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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE NAVY.
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During the week just closed there tias been a lot said about engaging the services of inventors to assist the navy in devising, new means of defense. It •wf ill strike the average citizen as Bjtrange that this was not done long Ago. The average citizen doubtless supposed that there was some sort of an arrangement like this for many y^ars past. If there has not been, and
Secretary Daniels is the first *head of the navy to suggest it, those critics who have found absolutely no merit In Josephus, certainly will have to back tip. Does the "country editor" so far 'outshine Roosevelt and Newberry and such other cabinet naval expert®? The etvldence seems to be on his side, The unanimity with which the plan has Tieen endorsed 1& refreshing, and also reassuring.
For the development and maUntenanoe of the best navy on earth'-the tTnited States needs the assistance of (Civilian, as well as official, brains and ^inventiveness. The best America affords In this direction should aways he in the service of the government.
Ttiomas A. Edison's acceptance of Mr.'Daniels' appointment to be head of this advisory board pledges the success of the mofve. A board made up .of that quality of citizenship Is certain to his of large national advantage. The ^eattest American Inventor Is a peace advocate and has repeatedly declared his .unwillingness to give serious attention to strictly military inventions. Yet he is a good enough American to give thought to these matters if the country needs Mm.
The country does need Mr. Edison, landv it iieecis otherlrfrehtlve minds., jit needs Jhem-for^work.^Wch is neces-, efary for national safety. The bureau of indentions and ltd advisory board should prove of great benefit in keeping the American navy up to the highest standards of fighting efficiency.
APPLE CLUB FIELD DAY.
It is gratifying to note that among the events scheduled on the program for held day at the Apple club yesterday were quoits and croquet. "Whether tills is the same croquet played by ^Israeli and Buckworth is not known, Trat the rehabilitation of this game Is a matter of interest. It is a game for everyone, a game which pleases without wearying, which kills time without killing energy, which brings one into the open but not into undue prespiraislon. 1 In these days croquet Is pooh-poohed.
Golf, with its long, rapid "hikes" Is popular tennis with its hoppings and Bjklppings and its wavings of arms Is highly oommended. Croquet Is scorned as mollycoddllsh and effeminate. I But croquet deserves to be retained or resuscitated. For the tired man or {Woman, who seeks wholesome and restful recreation, there is nothing better than a mild contest amid the wickets under the apple trees. It may be ^reminiscent of crinoline, gaiters and ^beavers, but it ,is none the less* good. Irhe best the Victorians accomplished
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was in the way of mildness. A touch of mildness in these mad rushing times would be a definite benefit. When one is tired of reading or talking about the war what could be a better contract or refreshment than a game of croquet?
'GERMANY'S PEST,ALLY.
In a dispatch to the Tribune a few days ago, an Associated Press correspondent described the spirit of the German troops and said their victories were half won by the inspiration they seemed to feel in their loyalty for the fatherland. In contrast to this Is another dispatch which said that London is shocked at the news that Great Britain has no more than 460,000 soldiers on the European battle line. It had been supposed, if not definitely stated in official circles, that she had at least a million fighters there.
Americans returned from England have stated repeatedly that the British nation was not yet fully awake to the situation across the channel. Indifference is everywhere manifest. Enlistments drag until conscription may soon be necessary. Labor discontent has arisen until compulsory service In shop and mill may have to be resorted to.
British soldiers in the trenches have fought [valiantly. The people back home have not ffiven them' the support they need.
A national Imperiled as England is may require some vigorous awakening before it exerts its full strength in battle. The present confession that less than half as many soldiers in Europe wear the British uniform as the English people had been led to believe may precipitate another cabinet crisis.
It should, however, have the far more Important effect of persuading the British people that it is no mere child's play being played In their name in Flanders.
THE BARE-FOOT CURE.
Now comes a Greencastle man and reiterates the notion that a trip around the lawn in bars foot about dawn every morning is a sure cure for rheumatism, and fvouches for the remedial effect of the morning dew available at this hour. When the busy brains of the faddists run short of other material they are pretty certain to come back to the engrossing subject of prolonging human life, with divers suggestions for attaining this desirable end. The average man, however, is inclined to regard them very much as he does the various cures for a cold that "ate "shb^erfed' uiiorr hfrfTtly sympathetic. fdends—life, is too ptlef to bother with them. Nevertheless, they lfford interesting reading.
Here, for example, is a Chicago man who says that perfect health and longer life can be attained by acquiring the habit of going to bed at 10 In the evening and rising at 4 in the morning—which may be perfectly reasonable, but doesn't sound so. A New York man stakes his professional reputation on the assertion that by eating certain kinds of so-called wholesome food..a man can add thirteen years to his life. A Minneapolis man is willing to go Just aa far by declaring that a mile run e(very morning followed by a breakfast of unbolted flour will build up a digestion that can defy almost anything except falling out of an airship.
Our old friend, the average man, is pretty sure to regard these eminently sincere suggestions very, much as he would the s«ug9 warning that life can be prolonged by keeping away from the firing line.
The fact is, the normal man has no time for experiments with regimen and prescribed hours of rest and prescribed hours of exercise, no matter what rewards in added years they may offer. He's too busy living.
A Radciffe student wrote an entire examination paper in blank verse. If that's what the the higher education of women means some of our pessimists will desire to stop it.
It is reported that all the single men in Germany are hastening to get married, but there is no indication that this is intended to be listed among the horrors of war.
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stroyed by fire in a Koenigsberg distillery. Strange to say, this was just a plain fire and the war had nothing to do with it.
Over in Spain the authorities have forbidden the people to discuss the war in public. It must require a lot of private powwows to do the subject justice.
One thing that would unite Villa and Carranza and Zapata In a hearty laugh would be the sight of Vic Huerta at the receiving end of the ley fuga game.
The American weather man and the American crop reporter are doing their best to make the summer of 1915 a happy season.
Mr. Debs evidently would like to give the traction management a transfer out of town.
The Boston Nationals tarry in last place or thereabouts. Arguing from
From the time when he first branched out Into business for himself on a very small scale, Mr. Ratterree's life could not be called uneventful. He has visited China, Japan, the Philippine islands and in fact almost every place on the majp and visited them in a novel and interesting manner. During the time that he was engaged in roaming from one place to another he made his, own way. At no timfe did he receive help from home. Shoveling coal in the bunkers of some ship on which he had stowed away, fighting the insurgents as one of Uncle Sam'3 soldiers in the Philippines and all manner of other pursuits which to the average person would be more than exciting, has been the lot of Mr. Ratterree.
At the age of. eleven years he earned his first dollar. It was in the real estate business too, but not in the most dignified position, nor was it at the top that he began. As an errand boy distributing circulars for a real estate company *at his home ift Little Rock, Ark., he received his first introduction to the business and at that time acquired the ambition to conduct one of his own in the same Work. At the munificent salary of fifty cents a day young: AUeh managed to earn quite a little money and when later, he quarreled with hig father, what he had saved came in'Vety handily. "You can riitt aWay if you like run all the .way to Hong Kong, China, if yqu wish," said the father after they had 'quarreled a,nd young Ratterree threatened to leave home.
Acting upon the advice given by his father Mr. Ratterree did to Hong I£ong, China, where he sent his first letter home to his parents, telling them of his arrival and of the pleasure whi?h he had had. on the trip.
last year's analogy, this is a sure indication that they are going to win the pennant.
Too many car drivers appear to think they bear the .same relation to a pedestrian that a submarine does to a trawler.
Now if they only break e|ven ori the road!
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
July 18, 1905.
Eighteen bands will compete for prizes at Lakeview park.
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tion adjourned., j?roperty 'oVti^s'-oti fcotfust street are making a rifemphstrance against the palving of the street at tKis time.
A committee of citizens from Dana .waited on the officials of the traction company and petitioned that the Clinton interurban line be extended.' ,..
BOOKS W0STH WHILE.
A seriesv of suggestive titles furnished to The Tribune by the EmmeUne Fairbanks Memorial library.
Legal Stories.
Charles Dickens—"Bleak House." Paul Leicester Ford—"Honorable Peter Stirling."
Carl E. Franzos—"Chief Justice." H. Rider Haggard—"Mr. Meeson's Will."
Frederick Trevor Hill—"The Web." Owen Johnson—"Max Fargus." Melville D.
Post—"Strange
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of Randolph Mason "Corrector of Destinies." William .Sag£—"District Attorney."
Booth Tarkington "Conquest of Canaan." Octave Thanest—"Missionary Sheriff."
Beggars of Venice Beg for Lives of Pigeons
VENICE, Jijly' 17.—-Several hundred poorly clad beggar's, the friends of the pigeons that daily gather in the shadows of the famous St. Mark's cathedral, descended upon the police headquarters this afternoon when a report spread over Venice that the pigeons were to be slaughtered.
Military authorities have learned that carrier pigeons are being used by Austrian spies in Lombardy and in the vicinity of Venice to send information across the Ariatic to the Austrian forces. Cose watch is being kept on all private owners and in several villages near Venice thousands of pigeons
killed by the .police early in the week, without specific orders from the military.
The thousands of pigeons that gather about St. Mark's e(very noon for years have won their, meals from the hands of tourists. Since the outbreak of the war the beggars of Venice have shared their food with the birds.
The police told the spokesmen for the beggars this afternoon that the St. Mark's pigeons will not be disturbed except at the direction of army commanders.
BUYS OLD CAPITOL STEPS.
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WASHINGTON, July 17.—John R. McLean, the publisher, has bought the front steps of the eapitol which after long years of use are being removed to make way for new ones of granite.
Mr. MoLean will use the slabs In a summer garden at his country place here. The old steps are rioh in historic interest.
Upon them Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and all other presidents down to Woodrow Wilson took their oath of office and delivered their inaugural address.
TERSE HAUTE TRIBUNE.
How I Earned My First Dollar
Allen H. Ratterree, who has bean a confirmed globe-trotter, but who now Is in business for himself as manager for the Vantaalia Park subdivision of this city, tells a story of adventure and excitement" in connection with the earning", of his viirst and subsequent dollars.
AH,EN H. RATTERREE.
"I only wish that you may have the same luck that I have had and that you will be able to visit this country at some time in your life," were the concluding words in his letter.
Throughout his whole career Mr. Ratterree has never failed to send home to his parents a' part of the money that he earned. On this first occasion when he was away from home he sent a draft to his father dividing the money that he had earned on the way over.
From the time that Mr. Ratterree first launched himself as a real estate man In the capacity of messenger boy until the present time when he is conducting with his brother, Dr. Ira C. Ratterree, an up-to-date real estate business in room 11, of the Arcade building, he has never forgotten the first dollar he ever earned.
HOROSCOPE.
•The Stars Incline, But Do Wot Compel," Copyright, 1915, by the McClur®
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Monday, July 19, 1915.
This is a day in which the planets exfercise but mild influence, the seers declare. Early in the morning Uranus is strongly beneflc, however, and later the sun is in evil place.
The stationary positon 6f Jupiter In the sign of Plpces and on the threshold of Aries, the ruling sign of Great Britain, is held to be favorable for the English forces in the war. A measure in parliament probably will provide wisely for a great national crisis.
Neptune's entry into Leo today Is not reassuring to' Italy and Rome. The pope maw meet with serioud misi&rtimes ..an® face, critical problems.
Although Uranus is in friendly aspect today, the sway is not a favorable one for persons born on or near May 6.
Although the transit of Saturn through Gemini, the, ruling sign of Belgium, is held by the seers to be largely responsible for the country's sad fate, the king's stars are now believed to promise better conditions and this month should be lucky for the country.
Among the wonders prophesied for this time of "crujnnbllng governments and dying nations" is an aw akening to physical powers long dormant in the human body. 'Persons whose birthdate it is should beware of misunderstandings with those nearest them. Business mar present difficulties. The empjoyed should be diligent.
Children born on this day may be rather unlucky in theit ventures iii love and business. These subjects of Cancer also partake of Leo characteristics and may be exceedingly brilliant mentally.
Verse 5—The beginning of Solomon history as the wisest of men-was associated with a dream. He was facing the possibilities of. his life.
Dreams reproduce the thoughts of waking moments, and they frequently played important parts In the lives or great men in both sacred and profane history. For Instance, Joseph, Neb'uehadnezzer and others In sacred. Zenophon, in profane history, in his Anabasis traces his resolution to a dream to take the lead of the ten thousand and pilot them out of Persia. It is by a dream that Seljuklan, prince ot Othman, had those ambitions aroused in his heart which lead to the creation of the Ottoman empire of Turkey.
The dream came to Solomon during an assembly held in a tent constructed by Moses and before the brazen altar constructed by Bezalel, a high place. The object of this assembly was to adjust problems of the future welfare of the kingdom which drove Solomon in his weakness to ask help of God. No doubt our own president rs experiencing a similar trouble.
The place and occasion were both auspicious for thoughts of self-conse-cration In a youthful and susceptible mind like Solomon's.
The dream seemed to have recalled to Solomon's mind the thought of the most desirable thing for himself. It came as a suggestion from God, "Ask what I shall give thee," as, however, dreams are known to be woven out of thoughts pre-existing in the mind of the dreamer, there Is no doubt that Solomon had already entertained the desirability of exceptional wisdom for his arduous and responsible position. But the very fact that this desire
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 17 While we are accepting without the proverbial grain of salt. all the blo^d curdling stories that are served up to us by the subservient pro-British press of this country and attacking without qualifications as most of us are doing, the German people, it is interssting and instructive to pause in the midst of the fun and contemplate the treatment we are receiving at the hands of some of the allies. This sounds unneutral up to this sentence but it is not. By "we" I do not mean the government but the man in the streets. And it is not the Intention to attempt
Sunday School Lesson for July 18
BY BBV. W, H. BAST, PASTOI-t OF THIS. WESTMINSTER CHURCH.
Solomon chooses wisdom, 1st kings 3:4-15. Golden text proverbs, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
One can scarcely avoid the impression, upon careful study, of the lives of David and Solomon, that the latter owod much of his nature and training to his mother. B&thsheba had a strong mind, whatever one may think of her morals. Some scholars have surmised that her sin with
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should have been brooding in his heart is clcar evidence that he already possessed the beginnig of that wisdom for which he was craving.
It is true that Solomon pleads that he does not "know how to go out or come in." But Is not this, a sense of one's own insufficiency, a part of the equipment which makes the wise man? When Darius the son of Hystaspes was asked, what was the secret of his success, his answer was, "the fear of failure."
But finally the paradox of this wise choice is, that the things we overlook In asking that are essential are in reality Included In the answer. With wisdom God granted all the essentials and blessings that heart could wish for. "I- have given thee that which thou hast not asked," is a frequent addition to God's answer to unselfish consecrated prayer.
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in any way to defend Germany or attack the allies but to get at some of the facts—facts if thoroughly understood and properly served up to the people of this country would tend to make us more neutral than we are. Ii truth it is absurd for us to get excited over the European war and tear our shirts in behalf of any of the contestants.
With the possible exception of Prance there is not a country involved that probably does not hate the Amer? can people. And now comes the report of the resignation of the American ambassador at Petrograd because he declined to longer submit to the humiliating exclusions from the court to which he and his wife have been subjected. Remember now the minister from Servia, the country whose leaders not only kill their king but butcher their queen and throw them both out the castle window is received at court in Petrograd. He is entirely satisfactory to the fastedlous taste of the degenerate grand dukes.
But the ambassador of the United States has been treated with a contempt and brutality that became intolerable. This cannot be charged .to the social inferiority of the ambassador. As a matter of fact George T. Marye, the ambassador, is a man of wide culture, a man of great wealth 9-jid social distinction, who in addition has made the study of international law the purpose of his life and has not only lectured on the subject before leading universities but has written extensively upon it. Mrs. Marye, who has divided her time between her California home and Washington, where she has enjoyed much wocia.l prestige is a woman of a rare type of beauty, possessed of unusual social graces and intellectual charm. And yet Mrs. Marye, after spending four months in the capital of the Jew-kill-ing country, was never invited to court and was snubbed constantly by the people who have the audacity to expect us to help their chestnuts out of the fire In the present war.
This attitude of Russia has grown out of the abrogation of our treaty with that benighted nation and that abrogation came as a result of the barbaric treatment to which it has subjected not only its own Jewish population, but American Jews as well who have gone there on business matters. Within the last year many sickening books and pamphlets have been written and scattered broadcast over the United State with the purpose of demonstrating that Russia is fighting the "battle of small nations." It is to laugh. They have insisted in these publications that Russia is fighting the battle's of liberty. Get the camphor.
The fact is that Russia is fighting a war to get territory and that within itself would suggest the feasibility of our keeping on our shirts but when on top of that comes, this deliberate in-
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suit, hot to the American amfc^sadar who cannot possibly be unsatisfactory, but to the nation that' ambassador^ cep-: resents. Thus Mrs. Marye has returned to this country and announqed that under no circumstances will she ever return to Petrograd and. the ambassador has asked the president to. ssirtd some one to take his place. So much for our dear friend Russia.
And England. Of course England is our friend. The press assures £iB that the court at London has suddenly become* greatly enamored of- 'Americans. Yet—don't you remember, gentle reader—that soon after the present little king took the throne that all the papers carried articles frbitt'Len-j don to the effect that Queen Mary, aid not take kindly to the partliility of Edward VII to Amerlcaiw hAd her foot down on the introduction Americana to her court. Of oouwa fdu do. Tou read it many time*. A*n«icans were "not wanted thoi /but England was not engaged in Jlf»4 death struggle. It is different And yet not so different edthec,
For eVecry kindly expression the United States that has printed in iJondon jpapen# «ino» war
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out five expressions of a sneering ioir ture. But that it not all, and here' w*! come to the real meat in the cdoeSawnt With England this is a commercial war—nothing less. Of course she say* it was all on account of Belgium. Really, you know, it is rather tough on one'rf credulity to be asked to believe that the nation that has been responsible for the government of Irelajtid by Are,' sword and famine for centuries,?: i» willing to spend billions in defense of Belgium bedause she is a "small state" No, it is commerce. And while England has been fighting Germany .with arms she has been fighting America with diplomacy and fighting both-wit,h her eye on the main .chance—the.mes^ of pottage. .r
Now her one great fear of America lies in the fact that during the war she is unable to continue her battle for the markets, unable to continue supplying her fixed markets, and these markets calling for supplies hay® been, turning to the United States. Now suppose the war continues for. three years and during this period we. surt ply these erstwhile English markets and do it satisfactorily, and at the expiration of the war these markets see no good reasons for returning to England—it will be a little unfortuijate for our "English cousins," will it ijoV?
And so the game is to minimize that danger now as much as possible. And right here we get down to that notorious and Indefensible order in council which practically says that we can't even trade with the neutral countries across the seas that our vessels carrying products to these neutral countries will be captured, subjected to all sorts of Indignities, and hauled intp.a prize court that they, will be kept in a prize court as long as possible that then England may buy the stuff itself but that it can't be delivered to the people who have bought it.
The effect of this, of course, would bo that those neutral countries will get disgusted after a while and will discontinue their purchases of the
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