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MONDAY APnil. 30 1934 SECURITY BACKLOGS tMPORTANT as are the pending measures to ■*- make people's savings and investments safer, equally important is the governments obligation to build some protection for working men's families against the fearful hazards of unemployment and old age. Congress has before it two bills, both supported by President Roosevelt, both aimed to swing the governments power and resources behind the manifestly necessary task. One is thp Wagner-Lewis unemployment insurance measure, the other is the Dill-Connery old age pension bill. In their present form neither will be a drain on the United States treasury. The Wagner-Lewis bill, now before the house ways and means committee, would impose a federal tax of, perhaps, 3 per cent on all substantial industrial pay rolls. Employers paying into state compulsory jobless insurance funds would be credited to the extent of their state payments. States thus would be encouraged to establish such insurance systems to keep the funds at home. One one state, Wisconsin, has such a security system. Passage of the Wagner-Lewis bill doubtless would bring all states into line within a few years. It is essential that the states start security funds now, when profits are beginning to flow back to industry. If they wait for another boom the lessons of 1929-1934 will be forgotten. The extravagant and chaotic dole method, now costing taxpayers $1,000,000,000 a year, is a luxury that only the United States among all industrial nations has afforded. The Will-Connery bill, pending before both houses, would provide a federal subvention of one-third of the amounts the states spend on old age pensions. The twenty-eight old-age pension slates have found their method cheaper than poorhouses. By assuming a third of the burden now the government would need to spend only about SIO,OOO 000 a year, and this could be taken from the relief funds. If all the states adopted pensions some 500.000 indigent old folks could look forward to a measure of security in their declining years. Both of these measures should be passed by congress before adjournment. Os course, they will not make life in America entirely secure, but they will help from a security backlog. PROTECTION FOR GARBAGE 'T'HE coroanut oil tax tariff in the revenue bill, which was supposed to bring about a general increase in the prices of domestic fats and oils, apparently has caused an increase only in the price of inedible tallow. Cottonseed oil and lard, for example, actually are selling at prices lower than were quoted before this near-embargo on the Philippine product was approved by congress in violation of our solemn pledge to the Filipino people. Butter prices are slightly higher, but those who understand the fluctuations in the produce markets give no credit for this increase to the cocoanut oil excise. Inedible tallow is produced principally from the refuse of hotels, restaurants, butcher shops and homes, and most of it is used in the manufacture of soap. Thus our mad protective tariff policy seems to have reached anew high in absurdity—protection for the garbage pail. VICTORY, COSTLY BUT SWEET ONE of the axioms of modern America is •is tl;at you never can win an argument Ith the telephone company. But Dr. Alton A. Smahl of New York has done so. After an eight-year fight, he has gained an official ruling that he has been overcharged on his phone bill, and the New York Telephone Company has had to refund him he sum of $5.40. Dr. Smahl carried on his argument fruitlessly for years. Then, finally, he got a padlock and kept the dial of his phone locked to make absolutely sure that no but himself would ever use it; and he kept a careful record of every call he made, over a fivemonth period. Then, checking up on his bill, he found that he had been charged $5.40 too much; so he went to court, and the other day he won his verdict. As an exception to an almost universal rule. Dr. Smahl wall doubtless appear to his fellow-citizens as a bit of a hero. INDIGNATION MORAL mdignation is a worthy emotion, but its cost runs pretty high, sometimes. Before we indulge in very much of it, it's a good idea to stop and figure out just how much it is likely to cost us. Here's a case in point—the present imbroglio over Japan's new policy in China. ' The Japanese have announced what amounts to a protectorate over China. They have declared that no other nation has a right to loan China money, send her technical instructors, or provide her with equipment ■which might be useful in time of war, if Tokio happens to disapprove. Their steady encroachment on Chinese sovereignty, begun several years ago. has come out into the open. Unless all signs fail, the full subjugation of a great nation is about to proceed, with the consequent elimination of many American rights and privileges. Here is a development which has aroused a good deal of indignation in the United States. But before we let this indignation get too strong, we ought to look at the balance sheet. How much are we willing to pay for the-

privilege of denouncing this newest bit of Japanese aggression? Are you. for instance, as a citizen, so indignant about it that you are willing to go across the Pacific—or send your son—to strangle in the sick-bay of a ioundering cruiser* or to roast in the heat of a fire room that has been wrecked by a torpedo, or to stop a machine gun bullet somewhere along a beach 10,000 miles away? In othere words, are you indignant enough to be ready to go to war for your indignation? If you are, then you probably are entitled to express your indignation as vehemently as you please. But if you aren't—and it is doubtful if more than a hundred of American are—it’s w’ise to reflect on the price that we might be called on to pay for a full expression of our indignation. There is no danger of war in this situation if we all keep our heads and leave a solution of these difficulties to the slow, unemotional, and unexciting process of diplomacy, macy. / But we could pay a very’ heavy price if we went off half-cockcd and spread our moral indignation all over the Far East. DRAMATIC APPEAL A 17-YEAR-OLD girl was taken to a New York hospital suffering from a rare blood disease. Only a number of blood transfusions could save her life; she did not have the money to pay for them, and the ho. pital was operating on too limited a budget to buy them for her. So an appeal was made to the public, announcing that the girl must die unless volunteers came forward to give her their blood. Within a few days more than four hundred people went to the hospital and offered to submit to transfusions. Asa demonstration of the way in which human sympathy will respond to an appeal, this is a surprising and encouraging thing. But it also demonstrates the way in which human needs must be dramatized if we are to relieve it. There is a vast store of kindness and selfsacrifice in this world; the only trouble is that it usually takes a dramatic situation to tap it effectively.

MORE BOOTLEG HE statement by J. H. Choate Jr., federal alcohol control director, that prohibition’s Frankenstein, the bootleg trade, still bears down on our society must give pause to the optimists who thought that mere repeal would end the problem of alcohol. Mr. Choate finds that ’’bootleg production continues on so huge a scale as to constrain r.s to the conclusion that our people must now be consuming greater quantities of spirits than they did in pre-prohibition days.” Illicit distillery capacity, he says, exceeds legal capacity despite seizures at an annual rate of 7.952 plants with a capacity of 271,623,080 gallons. ”If any progress is ever to be made in either control or temperance, if ever the expected revenue is to be realized, this criminal industry must be destroyed.” he writes. ‘‘The federal enforcement agencies are not to be blamed. They have done wonders with the very limited means at their disposal. We must stop burying our heads in the sand and see to it that enforcement is brought about.” Mr. Choate urges five steps as necessary to end this intolerable condition. He would have the United States greatly increase enforcement appropriations, inaugurate a campaign to arouse public opinion in behalf of drastic enforcement and temperance, adopt ‘‘reasonable means of cheapening and improving the legal product,” reduce taxes and import duties to enable legal producers and importers to compete, relax such forms of sales-controls as make it harder for buyers to get legal beverages than the illegal stuff. Thoughtful Americans will agree. Temperance and orderly liquor consumption can not be won in a day. And they will not be won by means of high taxes and tariffs, expensive legal liquor and harsh rules for legal sales. THIS MACHINE AGE T TOW completely a modern city is at the A mercy of its machines! Drop a monkey wrench in one comparatively minor set of cogs and you can paralyze an entire community. Gasoline filling station operators and gasoline truck drivers in Cleveland walked out. So effective was their strike that the city's supply of gasoline was completely cut off. As a result, the whole city was left helpless. Private cars, delivery trucks, busses —all of these could run until their tanks were empty, and then they had to stop. Because of a disagreement involving only some 2.000 or so men. a community of a million people was brought to the edge of utter paralysis. Never before in history has mankind so organized its communal life that such a thing could be true. Could there be a sharper illustration of our complete dependence on our machines? TAX CHAOS r T''HERE are good tidings for taxpayers in the announcement that Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau is preparing to attack the problem of'overlapping taxation. We have no tax system—only chaos. It is garbled and scrambled among scores of taxing powers. That isn't news, of course, because it has been pointed out many times by Mr. Roosevelt and others. But an effort to end the present chaps, with the federal government leading the way, is news. Gasoline taxes are levied helter-skelter; tobacco is taxed in duplicate and triplicate: incomes are taxed in some states, these imposts falling on top of the federal income tax; sales, nuisance and occupational taxes are piling up. To straighten out this mess, as Mr. Roosevelt has pointed out, there must be, finally, a division of the fields of taxation between the cities, counties, states and federal government. The conference of tax officials from these subordinate governments which Mr. Morgenthau hopes to call this summer will not settle this problem. But any step toward the objective of stopping the overlapping of taxes will be a good step, and an important one. The new 200-inch telescope, which will be ready about 1938, will help astronomers decide once for all whether the universe is expanding. If it doesn't bust on,them, before that

Liberal Viewpoint By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES - ”

Fnllowin* 1* the last u f three artielr* by Mr. Barnu on the new social c redit idea launched by Major C. H. Douglas and ot her British economists. ana THE fundamental tenet of social credit would make possible an exact adjustment of purchasing power to the available supply of necessary and desirable goods. Otherwise, they hold, the whole social advantage of modem technological efficiency is lost. Today the producer must pay out money to cover not only wages, salaries and dividends, but also rents, raw materials, interest charges, taxes and the like. The producer must adjust his prices so as to insure some profit after paying* for these items. But most of the consuming power is vested in those who receive wages, salaries and dividends. Quite naturally the producer sets a price which is so high that recipients of wages, salaries and dividends can not buy anything like the total product of industry designed for home consumption. An ever increasing surplus of unsold goods piles up. The producers find themselves in straits and many can not meet their loans at the banks. The latter then set their machinery in motion and the country finds iself in a depression from which it is becoming ever more difficult to recover. The way out is to go to the heart of the difficulty and to assure adequate and permanent mass power. Then there will be no surplus of goods and no cause for depression. To realize this ideal, the social credit advocates see clearly enough that the common economic enemy of mankind, finance capitalism or “creditism,” must be ended. They see that credit must be socialized. The fundamental basis of purchasing power must no longer be left in the hands of private banking interests. a a a UNDER the social credit idea all monetary functions would be assumed by the central government operating through the treasury and a central bank. Private banks might continue to exist, but they would not be banks in the present sense—not credit and commercial institutions. They would be compelled to operate as private individuals making loans—to have an equal amount of specie on hand against every loan. The consent of depositors would have to be assured before any loans are made. The private banks could not create credit. The government, on the other hand, would loosen credit and make it much more adequate and facile than it is today. Money would be loaned free of interest to manufacturers and merchants who produce and vend goods which are socially necessary and desirable. Freed from interest charges and other costs imposed by present-day capitalism, the producers could sell for lower prices and thus market more goods, even though consumers’ purchasing power did not increase. But the social credit school also proposes, in addition, to issue national dividends which will go to consumers and add to their purchasing power. Excessive development of new capital plant would be prevented by compelling those who wish to establish new businesses to borrow from private bankers, whose loan powers would be limited and expensive to the borrower. Abandoning the gold standard, the social credit devotees come out flatly for commodity money. a a a MONEY will be based on goods and services. There will be no increase of money except as we increase needed goods. But, likewise, every increase in such goods will be accompanied by an increase in the supply of money, thus allowing the production of goods to be paralleled by an equal increase in the power of the masses to buy. Under such a system no surpus will accumulate and the basic cause of depressions will vanish. The Douglasites maintain their affection for democracy and hold that their scheme can be put into operation without resorting to Fascism, dictatorship and the regimented state. They further contend that foreign markets are becoming much more limited in their purchasing power and we must seek most of the sale of our goods in the home market. The latter has vast and undeveloped potentialities. In this way the social credit school believes it answers the Marxian contention that capitalism is doomed because foreign markets are evaporating. This also means that the very important cause of wars which exists in the struggle for foreign markets will be eliminated.

Capital Capers ———BY GEORGE ABELL=

FROM Puerto Rico comes an interesting note: Senator Luiz Munoz-Marin, liberal leader of Puerto Rico and advocate of the island’s independence, was a guest of honor at a luncheon on board the Spanish warship, Juan Sebastian Elcano, celebrating the third anniversary of the founding of the Spanish republic. Luiz was called upon for a speech. He arose and gave the following toast to the future republic of Puerto Rico—a toast which was so cleverly worded that Governor Blanton Winship and the pro-statehood speakers of the Puerto Rican senate and house of representatives drank it standing. Toasted Luiz: ‘‘To the Spanish people and to all peoples that are offspring of the Spanish people: "To the Spanish republic and to all republics that are. or that will be, offspring of the Spanish people and “To ail republics from which other republics shall issue in the future: and therefore "To the president of the Spanish republic and ‘‘To ihe President of the United States." Governor Winship stood up and drained his glass. The two speakers followed suit. Liberal followers of Munoz-Marin applauded their leader's strategy. aaa BEER-MUSTACHED Jose Richling, charge d’affaires of Uruguay yesterday became minister of Uruguay, after changing into a morning coat and greeting President Roosevelt in excellent English. Minister-elect Richling. who succeeds the unfortunate Envoy Varela in his position as minister, arrived at the White House with the usual fanfare of trumpets, wearing a top hat and a braided coat. He made a brief speech and was ipso facto accredited. a tt u Diplomats regard Minister Richling as a New Yorker. The latter has been consul of Uruguay in Manhattan for some time. When it became evident that the late envoy here was persona non grata with his government, Richling came here and was accepted as representative of the Montevideo regime. His promotion followed as a matter of course. Dr. Leo Rowe, director of the Pan-American Union, gave a luncheon in honor of the new envoy. ‘•Please don’t serve beer,” insisted a colleague. "Why not?” asked Rowe. ‘•Riehling's mustaches would drip into it,” sighed the other. L* a gave a luncheon of lamb stew and salad, invited Undersecretary of Agriculture Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Wells, United States consul general at Stuttgart, Leon Dominian. He served Costa Rican coffee. Note—Diplomats at the Rowe luncheon observed that Dr. Richling wears his spectacles like a monocle—far back on his nose. tt tt tt IRISH Minister Michael Mac White was under fire here for referring to Sam Houston as the first Governor of Tennessee. At least a score of indignant Tennesseans challenged the Irish minister's statement that Sam Houston was the first Governor of their state —and also that Houston was an irishman. Minister Michael contented himself with a calm reiteration of his first statement. ‘ The first Governor of Tennessee,” he said, was Sam Houston—an irishman,”

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(Times renders are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 200 words or less.) aaa AUTOMOBILES KILL MORE THAN WARS By Stuart A. Bishop. The large number of letters in the Message Center, together with editorials and news articles during the last few days, indicates a widespread interest, over the inadequately marked dead-end streets at the canal and Fall creek. I heartily agree with all of this, but desire to ask a question: ‘‘Why do people get ‘all het up’ over the loss of only a few lives once or twice a year at Fall creek and the canal, and show such absolute indifference when thousands of lives are needlessly lost every day?” Why not expend one's energy and effort on a really big problem where real results in the saving of life are obtainable. During all the wars in which this country has engaged as a nation —the Revolutionary, the War of 1812. the Mexican war, the Civil war, the Spanish-American, and the World war—Americans killed in action or who died of wounds—numbered less than 300,000. During the last fifteen years, a period approximating the total duration of these six major Americans killed in automobile acidents within the United States or who died of such injuries have numbered 325,000. An honest effort to observe the Golden Rule by every person who gets behind the wheel of an automobile is one suggested remedy, and I will be glad to give other suggestions to any person or group of persons interested in doing something worth while. tt tt ft PROTESTS BRUTALITY IN BEER ‘‘.fblNTS” By C. R. Burhannan. The police ought to exercise some supervision over the restaurants, so called, where beer is sold. Some of them are run by persons who never should be in the business. Strangers have come to Indianapolis in the past few months and bought places to sell beer. Many of them are, to say the least, questionable characters. The old good-na-tured saloon keeper had some humanity. They have none. Last Tuesday night the writer was in a place on the north side taking a sandwich and a glass of beer. A young man whose father and family have lived on Central avenue for forty years, was standing at the bar. He had evidently taken a few too much and had been spending his money there for several hours. He had some words with an older man. The proprietor, a big slugger about six feet tall and weighing about 175 pounds, came from behind the bar, grabbed the young fellow, whirled him toward the door and opening it, kicked him in the back and threw him headlong into the street where he fell on the car tracks and was only saved by a miracle from being ground to death by a street car. One elderly man in the place protested to the proprietor: “you had no right to do that to that boy.” “I’ll do the same to you, he answered. “I'm the boss here.” He flung the crippled man toward the door. Several of the other customers interfered or he would have treated the elderly man in the same way. Do the police allow “joint owners and bartenders to treat cittizens this way? If a man does wrong they should call the police. They should not take the law into their own hands. This thing ought to be stopped and 1 hope The Times will help stop it.

EVENTUAL END OF THE DILLINGER CASE

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Praises Rickenbacker’s Air Mail Testimony

By a Clnvcrdale Reader. I, with tens of thousands of other American citizens, wish to say hurrah for Colonel Eddie Rickenbacker for-being so brave and fearless as to give such worthy testimony in the air mail inquiries. It is a great pity for the American people that he was refused the privilege to carry his testimony through the investigation. We are fully aware that it would have exploded tear gas bombs in the President’s official family. Some of the names of this official family are Mordecai Ezekiel. He is known to be one of the authors of the radical farm legislation, or degradation which demands that

PROPOSES HEAVY PENALTY FOR MANIPULATORS By F. G. C. The public is demanding, and rightly, that proper punishment be administered to bankers, financiers and manipulators of all kinds. Some of these men have been patting us on the back with one hand and stealing our money with the other, and the supremely ridiculous part of it is that they believe they are being mistreated and that this is not a free country when they are not permitted to rob others. It does seem a shame, after a man has spent practically all of his life scheming how to steal legitimately; that is, so he can not be prosecuted because of some technicality or weakness in the law, that he should be forced to work for a living. The public demands new laws to be enacted as quickly as possible, to properly punish those listed above. If a man knew he were to get the death penalty for theft or manipulation in any manner of SIOO,OOO or more, there wouldn't be so many of these cases. Therefore, let us pass such a law. A thief is a thief, whether he wears a dress suit or carries a pistol. If a man would get a life sentence for theft of $25,000 to SIOO,OOO, he would think twice before stealing. So, let’s have a law to that effect and relative punishments for smaller amounts. In such cases we need a law which provides that, in case or death of these public enemies, their life insurance would not be paid to the beneficiaries until after the insured’s defalcations are first made good. The fact of the matter is that the premiums on these policies were paid from stolen money, anyway. And while on the subject maybe it would be a good thing to deduct debts from life insurance settlements, at least to a specified limit. aaa HOLDS DILLIXGER PAROLE WAS JUSTIFIED By Leroy C. Fleischer. “Os course,” said the spellbinder, “it's McNutt’s fault. He let him out of prison to go robbing the banks. This Dillinger . . .” Wait a minute. For years I have followed Indiana politics. I have seen politicians embrace the KuKiux Klan and Anti-Saloon League to be swept into office by overwhelming majorities. And I have seen reason come to the fore with the passing of time and remove these same politicians by an avalanche of votes. In the end, common sense wins. At present. Indiana and the rest of the country is excited. People know that Dillinger is a bad one. He should be in jail, and he isn’t. It’s somebody’s fault. Naturally, the Republicans blame the most important Democrat, Governor McNutt. And he points to the state clemency board. Anti,the clemency board—well—can't it blame Dillix gar

1 wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it — Voltaire. _

farmers shall destroy the nation’s natural resources. He knows that when the great army of American farmers lay down their implements and refuse to farm their lands, this great country that God always has blessed will be as helpless as poverty starving degraded Soviet Russia is today. Another of Mr. Roosevelt's “brain trusters’’ is Henry Morgenthau Jr. When the President announced his latest experiment in matters of finance in an address before congress. Senator Carter Glass opposed the plan, saying: “It makes one man, Secretary Morgenthau, a central bank and he is not a bank.’’

himself? And if it does, won't it be justified? His subsequent violation of the trust placed in him is no reflection on the clemency board that misjudged its man as all humans are likely to do, but on him. It proved that he was the sort that would stab his best friend. And any man—McNutt, Roosevelt or Lincoln—would have accepted the recommendation of the board. Such was his clear duty. He should be praised. If Dillinger had become a public benefactor after his release, laudatory words would have been heaped on every one concerned. But since he didn’t—w r ell—the board and Governor McNutt who acted in the best of faith are made “goats” by persons who would have probably acted in exactly the same way if they had been in their places. It is predictable that Dillinger will eventually get his just due. A known criminal can not live long. The next time, he'll be through. And until then, it’s everybody’s job to concentrate on his capture, and not to make political capital of unfortunate consequences. Surely. Indiana isn't reverting to the days when it was ruled by the klan and Anti-Saloon League, when passion and not reason prevailed. The rest of the country is interested in the future of Governor McNutt and it doesn't like to see him a victim of blows below the belt. aaa HE DOESN'T LIKE HEARST PAPERS. Bv Charles Hooper. The Hearst papers prate about democracy, but give little or no space to letters from the people which are the very voice and spirit of democracy. Perhaps Mr. Hearst feels that Mr. Brisbane, his special editor and grand vizier, epitomizes democracy in himself, and is the boiled down essence and composite picture of 130,000,000 Americans in a mass, or mess. If Mr. Brisbane be a great man, “great men are not always wise.” In a recent editoral he refuses to believe the truth that men have lived to be more than 110; yet he adds that the accounts of extreme longevity in the Bible are to be read “reverently.” Such journalism, cautions, selfseeking. lacking in earnestness, moral purpose, and crusading zeal, builds up a paper's circulation, but destroys society. tt tt tt BELIEVES DILLINGER ISN’T SO BAD By John H. Dtnnfr. Please allow an old subscriber to express his opinion. I am devoted to your Message Center, and can sec how different each persons views are, especially of the Dillinger case. I am against crime and unlawful deeds, but which is the worst {feed—a banker takes your money with a

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smile for his greed, or Dillinger taking the banker's money for his protection and life? Dillinger does not take money because he wants to, but because he can't work and must live. It takes money to evade his enemies, and keep on the alert. I can't see how a person like Jerry Taylor, can say what he says, and call other persons idiots. He must have no heart, or be a banker. Is Dillinger really bad? I should say not. He kills those who are eager for his life. And why not? The ones who tip the law off are worse than the outlaw. He is welcome at my house any time, and as long as he wishes. Here's to more Dillinger’s and fewer crooked politicians, and I hope they never catch him. aaa URGES PAYMENT TO VETERANS NOW By James F,. Van 7,andt. The Veteran'- of Foreign Wars of the United States are giving wholehearted and aggressive support to adoption of H. R. 1, the Patman bill, which authorizes immediate cash payment of adjusted service certificates for the following reasons : The federal government will be saved the annual appropriation of $112,000,000 for twelve years or a total of $1,000,000.00. The federal government will be saved approximately $10,000,000 in | administration costs of the adjusted i compensation act between now and < 1945. 1 It will discharge an obligation to ; the veteran that already has been | acknowledged, without increasing the national debt. It will give the right to the vot--1 eran to deposit his certificate, a gov- | ernment obligation, in exchange for ! new currency, a privilege that is ; now being extended to federal reverve banks and all national banks The face value of the average outstanding certificate is SI,OOO. Payment at the present time will prevent the loss through compound interest charges of approximately SSOO to every veteran who has been forced to borrow 50 per cent of the loan value. The method of payment proposed in H. R. 1 will require no bond issue, no increased taxes, no additional interest payments by the federal government. In the general fund of the United States treasury at the prt. ent time, there is a total of $3,126,t/.0.000 in unencumbered gold. This does not include gold owned by the federal reserve banks. This gold is sufficient to issue $8,000,000,000 in new currency without reducing the gold reserve to a point lower than the 40 per cent gold basis demanded by law. With the back of this gold reserve, all danger cf “printing press currency inflation” is eliminated. The bill gives the federal government complete control of the currency situation at all times. Approximately 3.500,000 veterans hold World war adjusted service certificates. They represent approximately 15.000,000 consumers. Purchasing power amounting to $2 500,000,000 will be placed in the hands of these consumers, a proposal that is directly in line with the present recovery program of the administration. Creation of a purchasing power in this fashion will avoid the dangers of graft or favoritism and the buildng up of huge political pay rolls. PRAYER BY POLLY LOIS NORTON Oh God. how many poor there seems And so little, so little I can do! Help me to know substance, supply. Art Thou, and only you. Help me to be patient, kind. To those who seek my door. To give unceasing loving thought Since I can give no more.