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At this time little news comes from Germany "because Germany Is Isolated and Information from German sources passes through French or English censors.

It Is needless to assure Tribune readers that news is neither colored nor suppressed In this office. The Tribune has access through the Associated Press and its allied press services in Furope and through a great staff of correspondents to the best available sources of news. We print every word that can be relied upon. We are exhausting every resource to give the public complete and accurate news reports.

THE SQUARE GUY.

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The "square guy" has been described as the fellow who never forgets what he borrows. Which applies even to books and umbrellas, to say nothing of the occasions* touch.

An idea originating In a western "town of setting aside a take it back" day, when every borrower shall return to their owners articles they have borrowed during the year, is spreading. .Boston has adopted it and this week will "take it back."

Everyone grows tired of a persistent ^borrower, yet the number is ever increasing. The borrower 1s usually 'equally persistent in failing to recognize the necessity of repaying the little obligations to others.

The "take it back" plan was devised to meet the evil. On a date announced "there is generous publicity given to the plan of returning what has been borrowed and kept. By making the idea public, by emphasizing the necessity and importance of the act of returning borrowed articles, the sense of personal obligation is thereby deepened.

Reports indicate the idea has worked well. Boston Is the largest city that has thus far tried the plan. It will be interesting to note the results. If it will work in a city so large it may safely be tried in others.

MEN AND MONEY.

Terre Haute bankers in interviews in the Tribune yesterday expressed the opinion that this section would not be pffected by the decision of the bankers of larger cities to go on a clearance house issue basis, and it is hardly probable that emergency paper will find its way into the channels of commerce here.

The decision of the bankers in all important cities to issue clearing house checks and enforce the legal time limit on withdrawals of savings deposits is a. precautionary measure only. It presents no evidence of lack of strength in business and finance. Only a few days ago Secretary McAdoo's offer of $50,000,000 again this year to aid in moving the crops was declared to be unnecessary In many localities.

The causes of the action arise from a situation wholly outside of our own

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NEWS OF THE WAR.

Our German-American fellow citizens, who ax® protesting against thu character of the European war news published in the newspapers, should bear in mind the news situation. The newspapers are printing all the news they can. ret that is, all honest, unbiased newspapers. Unfortunately some newspapers print more news tha_n they get

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the springs or clothfcjg. stocked dr^g stores,

"*yith Europe panic-swept, it

is wise to conserve banking resources at this timo that more serious inconvenience to depositors may be prevented later. But, as president Wilson says, no reason exists for alarm. It is a time for preserving calmness when he gives assurances that all the resources of government will be utilized in measures for avoiding any serious trouble.

The very condition which the federal reserve system was de.si.gned to minimize or prevent thus has to be faced with that system not yet In operation. As a temporary expedient bankers are even preparing to resort to the obsolete and clumsy Aldrich-Vreeland emergency currency measure. The responsibility of those who placed cheap poltics in the senate and delayed for weeks the organization of the federal reserve board is a hea^y one.

PAY OF TEACHERS.

While the predominance of female students at the State Normal school in years past has been explained on the theory that business and other professions offer more attractive compensation for men than does the profession of teaching, statistics show that this condition is passing. A report just Issued by the federal bureau of education shows that in city school systems salaries have increased steadily in recent years, particularly in the western states and, in general, salaries in city school systems are fairly well standardized. The average salary cf the superintendent of schools in cities of over 250,00(1 population is $7,178 the range Is from $4,000 to $10,000. In the same group of cities high schoc.1 principals average $3,565, and elementary teachers $1,018. Even in the smallest cities listed, those between 5,000 and 10,000 population, salaries are fairly uniform. The maximum for superintendents in this gToup is $3,GOO. and the average $1,915 but elementary teachers show an annual average of $533, with salaries as high as $1,350 and as low as $104. It is in the colleges and unflversities that the widest variation prevails. The salaries of men with the rank of "professor" range from $450 to $7,500. "Professors" in some Institutions recede less than "instructors" or even "assistants" in others. Salaries of deans of these institutions vary from $500 to $5,000.

University teachers of subjects for which there is direct commercial demand outside receive somewhat higher salaries than those in charge of the traditional academic subjects, but the difference Is less than might be expected. The highest average salaries for full professors are paid in law and cfvil engineering. Law claims the highest paid professorship In any subject, with one salary of $7,500, but there are professors of physics, geology and Latin who receive $7,000. It is significant, however, that on the basis of the figures reported most college teaching, particularly in the first two years, is done by .men of instructor grade with salaries of $1,000 to $1,200, or by assistants who receive on the average about $500, usually for halftime services.

WATCHFUL WAITERS.

Commentators on events of the day just now are prone to compare the Yankee policy of watchful waiting to the deplorable annihilation of international peace that is being witnessed abroad. The United States could have been at war with Mexico months ago had not conservative judgment been in control, and the marvelous triumph of our peaceful policy just now is being relished. A writer in the Review of Reviews puts it this way: "No one pretends that the seizure of Vera Cruz was a premeditated policy. And yet we have somehow been able to carry the thing off as if we had intended to do it all along. We have cleaned up the town, spent a lot of good money in the stores, furnished lively military band music in the parks at night, and made ourselves quite popular, while all the time being near enough to worry the Huertistas by reason of the baffling mystery of our behavior, and thus preventing their concentration of mind upon the problem of defending themselves against

Carranza and Villa. We have thus used an immense combined naval and military force to make an exceedingly small war, and have brought that war to a funny little end by something called a 'protocol' that was signed at Niagara Falls and that nobody .has read or understood. Nevertheless, we are. staying on at Vera Cruz, refusing to put withdrawal dates, as demanded, into the 'protocol.' We are still treating this occupation of Mexican territory as a sort of fulcrum for the possible further application of powerful leverage. Taking that' town was an admirable mistake, promptly capitalized as if it had been a stroke of statesmanship or strategy."

Our staying at Vera Cruz, in other words, and our covering a long coast with our navy, were found useful as showing two or three things. For exemple. (1) that the Yankees were, after all, not such bad people on close acquaintance, and had a remarkably fine way of cleaning-up and running a seaport town (2) that the Yankees could act swiftly and intrepidly when they decided to act at all, and that they were prepared, in case of need, to extend their occupation far beyond the town of Vera Cruz while (3) it showed contending factions in Mexico, and the rest of the world combined, that Uncle •am'3 "watchful waiting'v yas a mat-

How I Earned My First Dollar

One of Terre Haute's younger citizens who has come Into prominence by his faithful performance of service for the citizens of Vigo county is Frank J. Foley, deputy prosecutor- Six years ago Mr. Foley first saw Terre Haute and was .so impressed with the city that he decided to return to Worcester, Mass., where he had built up a law practice, and arrange to come to Terre Haute to live. It is not unusual that after a short residence he was placed In one of the important county offices because his friends know that he is an industrious worker. The etory of how he earned his first money was told Saturday as follows: "I.earned my first money working for a butcher shop at Warren, Mass., when I was in the grammar schools. I worked after school delivering packages and occasionally cutting meat when the butcher was out of the shop. After I was graduated from the high schools I decided to go to college. Holy Cross college was about sixty miles away and I decided to make the trip back and forth every day. I worked nights and during spare hours and finally succeeded In graduating with an A. B- degree in 1904. Then I entered the law school of the University of Boston and graduated three years later with my law degree. I set up an office in Worcester and. was there until I located in Terre Haute."

Mr. Foley, while in Massachusetts, was elected a member' of the school

ter of patience and judgment, rather than one of timidity or bewilderment.

Republican nominees now seek to gain favor by announcing that they are not connected with the Watson Temenway machine. How times have changed!

Clinton resident has found oil floating on the river. Deep and expensive holes have been drilled on less provocation.

It pains one to see newspapers print a lot of imaginary war pictures and then pride themselves on the excellence of their "actual" war pictures.

Garrison neiver made a finish like the Terre Haute baseball team. Now if this valiant showing had not been deferred so long.

Saturday's sample of rain was all right. If the weather man is willing we will order a double portion.

War excitement should• be allowed to overshadow the main idea. Buy it in Tei-re Haute.

Europe may think she has some war. But look at the mayor and the school board.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY From the Trlbnnr Kllc».

August 9, 1904.

E. F. Williams and family left for a visit at St. Louis. Born to Mr. and Mrs- Robert T. Vrydaugh, 1406 South Seventh street, a daughter.

John T. Beasley and B. V. Marshall left for New York city and from there they will sail for Europe.

Miss Kate Braman has returned from Youngstown, O-, where she has been visiting Mrs. Harry Scott Braman.

HE WONDERED.

A St. Louisan who responded to the Macedonian cry for help from the Kansas wheat fields tells this story: "The farmer told us we were to work 10 hours a day, but that when it got hot he would knock off an hour. One day, after we had been out in the blazing sun until we were panting for breath, we came in to dinner to find the mercury up to 114. We thought the farmer would say something about short hours that afternoon, but he didn't. As we started out to work I said to him: 'One hundred and fourteen in the shade!' 'Yes,' he answered. 'Do you feel much?" 'No,' I said. *1 don't mind It particularly but when does it get hot out here

I-IFE.

Ho wshall we build our lives? Shall we mirsue With those who crowd and throng the busy mart Where rust will ever find the sword of fame And where no man will carve his name so high But tune, with ruthless hand, will tear it clown? Is it worth while that we should know all things? The ugly truths of life which once were veiled, Because of modesty, are now disclosed To guileless infant eyes. But is it best To studv nature- in her fleshly guise. Denuded of all sweet poetic charm? Methinks that this would be a dismal world, Where dull gray clouds would weep nerpetual tears. If crime's dark mysteries were boldly bared In ail harshness of its varying moods To su.l ii,o whim of our progressive ce. Methinks God never meant for us to prv And probe within the charnel house or life Rise why the marvel of the silent stars. The beauteous fabrics wrought of shade and shine. The purple miracle of misty hills, The breeze-sweet open spaces of the fields, The charms which strike the taproots of the soul And make of lffe a sweet and splendid t-h hiu? Then let us be content to shape our vears In molds of loveliness. soul Is searching shadows for the dreams it lost To lead it to the light it perifles, Not to the darkness of uncleanly thought To maki*l-f age a blessed harvesting And Ku -nsmirched the innocence 0

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FRANK J. FOLEY.

board, the board of voters' registration, the city democratic committee and for a time served as a member of the fire department. During the summers while he was attending school he worked as a lineman, in the cotton mills and in a gun shop.

HOROSCOPE FOR A DAY.

Monday, August 10, 1914.

Uranus rules with a strong sway according to astrology and the day should be a fortunate one.

It is a favorable apsect for traveling on business. The rule postends gain, fair prospects for the future and general good luck.

The rule is believed to be especially auspicious for investigations of every sort. Those who seek information or knowledge are likely to obtain unexpected results.

As the kindly aspects of Uranus tend to make persons firm, indepetident and businesslike, the day should be used wisely. It is a good date for beginning enterprises or pushing ventures of large scope. Persons born under Aquarius are believed to be especially susceptible to these influences.

The rule is encouraging for those who are in love, as the psychic conditions are said to be conducive to romance, since the planet that affects the spiritual vision makes the mental attributes compelling.

Persons whose, birth date It is should not take risks of any sort In the next year. Change and travel are foreshadowed and they should bring benefits.

Children born on this day may be restless and unsettled in their natures, but exceedingly bright in intellect. They should be trained to systematic, habits.

BOOKS WORTH WHILE.

A serieB of suggestive titles furnished to The Tribune by the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial library.

Miscellaneous.

Burroughs—"Birds and Pets." Coleridge—"The Ancient Mariner." "Arabian Nights." "Aesop's Fables." Wyss—"Swiss Family Robinson." Riley—"Child Rhymes."

Deeds, Not Wordsl

The Nervous Visitor (to beach lifesaveV)—I notice that drowning bathers become quite calm directly you reach them. I suppose your brave and noble words reassure them?

The Life-Saver—Oh, no, miss it ain't that it's because I always 'it 'em a good thump in the neck to mate 'em keep quiet!—Sketch.

Mark 11:12:33—"The Barren Flgi Tree and the Defiled Tempel." The dramatic events of today's lesson were cited before Jesus' disciples for their own special benefit. The master teacher here uses object lessons to enforce the significance of his actions. The purpose of the fig-tree was to bear fruit, but it was barren the purpose of the temple was to produce righteousness of conduct and purity of motive, but it too, was barren. By blasting the useless fig-tree and casting the corrupt out of the abused temple, Jesus so feathered his arrow of instruction as to make it strike home on the subject of faith and prayer.

Bethany stands well up on the eastslope of the Mount of Olives, rom it to the summit is a gentle ascent, a:iu In going into the city Jesus and his disciples would mount to the summit, and then descend into the valley of the ICodron. In the evening they would avoid the steep climb up the western slope of Olives by taking the roaa which makes a detour to the south of the mountain.

This accounts for the fact that the withered tree was not seen till the next morning. The fig-tree has two crops of fruit eaoh year. The first is produced upon the old wood of the previous year's growth, and is of considerable size when the leaves form. The usual time for this crop to ripen is not till at least a month after the Passover. tree in full leaf suggested the possibility of its being equally advanced in maturing its fruit.

The thronging of pilgrims to Jerusalem from every part of the world was a temptation to the resident of Jerusalem to get gain at their expense. To this the priests yielded, for they controlled the monopoly of providing the worshipers with doves. TThere was a rule that the money paid into the treasury must be of sacred coinage, and this enabled the money changers of Jerusalem to demand exorbitant rates of exchange. The city extended on three sides of the temple grounds, and it was natural for person's going from the north to the south or vice versa, to pass throuerh the temple grounds. Persons bearing burdens across the sacred grounds may be witnessed at the present time.

The lesson was calculated to teach the disclnles something. Jesus was lourneving from Bethany to .Jerusalem and was hungry. He saw a ng-trd. having leaves. This was too e».rly

Travelers to Europe will be sure to visit the Anglo-American Exposition, now in progress in Shepherd's Bush, London. This most Interesting exhibition Illustrates the progress and resources of the British and American nations during the last hundred years.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 8 death of Mrs. Wilson, wife of the president has overshadowed events during the closing days of the week. All Washington is singularly bereaved. Messages of condolence have poured in from the far corners of the earth. The dead woman was sincerely respected In public life and deeply beloved by those who knew her more intimately. Many stories are told of her helpfulness to the president and of her devotion to him and to their daughters. Mrs. Wilson adapted herself to public life readily, she was one of the most gracious hostesses and even during her brief residence here, her interests and influences extended in many directions.

In the midst of official cares of exceptional gravity the president has been called upon to bear the heaviest personal sorrow that could come to him.

In this dark hour the sympathy of all the people goes without measure to him and to his daughters, who share with him a loss that life cannot make up.

The Railroad Rates.

Several occurrences during the last week give promise of the ushering in within a very short time of an era of prosperity in this country without an equal in the history of the American

Sunday School Lesson for Aug. 9

HY RICV. E. MONGER, PASTOR OK THE MAPLE AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH.

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the season for a tree to have leaves, and the tree should have borne fruit before the leaves appeared. Upon examination he found nothing but leaves. It was not through anger that he pronounced judgment upon the tree it was i,i

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American Display at Foreign Exposition

ENTRANCE TO THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY'S E XHIBIT AT LONDON.

The London Globe says: "To many of us a very strong appeal will be made during the Exposition by the splendid displays of well-known American concerns, such as those of The Baldwin Piano Company, whose famous works at Cincinnati are represented by a magnificent exhibit-"

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people. The domestic event was the decision of the Interstate commerce commission in favor of a slightly increased freight rate for the majority of the railroads of the country. It has long been an open secret in Washington that the so-called business deThe presslon had its origin and its explanation in the attitude of the railroads. They have conducted a propaganda which has at .times narrowly escaped being vicious and has closely skirted the border of the morally treasonable. With their tremendous power for good or ill, with their wonderful ramifications into the banking business, the insurance business, the manufacturing business, they have been in a position to frighten conservative business men out of their wits. Their propaganda has been in favor of increased rates. Their methods were wholly unnecessary, and because unnecessary, they have been unpardonable. There has been no doubt here but that an increase had become a necessity. It ought not to be a necessity, but It is. This is due to various reasons.

There has been much legislation in recent years that has entailed heavy Increased expenses upon the roads. Steel coaches have displaced wooden coaches. The wage of the workers has been increased. Manifold improvements, tremendously expensive, have been made under the compulsion either of the law or of public opinion. All this extra expense could have been met and the roads would still have had a handsome profit had the roads themselves been organized upon healthy basis. But they have not been. There has been too much of speculation in railroad circles, too much of watered stock. Normal profits could not pay dividends upon such capitalization. All this, of course, was wrong-—but under the law It had been permitted. We were not confronted by what ought to be but by what was. The over capitalization existed. The watered stock was there. The innocent, well meaning stockholders l~ad Invested. Thus the necessity for an increase to prevent a breaking «own of the systems.

Rebuild From Bottom.

That all this will work itself out to the general advantage Is now a foregone conclusion. Laws are now being enacted to put an end to the dangerous interlocking directorates. Laws are being passed that will prevent in the future the overcapitalization that has all but proven the undoing of the roads, and through them the undoing of the business interests of the country. In the meanwhile confidence is restored, the railroads are saved, the business interests will go forward with a splurge, and prosperity will come. It is inevitable that it will come. The one artificial obstacle to such prosperity has been removed by the interstate commerce commission. Every natural cause for prosperity is here. Bumper crops are in the fields. All the money that can possibly be desired for the moving of the crops has been placed at the disposal of the banks by the Wilson administration. And now on top jf it all comes the frightful calamity in Europe—the most horrible catastrophe in the entire history of mankind.

I wonder sometimes whether the average business man follows events here closely enough to appreciate *rhat a

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not the act of an unreasonable man, nut ii. ir, tha assumption, born of Mark

not tM? act or an uureasonauie man, but the thing was dono that his disci- in the assumption, born of Mark pies might learn a lesson which it was Hanna impudence, that the democratic difficult otherwise to Impart. nartv cannot be trusted to take care afUM-°he be9gan iiis^mlnlstrV0, and'on hfs of business interests. It certainly has

he has been making for years

Tne been disproved many times during t.ie last sixteen months of Wilson. When the country was facing sL business

last, he "cleansed the temple. money changers were there to exchange the tempel coin for foreign coin. This gave opportunity for graft, and they used it. Doves were sold as afferlngs calamity a year ago because *ne Wall to the poor women who came for purifl-

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1914.

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Saving the Day.

And when the matter came up before congress it passed in a day. It was during the brief discussion that preceded the vote that it developed that all the infamous lies that have been circulated by job hunters of the opposition regarding financial conditions of the government have no foundation. A democratic administration— "incompetent" you know.—was able to announce that this coitntry Is In a magnificent condition to meet the disturbances of the old world—disturbances of greater magnitude than hav« occurred since the breaking up of the old Roman civilization. It was found that we have more than $1,500,000,000 of gold and silver in the treasury In our trust funds. We have $150,000,000 of reserve gold. We have $130,000,010 of free gold in the current funds of the treasury. And through the quick action of the administration the banks of the country can if needed get $500,000,000 of emergency currency. All this was brought about before the average man had begun to grasp the significance of the European war.

But Wilson was not content with -a mere defensive move. He proposed J. move that may result in the complete rehabilitation of the merchant marine. Our merchant marine was primarily destroyed by war,—it may be restored by war. The general conflagration in Europe will drive the merchant marine of the conflicting forces from the sea. and already there has been a scrimmage to get in under the American flag. A law will soon be passed which will permit it—and if the war does n)t fizzle out we may soori be parrying the commerce of the world.

Too much can not be said in prais) of the conduct of such men as Morgan in New York who have come to the fore in support of the administration in quieting the nerves of the business world. It is retnarnable how the personality of Wilson wins. Business was againBt him. Business feared him. Business thought he was running amuck. Business thought he hated business. But the captains of business met him, Morgan, Ford, the chamber of commerce from Chicago—and they went away with the feeling that Wll son had a reason for every move, that he had thought out his program, that he knew what he was about, and that

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The Baldwin Piano Exhibit is cated in the Decorative Arts Section, Building No. 9, adjoining the Court of Honor. Visitors to London are invited to make their headquarters at the Baldwin Exposition Pavilion. All courtesies and information are at their disposal.

ho! 1 Ihe money necessary for the moving of the crops the word Hashed to the four corners from Secretary McAdoo that millions of money was ready for distribution throughout the CDUUtry for the moving of the crops. Ihis has been repeated this year. The people's money is being made to serve the people's interests. Under the old regime there was always money for shipment to Wall street to save the bankers and gamblers there, oui It was left for a democratic administration to use the money for that broader and better business world that stretches from New "Sfork to 'he golden gate and from the Canadian snows to the gulf.

Crucial Days'.

During the week the .t capacity,..ot democratic statesmanship has again been manifest. The trouble In Europe might have had a paralyzing effect in |his country. But it did not paralyze Woodrow Wilson or his chief advisoro. The situation in teurope became acute one morning. At noon on that very day, and before the average busin«as man had grasped the possibilities of the calamity, a white house motor dashed up to the capitol and .carried Senator John W. Kern and Congressman Oscar W. Underwooa, leaders oi senate and house, to the white housa for a conference, and within two hours plans had been perfected for an amendment to the emergency currency law which will permit the treasury to issue a half a billion dollars of currency to meet any emergency that ma/ arise. Senator Nelson put it correctly when he said: '"While Europe is mobilizing her armies we are mobilizing our reserves."

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