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SCRATCHED BALLOTS ELECTION contests so close that the results became known only late yesterday confirm and emphasize the high degree of discrimination shown by the voters. These late returns make even more pointed the observation that the election was something more than a swing from a repudiated Republican party to the Democratic party. With exceptional selectivity, the voters scratched their ballots in disregard of traditional rules of party regularity. Conservative Albert C. Ritchie, Democratic Governor of Maryland, who had manifested a coolness toward the New Deal, was voted out of the office he had held for fifteen years. Yet the same voters gave more than a 60.000 plurality to the more liberal Democratic candidate for United States senator, a 100,000 plurality to the Democratic candidate for at-torney-general and elected a solid Democratic delegation to congress and an overwhelming Democratic legislature. For nearly fifteen years, Ritchie maintained high popularity by his espousal of prohibition repeal. But repeal left him without an issue. In New Mexico, the voters elected one Democratic senator, a Democratic governor, a Democrat to the state's only seat in the house of representatives, and at the same time reelected Progressive Republican Senator Cutting, - whose defeat was demanded by the Democratic national high command. Two years ago. Cutting risked his political life to help bring about the election of President Roosevelt, whose program he later supported. New Mexico demonstrated that it had more respect for Cutting's statesmanship than it had for the administration's ingratitude. This was in line with what happened Tuesday in New York City, where the Tammany candidate for controller ran nearly 800.000 votes behind his party's gubernatorial nominee. It was in line with what happened in Wisconsin. where the combined strength of the national Democratic machine and the state Democratic machine was not strong enough to prevent election of Phil La Follette to the governorship. He won. with his brother Sen■tor Bob La FOllette, because their Progressive party advocated a more definite and more liberal program. And In Minnesota, the Farmer-Labor ticket triumphed over both Republicans and Democrats for much the same reasons. Last Tuesday, as never before, the aroused voters looked behind party emblems and candidates and searched out Issues. RICK ENB ACKER'S RECORD AGAIN the air transport record across the United States is broken. Eddip Rickenbacker, in command, and the other pilots, brought one of the new Douglas transport planes from Los Angeles to New York in the amazing time of 12 hours and 4 minutes, breaking his old mark by fiftyeight minutes, and averaging 215 miles an hour. This is not in any sense a stunt. It is a record that really means something. It means * that regular, comfortable and safe airliners now are almost abreast of the trickly little racers in speed. And speed, of course, is the airplanes greatest attribute. Granting that we are in a hurry, this flight means that any of us can now leave New York in the morning and be on the Pacific coast before the sun sets; that we can eat dinner in Los Angeles, go to bed and wake up next morning in New York; that we can go to the theater in the evening, take a plane at midnight, and be in Miami for breakfast. It means also, as Rickenbacker has always said, that all the talk about America being behind other countries in the air Is bunk—this flight helps prove it. The plane which set the record yesterday carried passengers, and the plane itself will go into daily service between New York and Miami over Eastern Air Lines. Its sisters fly daily from coast to coast with passengers, and others soon will roar over the airways throughout the nation. One of the same type, flown by the two Dutchmen, placed second in the recent England-Australia race. When airplanes are mentioned, America seed not hide her head. JAPANESE SIDELIGHT IT is an odd thing that professional baseball players should succeed where statesman and diplomats have failed. While Babe Ruth and his all-star crew from the American League tour Japan •nd enjoy a public acclaim, a national friendliness, which is as amazing as it is sincere. the statesmen are looking ahead nervously to the coming -disarmament'’ conference, wondering how much longer the fabric of world peace wnll be able to stand the strain which conflicting American and Japanese naval rivalries are putting upon it. Now it would be perfectly silly, of course, ?to suppose that because of Japanese enthusiasm for our game of baseball the difficult problems surrounding the clash of opposing national policies are going to be swept away. International mumps aren't straightened out •o easily. And yet there is something about Japan's welcome to **he American baseball team which makes a person stop and think a little. Ordinarily we see the Japanese in the light of their Manchurian adventure, with the shadow of great naval ambitions falling across their shoulders. They become grotesque caricatures symbolizing ruthless and pugnacious Agreed. Given a little bad luck, we easily , could put them in that gallery labeled "the ? scemy." And then we read about this tour of the

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American baseball team; about 65,000 Japanese turning out to see a single game; about a great popularity contest to choose the fifty most beautiful waitresses In Toklo to wait on the American athletes at the dinner table; about enormous crowds clogging the streets to see and cheer the players—and. In familiar fashion, to ask for autographs. Reading those things, we suddenly discover: Why. these folks are like ourselves. They like the same things we like; if we got to know them, we could like them first rate, and they could like us. And that, in turn, is apt to make us wonder whether there really neds to be that mutual suspicion and Jealousy which—not to mince words about it—has shoved us a dangerous distance along the road to war. If a handful of professional athletes can give us a vision of international friendship, shouldn’t there be some way of translating the vision into reality? IS THIS KIDNAPING ILLEGAL? NEAL, a Negro, was taken by a mob from the Brewton 'Ala.) jail, dragged across the state line and lynched in the woods near Marianna, Fla. The Justice department says that the Lindbergh kidnaping law does not give it pow’er to prosecute members of the mob. The Lindbergh law says that punishment shall be inflicted upon all persons found guilty of transporting across a state line “any person who shall have been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kidnaped, abducted or carried away by any means whatsoever and held for ransom or reward or otherwise." Claude Neal was not "confined,” nor “inveigled." nor “decoyed.” He was not held for “ransom.” nor for "reward." Decidedly not. But Claude Neal was “seized unlawfully” from the custody of Alabama authorities. He was “kidnaped.” He was “abducted.” He was "carried away.” And he was held “otherwise” than for ransom or reward. Decidedly so. The lawyers of the justice department say, in effect, that the kidnapers of Claude Neal wiped out their identity as kidnapers when they became the lynchers of Claude Neal. They say, in effect, that, although the federal government punishes kidnapers who try to extort money from the family of the victim, it docs not punish kidnapers who merely take the life of the victim. According to this, the mob members would have incurred the wrath of the federal government had they held him alive and unharmed, demanding that his family pay SIOO —which is probably more than the family possesses for his release. But since the mob tortured him, hanged him, and ghoulishly mutilated and exhibited his body, they purged themselves of any violation of the federal law. If that is the law’, it is a travesty of justice. At least, the justice department should test the law in the courts. INTERNATIONAL SNIPERS IN the blundering manner coming to be *■ characteristic of Berlin and Tokio, those tw’o governments continue to discriminate against the economic interests of the United States. The latest Japanese note refuses to give satisfaction to the United States’ protest against the proposed Manchukuo oil monopoly. This means a clear case of Japanese violation of the open door policy and the nine power treaty guarantees of commercial equality. Evidence that the oil issue is not an isolated one is seen in the reported pressure by Manchukuo authorities to drive American automobile interests there out of business. Following our official protest of the German government's discrimination against American bondholders, Berlin is rubbing it in by announcing an agreement for payment of British holders of German bonds. Besides this discrimination, Germany has informed our government that she is denouncing her commercial treaty with us. Os all the nations in the world today, Germany and Japan probably are the least popular. If history teaches anything, it is that nations can not live unto themselves alone. They need friends. Just why Japan and Germany should keep up this continuous economic sniping at the United States is not clear. It does not seem in the long run tc be either an intelligent or a profitable sport. LOWER INTEREST credit administration spokesmen tell an interesting story of a short-term crop and feed loan to a Minnesota farmer. When the farmer paid back $3,500 he had borrowed from his local production credit association, which is financed by the FCA, he also sent along a $350 check to pay the interest. He had been dealing so long with private money lenders that he had developed the habit of paying 10 per cent on short-term loans. Imagine the farmer's surprise when he received a refund check of $314 from the production credit association, with a note explaining that the interest charge was only $35. because it was computed at 5 per cent instead of 10 per cent, and because it was chargeable only for a few months. Probably it figured out a w hole year. "Since the farmer didn't draw out a large part of the loan until late in the season,’’ explains the PC A, “interest on it was charged onyl for a few months. Probably it figured out something like this: Say the farmer got $3,500 at 5 per cent in three payments: SSOO for six months—interest $12.50; SI,OOO for three months—interest $12.50; $2,000 for about one and one-third months—interest 11; total interest, $36 —and not $350 by a long sight.” The thousands who fought for the flowers over the grave of- Pretty Boy” Floyd probably have no books at home to press the flowers, in, anyway. Don't laugh at Hitler. Huey Long is grooming himself for the presidency. A French professor suggests a sort of "coproperty” system to replace the present wage plan of industry. During depressions it would be a “co-no-property” system. Mussolini approves anew plan for sharing farm profits, the optimist that he is. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm lectured some scientists on mythological monsters, the other day, but probably shied at mentioning Mars. '

Liberal Viewpoint

IF the recent elections were a test of the NewDeal, It has come through swimmingly in a political sense. But the real test of its ultimate success will be the soundness of its economic doctrines. The administration may have a threefourths majority in congress, but if its fundamental policies are unsound and anti-social It sooner or later will go down in ignominious disgrace. One only has to recall the congress of the United States during the period of reconstruction to find striking proof of the futility of political omnipotence in the face of a wrong-headed program. Indeed, one of the major weaknesses of the Roosevelt administration has been the disproportionate attention given to political considerations at the expense of proper care to sound economic -policies. If economics is to provide the ultimate test of the success of the New Deal, then It is already facing a crushing defeat at the very moment of a sweeping political victory. In an article on “The Collapse of the NewDeal” in the November “Common Sense,” John T. Flynn gives us a fundamental analysis of the outcome of the New Deal to date which not even Donald Richberg can laugh off or scowl out of court. It is no exaggeration to say that no living man is better fitted than Mr. Flynn to present an economic appraisal of the New Deal, and his verdict must prove a staggering blow to those who, like the present writer, have wished Mr. Roosevelt well. a a a MR. FLYNN minces no words, and he backs up his statements with plenty of proof. "Asa recovery effort,” he writes, "the New Deal must be called thus far a complete failure. The capital goods industries axe at their lowest ebb. Unemployment is mounting steadily. To the question—are we recovering?—the answer must be those five million families on the relief r 011—20.000,000 people—the largest number since the depression began.” “I think it a fair statement that the NRA has put back the recovery effort at least eighteen months. Its first poisonous effect was to fool completely the people into believing that the NRA was going to produce recovery and reform and, by the violence and energy of its ballyhoo, take the mind of the administration and the nation off all the really essential problems.” Preparing a chart of business conditions based on a composite of several of the best in existence, Mr. Flynn shows that the index of business activity on Nov. 1, stands exactly where it did on New Year's Day, 1933, two months before Mr. Roosevelt was .inaugurated. From the standpoint of business recovery then, this is what w-e have to show for the expenditure of $6,000,000,000 in excess of receipts since March, 1933. a a a MR. FLYNN goes down the whole length of the New Deal policies with his bill of particulars: (1) The NRA handed over American industrial life to the employer class, a fact which Mr. Richberg himself has recently been compelled to admit; (2) labor has been sold out, and the so-called “Magna Charta of Labor”— clause 7A—has proved but “an empty collection of words;” (3) even the drought has not saved the AAA, since its gains have been wiped out by increased industrial prices and the inadequate gains and purchasing pow r er on the part of labor; and (4) the financial policies of the administration have been pathetically inadequate or wrongheaded—the banking bill does not even scratch the surface, amendments have taken the teeth out of the Securities Act, the stock exchange bill was sadly weakneed at the insistence of the President's advisers, and a fatal mistake has been made in attempting to save the old debt structure. The government’s plan of financing through the sale of bonds is becoming progressively more difficult and the administration’s only ace-in-the-hole today is the gold profit of $2,800,000,000. When this is used up inflation will be the only possible resort. “When that moment arrives the Roosevelt administration will be at the end of its rope and the time will be at hand when all the crazy, contradictory make-shifts must be abandoned and the present group of uninformed and politically minded leaders must be replaced by men who have some notion of what they are doing.” These are good words for Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Farley to read between batches of congratulatory telegrams.

Capitol Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

THE diplomatic corps took the election with philosophic calm externally, but with whisky-sodas and some misgivings internally. The misgivings were not caused by the whiskysodas. National elections have an important bearing on foreign policies, and diplomats naturally are concerned. If they could, a certain number of envoys would “take the stump” and campaign themselves for their favorite candidate. In fact, certain quiet campaigns have been conducted very successfully over a magnum of champagne. Since the Spanish minister, however, was dismissed from his post here just prior to the Spanish-American war because of certain indiscreet dabblings in a national election campaign, diplomats seems more wary. They give their political views with one eye on the person they talk to. The other eye is fixed steadily on their own foreign office. a a a IT is not an exaggerated statement to say that Huey Long is regarded by more than twothirds of the diplomatic corps as something between a clown and a charlatan. The Mexicans have been getting a huge laugh out of Huey’s recent bellowings about Mexico. They take him quite simply as a colossal joke, much in the same manner as they look upon Wallace Berry's interpretation of Pancho Villa. Below the Rio Grande, Pancho is far from being a national hero. The Spaniards, however are, interested in Huey and not at all hostile. They remember with gratitude the beautiful speech he made on the senate floor last year about Spain. They buy every available book or pamphlet about the Kingfish. To them he is a mystery man, a phenomenon. They definitely do not dislike him—a high compliment for Huey in official circles. The Bolivians naturally have not forgotten or forgiven Huey's tirades against their country and his personal attack on Minister Finot. But they have nothing to say publicly against him. They only hope that they will meet him in an alley some dark evening. a a aTHE prejudices and likes of the diplomatic corps may be learned by studying the interests of their various countries, their commercial relations, their political contacts, etc. For instance, one does not see Senator Millard Tydincs. that much sought-after Maryland bachelor, sipping pale Munich at bier-abends in the German embassy. Nor Senator Bob Wagner, nor Senator Hiram Johnson, nor Representative Sol Bloom, nor any other senator or representative who is notedly anti-Nazi. There always will be a warm welcome for Senator King of Utah at th Greek and Persian legations. The Poles are delighted to extend their hospitality to Woodrow Wilson Democrats. The royal Italian embassy, guided by the shrewd and observant Ambassador Rosso, carefully revises its senatorial list each season. Yet Senator Cutting of New Mexico, a charming table companion, does not appear among the favored few. owing to his outspoken comments on Signor Mussolini. The French embassy’s favorite senator is Warren Barbour of Locust. N. J., who is popular there on account of his lovely wife. Her sparkling epigrams recall the lamented Ambassador Paul Claudel (lamented for his wit, not diplomacy). Among all the various diplomats there is only one whose political and social leanings are not reasonably clear, and that is Colonel Victor Mutt of Esthonia. He is something of a mystery, since no one has seen him tor the last three years.

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(Times readers are Invitea to express their views in these columns. Hake your limit them to tSO words or less.l letters short, so all can have a chance. a a a CRITICISES M’NUTT REGIME FOR LAKE CO. OCCURRENCE By Ralph M. Lett. The most precious thing in life is one's liberty and it is assured us in the Constitution that liberty can not be taken without due process of law. Yet, under our state administration,- headed and directly answerable to Paul V. McNutt, we have had our constitutional rights usurped and flaunted in our face. By the reorganization bill, chapter four, section fourteen of the 1933 acts of the legislature, the Governor is the head of the law department of the state. Under his direct orders one Mr. Barce stole into Lake county and “kidnaped” eight witnesses. These men were taken without any semblance of legal formality and were denied due process of law as assured them under the Constitution. Upon the efforts of law-abiding citizens to release them by writ of habeas corpus, they took the witnesses and fled. In Indianapolis they refused to permit the sheriff to serve a writ of habeas corpus by barricading the hotel. The liberty of eight citizens has been usurped and flaunted before the entire country? a a a CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF CORRUPTION By a Voter. It is common talk that a certain candidate obtained his nomination through giving groceries, money and liquor. Since the lower element has seen fit to put over a man of this type, what is the better element going to do about it? Would you expect a man of this caliber to be an honest conscientious offical? Are there enough Christian, church-going, law-abiding citizens to check the tide of corruption? When you go to the polls today will ycu vote for the entire ticket, yellow dog and all or will you exercise your privilege through the modern voting system and throw the levers for a man who is clean and upright and who stands for honesty and justice? Let us consider this situation seriously, then adjust our political bearings accordingly. a a a CONDITIONS IN U. S. MUST BE CHANGED By B. E. M. I am a reader of your Message Center daily. Your editorials are very inspiring and T never fail to read them. I followed the daily accounts of the Stoll kidnaping. Well, the writer of this letter was born in Kentucky just about five miles from where president Lincoln was bom. I believe in those principles of Lincoln, justice and freedom for all. And I also knew Charles C. Stoll, the father-in-law of Mrs. Stoll, forty years ago when he sold coal oil in a one-horse wagon. Those were the days before much lighting by electricity or gas. Mr. Stoll at that time was a great church worker and superintendent of the Sunday school which I attended. I was very much surprised when I read the ransom note where Mr. Stoll said the President was against the capitalists and the capitalists would have to stick together. Os course, we all know that and we know that is the greatest reason why we are not getting any farther along in the recovery act. If the twelve or fourteen million unemployed and the seventy million who like myself are underpaid and working for a mere existence would stick together like the capitalists, there would be a different story. I don’t believe in doing these

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New Deal Gains Lauded

By Eva Collier. In answer to the tree planting situation by Earl E. Williams, in The Times Nov. 3, let me state that President Roosevelt has done more for the laboring people in the last year and a half than any other President in history. Even if the next congress were asked to appropriate $5,000,000 to change the course of the Missouri river in order to irrigate the area for the tree belt from Canada to Mexico, why shouldn’t it be done if it gives employment, food and self-respect to the many who need it. As far as making the situation any worse, it couldn’t be any worse than the one Mr. Roosevelt has just pulled us out of. If Mr. Hoover had had a pet theory that affected the common people and had put it into practice instead of anxiously casting his lot with the capitalists, he probably

things by crime and kidna pings, but at the ballot box on election day. When the government takes over all banks and controls all capital instead of capitalists controlling the government and make it so that everybody who wants work can have it at a decent living wage, crime will cease. Alfred Lawson of Detroit, the founder of the direct credits society, has the right idea. Everything for everybody will hurt nobody. Until these things and conditions change, we can expect most anything to happen. a a a ROOSEVELT, NEW DEAL AID NATION’S LABORERS By Robert Mvther. After reading with a great deal of amusement Mr. McFall's statements in a local Republican newspaper I am firmly convinced in my own mind that Senator Robinson has on his publicity staff some fairly good “ghost writers.” Furthermore, if Mr. McFall has the ability to deal in fiction and fairy tales, like he misstated in his articles, he has chosen the wrong vocation; he should never have been a railroad man, but an author. To my knowledge I have never as yet admitted that Senator Robinson's indorsement or the brotherhoods’ were anything less than a purported indorsement for the primary, and the brotherhood chiefs, who have given this indorsement, privately put their fingers to their nose, and look up toward heaven whenever this indorsement has been mentioned. These same chiefs fully realize that President Roosevelt is the one j who is responsible and who has given his backing to the legislation that has been enacted in the favor of all labor today. Senator Robinson just tied his tail to the kite for the sake of saving his face with labor, and then came back to Indiana and attacked the President and the New’ Deal. In other words, he has double-crossed labor, he has not kept his word, he has not kept the faith. He never has explained to labor what he meant in his Wawasee speech, what he had in mind when he was talking about collectivism and radicalism, and the road to Moscow. Christianity had its traitors who were enticed for thirty lousy pieces of silver. Senator Robinson also has his followers from the labor movement. Labor is purified with a deflection of these gentlemen, who desire to go on record and follow Senator Robinson in preference to the President. Some people possibly go to school 'or do they?* where they neglect to learn the definition of the words “loyalty and gratitude” and their overzealous to violate these principles and promote the political fortunes of a man who knows “more things that ain’t so, about more

j l wholly disapprove of what you say and will [ defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

would not have gone down with such defeat. What difference does it make if Mr. Roosevelt spends money for a good cause such as creating work for hungry, needy people, for, after all, don’t all people create the government? My husband is an overseas veteran, and while we could use the bonus money, are we kicking? We are not. Our President had a reason for doing what he did. We never have been exactly down and out, but my heart and sympathy go out to those who have. I can remember two years ago when there were ten houses empty on one side of the street in the block in which we lived and only three men in the neighborhood working, my husband included. Today every house is filled and every man is working. I have not always been a Democrat, but thank God, my eyes are opened.

things that deal with misstatements and untruths.” Particularly, do I w’ant to emphasize and deny that I am a paid political worker. If the fact were known I think that it would be clearly a case of "on the other side,” and for the information of these gentlemen—the position that I hold in the state government is one that was inaugurated by labor. It is held, and always has been held by a member of organized labor, just the same as many other jobs within the Demadministration, where union jobs are held credibly by men from their various crafts. Governor McNutt has kept the faith with organized labor, and the laboring men of Indiana—signed twenty-one labor bills—and what a contrast his action over his Republican predecessors—McCray, Jackson and Leslie whose records in office were replete with the'vetoing of labor legislation. # Mr. McFall states that the President is not running for office. “What wisdom.” We realize that, but Senator Robinson does not. He is running against Governor McNutt, and we all know that Governor McNutt is not running for office—but President Roosevelt’s policies are running for office, and it is necessary to elect more men like Sherrnan Minton, and the congressional ticket in Indiana. who will keep the faith, support these policies, and back labor, so that they may receive fully the fruits of legislation that has been promised by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. URGES S2OO MONTHLY PENSION FOR AGED By a Reader Because it is of vital interest to the readers of your paper and their welfare, I am asking the use of your columns to present the following article on the Townsend old age pension plan. Briefly the plan is to retire all \ persons 60 or more on an annuity of S2OO a month for the remainder of their lives. The amount is set at S2OO because it is the lowest amount I on which they can live comfortably j and become an asset, rather than a liability, to the community in which they live. The only condition attached to the reception of this annuity being that the annuitant must be an American citizen, not a criminal and that the entire amount be spent each month, also that he or she retires from any business or occupation in which they are nowengaged for profit or gain, thus throwing these places open to the younger people now unemployed. It is estimated by competent authority that each person spending S2OO a month in trade or commerce creates a job for an additional worker. As this plan would retire eight million people or more it would make immediately available jobs enough to take up all the

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unemployment, put around two billion dollars into circulation, and this money going into business right in our own community would end the depression forthwith. We will have rounded the proverbial comer beyond which prosperity has been lurking so long. By one simple act of social justice we will have solved the problem that has puzzled the economists, philosophers and politicians of the whole world and has brought us to the verge of ruin of our entire civilization. The plan is nonpartisan, nonpolitical and nonsectarian. Any one can support it without changing their political or religious views or leaving their church or party.

So They Say

Nothing will do more to clear the air. to restrain excess and to promote political and business health than demonstration that this is still an independent two-way land politically—Arthur A. Ballantine, former undersecretary of the treasury. People here are so delightful in the midst of such a mechanized life —Madeleine Slade, disciple of Ghandi. A planned economy can not be practiced in a free democracy.— Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago publisher. Extreme specialization alone is not a guaranty of success or even of a job in a social or economic order which is out of balance—Arthur Cutts Willard, University of Illinois president. It is just as possible to shut off the current of a river as it is to stop the march of science and invention. —Max W. Babb, president Allis Chambers Manufacturing company. I’m glad we’re getting away from the flaming youth novels.—Sinclair Lewis, author. For the professional criminal, nothing could or should be done. But many men are not criminals. They are people who have committed crimes—Judge Horace Stem, Philadelphia. In the long run, the multitude of individual opinion works out pretty well.—Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Never give anything to the poor. They are useless, dangerous, and ought to be abolished—George Bernard Shaw.

Daily Thought

We have dealt very corruptly against Thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which Thou commandest thy servant Moses.— Nehemiah 1:7. NO principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.—Henry Giles.

Word Picture

BY MAIDA STECKELMAN Then cometh night, speading wide dark wlr.es and gripping close the feet of earth. Familiar structure take on strange shapes and blin’* their eyes like mammals stirring in reluctant birth— High above, where the passing day and twilight meet A hand seems stretched ir blessing o’er the town— Long rosy Angers resting there, and hanging softly down One instant—then lost again in evening's misty bloom.