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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATJLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months . 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday .............. 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest 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 con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a rente, please give the route number. We eannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mall. , Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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, _ ..