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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ~ — ATLAJTTA, GJU. 5 MOBTH FOBSTTB ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoflice as Mail Matter o the Second Cla*»- SUBSCRIPTION FBXCX. 7oc Twelve months .. 40c Six months Three months’22 The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on P**' day and Friday, and is mailed by the shorten’ roU for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, broup by special leased wires into our office- It ha*> as a of distinguished contributors, with strong d* par ments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wnnted at every postofllce. Liberall < 'oni mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R- R* l * LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have arc R. F. Bolton. C. C- Cdyle. •Tiarles 1<- Woodliff. J* Patten. W. H. Reinhardt. M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling representative** NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label oted foe addrewina yer paper shows the year sabaenption expires. By renewing at least two wee*s r*** tav the datd on this label, you insure regular serrlee. Tn ordertnr paper chanced, be to mention year on. *■ well yocr new adirew. If oe • route, please give the route We eanaot enter raberrtpUen* to beptn with back number*. Remittaaeee sboald be seat by postal order <w rrgiatere l Address all orders and notices for thia Department to THE SKMI-WBKKX.Y JOCKSAL, Atlanta. Ge. 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. ♦ • 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. a The early shopper gets the pick. a 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. - 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. << 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? a • « 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. * * * 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. t • » 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. • • • 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. * » . 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. • • • 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. • • • 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.)
