Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1933 — Page 10

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KF.VERSE ENGLISH XR 7TTH all the talk these days of economic ’ * nationalism it Is significant how much Europe hangs on the Roosevelt recovery program The same European press and politicians who were condemning the President a short while ago for his determination to attend to home problems first and international agreement later now are pulling for his success. It is clear to them that world recovery depends in large part on American recovery. Thus the British French and others have a direct stake in the quick and effective operation of the Roosevelt blanket code The London Times mages this point: ‘ Much more is at stake than the immediate well-being of the American people in a world of nations which must live if they are to live prosperously—by the law of interdependence. The progress of the American experiment should be watched w-ith deep and friendly interest. (abroad). Its success should be devoutly desired everywhere." The London Times adds: ‘lt no longer is the President who Is on trial, for he has given of his best. It is upon the American people as a whole that the eyes of the outer world will be turned." That is fair enough. But the proposition works two ways. Let Europe put the American people on the spot to pull out of this depression. But let Europe not forget that the American government and people also have their eyes on Europe. And what we see there in the way of effort to overcome the depression is not very encouraging. President Roosevelt’s recent appeal to the European governments at the London economic conference to put their own houses in order, as America is trying to do at home, has produced little result. It is not essential, of course, that Europeans use the precise Roosevelt method of large scale public works and the short hour-high w'nge code for recovery—provided they have a better method But it is essential that the same courageous purpose of anew deal inspire timid, conservative European governments, if Europe is to rise out of this depression. This sharp contrast between the leadership provided by the American government and the lack of leadership by European governments is so clear that it is commented upon, for instance. by two such London opposites as the (toryi Morning Post and the <labor* Daily Herald. The ton- organ, after praising Roosevelt •’leadership." his "energy and initiative,” cites the "comparative inactivity" of the British government. The Herald finds that the "common sense and courage” of the Roosevelt program has been "tragically absent from ministerial speeches in this country." European governments which shout "international co-operation" so loudly at America are making such co-operation impossible by their failure to clean house as America is trying to do FREE FILLING STATIONS NEWTON D BAKER former secretary of war startled the oil code hearing in Washington with his account of how the lease and agency practice of dominating filling stations for the sole sale of one refiner's products was ruining independents. He described how filling station operators who flouted the majors by selling others’ products were met with the erection of re-bate-fed filling stations almost at their front doors. If the industry is to be correlated for the good of the country, its workers, and the conservation of natural resources, this filling station lease and agency practice mast be prohibited, or at lenst curbed. STANDARDS MUST CHANGE T F :he new deal is to accomplish all it should, :t must bring with it changes in our ideas and our standards of individual conduct just about as sweeping as the changes that already have been ordered for operation of our industrial machine. One of the changes we need to make is in relation to our attitude toward debt. It m:ch' be a healthful thing for us to regain the point of new which our grandfathers had in regard to it. In 'he old days people had. if not a horror of it. at least a very real distaste for going into debt The proudest boast of the solvent, successful man was that he owed no man a farthing People borrowed only when they had to. and they did so. usually, with great leluctance No one needs to be told that we haven’t that viewpoint any more. In the last decade or so. the hallmark of the successful man has not been his ability to keep out of debt, but his ability to get into it. It became an accepted standard that the smart man used othfr people's money tn his operations. Not only did business firms borrow to expand their plants: rich men borrowed to speculate in stocks, poor men borrowed to buy automobiles, furniture and what-not: and while many of the results of this were very good, the way in which it made us willing to mortgage our futures to satisfy present wants was. all In all. anything but wholesome. It led. furthermore, to a stultifying of our conception of other people’s money. Many an American town can tell a tale precisely like the following: A bank has folded up in a large manufacturing town. High officers of the bank have been revealed as heavy borrowers from jf.

Their debts have not been paid, and because they are not paid the depositors are holding the sack. Just what difference is there, essentially, between the bank president who borrows from his own bank to ‘ invest" In stocks, hoping that his profits will enable him to repay the loan, and he little shoe shop cashier who takes money from the till to play the races? If a too-ready acceptance of debt had not blunted our concepts of right and wrong, we would not have had a society in which such things could have happened. THE PROGRESS OF REPEAL 'T'ENNESSEE’S vote to repeal the eighteenth amendment, following similar decisions In Alabama and Arkansas, supports the claim of wet leaders that nothing now can block abandonment of the national prohibition experiment. Prohibitionists had centered their hope of checking the ever-rising score in favor of repeal on these states, which long had been strongholds of dry sentiment. Dry forces concentrated their efforts and used their most persuasive arguments without effect. Twenty states now have voted for repeal. Four more will vote on the question in August, six in September, one in October, and four in November. This is a total of thirty-five. If the states in which elections are scheduled decide as did the first twenty, only one more state will be needed for the two-thirds majority of thirty-six necessary to make repeal effective. Governors of several states are considering special sessions to arrange for action before the end of the year. The apparent preponderance of sentiment in favor of repeal intensifies the need for speed in finally settling the question. Tactics designed to prolong prohibition through legal technicalities and obstructing free expression of opinion are distinctly out of place. They serve only to prolong a situation against which voters who have been given opportunity have expressed dissatisfaction and resentment, and to keep obnoxious federal taxes in force. YOUTHS AND LIQUOR SIX young men just have been sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary for life; and in their story there is an apt object lesson for a nation which seems determined to do away with its prohibition law. These lads, all in their late ’teens or thereabouts. spent an evening in a speakesy. They got drunk, met a young girl there, followed her when she left. In a dark part of a city park they attacked her. She was killed. .. . Now the boys are going to prison for the rest of their lives. Whatever system we finally decide upon for control of the liquor traffic, it must be one which will keep liquor out of the hands of youngsters in their ’teens. Open saloon, speakeasy or whatever the liquor-dispensing agency of the future may be, it must be conducted under a much stricter supervision than ever has been the case in America in the past, WORLD POLICE CONFERENCE TO the group of European police and crime experts on their way to the International Police conference at Chicago, the country extends a hearty welcome. During their stay in the United States we hope there may be time for full exchange of ideas and experience as well as compliments. There could be no more genuine tribute to these visiting specialists than frankly to invite them to tell all they know about practical dealing with crime, including kidnaping and other rackets. We have our own peculiar crime problems in this country. But we are not grappling with them so successfully that we need scorn foreign advice or suggestion that could be adapted to our special conditions. Only last week a United States senator urged Scotland Yard as a model for a Washington bureau of crime detection to aid state police. There might be less need for this if the police of some of our large states and cities were themselves better acquainted with European police methods and quicker to adopt them when practicable. Particularly if American local politicians would adopt the British habit and keep their hands off police and prosecutors. This International police conference should develop information and criticism worth listening to. at this time, in many places besides Chicago. The whole country is interested. MEANING OF POSTS FLIGHT riPHE world flight of Wiley Post, remarkA able for the courage, skill, and stamina of the pilot, was far more important as a laboratory test of the newest aviational instrument and equipment. The plane and pilot being the same as in the world flight of 1931. the better showing can be attributed sn large degree to the newer mechanical aids. They were so effective that it is easy to credit Post's belief that but for the terrible wpather he encountered,all around the earth he might have bettered the record by several days. The public has been told a good deal about the robot" pilot whch guided the Winnie Mae for Post on the entire world flight. The greatest benefit of this mechanical helmsman lies not so much in the rest it gives the pilot as in its ability to fly blind unerringly through fog or storm, adjusting instantly to deviations and eliminating the dangers of human failings. But the instrument of greatest interest to the public, because so little known generally. should be a device which, developed by the army and lent to Post, enabled him while at sea to pick out a radio broadcasting station in Berlin and follow it straight as an arrow to the German capital. The radio beacon in wide use now on commercial air lines requires special equipment and has a lmited range. By the new army Instrument an aviator can pick out any broadcasting station. While orchestras play and speakers declaim, he flies directly to the city in which the station is located. Post might yet not have gotten as far as Berlin but for the controllable pitch propeller he used. Adjusted at a flat angle, like an automobile pulling In first gear, this propelJor enabled Post to take off with a fuel load

heavier than would have been possible with an ordinary propeller. The “hiir’ negotiated he went into "high" that is. he increased the "bite" of the propeller. increasing his speed The aviator is able to adjust his propeller to suit any weather or other conditions and to. the requirements of climb, descent, or level flying. With motors so reliable that motor failures are becoming comparative rarities, with safe landing in fogs being achieved through use of radio beams down which planes glide blind to runways and with robot pilots earning planes on bee lines toward radio broadcasting stations, aviation has become safe and reliable beyond the dreams of the average citizen a few short years ago. And speeds are yearly becoming more and more phenomenal. Post’s flight was a notable instance of personal achievement. But It Is w’hen stripped of personal glamour that the flight appears In its true significance. It exhibited most of the new and improved accessories to the public and demonstrated dramatically the prodigious advance which aviation has made. BREAD PRICES T'XR. FREDERIC C. HOWE, consumers' counsel for the agricultural administrator. reports that a check on retail bread prices in thirty-two cities shows an average increase of slightly less than 1 cent on the pound loaf between June 15 and July 13. This is well within what Secretary of Agriculture Wallace says is a fair rise, in view of the new wheat prices and the processing tax. Dr. Howe’s investigation revealed that in eighteen cities bakers added l rent or less and that in only six cities did they add 2 cents Retailers in five cities have not changed prices. This report is hopeful. It seems evident that bread profiteering is not general. At the same time, we trust that Dr. Howe’s experts will continue to keep close tab on prices of necessities. GOV. RUBY RECONSIDERS Governor ruby laffoon of Kentucky has decided to play ball with Washington. He is about to call a special session of his legislature to vote Kentucky’s share of hunger relief, to reform his highway system, to arrange for a repeal election. He even has decided to trade some of his many new colonels for a few college professors and set up a branch brain trust of his own. Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins told the Governor that unless his state raises its share of relief money, the federal dole will be shut off by Aug. 15. Interior Secretary Ickes told him of regulations that require the appointment of a responsible chief highway engineer before he gets Kentucky's $7,500,000 share of the $400,000,000 federal road fund. Postmaster-General Farley brought up the subject of repeal. "After conferences with the President and members of the cabinet,” said Governor Loffoon, "I am formulaitng plans by which Kentucky will be put squarely behind the Roosevelt administration and its recovery program." This Governor s conversion should convince others that the new deal is not a grab bag, that those who receive also must give. Thirty-four per cent of the accidents that take place in American homes happen in the kitchen, says the National Safety Council. It fails to add. however, that wives make their husbands eat most of them. Newest is the invention of waterproof books, which may be perused while lying comfortably in the bathtub. A welcome step in these days of so much dry reading.

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Department of justice experts are studying the industrial recovery act. as well as other recently adopted laws, with the hope that they can be used to ban the payment of ransom in cases of kidnaping. If they can not be so used, congress will be asked to enact necessary measures at its next session. This is a logical and necessary step. Crime, especially in the field of rackeetering, has become an interstate affair. It represents about the same kind of problem as the industrial chaos which we are attempting to overcome with nation-wide codes. Every ransom collected means only mor* cases of kidnaping. No headway can be made against the miserable business by paying vicious people to do wrong. Under existing circumstances, parents, relatives and friends are left little choice in the matter, because of impotence of local authorities. Towns, cities and states have demonstrated ! their inability to cope with gang rule. We are in an epidemir of kidnaping, because j it pays on the one hand, and because few of i the offenders are caught and punished, on the other. ‘BUB THE idea of buying safety from thugs is ridiculous. The only way to free society ! from their blackmailing and blackjacking is by effective mobilization of law enforcement agenI cies. This can not be done save on a national scale. In no respect has our system of government failed so completely as in suppression of those anti-social crimes which have existed since time immemorial and which enjoy no support from public sentiment. There is little unique or original about kidnaping. It is just one more phase of the organized thuggery which has fastened itself upon the body politic and against which we have been unable to make progress, not because we lack honest, courageous, right-thinking officials, but because our system of law enforcement prevents them from co-operating effectively. The willingness of parents, relatives and friends to put faith in personal negotiations, to pay large sums of money, and to ignore constituted authority when confronted by a of kidnaping bespeaks a lack of confidence which is dangerous. B B B WE maintain government for just one purjxjse. and that is to do things for us which we can not do ourselves. Most important of these things is suppression of crime, especially crime against the person. People have a right to expect protection from the legislatures, the courts, and the lawenforcement officers they support. They have a right to expect such a degree of organization ar.d discipline as will afford protection. The American people are paying out enough money to get what they have a right to expect They employ a sufficient number of judges, sheriffs and policemen They are not getting it, however, and the sole reason is lack of system. The sorry record this country has made with regard to crime, especially during the last twenty years, is no accident. It is due tv the same kind of negligence, apathy, selfishness and anarchistic tendencies that have produced i Industrial chaos.

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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 repress their vines in these columns. Make j /our letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to tjO tcords or less.) Bv L. A. Jarltsnn. It is reported that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, recently said. "The use of liquors for the ordinary use of food and drink is about as immoral as eating a potato or beefsteak." A moral act Is one that involves right and wrong. Os course, people may differ honestly as to whether a given act is right or wrong. I think most people will agree that any act which eventually results in the greatest good to the greatest number is right, and any act which does not so result is wrong. Since there is no way of measuring good and evil in absolute units, all we can do is to use our best judgment. If Dr. Butler's judgment tells him that all the evil that has resulted from the use of liquor during the last fifty years is overbalanced by the good which has resulted, or if his judgment tells him that the use of liquors as food and drink does not lead to intemperate use of liquor. that there is no relation whatever betw-een the temperate and the intemperate use of liquor, then we have no right to condemn him for his attitude, for he evidently is conscientious. However. I'm of the opinion that were Mrs. Butler not financially interested in the brewing business, the doctor's conscience would act somewhat differently. My humble opinion is that if Dr. Butler was quoted correctly, he either violated his conscience or he has very poor judgment. In either case it should disqualify him for the position he holds. If drinking wine. beer. etc., is no more immoral than eating a beefsteak. why should the manufacture, sale and use of one be regulated by law so much more rigidly than the other? Br Average Citizen*. From the standpoint of decorum, there is something shockingly indecent in the conduct of Eliott Roosevelt. The manner and haste with which the President’s son dissolved one marriage and precipi-

Thi* is the las' article In a series on choosing 'he family doctor. PEOPLE who wish to consult a specialist will do well to go first to their family doctor or general practitioner, so that he may. after a study of the case, select such specialists as may be necessary for consultation as to diagnosis or for specialistic treatment. In this way the patient may save himself a great deal of time and of money. Numerous instances are recorded in which a patient with a pain in some portion of the body went directly to a specialist, only to find out that the pain was not due to an organ within the field of that specialist. For instance, such a condition as ordinary dizziness may be due to causes arising in the digestive tract, in the heart ■and circulation, in the internal ear, or in the brain. Only a careful study of the case will enable a physician to tell which 1

IN Paterson. N. J., a certain rich man has welcomed Into his home an orphan lad. who by some unusual chance resembles his recently drowned son. No doubt the dead boy. if he couid know what had been done, would be pleased. It is an altogether sensible and satisfactory manner in which to pay tribute to our dead—to give help to the living. "No one.” we hear the bereaved parent cry. can take his place.” Perhaps not. But some other child might help to draw the sharpest sting from sorrow. In ministering ,to some other baby's wants, the : grief a mother experiences over the * loss of her pwn is assuaged.

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Let Family Doctor Name Your Specialist —- BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint ; : BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON " 1 =—■

Old Man River

Old Way Better By N. E. W. 'T'O me. Indianapolis’ new traffic system is the prize blunder of the year. Os course, the semaphore signal system isn’t the world’s greatest, but the new just-plain-arm-waving proposition is absolutely the world's worst. Traffic has been slowed up throughout the downtown section by the new system. The main trouble is that a driver coming to an intersection sees nothing but crowds. He is forced tc slow down until he can sight the policeman and then find out whether to go or stop. At least under the old way a driver always could see the semaphore. Why doesn't the city install a whole set of automatic, synchronized signals, instead of trying out all sorts of booby stunts?

tated another reveals such complete and colossal selfishness that the nation is left gasping. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt deserved consideration second only to that for Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt and child. A decent interval betw-een the divorce and remarriage would have pointed to a certain sportsmanship which Elliott Roosevelt seems not to possess. His behavior is quite in accord with Rassian custom, but in America we still try not to do violence to the finer feelings of those whose lives are intertw-med with our ow-n. After all, there are different kinds of daring. It was a bold and selfless courage with which Lindbergh

Daily Thought

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee. Ecclesiastes 7:21. AS to people saying a few idle words about us. we mast not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it —George Eliot.

editor Journal of th#* \m*riran Medical Association of Ifvreia. the Health Magazine. one of these organs or systems may be concerned. Similarly, bleeding from the throat may be due to conditions in the throat, in which case a general practitioner or a specialist in diseases of the throat might be consulted. On the other hand, it might be due to tuberculosis of the lungs, to a tumor of the esophagus or to hemorrhage taking place in the stomach, in which case a specialist concerned with those organs might be needed. When coming into a community the patient may select his physician in various ways. If he will call the secretary of the county medical society. the secretary probably will be willing to give him a list of general practitioners in his vicinity whom he can interview.

The tie that binds us to our children is the strongest of physical bonds. But it is foolish of us to believe that by mourning continually for a baby we are proving the strength of our love for it. In some strange way. of course, a mother feels that the child she has lost misses her. because she misses it so terribly. Into whatever far regions its soul has traveled, it must need its mother—which is a wholly mistaken theory, according to the doctrinists, but one that is understood bfc every woman who has lost a child. B B B TX) be sure, it demonstrates our X misconception of the infinite

1 blazed new- trails for aviation; young 1 Roosevelt, however, is bidding fair :to blast his way to purely selfish attainments. From Time-, and Telephone Suharribrr. Since the marble-cloistered Indiana Bell Telephone Company persists in charging pre-depression prices, is there any reason why it can not render pre-depression service? Not since September. 1932. has it issued anew directory. Previously this was done twice a year, I believe. Now the book is obsolete and contains hardly anything but wrong numbers.

So They Say

When the majority speaks, that is th-> end of it.—At Smith. Legislation, like men, must be judeed by the enemies it makes— Paul Y. Anderson, Washington journalist. While congress is in session, more good speaking and more bad speaking may be heard there than in j any other place in tiie country.— Professor W. H. Yeager, George ; Washington university. Art is emerging from a transition period just as the social order is i taking on anew form. Painters will serve the public rather than cater to their own fastidious ideas—Homer Saint-Gaudens, Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts. As the medieval man was great in the greatness of his lord, the j typical man of today finds his greatness in the greatness of the corporation which he serves.—Dr. Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard lawschool. Am-rican leaders inherited too much of the spirit of their ancestors to sit idly by and watch their country overcome by economic factors that may be controlled by human forces—Jesse I. Straus. United i States ambassador to France.

If the person concerned is a member of a fraternal organization or church, business organization or similar group, he may on inquiry among his associates find out who are the competent physicians in the community. Once a physician has been selected and found'competent to give not only the type of scientific advice. but also to give the personal, intimate attention that is the distinguishing characteristic of the best type of family doctor, the patient will do well to recognize in him a friend and a counselor. Remember also that the servant is worthy of his hire. Far too often physicians’ bills are the last to be paid because the very nature of the profession has made the physician willing to wait until the bills for food, clothing, shelter, and other necessities have been paid. The physician must himself provide these things for his family, too.

But we mothers are finite creatures, scarcely able, where our children are concerned, to comprehend any existence beyond our familiar horizons. We can not endure that our dead babies shall be so remote Irom us—those frail tender beings tnat once were so much a part of ourselves So. sometimes, re mourn and refuse to be comforted. Yet the Comforter always if near—that Voice that keeps repeating "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these.” Parenthood being as much a state of mind as a physical fact, no monument we can set up to our dead is half so fine as sendee rendered to another. K it

.JULY 27, 1933

It Seems to Me “BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, July 27 Although many clergymen have declared that there is no necessary quarrel between science and religion. I fail to find much of the spirit of the trained investigator in the current sermons. I happen to collect sermons, and often I stay home from church and browse around among well-remem-bered discourses. Only yesterday I was able to get a very fine specimen for that section of my little museum which falls under the heading Sermons . . . Dry " To keep tins particular part of the collection small enough for ci*y quarters. I have be->n compelled to set the highest possible standard for admission But obviously the Rev. Dr Christian F Ressner can not be excluded. I think the fact that he belongs may be proved by'citing no more than a single paragraph from a recent address of his on the theme of beer. m u a High Jinks THE president of the greatest company in America producing a staple food wrote to me about b-er." asserts Dr Rcisner *He said. I recently have seen a group of executives of the very highest type at a luncheon conterence become ro mentally befogged after drinking three steins of beer that the business meeting accomplished practically nothing.”’ I read Dr. Rcisner for style for majesty of utterance and r: lit thinking. In logic I always lme felt that he lags a little. Any man with laboratory training would have adopted quite a different method to determine the effect of legal beer upon business executives. In the first place, he would need a larger number. Dr. Reisner is content to let the word group" stand. That is vague. Whenever two or more executives are gathered, you have a group. Indeed, in my early days in journalism I always felt that when Herbert Bayard Swope was gathered together ‘.his was group enough for me. But the trained research man ought to be supplied with a couple of hundred executives for the purposes of his little test A simple ad should fetch them: "Help wanted—executives of the very highest type for scientific investigation. No pay, but free beer " Os course, this notice would be somewhat misleading. The investigator could not afford to give beer to all the executives. I mean that would destroy the validity of his findings. He would have to use half of his guinea pigs as controls. In other words, one hundred executives would get the free beer and the other hundred would get celery tonic. 808 -4 Modi rn Bob* l AT a given instant, marked by a pistol shot, all 200 wouid be set to conferring. At the end of the luncheon period, marked by the sound of a small cannon, tabulation would be made as to whether the celery tonic or the boys in the biicx room had accomplished -.ore Dr Reisners horrible examples are reported as having "practical'y accomplished nothing." It always has been my belief that luncheon conferences have Just that objective in view. If nothing is to be accomplished. why isn’t it just, as well to achieve that goal practically? Much in the Reisner report is distressingly vague. For instance, if the world is to accept the episode as significant, we must know more than "the president of the greatest company in America producing a staple food." Surely Dr. Reisner must, know that one man’s food is another mans poison, and. speaking of poison, what did the group of executives eat at this luncheon conference? I have seen many a big deal sunk in clam chowder. Once I went out to a group conference with a man who had practically decided to give me a job "Let’s talk it over at lunch," he said. There he got hold of some bad celery and turned bitter. I have never heard from him again. B B B Mo f h emaiirs Problcm DR REISNERS executives became mentally befogged after drinking three steins ol >eer. Again I think we need rather more complete data. Was it three steins for the group or three steins apiece? And how big were the steins? And how big were the executives? Even more it is expedient that we should know on just what basis these fine, upstanding Americans were held to be mentally befogged. The charge, seemingly, is made on the responsibility of just one man —"the president of the greatest company in America producing a staple food ” Presumably, Mr Staple was one of the group present at the conference. But in that event we must ascertain just what he was doing while the stein was on the table and the good song ringing clear Did he have one or two or three, or none at all? It seems to me that in any event his testimony must be tossed out. If he quaffed with the rest. he. too, might have been befogged If he didn't, then, as likely as not, he was just plain sore. iCoDvrleh: 1i33 bv The Tlmeai

Retrospect

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH Let us go back to the gnarled green trees. jTo rushing rivulets and scented breeze Os lilacs enshrouding a narrow brown lane, * , Swaying and bending with falling of rain Upon dusty paths too brown to forget. Too winding and crooked, too kind to regret. This sharp pang of beauty is too great for me. These pxquisite flowers too lovely to see. But why must Ia girl of mortal birth. Fail brooding and weeping upon the still earth? Oh. I shall recall some time In the past. Some bright day too cruel, too vivid to last. I shall go back where pale blossom# kiss the air. In some green remote place, Pll find security there.