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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ( ATLANTA. GA., 3 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months ‘« c Six months Three months -25 c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the short est routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal .cmmission allowed. Outfit free. XS rite R. R RADLEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. Charles H. Wood liff. J. M. Patten, W. H. Reinhardt, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named travel ing representatives. X. 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Strangling the Pirates Much more important than the spectacular Ü bcat raid along the North Atlantic coast is the an nouncement from Washington that Allied and American naval forces have destroyed sixty per cent of all German submarines constructed. This good work has gone forward without fanfare or boastfirlness. Few of its incidants have been pub lished, though they comprise, we may be sure, a wealth of sea romance. But its effectiveness is witnessed not only in the heavy toll that has been taken of the Prussian pirates but also in the com parative safety whch is heng secured for ship ping. The loss of Allied vessels has been cut in half, and is continually being reduced. While this is due partly to vigilant convoys, it is largely a result of aggressive war upon the U-boats. What with destroyers, depth bombs, hydroplanes and we know not how many other devices, all engaged in the hunt, the seas become more and more dangerous for the German sharks. It is a mild statement of the cgse to say that sixty per cent of all the submersi bles thus far ecr.structcd by the Central Powers have been destroyed, because the present rate of destruction is far higher and is constantly mount ing. Indeed there is good reason to suspect that we are now sinking U-boats far faster than the Germans can replace them. At the same time we are building merchant ships faster than the Germans can sink them. In April alone England and the United States pro duced forty thousand tons more shipping than the enemy destroyed, while accelerated methods of re pairing damaged craft added some five hundred thousand tons a week. American ship launching in May set a new record; seventy-one hulls total ling more than three hundred and forty thousand tons were put into the water, thirty-nine being steel and thirty-two wood. Deliveries were proportion ately large. An idea of the speed with whch we can fabricate ships, now that our facilities are fair ly organized, may be had from the case of the Tuckahoe, a fifty-five hundred ton steel merchant man built at Camden, N. J. This ship was laid, launched, completed and delivered to the Govern ment all within thirty-seven days. Commenting on this performance, the St. Louis Globe-Demo crat remarks that if the other seven hundred and twenty-nine shipways in the United States do half as well the new dead-weight tonnage for the year will reach seven million, three hundred thousand “or more than twice the conservative estimate of a few weeks ago and twenty per cent more than Mr. Hurley’s most optimistic promises." We are reminded furthermore that Mr. Schwab has prom ised two ten-thousand ton ships a day by October; and Mr. Schwab is not a man of light words. Ttiis nt?ady thwarting and strangling of the submarine is of the utmost importance in its effect upon German morale as well as in its bearing upon the purely military and naval aspects of the war. With all 'her swaggering pretense. Von Tfrpltz and his colleagues in Frightfulness cannot conceal their alarm over feeling their sole sea weapon gradually • crumble to impotence. The German people cannot forg«t the words of their Imperial. Chancellor spoken two winters ago: “We stale's all (referring to unrestricted submarine warfare) and we shall win.” Nor can they forget the Kaiser’s own sol emn assurance than in six months at the longest England would be starved into submisson and would surrender to a U-boat blockade. Nearly eighteen months have elapsed, and instead of that triumphant blockade there is an ever lengthening roll of U-boats that never .come back; there are * ever increasng numbers and power in the Allies’ merchant fleets; and there js an ever swelling tide of man-power from America rolling to the fields of France, with the doom of Prussanism ringing from its human waves. Help the Farmers, The people in the cities and towns of Georgia have proven their patriotism by selling Liberty Bonds, raising money for the Red Cross, and do ing their fine, enthusiastic part in various other movements to help' win the war. Now comes a time when they van show their devotion to their country in a task devoid of pomp or glory or brass band concerts or the waving of flags. Georgia farms are short of labor. The short age can not be supplied from other states, because all others are precisely in the same situation. It can not be supplied by sending soldiers back from the training camps, because the nation must put its power on the battle line. Every community must secure emergency farm help by emergency methods—by forcing all va grants to find employment; by stopping all work that is not essential to the conduct of the war: by sending schoolboys as volunteers in the great “Working Reserve” which the Government is forming; finally, by calling on town people to lend a hand in the periods of stress when a few days determine the difference between success and fail* ure of the crops. There is nothing spectacular in this movement. It is a plain piece of work without any frills, a piece of work that will blister the skin and bend the back and fatigue the muscles. But no piece of work in the whole war program is more impor tant at this time. Thousands of farmers in Georgia today need a few days’ work by a small force of hands to rescue their cotton and corn and other crops from the grass. It is out of the question to attempt to hire the hands they need in the open market. They may be able-to hire a few, but they can not get enough to tide them over. Every board of trade and chamber of com merce in the state can render a service of tre mendous value to the nation by taking this mat ter up at once in a systematic way and mobilizing the available man-power in their respective com munities. Let them call on their business men, profes sional men and all other men in the towns and cities to arrange their affairs in such away as to permit a few hours of work every day for a fort night or such a matter, to tide the farmers over the crisis. This plan has been launched with- remarkable success in practically every section of the country. It is officially sanctioned by the United States De partment of Agriculture. The farmers have re sponded nobly to the Government’s appeal for in creased food production, but they can not travel without help. The prosperity of ever}' town and city in the country is dependent In large measure upon the success of the farmer with his crops. Hence this movement is one where self-interest and patriotism both appeal to the people of the towns. “Excessive cold wave hits Germany.” Cold* feet, probably. The Conquest of the Tractor. While American guns are raking the Boche, American tractors are winning a closely related and truly decisive battle here at home. At least one hundred’ thousand of them, the Waycross Journal- Herald informs us, “are chugging away on Ameri can farms, doing the work of not less than two hundred thousand farm hands and eight hundred thousand horses." What an invaluable economy of labor and time! The dearth of farm help is dis tressing enough as it is. but conditions would be incomparably worse were it not for these efficient labor-saving machines. Last summer. Government reports indicate, there were.hardly more than forty thousand tractors in use in this country. By the end of the present year, it is expected, upwards of two hundred thousand will be in use. We are doing what the British did earlier in the war when the future looked particularly threat ening to their food supply. Thousands of tractors were imported from the United States; they were equipped with giant head lights so that they could work by night as well as day; they were set going across great expanses of land which had remained ur.tilled for lack of labor; and by the next har vestide English fields were fat with plenty. Sim ilarly gratifying results were obtained in the same way in France. The tractor was a mighty help in beating the U-boat scheme in a season of peculiar stress. Its part in the future of American agricul ture, particularly that of the South, is incalculably important. - As it is helping to win the war, so will it extend and enrich our empire of the soil in the peaceful years to come. General Crowder is an extremely efficient of ficial. Ask any man between 21 and 31. The Road to Victory The duty of the American navy, says Secretary Daniels in alluding to the recent U-boat raid, is to keep open the way to France for the movement of our troops and supplies, and “this great task will be accomplished at all hazards.” That is the whole nation’s Judgment. The haphazard incursion of a few Prussian pirates against our coastwise merchant men will not divert us from the all-important busi ness of augmenting and maintaining our forces at the battle front. As long as this three-thousand mile line of communciation continues unbroken, submarine forays off our coasts are of no conse quence. Our cause will be lost or won “over there.” The real frontier of American freedom is not now on this side of the Atlantic but on the other side, where Allied arms hold off the Hun. If we drive this common enemy of civilization back across the Rhine and there crush him to defeat, our shores and homes and liberty will be forever secure against his threat. But if he trumphs there, it will be merely a matter of time when ho will be hurling all his Frightfulnes against our gates—not simply a U-boat raid hut a vast onpouring of brutal hordes like those that sacked and tortured Bel gium. Realizing this grim truth., Americans think and act solely with a view to victory where taeir troops and their Allies are at grips with the Boches. They have no apprehension for things over here save to the extent that things “over there” are involved. They are not to be alarmed into calling home naval units that are doing effective service in European waters, or into remitting the all-important work of keeping men and supplies moving constantly across the Atlantic. The maritime road we have built to France shall be maintained, as Secretary Daniels says, “at all hazards,” for it is the road to victory. Nearly JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GA. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1918. il' ar Savings Stamps. The Treasury Department’s plan to raise $2,000,000,000 during 1918 by the sale of War Savings Stamps has taken the side track for va rious other patriotic campaigns of more imme diate and pressing urgency, it could afford to give them the main line because they were short, intensive campaigns, while it had a year to reach its goal. But the time has now arrived when the Treas ury Department can wait no longer to push the sales of War Savings Stamps. It has been deter mined to sell tbe whole amount, yet remaining unsold, in a great one-day drive to be held in every community in the United States on the same day at the same hour. June 28, the day for the drive, has been offi cially proclaimed by President Wilson as "Na tional War Savings Day,” and the President’s proc lamation calls on the people throughout the na tion to assemble in mass meetings in their respec tive communities and sign their subscriptions pledging the purchase in regular installments dur ing the balance of the year of sufficient amounts of War Savings Stamps to cover their quotas. These mass meetings in the main will be held in schoolhouses, which are well distributed and con venient to reach. War Savings Stamp quotas are figured on a basis of S2O per capita, including men, women and chil dren. Georgia’s quota is $57,500,000, of which a comparatively small amount has yet been sold. The quota for any given community is easy to figure, being S2O per capita of the local population. Six thousand mass meetings will be held in Georgia at 2 o’clock on the afternoon of June 28. There will be approximately one mass meeting for every school district in the state. Governor Dorsey is preparing to issue a proclamation sup plementing the proclamation of the President. The whole body of the people are summoned to lay aside all other business and attend the mass meetings prepared to sign subscriptions pledging the purchase of War Savings Stamps to the limit of their means. A question as to whether the people of Geor gia will respond to this summons can not be enter tained for a moment. They know what War Sav ings Stamps are, a government security paying a better rate of interest than Liberty Bonds, and purchaseable in very small amounts, ranging as low »as the 25-cent Thrift Stamp. They know the amount they are asked to buy. They know the day and know the hour when they are expected to sign their subscriptions. They know that thou sands must take more than the minimum allot ment of S2O to make up tor those who can not buy or will not buy at all. Georgians have sounded the everlasting death knell of slackerism and copper-headism by the splendid manner in which they rallied to the Lib erty Loans, the Red Cross drive, the Y. M. C. A. war funds, and all the other patriotic movements. Georgia boys are now on the battle front, fighting with a fierce and impetuous courage that is des tined to win the war and make America the mas ter of ceremonies when peace terms are signed. Georgia ‘ men and women and children, backing them up on the battle line at home, are determined that nothing shall go undone to provide the Gov ernment with everything necessary to make them the most efficient and successful fighting force the world has ever seen. Having done her part in all other movements and done it with that magnificent whole-hearted generosity which marks the southern people when fully aroused. Georgia will certainly not fall short in War Savings Stamps. SECESSION By Dr. Frank Crane The vast, centuries old agony of mankind is the working out of the inborn desire to get together. Universal brotherhood is not an academic the ory, a prophetic dream; it is a deep instinct. All our ills come from isolation, provincialism, individualism, sects, classes, parties, antagonisms; the cure is in the breaking down of partitions, In coalescing. Underneath the sordid ambitions and the pride of Rome was the idea of one world, one govern ment. one humanity; and although the effort broke and the organization was shattered, the feeling re mained. to come up again in due time. Nations are getting together, in advance of the systems they superseded. United Italy replaced the quarreling Italian states; so the France of today, the Germany, Great Britain, and United States of today, each represent a unification of small prov inces. Individualism does not pay. It costs too much struggle to keep alive. One spends too much time fighting other individuals. Competition must go. It is too wasteful. Only in co-operation do we eliminate wars, When we get through with the present war, and look back upon it from fifty years of progress, we will see that it, too, was a struggle toward world unity. Germany is emphasizing its individuality. It wants to secede from the world. AS e are fighting to make it come in with us. It must obey inter national law, accept the universal code of morality; it must also be human, not German. The revolt of Germany from civilization has powerfully unified the world. All other nations instinctively unite to oppose her. Never has mankind been so fused as today; never has there been such a coalition as that formed by Great Britain, France, Italy, the United States, and their allies. We are to be one. We are to have one law, one civilization, one morality, one world government. Not by the devices of man, but by tbe will of Goa. Destiny is pounding out the perfect world unity upon the anvil of war. By labor unions and business trusts it is .orglng CC °”n^heCrucible of time it is melting all religions into one faith. We are in the grip of an elemental tendency, as profound as evolution, as irresistible as gravitation slow, perhaps, but as certain as tbe procession of the equinoxes. Secession is doomed. We are bound for Ono God. one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves. (Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES "Do you object to having German taught in the schools?" "I don’t exactly object," answered the man of mild inclinations. “But it doesn’t seem exactly practical. How is a student going to keep his mind on his lesson instead of losing his temper?” A countryman was one day working for an old lady. At tea time the man came for his tea; there was butter and jam set before him. He took some jam and not butter. The lady noticed this and said some people like jam better than butter, and others like butter better than jam. "Begorra, mam, I like better butter," said the countryman. AMERICANS ON EVE OF BATTLE SEE STARTLING AIRPLANE STUNTS By Herbert Corey JUST BEHIND THE SOMME FRONT, April 22. After two days of hiking we have reached another town. Now ’the guns sound so near tne window panes almost rattle and the night sky is lighted by the flares from the fir ing line. We did not come straight toward the front from our last camp, but progressed in a line roughly parallel to it. The regiment is being held ready for action. It may be sent in at one of half a dozen different points. This town is a good jumping-off place. Except for the guns and the airplanes one would not think this pleasant country is so near the tidal line of war. The fields are well culti vated, the gardens are flourishing, the horses are huge and kittensh, and the cows are fat. In. the back of one’s mind remains a consciousness of that unceasing thumping over yonder, but superficially the land presents the aspect of a country at peace. If one stops to think, of course, one sees that the fields are being worked by old men and by the women. Today a one-legged man drove a team of two cows and a donkey to the work of ploughing. The broad slopes are barred here and there by savage bands of wire. Across the lush bottoms may be traced the half overgrown lines of trenches, long prepared against a possibility the kind world hopes may never come. . • And there are always the airplanes. I do not know how many aviation fields there may be near here—l only know of three, but there must be others, for at dawn and dusk the sky is filled with these birds of battle —but I am told they are scattered about behind the cover of wooded hills in many a level prairie. It is not an exaggeration to say that at times the sky is filled with the fliers. They wheel to and fro in unending evolutions like swallows over a barnyard, or like great fish play ing in a tank of illimitable blue. Sometimes they seem to miss each other by inches only. Always, between parades and inspections and close order drills and the other exercises that keep soldiers from getting lonely, the streets are lined with neck tired Americans in khaki all gazing up. GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH It is not that the exploits of the flying men are new to them any more, but that the show is per haps the most marvelous ever seen on earth. The French inhabitants of these parts, weary and sad dened and resentful after almost four years of war. join the strangers in the skygazing. One can see their tired faces light up as one after another their aerial defenders do their incredible stunts in the upper air. One man almost flew in my bed room window’ as the sun was rising this morning. Another seems to use the pointeji steeple of the little old cruciform church as his target and darts strikes at it untiringly for an hour at a time, al ways sheering off just when It seems that he must be impaled.* w HOW THE NAVY PLAYS —By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7. —So much has been written and said about keeping the fighting man amused the impression * s apt to get abroad that he is Incapable of amusing him self. Os the navy especially, this would be un true. For while the tars are keenly appreciative of all the shows and lectures and magazines ana concerts and movies which have been P ro y}^ them by a generous government, and a still more generous public, they are by habit to a great ex tent independent of these things. . This commendable movement for keeping the ™emit amused is comparatively new, but the navy has long since solved the problem of how to have a good time, no matter where it is. For while the sailor’s days of leisure may be spent in London or Paris or Hongkong, they as often occur when the ship is at anchor off some coaling sation among a population of nati ' e ®' ° in a port that is quarantined. Hence the nawy has formed the habit of depending upon its own resouJcS for diversion. And the new recruits have quickly caught the idea. An old tar. looking over a roomful of nava! re serves. remarked: "Throw- a Jucketful of salt water into that room, and the whole blooming lot will be seasick in a jiffy.” And he may have been right at the time. But •these men not only got used to of the waves, but also to those of the jolly men that sail them. For the navy has a traditfon of cheer fulness The happy grin is its insigne. The navy has been decorated with a smile for learning how to have fun under trying conditions. The fundamental principle of the navy ® method of amusing itself is that a shipload of me will include, by the law of averages, ma ferent kinds of talent. This talent is.sought with systematic care, developed, and used for all It is worth. A belligerent Irish recruit, when asked what he could contribute toward the general joy fund, replied: ‘I can’t dance and I can’t sing, but I can lick any d —d man in the crowd.” He soon had a number of chances to prove his assertion, for boxing is one of the navy’s stand ard sports, and it has developed some men who would show to good advantage in the profession al ring if they chose to enter it. Baseball is another game that stands high in the estimation of the sailor man. At a training station near Washington, there are a dozen base ball diamonds laid out side by side, and all of them are kept busy most of the time. Here the naval recruit with an aptitude for the national game gets into trim to uphold the honor of his ship against the teams from other vessels. His athletic instruction is as systematic and thorough as that in his profession, for the navy is abundant ly supplied wtlh athletic directors, rhe Jack al ways knows what is going on at home in the world of sport, too; for the wireless summary of news that goes out from Washington day to ships and naval stations in all parts of the world includes the baseball scores. Rowing is a naval sport which is more In line with the professional duties of the participants, but which is nevertheless entered upon in a sport ing spirit. When races between the rival crews of the big warships are pulled off, there is wild enthusiasm and strong betting. Among less strenuous amusements, singing holds first place in the navy. Upon every man-of war there are a number of men who can sing, some who can play instruments, and few who do not attempt one or the other. And music is an aid to work as well as a means of passing spare time. When a ship is being coaled the band usually plays and the fuel goes overside in a jiffy to the rhythm and swing of some tune that every man can sing. Quartettes are as common in the navy as cor net players in a country town. Wherever twenty five saiiors get together, a quartette is sure to be evolved, and new recruits often form these impor tant organizations before they get to the train ing stations. Not long ago a group of naval of ficers of high rank w-ere being entertained, and a quartette from one of the vessels formed a part of the program. The skill of these singers -was surprising. After they had finished, a gentleman went to the leader, explained that he had been in the show business, and wanted to know where these men had acquired such unusual attainments. "We were in vaudeville for three years,” the sailor admitted. “We enlisted in a body." “Isn’t that fine?” exclaimed the old showman. “Maybe so.” said the minstrel-sailor, "but we never worked so hard before in our lives. Once the crew found out what our business was, they started us singing, and we’ve been singing ever since.” John Philip Sousa has been especially success ful in finding and developing musical talent among the sailors. At the Great Lakes training station he organized a band of three hundred pieces that is praised by the knowing, and he now has over a thousand naval recruits on the lakes organized into bands. The Great Lakes recruits further distinguished themselves by staging a sailor-written and sailor- I have been in many aerial areas during this war, but nowhere have I seen flying by so many virtuosos as one sees here. No one bothers to look at a flyer who merely loops the loop here abouts. It is understood that he is only a pupil, or perhaps a master flyer limbering himself up for the hour of vivid life he is soon to find twenty kilometres—ten minutes—distant from his hom ing place. The others slip sidew'ays or do back ward dives or come down in the breadth stopping vrilles—the flutter of a killed bird, w’hich is in tended to deceive the antagonist into believing that the flyer has a mortal hurt —and ever and ever pivot on wing tips or dart at each other Ake sparrow hawks. The simulation is that of a true fight in the air, but if either were to lose control of nerve or muscle for the fraction of a second two planes would crash, so close is the play. LIKE THE CROWS Hardly does the sun get above the horizon than one hears the deep humming of their engines. Some have the true organ note in tertain winds, and others thrash and grind through the air angrily and still others ar; noiseless in the slanting wrinds, and seem to float almost motionless in the pearly blue. The great black crows of France select this hour for their morning flight, too, and at times the man-made birds are hardly dis tinguishable from the others when the crows are nearer and in the eye of the sun. The fighting men swoop and dive for a moment and then are off for their w’ork of death. The others rise and descend in ever changing squadrons. Sometimes a call comes from the front, and one sees long strings wheel away like wild geese for a distant haven. At night, too. they come wringing back, and sometimes after dark has fallen one sees a bomb flash high in air and then landing lights flare up on the flying fields for the homecomers. There is another sign, too, that this land is not as peaceful as one would think w’hen one fiut/ view’s the dancing horses and the great white oxen and the self-centered ducks that w’addle etern ally across the roads from the noisome pools that abound in every village. At times one sees wa gons on the roads, piled high with the movable effects of those who have been driven from their homes by war. TLe men—always old or crippled or too young—are silent and morose. The wom en do not weep, tut sit high throned among their pathetic goods, packed in with the feather pil lows and the deep carven wooden beds and hold ing babies in their patient arms, and stare for ward tow’ard a future that must seem compact of misery. Now and then it is a little cart, drawn by one or more of the great dogs of Flanders, per haps aided by man or boy. It is when the Ameri can soldiers see such as these that they realize what the German has done. played musical comedy, which achieved a genuine popular success in the Chicago theaters, and even won words of praise from the professional critics. A similar show was put on at the Ceiltury theater in New York by the men from the Pelham Bay station. It went over with a biff-bang—which was the name of the play. The navy seems to be rich in Jazz band talent, and, strangely enough, Boston the highbrow city, is especially prolific of jazzers, for it recent ly sent out as a recruiting stunt a navy jazz band that literally made the whole country yell with delight. It played four weeks in vaudeville dur ing the last Liberty Loan, and wherever it appear ed the rrfoney simply poured over the footlights. Its last appearance was at Keith’s, in Washing ton, D. C., during the final week of the drive, and it caused such excitement and enthusiasm that this house was able to set the world high water mark for Liberty Loan subscriptions received in' a theater. The value of music In the navy is fully ap preciated by its. officers. One captain when asked recently if he could use any more men on his ship, replied: "You might send me a couple of ukelele players, second class.” ENEMIES OF THE WILL By H. Addington Bruce ASTRONG will is one of the most desirable of possessions. But to maintain strength of will is not always easy. *The will has many enemies. Conspicuous among these is bodily weakness., Anything that lowers the muscular and nervous tone has a tendency to lower the will power. For this reason it is imperative, in order to keep or gain a strong will, to put into practice the principles of mental hygiene. Thus many men weaken their wills by eating too much, by exercising not at all, by sleeping too: little, by denying themseives a sufficiency of fresh air. All these hygienic indiscretions affect the diges-. tion, circulation, etc. This means that they impair the quality of the brain’s nutrition. As a conse quence the will, in common with the reasoning' power, is harmfully affected. Inactivity, physical or mental, is another potent enemy of the will. The idler is inevitably weak| willed, if only because he is an idler. For effort, energetic effort, is indispensable tO' continued well-being of the whole organism. And energetic effort is precisely the thing most disliked: by the indolent. Wherefore wealth must be listed among the forces that often undermine will power. As more elaborately stated by the observant Dr. Robert 6.1 Carroll: "Wealth, plenty, the unwise provisions of an cestry have removed from the lives of too many the necessity for special effort or sacrifice; and so, in the midst of affluence and surrounded by thei richest of opportunities, many will-less, spineless imitations of manhood and womanhood develop. , "Absence of effort means absence of will, and the absence of will too frequently makes impossible! the effort directed by reason, and thus a vicious circle may be established.” Also there are distinctly psychic enemies of the will. Fear is one of these. Through unwise training in early life many people are continually beset by fears of all kinds.' They allow themselves even to fear irrationally, and in the grip of their fears are absolutely incap able of exerting will power. Such people need special treatment as truly as those physically ill. They need treatment to banish their haunting dreads and give reason an oppor tunity to open the door for the will development they so painfully lack. Self-pity, too, is a dire enemy of the will. » When a man begins to pity himself —whether for bodily maladies, financial reverses, or what ever it may be —that moment he puts a blight on his will power. For the attitude of self-pity is essentially the attitude of surrender. And with surrender effort ceases. Lastly, self-indulgence must be rated among tha worst of all enemies of the will. The self-indulgent scracely know the meaning of the word "sacrifice.” Yet without sacrifice will power cannot be maintained. Again I call on Dr. Carroll to bear testimony: "The whole story of human and personal prog ress is an unmitigated tale of denials today—de nials of rest, denials of repose and comfort and ease and pleasure—that tomorrow may be richer.” Accordingly, for the development and conserva tion of will power this formula may be suggested: . Practice personal hygiene, keep actively at work, think courageously, avoid self-pity and self indulgence, practice self-denial. Thus you most surely can safeguard your will against its many enemies. (Copyright, 1918. by the Associated Newspapers.) To German braggarts: Tell it to the marines.
