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PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1910.
'JL dog brought up bu a gentleman behaves
like a gentleman.
Out to Win
r
rV IS posslblo that the Convention Hall
would bo In coutao of construction now
If tho business interests of the city had
boon ablo to agree on a site. They carried
their fight to Councils, which always knows
bow to kcop pn tho fenco.
The project, howovor, Is purely a business
one. It Is not political. Tho rejuvenated
Chamber of Commcrco has a definite pur
pose. It Is largo enough and powerful
enough to speak for the city as a whole.
It is not likely that Councils will veto any
specific recommendation it has to make. Tho
essential thing now Is the selection of a
site and tho co-ordination of public opinion
In favor of that site. To this end, tho
earlier a decision can be made by tho Cham
ber of Commerco tho hotter it will bo.
The city has entered tho fight for tho Re
publican Convention definitely and without
equivocation. This means that it must bo
a light worth while, a fight worthy of tho
city, a fight to win. Wo must have ' our
own houso In order. Got the Convention
Hall and tho convention will meet In It.
France, the Efficient Republic
ENGLAND'S muddling has not encouraged
H. G. Wells. "If tho present Govern
ments of Great Britain and the United
States," ho says, "aro the best sort of gov
ernments that democracy can produce, then
democracy Is bound. If not this tVne, thon
next time or the time after, to bo completely
overcome and superseded by some form of
authoritative Stato organization."
An efficient benevolent despotism may be
Th"e "best' form ot government. Tho trouble Is
tho certainty, sooner or later, of too much
despotism and too little benevolence. An in
finite capacity for muddling things Is a dem
ocratic characteristic; but it" is not moro
characteristic than the invariable custom ot
finally "arriving." The genius of a demo
cratic people Is often slow to manifest Itself
In the face of a great national danger, but
when It does exert itself it Is invincible.
Why, for instance, does Mr. Wells pick out
the United, States, which ,is not in the war,
and England? Just across the channel Is
glorious France, more truly republican than
Britain, and France has met the onrush of
the Teutons so splendidly that tho humilia
tion of tho defeats under Napoleon III Is for
Eotten. Indeed, It is France that has saved
Europe in the great crisis.
A Road to Permanent Peace?
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that the
medical faculty of the University devote
Itself to formulating rules by which an Amer
ican race inclined to peace may be bred.
The suggestion Is too brilliant to bo hidden
under anonymity. If the beer and the fight la
to be bred out of the German stock and the
fight and the whisky is to disappear from tho
Scotch, and so on, it must be by some process
of selection such as that by which race
horses are produced. Tho peace-at-any-prlce
people should take this suggestion under
serious consideration. It points to a way
out. The price might be pretty high, but
they profess to be willing to pay it.
Even Dream-Gardens Need Weeding
SAYS William J. Locke: "I could give up
tobacco and alcohol and clean collars and
oervants and everything you could think of
but not dreams. Without them the earth Is
Just a sort of a backyard ot a place; and
with them an Infinite garden."
Without them the earth would always re
main a backyard and peace would never
come to Europe.
The Infinite garden ot dreams needs weed
ing, and among the weeds to be cut down
and cast away are militarism and national
lusts, ot many kinds. Each nation must be
Its own gardener In this work of eradication,
els the (lowers will be destroyed with the
weeds.
Where Responsibility Rests
THERE is only one of the seven separate
and distinct Investigations Into the East
land horror In which the general public la
Interested. That Is the one 'to be conducted
by the Government Steamboat Inspection
Service.
This bureau of the Rational Government la
charged with the responsibility of passing
upon the seaworthiness of vessels and upon
the safeguards provided for the protection of
the passengers and the orew,
The failure of inspection to disclose lndlf
rence to safety was demonstrated when the
General Slooum buraad In New York harbor
a few jwn ago. with UrriWe loss of life.
There wera Ufa prrvww on board, as the
law r4Ulr, but tfey ware made of ground
0fc, held tagrthw by oarowt and iron
aMM- Iron wilt m float, and the poopla
Who Jumped I4 tfef waUr to escape the
SUunm ware wfcpW0,4wi by what ought to
hve held them up, TW the inspector said:
r can't be expected to look at every Hfa
Tha BaU-d was uaterlomtf bmw worthy,
yat Government taafMotor authoriaid the
boat to carry me patatwaxer this yaar, whn
MM a maty it was thought prudent
to tiiiow oi skjjj Ut yr. &? after pet-
EVENING L'BDGErB-PTTJADBlJFErrA WT3DM8DAY,
sehgcrs, the son-in-law of the Inspector was
made chief engineer of? tho boat.
What lo the use of an Inspection bureau
that does hot ihspeet? Are we to be com
pelled to -trust our lives to nteambdats run
by men willing to gamble with death In tho
hope that thoy can continue to win while tho
Government officials make merely a perfunc
tory examination of the safeguards?
The real culprits before the bar are not
only tho owners of tho Eastland, but tho
men In charge of tho Government bureau,
Quit Obstructing;! Help Things Alonj?
THE present direction of tho Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company floated a ship
wreck. It picked up an Inheritance of
plunder and graft, of dirty finance and still
dirtier political methods, poured now money
Into the enterprlso and by cfMcIcnt manago
mont contrived to glvo to the city bettor
facilities than It had over beforo enjoyed.
Tho pooplo of Philadelphia aro not un
mindful of these facts. They do not want to
seo tho P. R. T. embarrassed. Thoy havo
a feeling of sympathetic regard for It. They
aro willing and nnxlous to help It. Thoy have
no captious criticism to offer. Thoy bolleve
in ono great system for tho city, and nro
confident that tho wholo network of transit
should be In tho hands of ono company.
Director Taylor has been emphatic In do-
i
clarlng that capital nlrcady Invested hero
should bo protected. There Is no doslro on
tho part of any responsible persons to do
preclato tho value of tho P. R. T.'s holdings
or to subject tho corporation to grievous
burdens.
What, 'then, Is It that Philadelphia wishes
to do? Why, to build tons of millions of
dollars' worth of subway and elevated lines
and turn them over to tho P. R. T. to oper
ate on terms so liberal that thcro would bo
Httlo difficulty, If any, In securing an Inde
pendent company "to accept tho proposal.
Tho city asks tho company to build no lines.
It proposes to hand over to It an Investment
of millions, to glvo It, practically In per
petuity, a monopoly of transit In tho city.
A fairer proposition was never made. It
may bo doubted If any city was ever so
liberal In Its treatment of an urban railway
corporation.
Yet In tho last year a chango has como
over tho company. It was willing enough
n year ago. It Joined In a tentative agree
ment with Director Taylor. It was ready to
assist In meeting the transit problem of tho
city. Now, strangely enough, it sends a rep
resentative to Harrlsburg to plead, not that
tho new lines aro unnecessary, not that
Philadelphia can do without tho Improve
ments, but that a generation ago, before
subways and olovated lines wero known,
there was somo sort of n law to prevent tho
ruination of beautiful Broad street by plac
ing on It surface tracks. Technicalities,
nothing but technicalities, can tho company
find ns a reason why tho Improvements
should not bo made.
t
That, wo protest, Is not meeting the situa
tion In a broad spirit. It Is not tho kind of
response tho pooplo of Philadelphia havo a
right to expect. It Is not gqod business, it
Is not In sympathy with tho program which
tho company has followed of late years. It
has about It tho taint of earlier proceedings,
when tho manipulation of trolley schemes
was a public scandal.
Tho company Is Ill-advised. It cannot pro
vent rapid transit; It cannot' oven delay
rapid, transit very long. It should bo quick,
therefore, to revlso its attitude, quick to at
tune Itself to the public mind, quick to Join
whole-heartedly In the enterprlso and sup
port it. So only can the best Interests of
the stockholders be served -and of tho mil
lions of citizens who, by the very nature of
things, are vitally Interested In the welfare
of the company.
Von Hindenburg the Boy
THE Kaiser, von Tlrpltz and "Old Fisher"
have acknowledged their debt to an
American writer, Admiral A. T. Mahan. Wo
like them pelthcr moro nor less on that ac
count. But It's another matter when we
learn that von Hlndenburg ns a boy In
school wrote homo to his parents Just be
fore Christmas and asked for Coopef'o
"Pathfinder." It would be disappointing,
even at this late date, to find that he didn't
receive the book.
Why should Becker get another trial? The
victim did not.
'It Is a good thing 'for Germany that the
Russians are not French,
Uncle Sam does not Intend that his notes
should go to protest, yet to protest they go.
The first thing the naval Invention board
will have to do is to Invent a new kind of
Congressman.
The deposits in the Russian savings banks
have increased 1900,000,000 since the sale of
vodka was stopped. Moral?
The Court appointed a receiver for the
city ot Nashvlllo while there was still some
thing left for him to receive.
German prldo Is stung by the last note;
but It was not the Intention of the State
Department to Inflame it further.
Extra tickets for the murder party on tho
Eastland yielded 1316, or 81H cents for each
person. So muph pr human avarice.
in ii, !' f '
Tho Praajdant may Bay no more than
'Tut, tutl". wlwn addressing the ball, but
whep addressing other natlonaTve'i, that Is
apother atory.
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Tho oaptaln of the Eastland estya that
thoy aro trying to make him flw great. .The
record show that there were svor than a
thousand' Jpnoowt sheop.
, r
It la altar that the Oklahoma fire was not
caused by spontaneous combustion. Let us
hop that thero was nothing- but sponta-
naous deviltry behind It. ,
A bailor scheme than paying J16SLJRM,.
H6 tor Belgium might ho to buy tfe Awl
can cotton rop and hold it until a flgokra
Mna ql pc. No fttaeoUon, w Wtjfh x
CHINA IS STARTED
ON THE RIGHT ROAD,
President Yuan Says Order Prevails
and That Traders Will Bo Pro
tected Why Ho Re-established
Confucianism.
By YUAN SHI KAI
Br tpeclal rfanjttment with lh Irldepndeni
President Yuan received William Fran
cf Afnnnte, representative of the Inde
pendentf at 1 o'clock in the tnornlnp at
his private apartments in the Forbidden
Cltt' Itc smoked 'o small cheroot as he
talked, and spoke with pride of the fact
that pipes had been banished, itc then dic
tated his message to the American people.
J HAVE learned from Western newspaper
men that there Is much greater satisfac
tion, when ono has a message to send to a
neighboring nation, In delivering It to the
press tlian there Is In attempting to com
municate it through tho regular mediums ot
tho foreign offices, Would not much mis
understanding between nations be avoided,
war oven be sometimes averted, If one pcoplo
might thus directly speak Its mind to another
pcoplo with which It might havo somo slight
dispute?
It Is true that most nations of the West
publish the reports of their consuls, and this
Is laudnblo from a business point of view.
Such reports unquestionably assist In tho pro
motion of commerco and trade, and thesa
things aro vital to the life and well-being ot
tho world today. But busincsn is not always
friendship often times It lends to tho very
reverse, to war and cruelty and oven the de
struction of nations nnd tho political and
racial disruption of people. How poor China
has suffered becauso of business and tradol
What armies and navies, what men and
money, havo been used to back up tho recom-'
mcndatlons of tho consular and business
agents!
Will Protect Merchants nnd Traders
Do not for a moment think that I am speak
ing as one opposed to tho legitimate reports
mado by such officers. Not at all. Indeed,
It Is quite unnecessary for mo to say that on
behalf of China I welcomo merchants and
traders to all our ports and markots from
tho coast to Tibet, and that thoy not only
will bo given welcomo In the usual senso of
that friendly word, but that thoy will bo
given fullest protection in the prosecution of
all their legitimate enterprises.
No, I do not discourage or belittle tho con
sular reports, but It Is my contention that
they do not go far enough toward tho
cementing of real friendships between na
tions. Our foreign offices, according to opin
ions long entertained by me, should bo open
to tho voices of tho peoples by which thoy
aro supported. In times of national anger or
passion It would bo well to close all avenues
of communication, for tho old Chlneso prov
erb that "if two women aro allowed to talk
long enough there will eventually bo n hair
pulling" Is more or less true when applied to
nations. But when thero are messages of
good will and concord to bo transmitted from
one pcoplo to another, I bolleve It Is tho great
and sacred duty of tho foreign offices to re
ceive, send and glvo widest publicity to such
peace-preserving and peace-attaining ''com
munications. Will Not Forget American Friendship
My great and Illustrious friend, Viceroy
Lt Hung Chang, since departed to Join the
glorlqus ancestors of our rnce, did often
sny to mo that while America was tho
only country of tho world which denied
admittance to our countrymen, it was also
tho only nation which stood like the Great
Wall between China and dismemberment;
and It was the great Viceroy's hourly pleas
ure and Joy to repeat tho words of Major
Conger, the American Minister, said at a
time when all of us thought tho nation was
to bo parceled out among the Powers:
"Do no.t worry, Viceroy; Undo .Sam will
not permit the despoliation of your coun
try!" Can we over forget that Government and
that people? No, wo do not forget, and I
hope tho people of the United States will
know that wo remember.
It may be said to our American friends
that the new Republic of China Is now
fairly started on the right road. Discon
tent and minor rebellion, encouraged by dis
gruntled Individuals who had Imagined
themselves leaders of the Chinese people,
but who wero repudiated by arms and bal
lots, are no longer occupying our attention.
A settled condition of affairs prevails In all
the provinces except two, and In these latter
the disturbances are not serious. All de
partments of the new Government are work
ing earnestly, diligently and In concord for
the betterment of the nation.
The finances are In the best condition they-
CREATION OF A
By JOHN G.
POPULARITY Is manufactured, although
the general publla Is not aware ct this
fact. True, lt often happens that a tad. a
dance or a style spreads spontaneously. No
one seems ,to know where or how It Btarted,
nor can he predict when It will end,
Among those things which seem to strike
the people In this fashion s the popular sorig.
But It never "arrives" automatically, for lt
la the result of a well-organized campaign.
The airs which haunt the ear at this time of
year at the seashore and other resorts were
born many months ago. Popular song pro
moters know that summer Is the crucial period.
Songa are usually made or lost during the
vacation months. There la psychology In this
muslo promotion game. Publishers launch
their melodies upon the people at the resorts'
when they are In a happy and optimistic
frame ot mind. As all are enjoying a period
pt rest, there le an Inclination to be easily
pleased. Furthermore,' as they have nothing
to do but observe and listen, they are more
apt to. remembsr a song which they heir away
from home.
As a score of publishers "boost" their pet
songs at this time, the resorts resound with
catchy rouslc. Out ot the mass of mtdodlea
whlelv attack the tar In all directions there are
about three which are whistled or sung by the
general public These are regarded as the hits,
and the lueky publishers' then bend their
cnerelea to boosting them In every possible J
B) anawr. They arrange large window displays
a4 employ numerous stager, who are known
as "pluggws." All day long these men. Hug
lutHy the sJetons whleh have Meartt on."
Beforo a song reaches tbo hit staga there
litUl financial outly. PI rut, the authors
tb BMHtVitaa 4 lyric writ) aaust rsiv
a 4vac royalty. It U than uut.rj tg i
pMtfth tbo a la "prefeaatonM esje Jofm.
Www rMiMl Ua. WW tpotM. tfe '
havo been for 20 years. With tho coming ot
complete peaco In tho South and Centre,
Industry has resumed Its normal ways and
a vast majority of tho pooplo are earning a
livelihood Agriculture hni cattle raising
nro In such condition that the coming years
hold great promise
Confucius a Stopping Stono to Christ
Will tho establishment ot Confucianism as
rt S(ate rollglon tend to Injuro the progress
of Christianity in China? If anything, It
wilt, make a better field for tho teachings
of Christ. For many years tho people have
been falling more and moro away from tho
doctrines of tho Great Saint, and I felt that
It wns necessary to bring them to a realiza
tion of that fact. A nation without a reli
gion Is on tho downward path, I could not
havo proclaimed Christianity with any ef
fect, evert had I bo desired, for 99 per cent
of our pcoplo wotild not havo known what
it meant. But when I' used tho name of the
wonderful Confucius and called Upon the
pcoplo everywhere to tako up his words,
teachings and examples again, thero was an
Immediate response, And a, hotter China is
already here. This, in Itself, creates a larger
nnd better field for the Christian mission
nry, for, as tho noted Bishop Fabro onco
said to mo, "Confucius Is an excellent step
plnir stono to Christ."
M4H.
YOUNG WOMAN ABOUT TOWN
Stfc Hears an Open-nir Band Concert and
Is Impressed by tho Trombone Soloist.
A BAND concert in the plaza pretty much
fits the description of a Strauss symphonic
poem, i. o., occnslonnl alluring melodies emerg
ing from a sen of noises. Tho plaza, you'
know, Is a sort of peninsula, being bounded
on threo Bides by oceans of traffic In two
principal streams of Btreet cars and Jitneys,
respectively. As tho street cars are Intermit
tent, though tho jitneys be continuous, in
between trolleys you are apt to hear all sorts
of things you had no Idea were going on In
tho band stand. You can hear most of tho
neighboring conversation even when thB cnra
go by. In fact, when you look at It broad
mindedly, lt Is surprising how often the music
gets tho better of the traffic, especially In the
"pieces by request," which are usually straight
ahead ragtime.
This battlo of the elements occurs In tho
plnza every night In tho week except Thurs
day, when you can find an Indoor edition of
tho same thing at Convention Hall. It Is
bIx years since C. Stanley Mackcy conducted
his first band concert here, and ho has been
at It every summer slnco then'. If you doubt
,tha wisdom of the city concerts, get ye thither
and observo the solid acre ot pcoplo that
collects 'nightly under the wing of tho City
Hall. "
Mr. Mackey tells mo his summer band rep
resents some fine regular musical organizations
of various sorts. A number of his mon havo
Come straight from the hand of tho brass
band specialist, Sousa; probably tho largest
part of them spend tho winter in the fold ot the
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, to which In
stitution, by the way, they are enthusiastical
ly loyal. i
It you are not an habitue of tho plaza con
certs, lt will be worth your while to go over
some night to hear Mr. Schrader do a trom
bone solo. Mr. Schrader believes In tonal gym
nastics, and actually accomplished a polka
on his Instrument not long ago. It was
astonishingly lively, and rather remlndod you ot
a polar bear being put through the turnings
ot an elaborate Spanloh dance. Then tho other
night he played a composition of his own, an
"Ecstasy." When you want to express ecstasy
on a trombone, you I confess I don't know
the technique of tho Instrument but you sort
of drag one leg.
I was reminded by listening to "The End
of a Perfect Day" as a solo for the trombone
that I have never heard that composition with
either the tuba or the piccolo "starring" In It.
Still, I wonder If It hasn't been done that
way?
May I, In behalf of the acre ot humanity In
the plnza, offer a'suggestlon to the proprietors
of the beer sign? Everybody Is going to read
your sign, anyway. "The lady behind" read
all tho signs out loud the last time I was
there. I heard her, and she asked" her escort
lt he had ever been In the bar and cafe JUBt
opposite the plaza. To which he replied with
overwhelming frankness, "I have, up to my
eyebrows." So, you see, the sign that. shines
forth steadily all night is not overlooked. Now,
If you will only let the sign stand still, you
will nobly prevent the persons who go to the
plaza regularly from developing total paralysis
ot the optio nerve. Otherwise, the city ought
to force you to turn your sign on and off In
time with the music.
THE YOUNG WOMAN.
DETROIT IMPROVING
From the Cleveland ruin dealer.
A Detroit clergyman, who evidently reads
nothing but the domestic news, announces that
the world Is growing better.
POPULAR SONG
COLLINS
piano arid full orchestra parts, are mailed free
to musicians and singers In all parts of the
country. Even then a very largo number of
those who receive thq song refuse to sing It
because It does not strike their fancy.
As an inducement to put the song In their
acts or shows many singers and comedians
are paid a stipulated sum weekly to use It,
Tho amounts which they receive, vary accord
ing to their standing, Some vaudeville head
liners are paid as high as S0 weekly for sing
ing one song. Thus It frequently happens that
a publisher who advertises In this manner pays
as high as B00 weekly to, singers alone. He Is
also obliged to pay small amounts to leaders
of cafe orchestras to Induce them to Include
the melody In their programs.
Added to this Is the expense of singers In
tho store of his publishing house and also in
the department rtore.8, The returns during
the early part of the boosting period are
usually smalL and publishers frequently Jay
out moro than 5000 before the first copy of a
onr is sold to the public.
Very often It happens that the song which
has made a hit In the theatre falls flat from
a selling standpoint. .This is usually due to
the faot that the selection Is too difrleult let
the average person to slpg.
The discovery that the public win sppia,Ud
a song and yet not buy it. Is not ma.de soma
flmes until several thpusand dollars have been
expended In "boosting" the seleatioa.
The fight to obtain tho services of sjsgers of
reputation is ao keen that pubUshsrs as an
stra Inducement frequently purchase pn
cr gowns for the fair exploiters In order that
tha sojtg may have every possible .advantage.
hr are many freaks of fortu&e In the
song puUtchlnsr buMaeu. ial fra,.,it .
bapcttM that lb sosx on which tha Uart
amitr has bo xmb41 brfaus th btuut
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rUT5Y 2St YtTftf:
WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR ATE GRA8
Men Were as Modern as We, But They Lacked Labor-saving-Devices
Invention Has Given the WorldTime to Think, j
vruuv w
By B.
WTII the Bhootlng match now going
forward on tho other side, the average
citizen hero, going about his business with
the single-heartedness so necessary to good
business, would probably think It worse
than foolhardy to say that thdro is a more'
terrible instrument of destruction than tho
bullet. But thcro Is such an instrument,
all the same. Men of blunt speech are fond
of calling lt a spade. And tho spade it Is.
Put n spado In tho hands of nn nrcheolo
glst and It will turn up maltor to frlghton
any man who likes to bellovo that wo aro
plodding right along toward the millennium.
Not long ago the1 archeologlsta broke Into
somo ancient Egyptian tombs. What thoy
found thcro Is inclined to bo entortolnlng
till you think ot what It all moans. A little
later other archcologlsts hit upon tho ro
mains of what might bo called tho Minne
apolis ot old man Belshazzar. In other
words, It was tho groat ' grain centre ot
Babylon. Among Its few enduring relics tho
diggers with tho spado found contracts that
differ from ours of today chlofly In tho Blm-
plo particular of being baked on a brick.
Thoro were also receipts for goods delivered,
for wiges paid, all In neat brick form, llko
lco cream, except n Httlo moro lasting. But
thero were relics still moro entertaining, too.
The nrcheologlst's spado hns brought up
ovldcnco that In thoso roaring old dayo when
Nebuchadnezzar went out on a vosotarlan
diet thero wore oil monopolies, and trade
unions, and strikes and lockouts. Think of
lt! Bolshazzar's attornoy general probably
hnd a Standard Oil suit on his hands. Ho
may havo had a William Jennings Bryan
blessing him behind his back.
Gold Follies of the Ancients
Wo know certainly, on tho evidence of tho
spade, that yacht racing wns a popular sport
nmong those Egyptians whoso prosperity
could stand tho racket. Tho ladles painted
their faces. Tho man about town blew in at
his club. And for nil that their bodies' and
their brains long centuries ago blow away
as dust, wo havo their Imperishable Jewels,
their -brick contracts, their gold follies to tell
us more truthfully what thoy were than they
themselves could or would havo told us face
to fa co.
This Is what tho archcologlst's spado has
raised from the ancient dead that thoso
pcoplo differed from us in the merest minor
details. They slept In brick beds Instead of
brass ones. Their love letters were delivered
In a wheelbarrow. And there the differences
end. At that point the similarities begin.
In a little ''museum In Paris you may find
some ancient relics with a vivid interest for
th.o thoughtful man. .Among them Is the
Httlo mnchlnery of mystery once manipu
lated by an Egyptian' priestess. She used to
moKe stone idols wink their eyes and belch
flro and perform other terrifying antics to
alarm tho superstitious. For years she must
havo fogled her willing dupes; but after
many centuries tho truth about her was ouT.
Her cunning deceits were laid bare at last
Who knows what that priestess was herself;
In all likelihood 8ho,9was a clover woman,
and pretty besides. Largely a cynic, per
haps, though shoxmay havo gone about hot
work as If lt were a recognized and legiti
mate form of business, even with something
l of a. high Ideal. To her it may have been
part of her political philosophy, a necessary
means of keeping the people under control.
SYMPATHIES WITH SHRAPNEL
Anti-munition Shipment Advocates Hoist
by Their Own Petard.
8. a, In the New York Evening Post,
The Aked-Itauschenbusch statement asserts
that our war trade Is not for patriotism, but
for profit; that we have not the samo warrant
as the -European nations for engaging In the
business ot slaughter; that the highest moral
considerations weigh against theV sordid truffle;
that the munition business wtl drag up, after
the war in Europe Is done, Int the bog of mili
tarism; that the munition traffic, while tech
nically legal. Is a violation of the spirit ot
neutrality. This last point is elaborated in a
series ot paragraphs which rise to the follow
ing climax;
'It Is a poor neutrality that will not work
both ways. An even-handed and truly neutral'
policy ought to be reversible. But If the situ
ation of the belligerent nations were exactly
reversed, should we maintain the same policy?
For argument's sake, let us imagine what Is
very unlikely that a series of disasters over
took the British fleet so that lt lost control of
the seas. The German fleet could then Inter
cept neutral shipping, as the British fleet Is
intercepting lt now.. American cargoes of food
destined for England would be taken to Ger
man ports. The British people would eat potato
bread and have strictly limited quantities of
that Issued on Government cards. The Teu
tonlo Allies could buy unlimited American guns
and shot and shell to overwhelm English armies
or Bhlps. How long would our present logic
seem convincing then? How long would Jt be
before we laid an embargo on munitions of. war
and demand that American food and cotton
should have free access to ports not block
aded?" And so the Aked-Itauschenbusch case perishes.
In their eagerness to score a point on the neu
trality lssuo the authors of tha protest have
thrown overboard their entire, cass aaainst
American munitions for the Allies, For once It
Is admitted that it the war situation were re
versed our stand on munitions would be re
versed, that If Germany held the seas we
should refuse to sell arms to Germany and
Insist on our right to sell food and cotton to
Great Britain, what beebmes of the argument
that our present war trade is sordid, carried on
for profit and not for patriotism, and "exhibits
capitalistic Industry on one of its lowest levels"?
The authors really admit that Mr. Schwab
would refuse to coin dividends out of the fall
of the British Empire and that the American
Locomotive Company would refuse to load
shrapnel against the Belgians. An embargo
would bo laid on arms exportation If Germany
held tha seas. What doe's this mean but that
this nation has not sold Its soul for a profit,
but that Ita sympathies go with Its shells and
Its shrapnel?
AN ODE TO PIE
From the Boeton Olobe.
Let us celebrate the gastronomic poem of the
ages the pie. It graces each season, but most
Mpeolally Is it dedicated unto midsummer and
the tlme of berries, black, red and blue. The
pie is both friend and toe. comforter and
aveBger. It Is mighty In the mightiest It can
Bitrellessly slay, and it oan soothe and assuage
Jho drooping spirit. If Is a posra both lyrlo
and elegiac singing the sheer pleasures of the
peruses and again, peradventure. the pains
thereof. Deadly is the pie when overeaten,
but gracious, yea, and beneficent, when par
taken of In due measure and in reverential awe
of the lawful gastric procecas.
"My blessings on the head of hlra who first
Invented sleep," sighed Sancho Panza on a
memorable occasion. Be ours on the head of
him who first Invented pie. May he dwll forever
on blessed 1st of pie among the cherry or
charrts of Elysium. May his Jowls delight in
mlseawMat. pumpkins, the Juley squash, the
tooth-autoing blueberry, the pippin apple and
'oo!l of lemon custard.
"Sesaethlng fUcltoua and fruity btwfl two
eriMta -that U pi. Long way tt waval Buln
at DM eoraw of the cnut and tat J-mMH-huIv
loaf ti outtw orust in oni.r tht Uw owt)in
""!.
K, LITTLE
n. meanft nf irlvlnfi- thnm anluM H .
u a ........ vivg uuu a nODS
in tho hereafter. VU
' In a way It is delightful to dine... ..,!?
much like ourselves wero those people ofi
tho prehistoric past. Wn nr Imh j iMl
nnnlnlltt thntM t IaIm. .. .. jlS
..K.....u ...w. ., uumg nu ciever, otter nlCa
nnu bo modern, in another way tho dl
.covery has Its terrors. The archeoWi.c.
spade has dug up a bit of dlscouragcrnnntl
na .,v.. m ioiihv u, luuiuurury nigmnv. T. ufl
nltogcther cheering that 8000 Ions yeai-ii
have left us so close tor Nobuehniin.,..41i4
Wouldn'tf Xerxes find a helmlt to fit him Inl
Berlin? If the dust that once was lOoof
brick engravers in Babylon could gather and 1
rise again, wouldn't thoy promptly elect!
Samuel Gompers ns their nresldont?
It's clever of tho ancients to bo so modern
Is It clover of us to bo so nnclont? You seo
though a bullet mny destroy your life, the '
moro terrlblo spado may destroy your con
colt. So tho human passions aro no better '
than they havo always boen, apd human I
nature Is now, nnd forever has been, the
samo. You see lt graven on that instru
ment, tho spade, in letters as vivid as those
that frightened tho life or tho sin out 6t '
Belshazzar. 4,
Well, what of It? These things ceqse toj
bo dlscouraginff when you have thought ali
Httlo further along. What If the Infantll
Confucius did curl his lip over tho mother-Ji
In-law Joko, thon nearly as musty as we 3J
thnk lt now? What If tho human mother-4
In-law and all tho other human passlonjji
nave inaeea been always tho samo?
This would bo a dead world If wo put out
tho fires of passion Passion Is tho steara'
in our boilers. It's tho motive force thaH
drives all our machinery of civilization. Bttt
onco you havo tho necessary steam, tho lm-j
portant thing Is tho machinery you want?
tn hnvA Arivnn Ttinnl, ln,ni.nH M.. .t,f.
crnvo tho approbation of other men. Thank'y
neaven mat wo all want to outstrip each:
other. Wo need all thoso ancient passions.!
Whcro could wo get without theml More-
over, wo glvo tho steam such a volume of
work to do In theso days that It has no
chanco to burst tho boiler.
Croesus Without Homo Comforts
Wo'vo got forwnrd all right. Solomon,
wise guy that ho was, would look like a
simpleton today. Croesus . went without
noarly every one of tho simple comforts In
the modest house of Jones, tho grocer.
That's nothing. We're better off not alone
In our moro numerous creature comforts.
Whero wo havo tho bulge on tho ancients i
is In the enormous mass of wisdom we have
amassed In 8000 years. It may bo passion
that moves tho machinery. But It's wisdom
that constitutes -the? machinery. Wo've
curbed tho old passions' by setting them to
work.
Thousands of years ago old man Thales
rubbed a plecp of amber and discovered elec
tricity. Think for yourself what electricity
alone does today! Really think about It.
Not simply that lt gives us eloctrlo lights,
though thoy do lengthen our days. Not that
tho current gives us 1000 creature comforts
unknown to Thales, Tho beauty of olec
trlclty is that, by doing so much of our
work for us, It gives mon tlmo to think.
There's where wo havo It on the ancients.
Every man Is his own Socrates today, or
has his chanco to bo. We'vo got the original
man in us still, but wo make more of him.
There's tho answer to the spado.
felicitous and fruity may remain, like wine, the
best at tho last.
i. Let us heartily rejoice that It Is our good hap
to dwell within the great New England pie
belt, and not a thousand miles from certain
Justly celebrated pie foundries.
Give us liberty or give us death. But, falling
that, give us pit.
BEFORE AND AFTER
From the Grand Rapids Press.
What she talked to him about; '
Before their
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Astrohomy
Athletics
Books
Dancing
Drama
Flowers
Immortality
Love
Muslo
Nature .
Poetry
Travel
After their
Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
' Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
Clothes
ROBERT LANSING'S WORK
From the World's Work.
Mr. Lansing, the new Secretary of State, Is
a glutton for work. When nearly all the rest
of the State, War and Navy Building Is dark
at night, you can see ilr. Lansing's windows
glowing across the White Lot, During the Mex
lean crisis a year ago those beacons were burn
ing every night, and so they were during May
and June, when a gray-beared man, with a
companionable briar pipe In his mouth, was
working tirelessly behind those windows to help
tho President steer us oft the rocks of war
with Germany. t
THE NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
History will recognize tho, long rang of
Woodrow Wilson's prevision and tha consistency
of his course from the very beginning of these
complications (ove,r the. rights of neutrals on
tho sea). New York Bun.
Great Britain exercises no sovereignty ot the
United States, nor does she have the right to
rule the high seas, nor say what Bhall and what
Bhall not be sold and delivered by our people
to neutral countries. Cincinnati Enquirer
Whoever In Chicago may have been at fault
specifically In using the Eastland at all, the
Federal Administration must bear some measure
of responsibility for allowlne- auch a vessel.
with such a record ot Instability, to remain la WL
orvice. wasnmgion utar.
Whatever may be the exact facts In the cat
and whatever the exact degree of Mr- Sullivan's
Improprieties, the testimony adduced at tba
hearings before) Senator Fhelsn made It evident
that he had no rightful place In the diplomatic
service. Richmond Times-Dispatch.
If a hundred billions of dqllara could buy,
everlasting peace and safety for Belgium ther,
would he much to say for the Wanamaker pinJ
and America is not stingy when Its sympathies,
are aroused. But bavlne helped on the cause
1 of peaee by ransoming Belgium, what nextt-
Sfpringnem Republican.
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