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_ MONDAY. APRIL 1 1815 MEETING IN MOSCOW BRITAIN'S youngest diplomat and Russia's foreign commissar have r r ivrd hopos of European peace alter a fortnight ol !right over Herr Hitler's military .Meeting in Moscow, the youlhfully daring Cap*. Eden and the persistent Litvinov have woiked out an Anglo-Soviet agreement which mav stop Naziism in its tracks. This agreement, if it holds, will link into Russia's icace alliance with France and force an eastern European security pact. Then the dictator in Berlin ran step back into line or take the consequences of political and military isolation. Although the young Briton in the Bond Street clothes and the clever commissar of the Kn-mlin deserve credit for this diplomatic coup. Herr Hitler made it easy for them. The German dictator, intoxicated by the iKri'am of his mimic bombers and his goose-stepping troops, treated the British with too much rough stuff. This is the kickbark. H.tler had his chance when the British foreign minister. Sir John Simon, went to Berlin last week. If the timorous Sir John could have taken back to London any reasonable Hitler proposal, he might have won over the doubting MacDonald and Baldwin to a German compromise. But when Sir John limp' and home, burdened with Nazi threats, the British Cabinet wired Capt. Eden to make the most of it in Moscow. He did. Asa result, Europe may get peace, and he may be rewarded soon with Sir John's job as British foreign minister. Herr Hitler in his negotiations with the British gambled all on the Red bogey. He said to them in effect: If you let me kick over the treaties and build the largest war machine in Europe. I will wipe out the Soviet menace and save Western civilization.' But the British have decided—as the French and Ilaliaas decided before them—that the menace is not Russia but Nazi militarism. Indeed the British now are boginning to look to the proletarian government of Russia as the mam prop of peace. There can be no other interpretation of that remarkable joint announcement by Capt. Eden and Mr. Litnnov that: "There is at present no conflict of interests between the two governments on any of the main issues of international policy ... friendly co-op ration of the two countries in the general work for the collective organization of peace and security is of primary importance for the furtherance of international efforts to this end.” If the British government will earn- on with France. Italy and Russia for the preservation of a League of Nations peace. Hitler may quickly quiet down. Germany has a case, and a good one, for revision of the unjust treaty. Sho could be able to win that case potveably within the league. She can not win it by bluffing or fighting all of the other European powers. France and Italy, and now Great Britain, have come together with Russia not because they love Communism, but because all of these four nations have a common interest in preserving peace. And the future of Germany depends no less on peace, if the tragicalli futile Nazis can only be brought to understand that hard fact. A NEW ELEPHANT? THF forthcoming Kansas City convention of Midwestern Republicans may live up to Senator Vandenbrrg's description—"a grassroots meeting.'* Bat the healthy skepticism of the more ruggedly progressive Republicans is understandable. There was the inauspicious timing of the rail on the heels of ex-President Hoover s unconvincuig appeal to the "youth of the land. There is the strangely unanimous approval of the meeting given by such Old Guard stalwarts as Republican Chairman Fletcher. Representative Wadsworth and that Hoover keynoter. Senator Dickinson of lowa. These circumstances seem to indicate that some old dealers will be found on hand to try to shuffle the same old deck. True, there is a vibrant ring to the ultimatum of William Allen White that the Republican party must turn "away from the proper: -minded leadership which has dominated it most of the time for 20^'cars.” The party. Mr. White declares, should not be content with "denouncing the faults of Roosevelt,'* but should sponsor tangible guaranties to the common man. including "economic security, which means insurance against the uncertainties of ill health, the degradation of unemployment and poverty in old age." The old Republican elephai.t needs something more than a section?* white-wasning. Wc hope Mr. White, and those who share his desire lor real reform of the party, succeed. ASSURE PEACE! \ N honest-to-goodness bill to take the profits out of war might turn out to he an excellent means of keeping the nation out of war altogether. Take a look at the plan now being considered by the Senate Munitions Committee. Thic plan, submitted by John T. Flynn. New York financial writer, is reported to bear a certain amount of White House approval; and whether It does or not. it at least suggests anew way of keeping the country at peace. This bill would take the profits out of war with a vengeance. Under its provisions, the government would take 50 per cent of the first 6 per cent profits of corporations, and 100 per cent of ail over that in excess profits. It would limit all individual incomes to (10,000, taking everything over that for Uncle s* it would slap income uses on every one

earning more than SIOOO a year, and the ra f es would be stiff. Furthermore, it would draft general officers of all corporations into the military forces, and in case of need these gentlemen could be put under the same sort of control and pay scales that apply to army offle 3. It would dose ail commodity exchanges, forbid speculation in commodities, license industries and, where ncces-ary, fix prices, and commandeer for the government ail essential industries and services. The whole business is drastic enough to take your breath away. But that it would do what it sets out to do—remove the profits from war—there is not the shadow of a doubt. Declaration of war would mean the beginning of a dreary and irksome interval for business and industry, under this scheme; furthermore, the government should be able to pay all war expenses out of income, and the stupendous bond issues of past wars would be unknown. But beyond all that, it is highly probable that such a law would be a powerful force to make the nation keep the peace. One of the chief dangers nowadays is the fact that war does at least provide a great, if temporary, spurt of prosperity. Enormous profits are to be made. That fact sticks in the back of every* one's of war; for we can ne\er forget that however trying the war period may be, It will at least be a time of high earnings. We'd get a different attitude if this Flynn plan were law. The advent of war would mean fewer profits, not greater ones. No one would have any financial incentive for welcoming war. Passing such a bill might prove an excellent means of keeping the nation at peace. AFTER THE LITTLE FELLOWS '"jpHE Federal government continues its drive against the "hangers-on" of gangland. A Chicagoan who joined up with John Dillinger just before that worthy was rubbed out is sentenced to life imprisonment; two girl friends of Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell draw fiveyear terms in Miami, Fla.; in San Francisco, persons accused of supplying the late "Baby Face” Nelson with guns are brought to trial. It needs to be emphasized that this kind of work is fully as important as the task of cracking down on the ringleaders themselves. No criminal gang can exist in a vacuum. It has to have its small-fry satellites —the hangers-on who make its existence easy and comfortable. Such persons are really as dangerous to society as the big shots they serve. One of the most encouraging signs of the current anticrime campaign is the fact that they are at last getting energetic attention. —TO THE RIDICULOUS VERY American can think of plenty of reasons for opposing a dictatorship. One of the most cogent is the fact that the natural tendency to glorify the dictator's personality eventually is carried so far that it turns into something very like outright idolatry—and when that happens the government becomes irresponsible, in the sense that it is quite be-\ yond the control of any one but the man at the verir This tendency is amply illustrated by recent dispatches from Russia. An American correspondent in Moscow undertook to tabulate references to Stalin in speeches by party workers. He found that every speech contained someth” ; like "Our dearly beloved leader,” "< darling Stalin,” "Our best of all, " "Our *• ding star.” and so on. Such fulsome phrases are nothing less than ridiculous. But they are simply the logical outcome of a tendency inherent in any kind of one-man rule. Hand things over to a dictator, ard you have to glorify him—even if it gags yo,.

MR. SCHWAB'S ALARUM HARLES M. SCHWAB returns home from his rest cure abroad, in a decidedly bilious state of mind. • - We don't cecm to be progressing much,” Mr. Schwab said as he came ashore. "In fact, if the stock is an indication of public sentiment, we've gone backward since I left New York some weeks ago.” There was a time when Mi Schwab shrugged at the stock market barometer "Be not afraid,” he said in December, 1929. '"The stock market can not stop or stem the prosperity that extends throughout this great country of ours.” In July, 1930. he declared that i fter a severe test American industry was emerging triumphant from the depression. In October, 1930. he foresaw the end of all unemployment. And in December. 1930, he gazed into his horoscope and predicted 10 years of prosperity ahead. May Mr. Schwabs latest prophecy prove as inaccurate as his others! KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN '"I A HE Cutting amendment to the works-re-lief bill, setting aside $40,000,000 to keep open the schools for the remainder of this school year, should be favorably considered by the House and Senate conference. All of this sum may not be needed. But there is no doubt that many of the states must have help. Commissioner John W. Studebaker of the United States Office of Education estimates that 31 states have total deficits of $37,000,000, out of which $24,500,000 is needed to pay teachers' back salaries. Some 42.090 schools in 25 states are faced with immediate closing orders. and 102.000 teachers with loss of income. In view of their meager salaries, loss cf income would mean destitution for many teachers. As FEHA Administrator Hopkins says: "Teachers should not be identified with relit f.” The Cutting amendment will keep teachers of! the relief rolls, keep the schools open until June, and keep ct-Jdrer off the streets. TShink how much money could be saved if those bald-headed gentlemen who buy hair restorers would only realize this is the streamline age. V. .th other Republicans keeping mum right now. Herbert Hoover seems to be the life of the party. With one state after another outlawing heart balm ** * won t be long before'a man can up in one.

Looking at America BY GEN. HIGH S. JOHNSON

Ci HILLICOTHE, 111., April 1— A threat hangs i in the sky over Kansas City’s inland empire. 1 The air is dark with dust which is the ashes of ! t he burnt high wheat lands. The damage is bad enough, but the fear is of what yet may j come. There is a sort of suppressed terror in the talk of people from the plains country. Parts j to the West have been literally skinned of the ! top layer which produces the wheat. It is a disI aster and unless soaking rains come soon, it may , oe a major catastrophe. A curious sidelight is that this rich dust ancP volcanic ash is sifting fertilizer on other areas. People ask why this never happened before. • The answer is—there was Buffalo grass and there were no tractors, combines and wheat land plows. When I was a boy this country was covered with a thick, low, risp, curly mat of Buffalo grass. It made the f.-eatest grazing in the world. It resisted drought. It literally anchored the fertile top to the subsoil. It is gone as completely as the thundering here’s from which it took its ( name. Wheat raising, except in this stricken area ► and one or two others, is a hard job. Even with a gang plow and a tractor you can only plow three furrows. There are seven other separate operations, harrowing, seeding, cutting and binding, shocking, curling, stacking and threshing. They require much time, money and labor. tt tt tt HERE, where the soil was light and fertile, and the air at harvest dry*, we thought we had worked a modern mechanical miracle. The whcatland plow is a row of revolving discs. In this loose soil it will easily rip up a wake 12 feet wide. With a powerful tractor some men hook harrows and even a grain drill on behind the plow. That reduces three operations to one and speeds that one. The header-combine saves even more in harvesting. It reduces four operations to one. It cuts a 12-foot swath. It takes off only the heads and it threshes them and bags the wheat as it moves. All this requires only a few days’ work to make a crop. These improvements put vast areas under cultivation. To the destruction of the old anchoring cover-mat, much of that country was soon exposed and pulverized. When enough drought and wind came, it simply blew away. Some people out here call it the vengeance of God for crop reduction. Os course, it is only the folly of man. Our usual vast annual wheat surplus destroyed prices. Both extremes of politics agreed that production should be reduced to the point of profitable marketing. The New Deal tried what the old deal recommended, but wouldn’t try. The plan worked. A freak of natuve that never happened before and made it work too j well, should not condemn a principle so plain 1 that both Hoover and Roosevelt can agree on it. The outstanding lesson is the need for nationa. planning of the use of land. copyright. 1035. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part forbidden.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

AND quiet flows the Scotch these days at Russian parties. Soviet Ambassador and Mme. Troyanovsky entertained at a Tschaikowsky recital by Miss Beata Malkin. Guests sat on little gilt chairs in the red and gold ballroom and heard the plump but talented diva trill selections from "Pique Dame.” Crimson satin Louis XV sofas creaked as bulky New Dealers plumped themselves comfortably in the small drawing room. Missive, broadshouldered Emil Hurja, six-foot assistant of Postmaster General James A. Farley, lounged beside tall, ascetic-looking Attorney General Homer S. Cummings. Proogressive Senator Bob La Follette, whitetied and glistening like a cake of soap, waved cordially to friends. "Mighty fine concert,” boomed a voice. It was Senator Tom Connally of Texas, striding through the crowd, using his hand as a sombrero to shade his eyes from ihc brilliance of crystal chandeliers. The gallant Texan, observers noted, still uses the hair oil which he imports for his leonine coiffure from St. Louis s u BLAND, sphynx-like Soa-Ke Alfred Sze, Minister of China (erroneously referred to by a lad** as "the Chinese Ambassador”) listened with imperturbable lace to the soprano renditions. One wonders what Chinese think of Occidental music. At the conclusion, Sze applauded politely, remarked "lovely voice.” Envoy Sze, incidentally, was host at a tea party earlier in the day. He serves appropriately only the finest China tea and drinks it himself without benefit of sugar, cream or lemon. There is also, for those who fancy it, sherry imported from England. Sze has many bottles snug in the legation cellar. St tt tt DR. MIKAS BAGDONAS, Charge d’Affaires of Lithuania, delved into the mounds of black caviar gleaming in silver bowls and found it good. So, too, did maffy other guests. Eager spoons emptied bowl after bowl. Miraculously, new bowls appeared. "This is the only place in town,” remarked a diplomat. ‘ where I have seen caviar left over.” Ambassador Calderon of Spain and his clever French wife hastened away after the recital, thus missing the caviar. Speaking of caviar, is the delicacy served at the Soviet Embassy from Russia, Rumania or Persia ? The Persian (now Iranian) minister, Mr. Djalal. claims it comes from his country, and his contention is backed up by his secretary of legation. who attended the Tschaikowsky recital. . But a Rumanian diplomat took two spornfuls of the black fish-eggs and murmured: "This is Rumanian caviar.” TM) OF LONG DISPUTE SALE by the Soviet government of the historic Chinese Eastern Railway to the government of Manchukuo removes one of the most potent sources of international friction in the Far East. When the Soviet ambassador accepted a check for 23.000.000 yen (slightly more than S6.000.000) for Russia's interest in the road, he brought to an end a dangerous quarrel 40 years old. Construction of this railway marked the beginning of Russia's great drive to the Pacific. It helped to bring on the great Rus-sian-Japanese war of 30 years ago; in recent years disputes over its ownership kept Rus-sian-Japanese antagonism alive. Tnere was always the danger that one of these disputes might b il over into anew war. The sale probably marks the end of Russia's efforts to dominate the Manchurian plain. The number of reasons for trouble in that harassed region has been reduced by one. That Michigan man who paid an income tax of $2304 on an income of $2304 might not have been absent-minded. Maybe his idea was, “Eventually, why not now?” Officer in Army chemical division reveals that one ton of mustard gas would kill only three persons, not 30.000.000, as believed. To the military-mir.ded, that'll seem an awful waste of gas. Thousands of Germans are undergoing sterilization to blot out feeble-mindedness. If this keeps on, who will be left to support Hitler?

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(Times renders are invitrrl to express their views in these, columns. Make your litters short, so all can hare a chance. IJmit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names trill be withheld ,at request o] the letter writer.) n u tt l?. S. FOREST PROJECT CONDEMNED AS UNWISE By S. O. Murphy. Asa resident of southern Indiana now visiting in your city permit me to say a few words through your Message Center in answer to Mr. Watt. Mr. Watt said they were just buying up submarginal land, but didn’t the paper say they were going to buy all of 11 counties and a portion of several others? Mr. Watt says this forest project will put several thousand men to work, but what is to become of the 150,000 people now in these 11 counties? Can we be removed to any other section in the state or nation and enjoy the advantages we now have? I think not. What will become of all the merchants and other small-town business men in this section? They can’t stay in business if all the farm land around these small towns belongs to the state or government. There would be no tourists in the winter months. Who would want to live near a forest full of deer hunters ’ Would their lives be safe? As to putting all these acres in forest, how much could the average farmer get for his timber if the government owned 800.000 acres of forest? Wouldn't this put the government in the timber business? Where is this land we are to be put on? We can do European style farming. You know' what that is. ! Just downright peasantry. Didn’t \ they encourage immigration because we had vast tracts of land with no one on them? Now, the 1 country is settled; all our wild game j is gone. So why try to undo what j has been done in this way? Why ' does not the government buy an au- '■ tomobile factory and make buggies again? , Mr. Watt, don't' you think the present has enough problems to take care of without worrying about the things 100 years in advance? For without a present, can the future j amount to much? tt tt tt TAXES WILL DRIVE OUT SMALL BUSINESS Bv B. Z. A friend of mine just informed me that we will possibly have to pay a sum of approximately $75 for tax on our gasoline pumps. I think this is unjust, and it will just drive lots of people completely • out of business and cause hundreds j to be out of work. Can't someone see what they're doing to the busi- I ness people of this city and do j something about it? People who have enough money to be in busi- : ness also have enough to start in | business and it's a cinch they'll start in some other city where there aren't so many dumb law-makers. The so-called "big shots” aren't as; intelligent as the so-called "little fellows,” because the little fellow, has enough sense to keep business! going and fight for a living, whereas the "big fellow” chisels a living out ] of the working man without so much as a dirty fingernail resulting. | More than 50 per cent of the, profits will be paid for taxes alone, if all these proposed taxes have to be paid. In most cases, taxes are paid on : the same dollar many, many times. There is no system at all. but every one knows, there isn't supposed to be any system. There shou'd be a motto for the public office holders, "Less system, more chiseling. ’ A man from the gross income tax division was just out and said we must pay about $l5O sales tax. Every

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By Vlrs. Roy A. Putman. I would like to answer M. Rudolph Kuehn, who had an article in The Times on March 28. You are very anxious to have another war. Well, evidently you were too young or for some reason didn’t get to go the other time. If you had been there and had seen what the boys went through and those who came back without an arm or leg or both, some blind and others gassed, you would probably change your mind. If you could just see the graves in France where many husbands, fathers and sons lie, whose relatives can not even visit their graves. These men who died for their country were very dear to their loved ones left at home, but they had to die because of war. Many families in the United States were left dependent on charity because of the war. Oh, you think. it is a great thing to fight. Well, I only hope if we have another war, you will be in thC midst of it, where you can go without food for several

time any one buys a gallon of gas, he pays a 5-cent tax. This tax is supposed to go for the upkeep of highways and yet they block a road 15 miles from the spot which is being repaired because they say they can't afford to repair roads which would bring the detour nearer to the place of repair. There is now a detour at Madison and Troy-avs, which takes all the through traffic from Road 31 until you reach Franklin. This is due to a bridge being out at Whiteland, 15 miles away from the detour and yet business people have to pay taxes on Madison-av, even though their business is slashed in half and the road is to be closed until July. a a a FINDS SHOOTING SCHOOL GREAT STEF FOR SAFETY By Daniel O’Donnell. Having been an admirer of The Times and its policies for years, I'm taking advantage of your Message Center for the first time to say a few words fog the school sponsored by the Indianapolis Times and EmRoe Sporting Goods Company at the Indianapolis Gun Club, and its efficient instructor. Mr. Adams. It not only teaches you the art of good clean import. but gives you a lesson in one of our greatest courses of today, safety. I think the Scripps-Howard Newspapers would do a good deed by carrying this school into other cities, not only for the sporting end of it, but for the safety part of it. If it only saved one life, it would be well worth while. I want to thank The Times and Em-Roe for having had the opportunity and pleasure of attending this school. a a tt SEEKS COMPARISON OF ALL GAS RATES Bv Daniel B. I.uten. The article by Vincent Lyons In the March 28 issue bearing the title “Municipal Gas Plants’ Rates Average Lowerl is limited to rates for 1000 cu. ft. or less. One of the criticisms of municipal ownership of plants for manufacturing gas and electricity is that the charge for the small user is reduced at the expense of the large user in order to encourage votes in support of such ownership. Hence the article by Mr. Lyons, by limning itself to the advantages gained by the small user, seems to justify the criticism. It would be well worth while to present the comparison for all rates. At a time like the present when 10 million workers ire unemployed and five million families are reduced to lower than, sweat, sliop. conditions

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days and where you will not get the medical attention you need if you get in the way of an enemy's bullet. And you can sleep on the ground and in bams with the horses. Maybe you would like to go to war, lout think of the millions who will have to go with you, but don't want to. You say, “let those stay at home who want to.” This is not a matter of choice when they draft the men. You evidently think people are not opposed to war. Well, the exservice men form a pretty good portion of the populace and you might ask any ex-soldier what he thinks about it and see if he says he would willingly go the next time. You probably wonder where I get my information. I am the wife of an ex-soldier and I get it first-hand. I say, keep out of war and try to make peace instead of continually stirring up something.

by receiving government relief of approximately $350 a year, it would seem evident that we have too many employes, too few employers. To discourage employment therefore by publicizing a condition under which the employer may be penalized in buying gas in order to benefit the home consumer, is to increase the distress of unemployment and relief with which we are confronted. u tt a TIMES IS LAUDED BY KOKOMO READER By a Kokomo Subscriber. I wish to commend what I consider the finest newspaper in the United States. Your entire staff of correspondents is admirable. I especially enjoy Ralph Hendershot’s intelligent, lucid column on the financial page. Your paper is second to none. a a tt HUNTER 15 YEARS LAUDS TIMES SHOOTING SCHOOL By Joseph P. Seyfried. I take great pleasure in writing you in behalf of the free instruction on safety and on handling of shotguns by Mr. Adams, a most capable instructor. I have been a hunter for more than 15 years and thought I knew all the tricks of the game. But after several lessons conducted by Mr. Adams, I find that there could be a book written on what I don’t know. a tt a SUGGESTS PLAN TO BLOCK UNEMPLOYMENT By J. H. In these days of depression and unemployment, there are hundreds of plans to relieve the situation and here may I submit another, one which might interest every one. I suggest that every wage earner and every business man, whether he be a millionaire or small grocery store owner, pay 25 cents each week to a fund for unemployment insurance and old-age pension. This money would be collected and distributed by the government. Who, may I ask, would object to a 25-cent Daily Thought And He went into the temple ■ and began to. cast them out that sold therein, and them that bought —St. Luke, xx, 45. TO whom can riches give repute, or trust, content, or pleasure, ! but-the-good ana just?—Pope.-

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f piece being deducted from weekly I earnings? How nice it would be to know that j your 25 cents a week will be insur- | ance for you some day when you are ! too old to work or unemployed. Why even give consideration to those fantastic ideas of redistribution of wealth and other notorious ' plans, which are not to the point? We must now help the aged and I unemployed thf way things are arranged at the present time, so why not give this system which I submit some careful thought. So They Say I am supposed to be- an advanced thinker in this field. But lam for a good old-fashioned marriage until death do us part.—Judge Ben B. ! Lindsey, famous divorce court jurist. j Huey Long is the tool of these : rich men because he won’t support 1 a real share-the-wcalth plan.—Rep. i P. L. Gassaway of Oklahoma. True beauty is born of intelli- ' gence. Only intelligent people can be truly beautiful.—H. Jean Crawford, director of women at the University of Pennsylvania. Kings and queens belong to a bygone day. Royalty is dying; this is the age of democracy. The voice and welfare of the common people must be paramount to everything else.—Gen. George Kondylis, “hero” of the Greek revolution. # I don’t think they ("the attorneys) 1 ran defend me properly. I have j only one neck, and I’m particular ! what happens to it.—Adam Richetti, | lieutenant of the late “Pretty Boy” Floyd. Mr. Riehberg oner had ants in his | pants. Now he has tarantulas. — Gen. Hugh Johnson. It is proposed to strike at the economic heart of the war problem by . . . requiring that no future war shall be fought on borrowed money, but shall be paid for substantially by current taxes. —Senator Vandenberg, Michigan. In the dim past my ancestors may j have been Jews or Catholics or Protestants—what I am more inj terested in is whether they were good citizens and believers in God. — President Roosevelt. In my opinion. NRA Is Chicago’s | old “protection racket,” in theory, and like John Dillinger's wooden gun, in practice, sheer bluff, menacing if it goes over, but ridiculous in reality.—Marvin W. Coleman, Cincinnati business man who lost his Blue Eagle.

DUTY

BY' FAUGHN MANLOVE I saw her as she slowly went. ‘Twas plenty that she had, And yet beneath her bravest smile A lack she felt, which all the while Made her seem stern and sad. And close behind, in somber brown, Necessity, with dourest frown, Compelled her all the day. I saw her yet again and she Lacked many needful things. Yet she magnetic was, and sweet. And danced along as if her feet Were shod with Hermes’ wings. And close beside, with eyes aglow, And words of sweet praise whispered low, Went - Love - along- the- way.