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Arms and Valor Alone
P e Nations
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It is written in the Book that greater love hath no man than
this, that he give his own life for another. And in that exceed
ing greatness of love died those fathers and brothers of ours
upon whoge graves we lay each year the blooms and blossoms of
the fragrant spring.
Our noblest and most precious possession is our citizenship—
our sonship and partnership in the republic and in its traditions,
its renown and its beneficent institutions of orderly freedom.
And this possession is ours because these men died that we might
have so great riches of liberty.
Now, to such high purposes and for such famous achieve.-
ments did they not barter away their lives with good usury and
rich profit?
That wars should he made, as thieves and robbers make
their forays, for pillage of other people’s possessions or to abate
their strength or make havoc of their producing and trading is
a wicked and accursed abuse of arms; and those who are com
- pelled to die in such an ignoble quarrel do indeed deserve com
pasgion.
. But he who for his kith and kin and for the land that moth‘-
~ ered him and for the dear sake of the liberties of his people takes
arms in his hands and dies, if so God wills, face forward in the
fighting, honorably pays his just debt to his country and does
well his manly duty; and on his tomb it is right to hang garlands
and above his dust to rejoice and be glad for his faith, his valor
and his death.
The cradle of our liberties was rocked by war. This most
beneficent Government which has ever existed to foster and to
enlarge the happiness and to promote the upward progress of
_the race of man stands fast today because many thousands of
brave men died in wars holily waged to maintain its existence in
the earth. ¢ -
And whenever the example of these dead ceases to find
Americans willing and eagerly glad to follow it, the republic will
fall. There are no props of a free nation except the strong arms
and stout hearts of citizens who are alike willing and able to
wield weapons in its defense, and who can be as terrible in war
as they are frankly friendly in peace. .
Truly, these are commonplace truths. But, citizens, you do
not take these truths to heart as you should do. But a few days
ago the shadow of imminent and dreadful war drew like an
eclipse across our land. You do not yet begin to know how close
that awful catastrophe came to your homes; nor by what forbear
ance abroad or by what powerful remonstrance of patriotic and
sensible men at home you were saved, as by the thickness of a
bair, from that madness of war-besotted fools.
Now, a nation which without any more adequate cause than
exisled a month ago can be brought by the cunning machinations
of schemers abroad and by calculating avarice and unreasonable
passions and prepossessions at home to the very brink and razor
-edge, as it were, of frightful and stupendous war must be mad
to believe that it is immune from future warfare, that it can
@ford to go unprepared for future warfare.
And indeed, citizens, those who preach that doctrine to you
- Are incapable of clear reasoning upon patent facts. They may
be, in all other respects, men of sound intellects, capable of
carrying difficult and complex problems to the just conclusion.
~ But in this one matter they are hopelessly unable to reason
aright. We say this not in bitterness nor in contempt, but in
frank astonishment at their obsession.
What right have you men and women who repeat the maud
: ‘lin and shameful doggerel that declares you will not raise your
sons to be soldiers for their country and their flag—what right
have you to thrill with patriotic pride or to applaud and cheer
these venerable old men of the Blue and the Gray when they go
~ marching past?
Their mothers raised them to be soldiers—if we must repeat
the loathsome doggerel. And because their mothers did raise
them to be soldiers and did send them out, with a loyalty that was
deeper than their heart'’s anguish and holier than their prayers
and tears, to fight and to suffer hardships and to face wounds
and death itself on the red fields of battle you and all of us now
live in the enjoyment of noble liberties and have our citizenship
in a mighty, puissant, free, glorious and forever united country.,
Citizens, a gratitude which deems that it has done enough
when it parades once a year to the cemeteries and throws flowers
down on the sleepers there. is poor pay for the valor and the
sacrifices of the dead lying there on their beds of honor.
It is a cheap and dishonest payment of most generous credi.
tors—of men who pawned all that they had, even to their lives,
for our use and benefit.
There is only one honorable payment of that almost incred
ible debt, and that is to use freely and gladly our means and our
personal services to make secure for ourselves and our children
the country they made secure for us: to keep the land as strong
as they left it strong; to surround the flag with as war.
like preparation for defense as they surrounded it with; to ring
about the republic in peace with the discipline and equipment
which they employed to bring her peace; and to instill into the
hearts of our children the valorousness, readiness to fight, and,
if needs must, to die for the land and its flag and its liberties
which filled their hearts in the brave years that are gone.
Oh, friends, when war does come on rushing wings of
destruction, what other shield and refuge for our womankind and
our children, for our homes and our liberties, and our dear coun.
. try can there be except preparedness by sea and by land, except
in fleets that can beat any foe, except in inexhaustible stores of
arms and munitions and all the equipment of gigantic war?
Of what possible avail will be our native courage if our
: native h;tellimoe lacks wit to supply that courage with
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fettered as was Nathan Hale before his execution. Only
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' .. Garbage and Civilization .- |
By Woods Hutchinson, M. D.
The World’s Best Known Writer on
Medical Subjects. |
ARBAGE is a mark and a 1
G product of civilization. |
Savages have no garbage
disposal problem. for the simple
reason that they don't produce
any. They leave nothing on their
“plates” but the bones and the
“ hair. And there are those who
are unkind enough to intimate
that certain tastes which are still
found in clvilized communities,
such as #r tripe, for liver, for
haggis and blood sausage, are
survivals from the good old daye
when every man was his own
walking garbage-destroyer.
However this may be, there lis
no quuuon'thnt a very consider- |
able share of the staple food of 1
savage and Dbarbarous races
would be thrown into the garbage ‘
can by civillzed man with
promptuess and disgust. But
those gloriously simple—and
short-lived and sickly-—days are |
past beyond recall, and the more
prosperous and civilized a com
munity the more garbage it pro
duces.
L Curious and incredible as |t
may sound, it is a fact that an
American community or city of,
say, five thousand souls produces
from three to five times as much
garbage as a European town of
the same size. And this is act.
ually one of the reasons why the
problem of garbage disposal is
#0 difficult and so imperfectly
met on this side of the Atlantic.
Wasteful, but Sanitary.
At first sight this looks ke
aheer waste and extravagance, and
to a certain extent it is, but there
is another aspect to the situation.
And that is that if a piece of food
is coarse and indigestible or of
questionable freshness and
soundness, still more if it shows
any sign of taint or spoiling or
decay, then a garbage can is s.
far rhore economic and profitable
place for it than a human stom
ach,
It is well to bear this in mind,
because one of the first things
froqunfiy urged by those who
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The Stranger from Chippewa Falls
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By William F. Kirk.
E was stunned by the roar of the city,
H But the size of his roll was superb,
And it seemed to the sharps quite a pity
To rope in this man on the curb.
But the sharps had the love of a broker,
Forithe greenback that beckons and calls,
So they got up a game of draw poker
For the stranger from Chippewa Falis b
They were sinned against far more than sinning,
For the stranger played wisely and well,
And somehow he seemed to keep winning,
Though how not a sharper could tell.
He showed them full houses astounding,
Replyjng to numerous calla.
“That's good!” was the tune they kept pounding .
To the stranger fron; Chippewa Falla.
At last came a duel of betting, :
The stranger and Old Doc O'Brien;
“Four aces!” sald Doc, soon regretting;
“Straight flush!"” said the stranger, “she's mine.” ’
“You win!" sighed the sharper, “I smelt you
For all of your Innocent stalls,
But that wasn't the hand that 1 dealt vou,
Mr. Stranger from Chippewa Falls!”
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the young man forges his own fetters, and if he is not
stirred into breaking them, he will be his own executioner.
are struggling to solve the gar
bage problem is that there shonld
be greater economy, a more care
ful and thrifty utilization of rem
nants and left-overs in the
American kitchen, so as to dimin
ish the enormous bulk of kitchen
waste which has to be dealt with,
Undoubtedly some improve
ment could be obtained in this
regard without endangering the
great American stomach, but the
more carefully we study the act
ual eveiution and pedigree in the
average kitchen of hashes and
minces and stews and “made
dishes” and second-hand scrap
puddings of all sorts, in which
onions and strong spices or su
gar and flavoring extracts are
used to cover the dying breaths
of off-color meat and moldy
bread, or curdled milk, or berries
which are too far gone to serve
fresh and undisguised, the mare
deep rooted become our suspicions
of their wholo;omoneu.
Scraps Breed Ptomaine.
We're “from Missouri” when
ever they are set bofore. us, and
they've got to prove a perfect
and Incofitelmblo pedigree as to
freshness of their mixed ancestry
or else pass a board of health
test for ptomaines and bacteria,
Economy is excellsnt in its
place, but that is in buying rath
er than in cooking. No small
share of the increased modern
cost of living is due to the higher
standards of purity, quality and
soundness which we insist upon
in our food.
In the same way the consclen
tious maintenance of a high (and,
in the long run, profitable) stand
ard of absolute cleanliness and
healthfulness of everything cogk
ed in and served from our kitch
ens will invariably result in a
considerable apparent waste of
tainted or deubtful food .material
and scraps.
“When in doubdbt play the gar
bage can" should be the whist
rule of the cooking game. And
it is far safer to impose un
profitable labo- on the street
cleaning department than upon
our own digestion .
THE HOME PAPER
How a River Sawed a
Great Mountain in Two
By Ceaseless Grinding
Geological History of the Delaware Water
Gap Presented in Attractive Form on Chart
Issued by United States Survey—Detailed
Picture of Remarkable SSection.
COUPLE of years ago I
A referred in these col
umns to the excellence
of the topographic maps issued by
the United States Geological Sur
vey, and distributed to the public
at a nominal cost. They form de
tailed pictures of our country
which, with a very slight and eas
ily acquired training in their use,
give -to their possessors all the
principal advantages of a bird's
eye view.
An ordinary may shows only di
rections; these maps show, in ad
dition, the ups and downs, hills,
valleys and slopes, and yet all
these details are introduced
without confusion, and the clear
ness of the maps is delightful.
Every automobilist making a trip 5
ought to have a series of the maps 1
covering the territory that he
proposes to traverse. ‘
As you drive along you can see,
by a glance at the chart, the na
ture of the land ahead of and
around you, the steepness of the
slopes, the length of the hills, the
elevation of every point on your
route, above seasievel as well as
above the level of the nearest
valley. It is from maps of this
kind that ‘the artillerists of bat
tling Europe learn where to drop
their shelks beyond the rim of
the hotizon, and the strategists
where to hide tHeir batteries and
to conceal the movements of their
troops.
I have just been studying a new
edition of the “Delaware Water
Gap Sheet,” issued last mqnth, to
which Dr, George Otis Smith, the
Director of the Geological Survey,
has called my attention. Here a
very picturesque region, approx
imately 240 squares miles in area,
is placed before the eye like a
view from a balloon, but far more
definite.
Clear and Authoritative History
of Whole Strange Region
Presented.
A special interest attaches to
this particular chart in the fact
that, on the back of it, there is
printed a clear and authoritative
geological history of the region,
running back millions of years,
and answering, in a manner that
would not be expected by the
average reader, the question
which springs to the lips of every
person passing under the frown
ing cliffs of Mount Tammany,
through the great gateway of the
Delaware: “How and when was
this mighty cleft in the mountain
wall opened for the river?”
The beauty of the map is that
it not only shows the country as
it is today, but illustrates its
wonderful geological history and
enables the reader to follow that
" hictory, almost step by step. With
the aid of the description on the
back he can trace the features
of the land that were sculptured
in the Great Ice Age, and also
some that were formed iens of
millions, and even perhaps hun
dreds of millions of years, before
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“THEY DO SAY.” {
“They do say”—these three little words have done more damage thawg
ever can be repaired.
“Of course, I don't know a thing about it, but they do say,” and the
character of that beautiful young girl has gone under suspicion; “they da
say,” and the scorching breath of the scandal monger has spelled ruin to
that happy little family across the way.
Oh, Mrs. Whoever-you-are, forget it. Remember that the truth maw
be bad enough, but nothing is bad enpugh to be repeated with “they do say™
as a preface. It makes a combination to be shunned like the pestilence.
The person who will use these words has no foundation of truth for the
statements, and certainly no proof positive.
Have no faith in a person who says “they do say.” Put no confidence in
the source of information which dares not be more positive.
It is dreadful to be the circulator of truths which are injurious to the
reputation of, and defame the character of, another, but many ¢imes worss
to intimate even a wrong of which you have not absolute proof.
It is difficult to leve one for
whom we have had contempt.
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Some of these fellows looking
for work seem to be very near
sighted.
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No man should be allowed to
boss the house unless he is paying
the rent, R —
By Garrett P. Serviss.
the ‘Tce Age, running back to
the mysterious Cambrian, Silu
rian and Devonian periods.
Up and down the region has
swayed, now before the sea and
now above it. Ihe material of
the hard rock walN of the Kitta
tinny range, throul®h which the
Delaware passes, was created ih
the Silurian period, although at
that time it was pai't of an al
most level plain, subhmerged by
the sea. !
It did not become a wrall until
gigantic pressure in the earth’'s
crust had erumpled, swelled, roll
ed and uplifted into the sunshine
the solid gea-bottom, throwing it
into stupendous, motionless waves
of rock, nor until the action of
atmospheric ageéncies and water,
continued for millions of wears
had worn down the softer \sur
rounding stone, and left the
stubborn “Shawangunk conglom
erate,”” of which the Kittatinihy
range consists, standing as a lofty
barricade between the lower lands
on the North and the South,
Before the Shawangunk walf
had begun to form, through the
wearing away and lowering of its
surroundings, *he entire country |
lay nearly at the present level of {
the top of Mount Tammany, and |
a stream.that was to become the |
present Delaware “probably pass- |
ed through a gentle depression in
a low ridge-that must have ex
isted where the hard Shawangunk
conglomerate came to the sur
face, a low place determined by
the weakening of the hard rocks
by a sharp minor fold, so that
erosion proceeded there more
rapidly.” :
Tributaries Wore Down Susn
rounding Surface While Dela~
ware Made Principal Attack.
The land behind continued to
rise during the Cretaceous period,
2 increasing the slope toward the
sea, and the streams tributary to
the Delaware, as well as the
Delaware itself, quickened their
pace, and, with {it, augmented
their erosive action. The tribu
taries, with their contributing
streams, brooks and rills, wore
down the general surface, while
the Delaware continued its at
tack on the gradually emerging
wall, deepening its preliminary
cut and forming cascades and
rapids, where the stones, peb
~ bles, sands and bowlders swept
along by the plunging current
acted almost like a saw, which
even the indurated conglomerate
could not arrest.
Thus, through millions of years,
while the wall rose higher, the
gap was deepened, until it be
; came the huge water gate that
- we admire and wonder at today.
| It would be a valuable contri
bution to the pleasure and know!-
~ edge of the people if similar in
formation wére provided on the
. reverse of many others of the
topographic charts covering re
gions of special geological inter
est, and, in fact, there is no re
gion that has not some interest
of that kind.
[n-Shoots
Colonel's going too fast ever to
win in a walk.
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Ford would accept even a sub
stitute for peace now. |
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Congress usually gains time by !
pushing the clock back. !
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Man arrested In “get rich” plog
evidently didn't succeed, )