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The South
The President Sees in a Change at Washington a Greater and
a Fuller Opportunity For This Section of the Nation.
That was an altogether graceful and patriotic utterance of
President Taft, when, in welcoming the Daughters of the Con
federacy to Washington Tuesday, he expressed the opinion that
the coining to the national capital of a Democratic administra
tion will bring the South into a fuller and more desirable part
nership in the nation's affairs.
The South, at least, will accept the president’s words in
good faith, and give him credit for a largo measure of sincer
ity in saxing them when and where he did.
It must not be forgotten, and particularly must the South
not forget it. that Mr. Taft, as president, has shown by substan
tial duds his professed friendship toward this immediate section.
He went to Louisiana to find a chief justice of the supreme court
of the I nite<| States—he went to Tennessee and to Georgia to
find two associate justices. He has spent much of his time in the
South he has loved to mingle with Southern people, ami he has
said so, time and again, frankly and freely. His most inti
mate personal military aide, the lamented Archie Butt, was a
Southerner.
Tin South, in rejoicing that Wilson is to be the president
following Mr. Taft, should not be—and will not be—unmindful
of the fact that President Taft, whatever his political blunders
and misconceptions, and conceding Io all men a wide freedom
of thought as to that, has been always an executive of honesty
of purpose and integrity of action. He may not rank with
some others in the matter of political sagacity; the charge that
he has been a “kind hearted gentleman, surrounded by men who
km'w exactly what they wanted”—may he more or less true —
but it will not be denied that Mr. Taft has been catholic and
broadminded in his ideals, and has desired to be a president of
all the people.
The South, while rejoicing that a change is to come in the
conduct of the national government, inclines not to glpat that
political misfortune has overtaken the president, nor yet to sus
pect aught of guile or unworthiness within the loyal heart of
him.
The South never will feel that Mr. Taft has intended to he
other than friendly to it, however much it may realize, as he
says, that his hands have been in a degree tied and bis high
purposes and desires thwarted time and again by circumstances
over which he had no control.
Real Democracy Is Good
Business
The president-elect broke his post-election silence to say one
thing, to wit : That honest business has nothing to fear from a gen
uine Democratic administration.
1 nder the existing circumstances this assurance was well con
ceived, and it was timely enough. But the day will come when such
an assurance will be superfluous under any circumstances.
I he day will come when every.schoolboy will understand that
and sound business are interchangable terms
that the principles of legitimate and prosperous commerce and in
dustry are simply a transcript of the fundamental ideas of the
democratic order.
In illustration of this truth, consider the following propositions:
DEMOCRACY CAN NOT EXPAND AND FLOURISH UN
LESS THERE IS A FREE CAREER FOR TALENT—NEITHER
CAN THE WORLD OE BUSINESS.
\\ henever the pathways to personal power are clogged by
privileges and prerogatives and are thus closed to men of original
and creative enterprise, democracy languishes. And so does busi
ness.
Democracy, in flinging wide the gates of opportunity and offer
ing an equal chance to every man, does not mean to offer prizes to
limber egotism or long-winded greed. It means to clear the way
for a rivalry in good works—a race in which the servant of the
people shall be the winner of the laurel crown. Where the same
rule does not obtain in the.industrial order, enterprise degenerates
into sodden monopoly. And monopoly paralyzes business
REAL DEMOCRACY IS BASED UPON FREE CONTRACT
AND MUTUAL INTEREST. IT IS THE SAME WITH SOUND
BUSINESS.
When political advantages are wrung from the majority by
fraud, the energy of free government is diminished. And when
ecomunic advantages are wrested from the people by commercial
duress, the volume of business runs thin. Men are not free when
they are in need; and there can be no fair bargaining between hun
gry men and those who are well fed. The prosperity of any rests
upon the freedom of all. ,
REAL DEMOCRACY AND SOUND BUSINESS LIVE BY
DISCOVERY AND PROGRESS. NEITHER CAN LIVE LN \
STATE OE REPOSE AND ROUTINE.
The freedom of free government requires that the mass of the
people shall have effective economic power—i. e., the power to
change and improve their occupations. Where political servitude
and commercial stagnation exist, they are both due to a low voltage
of social motion. The political problem and the economic problem
both arise from the fact that there are more job-seekers than jobs.
The solution of both problems lies in the releasing of creative
forces and the increasing of the momentum of enterprise. Wher
ever there are more opportunities of advancement than there are
men knocking at the gates, the antagonism between labor and cap
ital vanishes The antagonism between the majority and the minor
ity vanishes also.
Thus one might go on indefinitely—multiplying the likenesses
between real democracy and sound business. A book or a whole
library might he written on the subject.
Rut the point is missed until the lesson is brought home that
the likeness is mure than a likeness. It is an identity The two
grand idealisms of the modern world—the enthusiasm of business
and the passion for democracy—are at bottom one and the same
thing
. THE RECTIFICATION UF BUSINESS |s THE REALIZA
THUN OF DEMOCRACY
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\ Our time is now—xve lead our lives.
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© About Books * By eleert iivbbard.
Copyright, 1912, International News Service.
% yj'AN'S first great invention •?
IV'I was the scheme Whereby a
vocal sound stands for a sp< -
ciflc thought. Then language was
born.
The second great invention, and
the greatest one in the world yet.
was making an arbitrary mark
stand for a vocal sound.
This was the secret of Cadmus,
the Phoenician, who invented tile ;
al pint bet.
Twenty-six little crooked marks
called letters, and seven punctua
tion marks—this Is the equipment
of a writer. Os course, it must be
taken for granted that the mini has
thoughts. But what thought Is, no
one yet has ever attempted to say.
A book Is the utilization of tile
t'admean invention. As we grew
in spirit and mentality we w mt
fewer books and better book*-.
Books are not *<> much to teach us
ns to suggest and make us think I 'r
ourselves.
Iteuding is s< If -r« x < tut inn You
like thut authoi mil) who relleciM
your own thought. In the book you
liiscuvei yourself UUi) tin gvpito-
riD RSDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1912.
The Outside Man
Drawn Bv TAD.
■f more mind reads much and delves V
I and dives into bookish depths.
Small boys think it a great ac
eomplisltmenl to lie al>l to see un
der w iter. The real achievement is
to see in the open air. out in the
sunshine, in God's great out-ot
doors.
Do not dive too deep into books,
otherwise you will get metaphysi
cal nntd in your glimmers, and
memorize, not titink.
Do not worship a book. You
would never worship the author if
I you knew him. Treat a book with
dignity . Stand shoulder to shoulder
With an author. Love his book, but
don't munch it.
Good books are companions. It
is beautiful to live neighbor to
Kali'll Waldo Emerson and call to
him over the back feme or help
yourself in bls Garden of Allah.
This Is what Aleott did Alcott
had a great crop of gills, blit was
sla i t tin beets, carrots aud onions,
bet a Use Alcott Would not pull pig
weed and make wai on purslune
call it "pussley” If you pfefel
X book Is the vaiutii ot G
| mind. Tin la is nu < w,il!<iwlng
nt it, but il i» sWctl to vvutvld-
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‘ To gain a foothold on the sands. >
And shoxvs the world his empty hands. I
We see but once Dame Fortune's smile.
And if xve tarry but awhile
We are the men outside tin- pan 1
Whose chance xvill never come again.
’• —Frederic A. Wilson. s
plate. And the curious thing is,
the more posies you pick from one
■ >t' these gardens of the mind tiie
more there are left.
Be on good terms with the great;
touch fingertips with Robert Louis:
greet Tammas, the Techy Titan,
with a smih . even if he only re
, turns it witli a grunt: laugh witii
Rousseau: learn with Hugo, the
master of the short sentence; sigh
with old < >mar. and out of them all.
blessed by your own divinity, your
own insight, your own apprecia
tion, you will be able to sit at the
speaker's tabl* in Valhalla with
Plato, Periel. s, Aristotle, t'ojiemi
cus, while Dante the solemn passes
tile brown bread.
A book is the record of 1 life.
It is what the grain of the tree is
to the wood: it y- a history of a
struggle for existence.
hi a book you get the best that
a man has eVer thought or done or
said The dross, the lees —the Com
monplace th< liansivni -all are
omitted.
Any book that lives twiiity-flve
tears has seen i sener,* lull die
j . ■! h ■ be. n apprei lut«xl by two
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THE HOME PAPER
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
“Super- |
dreadnoughts” I
Will They Prove Themselves To Be Dinosaurs
of the Sea ? Overgrowth Destroyed the Arm
ed Monsters of Jurassic Times and Armored
Knights of Middle'Ages—America Will Be
Ready To Meet Situation Whi n Big Battle
ships (.'ease To Be Valuable.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
1 STOOD close beside the mighty -
battleship New York as she
rushed, with an anthem of vic
tory that shook the air. down the
ringing grooves which led from hei'
huge cradle to the salt tide waters
that are to be her home.
Never have I heard another such
diapason played by any instrument
made with human hands. The
ground trembled, the atmosphere
was turned into a gigantic lute,
with every string in accordant vi
bration. The stimnge birth-song of
the rushing ship, blending with the
roar of a thousand welcoming whis
tles and the cheers from fifty thou
sand throats, made a concert of
triumphant melodies that will al
ways ring in my ears.
The overwhelming effect was
partly the result of surprise; I had
not expected that the great battle
ship would go singing to the sea.
Her voice was one to make every
patriotic heart beat quicker. There
was in it no tone of doubt or fear.
It was the anticipatory chant of
battle and of victory.
How Great Will They Grow?
But as I looked upon her huge
steel hulk I could not but ask my
self: How manv more of these war
monsters must we build before t,he
reign of peace shall come? How
much greater must they grow be
fore they disappear entirely?
Biologists tell us that the armed
monsters of Jurassic times grew
so vast, so heavy, so unwieldly, that
their kind perished through over
growth. Will it be the same with
these steel mdnsters of man's mak
ing? Do they not resemble the ar
mored knights of the Middle Ages,
who at length .jiould hardly carry
| themselves upright on their over
burdened horses? The invention of
gunpowder and of bullets that fly
2,000 feet in a second put an end to
armor for soldiers. In maritime
warfare armor has been the latest
instead of the earliest development,
but can it continue to be effective
when guns are made which, at a
distance of five miles, send their
shells through the thickest belts of
steel? On the sea as on the land
will not armor be abandoned and
the fate of battles be decided by .
I
TheSanjak of Novi Bazar
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
IN the land where the Turk was accustomed to lurk,
Snug and safe in his lowly thatched harem.
There were glad golden days for the Pashas and Beys,
Ere the Bulgars came down there to scare ’em.
Leading sextuple lives with a half dozen wives.
And never a family jar.
They were in pretty rich, were these Turks, among which
Was the Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
Then the rough, rural folk in the Balkans awoke.
And with expletive Turkish “By Hecks,"
Swore the heel of the Turk had come sorely to irk
The supplian scruff of their necks.
Which srfying. they shot up the Pashas a lot.
And soon they had fleeing afar
All the once haughty Beys, but a head a long ways
Was the Sanjak-of Novi Bazar.
So now there's a throne that is left all alone
In a coutry where din and dissension
Are so often the case that one might think the place
Was a prolonged Chicago convention.
And the Novi Jambeek has an ad in this week,
Beading: WANTED A man who's a star.
And who'll hustle right in to a fight he can't win—
To be Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
I haven't the pelf for the journey myself,
And that may be possibly why
l-'or this excellent chance for a life of romance
I do not rush out and apply.
But Bryan has still got his future to fill,
And as for our old friend T. IL,
Due wood certainly think, since he can't be a Kink,
He’d la Sanjak of Novi Bazar
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swiftness of movement and lengtli
of reach?
The New York is called a "super
dreadnought,” and she looks it!
Her cost is $6,000,000. Possibly we
shall soon see super-super dread
noughts. costing double the money,
but we can not go on forever in
that way. These dinosaurs of the
sea must ultimately give place to
other forms less unwieldly, more
active, quicker in movement, bet
ter fitted to survive amidst the
change of environment that is now
rapidly coming over the whole
world.
Conquest Will Alter War.
The conquest of the air and that
of the submarine depths will soon
alter the conditions of warfare.
Man's activities are no longer con
fined to the surface of the earth
and the sea: he soars above the one
and dives beneath the other, and,
still filled with the spirit of battle,
he carries his instruments of de
struction with him wherever he
goes.
When it will all end, who can
tell ? The way to universal peace is
not the way of disarmament. As
long as other nations continue to
build super-dreadnoughts we must
build them, and build them better
than anybody else. Their abolition
will not come through the preach
ing of any theory, but through the
teachings of the next great war.
We were the first, taught by the
experiences of war, to build ar
mored ships; perhaps we shall also
be the first to show that something
better can be made.
Ils Result of Experience.
No advance was ever achieved
* upon the earth that was not the
> result of experience. The teachings
of one experience endure and must
be utilized until the next comes in
i its turn, and those who triumph
are those who the most promptly
meet the new conditions as they
arise. The New York, with her
battle song upon her steel lips, is
the mighty mistress of the seas to
i day; tomorrow her hour ntay be
J passed. But of one thing we may
feel sure, whatever the demands
of rhe morrow may be America
J- will know how to meet them.
