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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga.
Is Palmer a * i Real Candidate ’ ’ ?
Michigan Answers “No”
WHEN Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer de-
. dared to the Democrats of Georgia,
in his keynote speech at Gainesville,
that Senator Hoke Smith “Is not a real
candidate for President,” the Pennsylvania
aspirant was evidently ignoring certain sa
lient facts concerning his own sporadic can
didacy. He was ignoring, for instance, the
tell-tale news from Michigan, in whose pref
erential Democratic primary Mr. Palmer ran
fifth and last, receiving less than fourteen
per cent of the popular vote. Rather an arti
ficial showing for a “real candidate,” is it
not?
The Michigan result appears the more sig
nificant when one looks into its elements and
circumstances. Under the rule in that State
it a name is once duly listed for a primary ,
contest it goes on the ballot ,even though its
owner personally wishes it withdrawn. Thus
it was that four of the entries in this case—
those, namely, of Herbert Hoover, Governor .
Edwards, William G. McAdoo and William '
j. Bryan—were made and maintained with- i
out th* consent, if not indeed against the ex
pressed will of the individuals concerned.
Mr. Hoover declined at the outset to sanc
tion the entry of his name, and later intima
ted that under certain conditions he would
accept the Republican nomination. Governor
Edwards and Mr. McAdoo both requested
their friends not to consider them in the race,
and Mr. Bryan regarded his owh involuntary
part in the affair as a political pleasantry.
There was but one avowed and aggres
sive candidate —Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer. He
sought the votes of Michigan Democrats up
on substantially the same ground that he
seeks the votes of Georgia Democrats. He
made the most vigorous and resourceful
fight of which he and his political aides were
capable. The chief of those aides was the
Democratic National Committeeman of Mich
igan, one Mr. William F. Connolly, a veteran
in politics and holder of the whip hand in
his party’s state organization. The National
Committeeman made a vitriolic attack on
Mr. Palmer’s leading opponent, outpouring
all the vials of wrath against Democrats who
dared stand for a candidate other than the
one whom he, the National Committeeman,
and his clique had picked. Realizing how
great would be the import and effect of the
decision in that Commonwealth, Mr. Palmer
and his supporters exerted themselves to the
utmost, while the four others, being in the
contest by no wish of their own, looked dis
interestedly on or remained even unaware of
the unsolicited efforts put forth in their be
half. The Attorney General hoped highly. He
planned skillfully. He strove manfully. And
he ran last.
We cheerfully concede that so earnest an
effort and so genial a gentleman deserved
better fate; and we doubt not that had the
Michigan matter been a tournament of per
sonal popularity Mr. Palmer would have
come through with plume erect. But inasmuch
as it was a business-like procedure on the
part of practical-minded Democrats seeking
a candidate whose policies would appeal to
the thoughtful rank and file, we submit that
Mr. Palmer’s place in the popular award is
not a very inspiring one—certainly not for
a “real candidate.” Nor will the interested
observer fail to recall in this connection
what the Philadelphia Record, that far-famed
and leading Democratic journal of the Key
stone State, wired In response to a recent tel
egram from the Mayor of Savannah, asking
if there was any great opposition to Mr.
Palmer among the Democrats of his home
Commonwealth. The opposition to him is
general, replied the Record, and added.
“Few Pennsylvania Democrats take Palmer’s
candidacy for the Presidency seriously.”
Likewise, Congressman Guy E. Campbell,
Pennsylvania’s foremost Democratic Repre
sentative, upon being telegraphed by another
distinguished Georgia Democrat for an opin
ion as to whether or not Mr. Palmer’s can
didacy was taken as a serious matter in
Pennsylvania or anywhere else, sent the fol
lowing acute reply: “I believe Michigan an
swers your inquiry much more intelligently
• than I can.”
The fact is, the Attorney General is ask
ing the people of Georgia to do what it is
quite evident the people of his own State
would never do. He is asking them to give
him their support for a position which
he assuredly must realize he has no pros
pect whatsoever of obtaining and which in
deed he is not even seeking before the
people save in one other State. He was seek
ing it in Michigan, it is true, but that story
is now done. He is not taken seriously as a
candidate in Pennsylvania, according to so
competent a witness as the Philadelphia
Record and Congressman Campbell In the
other forty-seven States, Georgia alone ex
cepted, he is not running at all. In these
circumstances it is hardly to be imagined
that Georgia Democrats, having the oppor
tunity to vote for their own senior sena
tor who champions a real principle, a
real cause, real Democracy and real Ameri
canism. will waste their support on a candi
dacy which, if we may judge by the lights
before us, is sheer imagination.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
The Highway Engineer.
IT Is highly significant and cheering,
thinks Southern Good Roads, that of
the one hundred and twenty-seven tech- (
nological schools in the United States one <
hundred and fifteen ore now offering courses J
in highway engineering. This means that ‘
numbers of experts will be available to give .
counsel and effectiveness to popular senti- 1
ment for highway improvement—a fact of
vital importance, for while sentiment and en- '
thusiasm are essential to success, they “must ;
be tempered and controlled by knowlege be- 1
fore they can accomplish much.” <
Had the importance of highway engineer- ’
ing been rightly apreciated a decade or so (
ago, millions of tax money would have been ,
saved and the country’s road construction ad
vanced incomparably beyond what it is to
day. Few fallacies indeed have been so cost
ly as the once prevalent idea that road
building was mainly o matter of manual la
bor, and unskilled labor at that. When coun
ties and states slouched on in the notion that
a pick and a shovel eked out by lick and a
promise could build a worthwhile road or
keep it in repair, progress in this great field
of public service was impossible. There was
no inspiration to good highway construction
for the simple reason that there w r ere no ex
amples of it. A summer’s makeshift work
•would be beaten and blown awoy by the en
suing winter’s storm, so that even the paltry
sums of money spent in this piddling process
amounted to extravagance.
Even after the high tide of good roads en
thusiasm swept over the country there were
grave losses and backsets because in their
impatience for improvement communities
would not take the pains to secure competent
counsel and practice scientific methods. The
people were warmly willing to vote bonds and
officials were eager t 6 get speedy and sub
stantial results, but in all too many instances
they failed at first to perceive the importance,
the fundamental importance, of special train
ing, foresight and skill in road-building. They
overlook the fact that roadbuilding is a
science and an art, which cannot be success
fully undertaken save under the guidance of
minds grounded in 'its laws and capable of
directing its processes. The fact that so many
technological schools ore now offering
courses in fhis science and art indicates a
general awakening to the need, and at the
same time serves as a valuable stimulus to
further progress upon the same lines.
The time is at hand when no state or
county would think of trying to build high
ways without competent engineers any more
than it would try to build a court house with
out a dependable architect and supervisor.
The result will be not only better roads, but
cheaper roads, and more of them.
One Battle In the Next FFar
IF Brigadier General Mitchell is right,
there will be but one battle in the next
war, and that will be waged in the air.
“The nation with the greatest armada of
flying machines,” runs a paraphrase of his
prophecy, “will hold the future balance of
power. Great air fleets cannot be overcome
by any other force than greater air,*fleets.
The plane has been developed to the point
where it can carry tons of freight. These
tons can well be made up of giant bombs
that will reduce everything beneath to frag
ments.” Wherefore mastery of the air will
mean mastery of the earth.
It is not by this sort of dipping into the
future that men will be moved to beat their
spears into pruning hooks —that consumma
tion so devoutly to be wished. Yet, pend
ing the full establishment of a league of
peace (which we may reasonably hope /for
when the President and the Senate chime
the question of reservations) there can be no
harm in keeping a weather eye on stormy
contingencies. General Mitchell is not alone
in conceiving that in the next war, if a next
there must be, the first battle will be the
last, and that the victor will wear wings. Eu
ropean observers, particularly the French,
are of that same drift of opinion; and cer
tainly the lessons of the late war warrant
them. Had the Germans not lost command
of the air on the western front there prob
ably would have been no armistice as early
as November, 1918; and who doubts that if
the Allied air fleet had been at the outset
as preponderant as was the Allied navy, the
struggle would hardly have lasted beyond
the first battle of the Marne?
The United States can ill affdrd to pursue
the weak aeronautic policy which now ob
tains. If no question of military prepared
ness were involved, still it would be the
duty to encourage aviation as
one of the great factors in national develop
ment. Our postal service cannot keep abreast
of business progress nor apace with that of
other countries unless it is equipped with j
ample facilities for the aerial transmission
of mails. We see Great Britain projecting
three capital enterprises of this kind —one in
Africa from Cairo to the Cape, another
across the greater part of India, and still
another for large interests in South America.
All these have been undertaken without urg
ing, and in the first two instances at least are
being carried surely forward, their success
being considerad a matter of course. Yet it
appears impossible to get the Congress of the
United States to appropriate even .the mod
est funds needful to establish an airplane
mail route along our Atlantic coast! Such
lack of vision is deplorable at any time, and
in an emergency it well might prove disas
trous. *
Forward-Moving Georgia.
GEORGIA’S constructive spirit is hap
pily illustrated in the result of a
bond election for installing a sys
tem of waterworks in the town of Metter.
Out of the eritire vote on the proposition
only nine ballots were against it. Standing
virtually as a unit for progress, the citizens
freely asumed the responsibilities and pro
vided the means needful to make their faith
effective. x . .
j The most gratifying aspect of the inci
j dent lie* in its being the rule rather than
j the exception in present-day Georgia. Rarely
i in recent seasons has a meritorious plan for
- public improvements failed to secure over
■ whelming indorsement at the polls. Town
s After town has voted for .municipal enter
- -rises, and county after county for-highway
r nd school advancement.
i Thus in the last year or so an aggregate
3 of nearly seventeen million dollars has been
i irovidcd for road construction by forty-six
J Georgia counties. . Thus, too, the list of
- counties adopting iocal taxation for the bet
i rment of their common schools has grown
1 cm four a few years past to ranks that are
approaching a hundred.
When people care enouhg for progress to
i pay for it, then, indeed, are they moving
- substantially forward. Whe’n they are will
- ing to put their treasure where their heart
s is, rather than the other way around, then
in truth are they moving upward.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Mark Lee, a Chinese, Passaic’s only leper
for ten years, died recently in a little shack
of the Isolation hospital in the woods on the
outskirts of the city, where he had been con
fined ten years. Lee was 57 years old and ran
a laundry on Main avenue and Summit street,
New York, for a number of years. Ten years
ago he became ill and doctors found he had
leprosy. The shack was built for him.
Food was served to him through a win
dow. After he had been confined in the shack
two years Lee escaped, but was caught in a
few hours. For the last five years he had
been able to walk only a few steps. A year
ago, Miss Mary F. Bradley, head nurse at
the hospital, spent considerable time reading
to Lee and seeking to educate him. She sat
outside the building and she and the Chinese
discussed religion and books. Lee at that
time expressed a desire to become a Catholic
and a priest from the St. Nicholas Catholic
church baptized him.
Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton
Williams is quoted as having made a state
ment that he believed there was no occasion
for being alarmed over the present conditions
pertaining to the market value of Liberty
Bonds; that inside of two years they will
command a premium.
Tossing of a wedding ring into the ocean
marked ceremonies recently held at Puck, or
Putzig, to celebrate the reuniting of Poland
to the sea, an event of which all of Poland
had dreamed for many years. Polish troops
in their northward march on their own soil,
as provided under the treaty of Versailles,'
had reached the coast line of the Baltic and
begun to make themselves at home in the
'stretch of land northwest of Danzig. This
brought Poland to salt water again, after an
absence of 148 years.
While Polish ships are to have use of
wharves at Danzig, which is to be a free port
under the League of Nations, the new re
public is desirous of a port which it may
call its very own, and it is with this end in
view that the Polish government has settled
upon Puck, as it is spelled in Polish, as a
site for the port where in the future Poland
may have absolutely free commercial access
to the sea under jurisdiction of its own offi
cials.
Thousands of dollars’ worth of cabbage is
spoiling in the fields in southern Texas for
lack of railroad facilities to move them to
the market. Notice of this car shortage and
the restriction of the movement were re
ceived at the North American Fruit exchange,
90 West street, New York, from its agent at
San Benito, Tex.
“With a shortage in foodstuffs and with
cabbages bringing high prices, we have a
situation that should call for a remedy, for
cabbages are going to waste in the fields of
southern Texas through lack of railroad
equipment to handle them,” said G. A. Cullen,
vice president of the exchange. “The out
standing fact is the railroads are so short of
proper equipment with which to move per
ishable foodstuffs that losses will continue
until this equipment is available. The short
sightedness of whoever is responsible for
this situation will continue to cost the pub
lic dearly during the next few years.
“It is quite a graphic picture to see cab
bages worth S6O a ton f. o. b. Texas ship
ping points going to waste in the fields, a
serious discouragement to the farmers who
are asked to produce food and a serious dis
couragement to the consumer, who must pay
exorbitant prices.
“During last winter in the northwest the
lack of equipment caused the freezing and
serious damage of more than a thousand
cars of very high quality box apples. The loss
was generally estimated at considerably
above a million dollars.”
According to information received from
Paris, Germany has delivered to France in
execution of the armistice terms, 2,683 loco
motives, of which 697 have been ceded by
France to the allied powers. ,
Os the 1,986 locomotives retained by
France, 151 are in need of extensive repairs,
according to an official statement issued re
cently by Yres Le Trocquer, minister of pub
lic workj.
THE BEST MEDICINES
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU are out of health and spending not
a little money on medicines., You
have laid in a really astonishing sup
ply of pills for indigestion, powders for head
aches, tablets for sleeplessness, tonics for
fatigue.
Yet you have to confess that you are not
getting exactly the results you anticipated.
You still feel “run-down,” “fit for little,”
“nervous,” and “restless.”
Perhaps, after all, you are not taking the
medicines most needed by you. It may be
that what you really require is not pills, pow
ders, tablets, and tonics, but liberal doses
of the best and least expensive medicines in
the world —air, sunlight, and water.
How much water do you drink every day?
Do you give the sun a fair chance to il
lumine your home and beneficently radiate
upon you?
Do you Ventilate your living quarters freely
and get out regularly into the fresh air?
“Two miles of oxygen three times a day,”
rhapsodizes Hinsdale, ip a passage I com
mend to your attention, “is not only the best
of medicines, but cheap and pleasant to take.
“It suits all ages and constitutions. It is
patented by infinite wisdom, sealed with a
signet divine. It cures cold feet, hot heads,
pale faces, feeble lungs, and bad tempers.”.
You may have overlooked this admirable
medicine.
You may even have been cherishing the
strange delusion that air is positively hurtful
to you, so that you not only fail to exercise
outdoors every day, but keep your windows
shut against fresh air.
If this is the case make an immediate
change. Let air in day and night. And when
the sun is shining, give it ample opportunity
to enter, too.
Sunlight, like air, is a vitalizing medicine of
the first order. Experience has also proved
that it is a pain-killer.
Persons suffering from various diseases—
notably rheumatism, tuberculosis, sundry
nervous disorders—are nowadays given the
“sun cure” as a part of their treatment. Pos
sibly you need sunlight more than you need
anything else to soothe and upbuild you.
And don’t ignore the medicinal value of
water. Use it freely, inside and out.
“People who neglect to drink sufficient wa
ter,” I quote from Fisher and Fisk, “often
suffer from symptoms ol intestinal absorption.
Headache, muscular and neuralgic pain, dull
ness, and lack of concentration are some of
the symptoms of this condition.
“A good rule is to drink six glasses of wa
ter daily—one on rising, one at each meal,
one in the forenoon, and one in the after
noon. A larger amount should, of course, be
thken when freely perspiring.”
Perhaps, I again suggest, you are over-'
looking the benefits you might derive from
these wonderful medicines—air. sunlight, and
watep.
Give this some thought. If in doubt, ues
tion your doctor. From his personal knowl
edge of you and your ways he can advise
you specifically.
(Copyright, 1920. by the Associate News-
• papers.)
Restoration of the state department’s dip
lomatic room at Washington, scene of many
important international events, has been or
dered by Bainbridge Colby, the new secre
tary of state.
Demand for office space during the war
necessitated conversion of the room into
three offices, equipped with desks, book
cases and filing cabinets.
By the new secretary’s order, the war
time partitions will be removed, the room
redecorated and again be used for formal
diplomatic events, such as the exchange of
treaty .ratifications.
Regarding *a report from Norfolk received
in New York recently that the Old Dominion
Steamship company was to go out of busi
ness and sell its steamships, which have been
in the trade for many years, officials of the
company in New York city are quoted as
saying that a full statement will be made
shortly. ’
It is understood that the old route be
tween New York and Norfolk will be aban
doned and the ships sold.
The Old Dominion may be merged with the
Mallory and Clyde lines and start in the
West Indian and Mediterranean trade. The
line will operate for a few- days longer, after
the strike has ended.
The carrier pigeons and equipment of the
navy department will be available for the
United States Department of Agriculture
next season for conveying messages from
forest fire fighters “at the front” to head
quarters, says a recent communication fiom
the Department of Agriculture. The test of
the birds for this use was carried out on a
limited scale this season and proved so suc
cessful that the Forest service officials be
lieve that the pigeons can be employed prof
itably on a larger scale.
To establish a successful carrier pigeon
system, it will be necessary to lay plans in
the near future to have the posts properly
located and get the birds acclimated and be
gin their training. Flights of 600 miles in a
day have been made by many of the birds,
while a distance of 150 to 200 miles means
a two or three-hour flight for the average
bird. The distances which would be covered
in Forest service work are considerably less
than this, in most instances the flights from
fire fighting areas to headquarters being less
than fifty miles. The value of the birds in
mountainous regions where travel is difficult
would be especially great, the department
says.
The Mexican government, which asserts
it now controls nine-tenths of the railroad
mileage of the republic, has placed approxi
mately $5,000,000 of orders with Amierican
companies for equipment and repair mate
rial. At the New York offices of the pur
chasing agent of thb National Railways of
Mexico it was said that ample funds to pay
cash for these orders are on deposit with
New York banks, and that in some instances
money has already been advanced before de
livery.
Dispatches from Beirut announce that
Emir Feisal, recently proclaimed king of
Syria, has given the French until April 6 to
leave Syria, and the Arabs have ordered-the
British out of Palestine.
Prince Feisal, son of the king of Hedjaz,
has been ordered to explain to the supreme
council of the allies the crowning of him as
king of Syria. Premier Lloyd George an
nounced that recognition was denied him by
the allies as the ruler of that-country, and
Lebanon protested against his sovereignty.
After the ceremony of his proclamation
Emir Feisal declared that this would not af
fect relations with the allies.
The Swiss papers are suppressing the
names of women of titles, some of which
are well known to New York society, who
have been driven to suicide, indirectly, by
the Bolshevist regime of Hungary and Rus
sia. Since the armistice five have been found
drowned in the lake off Montreux. The re
mainder shot or poisoned themselves in ho
tels. Some were wives of well-known Amer
icans who were killed or disappeared in the
war.
ORDER
By Dr. Frank Crane
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Order, according to the old saying, is
heaven’s first law.
But in truth all law, whether in heaven or
earth, is no more nor less than order.
We speak of creative genius, but what is
it but the knack of making things fit?
The inventor originates nothing, he brings
things into right relations. The man who
made the first steam engine did no more than (
bring vapor and metal together. He estab
lished order between two things that had
before been of n.o kin.
The architect who put up the Wool worth
building was a dancing-master who knew how
to get stones and steel girders to group in due
figures and poses.
Stones lie rough in quarries, trees grow in
the tangle wild, copper and iron are scattered
in ore veins, and all the units of sand, glass,
paint, plaster, tile and cement are here and
there in confusion upon the earth; enter the
human brain, with its concept of order; from
it flow disposing thoughts, with volts of com
pelling will; and it is as if a dispersed army
had heard the trumpet call and had fallen in
by companies of tens and hundreds, each with
its captain, each keeping step, finding its
place, moving in campaign by the plan upon
the field marshal’s table.
The poet is an expert in order, giving io
airy nothings “a local habitation and a name,”
seizing the fugacious wisps of feeling, the
flashing wings of passing fancy, the half felt
thoughts and dumb and covered strivings of
the soul, and arranging them in rhythmic syl
lables
The housewife is order’s mistress, making
household peace and comfort as she' makes
the bed, by smoothing, spreading, arranging,
and as she makes a dress by measuring and
matching; and her tasty dinner is also but
her captaincy of varied foodstuffs that in
their unrelated disorder were inedible.
God in nature through the myriad lives
combines earths and liquids into energetic
cells and thus produces Organisms. What
we call Life is merely an orderly impulse im
posed upon loose matter.
We ascend the steps of life by order; we
descend to death by disorder.
Education or culture is getting one’s forces
and ideas into some coherent plan. The un
educated man is the confused man. The
trained mind is one where there is no litter;
all is packed and pigeonholed; things are in
their place.
Civilization is the progress of men toward
order. The millennium is organization,
smooth working, with every human cog in
its right position, functioning with every
other.
The process of conscience is toward an
evermore perfect, a wider order, until at last
the race shall “find itself.” Our notion of
duty proceeds from self-defense to family
pride, thence to tribal adherence, thence to
patriotism or nation-feeling, and at last to
humanity or the world-consciousness.
All wars mean the struggle of mankind
toward that eventual order of the whole.
Competition merges at last into co-opera
tion. Liberty is found to be impossible ex
cept under the reign of law.
If order be heaven’s first law, .1 is s he last
goal of earth.
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1»18.
THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST
A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion on Current
Questions and Events
“Once more the ‘barrel’ becomes a great
American issue,” says the NEWARK EVEN
ING NEWS (Ind.), apropos of Senator Bo
rah’s that Governor Lowden, General
Wood and certain unnamed Democratic can
didates are spending doubtful money too
lavishly in the pre-convention campaigns for
the presidency. “He declares,” adds the
SCHENECTADY GAZETTE (Dem.), “that
their campaign managers and backers have
already spent fortunes to secure pledges in
the primaries, much of it corruptly or in a
way which he calls as bad as corruption.”
Many regard Borah’s charges as grave.
The HOUSTON POST (Dem.) thinks it “evi
dent that conditions throughout the entire
country are calculated to invest the present
campaign with more political corruption than
the nation ‘has ever known,” and that the
country “is facing its -supreme crisis.” The
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN (Ind.) re
marks that “the American people will not
tolerate Newberrying for the presidency,”
and the OMAHA BEE (Rep.) has this to say:
“Suspicion attaches to any individual nom
ut eiecceu alter large sums of money
_::,zo been expended in his behalf. The feei
ng, just or unjust, as the case may be, exists
.hat somewhere or in some way the candidate
nominated or elected at the close of a cam
?.:gn of liberal expenditure is either corrupt
)r has received financial aid from sources
which will exact repayment later at public
expense, or will wield undue influence over
the official chosen, to the detriment of the
people’s interests.”
“Governor Lowden has met promptly and
directly the charges of Senator Borah,” says
the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS (Ind.), by of
fering “to submit the list of contributors to
his campaign fund and the amounts contrib
uted by each,” and the NEWS hopes for the
passage of the Kenyon resolution, under
which “all candidates for the presidential
nomination will be required to present such
j.&tciLents.” But “Senator Borah attaches
Treater guilt,” according to the PHILADEL
PHIA RECORD (Ind. Dem.), to the Wood
managers, “for he says bluntly -hat ‘the men
who are managing General Wood’s cam
paign propose to control the Republican con
vention through the use of money,’ ” a
charge which, the RECORD thinks, “cannot
be ignored or laughed away.” General Wood’s
retort that he is “convinced that Senator
Borah’s attack at this time is for the pur
pose of influencing adversely the primary
vote in Michigan op April 5,” seems ,to the
BALTIMORE SUN (Ind. Dem.) beside the
point, for the “point is not what Borah’s pur
pose and motive may be, but what is the
truth.” The correct answer, the SUN de
clares, is to “open the books,” and the PORT
LAND (Me.) EXPRESS (Rep.) agrees that
“the charges must be refuted or the lack
of that refutation will prove'that he (Wood)
sholud not be the party candidate.”
But no “moneyless campaign method” has
yet been invented, and “if money is not to
be spent,” asks the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
(Ind.), “how is a campaign to be carried
on?” “No candidate can be nominated,” the
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (Rep.) points
out, “without the expenditure of a good deal
of money for legitimate purposes.” And the
LOS ANGELES TIMES (Ind. Rep.) notes:
“If a man is an actual candidate and has
to go through any number of state prima
ries it will take a fortune for the most ordi
nary expense. ... If the candidate doesn’t
A NEW SCHOOL FOR MARINES—By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3—Are the I
young men of this country, who have
ambition but not money, willing to work.
their way through a good education by serv
ing four or five hours day as soldiers, with
the liability of active service in case of war?
That is the question which the Uni,ted States
marine corps is now putting to Americans. It
has established at the marine barracks at Quan
tico, Va., a school known as the Marine insti
tute, where it is prepare,, to give men regular
grammar school and high school educations, and
to teach them several highly-paid vocations,
such as automobile engineering, electrical en
gineering, stationary gas engine work, building,
construction and contracting and live stock
farming. '
At this barracks it is an absolute rule that
only the morning hours are devoted to mili
tary exercises, and all of the afternoon is spent
in classes and in athletic work. The routine
is much like that of a first-class military school.
Men are now offered enlistment in the Fifth
regiment of marines, which is the one sta
tioned at Quantico, with the flat promise that
after preliminary training at Paris Island the
recruit will be sent t- the Quantico school,
and will be allowed tj stay there until he has
completed whatever course he desires to take,
subject to the single condition that if the United
States gets into war, he may be assigned to
active service.
The opportunity for enlistment under these
terms, which amounts to a contract with the
government to give a certain amount of service
in return for an education, began on April
first.
This marine school is the latest of a num
ber of efforts by government to make mil
itary or naval service attractive to young men
by giving them education in return for their
time. Both the army and the navy have always
had some classes where a man could spend a
few hours a day and study grammar school
courses. These schools never amounted to
much, and they did not offer vocational courses.
During the war, the Student Army Training
Corps, and since the armistice, the army uni
versities in Europe, have offered men in the
service much more - aried educational oppor
tunities; but it was seldom possible for a
man to remain in any of these institutions more
than a few months.
This marine school is a new departure in
two ways. In the first place it offers a man
a complete course leading to a diploma, and in
the second place he h given a definite promise
that he shall be alloweu to finish his educa
tion to his own satisfaction unless the emer
gency of war interrupts it.
The marine barracks at Quantico is under
the command of Major General J. A. Lejeune
and Brigadier General S. D. Butler. For this
account of it we are indebted to Lieutenant J.
H. Craige, who is aide tc General Lejeune, and
who leaves no doubt that the marine corps is
sparing neither expense nor effort to make this
school a real school where a man can fit him
self for the business of making a living. As
Lieutenant Craige sees it, this is not merely
an effort to get men to serve in the marine
corps in return for a certain amount of school
ing; it is an effort to put the whole business of
military service on a higher plane, and to at
tract to it a higher type of men.
It is agreed by all that, the state of the
world being what it is, we must have a con
siderable standing army, a large navy, and a
marine corps of good strength. It is equally
clear to all that there is a strong sentiment in
the country against compulsory military service
and compulsory military training. The alterna
tive is voluntary enlistment. It is a notorious
fact that men are not voluntarily enlisting in
any branch of the service in adequate numbers.
The marine corps has about two-thirds of its
authorized strength, but both the army and
navy are in worse condition.
It is not remarkable, from a civilian view-
“To Much Money.' Says Borah
furnish it, it must come from his friends or
the interests behind his candidacy.”
The BURLINGTON (Vt.) NEWS (Ind.
Rep.) is inclined to discount the Boran
charges as “one of the oldest political
moves on the board, resorted to when a can
didate is making progress and little else oan
be developed to impede that progress.” The
KANSAS CITY TIMES (Ind.), strongly for
Wood, declares:
“There has not been the slightest evidence
adduced by Senator Borah or any one else of
any improper use of money in the Wood
campaign. . . . Dpubtless there are Re
publican men of means contributing to
ward the Wood campaign because they be
lieve he is the best man for the presidency.
In the same way Democratic men of means
contributed to Woodrow Wilson’s campaign
fund in 1912, because they had confidence in
his ability. It is just as gratuitous to sup
pose that the contributors to the Wood fund
have sinister designs a- it would be to sup
pose that the men who financed the Wilson
fund in 1912, or contributed to his election
in 1916, had sinister designs.”
“Come on with the proofs, Mr. Borah, or
admit that your senate speech was to the
gallery,” is the challenge of the PEORIA
JOURNAL (Ind.), and the NEW YORK
TRIBUNE (Rep.), while it agrees with Bo
rah that the “books should be opened,” sug
gests that are offenses other than
that of overgenerous gifts to campaigns,
and one of these is a slander,” and the ST.
LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT (Rep.), taking
up Borah’s phrase, "a saturnalia of corrup
tion,” holds that “if there are any promises
of saturnalias in this campaign a saturnalia
of slander would .appear to be the most
promising.”
The NEW YORK GLOBE (Ind.) takes a
tolerant view of both sides.
. “One need not believe,” it says, “that
General Wood, Colonel Proctor, Governor
Lowden, or the Mexican oil companies have
done anything consciously wrong in order to
be certain that the spending of large sums
of money in a pre-convention campaign,
without full and public accounting, is an
evil.”
Yet the GLOBE believes it “doubtful if
any law can prevent money from having as
'.rich power in politics as the character of
. le electorate allows. If the voters can be
Mattered or corrupted, they will be, law or no
aw,”,and the BUFFALO NEWS (Rep.) ob
serves with satisfaction that “in recept years
the practice has been to finance campaigns by
means of small contributions. . . This is
he proper idea—subscriptions representing
opular interest rather than subscriptions
.•opresenting any special interest, or group of
/jclal interests.”
“Presidential nominations are too much
’ke auction sales” at present,, the QUINCY
T I1.) JOURNAL (Ind. Dem.) believes, and
the SYRACUSE HERALD (Ind.) declares
nat “primaries are a farce, and the worst
->f it there is reason to believe they are far
from being an innocent farce.” The ST.
LOUIS STAR (Ind.) calls for a thorough in
vestigation “before the White House is
leased for four years to the man whose
friends can pay the highest price for it.”
The official height of the American soldier
at the time of his discharge was 67.72 inches,
or three feet less than he looked to the Ger
mans.—INDIANAPOLIS NEWS.
point’ that young men do not rush into the
service. Most of them have had all the mil
itary service they want in the past few years.
And peace-time service in a standing army, as
it was before the war, offered very little in
ducement to a man of any ambition or energy.
A few hours of drill every day, and for the
rest, “bunk duty”—that is to say, loafing under
especially monotonous conditions. There is
nothing in that to attract a high type of man,
or to aP-act men in any numbers, and it is a
well-known fact that our professional army,
never has attracted either.
If, therefore, we are to have a volunteer
standing army strong enough to make us sale
in a very troubled stud unsettled world, some
thing has got to be done to make the service
really worth a good man’s time, and that some
tiling has got to be widely advertised. /
This seems to be the logic back of Marine
institute, and the officers at Quantico appear
to be making a most earnest effort to live up
to that logic. As a sample of what they have
to offer, take their course in automobile engi
neering. The facilities which the school offers
come under three heads. In the first place,
they have a great number of motor vehicles
of every type from a motorcycle to a multi-ton
truck, and they have all sorts of repair shops
and machinery. These are not limited to . the
tools and supplies which would be found in a
first-class auto repair shop, but include also
machine shops with welding outfits and lathes.
A man can learn there not only how to fix an
engine that is out of order, but how to make
and repair structural parts. He could, in fact,
ream how to build an automobile.
In the -second place, at the head of this
school is a mechanical engineer who is a
graduate of one of the leading Amercian en
gineering schools, and who gives regular les
sons to the men.
In the third place, each man is given the
text-books and instructions of one of the
great correspondence schols on this subject to
study. When he finishes his course, he can
take the examination and the diploma
of this school, as well ?.s that of the Marine
institute.
All of this together certainly seems to con
stitute a thorough and honest course in in- ♦
struction, with perhaps more in the way of
practical experience and demonstration than
most other schools offer.
A man might enter the Marine institute il
literate, learn to read and write, get a grammar
school and a high school education, and then
learn a business. This, of course, would take
him years—several enlistments —but his educa
tion* would not be interrupted unless by war,
or by his own bad conduct.
The effort, according tc Lieutenant Craigs,
is to give the establishment as much the at
mosphere of a university and as little that ot
a military camp as possible. Punishment has
alriiost been done away with. The “brig,” as
*he military prison is called, is nearly always
empty. A man who does not want to study, .
and who refuses to conduct himself as a gen
tleman, may be transferred to some- other or
ganization. t
Lack of space makes it impossible to de
scribe in detail the other courses offered by
the Marine institute. Each of them combines
the same three elements—an expert instructor,
full practical facilities, and an individual cor
respondence course leading to a diploma for
each man.*
The marine barracks at Quantico is on the
Potomac river thirty-two miles from Washing
ton. It is a tract of over six thousand
of farm and woodland, and has housing for
ten housand men. There are only about five
hundred men there now, three hundred are al
ready attending the classes of the institute.
Many of these are being trained as teachers
io be used in establishing similar courses at
other marine barracks. It is intended eventually
to make every marine barracks a college.
Men who are interested in this educattontl *
opportunity should address Lieutenant Colonel *
William C. riarlee, principal, U. S. Marine in
stitute, Quantico, Va, _ ..