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Newspaper Page Text4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. \ Entered at the Atlanta Postofflce as Mail Matter of the Second Class. SUBSC RIPTION PRICE Twelve months ‘•® c Six months Three months 25c 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 -onimisaion allowed. Outfit free. VS rite R. R '•LEY. Circulation Manager. e only traveling representatives we have -•»- -. 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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Tb* label B«ed for addre«itn c »oor paper show* the time roar »überrlption expire*. By renewing at least two week* be fore the date on thia label, you insure necutar aerrice. In ordering paper changed, be aure to mention your old. aa well aa your new address. If on a route, please give the route We cann«t enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ca. The Journal’s Service Flag In honor of the slxty-one Atlanta Journal men who have entered une service of their country. The one white star is in memory of Captain Meredith Gray who gave his life on the Preach Battlefield. The Hun and Human Nature. The Germans boast that they know everything about psychology, but manifestly they know next to nothing about human nature. They send Ü boats to wage guerilla warfare on our coasts, ex pecting it will frighten us into impotence. That we should be stirred to fresh activity and resolution in stead of being unnerved seems never to have oc curred to them. Our movement of troops and sup plies across the Atlantic will be hastened rather than checked; shipbuilding will be hurried for ward with keener enthusiasm; our will to win the war at all hazards and at any cost is deepened by this new peril at our gates. That is the last thing the Germans expected and the last thing in human nature they can understand. As they miscalculated the psychological effect of this U-boat raid, so throughout the war have they misjudged the minds of the Allies and of the entire world. This has been demonstrated in divers ways, but in none more strikingly than in the Germans' reliance upon frightfulness as a conquering force. Their own word for this weapon is Schrecklichkeit, by which they mean the systematic perpetration of cruel and horrible deeds for the purpose of strik ing deadly fear into their foes. Thus at the very beginning of the war they deliberately butchered hundreds of non-combatants in Belgium, thinking that the ghastly spectacle would overawe and weaken the enemy. In his carefully kept diary Pri vate Karl Scheufele, of the Third Bavarian regi ment of Landwehr infantry, gives, with a relish which only a Hun could feel, many instances of Schrecklichkeit. Let one suffice for illustration: "In the night of August 18, 1914, the vil lage of Saint-Maurice was burnt te the ground by German troops. The village was surround ed, men posted about a yard from one another, so that no one could get out. Then the Uhlans set fire to it, house by house. Neither man, woman nor child could escape; only the greater part of the live stock was carried off as that could be used. Anyone who ventured to come out was shot. All the inhabitants left in the village were burnt with the houses." Unnumbered crimes of which this was but a mild forerunner were committed with a view to cowing the Belgians and French and intimidating the Brit ish from coming fully into the war. How com pletely the Hun miscalculated, the unflinching hero ism of Belgium and France and the unswerving honor of England gloriously attest. The more frightful he grew, the more determined did they become to resist him and eventually to conquer him. Their reaction was like that of the Canadian sol diers who looking across No Man's Land beheld one of their captured comrades crucified above a German trench; far from being subdued with fear they were fired with an inextinguishable will to get at the Boche's throat. Likewise the Zeppelin raids on unfortified English towns, instead of dismaying the people who saw women and children slain by German bombs, stirred them to more intense and more purposeful patriotism. In the same way, America, instead of being kept out of the war by the terrors of Prussian piracy, was constrained to enter it, and instead of being morally shaken or im paired by U-boat raids at her doorway, is inspirited and made more resolute. Is it not exceedingly significant that these reac tions which to us seem so natural and so inevitable should have been quite unexpected by the Germans? Is there not a clear disclosure of German character in the fact that they have failed so completely to appraise or understand the character of the Bel gians. the French, the British, the Italians, the Americans and of. virtually the whole civilized world? Why is it that the Hun expected these peo ples to act contrary to their standards and our standards of courage and honor? The simplest ex planation is the saying that no Hun is able to put himself in the place of anybody else. Not only does his nation lack the standards and the ideals by which the Allied nations are governed, but he him self lacks the sympathy and the imagination to comprehend those reaches of character that are above his own grossness. He cannot comprehend America’s giving up the ease of her isolation and fighting with never a thought of material gain. He cannet comprehend any act, any motive, any state of mind that lies beyond the circle of his own sordid selfishness. He knows so little about human nature because he has in himself so little humanity. JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1918. IVar to Victory. Secretary Lansing speaks the mind of all think ing Americans as well as of the Government itself when he says: “We must go on with the war. This task must not be left half done. We must not trans mit to posterity a legacy of blood and misery. We may in this great conflict go down in the valley of shadows, because our foe is powerful and inured to war. We must be prepared to meet disappointment and tempcrrary reverse; we must rise above them with American spirit. With courageous hearts we must go forward until the war is won." If we do not go forward the full distance to victory, we may as well count ourselves defeated. There can be no compromise with Prussianism. No pledge the German Government might make, no treaty it might sign while its militaristic spirit re mained uncrushed would be of any significance or effect. The moment it suited German ambition ana avarice to break faith, the treaty would be tossed to the winds and brutal Uhlans would sweep forth in another raid upon civilization. We know that this would be the event because we know from one glaring demonstration after another how wholly A war now and then is a good thing to pull us back to the essentials. perfidious is the character of Prussianism. Secre tary Lansing discloses a new’ and particularly apt instance in telling of Count Bernstorff’s request to Berlin just six weeks after the Imperial Govern ment had given the United States solemn promises, in case of the Sussex, that there should be no more submarine murder. Bernstorff, then German am bassador at Washington, knowing that his Govern ment had no intention of keeping its word, asked the Berlin foreign office to advise him well in ad vance of the resumption of U-boat ruthlessness in order that he might direct the German merchant ships in American ports to destroy their machinery, in anticipation of the United States entering the war. Our Secretary of State well observes that the very bluntness with which the ambassador asked for the information “shows he was sure his superi ors would not take offense at the assumption that their word was valueless and had been given only to gain time, and that when an increase of the sub marine fleet warranted, the promise would be broken without hesitation or compunction." It is this tricky, sneaking, conscienceless charac ter of Prussianism that precludes the possibility of safe dealing with its agents. Count Bernstorff and his superiors were supposed to be men of integrity. They represented the height of German statesman ship, German culture, German ideals. Yet in their dealings, not with an enemy but with a neutral whose honor stood above reproach, they proved themselves common crooks and thugs. The Kaiser himself exemplified this national trait when a num ber of years ago he presented as a trophy of sports manship to an American a cup which was supposed to be of pure gold, but which upon being broken to pieces the other day turned out to be gilded pewter. There we have the character of the Hohenzollern and his subjects, a mixture of high-flown preten tiousness and crawling dishonesty. There is a proverbial honor among thieves, but not among Prussians. This cad who gave away a pewter cup with royal fanfare is the same brutal despot who dreams of conquering the world. And likewise the record of Prussianized Germany is a clustering suc cession of crimes, from the meanest to the most enormous. No freedom or righteous peace for the world is possible until this criminal spirit is stripped of its power to harm. Not merely the strutting Kaiser and his foolish princelets, not merely the person ages of Prussianism, but the spirit itself must be conquered once for all. It must be extirpated from people and rulers alike. We learned long ago that it is in the people as well as in the rulers, this consuming desire to domineer, this readiness to break faith and conscience at a hint from sordid self-interest. The German people rang church bells and made a merry hohday when the Lusitania, with its helpless women and children, was sunk by an assassin U-boat. The German people condoned the murder of Edith Cavell, and repeatedly have visited upon the war prisoners in their midst outrages as mean if not as brutal as those which German sol diers have inflicted upon civilians in Belgium and France. The German people, even the German Socialists, the self-avowed liberals anti radicals of the Kaiser's empire, have approved the perfidious treatment of Russia. They made loud protestations of good faith toward Russia, did these German So cialists. before the Brest-Litovsk peace conference and declared that the Slavs should have justice. But as soon as Russia was gagged and bound and robbed and the spoils held up for the German popu lace to view, the Socialists accepted the situation as complacently as the Kaiser himself. There is no hope, then, of dealing safely with the German Gov ernment or the German people until their system and their spirit of ruthless militarism is crushed. Therefore, must the war go on in order that vre may transmit a legacy, not of “blood and misery," but of freedom and honor and enduring peace. The Loafer nnd the Law. Numbers of states have adopted, or are planning to adopt, special legislation to aid in enforcing the patriotic principle of work or fight. Maryland led the way with a full-toothed statute which has been biting all manner of loafers, rich and poor alike, with most wholesome effect. New York state fol lowed suit with a law requiring all able-bodied men from eighteen to fifty years of age “to be en-. gaged habitually and regularly in some lawful, useful and recognized business, profession, occupa tion, trade or employment until the termination of the war.” Several measures of this sort already have been proposed in Georgia and many will be introduced, no doubt, at the forthcoming session of the General Assembly. Certainly no State has greater reason to force idlers to work than Georgia has. Its essential in dustries are in urgent need of labor and its grow ing crops, all of which bear more or less directly upon war needs, cannot be brought to harvest un less the shortage of farm hands is relieved. If it were solely a matter of protecting business and ag riculture, there still would be ample warrant for drastic action against loafing. But much more than material prosperity is involved; the supreme issues that hang upon the winning of the war are involved. Every avilable ounce of man-power is needed in our fields and factories and other prov inces of production in order that the stream of necessary supplies for our every increasing armies may flow undiminished. Any able-bodied man. regardless of his age or staton, who loafs in this crisis of the nation’s life is a slacker and should be treated accordingly. If neither self-respect or public contempt will constrain him to service, he should be unsparingly under the lash of the law. If a Sea Fight Comes. The present rumor that Germany is preparing to launch a big sea offensive is not the first of its kind; it is nearer the hundredth or thousandth. From the earliest days of the war there have been all man ner of surmises and predictions as to when the Kaiser's fleet would come forth, but.never a one that is yet fulfilled. The Huns’ only formidable dash from Wilhelmshaven, that of May 30, 1916, was unforeseen save in a general way and develop ed on uncalculated lines. Whatever may have been lhe objective and the hopes of that adventure, the outcome has sufficed to this day to keep the Ger man navy closer than ever under the protection of its home shores. To those observers, however, who expect an other and far more formidable dash in the near future, there are a plenty of supporting reasons. For one thing, the dwindling power of the U-boats, now Germany’s sole weapon actually employed in sea warfare, is doubtless having effect in the coun sels and plans of Berlin. The leaders know, how ever much to the contrary they tell the German people, that the U-boat is no longer to be consider ed as a decisive or very serious factor in the war. They know that Allied tonnage is being launched much faster than they can destroy it and that their submarines are being sunk or captured much faster than they replace them. Thus threatened with the virtual extinction of the only sea instrument with which they have made any show, they may decide upon a desperate venture by the main fleet. Re gardless of the submarine failure, the crucial stage upon which the campaign on ..he Western front is entering may impel the German leaders to hazard a great sea battle. Some weeks ago our Govern ment was advised that Hindenburg was urging naval co-operation for his land offensive, and Rear Admiral Cleaves declared in a public address that word had come to the British fleet that the Ger mans were definitely contemplating a ‘supreme test on the waves. Evidently they are staking all their hopes of victory on such efforts as they can put forth w’ithin the next few months. It is not improbable, then, that as conditions on the West ern front wax more and more critical and as the disappointment of the German people over the de feat of the U-boat grows more pronounced, the Kaiser’s fleet will lift anchor for a last fling with fate. The Allies are ready and confident, America amongst them. The ocean supremacy, which they have held from the outset unbroken and, save for the submarine, almost unchallenged, has been their greatest source of strength and endurance. It has sustained England and France alike and is ena bling our country to throw the full weight of her power into the trembling balance. It is to this ocean supremacy of the Allies that Germany owes her direst Ills and perils. For nearly four years now it has held her a prisoner in spite of all the conquests of her armies; it has reduced her to starvation fare; ceaselessly it has remind ed her of an unseen yet unrelenting force against which all the struggles of all her legions were in vain. Merely to retain this mastery of the seas would be a decisive contribu tion to the winning of the war. But suppose that in addition the Allies should blot out the now dormant but ever threatening danger which lies in the existence of a great German fleet. Would not that go far toward ending the war? And is it not what we may reasonably expect if ever the British and American navies come fairly to grips with the Hun? That is the event to which our own sea fighters, now holding a place of high honor and responsibility in European waters, look with keen and longing eyes. And once the encounter is on, we know how gloriously they will bear their part. Seven Hundred Thousand. What happier comment on the latest U-boat threat could there be than Secretary Baker’s an nouncement that more than seven hundred thou sand American soldiers have crossed the seas for France? Achieved as it was in spite of all that German submarines could do, this record is cheer ing indeed for the future. What the enemy has failed to accomplish in European waters with his supporting bases close by, he will scarcely be able to do on this side of the Atlantic some three thou sand miles from home. This is not to imply that the submarine danger is over; it will not be over until the war is won. We cannot be too devoutly thankful for the security of our transports in the past, or too .solicitous in the seasons ahead. But the heartening probability is that trans-At lantic shipping will become continually safer and more efficient. This is to be expected because our merchant marine is growing steadily and rapidly; because our navy also is expanding, particularly in patrol boats and destroyers; because experience is constantly perfecting our methods of meeting the enemy’s underseas warfare; and because U-boats are being destroyed faster than ever be fore, faster indeed than Germany can replace them. Renewed spurts of submarine success are to be expected: ’ut barring some unforeseeable and altogether unlikely invention by the Huns, the next six months should be less dangerous for ocean traffic than the last six. It is prediced that by the end of the year the number of American soldiers “over there” will be approaching, if not beyond, the two million mark; and this seems entirely reasonable when we reflect that some two hundred and fifty thousand went safely over in May. Certainly there will be no hanging back because of wild gestures of Ger, man frightfulness on this side; that will serve merely to steel American determination. * SPINGAR Through the valley of Kashmir flow the clear waters of the Jhetum river. Up this river on some sunny day in early summer a small fleet of barges may be seen swiftly gliding. Boats on all sides make way, and word goes round that Maharajah travels to his summer palace at Sringar. As the barges sweep on, peaked minarets and gilded domes appear and the crowd cn the banks becomes every minute thicker and more noisy. The royal fleet slips under an arched wooden bridge into the quaint, careless, swarming city. On each side of the river back of the excited mass of humanity rise houses and shops top heavy with projecting sto.ies, and decked with gay flow ers planted on roof and balcony. From latticed windows turbaned shopkeepers and mothers hold ing up wfde-eyed babies peer down on the pageant. Here and there canals branch off to some hidden destination. In the background everywhere are the mountains, white even when the city is steeped in heat. At last the boatmen dexterously guide their royal passenger up to a broad stairway leading down to the water’s edge. He is escorted grandly up to his palace door and vanishes, and Sringar re turns lazily to the business of selling shawls and mosaics or washing clothes in the river. THE FLYING AGE—By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON. D. C., Jui.« 10.—What effect is the tremendous development of aero nautics going to have upon American in dustries and ways of life during peace time? This is a fascinating question which is being much discussed among the few men who realize how great a thing our progress in the air has be come. They are agreed that the work of fifty years of peace time has been done in three or four or war; that the modern airplane is the highest .achievement of man's mechanical genius; that in our aronautical training schools thou sands of young men, who Will be the leaders of the rising generation, are gaining a conscious mastery of the air; and that a great industry, w’ith varied ramifications, has been created. The peace time uses of the airplane can be as yet only vaguely foreseen; but it is certain that none of these things will perish, that the techni cal knowledge, the industrial development, and the human sense of conquest over a new element are all permanent things. Our new system of aerial coast guard patrols, for which provision has been made in the current appropriations measures, will absorb a large num ber of the machines and the skilled aviators, which the government is now developing. It is not probable that any great number of govern ment planes will be placed upon the market, but some will, and these will be eagerly bought up by enterprising men, and used for pleasure and in dustrial purposes. The greatest force in the developing of peace time flying will be thousands of airplane pilots and mechanics who will be released from service after the war. These men will demand employ ment in their new and fascinating profession, and the demand will surely create its own opportuni ties, for the force of a widely felt human desire is after all one of the irresistible forces in the world. The carrying of mails by air, which has just begun in this country, will doubtles see a rapid development. There are hundreds of out-of-the way places where air mail service is far more needed than it is between Washington and New York. Aerial mail service, and passenger service, too, could do wonders for Alaska. The govern ment once asked for bids on a contract to carry mail by air in Alaska, and no bids were made. After the war, with the country full of am bitious young aviators, and many used planes on the market, no such offer will go begging. There are many places in the west which need air plane mail service as badly as Alaska does. The men who are close to modern airplane work expect a much more rapid development of passenger traffic in the air than the layman can imagine. This latter cannot get away from the idea that flying is very dangerous. He reads continually of accidents at the aviation schools, without realizing what a very small percentage of chance they represent when the number of men in training is taken into account. He never thinks about the automobile accidents which are re counted in every paper, because he has become accustomed to these and accepts them as a mat ter of course. He will probably be surprised to learn that 3,950 cadets in our flying schools flew 261,300 miles, which is ten times around the world, in one day, without a fatality. Do you think that an equal number of beginning motor ists could run that many miles without a serious smash up? The “ace” aviator of the newspaper stories, with his tiny wasp of an airplane and his daring hair-raising stunts, has also prejudiced the con servative landlubber against flying. He likes to read about those things, but he cannot imagine himself doing them. But as a matter of fact, this lone scout in his cranky little speed plane is a passing phase of the great air game. The com- THE FUR CRAZE By H. Addington Bruce PERSONAL observation leads me to fear that we are to witness through the coming months a revival of the fur craze of the past two sumers. Why any young woman—or any older and pre sumably wiser one—should wear furs in the sum mer is beyond my understanding. Vanity, we may assume, must have something to do with it. But surely, with a world at war, no right thinking woman would wish to lay herself open to a charge of being light-mindedly vain. And I can assure the women who parade in sum mer furs that they need not feel aggrieved if peo ple regard them as being unpatriotically out of tune with the earnestness and seriousness of the times. Overalls would be far more becoming to them in these grave days. At all events, gloriousness of attire is one of the last things they should be think ing about. For reasons of personal health, too, furs ought to be kept in storage until cold weather returns to justify their being worn. Furriers, eager to keep business booming, have been at some pains, it appears, to design special furs for sumer year. Thus we read: “American furriers have been making new com binations whereby furs have been blended with summery materials ranging from chiffon to lace, so that apparel has been provided neither very heavy nor vedy bulky in weight or appearance.’’ Likewise this pleasing information is given us: “Capes and scarfs that are designed to be draped loosely over the shoulders do not have a clasp at the neck at all. “Some of these scarfs contain considerable fur, but are not so placed as to cling about the shoulders as they would be were protection from cold de sirable.’’ None the less, it stands to reason that when not a breath of air is stirring, when the sun is beating down relentlessly, and when the thermom eter is soaring toward the hundred mark, the effect of furs draped over neck and shoulders can hardly be hygienic. The excessive ehat of our American summers is enervating enough without aggravating its evils by wearing furs, however light. And it is absurd for those who wear furs in sumer to pretend that they “do not feel them.’ The mere fact that they know they are wear ing furs will of itself increase their consciousness of the unpleasant force of the rays of the summer sun. Let them abandon their furry adornments and wear only light, loose clothing. Quickly they will notice a changb for the better in the state of their feelings. Also they will t>e freeing themselves from a real risk of unduly weakening their systems in such a way as to invite nervous or other ailments, par ticularly maladies of throat or lungs. In fine, there is not one good reason for the wearing of furs in sumer. There is more than one good reason for not wearing them. (Copyright, 1918, by The Associated Newspapers ! Editorial Echoes. When the new fleet of destroyers takes to the sea, one of them will bear the name of Kalk. It is named in memory of Lieutenant Staunton Frederick Kalk, U. S. N., who lost his life that others might live. He was officer in charge of the deck of the destroyer Jacob Jones, when it was sunk by a German torpedo. After the explosion, as the men of his ship were endeavoring to get away, Lieutenant Kalk swam from raft to raft, equalizing the load of each, until he died from exertion and exposure. This brave young officer was born in Alabama, 1884. He graduated from the naval academy in 1916, No. 51 in a class of 178. His mother, Mrs. Flora S. Kalk, lives in Washington, D. C. ing type of air craft is the heavy batttie plane, which is as stable as a horse and buggy, carries several men, and is as easily controlled as a limousine. Our Haviland plane is of this type. These great airships in squadrons of eighteen to twenty are fighting the war in the air today and their development means the development of a stable plane, which will carry several passengers —the kind of a plane we will use in peace time. The experts say that the thing really needed ♦o make civilian flying safe is 9 system of land ing fields. Most of the accidents are landing acci- * dents, and many of them are due to the fact that the aviator has no good place to land. Os course, there is also danger of falling if the engine goes wrong, just as there is danger of going into the ditch if the steering gear of and automobile goes wrong; but that danger is small in both cases. If it is somewhat greater in the airplane, that is offset by the fact that there is nothing to collide with up in the air—no telegraph poles, pedes trians nor curves. In the near future, it is confidently predicted, the map of the country will be dotted with land ing fields. Every municipality will probably be compelled to maintain one, and there will doubt less be many others in connection with private and commercial hangars. These will go a long way toward making mail and passenger traffic in the* air as safe as on the land. The only other step necessary to bring it into its own is the re duction of the expense* of flying, and that is sure to come. Materials are being standardized, and fuel improved every day. There is no reason why the expense of the production and operation of \ airplanes should not be reduced as rapidly as it was in the case of automobiles. The place of the airplane in our national life * is further assured by the number of industries which are growing up around it. Nearly all of these will, after the war, find other uses for their products, but they will also try in every way to encourage the use of airplanes. A large amount of money and brains is now engaged in these in dustries, and money and brains always get re sults. • One of these industries is the making of cot ton colth for the planes. Before we entered the war, the allies were using nothing but linen for the purpose. We could not pqssibly get enough of that material for our own needs. Accordingly the bureau of standards was put to work upon the < problem, and it devised a cotton cloth made from long staple cotton which seemed to answer the purpose. Perceiving that this cloth was its “beet chance” the airplane production board invested several millions in the long staple cotton and set mills to work making the cloth. It proved a great success, and we are now supplying our al lies as well as ourselves. The castor oil industry is another. Castor oil is the only lubricant that can be relied upon I for use in airplanes. When we started out build- ' ing airplanes, a large drug firm was commissioned to supply the need for castor oil. It could not get a fraction of the necessary amount. Accord ingly the board sent to India for a shipload of castor bean seed, farmers were encouraged to plant it by the offer of a fixed price for all they could raise, and now there are 80,000 acres of the beans growing in three states. Millions have been invested in the plants for the extraction of the oil. Much the same might be told of the cellulose acetate with which the wings of the planes are impregnated to make them “drum head tight;” and of the spruce which is used for the wooden frame work. In each case a new industry will find other markets for its products when the war is over, bnt will nevertheless remain a force be hind the development of the airplane and its use for civilian purposes. The war has brought on the Flying Age. OLD ED HOWE ON BUSINESS By Dr. Frank Crane Old Ed Howe has done another book, a little one that you can slip into your coat pocket. Its title is "The Blessings of Business.” And it is some book. It is chock full of sound, rugged, plug-tobacco philosophy, homely and horny. If you are looking for literature of the Atlantic Monthly, or Bolaho viki, or Hindu Esoteric, or new thought, or art studio varieties, pass on. Here are only plain boil ed beef and cabbage; mighty wholesome and filling, but in no wise fancy. There’s a good deal left out of Ed’s makeup, in the way of poetry and vague thrills and everything but what is in him is all honest-to-goodness ma terial. What he strives to say in this volume is that the business man is the best product that America has evolved. Business is food-getting; all religion, educa tion, art, and politics are secondary to it; for without life (which business maintains) we should need neither literature nor salvation. “Os living creatures, business men are the near est sane,” he says; and while they have ideals, as the poets have, they also know what the poets do not, “how these ideals may easily be made profes sional and mischievous.” John D. Rockefeller he believes to be the most useful man who has ever lived, because of the Rockefeller Foundation, which will devote four or five million dollars a year to human betterment as long as world endures. It is as snobbish to suppose that character may not accompany riches as to believe that man is to be despised because he is poor. “The talk that the greater the rogue the greater the fortune, originat ed with thieves.” The statues in public parks and the heads on postage stamps, he thinks, ought to be of useful business men and not statesmen, warriors and poets. “Nearly every man who accumulates a sur plus,” he insists, “finally accumulates also a dispo sition to help the weak” and the great charitable institutions of the world are due to this. The only laws of privilege we have in the United States, he claims, are “laws favoring the poor, and discriminating against the successful.” “The men who succeed are nearly always force ful and useful characters; they stand well every where, except in literature.” “It is absurd to say a man is born a gentleman,” he says; “gentilty is an acquirement, like an educa tion, or ability to play on a musical instrument.” . And he does not write as a rich man; he him self is a worker. He says: “I am not a rich man; self is a worker. He says: “I am not a rich man, and never will be; I would feel as un comfortable in a palace as in a hovel, but I am not a toady. Nearly everybody dislikes a particularly rich and noted man. and I confess I do. lam of the opinion that the rich should be threatened suf ficiently to keep them modest, but I have never be lieved they are less honest, patriotic, fair, or useful than I am.” (Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES “How’s your boy getting along at the training camp?” “Wonderful*” replied Farmer Applecart. feel a sense of great security. An army that can make my boy get up early, work hard all day, and go to bed early can do most anything.” • * • Mistress —Did any one call while I was out? New- Girl —Yes. mum; Mrs. Wayup called. Mistress —Did she seem disappointed when you said I was not at home? New Girl —Well, she did look a little queer, but I told her she needn’t get in a temper about it, ’cause it was really true this time. • • • ' “Mind that step.” said the very young police man to the very old offender as he reached the police station entrance with his cargo. “Garn.” arrowled the hardened old jailbird; “I knew that there step afore you was born.”