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A Bible for* Every Soldier.
• This day. which is- observed the nation over
as Bible Sunday, marks the shining crest of the
movement to place a coify of the New Testament
in the kit of every American soldier who goes
to France. It is hoped that the response from
churches and Sunday schools and from all men
and women in whom a loyal and Christian spirit
dwells will be such as to complete the fund re
quired for this profoundly patriotic undertaking.
To give a soldier a Bibi** is to give him a shield
and sword of mystical and measureless power. ’lt
is to give him ’ the bool, above all books, the
friend above all friends, to whom men turn for
help when the storms of life grow overwhelming
and when the shadows of death darken down. It
is to make him a stancher soldier in the battle
for America and freedom and humanity. Since
The Journal, at the request of the American
Bible Society. Inaugurated the Soldiers' Testament
fund for this State. Georgians have responded
widely and generously. But the amount subscribed
so far will not suffice to provide a Testament for
every soldier boy in the Georgia camps—the goal
that has been fixed. It is to be hoped, therefore,
that persons who have not yet contributed, but
who wish to do so, will bear in mind that the
fund must be closed by next Tuesday night. Every
subscription sent to The Journal up through that
time will be received and duly applied. And every
twenty-five cents, be it remembered, gives a Tes
tament to a soldier.
The German Game. 9
What is the meaning of Germany's desperate
drives in this fourth winter of the war when pru
dence would seem to dictate that she economize
her waning resources of munitions and men wher
ever and whenever possible, instead of flinging
them into costly adventures? In the earlier stages
of the conflict and even as late as the onslaught
upon Verdun, great sacrifices were justified in the
mind of the German General Staff on the theory
that they might cleave the way to a victory of such
proportions as bring a profitable and, perhaps, a
triumphant peace. But the Kaiser no longer
dreams of reaching Paris or of wringing huge in
demnities from a prostrate foe. The most that he
and his Junkers reasonably hope for is to emerge
from the war unvanquished. unpunished and free
to prepare another raid upon civilization. In all
essentials the Teutons are outweighed by the alli
ance now actively opposing them, especially when
America’s potential part is considered. And this
would remain true even though Italy should col
lapse from exhaustion, as Russia has from revolu
tion. Why is it. then, that instead of conserving
their resources through a prudent defensive, they
are striking out with feverish intensity, regardless
of winter and seemingly regardless of the tremen
dous needs of the coming spring?
The drive against Italy is explained in part by
the necessity of relieving Austria from Cadorna’s
deadly pressure; and the furious counter offensive
against the British before Cambrai is explained
largely by the importance of holding that vitally
strategic point. But the Germans have not paused
at the requirements of strong defensive. The
fierce and at times almost reckless ardor with which
they have hurled solid masses of men into the de
vouring fire and their persistence in this costly
course indicates a purpose far beyond checking an
advance upon Austria or temporarily saving Cam
brai. That purpose, which grows increasingly clear
to military observers both here and in Europe, is
suggested in a recent comment by the London
Morning Post. “We in this country.” says that
paper in applauding President Wilson's address to
Congress, “can only say that when America goes
to war. she goes to war" and that “alike in men
and resources, skill and determination, America is
superior to Germany, though she were fighting
America alone.”
“Therefore, so far as human prevision can
extend, we are justified in assuming the even
tual complete defeat of the enemy. But that
is to look ahead. It is the present business
of the allies to do their utmost in the inter
val which must elapse before the American
.forces are finally effective. It is quite cer
tain that Germany will utilize every moment.
It obviously is her policy to force a decision
iu the next few months and the Germans be
fine soldiers, their leaders being desper
ate men. and nothing being certain in war.
they have at least a sporting chance of suc
cess.”
To obtain peace in Europe before the United
States swings fully into the struggle—that is the
inciting hope back of Germany’s costly winter offen
sives. She knows that she cannot win the war by
an Italian campaign, however brilliantly successful
it may be. She knows that regardless of what
happens in Russia she cannot crush the Allied
armia in the West, no matter what flurries of
good fortune she may have here and there. She
knows, moreover, that if the war is fought to a
finish, with American resources fully effective, she
will be beaten and overwhelmed. Hence the des-
Iporateness with which she is striking out to find
some vulnerable spot on the enemy’s front, not in
hopes of winning a military decision, but in hopes
of so depressing the peoples back of the AlMed
krmies that they will yield to pacifist sentiment
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, AII.ANTA GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1917.
and thus make possible the inconclusive peace for
which Germany so long has schemed.
It is more than ever urgent, therefore, that
the UnMed States hasten its work in every field of
war needs, and that loyal Americans one and all
stand zealously back of their Government. For if
by ill chance the German scheme of ending the
war with the vast issues undecided should succeed,
we should have to choose between pursuing the
contest single-handed or seeing all our herculean
labor ingloriously undone. If we do not defeat
Germany in Europe in the present war. wc inev
itably shall have to fight her on this side of the
Atlantic. Wr cannot afford to let Prussianism
escape unvanquished from the conflict in which
American blows will prove all-decisive if they are
but struck betimes.
Nor can we afford to let the reverses that in
evitably come in the fortunes of war discourage us
for a moment or becloud our vision of America’s
shining duty and destiny. In the past week ,we
have seen German intrigue tightening its coils about
Russia, and German armies thrusting forward tn
Italy and at Cambrai; we have felt the depression
of the Halifax disaster and the loss of a United
States war vessel with most of her gallant crew.
But who that is worthy of his country's traditions
and of its present heroic cause would suffer these
untoward incidents to cast down his spirit or
slacken his patriotic zeal? The American who
grows faint-hearted at ill news from the front is
playing Germany’s game. For that game is to dis
hearten the Allied peoples by a series .of spectacu
lar blows, designed more for political than'military
effect, in the hope that thus an inconclusive peace
may be obtained in Europe before America is
fully in the field. It is the desperate game of the
Hohenzolleru outlaw who knows that he will oe
crushed if the war is fought to a finish. The true
American's part is not to aid that game by pessi
mism or faint-heartedness, but, facing all the dan
gers and shadow’s of the hour, resolve anew with
his loyal countrymen that the sword we have
drawn shall never be sheathed until Prussianism w
beaten to the dust.
The Italians are also war artists.
The Kaiser and His Subjects.
We shall never win the war on the assump
tion that the German people are not zealously be
hind their Government. Elements of discontent
there doubtless are, and as the gaunt, relentless
months limp by with never a sign of the long
promised victory, disillusionment may dawn upon
the darkened empire. But at present the rank and
file of the Kaiser’s subjects are wholeheartedly
back of him. believing in his “divine right” and
in all the falsities they have been taught under his
despotism. In their eyes he is not the red-handed
outlaw which the world beholds, but a knight in
shining armor. To their way of thinking, Prus
sianism is not the hideova evil which civilization
condemns, but an admirable system of government
and of culture which .they as supermen should im
pose upon other peoples.
Nor is it greatly to be wondered that the Ger
mans are of this mind when the nostrums on l
which they have been dosed for the last forty
years and the lies with which they have been
stuffed from the beginning of the war are consid
ered. Their philosophers have taught them
war is a thing to be desired and that Might is the
only Right. Their tyrants have persuaded them
that peaceful democracy is the way of fools and
that it is their manifest destiny, as a race exalted
above the rest of mankind, to conquer and rule.
Their very priests have taught them from the pul
pit to hate the English, the Americans and the
French and to have no scruples in methods of
venting their hate. The sinking of the Lusitania
was represented in the German press as an act
of brilliant valor executed against an enemy man
of war—a deed over which to ring church bells
and sing hymns of praise. The atrocities heaped
upon Belgium were represented as military necessi
ties to protect tender-hearted German dragoons
against cruel women and children and aged men.
Thus were the blackest crimes of Prussianism pic
tured as righteous measures'of self-defense.
That the people of Germany could be so de
ceived and misled simply evidences the darkening
and conscience-numbing effect of the autocracy
under which they live. Their very souls are in
bondage to Kaiserism, and not until those fetters
are broken and that hideous idol is smashed will
they have eyes that see or hearts that understand.
There will never be a free Germany, a peaceable
Germany or a morally responsible Germany as long
as the spell and power of Prussian militarism re
main. That monstrous evil must be crushed be
fore the German people will abandon it for a place
in the family of liberty-loving, law-keeping na
tions. They must be shown that their Kaiser is
not the divinely-appointed world-sovereign they
consider him, but the puffed-up, foolhardy tyrant
he really is. They must be shown that their war
lords are not the invincible conquerors they be
lieve them, but a pack of murderous outlaws to be
hunted down and rounded up by the forces of
civilization. They must be shown that wars of
aggression and brigandage are neither glorious nor
profitable as they expected this one to prove, but
terribly costly and foredoomed to tragical failure.
They must be shown, in short, that for kings and
Governments no less than for common men rob
bery is robbery and murder is murder, and that
crime must pay its debt to law.
For the present, therefore, America and her
allies do well to apply themselves wholly to the
all-important end of defeating the German military
power and to realize that back of this power stands
a united people. If by happy chance there should
come an upheaval within Germany, all the better
for that nation and for the world. But the only
safe assumption is that the war must be won by
dint of iron blows on the enemy’s front, and.that
to be won at all it must be won overwhelmingly.
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This war may be won in the air but not with
hot air.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A preacher of slight physique, but. a big man in
church affairs, was noted for particular faithfulness
in the matter of parish calls. He was making his
customary rounds one evening and rang the door
bell at the residence of one of his church members.
His hostess opened the door for him—-seemed
to be expecting him. in fact; she even assistedhim
to enter —forcibly, as it were—yanked by the col
lar, you know, and with the irate, yet jubilant, ex
clamation:
“Now I have got you! You will ring my door
bell. will you?”
And across the street a crowd of urchins
chuckled wickedly.
A Congress Worthy of the Country
While it was foregone that the resolution de
claring the existence of a state of war between
the United States' and Austria-Hungary would be
overwhelmingly adopted, the promptness and
unanimity with which Congress acted are peen
gratifying. In the House there was but
one dissenting vote- -that of the solitary Socialist
member —and in the Senate, not a single no.
Senator La Follette, though manifestly against
the country, had the amazing grace to leave the
Chamber without voting and without making a
speech. Senators Grona, Norris and Vardeman,
who voted against the German war declaration
went on record as supporting the present one—a
fact which goes to show that while the lamp
holds out to burn, the most befuddled politician
may see the light.
't he single-mindedness of Congress the
people’s stanch unity in (his time of patriotic
test. The great rank and file of Americans are
awake to the fact that their country is at war,
fighting for its security against Prussian barbar
ism and for all the principles that have made it
strong and kept free. They know that nothing
which will insure or hasten victory should be left
undone. They feel, deeply and intensely, that
no act or utterance which in any wise would im
pede the successful prosecution of the war is par
donable. Giving their sons and brothers as well
as their treasure to the nation's cause, they ex
pect that their representatives at Washington
shall give wholehearted support to every essential
war measure.
Such a measure is the declaration of hostil
ities against Austria. We cannot fight Germany
effectively,'and leave our hands tied against her
chief ally. The necessity of the step which the
President asked to be taken was as apparent to
the mass of the people as to official Washington,
and the pegplC are gratified that Congress acted
without delay or dissension. In that same spirit
of loyal unity, let us hope, every future step
needed to win the war will be taken.
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The early shopper gets the pick.
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Little Savings and War Results.
A saving of five ounces of wheat flour a day in
each of the twenty million homes in the United
States would result in a total saving of one million
bushels of wheat a week. This interesting and de
pendable estimate from the Federal Food Adminis
tration for Georgia is rich in suggestion to every
one w’ho is willing to help conserve the food sup
ply. There are tens of thousands of households in
which five ounces of flour could be saved daily
either by eliminating wastes or by substituting
corn meal at fairly frequent intervals. ’ The thing
most needful is a thoughtful and earnest desire to
be of definite help to the country in this simple yet
exceedingly important field of service.
Our wheat supply must be economized if it is
to prove at all adequate for our own needs and
leave any considerable surplus for exportation to
our low-rationed allies. We are in the midst of a
world-wide shortage of wheat, which cannot be re
lieved except by uncommonly abundant harvests In
1918. Meanwhile, there is but one way of meeting
the emergency, and that is to make every bushel
of wheat and every ounce of flour and every piece
of bread count for its utmost. Wastefulness Is
both foolish and dangerous, and In present cir
cumstances highly unpatriotic.
The mills and bakeries and other establish
ments where wheat or flour is handled in large
quantities are practicing scrupulous economy.
There are few if any big sources of waste or ex
travagance. It is to the family and the individual
that the Government looks for the saving that
will make the lean granaries last until fresh crops
are gathered. Hence the vast importance of every
household’s doing its duty in those simple details
of patriotism which though seemingly trivial
within themselves become, in the national aggre
gate, a measureless power for victory.
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Conscience in the Kitchen.
“Let us realize,, for instance, that every
heaping tablespoonful of flour which is saved
means an ounce of flour saved, and that if
every one of the 100,000.000 persons in tne
United States would save their tablespoonful
of flour for 365 days we should in a year’s
time have more than 2,280,000,000 pounds
of flour to the good. We wonder how many
Southern cooks are wasting that heaping table
spoonful daily! There is no higher and nobler
place for women today than in their own
kitchens.”
The Savannah Press thus sums up one of the
peculiarly important duties of the time. The con
servation of food supplies is no less essential
than the raising of armies, the manufacture of
munitions, the building of ships or any other war
sustaining and war-winning activity. The fact is,
the production and economy of food are the basic
activities on which all the others rest. Hence
what our Savann-fth contemporary aptly calls “con
science and character in the kitchen” are among
the fundamentals of patriotism. A stoppage of the
little leaks and a utilization of the little oppor
tunities for saving will make up, in the aggregate
of American households, a stupendous and truly
noble contribution to the nation’s war strength.
The Urgent Need of Good Roads'
The heavy demand which the moving of troops
and war supplies has laid upon the country’s rail
road facilities points to the necessity of making
wider use of other means of transportation. One
step to that end is the improvement of established
water routes, particularly as regards terminals and
boats, and the development of advantageously lo
cated rivers which can be made navigable without
great cost or delay. But a more immediate step is
the development of highways and a speeding-up
of good roads work throughout the country. Some
time ago the Railroad War Board suggested the
pratical possibilities of using motor trucks to
handle much of the short-haul freight which ordi
narily moves by rail. More recently the Council
of National Defense recommended that a transport
committee be appointed to study the question with
a view to definite action. Whatever cornea, of this
idea, it is certain that the States and counties
which improve and extend their highway systems
will be contributing a great deal to the nation’s
war efficiency as well as to their own material
well being.
LEARNING TO WORK. 1 I—Uncle1 —Uncle Sam Endows Trade Schools.
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By Frederic J. Haskin.
WASHINGTON. D. ('., Dec. 3.—Suppose that
you are a young man engaged in the print
ing trade, having begun as an apprentice
and worked up to the grade of journeyman printer,
and that you wish to open a shop of your own. It
is assumed that you have saved enough money to
make a first payment on a job press. Os course
you will know all about your machine and how tn
run it. because that is your business. Now a cus
tomer comes to you with a big job. He wants to
know what you will bid on an issue of five thou
sand twenty-page circulars advertising a new in
cubator. What is there in your experience to
teach you how to figure the cost of that job?
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Your customer also wants your advice, as a pro
fessional, concerning the makeup of his circular,
so that it will be most effective, and he further ex
pects you to read proof on it. and put. it into clear
and forcible English that, will be understandable to
a child and will not offend a person of cultivated
taste. What will there have been in your expe
rience as printer to fit you for these requirements?
Something in the way of chance opportunity, per
haps. but nothing in the way of systematic training.
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The only thing you have really learned is how
tn run your machine. Furthermore, if you look
about for a school in which to learn these things
which are necessary to your further progress, you
are unable to find it. The public schools in your
town will teach you to read and write, which is of
course, necessary to a printer or anyone else. But
at that point most of them depart from the line of
necessity, as a sky-rocket leaves the horizon. They
offer you a course in Latin, so that you may spend
your leisure hours chanting the Odes of Horace in
the original. They offer you a course in botany,
and after a hard days’ work, you can go out in the
vacant lots and rest your mind by tracing the rela
tionship between the common spinach (creamed
or plain) and the trailing arbutus. They teach you
French, not so you can speak it: but so you can de
cline irregular verbs in your sleep.
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All of these things are offered to you in the
same guise that the Germans hand us their fright
fulness; to-wit, as culture. The purveyors of this
modern high school culture seem to overlook the
fact that there would be just as much culture in a
study of the relation of art to printing, with special
courses in margins, types, and two color processes,
and that for you, an ambitious young printer, there
would be a great deal more use in this latter form
of culture.
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The federal board for vocational education pro
poses to open in every important city in the United
States schools which will teach the young printer
these very subjects, will give him the chance not
only to learn how to be a journeyman printer, but
to go as far in the printing trade as his brain and
his nerve will carry him. And not only the young
printer is to come in for this course of education
which is some use, but the also the young elec
trician, the young plumber, and the young man in
every other line of industrial work, including agri
culture. And not only the young ones but all of
the old ones who are not too old to learn, will get
a share of the benefits. The hours will be so ad
justed that a man can hold his job while learning
something about the job just ahead.
This new boon in the educational world is con
ferred by an act of congress called the Smith-
Hughes act, which was passed last February. The
board was organized last summer and is just now
getting well under way, with every indication that
it is really a live institution and not merely one
more board for the writing of reports and observ
ing of the sacred ritual of the Great Red Tape.
The most significant thing about this board is
that it has some real money to spend. It does not
merely “investigate and advise” the state govern-
Dr. Frank Crane is the special editorial writer
for the Associated Newspapers, which includes
about forty of the most prominent papers of the
United States.
Among these newspapers may be mentioned tne
New York Globe, the Boston Globe, Chicago Daily
News, Philadelphia Bulletin, Washington Star,
Omaha World-Herald, St Paul Dispatch, Atlanta
Journal, Buffalo News, Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph, Kansas City Star, etc.
Os these papers there are over 5,000,000 readers.
To them Dr. Crane writes a daily message.
In the history of newspaperdom no editorial
service so Widespread has heretofore been known.
It is probably not stretching the truth, therefore, to
say that no writer exercises more influence upon
public opinion today than Dr. Crane.
This influence is always sane, optimistic and
Ideal. Dr. Crane’s writings are not mere com
ments upon the events of the day. He has vision.
He has the peculiar faculty of penetrating to the
heart of great social, economic and national ques
tions and making plain the truth about them.
He is not afraid of being called radical, nor of
being called conservative. Whatever appeals to
him to be the truth he states with candor and con
viction.
Dr. Crane was born in Urbana, HI., on May 12,
1861. His father was James L. Crane, a well
known Methodist minister of Illinois. His mother
was Elizabeth Mayo, the daughter of Colonel Jona
than Mayo, of Paris, 111.
He received his schooling in the public schools
of Springfield. 111., and afterward went to the Wes
leyan university, of Bloomington, 111., from which
he carries the degrees of Ph. B. From the Ne
braska Wesleyan university, at Lincoln, he received
in 1894 the degree of D. D.
He married Ellie C. Stickel. of Hillsboro, 111., in
1883.
From 1882 to 1902 he was the pastor of various
Methodist churches in the west, among them the
First Methodist church of Omaha and Trinity
church of Chicago. From 1902 to 1909 he was the
HERE are signs that the war is causing, par
in' ticularly in our crowded cities, the wide
-*■ spread development of a restless, uneasy,
strained attitude of mind adverse to national stabil
ity and efficiency.
Perhaps this is only what is to be expected.
The tremendous economic and social dislocation
made necessary by war’s needs would naturally
tend to have a disturbing effect on many people.
But this does not tell the whole story. And, in
any event, mental calmness must be attained and
maintained if we are to win the war.
Despite the great whirl of present-day happen
ings, people must not let themselves become un
duly tense and nervous.
They must steady down.
When they find themselves rushing feverishly
from one thing to another.
When they observe in themselves a tendency
to talk quickly, excitedly, and volubly.
When they notice that it takes little to make
them bad tempered.
When they discover that their power to concen
trate attention has dropped below what is normal
to them.
When they feel that their muscles are con
stantly taut.
Then they need to recognize that these are
symptoms indicating that they are reacting to war
time conditions in such away as to be thrown
out of nervous balance.
To regain nervous control should at once be
come their business, both for their own sakes and
for the good of their country.
It will help them to do this if. not being already
engaged in some specific form of war work, they
select a patriotic occupation and earnestly apply
THE STORY OF DR. FRANK CRANE
STEADY DOWN—By H. Addington Bruce
ments and the people, as do so many federal boards,
created by politicians with a thoughtful eye on that
political Christmas tree, the United States treasury.
This board actually gets a little chunk of the
money which the people put up to spend on schools
for the people. For every dollar it spends the state
has to put up another dollar. These funds are to
be used in founding vocational classes in the pub
lic schools. The work in each state which takes
advantage of the arrangement (which will be all
of them I will be supervised by a state board. The
Dians of this state board will have to be apprervert
by the federal board in Washington, and the fed
eral board will also have a number of “regional”
inspectors w’ho will keep a watchful eye on the way
the state boards spend their money.
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This, when you come to think of it, is a long
step toward making the federal government re
sponsible for the education of the people. Hereto
fore. it has aided colleges and schools by giving
them tracts of public land; but it has had no
“strings” on these gifts; the states have been at
liberty to use them as they saw fit—which was
variously and not alw’ays to the best advantage.
Now government is going to supervise the spend
ing of every nickle of these vocations,! education
funds; and this is welcome news to the common
American who has learned that government is
about the one force in the nation that he can
surely trust. Government may make mistakes but
it doesn’t make profits.
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The Washington board consists of the secreta
ries of agriculture, commerce and labor and the
United States commissioner of education. and.
three citizen members who are supposed to rep
resent the commercial, agricultural and labor in
terests. This board leaves the real work to a
staff of trained educators, of which Dr. Charles A.
Prosser is the head.
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The classes which will be quickly
established under this law will teach all of the
principal industries, not simply with a view to
making a proficient machine out of a man, but
w-ith a view to making him really understand his
business. This is made clear by the board in its
statement of policy. For example, in its machine
shop schools, the board will not teach merely shop
work, although this will occupy several hours 'a
day. It will also teach machine shop mathe
matics, drawing as related to machine shop trades,
science applied to the machine shop, and’ the hy
giene of the trade. Surely this is the kind of edu
cation that will put the young mechanic in the
way of becoming foreman, engineer or owner, if
he has it in him. And he is just as apt to have ft
as are any of the boys that are annually ex
posed to college education.
Workmen have generally been suspicious of
vocational education on the ground that it was de
signed simply to make them more proficient work
men without offering them the opportunities for
progress that go with a trained and cultivated
mind. The generous interpretation put upon the
term vocational education by this new government
board ought to reassure them on this point.
The classes win be open to all persons over
fourteen years of age, with no upper limit. They
are designed primarily for men and boys who
work. Except for this minimum age limit, no
other absolute requirement for entrance to the
classes is made, but every precaution will be taken
to see that the pupils who take up the work are
able to benefit by it> There will be periods of pro
bational enrollment: the boy or man will have to
make good at his studies or be dropped from his
class.
“The Vocational Education Aet opens the door
of opportunity to the American workman,” says
a member of the board. And he seems to be right.)
pastor of the Union Congregational church at Wor
cester, Mass.
In 1909 he resigned his pulpft and began writing
for the newspapers, having the conviction that jour
nalism had a place for articles upon serious, even
religious, topics if they were properly done.
His first efforts were produced in the Chicago
Evening Post under the favor of Leigh Reilley, at
that time editor. Mr. Bok, of the Ladies’ Home
Journal, noticed his articles In the Post and secured
him for a series of articles which ran some time In
his magazine. At that time he wrote also for a
number of Independent papers.
When the Associated Newspapers was formed Dr.
Crane was taken on as a writer of editorials, and
this position he holds at the present time.
Since 1909 he has lived some time in Italy,
France and England, but at present resides In New
York City.
He is the author of the following books: “he
Religion of Tomorrow,” 1899, published by Stone &
Co., Chicago: “Vision,” 1907, privately published;
“The Song of the Infinite,” 1909, Pilgrim Press,
Boston; the four following published by Forbes &
Co., of Chicago: “Lame and Lovely,” 1912; "Busi
ness and Kingdom Come,” 1912; "Human Confes
sions,” 1912, and "God and Democracy,” 1912, and
the six following from the John Lane Company, of
London and New York: "Footnotes to Life,” 1914;
“War and World Government,” 1915; “Just Hu
man,” 1915; “Adventures in Common Sense,” 1916;
“The Looking Glass,” 1917; "Christmas and the
Year Round,” 1917.
He is a member of the New York Athletic Club,
the Lambs Club and the Authors Club, of New York
City. „
He has two children — a son. James L. Crane, who
is an actor, and a daughter, Mrs. Alfred E. Drake.
Two other children died.
He is an enthusiastic student of languages, and
acquainted with the literature of Germany, France.
Italy, Spain and Russia.
Dr. Crane’s life is as simple and democratic as his
writings would indicate.
themselves to it. 1
It is, in fact, my observation that most of the
nervously strained folk I encounter today are peo
ple who have not joined as heartily in patriotic en
deavor as they can and should join.
Consciously or subconsciously they are dissatis
fied with themselves. Their nervousness is an out
ward sign of their inward dissatisfaction.
Or else they are people wholly absorbed in
what the effect of the war may be on their personal
fortunes.
They are people so self-centered that the na
tional crisis and the national needs mean little to
them.
In which case the best nerve steadier I can
prescribe for them is some real thinking about the
significance of the war from a national point of
view.
Thus really thinking they will awaken, as they
have not yet done, to the paramount necessity for
universal war service. They will seek away in
which they personally can serve.
And, having found away, having begun to for
get self in patriotic fervor, they wilk begin at the
same time to be loosed from the bonds of nervous
strain.
It may well be that they can best serve their
country by laboring diligently at their present voca
tion.
Their release from nerve tension will result
just the same, provided only that they truly sense
the patriotic significance of their work, and stick
at it with patriotic zeal. i
For thus they will gain increased self-respect
and self-satisfaction, elements indispensable to
tranquillity of mind and nerves.
(Copyright, 1917, by the Associated Newspapers.)
