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It* chief purpoea am apology and the mitigation of the that it is proposed to impose or international crimes, the apology and defense become the main the opposition to the league sinks to comparative unimportance. But after aii Senator Knox speaks only for a group, and It is hoped that other and wiser HzAtrnhip in the senate will be able to aave what is best out of a bad situation. Tbs task at hand is sot one of getting a softer peace for Germany nor is H one of attempting to oppose the President merely for the flake of opposition, or to go on a barnstorming tour over the country on his fraU. New that we have gone or been carried so far toward a league the object should be to bring about proper and necessary protective reservations to the treaty and then after these safeguards have been provided to complete the negotiations. It is to these objects that the wise leadership of the senate

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spoke of the cruel," but if to \ake no part * of rebuilding Germany came so nesr Those whose memories run back eight months, will rscall that the was that no peace could .at ... not h»r<l. Wh„, th. _ . departed for Kurope there very genuine fear Jest he should

ume th* out for a dents re-

flected this fear, and there was hardly an editorial printed' In any representathat did not show the

aet as Gsrmasy s friend.

rele of me* •oft peace.

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apprehension. ' , now we are told that the peace and cruel," and that we ought no party "to the enforcement of terms with the great reeponsl- * attaching thereto,f It seems that ve taken territory from Germany Kurope and overseas. Yet tt rwhere felt that France should i-Lorraine, that there should enlarged Poland with access to and that Germany had forfeitit to her colonics by her cruel sment of them. Germany is even to pay the cost of the exacted from her will toil and damage lnthe silled and assol. necessary to r‘s power, and, as. far destroy her capacity for Knox thinks that we I make a separate peace with OerWhat ehort of peam would It Apparently there would be no terms . For the senator says that peace a* •oop as three powers ratiity, and that we can then get for ourselves by a concurrent simply declaring It Knox thinks that "we should In favor of Germany any and for Indemnity because of the see that the gets credit for renounce." There is no claim inlty, and will be none. In nation la to receive an tndemit only a partial compensation — for the loeees suffered in on them by Germany. We why American cltlxene - on th# Lusitania — should not damages out of the German held by the alien property cusThe senator's disclaimer of sympathy"' for Germany, and Indictment of her, so far his case, make his attitude more Inexplicable. there will be no separate If an answer to the Pennsylvania • » demand for It Is asked, it may in a speech delivered In the States senate by Senator Lodge 2$, 1918. He favored, not a nea dictated peace, and one

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LUJb&MJfiV eiUjyis There is some basis for the optimistic spirit that is said to prevail in Washington in regard to the price situation. The California strike is ended, and the have gone back to work. The railroads will soon be in full operation. There is manifest In labor circles a growing conservatism, which Indicates that the men and their leaders beginning to see that nothing but evil can come from interfering with production. As a reault of the conference yesterday between the President and the Governor# of six states, there will be the closest co-operation betgreen the national and state government In fighting high prices. The state organizations will work for economy and increased production, and assist the federal government in bringing to justice profiteers and food hoarders. The committee of Governors agreed on the following recommenda-

tions:

the world's he said, far from advotor Lodge to a peace give Aland Italia safety for * for Serbia, emancipate and make Senator was most inland Cxechoas Independent a world policy, This brilliant

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the whole situation.

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logic and folly. It to perfectly consistent for an American, if he be sincere, to oppose the league of nations

to keep up the price. When the nation waa clamoring for cheaper clothing materials the southerners were organizing to restrict production and were aided by their state officials. It was a selfish campaign to obtain high prices at the expense of the ultimate consumer. The Indiana farmers can show that they do not belong to that class by sowing the usual acreage of wheat and trusting to the law of supply and demand to bring them a fair return for their labor and investment. /;■

audiences respond most heartily to pictures which are nothing more than pho- | tographs of newspaper wit deisms in | plain type. In view of this drift, it is I probable that the confirmed “movie {

Germany Offers Steel

[Chicago Tribune]

In reply to a statement by G. C. Hans j

CASE AND COMMENT

* Humility

fan” is not at all surprised that the | Hamilton, of Close Bros & Co., of Lon- j Many people think' of humility as a dime novel is rising In the favor of a t go”, published in the Tribune yestonUy. j tra j t that j* inconsistent with self-

thriil-hungry public.

MILITARY DECORATIONS

The government ought to find a way to •top the fraudulent use of military decorations. A Croix de Guerre can be

bought for *5. a Medal Militaire for R2 j of #uch propertias; that action wa8 and almost any other honorary 1 und „ the Mm that a majority of

the stockholders consented to it: that

JUDGE GEIGERS DECISION to the opinion of Judge Geiger, given out yesterday, the street car merger was sustained, not necessarily because it was wise, but on the ground that the bills of complaint did not state any facts that would justify the interference of a court of equity. It was held that the laws of Indiana authorized the merger of such properties; that action

lion for sums equally small in relation to the va!&» of the honor when earned, i Military stores are reported to be selling these decorations in quantities. One Washington establishment Is said to be ; openly traffik king in the medals In a main business street without fear of j

interference.

The sale for money of what others have earned by the loss of limbs or | eyes outrages decency. Men who en-j gage in such a business are wholly] lacking in patriotism and seif-respect ; They are accessories to the committing of fraud and a peculiarly vicious and inexcusable fraud. The war department is said to be fully aware of the practice, but powerless to stop it A bill now before congress provides punishment for fraudulent wearing of military medals, but does not prohibit their manufacture. j If new laws are needed to stop a practice so obviously criminal they should be passed and made to include not only the man who wears a decoration to whidh he is not entitled, but the man who sells it and the man who manufacturers It for aaie. Certain European decorations may have been awarded legitimately to those who did not do anything of importance to earn them. Thousands of others did honestly earn them at the risk of their lives. It la disgracefully unjust to these to permit their honors purchased with blood to be cheapened and made meaningless through venality and dishonesty. That Americans live who are willing to parade in the glory that others have rightfully earned Is bad enough, but the government makes itself equally guilty by countenancing the practice. If valor and patriotism are not to be a jest something must be done.

1. All citizens and all organizations should co-operate Immediately for the purpose of Increasing the production of the necessaries of life 2. Economy in consumption and care In purchasing the necessaries of life are equally Important with production. 8. Evfery agency of the federal and the state governments should co-operate forthwith to prevent profiteering. Great reliance Is properly placed on publicity, as it is through publicity that the people are kept Informed, and the profiteers are exposed. The Governors are quite sure that the prediction made by merchants of higher prices next year, will not be fulfilled If the people "are not stampeded Into purchasing things they den t need or can do without,” The consumers can control the situation If they act together under wise and courageous leadership. We need not expect immediate results of a startling kind. But it seems reasonable to look for a steady. If gradual improvement. Everything depends on whether the people are willing to do their part, and to uphold their righto. They eurely can refuse to buy what they do not really need, and to do without thing# that are not indispensable. HarJ work, large production, efficient distribution, and economy will do much to reduce

the cost of living.

KNianrs of cowmbus

The report of the Knights of Columbus shows that the organization administered a trust of 117,000,000 as its share of the united war fund. Of this sum two-thirds was apsnt abroad, and onethird on this side of th* water. Among the "creature comfort#” which were distributed gratis, were 9,000,000 beef cubes, 600,000 pounds of smoking tobacco, 618,000,000 cigarettes, 3,760,000 pipes and 2,000,000 pounds of candy, and also soap, shaving materials, stationery and periodicals. Whatever religious ministrations were desired were gladly tendered, though never forced on any one. The report, which Is conservatively written, ahows how admirable was the service rendered by this organization. But the service, fine as It was, does not stop with the war. The Knights have arranged for 100 free college courses for returning soldiers, without regard to creed, one-half in technical schools and one-haif in Catholic institutions. These scholarships, for that la what they amount to, will go to those who pass the best entrance examinations. Whether considered from the business or the human point of view, the record of this organisation reflects great credit upon it. It certainly did much to keep up the morale of the army, and thus contrib-

uted to the winning of the war.

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THE FARMER’S PROBLEM The hesitation of Indiana farmers about their fall work is natural under the existing unsettled conditions. They have appealed to state and government officials for advice about how much wheat and rye to sow and the answers given them, in effect, are to prepare for a normal season. The state food production and conservation committee says that there will be a strong demand for wheat next year and that there Is every reason to believe the price will remain high. All indications point to a continuance of the European need for American wheat. While there will be no government guaranty on the price of the 1920 crop, there appears to be little probability of much reduction in price. The secretary of the department of agriculture has sent a similar message. He says there should be no speculative plunging, but no Hoosier farmer of good sense had any notion of doing anything like that. The real question is whether he shall sow a normal amount of wheat this fall. A constant campaign is being waged in Indiana to bring about better farming conditions. This is concerned among other things with the proper rotation of crops, increased soil fertility and more live stock. All these steps toay be taken and the usual amount of attention still given to the

wheat crop.

No Indiana farmer should assume the attitude of the southern cotton plantJf-. Abo curtailed their cotton acreage

RED HAIR A perturbed correspondent of The News raises an Interesting question. Do women, he wishes to know, shun redheaded men and, if so, why? His own hair is of the hue sometimes thoughtlessly and inaccurately described as carrot colored. Hence the query is of vital personal Importance. He has given the matrimonial question "serious consideration,” but each time has been met with discouragement due, he believes, solely to the tinge of his hair. The matter is one * calling for the thoughtful attention of the philosopher and the sociologist. If women generally are frowning on the matrimonial offers of red-haired men,, the future of the race is threatened. Was It not a redheaded man who fired the first shot in the American war againat the Hun? Society can not afford to lose the readhead temperament because of the perplexing perversity of marriagable women. The red-head will be needed for the next war. or If there Is no next war, Whenever and wherever trouble is brewing. Perhaps the correspondent is mis’taken In his belief that red hair la the cause of his lack of success as a suitor. Certainly, women are not averse to red hair as the crowning glory of their own sex. There has been In the last few years an increase la the number of Titian-locked women that can not be explained by natural causes. Hair-dye advertisements dwell on the perfection of concoctions designed to change a crop of black or brown hair to a beautiful auburn, and there is reason to believe that such magical compounds are having a wide sale. Proverbially Inconsistent as woman may be, she does not usually go td the extreme of disliking a natural beauty in one case and admiring an unnatural Imitation of it in another. But even if the ornamental sex must be put down as unreasonable to so extreme a degree, the red-head can nevertheless take consolation for feminine neglect. Red hair connotes other qualities more valuable than feminine appeal. Who ever heard of a war without a red-headed hero? Who' ever saw a red-headed tramp?

THE THRILL MARKET From New York comes word that for some mysterious reason the dime novel has token a new lease on life. The Ingenuity and resources of the thrill makers and sellers are taxed to the limit to meet the demand. Old favorites, thought to have fallen in a bout with motion picture heroes, are more In demand than, they were before the films entered the field. The public apparently craves stories of obvious action, obvious motives and extraordinary people who do wonderful things that ordinary people understand, applaud and perhaps dream of doing when some of their everyday problems are solved. The reports, however, fall utterly, as usual, when the dime novel is mentioned, to define that article of commerce. The type is known to every one. It is called a dime novel whether it sells for a nickel or a quarter, so the price has little to do with it In fact, it may sometimes coat much more, as when it Is bound in cloth and dressed In a bright jacket and read by discerning people who frown upon dime novels and people who like their thrills rare and often. The writers and purveyors likewise hesitate to draw the line between the novel and the dime novel, but in general the dime novel is recognised as approximating three thrills to a cigarette. But what thrills one reader leaves another cold, so there you are. Comparison of the thriller with the motion picture, with the inference that the latter is losing ground, is interesting as supporting the critics who maintain the motion picture play is losing its grip. Its defects are becoming irksome to a public educated to demand and expect thrills and still more thrills, and better pictures of the nonthrill variety. Pictorial drama has found this out, as witness the emphasis it now places on bright captions to the vast improvement of the play itself. It has even been found that motion picture

there waa nothing to show that there had hern any fraud or wrongful action; that the public service commission had directed that some such action be taken, and had approved what was done. It was further decided that the consolidated company, or its stockholders, would have a right to appeal again to the public service commission, and could also appeal to the courts against what they might believe to be a wrongful exercise of authority by the commission. The only questions of importance that were considered by the court were whether there was power, and whether that power had been legally exercised. Answering both these questions in the affirmative. Judge Geiger held that the stockholders who voted for the merger must be presumed to have been fully Informed as to all the facts. It is not held that minority stockholders can not look to the courts to protect their righto, but that in this case they made no showing that would entitle them to the intervention of the court, no showing of jeopardy to their interest*. The proceedings were dismissed because of the "Infirmity” of the bills of complaint. It is still permitted to the minority stockholders — and the many who agree with them — to believe that It would be better both for such stockholders and for the city of Indianapolis If the present combination were unscrambled, so that the local company should serve only local interests, and be burdened only with obligations growing out of its local relatione. A legally existing power may be exercised in a legal way, for a legal end, and without fraud, and yet bring results that are not ‘desirable.

INDIANA'S HEALTH The state board of health finds that the birth rate in Indiana is decreasing and the span of life is becoming shorter. As such things go it would seem that in the not too distant future there will be an end to the business now managed by the stork, and the undertakers will cease their callings because babies will not be born and there will be no one

left to die.

It is the plan of the state board of health to present th^se findings as baldly as possible — to obtain publicity of a nature that is startling. For years the effort was made to convince people that they died needlessly or that they spent money for hospital and doctor Mils that might as well have remained in the family -purse. The people paid no attention. So the board resorted to the present method of trying to get people into a state of mind where they are willing to do something toward saving their own lives. It is nothing short of appalling that 6.000 Hoosier babies die every year from preventable diseases: that 75 per cenL of the school children have physical defects; that degenerative diseases have Increased 100 per Tent; that 4,000 die every year from pneumonia: that nearly 5,000 deaths each year are due to tuberculosis, and that 1,000 die yearly of typhoid fever. The economic loss to the state every year is estimated at $12,000,000. If fire caused as much loss there would be a great excitement about it. If a - storm resulted in a loss

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in which he urged lower duties to aids'* ' _ ' " . “ Europe to selling goods to the United \ confidence. No doubt they are right if, States, and stated that steel is produced by self-confidence they

here more cheaply than anywhere in Europe, a Chicagoan in close touch with the steel industry said yesterday: "One of the largest users of steel in the United States hits been quoted a price on steel for April delivery to a large amount by a German steel concern at $4 a ton under the price of the United States corporation, delivery guaranteed. The contract was offered to the steel corporation on the same basis as th* German concern, but President Farrell refused the contract, stating that the Steel corporation could not meet the German price on the present American

wage basis.”

Pow er

In Whose Interest?

[New York Tlmee] spite of whining and

fears, Germany expects to get to work, to work harder and for longer hours than its rivals, to beat them economically. All the malingerings and strikes of the British miners, the pernicious activity of the "Triple Alliance,” the plans for the nationalization of industries, the attempts at, “direct action,” the prattle of "Bolshevism without bloodshed” in Great Britain, are meat and drink for her enemies across the North sea. The Germans used to sneer at the British love of sport, the frequent holidays and week-gnds. Now they see great associations of workmen lowering their output steadily as their wages go up, the policy of “cm’ canny" too flourishing In many Industries, the price of coal up, the quantity * down. The primary and master industry of Great Britain shattered or weakened, steel and iron made too high for export, the great foreign trade sadly shrunken—that is the picture which British labor presents

to German eyes.

Is the United States likewise to con-

InesS and ussia she

opes to gain from the utter disorganization produced by Bolshevism much more than her old mastery of Russian trade and industry. In all eastern Europe she looks for German economic control. If the United * States can be checked and hampered by grave labor disturbances, by increased costs of production, by the introduction of even a diluted sovietism into the trade unions, by the substitution of class consciousness for national consciousness, by the spread of that uncompromising, selfish, particular interest, reckless of the general, that has been fomented so assiduously and mischievously in Great Britain, Germany would gain an even more notable economic victory. Is it not more than a little curious that certain British labor leaders, tainted with Bolshevism, advocates of nationalization and a radical labor policy that would be destructive. If carried out. to British trade and Industry, are soon to come here? Who has invited them? Who is to pay their bills? The Plumb plan is evidently of exotic origin or suggestion. These threats of a general strike are borrowed from the other side, however innocent the makers of them may be of the borrowing. Is It possible that the railway unions have been enmeshed, quite against their knowledge or_their will, in the universaL subtle net of Bolshevist and German intrigue and propaganda? At any rate, they should be able to see into whose hands they are playing; and that nobody but the foes and rivals of the United States can be the beneficiaries of the dangerous course upon which they are lightly asked to enter.

mean mere self-assertion and self-sufficiency, and

their hateful fruit which is egotism. These qualities certainly can not coexist with humility. But confidence In self as the agent and servant of a higher power, and the champion of a great cause, grows directly out of humility. This is made clear by even the moat casual study of the career and character of St. Paul. “I am.” he said, "the least of all the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I ■'persecuted the church of God.” But he at once adds* “But by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not bestowed in vain. But I labored more

pretended a bundantly than they all: yet not I, but

Knox and Compromise

[Chicago Tribune]

“The effect of the entire scene at Versailles,” says the Manchester Guardian, the leading British Journalistic critic of the peace treaty, “was to make liberal minded Americans ask whether It is wise to involve their country in continental disputes among nations which could not learn to rise above national egoism and .loin in her invi^ition to establish foundations for a better future, with national justice and accord.” It was indeed, and the effect has been deepened by what has been revealed and what has taken place since and is taking place every day. The American people, for example, do not enjoy the revelation we have been treated to of oUr representative confronted suddenly by treaties of which he was not informed, but which rendered his idealistic purpose futile at one of the most important points of international friction. We do not like to seem so futile even by representation. Also, we do not like such a specimen of sordid and sanguinary egotism as is being presented in HVngarv under the hypocritical guise of a defense of civilization. No, America likes the treaty less and less every day, and looks upon the deplorable situation of European peoples with less and less confidence that we are called upon to set their violent

household in order.

In fact, we are told, especially by French Journalists, that we are not wanted unless we are content to underwrite the enterprise which European rancors and self-interests have created with so little regard for our opinion, either of right or expediency. It seems

. we are to pay the piper, but not name

of that magnitude there would be an j the dance; that we are to be pleased

with Pickwickian praise of our ideals

immediate increase in insurance policies against tornado, hurricane and cyclone

damage.

Notwithstanding Senator Knox’s explanatory and somewhat apologetic introductory remarks. It Is not believed that his speech in the senate caused a feeling of serious irritation in Berlin.

The new version probably will read: "Give me three lumps of sugar, mother, give me three lumps of sugar.” Selling apples for less money, and direct to the consumer, is going to play hob with the well-established custom of sticking the public for all it could be persuaded to pay. Cheer up, children, school begins but once a year. A strike a day keeps prosperity away. If local authorities keep on getting the habit of sefiding for state troops to put down disturbances, we might better bave a trained state constabulary. Although Attorney-General Palmer’s plan for putting the profiteers in Jail sounds mighty entertaining, it still leaves a feller in a seeing-is-believing state of mind.

Is entirely possible, too, that Muncie citizens have adequate reason for being dissatisfied with some of their public officials. The destruction of 400 barrels of 2.75 per cent.- beer by the Schlitz Brewing Company in order to get back the money it had paid as revenue tax doesn’t look as if much confidence were felt in the scheme to have that kind of beer declared nonintoxicating. There may be differences of opinion as to who causes high prices, but there is none as to who pays them.

It ought to be clearly understood that the profiteer lists are not being collected for posterity.

How about a protectorate for the ultimate consumer? The trouble with teaching Russians American ideals is that they will also have to be shown how to put them into effect. . / . ■ _ ■ Live hogs are quoted as selling as low as $14.5® in Chicago. But we can't eat live hogs. The city budg« should contain ample provision for the paint bill to keep the traffic signs and marks in the street In tiptop shape. One hardship on another's heels doth tread, so fast they follow. The movie operators have struck.

while Europe goes her old way to new wars and tyrannies. It may be that despite the growing distrust of the role Mr. Wilson proposes for us, we may consider It inexpedient to refuse some adhesion to the treaty. The Guardian, though sharply critical, believes the failure of the treaty would bring about "immeasurable confusion.” Certainly we have no desire to add to the miseries of Europe, but neither have we any disposition to be engulfed in them. The powers are not likely to evolve a better treaty at this time if we withdraw; Whereas, It is reasonable to hope that the present treaty in its most stupid and obnoxious provisions, at least, will be modified, not so much by our influence as at the dictation of experience. If the peace could be essentially bettered it would be not only our interest but our duty to defeat thfc present treaty. But the peace which the treaty expressses is not made by individuals or by phrases, but by forces. Until these forces are mitigated we may not hope for a better

peace.

Our concern, therefore, it seems to the Tribune, should be to face the facts, and to lay our course so as to give such aid as we safely may to European reconstruction, while at the same time preserving the essentials of Independent action in our foreign affairs and refusing commitments to responsibilities undisclosed or unrelated to our own national safety and welfare. Reservations such as have been proposed Ijy Senator Lodge, Mr. Root. Mr. Hughes, and other critics of the treaty seem to us to offer a plausible compromise with the fears and objections so justly and patriotically expressed by Senator Knox. His position, we do not hesitate to admit, is a very strong one, and it may be the American people prefer it to that of compromise bv reservation. But the middle road is pointed out by statesmen of ripe experience, and it would seem to be safe to take it. Ratification with reservations would hasten at least the superficial political readjustments of the situation and give us, if not peace, at least an immediate truce, and that surely is urgently desired by us all.

the grace of God which was with me. He felt, not that he was a power, but rather the channel through which power operated, and the instrument by which it was applied. His conoeption of himself and this mission is thus formulated: I, brethren, when I came to you. came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom. declaring unto you the testimony of God. • • • I waa with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and Wf preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand In* the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. In that power, which the apostle fully believed was his. he lived his life and did his work. Nor did he hesitate to compare himself favorably with the other apostles—“I labored more abundantly than they all.” There was little of the wielding or compromising element in this man's character. “When Peter was come to Antioch," he says, "I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.” We have then a downright, positive nature, and a militant spirit, and yet the great leader was deeply and almost tragically conscious of his own unworthiness. His strength and his fighting qualities were thus rooted in his humility. And out of that humility grew* a pride, not in himself, but in what he believed to be his divinely appointed mission, and the divine favor of which he held himself to be the ob-

ject.

There is. however, danger even in this attitude. Many crimes have been committed by men who thought of them-

selves, and honestly, as

Inspiration the servants of God. It

was of this type that

Christ spoke when He said. "They shall put you out of synagogues; yea, the time cometh. that whosoever killeth you will think that he does God service.”

The former kaiser was perhaps sincere , • when he thought of himself as God’s ^ / a ^, Cf>nt,M:t wUh llf *- _ * ^ n A WOUlu 045 PL tffirHhl A thins* 4# i

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But people for some strange reason do not seem to make realities of Bible incidents and Bible characters, so It may

be well to think of a

A Modern great man almost of our Instance own time who spoke in

exactly the same vein,

and carried himself in the old way. In his speech at Columbus, O., on the way to his inauguration. Lincoln said: ”1 can not but know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the father of his country; and, so feeling, I can turn and look for that support without which it will be impossible for me to perform that great task. I turn, then, and look to the American people, and to that God who has never forsaken them.” And at Trenton he said: I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original ideas for which that siatggie was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be a humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this. His almost chosen people, for perpetuating the ob-

ject of that great struggle.

Here again we see self-distrust, coupled with a firm reliance on God. and humility, in a man called to the exercise of vast power and the assumption of crushing responsibilities. In this, as in the other cases, there was with the humility a genuine self-confi-dence. as was shown by Lincoln in his relations with his cabinet Perhaps we need to define the term self-confidence. But as we see It in Lincoln we can very readily understand what It Is not —pride of opinion. Jealousy of others and a disposition to monopolise power and authority, a man can decide questions and pronounce judgment without at all feeling that he is in any degree infallible, and even realizing that he is Quite likely to be mistaken. Self-dis-trust to this extent, and in this sense, is not a paralyzing Influence, but It rather opens the way. as those who had it believed, for the inflow of the divine influence and support. Such humility as that which marked the characters.of the great men referred to waa. therefore, a source of strength and power. It may still be said that such conquests of self are only possible *o the great, and that it Is only In them that

great humility can be

D «*#y found. But a character

* may be sound and true

without being great. It may also be that there are genuinely great men of whom the world never hears. There are people in this world who think of self last, who have no ambition except to do their duty, and be useful to their fellowmen. Character Is not altogether native, since it may be cultivated, and is molded

"To Primroses Filled With Morning Dew V J. Why do ye weep, sweet babes? can tears 4 Speak irlef In you, 4 Who were but bom Juet as the modest mo n Teem’d her refreshing dew? Alss. you have not known that shower That mars a flower. Nor felt th’ unkind . ‘ Breath of a blasting wind. Nor are ye worn with years; Or warp d as we. Who think h strange to see f Such pretty flowers, like to orphans jounf, To speak by tears, before ye have a tongue. Speak, whtmp'ring younglings, and made known Thy reason why Te droop and weep; As if for want of sleep, Or childish lullaby? Or that ye have not seen as yet The violet? Or brought a kiss From that sweetheart to this? —No, no. this sorrow shown by your tears shed. Would have this lecture read. That things of greatest, as of meaaest worth. Conceived with grief are, and with teen brought forth. —Robert Herrick.

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champion. Religion as interpreted’ and applied by such men—and there have been many of them—has been a curse to the world, and a very great peril, But though men of this type may be

sincere, they are never

idea is that thsy have been chosen by God on account of their own merits, and that His grace has been conferred on them because they deserved it. They think of themaeives, not as divine servants, but as divine favorites, and therefore free to order their lives much as they please. Instead of striving to find out what Gods will is, they assume that whatever they wish to do is in accordance with that will. Men and peoples that believe themselves to be the chosen of God—to the exclusion of all

would be a terrible thing If mom! excellence and eminence were possible only to those whom the world calls great. But that is not the case. There ,8 no °o« who is not called to serve, or

humble. Their ^ thout the capacity to serve. The

. ons of Martha” make a great company, and of them Kipling writes; R*ls# ye the stone or cleave the wood to t a P* 11 * mor * fair and flat; L>, U l« black already with blood some Son

of Martha apilled for that!

Not aa a ladder from earth to heaven, not aa

a witness to any creed, '

But simple service simply given to his own

Kiim in their common need.

The doctrine is as old as Christianity whose Founder told His followers that they were to minister and not be minis-

tered to, and that he who

would be

nature has by no means always been able to resist. There can. therefore, be no right relation to God apart from a right relation to one’s fellowmen. No inspiration can be said to be a true one

others-are subject to terrible tempta- greatest must be servant of all. Men tlons, temptations which weak human need to think less of what is coming to

them than of what is due from them to others. People who think only of their own grievances—and there are these days many such-can never have of that humility that is so grsat an

that does not prompt to righteousness of ornament, and from which such wonder-

ful power issues. Life consists chiefly of duties, and there can be no performance of these without some degree of self-forgetfulness, some renunciation. To service the lowly as well as the great are called, and there is power in the owly as well as in the great to respond to the call. But none of this power can be found to'those whose only thought is of self, and whose only anxiety is lest their rights—which may not be righto at all—be Infringed. Through such characters it is impossible for the divine

— Power to operate, or the divine influence true Christian character, indeed, in any 10 ma * ie itself felt. Perfection of char-

life. And that means, not only right action, but right thinking and feeling, both in regard to oneself and ethers. If there is right thinking and feeling, there must also be a certain distrust of self, and a sense of personal unworthiness, such as the apostle showed. The consciousness of a divine mission must make a man humble—that Is, if he is at all fit for his task, and if his consciousness is at all justified. St. Paul said: "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound.” Both sorts of knowledge are essential elements in the

Considerations for Shopmen

[Chicago Tribune]

The railroad shopmen have a responsibility to the American public which they may or may not be disposed to consider. But they also have a responsibility to themselves and their coworkers which ought to offset the tendency to strike prevailing in so many

character that is marked by excellence. Moses stands as the perfect type of God-inspired and God-led ruler. An authoritative writer says of him: ‘ Among

of^cT 1 a " b "”’ the rr “ U Perhaps the best test of the genuineness of a call is that it involves action

all lawgivers, founders of that ls agalnBt self-interest, as was

Servants •( God

states, and teachers of mankind, none has equaled Moses. His pa-

tience and his courage had rarely deserted him: his unselfishness and his meekness of disposition were two prominent qualities which, together with his clear prophetic vision, eminently fitted

tably true in the case of

Opportn. St. Paul. When such a nltle* summons lg answered

there can be no doubt of

the sincerity of the man who responds The trouble with many people is that they expect to be called to some great thing, to play a part on a conspicuous

him to be the instrument of the Deity. - Btage - °r to work that is easy and pieasFree from Jealousy, he wished that all ant - and P a ys well. Many ahrlnk from Israelites might be prophets like him- a task ’ not because ti la too great, but self, and that God would endue them b « ca use ti Is not great enough. And with his spirit. Moses became at a sub- when this is denied them they complain sequent epoch the unattainable ideal of bitterly that they "never had a chance.” a prophet." When this great man ot few men In this world can this be heard what he believed to be the dl- Raid. Most have their chance, but they vine call, he shrank from the responsi- think that the one that comes to them bility. and undertook the mission with is not commensurate with their powers the greateet reluctance. “Who am I.” or equal to their deserts. Then they he said, "that I should go unto Pharaoh, turn on those who hold tha great places and that I should bring forth the chil- as they turned against Moses: . dren of Israel out of Egypt?" He go he smote before, in vuch a peril

feared that the people would not harken unto bim, but would say “the Lord hath not appeared unto Thee.” Even after miraculous manifestations through him of the divine power, he held back, and said: “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a alow tongue.” He was sure of the call, but more than doubtful of his own adequacy. And It was so throughout his whole career. Solomon had the same feeling. Here are his words: "O Lord my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king Instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in- And Thy servant is in the

When they stood and mocked—"Shall emit

In* help us?”

When they drank and sneered—"A stroke 1.

easy!"

When they wiped their mouths and w*n» - their Journey. nl Throwing him for thank*-"But drouth waa

pleasant.”

For he bears an ancient wrong about him Sees and knows again those phalanxed

faces.

Hears, yet one time more, the 'cuatomed

prelude—

"How shoulds’t thou, of all men, amite, and

— aavj us?"

Guesses what is like to prove the seouel”Egypt’s fieshpota-nay, the drouth was b*t

ter.”

Men have indeed not changed greatly Nevertheless, there are and ever have

midst of Thy people which Thou hast be * n P® 01 * 1 * who were g, »d to do what chosen, a great people, that can not be ever came to thelr band, to stay at numbered or counted for multitude. ^ thelr P 08 *' lo for *«t self and to meet Give therefore Thy servant an under- al * Ibelr obligations to the full—and mat * ° “ neeu to go far out of the beaten track bad; for who Is able to judge this Thy Q j da iiy nf e to find them—rather they

industries*at this time. The P^eside^ so great people?” There was in neither pre sH on one It is not necessary has approved for the shopmen, not the case a rushing into responsibility, nor compass sea and land in order to find gTMMi,rglMsg

but that God was to do His own work nothing more or less can be made out through them as very weak and fallible of it The willingness to serve is what

agents. is required.

would be to justify if not to increase wages to 2.000,000 more employes of the railroad. This would skyrocket the cost of transportation, and therefore the cost of living, adding directly to the burdens of every wage earner and every man, woman, and child in the country-. The shopmen can not claim that their wage is so inadequate as to Justify casting this fresh burden on the public or precipitating the tremendous misfortune of a national railway strike from which every one would suffer severely and which would bring about a situation next winter nothing less than tragic. We are confident, therefore, a strike would be deeply resented by the whole country and would not only lack

Ten thousand gross of steel pens can be made from one ton of metal. More than a third of all American carpets are woven in Philadelphia, The word ’ regatta” was originally applied to contests of the gondoliers at Venice. For quickly unloading motor trucks a platform has been invented that tilts them bodily. Of French invention is a perfumery atomiser smkil enough to be carried In a pocketbook. «~ The back of a new pocket comb Is made tubular so that a tooth brush can be carried in it. An English inventor has applied the caterpillar tread to a cart for use over the softest ground. A local government In Hungary will build a factory for extraction of oil from pumpkin seeds. The increase in the coat of living in Great Britain since 1914 is l«0 per cent, and in France is 292 per cent. Certain landholders in Scotland are bound, under monetary penalties, to marry at the king's command. In England the sender of a telegram can cancel it, if transmission has not begun, by paying a fine of a few cento. A Bath (Me.) woman wanted a man to push a lawn mower and asked a man of all work his price; "$l an hour.” was his reply. It is estimated that one seed of cotton, with the application of all possible care and skill, would produce 40.000,000, seeds in six years. In Assam an oath is taken standing within a rope circle, to imply a wish to perish as the rope docs if the witness does not tell the truth .Sociologists estimate that among' every thousand bachelors there are 38 criminals, whereas married men produce 18 per thousand. To aid in teaching penmanship a plate to be fastened to a penholder'and fit the palm of the hand in the correct position has been patented. Made of a material impervious to grease, a soap holder for bathrooms and kitchens haa been invented that can be built into a wall recess. Among the spectators that gathered at a Sunday fire In a small town in the Berkshire# in Massachusetts, were people to automobiles from twenty-eight states. Following complaints from the churches in Santa Monica. Cal., the city council has decreed that all aviators flying there on Sunday between the hours of 10 a. in. and 1 p. m. must keep up among the clouds. When Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner of New York h* asked an applicant for a position on the force: ; “If you were ordered to disperse a mob what would you do?” “Pass hround the hat. sir,” was the reply. The author tiles of Valparaiso, Uhile, are endeavoring to raise the large number of steamships that were sunk in the harbor during the gale that struck that port. It Is believed that many of the ships can be repeatred for service, Finland occupies about 1*4,000 square miles of territory, of which 128,689 square miles are land. This terrltofy, which is slightly larger than Norway, has a population of only 8,084,000 people. It is said that Illiteracy Is almost unknown. Philip H. Dubois, of New Paltz, N. Y., entered into a contract to sell his fruit crop to a dealer In Yonkers for $60,000, This includes both apples snd pears. Roelif E. Dubois, of New Pair, sold his crop to the same dealer for $15,000. Joseph Randle, fishing In Silver lake, near Chester, Pa, hooked a fish so big that he was yanked overboard, dropping headfirst into a bed of quicksand, where he stuck fast. Companions of Randle dived for him and he was finally released and brought to the surface. The Missouri Pacific has been clearing its right-of-way near SIkeston (Mo..l by the use of steam. An engine, with the properly equipped machine, passed through Sikeston recently and literally scalded all the vegetation on the track and within five feet of each side, thereby saving the section men much hard work. The steam is supplied by the engine, which travels at plow speed. The secret of a recently Introduced humane muzzle, described by Popular Mechanics Magazine, which allows the animal wearing ti perfect freedom of the jaws when the head is in a lowered position, but which restrains when the head is raised, lies in a gravity-operated catch. This catch holds a rubber-cov-ered metal bar firmly under* the lower jaw when the animal's nose Is not pointed earthward, but is disengaged by the force of gravity when the nose is lowered. . Wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony, now commonplace, suggest the possibility of transmitting energy by wireless waves. A Roumanian engineer, M. Constantlnesco, has been experimenting in England with a method that seemes novel. He uses a tube filled with water or some such liquid, in which vibrations of the nature of sound waves are produced at one end and the energy Is reconstructed at the other end In a mechanical form The details of the apparatus are kept secret but Constantinesco’s _ researches have been financed by the British government, and it has already been applied in the mechanism that stops the discharge of bullets from the rapid-firing gun of an airplane each time that the blade of the propeller passed before the muzzle. This is what makes it easy to fire 2.000 shots a mtnu.te through the propeilor making between 4,000 and 2,000 revolutions a minute.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

the support of the public but bf the men’s own consciences. We think the strike would fail after great loss to the country but even if some advance over the President’s offer were won. If H compelled increases to all other railway employes, the total net result to the shopmen might prove a deficit But there is still another consideration. and it Is this: We do not think the American public will submit to the

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possession by any minority of a power great enough to strangle the business of the nation and create widespread suffering and loss. If railway employes when organized show a disposition to use unlimited force to compel payment of wage advances not required by urgent need, the nation will certainly assert its paramount authority and the rights of railway organizations will be sharply restricted by law.

A.—No information concerning the arrival of the Kroontand. Worried—Wrlta a letter of inquiry to the adjutant-general, L\ S. A., Washington, D. C. Anxious Mother—The *th field artillery la expected to return soon, but we have no information aa to the date. David J. William*—The 6th field battalion, signal corn*. >* ***i#«ed for early convoy, but no sailing date haa been given. K. B.—Grover Cleveland was bom March It, tMT. Gt There are several proprietary preparations on the market for getting rid of roachee. Powdereg borax haa been found effective in some cases. gubeertbar—A strict construction of the law might forbid bicycles being left standing flat at the curb in streets where angular parking of automobiles Is required. No ruling has beep made aa to whether an automobtUst has a right to romove a wheel from the curb when It la in hia way.