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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ' ATLAHTA, GA., 5 JTOBTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta. Poatoffice as Mal,er ot the Second Class. * SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelve months * 40c Six months Three months The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tues day and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest route for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, broug it by special leased wires into our office. It has a sta of distinguished contributors, with strong d« pari ments of special value to the home ami ttie farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice, Liberal com mission allowed. ■.Outfit free. Write R. R- B LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C- Coyle. Charles H. Woodliff. J-M. Patten. W. H. Reinhardt. M. 11. Bevtl and John Mac Jennings We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. k —— NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Tb» label u.-rd for addressing y<mr pap. r, the nn>* your subsenptiva espirr-. By renewing at leaat two week- be fore the date .« this label, you insure regular service. la ordering paper changed, be Mire to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route We eannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address alt orders and notices for this Department to THE SKMLWEKKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. Our Great War Congress. FOR the magnitude of its legislation and the na tional spirit it reveals, the session of Congress which ended Saturday is unexampled in Amer ican history or the history of the world. Into six stressful months it has marshaled laws enough to make each of a hundred years unforgettable, laws touching the most vital concerns of our own peo ple and the larger destinies of all mankind. If anyone ever feared that this country was taking the war half-heartedly or that preparations for its gi gantic tasks were moving at too slow a pace or that democracy would prove incompetent and un equal to a crisis calling for the swift exertion of concentrated power, let him now mark the record of the first session of the Sixty-Fifth United States Congress and learn what a loyal and marvelously efficient force American democracy has proved. It was on April the second of this year that President Wilson in his epoch-marking message ad vised that the belligerent status which Germany had thrust upon us be accepted and that the nation take immediate steps “to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.’’ Just three days later Congress declared war and launched promptly upon the vast work of making America fightingly effective. Our land forces then were a mere handful, as armies are counted in this world war. The small body of Regulars, it is true, had no superior, man for man; the ‘National Guard contingents recently back from the border were creditable indeed as far as they numbered; and the excellent Preparedness measures passed by the preceding Congress stood helpfully at hand. But as for actually raising an adequate army and putting American forces at the front, it was necessary to begin at the beginning. And it was for Congress to supply the means and open the way. How well and promptly that duty was per formed is witnessed by the fact that today we have approximately a million men under arms, with mil lions more registered for service, and a substantial number of perfectly equipped and splendidly effi cient troops just back of the firing line in France. This remarkable achievement rests primarily upon the Selective Service law, enacted May 18. only six weeks after the declaration of war. That meas ure alone would have sufficed to make the recent session of Congress forever memorable. Think what it meant for a nation whose people were wholly unaccustomed to war discipline and proverbially In sistent upon individual liberties to step almost without hesitation into a system of universal lia bility to military service! The United States Con gress did within six weeks what the British Par liament took more than two years to do and what the Canadian Parliament has but recently done after three years of war participation. True, our own lawmakers had the impressive experience of England to profit by. but that in no wise lessens the fine independence and wisdom of their course. None but a deeply thoughtful Congress, an intensely loyal Congress and a Congress inspired and sus tained by the people's will would have taken that epochal stride. The Selective Service act furnished the keynote of the entire session. The basic principles threshed out in that all important piece of legislation served as a standard and guide for subsequent measures; and foremost among those principles was the thought that the American democracy had entered this war with an eye single to righteous victory. Hence the test for every measure and for every vote became simply this: Will it help win the war? Thus the Food Control bill, unprecedented though it was and even radical in some particulars, was passed overwhelmingly because it would help win. the war. So. too. with the Espionage bill, the Embargo bill and divers other acts conferring upon the President powers incomparably great. A few Representatives and Senators there were who opposed these essen tial measures, contending that they were undemo cratic and hazardously dictatorial. But the rank and file of Congress, like the rank and file of the people, thought more soundly and in effect more loyally. The rank and file realized that in con ferring extraordinarily great powers upon the President as the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, they were in no wise exceeding the bounds of the Constitution, but merely utilizing its potent spirit: in no wise abandoning the principles of democracy, but merely making democracy equal to a hfiroic test. “Every Government,” said Alexan der Hamilton, “ought to contain within itself the means of its own preservation.” The majority of Congress fortunately 'perceived that our Govern ment. our Constitution.’does contain within itself the means of its own preservation: and they wisely saw to it that our democracy was made competent and powerful to defend itself against German autocracy. It is not to be wondered that a loyal Congress, guided by this broad-visioned principle and urged by emergencies such as the nation never faced be fore. moved swiftly and surely forward with its work. But the range and magnitude of its six months* accomplishments is truly marvelous. Con sider a few of its appropriations: nearly a billion dollars for the construction of an air navy; nearly a billion for building a merchant marine; between two and a half and three billions for loans to our allies: billions for equipping, training and main taining the armed forces; many millions to inaugu rate a system of war insurance for our soldiers and sailors and to provide a competency for their de- I pendents, both during the war and afterwards. Each of these and sundry other appropriations rep resents not simply a great sum of money but a great idea: and each represents an incalculable amount of hard and able thinking. The tax and bond measures passed at this session of Congress authorize the raising of twenty-two billions of dol lars. and provide for raising that vast sum by meth ods economically sound and altogether fair to the people. What a towering tribute to American devo tion and insight as well as to American resources! There were no partisan divisions at this war session: Democrats and Republicans worked as comrades and soldiers of a common cause. Indeed, there were no considerable divisions of any sort. A lean and laggard minority, it is true, opposed many of the important measures; but that opposi tion was always futile. The great majority of Representatives and Senators came back to their home States and districts with a record of stanch loyalty to the President and to the nation's inter ests and ideals. For the few who faltered and failed, there are scores who went unwaveringly forward. Theirs is the priceless satisfaction of having served their people worthily and well, and of having made their nation within six short months the most powerful factor in the world war. Theirs is the glory of having made democracy as efficient for the storm and shock of battle as for the ways of peace. Theirs will be the gratitude of American hearts so long as the blood of freedom runs warm and red and the principles of the re public endure. What Wisconsin Thinks of LaFollette. How La Follette’s home State regards his atti tude toward the war is revealed plainly enough in the resolutions adopted by the Wisconsin defense councils, with but one dissenting vote in three hundred, requesting him to resign from the Senate and asking that in the event of his refusal he be expelled. Loyal Americans that they are, the truly representative citizens of Wisconsin unsparingly condemn efforts to weaken the Government's arm and divide the people’s mind in this fateful hour of national danger and duty. The fact that one of their own representatives at Washington has pur sued that unpatriotic course makes them the more intense in their denunciation. They declare to the world that their State is no longer responsible for this politician who 'not only opposed the nation's assertion of its rights and protection of its citizens but who also has done his utmost to prevent an effective prosecution of the war even after hostil ities began. La Follette opposed the arming of American merchantmen for defense against murderous sub marines. He counseled abject surrender to German outlawry. He tried to prevent the raising of an adequate army when he fought the Selective Service law. He tried to prevent conservation of the country’s sources of living when he fought the Food Control bill. He has misrepresented our reasons for entering the war, has undertaken to becloud the vast issues that compel us to fight it to an all decisive and victorious end, has decried the cause for which millions of Americans are offering their lives and for which all true Americans stand willing to make the utmost sacrifice. No wonder the State that sent La Follette to the Senate repudiates him. In asking that he be expelled, If he will not resign, the defense councils of Wisconsin speak the senti ment and sober judgment of the American people. The World's Best Paid Soldiers. The last thing in the minds of our boys with the colors is their pay*. They responded to their coun try’s call, both as volunteers and as selectmen, for the all-absorbing purpose of helping to 'whip the Kaiser and to keep America free. They no more think of this service in terms of dollars and cents than the country thinks of being able to compen sate them on any such basis. It is nevertheless in teresting to note that of all soldiers in all lands and all times the American in this war receives far and away the highest stipend. The Japanese soldier receives about two and a half cents a day, as do also the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian. The Sultan s fighters, when paid at all, draw each the munificent sum of ninety-two cents a month. The French poilu receives between one and a half and two dollars a month, and the British seven dol lars and sixty cents. The monthly pay of the American soldier is thirty dollars. This may be considered merely as spending money or as the nucleus of a snug savings ac count, because all of the private soldier’s living necessities are furnished him, in abundance and of the best quality. Amusements also are furnished him; the Y. M. C. A., the Red Cross and the Gov ernment itself see to it that he is freely provided with wholesome diversion for his leisure hours. Furthermore, under the admirable system of war insurance which Congress has inaugurated, the sol dier. by a small investment, can assure his depend ents a substantial income; and supplementing this, are special facilities for monthly savings. Taking into account all these opportunities, together with the present cost of living, one may safely compute the American soldier's monthly pay as being equivalent to seventy-five or a hundred dollars. As compensation for his heroic service, that sum is utterly inconsiderable; indeed, his only true com pensation is his country’s gratitude and his own consciousness of duty done. It is a matter of well warranted pride and satisfaction, however, that America gives her sons with the colors the largest monetary allowance ever known to men in the ranks. Potash in Plenty. If the expectations of the United States Geo logical Survey are realized we shall never again be dependent on Germany for potash. According to the Survey, Searles Lake, in San Bernardino county, tylifornia, contains enough of that valuable mineral, and in a form easily available, to supply the needs of the entire country. Machinery for exploiting this vast store is already in place; and under the terms of recently enacted legislation providing Government supervision for the develop ment of this and other deposits, the work will pro ceed with the utmost expedition. What this will mean to the nation, and par ticularly to the agricultural South, is suggested by the fact that potash which once sold in the neigh borhood of twenty dollars a ton has risen the be ginning of the war to as high as five hundred tlollers a ton. The Albany, Georgia. Herald inter estingly points out that one per cent of free potash in fertilizer adds ten dollars to its price and that “potash fertilizer has doubled the yield of corn in Indiana, beans in Michigan and sweet potatoes in South Carolina.” THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1917. The Kaider's Sabotage Against the United States. The State Department’s latest disclosures of correspondence between Count von Bernstorff and his chiefs at Berlin show that the continued acts of violence committed against American indus tries while the United States was still neutral were not the deeds of fiery aud irresponsible in dividuals, as was once contended, but the deliber ately planned and fully financed campaign of Ger man authorities. The blowing-up of munition plants and other factories producing war supplies, the wrecking of trains and destruction of railway tracks and cars, the intimidation of workmen and efforts to arouse dissatisfaction and strife amongst them, the placing of bombs in out-bound cargo ships and in buildings where the lives of hundreds were endangered—these and uncounted other crimes against our people’s peace and security were coolly ordered by the Kaiser’s agents while the United States was entertaining his Ambassador and was doing its utmost to remain neutral. Such is the character of the Hohenzollern Government. On January 3, 1916, Foreign Secretary Zim mermann telegraphed Ambassador Bernstorff: “The General Staff desires energetic action in re gard to proposed destruction of Canadian-Pacific railway at several points, with view to complete and protracted interruption of traffic." About three weeks later, on January 26, Bernstorff was instructed from Berlin to this effect: “You can obtain particulars as to persons suitable for carry ing on sabotage in the United States and Canada from the following persons: One, Joseph Mac- Garrity, Philadelphia. Pa.; 2, John P. Keating, Michigan avenue, Chicago; 3 Jeremiah O’Leary, 16 Park Row, New York. ... In the United States sabotage can be carried out on every kind of fac tory for supplying munitions of war.” Thus, more than a year before the crisis which forced us to a severance of diplomatic relations, Germany secretly ordered war waged upon American industries, on American soil. Not content with sinking our peaceful ships and slaying our innocent citizens on the high seas, she flung her monstrous nets of ter rorism across our cities and highways, and in the very capital of our nation brewed her plots for American destruction. Such is the character of Kaiserlsm. But Ambassador Bernstorff’s activities were not confined to organizing and directing sabotage. On September 15, 1916, after he had done his ut most with his gangs of bomb-throwers and fire bugs and general-utility ruffians, he telegraphed the foreign office at Berlin in this wise: “The em bargo conference, in regard to whose earlier fruit ful co-operation Dr. Hale can give information, is just about to enter upon a vigorous campaign to secure a majority in both houses of Congress fav orable to Germany, and requests further support.” This doubtless was one of those “former occasions” to which Bernstorff alluded in another message, sent some four months later, requesting authority “to pay out up to fifty thousand dollars to Influence Congress.” The German Government knew just as well as did our Government that for the United States to refuse to sell munitions of war to the Entente nations would be grossly unneutral, and it knew that the President, with his entire Ad ministration, was immovably against such a policy. But tyith characteristic arrogance and conceit the Hohenzollern Government proceeded on the idea that the real capital of the United States was not Washington but Berlin and that whatever the Kaiser wished done his faithful henchmen on this side of the Atlantic would see performed. Hence the assurance with which Bernstorff referred to “the vigorous campaign to secure a majority in both houses of Congress.” True to type, the German Ambassador seems to have taken it for granted that with bullying and bribery together he could do with America what he pleased. These latest disclosures of the State Depart ment are merely a continuation of the long story of German intrigue and crime against our country. For years, as the record goes to prove, the Kaiser and his accomplices were plotting against us. Even before the beginning of the European hostilities, it was their well-defined purpose to invade America, soon or late. Even before the first faint cloud of our present war, they hated our nation as they hate all democracies and were resolved eventually to attack it. There is no longer a reasonable doubt thkt the United States, even if it had re mained aloof from this conflict, would have been compelled to fight the Kaiser on this side of the Atlantic if he had emerged from the European war victorious or unvanquished. By fighting him now on his own battle front and in company with the other great liberty-loving nations of the world, we are saving our shores from the frightfulness he had planned to pour'upon them and are help ing to save civilization from a blacker scourge than Attila of Genseric ever inflicted. Kaiserism means ruthless ambition linked with endless intrigue, it means heartless savagery joined with diabolical cunning, it means faithless ness to every pledge and contempt for every law, it means the slaughter of children, the outraging of womanhood, the brutal trampling down of all the sanctities of human life. Not until this unspeak able menace is blotted out can the world rest se cure or America sheathe her sword in honor. Liberty Bonds and Farmers. The Thomsaville Times-Enterprise makes this cogent appeal for the purchase of Liberty bonds: “A patriot comes to the aid of his country, even with his life, if that is necessary. This is not required from many millions of men and women, who can give their bit by lending more money to the Government. It should be the pleasure as well as the duty of men. with . money, to take up five billions of the loan at once. The farmers of the United States have reaped a harvest that is enormous and by rea son of the fact that the war has caused their profit, they ought to be willing to lend some of-it to the United States. There are thou sands of them who could lend ten thousand each, and never feel the need for the use of. at the same time getting four per cent on tax-free investment.” What the Times-Enterprise says of the farmers is particularly worth emphasizing. As one of the great agricultural States Georgia should be among the most liberal subscribers to the second Liberty loan. The first loan was offered at a time when our planters were busy with their fields and needed most of their surplus money for farm operations. But now that the rich harvests have been gathered and the State enjoys well-nigh unexampled pros perity, there should be an overwhelming response to the nation’s call for Liberty bond buyers. STORE YOUR WINTER VEGETABLES NOW—By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 20.—The home vegetable gardener, who has planned his planting well, is now about to reap the most important fruits of his labor—a crop of late vegetables to store for winter use. Even for the householder who has no garden, the storage of vegetables is a measure of great economy at this time of the year when they are cheap. ♦ ♦ • ‘ Beets, late cabbage, carrots, celery, onions, parsnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sateify, and turnips will all keep through the winter if proper ly stored, as will beans and peas when they have been dried. A garden of half an acre will supply the aver age family with most of its winter vegetables, in addition to all that can be eaten fresh during the summer. And most of these vegetables may now be obtained in the markets or from farmers or market gardeners at a very moderate price. This is the season of abundance —the traditional time for the laying by of winter food. The wild creatures are busy at it, from ants and bees to squirrels and woodchucks. So are those forward-looking and independent people who live in the country. They are drying beans and peas, killing hogs and mak ing hams, putting up preserves and pickles, laying by apples and potatoes, beets and turnips in cellar and attic. Food trusts and food dictators have no terrors for them. Even in Germany the farmer class has remained well-fed because of its provi dent habits. * • * Os course the city dweller has no such oppor tunities as the farmer and suburbanite for putting away foods. But the striking fact is that he neglects what opportunities he has. The average urban home contains no storage room but a small pantry and an ice box. while in many cottage and apartment homes even the pantry is omitted. The amount of food kept on hand is usually very small, and that small amount is in many cases staples, which may be bought as well at one time as an other. The tylcal urban American, in the words of Dr. Corbett, of the department of agriculture, “lives in a paper bag.” Each day he buys in mar ket what he that day eats. At present he has plenty of fresh vegetables because he can get them cheap. In January, however, he will stint his diet of vegetables, to the detriment of his health and will pay a fearful Drice for what he gets. He places himself absolutely at the mercy of the re tailer, and then wonders why the cost of living is high. / • • • At this time of the year you can buy enough vegetables for a meal for ten or fifteen cents. You can also buy enough vegetables for your Christmas dinner now for fifteen cents and keep them until December. But consider what vegetables will cost you at that time. You will either buy canned goods, paying an enormous price for metal, and for the storage and shipment of water, or else you will buy vegetables raised under glass in the far south and shipped hundreds of miles. In either case enough vegetables to give your family the vitamlnes and other food elements that they must get from this source will cost you three or four times what the same materials are selling for now. • • ♦ For this reason the storage of vegetables for winter use is a very real economy, and it is also a very worth while health measure. Furthermore, it is in no sense unpatriotic or to be confused with hoarding. On the contrary it is a means of adding to the nation's total food supply. • • • The outburst of preachments of economy which fallowed the entrance of the United States into the THE WHEAT HABIT. By H. Addington Bruce FO R some time, as everybody knows, the United States department of agriculture has been urging economy in the use of wheat, and the substitution of other cereals as bread stuffs. Against this campaign for wheat economy as a war measure has been the popular feeling that wheat is indispensable. But lately facts have come to light suggesting that the prevalent use of wheat is more of a habit than anything else. These facts are touched on in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical association, in an editorial deserving wide publicity. Here I have space for only those parts of it which are of chief significance: "Why, it may properly be asked, should so much emphasis be placed on wheat, among all the cereal crops? “Is there some unique nutritional value m wheat not provided in comparable degree by other more available products? ■‘Would the substitution of other cereals to a greater or less extent impair the health or com fort of the needy nations? “To these questions the physiologist of to day must, we think, reply that the demand for wheat represents a psychologic and traditional im pulse rather than any non-replaceable need.” More than this: “In criticising the prevailing popular view that among cereal grains wheat is of superior nutritive worth. Hart, Halpin and Steenbqck have pointed to numerous experiments on mammals to the contrary. These leave little room for doubt that the wheat grain contains a mildly toxic material. . “In addition, the Wisconsin investigators just mentioned state that the wheat problems are of inferior quality, and may. be responsible for some of the malnutrition that has been repeatedly ob served when wheat has been fed excessively. “Excessive wheat feeding to cattle or swine ultimately Induces pathologic changes in the ner vous tissue. ‘‘lt has also been ascertained that young chick ens tolerate excessive wheat feeding poorly, and then only when the mineral content of the ration is adjusted, the proteins of the wheat improved by the addition of casein, and a more liberal sup ply of fat soluble vitamine furnished.” ’ But: It would be an obvious exaggeration or misstatement to declare that wheat flour is an undesirable nutrient. The experience of genera tions contradicts this; and science makes no such unwarranted claim except for an exclusive diet in which wheat plays the chief role. “Properly supplemented, wheat flour, like other cereals, becomes admirably adapted for use as a food. . ‘The point to be emphasized is that no great physiologic deprivation is entailed by a restrictioii in the daily intake of wheat flour and a substitu tion of other more abundant appropriate sources of energy and protein.” Ponder these statements. They certainly sug gest that it would be a distinct gain, rather than a loss, to break ourselves in some degree of the wheat habit. Not abandoning wheat altogether, we may use in larger proportion than at present such cereals as corn, rye, oats, and rice. By so doing we shall help our country in a time of need, and help it with direct benefit to ourselves. (Copyright, 1917, by the Associated Newspapers.) LIBERTY BONDS. By John Wingfield Gatewood The tie that binds us closer to the land, Which gives to us sweet liberty and life; The means by which we arm the soldier’s hand, To play a hero’s part in world-wide strife. Our Country calls to him of boundless wealth. The well-to-do, the humble and the poor— As some have given all of life and health. So you must give a part of your own store. Aigh honor calls to men of sterling worth— Repay the land that made us what we are — The freest souls that roam a fettered earth, Os fettered earth —the brightest shning star. Let each according to his means, then give That tyranny shall die—and Freedom live. A pamphlet on how to store vegetables in the home has been published by the United States department of agriculture. It is thor oughly illustrated and gives complete and understandable directions for making the •storeroom. You can obtain it by writing to The Atlanta Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Ask for the booklet, “Storing Vege tables,” and enclose a two-cent stamp for re turn postage. V, £ ) war was followed by a reaction. Merchants found that business was falling off. People were not buying the luxuries they should. So a counter campaign was start id for “business as usual.” These conflicting lines of advice from high authori ties have left that buffeted and struggling indi vidual, the average citizen, in a state of complete bewilderment. This has been further increased by a ridiculous and wholly unfounded rumor that the government would seize stocks of food in pri vate houses. Having been advised to can food and store food by his government, the startled house holder now hears that it is all to be taKen away from him. • « • Os course, the government has no idea of seiz ing food stocks in private homes, nor is there the remotest possibility that the necessities of our case will ever call for such a measure. Furthermore, the preservation and storage of foods are very de sirable, both from the individual and the national standpoint. They add a definite amount to the nation's food supply, because at this time of the year, great quantities of vegetables and fruits are thrown out at all the markets, left to rot in the fields and orchards. Every pound stored or pre served is a pound saved. ♦ * * This Is especially true of vegetables which will keep through the winter, for no labor of can ning or preserving is needed for them —merely the forethought to provide a proper place for keeping them. • • • Furthermore, it is vegetables and not staples which should be stored. The buying and storing of flour and sugar is a mistake, for by reducing the retail stocks, it automatically forces up prices. The present high price of food staples in no small measure due to such hoarding. • • • one who lives in a house may store vegetables successfully for winter use, for he will possess either a cellar, an attic or a backyard. He cannot do this, however, unless he knows bow. Sweet potatoes that will keep until March In a place that is cool, dry and properly ventilated, will begin to rot in less than a week if kept .in the kitchen. A storeroom that would be entirely ade quate in the Carolinas would not serve at all in Massachusetts. Experet advice is, therefore, an absolute necessity The cost of making a store room, however, need not be more than a few dollars in most cases. For the apartment dweller the case is different, and generally hopeless. He usually has nothing in the way of a commissary department except a kitchenette with the emphasis on the diminutive, and he is necessarily a “paper bag dweller.” Yet as Dr. Corbett points out, it would be thoroughly possibly to provide in the basement of the apart ment house an Ideal food storage locker for each apartment. The real estate man who will build an apartment with such a feature, and advertise its advantages, should ride to success on the present enthusiasm for economy. WHEN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY COMES OF AGE. By Dr. Frank Crane IT’S young yet, the twentieth century, but it’s growing fast. Through the greatest catacylsm of his tory the soul of the world is maturing rapidly. Behind the cloud and storm the sun is shining. Lift up your heads! At evening time<it shall be light. When the twentieth century shall come of age the world shall leap forward, touched by the golden spur of truth. We shall have done with war. When Germany went mad and attempted to assassinate mankind she put the finishing stroke to war, for she made us to see It in all its hideousness, its brutal self, stripped of its romantic paint and plumes. Says H. G. Wells: "It is only in the study of the gloomily mega lomaniac historian that aggressive war becomes a large and glorious thing. In reality it is a filthy outrage upon life, ah idiot’s smashing of the fur niture of homes, a mangling, a malignant mischief, a scalding of stokers, a disembowelling of gunners, a raping of caught women by drunken soldiers.” In the twentieth century we shall have a school house In every hamlet of the world, in Africa, Mexico, China, and Russia, as thick as in America. Every child shall be given his chance. We have had the age of the warrior and the age of the priest; the twentieth century shall be the age of the school teacher. Every woman shall have equal privileges and rights with men before the law. The lanes of the sea shall be free to all sails. The barriers and impediments at national boundaries shall be removed and commerce shall be free. The common sense of mankind shall crystallize into world unity and international law backed* by the international police. The Orient and the Occident shall clasp hands in brotherhood. The churches shall cease to contend and begin to co-operate. Jesus Christ shall cease to be a fetich and be come the great inspiration. - The cause of the laboring man shall become the cause of humanity, and capital the concern of the nation. The unearned increment from all natural re sources shall go to the whole people. The light from the torch of the Bartholdi statue shall penetrate to Berlin and Constantinople. Humanity shall come to itself, shake off its ancient delusions, and the prophetic words of Vic tor Hugo shall be realized: “In the twentieth century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, royalty will be dead, and dog mas will be dead: but man will live. For all there will be but one country—that country the whole earth; for all there will be but one hope—that hope the whole heaven. All hail, then, to that noble twentieth century which our children shall inherit.” (Copyright, 1917, by Frank Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES A young man carrying a small leather-covered box saw in one of the cross streets of upper New York a window placard bearing the name John J. Diogenes. He touched the bell button and presented to the flunky who opened the door his card: “Dionustos Duxenberri Smith.” The flunky bowed low and said: “Sas parakalokao eote.” Presently the portieres at the rear of the hall parted and a man entered. "Have I the honor of addressing Mr. J. J. Diogenes, descendant of the Athenian philosopher?” the caller asked. Mr. Diogenes bowed assent. "Well,” said Mr. Smith, “I am taking orders for an electric lantern, guaranteed to be of from 100 to 115 ’ candlepower. It will burn for about forty hours with out recharging for the small sum of—” "My dear man,” broke in Mr. Diogenes as greenish blue flashes glimmered through the openings of the portieres, "we no longer use any sort of lantern in looking for an honest man. lam just now X-raying a candidate for a job as bank cashier.”
