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FRIDAY, MAY IS, IBS*. SPEEDWAY r l 'HE Indianapolis Motor Speedway apparently is gearing it* 1936 program to the nation-wide campaign for safety. The fjpeedwav corporation has Improved the track and placed new restrictions on drivers. Captain E. V. Rickenbacker and T. E. 'Pop) Myers, operators of this biggest one-day sports event In America, say the track now is the safest highspeed racing course in the world. Memorial Day this year also will see a continued trend back to the original purpose, of the race as a proving ground for the automotive industry. Those who have seen the practice sessions are optimistic about the new safety factors. The dangerous south curve has been widened and smoothed. The treacherous bumps which gave it the title of "death curve” are gone. The inside retaining wall has been removed so disabled cars may pull in without being in the line of traffic. The overhead wooden bridge at the north end has been torn down to aid visibility. Washboard ridges in the brick runway have been smoothed and patched with asphalt. Changes have been made in the track slope and the outer retaining wall in an effort to keep wild cars from hurtling over the wall. The inside of the curve has been widened 50 feet, giving more room and reducing the danger of a ptleup. Because of this, one driver, Doc MacKer.zie, averted a serious crack up the other day when he lost control on the curve. He had plenty of room to spin and came out safely. a a a r I 'HE Speedway classic as a spectacle draws more -*• than 150,000 spectators and makes the event the biggest occasion of the year for Indianapolis. But the Speedway as a proving ground has produced results for the automobile industry in the past. Fo*ir-w'heel brakes, balloon tires, front-wheel-drive passenger cars and many other improvements were developed from experiments first made on the Speedway under high-speed racing conditions. For a time, however, it seemed that this function W'bs submerged and the chief attraction was the spectacle of dangerous thrills. The high casualty rate drew criticism. Now, more than in many years, there is an effort to do something tangible in the way of scientific Improvement. Gasoline for the 500 miles is limited to 37 'h gallons, in an effort i.o produce higher gasonr.e mileage. Last year it was 42Vi gallons and Kelly Petillo, the winner, averaged about 13 miles a gallon at an Average speed of more than 106 miles an hour. We remember when the racing cars used five carburetors and burned all the gasoline they could. The popularity among race drivers of the tour-* cylinder car might conceivably aid the levelopment of powerful, light and economical automobiles for commercial use. Lifting of the restriction on superchargers might encourage experiments along another line. a a a TN the preparations for the race this year there are ■* more hopeful signs for the everyday motorist than there have been in years. While approximately SIOO,OOO has been spent improving the track, the old wooden stands remain. Indianapolis hopes that Speedway officials will consider the possibility of erecting modern concrete and steel stands as a permanent investment. The limes hopes the recent efforts of the Speedway operators will result in anew safety record on May 30, and that any cars which go out of the race will do so because of mechanical defects and not because of accidents. IMPROVING THE PARK A START on improving the newly acquired West Side park site must await legal procedure in completing the transfer of title to the 100 acres purchased by the city. Officials say this is necessary before approval ran be given for WPA labor on the project. The legal routine may take three months, they say. But in the meantime it may be passible to open part of the tract for use in its present form. An area of about nine acres is to be used as a playground. for 2500 West Side children. We hope it Is passible to make at least part of the new' park site immediately available for children who now have no playground other than the streets and yards. As for permanent improvements, West Side residents who have worked for years to get adequate park facilities realize that converting farm land into a modern park is no overnight job. The City Park Board, Justly praised for its action in expanding the park system, should proceed with these improvements as speedily as passible. LANDON, THE DEFT in forestalling attack is an art of the -* successful campaigner. That art appears in effective form in the Kaltenbcrn interview with the Kansas Governor. Two of the most obvious lines of assault in event of London's nomination aie on his dry record and his oil connection. The reply he made on the first strikes us as almost shock proof. "The people," he said, “rendered an overwhelming ▼erdiet that the question should be returned to the various state* for such decision as their citiaenrv wished. I accept that verdict and I believe that it is up to each state to determine it* own policy on liquor, subject, of course, to Section 2 of the Twentyfirst Amendment, under which shipments into drystates are properly forbidden.” That is clear, concise, should tend to dissipate the fear of the wet, reassure the prohibition st, and go a long w-ay toward stilling the memory o.‘ that “rally again to the battle” speech the Governor made to the W. C. T. U. in September. More clever still was the way he dealt with his oil associations, and, incidentally, with his Republican opponent Borah's No. 1 issue—monopoly. Tw>o birds with one stone. first he separates himself from the “big boys ' m

the industry and takes a poke at their practices; then on t-o the monopoly theme; “Asa small, independent oil producer," says he, “I was always coming up against concentrated wealth in the shape of big oil companies, pipeline companies and railroads. Naturally I became conscious of the problems of monopoly, of the power and tendencies of big aggregations of capital. "I suppose, though, it is human for a business man to want to get into the position where he can fix prices and eliminate competition, perhaps by friendly agreement or the Influence of size. “He thinks it will make things easier for him, but my experience has convinced me that monopoly is bad for every one, Including business itself. Men in monopolistic positions aren’t on their toes fighting; prices are fixed and maintained so high that buying power is shut off. If technical improvements are made, the profits aren't generally fairly passed on to labor and the consumer. All other groups outside the field of monopoly, particularly agriculture, are put at a disadvantage, and opportunity is closed to the small man. ... It will not do to think we can put monopoly on its good behavior and forget about it.” Something more than just clever politics in that; a dash of statesmanship too, but it does have the effect of “beating to the punch” on the oil issue, and in that respect is political art. Most of the rest of the interview was campaign generalities. But In his treatment of the oil and liquor and monoprjjy issues we see in this man, who is now so far out in front, deftness and a sense of timing, qualities that would indicate an ability to handle himself well from June to November should the lightning actually strike him in Cleveland.

THE ROAD TO HEALTH TkETTER health is the May keynote in Indianapolis. This interest is symbolic of gains which the city and state are making in public health protection. Child Health Week, beginning May 1, was marked this year by Indiana’s participation in the Federal-state plans for aiding dependent children. Mother’s Day saw the launching of a cooperative effort to cut the nation’s yearly maternity death rate of 15,000. Doors of hospitals throughout the state were opened Tuesday to citizens who joined in the fifteenth annual celebration of National Hospital Day. The Marion County Tuberculosis Association aided in observance of National Negro Health Week. The Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. is holding an allday health institute Saturday. Eight of the 100 babies examined there during the week will receive prizes. Miss Sally Metz of Lowell and Frederick Reichart of Dayton were adjudged the state's healthiest girl and boy at the annual 4-H Club health contest at Purdue. Children of the city’s 23 kindergartens will compete for honors in an annual health roundup May 21 and 22 in the Brookside Park Community House. Public health services and many other organizations are taking advantage of May as the great health publicity month. MUM /CLIMAXING these activities is the establishment of a division of physical and health education in the State Department of Education. Ultimately this program, proposed by Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state Health Board director, will reach the 678,000 Indiana grade and high school pupils. The aim is to standardize health teaching and to promote better understanding of health education. Indiana, as the first state to include such a plan in the Federal-state social security program, is pioneering in the movement that will improve the health habits of all citizens. DEATH OF A CRITIC AND PROPHET 'T'HE legal profession lost a distinguished member, and the nation a clear-thinking citizen, in the death of Dr. Howard Lee Mcßain, dean of graduate facilities at Columbia University. Dr. Mcßain was one of the most outspoken critics of what he deemed our out-dated constitutional interpretations, and equally a defender of the legal process. He was unstinting in his denunciation of the Supreme Court for its AAA, NRA and Railroad Retirement decisions. He was just as vehement against what he called the confusion and the haphazard government controls of the New Deal, and the politics of the Roosevelt Administration. The Liberty League put him on one of its rolls of honor for having attacked Roosevelt for politicking, but some of Dr. Mcßain’s other utterances are just as important. He said: "I am one of those who believe that the Constitution as it now stands is inadequate to meet the requirement of governmental action that will be pressed heavily upon it within the next 10 or 20 years. ... I believe that the powers of Congress should be extended very gradually—piece by piece. But I am reasonably sure that they will have to be extended ultimately. . . . There are difficult days ahead of us. ... I sometimes think that neither the depression nor the New Deal has taught us anything, given us anything, nor even pointed a way.” He was a bold and vigorous man.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT B.v Mrs. Walter Ferguson A N article by Margaret Songster in Good House--1 keeping will touch a responsive chord in many women, for it deplores the passing of sentimental gestures. A good many of us are tired of the hardboiled attitude not only toward babies but in our adult relationships. Undoubtedly the scientific method of caring for children has its good points and has saved the lives of millions. Nevertheless. I stand with the diminishing group of those who hold that babies must have love—close, warm, cuddly love—in place of the stand-offish and sterilized efficiency now so fashionable. Far more than anything in life each of us desires the approval, the consideration, the affection of those about us. And isn't it true that Heaven is assailed by the wails of women whose husbands have forgotten to speak to them of love? Neither diamonds nor pretty clothes, expensive automobiles nor trips abroad can compensate for the well turned compliment and the vow of perpetual adoration. Proof of this is given by the hordes of foreign gentlemen, often good-for-nothihgs, w r ho invade our shores and marry our heiresses, simply because they know the secret of the winning word—the gestures, the tender glance, and all the overtones of ardor. Now babies are only little bits of humanity, and born with them is our strongest mortal desire —the desire for affection. The response of the infant to one who, leaning over its crib, speaks to it in tender tones, is immediate and lovely to see. It is perhaps the most beautiful experience that life holds for a parent. No matter how rich he may be, the baby who is not kissed and cuddled by his mother and who has never known the feeling of being cradled in her arms or rocked to sleep upon her breast is an unfortunate child. But not so unfortunate as the woman who deliberately in the name of science, deprives herself of the joy of mothering her own like

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Our Town By ANTON SCHERRER

'T'HE thing to notice the next time you go to Ayres' tea room is the big round table, set for eight, in the center of the room. You can't miss it. After that, better keep your eye on it for it's the place where the Big Shots of Ayre3 gather strength to carry on. The day we were there President Fred Ayres sat opposite Vice President and General Manager Theodore Griffith. Director of Advertising Charles Davis sat next to Mr. Griffith. That ought to give you some idea of the setup. .A lot of youngish looking men completed the circumference. They didn’t get up when Mr. Ayres took his seat and we don’t knew why unless it’s another sign of the collective state of society everybody is talking about. a a a "V/fR- AYRES blew himself to the most expensive dish on the bill of fare but everybody else stuck to sandwiches and coffee. No desserts. At the end of the meal, everybody, Including Mr. Ayres, got his check but if anybody tipped the waitress, it escaped us. The table-talk all during the meal was funny. At any rate, everybody laughed. Mr. Ayres’ story got the biggest laugh. Apparently, nobody talked business. The only time we saw anything approaching business was when two of the lesser lights examined a newspaper. We watched the performance carefully, wondering whether it would turn out the way we expected it would. It did. They looked over the ads to see. whether anybody had stolen their enthusiasm. Whatever they found didn’t seem to scare them. matt T-'ERDINAND SCHAEFER of the Indianapolis Symphony is the only man around here who ever broke the bank of Monte Carlo. It happened way back w'hen Mr. Schaefer was a first fiddler with the Gewandhaus orchestra of Leipsic. The orchestra was on tour and scheduled for a series of concerts at Nice, which is perilously near Monte Carlo, and to while away the time some of the boys—Mr. Schaefer among them —went to Monte Carlo to see what all the big noise was about. Anyway, Nice at that time had nothing but scenery. Mr. Schaefer remembers having five Louis d’or in his pocket and remembers putting them on number 12 because it happened to be the number nearest him. He won and let his winnings lie, not because he specially wanted to, but because he didn’t know what else to do. He won again and for a second time let his profits pile up. man HE did the same thing six consecutive times with the same result and if you know anything about the behavior of money you know by this time that Mr. Schaefer was a pretty rich man. On the seventh play, with millions of Mr. Schaefer's gold on No. 12 and the bank broke, but not letting on, the little white ball made a bee-line for No. 20, quivered a moment, and stayed put. Mr. Schaefer smiles bravely when he tells about it. He says he turns to Brahms when he gets thinking about it too hard. Shows the stuff musicians .are made of.

TODAY’S SCIENCE By Science Service— A NEW type of radio generator which produces powerful waves less than a meter in length may prove the first step in the solution of radio's most serious problem, the congestion of the ether. The new radio outfit was demonstrated by its inventor, Dr. P. D. Zottu of the RCA tube research, and development laboratory of Harrison, N. J., at the annual meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers, in session this week in Cleveland.

Congestion of the ether is the big headache of radio. The reason a broadcasting license is practically worth its weight in radium, is due entirely to the fact that there are now as many stations on the air as there are available wavelengths. One of the chief problems involved in the realization of television is the finding of a channel for it. The matter is complicated in the extreme by the fact that television in its present form requires an extremely wide band. The solution of the problem in the minds of many radio engineers is an extension of the broadcast band, either upward or downward. The present “all-wave” receiving set go beyond the broadcast band in both directions, tuning in the long-wave European stations, for example, and the short-wave “police calls.’’ amateur stations, etc. But as is obvious it is not possible to extend broadcasting without entering into bands which have been assigned to commercial operation, ship-to-shore comunication, the Navy, the police department, the amateur experimentere, etc. Dr. Zottu has devised a circuit which permits the accomplishment of something heretofore impossible. He has succeeded In hitching a number of tubes together so that the wave length can be kept low and the power output large. Attempts to do this in the past have always caused the wavelengtn to go tip at the same time that the power did.

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fTimet readers are invited to express their vietes in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less. Your letter must he signed, but names will be withheld on reauest.l man VETERANS OF FUTURE WARS CALL FOR MONUMENT By Col. Wendell Ralph I.ute*, Indianapolis Post Commander, Veterans of Future Wars. . I wish to call the attention of the citizens of Indianapolis to a letter which I am mailing to the Mayor of our city. I call upon the men and women in Indianapolis to support our cause. After reading the following letter please telegraph or write immediately to the Mayor, Senators, Representatives, etc., asking them to give us their support. "Mayor John Kern, City of Indianapolis: "My dear Mayor: As commander of the Indianapolis Post of the Veterans of Future Wars I beg the privilege of asking a monument in memory of the great sacrifices we veterans will make in giving our all in the future wars. “My post also asks the city of Indianapolis to lay aside a large tract of land in north Indianapolis as a burying ground for all members of our organization killed in future wars. "We feel that there could be no greater tribute to us while alive, and nothing so pleasant to us af:,er death, as to know that even though we were killed in foreign lands we would be placed to rest among our friends—those whom we lost our lives protecting. “When I pause to think of the hell, the suffering, and the priva-

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN PRACTICALLY all babies sooner or later indulge in the instinctive habit of thumb-sucking. Like many other habits, thumb-sucking in moderation probably does no harm. But dentists point to the fact that o ,f er-indulgence in this habit causes a typical deformity of the jaws, in which the upper front teeth are pushed forward and the lower front teeth are tipped backwards. They have found that, if the left thumb is sucked, the teeth are displaced toward the left; if the right thumb is sucked, the teeth are moved toward the right. This serious possibility of malformation of the jaw should be a decided warning to parents to do something early about thumbsucking. If the habit is broken before the child is 5 years old. the deformity may disappear within a year or two. If. however, the practice is continued, the deformity may become permanent. In an extensive study, a prominent dentist discovered that 70 of 170 children had developed such habits as sucking the thumbs, fingers, tongues, or lips. Thirty of the 70 sucked their thumbs. With the exception of two children who began the habit during thei~ second year of life, all who sucked their thumbs had started it during their nursing periods. Twenty-one of the 30 children were broken easily of the habit, but nine persisted in it.

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Ineld** > 3-ecnt stamp for rrply whrn addressing any question of fart or information to Ttio Indianapolis Times Wsshmgten Serrieo Bureau, 1013 13thlt. N. W., Washington. D. C. Legal and medieal advice can net ho given, nor ean extended research be undertaken. Q —Name all the chief justices of the United States Supreme Court. A—They have been, in order, John Jay, John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Salmon P. Chase. Morrison R. White, Melville W. Fuller, Edward D. White, William Howard Taft, and Charles Evans Hughes, the present chief justice. Q —Where were Charlie Chaplin. Kay Francis and Dick Powell bom? A—Charlie Chaplin. London, England; Kay Francis, Oklahoma CitVs

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tions that will be our lot in the future wars—l am moved deeply. "I trust that you will take this delicate matter immediately to the city fathers, and am sure that if the city of Indianapolis does the fair and honest thing that a year from now will see two Soldiers and Sailors’ monuments at the ‘Cross Roads cf America'—one to the soldiers and sailors of the past wars, the other to the soldiers and sailors of the future wars.” man SEES DANGERS IN YOUTH MOVEMENT By E. R. E*n, Greenwood Before joining or promoting a "youth movement” in this country, it would be well to .reflect on the "youth movement” under three European dictators. Hitler’s marching youth are organized to do the bidding of the steel magnate, Th.vssen. Even the pogrom on the Jews was to eliminate rival banking concerns, instead of the usual trumped-up race antagonism. H'tler is shown to be a mere shadow boxer who consults his promoters before making any decision, and the country is ruined financially; its middle class, the great producing class, entirely ruined. Instead of regarding Hitler as a political spellbinder, he should be appreciated for what he is, a pitiful henchman for the most sinister political movement since medievalism. Italy faces even worse. Mussolini, instead of being the saviour of the oppressed, and who brought order out of chaos, is the catspaw for the industrialists and entrenched privileged classes, which means a very small percentage of the population as it is in any country. The hardships which thi3 youth

TN practically all cases, thumbsucking was associated with falling asleep. Although the practice in moderation may not be harmful, it is hard to draw the line between moderate and excessive indulgence. The safest plan is not to permit thumb-sucking to any degree which will indicate that it is apt to become an established habit. All sorts of devices have been developed to cure a child of the habit. One of the simplest methods is to wrap some adhesive tape lightly around the thumb. This makes the sucking somewhat disagreeable and, with a good many babies, will prove to be sufficient to break the habit. Another method is to place a stiff cardboard over the child's elbow, so that the arm can not be bent. And still other ideas are the application of bitter medicine on the thumb, the use of wire rings, aluminum mitts, and similar devices. The elbow cuffs seem to be the most effective. A professor of psvchology at Johns Hopkins University suggests appealing to the child's vanity. By this system, the child is taken from play twice a day and made to suck its rhumb for 10 minutes before a mirror. If the child is not permitted any distractions, while watching itself suck Its thumb, it will, in the majority of cases, promptly give up the habit.

Okla.; Dick Powell, Mountain View, | Ark. ’ I q—What method can be used to ! prevent the mist on the eyeglasses when coming from cold outside air into a warm room? A—Mix clean potash soap with about 3 per cent of glycerine and a little oil of turpentine, and polish the lenses. Q —How much did Joe Louis and Primo Camera each receive for their fight last June 25? A—Joe Louis received 144,836.16 and Primo Camera, 186,792.54. Q—Are all foreign vessels **nferine New York harbor required to have government pilots to bring them to their berths? A—Yea,

movement under a dictator has brought the country may be gathered from the fact the poor are obliged to buy government bonds in proportion to their rent, while nome owners are free, and so on through the whole ridiculous process of financial ruin of the country. Russia under Stalin can not be so accurately appraised financially from the fact capital simply is not, so the people are kept in line by a spurious culture or education devoid of the humanizing philosophy of religion and no ethics except as serves the state as promulgated by the state. Flimflammed youth is the actual title of the whole youth movement. Instead of the voting age being lowered it should be raised to at least 25. Educated youth has a duty to perform: to lead its contemporaries out of the mass of conflicting political rackets, among the most burdensome of which are war and exaggerated nationalism, and keep it in line; above all, to keep personality in lieu of policy out of the picture and everlastingly be vigilant as to its freedom of speech, equality of privilege under the law and a high ethical standard. This is the greatest and the only practical service of youth. MEMORIES BY MARY R. WHITE I wonder ... do you remember— The bright moonlit nights of a long past November? When clippity clip—was a musical sound Hoof rhythmically tapping the frozen- ground— And an old-fashioned buggy—with just room for two— I still do remember ... do you. A slender whip, not needed, just carried for beauty It’s silvery bands not made for duty. Hoofs beating in time to the hearts’ love tune. The time never matters, November or June. A memory picture—from the long, long ago Os the old-fashioned maiden and an old-fashioned beau. DAILY THOUGHT And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that, they will believe the voice of the latter sign.—Exodus 4:8. IN belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.—Bulwer.

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-MAY 15, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S XOTf—Thl* ri)ri*| r#p*rt*r for Thu Timra gora whrra ha glraart. whrn ho pleaaoa. In *earrh af add itoriea * bant this and that. r T"'AMAZUNCHALE, Mexico, May 15—This Is a preface: My education has never included a course in the appreciation of fine music. I do not understand the classics. It is impassible for me to sit through a symphony concert. At times I have been ashamed of my incapacity for the great strains, anil at other times, in the presence of the artists. I have assumed a defensive pride in my musical Ignorance. But never again shali I bow my head to the appreciators of noble notes. For I have heard the sweetest music ever played. This is the story: I was asleep in the front room of a house in this poor little mountain town in the state of San Luis Potasi, deep in tropical Mexico. Outside the window was a banana tree, and beyond it the flowering yard, and the fence, and then the dirt street, full of rocks and mud holes. And on beyond, some thatched houses, and then the river, and then the great mountain, towering there so rlose with that “looking down at you" attitude. All these things were there, but I could not see them, for I was asleep, and anyhow it was 4 o'clock in the morning and, as they say down here, as black as the inside of a goat. a a a \ FOR a while I didn’t know whether I was dreaming or awake. I remember lying there a long time, just half-listening, letting on to myself that it wasn’t real, even after I knew It was. From somewhere, out of the darkness, music was coming. It was so soft, so low, so gentle, that it seemed for a long time to be of the same texture as a dream. Do yofi believe that utter darkifess. and the stillness that comes an hour before dawn, and the terrific quiet that lies just ahead of a thunderstorm, and a few far notes of a muted trumpet—do you believe that these things can flow and blend into a harmony that is something of nature alone? I believe it, for I have heard. I looked at my wrist watch. It was 20 after 4. I sat up, and reached for my slippers, and couldn’t find them, and went on anyway. I felt my way to the screen door, and unhooked it. and stepped out onto the porch, and down the steps into the yard, and inch by inch, stone by stone, in my bare feet, out over the cobbles to the front gate, there on the street. ana THE music was near. I could not see the players. T could not see the houses, nor the street; nor the gate I was leaning on. nor my hand before me. But I knew the music was not far away. It was sweet music, sweet and swinging and lgw, but terrifically sad. It was not jungle music, nor ragged nor primitive nor poor, like the Indians themselves. It was like our own sentimental waltzes, only sweeter. I could pick out the instrument? by the sound. They were four. A flowing, undulating, hushed trombone. And a muted trumpet. Have you ever heard a trumpet at the mouth of a Mexican just before dawn—a Mexican who maybe is happy now, but whose heart is a whole legacy of sadness from a saddened people? And a guitar. Strummed with tenderness, and by knowing fingers in the dark. And a bass drum. It's sides were loosened, softening it. a a a THEY played for half an hour. Or maybe more. They were serenading a sweetheart, I suppose: Or maybe they were mountain farmers, down for tomorrow’s market, full of pulque, just whiling away the hours ’till dawn. I don’t know whether they were boys, or old men. I don't know whether they had on store clothes or dirty Indian ‘ pajamas.’’ I don't know who they were. Os what, or why. I never saw them. They never saw me. They plaved by no light. They played as a nightbird sings, playing with their hearts, by instinct and love. I leaned on the gate, and it w3 like a beautiful dream. I suppose it. was the darkness, and the surrounding silence, apd an awareness of the bare life of the mountains, and maybe a sensitive kinship with people who are soft-spoken and sad at heart and who hide in the night, playing. But it was the most beautiful symphony I have ever heard.

By George Clark