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A Shop-Worn Crusade “American teachers of European history remain strangely Indifferent to the universal revolution in ideas about the origins of the World war. The revisionists have uncovered a series of facts sufficiently weighty to cause doubt in the minds of all European historians of any dignity, but neither new facts nor new opinions have had much effect in his country. Out of ten American historians, nine still are rancorously anti-German, and only one shows anything resembling a fair and impartial spirit. Thus writes “Charles Mason Babcock,” a distinguished American historian of the most unblemished and esoteric Harvard training in the American Mercury. In the same magazine for August, 1927. Hartley Grattan had indicated with a magnificent display of descriptive material the manner in which the most reputable American historians capitulated to the hysteria of the war period. He showed how they retailed the propaganda of the British about war guilt, which Professor Charles A. Beard well has described as “the story for babes.’ Now professor "Babcock” comes along and shows how, more than ten years later, the most respectable historical writers still cling to these fanciful fairytales. This is true even of the kleagles of the profession. Take Bernadotte Schmitt of the University of Chicago, for example. Mr. Babcock speaks thus of Professor Schmitt and his Journal of Modern History: “From behind this barrier he snipes away at Fay, Beazley and other revisionists. ’ Mr. Babcock puts the issue in a nutshell as follows: “Win American historians recognize that there are two sides to the case? No one asks them to embrace the German argument; no one demands, even, that they become revisionists. It is not a question of believing one side or the other. “But it is a matter of common decency that they should present both sides of the dispute—that they should drop their dogmatism in relaying entente fables and their pussyfooting in the face of revisionist facts.” By great good luck the historians seem bent upon adding further confirmation to Professor “Babcock’s thesis. No sooner had his article appeared than Current History came forth in the present issue < March > with an apology for the “entente fables” by Professor Preston Slosson of the University of Michigan. Those who doubt the accuracy of Professor “Babcock’s” attack on the historians will do well to read the self-conviction which Professor Slossen offers to the public. The matter might be humorous were it not that it has indeed a serious bearing upon the future of world peace. Europe and America still are disrupted by prejudices which have hung over from the wai period.' The great scholars everywhere have blasted away the foundations of these biases and hatreds. But the children are at the mercy of their pedagogy who. as Professor “Babcock” well says, still stand pat” on the “story for babes.” How can we give the students of history’ thioughout the country the light which will enable them to And their way to a clear understanding of world politics in the twentieth century if their leaders are determined to remain blind to the facts? Nothing could be more symptomatic of the situation than the fact that the noble author of the Mercury article felt it quite unsafe to write under his own name—and he was lamentably correct In this conviction.

The Naval Reduction Mandate The President wanted an expression of public opinion on the London naval conference. He has it. Th appeal of 1.200 prominent men and women hroughout the country—Governors, college presidents, business men. ministers, judges—and of twenty national organizations is typical of public opinion, so far as the people's will can be ascertained. The same appeal in essence has been made by the majority of the press. It is a simple appeal. It merely asks our delegation at London to stand by the official American policy of naval reduction as pronounced and pledged by President Hoover. It gives the President the heartening assurance that the American people are backing him in that reduction policy. It says: • “We base our expectations upon President Hoover’s armistice day speech, in which he declared, ‘We will reduce our naval strength in proportion to any other. Having said that, it only remains for the others to say how low they will go. It can not be too low for us. ’.Ve protest against any possibility that this policy of reduction may be abandoned . . . “We pledge to the President and American delegation our active and continued support for the conclusion of such agreements as embody the principles of reduct'on and conference and at the same time meet the justly aroused expectations of the entire world. "We can not impress too strongly upon the American delegation the calamitous effect which the failure of the London conference to achieve these principles would have upon American opinion.'’ In addition to the President's pledges, the appeal ites the Kellogg pact in which all the powers at London have agreed "to renounce war in favor of settling isputes by peaceful means.’’ Finally The appeal urges the importance "of mkmg teps at the London conference to utilize the principle >f Joint conference in the case of dispute which otherwise might lead to war.” The importance of this appeal is not that it raises my new issues or that it throws new light upon the London impasse. The same things have been said repeatedly by individuals, groups and newspapers in the United States, and by American correspondents and bservers at the conference. The significance of this appeal is in showing that he responsible and representative leaders of the cuntry are alive to the danger that the London conerence will force wholesale naval increases instead of reductions, and that the United States will be loaded with a billion-dollar naval building program. Furthermore, all observers there agree that a fiveower reduction treaty of any kind is virtually im06sible unless the United States signs a political eaty similar to our 1922 Pacific pact, agreeing merely 3 confer with the other powers if war ever threatens. But the American delegation nas rejected both the 'ritisii proposal for battleship reduction and the ;-Y*nch proposal for a consultation pact. Therein is the danger which has called forth the appeal of the 1.200 for a return to the Hoover policy.

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William Philip Simms, correspondent of this newspaper in London, describes the crisis as it exists: Unless President Hoover gives the cue, the American delegation may remain fatally cautious. Needless timidity here may cost the American taxpayers hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars to build and maintain new warships.” Grundy’s Strange Effrontery When Joseph Grundy was named senator from Pennsylvania, there were those professing to believe iiiS changed status might be in the public interest, even though they condemned the appointment. It might, they fondly thought, put an end to the hidden lobby which he had headed on behalf of a selfish and sectional tariff bill. Things that had been done darkly might be done ■ii the open, perhaps, and Grundy as senator would be a less dangerous person than Grundy as lobbyist. These hopes rose when the Pennsylvania manufacturer refrained from voting on wool, because of a personal interest in that commodity. His restraint was regarded as a sign of reformation and responsibility. Nobody dreamed Grundy would have the temerity to make his expensive and elaborate lobby a part of tne machinery of the senate itself. Nobody dreamed that he simply would transfer his activities and his aids, including their files, from a downtown building at Washington to a room in the senate office building itself. Nobody dreamed he would continue the same old business in a more pernicious way. Yet that, in effect. Is what he has done. The evidence before the senate iobby committee is unmistakable. Despite his labored explanation that he simply sought to serve his state through the employment of additional help in an extra office, the committee’s disclosures reveal that Grundy the senator and Grundy the lobbyist are one and the same man. The only difference is that Grundy’s power for influencing legislation has grown. His lobby operates more effectively because it is nearer the legislative scene; indeed, it is a part of it.

His headquarters now are being paid for out of public funds. Under the cover of his senatorial, cloak, he hides activities once condemned even by friendly colleagues. In the face of this damning fact, the lobbyist-senator’s “ifs” and “buts” are of no avail. "I needed additional help,” pleaded Grundy in explaining his employment of Warren F. Doane, who for years has been the key man in the various organizations which comprised the old Grundy lobby. For what? Grundy has made no senate speeches; he has taken no open part in the tariff debate. Insofar as any noticeable activity is concerned, the official allowance for clerks ivould have been more than enough, it seems. We do not believe that the senate will tolerate such mockery of our legislative processes. It should drive Grundy’s lobby out. To insure against a repetition, it should censure the senator or group of senators who permitted it to be established on Capitol Hill. *

Never cross your bridge partners unless you’re carrying a revolver. Prohibition talk, in the end, becomes either verydry or all wet. All of those delegates to the naval parley arrived in London all right, but some of them are still at sea. A jury consumed a dozen bottles of beer which a man was charged w r ith brewing. He was probably dismissed because of insufficient evidence. A writer says there is a great danger of women's athletics becoming too closely imitative of men’s. We have noticed quite a few of the ladies have become apt in the hammer-throw. New York police have been asked to contribute literary articles to a police magazine. We recommend the traffic cop as having the most experience in the fiction field.

REASON By

AS we had the honor to predict they would do the farmers of Russia have told Joseph Stalin, who now plays all the Instruments in the Soviet band, where to head in and he has headed in by telling his political subordinates to let the farmers do as they please. The gentleman who rules with an iron hand usually has a very soft fist if somebody has nerve enough to take off the iron glove. BBS Stalin should have known that the farmer is incurably independent and that the only way to conquer him is to station an overwhelming guard at every farm. It was the farmer of northern Europe who defied Caesar and finally conquered Rome. B B B There's something about the occupation which makes a man resent suggestion. In fact, this self reliance often operates to the farmer's detriment, as it has in the United States, where he is reluctant to consent to organize to meet the competition of an organized world. a a a BUT while the Russian farmer is defying his government which seeks to hurt him. the American farmer should co-operate with his government, which seeks to help him. Every farmer in the United States should join hands with the Federal Farm board and test to the limit the possibility of obtaining relief from the marketing plan, then if that won’t do the work, the farmer can with justice ask for something else. aan But if, on the other hand, the farmer should refuse to co-operate with the Federal Farm board after the government has set up this elaborate machinery and appropriated half a billion dollars to give it a trial, then he would be in a bad position, should he later seek assistance from Washington. Give the marketing plan a fair trial. a■ a a WHILE she is in the abolishing business. Russia has abolished the private practice law, which doubtless will appeal to the people, for now they can go to a public lawyer and get advice for nothing and this constitutes high life in the opinion of millions of people in all countries, including our own. Young lawyers in particular, are beseiged by those who desire curbstone opinions for nothing. a a a If we could aDolish private practice in criminal ases it would solve the crime problem, for if the attorney for the defendant, like the prosecuting attorney. got \nothing out of it, except a stipulated small sum, the '•monkey business which now defeats justice would end'And criminals would face the music.

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This Generation Will Remember Mr. Taft as One of Those Poised, Genial Souls Above Being Warped by Power. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT passed out slowly, and after having retired in such way as to leave plenty of time to prepare us for the event. For the last month, we have been reading his praises and biography. Nothing remains to be said. Seldom has this nation paid such unanimous tribute to a public man. It represented a fitting climax to his career. n u ff This generation will remember Taft as a man, rather than as a figure. To us, he is one of those poised, genial souls above being warped by power. But in the end, history will do to him what it does to most every one who challenges its attention—paint out the intimate details of personality, and fill in the space w'ith a bleak, angular outline. History emphasizes those peculiar traits by which men climb to preeminence. That is one reason why they do not appear human, and why future generations come to regard them as either Gods or devils. a b u Life Gets Systematic I JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES celebrates his 89th birthday as former Chief Justice Taft and Justice Sanford die. Taft was 72 and Sanford 64. If, as he left the breakfast table last Saturday morning, someone had told Justice Sanford that Taft would outlive him by five hours, the chances are that he would have been very much surprised. Justice Holmes received three bullet wounds before he was 23 one in the breast at Balls Bluff, one through the neck at Antietam and one through the foot at Maryes Heights. All of which suggest that while actuarial statistics may prove something with regard to the crowd, they are not worth much when it comes to the individual.

Having paused a moment out of respect to Taft and Sanford, we turn hastily to get in step with the factory whistle, the schedule, and the time clock. Life has become systematic, if you please—so many minutes for the funeral processibn to pass, for the child to be born, and for the wedding ceremony to be mumbled. When the green light flashes, we must start.—hearse, ambulance and gocart, along with the rest. Though the flags remain at half staff for thirty days, traffic must move as usual, and not only traffic, but the presses, broadcasting stations, dry raids. Communist hunts, and run of the mill events. tt tt tt Dr, Cook Is Free DR. COOK leaves prison to start life over again at 65. not as a free man, but obliged to make monthly reports where he is, what he is doing, and how much he is earning for several years. It is said that he will try to convince people that he really discovered the north pole, which seems to be a rather hopeless task, though not necessarily unprofitable, if he gets the right publisher and press agent.

Once more, France is too logical for comfort. France takes the position that naval cuts are unjustified without specific guarantees of security; in other words, that before a government scraps its navy, it should be promised a certain degree of cooperation in case of attack. Certain statesmen can’t see it that way, their idea is that outlawing war by guarantees all that is necessary. What they want is w r orid peace, without any obligations on our part to maintain it. it v n Politics Is Handicap MEANWHILE, the naval conference seems to be playing a big part in the domestic politics of all five governments concerned. If it fails, the MacDonald ministry is likely to fall in England, while more or less trouble is indicated in France. Even the Hoover administration would suffer something of a setback. Domestic politics is, and always has been, the greatest handicap of international negotiations. The party out of power never can be whole-heartedly in favor of their success, because it would help the party in power. No matter how desirable an international arrangement may be, or how strongly it appeals to the public in general, it invariably becomes a target of criticism for those political leaders who are out, and who want to get in.

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LINCOLN'S DRAFT CALL ON March 10, 1864. President Lincoln ordered a draft for 500.000 men for three years’ service or the duration of the Civil war. Under provisions of the enrollment act. which congress passed the year before, the President was authorized to call into active service quotas from each state of the Union. This act contained a clause popularly known as “The Rich Man’s Exemption,” under which any person drafted might furnish an acceptable substitute or pay a sum not to exceed S3OO for the procuring of such a substitute. A person failing to comply with these regulations could be arrested as a deserter. While many ;ommunities opposed the law, its enforcement in the city of New York duirng July, 1863, culminated in the notorious draft riots which resulted in great loss of life and destruction of property. The riots lasted four days and martial law was required to restore order.

Another Chance to Add to His Lani'els!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Ice Pick Is Peril in the Home

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. A LARGE proportion of the serious accidents that occur to human beings take place in the home. Mark Twain emphasized the fact that more people die in bed than any place else. Around the home people catch their fingers in doors, bang their eyes into all sorts of fixtures, fall off stepladders and down steps, become asphyxiated by leaking gas fixtures, and cut themselves on all sorts of kitchen appliances. Around a home a man can’t be too careful. Robert Northrup of the bureau of industrial hygiene of the New York state department of labor recently has commented on the deadly ice

IT SEEMS TO ME ™“

OF course. I have my prejudices, but it seems to me that the first day of the drys before the house judiciary committee was not impressive. For one thing, there was a lack of teamwork. Samuel Crowther, the magazine writer, opined that “the amount spent by a moderate steady drinker in the old days will buy an auto on the installment plan.” And just a few minutes later, the Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poling, president of the Christian Endeavor Society, was denying the corruption of youth under Volsteadism, and insisting that the most potent cause of juvenile delinquency was the auto. Seemingly, if the gin doesn’t get them, the rumble seat must. But the strangest part of the dry drive was its general unconcern with moral factors. Once upon a time it was held that prohibition was an ethical concept. We were even told that it was an experiment, “noble in motive.”

That argument has by now been largely abandoned. For instance, Crowther, the opening big gun for the Volsteaders, said frankly that he was not interested in any moral or legal phase of the prohibition problem. He offered the country golden pottage garnished with greenbacks. a u b The Dollar THE wets had talked in terms of human rights and liberties, but Crowther was more concerned with ice boxes. Washing machines are to 1 compensate us for the loss of trial by jury. Indeed, his whole picture of highspeed production and silk-shirted workers sounded very like the vision which was dangled before us in the days when some few’ argued that it was wrong for us to support the war by the export of munitions. Then, too. the defenders of the dollar über alles took us into the high places and promised the kingdoms of the world. Crowther was not unaware of the fact that almost everything he said in defense of prohibition prosperity could be maintained in the case of war prosperity, But he tried to extricate himself from that difficulty with the statement, “The idea that we got profits from the war is non- , sense.” This. I think, may serve as the complete characterizer of Crowther’s competence as an economist. B B B The Crash IT would have been interesting if Fiorello H. La Guardia or Emanuel Celler had questioned the witness a little more closely on the timeliness of his testimony. The series of articles that appeared in the Ladies’ Home Journal must have been assembled a good many months ago. It is a reasonable inference that the various signs of affluence noted by Crowther were gathered during a boom period which has passed.

pick. This, he insists, is one of the poorest constructed and assembled hand tools on the market. In 1928, he says, thirty-two accidents with ice picks occurred in New York state for which it was necessary to pay compensation. In most cases the accident occurs as follows: The person who is using the ice pick to break ice finds that the shaft slips out of the handle and the blunt end of the steel goes right through the palm of the hand. In cheap ice picks the shaft merely is forced into an undersized drilled hole in the handle. The point of the ice pick sticks in the ice and as the handle is not firmly fixed it promptly pulls out. When a hand is punctured by an ice pick the wound usually is infected. Such injury should be

Certainly any one of the millions of unemployed would be a little vexed to hear Crowther on prohibition prosperity, and any exworker might well ask, “What prosperity?” And for that matter, it would not be out of order to inquire, “What prohibition?” Crowther may be a good economist, but that hardly holds true for his friends. Among other things, h stated that a gallon of alcohol now costs SSO, and when asked his authority he replied that this estimate was based on information he had gathered from certain unreconstructed friends. Crowther can sell that particular sucker list to a lot of bootleggers for a huge sum of money. man Dr. Poling r\R. POLING pulled one old one that lies always seemed to me unfair. In reply to the charge that there is more drinking among young people than ever before, the doctor exclaimed, dramatically: “Let us stop slandering our sons and daughters! America’s youth are as intrinsically sound and generally worthy as youth have ever been.” Well, parson, to the best of my knowledge, nobody is differing with you. People w r ho feel that the hip flask is more with the young than

j frilotoship of | 7 Dailtj \ / lenten Devotion \ Monday, March 10 MEETING LIFE’S DEMANDS Read Micah 6:6-8 Memory Verses: “What doth the Lord require of thee but ” (Micah 6:8). MEDITATION Every person must complete this sentence for himself. The index of one’s moral nature is the way in which he does so. This is life’s final examination in spiritual insight. With the decay of outward authority many have jumped to the conclusion that there is no authority. Right and wrong is a matter of “As you like it.” There is nothing required. But those who have adopted this view do not seem to be a very happy lot. Moral requirements are the laws by which one lays his course. PRAYER Teach us thy laws, O Lord. Inform us of thy ways. Make the path of duty clear to us and give us the heart to pursue it. Out of the difficulties of the day, may we feel the joy of having done that which thou hast required of us. In the strength of Christ our Lord we ask it. Amen.

cleansed and treated promptly w’ith an antiseptic, such as tincture of iodine or mercurochroine. An infection ot the palm of the hand is difficult to control and may produce permanent crippling. Because of its manner of construction the ice pick is an unbalanced instrument. Not infrequently children get punctured wounds of the face or eye when the point of the ice pick rebounds. In a properly made ice pick the handle is cast on to the shaft and the end of the shaft is deeply scored within the cast iron head. The handle can not come off and the drive on the head forces the point into the ice. All sharp instruments use in the home should have a permanent place safe from children, and always should be kept in that place when not actually in use.

Ideals and opinions expressed :n this column are those of ane of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the edfiorla! attitude o< this paper.—The Editor.

ever before are not inclined to blame it on the inherent depravity of boys and girls. We say it’s a good generation and a bad law, and that any spirited group will always meet a frivolous and a hypocritical “shalt not” with rebellion. Generally, I am puzzled as to the sources which investigators tap in their search for information. Thus. Dr. Poling attempted to settle the question of drinking by undergraduates with the statement that he had telegraphed to sixty-two college presidents, and that out of his twenty-six replies, only four had admitted that such a condition existed. It seems to me that one of the last persons likely to have a close and Intimate knowledge of student alcoholic activities would be the president. Least of all was I Impressed with the testimony of Edward Keating editor of Labor, who seemed content to rest his Volstead adherence on the fact that the modificationists could not muster, even 100 votes in the house. Since when has any American considered it a reproach to be a member of a sincere and honest minority? (Copvrifjht. 1930, by The Times)

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—There are two phases of blindness, loss of sight, and blindness of mind. The loss of sight is nothing compared with treatment given the sightless from blindness of mind. There are thousands of sightless people in the world. I will endeavor to explain things we suffer because of blindness of mind. The people as a whole are blind to conditions governing the sightless. That is why I used the expression “blindness of mind.” There are organizations in this country, in the eyes of the public, working for the blind, but in reality they are working against us. They use the blind and crippled to gather thousands of dollars each year. These organizations have police departments of different cities to stop blind persons from selling or playing music in the street, saying there are homes for them to go. There are no such places except in Chicago and New York, and these are operated like penal institutions. Would you like to spend the rest of your life in an institution of this kind? You would not, nor would any self-respecting blind man or woman like to do so. If a blind person is stopped from selling or playing music in streets, police send him to some charity organization for help. If you live in the community, they send you to the township trustee. If you are a stranger, they tell you to get out of town. What are theblffid

MARCH W, 1030

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Book About the Moon Is Written in Stylo of Pare Charm. With Whimsical Humor. THOSE who would iike to read a book about the moon between now and the April eclipses will find the revised edition of "The Story of the Moon” (recently published by D. Appleton & Cos.) an excellent one. The original book was a great favorite. Garrett P. Serviss, the author, finished the revision shortly before his death. A charming feature of the book is the superb series of photographs which illustrate it. These photos, twenty-seven in number, were taken at the Yerkes observatory’ and show how the moon appears in a telescope as it progresses from the thin crescent alter new moon to full moon and back again to new moon. They also include “closeups" of some of the more interesting craters on the moon. In addition, there is a map of the moon with a chart which will enable the reader to identify the more prominent features of the moon's surface for himself. There also are many diagrams in the text. The style in which the book is written will seem, perhaps, a bit old-fashioned. The book is cast in the form of a conversation between the author and a friend whom the author identifies as a “lady of charming intelligence.”

Serene BUT for this reviewer, at any rate, the style of the book adds I greatly to its charm, j The moon, long celebrated by I poets for its beauty and serenity, is a subject to be studied in a serene mood. And who will complain of a “lady of charming intelligence” as a companion in the study of the moon? In this modern rushing world of autos and airplanes, we need to recapture the calm spirit of past generations. For one learns more about the countryside in a mile walk than In a fifty-mile auto ride. And. one can learn more about the universe and incidentally his own soul in an hour’s study of the moon from the vantage point of one's owti back yard. In his book. Serviss, who always wrote in a clear and charming style, takes up many important questions concerning the moon—the probable origin of the moon, theories as to formation of the craters, the reason for the moon’s lack of atmosphere, the cause of eclipses, and so on. The greater part of the book, however, is devoted to describing the lunar features which come pro-. gressively into view as the moon proceeds from new to full. These features are studied easily by any one who possesses a pair of prism binoculars or field glasses. It is even surprising how much detail can oe seen on the moon with a pair of ordinary opera glasses. The reader who has never studied the moon through a pair of opera glasses has a most pleasant surprise awaiting him.

Maiden A PASSAGE from the book will tv give an indication of Serviss’ style. He has called the attention of his companion to the fact that many have fancied the outline of a girl’s head in the features of the moon. The book continues: “Really. I find her quite charming,” said my companion, after gazing for a minute through the opera glasses. “But what a coquet! Look at the magnificent jewel she wears at her throat, and the parure of pearls that binds her hair!” “Yes,” I replied, “and no terrestrial coquet ever wore gems so unpurchasable as those with which the Moon Maiden has decked herself. That flaming jewel on her breast is a volcano, with a crater fifty miles across! Tycho, astronomers call it. Observe with the glass how broad rays shoot out from it In all directions. They are among the greatest mysteries of lunar scenery. And the string of brilliants in her hair consists of a chain of mountains greater than the Alps-rthe lunar Apennines. They extend more than 450 miles, and have peaks 20.000 feet high, which gleam like polished facets.” “Truly,” said my companion, smiling, “these gigantesque facts of yours rather tend to dissipate the romantic impression that I had conceived of the Moon Maiden.” “No doubt,” I replied. "It is only distance that lends her enchantment. But we must not disregard the facts.”

going to do under these conditions. Compensation laws keep manufacturers from employing the blind. There are workshops for the blind, it is true, but what do they pay? The Indiana rvage scale in workshops varies from $7 to sl3 weekly. Can you live on that? The workshop in Indiana is maintained in Indianapolis, and its overseer is paid $2,000 yearly. Is there justice in that? Also, one must be a graduate of the state school for the bund before receiving employment there. There are approximately five thousand blind in the state, and the shop employes about one hundred. The average blind person does not think the world owes him a living, but that there is a living somewhere for him if he is permitted to earn it. The blind are not asking for sympathy: they ask for a chance to earn a livelihood. CLARENCE BARNARD, Terre Haute.

Daily Thought

And I will bless them that bless thee, and rurse him that thee: and in thee shall all ilies of the earth be blessed— Genes-'s 12:3. a a a We mistake the gratuitous blessings ot haven for the fruits of ou*| own Industry.-i’