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_ THURSDAY, OCT. 26. 1933. GIVE HIM A CHANCE r T"'HE very day on which the President took his first step toward a managed currency was chosen by Senator Thomas and his disciples to demand of the President Immediate currency Inflation. When the President first announced hls gold purchase plan the senator was inclined to give this plan a trial before pushing the direct currency inflation panacea. But within a few hours the senator had flopped back to his extremist position. We are not prepared to say that this country never will come to direct currency inflation. Indeed, if other methods fail, It now seems probable that the administration with the support of the nation will go on to that dangerous expedient as a last resort. Asa last resort it would be Justified, In our judgment. But—currency inflation or no currency Inflation—it would be unwise to intrust the fate of this country to dogmatists with a panacea type of mind who see the solution of our vastly complex economic problems solely in terms of currency. The President la on much firmer ground because he sees the monetary difficulty as part of the larger problem—a needed financial reform to be co-ordinated with industrial and other reforms, all of which combined may produce recovery on a permanent basis. For the currency inflationist, or any one else, to say that the President’s monetary policy Is inadequate before it has been tried Is not only unfair but unintelligent. Although the President was not altogether clear in explaining the new policy, he was specific on two points. One is his intention to protect the dollar from undue foreign influences and control. The other is his intention to raise domestic price levels. As to the first point, there seems to be general agreement that the Roosevelt policy has a good chance of success. As to the second point, the Initial result has been to raise domestic prices. Whether that result is only temporary remains to be seen. Obviously, however, the success or failure of the Roosevelt gold purchase method in raising and maintaining commodity price levels will depend, in part, upon the skill of the administration and, in part, upon economic conditions not now predictable. Under the circumstances serious economists and responsible financial experts are watching the experiment with open minds. They are not condemning it; neither are they guaranteeing 100 per cent success. The task is to find our way step by step In this monetary matter, Just as we are finding our way step by step on the farm and industrial front. It is the great virtue of President Roosevelt in his monetary policy, as in hls other policies, he is making progress with an open mind. He Is moving. The least the currency inflation extremists can do Is to give him a chance. ON THE WAY 'T'HE time has Just about come when it Is -*■ possible to survey the whole field of recent government endeavor and get a line on the direction in which we are heading. And while such survey reveals a good deal of progress toward entirely new fields, it contains very little to delight the radical or to frighten the conservative. The various acts taken at Washington begin to drop into place, now, and their interrelationship begins to be clear. Let’s have . a look at some of them. A rigid scheme of production control and price adjustment In the great oil industry is getting under way. Production control is being exercised in a broad, sweeping way over agricultural commodities. The cotton textile industry voluntarily has given to the NRA power to veto the installation of additional productive machinery' in any unit of the business. Senator Robert F. Wagner, chairman of the National Labor Board, has served notice that NRA penalties can be used to enforce the board's decisions in industrial disputes, and he adds that the conduct of both business and labor “now is a matter of public interest." The Federal Trade Commission is beginning to investigate the salaries of executives and directors In practically every big corporation which does an interstate business. Lump all these things together and add them to such plans as the Muscle Shoals scheme, the federal housing plan, the “sub- . farms" program of Interior Secretary -Harold Ickes, and similar ventures, and what do you get? You get a coherent, definite and .spirited advance toward that glittering abstraction. a planned society. Now a planned society is anew thing under the sun. on this side of the Atlantic. Yet the form which this plan is taking is not in the least frightening. It certainly is not Socialism: it certainly is not Fascism; it seems to be. in fact, anew and distinctively American effort to solve a problem which has driven many other nations to dictatorship. If it works, it will be a great achigvement. If it fails, it will leave us in a good position to try something else. — A HOME-COMING npHERE was something rather “homey** appealing about the way in which the little town of Meeker, Okla.. extended its home-coming greetings to Carl Hubbell, hero of the world series. Hubbell, it seems, drove in at night, unnoticed, and parked on the main stem by the comer drug store. In a few minutes the folks knew that he was back, and most of thq town's 362 inhabitants strolled around to aha>™

hls hand and ask him about tile world series. Then, next day, they had a celebration, climaxed by a ball game, in which New York's doughty southpaw took pert. And all of this, somehow, had a delightfully American flavor. The return of the home town hero, the handshaking, the celebration, and the ball game—for some reason or other, it’s all very' good to read about. APPEAL TO UTILITIES NO more restrained and reasonable statement of the aims of the Tennessee Valley Authority has been given than that of Director David E. Lilienthal, speaking before the Rotary Club at Memphis. Assailed on all sides by unfriendly interests, facing the new national movement to organize public utility securities holders to fight this great experiment of the Roosevelt new deal, Director Lilienthal stated his case with admirable clarity. “The Authority,’’ he said, “Is not engaged in a punitive expedition against the utilities. The Authority, is an instrument of the people of the United States. It is charged with the duty of carrying out a national power policy, and the safeguarding of the public interest in the country’s greatest resource. This policy has not been formulated over night. It Is not a mere political accident. The power program of the Authority is an integral part of a larger policy for the economic development of the United States. The duty of the Authority Is to carry out that policy. But in carrying It out, the Authority Is determined to bring the least possible injury to actual investments in useful property.” What is his means of working with the private power interests? Mr. Liiienthal’s answer is this: “The Authority is ready to sit down with the leaders In the electrical industry and discuss their respective problems as business men, and as men who above all other considerations are loyal to their government and to their President at a time of grave crisis.” No hot words here. The simple, understandable statement that the Authority is prepared to bring the least possible injury to actual investments in useful property of private power concerns. The way now is open for these power Interests—who might just as well understand that the TWA Is here to stay and carry on its power experiment—to sit down with the officials of the Authority and work out a program that will not hamper the government, and at the same time do the least possible injury to power stockholders. “I appeal to the electrical industry,” said Mr. Lilienthal, "on behalf of the investors to whom it is responsible, to show a measure of business leadership which will make the country forget the disgrace which w r as cast on the Industry' during the past decade.” The next move Is up to the private power industry. RACKETS AND LABOR '■pHE NRA gives organized labor the finest “break” in labor history. The federal government has taken It upon Itself to deal with the bulldozing and avaricious pirates among the employers who refuse to square their policies with the modem economic perspective and to concede the right of collective bargaining. This would be the best of all times for labor to move of its own accord to get rid of the racketeers, crooks, thugs and gangsters who have wormed themselves into high positions in the labor world and have done so much to weaken and discredit the union movement. This important subject is dealt with completely and graphically by Harold Seidman in the Nation. As he puts it: “A Tammany sachem could not do a more thorough job than the labor bosses who reign supreme by means of gangsters, graft, machine-made constitutions, and judiciously distributed patronage. Under the leadership of these unscrupulous officials, both local and international, every known type of racketeering flourishes.” The conduct of these crooks who make headway in labor circles and falsely pose as labor leaders is almost incredible to those unfamiliar with recent labor history. At a time when there is vast unemployment, when wage cuts have been all but universal and when the income of labor has been reduced to less than half of what it was in 1929, these grafters are able to extort huge salaries. The president of one local union in Nevr York City received $21,800 a year. This same man also received “gifts” over a period of five years which amounted to SII,OOO a year on the average. These racketeering labor bosses often have irresponsible control over large funds. The members of a New York local sued its officials for the return of no less than $7,500,000 in union funds which the officials were accused of having split among themselves. Heavy dues are assessed against members of the union to conduct legal battles in behalf of the racketeer bosses and their gangster henchmen. One local union had to raise in this way some $25,000 to hire probably the most expensive criminal lawyer in the United States to defend its grafting and treasonable boss. Racketeering pure and undeflled often is resorted to. The members of the union are compelled to pay large sums for “protection,” in the same way that laundrymen, clothes cleaners and others have paid protection money to Chicago racketeers. Employers are held up. They are threatened with strikes if they do not “cough up,” and are promised freedom from labor troubles if they come through with the payments requested. But oppressive and huge financial graft is not the worst aspect of this labor racketeering. These fake labor leader* sell out flagrantly and betray the labor cause at every turn. While exacting large sums from their labor following, they enter into agreements with employers to help the latter resist unionization. They promise the latter not to make any further efforts to unionize their own industry. Not infrequently these crooks themselves own and operate non-union industries on the side. In one case a racketeering labor czar who was running an open-shop plant of his own tried to deliver goods to premises which were being picketed by members of the union he was supposed to lead. Treasonable strikebreaking at the behest of employers is a commonplace activity of the bogus labor officials. One would think that such flagrant be6trayal of labor union Interests soon would Had

honest unionists to throw their racketeering leaders out of the organization. But this is extremely difficult. The best Jobs are given to the friends of the racketeers to gain and hold their loyalty. Critics are attacked as “anti-union,” and if they persist they are suspended from the union. Hired thugs beat up those who criticise the crooked czars at labor meetings. In case a local does purge Itself of corrupt leadership, it Is as likely as not that the purified local will be declared irregular by the higher authorities in the union hierarchy. Anew and “regular” local will be formed with the old gang back in control. Further, the labor crooks are, like other racketeers, firmly intrenched with the political bosses. Union labor and collective bargaining may be regarded correctly as an inevitable and desirable item in modern economic life. But it is high time that the cause of labor should be freed from the incubus of the scoundrels who have even less loyalty to the cause of labor than have the moguls of the open-shop industries. We may, at the same time, note that if the day of the labor racketeer should come to a speedy end, it is also desirable that we should have no more of the one type who is even lower In the ranking of degenerates, namely, the labor spy employed by industrialists to foment trouble in union ranks. SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT /"\FFICIALS in charge of Yellowstone Park have a little bit of evidence to support the belief that prosperity is returning to the land. They found it in the roll of visitors to the park. For three consecutive years the number of visitors to Yellowstone declined. Until 1930, there had been a steady annual increase: for the next three years the trend was reversed, mirroring the general decline in business conditions. Now, however, things are looking up. So far this year, the number of visitors at Yellow'stone is 4,134 above the total for 1932, every state in the Union being represented. Yellow'stone Is one of the nation’s greatest playgrounds. If more people are taking advantage of it this year than last, it stands to reason that things are getting better. THE MARGOLD GAG TNTERIOR SECRETARY HAROLD ICKES* relations with the press are pleasant and forthright. He quickly realized the affroht to the press and the new deal in the order of Nathan Margold, interior department solicitor, which prohibited workers in two bureaus there from even talking with correspondents. It was, indeed, as the secretary said, “unhappily phrased.” That he intends to keep confidential information confidential and at the same time apply the “rule of reason” to this ridiculous order, is itself reasonable. But the “happy” situation will not be remedied until the order Is withdrawn. Science has succeeded in transmitting moonbeams by radio. But the moonshine still comes in jugs. While all this confusion about war and disarmament is going on, remember to keep your sense of rumor. Hitch-hiking has kept fingerwaving popular among young men, too. A mocking bird, It has been discovered, can change Its tune eighty-seven times in seven minutes. There’s a mark for some of our senators to beat. A man can get drunk on noise alone, says a western doctor. Especially the kind that goes “glug-glug-glug.” If Rudy Vallee stops that crooning, we’ll say his operation was successful. What this world needs is not a war to end war, but a peace that will end war.

M.E. Tracy Says:

A EUROPEAN war is not imminent, especially if the United States stands aloof. Germany is in no position to make war, while France would shrink from the responsibility of starting war over any issue thus far raised. > The assumption that Germany intends to rearm in spite of her treaty obligations is a bridge to be crossed when we get to it. Wise statesmen, not only here, but abroad, will confine themselves to realities. Nothing has happened except Germany’s withdrawal from the disarmament conference when her petition for “equality” was turned down. That leaves everybody exactly where everybody was before the conference opened. What Germany will do next is a matter of pure guesswork on our part. The chances are that Germany doesn’t know herself. She will hold an election, of course, the result of which is a foregone conclusion, but that proves little except Hitler’s hold on the German people. nan FRENCH critics already have prophesied the greatest armament race in all history, but who is going to do the racing? More pertinent, perhaps, who has been doing the racing for the last dozen years? According to the best information available, Europe is well armed; better armed, in fact, than it was when the World war broke out; but with Germany out of the picture. There has been no noticeable subsiding of the armament race outside of Germany, notwithstanding all the treaties, pacts and conferences. It strains the imagination to suppose that Germany won’t get going again if things keep on as they are, or that war could be averted very long if she did. That brings us to the crux of the problem, which is honest, genuine disarmament. a a a DISARMAMENT is what the allies promised when they wrote the treaty of Versailles and forced Germany to sign it. They have not kept their promise, as the men under arms, the newly constructed forts, the gas in storage, the war planes ready for flight and the enormous expenditures for military purposes plainly show. They have haggled and horsetraded. but without one substantial move for the general reduction of their fighting forces. Asa Russian delegate told his conferees several years ago, “the way to disarm is to disarm.” Conversation devoted to minor phases of the problem do not mean a thing. The size of guns is not very important as long as nations agree to use the same size and keep an adequate supply on hand. Great minds merely have experted themselves out of a sense of common honesty, with all this chatter about technicalities.

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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 a Veteran „ . S. M. seems terribly perturbed over the “immense” damage which the so-called drunken legionnaires inflicted upon Chicago during the national convention. Why are some people so eager to throw rocks at the American Legion boys at every opportunity? Are they not entitled to some fun once a year? They did the dirty w T ork fifteen years ago while a lot of the present day knockers were staying at home cheering. Could that enormous parade have been put on with such dispatch and precision by thousands of drunken brawlers? I have no authority on the immense damage done to the Chicago hotels, but will venture a guess that they, as well as other places of business, welcomed the estimate of better than $5,000,000 which the legionnaires spent. I was in Chicago from Sunday until Thursday, in the loop hotels a number of times, and can truthfully say I did not see a disorderly drunken legion man or a brawl. I happened to see, though, several young Chicago wise guys who were rather disorderly get escorted bodily from the Sherman. The Times may be guilty of biased new's reporting, if so S. M. is equally guilty of prejudice against the legion. By V. S. McClatchy. Roy Howard, head of the ScrippsHow'ard group of newsspapers, as quoted in Colliers, Oct. 21, accurately describes conditions in Japan and the psychology of the Japanese people. Public opinion there is dictated by the government, which means the military arm thereof. Here it is evolved from free discussion by press and people. The attitude of the Japanese people and the policy of the Japanese government toward the United States, he explains, are based on the belief that as a people we are weak and cowardly, and as a nation unwilling to fight and unprepared for war. He suggests therefore that our relations with Japan would be more pleasant and more satisfactory if we correct their misapprehension by building our navy up to treaty strength and otherwise

WHETHER you already have felt the exhilaration of travel by air or not, you can feel certain that your air trips in the future will be as safe, from a health viewpoint, as are your journeys by rail and steamship. Governments realize that travel by air has introduced new factors in the transmission of disease, and they are not slow’ in their investigations of how best to control this situation. Since speed is one of the reasons for traveling by airplane rather than by land or sea, it is highly desirable that the sanitary control so should be arranged as not to waste time. It also is necessary that airplanes alw'ays arrive and leave at certain ports where suitable facilities are available and w'here both passengers and plane may be under proper control. This is an exceedingly difficult matter to handle. It no doubt will be necessary to have very stringent law's, adequate police forces and respectable penalties to bring about compliance with regulations and thereby suitable control of airplane traffic.

IF the turmoil of the present left us any capacity for introspection, we surely would find ourselves feeling sorry for the Republicans. Never was there a more woeful, hapless-appearing lot. G. O. P. has come to stand for Gaunt Old Party. You can almost hear the Elephant's bones rattling. The proud Old Guard has dwindled to a handful of limping veterans whose swords are tarnished and whose platforms have crumbled. They just wouldn’t listen to their mamas, and look at them now! Under the leadership of the President, the Democrats, if they continue to use good sense, will acquire, perhaps perraanently, the bulk of the woman vote in the United

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More About Cops By Another Taxpayer. In answer to “By just a taxpayer,” you are just another one who is always knocking the police. If they would get a word of praise once in a while, they would know their work is appreciated. But if one is in trouble or wants a favor, a policeman is the first one he will call upon. ' You say you pay for a real police force. Well, you have one, and police don’t ask for public sympathy, They deserve it for they are human. They are in all kinds of w'eather, risking their lives every day for you and yours. When this administration took charge, the first thing they did w r as to cut the police and firemen 15 to 25 per cent. There are not four or five policemen on duty where there are electric signals—just two during the busiest hours. If they were not there, I’ll bet if you should have an accident on one of those corners, you would be the first to make one of the biggest hollers ever made. If you will read the article “Good police work,” in The Times, Oct. 20, you will see that there are some who appreciate our police force. I agree with Theodore Hewes on every word in that article. demonstrating our ability to protect ourselves in case of necessity. In that suggestion Mr. Howard undoubtedly will be supported determinedly by the mass of the American people. However, they can not fail to marvel that a man who expresses himself so clearly and forcibly in this matter suggests also that, as a gesture of good will, we open the immigration gates to Japanese under quota. If Mr. Howard were to make a study of the immigration problem as thorough as was his investigation of conditions and psychology in Japan he would become convinced that to concede Japan’s demand in the immigration question would add confirmation to her belief in our weakness and fear. It would furnish encouragement for an early demand for still further concessions toward her frankly proclaimed goal of “facial equality”— full rights for her nationals in connection with immigration, citizenship, land ownership, etc. If this proposed concession from Japan is to be made it should be done at least with full recognition of the cost.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal ot the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine.

The problem is not so difficult now as it will be in the future. For the present, the cost of travel by airplane is such that the passengers involved usually are of a fairly well-to-do type who are likely to be clean and well and civilized. However, there is nothing to prevent even the cleanest people from traveling from an area in South America or Africa, in which yellow fever or plague may exist, into such countries as the European nations and the United States. It will be necessary always to have proper surveillance of such passengers, both at the port of departure and at the port of arrival. It has been suggested that health officers in communities in which such passengers arrive keep records of the passengers until the time when the incubation period for the serious epidemic disease is passed. It is taken for granted that there will be suitable inspection of the

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

States. If we are only reasonably grateful, they should have our loyalty. During his eleven months in office Mr. Roosevelt has given more recognition to women than the opposition gave in seven times seven years. a a a OF all their many mistakes of judgment this one will prove most costly for the Republicans. They gained a reputation for altruism by championing the rights of the Negro, but it remained for the woman's suffrage amendment to be written into the Constitution during a Democratic administration, and for another Democratic President to give It vital meaning. The Republicans were long on

your right to say it.—Voltaire =-

By J. L. H. Bravo, William Andrews! I, too, think that it is about time the populace of this city awoke to the fact that one of the chief reasons our taxes are where they are is that a huge percentage of the people now gainfully employed here live outside of the corporation limits. Yes, even out of Marion county. The manufacturers rather would employ them for they can be obtained at a lower wage scale. They can live on it, too, that is the joke. Their rent is lower and taxes are nothing like what we who live in the city pay. Where is the so-called taxpayers’ league?- Why don’t they use this as a means to obtain lower taxes? These people should be asked to move back into the city or pay for the privilege of working here. I do not believe it would be unconstitutional for the city council to pass such an ordinance. Levy a 10 per cent tax on their weekly pay check and watch them move back to town. It would not only mean the empty houses filled up but more home building to be done. Come on now, let’s hear from more people interested in a movement of this kind. Questions and Answers Q—Are there any Jews in Italy? A—Out of a population of 42,118,85 in Italy, 47,485 are Jews. Q—What kind of time is used in the Panama canal zone? A—Eastern standard. Q —Are pre-war Russian rubles of any value? A—No. Q—Where do ships get drinking water on long voyages? A—A ship’s fresh water supply is carried in tanks, or it often is evaporated from the salty sea water. Q—What is the difference between a double house and a duplex? A—A double house Is two separate houses attached to each other. A duplex house is one house divided into two apartments, up and down.

passenger before he gets on the plane and that all the usual rules regarding vaccinations against smallpox and typhoid fever will be observed. Health officials know already that rats and mosquitos get aboard airplanes, leaving infected areas. It now is well established that rats may convey plague and that mosquitos may spread yellow fever and malaria. Hence, it is necessary to subject planes traveling from infected tropical areas to thorough fumigation, preferably with some such substance a3 hydrocyanic gas, which completely destroys the rats and insectsA final problem for the airplanes from the point of view of sanitary control is the disposal of sewage en route. It is impossible to carry enough water for flushing purposes. Most airplanes, therefore, develop a system whereby sewage is dropped into closed tanks or cans containing disinfectants and this material is disposed of suitably by burning or by the usual disposal methods when the airplanes arrive at their terminals.

promises and short on action, although nobody knows better than they that nice words butter no bread, their rewards to feminine workers usually took the form of gallant speeches and bombastic compliments. Woman’s failure to take proper advantage of her political opportunities has furnished the critics with plenty of material for their scathing remarks. The facts have justified their position. In spite of this, however, only the most obtuse person can think that women will not be a tremendous force in all party campaigns in the future. And the gentlemen never should forget that we are not formed k by nature lor conservatives.

OCT. 26, 1933

It Seems j to Me —BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. Oct. 26.—1 feel a certain sympathy with the Nurmis. As I understand the cables from Finland, Paavo and his wife are about to part because their infant son has feet which seem too small for a potential distance runner. I hope that Mr. Nurmi has not forgotten the fact that in all probability they will grow larger. There has been a further commotion, I believe, because Paavo drew up a special diet for the child which is objectionable to both mother and son. When Nurmi was at the height of his fame in America he was reputed to live upon a diet of black bread and dried fish. Nurtured by such Spartan fare, he easily outdistanced other amateurs, who went for gou* lash on occasion. Yet. though I sympathize with Nurmi. I must side with the wife and child. I hope my heart is sufficiently flexible to bleed in several directions at the same time. I understand the innermost feelings of the mighty Paavo, and at the same time I am neither deaf nor blind to the fundamental justice of the smaller Finlander when he made his great decision and cried out to his athletic parent, “I say it’s herring, and I say to hell with it!” a a a It Simply Can't Be Dane THE Finnish phantom has stubbed his toe upon a false concept which has brought tragedy into the lives of many other fathers. He has labored under the delusion that it is ever possible for the individual to survive precisely and exactly through progeny. After all, there is alw'ays the fact of a counterclaim. No son can be his father down to the last detail, since the complication and confusion of motherhood also come into the equation. Painters who make the decision that Junior shall pick up the palette and carry on the paternal tradition are doomed to disappointment. As like as not the young one won’t want to be a painter at all. And that may be the better way. Far sharper than any serpent’s tooth is the anguish of an Academician who raises up an offspring to paint nudes descending staircases. Once upon a time I knew a columnist who had a son, and when the lad w as 2or 3 the father said, “I hope that he’ll grow' up to be a newspaper columnist.” a a a The Boy Grew Older 'T'HE boy grew older, and this columnist whom I knew waxed ancient and more ancient. Naturally, he died several years ago. At least, that was the rumor. But before he passed beyond life and by-lines he called his son tc his side one day and said, “Wilbur, I’m not the man I used to be.” The lad agreed with this statement a little more readily than hia father might have wished. However, there was nothing for the old gentleman to do except to go on in the same mood which had been established. “I m not very much longer for this w'orld or even the newspaper business,” said the parent. “Os late I’ve been pasting up too many of my old columns. People are beginning to notice It.” I think those are your best ones, Arthur,” answered Wilbur, with rather more filial devotion than tact. “That’s as may be” said the ancient columnist, “but here’s where you come in. I want you to write the column. I don’t mean ghostwrite it, you understand. You’re to sign your own name and collect the P a y>. * ess 20 per cent commission. I think the column needs new ideas and a fresher point of view than I can muster.” The lad made no answer. “Well?’* said the old man. “Well?” Father, I can’t lie to you. I wouldn’t be caught dead being a columnist.” , What on earth do you want to be, Wilbur?” have a chance to team up with a college friend in bootlegging applejack in Newark and Jersey * * Only a Minor Tragedy A ND, as a matter of fact, the boy Z did that and made quite f g ° of “ up t 0 the time he went to Atlanta. The old man told me the story with tears in his eyes. I assured him that the situation might have been much more tragic. You see, it’s distinctly possible if Wilbur had turned out to be a terrible columnist that would have saddened his father, and if Wilbur was a whirlwind that might have been even more annoying. The same thing should be said to Paavo Nurmi. Long-distance runners and columnists have something in common. One is enough in any family. (Copyright. 1933. by The Time*)

Hours

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK So much have I loved hours with you: Young virgin dawns rising from the sea of night, Garbed in vestal robes of gold and rose With souls immaculate and whit®. And I have loved high noons spent together Clothed in robes of hot desire, With a blue sky, scorching overhead; Life a consuming quenchless fir®. And I have loved the drip of afternoon’s slow gold Spent on the crest of a steep brown hill. Watching far below the calm, blu* lake A turquoise, motionless and still. And I have loved the violet peac® of dusk; My hand in yours; beauty a sharp knife Carving out my heart with purple color, Etching a promise of esctatic life. And I have loved nights too beautiful to bear When love was solely ours t make or mar. When we found God putting out lips together: And all eternity—clutching fog a star!