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The Washington times., 1937-11-11

ways within the
Civil S er ic e
C o m m i S sion
Hes a mes
senger with the
C correspondence
division of the
C o m m / sSion,
halls from Fres-
no, Calf, a n d
h a S completed
his first year as
a Federal en-
ploye. B i'll S,
who resides at
1408 Massachu-
settles We. N.
VIZ ~ooI1an ~oou
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Times Up, Let's Go

At one of the large New Deal
agencies the other day a chiefs
room was to be recarpeted {.
Union men were to do the Job
. When about halfway through,
with the carpet partially cut to
fit the room, one of the laborerS
glanced at his watch and discov.
cred the group had completed the
hours for that day required by
union scale So out they
walked, leaving completion of
the job to Sundry bewildered
stenogs and clerks and paying no
attention to the chief squaWks!
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That GPO Sign

In line with the current econ.
omy program, under which so
many are denied positions and
well-earned promotions, it might
be advisable to consider the cost
of operation of that enormous
sign sported by Government Print
ing Office to advertise itself
nightly Few FederaliteS would
be willing to pay the electric bill
for that pretty gadget.
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NFFE Seeks Members

Local 2, NFFE, has inaugurated
a city-wide membership drive I'M
der leadership of Joseph I. Meme
han, Interior More than 100
key members aiding Recent
meeting saw Gertrude McNally,
foremost exponent of employe
benefits for two decades, tell of
NFFE progress throughout the
country and describe recent gath
ering of Civil Service Assembly
DR.. j. Franklin Meyer, of
Standards; Joseph Stansfield, of
Interstate; Henry G.. Nolda, of Vet.
Grams Administration, Vice Presi.
dent Urey Biller and National
Organizer Matilda Lindsay also
spoke Gold pins for bringing
in members were distributed by
Robert Cushman, Library OF
Congress.
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Can You Do IT.?

Can You Do It?
News Note: Porter Bush, per-
sonnet officer at st. Elizabeths, re-
Gently called upon the United
States Employment Service for a
man who had experience in rails
ing a thousand pigs. The salary
for the job was $1,000 per year
plus quarters. up to now Employ
ment Service canvaSsed the States
of Maryland, Virginia and PennSyl-
vania without finding man with
these qualifications!
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. Come In, Be Snapped

Announcement: Beginning today,
one pair Of the movie tickets dis
tributed by this department daily
will go to one of the Government
workers whose picture appears
herein.
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Census Under Way

Unemployment Census official
ly got under way yesterday
through local WPA offices, D. C.
folk on relief filing through and
receiving advice as to making out
their cards, which will be for
warded to the Post Office Depart
ment.
News Tip Prize Today: "Gus"
(CAP).
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Wings, Program, Art

Agriculture will formally dedi-
cate the two east and west wings
connecting it's Administration and
South Buildings Wednesday
They're named for James Wilson
and Seaman A. Knapp, outstand-
ing figures in American agricul-
tural development King Derr.
legislative expert, discusses UF-
WA program tomorrow in Room
LOT, Arlington Building Interior
Department tomorrow opens its
series of exhibitions Of college art
on its seventh floor art gallery.
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Budget Cut Pledged;
Heavy Industry Sped
MOrgenthGU Word
On Economy
Is GiUen

NEW YORK, Nov. II Q.N.S0.
Business men of the nation today
had the pledge of Secretary of the
Treasury Henry MoEgenthau, jr.,
that the Roosevelt administration
will make a determined effort to
balance the Federal bulge
through vigorous program" for
the progressive reduction of gov.
eminent expenditures.
This should be done, he de-
clared at the annual dinner meet
ing of the Academy Of Political
Science last night, by centering
attention on expenditures for
public highways, public works,
unemployment relief and agricul-
ture. He estimated that savings
of 500. 100000 must be made
during the next fiscal year to
balance the budget.
ASKS COOPERATION
Asserting the present basic
need was to foster the full ap-
plication of the driving force Of
private capital, Morgenthau asked
the business world to cooperate in
overcoming "our present diff
cultieS." In return, he promised
that the administration would at
tempt to encourage expansion Of
private business through revising
taxes found to be inequitable.
He suggested reduction in the
number of consumer taxes and an
increase in the number Of income
tax payers. The latter group, he
said, now numbers less than
100000. He did not mention by
name the undiStributed profits
and the capital gain taxes, which
the government has been under
heavy pressure to modify.
Morgenthau asserted the treas
ury did not want to dry up the
sources of tax revenue, and would
say so publicly if it found any
particular tax unfair.
''To be prudent, we should not
count on an increase in revenues
next year from the existing tax
structure" he said. Nor should
we impose additional taxes. In
stead, we should plan to bring
next years expenditures within
this years income"
BYRD RAPS WASTE
Morgenthau addressed m or e
than 1000 financial, industrial
and business leaders. Before he
spoke, the audience cheered as
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia
and former UnderSecretary Of the
Treasury S. Parker Gilbert as
sailed the present tax system and
urged that the brakes be applied
to Government spending.
"At the present time" asserted
Senator Byrd, I'VE have the most
costly and wasteful bureaucracy
in Washington in the history of
the United States.
Hundreds OF millions of dol
lars could be saved by elimi-
mating waste from our regular
governmental expenditures"
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Speaki0S Of
GOVERNMENT
WORKERS
By J. EARLE MosER

Government Printing Office officials nothing if not
tous: During printing of application blanks for Unemploy
ment Census is learned signs posted at GPO caution
employees to them from the office; since the
would be conducted until late this month"; it
warned GPO staff would be suspected if the blanks appeared
in the mails before then
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ing pictures and outdoor sports his
hobbies, and thinks the theater
business in general the next best
activity to working for the Govern
ment.
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Mysterious Lady

Who is the young lady, on the
staff of the Attorney General,
now spending full time at Library
of Congress tabulating the votes
of 10 Senators who since 1909
have voted for measures later de-
clared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court? . Among the Sen
ators are Sheppard. Borah and
Barley. And why the effort?
News Pip Prize Today: A. J. X.
(PAL).
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Social Security, it is reported, the
move is being foStered by Mar.
garet Smeed, the expert in public
welfare whom Ssh tried to say
wasn't an expert-until Senator
Byrd got hot and held up the sal.
aries of all experts.
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Oklahoma Shindig

Democratic Thanksgiving Dance
is announced by Oklahoma Young
Democrats for November 20 at the
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Invading Again

Social Security Board and SEC
will soon have AFGE lodges. AT
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Public Roads

Public Roads Lodge, Age,
meets tonight, 634 South Blu.
chanan st., Bancroft, Arlington,
Va. Refreshments.
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Watch for This

Gwendolyn Smith, Division of
Disbursement, will appear as
guest artist on radio program No
vember 16, 7:45, WMAL. She
will play Mokrejs' "Valcik" and
MacDowell's Scotch Poem"
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Walker by Trade

The stint required of Dwight
Bills (COL) daily is to traverse,
over an over, the city block of hall
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To Ritner's Friends

Harry G. Ritner, $40 Buchanan
st. N. w., GAO, wishes through
this column to extend his many
thanks for the letters received
expressing sympathy for his re
cent bereavement.
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Chester Allender, Amanda Watts,
Mrs. Helen Shaw, Leon Keys, Mrs.
Walt Allen, Thurry D. Casey, Ora
Powell, Ralph Clifford, Barse
Stonebreaker, Jack Hermes, James
Donaghy and Clifton Canton.
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MILL REMNANTS;
prints and plain COL
ors; every new weave
and color; all 80 and
40 in. WIDE; guaran-
teed WASHABLE; / to
3-yd. lengths.
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Pretty prints and plain colors: novelty
collars; also touches of hand embroidery;
fast colors; sizes 3 to 8.
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Three Minute Journeys

Zone looked down first over the
city, with its spires, gardens and
boulevards and the Barrio. a dark
and sinister mass; then. looking to
the other side. one saw the out
lines of the Balearic Islands.
The center Of Barcelona is the
Plaza de Catalina (the name for
ever reminding Barcelonians that
they are CatalonianS). The SIX
main arteries of the town radiate
from the beautiful square, with It's
fountains and flower beds.
Here, before the days OF open
conflict, the city used to enjoy its
afternoon promenadeS, later going
on to one of the various rambles
that are so typical of the city
Really one thoroughfare, with a
wide center promenade, it has diff
ferent names for the different sec.
tions, with flower stalls, bird
market and bookshops lining vari
Gus parts Of the Ramhla.
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Marihuana, Threat to Youth

TNHE maxim that an ounce Of prevention is worth a
l. pound of is nowhere better illustrated than in
the "dope'' traffic.
Little can be done for confirmed addcts. But much
be done to prevent the formation Of the habit par
ticularly among the young.
The greatest threat to PREVENTING the evil among
boys and girls is the growing sale Of marihuana cga-
rettes, which be bought in most States with
impunity and which inevitably lead to narcotic addic
tion by those who smoke them.
NoFedera laws bar the traffic in this dangerous,
habitforming drug. Few purchasers realize the peril
that turks in it.
Yet nearly sixty per cent of juvenile denquents, it
is reported, are n1arihuana addicts
NATIONWIDE ACTION against this evil is abso-
lutey necessary if the dope evil is to be CUT DOWN
STAMPED OUT.
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Memorable Dates
BuJ. T. Williams, Jr.

>United states Military Academy
at West Point ito provide for the
common defense" on March is,
1902, are two other anniversaries
that may we'll be added to the
Sesquicentennial program for
special observance.
OF the birthdays Of the Presi.
dents, one Of the most import ant
is that of James Madison, The
Father of the Constitution" who
was born on March l6, 1851.
Surely those ii. charge Of the
Sesuuicentennial celebration will
not fail to include this anniversary
in the official program.
Andrew Jackson, the seventh
President of the United States
and one of the Soldier Presidents
was born on March Is, 1767--
whether at the Waxhaw settle
ment in Lancaster county, South
Carolina, or just across the
border in Union county, North
Carolina, still being a subject Of
dispute between the two Com
monwealthS.
Grover Cleveland, the twenty.
second and twenty.fourth Presi.
dent of the United States, vas
born on March II, 1887, at Calo'
well, Essex county, New Jersey,
and John Tyler, the tenth Presi'
dent. was born at GreenTay,
Charles City county, Virginia, on
March %, 1870.
SPECIAL CEREMONIES
Other famous dates which the
month of March contributes to the
national calendar include the
birthday Of that great soldier and
cavalry leader, Gen. Phil Sheridan,
who was born on March 6. 1881;
March 10, the date on which the
first sentence was transmitted by
telephone in 1875; March 10, the
date on which William Jennings
Bryan was born in 1860; March 20,
the anniversary of the first settle.
ment in Delaware in 1888, only 13
years after the landing at Ply.
mouth Rock, and March 80, 1857,
UQ6 QAJS OIL WlllCI IAlC OlAAGCO
States acquired by purchase from
Russia the rich territory Of Alaska.
The States in which our Presi.
dents were born and the States
which take pride in the fact that
their soil holds all that was mortal
of our Presidents may well unite
in the celebration Of their birthday
with special ceremonies during the
Sesquicentennial.
Under the leadership Of the
veterans organizations and other
patriotic societies, the observance
of the one hundred and fiftieth
birthday of the Constitution will
be of great and lasting benefit to
the whole American people II they
will take a part in it.
The more the people themselves
participate in this inspiring birth
day party, the more they will get
out Of it in the way Of information
to guide them and inspiration to
quicken their efforts to perfect the
| formation of the Union.
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Toward the national celebration
of the 15eth birthday Of the Con-
stitution of the United States every
true American, young or old, will
wish to make his own contribution.
This celebration will begin next
September when on the 18th OF
that month, $50 years ago, the
actual signing of the Constitution
took place in Philadelphia.
1t will continue through 1888
when 15O years ago the Constitu.
ton was before - Original States
for ratification.
This celebration will end on the
150th anniversary of George wash
ington's inauguration as First
President which occurred on April
80, 1889.
One of the most popular features
of the program of this compre-
hensive national observance will be
the celebration by each State of
its own birthday-the anniversary
of its adoption of the Constitution,
In the case Of the Original Thir.
teen States, and, in the case of
the others, the anniversary Of the
States admission to the Union.
ANNIVERSARIES
For example, the month Of
March, a year hence, will find the
household Of the Nation in the
midst of its popular commemora.
ton of the Constitution Sesqui.
centennial Anniversary. For
March is one Of the months that
stand out in the national calendar
of American patriotism.
Nebraska leads off on the first
day Of this month next year with
Statewide celebration of her
admission to the Union in 1857
Then come Maine and Florida
which Joined the Union on the
same day but 25 years apart
Maine was admitted on March 3
1920. and Florida on March 8
1845.
Vermont, which was the first
State admitted to the Union after
the original 13, will celebrate its
birthday on March 4, although ii
ratified the Constitution by con
vention on January 10. 1871.
But the prominence Of the
month of March in our calendar
Of patriotism Is not wholly due
to the fact that the birthdays o1
so many States come within this
month.
The second inaugural address
of Abraham Lincoln, which, to
gether with the Gettysburg ad
dress, is carved upon the innel
walls of the Lincoln Memorial ir
the Federal city. was delivered or
March 4, 1865.
On March 9, 1862, was fought
the battle between the Monitor
and the Merrimac of which it was
written The OK hides Of Rome
and Carthage give way to thu
steel castings Of modern defense.
The birthday Of the American
Navy on March II, 1871. and tht
birthday Of the founding Of thu
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like any we had ever heard.
Then again the ciamor Of racing
hoofs. "a dogs long howl. . 81
lence, closing in, strangling. In
the emptied kitchen, indifferent to
our babbling young terror. Mother
stood, staring out into the night,
her lips tightly pressed, hearken'
ing for-what?
Thus, at six came my first con.
tact with Far West law and order
I never did learn how far the two
city slickers" had transgressed
the frontier code Of the sos. 1t
was enough that our Men Folks
had decided that they were 100
per cent Undesirable plain.
ornary, yellow.livered Coots!
Forthwith the argument wa
closed in the accustomed manner
by giving them coating Of tar
and feathers and riding them out
Of town on a rail.
WEST WAS YOUNG
Rough handling? No denying
it. But that's the way decent
citizens felt about indecent ones in
those days, and that's the way
they acted. The West was young
One still remembered. often in
grim detail, what it had cost.
There were men who could tel
you things about Indian raids
There were women who rarely
spoke-but whose blasted eyes
shrieked abiding nightmare, and
whose hearts were buried in tiny
desert graves.
Yes, the West had come high
and we hadn't, as yet, begun tc
forget that fact, or to regard it
abStractly, as history" It was a
personal affair-the proudest and
most personal concern we had
We felt about the West exactly as
we felt about our homes and blood
kin. And we felt in the same ex
tremely personal way about any
thing that menaced the West.
Plain, ornery, yellow-liverec
Coots" weren't merely Public
Problems In that fortnight era ,.
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soup and right Kenneth ROmney
away they began to call for
speeches. It was rather difficult
to make ones self heard above
the clatter of spoons and the sip
sips but the speakers Strove man
fully. Then came the meat
cour.e. Very Succulent steak.
It so happened that Mr.. Lee
Barnes. personnel director Of the
Agriculture Administration, took
a mouthful of his steak just as
the master of ceremonies called
upon him to make an address.
N.r. Barnes arose hastily vent to
the speakers table and began:
''NIr. Speaker (chew, chew
and ladies and gentlemen of
the Little Congress (chew,
chew, it gives me great pleas
uFe (chew, Chew)."
And so on until the piece Of
meat was thoroughly masti'
Gated. When he returned to his
seat at the conclusion Of the
address, someone remarked:
"They almost did you out
of your dinner"
eyes," said Mr.. Barnes" but
that steak was too good. l
Just had to keep on with it,"
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PRE.WAR BARCELONA

III the holocaust that is Spain's
civil war, it is not surprising that
Barcelona should play such a vital
part. When 100000 souls are
crowded into an area Of five square
miles, as they were for years in
Barcelona's Barrio district, they
are bound to revolt.
In the past, after visitors had
seen the palaces and the churches,
they generally went to the Barrio
to view the underworld. Instead
of gangsters as America knows
them, the district harbored men
who were agitators in social and
political movements. But we would
rather dwell on Barcelona as we
know it in its more charming
aSpects-the Barcelona Of music,
dance and song.
Before the war, q funicular rail.
way took visitors UP Tibidabo. riS
ing a thousand feet above the SEA-
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they were a Private Shame and
Responsibility.
We didn't expect our judges to
keep California clean, nor our laws
to make it safe. It was our State
it was OUR honor which was
at stake AND WE OUR
SELVES WE'RE ON THE JOB
WITH ALL WE HAD. -
1t is At years since heard that
strangely frightening b e ar d e ID
laugh which preceded that tar
ring party" but remember the
quality in it as clearly as though
it were yesterday. .
That laugh belonged to brave,
honorable gentleman. The West
had cost him dearly-his young
wife lay in one of those desert
graves. Now a rat had defiled
the land made sacred by such
sacrifice. There was no abstract
Civic Duty about that laugh-it
was fierce with PERSONAL
AFFRONT.
DRASTIC METHODS
Far be it from me to advocate
Vigilante Vengeance. But I would
certainly like to see a revival of
that PERSONAL PATRIOTISM
which prompted such drastic
methods.
Despite valiant efforts of our
Department of Justice, Organized
Vice flourishes as never before.
This, I am convinced, is directly
due to the fact that decency is now
regarded as a Public Problem
rather than as a Personal Re-
sponsibility.
How long would crime last If
every law.abiding citizen said, in
effect, to every law-breaking
crook
Look here, you Heel! This is
MY country which you are loot.
ing My honor which you are
insulting and it's going to be
MY personal privilege and pleasure
to knock your rotten face down
your filthy throat if you don't
stop, pronto!"
One statement like that, hon
eStly meant, is worth-to my mind
10000 laws, amendments, reso
lutions and protests.
"Thts column 1UelconteS and
requests comments. Letters pre-.
Sentirg personal problems may
also be sent. AL letters WtU
be handled co'tJtderttGllv and
GnSwered promptly II stamped,
addressed envelopes are in
cLuded.
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
| Syndicate, Inc.)
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The Human Side of the News
Bv Edwin C.. Hill

'other Of Mr.. Shakespeare's bits
called Hamlet, Mr.. Evans
thoughts and talents turned to the
drama which concerns the son OF
the Black Prince.
Richard lived but 33 years, from
1857 to 1400. He was a spendthrltt
and an arbitrary young man who
found occasion to say that the laws
of England were what came from
his mouth. Shakespeare followed
history very closely in his play
and Maurice Evans follows Shakes.
peare very closely in his reading.
The result is that the hard
boiled reviewers of New York have
been hard put for adjectlves IN
praise of the drama and Its per-
formance.
sat enthralled in the packed
theater and watched the story I'M
fold, the story Of a conflict be.
tween youth and age, the story OF
the abdication Of king, the story
of a man who had a child for a
bride.
The last curtain fell, and the
sharp air of Broadway brought me
back to 1887 from the spell OF
1897.
I reached for early editions of
the morning newspapers and read
over the headlines - headlines
about the Supreme Court, the
Duke of Windsor and the mar
riages of children.
AMENDS
The stage had forgotten King
Richard H." and imagine most
Of the lovers Of Shakespeare had
neglected to read the play. I know
I had, but I made amends that
very night. Until far too late I
sat up to drink in words such as
these:
But grief makes one hour
ten. There is no virtue like
Necessity. Then England'S
ground, farewell; sweet soil,
adieu. My mother, and my
nurse, that bears me yet! Wher-
'er 1 wander, boast of this / can
though banish'd, yet a truebOrn
EngIishman. ., Pray God we
may make haste and come too
late! Where words are scarce
they are seldom spent in vain,
for they breathe truth that
breathe their words in pain. =.
"The setting sun, and music
at the close, as the last taste of
sweets, is sweetest last. -.
Small showers last long, but
sudden storms are short. L
live with bread like you, feel
want, taste grief, need friends
subjected thus, how can you say
to me, am a King"
And finally there was a line in
Aumerle's plea for pardon from
Henry which ran, may my tongue
cleave to my roof within my
mouth"
Where had I heard that before2
All, yes, Daniel WebSter'S reply to
Hayne:
'May my tongue cIeaVe to the
roof of my mouth"
: The mighty Daniel knew his
Shakespeare, even to King Rich
ard H."
(copyriEht. 1881. ~ Riae BsaturaS
SyndieatO. Ine.)
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EXTEMPORANEOUs

Monday, Senator Key Pittman,
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, arose to speak on
neutrality. His speech had been
prepared beforehand. Copies of
it were available to the press. But
he didn't follow the script.
He started right off with an ex'
temporaneous apology for inter
rupting the domestic war going
on in the Senate. The innuendo
was clear that he was referring to
the Supreme Court fight. Then
he said a few choice words that
could be taken as the hand
writing on the wall" He said:
81 am satisfied, however,
that there will be no need for
particular hurry in conducting
that fight. / think possibly 1t
will last a long time. / hope no
one will be killed In connection
with it.
II do not believe We shall
lose the lives Of as many per
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by one William
s h a k e speare,
who did con-
siderable play
writing a + t e r
leaving STRAIT
ford on A Won
some 800 years
ago. Perhaps we
better compro-
mise on the
phrase "a new
play" Forgot
ten is the better
W ord because
"Kino Richard
II" has been
fnn an laN
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driven, abruptly
re n ed. clat-
ter of spurred
heels. along the
planked porch
n u b b u b Of
mems voice S,
S u d d e n ! y
hushed. Some.
one tip.toed to
t h e be d room
door paused
r. e etr e a t ed.
Whisper hur-
rying fe e ia
bearded laugh,
S t r a n 6 e l y
ES,;nIaAan;~a~ ,,,s