Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1919 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATUEDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1912.

In turn rends exotic ’ weeklies end is someirinced to the point of *«•

States prorides an exof what can be accomplished tome life, democracy ty, good schools and This, of coarse, calls work and right Hring acts Christian standards, but it in the quality and ty of the product, the essential which character plays in any To gain the rewards ily continuity by any other is to sacrifice the home, and tfest Is gone all is gcs*. XastlI homes for children are better ones, but they can not take of the domestic circle.

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ProhibiUon

THE COAL SITUATION

Yesterday the conference between tbe operators and tbs minors broke up without haying accomplished anything. The secretary of labor exerted himself to tbe utmost to bring about an Agreement.And avert a strike, but In vain. Finally, tbe President appealed directly to tbe parties to the

and, speaking for the

public, urged that the difference* be without a strike. Bat even , this failed. There le naturally an efby each side to shift the blame to other. Fortunately, we have a

from Secretary Wilson,

presided at the conference, and

wtn be taken as tbs truth.

The President, as the secretary

‘ first to negotiate, sec-

1 «nd to submit the matter to arbitraif negotiations failed, and third, the mine# in operation. The

according to this authority, the President * program In and declarsd that they to Negotiate and arbi-

upon by the

of labor or by the miner**

,* after which they Thle Is the account given

an entirely unprejudiced man, and one familiar with all the facts. The

accepted the Presidents

Tit# representatives of the miners, on ths othsr band, accepted only the * first suggestion of the Preeldant, namely that there be negotiation, but the two other points they held "for

r If both sides had

the President there would been ne strike. The responsltor the strike most, therefore, be with those who refused to yield — that is the miners. Indeed, in his very statement Justifying himself and his assootatee. Prssidsnt Lewis, of the mine workers' associations, says that arbitration was not wanted by them it “would be a long-drawn-out proceeding, deliberately made so

by operators.*'

Having failed In tie efforts to effect an agreement, It le now the duty of the government to see that the mines continue in operation. In his note to Secretary Wilson, ths Presldsnt saifij All organised society Is dspendent upon the maintenance of the fuel supply for the continuance of its sxistenee. * • • With ths parties to this controversy rests the responsibility of seeing that the fuel supply of the nation is maintained. At tht* time when the world Is In need of more supplies It would he s cruel neglect of our high duty to humanity

to fail them.

All of which le of course true. The conclusion Is that tbe duty unperby the parties to the contronow be performed by the One Qualification, howmust be ma<i<, and that >!e that be no thought of nationalisation of the mines as part of this settlement no suggestion of any permanent policy. Ail that should be done Is to sea that coal le produced. The task of the government Is simply to prevent the threatened interruption of production. That is something that must not be allowed.

WHISKY SSLUNG

In addition to the soft drink sellers, and the other bootleggers without a local habitation or much of a name, one of the difficult problems of proof hlbition law enforcement le the whis-ky-selling drug stores. Fortunately, saloons there are not many of these, and such aa there are ahould be brought to

acconot.

The law requires that a record shall be kept by druggists of all their alcoholic sales, and the action of the county prosecutor in asking that the county clerk be required to appear before the grand jury with a complete record of druggists’ liquor prescriptions and inventories indicates’ that a serious attempt is to be any increase made to prevent one of the most Jnwith eldioue forms of liquor law violation. i up by the While the druggist — who la really This a druggist and not mostly a whisky j>ply seller — may not know the handwritKe finds lag of all the physicians of the city,

, get sugar extwo pounds The question

a » n nor jot

r have been

The peo-

i ir the supply with higher _ 4-Y/) HOME on the necessity population of the a woman physlFrance at the inof women P hyrecently declared of law and Christian

ve more

of the

children, of a sort operated

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he Is generally familiar with their names, or can keep a list of them. Strange names may be all right, hut they should rouse suspicion; and even familiar names should not be accepted without question If the circumstances surrounding the presentation of a prescription are suspicious. Severe punishment 1* providofr for the druggist who violates the law, and the only safe policy is to mako no whisky sale when there is the slightest element of doubt connected with

the transaction, f * ' '

The further contention that the sale of any whisky Is illegal, and that only alcohol and wine for sacramental purposes may be sold, should simplify the situation if it is nphSld. hut as it stands there is no serious danger of any druggist who really wants to obey the law, and this, of course, means the groat majority of

them, getting into trouble.

BOSSISM IN BOSTON "Honey Fits" the Boston songbird, former Boston mayor, otherwise John F. Fltsgerald, has come to grief. This is not a new experience for him. nor It mean that he is down and ont. he must feel much humiliation over being thrown out of congress by

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a vote of the house and upon the rec-

ommendation of the house election committee. Charges of fraud and illegal voting flew thick and fast, and much was said of Fitzgerald's main political prop. Martin Lomas-

ney. tffv-v *'./ The chairman of the house commit-

tee on elections made some pointed remarks to the effect that congress was not obliged to welcome to membership every one sent to Washington. regardless of how elected. He gave the impression that for the time being, at least, all snch gentlemen would be blackballed. Boston has another man —the man pronounced by the house as really elected — ready to represent the Tenth district, comprising six thriving wards, and promises somehow to struggle along for two years without the aid. counsel, songs and power of "Honey Fits'* and Martin Lomasney. Boston has learned, as many other cities have learned, that bossism must be fought with any legitimate weapons at hand. No doubt ths law and order element In Boston, ths element which performed a national service in smothering aa Insidious police strike, is grateful for the opportunity to draw a free breath. Most cities, upon emerging under such circumstances. are. however, likely to expect too much, with the resnlt that they lose again. Boston, having been through similar experiences before, will probably make the most of this one. __

THE INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE AH that was left of the industrial conference, the public group, yesterday dissolved, and went home. Frankly, there never was any reason to expect much from it, so there will be no great surprise at its failure. The task sf framing n new industrial organisation Is no small one. nnd that was what was proposed. The organisation that we have has grown out of years of experience, and therefore Is not to be easily supplanted. Perhaps it is not so defective as many think. No one will quarrel with any efforts to improve It, or to strengthen the infiaences that make for industrial peace. But there is a growing fear that too close co-operation between employers and employes might result in ths formation of a gigantic trust against which ths great army of consumers would be powerless. Ws do not mean, of course, that there ought not to be co-operation up to a certain point, and certainly would hot discourage any effort to bring about the moet cordial relations between employers ad employes. It ts along that lins that rsform must proceed. For a -time it looked as though sometbieg might be accomplished by the conference. But it is easy enough now to see that the difference was radical. Involving as It did the question of the open shop. However, it Is to bs said —and this is an encouraging sigh — that labor, the public and almost ons-half of the representatives of the employers did actually agree on the matter of collective bargaining. Much is new being said of further efforts on the part organised labor, backed by the farmers, to control the situation. It is not a time for recriminations—indeed it never ts a time for them. Whatever can be done to make reason prevail should be done. The American people are not hopelessly divided. Whatever may be true of various cisssea, the interests of ths people as a whole are one. All are American eitisens, and should act in accordance with the best American traditions.

ARMENIAN RELIEF The American people have already invested 9*6.000,000 In relief work In Armenia. But more is needed If hundreds of thousands of people are to be kept this winter from starving and freezing. From its office in Constantinople the American relief committee reports that there are 400,000 refugees in the Caucasus and 450.000 in Anatolia and Armenia that are in sore need of clothing. Cloth for manufacture Into garments is not available, so the people are asked to give their cast-off clothing. And this means, not only outer garments, but underwear, shoes and heavy socks. Among the sufferers are many little children, who have only one thin cloth that does not more than half cover their bodies. With winter at hand, the need is terrible. Surely the people of Indianapolis will give liberally of their abundance. Never In the history of the country was so much money being spent for clothing —and everything else — as now. We are pampering ourselves without a thought of the expense, and think It hard when we can not have all the luxuries of life. Yet a million of our brethren and fellow-Christians are likely to die tor lack of the barest necessities of life. It will be no special credit for us to meet this demand, since it can be dons without ths slightest sacrifice. Armenia la to be sure, a long way off. But as Christians we can not have forgotten that God "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." Our duty Is dear, and we have the ability to perform It. All that is needed is the will, and It is Impossible to believe that this is lacking. Contributions may be sent to the headquarters of the committee, 401 City Trust building. If preferred contributions will be called for. Collection* will be made next Wednesday In response to telephone calls. The committee's telephone number is Main 5009. The ok! Macedonian cry. "come over and help us." is heard again. It most, and will be. answered.

Maine. Vermont. Ohio. Indiana. Tennessee. Kentucky and Michigan. It lies in practically the same latitude as Norway and Sweden which support a large population and raise crops and live stock and engage in manufacturing activities Summer days in Alaska are so long that the growing season from late May to October means almost as much in results as a longer season in southern latitude. The territory, so the Cftisen says, is suited to stock raising, farming and fruit growing. Tbe biggest assets are the mineral deposits. Millions have been take out of the gold mines and millions remain. Tbe territory now needs working capital and it must have railroads Slow baa been the progress of the campaign for development but a start at least hss been made. If Alaska wants to help pay the war debt the people up there surely should have every chance possible.

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK The repeal of the daylight saving act goes into effect st 2 o’clock Sunday morning, and the timepieces of the country generally will then be turned back aa hour, though some places will retain the daylight saving schedule. Instructions have been given to the employes of transportation companies to arrange their train schedules to fit the new time. The best plan Is to make the change an hour before going to bed tonight. This gives an extra hoar in bed Sunday morning and still permits rising in ample time for church. No change will be made In tbe sundials because the sun has refused to recognize any difference in its old schedule. Tbe dials uow will come nearer telling tbe truth than they have during the summer. Repeal of the daylight saving act came in congress largely as a result of opposition by tbe farmers. Members of congress were not convinced that the law worked a hardship on other classes than fanners, and they were convinced that it proved a boon to many; but they did not fancy it good politics to vote against the wishes of their rural constituents, so they killed the law. President Wilson did his best to save It and some members fought for it valiantly, but all such efforts availed nothing, and the country has resigned itself to the old order without much protesting. There was no denial that the law has worked to the advantage of people who live in towns and cities. Clerics and city people generally have been able to bave more daylight in the summer afternoons and evenings. This extra hour stimulated gardening and did much toward the production of extra foodstuff. There seems no chance for the clocks generally to be turned forward next spring, but a movement already is under way to have the larger cities observe the daylight saving schedule. This would mean opening the stores, factories and other places one hour earlier than usual and the dismissal of the working forces one hour earlier every afternoon.

Mitchell Business Man Cutting New Set of Teeth

{Special to The Indianapolis Xewal MITCHELL. IndL, October 25.— W. F. Lagle. a business man of this city, expects to have a set of store teeth to sell at a bargain. Pain In his mouth caused him to have an X-ray photograph taken. It disclosed that he hax another set of teeth coming la and that they were crowding out bis artificial teeth.

CASE AND COMMENT

To Convince World of Hun’s Sincere Desire for Peace

BERLIN. Friday, October 24 (by the Associated Press).—In tbe course of a long address before tbe national assembly, which consisted mainly of a protest against recent addresses by Premier Clemenceau and what was called the "militaristic tendency" of France toward Germany, as well aa the inconsistent spirit shown in the formation of the league of nations. Foreign Minister Mueller Insisted today on the necessity for a speedy German evacuation of Lithuania and

Education There never was a time when there was such a widespread interest la education as now. All agree that in education, as la everyMeans aad thing else, we ought to Rads adapt means to enda

Character Men used to get a good deal of this knowledge from the Bible, which is the record of the experience of a great people in state Virtue < building and state maintaining, tbe beet

But what are the ends? account that we have of the efforts If the state is under any obligation of men to enter into relations with at all to educate Its children it can God. But the Bible has been driven be only on the theory that by so doing out by science, as Plato and EpicteIt will make good citizens of them, tus have been. Our knowledge, thereA good citizen must be able to make fora Is one-sided, partial, narrow and his living, and so there is need for quite unrelated to man as a social scientific and technical training. But'being. Few can doubt that there in a country where every man is a is sore need for a great and selfruler, and where increasingly heav- sacrificing type of citizenship. This ier duties are being imposed on him can not be developed by an education each year, he must, if he is to be a based on the theory that the great

good citizen, have other capadtiea It is a discouraging fact that, at a time when the scope of government is being so rapidly widened, when every one is talking of socialism, when political problems are being discussed as never before, the system

duty In life Is to take care of oneself, and which makes not even the shadow of an appeal to human sympathy. Young men with these ideas are likely to look on public office.^ss on private employment, as merely the means to get a living. But the

of education on other than technical man who has studied Grade and and scientific lines lacks effective- Latin, who knows something of his-

Letvia. He said this step was neces- n * ss - Men need more than they ever tory. who has some familiarity with

sary to convince the world of Germany’s sincere desire for peace. "The German government disapproves of the telegram sent by General von der Colts recently, congratulating Colonel Avaloff-Bermordt In his success in the fighting near Riga,” he declared, "and I hope this will he the last case of a Prussiar. general meddling in politics. "We are not friends of the Bolsheviki.'* Foreign Minister Mueller said, in advocating good relations with all border states, "but we protest in the sharpest manner against the blockade of soviet Russia proposed to us by the entente, because it is not the Bolshevik leaders who will suffer by such a step, but the masses of the Russian people who will suffer the greatest misery. The unemployment and hunger which such a blockade would foster are Just the things to

promote Bolshevism.”

For Sufferings in War

ALASKA A recent dispatch from Washington said that ths boose had passed a bill appropriating 91Y.SfiS.000 additional for the completion of the Alaskan railroad and that the bill had been reported to the senate. This must have brought joy to Alaska because this is another step toward the realisation of Alaska's plana The Daily Alaska Citizen, published at Fairbanks, printed a booster number seme time ago in which it said that Alaska can pay the nation's war debt, and wants to pay it. The trouble with Alaska the Citizen said, is that most people in the states think of the territory as the frozen north. They picture gmfnbHeg hells, glaciers dog teams and Bsquimos eating blubber. Alaska covers more territory than

Three groups of conferees with trouble to brew, labor got bnffy and then there were two. Two big committeesvgot nothing done, employers all went home and then there was one. One lone committee hadn’t any fun. so It dissolved itself and then there was none. In addition to coaches, a new system of athletics, rub downs, shower baths, massages and such like, Butler college needs more football players. The withdrawal of both the capital and the labor delegates to the industrial conference left the public group looking like an umpire without a ball game. Some of the radical strikers at East Chicago having returned to ^ork only to find themselves out of a job, the world may expect to be informed at any tHne that the strike was a complete success. The government appears to think very little of certain substitutes for sugar, and for that matter it doesn’t seem to devote much thought to sugar. Senator Watson’s * charges have made some members of the federal trade commission loquacious with rage. New York reports the biggest silk deal In the history of the world just in time to check the rumor that women might have to wear warm stockings this winter. * If the government can't get more than 98.350.000 for the 970,000,000 town it built In West Virginia, it might move the place to Cuba and start a "wet” colony. Tbe trouble with a good many strike conferences seems to be that both sides have prepared for a strike and don't like' to change their plana A burglar who labors all night cutting a hole through the bottom of a safe for 315 must love to workIlllnois and Wisconsin are quarreling about which was the first to ratify the suffrage amendment while some twenty-five other states seem to be jockeying for last place. The official "health and decency'* budget for government clerks at Washington places the minimum annual expenses of a family of five at $2,242. Something has just got to be done about the high price of gasoline! Some of the Indiana militiamen may be different from "common, ordinary regular soldiers,” but "common, ordinary regular soldiers" had a great deal to do with the resnlt in France. The American Wholesale Coal Association has pledged its efforts to prevent any Increase in the price of coaL Now we shall see what we shall see.

Anderson is getting into the pink of condition for next year’s census all right. It would appear that Representative Sherman, of Ohio, would be better satisfied with tbe result if a considerable number of American generals bad been killed in Europe. Under the new schedule of rates a corpse can be sent from New York to Hamburg for $259. Maybe this will simplify the deportation problem. Nearly every liquor raid was without results. Sometimes when Homemade wine was found the soldiers drank all the evidence. Things like this and the general inaction made the soldiers restless and discontented. — Ex-Private Walker, of Company C. Gee, but they’re bard to please!

PARIS, October 2fi. — Premier Clemenceau has signed a decree awarding the War Cross to Pont-A-Mousson, southwest of Metz, for its sufferings during the wsr. The city, which lay on the edge of the salient of St. Mihiel, occupied by the Germans continuously from the early days of the war until the successful campaign of the American army, suffered 234 bombardmenta French hands except for a single More than 30,000 shells fell on tne city, destroying 80 per cent, of Its houses. Nevertheless the city remained in week in September. 1914. when the Germans swept down to their repulse before Toul and Nancy.

INDIANA NEWS IN BRIEF

BOONVTLLE—Jennie P. Mocker, of Hunt-

ingburg, received s verdict for $1,300 damage* against the city of Huntingburg Friday in a verdict reported by a Jury In the Warrick circuit court. She alleged iojuriea

as a result of a fall on a aide walk.

VINCENNES-Edward C. Theobald, receiver for the Vincennes Traction Company, hae petitioned the Indiana public eervice commission for perm ia*ion to buy seven oneman operated street care for the local line. The car* are to cost $$,«» each....W. H. Hickman, chairman of the executive committee of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ As-

sociations,

resident of Montpelier, was

the principal speaker at a mass meeting of Knox county farmers, held here Saturday.

More than 600 farmers attended.

* EVANS VILLA)—Americanization day was observed by every public school in Bvansvllle Friday... Gambling devices confiscated in a raid on the Lottie hotel have been returned to Charles Slhler, manager of ths hotel, on an order of the city Court granting the petition of Sihler to recover them. Bihler said in Ms petition that he would send the devices out of the state.... Mark Storen, of Indianapolis. United States marshal, came here Friday to swear In Louts Bender aa a deputy federal marshal. Ben-

der takes the place of John Miller.

WINNAMAC—Milton Dettman, ago eleven, son of Edward Dettman, of Jefferson township, la seriously, injured aa a result of an accident at the Brush College neighborhood school. While running ho fell against a tree, crushing the front of his skull. He was taken to Chicago for treatment...-A. N. Miller has declined to accept the nomination on the Republican ticket for councilman and John C. Shank has been named In his place ....Dr. George W. Thompson was elected vice-president of the National Railroad Physicians Association at a recent meeting

of the organization in Chicago.

GREENSBURG-More than 500 member* of the five Kigbta of PythiaS lodges of Decatur county were present at a county meeting Thursday night when Judge John W. Craig, newly elected grand chancellor of the Indiana order, was honored. Thomas E. Davidson delivered an address of welcome and Judge Craig responded. A banquet was a feature,... Americanization day was observed with appropriate exercises in the schools of this city and county Friday....John W. Glenn, of Franklin county, was arrested Friday on a grand Jury indictment, alleging that he obtained money under false pretenses by misrepresenting a mule sold to August Tbieslng. MUNCIE—Although James Mayberry was acquitted this week on a charge of possessing liquor unlawfully, he may not regain possession of seventeen quarts of whisky found in his possession. When Mayberry mads formal demand on Sheriff Hiatt for possession of the liquor, the sheriff telephoned L. Ert Slack. United States district attorney at Indianapolis, and was Instructed not to turn the liquor over to Mayberry. Mayberry now threatens replevin proceedings against the sheriff.... Delaware county subscribed $32,W7.22 to the national Jewish relief fund la a recent drive. The total is nearly $14,040 more than the quota allotted It. Nearly $8,000 was obtain*! by ths women’s organization. COLTJM BUS—An Issue of $88,000 worth of road bonds to build the Nentrup road In this city, which was to have been sold Saturday, were not offered for sale, because of the granting of a temporary restraining order against the sale by Judge Donaker, of the Bartholomew circuit court. Albert C, Whits brought suit to test the constitutionality of that part of the new tax law, which empowers the tax board to pass on Improvement bonds. The state board refused authority to sell the bonds, but the county ordered the sale....The forty-eighth semi-annual convention of the Bartholomew bounty Sunday School Association will be held at the White Creek Methodist church In Jackson township

next Tuesday and Wednesday.

PETERSBURG—A district convention of the Order of the Eastern Star was held here Thursday. W. D. Curll, president of the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, made a welcome address, and John K. Chappell spoke for the local chapter. Mrs. Manda Bothell, of this city, was elected president of the district organization, and Mrs. Minnie E. Barton, of Princeton, was elected secretary. Grandview was chosen as next year’s meeting place—Mr a. W. D. Crow at a meeting of the Woman’s Franchise League of Pike county, resigned the presidency' of the club and Miss Emma Chandler was elected to (111 the vacancy. Mias Chandler was vice-president of the Organization, and Mrs. Crow was elected to her position. ANDERSON-A KIwanis Club, with eighty member*, has been ortranixed her* and will have It* dm dinner Monday evening, when the chib will receive its charter. It is expected that Kiwanian* of Indianapolis, Lafayette. Huntington and Marlon will be represented.. ..Four hundred and fifty boys, pupils of the senior and Junior high schools at Newcastle, srere here Friday evening to inspect the Young Men’s Christian Association home. They utilised all department* of the building while in the city, sjid were accompanied by a party of Newcastle men. including George Elliott, mayor; Walter Ratcilffe end W. S. Chambers. The visitors said that Newcastle has $350,400 assured for a Y M. C. A. home, to be built next year. Automobiles carrying the Newcastle party carried banners reading “Newcastle iTm. C. A.. TBRRE HAUTE—The city council met in special session Friday night to elect *uccatinors to William Terrill and Edward Jacob*. council men from tbe First sad Sixth wards, respectively, who had resigned to accept employment with the city. Conrad J Herber and George L. Barnes were elected to succeed these officials Wednesday night. Berber from the Fleet and Barnes from the Sixth- but W. J. Whitaker, city atorney rendered an opfolon that tbe election was Invalid because neither of the men elected bad received a majority of tbe full membership of the council. The same men were elected Friday night Permanent officers for the Advertising Club of Terre Haute hare been elected a* follows: President. George A Schaal. vice-president, Walter E. Rahel, secretary. Adam Zirurr: treasurer. Harry James, and eTocaiire committee. Fred Powell. py*d R. Waldron. A C. Anderson, Charles Gets A. W. McKeend. The new organization wili artHafee with tb* Associated Advertising Clubs of the Worid ,

The Or lgteal Skyscraper. [Washington Starj “What’s the idea of this Tower of Babelr* “There are several ideaa One of them is to provide something really worth while for ths folks who com* to town to took at ths tall bui.dinsa"

did before a knowledge of the hie- the literature of his own race, and tory, the philosophy, the literature, has perhaps dipped into philosophy, and the political institutions of an- sees how transient and shallow are dent peoples, and they are each year mere temporal rewards. For If htsgetting less of It. The best citizens tory teaches anything It is that the are those who have some knowledge heroes and helpers of the race hare of the facts and problems with which often been the men that failed— they are expected to deal politically. Leonidas. Socrates. Cato and all the The man who knows his Plato is bet- others to whom the old teachers apter equipped as a citizen than the pealed. There must always be this

Work Without Hope

Slugs leave their

the

are on

All Nature seems to work,

lair—

The bees are stirring—birds

wing—

And Winter, slumbering in the open air. Wears on his smiling fac* a dream of

Spring!

And 1, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make nor pair, nor build, nor

stag.

Tot well I k«o tbe banks where amaranths

blow,

Hav* traced the fount where stream* of

nectar flow.

Bloom, o ye amaranths! bloom for whom

_ ye may.

For me ye bloom not! Gild*, rich streams,

away!

With lip« unbrighten’d, wreathles* brow. I

stroll; *

And would you learn th« spells that drowse

_ my soul?

Work without Hope draws nectar in a

sieve.

And hope without an object can sot liva. —Samuel Taylor ColerMga.

SCRAPS

best engineer or bridge builder that ever graduated from a technical school These latter may Indeed be utterly unequipped for the performance of the duties of citizenship.

willingness to fail for the sake of others or a great cause. Men who aro rightly taught will never fall to get a stimulus from such examples. This self-sacrificing service can be

What we should strive for is, not the reQ4 i« r sf| ori jy by those who remember mere ability to do one or two things thllt th<(y are ot a brot hern * any ° n ® ® 1 *** bQt * C * r ‘ how * composed of men ami women am attitude toward life, a certain wbo i n al j ajr „ suffered and way of looking at things, and a so- toiled and died for the right. Surely berness and restraint which can come men 0 f tlltg 4ay 8 hould have a wide only from a wide knowledge of what oUtlook on th « world » r^usation has been thought and said by the of tll9 mcT ^„ ot „ f# , 8nd . 8COrn

great spirits of tho race. This f or knowledge can be had most certainly

from a study of the classics, of history and literature—in short of what are known as the humanities. It is idle to say that all studies are of the same cultural value. The man who knows his Shakespeare and Milton is a more cultured man than he who has mastered his Darwin or Huxley.

The question Is, of course/ as to the

succese merely for its own sake and aa something to bo won at all hazards. It all may be summed up In the great word virtue—which, of course, we owe to the Romans. All this has to do with character, and is very closely related to it. What a man ta. is more important than what he knowa Principles are mors vital than unrelated facts, or mere Infor-

mation.

The man who has this virtue is with.

bearing of the two educations on life. ,w a » hn** wViir.h .. h„ n'.honia t'T,J. h ,u. h

we seek to accomplish

Specialisation certain results. One of

those results ought to

be the development of a great and

ths purpose of education

Pels* to free him. Thus men

may have a peace that

will do something to calm the spirit

self-sacrificing type of citizenship. It of car ioslty. and make them masters can hardly be said that ths training themselves in whatever social that Is so popular at tho present time crtBl . mar come. Andrew Lang has is likely to produce that result. For shown us in his beautiful sonnet how this training is based on apeclalisa- many of th8M b i*,. In * t an(1 ths lion, and specialisation has two sf- strength that flows from them may fecta The first is to concentrate he derived from communion with thought and energy on a narrow Homer. These words sursly suggest range of subjocts. and the second is lhe pi^in, thought of rest:

to divorce thought and energy from

all other subjects. The specialist’s 80 fiddly from th* sons* of modem speech

Men turn, sad ms the .tan, and f**l th*

interests and sympathies ar« likely to grow narrow, and he will be fortunate if he does not come to have a contempt for all matters that lie outside his chosen field. Manifestly an education of this sort will not meet the needs of man at tbe present

Shrill wind beyond tho does of heavy (lowore; And throush the music of tho lansuid hour*. They hear ilk* ocean on a weetera beach Th* surs* and thunder of th* Odymey.

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Life, after alL is greater than the

time when there Is a great demand law* which control the world la which for a wide outlook and keen aym- the life ia lived. As teachers of this pathie*. There is. almost confessed- the very myth* of th* ancient peoly, nothing idealistic about a ape- pies are mure valuable than exact claused training. In aa far as It is science. For In all of them we see lacking in this, it Is a direct rein*, human nature struggling with deforcement of one of the worst ten-' Acuities, and either triumphing over denotes now operating in the Ifind. them, or succumbing bravely. ConThe Idea that an educated man must sidering the situation as it now is in be th# servant of the public—whether America, it does ssem that Greek and in or out of office does not at all Latin, history, philosophy end Engroatter—has all but been obscured by lish are the subjects on which w# the idea that he must be the servant should place the most stress, teachof himself or his bank balance. What ing with th'jtn as much science as we we get is. not scholarship, but a nar- can find time and place for. The prerow efficiency directed too often only diction of Arnold Is being fulfilled: - to the task of makiiyg a [t As with Omsk, so with Isttsra gaasrslly; not a fortune. Of course qualifies- they will *ome day come, w« may hope, to tions must be made, since some of the be studied more rationally, bub they will sot specializers have served the public What win happen will rather

magnificently, and .ithou. a thought ’S^

ot self. But even these are as a rule there will be, perhaps, s period of unset tiedisqualified for service outside the meat, and confusion and falaa tendency; but sphere of their activities, so both they letter* will not in their end lose their lead-

and th. W th. »W««. % ^

Such an education for the a erage ^ them by our want* and aspiration* man or woman would do little to de- And a poor humanist may posses* hi* soul velop the Intellectual and moral pow- In patience • • • and still hav* a happy ers that are so necessary to the prop- f a| th thzt th * nature of thins* work* silent.r conduct “V"!' aod’"..™ "ZT and greatly different, is needed. And quaint ourselves with the great results it is, of course, of the average man reached by modern science, and to giv# ourand woman that one must think in selves as much training in it* discipline as thinking of education. w * conveniently carry, yet the majority

of men wiil always require humane letters;

—and so much th* more as they have the

more and th# greater results of sciencs to relate to the need in man for conduct, and

to the need in him for beauty.

As specialization in science operates to strengthen some of the worst tendencies in our life, the humanis-

tic training is the sur-

Humanism est corrective of them

and antidote to them.

It Is adapted to the ends which we ought to wish to bring to pass, and Is. therefore, in the true sense, moat

Those words were written a quarter

of a century ago, and one can now

see that they were prophetic.

Another thought Is suggested by a fugitive poem by Charlotte Becker,

practical. For history, literature and published several years ago, and with philosophy have to do with human which these reflocllfe, and the expression of personality Memory tions shall be brought in thought and action. Knowledge t0 * close. It is that then we want first of all. knowledge memory Is the most civilizing and that will enable us to deal, not solely whaTwe rememb mln<,

of the laws of society rather than of

The war has had but Utils effect on the patent office business. The deepest known lake In th* world is Lake Baikal in Siberia. At one time it was the practice among the Germans and Dutch to accumulate soiled clothes and hav* a washday only two or three times a year. Ex-King Manuel of Portugal has kept a diary ever since he was able— five volumes, each being bound In morocco leather with a stiver lock and key. The Burmese have a curious idea regarding coins. They prefer those with a female head on them, beUevlng that coins with male heads on them are not so lucky. The number four Is in great disfavor in Japan, because its name, “shi,” is the term for death. There are no fours or forty-fours In th# telephone directories of that country. At a railroad accident in Cincinnati, four cars of coal were dumped on the tracks of the street railroad company. The company tpnmediately rushed a snowplow to the scene and plowed the coal away. Kentucky's commissioner of forestry is having a hundred bushels of maple and oak tree seeds collected In his state for shipment to Belgium, to be planted In the war-devastated areas of that country. Because eels migrate only in the dark, the Danish government prevents them from leaving the Baltic sea for the ocean by suspending a line of electric lamps from a cable in the strait that they frequent. Reliable authorities reckon the coal fields of China as equal in value to all the other coal fields of the world combined, but so far they are practically lying Idle. One province, Hunan, has 21,700 miles of solid coal, anthracit^ and bituminous. Switzerland has no coal of her own, and not even any peat or lignite. Coal was $40 a ton during the war, Germany allowing her a small amount in return for food and other products. The Swiss burn wood, and drive most of their factories by electric power procured from waterfalls. Princess Mary of England Is sometimes called Bessie by her brothers. As a child Queen Elisabeth was her favorite character in English history, and the frequency with which the princes* would refer to the admirable eharactertetios of her heroine led to her being etyled Bessie by her brothers. No royalty has been called so persistently by her pet name as hss Queen Maud of Norway, who for years has been known as Harry among her Immediate relatives. The name has clung to her since she was a girl, and she Is still addressed by the prince of Wales and his brothers and sisters as Aunt Harry. • : * One night recently Mrs. William Philbrook. of Belfast. Me., wheeled wood from 10 p. m. until 1 a. m., after milking four cows, delivering th* milk to her customers, gathering and selling some ten or twelve dozen ears of corn, and doing her housework. She can run a wheelbarow, wield the ax and saw, a sickle and soythe aa easily as she can milk or scrub clothes. * In an open letter to th* newspapers in London. Professor H. H. Johnston urges the English-speaking public to study seriously the African languages with the idei of cultivating commerce and trade with that continent. Four hundred and fifty-three languages and dialects must he learned in order to establish relations with the natives. The tribes of the Bantu, Kafir, Zulu, Felata, Haussa and Tedo number more than 100,000,000 and have hitherto traded with th* Germans and the Dutch.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

the physical world. Epictetus speaks clearly on this point:

T. 8, 8.—Collector* offer no premium on nickel flve-cent piece* coined *inc« 1*78. V. B. B.—Write the manes ins editor statins what you want. Such request* are usual-

ly granted.

W. R. T.~Business address** are net printed here. (2) How old la Emma Goldman?—About fifty-five years. Bloomington--Both poems mentioned arc by well-known authors, the flr*t by Fo**, the second by Kipling, and may be seen in Say public library. — F. P —Where did the Courthouse burn, Se•troying all records ?—Thi* has happened in several county seat* in Indians, and many time* in the country, but we foil to find a list of all such catastrophes. If you know the approximate date and location of the fire referred to. repeat the question, giving this in-

formation.

E. L. N.—Pieaee give the dates of tbe following inventions: Telephone, telegraph and wireles* telegraph. In the order named. MM, 1882 and IBM. (2). I* the telephone BSU’s

live with. We subsist on our spirit-j own invention?—T#s. (*>. What contribution ual inheritance. And that inheri-l dW F riinkl,n m*ko tbe first studies of tance is the Dower and ^ • Usctrtclt,7 " H * >‘*Mnins with el*c-tam-e is tne power and pathos and ; trtcH (4) i. the nebular hypothert* aa an beauty that flow into our lives, not i explanation of tbe formation of the stars

^ knowledge, but from tbe j lad NsneU still aocptodT-Y** by

Sf^lwTand earth? For is it not enough to P ast ot th * rac ** e forget higher' t'***® 0 *- but by oth « r *-

ing else abides. We may forget Greek, hut we can not lose the Greek spjrlt. Here is the poem: What If ths Arglve kings are dust. Dead they who fought for Helen’s kiss.

And centuries of as It encrust The curled hulks of Salami*? Still from each deed on land or Worthy to win a hero'* wage. The dauntless spirit flame* again. Sprung of that Grecian heritage. What if ths columns broken tie That once Mycena e wails up bop*. And open now to wind and aky

Th* temple* on each vinsdad ■bore?

-know the nature of the good and th* evil, and the measures of the desires and aversions and also the movements toward* things and from them; and using these a* mie# to

administer the affair* of life?

That is man’s chief business — to “administer the affairs of life” —to live and act with other men. to create and administer governments. Science undoubtedly develops accurate thinking, and so is valuable. But it does not give the knowledge that we must have There is another suggestion of Epictetus that bears directly on this phase of the subject. We need knowledge, as has been said, but for what? Hear ths philosopher, speaking of what young

men should get out of their school- ln these aprtng-swept Attic ways,

lag: On every ruin-crowned hill. Ought they not to return with a capacity to oi t , h “f fCOl<iea y«*tordays, JSro. to be active ta assoctatiou with The soul of beauty Unger* *Uil.

other. ' Whatever makes the “golden yesnev^f'ufe^ah which they •ball be able to terdays” live again must of necesbear well the thing* that happen, sad da- sity feed the spirit of man, and no rive honor from them? education that does not do that can And Epictetus believed that all this t* 5 ** id to ^ Adequate. Not only “the could be best and most surely had soul of beauty lingers still,” but the from what we call the humanities soul of power as well. And It surely for he wa* ever appealing to th* i s the function of education, not Uvea of simply to impart information, but men who had * ^ ^ .*7 ^to develop power, and to build up to H e active in association with oth- M . . , w *r* free from passions, free from character. Men need to learn to enoorturbation.” Thus men need to dure, and the lesson Is one that needs know themselves and others, to know to be taught. The apostle says: human nature and its history, and "Thou therefore endure hardness, as to know something of the develop- a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” And ment of society. Th* trouble with long before him it was said: "It is ns at the present time is that ws good for a man that hs bear ths yoke are iai-geiy^ignorant of **«*« in his youth." It is much to bs tentioiTto external things rather than fe A rft d that present-day educators do to things of th* spirit that we are rouc ** emphasis on these princonfussd and distressed when w# are otples. which can he traced to the two asked to consider public questions great sources of our civilisation,

from the moral side. Greece and Judea.

mathematic* aa quickly as we do! F. M.—How ran *teel on a gun be _ Greek, and when we forget it, noth- I blued?—Tbe blue finish is produced by *ub-

H ■ Jecting the *teel to s temperature of «*o

degree* for deep blue, 650 or 544 degree* for lighter blue. This must be done with great care or the coloring will be uneven. A sootless flame should be used Or bake the pert in *and till the desired ahade of blue l* attained. then plunge it ta oil. In any case, the eurface »hould be clean and well polished Tbe work U done in factorie* under highly specialized condition*, and good remits under ordinary conditions aro rare. Kay and Ralpb-Where i* what was known during the war a* the Picardy sector ?-guet north of Pari*. (2> What i* th# •horte.t distance between thi* «*ctor end Le Havre?About 114 mile*. !$> Could heavy gunfire in this ■ectr he heard st Havre’-Under fa v^rable weather condition*, yes. Tbe Ostend bombardment wa* heard in England and the Verdun bombardment wa* beard ta Parts, both dlattnce* being greater than ths dl»tance from Le Havre to the nearest point in the Picardy *ector. (4) What is th# trave: time by rail from Le Havre to Poris?Beforo the war. five hour#; during the war,

normally about *even hour*.

G B.-H a man establishes a business under a name other than hi* own. must the stun* be recorded somewhere? If ao. where —The name of the bustoea# and th* name ot the owner mu*t be registered with tbe coun ty clerk at th* Courthouse (2) What 1* the difference between common and preferred stock?—Preferred atock of Indiana corporations l* a promtaaory not* of th* otrpora. Uon. It provide# for return* to the owner out of the profits, if *»y. of !*»• corporation, and ia payable out of any awet* of the corporation after all debt* are paid and before the common stock is entitled to ahare Jn the asset* The common stock is the divisible portion of the corporation, sharing in any increases of the property and bearing it* to*ee» until its value ta extinguished. After the value of the common stock i* loot, the preferred stock comes next in order before !oe* can be passed on to th# creditor*. Differont etatea have different laws regarding the legal statu* of common and prof erred

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