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Ph>te?ing the Bench
Sminent lawyers of both parties
took part in, the meeting Friday
sight which formally launched Judge
Cobalan'? campaign for re-election
at Surrogate. These men ire or?
ganization men. They believe in
party politics. They seldom quarrel
with the duly constituted leaders of
fcetr parties. But they hold, as do j
?J Intelligent citizenB, that the judi
e?iry should be kept out of politics.
TJicy believe that fitness to sit on the
bench should be the sole qualification
for nominations. They contend-that
men who have proved their fitness by
excellent records for ability and in?
tegrity should be continued in office
m long as they are able and willing
to serve.
Judge Cohalan made it clear that
he was making the fight not because
lie desired longer service on the Sur?
rogate*? bench, but because he re
?ented an effort to unseat him for
purely political reasons. He or any
other lawyer of prominence and re?
pute can make far more money in
prfrate practice than he receives in
itl&ry for his services: as a Judge.
He was put into the fight by the
laesnbers of the Bar Association and
ti? County Lawyers' Association,
w_we petition for his renomination
was denied,
.fase associaticms Tallied round!
I to on Friday night, their repre
| Htat?ves including such men as
?lutin Conboy, personal counsel for
ferles F. Murphy; Emory R. Buck
Mr, Henry A. Wise, former United
States District Attorney, and a larga
a?nber of others.
The support of these men and of
Ott? in sympathy with them will re
torn Mr. Cohalan to the bench. The
fight Is not In the least concerned
with the state, county or city cam
P*igu- It is not a partisan battle.
? b an organized effort to keep the
jWiciary independent of politics and
Political influence. If it continues
Wb the same enthusiasm as marked
Its beginning Mr. Cohalan will be re?
flected by a handsome plurality.
Bone-Dry Shipping
attorney General Daugherty'B In- j
? ewpretation of the Volstead act Im?
posai new burdens-^at least tempo
wly*?on American shipping. It
JJUlao injure American ports by
J__JI tasiness to rival Canadian
. J^?0118 ?"-stolon of the law
J? United States undertakes to lay
*JWI ? rule of the sea for its marine
*Mch no other marine observes and
I tap?se on ships of other nations
Storing our waters restrictions
?ich they do not have to submit to
| * any other waters. If we were the
??trolling factor in th? sea trade
*mlght hope to set up a new regu
*wm and enforce it on the rest of
??world. But we are still strug
Py desperately to revive our mer
Pat marine. We have powerful
ecewi-<**rrying rivals and are de?
cent upon them for the transpor
?tjon of a great part of our imports
W(l exports and of our inbound and
J^hound passengers. Why put a
art<-er handicap on American pas
***&* business outside the three
g Umit? Why force foreign ship
**? Unes with vast -resources to de
*% Canadian ports, on both the
Atlantic and the Pacific, at our ex?
pense?
Tne Vobtead act, as now con
?J*ued. Plays havoc with American
???pla* interests and with this
try's ocean service generally.
^Administration has frankly rec
i lze? tna injurious effects of such
construction. The Shipping Board
JJ? *0l-*ght the restriction on the sale
* l?,uor on American passenger
iiK??Which the Daugherty opinion
6n?> Yet the law ta the law?
, ~ lU ??aning ought to be cleared
M*c a? Proi?iptly as Possible. Foreign
L?,see,k and obtai" l?U?ic
'5* ?r. Lasker thinks, and in that
; - increase their present advan
W- over American lines. It is to be
then therefore' that a review of
dite? ?n ?erty ruling may be ex*e
Tj " th? Supreme Court.
?""8 ?tage in the fight fo? the
restoration of Anyrican shipping it
would be folly to throw awav any
economic weapon> If the Volstead
act forbids the sale of liquors on
American vessels when such sale is a
necessary incident of competition
then the law ought to be amended so
as to give the passenger ships of the
American merchant marine a fight?
ing chance
Small Town Stuff
The visiting bankers have courte?
ously expressed their pleasure at
their stay in New York, and it re?
mains for New Yorkers to realize
just how much pleasure they have
had and wisdom they have learned
from this adventure in true Ameri?
can hospitality.
That cold shoulder and unseeing
stare which New York is generally
supposed to offer to visitors are prac?
tically unknown elsewhere in Amer?
ica. Whether you*are a banker or a
lecturer or a mere friend, from the
moment you alight upon the station
platform to the moment that you
climb aboard your train to depart
life is one continuous glad hand. If
the cordiality were not whole-heart?
edly sincere it might seem a bit op?
pressive, especially to dwellers in
aloof New York and aloofer Europe.
But the true spirit of hospitality is
there?left over from lonelier and
warmer pioneer days?and it consti?
tutes just one of the finest things in
America.
The happy thought of our New(
York bankers was to pretend that
New York was a small American
town and to welcome and entertain
their guests with all the home-town
stuff. They have succeeded with a
will, and the general testimony is
that a pleasant time was had by all.
More than that, by just this friendly,
intimate hobnobbing both hosts and
guests have learned more about one
another's problems than could ever
be achieved in a month of conven?
tions.
That is the moral of the adventure,
we submit. There is a real value
in warm, old-fashioned hospitality
along the lines of understanding,
forbearance and co-operation. The
bankers' convention was the most
successful gathering of the kind New
York has seen for many years.
Small-town stuff did quite as much
as metropolitan splendors in achiev?
ing that end.
Hours of Labor
That it is not necessary for men
to work twelve hours a day in any
of the great industries of this coun?
try was an expert and authorita?
tive declaration made recently in
Boston. It was the gist of a .de?
tailed report made by the committee
on work periods of the Federated |
American Engineering Society to
the execrut?ve board of the American
Engineering Council.
This report was the result of two
years of painstaking investigation
of industrial and economio condi?
tions in all parts of the country
and in all important lines of ac?
tivity; the second great undertak?
ing of the Engineering Council
since it was founded by Mr. Herbert
Hoover, the first being the investi?
gation and report on the elimination
of waste. The work was performed
by competent and Impartial experts,
and its scope comprised practically
every considerable industry ? iron
and steel, brick and pottery, chemi?
cals of all kinds, sugar, oil, flour,
paper, textiles, automobiles, mining,
railroads, shipping, telegraph and
telephone, police service and what
not.
It was found that there were few
continuously operated industries
without some twelve-hour plants.
Some were overwhelmingly on a
three-shift or eight-hour basis. The
majority were partly on two-shift
and partly on three-shift bases, with
the latter preponderating. In about
half a dozen industries the two
shift system was practically uni?
versal, these including the Iron and
steel industries. In all Industries,
excepting iron and steel, the number
of employees working eight hours
was much larger than that working
twelve hours, but if iron and steel
were included the twelve-hour men
would be in the majority.
Naturally much attention was
given to the question of changing
the 150,000 workmen of the United
States Steel Corporation and the
other thousands in other plants of
that industry from the twelve-hour
to the eight-hour basis. The net
result of the investigation was that
such a change would be practicable
both economically and technically,
and that, in brief, there is no neces?
sity, on either economic or technical
grounds, for men to work on the
average more than eight hours a
day in any of the industries.
If this report is adopted by the
Federated American Engineering
Society, or by its ?executive body, a
mighty impulse will be given toward
placing all of industrial America on
an eight-hour basis. This will be a
gratifying achievement, confirming
what has for years been a steadily
growing belief on the part of socioloa
gists and economists. It would, in?
deed, be a disappointing reflection
upon our civilization & the multipli?
cation of time-saving and labor*
saving devices did not enable men
to do the work of the world in less
time than was formerly required.
The Roaring Eighties
How superfluous was the quest of
Ponce de Leon and what rubbish
nome one wroto about "If Youth but
knew, if Age but could!" Age not
cnly can, but does. The news is
filled with lively octogenarians.
Mrs. Felton, of Georgia, at eighty
seven enters the Senate. "Step on
the gas!" yells Uncle Joe Cannon,
setting out by motor from the capi?
tal for Danville, 111. "I like the
bumps at eighty-seven years, for
they remind me of life." Out in
Reno Mrs. Fannie Hazlett, only
eighty-five, goes up in an airplane
and finds it an improvement over the
prairie schooner. Mrs. Richardson,
eighty-six, a football fan, of Daven?
port, Iowa, charters a special car to
carry three generations of Richard
sons, headed by herself, to the Yale
Iowa game at New Haven. Up in
Danbury, Conn., young W. H. Nel?
son, in his eighty-second year, drives
his trotter at the fair and takes a
heat to the t?me of 2:11 hi.
Tnf tnorituri salvtcumu? idea has
?gene out of fashion. There Is no
such thing as being superannuated.
Old age is simply a bad habit that
nobody need acquire.
Watch Your Step!
There is a lesson for every one in
Safety Week, which starts to-day.
Too many accidents in the city are
due to the carelessness of the pedes?
trian. Too often he does not look
where he is going, or else allows his
haste to get the better of his judg?
ment. How many people, in order
to save half a minute, try to dash
through crowded traffic, at the peril
of their own lives and possibly en?
dangering others?
In New York Cfty alone more than
a thousand persons were killed last
year in trafilo accidents. Most of
these were struck by automobiles^
and in most cases the drivers were
helpless to prevent the aocidents.
When a pedestrian darts out sud?
denly from behind another ear It is
often Impossible for a driver to miss
him, even at the risk of wrecking his
own car. It has been estimated that
an automobile driving at the rate of
fifteen miles an hour covers twenty
two feet in a second. To cross in
front of fast-moving vehicles is
therefore highly dangerous.
The Safety Institute of America,
which Is directing the Safety Week
campaign, has adopted the slogan,
"Don't get hurt!" Perhaps even
more telling than this is the familiar
cry of "Watch your step!" for by
greater attention in streets and else?
where the danger of getting hurt
would be much diminished. This is
a lesson which old and young should
take to heart.
Africa-? Game
The slaughter of the buffalo on
the Westeirn plains in the '60s and
'70s of the last century has always
been cited as one of the most wan?
ton acts of destruction of wild life
ever committed. And yet, if re?
ports from South Africa are truo,
the w?d life of Africa is threatened
with the fate of the American bison.
Since the war the restrictions on
hunting seem to have been loos?
ened to such an extent that several
species are threatened with ex?
tinction.
No one will object to the slaugh?
ter of pests. In our Western states
wolves and coyotes have done much
damage and no good. In other re?
gions the same has been true of
the bear. In Africa this may be
said of the lion. Nor will any one
object to killing animals for food,
or even for their skins, so long as
the slaughter is not wanton and in?
discriminate.
Unfortunately, in South Africa
in the last two years the destruction
has had no justifiable motive. Tales
of hunting lions in flivvers have al?
ready been widely circulated. The
sport apparently Involves sem*.
danger. But other less dangerous
animals also have been hunted with
flivvers, which afford rapid trans?
portation to distant hunting
grounds, find even the headlights
have been used to blind game, much
as torches were used in the old days
in hunting moose. To the natural
waste by the natives has been
added increased destruction by the
farmers.
So serious has become the danger
of extinction of some of the most
valuable animals?among them are
mentioned the bontebok and the
nyala (both species of antelope),
the mountain zebra and the white
rhinoceros?that even Americans
interested In game conservation, in?
cluding such men as Dr. William
T. Hornaday, director of tho
Zoological Park, have taken a hand,
in endeavoring to persuade the
people of South Africa to enforce
stringent laws to protect what is
left of native wild life.
It would be a shame if the rath
less and wasteful destruction of our
buffalo should be copied in the Dark
(Continent* ,._.___,.
WE OUGHT TO BE GLAD WE'RE ALIVE
Copyright. 1928. Now York Tribuno Ino.
Naval Control of the Straits
Th? naval correspenden* of "Tko
London Morning Posf contribute* to
that paper the following review of th?
situation a* the Dardanelles:
Th? opinion o? the Cabinet, bastid, of
course, on the advice of lti naval ad?
visers, that naval action alone ehould
suffice to prevent Kemaliat forces
crossing to Europe, would appear to be
perfectly justified. Although the con?
ditions which justify the use of the
term "coramscd of the sea" are, gen?
erally speaking,, only those which ob?
tain when a state of war exists, the
naval control by the Allies of the Dar?
danellen, Sea of Marmora and Bospo?
rus, together with the approaches to
the strait?, is suoh that, under the
peculiar cireumstaneea of the present
situation, it is pamias?ble to describo
this control as the absolute command
of the waters concerned?
in Narrow Waters
In war cemmand of the sea may be
said to be gained when the main naval
forces of the enemy have been decisive?
ly defeated, or It may be the possession
'of one side from the outset, due to the
other having either no naval forces or
forces of negligible value only. The
situations after Trafalgar and during
the South African War are cases in
point. In the case of narrow waters,
however, such as the Dardanelles and
Bosporus, conditions may obtain which
render it impossible for the navy of
one belligerent, although it may have
defeated decisively the navy of the
other, or even if the latter navy is of
a negligible quantity, to reap the fruits
of its command of the sea, which, in
the main, consist of the freedom 01
movement and security of trade and
transports. Strong shore defenses,
within the range of whose guns the
ships must pass, and mine fields alter
the whole complexion of affairs in
cases of this nature. And it is then
that an army has to be called upon to
secure the freedom of movement of the
fleet. Such, in brief, was the story of
the Dardanelles in the late war.
Sea Potoer
Won Constantinople
Conversely, if no land defences ex?
ist sufficient to prevent the freedom of
movement of a fleet in narrow waters,
a force which desires to cross from
one side of the narrows to the other
must first secure naval control by de?
nying, by naval action, this freedom of
movement to the other side. It was
not until Mahomet II had secured the
naval control of the straits that he
was able to invest Constantinople by
?ea and by land in 1453. Their naval
power was the means whereby the
Turks established themselves firmly in
Europe, Just as It wa? the neglect by
?he Venetians o? their navy that
?fforded Mahowrj| hU oppo-rtanlty,
The Influence of sea power on th?
history 0f that part of the world ha.
been very great, and now again we see
It playing a prominent part.
Apart from the ?venta of the late
war, the present Is the third main
occasion?excluding the Crimean Wa.
?since the beginning of the nine?
teenth century that the British fleet
has been cabled upon to play a part In
the shaping of the history of the
strait?. In 1807 Napoleon, having per?
suaded Turkey to declare war against
our ally Russia, and Turkey, in addi?
tion, being very ?unfriendly toward us,
a strong force, under Sir John Duck?
worth, was dispatched to Constanti?
nople in order to support our diplo?
matie representations, with orders, if
necessary, to demand the surrender of
the Turkish fleet. The narrows were
then fortified, and Duckworth's squad?
ron was fired upon during its passage.
He arrived off Constantinople, but
learning'that the Turks were strength?
ening the defenses In his rear, pru?
dence compelled him to retire before It
wa? too late. He was successful in
this, but Some of his ships were struck
by stone shot weighing 800 pounds.
Shore Batteries
The next occasion was during the
Turko-Russlan War of 1878, when, the
Russian having reached Adrianople, the
Mediterranean fleet, under Sir Geoffrey
Hornby was directed to proceed to Con?
stantinople with orders to keep open
the wateirway of the Straits. Although
the action afforded moral support to
the Turks, Sir Geoffrey was under
some apprehension lest he should be
flred upon by Turkish shore batteries
during the passage. Mine fields also
were said to exist. Those orders were
canceled at the last moment, the fleet
awaiting events at Besika Bay. Finally
Sir Geoffrey was ordered to proceed
Into the Sea of Marmora to protect
British life and property.
On both occasions described above
the question of running past the shore
batteries largely complicated the prob?
lem and gravely Increased the risk of
the enterprise. To-day there are no
shore batteries capable of impeding the
passage of vessels of war, neither are
there at present any mine fields. The
situation Is, therefore, enormously sim?
plified. But at the samo time there
are certain contingencies which might
arise and which will have to be guard?
ed against.
The Russian Factor
The Bolshevikt are an unknown fac?
tor In the case. In the B|gck Sea,
within easy distance of the Straits, the
Bolshevlkl have certain naval forces,
in a low state of efficiency, no doubt,
which, tinder certain contingencies,
might be used for what might be called
"mad-dog tactics." They are said to
possess three submarines capable of
going to sea, and others are believed
to be completely at Nikolaisv, -?hart
the dockyard la ?n a fairly good state.
Recently^also, it has been stated that
the ^Bolshevist government has been
taking stepe to increase the efficiency
of the Black Sea fleet?whatever that
may amount to.
While the submarines most probably
could not effect anything against even
a moderate degree of anti-submarine
defense, yet there Is a 6phere of naval
operations In which the Russian navy
used to exoel?mine laying. Their
mines were of an efficient type, and
probably many still are available in
the naval arsenals. Mine laying, there?
fore, is a conceivable danger against
which the fleet will require to be on its
guard. This possibility?together with
submarine attack?although remote, ts
conceivable, and with mad dogs n?
risks can be taken. It may confidently
be assumed that the command and staff
of the Mediterranean fleet are alive to
these points.
Ideal Conditions
With an adequate control and con?
stant watchfulness In order to detect
at once any unusual movements or as?
sembly of shipping, it should be possi?
ble for the fleet to guarantee, to use
an historio phrase, that not a dinghy
full of hostile troops could land on
the European side, and at the same
time to insure perfect freedom of j
movement for our own troops in the
event of operations becoming neces?
sary. The situation is that, should th?
occasion arise, the naval conditions at
least are ideal for the execution of
combined operations.
On Tree Transplanting
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To plant trees and to do it
successfully is the purpose of the
Plant Another Tree Association. I
venture to suggest, however, a modifi?
cation of/the date schedule, for the
week ending November 8. The trans?
planting of deciduous trees (of which,
both Indigenous and acclimated, we
have a great variety) may not be
safely undertaken before the latter
part of that month at the earliest, and
when defoliation is measurably com?
plete, a process this season likely to
be -prolonged, owing to the frequent
abundant rains during the summer.
This process of shedding the leaves
has been noted by The Tribune as "the
time of the falling leaf," so designated
by our Indians. I will add that this
work should be well done from the be?
ginning to the end. It takes no more
time and labor to plant a good tree
properly} a sound, well formed trunk
and head or top and well-rooted, a
tree not less than two inches in
diameter and provided with a pit
large enough to ensure the free spread
of the roots and filled with good soil?.
A ?visit to the nursery?we have ??
oell^t ones not far from the city?
will be Informing and interesting, and
especially the young should be In?
cluded In such visitation. Of the
larger questions of domestic economy,
no one la more Important in the educa?
tion of the young of this generation
than the conservation of nature's great
gifts to man, water and _he forests.
JOHN Y. CULYER.
Mount Kisco, N. ?? Oct. &,, 1922.
Are Movies Enervating?
Princeton Man Disputes Dr. Hib
ben's Warning to Students
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Dr. Hibben in addressing the
Princeton students, ns reported in The
Tribune, warned them against attend?
ing photoplays, saying it is a waste of
time and saps the mental energies.
Elsewhere ho is reported as saying, "It
(the habit of attending .tho photoplays)
is an anncsthetio to the intellectual
mind."
These statements should not go un?
challenged, for they they are not true.
In fact tho opposite is true. Of all the
forms of * imparting knowledge tho
photoplay is probably tho most intense,
and instead of "sapping the mental
energies," or acting as "an anaesthetic
to the intellectual mind," it develops
the mind, makes it alert, broadens it
and gives it a balance that could not
bo obtained otherwise in the same lapse
of time.
This feature of the photoplay ba?
been discovered recently by those wno
have "made it a habit" to view the
best playa and study them seriously.
And the reason is very simple. In
the spoken or written word tho unit
of expression Is the sentence. In tho
photoplay the unit of expression Is a
still picture?a still photograph. In
each the unit expresses a thought, A
photoplay, or motion picture, Is a
sequence of still photographs projected
at tho (normal) rate of sixteen pictures
to the second?sixteen thought, ex?
pressed in a second. And the average
photoplay lasts one hour without any
interruption.
Is there another device that will ex?
press as many thoughts In the same
time? Does It not follow that a mind
submitted "habitually" for one hour a
day to such an exercise will be made
alert, broadened, deepened and stim?
ulated for other activities?
Of con-rse more than half the photo?
plays are not worth spending an hour's
time to see; the thoughts expressed are
not worthy of attention. Instead of be?
ing based on a worth-while story, they
are simply sequences of fantastlo pin?
turea. But there are plays based on
worth-while stories that are good*, they
are worth eeetngj they are worth
studying because the art of photoplay
making Is just beginning to emei*ge
from a strong handicap of commercial
men who know no art and certainly
not the art of the photoplay.
It Is unfortunate, indeed, that Dr.
Hibben should so express himself with?
out a knowledge of the facts, for other
colleges and universities are expend?
ing energy, time and money In train?
ing their students in the art of the
photoplay, because they recognize In
this art a means of expression that
Is sure to dominate as a means. of
imparting knowledge.
J. THOMAS, -8?.
New York, Oct. 8, 1922.
Amnesty for I. W. W.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sirt I wonder whether the readers
of The Tribune appreciate the enormity
of tho injustice of which our govern?
ment and we es a people aie guilty j
in our treatment of political offenders, j
Seventy-five men, mostly I. W. W.'s.
are still imprisoned because, in war
time, they held I. W. W. opinions
objected to our entry Into the wa?
and took exception to the government's
war policies and purposes.
I had occasion to follow the trial
proceedings very closely, and later I
took the trouble to go through the evi?
dence submitted In the case. As a
result of this and of the action of the
appellate courts in throwing out all
counts in the Indictment having to do
with overt acts I came to the con?
clusion that the verdict of the jury
was to be attributed not so much to
the evidence as to war hysteria and a
certain L W. W. complex which has
plagued Americans for two decades.
Last July I had the privilege of serv?
ing as one of the spokesman for the
amnesty delegation which called upon
President Harding with a petition for
general political amnesty from hun?
dreds of thousands of American citi?
zens.
This is the situation! These men
are behind bars. The war is over. The
emergency legislation for violation of
which they were convicted has been
repealed. Convicted German spies
have been pardoned and set free; so
have convicted profiteers. All the other
belligerents In the late war have ex?
tended amnesty to their political
prisoners. In this eountry, which al?
ways prided itself on being a haven
for political dissenters, a land where
free speech, free press and free opin?
ion were the very marrow of our po?
litical body?In this land we continue
to keep Imprisoned men who acted on
the assumption that free speech and
the Constitution continued In full
force and effect even In time of war.
?? our government trying to demon?
strate to them that free speech and the
Constitution are in abeyance, both In
peace and wart
This situation manifestly Is In?
tolerable, and the American people
ought not to tolerate It.
PAUL F. BRISSENDEN.
New York, Oct. 2, 1922.
"Self-EvtdwvT"
(From Th? Boiton HtrratS)
It might be hard to make out who li
running things in the United States
but any child eat^see who Is- stopping
5hem.
A Week of Verse
T
The Band Concert
(From Tha Uacsaura)
HE band brayed loudly where the
blinding Il-rfct
Beat back the encroaching loveliness ?f
night,
And boys with hot moist pennies in
their hands
Swarmed fierce about the whistling
peanut stands.
The old were quiet underneath the
trees,
And children ran, bat, oh, beyond rdl
these '
Bright Adolescence claimed the mm
mer hour
An-i wore brief romance like a scarlet
flower
Where round and round the slow pro?
cession moved
Through light and shadow, lover and
beloved.
In the kind night each dill unlovely
face
Took on a hint of wistful borrowed
grace,
And dusk was kind to the too fine at?
tire,
Molding a beauty to the soul's desire
; Out of the tawdry effort to be fair.
Shrill laughter drifted on the quiet air,
And Love went by, alone amid tha
crowd,
Wordless and awed and pitiful and
proud.
ANNE ATWOOD DODO?.
Rev?sitonta
. (From The Double DtnZari
WT*E WHO went where Dante vnt
And Persephone,
You can know us by the bent
Brow, and shadowy.
By the eyes that ?till would dream
(Through your loudest word)
Of the kindness in some stream
Or some singing-bird:
Soft our words to all who It****?,
Conrte-trasly we go
(There's so little to f-wgr-r-e.
Knowing what we knowi)
Yet have patience ft we star?
At your whimpering ?t*Towd
Where the Nine Great Circles
No man cried aloud,
Nymph
fWrtm Tha Zre*Mm>
T AM ta a lost land
Across a lost see
Where only the wind's hand
Can come and touch e**
X am fa ? ?harmed p?aos
Where I may lie
Aad watch the yo*rn-** fsT?l*s*e%*ftfc
Lift to the sky,
And dance where the tide fling*
Sea-shell and froth.
free as the white wing*
Of a wild moth.
Why try disco***?-**
Where I am going!
I am the lover
Of every wind blowing.
Where f have danead ?r tata
My only mark
Is the cool breath of rata
Blown through the dark.
ANN HAMILTON.
The Voice of Death
(From Tha Double Dealer)
rpHE voice of death Is wisdom thnrogh
i* all things,
Telling the granite where to w??r
and crumble,
The little sparrow how to pre*a Its
wings,
The lightning-fang? to flash before
the rumble*
And yet his wisdom n a secret grao?.
To us, who plow the hours for light
and bread,
All beauty is the hiding of hi? fast?,
All living Is th? listening for his
tread.
But when our eager Hstentag gr<rwt
nura*%
And he has sn?pped our taut anx?
ieties,
We do not even know that he has eo*mt.
But lean against the dust of ?ea?
turies,
Eager, as ?aver, la a wortd apart.
And listen for the beating of his
heart. ...
OSCAB WILLIAMS.
B
Stucco and Stona
{From The Double Deaiajr)
Y SUMMER seas that lull your flight.
By drowsy shores ?erenely old,
In gleaming towns of rose and white.
You will find bodies burnt to gold??
There where the wave? are brought t*
heel,
There were the Alp?, no longer fro?.
Come down like elephants to kneel
Beside the glazed and asure sea?
Or?parched for yellow, rose and red?
Where madder, rose and yellow rot,
Gay drooping palaces that wade
Green waters orduroos and hot.
EDMUND WILSOH 9*\
Ml
At Grandfather*?
(From Coittemporunf ??*?"?*>
SON, upon this curving ?tsl?
Whose baluseers are slim and whit**?
1 Your mother scurried from the bear
Thft sometimes follows you at night.
? And later (though you do not care)
She kissed me here by candle light.
So shake the spindles with your hand
And pound them-with your chubby fist
I But I would have you understand,
You, with your eyes of amethyst,
That this is an enchanted land
Where bears have lurked and lof ?N
kissed. ?
JOEN FRENCH "WHsIOML