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MONDAY. JL’I.Y 3. 1933.

U. S. FINANCES r T'HE treasury announcement of the public debt as the new fiscal year begins stresses the vast and important financial operations which must be undertaken by the administration. On June 30 the national debt stood at slightly more than twenty-two and one-half billion dollars, equal to $187.82 for each of our 120,000,000 people. The total Is cnly a little below that of 1923, and comparable to the twenty-fivo-billlon-doliar public debt of 1919. resulting from the World war. Within the last twelve months the debt has been increased by slightly more than three billion dollars and now incorporates the immense treasury deficits which the Hoover administration permitted to accumulate in the first three years of the depression. The post-bellum Republican administrations actually did a brilliant job in reducing the public debt almost eight billions in the ten years just after the war. But their later juggling with budget figures, extravagant expenditures, failure to demand additional taxes in time, and failure to build up a rainy day reserve resulted in accumulated deficits that sent the debt total towering to wartime levels. Hard times have cut deeply into tax revenues, especially those from levies in incomes, and at the same time untold millions have escaped the federal government through loopholes in the laws revealed by the admissions of the Morgans and the Kahns that they had paid no American income taxes for these last three years. Nuisance taxes have become the backbone of our revenue system, but these must in time be repealed. An eventuality that may be hastened by the recent chinking up of the holes in the income statutes. President Roosevelt has undertaken his great fiscal task in a workmanlike manner. First, he has separated current operating expenses from capital expenditures, putting the r government’s accounting on the same sensible basis used by business. Second, he has made a stern effort to reduce operating expenditures, aiming at a total decrease of about a billion dollars in this new fiscal year. Third, his administration has levied new taxes to care for interest and sinking fund charges on the bonds that will be issued to care for the capital expenditures mentioned — the $3,300,000,000 for public works and relief. 1 Fourth, the senate with his approval passed a resolution requesting the treasury to start converting. its largest wartime bond issues into new securities bearing rates of interest to accomplish further savings. Above these things, the new dealer has instituted a domestic economic program intended to increase mass purchasing power in cities and on the farms, and our tax revenues will go up as spending power rises. In this connection, the most pressing tax problem before the country now—and one that can be settled with large benefit to the treasury—is prohibition repeal. Striking the eighteenth amendment from the Constitution not only will bring into the federal treasury large sums now diverted into illicit channels. It likewise will mean presidential repeal of the new nuisance taxes just levied to finance public works bonds. EMOTIONS MAKE HISTORY WHEN all is said and done, the fate of a country, race, or civilization is determined by the number and vigor of its people. Human efficiency outweighs every other kind. No machine, no system, no plan can count for much, except as its serves to produce strong men and women. The trouble is that we do not know exactly what strength implies. It certainly includes something besides physique, and there are reasons to believe that it includes something beyond sheer intelligence. The mere ability to do things is not enough to guarantee the well-being of an individual or community. What people want to do is generally of more consequence than what they can do. In the long run, human destiny is a matter of dreams, hopes, and aspirations. According to purely scientific deductions, Sparta should not only have outlived Athens, but should have made greater contributions to posterity. The Spartans did everything they could to produce and perpetuate a strong race. The Athenians went in for art rather than eugenics. Both went down before the onward rush of a stronger and better organized civilization, but while the Athenians left us much to admire and imitate, the Spartans left little, save a few good stories of futile heroism. What Napoleon called the "imponderables” and what we loosely term idealism, has a profound bearing on the power of people not only to preserve themselves, but to contribute something of value to posterity. Other things being equal, enthusiasm will do more to win a war or develop a country than unemotional ability. Other things being equal, a society bound together by sympathetic understanding is more likely to survive than one which depends on arbitrary discipline. The emotions never have been given proper consideration in the study of history or the development of education, especially as sources of inspiration and vitality. We have assumed that the suppression of emotion usually is due to unemotional tyranny, but more often than not other emotions are to blama. Contrary to the prevailing belief, Puritanism was largely •motional, as have been most other strong religious manifestations. In the same way, prohibition and similar reforms were emotional. The major movements of

mankind never have been and probably never will be visualized in a rational way. Why this is so we do not know, but we know that It Is. We know that the average individual, family, or community not only is very susceptible to fads, hunches, whims and beliefs, but will go far in their behalf. Looking back over the last twenty years, we know' that our entrance into the European war was largely a matter of the emotions, that we did not and could not think the thing through, that we had little idea of what was going to happen as a result. We know that the same thing was true of most other people, and that not a single nation is where it supposed it would be. We are accepting theories and schemes of recovery in about the same blind way, with an emotional belief in mechanized life as our strongest impulse. TIIIRTY-SIX THIS YEAR! "jV/TORE than $10,000,000 monthly revenue 1 A was coming into the United States treasury as the fiscal year closed merely from the legalized sale of 3.2 per cent beer. This is a yearly rate of $120,000,000—a goodly sum. But. remember, this is from beer alone. Repeal of the eighteenth amendment, lifting the ban from wines and spirits and permitting beer of higher alcoholic content, will mean federal revenue estimated at $1,500,000,000. Put these figures alongside the current federal deficit of $1,750,000,000 and realize the compelling argument for speedy repeal. Remember also what President Roosevelt said in his message to congress on public works and re-employment taxes: Whenever the repeal of the eighteenth amendment now pending before the states shall have been ratified and the repeal of the Volstead act effected, the pre-prohibition revenue laws then automatically would go into effect and yield enough wholly to eliminate these temporary re-employment taxes. When facts and figures thus plainly show what repeal will do toward reducing deficits and easing tax burdens for the people of the entire nation, why should any state choose to dawdle or delay over the process of ratification? Self-interest as well as patriotism demands that each and every state shall ratify as speedily as its laws will permit. Why don’t Montana, Missouri, Florida and Utah, for example, get busy and fix their voting days? W r hy shouldn’t other states bestir themselves to find special legal means by which they can vote and call conventions before the end of the present year? We think President Roosevelt might well broadcast to the country a reminder that present conditions and impending tax loads make it the DUTY of a state to hasten its action for repeal. It is possible for at least thirty-seven states to act before Jan. 1 next. Sixteen already have voted for repeal. Thirty-six are needed. Instead of meekly speculating whether repeal must or must not wait until 1934, rouse up and tell the states that millions of taxpayers, their own included, demand the job be done in 1933, and the benefits secured without one month’s needless delay. Sound THIS call, Mr. President, and earn the heartfelt thanks of the nation.

BACK AGAIN TUST when we’d begun to think it was as dead as pee-wee golf, up bobs our old friend, Technocracy, as fresh as a daisy. It springs into print like a Democratic convention, with a rebel yell, a right and left wing and a first-class row'. At a Chicago hotel the movement was all set for a getaway under joint auspices of the National Technological Congress and the Continental Convention on Technocracy. Suddenly emerged a “menace” in the familiar figure of Howard Scott. Technocracy’s head man was accused by the Technologists of having gone Bolshevik. “He insisted,” complained a technologist, "on taking the platform and announced that bayonets would be used, if necessary, to put over Technocracy. We objected to this method, and sent for the house detective. Professor Scott left, however, before the detective got to the room.” Clarence Darrow, scheduled for a banquet speech, was "tickled to death” that the affair was called off. It was, he said, "too hot for an argument.” We agree with Mr. Darrow.

TRAGEDY IS REVEALED 'T'HE tragedies of history usually are expressible in terms of things that did not happen. Publication of secret messages in the diplomatic files at Washington shows that Germany and Austria sought to make peace in January, 1918, and that their effort failed because they were unwilling to surrender to the entire American program. Chancellor Hertling of Germany, it is recorded, told the reichstag a fortnight after President Wilson had published his famous fourteen points that Germany could make peace on that program—with certain exceptions. Germany, said the chancellor, could not agree to those points involving overseas colonies, evacuation of occupied territories and creation of a free Poland. The other points Germany could accept. It is worth while glancing briefly at that program. The fourteen points called for open peace covenants and an end of secret treaties,, removal of trade barriers, freedom of the seas, disarmament, readjustment of colonial claims in the interests of the inhabitants of colonized territories, evacuation of all occupied French, Russian and Belgian territory, restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, a realignment of Italian frontiers, autonomy for Austro-Hun-garian minorities, evacuation of occupied territories in the Balkans, autonomy for minorities in Turkey, an independent Poland and the organization of a League of Nations. Germany, then, was ready to accept most of these items—but the ones she was not ready to accept were in some ways the most important of all. At that point of time—the dawn of 1918— Germany's rulers felt it wiser to stake everything on a last offensive rather than to surrender on those crucial points. Similarly, the allied leaders preferred to go on with the war rather than to recede from their original demands. Those decisions were a death sentence for

hundreds o. thousands of young men. They brought civilization measurably nearer to collapse. They paved the way for those injustices in the Versailles treaty which today are a tremendous menace to world peace and world stability. Is it not one of the great tragedies of all history that that peace movement of January, 1918, could not come to flower? ' R. F. C. AND N. R. A. r I 'HE Reconstruction Finance Corporation. A the Hoover administration's $3,400,000,000 depression-fighting organ of 1932, has been stripped of its larger relief and administrative functions. Under Roosevelt plans, hunger is handled by a separate, expertly manned relief administration under Harry L. Hopkins. Construction loans are administered by Colonel Don Sawyer’s public works administration, Farm relief is under the department of agriculture. Railroad loans now must be passed upon by Rail Co-Ordinator Eastman. The R. F. C. now owes the United States treasury some $1,908,000,000, including the $500,000,000 treasury subscription to the corporation's capital stock. Perhaps it is too early to write this experiment's obituary. When—or if —the government gets back the money, it will be time fairly to appraise its benefits. But that the scheme was fundamentally wrong in ideals and execution few now' can doubt. Its hunger relief loans were niggardly and badly distributed. The secrecy in administering bank relief in its first five months, the $80,000,000 loan to the bank of Mr. Dawes, the Missouri Pacific loan to relieve New York bankers, these and other near-scandals lent color to charges of favoritism and politics. Chiefly, its failure lay in its false conception of what America needed to restore prosperity. The R. F. C. w ? as founded on the belief that if sufficient federal money were poured into industry from the top, prosperity eventually w'ould seep through to the masses. That mistake cost billions of dollars and a year full of human misery. The Roosevelt way is to pump buying power in at the bottom in the form of higher wages, shorter hours, and job relief through public works. This is the theory behind the national recovery act. It is beginning to work.

$1 WHEAT AND THE FARMER YYEFORE we all get too jubilant over the advent of dollar wheat, it is worth remembering that a lot of wheat belt farmers w'on’t be helped a great deal by this price level because of the simple fact that I;hey have very little wheat to sell. Last year’s crop has been sold. A heavy drought has damaged a great deal of this year’s crop. The farmer who still has some of last year’s w'heat in his bins, and the farmer who has been lucky enough to get a good yield this year in spite of the hot, dry weather—these chaps are due to cash in abundantly. But a lot of farmers, unfortunately, are going to find that dollar wheat—for the time being, at least—leaves them just about where they were before* The time for a motorist to begin worrying about losing control of his car is when he is two installments behind, Billy Sunday must feel terribly disappointed. The greatest revival the country ever knew now is under way and he isn’t leading it.

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CHANCELLOR HITLER expresses the opinion of millions of people outside of Germany when he says that parliamentary government is doomed. Not only in Communist Russia and Fascist Italy, but in such democratic countries as England and America, there is a growing belief that we have overdone the job of popular government. Borrowing the idea from big business, vast majorities of people are coming to believe in social efficiency through disciplined action. The idea is not original, except for its economic trappings. Since the dawn of consciousness, men have sought protection and prosperity through organization in one form or another, but always to discover that it involved too much tyranny at the end. The democratic revolution which seems to have reached a climax was brought on by too much discipline, too much law, too much authority. Democracy is a defensive system. Its chief merit lies in the fact that it enables people to protect themselves against monopoly, class rule and despotism, whether as developed through public or private institutions. a tt tt THE great mistake of democracies consists in the belief that mass thinking will gravitate to creative and constructive channels without guidance, that the ship of state can be sailed by a crew better than by a captain. There is no doubt that we have carried popular government to absurd extremes, that we have expected too much of public opinion, and that we have discounted the essential factor of personal leadership. At the same time, we must not forget the bitter lesson taught by history, or allow our passion for achievement to set the stage for a new form of tyranny. No achievement is worth that price. Desirable as it may be to grant temporary’ dictatorial powers in the face of some great emergency, it would be folly to make them permanent and undo all that has been accomplished for human liberty. Authoritative control of human affairs without the sanction and consent of the vast majority is irreconcilable with progress, because the basis of progress is change and change becomes difficult in a controlled society. tt tt tt IN this respect the Russian experiment is peculiarly deceptive. Asa matter of fact Russia is doing little but; develop state capitalism along the lines of big business. Not until she has copied what the rest of the world knows shall we be able to determine just how much she can do on her own account. The same thing is true of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. All these nations merely are putting the government in charge of what has been developed through private enterprise. At the same time, they are intrenching governmental authority in such a way as to deprive the people of ttieir defensive rights. Theoretically the people of Russia, Italy, and Germany have a right to vote, but they have little on which to vote. Theoretically they have the right to think and talk, but only along prescribed lines. Freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, and freedom of speech have well nigh gone by the board because of their obvious interference with the complete authority to make and carry out plans which these new systems demand.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Male your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Still Unemployed. Although the prices of toods and commodities are going up, there still are a large number of unemployed laborers. Other laborers have had their wages cut so much that it is impossible for them to maintain a decent standard of living, or even bare subsistence, unless their wages keep pace with the cost of living. Even back in boom times, a large number of people received very low, wages, while the moneyed classes were investing their excess profits in worthless bonds. If the new industrial program is to be a succeess, tljere must be job* for every one, paying something more than a bare subsistence wage. Wage slavery is contemptible, and. should not exist in the midst of ;i civilized nation. Woi’kers will not complain when they receive a fair share from the income produced by their efforts. It is said that America has enough factories and raw materials to supply the whole world, working on a thirty-hour week basis. Why not. then, do the sensible thing and work only thirty hours a week, spreading the work so that every one will be employed? Keep on using the machines—they are already installed—but employ the men anyway to see they are well tended. There should not be a mad rush to turn out a large quantity of poor quality products, but careful painstaking in making articles of high quality. Meanwhile, a large number of us still are unemployed. We need to earn wages to support ourselves. When will there be work for us? CHARLES S. DAVIS.

Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.—St. Matthew 5:4. EARTH hath no sorrow that heaven can not heal.—Moore.

AMONG frequent emergencies demanding prompt attention are injuiies due to fireworks. Twenty years ago hundreds oi people were killed and injured in celebrating Independence day. Following campaigns of education, this type of celebration has been largely displayed by pageants, plays and exhibits of fireworks under control of experts. Air rifles. BB guns, shotguns and other small caliber rifles, blank cartridges and cap pistols, sling shots and rubber band flippers, arrows and stones, are responsible for one-third of the accidents resulting in loss of eyesight to children. Firecrackers, torpedoes, bombs

TTTITHIN the year that Chicago W advertises to the world “A Century of Progress exposition,” its library budget is cut to zero. Millions of American sightseers who will stand in awe before the wonders of art and science well might ponder this wonder of colossal stupidity. A nation in which every city has cut public library appropriations from 49 to 75 per cent has no reason to be swollen with pride over its strides. It occurs to me that however many mechanical gadgets we are able to show, we can not be progressing toward any very high goal when cultural advantages are disappearing so rapidly. How may we measure the results

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Guard Against Lockjaw in July 4 Burns —= by dr. morris fishbelv —..

A Woman’s Viewpoint —BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON=—I

Dong’s Finish? By Movie Fan. This morning’s paper carries the story that Mary Pickford and Doug Fairbanks are about to separate, after years of happy married life. What is it that makes film folks think so lightly of the marriage tie? It is becoming a national disgrace, disease, or whatever you may want to call it, the way they “off with the old

Questions and Answers

Q—What holds the atmosphere to the earth ana makes the air at the earth's surface denser than that in the outer layers? A—Gravity. Q—What is the address of Fritz Kreisler? A—32 Bismarck Allee, BerlinGrunewald, Germany. Q—Did Adam and Eve have daughters. A—The Biblical narrative names only three sons, Cain, Abel and Seth. It does not mention any daughters. Q —Who were the leaders of the dance orchestras that played at the Roosevelt inaugural ball? A—George Gaul, Eddie Duchin, Eli Dantzig, Guy Lombardo and Rudy Vallee. Q —Who wrote the novel "Fiftyfour Forty or Fight?” A—Emerson Hough. Q—What is Xenon? A—A very rare gas occurring to the extent of one part in about 20,000,000 parts of the atmosphere. It was isolated in 1898 by Sir W. Ramsay and M. W. Travers, who liquified it at minus 109 degrees Centigrade, and solidified it at minus 140 degrees Centigrade. Its atomic weight is 130.2. Q—What is caviar? A—The roe of sturgeon, strongly salted in bsine and pressed. Q —Describe a lute. A—lt looks very much like a mandolin and has a pear shaped body, and strings in pairs, tuned alike.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. and various types of fireworks are responsible for one-fourth of the cases of blindness. The germs of lockjaw develop in soil and on dirty clothing. Any time an injury occurs in which dirt is forced into a wound and sealed in there is danger of lockjaw. That is the kind of accident that occurs in explosions of cannoncrackers, blank cartridges and toy cannons. The size of the wound is not significant. The tiniest puncture may permit the germs to enter the body.

of these curtailments upon the future of America? That will be hard to do, although we can not overestimate the loss. Art, music, literature. research, if brought to a standstill for one decade, will create a damage that is permanent. The physical body can go without rich foods and still survive. But when the spirit has no sustenance, it dies and nothing ever can revive it again. a a a WHO can guess what flowering of genius may be stopped by such a lack? The public library system in America is and has been one of the finest of educational facilities. In many respects it is more important than the public schools, because, while it serves the

and on with the new” in the movie profession. All the sympathy of the picture fans will be with Miss Pickford. if the cause of the rift turns out to be that Doug is so enamoured of the nobility that he wants to stay in England and nobnob with titles. It looks to me like this will be the finish of Doug with American film fans. And he once was the outstanding hero of them all.

Q—How long has the metric system of weights and measures been used in Soviet Russia? A—Since Jan. 1, 1927. Q —Give the number of bank suspensions in the United States in 1912, 1922 and 1932. A—ln 1912 there were 62; in 1922 there were 354, and in 1932 there were 1,456. Q —Define "pork barrel” used as a political term. A—lt describes a certain class of appropriations that do not serve a general public necessity, but are of a peculiar Interest to the political machine in a particular district, because they provide work —frequently necessary—which can be parceled out as political patronage, at the expense of the goyernment. Q—What is pasteurization? A —lt is the process devised by the French scientist Louis Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in milk and certain other fluids by exposing them to temperatures ranging from 131 to 158 degrees Fahrenheit. Q—Are the salaries of public school teachers exempt from income lax? A—Yes. Q —Where and when was Mae West, the actress, born? A—ln Brooklyn. N. Y., in 1900. Q —Was the U. S. Shenandoah built entirely in the United States? A—Yes. Q —Which country has issued the largest number of patents? A—The United States.

Whenever an injury from fireworks occurs, get a doctor as soon as possible. He will open the wound, clean it and treat it with suitable antiseptics, and in questionable cases inject the antitoxin against lockjaw to prevent that disease. Never wait until lockjaw develops. After the disease has developed, it is one of the most serious affecting a human being. So serious is the possibility of lockjaw that in many cases health departments provide antitoxin without charge to make certain that cases of lockjaw do not develop.

mediocre, it makes its strongest appeal to the talented, the extraordinary. Students go to it voluntarily, and it fulfills a need that can not be met elsewhere. The only wealth that ever survives the ravages of time are those things that spring from the artistic urge. Dynasties are remembered chiefly, not because of their conquering kings, but through the greatness of their philosophers, artists, musicians and poets. Phidias is ancient Greece to us. Because of Socrates, we remember Athens, and the brilliant genius of Leonardo Da Vinci shines out of old Italy, gleaming steadfastly down the gltonf of centuries,

—JULY 3, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN =

VTEW YORK, July 3.—By a somewhat devious route in Saturday's column I arrived at the problem ot obituaries. It is my notion that quite a few newspaper men have a curiosity as to wjiat their papers will say about them when they are gone. Indeed, a year or so ago there was a story of a reporter who dictated his obituary as he lay dying. I'm feeling all right (at least, pretty good', but it might not be a bad idea to set down my own as it might appear in this space after the last "It Seems to Me." Here goes: nun 7 lnf Obituary of Broun HE\ WOOD BROUN was associated with this paper for many years, and so we are in duty bound to express sorrow' about what has happened. He was born in Brooklyn in 1888. In spite of the fact that he had no mechanical gift beyond operating a typewriter with two fingers, Broun was distinctly a product of the machine age and a victim of mass production. In his later years he was syndicated—not widely, but too well. In other words, he was spread out pretty thin. He brought to newspaper work one intense preoccupation. From the very beginning his most important interest was the subject of Heywood Broun. This is not to say that he was much more than ordinarily vain. Rather, we would suggest that Broun was a barometric commentator on the affairs of his day. "He had about as much detachment as a barnacle. Even the major events of a troubled and turbulent age were reduced in his writing to an expression of his own instinctive reactions. After the mann<n- of a tourist in an art gallery, he didn’t know' much about life,* but lie knew what he liked. "And so any record of his opinions and judgments became a sort of fever chart of sudden leaps and swoops. He was incapable of close scrutiny and careful study in any Political or social field. He became a Socialist by instinct and left the party in the same way. "He picked Karl Marx towin, just as he might have had a hunch that Broker’s Tip would take the Kentucky Derby. "It would be unfair to suggest that the man who 'feels it in his bones’ must be invariably wrong in all his choice of causes. He has at least an even money chance of being right. So it was with Broun. n n n Ripples on Surface " \ CCORDING to his own opinion. he went through a distinct change in mental attitude after his fortieth year. That was about the time he stopped writing columns concerning his son, bullheads and a pseudo Airdale, Captain Flagg and went in for pieces about unemployment and collectivism. “But the change was more shallow than he surmised. I have seen a woman burned to death!’ cried the chaplain in Shaw ’s play ‘Saint Joan’ and went out shaken. But Mr. Shaw never has dealt with the later life of that same prelate. Probably the chaplain forgot. Very few men are made over by any single experience. There was once a great light on the road to Damascus, but it has not happened since. "Broun saw a breadline in the winter of 1929 and was stirred, but not enough. ‘Something must be done,’ he said, and for a little while he worked with quite a bit of energy in running a free employment bureau. It took him two or three months to discover the futility of any such individual enterprise. And even then he had not learned his lesson, for later, when he was moved by the plight of actors, his naive remedy was to get up a show | and star himself. : "This was wholly characteristic of Heywood Broun. In his unconscious mind, at any rate, he always saw the billing as ‘Heywood Broun’ and. in much smaller type, ’with the universe.’ No tree in any trackless forest fell unless the sound was something within his own immediate sensations. "Possibly he was dimly aware of this failing and sought at times to fight against his inevitable disposition to magnify everything into something which touched in an acute way the life of Broun. a an Under Butter Knife “TIE was fond of boasting that XI. he knew as many different kinds of people as almost anybody in New York and that he could get himself received on terms of equality by hoofers, radio announcers, baseball players and the editors of the nation. ‘‘But here again he expose-* himself to the devastating spread of the butter knife. Having casual contacts with many groups, he never really understood any of them. He seemed to think that it was enough to know the jargon. "If you understood ‘fielders’ choice’ that made you a baseball expert, and if you thought you understood ‘surplus value' you at once were a Marxian scholar. "But we suppose the most ironic thing in the life of Heywood Broun was the fact that he flunked even the one subject to which he had given close attention and in which he had specialized. He didn’t really know' himself. "If Mr. Broun had lived until the first of August he would have been 96 years old.” iCoDvrizht, 1933 bv The Times)

Counsel BY LAWRENCE E. SCOTT O youth, impatient to traverse Life's pathway, pause to know That ’tis not idle gossip That you'll reap just as you sow. You may not harvest fortunes Or be ranked with the great, And you will learn to realize Not all can rule the state. Your glory need not spread so far As the stars that shine above, He livethe well who stiveth well And helps fill life with love. Keep faith in God. keep faith in man, Let trivial fault not break it, Your life is yours to shape and mold, ’Twill be just what you make it.