Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1913 — PRODIGALITY. [ARTICLE]

PRODIGALITY.

I think that a prodigal is an outlaw—an outlaw against the humanity, which are laws of mutual dependence and mutual endeavor. Isa man does not provide for his children, if, he does not provide for all those dependent upon him and if he has not that vision of conditions to come and that care for the days that' have not yet dawned which we sum up in the whole idea of thrift and saving, then he has not opened his eyes to any adequate conception of human life. We are in this world .to provide not for ourselves, but for others, and that is the basis for economy. We are building not for the day, but for the future. The only dignity that America has ever had arose out of her conception of her responsibility to the world. She said, “We are going to build a commonwealth whose doors we shall throw open to every man who has hope and ambition under God’s heaven, and this is the refuge of those who believe in the future of the human race on earth.” Nations do not have immorality. Their only chance for dignity lies in what they are building for the future. It is not from mere instinctive curiosity that we turn to the monuments of ancient civilization—the pyramids, the palaces, the great aqueducts—which stand as the permanent memorials of the men who used to live in Egypt or in Rome, the men who gathered the reins-of the world in their hands and tried to drive mankind as the great co-operative team. But every monument of permanency is an evidence of the validity of civilization.—Woodrow Wilson.

Overturning century-old tradition, the supreme court of the District of Columbia has appointed a woman to be assistant clerk’ of the court, empowered with all the duties imposed by law on such an official. The distinction was conferred upon Miss Elizabeth M. Meigs, who for twenty-two years has done service for the court as a copyist and indexer. Miss Meigs is the first woman since the organization of the District’s highest tribunal to hold an official position in that body.

Mrs. William Baugh, wife of William S. Baugh, president of the American National Bank here, and of the Monon bank, is in a serious condition as a result of an automobile accident near Darlington. Mrs. Baugh was returning from Indianapolis with Mr. and Mrs. W. ’bent Wilson and Dr. D. C. McClelland, of this city, in the Wilson automobile. While going down hill a washout was encountered. The axle of the machine struck a log that had been left lying in the road and Mrs. Baugh was thrown out with great force.—Lafayette Democrat.