The Washington times., 1933-02-10

Natures rainfall on which the residents used to depend
and that species of railroad runs round the prln
cnal marshes Setting my face toward the Bermudas
again am doubtful only about the railroad For quiet
the of their charm, and hope that II mas
not been disturbed
No News-Cood News
The New York papers three to five days late
when was there (fewer boats sailed and the vast Mon
arch of Bermuda wasn't built them; The radio
owned used to pick up only the most OBSCURE statohs
playing azz from Cincinnati Atlantic City, so that
could never get the Globe Troter and acqualnt myself
with news when it got the 1928 election
returns only near midnight of the following night; the
local newspaper might we'll have been PraVda or the
London Times for all the could get out of it, The
result isolation.
# nattered little to me then because was at work on
something dealing with the 1905 and nothing OF pas
sonate interest going on in the world so 1t seemed
at least What going on was the big Oul Market
but was one of the vast majority of Americans VINO
were NOT specializing Einstein announced MS um1leo
field theory-but one could wait three days for that
The Easter day gang murders took place in Chicago
was that anything to get excited about? The Jones
5-and-1O enforcement bill passed-Amerca still had pro-
hibtion One could crawl into in those days
Afraid of Missing-What?
Today feel apprehensve In the ten days shall be
gone am afraid shall miss something 1t is not that
the world stands need of services but tnaC stno
in need of knowing what's going Last year in Stock
holm experienced moment of acute despair because
couldn't tell from the morning headlines whether the
bonus army had nominated Hoover or Roosevelt had en-
braced the Iowa farmers. (The Paris American papers
arrived only at midday And recall the positive JOY
7 felt when a bundle of New York Americans were dis
tributed on the Kungshom lay at quarantine; the
country was still safe and things going as usual
This fear of being out of things which dozens of people
have told me they feel is measure of the excite
ment of living in what called "bad times" For the
first time since the people their eyes over the
main headlines of the newspapers not merely to know
what has but to discover something of profound
Importance to themselves For the first time since the
war 80 per of the population of this country is ex
periencing the same emotions dreadng the same dis
asters and hoping the hopes. 1t is this common
experience that makes lives interesting at this
rnoment-not our private desires.
Is Peace Still There?
Looking back on the winter of 1929 is looking into
another world In the house in Paget parish where,
was told Eugene O'Nei had written "The Great God
Brown" l could and did live without any great
concern with his counrys fate-it bound to be all
right The reef which breaks the monotony of the
on the south shore of Bermuda foamed white in the blue
water: the pink coral beach a hundred and fifty
feet below me, and there lot of sunshine and
peace The reef and the and the sunshine are still
there and am curious to know whether they still have
the power to give peace of mind. If they have Ber-
nuda is the ninth wonder of the world