Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Page 4

By MAJOR GENERAL WOOD,

( A PLAN 1 would suggest to accomplish the double good of*enlargiiig the reserve army and relieving the cities of the burden of unemployment would be the establishment of suburban camps placed near the cities, where any man WHO IS OUT OF WORK COULD APPLY AND, ON BEING ADMITTED, RECEIVE THREE MONTHS OF MILITARY TRAINING, HIS BOARD, LODGING IAND UNIFORM AND SIX DOLLARS A MONTH BESIDES. I do not refer necessarily to those who are too lazy and inefficient to work, but to the thousands of men who are ready and willing to do wh it®ver they can. They have become one of the great municipal problems, and if every little town in the country, to say nothing of the cities, would mobilize its unemployed we would have an army of more than one million men, in addition to the reservists we already have. Three months under military supervision would give these men health, morale, knowledge of how to take care of themselves and self respect, so at the end of that time they would be three times as capable of finding a position and of holding it as they were before. « H M TO SAY NOTHING OF THE MILITARY VALUE TO THE COUNTRY DERIVED FROM SUCH A LARGE NUMBER OF RESERVISTS, THE ADTHE CITIES OF ORGANIZING AND EQUIPPING THESE MEN WOULD BE ALMOST TOO GREAT TO BE MEASURED.

Japan Looks to America For Capital and Labor Saving Machinery

By GISAKU TAKIKAWA,

TRADE between the United States and Japan has been increasing gradually in volume, and this increase has gone on during the war. Except for the matter of transportation facilities, there is no reason why it should not continue to,grow. It is the desire of most Japanese that the United States and Japan stand together not only in China. I. everywhere. The feeling of our people for Americans is of the best, ami the European war has served to strengthen it. IN JAPAN WE WAXIT AMERICAN GOODS. WE HAVE BEEN USING YOUR AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND YOUR OIL. NOW WE WANT YOUR .MACHINERY AND YOUR AUTOMOBILES. Japan is getting beyond handwork in many lines. We must put in machinery. Much of the machinery we have is practically obsolete as compared with what you use over here. On the other hand, we make a great many things that America might be using, such as hand woven silk stuffs. For these we can supply materials of the highest workmanship. Japan now makes practically anything that is made in Europe. We are now anxious for American money.to find its way to Japan in the way of investments. There are excellent opportunities for the investment of American capital. ■ WE HAVE ANY AMOUNT OF LABOR. IF WE CAN GET AMERICAN MONEY AND AMERICAN MACHINERY WE CAN MAKE A HANDSOME PROFIT FOR OURSELVES AND FOR THE INVESTORS.

Automobiles and Moving Pictures Tend to Broaden Life

By Dr. CHARLES F. THWING,

THE automobile ahfi -the moving picture, two of the newest material forces in American life, so unlike in themselves, are yet having a similartv tremendous effect on American character. THEY LESSEN PROVINCIALISM AND LOCALISM IN KNOWLEDGE. PEELING AND APPRECIATION. THEY HELP TO MAKE A LARGE CITIZENSHIP. These are good results, but there are also possible dangers. We mint Fee to it that sensation and sentiment do not kill thought. In other words, that insight is not partially sacrificed to sight. Our fathers saw little; they thought much. They did not go out unto all the world; neither did all the world come in unto them. They .were not the creatures of sensations, but their feelings ran deep. The pendulum ever swings between the material and the spiritual; between the outer sense and the inner feeling. But at the present moment there is a peril that these two new universal forces are making the people too dependent on the visible and the tangible. THEY HAVE ADDED INESTIMABLY TO THE ENJOYMENT OF THE MANY, AND THEY HAVE BOTH BROADENED LIFE, BUT THEY MUST NOT WEAN US FROM THE FUNDAMENTAL THINGS.

Education of the Will Prime Essential In School Training

By SILAS EVANS,

THE great bane of all secondary school training is the multiplicity of subjects and the painlessness of methods. We need more tonic of astringency for the brain. The psychology of interest has been overworked. THE EDUCATION OF THE WILL IS THE PRIME ESSENTIAL. I WOULD HAVE THE HIGH SCHOOL TAKE FEWER STUDIES AND COMPEL THOROUGHNESS. The social life is too precocious also. There is too much of the moving picture and tango mind connected with education. In point of studies pursued, I believe, this is entirely secondary to the point of the pursuit of study. It has been fairly well demonstrated that it makes very little difference in the first stages of education what one studies if he only study it thoroughly and scientifically. BY ALL THIS I DO NOT MEAN TO ENCOURAGE MENTAL STRAIN OR THE EARLY STRENUOUS LIFE. THERE SHOULD BE WHOLESOME 1 FUN AND PLENTY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION. • Ido not approve of military training in any of its forms. There is an clement of artificiality in it, and it is a very poor substitute for game*.

Military Training of the Unemployed Would Create Large Reserve Army

Vice President of the Kobe Chamber

of Commerce

United States Army

President Western Reserve University

President Ripon College

IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Ralph de Palma, Driver of Racing Motorcars.

Ralph de Palma, one of the most daring and at the same time one of the most careful drivers of racing motorcars, is a native of Itali. Coming to America when he was a young man, he worked for a time as a barber and then became a bicycle racer\jle graduated to the motorcycle and a few years ago took up auto racing. H,e soon showed his skill in handling racing cars by holding all records for from one to twenty-five miles. lie has twice won the Vanderbilt cup race and last spring defeated Dario Hesta In the 500 mile race at Indianapolis. When these tw’o were entered in the race for the Astor cup, the event scheduled to open the new Slieepshead Bay speedway at New York, a hard fought contest was assured, as the rivalry between them is keen. To Bar Trick Plays. President Tenor has announced that the moss covered trick plays will be barred from the. National league after this season. 'Tener intends putting through a set of rules during the winter that will prevent Miller Huggins and other tricksters from winning ball games by causing one of the opi>osition to pull a “bone.” One of the tilings that influenced the big chief of the National against trickery was Huggins’ little stunt, played on Appleton, the Brooklyn pitcher. The Cards had two men on bases, Huggins was on the coaching line for his team, and Appleton was pitching. Just as Appleton was about to wind up for a pitch Huggins yelled: “Hey, throw that ball here: throw it here. I say!” Appleton looked at Huggins, figured that Huggins thought he was using an import e<t ball or had been sandpapering it. and then pirew it toward Huggins. Tlie Card leader dodged the throw, the ball went to the grandstand, and before it was recovered the Cardinal runners had scored, and the Cards won the game.

Clarke’s Good Record. Fred Clarke, who has resigned as manager of the Pittsburgh Nationals after nearly sixteen years as the pilot of that club, stands unique among the baseball managers of the time. His years of,service for one club exceed those of any manager In major league basebill 1, and he has seen many men of note come and go as rival managers. j When Clarke went to Louisville back \ lu 1894 he cost Barney Dreyfuss only i SSOO. He has been remarkable for his years of service as one of the great players of his time as well as a most efficient manager. In fifteen years as manager of the Pirates he has never had them finish in the second division, and his general average has been bet- 1 Ter than third. He has won four Na- ' tional league pennants and one world's championship. For Fair Swimming. Tire new swimming code just drafted by the aquatic committee of the Collegiate Athletic associations contains an admirably devised ■ rule to avoid fouls in dual meets. It prescribes the division of the pool into ; two lanes by stretching a rope length-J wise through the middle and the starting of the representatives of opposing teams in separate lines, a simple expedient, yet warranted to completely do away with the protests and discussions so often chronicled in the past. Hereafter with the rival candidates on either side of the barrier, crooked swimming can only work against the offender or a teammate, as it'should. Remarkable Chess Record. James McConnell, Jr., of New Orleans, made a remarkable record in the championship tournament of the Louisiana State Chess association, which he won without losing or drawing a single game of the sixteen he was required to play. There were seventeen entries. Judge L. L. Labatt of New Orleans was the second prize winner, with a score of 13% to 2%. Yale Men Expert Golfers. Yale sets the standard for Intercolleghie golf. In eleven years the Ells have won the team title except once, and then Princeton won the championship. That was last year.

A Romance of Flowers

But There Was Much In It That Was Practical

By EUNICE BLAKE

Mary Blackmore bad the misfortune to lose her parents when she was sixteen years old and was left with no support. A Mrs. Ashurst, an old friend of her mother, was the only person upon w'hom Mary could rely for advice. This lady had her own peculiar notions. She regretted the necessity for women to earn their own living, assigning as a cause the gradual segregation of the sexes. Reaching down below this, she found a prime cause in the increased expense of providing for a family which threw men Into clubs, where they spent their incomes instead of on homes. This in turn gave rise to women’s clubs, and the separation was complete. Among the poorer classes the result was dependent directly on the high cost of living. Such was the basis of Mrs. Ashurst’s views. Though acknowledging that if men would not support wives women must support themselves, she deprecated the situation. When Mary asked her to help her to get work the good lady let out a storm of reproach upon men for spending their lives frittering away their incomes Instead of choosing various good girls who would be helpmeets to them and enabling them to concentrate the flow of loose change constantly dripping from bachelors’ pockets into family savings banks. “But,” she added, “I admit that there is a risk in any man’s doing so. There’s not a family of my acquaintance that is not spending every dollar of its income, if not more, in trying to keep a position among people who care nothing for them.”

Having thus delivered herself, Mrs. Ashurst concentrated her words on the individual case of the applicant. “I’ve know’n you since you were a child* Mary,” she said, “and I’m sure you would make a good wife for some young fellow’ who is beginning life as you are. At the end of ten years he and you would be better off than either of you would be separate. I won't try to get you a position, for J don’t approve of that plan for you. But I'll

“SUCH A DEAR, GOOD MOTHER MUST HAVE A DEAR, GOOD SON.”

try to find you a husband. Come and make me a visit for an indefinite time, and we will see what can be done.” Mary would have declined this proposition, but she had not a cent in the world, not a roof over her head nor a mouthful of food to put into her stomach. She therefore agreed to the first part of the proposition, trusting that something might turn up for her. She made herself as helpful as possible to her benefactor, but there was not much that she could do. Mary had been with Mrs. Ashurst two months when the lady came to her one morning and gave her a letter to read. It was from a, young man twenty-two years old, who had rented a house with some grounds about it near the v clty of San Francisco with a view to the cultivation of flowers in a small way for the market. He had been well brought up among associates of the better class. Among strangers he found himself looked upon as a sort of huckster and formed no acquaintances among persons such as he had known at home. He needed an assistant —a woman who would relieve him of much of the care of his plants—and it had occurred to him that a wife, if she were the right sort of person, would be more serviceable to him than any one else. Did not Mrs. Ashurst know of some young woman who had been well brought up, but whose necessities compelled her to begin on the lowest rung of the ladder, that would consider an offer? “Now, that's what I call a practical way to begin life,” said Mrs. Ashurst. “I’ve always been devoted to flow-

era,” said Mary, her eyes brightening rather at the work than at the husband. “Just the thing for you. I have written the young man that I have exactly what he wants. But I’m afraid you’ll have to take a leap in the dark. He can’t afford to come across the continent to court a girl and go back again, possibly, without her.” “Ob, dear!” exclaimed Mary, catching her breath. “I would rather select a husband for my daughter than have her select one for herself. I mean by that that the average girl would have a better chance for happiness in her parents’ selection than in her own—that is, if the intrinsic worth of the man is made the chief consideration.” “Do you really think so?” “I do.” “The only romance I see in this matter,” said the poor girl thoughtfully, “is the flowers.” Mrs. Ashurst, who could not repress a smile at this 'rueful remark, gave Mary a kiss. “I have known this young man from boyhood and have always had great faith in him. I can heartily recommend you to him.” “If I go out to him of course I must marry him. But suppose he doesn’t like me?” “Oh, you can’t tell about that till after you have been married for some time. If you find out after awhile that you don’t like each other you can easily get a divorce. Divorces are as common as marriages nowadays, and since the chief consideration in life is keeping up a show of respectability it is a winder there are not more of them.” The lady spoke this contemptuously. “Can’t I see a photograph of him?” “No, my dear. There is a reason why you cannot, which will appear later. Besides, it would do no good. If you find his appearance repulsive to you—which you will not—and conclude not to marry him you’ll be no worse off than you are now. Indeed, you’ll be better off. In a country where your antecedents are not know’n you will not be ashamed to do anything for a living that is necessary. You can be a chambermaid in a hotel, a waitress in a restaurant, a shopgirl, a nurse”— “I’ll be none of these; I’ll marry your friend if he is an ogre.” “Spoken like a brave girl. Then, too,” with a smile, “think of the flowers.” jfl shall have the flowers. That will be delicious, anyway.” “Yes; you will have the flowers. And remember that while a romance will fade forever the flowers continue in endless succession.” And the good lady kissed her again.

It w’as the last day of Mary Blackmore’s journey to San Francisco. During the morning a young man sitting near her offered her a book to read, and later the two fell into conversation. Mary’s meager account of the reasons for her having come to California apparently excited the young man's curiosity so far that he took pains to get the story. Indeed, she longed for some one to tell it to in order that she might get sympathy. “Singular,” he remarked; "my mother has the same views concerning me that this lady has for you.” “And are you willing?” asked Mary. “I am tempted in the matter on account of my situation. I am a stranger in a strange land. I lived in the east, graduated at an eastern college and came to California to seek' my fortune. I live by myself without the city, have no means of making social acquaintances such as I have been accustomed to mingle with and am lonely.” “Would you, if your mother should find a mate for you, marry her without a courtship?” “I think I would prefer at least to meet her before marriage, but those more experienced than I tell me that a courtship is a continued effort on the part of two persons each to make the other believe he or she is perfection, with the advantage on the side of the woman, who is more adept than the man in appearing at her best.” Mary remained thoughtful after this. She felt that if her proposed mate was not repulsive to her at their first meeting she would suffer herself to be guided by Mrs. Ashurst’s view’s, marry him and hope for the best. “We have,” said the young man when the train w’as but a few miles from the terminal, “but a short time for an explanation that 1 have to make to you. Read that.” He handed her a letter addressed to her in the well known writing of Mrs. Ashurst. It read: This will be handed you by my son, Hejiry, whom you are going to meet. What is for your good is also for his. May you be happy together. Mary looked up from the letter to the face of Harry Ashurst, which beamed with satisfaction. Neither spoke for a few moments. Harry bent down and kissed his betrothed. The first words w r ere spoken by Mary: “Such a dear, good mother must have a dear, good son." Henry Ashurst, graduate of the Agricultural college, aided by the knowledge gained there of cultivating plants and his wdfe's love for flowers, did not remain long in the business of a general flower supply. With capital acquired in that way he established a rose house and every year adds a new glass conservatory to those he already has. His roses go in large quantities to the city, where they are sold at a good profit. But young Mrs. Ashurst instead of taking up society has taken up a specialty. She interests herself in procuring homes for young girls. When they ask her if there was no romance In her marriage she says thoughtfully: “Well, there were the flow’ers; we have the romance now.”

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