Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1933 — Page 6

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WEDNESDAY. SEPT 27. 1833. THE LEGION IN 33 'T'HE American Legion meets next week in -*• Chicago in what appears to be a much more moderate spirit than the one that dominated its Portland convention. Whereas last year only three state departments opposed immediate cash payment of the $2,300,000,000 bonus, this year only three demand the bonus. A resolution favoring its payment as soon as governmental finances permit is more likely to pass. If the attitude of National Commander Louis A. Johnson and the executive committee is typical, the legion’s pension demands likely are to be quite as reasonable. A program has been worked out that should put the legion behind both justice and economy. This calls for a uniform pension law for all veterans disabled in war; increase in pensions for widows and orphans of veterans killed in service; general overhauling of legislation dealing with benefits for non-service connected disabilities, and a determination to back all efforts at governmental economy. A special Investigating committee, studying President Roosevelt’s economy act, also has reported. This report ignores both the bonus and the disability allowance act, which, by the way. the legion never Indorsed, and which has cost the taxpayers $80,000,000 since 1930 in benefits to men Injured in civil life. It insists on compensation and hospitalization for all service disabled. And it lays down the general rule that any completely incapacitated veteran, no matter how or where he met his disaster, is a charge upon the federal treasury. Commander Johnson’s spirit is commended to the rank and file. Instead of fighting federal economy, he has indorsed it, while seeking modifications that temper its harsher effects. That he was right is admitted now by such bitter-enders as Representative Patman of Texas. As Commander Johnson has said, “This is not the time for politics, personal ambition or bigotries of any kind."

STREAM POLLUTION THE state conservation department’s bulletin on correcting stream pollution tersely expresses this newspaper’s point of view on the subject. Every citizen should read it. Here it is: “This appeal comes to you direct from the state board of health and your conservation department. Indiana has been backward in taking advantage of the federal government s offer to help finance the construction of public works Mtf especially sewage disposal plants. Why can't our communities and municipalities see the need for this work when Indiana is famous, or infamous, for the pollution of its streams? “It is necessary for you to present your project for approval now, as no new projects will be acted upon after Jan. 1, 1934. Why can't the organized sportsmen of each community constitute themselves the leaders of the movement to procure for their cities proper sewage disposal plants? What better way could these clubs justify their existence than by being the instrument through which the greatest single evil in conservation could be eliminated? Eventually all cities will be required to construct plants to care for their refuse. It is the most sensible step to take for the health and enjoyment of their citians. “Now, when 30 per cent of the cost is a pure gift and the remainder can be repaid over a period of thirty years with interest at 4 per cent (a happy combination that will not happen again in 100 vearsi is the time to act. What better wav to relieve unemployment and thus reduce the cost of poor relief? The needy must be taken care of and this is the way to relieve ourselves of the care and cost of at least some of them. Economically the proposition is sound: ethically it is just. We need the improvements; the people need the work, and the local taxes need reduction. “It has been suggested that local revenue bonds be issued for the remaining 70 per cent of the cost. These bonds will be retired from the revenue derived from the users of water as the greatest consumers of water are the largest makers of sewage. No new taxes will have to be levied nor will there be a burden placed upon any one. “Many of our streams absolutely are foul and putrid and no community, however important. has a right, legally or morally, to impose in such a way upon their neighbors and fel-low-citizens. Public opinion should and could be so aroused against these practices that the proper officials could be forced to take action. There should be no need to talk about the results and evils of pollution as they are plainly evident for all to see if they wish to look. “Now, when the remedy is made easy for us. is the time for every one interested to pull together. Contact the proper local officials and demand that they make proper application for the construction of a disposal plant in your city if one is needed. For further details write Room 401. Federal building, Indianapolis, Ind.. or to us.” To which we add a ringing • Amen.” CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? 'T'HE Roosevelt regime probably will furnish the final and decisive test of whether democracy can measure up to the responsibilities imposed by the dynamic and complex civilization of the twentieth century. In more than half of the states in the western world the trend already is in the direction of dictatorship. We have here a number of important books which deal trenchantly with diverse phases of the democratic experiment. Os all leading American political scientists, the one whose spirit is embodied most thoroughly in the conceptions of the New Deqi is the late Dr. John William Burgess, long dan

of the faculty of political science at Columbia university. He believed in the omnipotence of the sovereign state and held that it should act in a positive fashion for the betterment of mankind. In his views on democracy he held that the fundamental test is economic, rather than political. A genuine democracy must go farther than universal suffrage. It must bring about an equitable distribution of wealth. There is no proof that Mr. Roosevelt ever read a line written by Dr. Burgess, but his policy and program represent an adoption of Burgess’ doctrines to a degree which the latter could scarcely have foreseen. It was a favorite dogma of the early Democrats that if the people are not all equal in ability, at least the masses can be trusted to recognize superior men and put them into office. Such was the underlying doctrine of Jeffersonianism. Strikingly enough, however, during the last century, the one in which universal male suffrage has been in existence —not a single outstanding man has gone into our While House as a result of a clear popular majority under normal circumstances. The few able men who have reached the White House in the last century have entered as a result of some fluke, party split, or special crisis. Mr. Agar has rendered a very great service in writing a book, “The People's Choice,” devoted specifically to this theme, namely, the proof in actual experience that the people thus far have been incapable of choosing able Presidents of the United States. Some may quarrel with particular estimates. and he certainly rates Buchanan and Taft too low and Tyler and Taylor too high. But few informed historians will quarrel with his general thesis and the interesting manner in which he has sustained it. If democracy can not do better in the future in assuring competent leaders, some other method will be aevised to produce them. Discussions of the success or failure of democracy all are limited too often to considerations of federal and state government. After a 1 !, local government touches the masses more frequently and directly than the policies and decrees of larger governmental units. Os all the examples of the ox-cart in the airplane age, so far as politics is concerned, nothing is more striking or absurd than the perpetuation of the ancient county units and activities from the colonial and early national period into our urban and industrial age. The county complicates and duplicates the machinery of government in relation both to the state and the new municipality. If democracy is to succeed in the United States, we shall need something more than able Presidents and successful federal policies. Local government will have to be adapted to existing realities. Local units must be consolidated, brought into proper unification within the state and rendered subordinate where desirable to the new municipal institutions which have grown up since the county system originated. The county incubus in New York City is only the most striking example of this anachronism in modern political life. The facts are presented admirably by Professor Bromage. Mr. Finnegan gives us a thoroughly up-to-date analysis of Tammany Hall and its operations in state and city politics in “Tammany at Bay.” It is a very valuajble "supplement the histories of Tammany Hall by Myers and others. It Is valuable especially in destroying the myth of the “New Tammany” discovered by A1 Smith, Walter Lippmann and others. It certainly is permissible for one who feels that way to defend Tammany Hall as a political institution. But it hardly is defensible for one to base such a justification upon the allegation that the Tammany of Curry is utterly different in kind from the Tammany of Tweed and Croker. Incidentally, Mr. Finnegan completely wipes the ground with the once pleasant fiction that Mr. McKee might serve as the “great white hope" of the anti-Tammany cause. Mr. McKee apparently has obtained just about the sort of position for which his talents fitted him. An important phase of the reconstruction of city government may be the growth of the municipal home rule movement. Just now this tendency has suffered a marked decline in exuberance and popularity. What its future will be only time can tell. Dr. McGoldrick has brought out a scholarly supplement to the standard work on the subject by Professor Mcßain of Columbia university, “Law and Practice of Municipal Home Rule.” It measures up thoroughly to the fiigh standards set by the original volume, and has the additional advantage of having been written by a man technically trained in law and with thorough practical knowledge of the problems of municipal government.

THE RAT IS IN THE TRAP AND so Machine-Gun Kelly, rat of the underworld, is in the trap at last. Only a few days ago this missing suspect in the Urschel kidnaping case was sending threatening letters to those engaged in aiding the prosecution of the notorious Harvey Bailey in Oklahoma City. He would kill Urschel. He would kill Urschel's whole family to show what a bold man he was; he laid his inked hand on one such letter, to display his wellknown finger prints. It all reminds one of Mark Twain’s tough guv. who said: “Whoop, bow your neck and spread, for the pet child of calamity is coming. I take thirteen alligators and a barrel of whisky for breakfast when I am in robust health: a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I am ailing. I am a child of sin, sired by a hurricane, dammed by a cyclone. Contemplate me through leather, gentlemen, don't look at me with the naked eye.” That’s the kind of a hard citizen MachineGun Kelly was. And while he was ranting thus, a government agent—a quiet man,- content to let the other fellow do the talking—was on the trail. This is a big country. The unthinking might believe that it is easy for one to lose himself in it. Not at all, especially when the person sought is as dumb as Machine-Gun Kelly, the blatherskite. A hard beast of the jungle he may be. But the government secret service is just as hard when aroused. And that’s the way the secret service ought to be. And that’s the way the whole government ought to be when dealing with the plug-uglies of the Machine-Gun Kelly type. 1

THE WHISPERING GALLERY SECRECY is incompatible with the public interest when the taxpayers’ funds are Involved. Budget deliberations should not be conducted like an initiation to a secret society. The decision of the county tax adjustment board to hold closed sessions is unwise. It tends to raise a number of reasonable suspicions in the public mind. What has the board to hide? Are the members in such violent disagreement with themselves that they dare not openly discuss the spending of public funds? Are they afraid of criticism? What influences might be brought to bear in these star chamber sessions? “We are not going to be intimidated," remarked Russell Willson in reply to questioning about secret hearings. Intimidated about what? Surely the board, made up of grown men, is not afraid some bold, bad newspaper will jump at them and yell, “Boo!” Mr. Willson, as a member of the school board, is quite accustomed to conducting the public’s business in camera, but that is another story. The board must reach a decision by Saturday night. Let us have all the facts on the city’s finances. Then the people accurately can estimate the situation. Such monkey business as secret hearings is distinctly out of place. TEST NEUTRALITY HP HE doctrine of neutrality, observes Newton D. Baker, is uncertain and of limited usefulness in preserving peace, and in the World war it was disastrous and finally impossible. Since the foreign correspondents and all of the war experts assure us of our involvment in another World war, next month or the month after, or as soon as Hitler builds another super-cruiser, or some high job holder in the little Balkans gets punctured by some political idiot from abroad, why not make a serious test of the doctrine of United States neutrality, even warning Europe of our intention before the international shooting begins? We have tried kindly diplonjacy and financial and moral helpfulness. Our pacts, conferences and even formal treaties fail and a World war is about to knock on our door, it seems. Thorough friendliness tow’ard our foreign brothers is the right thing and “blessed is the peace maker”; but, there are occasions when peace can only be restored or maintained with a club. If Europe w'ants to have another World war, why not let her have it all to herself, by temporarily inhibiting all American dealings—financial, political and mercantile—with the fighting nations? And let our war profiteers howl! The cost of suspending all of our trade with the whole world during the period of that next foreign war would not be a drop in the bucket compared to what our part in another World war would cost us, as we have certainly learned through experience; for, that war will be unusually brief, so great has been civilization’s progress in the matter of improved methods for human slaughter and so unlikely the prospects of wheedling war money out of us. ** ’Why should the New York Stock Exchange move to New Jersey, anyway? The members will have to go so much farther to see Morgan. t So Uncle Sam offers loans to cotton growers, eh? “Oh, I wish I was in the land ob cotton.” Daylight saving time in the east is over, but more time will be spent in the moonlight. The only persons who aren’t worrying about the condition of our schools are the children.

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FOURTEEN Japanese cadets have been sentenced to four years in prison for murdering the late Premier Inukai. There was no doubt of their guilt. It was not only proved by the prosecution, but brazenly admitted by the defense. These cadets claimed that they were motivated by patriotism and that the calculated cold-blooded slaying of Inukai in his own front hall was justified. The people of Japan appear to have agreed with this view. At all events, the government received more than 350,000 letters asking for leniency and only sixteen demanding death. While an exception, such an attitude is not unprecedented. The people of Serbia, for instance, have made a national hero out of the young student who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and precipitated the World war. Charlotte Corday still is regarded as something of a heroine for stabbing Marat to death. a a a THE world has a way of excusing murder if convinced that the motive was patriotic. Otherwise war would be impossible. Still, there is a difference between killing armed men on the battlefield and killing unarmed citizens in their houses. Whether in Japan or the United States, it is not good sportsmanship to gang a man, as these cadets did, to pretend that they wished to present a petition and then murder him when he came out to meet them. Julius Caesar was ganged by Roman senators in much the same. way and though posterity finds it possible to recognize the good intentions of some, it has not forgiven the assassination. These cadets did Japan no service, and Japan is doing herself no service in treating their crime so complacently. It all goes back to a bad case of war fever and leaves little doubt of the imperialistic urge which temporarily dominates Japan. These cadets wanted the war party to be supreme, wanted a clear road for the conquest of Manchuria. a a a THEY were moved by the same spirit which sent battleships and regiments to Shanghai It is a ruthless, domineering spirit and if rot checked, it will get Japan into the same kind of trouble that it did Germany. The significance of this case lies in what it shows regarding public opinion in Japan. Apparently the nation is in a mood to excuse anything that promises to strengthen the military, to glorify war. to justify expansion by force of arms. People do not applaud the murder of a great man because he stands in the way of a war party, unless they are obsessed with thoughts of war. They do not write letters asking leniency toward his murderers, unless their minds have been warped by visions of glory through military achievements. No one can read any other meaning into this palpable miscarriage of justice, this virtual sanction of a deliberately planned assassination

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(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 J. E. K. I would be more than glad to finance a round-the-world flight for Governor McNutt and his associates, providing they would promise never to return. Asa Governor, I think he is a washout. He now has another bright idea, that is, installing a multigraph department at the state house, so that he can give work to sqme numbskull political friends of his who haven’t brains enough to secure a situation for themselves Their wages will be about S2O a week and while they are learning to run the multigraph, they will spoil enough paper stock to pay their salary. And if the work is too complicated for this department, he will let the convicts take a crack at it. After the convicts tear up this costly equipment several times, they will turn the finished product over to some student or an official who will rack his or her brain and strain their eyes trying to decipher this “strange” piece of printing. All other work which is too complicated for the state house or convicts will probably be let to the Donnelly printing concern in Chicago or some of his Indianapolis associates. By doing this, a number of printers who are making a fair and honest living and probably paying enough taxes pay for the state’s printing will be thrown out of work. We have one consolation and that is—he can’t do it always. By E. F. Maddox. The controversy between Major General Mosely and President Oxnam of De Pauw university brings to light again a fight which is being waged secretly against our established institutions by an underhanded method called boring from within. \ General Mosely is the representative of our democracy whose military doctrine is that a well regulated militia is our best means of defense. President Oxnam champions the cause of that great international order which is afraid that our national guard might be dangerous to their revolutionary plans to seize control of this nation. Well, of course, Norman Thomas probably had a part in the program and

CHOREA is an ailment associated with rheumatic disorders and is seen qdite frequently in children, particularly in families where rheumatic disorders are prevalent. The condition is most likely to affect girls around the period of adolescence but occurs also in boys, the percentage being about three cases in girls to one in boys. A significant fact bearing on the relationship of this condition to rheumatism is that more than onehalf of those who have the disease are found to have had some rheumatic disorder previously. Infection of the tonsils is a common observation in such cases. In a recent investigation of more than 200 cases in Edinburgh, Dr. H. L. Wallace found that the onset of the disease sometimes was as-

FOR some time alimony laws have been farcical or tyrannous. Reforms now are promised in a number of instances and the Brownwell act in New York state permits jurists, if they think it wise, to eliminate alimony altogether. Whether this will constitute justice is probably a matter of individual opinion. However, there have been enough evils coming out of our present plan to demonstrate the need for change. While divorce always necessitates some financial readjustments it is obvious that our alimony laws have served their purpose and outlived their usefulness. So far as general observation goes, it seems that the majority of men

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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

Chorea May Follow Rheumatic Condition : = by dr. morris fishbein

: : A Woman’s Viewpoint : : 1 B Y MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

The Emergency!

One for Henry By R. P. Cunningham. It was, doubtless, foreordained from the beginning of the world that the time would come when Henry Ford would become a “push over” for Wall street. But it is disconcerting, even unmanning to think about such a dread possibility. And to those of us who, as you might say, were begotten, born, and almost reared in Model T’s, it is nothing short of terrible. The gallant manner in which he fought for, and retained his virginity against that ogre is something that can not easily be erased from our memories. And the chances are that the added discomfiture awaits us of witnessing our Henry blowing a phut-phut horn in the House of Morgan’s forty-one-Piece Midget Band tootling dirges at the national recovery act program. My tears are blinding. I can not finish this letter.

helped to place Mr. Oxnam in a position to fight the R. O. T. C. and it is very likely he has a representative in every high school and college in this country. Now don’t get excited and think that the cause of democracy and liberty is lost and that Norman Thomas is about to become dictator of our great nation, but remember this, my friends, that if you don’t wake up to the situation and help to drive this un-American organization from our schools and colleges, you are responsible for the consequences. Because a church council or any other organization supports Dr. Oxnam is no sign he is right, but it is a sign that “even the very elect are being deceived.” Teachers and officers in our schools and colleges who have the least taint of socialism in their makeup should be discharged immediately as being disloyal to American ideals. By Sherman A. Henricks. It was my privilege to have been an employe of the city of Indianapolis nine and one-half years prior to September, 1930, in the civil engineer’s office. Because of that experience I feel qualified to discuss the subject of taxes. I note in your paper items from

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia, the Health Magazine. sociated with an accident, a severe fright, or a sudden bereavement; in other words, some form of mental shock. Incidentally, in the group of cases that he studied, it was found that left-handed people are more likely to contract chorea than are righthanded people, although the evidence is not conclusive on this point. There is however, a considerable amount of evidence which show’s that the child with chorea also is likely to have some heart or rheu-m-tic disease. There w r as an involvement of the heart In 41.5 per cent of all of the cases. Chorea sometimes is called St. Vitus’ dance because of the strange

who wish to evade the law manage to do so, while very often the conscientious individual becomes a martyr to its technicalities and its rigid interpretations. Perhaps we never can hope for true justice for every individual. It is inevitable, it appears, that some of us must suffer more than others, and this will probably continue as long as society is complex and life so erratic and incomprehensible. a a a DIVORCE, after years of marriage, always should be followed by a fair settlement of property on the wife who, we must presume, has helped to accumulate it. But alimony for a woman, just because she has been a wife, is a stupid conception of marriage.

time to time condemning different city departments and employes. Then, at a later date, when one of these critics calls at our city hall for a particular service and is unable to get prompt action because of a curtailed budget, how he does howl again! On one hand the city “dads” are extravagant, on the other they are mean and miserly. I note one organization is clamoring for the $1.50 levy. The writer is as much in favor of lower taxes as the next one, but can we do it on $1.50 per $100? I think not, if we all are to continue receiving police, fire and health protection and other services, all covered by taxation. As to special assessments, such as streets, walks and sewers, these are directly up to the benefited owners and not to the city at large. In fairness, ask yourselves these questions: 1. Am I willing for the city to have fewer police officers? 2. Am I willing for the city to have fewer firemen with less equipment? 3. Am I willing for the city to cease the collection of garbage and ashes? 4. Am I willing for the city to curtail the activities of the board of health, allowing epidemics to gain a foothold? 5. Am I willing to close up the civil engineer’s office and lose this service in regard to drainage, inspection, etc., of the street, sewer, walk and alley in front and the rear of my house? 6. Am I willing to close the street commissioner’s office and depend on the wind and rain to clean the street? 7. Am I willing to close the office of the plan commission, and run the risk of a stranger building a cheap four-apartment dwelling next door to me, if I live in a single-family residence district? 8. Would I be willing to close the parks, especially during June and July? 9. Am I willing to shorten a child’s schooling, to shorten a teacher’s pay, to shorten some janitor’s pay? These nine questions cover the major city departments. Naturally, after due consideration, we want and need them all, so let us all lend a hand and eventually we can have our feet planted on solid ground.

movements and twitchings brought about by this disease. These movements must not be confused with those of the habit spasm in which the movements are about the same but follow a certain routine. Because the rheumatic disorder associated with chorea is of such great significance to the future health of the child this condition should never be neglected. It is important to have a. complete study made of the whole constitution of the child with special emphasis on the heart. The child with chorea also should be given every possible opportunity to improve his general nutrition. He should have plenty of rest and recreation. The diet should be w’atched carefully and. if necessary, foods particularly valuable for budding up the blood should be selected.

It is the child, not the woman, who should be the first consideration In any permanent plan we may make for dealing out Justice after matrimonial disruption. Socially speaking, neither husband nor wife are of much consequence. But the children, citizens of tomorrow, should not lack protection and care. Those women, too, who desire to see the advent of a social order in which their sex may feel secure, dare no longer cling to our present outmoded t.limony laws. They were based in t ie first place upon the assumption that we occupy a world which does not give us an onfportunity to support ourselves, but jteeps us out of charity. This te a/dole that 4s disgraceful

SEPT. 27, 1933

It Seems to Me tBY HEYWOOD BRCHN_

NEW YORK, Sept. 27—James Bryant Conant. new president of Harvard university, has begun his administration auspiciously. His speech to the freshman class in Cambridge struck a note quite unlike that which usually is found in addresses handed down to the young men with the bright and shiny faces. Dr. Conant spoke in praise of skepticism. “May I suggest.” he said, “that your college career Is an excellent time to cultivate a tolerant, skeptical spirit?" I am glad that the college president associated these two qualities of the human mind. Too often skepticism is identified as a mean, ungenerous and suspicious spirit. On the contrary, it represents an attitude of eagerness for information. A skeptic is not a man incapable of enthusiasms and steadfastness of purpose. He is simply an individual who refues to leap away from his mark until the pistol has actually sounded. He refuses to waste his energy in false starts. This is why he inists that the phraes “get ready” and ‘get set” are of vital importance. Naturally, he has the gift of tolerance. Nobody can get ready without reaching out for all the available information. People who assail skeptics as folk incapable of devotion to a cause merely convict themselves. Those who are too ready to accept any burnished notion which presents itself are little better than drowning men reaching out for straws. The skeptic, on the other hand, keeps an open mind. He will pass up a straw for a plank, a plank for a lifeboat and a lifeboat for an ocean liner. a a a Gentlemen of the Press AND, speaking of newspapers, my attention has been called sharply to the fact that the members of the craft are sometimes deficient in a sense of humor. I was in Washington last week as a member of news writers’ delegation, and it seemed to me not unfitting under the circumstances that we might hold a press conference. I offered this intention to a managing editor as a possible subject for a brief news story. Indeed, I suggested that the caption might read, “The reporters will be delighted to meet the gentlemen of the press.” “Make it, “The gentlemen of the press will be glad to meet the reporters,’ he countered. “I think it’s more amusing that way.” And so it was written according to the editorial suggestion. Neither of us thought of the little wheeze as a wow, but it was intended to be a mild joke. Unfortunately, twenty or thirty newspaper men showed up all violently indignant because of their impression that they were being high-hatted by their confreres from the metropolis. Indeed, they carried their indignation to such lengths that one or two went back and reported to their bosses outlandish incidents which never happened. One roving journalist who came early and stayed far into the night setting up .round after round of etherized advice had the effrontery to announce the following day that the moment he appeared at the newspaper conference he was thrown out on his ear. Although the young man failed signally in his function as a factual observer, I believe that when we meet again he will find himself a first-class prophet. a a a Directly and to the Point AND, speaking of high-hat attitudes, I v/ish that every editor, reporter and columnist had been present at the Washington hearing on the code. After listening to the testimony of many men engaged in many branches of newspaper work I think they hardly could avoid the impression that when it comes to stating a case the printers and the pressmen can give cards, spades and a few hearts to those journalists who at times may have felt that the gift cf expression was a commodity exclusively intrusted to their own care.

Indian Summer

BY MARCELLA MOORE Now, the west wind treading the thirsty prairie, Lashing the fields that are heavy with leaning corn, Even to city deafened ears can carry Summer’s exciting drums to the prairie -bom. Tom-toms of Indian summer!—the hoof beats’ thunder On a white, brittle road where the dust swirls thick; Scent of pollen flying—the wild bee’s plunder— Twitches the nostrils, turning the heart homesick. For acres of tufted plain—low, sandy reaches— With a wind making hollow moan through stalks of maize, Where even the silence quails when a hoot-owl screeches, And crickets vibrate the dusk, and a lone dog bays. Now, ghosts of vanished Indian tepees rise on The red, sweltering moor, whence their smoke curls high, Spinning a blue haze over the parched horizon Where the sun gapes like a wound on the open sky. Swift from that blue mirage as a redskin’s arrow, Travels mile across mile a bolt of unrest, • Piercing the wayfarer clean to his native marrow, Lodging its point of desire in his recreant breast. To return to the land where phantom campfires kindle, Clap knees again to a horse's steaming sides, And plunge toward the western rim till the smoke wreaths dwindle, And the moor is a wide loam waste, and the mist divides. But the prairie the red man haunts, like a field of battle. Is empty and scarred after the peat stacks burn; And the wind through dry husks of maize is a thin death rattle. Who has laid there ghosts of his own he will not return.