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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25. 1933. STRIKE ABATEMENT r T'HE national labor board is getting Into ■*- its stride as a force for Industrial peace and justice. In four recent disturbances the board has won important agreements. It has halted strife between the Weirton steel and Westinghouse workers, the Paterson silk dyers and New York bricklayers and their employers. After some weeks of delay, the board’s chairman. Senator Wagner, now is speeding the organization of regional boards to decentralize the mediating mechanism. Out of sixteen such boards being organized for the present, Senator Wagner has manned twelve. The sort of men he has chosen as impartial chairmen will add prestige to this young project and make its tasks easier. Men like George W. Alger of New York, President Robert Hutchins of Chicago university, Jacob Billikopf of Philadelphia, George Creel of San Francisco and others have proved their devotion to the public interest, and, doubtless, will bring patience and wisdom to the complicated issues now troubling industry. The records show that both management and workers are eager to lay their differences before fair-minded men and abide by their rulings. As Senator Wagner has just informed the regional boards: “The very brief experience of the national labor board already has demonstrated that practically all of the recent industrial conflicts can be settled amicably when the parties have been brought together to discuss their differences in an atmosphere of calmness and disinterestedness and with a clearer knowledge of their respective rights and duties.” The country wall welcome the good offices of these good men. Noel Sargent of the National Association of Manufacturers says that in July, August and September no less than 6,500,000 working days and at least $22,000,000 In badly needed wages were lost in more than 1,000 disputes. An effective national system of labor boards can reduce greatly this strike and waste during the next three months. TIIE MIDDLE WEST ONE of the commonest misconceptions of American history Is the notion that the middle west has a “past,” historically speaking, that goes back only about a century. Just to show how faulty that idea is, the city of Fond du Lac, Wis., is going to hold a tercentenary celebration next year. It will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the landing in Green Bay of Jean Nicolet, one of those amazing Frenchmen who pushed into the heart of the American continent at a time when anything west of the Alleghenies was more remote and unknown than the center of Asia is today. As far back as 1634, then, the recorded history of the middle west was getting under way. You could have assembled all its white inhabitants into a good-sized auto bus, if you had had one handy, and its signs of civilization were few and far between. But it is worth remembering that the pedigree of the Interior goes back nearly as far back as that of the eastern seaboard. Furthermore, it’s a pedigree worth reading. There are few stories of romantic adventure more truly satisfying than the one which tells about French penetration of the Great Lakes region. Those old names like Nicolet, Marquette. La Salle, Joliet, Hennepin, Cadillac, and so on have a glamour about them that time can not dim. Those men were empire builders, whose efforts— in the strangest way imaginable—paved the way for the building of a society that they never anticipated. They dotted the land with their names and with words from their language. Today’s middle west still uses them—names like Fond du Lace, and Prairie du Chien, and Marquette, and Detroit, and Vincennes, and Navarre; you could fill a page with them. The land that now is the granary and workshop of a nation once was part of the dominions of the Grand Monarque of France: the fleur-de-lis waved over it generations before Betsy Ross sewed together the first stars and stripes. It is an exceedingly wise thing that these folk at Fond du Lac are doing, with their tercentenary celebration. The life of any region grows richer when its inhabitants take the trouble to study their background. The French substratum under the foundations of the middle west has been neglected. DESIRABLE SHIFT HIRAM JOHNSON has been offered the Democratic nomination for United States senator from California. Other liberal Republicans who revolted against Hooverism and jumped party lines are likely to need Democratic support. Such are Senators La Follette, Cutting. Norris and Governor Pinchot. Many observers believe that this may mark the first Step in the disintegration of the present Re-publican-Democratic parties and presages a inore realistic alignment within each. The conservatives would flock to Republican bankers while liberals and moderate radicals Would rally to the Democratic standards. Such a shift and realignment might remove party government from the realm 'Of pure horseplay and give it some realism. j)own to .1900 American parties usually were divided in regard to fairly fundamental issues. The federalists battled with the Democratic Republicans as to whether the government should favor the business or the farming elements. The Democrats and the Whigs were divided over such issues as currency, •tanking, slavery and the tariff. While the differences between them dwindled, realistic?

Police and Politics

\ FEW rat-faced plug-uglies are terrorizing Indiana. They are not "master mind” criminals, but merely dim witted guerillas whose only mental equipment is animal savagery. They have not even exhibited craftiness, and, as for real courage, any one can be brave with a submachine gun in his hands. Yet the law enforcement agencies of a great and sovereign state are helpless in the presence of these vicious morons. Our police are impotent to protect themselves from being robbed of their weapons and even kidnaped in broad daylight on a well traveled highway. Only one convict has met his nemesis and that was at the hands of an irate farmer. That is the reason that The Times yesterday informed the department of justice in Washington of the situation. This newspaper sought the aid of federal authorities because it realized that, if the present forays continue, contempt for Indiana law will become so widespread that criminals from all over the country will move into the state. The people of Indiana themselves are partly responsible for the low' degree to which their police have fallen. For years they have made politics their meat, drink and recreation. They have permitted politicians to tinker with agencies of law enforcement and now they are reaping the result in their utter demoralization. In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York the criminal element has a deadly fear of the state troopers. Over a period of years

party strife was revived by the breakup of the Whig party and the formation of the Republican party. The party divisions thereafter were deep and bitter enough to help along the Civil war. From the close of the Civil war to 1900 the Republicans and the Democrats fought fairly consistently over such matters as the reconstruction of the south, money and currency, the tariff and the new imperialism. This came to a head in the bitter campaign of 1896. Since the opening of the twentieth century, party government has degenerated into a mere burlesque and farce, rescued only temporarily by such unusual crises as 1912 and 1932. Both Republicans and the Democrats have accepted the “bellhop” system of government and have become the willing servants of the plutocrats and pirates. The Democrats have been a little more sensitive to the existence of misery and graft, but this probably may be attributed to the fact that they were out of office most of the time. By giving the Democratic party a progressive slant, Mr. Roosevelt has opened the way for a sensible realignment of the traditional American parties. To the progressive Democrats he might be able to add liberal Republicans and many moderate Socialists, were he to make a decisive and outspoken bid for the progressive leadership of the nation. The Republican party then could make a clear and logical appeal to “rugged individualists,” American Fascists, the plutocratic moguls of speculative finance and all others to whom Coolidge, Mellon and Hoover appear the political trinity. It is obvious that not a few members of President Roosevelt’s present cabinet would belong in this new reactionary Republican party. Such a setup in our party life would give Americans some plausible basis for choice at the polls, though not unless - the Democratic party became really liberal. There would be no place in it for a Woodin, a Douglas, or a Cummings. And there would still be a need for John Dewey’s radical party. Sensible though this political shift might be, such a proposal would provoke violent opposition and would meet many potent obstacles. First and foremost, we would encounter the vested interests of the party machines which would be disrupted by any such logical merger of reactionaries and progressives. The party organization and the men who run it are lacking in any long-time vision or in any deep interest in the welfare of the nation. In the second place, the plutocrats would do what they could to wreck any such enterprise because a real division of American parties on the question of conservatism versus progressivism would place finance capitalism in jeopardy. Owning both parties today, the finance capitalists have nothing to fear as a result of the outcome of any presidential election. If they could expect protection only by reactionary Republicans, their position in American life would become much more precarious. UNDERMINING HITLER THAT enterprising Jewish periodical, Opinion has been publishing some very juicy and spirited material directed against the Nazi chieftain. Herr Hitler. In the last issue, there appears a very statesmanlike article by the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes protesting against the movement to ban the publication of an American edition of Hitler’s autobiography by the Houghton-Mifflin Company of Boston. Dr. Holmes’ arguments are cogent and invincible. Whatever our contempt for Hitler’s ignorance, barbarities and intellectual vagaries, he is, believe it or not, one of the two or three most influential personages in the world today. If we hope to unseat him, we must be very familiar with the ideals and policies he represents. Nothing could tell us more authoritatively what Hitler really is like than his story of his life and the ideals which have governed it. If we believe that Hitler’s governing conceptions are atrocious and monstrous, nothing else could be so effective in undermining him as to convict him of intellectual bankruptcy out of his own mouth. Under these circumstances there could be no possibility of his introducing the alibi that he had been misquoted or misunderstood. Finally, to try to ban Hitler's book in this country would be nothing less than employing here the same policies which we condemn so vigorously when used by Hitler in Germany. Such imitation would be flagrant flattery of a man whose repute we desire to crush. Throughout modern times many of the bravest figures in the battle against censorship have been Jews. Jewish people today will do well to hesitate before they impair this noble tradition and heritage. Instead of attempting to suppress Hitler’s book, a better strategy would be to cireulate-.it by the millions. If mankind, Jewish or Gen-

An Editorial

these peace officers, freed from politics, have built up a hard-hitting, efficient check on the underworld. These • troopers have learned well the lesson that they must protect, with their own lives if necessary, law and order in their respective states. There is no reason, except politics, why Indiana can not have a similar force. A1 Feeney, state public safety director, is right in asking for radios and other modern equipment. He should have everything that is necessary. But the only way to build a police department is with men—trained men. The most expensive equipment obtainable will not make a boob into a policeman. Police work is a highly specialized business and Mr. Feeney, honest and upright though he is, has not had the necessary experience to qualify as state police head. He should at once either borrow or permanently employ a police officer from some other state having a force of proved efficiency to select and train Indiana troopers. The Indiana state police should be appointed solely on merit by competing civil service examination. Preference should be given to war veterans with records of .gallantry In action. Then we should have police who do not reach for. the moon at the first sight of a gun pointed in their direction. Take politics out of police work and keep it out.

tile, has enough intelligence to make it worth saving, nothing will discredit Hitler more effectively than the widest possible reading of his vacuous ravings. Opinion also carries an elaborate symposium on the boycott against Germany. Most of the contributors are heartily in favor of it. It seems to me that the boycott, like the proposed ban on Hitler's book, is rather doubtful strategy. It constitutes a declaration of intellectual and economic war upon Germany. Nothing is likely to rally the German people behind Hitler more surely and more solidly than the feeling that chancellor and people must stand together in a campaign of mutual defense. Indeed, while the Hitler menace is an extremely serious and important matter, It Is mistaken policy to attack it in too solemn a strain. The proper men to lead the Jewish onslaught against Hitler are not Ludwig Lewisohn and Samuel Untermeyer or Rabbi Wise, but Eddie Cantor, Lou Holtz, Jimmie Durante and others capable of the most effective use of ridicule and burlesque. A1 Smith sounded the right note in his speech at the Untermeyer dinner when he insisted that the appropriate mode of attack upon Hitler is ridicule. If, on one hand, Hitler is the most savage and dangerous figure in the history of antiSemitism, he is also the most comic and ridiculous parsonage who ever has led an important movement against the Jews. In possibilities of ridicule, he opens up not only the chance of a lifetime but the greatest opportunity in the whole history of the persecution of the Jews. Let the Jews make of his autobiography a great burlesque—the “Believe It Or Not” volume of all history. Let them commission the authors “Os Thee I Sing” and of “Face the Music” to do a similar job on Hitler and the Nazis. Hitler can withstand indefinitely the most vehement anti-Nazi onslaught, provided it maintains a sufficiently high level of solemnity. But he can not stand up for long if he comes to be regarded generally as the most colossal comic opera brigand and clown in the whole history of western civilization. New York City’s police will be taught to speak good English. That will slow up traffic a great deal.

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THE important thing for Americans to remember is that their government is in nowise responsible for this latest European muddle. The United States steadfastly has refused to sign the treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations. This country is under no obligations to uphold the one or preserve the other, except as it may volunteer its services as catspaw. President Roosevelt does exactly right in withdrawing our observers from the disarmament conference. It is a busted show for the time being and that through no fault of ours. It is all right to scream that Hitler should be held accountable, but who should be held accountable for Hitler? When the allies forced Germany to disarm, they justified it on the ground of preparation for general disarmament. In other words, they led people throughout the world to believe that if Germany were disarmed, other European nations would have little excuse for keeping up their great military establishments. Fifteen years have exposed this attitude as a monumental piece of hypocrisy. Otttt * | ''HE allies have not made one honest move toward disarmament. Outside of Germany, Europe has more trained men in uniform, more guns available, more poison gas in storage, more military’ planes ready to take off, than in 1914. How would we Americans feel if in Germany’s place? Would we forego our right to maintain a defense force indefinitely, while every bordering land continued to drill armies and build forts? If we asked for equality, either through permission to rearm or through disarmament by our neighbors and were refused, would we smile sweet acquiescence or quit the palaver? Well, we are not in Germany’s place, and by the same token, we are not in England’s place or France’s place. We are just ourselves and our logical course is to be ourselves. Dangerous and discouraging as the present situation may be, it is not of our making. That is one thing we should keep clearly in mind. a a u IF Germany withdraws from the League of Nations, she is right where we are—out. If she asks for equality in the right to arm, she asks nothing more than we have insisted on all along. If it is a question of maintaining the treaty of Versailles, we are not interested. All the issues raised are distinctively European, and it is our business to let them remain so. No doubt, France and England would like to wrangle us into a position where we would be compelled to participate if another European war occurred. No doubt they would feel a good deal safer if they could. All that goes back to sentiment, however, and to a kind of sentiment which originates in nationalism. If nationalistic sentiment is to play a dominant part in the march of events, it is our cue to be guided by our own, and not one provided lor us by other countries.

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(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 Charles E. Wyman. We still have a few old-timers with us who want to build levees to control floods, after they are raging torrents, although a mint of money has been spent repeatedly for a hundred years and people (who live on the best soil in the world) are taxed in to poverty, to build levees that always failed when most needed, leaving death and destruction below the breaks. Flood control never can be a local affair and succeed. At Dayton, 0., where they built dams up stream for protection with vents in the dams to allow no more water to pass the dam than the channel cold pass without overflow, when they released the water by open vents, millions in power was lost that shey should have generated electric current that should have furnished light and power for many miles in all directions. Proper thoughts on flood control mean considering all that has been done from the delta of the Mississippi to the beginning springs of its tributaries. The swamps are all drained by ditching, streams are straightened, ponds are drained and farms tiled to hurry the water off the land in a great wave to the sea in a great uncontrollable torrent. I naturally feel most interested in controlling floods on the Wabash and White rivers. A few dams could be built on the smaller tributaries at points where the resulting reservoirs will hold all the rainfall upstream for a whole year, saving the enormous present waste of great power to generate electric current to furnish lights and power for the people and keep the big overflows

AIR is most necessary of all substances upon which you depena for lifeYou can live about forty days without food and about four days without water, but only about four minutes without air. Air is a mixture of about 21 per cent oxygen, 78 per cent nitrogen, and fractions of 1 per cent of a lot of other gases. Some of these get into the air by contaminations from men and from industry and others from the mere presence of any living matter. Air in our large cities also contains particles of dust and bacteria of various kinds. You may be able to live in bad air for a long time, but if you value your health you should be surrounded as much of the time as possible by good air of the best quality. The air about us is used first for breathing and second as a partial control of our body temperature. It is the surrounding blanket of air that keeps your body temperature at about 98.6 degrees. The temperature may be raised by changing the character of the air in which we live. <ft.ll air contains a certain amount of" moisture. This moisture in-

FOR the first time in history we have an individual instead of just a wife and hostess in the White House. I think the fact is significant and it is interesting to speculate upon the effect it will have upon the character of American women. My guess is that it will be tremendous and far-reaching. The custom during the past has been to speak enthusiastically even reverently of the First Lady’s social graces. She was always a fine draw-ing-room property and never less than a paragon of a wife. In every case, according to reports, she furnished the morale for the administration and kept diplomatic relations on a sound basis by her tact with place cards. She was not exactly a power behind a throne;

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Air Is Real Substance of Life

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Release Deposits By John B. Reed. Mr. Hewes’ suggestion of releasing savings in building and loan associations is one of the best means of business recovery. Give the people their own savings and they will put the necessary money in circulation. The biggest force, though, is for release of the appraised assets of the closed banks and give depositors their own savings, and that will be all the inflation the country needs. Thr ; people, as a rule, do not ask for loans, doles, poor relief or bond issues to get money into circulation. Bonds do not pay wages, buy food or clothing, but rest quietly, drawing interest, and when sold the money is loaned at another interest burden. Forget bonds and get busy releasing building and loan and bank deposits and good times will not be around the corner, but right here. That is my suggestion to the NIRA. in the main channel all the way to the Ohio river. The appropriation now asked for to build levees for only local benefit would go a long way toward making reservoirs for the benefit of all and forever set aside the need for levees. As reservoirs are built on the tributaries, the flood menace on all streams lessens until the main channels would carry all of the flood water not reserved in the reservoirs to the sea, with no need whatever for the levees, and more, the people in the lowlands could bring their lands up to a proper state of cultivation, the water power gained soon

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hytreia. the Health Magazine.

creases with the temperature. Therefore, humidity is measured as relative humidity, which is the amount of moisture in the air compared with the amount that the air could hold if it were saturated. Persons who are in a poorly ventilated room do not feel as well as those in a room properly ventilated. They are likely to be dull, tired, sometimes irritable, and on other occasions weak and faint. As the supply of good air is cut down, you become uncomfortable and disturbed. Air may, of course, become so bad by the crowding of a large number of persons in a very small space, without any ventilation, that eventually some of them will die. The bad effects of bad air are due to the high temperature, the high relative humidity, and the lack of motion. The change of any one of these factors may influence the air favorably or unfavorably. If the temperature is lowered, the humidity naturally will increase in relationship to the temperature and when the humidity is high, the

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

she was a goddess behind the White House portals. Asa public figure she represented to us those lovely words, “Mother, Home and Heaven,” while she also functioned as a glorified Emily Post for the party. a a a r T''HEN along came Eleanor. And somehow these former qualities seem rather tawdry beside her intense humanness. With one magnificent gesture she sweeps aside the conventions of a century and good riddance of bad rubbish it is! The American aristocrat becomes the chief feminine Democrat of her age, and for the first time the bourgeois woman feels that Washington is her capital. When Mrs. Roosevelt.jnoved into the White House she moved some-,

would pay for the outlay. The power gained by the reservoir system would be worth more every year than all our oil and gas was worth while it lasted. Will we continue to waste all the people’s money on local expenditures, or will we spend all the people’s money for the good of all the people? By C. D. B. I am writing this hoping that it will be noticed by members of the Community Fund and public in general. Saturday, there was no sugar in the store room of the Central Housing Foundation. The question arises—why? You can’t say that the men waste sugar, because it is issued to each one a tablespoon to the oats, and the same amount in his coffee once a day. Now is it the fault of the buyer that suger runs short, or do you save it for the “privileged characters” of which yc i have quite a number? On Sept. 25, members of Women’s Crusade visited the above-named agency to study social work and luncheon was served consisting of roast bets, brown gravy, brown potatoes, carrot and cabbage salad, chocolate pudding and coffee, and it was said to the press that the meal cost them 5 cents and the homeless men get the same type of meal free. Our menu for that day and date consisted of plain boiled macaroni, half boiled potatoes, an imitation (not very good at that) chocolate pudding and cold water. Why make those statements? Now it is possible that some of the men get better food than the others, “the select few.” One sure thing, ham never has been served at regular meal time. Now we are all here together, so why discriminate in the matter of food?

evaporation of perspiration is stopped. When the air is in motion, it tends to evaporate water from the surface of the body more rapidly than when not in motion, and so produces a cooling effect. The best temperature of air in a room is from 65 to 68 degrees, with sufficient water vapor in the air to show a relative humidity of from 30 to 60 per cent. Old persons and invalids usually require a higher temperature for comfort, because their bodies produce less heat than do the bodies of younger persons. It is particularly important that the ventilation be good while you sleep. Sleep occupies, or should occupy, approximately one-third of all your time. Therefore, good ventilation during the hours of sleep takes the place of bad ventilation which is most likely during hours of work or indoor amusements. During sleep, you can control the temperature of your body by suitable covering and thus permit room temperature to be somewhat lower than is permissible during the day. Under modern working conditions, it is difficult, because of the different types of clothing worn by men and women, to keep working places suitably ventilated for all.

thing more than a President’s wife. She established in that famed spot a living, vital feminine personality, a personality that means to the obscure women of the nation far more than the elegant grand dames so beloved of our tea-drinking dowagers. The pulsing of Eleanor Roosevelt’s enthusiasms for real life rather than social sham is felt in the farthermos! hamlets of the land. Business as usual is her motto and her business is concerned with doing, serving and living. The President is her husband, but the individual that is Eleanor Roosevelt stands proudly upon her own two ffeet. Her family is the miLtitude that dwells within the boundaries oX the United States, her home.

.OCT. 25, 1933

It Seems to Me —BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. Oct. 25.—“1 should think.” said a newspaper friend of mine, “that you ought to be right in the middle of this fight for the freedom of the press. I always thought that was & subject right down your alley, but I find you doing a column in which you say the whole thing is stuff and nonsense.” Possibly I expressed myself with sufficient clarity. I have not been converted to the belief that free speech and free press are bourgeois sentimentalities which should be swept away by either little pigs or any large and evil wolf. But decidedly I do question the sincerity of many of the publishers when they raise the cry of “freedom of the press” as a smoke screen behind which they hope to sabotage NRA. If vital stakes were not at issue the present situation would have its comic aspects. For instance, it is a little startling to find the New York Herald Tribune and the Daily Worker standing shoulder to shoulder in their opposition to General Johnson and his blue eagle. u a a Eagle Beset by Rocs IT would be foolish to deny that at this moment the national recovery act stands in grave danger. But if it is curtailed or killed the really fatal blows will not be struck by the small radical groups but by the large, powerful and articulate conservative agencies. “Concerning the licensing phase in the act I am willing to admit that there is some possibility of debate as to the question of whether or not the freedom of the press has been put in danger. I wijl go further and say that I know a few publishers who are questioning this part of the act with high motivation and entire sincerity. But it may be pointed out that the provision which empowers the President of the United States to revoke a license expires on June 16, 1934. Congress will have to pass on it again at that time. As an immediate issue it is certainly preposterous to assume that Franklin D. Roosevelt would in these few months give the slightest cause for a congressional revolt at such an early date. an m It Has Been Done AS a matter of fact, if any administration wanted to go Fascist and censor the press it could do so in any number of ways far more simple than the use of the licensing provision in NRA. Mark Sullivan in a well considered article upon the question admits that the subject is more fancied than real. He attributes the nervousness of those publishers who are sincerely worried about the freedom of the press to the recent instances of suppression on the part of Adolf Hitler in Germany. But it is hardly necessary for newspaper owners to look across the waters to find instances of abridgment of the freedom of the press. During the years of the war many editors and owners who are now weeping salty tears about tha possibility of censorship accepted, fomented and carried on all sorts of news suppression in order, as they explained, “to win the war.” And even after victory was achieved it was a very minor portion of the press which made any fight at all to remove immediately the penalties set down for sedition. Within the last few days Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune made a long learned and passionate address on the subject of the freedom of the press. During the course of his remarks it leaked out that the Colonel was just about ready to live and die for this principle. And yet the Chicago Tribune under Colonel McCormick’s editorial direction has frequently called a campaign to end radical thought and expression in America. I do not think I am overstating the matter when I assert that some of the gentlemen most vociferous in their denunciation of NRA as a threat to a free press would welcome with extreme eagerness and applause penalties visited upon Communist publications. I have found a very small amount of true Voltaireanism among the spokesmen of the publishers. an m Spread Out a Little Thin NOR has the somewhat overstaged agony of fear about suppression been confined wholly to the licensing system. A few gentlemen have been frank enough to say that when they speak of “freedom of the press” they really mean the open shop. Although I am wholly for the closed shop, I am not sufficiently dogmatic to declare that there is no possibility of debate upon the issue. I merely say it does not iri any way touch the question of free press. Both A. F. of L. trade unions and newspaper writers' guilds have gone on record to testify their determination not only to keep but to make a free press in the United States. I see no reason to accept the contention that the publishers constitute the only group which really means it. (CoDVrieht. 1933. bv The Times)

Sixth Birthday

BY FRANCIS H. IXSLEY Where deep in scattered flowers she stands. And chides my more deliberate going She is nearer far to beauty growing Than the fairest queen of foreign lands. The shining blooms are like golden sands, And a shaft of sunlit fire is glowing Where deep in scattered flowers she stands And chides my more deliberate going. Her voice is laughter as she demands That the very wind for her be blowing. She dreams a dream long past my knowing And gathers blossoms with both hands Where deep in scattered flower* she stands.