Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1910 — ROSY COLOR [ARTICLE]

ROSY COLOR

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This la the era of the aeroplane, not es the cobblestone. Almost as dangerous working In a mine as playing football. Wireless telegraphy wins more races with death than It loses. An optimist is a man who laughs at misfortune, never having had any himself. Poets are getting practical. One of them reports having traded a love song for a ham. Tbs New York stock exchange has expelled a member for "obvious fraud.” What if the fraud isn't obvious? - • / The hen is a meek and lowly*bird, but she has done more for this continent than the eagle ever will do. People who have grown used to oleomargarine are now patiently awaiting the announcement of a substitute for meat i An Industrious man must often wish be were an Indian, a heathen, or an outlaw, so that people would take an interest in hlrtt. “Rockefeller will aid all Americans,” Is the way a headline reads. But don’t write to* him for jnoney. He Isn’t going to do it that way. A contemporary says that butter will keep for years In the arctic regions. That Is easily explained—the 'rust has no chance to corner the Ice supply. A prominent neurological expert jays Boston women , are “nothing but » coterie of misguided, frivolous, airy Lillians.” What! Not a Dorothy nor a Helen among them? A "black hand” leader in New York bas been sent to prison for twenty3ve years. That ought to convince ‘.hose Italian desperadoes that the American law is effective once in a while.

A father’s experience makes him the best adviser of his daughter, says the president of a girl's school. Perhaps "should make him” would come a little nearer the truth. There is a great difference in fathers. Every little while somebody arises and claims to be an heir to property worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the heart of some big city. Have you ever heard of an heir of this kind who*got the money? . * William E. Watt, the Chicago school principal who is campaigning for the ventilation and against the overheating of schools, says that the average winter temperature in the average city school promotes the sale of short coffins. S Nikola Tesla promises that will be one day able to talk through wireless telephones from any given points in the world and. at small coffte And nobody will .now be'fopfid to say this wonder la Impossible. It is a sign df the amazing progress of the age that we take as matters of course what only a generation ago would have been looked on as a miracle. Pork-raising ought to be a profitable •ndustry for those engaged in it, as the demand for pork increases every year, and the supply is decreasing. On Jan. 1 the number of swine in the treat pork-raising and exporting States of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska was only a little more than four-fifths as great as on the same date a year earlier. The actual decrease was nearly five million swine. As these States produce one-half of all the swine in the country and probably a large part of the pork consumed in the non-swine-producing commonwealths, the fact that the decrease in them is about three-quarters of the decrease in the United States throws an interesting light on the cause of the increase In the price of pork within the past year or so.

As It Is contrary to the policy of the United States to secure “spheres of influence” and to make commercial settlements in the territory of other powers, the preservation of the treaty rights of Americans in China depends on the maintenance of the territorial integrity of the empire, and the prevention of a disregard of the opendoor provisions of those agreements. Suspicion is felt in some official quarters that Japan is planning to secure exclusive control* of Manchuria to the disadvantage of all other powers. Japan already controls Korea, and has succeeded to the Russian rights in Manchuria. It has lately entered into an agreement with China that the mines along certain Manchurian railways shall be exploited by the Chinese and Japanese, allowing it to be inferferred that no one else may exploit them. The policy of Japan is well known to be backed by a desire to extend its Influence as far inland on the Asiatic continent as possible. It needs space for the expansion of its population. Its policy is also based on the desire to secure for the Japanese exclusive privileges. The danger to the commerce of the western powers, Including the United States, lies in the possibility that Japan may he able to obtain from the Chinese concessions Which are Inconsistent with the mala*

tenance of the open door for those power#, if China chooses to resist Japan tn this matter It will find ita treaties useful, for It has agreed with the other nations that they shall have equal commercial privileges. But even If China should be Indifferent, the , other powers will not allow Japan to obtain a foothold which will prejudice their Interests. But before action Is taken there must be more than a suspicion that the treaty rights are threatened.

The professor of philosophy in the agricultural college of Kansas proposes a scientlc course of matrimony, to be made a part of the Instruction In the public schools of the State. He has outlined hia plan in a pamphlet, entitled “A Better Crop of Boys and Girls.” In this pamphlet he repudiates the old adage, that "love Is blind”—at least he thinks It ought not to be blind. He says we have scientifically worked out cards for the scoring of cows, pigs and chickens, "but how about scoring young men and women who are candidates for marriage? What are the marks whereby a young woman whose hand Is sought In marriage may know a good man when she sees him, and those whereby a young man may know a good woman?” He goes on to argue that because advanced courses of instruction are provided for those who would improve the breeding of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, we should set up a standard of requirement for those who are engaged In the complex and difficult task of rearing children and Improving the race. All of this sounds Y_ery- plausible from a scientific standpoint, nevertheless the Idea can hardly fail to be shocking to refined tastes. It takes all the romance out of love and marriage. No doubt it would be well If there could be some legislation or regulation to prevent tlje marriage of the mentally and physically unfit; but the idea of comparing the mating of human beings to the breeding of cattle Is repulsive. The old way of falling In love has produced good results on the whole. The race has steadily improved. Scientific theories of raising children, may be attractive to old bachelors and old maids, but with the father and mother the human element founded'on love Is predominant If all romance Is to be done away with and matrimony to to be based entirely upon good Judgment and scientific calculation, then we would do well to adopt the system prevailing In some French society, and let the marriages be arranged entirely by the parents or guardians, the young people acquiescing quietly in whatever arrangements may be made. Then the mating could be as devoid of emotion and sentiment as the most scientific Gradgrlnd could wish.