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SATURDAY. NOV 18. 1833. AMERICA AND RUSSIA "D ECOGNITION of Russia will be only a oneday sensation for the public—perhaps not even that. For several months the public has known that diplomatic recognition was inevitable. American public opinion and world events moved more rapidly than the American government. Therefore, the actual event was pretty well discounted in advance. There are very few surprises in the exchange of official documents by which normal relations are resumed. The pledge which Russia now gives to refrain from propaganda here is the same pledge she has been willing to give for several years. Russia obviously is sincere in this because she is intelligent enough to know that the only effective Russian propaganda abroad—for good or ill—is the success or failure of her economic experiment at home. Just as American mechanical technique has been taken over in part by Russia, so Russia’s experience in economic planning has influenced to some degree American planning. This is as it should be. We learn, as individuals an dnations, not only from our own experience but also from the failures and sucesses of others. As for propaganda in the generally accepted sense, the two governments properly have agreed to refrain from interference. Those few Americans who still are under the misapprehension that Russia has been subsidizing supversive propaganda in this country doubtless will consider this an important diplomatic victory for us. But the fact seems to be that there are more Americans who still are trying to overthrow the Soviet government than Russians who are attempting to destroy the United States government. So Russia gains more from this mutual agreement than the United States. Under this agreement the United States can not aid military intervention against the Soviets as we once did; nor can the United States government longer permit anti-Russian plotting in this country. The guarantees given by Russia for religious freedom and legal justice to Americans in Russia are not new. Such rights of aliens long have been protected by Russian laws or treaties. The agreement, of course, does not pertain in any way to religious, legal or other rights of Russian citizens in Russia—any more that to the rights of Americans in America. What Russia does at home is her own affair; and that is reciprocal. Again there is no surprise that the claims and counter-claims (except from United States intervention in Siberia to prevent foreign partitioning of Russia) are left for settlement after recognition. That is the only way such matters can be handled. It has been our experience with Great Britain, Mexico and other nations that joint commissions often require many years to negotiate just settlement of claims. So the public will not be shocked by the resumption of normal Russian-American relations which it has long expected. But this event will be much more than a one-day story in the foreign offices of the world. Diplomatic experts and foreign governments will read not only the words of these obvious agreements; they will read between the lines. They are concerned with the larger significance of this event. This is proper. Its significance in world affairs is tremendous. In this world-wide crisis, two things are supremely important to every government and its people. One is trade. The other is war or peace. And this American-Russian event is more important in terms of world trade and world peace than anything which has happened in a long time. For this rapprochement means much more than mere diplomatic recognition. It means more than orders and credits, so important in building the new Russia and in aiding us to climb out of depression. It means far-reaching economic and diplomatic co-operation. In the two-sentence letter in which the President extends recognition, and in the two-sentence Litvinoff reply, there is repeated this significant hope; “That our nations may henceforth cooperate for their mutual benefit and for the preservation of the peace of the world." These are more than convention words. They are uttered solemnly by the world's two strongest republics at a crucial moment in history when disarmament is blocked and when peace is threatened in Europe and the far east. Russia and the United States have worked harder for disarmament and for peace than any other powers. Henceforth these two great friendly powers will work together for peace. Whether their co-operative efforts will be sufficient to preserve peace in the far east and elsewhere, against the forces of war. rests with the future. It is our prayer that they will not faiL THE MAN FOR THE PLACE WILLIAM C. BULLITT is obviously an inspired choice as this country's first ambassador to Russia after our sixteen years of diplomatic separation. During most of those years Mr. Bullitt has given time and effort toward the restoration of normal relations. No person/ has done more, if any has done as much, to end the -needless estrangement. No American understands Russia better and none is more capable of making America understood in Russia. .

DRY LAW CONVICTS that repeal is Just around the corner the question arises, what shall the federal government and the states do with their thousands of dry law violators serving time as felons? Obviously, none expects a general jail delivery on Dec. 5. In federal penitentiaries and jails there are some 4,000 dry-law violators, or nearly a third of the total. A general amnesty, such as some have suggested, would be highly dangerous to society. Each case should be treated separately and on its merits. It might be a safe course to pardon first offenders and those of a noncriminal type. As for those guilty of repeated violations, racketeering or similar offenses the usual course should be followed. For many the generous use of the parole of those inside and probation for those under sentence probably will be justified. In those “unwalled prisons” the federal government already has 3,500 on parole and 30.000 on probation. Liquor crimes will not halt miraculously with the coming of repeal. The prohibition crime school has its thousands of alumni in and out of Jail. Many will seek to peddle liquor to avoid the tax. Others will operate blind pigs to save paying license fees. Others will turn to moonshining, dope peddling and similar trades. The President, Governors and prison authorities. who must separate the sheep from the goats, will avoid injustice if they use intelligence, sympathy and the principles of scientific penology. CHURCHES AND NEW DEAL 'T'HERE is much gratifying evidence that .the Christian churches are bestowing more attention upon the life of man here on earth. The injustices, barbarities and oppressions of old-line capitalism have aroused Christian leaders to active protest. The Catholics were recently in session on matters of charity and social work in New York City. They uttered numerous and cogent warnings that capitalism mus*t adjust itself to decency and fair dealing and outlined what they believed to be the essentials of a program of social justice. Now the most powerful organization of Protestants, the Federal Council of Churches, has issued through its president, Dr. Albert W. Beaven,-a hearty commendation of the national recovery program. According to this statement, the government now is endeavoring to establish, on grounds of economic stability and progress, the principle of a wider spread of purchasing power which the churches have been advocating on spiritual and humanitarian grounds. The manifesto of the federal council singles out a number of the leading features of the recovery program which particularly elicit its enthusiasm. First, it congratulates the administration for its abolition of child labor: “Nothing is more contrary to the social Ideals of Christianity than child labor. We are witnessing a reinforcement of the humanitarian crusade against this evil by enlightened business judgment and practical statesmanship. The abolition of child laborone of the articles of our social ideals—is implicit in the recovery program and explicit in some of the codes already approved.” Next, it heartily approves the long-fought-for right of labor to organize and carry on collective bargaining: “In our social ideals we have, from the beginning. asserted the right of both employers and workers to organize. We, therefore, most heartily approve the effort of the national government to give anew charter to labor, guaranteeing the principle for which we have thus long contended—the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.” Passing from specific achievements to general principles, the council praises the efforts to raise the ethics of American business above that of black-jacking and the gambling casino: “In the large, the recovery program calls for anew kind of ethical functioning on the part of various groups in the economic order. It calls upon business and industrial units to formulate codes of practice and to become responsible for their operation under public sanction and supervision. This involves the discovery of common interests among economic groups and the adoption of co-operative methods.” Much cause for gratification also is found in the proclivity of the recovery program to sanction free experimentation and bold exploration. as well as to build a more co-opera-tive commonwealth: “Throughout the recovery program and the utterances of its sponsors runs a note of experimentation, of exploration in new political and economic fields. It is not to be supposed that a flawless program could be developed quickly in a time of great stress and anxiety. . . . But, whatever its inevitable weaknesses, the national recovery program implies the practicability of more co-operative economic order, socially controlled for the common good, and a willingness to relinquish special privileges and power. We urge our people to give full recognition to the social and spiritual implications of the national recovery program and to co-operate in the attainment of the high ends toward which it is directed.” This ringing defense of the recovery program by the churches is commendable, but it carries with it the same practical responsibilities as are involved in the execution of the recovery act itself. The council will need to stand solidly behind individual ministers who have the courage to repeat these sentiments before congregations whose most powerful members may be doing their best to chisel around or defeat the recovery program. A NEW TYPE NEEDED O PEAKING of the false prophets of Wall Street shown up by the senate investigating committee. Agriculture Secretary Wallace told the farmers of the middle west something that will stand much repeating: “Many of these men have posed as public oracles, giving interviews, making speeches, and writing for the public press. I trust the influence of that kind of man in public life has gone forever. We do not want their leadership in either national or international planning. We need anew type of business man who is willing to help in working out the national or international plans, whichever they may prove to be and who is then willing to devote all his talents to bringing about a fair, workable re-

lationship between the income of labor, the income of agriculture, and at the same time receive for his services only a small return on capital and a modest salary. “If the new deal means anything, it means the subordination of capital rights and property rights to human rights.” GREAT ADVENTURE. A MERICAN history holds no mystery deeper than the one which surrounds the activities of white men in America before the arrival of Columbus. It is established clearly by now that certain Viking explorers did get to the North American continent a century or more ahead of Columbus. They slid down the coast of Nova Scotia as far as the Chesapeake, and in at least one spot they fought a deadly battle with Indians. They are also reported to have landed on the southern shore of Hudson’s Bay, and there is a partly substantiated legend that an adventurous band went overland from there as far as Minnesota. All of this is called to mind by the report of two archeologists that the prehistoric copper mines of the upper peninsula of Michigan, worked by the mound builders countless centuries ago, also were worked by Vikings. The mound builders, whose civilization covered a large part of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, got their copper from Michigan. Then they vanished, and the roving Indian tribes who succeeded them seem to have been ignorant of the use of copper. But the archeologists now believe that bands of Vikings somehow got to the shore of Lake Superior and took ore from the mines which the mound builders had abandoned. The story is as fascinating a mystery as American history affords. Northern Michigan, in the pre-Columbian era, must have been about as far from white civilization as any spot on the planet. It was infinitely more remote than any spot on earth is now. Byrd, wintering within shouting distance of the south pole, will be far closer to his homeland than the copper-mining Vikings of upper Michigan were. How did they get there, anyway? What strange bit of restlessness, what urge to penetrate the depths of mystery and danger, led them so far into the wilderness? How far beyond Michigan did they wander? Is there any truth in the old story that the light-complexioned Mandam Indians really descended from some lost band of Norsemen? We probably never will get an answer to these questions. An impenetrable darkness has settled over that part of American history. But the mere thought of these sea wanderers in their eagle-winged caps digging copper ore from the pits along Lake Superior sets one’s imagination.working. There is an eerie fascination to the thought, inexpressibly romantic. There still are sl-a-year men in Washington, but if the dollar becomes much cheaper, they’ll soon want $2. Unusual report tells of Philadelphia woman poet who had enough money to become bankrupt. A “stop” and “go” light signal system is installed in the Danish legislature to keep representatives from talking too much. Trouble is, they’ll soon manage to become color blind. The real inventor of photography was Nicephore Niepce, but even Daguerre is so much easier to remember. Governor Pinchot has suggested so many for control of liquor sales in Pennsylvania that the people ought to get as much fun as ever out of evading the law.

i ■■ M.E. Tracy Says:

Dr. EDWIN W. KEMMERER of Princeton university thinks we should stabilize the dollar at about 66 cents and get back on the gold standard. Barring the specific amount, he is right. Continued fluctuation of the dollar, such as now is taking place, only can destroy that confidence without which recovery is impossible. It has been apparent for some time that a devalued dollar is necessary to relieve debtors. Recent experiences suggest that this can not be accomplished by trading in gold or manipulating foreign exchange. We have succeeded in getting the dollar down to 62 or 63 cents in European markets, but that means little to average Americans, as is plainly shown by the absence of favorable stock, price and wage reactions in this country. Dollars aren’t any easier for the average worker, merchant or manufacturer to get than they were before the R. F. C. began its shadow boxing. The demand for inflation grows apace, and if something isn’t done it will presently become irresistible. oatt I assume that the administration has sanctioned trading in gold as the most practical means by which to discover just where the dollar should be stabilized, but I doubt whether it has gained much enlightenment thus far. The fact that we can't buy very much gold, though we are offering $1 more for an ounce than London is willing to pay indicates a dangerous lack of faith in our intentions. Europeans seem sold on the idea that the dollars are going lower. That and that alone offers the explanation of their reluctance to exchange gold for dollars. This reluctance will grow as the dollar sinks, which could have been foreseen by any student of human nature. Instead of discovering what the value of the dollar should be, we are getting a normal reaction of the speculative mind. That doesn’t help much, does it? Meanwhile, the lack of tangible benefit to our hard-pressed debtors and equally hard pressed industries is furnishing inflationists with a powerful argument. Why not cut out the joshing, they say, and give us paper money? Isn’t the government's promise to pay just as good on a treasury note as on a bond? a a a IT sounds plausible, but the government must sell a bond before its promise to pay means anything, and that represents an effective check on the amount of bonds that can be issued. When it comes to paper money, however, no such check exists. That is why sensible people dread to see the printing press start. The cry for inflation is rooted in high-priced, unstable dollars, dollars that call for too much labor and too much merchandise, dollars that increase the burden of every debtor, whether large or small, dollars that have become playthings of the gambling world. Such a situation calls for action, even if we don't know the exact point at which to begin. The possibility of stabilizing the dollar a cent too high or a cent too low is of little consequence compared to the obvious danger we run in not stabilizing it>

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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 2JO words or less.) By a Walkathon Fan I read an article in your paper about slaps at the Walkathon. I don’t think much of the person who wrote it. In my estimation, it reminds me of some “busybody” who always is finding fault with something. If he or she doesn’t care for that sort of entertainment, or doesn’t like the way it’s managed, why don’t they keep away from it and not run off at the mouth? It wasn't pre-arranged for Tim Murphy to win the contest, as you will notice he has been eliminated from the contest. I don't know' why people should make statements of that sort w'hen they haven’t any proof. I think the Walkathon is a clean cut show and a straight shooter. So don’t come to the Walkathon if you are trying to find fault with it, as there are thousands who come there for entertainment. I dare you to print this. (Editor’s Note—Challenge duly noted and accepted.) By a Butler Mother Dr. Walter Scott Athearn having spent his life in the field of education, necessarily has established a reputation in the communities which he has served. It is inconceivable that a board of trustees of a religious college would fail to ascertain the nature of the reputation of a man whom they contemplated placing ih the president’s chair. Therefore, we take it for granted that the board of Butler university, insofar as it w r as capable of judging, found Dr. Athearn’s credentials entirely satisfactory. Dr. Athearn is an author of note, having written a number of books. His printed page speaks for itself. That these outstanding citizens who constitute the Butler board failed to acquaint themselves with Dr. Atheam’s literary work or to pass upon its merit, is unbelievable. Consequently, we take it that Dr. Athearn came into our midst be-

SERIOUS as the matter really is, you needn’t feel alarmed if you suddenly discover yourself bleeding from the throat or vomiting blood. Although this is one of the most severe symptoms that can affect a person, the conditions that cause the bleeding can be treated satisfactorily by physicians. But the important point is that the trouble be brought to the attention of your doctor immediately, so that it will receive proper treatment. Bleeding from the throat or vomiting of blood is associated, in most cases, with severe conditions in stomach or lungs. Among the common causes of this trouble is ulcers of the stomach. Such ulcers invade the walls of blood vessels. When the stomach fills with blood, the person who has the ulcer will vomit the blood to get rid of it. An ulcer of the stomach is diagnosed by the physician not only by the symptoms that are found, but

GIRLS are going back to the kitchen. Only nowadays it’s somebody else’s kitchen. Long overcrowded, business and the professions are unable to make room for all the young things who hope to enter them. There are more workers than industry can absorb, and with the depression as yet unconquered. opportunities for careers for girls grow fewer. Authorities agree that large numbers of young women who have trained themselves for special tasks must take refuge in domestic work in order to support themselves, and are in fact doing that very thing. To fit their dreams to the bitter realities of life, they must needs make a tremendous adjustment in their thinkKnsr. Their whole con-

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Loss of Blood Is Serious Matter

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—And He Paid for It!

Page Insult By J. R. Collins. The leading citizen who engineered the Butler-Fairview deal is the same gent who just now is engaged in putting over the Citizens Gas Company grab. In the gas grab we who are not stockholders will be compelled to pay back at par for depreciated gas stock, pay $500,000 yearly rental to this same leading citizen for seventy-two years for his holdings in Indianapolis gas stock; $500,000 on easy money borrowed from Uncle Sam, and $200,000 yearly for a municipal ownership tax, all for a worn-out gas plant now operating on a deficit. Then we must pay 50 per cent more for our gas to take care of the above fixed charges. This deal will make Sam Insull turn green with envy when he hears of it. cause the board of Butler university deemed him the man for the place. Asa Butler mother I agree with Dean Putnam that the matter is a “closed issue.” But the results which we are reaping because of the action of the board in dismissing, in the middle of a semester, the president of Butler university, the man of their choice, without just cause, will be an open issue for some time to come. Will the professors teaching business administration be able to use the incident as an example of proper business procedure ? By a Times Reader Your editorial on slum clearance and housing has moved a stolid observer to articulation. I have been wondering why the PWA plan has been opposed so obstinately in Indianapolis. Can it be because this plan might eliminate some “high” yield rental property and thus interfere with the exploitation of the poverty-stricken Negroes? Are those who oppose the plan the present beneficiaries of the income from the “shacks” which these Negroes inhabit? It is a well-knowm fact these properties are intrinsically valueless and that nothing whatever is ex-

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

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

also by using the X-ray, which will show r a defect in the lining of the stomach wall. Usually person with ulcer of the stomach has many severe symptoms before the ulcer reaches the stage of bleeding. By the time it reaches that stage, the condition is so severe as to demand prompt and effective medical attention. There are, how'ever, occasional cases in which a severe hemorrhage is the first sign. Disturbances of the liver, such as its hardening from long continued alcoholism, is another cause of vomiting of blood. Os course, there may be such conditions as cancer of the stomach, or other forms of tumor attacking the stomach w'all, which break down blood vessels and bring about this symptom.

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

cept of existence shall have to be changed, and it is the duty of thoughtful women to help them. an n Obviously nra codes are no good here. Wages, working conditions, the ability and experience of the workers, the personality and fair-mindedness of the employer, all enter into this problem. It has as many diffe ent approaches as there are individuals concerned with its solution. Surely, you will think, it is possible to educate the housewife or the business and professional women who hires domestic help to assume her social responsibilities. But, believe me, she can stand a great deal more education along this line.

pended on them for repairs or upkeep, so that any rent received is 99.44 per cent pure profit. Could not Tire Times investigate this matter and give us some information? If you find any basis in fact for my suspicions, please go after the chiselers, and please make it like John Marshall, who ordered his coffee “as hot as hell and as strong as the wrath of God.” By a Times Reader Can the editor of your valuable paper or one of the correspondents to this column give me information on the following matters? A man with a wife and several children is in poor health. His doctor says there is small chance of his living a year. He has a SI,OOO policy of endowment insurance to mature at his death or in eighteen months if he lives. He has a fraternal life certificate for SI,OOO in a good fraternal company. He has a small home worth probably $1,500, clear of debt, and some cheap but fairly good furniture, and about S2OO in a bank. Is the present gold buying policy of the government and fixing anew value of the dollar a good thing for the man’s family? If so, why? If not, why? I would like to get this matter straight in my mind. Editor’s Note—The purpose of the Roosevelt monetary policy apparently is to scale down the enormous burden of public and private debt by deflating the value of the dollar. The man cited above will suffer because he is not in debt and be- . cause his income in dollars will buy less than they do now.

Daily Thought

For if I do this thing willingly I have a reward; but if against mi will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.—l Corinthians, 9:17, TIE w’ho is firm in will moulds the world to himself.—Goethe

Apparently, the severe, acute ulcer of the stomach is the most common cause for vomiting blood. Next to that are conditions affecting the gallbladder and the appendix, associated with chronic ulcers In the stomach. Then there are cases of hardening of the liver and the rare conditions, such as dilated veins in the esophagus or the tube leading from the throat to the stomach, as well as various disturbances of the blood which result in frequent hemorrhages. One of the greatest medical discoveries is blood transfusion. This permits the physician to restore blood to the patient and helps to prevent the continued weakness and shock which result from severe hemorrhages of any kind. Under any circumstances, the loss of blood is a serious matter, demanding the best type of medical attention.

We probably shall never live to see such conditions as prevailed during the boom that burst in 1929. The oncoming generations must lay aside their gentleman and lady office roles and prepare themselves for less swivel-chair work, and for the girls .some of that work must be done in the kitchen. And wherein, pray, lies the indignity of such labor? Nowhere except it be in the mind of the one person who should have ennobled it, the housewife herself. The girl who works in the kitchen should have the same consideration, the same living wage, that is paid to the girl in the office. But she seldom gets it. We women boast about being good workers. Can we learn jo be good bosses ?

NOV. 18,1933

It Seems j to Me —BY HEYWOOD BROUN

New York. Nov. is.—l do not know why I should be surprised after all these years, but I constantly am being startled by what seems to me the extraordinary stupidity of industrial leaders. In- spite of all that has happened in the last four years there are any number of men who insist upon rushing into print to state views based on the apparent assumption that the nation was never afflicted by any malady more serious than a slight cold. For instance, a Mr. Utley of Detroit has just made a speech in which he declared the establishment of the new deal has confronted the United States with “the greatest crisis since the Pilgrims landed.” I can not quite make out whether Mr. Utley wants to return to the economic standards of Puritan days or just give the country back to the Indians. At any rate, he regards Franklin D. Roosevelt as “socialistic.” a a m Still an Error AND at this point Mr. Utley falls into an attitude which seems to me fallacious even though it is perfectly familiar. It is Mr. Utley's idea that at the last national election the country definitely rejected all socialistic ideas, because it gave only a small proportion of its vote to Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate. The Socalist vote in this country never has been an accurate indication of the extent of radical belief. Long before 1932 both the Populists and Progressives tapped the till of Socialist economic philosophy and borrowed a plank or two. Indeed, there has been no time in the last twenty years in which a considerable minority of the voters were not in favor of sweeping changes in the economic system. It is not the principles of Socialism which estrange followers, but the name itself. And sometimes while applauding the ideas voters have refused to accept the leadership. Certain revolutionary changes were bound to occur in the year 1933, no matter which candidate was chosen. Herbert Hoover very possibly would have tried a technique unlike the present experimental devices current in Washington, but it would have been entirely beyond his power to restore the economic setup which existed when he assumed office in 1920. I am not at all of the opinion that everything done or about to be done by the present administration is without flaw. But at the very least President Roosevelt and his chief advisers have had some conception of the fact that they are dealing with a rapidly changing world. The thing that puzzles me in the criticism of the gentlemen on the right is bland assumption that mastery of the crisis may be obtained by a simple policy of drift. a tt ft Let 111 Enough ’Alone PRACTICALLY all the most powerful foes of the new deal speak in terms of repealing this or scrapping that without regard to going into any detail as to what they purpose to put in its place. Although the present difficulties of the administration are palpable, I feel that on the whole the Roosevelt program is working far better than many of the pessimists pretend. After all, many of the reactionaries are not so much aroused by the belief that the new deal won’t work at all, but by the fear that maybe it will. They are in the position of saying, “Even if it works I wouldn’t like it.” Not in twenty years have I heard the names of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and the Pilgrim fathers called upon in so many gatherings of big business. The orators seem to feel that since these hallowed heroes are all dead, it is safe to assume that they were all of the same opinion. It is, I think, quite illogical for the same gentlemen to call upon both Washington and Jefferson in the same speech. The economic and political gulf which lay between these two great Americans was at least as wide as that which exists between Roosevelt and Hoover. As for the Pilgrim fathers, I doubt that any one of them would be of the slightest use as an adviser on our banking and agricultural problems. matt NotJZecovery POSSIBLY the administration itself Is somewhat at fault in the matter of the confusion which exists in certain rather tardy minds. I think that too much stress has been put on the word “recovery.” To some this means an attempt to bring back the days of what was somewhat inexactly called “Coolidge prosperity.” Undoubtedly this is the notion even in the minds of certain officials, but a greater number—and the more influential ones, I believe—are working for a nation in which distribution is much more widespread. In some senses we are all Socialists. For instance, the papers have printed the picture of an attractive young woman, 21, who has just come into the complete control of a fortune of fifty million dollars. There is no record that the young woman has performed any socially useful task of any kind or that she would have the slightest conception of how to go about it if she did. Now, surely even a very incomplete Marxian must admit that there is something fundamentally wrong with a system which permits any such preposterous state of affairs. (Copyright. 1933 by The Times) Loneliness BY POLLY LOIS NORTON There Is no pain like that of loneliness, Which comes tapping at one’s shoulder in the crowd When one has thought to mingle was allowed, And leads one, eyes bedimmed, head proud, A heartaching culprit, back to priviness! Oh, I have tried to war against his touch: Tried to be neighborly, kind, to do my part; Tried to give my wares in the open mart But to come out with empty hands and empty heart. I am so young; perhaps—later—l shall not mind—so much-!