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Houston Texas Monday March 85 1918.
-: THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE.
.1
j :j It tr.eiactly true that the present crisis
!; ia France would not be so alarming It the
'; United Statea had foreseen and prepared for
areata.
Colonel Roosevelt blames Mr. Wilson but
: that is childish. The blame for everything
1 which la caused by a tack of military pre-
paredness on the part of the United States
: toTernment reati absolutely with the people
'themselves.
. -Tbe American people have been warned by
; ; military authorlUea thousands of times since
I 18SK. but nobody haa paid attention to sucu
' . warnings.
' Tear after year our military and naval ex-
: pert have gone before the congressional
committees and sdvlsed. only to be treated
I with cold courtesy. The debates upon the
; ; army and nary appropriation bills during the
: past forty years hare been full of roasta of
'J . the bureau heads. Some congressmen have
: even faToreJ5ionTerting the Institutions at
I West Point and Annapolis into agricultural
schools.
- .K.n th Rnanlsh-American war
tame twenty years ago to remind us of our
vnpreparedneas It was Impossible to Induce
congress to do anything important
;' Why has congress been so lax In preparing
the nation against such monstrous dangers
i .as "threaten It today?
S ' . Simply because the congressman knew
that his Tote for a big .army or navy appro-
. prtatlon bin would defeat him for re-election.
And even If congress had accepted the view
I of the war and navy departments and passed
i 'such' bills there is not the slightest reason
" "to doubt they would have been promptly
vetoed.
Even Colonel Rooaevelt would have vetoed
' bills calling for as much as $300000000 each
for army and navy. He may think now that
he would not have but it is not in the rec-
y. ord that he ever advocated any great mill-
J tsry or naval establishment while he was
' president.
If when Mr. Roosevelt became president
r.'he had been able to devote 1300000000 a
3 . year each to army and navy there would
have been an army and navy of the United
- States In 1914. They would have been capable
of striking an immediate blow when once the
nation became involved in the war and inci-
dentally they would have saved the nation
many billions of dollars and possibly millions
SvOf Urea.
-. "But armies and navies are not. as a usual
jthing. popular In the United States except in
Vwar times. Our politicians decry militarism
jJhey abominate extravagance they denounce
" ' war as murder they extol peace and they say
.. gome very foolish things about the ability of
Americans to organize efficient armies by
xJ. the millions who spring to arms overnight
The people like to hear this kind of stuff
v- If candidates for congress in the campaign
-of 1914 had advocated spending a billion each
V upon the army and navy they would have '
i ' been defeated-
- So in surveying our predicament counting
; ' the hazards and considering the causes let
us make no mistake as to the responsibility
J? - for the circumstance that one year after our
; entrance Into the war a fateful battle rages
' ' without our military power being able to
Strike a telling blow.
. Europe has told us all the time what would
4 happen; we did not believe.
-. -Our own military and naval experts have
C . told us repeatedly; we have not believed.
J. .The ability to look forward when the co'n-
'flagration started would have saved us bll-
.; .lions in money and millions of lives.
r ' The responsibility rests upon the people
' and upon the people alone.
v" And now we are hearing much of the new
. .world1 after the war new times-s new spirit
. of Justice and righteousness.
. ' All out of the same old Adam. Nonsense.
'Af Let the United States not fall to learn her
; :. lesson this time. The only possible certainty
r at escaping a future war that may Involve
'.'the nation's existence will be such prepara-
". tlon as will make any power hesitate to at-
tack. .
PUBLICITY AST) GOVE&NUENT.
; Sscardlna; the problem of supplying labor
j to the agriculturists of the country with
; which to make and harvest the 1918 crop.
Secretary Wilson says in a recent statement:
; . ;.'" the publicity given the farm labor
' ' shortage question were devoted to telling the
s' farmers of the machinery provided by the
United States employment service for ascer-
tainlng their needs the question would go a
; Jong way toward solution."
Secretary Wilson is right But the manner
'of his expression leads the leader to believe
'that the secretary' would have the press of
( the country tell the farmers of the machin-
provided by the government for ascer-
taining their needs and do the telling in
r that apace now devoted to the farm labor
' shortage.
There the secretary is wrong. News is
; newsand Instruction is not news.
' The newspapers of the United States de-
v vote space to the farm labor shortage be-
r cauw their readera want to know the facts
'. with reference to that condition. But the
readers of the average newspaper refuse to
receive instruction from It Regarding govern'
mental functions. It is true the newspaper
mar with propriety handle a single "story"
r-arding the machinery rroyided by the
- rertunent tor ascertalnlBg the needs of the
jju i l-ii-i-irrrr--
fanner as to labor. But when that on tnry
Is published the duty of the newspaper Is
done. Any further publicity on that matter
sbouldt be at the expense of the government;
and such expense should be met by appro-
priation from congress In the same manner
that the cost of operating that machinery is
met '
One of the greatest troubles with govern
ment both State and national. Is that H neg
lects the proper advertising of its wares. Ths
United States devotes millions of dollars to
the publication of pamphlets which are al
lowed to lie and rot In Washington when
thousands of people would profit by the study
of them If only the art of advertising were
used to tell of their existence. The State of
Texas spends thousanda of dollars to like
purpose. This is out tne mosi sinning in-
stance of loss because of lack of proper pub-
licity. Other losses are greater still. The
case to which Secretary Wilson calls atten-
tion Is one of these. It Secretary Wilson
would have publicity devoted to telling the
farmers that or any other fact. Secretary
Wilson should smploy competent men to pre
pare his copy and he should spend the funds
o the government to have that copy inserted
In the newspapers of the United States. In
that way he could secure the needed public-
ity and such expenditure would be Just as
legitimate as the expenditure of funds for his
own salary. '
. When publicity Is recognized as one of the
most Important and most valuable functions
of government government will Improve
vastly; and the people will gladly pay the
cost of the publicity for the added value they
will receive from government The people
have a right to know all that can be told
them of their governmental affairs. With
that knowledge will come an added Interest
In government and a satisfaction with It and
its advantages which la unknown today.
THAT MAJORITY PBJMAEY LAW.
The next State officials for Texas will be
nominated in the primary by a majority vote
of Texas democrats.
That much la assured by the legislature In
passing the majority primary bill. But the
bill does not assure that Texas win have any
better or more efficient or more honest offi
cial because of that law.
Some of the worst men who have held of
fice In this State have been chosen by a ma
jority vote of democrats.
No doubt such men will be as able In the
future as in the past to secure the votes of
those who call themselves democrats and
who make It a point to "vote the ticket
straight".
But if the Terrell election law Is to re
main on the books if the State is to continue
to direct how political parties shall transact
their own business and If candidates for the
highest offices in the State are to continue
to be forced to usual political methods to
obtain the nominations In these primaries
then the majority law is a necessary adjunct
of the election machinery.
No man who Is willing to let the people ex
press themselves upon his candidacy and to
abide by the result of that expression may
find fault with a legislature which enacts
such a law. It should have been placed In the
statute books many years ago or the Terrell
election law should have been taken from
those books. If present primary supervision
by the State is to continue the majority
nomination law must be its ally Ja making
the primary express the will of the people.
And there is little likelihood that the ma
jority primary will be called upon to select
nominees for any of the more important of-
fices in the 1918 campaign. So far as pres-
ent conditions augur prevailing public opin
ion On July 27 none of the present candi
dates for State office will find 4helr chances
of success marred In the least by the enact-
ment of the law.
The addition of 600000 torn of Dutch shippinc
to the bottoms no'w transporting food and muni-
tions to our allies should prove a decided aid in
overcoming the under-sea menace. At the rate
supply ships are being sunk now 600000 tons will
last some time. In all probability the United
States shipbuilding program will bear results
within the next six months and we shall have
enough wooden ships upon the ocean to guarantee
that our men and those of our allies will not be
hungry during the present year. Whether they
shall be as fortunate during 1919 will depend
upon the farmers of America and upon a Merci
ful Providence.
It is gratifying to have the assurance from
Washington that Houston is still the greatest
financial center of the State. Houston people
were well aware of ' the lead this city has ever
maintained over its Texas competitors in the
financial world but there have ever been individ
uals who sought to show by their own figures that
Dallas banks handled more money and carried
heavier deposits- According to the Washington
correspondent of The Post the total resources of
Houston banks are $90023000 as compared with
Dallas whose banks have $85213000 and the
figures are quoted from the December 31 reports
of the institutions. The man whose business will
require financial backing has nothing to fear in
locating in Houston. The money is here for him
and the Houston banks are liberal and accommo
dating when proper collateral is forthcoming.
When the present workmen's compensation law
was being considered by .the regular session of
the Thirty-fifth legislature labor leaders agave it
out that any man who suggested an amendment
thereto and proposed any change therein was an
enemy to labor. Judging by the news that comes
from San Antonio the last few days labor is not
so pleased with the law after less than a year of
trial. Consideration of the law occupied many
valuable hours of the session of the convention
of the Texas State Federation of Labor and here
was no suggestion there that the men who are
suggesting changes in the law are enemies of
labor. The fact is that it usually requires about
one year- for the average laboring man to dis-
cover "where he stands with teference to a
labor law. The next legislature will undoubtedly
correct many of the most flagrant defects in 'the
present law by ' doing away with the monopoly
which it creates and bjV adding fully 100 per cent
to the amount of compensation paid injured men
and women under its provisions. With these two
changes and some minor amendments the law will
really be a labor measure instead of a tool for
the hands of the. employee. .'.J '
HOUSTON DAILY; POST: MONDAY MORNING. -MARCH 251
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Early Morning Observations
By George M. lUllsy. .
Now they art telling us that tobacco -is marked
for the next onslaught. Hah I The old -reformer
misses us every shot. If nothing will satisfy him
except to obliterate something 1 that contributes to
oar delight comforter happiness he will have to
inaugurate a crusade against watermelons nsn
ing cantaloupes Ice cream riding on the street
car er something like that ! 1
v - 111 11 'i :
If we just had s way to get aoe carloads of
Texas cucumbers into the 1 German lines right
now I - ' '; '
They are telling us that there- are new parties
new systems new social structures new industrial
systems and all that ahead of us. Of course
there are. But there will be the same old human
nature son and we will under the new dispensa-
tion have the same old devil to combat and the
same old frailties' of human nature to contend
with. ' i
And then rhere is the fool who does pot see
that what is happening in France has a vital bear
ing upon his own country's safety
llearst is going to be a candidate for governor
of New York against Whitman. It is a strange
situation. If there could be anything in the world
to justify a citiien voting for Hearst it would be
to beat Whitman and if there could be anything
in the world to justify a citixen voting for Whit-
man it would be to beat Hearst.
Why would it not be a good idea to turn Wis
consin over to the Post off ice Department for ad-
ministration and operation until after the war?
The spinning nose dive in aviation is hazard
ous. And the straight nose dive into the fragrant
verdure of the spring julep will cease in Houston
three weeks from today All nose divers will have
an opportunity to verify our oft-repeated declara-
tion that buttermilk taken in moderation will not
kill.
Because of the intimate ties now binding he
two cities we think the Chicago authorities should
invite Houstonians to vote in the Chicago mu-
nicipal elections.
Don't run for an office if you are in a position
to contribute either in brawn or material to the
country's needs. In a time like this two thirds
of the local offices which ablebodied men strug-
gle for might just as well be filled by the women
who are unfitted for the robuster tasks.
The Macon Telegraph has found out that Von
Hindenburg is a hard drinker. But that isn't the
objectionable characteristic of his that pesters us
most at this time.
Another significance of the great battle in
France is that there are 1000000 idlers in this
country who ought to be put to work and made to
work and if there is any reason why preparation
should not be made to get 5000000 men ready for
service abroad it is not apparent.
William R. Hearst wants the United States to
break with Great Britain. But this country is not
especially noted for doing the things that Hearst
demands that it do.
The fellers who think the modern scatter-
brains know more of political science than the
founders of the American system would prob
ably tell you that the ten commandments did very
well for the time they were proclaimed but not
for an era of electricity.
Honest doesn't reading of the tremendous trag
edy being enacted 'in France make you want to
do something for yotir country orare ypu hot
a plain knot' on a log? '
So far 500 Houston boys have enlisted in the
boys' working reserve. There will be 1000 to
enlist before the enrollment closes. The colyum
is betting on Houston's "teen" brigade. It will
fight with anything from guns to grubbing boes
or bare knuckles.
And there is one thing you must not forget
Silas. Get that income tax -return in this week
or Ur-le Sam will touch you up lightly to con-
vince you he means business.
We threaten nobody but unless something is
done by the government to assist the Texas onion
growers who responded to the government's ap-
peal for greater production the American breath
of iQie will not be as fragrant as it might be
otherwise.
We suppose the limited capacity of the First
Methodist church auditorium caused Dr. Knicker-
bocker to have live chickens at his Sunday night
service instead of fried chicken.
There were twenty-five divorces in Houston
Saturday and only ten weddings. How in the
world can Houston hope to maintain her great
divorce record unless there are weddings With-
out marriages there can be no divorces.
Still there was one provision of law omitted
from the Statewide bill that may ultimately prove
embarrassing viz. denying one accused of violat
ing the law the right of trial by jury.
We are not pessimistic but we do not believe
it possible to devise a civilization that can exist
and progress without work. The new time boost-
ers seem to thing such a thing is not only pos-
sible but desirable.
We are not so pigheaded but that we are willing
to acknowledge an error. . When we said a week
ago that the much advertised German offensive
was a bluff we were probably mistaken.
Apparently there is to be some formality of a
State campaign this year but the ladies who par
ticipate for the first time will not see the scrap
that would be if it were not such a onesided race.
A North Carolina negro has fourteen .sons in
the army the' thirteen children thus far not in
uniform being girls. That darkey must have been
a great cotton producer' before the war.
The Birmingham Age-Herald observes that war
is developing many orators. That's true but we
think the best way for orators to enable folks to
forget they are not fighting is to be silent.
. Some Postscripts
An electrically driven machine has been in-
vented for splitting kindling wood.
In some parts of Russia gold base been mined
Without interruption since 1744.
An Iowa woman is the patentee of a new
form of horseshoe with renewable calks.
A bridge over the River Dee in England that
was built in (280 still is in use.
Tweezers with chamois covered tips have been
invented for cleaning eye glasses. -
Hail causes losses estimated from t20.0oo.00o
Lto $30000000 in France each .year.
A Nebraska inventors Counterbalanced gate
swings vertically instead of horizontally. .
Electricity obtained from near by waterfalls
heats several Swiss churches economically.
A tooth brush so shaped sa to reach both sur-
faces ef the teeth at once has been patented.
The first American linotvtw machine in Trinoli
has beea installed by. sa Italian newspaper
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In Days To Come
' S' ' iV. H. Addlnoton Bruoe
i Here are a few iacts worth thinking about t
Probate court records show that over 8$ per
cent of the people who die in New York city die
sennilesa or next to penniless 1
. Of the remainder' 4-3 per cent leave leas than
$1000 and 7.1 per cent leave less thaa $10000. .
Only 3.3 per cent leave estates worth more thaa
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$10000. . li' ' v ' ': I ' 1
A with New York' so with other American
cities.' ' ' ' ' ' .
Some time ago a survey was cnada of the es-
tates of 4J.JJ7 people dying in eight typical cities
situated in widely separated parte of the country.
It was found that of (he 4J.JJ7 as many as 41.39
(or more than nineteen out of every twenty) left
lets-than $$000.
Nothing could indicate more plainly the tin-
evenness with which wealth is distributed in this
country. '
But also nothing could suggest more strongly
ihe tbriftlessnets of hundreds of thousand of
our people.
Most of the persons who die leaving nothing
have not been paupers all their lives.
On the contrary most of them in their prime
have been wage earners often' drawing good pay
for many yrs. Not a ew have been high sal
aried men.
But they spent as they received. They gave no
thought to the days to come when they would be
too infirm to work-
Hence their dependence on others in old age
their death as virtual paupers.
What happened to then) will happen to you un-
less' in these days ef your money-earning activ
ity you practice thrift.
And today there are some special means by
which you can practise it to the safeguarding ot
your happiness in later years and also to the
safeguarding of yfcur interests in the immediate
present. '
Your country is at war Niorcea into oraum
ith a savage ruthless enemy.
Onlv victor over that enemy can leave you
free to work and earn and enjoy life a you have
been doing. Defeat will mean your ruin as well
a your country's. '
In this war crisis money no less tnsn men it
needed for victory. To obtain money the United
States government calls upon all citizens to con-
tribute from their earnings not gifts but loans.
It urges the purchase of Thrift Stamps War-
Savinn StamDa and Liberty Bonds all guaranteed
by the government and later to be redeemed in
full and at good rates ot merest.
nere is your cnance.
By lending to the government you will not only
be doing a patriotic act but will be helping to
insure yourself against poverty and want in tne
twilight of your life.
You will be helping to keep yourself out of the
ranks of the 85 per cent who die with scarcely
a dollar to their name.
Don't miss this opportunity. Begin today
through patriotism to benefit from thrift.
(Copyright 1918 by the Associated Newspapers.)
Texas Newspaper' Ideas
The Grapeland Messenger says it has been sug
gested that all food speculators should be hung
a suggestion it heartily endorses.
What we may expect from Russia is hard to de
fine. We need not be surprised at anything.
good or bad that may come from that unhappy
unfortunate land says the Beaumont Enterprise.
Secretary of War Baker was under fire over
in France but he didn't flinch. 'He had passed
through the same experience here at home de-
clares the Waxahachie Daily Light.
"Germany the last nation to disturb the world
peace. Uavid r. Houston. Ana irora tne way
things are shaping up the world's peace will not
be disturbed much longer thinks the Matagorda
.County News
According to the Brenham Daily Banner1-Press
denouncing the small grafter as a crook and eulo-
gizing the big grafter as a "captain of finance'
is referred to as another one of our former habits
that is gradually getting the "edge worn' off."
beerless day is suggested for St. Louis. If you
ever have come in personal contact .with St. Louis
water you will Understand the supreme sacrifice
to patriotism the people of that town arejready
to offer is the comment of the El Campo Citizen.
The Yoakum Daily Times says that With eggs
at 25 and 30 cents a dozen it is a sorry sort of
a hen that will not during the next few weeks re-
pay the Food Administration for its kindness in
discouraging her slaughter to support the table on
meatless days.
Are you an American? Then make it part of
your business to help at every paint the govern-
ment in its struggle. No single item should be
left untouched support of the American institu-
tions and men should be at every point the
Greenville Evening Banner declares.
Newspaper and the Censor
(From tht Toltdo Blade.) 'v
The question of the censorship .is up again.
more bitterly than ever. Without assuming to
guide the rest of the American press this news-
paper continues to take the position it took at
the beginning of the war that:
Men's lives ere more important than news.
The country's salvation is in the balance and
that weighs more with us than any temporary
inconvenience affecting our business.
While there may' be injustices and stupiditiotf
in the censorship they must be borne with by a
newspaper just as a merchant or a manufacturer
bears with worries and discomforts brought about
by the war.
it is lmpossioie to conceive or a censor who
ill never do anything unwise. His is a job
which all men excent the fussv-fnlnffed hat.
Therefore fussy-mindedenesil must be expected
the same as spines on a cattisn.
' Constitutional rights will not perish as long as
this country is a Republic. If the Republic per-
ishes we shall be glad to die along with the free-
dom of the press.
Chivalry
(Private Peat in-the American Mogatine.)
After the first gas attack at Ypres' in April.
191 5. t was knocked out for a while and was in
the clearing station at Merville. One day when
I was lying there on a stretcher a poor miserable
soldier came in. He was covered with mud and
blood. He was minus his overcoat and his tunic
was torn by shrapnel. He was soaked to the
bone for it was raining and he was shivering
with-cold and pain. The nurse hurried to him
and asked bim what had become of his over-
coat.
"Oh" he said his teeth chattering "my pal
a killed back there and . he looked ' so cold.
lying there in the rain I took off my coat and put
it over him." : "
If the men in the trenches with their dirt and
their filth their swearing and fighting can show
sucn tenderness anu unselfishness and--sacrifice
are you here at heme going to fall below them in
nobility of spirit? I don't believe you are.'
' Shopping.
(From the Vancouver (B. C) Province.) .
A deaf old lady of obvious Scotch lineage en
tered a store to do some shopping. "What's the
price of this silk?" she asked of the young shop-
man.'. . . r ".' ..'
"Seven shillings" was the reply.v "
"Seventeen shillings t" she exclaimed. "Ill
give you thirteen-" ' !
"Only seven shillings 'ma'am is ihe prjee of the
silk" replied the honest .shopman.' ' ' . ' . .
Oh seven . shillings I ". rejoined . the " lady
shsrply. ..Wett I'H .give you five ": - ; s
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Sir Or. Frank Crane.
Nothing Is ever scaled until is.' settled righH
Every compromise with wrong meant th waoie
issue .will by and by be ao stain.. ' '
Think of 'that' nations. - When you make a
treaty of peace that' contains say injustice 'you
have left there the seed of another war . 1 . .
When you have passed a law that is not lust
yotf have advertised for revolution. ;
Thlnk'sf that judges! When you hand 'down
a decision that is not just you have provoked!
not settled litigation. V ' f V
Think of that churches. .When you preach a"
doctrine that it not truth some day you wlU .be
shamed and smitten. . When by 'any custom or
authority you compound with tin lottead of stop
ping it you are na more shepherds but wolves. :
Think of that citizens. N When you have elfcKd
officials 'and established conditions that mean
graft and fraud then no matter bow your city
flourishes no matter what its proud building and
beautiful parks ita prosperity and thine there if
trouble ahead and open disgrace.' ; .
Nothing is settled until it is settled right
The only way to so. if you would keep on go
ing is to go straight.
Mnd out toe tacts and build on toem. r -
iier. st tne trutn ana suae to it.
See what is honest and ra that nath.
This isn't religion nor preaching nor old man's
advice. It'a plain horse tense. . ..''( ' v
Think over it lovers before you marry- r Many
a marriage hat jailed because underlying the con-
tract there was deception and not truth selfish-
ness and not self-mastery passion only and not
justice.
There it but one rock upon which any human
agreement can stand when the storm comet and
the wind blow and that rock is toe right. '
What's wrong's rotten: and the fairer it seems
the rottener it is. . '
All the world labors tnd seethes until the right
it found.
You cannot build the structure of peace for cap-
ital and labor for employer and employed for
buyer and seller for government and governed
until you have dug down to ultimate justice and
laid your foundation upon that granite base.
1 here can be no liberty without truth ; tor It Is
written "The truth shall tet you free."
There can be no peace without justice. For
to those who make peace that carries with it in-
justice' comes the eternal cry of the prophet:
"They have healed the hurt of the daughter of
my people slightly saying peace peace when
there is no peace. .
Get right with your neighbor .your wife your
husband your child . your workmen your tm-
ployer your fellow citizen your self get right
with nature and her even and invariable laws
with truth and its white clarities with mercy and
its insistent appeal with love and its deathless
claims and with God and His unchanging .will.
Get right or disaster awaits you in the womb
of tomorrow. .
(Copyright 19 18 by Frank Crane.)
Houston and The Post
Much wearing out of shoe leather may be ex
pected in Houston when it gets it ten-mile zone
law established. St. Louit Globe-Democrat.
1
Can't you sniff the "heavenliness" of Houston
Texas with 7000000000 onion sets planted in
the surrounding fields? Mempbie Commercial
Appeal.
The patriotism of George Bailejr of the Hous
ton Post is the real article. It 4k we are sure
even proof against the argument that Germany
is opposed to prohibition.CqarczON A'stt'i and
Courier. .
Speaking of the awful calamity that is about to
befall Tcxast our genial friend George Bailey of
the Houston' Post says: "Even after she has
lven dry-zoped nationally amended statewidened
statutoried bevoed bone-dried and bellywashed
to a fare-you-well. Grand Old Texas will still be
the noblest remnant of a once sovereign republic
the world ever saw." Yes. George but Colonel
Bohvar Beasley says it will be no place to live in.
New Orleans Staiet.
The Houston Post which continually adds to
the sum total of the nation's information now
discovers that "the race for the United States
senate in Illinois is between James Hamilton
Lewis and Vance McCormick of Illinois and B.
M. Chiperfield of Houston Texas." The fact
that Mr. Vance McCormick is not a citizen of
of Illinois but of Harrisburg Pennsylvania would
seem to indicate an unusual liberality on. the part
of Illinois toward senatorial aspirants outside its
own borders and adds to the wonderment why the
people of that State ever did stand for "Billy"
Mason and James Hamilton Lewis- New York
Herald.
Best City to Live In
(From the New York World.) .
Students of Reed college Portland Ore- have
compared by eighteen tests the advantages of
thirty-six American cities proving with scien
tific conclusiveness that Seattle is the best to
live in Washington fifth New York seventeenth
while Charleston and Birmingham bring up the
rear.
In the artful diagram of the Reed College
Record. New Ofork draws three black spaces.
three white ones and twelve shaded so so. But
the details tempt to the sin of doubting sociology.
For Square Yards of Park Space per Inhabitant
New York shows black. Minneapolis white. Yet
we have so many inhabitants that our parks are
not bad. Minneapolis people come to see them
among other things.
We get black mark for Foreign-Born Whites
Unable to Speak English ; San Francisco a white
one. Does that mean that San Francisco .is a
better city or merely farther from Ellis Island?
Nor are the tests of uniform value. Cost of Liv-
ing and Death-Rate cut deeper than Value of
City Property per Inhabitant.
You can prove anything by such figures and
nothing. vStt that diagram before John Jones
aged 18 and he might "pass it up" which would
be shocking. Or he might note that Wage Rates
are high in New York and fail to worry at our
bad Fire Loss and very bad Average Number of
Pupils to leacher. tven out of the materials
of scientific exactitude he might thus be hard
ened in the error that New York (No. 17 j popu
lation 5737000) and not Seattle (No. 1 ; popula-
tion 237000) is the best place to live in. So
what'a the use?
Uncle Sam s Ten Commandments
.From the Cedar Rapids Casette.) '
President Wilson is about to sign a bill. which
takes itt place in history as the most liberal legis-
lation in protection of a nation'a fighters evef
known. It is good enough strong enough to be
called the National Ten Commandments and is
in effect thus: .
Thou shalt not evict for nonpayment- of .
rentr soldier's dependents under penalty of
$10000 fine. . -.;.'
Tbou shalt not cut off a' soldier's life in- '
surance because of delayed premiums.- '
.Thou shalt not foreclose a mortgage on a-
soldier't property ..i
- Thou shalt not take away a soldier' home -
on which he ha made part payment. '
Thou shalt not sell a soldier's property be-.'
cause of hit failure to pay the taxes national'
State or local.- - "".'
Thou sbalt not settle a law suit agsinrt a ?
soldier during hit absence .
If a soldier sue the court shall postpone t
action until he can attend to it - . . 1
If a soldier have a mine or. timber or farm
claim assessmenti on which are overdue; it
shall be held for him. - r .
Honor thy soldier and thy tailor that thy -days
may be long in the land of liberty.
. No man hath greater love thin he that of- ;
fereth his Kfe for the world's sake and It :
ia commanded that neither lawyers nor the -loan
shark nor the gatherers of tithes shaH
fatten on him.- . ';?
hrnperinif i 'Trifle!
' By Judd Mortimer Lewls. -J f
ftf 1 r'RIN-'lK'THE-NICH. )'i.. .'-t
When r.wake 'and down the night I hear -the
l-rthnnderrqll. -V'w W.
And when I hear the rain com down at first ia
1 '. laggard dole' 1
' the.eavea1 f '' .' ' - ' ' '. ' ' ; '" s-
Like cstaractt-I think of tree which wated with
their" leave' - " ' ' " ' .' i
Till gushing Vain 'out ; of the skle should tell
v them It wt spring. V ".; '-"f ' "
And I think of the morning tweet beyond im-
agining ; .': : '''
And a whole summertime made up' of morning-.
glory dsys.. ' '"
tlL - I. '.: t . 1. . 1 1 1
tv ncn . 1 1 it raminc in tne mam -ana on ii via.
do w nine '" . '.;'. ' ' ' - ' V . "-
I sar the' tapping fingers of the spirit of the.
ram" . - "' . v '."
I think 6f streams ; which used ' to sing now
Climbing up their banks .j
And through the night I seem to hear 'the mur-
' mur of .their thank ;
I ' hear the 4ivers sweep along to tell the waif
! ing tea : - . ' . ;V
pf 1 mellowed fields and bursting ' budt - add
. harvests yet to be ; .
And in the night through the rain-song I hear
. the cattle low .t '
As if their heartt were full brim-up and.'' had
w vvcrwow.
.i.i. 1 j ' 1 f - . 1 . j
" time rain ' 1 ' r
Which lift the streams out of their bed) : and
blossoms down the lane; . . '.. .; .
And . like boef-beatt across a bridge I hear the
thunder roll s . '
A . tatiratmg. happiness wake blotsomt in my
soul: '.
And 1 reach out and pull the quilta about my
snuggling form ..
Ana listen to tne roiling 01 toe tnunaer sna tne
1 storm : . . v ' .'
with mt :..;..-. .4 i.
pane- : - - -;
And I -lie there and smile and let it rain 'and
rain aad rain.
t
PATSY riLDARE OUTLAW. '
ZEPHYR'S WAYS. . y
Today I took Zephyr to June's and to Jiin and
Maggie's and to Old Maid Thompkina' and Bar-'
ney and Mary'a and Bell and Lunny'a to my own
Lhome. They were all glad to aee her but ' Bell
and Lunny' who have gone'away. I guess I am
not going to like Zephyr as well a I thought I
would but I never expected to anyway. -Whcn I
climbed" the tree by Bell's window tid srig she
asked me if I got such spells very often and if
I had ever done anything for them. Then I took
her around by Thomas fAristodes Brown's house
thinking I might see him and there he wit mow
ing the lawn. He ttopped when he got to the
sidewalk and I aaid "Thomas Aristides Brown
shake hands with Zephyr- Zephyr thake hands
with Thomat Aristides Brown and he did and
she did and she .said "Pleased to meet you'" and
he said "How do Heifer?" At that she blara-.
med htm on the mouth which knocked bim over
the lawn mower and cut his lip. Then she stuck
out her tongue at him and I had a hard job get
ting her away. .
When we got around the corner and I asked her
for cat 1 sake what she did it for she told me
that he called her "Heifer." I said I heard him
but that probably he had nof" understood me when
I told him her name. She said he was trying to
be funny and that "heifer" meant a sort of mid
dle aged calf. So I do not blame her very much
for blamming him. I might have done it myself
you never can tell. Then she wanted to go to a
pitcher ahow and I took her and she wanted
some chewing gum and I bought her some and
when we went to my house she nearly woke my
father who was- asleep after his night watching
and ahe looked into everything as if the thought
she might find something the wanted and ' the
asked me to give her all the things Santa Clam
brought me last Christmas. She asked me if
there was going- to be any picnics on Saturday
and I did not know ao I asked a policeman and
he said the barkeeper were going to have one
out at a beer garden and that the petroleum
wagon would probably be there before it wat over.
It (hounded a if it would be interesting.
The last place Zephyr and I went wa Barney
and Mary a. We went along by the railroad
and down across he river and Zephyr said I ywai
foolish for not going across the railroad bridge
but I would not do it and would not let her do U.
When we got to the house Mary was very nice to
her and Barney was too and we hunted eggs and
she towed me how to suck an egg but never again
for me though she teems to like it. Then we
followed Barney around for a while when he waa
cultivating corn and then we went over to the
pond and all of a sudden the said "Qh . look
here!" I said "Where?" She said. "Right here.
Look close."- So I stooped down looking into the
pond and then she gave me a bump and I .went
into the water all spraddled outlike a mud turkle.
When I came out she had run a little way and
wa waiting to see if I wa mad but I laughed "to
show her that I was a good sport.
Then he said "Let's go up fo the barn and
play hide and seek." I said "No." She said
Ob come on. I'll blind my eyes." So I cave
her a stick and took her over by the bee hive
and said "Count a hundred with your eye shut
and then hit this box with this stick and I will
be ready." Then I went into the barn and closed
the door and peeked out of a crack and when
the had counted a hundred she fetched. 'the. bee-
hive a blam and yelled "Ready or not you must
be caught!" Just then one of the. bees hit her
somewhere for I could tell by the way she went
un in the. air and hollered. Then anotln.v m. i;
on her and pushed and she hollered again. Then
she Tay down and rolled over and then she got np
and ran around the barn hollering. Mary ' came
out and got her when she (lowed up and we plas-
tered her with mud. She wat mad at me which
showed that ahe is not a good sport. ' - i'
Zephyr and.. I are going to sleeo together . In
Mabel's bed and I am next to ths wall tn.irn
from getting kicked out. I prayed "Dear mother
which art in heaven if you have not thanked God
for me already for tending Zephyr you'd better
wait awhile a I might want to change the thank
for aomething else. Amen." . v
(Copyright by Judd Mortimer Lewis.) ' v.
Ancient Bolsheviki.
; .'. (Lord Acton's Essays. ?
. On a memorable otcasion the assembled Athen-
Una- declared it monstrous ' that they should be
prevented from doing whatever they chose..--No
force that existed could restrain thjem; and they
resolyed that no duty should restrain then"' and
that they would be bpund by no law that were
not of their own making. In this way the emanci-
pated 1 people 'of Athens became a tyrant; and
their 1 government the pioneer' of European free-
dom stands condemned with a terrible unanimity
by air the "wisest of the'ahclenta.' Tbey ruined
their city' by attempting to conduct warvbv 'de
bate in' the' market place. . Like the French 're
public they put 'their successful commandert to
death. .They treated their dependencies with such
injustice- that they lost their maritime emoire.
They plundered the rich until the rich con spited
witn tne puonc enemy ana tney crowned .their
guilt by -thV martyrdom of Socrates. " !' n
J.- .. I- - 1 nai
-Official Familiar With Hla Subject.'
" ' '' (.From London Punch) :- -n
The coal controller .Is v stated to ' have goni
down s eeal pit for .the first tlmet list' week.
On emeniiur he told a renorter. that ha would
hav recognized the staff anywhere from the pic-
tures h had seen -of iVv " ?'..'' "'
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