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Sees New Trend. In the opinion of the poet a new definite trend is being felt in America and also in some of the European countries which will raise the spiritual standards of the individual as well as the race. This trend is especially noticed in the works of many modern writers. The depression, blamed for many evils, came as a blessing in disguise, the poet believes. "Now people have time to think and to establish a new system of values. This change will soon be felt everywhere and will serve to elevate standards both spiritual and material." The leaders of this new movement will be those in the field of fine arts because the influence of the psychology reflected in literature will in time affect the psychology of individual and mob alike. This has been true in the past and will continue to be true in the future. When Herbert Hoover was president of the United States he is said to have remarked that the country needed a great poem to wake the people up. Therefore in the opinion of Mr. Larson, the great works in all branches of modern literature will do much to affect the thought in the world at large. Hard on Experimentors. The lot of the experimental poet is very difficult now and seems to be getting worse rather than better, said Mr. Larson. Many of the magazines that encouraged this type of writing have been forced to cease publication lacking financial support. Mr. Larson, who has contributed to many of them, has lately been confining most of his efforts to the Commonweal because of similarity of taste and opinions. T. S. Eliot is, in the opinion of Mr. Larson one of the most important figures in the writing world today because he exerts such tremendous influence upon the young people. He could be the Cardinal Newmann of the present generation, Mr. Larson says. PROPERTY LOSS SHOWN IN SUIT Insurance Firm Asks Foreclosure; Hold $25,000 Note. The tremendous decrease in the value of real estate during the depression was shown in a suit filed today in superior court No. 1 by the Indiana Life Insurance company against Clayton W. Beistle, local automobile dealer, to foreclose a mortgage on a property Mr. Beistle purchased from the South Bend school city in 1930 for $100,000. The mortgage was one of two taken on the property where the former Lafayette school was located at Lafayette boulevard and Monroe street. The suit asks judgment of $27,615.96 and declares the value of the real estate is not sufficient to pay the judgment. A receiver and sale of the property also is asked. Based on a note of $25,000 given on March 3, 1930, the complaint also names as defendants Mae V. Beistle, wife of the automobile dealer, the Citizens' National bank and its receiver, Joseph E. Neff, and David E. Overmyer. The bank is included on the basis of a second mortgage held by the bank while Mr. Overmyer is named because of a lien that is the outgrowth of a court judgment against Mr. Beistle. There are no improvements on the land, the suit avers, and both taxes and public assessments are delinquent and Mr. and Mrs. Beistle are declared to be insolvent.