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The Display of Automobiles
Is a Display of Human
Intellect and Progress
Man’s eternal struggle has been to free himself from the power
of gravitation, to be free, physically and mentally, from stagnation
and inactivity. The automobile gives man power to see and know
the earth.
Do not fail to see the automobiles which are exhibited at the
automobile show.
Get an automobile if you can. You can get now a car that is
cheaper to buy and cheaper to keep than a good horse and buggy.
And the automobile will do ten times the work of the horse.
If you only buy ONE automobile, BUY AN AMERICAN MA
CHINE.
The man who makes his money here in America and spends it
for a machine made abroad, instead of helping American manu
facturers, is thoughtless, or something worse.
Tim automobile means better health for millions in the present
and for tens of millions in the future. Eor health is largely a ques
tion of oxygen absorbed. And the automobile is the great OXY
GEN DOCTOR.
The automobile is the blessing of the aged. No sight is finer,
more worthy of our country, than a young man, prosperous or ris
ing toward prosperity, rolling along the country roads with his
family, including his old father or mother, or both of them, in the
car with him.
I sually we preach economy and sticking well within your
means. But we make an exception for the automobile. If you can
buy a machine and only BARELY keep out of debt, BUY IT.* Do
not wait until your parents are dead, or until your wife is too old
to enjoy the fun.
GET YOUR MACHINE NOW.
And if you are the right sort, you will get back your money in
added health, added knowledge of your country, and especially in
the true inspiration that comes from giving happiness to others.
The automobile is destined to make all human beings acquaint
ed with nature and with wide expanses of country.
The automobile will free horses and other creatures from slav
ery. And the automobile will free human beings from cruelty. Eor
no man beats his automobile. He knows what the horse driver does
not know, that the fault is with himself.
Tin* automobile is one of the greatest monuments to human
genius and to man’s victory over the law' of gravitation, that would
keep us glued to the same spot if we would let it.
See the cars, big and little, cheap and dear.
Get as good a car as you can buy—within your means. Re
member that price does not always mean quality.
Get your car THIS year. Study >it. understand it, take care
of it, add an interest to your life, give health to your familv and
encourage a great American and humanitarian industry.
Making Young Americans
The case of the British schoolboy of Cedar Grove, X. J.. who
respectfully saluted the American Hag'. but was expelled from
school because he refused to swear allegiance to it, deserves
comment and reflection.
Os course, all sensible Americans will sympathize with the
boy's father -who paid his taxes and insisted on his right to
send bis son to school. And, of course, all sensible Americans
will be glad to learn that the boy has been reinstated in his
class by the overruling power of a state school board.
But what is to be said of the shrill and turbid Americanism
of the local school authorities at Cedar Grove?
Can patriotism be packed into formal oaths and imposed by
law? This seems to be putting the cart before the horse. Young
Americans in the public schools should be made to understand
that their patriotism does not depend upon the strength of the
law—that, on the contrary, the strength of the law depends
upon their patriotism.
One could wish that it had not been left to a foreigner in
Cedar Grove to protest against the imposition of an oath upon
a schoolboy. Every American in town should have t protested
against it.
It is tine to salute the flag, and to learn to freely love it and
glory in it. But the American schoolboys in Cedar Grove, as
well as the young Briton, should refuse to file an affidavit on
the subject.
Nothing could be more subversive of democratic institu
tions than this Cedar Grove kind of patriotism which stands
on its head and kicks its heels in the air, seeing everything
upside down.
There is a professional kind of patriotism that is not pa
triotism at all. Its yawp of intolerant devotion is the braying
of an ass.
Public Safetv and theTrollev
Following the great railroad growth in the United States
has been the spread of electee lines. At a meeting of the Amer
ican Electric Railway Association, recently held in Chicago, it
was shown that in thirty years nearly two thousand miles of elec
tric lines have been built annual!' until now there are 43,000
miles owned and operated by 1.300 railroads carrying more than
ten billion passengers a year.
It is to be hoped, however, that the railroads in absorbing
electric lines will not do so at the expense of public safetv. A
recent wreck showed that the Xew Haven road has neglected
modern - improvements because of the tremendous < xpense of ac
quiring trolley systems.
There is small sense of providing greater traveling facili
ties by trolley if traveling b\ steam to be made dangerous
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Ihe picture above shows a scene to be witnessed in many an office. Every one is interested
in the story the funny man is telling. They all see the point, but they forget that jokes
can t take the place of work. Life turns out a bitter sort of joke to those who don’t work in
working hours.
Phe Future of Daughters
I"~x VER since the beginning of
d civilization men have taken
thought of their sons’ fu
tures it has b en a poor father
who lias not tried to educate his
boys, and to have them taught
some trade or profession, or estab
lish them in some business whereby
they could support themselves and
find some congenial interest in life.
Singularly enough, few parents
eve- pursue lids course with their
daughters. The gin s future is left
unprovided for, oh the cheerful the
ory that she will marry, and in
matrimony find both a profession
and a livelihood.
In the past this plan has worked
out fairly well, although It has
forced tens of thousands of women
into unwilling and unloving wed
lock, to be the everlasting misery of
the men they married, because no
other career was open to them than
matrimony. Still, most women did
many, but the time of the univer
sal bridal veil and wedding bells
for the feminine sex is over. The
increased cost of living, th- preva
lence of divorce, the multiplicity of
other interests, perhaps the gen
eral disinclination of both sexes to
relinquish their freedom and as
sume new burdens, has caused an
enormous falling otT in the number
of marriages.
Must Consider Her Future.
The plain truth is that in the
prest nt financial conditions many
men find it impossible to marry,
and under present social conditions
main women find it unattractive to
marry.
Therefore, the father of daugh
ters can not console himself with
the reflection that it doesn’t mat
ter about providing for his girls,
for they will before long marry
because’ some of them will be sure
not to marry.
The problem, then, of the unmar
ried daughter becomes a very se
rious one. What is this woman with
her life before her, with intelligence
and health and energy, going to do
with herself?
Os course, if the woman is the
daughter of a very rich man. or a
very poor one. the question more or
less settles itself. If she is a mil
lionairess. she will find her’inter
ests in society or philanthropy. If
she is poor, she will go to work and
be happy and useful in whatever
occupation she elects to follow.
The unfortunate woman Is the
girl who belongs to the well-to-do
class, whose father is able to pro
vide her with food and clothes so
that she does not actually have to
go out to work, but who is not rich
enough for his w ealth to gi'e her a
career tn itself.
Such father-, tender and loving
towaid tliei. daughters, desire for
iff--••tivn s s.m and for pride's sake
to keep their daughters at home.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1912.
The Talkers
Drawn Bv TAD.
By DOROTHY DIX
*t* and they can not see why their
Marys and Janes are not happy and
| satisfied in the family nest. Haven’t
the girls kind parents? Haven’t
they a comfortable home? Haven’t
they as good clothes as their friends
and neighbors? And haven’t they
nothing to do?
It sounds to the harassed fa
ther, vexed at what he considers
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the unreasonableness of woman
kind. that b." is describing an earth
ly paradise. He can not compre
hend that there are no women on
the face of the earth more to be
pitied than the old maid daughters
in comfortable homes.
No lives are so dreary as those
of women who have no real inter
est. no real occupation, who are
stirred by no real emotions, and
who see themselves growing old
and gray and withered, wasting
their energies on knitting tidies
and embroidering dollies when they
know themselves capable of doing
better things.
One Form of Bondage.
Yet, when they propose to go out
into the world and follow some
profession or business and make an
individual life for themselves, as
their brothers have done, they meet
with such opposition from their
parents that only the boldest have
the courage to fight the family to a
standstill and follow their own de
sires. The more unselfish and aX-
* fectionate yield to their fathers’
and mothers’ silly opposition and
remain at home in perpetual tiond
age and vassalage, children that
never grow up, but are kept In
mental pinafores even when their
hair is gray.
The inevitable result of keeping
any able-bodied, grown-up woman
in tutelage and depriving her of a
legitimate vent for her activities is
bound to be disastrous. It is what
has made the appellation “old
maid” a term of reproach. For the
woman who has had no business
of her own, has poked her nose
into everybody else’s business and
thereby stirred up trouble. While
on the other hand there are no
women more broad-minded, more
agreeable, or better liked, than
those unmarried women whose lives
are filled full of the absorbing in
terests of some occupation in which
they find a compensation for what
ever they have missed in matri
mony.
Another phase of the situation
that parents overlook is this, that
the income that suffices to keep
n family comfortable when they are
all together will not support the
individual members in comfort
when they go their separate ways,
and thus many a spinster is thrown
out on the world with a mere pit
tance to live on when her father
dies. She knows no way of mak
ing a living. She is an amateur at
everything because she has only
helped her mother keep house, she
has only helped her sisters take
care of the children, she has only
worked in a ladylike way at every
thing. And the result of th!F ama
teurishness is starvation wages.
Pale Gray Spinster No More.
The time has come when par
ents need to face the real situa
tion of woman in the present day.
They must realize that there are
just as many chances that their
daughters will not marry as that
they will marry, and have their
girls taught some way of making a
living just as much as they do their
boys.
And they must realize, if their
daughters do not marry, that they
must help, not hinder, them in find
ing the kind of work that they- want
to do in the world. For no human
being, male or female, can be either
good or happy who has not some
absorbing interest in life, some
worthy object.
The day of the pale gray anemic
spinster, who was content with the
husks of existence, is gone by.
The modern unmarried woman de
clines to be the family martyr, and
it is time that her parents cease
trying to thrust that role upon her.
The bachelor woman doesn’t propose
to lag superfluous upon the stage.
She wants to get busy, nd her fa
ther and mother should help her to
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THE HOME PAPER J
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
“Modern
Wonders”
Present Achievements in Irrigation and Water
Supply Are Simply Improvements on Un
derlying Ideas of Ancients, and, on the
Whole, Progress Made in 2,000 Years
Has Been Rather Slow.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
WHEN New York's immense
new aqueduct is completed
it will rank very high
among the engineering marvels of
the world, and will measure up to
the civic magnitude and impor
tance of the future metropolis of
the earth. In some of its details it
is unmatched in human achieve
ment. The great siphon, carrying
an imprisoned river under the bed
of the Hudson at the Highlands,
and the supply tunnels that are to
come up 700 feet out of the rocks
'underneath the city are works
worthy of the hand of nature her
self. In their grandeur they recall
geological phenomena.
Where We Are Great,
But while we indulge a justifiable
pride in admiring these things, we
are in danger of exaggerating their
importance. We are apt to think
that such achievements are pecu
liar to our age and time. We be
come unjust and contemptuous to
ward antiquity, which is a foolish
state of mind, because it leads us
to the erroneous conclusion that we
are incomparably greater than were
the men who built empires and
cities thousands of years ago.
As a matter of fact we are great
er only in the mastery which ad
vancing science has given us over
certain details. We are greater in
some things and smaller in others.
Even in our own chosen field of
mechanical - science we must not
boast too heedlessly. Suppose that
some proud old Roman—let us say
of the days of Diocletian—could
tread the soil of the New World and
examine our new aqueduct. We
should look in vain for any sign of
amazement in his eyes when he
saw a vast city supplying itself
with water by bringing it from the
mountains many miles away. The
carrying of the water beneath the
bed of a broad river might interest
him, but he would not be surprised.
He would say:
“This you have accomplished be
cause you have a better way of
making cement and better ma
chines for penetrating the rocks
than we had. But did not the Ro
mans, centuries before my time,
drive a tunnel 6,000 f<*et through
the lava rock of Mount Albanus to
let the waters out of its great
crater? I see nothing essentially
astonishing in what you have done.
We could, and would, have done
similar things if we had had the
advantage of two thousand years
of progress. Upon the whole, I
think you have been rather slow.
Still Defy Imitation.
“Consider what we had accom
plished before the barbarians de
scended upon us. We carried wa
ter to Rome from the mountains
forty miles away, and we built
nine great aqueducts, three of which
are still bearing water to Rome,
Battle of Sentinum
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
THE battle of Sentinum, fought
2,?'7 years ago, had as many,
great issues hanging upon it
as any battle recorded in history.
Had the battle resulted otherwise
than it did it is certain that the
whole course of human history
would have been radically different
from what it is today.
The struggle of the Romans with
the Samnites and their allies,
which began B. C. 328, for the po
litical supremacy of the Italian
peninsula, ended at Sentinum 33
years later with victory- for Rome.
Allied with the powerful Sam
nites were pretty nearly all the
peoples of Italy, and more than
once during the struggle was
Rome brought close to the brink
of destruction. At the Caudirie
Forks the Romans were made to
drink to the very bottom of the cup
of humiliation, and so great was
the depression among the future
masters of the world that all but
the most heroic of them felt that
the day of doom had surely come.
But the victory at Sentinum
more than atoned for all the rest,
in this epoch-making battle about
170.000 of the finest fighters then to
be found,on the earth took part,
about equally divided between the
Romans and the allies.
All dfiy- long and until well into
the night the opposing forces
fought like demons, each side
seeming to realize that it was to be
the great decisive struggle of the
war. The Samnites were as valiant
by nature as the Romans, and their
allies were all splendid soldiers,
and more than once during the day
it seemed impossible to forecast the
result.
tin the Roman right the allies
were holding their ground In splen
did fashion, while on the left the
terrible Gauls were beginning to
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i* while their huge lines of masonry
with their mighty arches defy
even your powers of imitation. All
over the world, wherever we ■
marched and planted cities, we
constructed roads and aqueducts I
that remain today, some almost as I
good as when they were built.’
“Comparing the tools that we had
with yours, and the state of prac
tical science in our time with what
it is today, I can not feel abashed
. in your presence. On the contrary,
I am rather surprised that you
have done so little. You are still
following in the track we marked
out. Your great engineering in
ventions are nothing more than im
provements. The underlying ideas
are all ours.”
Then, out of the Elysian Fields. V
might come a shade to rebuke the I
Roman, one of the engineers who
served the great Amenemhat of
Egypt, who would say:
“Proud Roman, sneer no more at
these fledgling Americans. Look to
your own laurels. YOU brought
water from the mountains to Rome,
though the Tiber flowed at your
feet; WE. in Thebas. drank the
mighty Nile to satisfy our thirst
and the thirst of our teeming land.
You talk of your masonry and your
aqueducts! Look at ours! So far
from improving upon them, you did
not equal them.”
What We Mustn’t Assume. r
Then, from all over the ancient I.
world, and from the most distant V
tracts of time, would flock the en- I
gineers of the past, and one would 1
say: “King Solomon built aque
ducts for Jerusalem;” and another:
“Semiramis made Babylon glorious
with sparkling waters,” and anoth
er, “Zenobia, the Palmyian queer,
turned Tadmor of the desert into
a garden of roses,” and from the
far-off land of Confucius would
come one who would say: “Thou ' \
sands of years before Greece or
Egypt or Chaldea was heard of.
we Chinese had seized the waters
of the great yelloiv rivers that flow
down from the roof of the world and
begun the vastest system of irriga
tion that is known to man.”
So, it will not do to assume, as
we are too prone to do, that these
things are the Inventions of out
time. The most that we can claim
for ourselves is that we have made
good use of our opportunities. We
are still working along the old lines, .
and neither when we train rivers |
into new* courses, or bore holes
through mountains, or draw water
from the rocks beneath, or carry
streams over long arches of ma
sonry, or construct artificial lakes,
or honeycomb the soil beneath ou
cities w’ith conduits, are we doing
anything that would astonish our
predecessors of 20, or 40, or ever
80, centuries ago. As far as we can
see their brains were as good as
ours, but our hands have acquired
• more cunning. •
f consul bade the priest devote to
the infernal gods both the head of
the Roman general and the army of
the enemy; and, plunging into ths
thick of the fight with his soldiers,
the Gauls were scattered like chaff.
Disheartened by the flight of the
Gauls, the rest of the allies gave
way, and the battle was over. Nir
thousand of the flower of the K<
man youth lay dead upon the fleb”
and twice that number of the b--st
and bravest of the opposition ay
with them.
It was a costly victory, bus it
was worth all that was paid for it.
The army of the coalition was ab
solved, and with it the coalition
Itself.
The Romans were now the undl
puted masters of Italy, and had
made the first great step toward
the conquest of the world. The
city of Romulus was now 480 years
old, and the national domain ex
tended from the Cimmean Wood in
Etruria to the middle of the Cam
pania. It was called the Ager Ro
anmus (the Land of the Romans),
and had a population of 290,000 men
capable of bearing arms.
Ten years after the crowning vic
tory of Sentinum the celebrated
King Pyrrhus landed in Italy with
a great army of invasion, but, a
- owing to his remarkable
military genius, Pyrrhus for a time
made some trouble for the Romans,
he was soon disposed of, and then,
with the whole Italian peninsula
as a secure base, the Romans be
gan to reach out for me world
empire which they finally secured.
All thoughtful people are con
vinced that, as conditions then
were, it was well that that emplP
was established. It was necessary
that the warring tribes and nation?
should be unified and taught the
great principles of law and order.
The Romans did that; and the;
were able to do It only because
tiny beat the Samnites and their
allies at the battle of Sentinum.