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Alcohol and After
A wholly new and scientific con
rribution to the discussion of pro?
hibition appears in the current
North American Review, based upon
the figures of the heaith survey of
our liiobilized forces in the war.
These records are now revealed for
tbe first time by Dr. Pearce Bailey.
the psychiatrist who had charge of
tbe problem of mental defectives,
drug addicts, alcoholics, etc, in the
draft.
The astomshing conclusion reached
from this heaith survey is that in
every thousand physically sound
American young men there are
twenty too much invalided from men?
tal defieieney and nervous diseases
te be soldiers, while there is less
than one unfit from alcohol.
Dr. Bailey explains in detail how
these statistics were assemhled. An
elaborate questionnaire was filled out
by the examining doctors with ex?
traordinary thoroughness and care.
Practically the entire 3.500,000 men
examined were thus reported upon.
The actual figure of recruits dis
th?-.rged for alcoholism and alcoholic
bsanity was 8,200, or les:s than .1
jer cent of those examined. This
result was astonishmgly small.
smaller than any estimates had fore
m Proceeding with the analysis
rfihe survey, Dr Bailey is driven
'i this extraordinary conclusion:
"The general opinion that alco
holiaia and mental defieieney go hand
in hand, that the drunkard ia de
feetive and that the Bimpleton event
uslly fllls a drunkard's grave, that
both combine together to bring about
ihe poverty and misery of the in
dijent classes finds little support
from these examlnations of the army.
The two conditions operate separate
ly for the most part, and no two con?
ditions which limit the normal func
tlon of the human mind are further
?part m their clinical and social char
teteriatics."
Here are the chief items of dl
ttrgence: Only 9 per cent of the
WEtal defectives of the army gave
i history of intemperance; 40 per
ant were abstinent. Mental de
fect predominates in rural communi
ti?, and, while not mutually exclu
?to, alcoholism and mental defi?
eieney do not flourish in greatest
airondanee in the same communities.
W the total of white mental and
fervous cases diagnosed, 8.5 per cent
*ere alcoholic, 29.2 per cent were
fcsntal defects. There were nine
??en gtates which exceeded the 29.2
Per cent average, and not one of these
weeeded the 3.5 per cent alcohol rate.
"* Maine, for a striking example,
&1<6 p?r cent of the cases diagnosed
*w? mental defecta; only 2.5 per
eojt were alcoholics. The other
'Utea Bhowing an abnormal> per
tutog* d mental deficieycy were
!l)the South, and their alcoholic rate
^w almost negligible. In North
^rolina, for example, the respec?
tlve pereentages were 46.7 and .7.
Unversely, of the seventeen states
*hich exceeded the average 3.5 per
^-t rate for alcoholism, none ex
^ded the 29.2 mental defieieney
Wa.
Tbe eame apparent antagonism
?t*?een alcoholism and mental de
h"iency is revealed in respect to the
jj'nerent races, and especially in re
*tion to the negro. Alcoholism did
404 ?xlst among the negToes; there
*ere only 29 cases in all. But there
**j* 4,055 negro mental defectives.
Dr- Bailey attempts a tentative
j?wiation ot these astonishing re
? which ia suggestive. The mei?
. ^wtives of whom he is speak
*?? those which have the mind
* child of eight years or below
1 e s^ndard test for rejection in
?earmy). But statistics show that
(0r ?very such defective there are at
fjj* ten who, while not claseified as
"Me-minded, are sluggish, back
Jjl and dull. Thus the commu
2 w?ich haa a high rate of de
" ,Te? is bound to be backward.
? *? ?&er hand, comraunities f all
2 *Iow ^e a^erega for maatal
^?ct wouid show more Initiative
***%. ps^rraMivaasaa. Thay
would be endowed with an excess of
energy and would seek artificial out
leta for it, alcohol among them. "It
I may be that alcoholism," Dr. Bailey
| suggests, "is the price they must pay
for their superior endowmenfcs"-?
citing the striking- fact that there
were 22.23 mental defectives per
1,000 draftees from Maine, as com?
pared with 9.24 per 1,000 from
New York.
Dr. Bailey does not take a stand
against prohibition save as his fig|
ures tend to demonstrate its power
lessness to regenerate the race. He
considers that the draft figures re?
duce prohibition to a minor factor
of reform. Not until the problem of
the mental defective, his propaga
tion and the special training of his
limited ability to a maximum of use
fulness, is faced aud met, can the
general average of welfare and prog?
ress be materially raised.
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Philippine Mugovernment
Governor General Harrison's re?
gime in the Philippines, now at an
end, leaves disorganization and de
moralization behind it. These were
the logical consequences of the Wil
son-Harrison policy. Mr. Wilson
sought to cast the islands adrift. He
continualiy encouraged the idea that
the Filipinos were ready ,to set up
for themselves in the family of na?
tions. He clashed on this point with
Mr. Garrison, his first Secretary of
War. He advised the House of Rep?
resentatives to accept the Clarke
bill. passed by the Senate, providing
j for a prompt renunciation of Ameri
| can sovereignty.
Mr, Harrison was an apt instru?
ment in promoting the theory of
separation and independence. He
| courted the leaders of the native
' independence party. He sought to
cfivest himself of political responsi
Iility and to transfer it to them.
j Under his rule the insular govern
; ment fell rapidly under native con
j trol and administration, becoming
j laxer and injuriously subordinated
J to the ambitions and purposes of
; local politicians. Reports have
| come to Congress that the Philip
i pine National Bank has been mis
| managed, that its health service
' has broken down, that school
standards have been lowered and
| that a general drive is being made
I to check the teaching and use of the*
English language.
Mr. Harrisori has been officially a?i
effusive apologist for American oe?
cupation and sovereignty. If he and
the President could have had their
way he would have been the last of
the American Governors General. It
will take a long time to undo the
evil effects of such an attitude. To
bring the Filipinos to a real under?
standing of our relations to them
and their relations to U3 and to re?
store the respect and prestige which
the insular governnfent enjoyed be?
fore 1913 will be one. of the tasks of
the Harding Administration.
The world has been upset and
sobered by the great war. It has
also been disorganized. It is one
into which no weak, small, backward
people can safely be cut loose. The
Filipinos are not people in the sense
that they have achieved political
unity or developed any clear sense
of nationality. Left to themselves,
they couldn't hold "together and
would fall a prey to some stronger
colonizing power. They lie within
a zone of peril. The Wilson Admin?
istration dealt with them in a spirit
of sentimentalism and unreality.
But in their soberer moments they
must themselves realize that they
have never needed so much as now
the protection and aid of the United
States. I
The Johnson Model
While Senator Johnson is occupied
in New York the mice are playing
in CeJifornia. The California Pub?
lic Utility Comrnission is increasing
street railway fares.
The law under which the Califor?
nia comrnission operates was passed
in 1911, Hiram Johnson then being
California's Governor and the law's
chief advocate. It gave to a comrnis?
sion appointed by the Governor
jurisdiction over rates, service,
finances, facilities and extensions.
Indeed, it would almost seem as if
.Governor Miller went to the Johnson
law for his model. The only differ?
ence is that Governor Miller would
restrict the membership of the com?
rnission here to citizens of this city,
whereas Governor Johnson* showed
no similar consideration for San
Francisco and Los Angeles.
Says the Johnsonized California
comrnission in its report for 1920:
Tho comrnission has not hesitated
to extend to tho electric railway ays
tems of the state auch relief, by in?
crease of fares or by establlshment
of the tone system, or by orcSering
radical operating economies, as would
insure a continuation of reasonably
good service.
The comrnission also has taken
opportunity to call attention to its
belief that the relationship botween
street railways and the communities
they serve should be radically
Changed, and that a modification
of obsolete franchise requirements
would dietinctly be iu the interest of
the public.
As to boms rule, Gcrarnor Miller
and Senator Johnson are ln agree?
ment. A meeting between them
should not be marked by acerbity
cr even a marked difference of
opinion.
The Last Hysterics
The hysterics of the gallery at Sir
Philip Gibbs's lecture at Carnegie
Hall represented the dwindling mi?
nority of Sinn, Fein. Father Duffy,
in his plucky plea for fair play and
candid discussion, spoke for the rap
idly mounting majority of Irishmen
everywhere. Every report'from Ire?
land confirms this fact. The repub?
lic is a discarded dream, save among
the few screaming extremists such
as tried to break up the Gibbs
meeting.
A large work of reconciliation re?
mains to be done. The mechanism of
compromise must be adjusted. But
once the South of Ireland rejects its
hysterical extremists there is genu?
ine hope. Provided foreign domina
tion is guarded against and Eng
land's command of Ireland as a mili?
tary base secured, and provided the
rights of religious minorities are
protected, England is uridoubtedly
ready to accede the largest measure
of self-government to her other
islands.
The chief difficulty remaining is
precisely those wild separatists who
howled down Sir Philip Gibbs. Such
a group of hysterics, however small,
is a constant source of irritation and
incitement. Father Duffy and Sir
Philip Gibbs both kept their heads
and tempere in face of these antics.
Other folk on either side of the Irish
Channel are not so fair minded or
self-controlled. And just as this hand
ful of radicals kept all Carnegie Hall
in an uproar and seriously interfered
with calm discussion, sothis remnant
of Sinn F6in die-hards keeps the
South of Ireland in a turmoil and
England wrathful to an extent ut?
terly disproportionate to their num?
bers or importance.
As for the audience's demonstra?
tion of good will to England it is
ui.doubtedly representative of the
overwhelming sentiment of America
once one gets beneath surface irri
tations. Here again the silent many
have little chance to stand up and
be counted; the obstreperous few are
perpetually vocal and striving for<
the limelight. But there can be no
possible doubt of the fundamental
convictions of the great mass of
Americans.
Decorum
In some agreeable light essays
Francis Hackett, of The New Re?
public, complains of the invisible
censor who is constantly at the elbow
of every one who writes. This im
personal but potent restrainer has
no official authority; nevertheless,
his blue pencil is always unsheathed
?and always editing free utterance.
Ancient is the WTangle between
"I will" and "Thou shalt not."
Seemingly that which irritated the
first mother was prohibition. In lit?
erature, as in physics, the centrifu
gal urge, which for some unex
plained reason regards itself as spe?
cially entitled to do as it pleases, is
forever enraged over the stupidities
of centripetalism, its tethering an
tagonist. Not much would be left
of philosophy if there were stricken
from its volumes all praise of tan
gents and all condemnation of the
gravitational law. Yet why Mer
cury, with his wings, should rate
himself better than Atlas, with his
shoulders, has never been made
clear.
Mr. Hackett, as ia the* fashion,
falls heavily on decorum. Why
should the pesky thing be allowed
any influence, much less power to
inhibit? He concedes, out of respect
to Freud, a name of conjuration in
modernist circles, that decorum is
perhaps a tribal agent to enforce
the tribal superstitions and to keep
personal impulse where the tribe
thinks it belongs, but for drawing
room decorum he feels loathing?a
feeling more creditable to his emo
tional than to his intellectual re
flexes.
For if there exists the spirit of
decorum (and it does), and if noth?
ing long exists without a sufficient
reason, the scientific mind naturally
is driven to find the reason. Freud
fumbled toward the truth. Man is a
social animal, and some measure of
taboo is unescapable in social life.
An individual may not aKogether
disregard the laws of the pack, and
this without' regard to their inher
ent goodness or badness.
Man is not only a social animal
but an aspiring one, and decorum,
despite its many absurdities, repre?
sent* his ideals?his notions of what
should be. He regards the future,
and haa a sense of what beflta a
man and foreshadows his hopes in
his rules. The Roman Senators
who sat immobile when a barbarian
invaded their company displayed de?
corum in a heroic way. So did the
Spartan boy who quietly endured
while a Wolf gnawed his vitals.
There is a reason beyond hypocrisy
why Ve pretend to be nobler and
better than we are.
Moreover, there is a law, akin to
one of mathematics, behind decorum.
What does Mr. Hackett seek? Merely
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the substitution of one set of rules
for another. Should he have his
way the new rSgime would set up
its new stnndards. Watch tha man
ners of a young woman smoking her
cigarette. She also has her ideals of
appropriate conduct. When the
polygamous and the polyandrous
have established sex proniisculty the
invisible censor will doubtless frown
on the monogamous.
Like Omar, doctors we frequent,
and hear great argument, and we
emerge from the same door whereln
we went A chief defect of the
radical mind is its lack of humor.
For Benson's Reappointment
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As a lifelong Republican I
was particularly pleased a few months
ago to see The Tribune exhibit another
evidence of its impartial position po
litically when it came out strongly for
the Senate to approve Admiral Ben
son's reappointment as chairman of the
United States Shipping Board. At the
present time that appqintment is before
the Senate Committee on Commerce for
action, and it looks as though Admiral
Ben3on will fail of appointment due to
the inactivjty of the committee.
I speak with full knowledge when I
say that no man to-day so thoroughly
representa American thought, in so
far as marine development ls con?
cerned, as Admiral Benson. He has
served in many departments of ship
endeavor during the forty-seven years
of constant work in naval and ship?
building activities which stretch over
half a century of strenuous develop?
ment. At the age of seventeen he en?
tered the service of Uncle Sam, and
during the forty-seven years he has
been before the American people and
the world no one haa ever had a word
of criticism as to his honesty of pur?
pose or intense Americanism. He is
the sterling type of man who seeks
the hardest job. He came into the
Shipping Board at a time when a war
work had suddenly been changed into
a peace work and with many of the
most pressing problems left for him
to settle.
No other man ln this country can
succeed Admiral Benson without con
secrating months -of hard study to
reach the position Admiral Benson ia
ln to-day. Only a man of the broadest
vision must hold down the job, and in
my humble opinion Thc Tribune was
right several months ago when lt in
dorsed Admiral Benson's reapppoint
ment.
What is the position of The New
York Tribune to-day? Has the muck
of an investigation committee been
permitted to sully the reputation of
the cleanest man who ever sat in pub?
lic office? I have knowis Benson since
he became the head of the naval opera?
tions. ln his work there and his work
as head of the Shipping Board he has
shown himself the right man in the
right piace. A word from The Trib?
une at this time will help clear a
rather cloudy atmosphere.
A LIFELONG REPUBLICAN.
Brooklyn, Feb. 26, 1921.
Resuming the Voyage
(rrortx The Saattl* Poat-lmteiUrjemeer,
Prospecta seem to be bright for get?
ting the Ship of Stat? out of d.rydock
ia the near f ntara.
Frances Moroccan Troops
Their High Morale and Enviable War Record Attcstedby an
American Oficer Who Saw Them ih Action
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The reply made by Secretary
of State Bainbridge Colby to Senator
Spencer*s inquiry eoncerning the
Moroccan troops employed in the
French Army of Oecupation ln Ger?
many is based upon the authoritative
and comprehensive report of Major
General Henry T. Ailen, the commander
of the American troops ln Germany,
which, after clting the actual number
of recorded acts of violenee against
women committed by soldiers of the
French colored troops in German ter?
ritory, concludes with an expression of
General Allen's opinion that the al?
leged wholesale atrocities by French
negro colonial troops had not, ln a
majority of cases, any foundation in
truth and formed part of propaganda
directed against France for the pur?
pose of creating antipathy to France
in other countries, especially in Amer?
ica.
So much untruth has been told, how?
ever, by the propagandists in their de?
sire to characterize the Moroccan divi?
sions as undisciplined hordes of black
irregulars prone to the comrnission of
all sorts of atrocities on a defenseless
population that I feel in duty bound
to speak frepm my knowledge of these
splendid troops. As the liaison of?
ficer with the lst Division A E. F., it
was my good fortune to be assigned
by General Summerall to act ih that
capacity on the Btaff of General Dau
gan, commanding the lst Moroccan Di?
vision in the operations before Soie
sona, which have so correctly been
tcrmed "the turning point of the war."
I reported to General Daugan as he
was moving into position between the
lst and 2d Divisions A. E. F., and I
maint&ined liaison between the lst
Moroccan Division and the lst Divi?
sion A. E. F. throughout the first three
days of the attack, in the course of
which they gained all their objectives,
fighting side by side with the Ameri?
can troops. The Moroccans were re
iieved on the evening of the third day
in order to make good their casualties,
which exceeded in percentage even the
67 per cent suffered by our own incom
parable lst Division. General Daugan
described these three days in a lettar
to me as "les troia rudes journees de
combat devant Soissons," and ha knew
whereof he spoke.
A Case of Co-operation
The cooperation between these two
divisions waa perfect. The circum?
stances immediately praceding the suc?
cessful attack on Bersi-le-Sec by Brig?
adier General Buck are an example.
At breakfast in the little cave st Dom
miers which General Daugan used as
headquarters the General eaid to me:
"In my opinion, Bersi-le-Sec should be
taken to-day. Will you present my
compliments to General Summerall and
tell him that if he agrees with me and
will attack thia afternoon at 4 o'clock
I will support him on the right 7" I at
once proceeded to General Summerall's
headquarters at Ccauvre and gave him
General Daugan's message.
General Summerall pickad op the
telephone, sayingi "Giva ma General
i
Buck." Of course, I could only hear
one end of the conversation. It was
as follows:
"Ia that General Buck?
"General, I would like you to take
Bersi-le-Sec. You will attack at 4
o'clock. The Moroccans will support
you on your right."
"Yes, I know your men are tired."
"Some of them have wandered into
other organizations?"
"Ah, you will lead the attack your
self? Then I know that Bersi le S?c
will be taken."
The attack was made and was sue
cessful, General Buck leading hia men
in person. A short time after I had
the pieasure of aeeing him decorated
for this gallant feat of arms.
The Breton Tpye
General Daugan was at all times in
close touch with every part of his com?
mand. Of compact build, ut as a fiddle,
blue-eyed and square of jaw, he waa
the type associated in our minda with
the Anglo-Saxon, but frequently feund j
among the French, particularly among j
the Bretons?a man of quick decisions ]
pnd indomitable will, whom men |
xibeyed with alacrity and loved to fol?
low. His staff was numerieally small, |
but every man on his job. The super- j
fluity of paper work which at some
ieadquarters kept so many men of
fighting age tied to desks within range
of the guns waa reduced to the min?
imum. If I remember correctly, the
t.ne typewTiting machine at headquar?
ters had. a screw loose somewhere and
was the only piece of mechanism in
the division not fit for an immediate
and continuous offensive. The divi
?lional reports which covered all that
'vas essential were written in long
hand, but not so very long at that.
Elasticity
My stay with the Moroccan division
was of sufficient duration to enable me
to realize its high morale, the esprit
de corps which permeated it, the elas?
ticity of its formations, its unsur
passed mobility, and last, but not Ieast,
its unquenchable deaira to go over the
top whenever parmitted to do so. I
ran beat explain my use of tha word.
"elasticity" by the following instance:
I happened to see a squadron of Arab
borse in the open, with no available
tover, caught under the fire of six Ger?
man pursuit planea. It was a day of
i.tful raijH the low and swiftly moving
cloud wrack obscured the sky and con- ?
cealed tha appreach of the feostlle j
planes, which appeared with startling j
suddenness. They were undoubted'y j
as much aurprised as was the aquad- ?
ron, but the advantage lay with them,!
Tind they cut loose with their machine1
ljuns at close range. The squadron
eeattered?not lik? a fiock of birds with
. tendeney in one direction, but more
like a school of mtnnows in shoal
water when a stone is dropped among
them. Away gped the Arabs in every
direction, no two together. The planes
paased on, and tha eeattered horsemen
reformed. There were a few upon thc
ground wbo would never reapond to
bugle call acrain, but very few as com?
pared to what wwuld have been the
rasualtlec in ? squadron af cavalry
Irained in a mote rigid school. The
whole thing was over in less time than
it takes to tell it.
Prior to the World War the tstj
Moroccan Division possessed an envi- ]
able history of achievement and mili?
tary traditions of the highest order.
The majority of its commissioned of?
ficers are and always have been French,
selected for their special qua'ifica
t.ons of initiative and their abiiity to
maintain discipline. Among its ele?
ments was the 1'ar-famed Foreign
Legion; the greater part of the divi?
sion was made up of Colonial French
men, Arabs, chiefly in the cavalry, and
a contingent of Senegalese, the only
black troops in the division. From the
breaking out of actual hostiiities until
thte signing of the armistice this di?
vision was used e:;clusively for pur?
poses of attack. It was never used for
holding a quiet sector, and was held
in reserve only for the time necessary
to make up thc replacements, which,
tecause of the very nature of its em?
ployment, grew in time until they out
i umbered those of any other division in
the French army. The rigorous training
to which the officers as well as the
rank and flle are subjected has for one
of its purposes the development to the
highest degree of the individual fight?
ing abiiity of each and every man in
it; so that not only could each man take
care of himself, but, when it came to
the corps-a-corps, or hand-to-hand,
fighting, he took his toll of tbe en?
emy.
The German En Masse
The German soldier is at his best
when used en masse andin preponder
ating numbers. His training has al?
ways been on these lines, which re
minds me that twenty-odd years ago
Von Gotzen, at that time the German
Military Attache at Washington, told
me the same thing sjtting on the slope
of San Juan hill just after the Rough
Riders had taken the crest. He said:
"I am amazed at the individual initia?
tive of your American soldiers; each
man can fight, as you say, 'off his
own bat.' With us it is different. We
are criticized for using the massed
formations of the Napoleonic wars.
With our men'we have to do so. They
must rub shoulders, be handled en
masse and like a machine." The Ge'r
nian soldier does not, as a rule, shine
in individual combat. He feels himself
at a disadvantage when attacked with
the bayonet by an aggressive antag
pnist and is rarely able to defend him?
self successfully with this weapon. But
more than the bayonet hc dislikes the
knife. He has never mastered its use.
Arid this brings me to the Senegalese,
whose only rivals in the expert use of
this arm are the Goorkhas. There are
authentieated cases of machine gun
nests being taken by the Senegalese
without firing a shot. Thy have. come
t.hrough the infantry iying in opeiw
fikirmish order, rushed the gun nests
and accounted for the gun crews with
the knife. For the reasons cited, the
Moroccan divisions, particularly the
lst, were anathema to the Germans.
?nd this division was designated by
name in one of the first "no quarter"
orders issued by the German high com?
mand. As a consequence of this or?
der, the Moroccans took few prison?
ers: an omission for which they cannot
in justice- be blamed.
Laurels Wherever Engaged
The lst Moroccan Division through?
out the war saw constant service at the
front, and won fresh laurels wherever
engaged. When hostilities ceased and
the French War Offlce selected the
troops for use in the regions to be
occupied the Moroccan division was
chosen as a part of this force, not only
becauss of its unbroken record for
cistinguished service but because of
the hieh order of discipline at all times
maLntained throughout the division.
The statistics quoted by Major Gen?
eral Ailen show that, considering the
rumbers involved and the length of
time passed in occupied territory, the
conduct of the division has not jtwti
fed the animaadversions cast upon it
ty the German press, but, on the con
trary, would compare favorably with
the conduct of any body of troops
similarly situated. The Senegalese were
withdrawn very soon after their ar?
rival ln German territory, not because
of adverse criticism but because pro
longed sojourn under the elimatic con
dition? existing in Germany waa undei*
mining the health of these natives of
the Senagal.
France is first of all a chivs-lrous
nation. Ths persecution of a beaten
foe is abhorrent to her. Her treatment
of German prisoners of war was at all
times humane, and this notwithstand?
ing the cruel treatment accorded to her
nationals in German hands. The con?
stant reiteration of the charge that
the French are keeping black troops in
tbe occupied regions and tr:at the
women and young girls have suffered
as a consequence is designed by the
German press for local consumption
here end with two objects in view:
First, to create ill wil} toward our
allies the French; second, to increase
racs prejudice here.
HALLETT ALSOP BORROWE,
Major O. R. C., lst* the Liasion Offl
eer with the lat Division, A. 8. F."
The Hiring of Hiram
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A question In whteb the tax
payers of New York are much inter?
ested in connection with the hiring of
Hiram ia, will they have to pay his
fees, or will the Mayor pay them from
his own purse, or from Mr. Hearst's?
If the Mayor intends that.the expense
to be incurred for the upholding of his
personal opinion as against the opinion
ai the Governor, Senate *nd Assembly
shall be borne by the people of this
eity, then ?cme one should warn him
of th? eoneequeaees of using publi>
funds for private ends.
JOHN CONSTABLE MOORE.
New York, Feb. 28, 1?2"L
A Week of Verse
The To-morrows
'These thrr.e porms are front a page of
bv Zoe Ak\rs in Vanity Fair.)
?IOW the oid things <:!ing!
Like a page that flutters in one*?
I fingers
| Ready for turning,
j But which one never finisher.
Is the o'.d life. . . .
: Scon,
! I have said in my dreams,
, I will go on new ways,
\ Over strange seas, to strange cities;
! I shall have new possessions,
New friends, new joys;
I will begin new work;
: But these things that I have tourbed?
; Always?
! Cling at my fingers,
And the_page is never ended.
Weariness, restlessness, dreams, long
ings, .
I Come betweeti me and what is written;
: Between what must be finished
', And the to-morrows. .
iAh! the homesickness?
Not for a home that I have
But for the strange places'
The nostalgia!
Not of memories
But of what has never been!
Ah, the distances! Tbe waiting
And the doubts! ?
The aching doubts,
As the storm breaks against th'e win
dows
Of this old. old, old house! . . .
Here, in a room just under the roof,
I Where the thud of the rain
[ Is like the heavy wash
i Of a sea, in the air?
i Where there is the clinging odor
! Of withered traditions,
1 And the sense of ghosts
\ Pattering in the shadows,
?? Leaving their sighing footia..
In the dust of the yesterday;
j Here, I wait?
j A stranger, a vagrant;
A traveler, seeking
I In a motionless ship,
I On a motionless sea?
The to-morrows. . . .
Departure
/""'ONE! Are you gope??O Summer.
best of all:
Best of all years and seasons I have
known!
Your bright days shorten and your
bright leaves fall,
And keener, toward tha night, your
winds have grown.
There were so many things that made
you dear,
0 Summer, dying wbeie the lields are
gold! ?
The hills, a certain shore, the rains thia
year,
That kept the flush leaves new till they
were old. . . .
But dearer even than your huoyant
trees
Were other gifts you brought that ahall
not go,
When your last blossom in your laat
soft brceze
Drifta from its high piace in the garden
row;
Or when the larch ehakes off her bhio
green veil,
Or out across a world of ashen-blue
The moon sweeps cold and clear . , ,
and finds no pale
New lovers chilled with lova, and wind.
and dew. . . .
Prelude
QLUMBER and peac* atOl liager la
my waking?
Within a drift of tmurfcs strangaly
mingled;
And, from the dawn, with ro? and us.
ber kindled,
Dreams have not paesed?tbolr thrtllteg
aweetnesa taking!
Still yon ar* hero, aa all night long I
uv you,
Now loat and now wtnming; m. by
leaning
Backward toward sdeep, I hold tho
vision'a meaning,
As within cold and empty ?raa I draw
you. . . .'
How keen thia phantom happineaa! How
certain I ?
How like a prelude with the fluteg ia
toning
The cry of love?the gladnesa and de
apairing;
The rising and the falling of the cur
tain,
The pageantry of ainging and of moan
ing. . . .
In Love's dark houra with aecret torchea
flaring!
* ZOE AEINS.
Spring Song
<*r?H?* Tti? W**tmi%*tar Gaeact*)
T^HE aspena' laat leaves twinklo
Like epanglea aaoifold,
The oak-leavaa gleam lika burniahed
copper,
The elm-treea glow liko gold,
The birch-stems are like allvef,
The beech-bougha are liko lead,
The yew-trunks are like iron pillaro
Raised above the dead.
Spviagj with her pretty garlanda,
Is dead and laid to reat;
Summer was red with 8 theuaand roooa,
But she died like the rest.
There's only Autuma, with dry leavea
shuddering,
Cold winda whlapering;
Brft Autumn'a bride is tho white-veiled
Winter,
And their little child ia Spring.
^ *. NESBIT.