking originates. We are guilty of the crime of debasing the value of our currency? Well, France did precisely the same thing about a decade ago, cutting the value of the franc to one-fourth of its old worth. Isn’t it odd that the French should be so indignant at as now? We are going slowly in the matter of reducing our tariffs? Sure—just as England has abandoned free trade for protection, and has arranged preferential understandings with other nations; just as France is doing, just as practically every other nation on the globe is doing. The truth seems to be that our delegates simply have adopted a hard-boiled and realistic attitude at London. They don’t care to. have Uncle Sam holding the bag when the conference ends. If this arouses Europe’s indignation—well, it’s just too bad.

CAPONE OVERLOOKED A BET! A MERICAN legal history contains few judicial utterances more surprising than the one which was handed down at the income tax trial of Banker Charles E. Mitchell in New York—the dictum that man can not be held responsible for an illegal act if his lawyer told him, in good faith, that that act would be within the law. Mulling over that ruling, one is constrained to feel a bit of sympathy for an individual to whom sympathy not often is extended—that well-known Chicagoan, now residing in Atlanta, A1 Capone. There, surely, was a point Capone ought to have thought of. He now is doing time for gypping Uncle Sam out of his income tax payments; but if he only had thought to find a lawyer, beforehand, who would have advised him that that wasn't really against the law—! AFTER REPEAL—WHAT? /'ANE of the oddest things about the current campaign to repeal the ‘ eighteenth amendment is that all of us seem to be too busy, or something, to give the slightest thought to the question of what program we shall adopt after the amendment has been discarded. Are we to go back to the old high-license regime common before 1920? Are we to adopt the Ontario system, or a modification thereof? Is the Quebec system one which we could profitable copy? Will it be necessary for us to find an entirely new method of handling the liquor traffic? All these questions become more important each week. So far we hardly have bothered to give them a thought. It would be very foolish for us to rush through with the task of repealing the law without devoting any time to a consideration of what sort of liquor control we are going to have afterward. THE LINDBERGH FLIGHT /COLONEL AND MRS. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH within two weeks will start on a flight to Iceland, possibly extending it across the Atlantic to Denmark. The flight, it is announced, is to survey a projected America-to-Europe airline planned by the Pan-American Airways. Os course, not even the Lindberghs can lay out an airline alone. For two years and more, fliers, geologists, weather men, surveyors, lawyers, and oil men have been living and traveling and studying in the North Atlantic countries, getting ready for this air route. The Lindbergh flight will let the world know that a trans-oceanic air route really is nearing materialization. All who follow the Lindberghs—and who doesn’t?—will be glad to see them together in the air again, after their year* of sorrow. The world wishes them a safe flight.

FOR ALL TIME A L SMITH is not the man to miss the larger significance of prohibition repeal. Presiding at Albany Thursday, sharing the triumph of New York state and its people, rightly acclaimed leader of the thirteen-yew fight to restore personal liberty and local selfgovernment, A1 Smith said: “This convention will stand out as a warning to this and other states for all time to come that they must be careful not to allow anything like the eighteenth amendment to get into the federal constitution.” That is a fine, broad note to sound. As we hail the specific benefits of repeal, the return of freedom and the promise of relief from tax burdens, let us not forget the far-reaching benefit from righting a grave wrong done the Constitution of the United States. The eighteenth amendment was not merely a harm in itself; it was a standing invitation to mistaken zeal to go on doing greater “harm to the fundamental principles and traditions of the nation. When the eighteenth amendment finally is repealed, it will be many a long year before another attempt is made to write into the federal constitution law regulating personal habits. Any such future attempt is likely to fail. No nation can become unmindful of such a lesson. We are glad A1 Smith stressed this point. In ratifying repeal New York state and other states should be conscious of the great, historic service they render toward safeguarding and protecting the constitution itself. Record the FULL meaning of repeal, that later generations of Americans may never misunderstand or forget it.

THE LINDBERGH HOME '^ r O one who ever has loved a child will fail to understand just why it is that the Lindberghs do not want to live in their Sourland mountain home in New Jersey any more. Their act in dedicating the home to the care of underprivileged children is a gracious and thoughtful way of disposing of the place. It is good to know that that house is going to lose its aura of tragedy and heart-break. Childish laughter and scampering little feet will be heard there again, and the fine heritage that one youngster lost will be made available to other children—who, otherwise, would be having a pretty thin time of it. To its best-loved couple, America once more will extend recognition for a wise and thoughtful action. German Nazi pastor, says a story, has altered the Lord’s prayer in several respects. No European, however, will ever change that part about “Forgive us our debts.” Announcement that a California nudist colony plans to produce a play causes one to wonder what they will wear at dress rehearsal. Despite those stories that Babe Ruth is getting old and fat, he probably still is able to cover more ground than any other outfielder in the American League—sitting down. An orange-and-yellow necktie will spur one's courage, says a University of Southern California psychologist. Yes, and if he wears it on St. Patrick's day, he’ll need it. \ A New York dermatologist has devised a new and better means of splitting hairs, which certainly should qualify him for a job as an expert at the London economic conference.

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IAM not going to roast Charles E. Mitchell. He has suffered enough. Most men in his position would have done about the same thing, though they might have been a little more circumspect. In that lies the pity of it. Mitchell’s acquittal on criminal charges of evading the income tax shocked a, few people, but pleased more, and left the vast majority indifferent. Law is no stronger than the sentiment behind it. The income tax law is too technical and complicated for assured enthusiasm. In theory, most people are for it. In practice, most people work every way they can to beat it. Enforcement of the income tax law has come to be a battle of experts. Save in small and simple cases, average people feel wholly unable to make out returns. They have no choice but to employ trained auditors, accountants, or attorneys. Under such circumstances, the public is slow to believe that a criminal offense has been committed when some citizen or corporation gets into trouble with the government. The public assumes that they have acted on what they supposed to be expert advice. a a a WHILE perfectly willing to sustain the government in its effort to collect an income tax, where mistakes or evasions have occurred, juries are and will continue to be hesitant about sending taxpayers to prison, unless their offenses obviously were deliberate or intended to conceal another kind of crime, as in the case of A1 Capone. This does not mean that the public is deceived by or satisfied with the income tax evasions that constantly are taking place, or the manifest injustice of a system which permits them. The public simply is too bewildered to trust its own judgment and for that reason is inclined to give defendants the benefit, of every possible doubt. It is supposed commonly that men of great wealth or large affairs have a distinct advantage because of their ability to employ the ablest experts and to exert social or political influence. Such advantage, however, is not confined to administration of the income tax law. Our whole system of justice is weakened by the fact that the personal ability of hired representatives counts for too much. Other things being equal, the defendant who can employ the cleverest attorney has a far better chance to win that the defendant who can not. a a a THE rule of experts in any line necessarily helps those who can employ the best, while it hurts those who must put up with the mediocre and inexperienced. We really are up against trial by combat, whether in connection with the income tax law or the administration of justice, with our fate in the hands of hired champions, rather than in those of an impartial tribunal. Instead of functioning in an impersonal, scientific way to find out the truth, our courts act as umpires, their chief duty being to see that the contesting lawyers observe the rules of the game. While such method does not eliminate the possibility of justice, it does put a premium on personal ability to twist evidence and impress a jury. Though the contest has been refined, we still are obliged to depend on hired representatives when it comes to a case in court or a dispute over income tax returns, and a great deal depends on their relative ability to outwit each other.

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(Times readers are invited to express their vieves in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) Bv Reduction. Quite a number of articles have appeared in your paper relative to the proposed cut in veterans’ expenses. If any one has doubt that this department of the government has been throwing away money taken from the downtrodden taxpayers, let him investigate the number of veterans holding jobs in city, county, state and federal institutions where a physical standard is set. A recent survey showed men on the police force drawing compensation from the veterans’ bureau for disabilities. A like survey of the postofflee would reveal about 40 per cent of the employes drawing compensation from SSO to SIOO a month, strong, healthy men, working every day. Men employed as stated above are drawing two salaries from the taxpayers for doing one job. President Roosevelt should have been allowed to handle this thing in his own way. If so, a great burden would have been lifted from the thousands of citizens working for meager wages and paying higher taxes each year, that their hard-earned money could be paid by the veterans’ bureau to such undeserving parasites as some of these veterans are. Some never saw a minute’s service, many were not out of the country and yet draw compensation of nearly SIOO a month. The Times should get a list from the above mentioned departments of all veterans drawing compensations and regular pay, and publish it. There is no reason why it should be kept from the people. Let them see the facts in black and white. Give the people light and they will find their own way. In fairness to the taxpayers and the veterans, compensation for disability should have to be combat service connected.

Hard times, if not too hard and too long continued, are good for people; they bring out the grit in them.—lshbel MacDonald, daughter of Britain’s prime minister. I must keep in love, you know. When lam not in love, it hurts my personality. That is bad for my werk.—Fifi D'Orsay, movie actress.

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Isolation Vital in Infantile Paralysis by DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN =—

This is the first of two articles on infantile paralysis. Especially in the months from June to November infantile paralysis threatens children throughout the world. It generally is believed that the disease is spread by ordinary contact with patients, or those associated with the sick and to some extent by contacts in an indirect manner. In few instances is it possible to trace the infection directly from pre-existing''cases. It is universal practice to isolate patients with this disease, to reduce the number of carriers. Therefore, every person suffering with the disease should be kept absolutely alone except for nursing attention for three weeks from the time when the fever first comes on. It is advisable also to keep alone, as far as possible, children who have been exposed to the disease.

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ——

“at THEN a husband wants his W freedom after fifteen years of marriage, is it not stubbornness and meanness on the wife's part if she refuses to release him?” inquires one who signs herself “Waitress.'’ Not always, my dear young lady. It may be wisdom that prompts her behavior. There generally is a good deal of talk about a woman’s having to save her pride when such questions arise—as they do all too frequently these days. However. I’m not so sure but that it’s just as well to fling your pride to the four winds and hang on to your husband. Undoubtedly the situation is a delicate one} and calls for expert

Pay Fair Wages By Times Reader. MANY stories have appeared in daily newspapers recently about city plants taking on more employes and calling back their old workers. This is good news. But better news would be that all these workers are being placed on the pay rolls at fair wages. If they

Questions and Answers

Q—How many children has the king of Italy and what are their ages? A—Four daughters and one son: Jolanda, 31; Mafalda, 30; Umberto, 28; Glovanna, 25, and Maria, 16. Q—Does spring begin on the same day in all parts of the world? A—Yes. Q —Can President Roosevelt walk? A—Yes, with the aid of a cane and leg braces. Q—Has there ever been a world’s fair held in St. Louis? When was the last one held in Chicago? A—The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, commemorating the centenary of the Louisiana territory purchase from France, was held in St. Louis from April 30 to Dec. 1, 1904. The World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago from May 1 to Oct. 30, 1893, commemorated the fourth centenary of the discovery of America. Q —When u’as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis? A—1904. Q—Are there forty-nine states? A—Since 1922, the circle surrounding St. Louis, within a radius of 150 miles, and constituting the market of that city, has been christened unofficially the fortyninth state. The slogan is local and has no political significance. Q —Will there be an eclipse of the moon during 1933? A—No. Q —Does Germany have more Protestants than Roman Catholics? A—ln 1925 there were 4,014,677 Protestants and 20,193,334 Catholics.

Editor J!ournal of the American Medical Association of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Those who have been exposed to infantile paralysis should have temperatures taken regularly for three weeks to detect the onset of fever and symptoms at the earliest possible moment. When there are epidemics in the community, children should not be allowed to mingle with crowds and travel should be discouraged. The occurrence of fever, headache with vomiting, drowsiness, and irritability when disturbed, flushing, congestion of the throat and nightly sweating during a period when infantile paralysis is prevalent in a community should be viewed with suspicion. Any evidence on the part of the child of stiffness of the back and the neck demands the most careful medical investigation.

handling. It may be possible that the man actually is tired of his wife and will be unhappy unless he is free of her. Whether this is the case, only time can determine. Therefore, the wife should take plenty of time to make up her mind on a matter that unquestionably is of major importance to her. * a a THE fact is, too, that a lot of men who believe they have fallen in love with another woman are only going through a sort of romantic interlude. They are staging an emotional rebellion against the monotony of domestic life. And they actually are no more in love than they were at 16, when they thought thmemselves pining away for the affectioy of the maid

are being called back, it is to be hoped that it is not at a sweatshop scale. So much stir has been created by reports that men were being given jobs at 75 cents and $1 a day that many will look on prosperity stories with skepticism. Let's have plenty of jobs, but lets have fair pay, too, or the buying power which is so vital will not be increased.

Q —Compare the number of murders in the United States and Great Britain in 1931. A—ln the death registration area of the United States there were 11,160 and in Great Britain, 103. Q—On what dates will the national air races be held in Los Angeles this summer? A—July 1,2, 3 and 4. * Q —How large is the sign on the Sunshine Biscuit Company’s building on Long island, New York? A—Two hundred feet long by fifty feet high. The letters in the word "Sunshine” are twenty-four feet high, and the letters in the word "Biscuit” are eighteen feet high. Q —What is the address of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the widow of the former President? A—ll6o Fifth avenue, New York. Q —ls Frances Perkins, the secretary of labor, married? A—Her husband is Paul Wilson. Q —What is the origin of the quotation, “Every tub must stand on its own bottom?” A—"Man of the World,” by Macklin, act 1, scene 2. Q —Would it be possible to maintain life on the moon? A—The moon is a cold, dead world, without atmosphere, and life on it is impossible. Q —When was John Hay secretary of state? A—From 1898 until his death in 1905. Q —How many states must ratify a constitutional amendment before it is adopted? A—Thirty-six states, or threefourths the total number.

Because this condition brings about inflammation of the nerve roots at the front or the spine, the occurrence of tenderness of the skin of the muscles or joints should always be considered suspicious. V7hen a physician is called to examine a child, he is likely to want to make an examination of the spinal fluid. This he does particuVarly to distinguish between infantile paralysis, meningitis due to various types of infection, and inflammations of the brain. As soon as infantile paralysis is well established, it becomes important to have a careful examination of the muscles to find out which muscles are involved permanently so plans may be outlined for treatment leading to recovery of the power of motion. Next—The treatment of infantile paralysis.

who sat next them in high school. These occasional recurrences of adolescent symptoms are evident in some form or another in the majority of adults. For this reason, nothing a wife could do would be half so cruel as to turn a husband loose to become the prey of the “other woman,” who may be on the level, but in nine cases out of ten wants only economic security. Divorces are dangerous experiments. And the longer men and women have been married, the more dangerous they are. A union never should be broken until every device for keeping it intact has been tried. Hasty marriages are bad, but hasty visits to the divorce court are infinitely more tragic.

JUNE 30, 1933

It Seems to Me = BY HEYWOOD BROUN=

NEW YORK, June 30.—The papers mentioned, a day or so ago. the birthday anniversary of a lady of 100. Centenarians seem to grow more common. It may be that longevity increases, or possible newspaper enterprises ferrets out a greater number of veterans. And, of course, there always is the factor that after a certain time of life people tend to forget dates and maybe exaggerate a little. But the old lady of whom I speak interested me because her span hardly could be ascribed to modern medicine or anything of the sort. It was reported that in her entire century of existence she never had ridden in an automobile and had seen a railroad train but once. The farmhouse in which the years flowed gently by was equipped with neither electric lights nor a radio. And so the new age contributed little of moment to the birthday child. In her life 1933 would differ by hardly the breadth of a fingernail from 1833. I wonder whether she had a good time. Nobody thought to ask her that. Instead she was faced with the familiar query as to the younger generation. I forgot what she said. tt O tt Watching Decades Pass TJERHAPS it isn't quite fair to A- assume that the rush of decades made no difference whatsoever in the life of the little old lady in New Jersey. Although she had no personal share in telephone or motor car or radio, they must have colored life about her. Perhaps she sometimes saw a picture show. The story didn’t say. One development of civilization as we know it must have touched her. Nobody can live so far away from the trends of the day or be sufficiently aloof not to have encountered canned clam chowder. Indeed, it always has seemed to me that the can opener plays an even wider part in daily life than the automobile. I don’t think I would like to be an old gentleman of 100 upon a remote Jersey farm. I’ve cursed the radio, the telephone, and the taxicab a score of times. But I will admit that after an individual has become accustomed to the gadgets of progress, he always will find it hard to get along without them. I don't think I would like to be an old gentleman of 100 years in either the country or the city. But if the issue ever comes up. I could wish for a metropolitan decline. A club window is a more pleasant place in which to grow old than a back porch. It is not the aches and pains and the various infirmities of advancing years which terrify me. My dread accumulates against the day when those about me may say, “What can you expect from an oid reactionary like Heywood Broun?” Indeed, I’ve heard it said already. tt a a You Can Die Young MANY of the Victorians lived and died quite unaware that a day would come when it would be practcally a reproach even to have existed in that period. They had no notion of thundering down the ages as synonyms for primness and prudery. I hope there never will be a time when I shall run shrieking out of theaters crying, “This is terrible; call the police!” I hate to contemplate a year in which the literature of the land will seem to be too frank and free to be so much as touched by any man of decency. Against the fate of finding yourself a member of the fogeys, two remedies are possible. You may, if you choose, die young. I’ve thought of that and rejected the plan for something which seems to me much better. It is possible for every one of us in youth or middle age to build within himself a fine, rousing fire of radicalism. And if the blaze is built of coal and other solid substance, there may remain embers to warm you during the last chimney corner days. None have I ever known who did not find themselves edging toward the right in the years past 60. Or if they did not edge toward conformity they were pushed. One bright exception should be noted. Clarence Darrow Is still what the world calls “a dangerous man.” Certain respectables shudder as he passes by. Yet even Mr. Darrow, now that his hair begins to whiter, may be found at times in not altogether unfriendly debate with prohibition advocates and parsons. a a a Not For Reporters BUT this will be small comfort to me. If on the morning of my 100th birthday the nurse knocks upon the door to say, “The gentlemen of the press are waiting and would like to ask you a few questions,” I shall reply with "oice both shrill and tart, “Send them home!” For I will know in my heart that neither they nor the readers of their jounals really care whether I made the trip on water or mixed spirits. Men who outline the regime which brought them along so far are deceived. Not a soul is really interested to know whether it was cold baths or spinach. I’ll take my secrets with me to the grave. Indeed I won’t even discuss with anybody the days of long ago when New York was a village of seven million people and Mayor O’Brien was considered 'way uptown. (CODvrieht. 1933. bv The Times) Indifference BY EUGENE RICHART Our love has lasted but a short night; It was a dream, and I shall treat it so. Treat it as over, like a bright dream it must go. 11l raise the blind and smile in the morning light. ( , Daily Thought God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.— Psalms 46:1. THOU art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul—Miguel Molinas.