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WEDNESDAY DEC 20. 1933. IT’S TIME FOB INDIANA nineteenth state ratified the child labor amendment Monday and to Maine goes our congratulations. In 1929. the Indiana legislature rejected the amendment, but the state legislature has another chance to wipe out that deplorable action. Indiana’s legislature in 1935 should—and must—vote to ratify the child labor amendment to the Constitution. Let the man who casts your vote in the Indiana legislature know what you think about child labor, one of the worst blots on civilization’s name. Indiana has no business ranking among the backward states. Indiana’s legislature at its next session must vote to outlaw child labor and put Indiana among the list of progressive, fair-thinking and honorable states. Child labor must go. Let us do our part. THE LABOR BOARD ■pRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has come to the rescue of the national labor board. Not that it was In any grave danger at the moment. But you never can tell what will happen when hostile lawyers begin shooting, as in the Weirton steel case. The new executive order reaffirms the board’s authority to settle labor disputes “by mediation, conciliation or arbitration” and adds blanket power “to compose all conflicts threatening the industrial peace of the country.” Then, in case of any legalistic doubt concerning past authority of the board under the earlier executive order, the new order states! “All action heretofore taken by this board in the discharge of its functions is hereby approved and ratified.” No agency created by the Roosevelt administration is more important than the national labor board. It was suggested to the President last August by the unanimous recommendation of the employers and labor advisory , boards of NRA. But it is not, and should not be, a part of NRA or of any other agency. Asa tribunal its independence should be preserved. Getting away to a slow start, the board and its regional branches under the exceedingly able leadership of the chairman, Senator ■ Wagner, and of Dr. Leo Wolman, soon made itself indispensable. To expect industrial peace in this country now or at any time without some such powerful labor supreme court for the orderly settlement of disputes is absurd. Congress should make this a permanent independent agency of government. BUSINESS POLICIES ON TRIAL TAT’ HEN the administration turned its at- ’ * tention recently to the nation's communications systems—its telephones, wireless, telegraph and radio networks—Washington dispatches pointed out that three courses were open to it. It could leave everything just as it is. It could set up an inclusive monopoly under fairly strict government supervision. It could take the whole business over un- *• der a straight-out government ownership and operation scheme. Significantly, it was reported that the preponderating sentiment in the administration leaned toward the second of these three courses. All this is interesting, not only because the fate of a very large Industry is involved, but because this particular case is a pretty good sample of the choices open to us in connection with all industry. No matter what we choose to call the policies which go to make up the new deal, it is pretty clear that eventually the government's attitude toward industry in general will have to follow’ one of these three lines. The choice w’ill depend less on the ideas of the officials at Washington than on the sentiment 6f the country as a whole. In the last analysis, the administration can do only w’hat the mass of Americans want it to do; and the question now is. What do the American people want? There are grounds for suspecting that the ordinary citizen has his doubts about the wisdom of going ahead with the old system of every man for himself. On the other hand, there is very little reason to believe that there is any widespread demand for government ownership. But the remaining choice—monopoly under government control—is something so new’, and contains so many chances to make mistakes, that plenty of people have their doubts about it, also. The truth of the matter probably is that the ordinary citizen hasn't made up his mind • yet. Fortunately, he still has plenty of time to decide. For the program now being followed is in the nature of a proving ground. We are going to see how these things work out in actual practice. Certain parts of the NRA will let us see how monopoly under federal supervision works; such things as the Muscle Shoals experiment will give us a look at government operation; our own memories will tell us about the let-things-alone plan. By the time the present administration is due to go before the electorate for a verdict, we ought to be ready to decide which scheme we wish to adopt as a settled long-range policy. “THE LAST ROUND-UP” £jTILL the popularity of “The Last Roundtip” continues. So hungry were the people for good songs that they can not .get

enough when at last one is given to them, j That this song is universally popular does not j make it any the less real poetry. The same j may be said of “Lazy Bones” and “Stormy [ Weather.” It is not the first time that the American public has shown that it welcomes and appreciates popular music of quality. The “Show-Boat” music, which after riding recurring waves of popular favor has at last come to harbor as a classic, is an example. “Old Man River” is authentic. Half a generation ago the American public’s taste in literature seemed to take a sudden rise. Novels written with serious literary intention, such as those of Sinclair Lewis and Willa Cather, became best-sellers. Perhaps the time has come for the product of Tin Pan Alley to go the way of the dime novel. There are indications that there is a market in America for popular music of high grade. Here is an opportunity for real poets and composers and for music publishers with vision. COMING THROUGH, AGAIN IT is getting so that it is hardly news to learn that Colonel Lindbergh has finished another long and perilous flight on schedule, without a mishap or anything remotely resembling one. His most recent exploit is, when you stop to examine it, pretty remarkable as a demonstration of the things a skilled pilot can do with a good airplane; but somehow Colonel Lindbergh succeeded in making it look very easy. When he made that spectacular flight to Paris, years ago. people said that he was lucky. Then, when they saw more of him, observed the skill with which he handled his plane and the painstaking manner in which he made his preparations so as to leave nothing to chance, they stopped using that adjective. They began to see that what got him through was not luck, but an uncommon degree of professional competence. Everything that he has done since then simply confirms that opinion. If any mar on earth deserves the title of world’s premier airman, it undoubtedly is this same Colonel Lindbergh. EMBARRASSING QUESTION JIM REED, the former senator from Missouri, seems prepared once more to display his penchant for disagreeing with Democratic Presidents. Interviewed at Memphis the ;V.er day, Mr. Reed expressed grave doubts about the wisdom of the present monetary policy. “We are heading for trouble,” he said. “What is to become of the millions who invested their honest earnings in bonds and notes? It will be well, before people talk of repudiation, that they know the results which will be visited on widows, old men and every class of people.” This is a perfectly sound warning, and it is just as well that the dangers of inflation be emphasized while there is time to avoid them. Unfortunately, however, some irreverent soul may feel called on to inquire what became of some of the millions who invested their honest earnings in bonds and notes — South American bonds and Insull notes, for instance —back in the eminently sound days of 1929. WORRY ABOUT OUR LEISURE JUST as if we didn’t have plenty of other things to think about, some of our most notable uplifters are beginning to worry over the way in which John Citizen is likely to use the extra leisure time which the new deal is supposed to bring him. The whole tendency these days Is to shorten the hours of labor, and it is a pretty good bet that this tendency will go a good deal farther before it gets through. The five-day week already is becoming fairly common; glimmering on the horizon is the dream of the technocrats of a society in which two or three hours’ work a day will be all that will be required of any man. It happens that well-intentioned people are wondering if this won’t be a very bad thing for the ordinary man. He will have more spare time than ordinary men ever had before anywhere—except, possibly, on some of the more idyllic South Sea islands — and the general idea seems to be that this is apt to be a very bad thing for him. So. sandwiched in between discussions of the monetary policy and dissertations on the new economic era, come solemn warnings that people must be “educated to use their leisure wisely”: and somehow it all seems more than slightly ridiculous. “Recreation,” the magazine published by the National Recreation Association, has an interesting little anecdote in its current issue. An investigator went about asking working people how they were using the extra spare time which the shorter working week has brought them. She found one working woman sitting on a porch and shot the question at her. “I just set,” said the woman. “When I get tired settin’ here, I go inside and set.” And that seems to say it very well. Probably it would be a fine thing if ordinary folk flocked to symphony concerts and art museums en masse, or took up painting as a hobby, or attended all available lectures, or devoted themselves to good works. But they won’t. They'll patronize amusement parks and ball games and movies, they’ll use their autos more, they’ll stay home and putter around the house; and many of. them will be content to “just set.” And most of them, “just setting,” will contrive to be happy, which is after all the important thing. Some scientists still believe that perpetual motion is possible. The perpetual attempt at it is proof enough. Dancing masters of the country call for a “champagne waltz,” in honor of the new freedom. It should be something like the oldtime “Hesitation.” Two Russian balloonists report oxygen in the stratosphere almost as plentiful as on earth. That’s a reserve supply for our lecturers and politicians. i

MAKING A CASE 'T'HE states this year are building up a fine case for the enactment by congress next year of a federal antl-lynching law. To the grewsome record of recent lynch horrors, Tennessee has added another. A Negro, accused of attacking a white girl, was found hanging from a cedar tree near Columbia. his dead body riddled with bullets. ,The appalling brutality of the latest lynching lay in the fact that this mob victim had been arrested and then freed by action of the grand jury which found no evidence against him! How many innocent men and women are lynched may be judged from a report of the southern commission on the study of lynching. The report found that out of twentyone persons lynched in 1930 two “certainly” were innocent, eleven others Hpossibly” were. Mobs are not deterred by questions bt sex, color or locality. They are not deterred by the innocence of their victims. Tennessee’s latest lynching, her third this year, runs the national total for 1933 to twenty-seven. Os these, four were whites. California, Maryland and Missouri this year have joined the lynch states. Some believe that the federal government, under present laws, can intervene to punish lynchers in states where law breaks down. In a brief just filed with the attorney-general the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People cites a congressional act of 1870 making it a misd*meanor for an officer of the law to permit an inhabitant of any state to be deprived of the right to person or property. The citation was in justification for a plea for the federal government to punish the sheriff of Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, for failure to prevent a double lynching last August. The brief says: “A government which can invade a sovereign foreign state to protect the lives of its citizens and exact reparation for a deprivation of their rights abroad, yet can not, or will not, through lack of official courage to enforce the written law, protect its own citizens within its borders, abdicates to the mob.” Regardless of conflicting interpretations of existing law, the fact that the federal government has not felt free to act hitherto is sufficient evidence of the need for a federal anti-lynching law. SENSIBLE MARY PICKFORD MARY PICKFORD, arriving in New York from Hollywood, finds a swarm of reporters waiting for her. She talks to them freely on all subjects but one—her suit for divorce. On that, she says, she has expressed herself already, and she does not propose to have anything more to say about it at all. And right there this particular movie star shows a bit of good sense that does not always seem to be part of the equipment of Hollyloow luminaries. Movie folks may not have any more marital troubles than other people, but when they do have them they get into the headlines; and in all too many cases the participants are ready to tell all on the slightest provocation, or even on no provocation at all. Miss Pickford has the good taste to keep her domestic troubles to herself. Would that seme other headline notables felt likewise! GOOD NEWS INDIANAPOLIS welcomes the news that Christmas shopping is running 20 per cent over last year’s volume. One nice thing about it is that our merchants deserve the upturn. For four years, Indianapolis merchants have been hard hit and for four years they’ve had their worries just as the rest of us. But they’ve kept up their chins, they’ve kept up their service and they’ve made the best of four bad years. The upturn seems to have come. The merchants are happy. The man on the street is starting to feel a little more chipper. Really, it does look like a Merry Christmas. The only sound money that interests all of us is the kind that rings true when you plunk it down on the counter. A fifteen-mile railroad in Ohio is believed to be the shortest in the country. Hmph. There are other railroads so short they cant pay the interest on their bonds. lM.E.TracySays:j The people of this country wish Cuba well. That is one reason why they went to war with Spain and why, when the result turned out to be favorable, they insisted on independence for Cuba. Their attitude toward Cuba never has been dominated by selfish interests. Such mistakes as they have ma<Je are traceable to perfectly good intentions. The American people have assumed that they could do a better job for the Cubans than the Cubans could do for • themselves. Incidentally, they have been afflicted with the same assumption regarding a lot of other folks. The resultant meddling has created a very false impression, not only among Cubans, but throughout Latin America. Latin Americans find it hard to understand why we should be meddling so much with their affairs unless we have some definite object in view—an object that means commercial profit or political prestige. a a a OUR altruism, if such it can be called, has failed to strike a responsive chord. It has involved too much violence on the one hand, and too much imagination on the other. Hundreds of Nicaraguans, Haitians and Cubans have lost their lives, or been obliged to flee because of American meddling, while the survivors have failed to get the expected benefits. In other words, what Latin Americans see in our policy of interference is a lot of flagwaving, drum-beating and saber-rattling which, has meant little of advantage to them. It was our hope, of course, that the habit of revolution would be discouraged and that stable government would gradually evolve, but our thought was wrong. We have not succeeded in exporting our ideals in battleships. Neither has the missionary work of our marines borne lasting fruit. a a a SO we come to a parting of the ways. Shall we go on trying to supervise Latin American affairs, especially in Carribbean countries, or shall we give the people down there a chance to work out the!!' own salvation? Shall we continue to assume that self-gov-ernment can be pounded into people, or concede that it requires a background of self-training and experience? Shall we persist in being misunderstood. or, as President Roosevelt puts it, adopt the role of a good neighbor? A good neighbor may see how the family next door could do a lot to improve things, but if he is really good he keeps his mouth shut, refrains from interfering and seeks to influence that family by setting it the right kind of example,

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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 James F. Miller. I recently renewed my subscription to The Times and am glad to say that the renewal was for only a short time as I w T as not aware at the time of the change which had been made in your paper. It was hard to understand why your paper should adopt such a narrow view of public affairs in general? But I thought nothing of it until I read your editorial on “Professional Fees” in the issue of Dec. 12 After reading this ill-advised brain storm I began figuring it out and I did not have to read other than the editorial page where I found The Times Lad a different editor than Mr. Gurley and I suppose the change was made for the same reason other chains change their managers. To get more business which in your case, is advertising. Judging from the policy of your paper at this time, my belief is that if the legal profession went in for advertising and The Times had a chance of getting some of the business we never would hear a peep from Ye Editor but u’ould get bouquets instead of bricks. I note you say nothing about fixing the prices you charge for legal notices, which constitute the major expense in many types of legal action. Are you biased because of the scarcity of legal notices or is it because the man who serves time in the Canadian jail is a newspaper man? When newspaper men forget their duty to the public in their zeal for advertising business they should not cry around about freedom of press when they are afraid to use what freedom they have for fear of offending some prospective advertiser. I don’t think you have the nerve to print this in your Message Center but you are welcome to if you have. By a Times Reader.. What fi.as the NRA done for you? Well, it has done plenty to the employes of the street railway company. I wonder if Mr. Chase could live on $14.40 a week, keep a family and try to meet expenses. With Christmas coming, I think there will be quite a number of their help who will have to make an appeal to the Santa Claus fund if the children have any Christmas at all. That’s something we never had to worry about before, but under the NRA a married man with a family can not live on $14.40. Then they publish in the papers eighty new trolley cars. How carl Mr. Chase do it, the public asks. Well, the employes know how he does it. He has cut the hours, also wages, under the NRA and makes progress for the company and himself. By A. L. G. Just wondered if any of you had any suggestions to offer or any solutions for the problem that confronts me as a widowed mother of a boy 18. He is a high school graduate and a good boy. He Is strong and able to work and does work when he can get it. The question at hand is this. He lives with his sister in another county, who can not afford to keep to pay rent, buy groceries and him, as they can not make enough

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SOURCE of some of the most amazing and -helpful information these days are the moving picture magazines. Most any of them will do. It’s so encouraging to find that practically all of the stars began life with squint eyes or bow legs, or acne, or sharp shoulder blades and feet that went off at wrong angles, and that by their own tireless efforts, their firm determination, their almost inspired ambition, (aided and abetted of course by beauty experts), they have become the perfect human specimens we pay our money to look at. And in case you are too far along to have much more hope about physical improvement, there is plenty of moral guidance to reassure you within their covers.

There’s Hope By Mrs. Clara Thurston. To Broken Hearted Mother: In answer to your letter in The Times Dec. 16 why don’t you make a personal visit to our Governor. You said in your other letter you had written him. And as for this Mrs. Trook. w’ho is making you suffer, she will get hers later, for there is a God. I have my opinion of any one who would not let a mother see her sick daughter. I wish you and your darling a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Hope you get to see your girl and boy on Christmas. clothe their two children who are of the ages of 5 and 7, and send the oldest child to school, and I only make $2.50 a week. They moved about seven months ago to their present location, and, according to statements from the trustee, they have not been located in present county long enough t receive help from either the Red Cross or the trustee. They are not asking for anything only an opportunity to support themselves. • This young man in question is of pleasant personality, willing and anxious to work, and is a dependable, honest and trustworthy boy. Is there any one who might be able to give this boy work, that he may be able to support himself? If so, I am sure if you will get in touch with The Times, they will, as they always have been, courteous enough to notify the boy’s mother. By L. C. McK. Being a devoted reader of dear old Heywood's column, I received quite a surprise this evening at the appearance of “Fair Enough,” in place of the usual “It Seemg to Me.” My spirits sank when I saw this man Pegler had rooted my idol from his customary location. But, out of habit, I read the column. Heywood has been unusually brilliant in the last few w’eeks, and my .guess is after this flying start of Pegler’s, he had best remain so. I tak.e it this removal was in the nature of promotion. I sincerely hope so. Heywood has served his apprenticeship alongside the Message Center long enough. Imagine his humiliation viewing one of his best in such close proximity of one of those controversies on the merits of Kentucky and Hoosier husbands and wives. This alone should serve as a stimulus for bigger and better stuff from Pegler, remember how long his predecessor languished. Westbrook will have to grin and bear it and hope for the time when adult education will have advanced to the point where he will be content to let his column remain on the extreme right of the page. By John Smith. It seems to me conditions have reached a climax in this so-called city of ours when a person can not go out and enjoy some of the pleasures of life unless first consulting the city council, Chamber of Commerce and other organizations headed by some of our highlypraised nitwits, and last but not least, that most noble stuffed-shirt chief of police. Apparently, this very noble chief

BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

For instance, would you believe that some of the most poised stars on the screen today were once consumed with self-consciousness? That many of the glamorous creatures we gaze upon with envy at one time could not enter a crowded room without blushing to their ears? They suffered terribly, and look at them now. a a tt “XTOT only do they take care to •LN be always right, we are informed, “but they know they are right. And what confidence that does give one!” From these juournals we gather, too, that most of our favorites came up through dark valleys of misery and unhappiness. Even the little 20-year-olds—well, you'd be aston-

that is supposed to protect this town and its citizens can not find anything else to occupy his mind and time except to detail some policemen to go out to the state fairground and close the Walkathon every few days. If they really were injuring the people of this town, then well and good, but in my opinion, they are hurting no one at the fairground, so w r hy should they be interfered with? Dives, dens and what-not thrive in this town because of the fact that certain so-called big shots in this burg like to be entertained by this element, but for me, I have no use for the big shots or dives, either. Let us try to get this town out of the class of some of our other big burgs like Podunk and Hick Skillet. Now', in my estimation, this burg is in that class and will continue so, if some changes aren’t made real soon. Bv M. Me. I think the closing of this Walkathon at the state fairground is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of. After those poor contestants have w’alked all these hours, they’re not allowed to finish. They all have a reason for w’inning this money or they wouldn’t have stuck in it this long. The trouble with the officials in this city is they will stop someething that is decent and good entertainment at a price people can pay, yet they will let these burlesque shows run full force, and believe me, they certainly put on some indecent shows for the high school boys and some not out of the grade schools. If you ask me, their time would be better spent if they investigated these shows and let something decent run. They do wear clothes at the Walkathon. They have w’orse burlesque show's here than they do in larger cities, because the chief is too busy closing walkathons and such. I wish you would please print this, as I am a reader of The Times and have been for several years. By Orie Simmons. Your Dec. 8 statement in “Shabby Treatment,” that no other group (than engineers) is so absolutely indispensable in modern life, is in error. Take Edison, for instance. We do not need him today. We need more salesmen to sell the inventions he produced. A vegetable vendor is needed every day, year after year, an engineer builds a bridge, then the bridge (and not the engineer) is useful. The writer is an engineer who devised for employers many wonderful things; the world today needs salesmen, and does not want them to knock on the door. Before the automobile is manufactured, the engineer is king. But he is out of a job as soon as the drawings are on paper. Then the drawings are king. We all know the man who has a w’onderful invention —not yet sold. No, engineers have neither the training nor the ability to help either themselves or any one else in an economic or a political jam. We need politicians and salesmen there. daily thought He disappeinteth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.—Job, 5:12. FEW are so wicked as to take delight in crimes unprofitable.— Dryden.

ished at what they have been through. Less fearless hearts would long ago have been daunted and damned. In short, if you want to see the race' at its very best, get yourself one of these magazines and your opinion of your kind if you happen to be a credulous fellow, will rise like the 1929 stock market. It will do your heart good to know the almost insuperable difficulties over which the stars have climbed to fame. Sweetly human they are, of course, but inspiring withal. , These publications are our McGussy readers; slightly glorified, modernized versions of the Roilo books. Each little lady in the constellation is as noble and almost as put upon as dear Elsie Dip^more.

_DEQ 20, 1933

r air Enough BT WESTBROOK FF.GLER A MONG my souvenirs of a recent flurry I have an invitation to join an organization called the Writers' League Against Lynching. This one was in the mail at the time I wrote a piece regarding the lynchings in San Jose. Cal. 1 did not intend to accept the invitation. but I assume that the decision as to this now has been takm out of my hands because the Writers’ League Against Lynching has expressed great irritation over my tactless remarks on the subject. The sort of league which I would prefer to join, anyway, if I were a joiner and committee man, would be a league to prevent the murder of legitimate citizens. I think there is a much more urgent need for this prevention than for the prevention of lynching because my almanac tells me'that about 11.000 persons lost their lives by homicide in 1930, which was the last year on which the book had statistics, whereas only twenty-one were lynched. So I reckon that if the Writers* League Against Lynching really wants something to get horrified about this homicide rate would be just dandy for the purpose. According to this league, murder i is murder, whether it is done by an i individual with unlawful intent or i by a mob of emotional people who may believe that they are serving the law. So if a mob has no right to take a human life, then neither has the individual murderer who kills about 520 victims to every victim of a mob. Moreover, it will have to be conceded that all the victims of homicide were innocent parties under the law and that their assassination constituted a serious invasion of their constitutional rights. a a a The Law's Business 1 THINK it would be a fine idea to do something important about the prevention of murder and I believe, moreover, that as murder is abated in the U. S. A., the problem of lynching will abate in proportion because people will come to regard the punishment of murderers as the law’s business and not something which they sometimes have to attend to personally lest it go altogether unrebuked or be only mildly punished. And in my opinion, which is based on some experience around courts and police stations, the best way to go about this business would be to clean up the learned and sly profession of the law which has taught j murderers that they can get away' with murder. It would be a mistake, too, to assume that the slippery little shyster who hangs around the county jail or the courthouse is the only master of the tricks by which the murderer is protected and the people, who are not uniformly bright, are finally driven to such exasperation as broke out in San Jose. I have in mind one case in which a poor family who were in a position to give evidence against a rich man accused of murder, suddenly, and quietly, left for a foreign land and remained abroad, living well enough on no visible means of support mi til the trial was .over end the defendant was, of course, acquitted. It never seemed probable to me that this poor family just happened to find the money for a long trip abroad. On the contrary, I put two and two together and arrived at one of the reasons why people sometimes behave as they wouldn’t if lawyers were otherwise. a a u Society's Duty A LYNCHING is a dramatic and messy business, but murders are not particularly charming, either, and the failure of the law is no worse in one case than in the other. I do not recall having read any expressions of horror by any leagues of writers or whatnot over any one of the hundred routine murder cases of the last few weeks the victims of which were certainly no less wTonged than the two young men who were lynched in San Jcse. And as for society’s duty to Itself, of which I have been seeing many excited reminders in the papers, I would say that society has the same duty to prevent individual murderers from killing 11,000 people a year, which is quite a crowd of people, considered as a crowd at a ball game or prize fight and equal to the population of many an important American town. I am surprised to hear unkind comments on the facial expressions of the men and women who witnessed the lynchings in San Jose, because the faces in the pictures which I happened to see were about the same as might be seen in any crowd of people. People who have faces should not get personal about other peoples’ faces. I have seen many a flashlight picture of a distinguished gathering at a banquet which did not quite the real nobility of character of those present. Asa test I would cut out some of the San Jose faces and some faces from a crowd at a ball game and a crowd at a great disaster and challenge any one who perceived such dreadful degeneracy written in the faces at San Jose to tell me which were which. Syndicate. Inc.

Prayer

By HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK A prayer for the healing powers of rain! The washed orange red of bittersweet ; Smell of damp green turf at my feet. Trickle of rain from maple trees; Soft timid echoes from falling leaves. A pa paw lifting a velvet cheek; An orange leaf sailing on a turbulent creek. Odor of crushed, wet, black earth; Beauty transcending from sudden birth. A violet mist curtain atop a hill; God is beautiful; God Is still. Poplars bent in a green curved line. God is an artist; God is kind.

So They Say

Our experience has taught us there is no use spilling blood to get a little part of any country’—Georg Schmitt, newly arrived representative of Germany’s Stahlhelm in America.