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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.
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‘ 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.
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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.”
