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THURSDAY BEPT 14. 1533

THE PATRONAGE RAIDERS A FTER several months of smoldering, the patronage revolt now is breaking out against the President. Democratic senators and representatives are signing a round-robin, protesting the appointments of Republicans. Progressives, and other non-Democrats. They also arp indignant over the naming of certain Roosevelt or new Democrats, whose conversion did not occur until shortly before the • election. Some of the criticism is directed at the three unorthodox cabinet officers, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Secretary of Interior Ickes. and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. There is. of course, little danger that this movement will result in cabinet changes. Doubtless the President knows better than any one else that these three members are among the most popular and efficient in the cabinet, and certainly much more in sympathy with the new deal than certain of their conservative colleagues. But there Is danger that congressional pressure may put more deadwood into other key positions. The case of Emil Hurja, right hand man of the Democratic patronage chief. Postmaster-General Farley, is In point. Hurja recently was named assistant public works administrator, where he will have a hand close to the 53.300.000.000 construction melon—the biggest of all time Secretary Ickes, who also is public works administrator, started out to keep that total work free from the evils of the spoils system. Now' there is fear that political pressure on the administration has succeeded at the interior department at least as far as getting a foot into the door. Because Secretary Perkins and Secretary Wallace are not members of the Democratic party machine, they naturally have been freer in making appointments on merit than have the party wheel-horses in the cabinet, such as Attorney-General Cummings For that reason they are suspected by the party leaders and may have to give hostages. Meanwhile, the President is much too busy with larger foreign and domestic affairs of the recovery program to pay much attention to the campaign of the patronage raiders Mr. Roosevelt has made so many major appointments without regard to party considerations that his own attitude seems to be clear The menace, rather, is that party hacks will slip into important government posts while the President is not looking, or while he is so intent on other issues that he does not see the full patronage danger. One thing is certain, the country still is too close to the rocks to intrust the ship of state to a blundering crew'—regardless of how they wear their hair or their party label. ECONOMIC PLANNING THE national industrial recovery act and associated legislation will be compelled to run two gantlets during the next few months. One will be the hard test of practical application in the face of greed and tradition* The other will be the opinion of the supreme court as to constitutionality of the new deal. Some attention already has been given to the latter issue. We may examine w’ith interest the opinion of Louis Boudin on “Is Economic Planning Constitutional?” in the Georgetown Law Journal. Boudin is the author of 'Government by Judiciary,” the most voluminous study ever made of the policies and practices of the supreme court in setting aside legislation as unconstitutional. He is. therefore, one of our chief experts upon the question of what will happen to the new deal when it gets before our highest tribunal. In recent years some expens on constitutional law have taken an optimistic view and have held that our constitutional law has of late grown so flexible that there will be no trouble in adapting it to economic planning and price-fixing Boudin quotes a passage from an address by Professor E S. Corwin in 1931 which admirably illustrates this attitude: "As to the difficulties which face the social planner, the peculiarly American institutions of judicial review and constitutional limitations do not today assume the obstructive proportions that on first consideration might be expected. This is so for three reasons: First, because constitutional law today is more flexible, more free from autonomous concepts. than It has been at any time within forty years. Second, because the court itself is more realistically aware than ever before of the essentially legislative character of its task —more aware of its real freedom of choice In the presence of the vast variety of juristic materials which a century and a half of discussion and decision have made available to it. Third, because a wider public is also aware of these things, and so not disposed to be unduly impressed by mystifying talk about the nature of the “judicial process” But the court, almost as it were to rebuke Professor Corwin, came right back the next year in the Oklahoma ice case and flatly rejected this optimistic and enlightened outlook: •These optimistic predictions were shattered to pieces within less than two months from the delivery of this address by the decision of the United States supreme court in the Oklahoma ice case, and it is erne of the ironies of the situation that Professor Corwin s address was cited by Justice Brandeis in his dissentqig opinion. “For the present, at least. Professor Corwin’s views have been rejected decisively by majority of the supreme court. Professor

Corwin’s reliance on the ‘flexibility’ of presentday constitutional law, and the awareness of the supreme court of its real freedom of choice.’ has proved but a broken reed in this great national emergency.” There also has been a great change in the attitude of the supreme court with respect to the nature of the concept of “public interest” as a test of constitutionality since the famous case of Munn vs. Illinois in 1876. This then was a test whereby regulatory legislation was validated. Now it is a major basis for rejecting such legislation. The latest attitude of the majority ,of the court relatively to the “flexibility” of constitutional law was expressed by Justice Sutherland in the Tyson case <1927). He then said: “Constitutional principles, applied as they are written, It must be assumed, operate justly and wisely as a general thing, and they must not be remolded by lawmakers or judges to save exceptional cases of inconvenience, hardship, or injustice.” It has been held by some that the court will awaken to the emergency which brought forth the new deal and will modify its doctrines accordingly. Boudin does not share this view. He concludes his learned monograph with the observation that: “It is not likely that Justice Sutherland and the present majority of the supreme court will relent because of the possible danger to the capitalistic system, as to which Justice Brandeis has warned his brethren on the bench. "For people who believe as Justice Sutherland and the present majority of the court do are usually so attuned psychologically that they can not see such a danger until it is too late to avert it.” FUTURE OF FOREST ARMY /"VNE of the most completely successful of all the items on the “new deal” program seems to be the forestry work of the Civilian Conservation Camps. Some 300.000 young Americans who had no jobs and no prospects of any jobs last spring are hard at work, sending money home to their parents, regularly, regaining their own self-respect, rebuilding their bodies—and doing a job of w'ork that will be of vast benefit to the nation for years to come. So well is the project working out that a person is inclined to wonder if it might not be a good thing to make this forest army a permanent affair. To begin with, it is very probable that the nation will have a reservoir of unemployed young men for a good many years, no matter how fully prosperity returns. In the boom days of 1928 and 1929 we had more jobless men than it was pleasant to think about; the increasing use of labor-saving devices makes it look as if unemployment will continue to be a problem fpr a long time. No one needs to be told anything today about the demoralizing effects of unemployment. No one needs to be told anything about the evils of the dole. The one sure way to avoid those evils is to find work for the men w'ho need it; and a permanent forest army would provide upw'ard of a quarter million extra jobs, year in and year out. All this, of course, would be pretty expensive. You can’t feed, house, clothe, and pay 250.000 men for a year without spending a good deal of money. The federal government has plenty of claims on its purse already. But it might be money well spent. It would be hard to overestimate the financial value of the wrork such an army could do If it stayed on the job year in and year out. To save the timber resources we have, to develop new ones, to prevent soil erosion, to prevent floods—those are jobs w'ell wrorth doing, even if they are costly. Certainly the question deserves serious consideration. This forest army is too goed an outfit to be discarded offhand. HITLERISM HERE A MERICANS. shocked at the excesses of Germany’s brown-shirted bullies, should remember that Hitlerism is a social disease . whose gefms are everywhere. Bureaucracy and gang-rule under cloak of patriotism also threaten America’s democratic and peaceful traditions. For instance: In East St. Louis. William Sentner was found guilty of disusing the peace by “conspiring to incite to riot,” because he criticised the government for spending money on armaments. Judge Hindenberger told him that in view of the depression, no one should criticise the government, particularly the NRA. In Akron, the Rev. William Denton w-as barred from broadcasting his sermons and threatend with eviction from his “tabernacle.” because, he alleges, he criticised the boycott of NRA enemies as “un-Christian.” In New’ Mexico, Governor Seligman called out state militia to suppress civil rights in the Gallup coal fields because of a peaceful strike by a radical miners' union. In Washington, Attorney-General Homer Cummings clamps a strict censorship on his subordinates, Instructing them to give no Information to the press and to submit all news to him personally. Such incidents can impede the w'ay toward orderly change and. if allowed to spread, poison democracy. ECONOMY OR SAFETY? nnHE last month h2s brought a number of serious accidents to passenger trains on American railroads, and a good many citizens are apt to wonder if any of these accidents are due to the stringent economies the roads have had to make in the last year. Has economy, in other words, been carried past the safety mark in certain cases? Have expenditures on equipment, on personnel, on maintenance of way and the like been cut just a little bit too much? It goes without saying, of course, that the railroads economized because they had to and not because they wanted to They have had a tremendously hard row to hoe this last year or so. It is very hard to see how the cuts they made could have been avoided. Nevertheless, the questions' raised here need answering if only to reassure the traveling public. And if government funds should be needed to enable hard-pressed roads to ease up a bit on their economy program, they should be forthcoming.

SAFER FOOTBALL

DR MARVIN A. STEVENS, Yale freshman coach, speaking at the meeting of the Eastern Intercollegiate Association in New York last Saturday, predicted thirty or forty football deaths this season, and proposed a revolutionary rule change designed to make the game safer. He advocated an end to the practice of “hitting them low”' in favor of a rule requiring high tackles. The knee, he declared, is responsible for most injuries to tacklers. High tackling, he said, would be safer and equally effective. Football can not be turned into a pink tea and hold its grip upon players or public. But further steps, we believe, can be taken toward safety without harming the game. The problem would be simpler if the rules, made primarily by and for college football, were not the same rules that apply to football as it is played on the sandlots and on every Isolated school football ground. The injuries mainly occur not on college football gridirons but in places where the play is not supervised. It would do no harm to the game, we believe, to do more experimenting with rules, in an effort to increase safety. LESSON IN JOURNALISM TT is a commentary upon the interest of people in individual human fates and problems, however remote geographically, that the newspapers took space recently to tell the public that a certain unnamed, obscure, unemployed miller got a job in far away Managua, Nicaragua. What makes news? The country has comparatively few unemployed millers. But it has millions of unemployed carpenters, bookkeepers, buttonhole workers, etc. Why the great interest in an unemployed Nicaragua miller? First, he was a blind miller. Second, the Job was a night job. An English coffee planter needed a man to grind corn at night to make tortillas for the laborers in the morning. A seeing miller would burn kerosene. The blind miller would not. He got the job and gained anonymous notice in New York newspapers. Though anew king on the same day came to the throne of Iraq, his fortune was not much more interesting or heart-w'arming to many than the fortune of the blind miller in Nicaragua who got a job. The news gatherers w’ho scour the world take the small nuggets with the big ones. The unique story wheresoever is a find, whether it affects the fate of thousands or of one--man. JUDGE KENYON r T'HE passing of Judge William S. Kenyon of the eighth court of appeals is a national loss. Asa member of the United States senate, Judge Kenyon was on the side of the workers and farmers. As federal judge he wrote the opinion that gave Teapot Dome back to the people. Asa Wickersham commissioner he worked unselfishly to solve the prohibition and crime problem. He declined a cabine post, and refused to let his name be used as a presidential possibility. While politically he was a liberal, conservatives and radicals alike respected him for his absolute integrity. Proposed musicians’ code asks minimum wage of $1 an hour for professional banjo players. Sounds like easy picking. Return of schooldays offers a break for the busy mother. Now she won’t have to hire someone to take care of the children while she goes out and plays bridge.

M.E.TracySays:

HAVE you read about the trapped deer of Watkins Glen and how, after a week or so of nation-wide suspense, he switched his tail in the faces of would-be rescuers and slid to safety? That animal should be immortalized in marble, paint, and poetry. He has shown up our nosiness and nonsense in a most vivid light. Think of all the excitement that was squandered on him for nothing, of all the genius that went to waste, of all the experting that failed to count! First, somebody saw the deer, wandering back and forth on a narrow ledge some thirty-five feet above the bottom of a narrow gorge. Without pausing to consider how he got there, or that he might get out the same way, the discoverer raised a great hue and cry. Here was something new for us susceptible Americans to weep over, a challenge to our idealism. That deer simply must be rescued. The man who suggested that he probably could take care of himself and that human meddling might be superfluous was howled down as hard-hearted. tt tt tt THERE was sobbing in print from Maine to California, and a call for experts to mobilize. Among others came an Indian chief, but only to be shunted aside as belonging to an obsolete age. We were going to do the job according to twentieth century principles. A bridge was built across the gorge, our best minds have deduced that a civilized deer would walk out on it. He refused to be so naively trustful of man-made contraptions, and the bridge was camouflaged tilth brush, leaves, and moss. Still he refused to take an artificial road to liberty, and two noble guards were lowered from the brow of the cliff above to coerce him into the path of salvation. Then it was that Old Buck switched his tail, braced his feet, slid down the steep bank, scrambled up the other side, and scooted for the tall timber. W*hat a farce! Trouble is, we made no allowance for the deer’s common sense, which typifies our attitude toward all animals, men included. k a a WE have fallen for the notion that nobody is able to look out for him or herself and that our one hope lies in minding each other's business, regardless of what happens to our own. What Is Cuba and what was Nicaragua but another trapped deer? Machado was kicked out as president of the former, chiefly to prevent interference on our part. We were saving the island from its own folly, just as we saved Mexico when Huerta was ousted. But the ships are gathering and the marines are ready. Some people look on it as just one more futile mess. Others see the fine Italian hand of the sugar trust in it. Very interesting, but what’s the difference? After all, it is Cuba’s problem, and if let alone, she probably would solve it ala Old Buck.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or ‘less.) By H. L. Secg-er The national deficit was caused by a drop in the money income of those who paid the taxes, and until the money income is increased, the deficit will continue. Prices for goods and services are controlled by expanding or shrinking the volume of money and credit, and this is entirely within the power of our privately owned banking system. Deflation became a policy of the banking system, which means that money was to have more value than goods and services than had been the case prior to 1928 Money obligations, as bonds, mortgages, and other debts created while money was cheaper, becomes very much heavier as income in money shrinks due to decreasing value of goods and services. That condition makes the payment of taxes more difficult for all whose income in money is reduced, and this is responsible for the 16 per cent delinquency in Marion county. Delinquency in tax payment is a sign of distress, as is the heavy delinquency on mortgages. Our feudal system of foreclosure and sale robs the victim of his savings. Changing of the value of the money unit, not in face value, but in purchase power value, is responsible for stagnation of our economic machinery of production. When we have learned that our goods and services are the only real values, and that all the money in the world is only a medium of exchange, we will see to it that money has some honest relation in transferring those things we produce. By W. E. L. Marion county was to receive its portion of money from the federal government for widening roads, building bridges, and general improvement of all county units, and 1,200 men were to be employed Aug. 1, then Aug. 15, then Sept. 1, but now these men are notified that this has been turned over to the

Muscle Spasms Cause Ringing in Ears = BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ==

MOST times when people hear ringing in their ears, the sounds are heard only by them. There are occasional cases, however, in which ringing in the ears may be so positive that it can be heard also by the doctor. Recently, Dr Samuel Iglauer described four cases in which ringing of the ears could be heard by the physician when he put a stethoscope on the side of the affected patient’s head. The ringing is due to spasmodic rhythmical contractions of the muscles around the tube that leads from the back of the nose to the ear, the eustachian tube. In other cases, the sounds are due to the blood within the large blood vessel that pass near the ear. The sounds are due to muscles having a clicking or snapping sound, and' sometimes are so loud that they may be heard several feet away from the patient. Usually, the sounds are heard at times when the palate contracts.

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : = -■=.=■ BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ============

AFTER one has lived for twoscore years, one becomes dubious about ballyhoo, more dubious at least than one was at 20. And the youngsters, already having been subjected to some rigorous hard knocks in this respect, do not seem to be so susceptible as we once were. They are not impressed by fair words, exclamation points and slogans. And so I think it might be well for the publicity directors of the NRA to assume a somewhat more selfish tone. Not that I believe the people of the United States are more self-centered than those of other countries or that we can not be moved by magnanimous appeals. We long since have proved ourselves generous to the point of foolhardiness. BTtt a dash of common

Don’t Forget the Gas!

Backs Firemen By Mrs. Agnes Baker. npKROUGH your column, I want to mention a few facts and ask a few questions of Believer in Fairness of Aug. 31. You hit the fireman when his back was turned. Why didn’t you sign your name? I’ll tell you why, You're plain yellow. I wonder just how much nerve you would have if your living depended on your carrying a line of hose up a sixtyfive or eighty-five foot ladder and getting your lungs and stomach full of smoke. I am afraid you would starve. You talk about the overburdened taxpayer. Can you show your tax receipt for last year? The police and firemen are taxpayers, too. They can’t slip by, like your type. I always have found that the loudest squawker was the least hurt. You say, take their kitchens and beds away from them. What do you want them to do? Stand up in a corner all night and wait until they get their twenty-four hours off to eat enough for the twenty-four hours while on duty? Get this straight. If you were th£ biggest tax payer in the city, not one cent of your money goes to those kitchens. They are furnished by the firemen. They also pay for their meals and the gas to cook with. > They pay for their telephone, too. You say they get better than $lO a day. They only wish it were true. In case you don’t know it, they have accepted a 15 per cent cut" and didn’t squawk either. Chamber of Commerce, the-greatest employer of basket men in our state. County trustees were elected to discontinue the old grafting basketsystem. Democratic grocers are getting the profit, taking food out of hungry mouths and from starving babies, the same as Republican grocers did before. Then we have the importers’ beer racket, controlled by Democratic officials and politicians. Do they

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. If the sounds come from passage of the blood in the blood vessels, pressure on the vessels will cause the sounds to disappear. They also disappear when the head is turned to the side, so that the patient may develop an habitual turning of the head, to shut off the sounds. Sometimes the sounds disappear when the patient lies down, but they return when the patient rises. In many instances they seem to be associated with changes in the action of the glands of internal secretion. Sometimes ringing in the ears is so serious, because of the nervous reaction of the patient, that it is necessary to perform a surgical operation to bring about relief. In the vast majority of cases, however, it is unnecessary to take so radical a step. To tie up the

sense, a peppering of truth, never hurt any good cause. Fine as it sounds to call upon the American citizen to rise to the assistance of his brother, it would be more effective if we cried to him to save himself. That, in short, is what he’s doing when he puts his will power, his strength, and his brains behind the NRA program. a tt tt SELF-INTEREST is a powerful force. Nothing moves without its impetus. The big business man wants the recovery program to succeed. because he is interested in America and its future prosperity, let us say, and thus give him the benefit of all doubts. But his chief concern is interest in his own prosperity. The worker is actuated by no more altruistic motives.

think their rackets are strong enough to control next year’s election? Will their battle cry or college yell be Coffinism? Or will they realize the fact that they have put plenty of isms in their own party? We have also a petty larceny gambling racket in our fair city that seems to flourish under a Democratic administration. If I know these things, as dumb as I am, evidently the more intelligent voters are wise, also, and won’t this make good ammunition when the Republicans turn their Big Berthas on the Democrats a year from now? No wonder the Communists are making converts every day. Next May the ballot will be filled up with one-horse politicians, striving for the “Pot of Gold.” Mr. Taxpayer has been a pretty good boy, but I notice he is thinking about running away from home lately. So you political birds don't, forget that a pig barbecue may not turn the trick, for the last one you gave on North West street is forgotten, and has been replaced with wormy beans and tough old fat jowl. But I will stick with you. I still am a rubber-headed Democrat.

So They Say

The common people produce the producers.—Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. The more hoodlums you can kill legitimately the better It is up to the police to beat the gangs at their own game.—Hugh D. Harper, Colorado Springs chief of police. It is a sad fact that almost the only Chinese who are really doing anything in China are those doing harm.—Ralph Townsend, former United States consular agent. The coal industry can not exist half slave labor and half free labor. —Frank E. Toplin, railroad and coal magnate.

large blood vessels of the throat going to the head is itself a relatively serious operation, affecting to some extent the circulation within the skull as well as that going by the ear. There are, of course, other cases in which ringing in the ears is heard only by the patient. Sometimes the ringing is due to a slight inflammation in the middle ear. In such cases the attention of a competent specialist in diseases of the ear may permit release of the material. In other instances, the use of sedatives results in relief. Sometimes, it is possible, by the use of a blowing device, to cause fluid that has accumulated to move into, a position which does not cause ringing. Most patients well advanced in years become accustomed in time to the annoyance that i$ associated with ringing in the ear, particularly when the patient has a high blood pressure or some condition which can not be controlled readily.

Every employe is behind the new deal because he wants a job and security and would like to feel that his job had the blessed quality of permanence. The housewife, likewise, may be concerned about national progress, but most of all she wants a safe and secure home, education for her children, and a chance for them to grow up in a land as free as possible from poverty, crime, and other evils. If we always had thought in terms of our brother's welfare, economic security for all now would be a fact. Since we did not do so, each must think of himself. With the NRA the individual now stands or falls. Selfishness got us into this mess. Perhaps it will help us to get out of it.

.'SEPT. T 4 ,1 m

It Seems to Me = BY HEYWOOD BROUN _

NEW YORK, Sept. 14— At the moment this column is written, | the marines have not landed. The latest news is that everything in Cuba will be readjusted in a satisfactory manner without necessity for intervention. But if we smile in a bland way over this arrangement, it will boa smug smile and a shabby one. It is j flagrant nonsense to talk of allowing : Cuba to settle its problems in its own way just so long as its harbors ! are crowded with our destroyers and battleships. When you thrust a gun into the I side of a nation or an individual, it s not essential to add. “Stick ’em up!” The man or republic at the wrong end of the weapon can get the idea even if no word is spoken. a tt a “Take Any Card at All” OR, to change the figure, Uncle Sam is playing the part of a prestidigitator who says to his victim: “Pick a card. Any one at all. I wouldn't fool you for the world.” But the pack is held in such way that the volunteer from the audience who is seduced into believing himself a free will agent can’t very well select anything but the seven of hearts. If the Cubans select anybody but De Cespedes, they are likely to find that the choice just doesn't count. There is an argument to be made in favor of our playing the role of roundsman in Central and South America and among the Caribbean islands. It is not an argument which appeals to me. I think any such policy is wrong, from both an ethical and a practical point of view. And yet I think it is preferable to be frankly imperialistic rather than to sneak up on the smaller nations. I think that our high-handedness in conduct in regard to our southern neighbors has created rather less antagonism than our hypocrisy. As far as our diplomacy goes, I can find in it no hint of a new deal. And the various letter and editorial writers who have protested against my low opinion of Secretary Cordell Hull, of the state department, are invited to contribute all over again and point out in just what way the old gentleman has departed from the standard practices of well-established American dollar diplomacy. And if I am told that Mr. Hull has no voice in the matter and never knew what was going on, I will be inclined to answer that this was precisely what I said in the first place. tt a o Cuba for the Cubans WITHOUT pressure on our part, there quite likely would have been a good deal of bloodshed in Cuba. It also is likely that the revolution would have taken on an even more decided left wing tendency. But the problems of the island and the matter of our relationship are not likely to be solved by any arrangement which brings about a mere palace insurrection. Bad as Machado was in his own personality, the issue never was wholly one of the character of the executive. The economic agony of Cuba is similar to that of many countries in the world, but probably a little more intense. The island has lived by and for a sugar crop, and under the depression the destruction of all previous values for that commodity has sown poverty throughout the country. We gravely have been telling one another in the United States for at least three years that it is nonsense for anybody to starve in the midst of plenty. It even may be that eventually we will do something about it. But in Cuba the case for co-oper-ative industrial and political life is even more plain. It is, of all the lands I’ve ever seen, the one which most closely approaches Eden. Ease and abundance ought to be simple in such a spot. Moreover, the people are in many respects far more highly civilized than the inhabitants of North America. Although many racial and national groups are represented, Cuba never has wasted its energies in fierce prejudice. tt tt a So Much for So Much HOW things went on under the rulership of Spain I do not know. There seems to be little doubt that cruelties were practiced by the Spaniards in the years immediately preceding the war of 1898. But in the long run the guardianship of the United States has not been an unmixed blessing. We put in plumbing for the cities and we conquered yellow fever. But in return we introduced large-scale capitalism and absentee landlordism. If the homeless Cuban has no place to lay his head, it is largely because someone of our great corporations has bought up all the land. The' present situation is important as a symbol and a test. On March 4 it was said that the money changers were to be driven out of the temple. I wonder whether anybody has remembered to tell that to the marines. (CoDvriKht. 1533. bv The Times)

Fantasy

BY ALICE E. DYSON Night rests her dusky, jaded feet Upon the silver-cushioned stars, No shadow' slight her pillow mars, No breath disturbs her slumber sweet, Her face with calmness is replete, Her brow’ is diademed with bars Os gold-resplendent scimitars From Luna's cool retreat. Night sleeps, but through her slumbers staid Hope—long relinquished—gleams, The phantom that I thought forever laid. That like a mocking echo seems My soul’s tranquillity to invade With Vanity, the ghost of dreams.

Daily Thought

FOR what shall It profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his ow’n soul?—St. Mark, 9:36. Success often costs more than it is worth.—E. Wigglesworth.