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Cases (ited Where Disabled Soldiers Have Been
Juggled Out of Rights and Kept Helpless by
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sweetheart from boyhood days. He was a country boy, she was
a country girl, and both had been raised on farms.
, “STRONG ENOUGH,’’ SAYS BOARD.
\ She visited him often, and they had many serious debates over
their future while he was in the hospital. They finally decided
that dthey would lease a place, do a little truck farming, but give
theirparticular attention to fruit raising. So the vocational advisor
recommended a eourse in farm management with special reference
to fruit ‘raising, which made them very happy.
Por a few years previous to his enlistment this young man had
Been a shoe elerk. In doe course o
time his survey form reached the cen
trad office. A letter eame baeck to the
district officesordering another exami
nation of the boy™ foot by the dis
trict board doetor, on the ground that
#t was probably not strong enough
to permit him to do farm work, As
\lmofmumuUmohowu
doing Mght farm work, right along
the lines that he proposed to do after
truining. But he had this extra ex
aminaticn by the doctor, and the re
port went back to Washington that,
while he had a slight lmp, the ankle
was strong enough to permit him te
tauke the traming recommended and
@0 the sort of work he had in mind.
A few weeks later, back again came
fhis case from the central office with
the finding that it was evident to the
central offfice that this boy's foot
was all right and so he should return
to his old job as shoe clerk,
LOSER EITHER WAY,
The comment on this ruling by the
young wife was a real picture of his
case. She said: “If the board dGoector
had reported that his foot was not
strong enough for the farm training
recommended, he would have been
out of luck. Becanse the doctor re
ported that the foot was strong
endugh for that sort of work, he is
out of luck, anyway. He finds him
self in' a position similar to that oc
cupled by Mr Douglas when Mr. Lin
coln asked him the famous question,
Mr. Douglas would have been the
loser, no matter how he answered.
It was sugwested to this yomng
coyple that they have thelr congress
man take the matter up, which the
congressman did, with the result that
very &hortly the district office was
crdered by central office to send for
this boy and to notify him that he
could receive class 38 training, com
pensation only, at Amherst Agricul
tural College, It costs the board noth.
ing for tuition in certain courses in
this college, the president of the col.
lege being anxjous to have that insti.
tution do everything possible to train
disabled soldiers. The boy was clear
iy entitled to section 2 training, with
full pay, because with his weak ankle
it would be extremely hazardous for
him to go back to work as a shoe
clerk. It is necessary for a shoe clerk
to be rather expert on sliding wall
ladders, and that sort of thing is not
recommended even by federal board
€octors for men with ankles that have
been severely injured.
LOSES LEG AT THIGH.
One of the happlest hoys that the
g, human repair shop m Boston
betped was a young Itallan who had
Baen in thiz country only a few years,
He lost & leg at the thigh. He had
& smile for everybody, and his ma
nipulation of the Itallan language
was wonderful. He knew it made
hfs injured “buddies”™ laugh, and he
would purposely put them In good
bumor by making speeches in broken
z&. Everybody knew “Charlie”
oven the wvisftors were instine-
Tvely drawn to him. When he first
emme to this eountry he worked in a
ecandy shop, and he described his
work as “Mixem up peanuts and mo-
Juss' in a great bigga tub”
The job he had just before he went
away was, as he deseribed it: “Maka
mattres. Puast 'em up on big table;
stuff em*up; sew ‘em up; sling ‘em
over on the pile. Pretty heavy work,
Gotta be strong da man”
When he saw the vocational officer
e was in a very serfous mood. He
said he wanted to be able to read,
write and speak the Ameriean lan.
guage and to know more about this
eountry; and when told that the ad
wviser would recommend a “tryout”
course, which meant an education in
Pnelish elementary subjects, and an
opportunity to select a trade for
which he might be tralned he could
hardly belleve it. He declared that
this was the greatest country in the
world and that he did not mind the
Joss of his leg inasmuch as he would
bave an opportunity to receive a fair
education and learn a gainful trade.
MAKES MANY TRIPS,
After his discharge he made three
or four trips to the district office of
COMMENT BY SERVICE MEN
Rowland, N. O, Aug. 25, 1919,
Mr. Charles ©O. Power, Sunday
American, Atlanta, Ga,
Déar Sir:
After reading earefully your write
up in yesterday's paper in regard to
the Federal Board for Vocational
Edpcasion, 1 find that you have hit
my case exactly, Since March 10,
1919, I have been living on promises
and their conflicting excuses. 1 am
anxiously awalting your next Sun
day's edition, and if I ean give vou
any information in regard to this
matter | will gladly do 80, as 1 am a
wounded soldier myself,
(Rigned) F. C. FLOYD,
~ Box 84 Rowland, N. G
the federal board, and the last time
his funds had been reduced to less
than a dolar, and he was obliged to
request assistance of the Red Cross.
The placement section did not have
any success in seeking a temporary
job for him. There was not mnch
call at thag time for one-legged men.
More bad luck developed for “Char-
He” about two months after he was
discharged, because just then came
the order from the central office that
no more men were to be accepted as
“tryout® cases. This foolish order
has sinee been rescinded, but it was
the means of sending Charlie's case
to the federal board doctor for re
view, The fact that his leg was off
was not sufficient. The doctor re
duced the disability mark which
Charlie received when he left the
hospital about 50 per cent, and then
attached a note to his case to the
effect that, when provided with an
artificlal limb, he would be able to
return to his old job. His former
employer sald, when asked ahout it,
that he would never be able to com
pete with normal men working at his
old trade, This suggestion of the
doctor was so raw that the case
board in the office refused to ame
cept ft.
These cases are but typical of
many. - They merely offer a hint of
the splendid work done by hospital
Surgeons and the instfuctors and
aides in the educational service of
‘the surgeon general's department. Is
that work to result in a waste o!'
good citizenship material? Are the
foundations for future courses of
vocational training, laid in the hos
pital schools at considerable expense
to the government, to be scrapped?
Wasn't there a fine promise in that
work?
The boy of foreign birth referred to
was also told by comrades and friends
that the promises of the government
were nothing but bunk, and he was
advised that he would get more out
of his period of convalescence if he
accepted invitations to go automobile
riding than if he gave his time to
the bedside oecupations and the social
work. It is only fair to assume that
it the prevailing tests of the federal
board are applied fn hi scase he wili
be a comparatively easy mark for the
propaganda of the bolsheviki,
“A DRAFT OF HONOR.”
President Wilson, I referring to
the initial appropriation of the fed
eral board, to equip it for the task of
fitting wounded soldlers for new and
better positions in eivil life, said that
ft was “a draft of honor which the
United States of America accepted
when it selected these men and took
them In their health and strength to
fight the battles of the nation.”
~ Congress or the federal board has
allowed this draft to go to protest.
It .is the @uty of the American
ilmen to make Congress understand
that it was a real sentiment of
gratitude on the part of the Ameri
can people which eaused the crea
tion of the board for voeational
education and rehabilitation of
maimed and crippled war service
men, which made the promise of
adequate compensation to the dis
abled for themselves and their de
pendets, and that the same senti
ment still exists and will never die.
This great country :nust keep
faith with her heroes, This is a duty
which the legion should demand that
Congress consider sacred. In this they
would have the stanch support of the
Elks, the Red Cross, the Knights of
Columbus, the Jewlsh Welfare Board,
the Y. M. €, A, and the Salvation
Army, all of whom have already done
#0 mueh, and of all Americans who
are grateful to our soldiers and sail
ors,
Congress must be made to realize
that this is & grateful country, The
war risk insurance bureau and the
federal board for vocational educa
tion soon must be made to under
stand that the problem of the dis
abled soldier and sailor ig not merely
& cold and puzzling one, but a sim
ple and Intensely humane one. Other.
wise the soldier and sallor are going
to make a great deal of trouble,
Greensboro, N, O, Aug, 24, 1919,
Mr. Charles O. Power, Care Sun
day American, Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Bir:
Just finlshed reading your article
in this morning's Sunday American.
Although I am not a wounded or
Gisabled man, 1 enlisted in the army
at the outbredk of the war and
spent quite a while in France, Have
lots of “pals” who were wounded,
and 1 want to thank you for the
“real dope” that you are writing up.
Can you glve us any mseason why
we can not secure our Liberty
bonds? We have tried the Red
Crogs, and they seem to be at a
standstill,
Awaiting your next Installment
with lntor;st. 1 am, i
ours respec g
4 W, ntw“fi'r.
Ex-Sergeant First Class, Thirtieth
Divigion, 105th Engineers.
HEARSI'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for Peoply Who Think — SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919,
Man, 83, Sets
Example f
xamp'e for
Tax Dodgers
(By Universal Press.)
HICAGO, Aug. 23~—~Not all
C men are llars and tax
dodgers. Take BSBamuel
Harris, for instance Harris is
83 years old and a Clvil war vet
eran. He walked Into the office
of the Board of Review and in
formed Reviewer Edward R, Lit
zinger that “the Board of As
- sessors had . unwittingly lied
"about him.” . j
The board, it appeared, had
assessed him for $1,895 on real
estate, and he ingisted that he be
assessed for $555000. “I can not
conscientiously permit an ad
vantage to be taken of an error
by the assessors,” Harris ex
plained.
Litzinger complimented the
aged soldier on his honesty-—and
did it loud enough for several
men and women who were com
plaining of overtaxation to
hear it.
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France Seeks Lands of American |
'
Wife of German Who Left
Him to Aid French Cause.
(By Universal Service,)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Behind|
the application of Mrs. Frances Sco- |
ville-Mumm to have Congress dan]are!
her a citizen of the United States|
lles a dramatic story of a race for
millions beteen the American gov
ernment and the government of
Franee,
Millions of dollars now invested in
vineyards near Rheims, France, are
at stake, and the contest will he de
cided on the question of the right of
Mrs. Scoville-Mumm to become au
American citizen.
Senator Capper of Kansas has pre
sented a resolution in the Senate to!
confer the rights of citizenship upon |
Mrs., Scoville-Mumm. Only once in
the history of the United States has
this been done, and that was when
Congress passed an act establishing
the citizenship of Nellie Grant Sar
toris, the daughter of General Grant.
Mrs. Scoville-Mumm is now in this
country awaiting the action of Con
gress and is residing at Newport.
The history of this unusual case
begins with the marriage in 1913 of
Frances Scoville to Walter Mumm, a
member of the famous family of that
name engaged in the wine business.
Miss Scoville was the daughter of (.’
C, K. SBcoville, a wealthy resident 0('
Seneca, Kans., while Mumm was a
subject of the German Emperor. Un
der the law, she became a subject of
Germany upon her marriage and emi
grated to Germany with her husband.
GOES TO FRANCE. |
When the war broke out Mrs. Sco
ville-Mumm went to Frnace, where
she became interested in relief work
among the French people and con-|
tributed largely to the various funds
raised for carrying on war work, She‘
rendered signal service to the French
armies and thereby endeared horsolti
to the French cause in the war, de
spite the fact that her husband re
mained in Germany and acknowledged
his allegianece to the German side, 1
- Owing to this situgtion, the couple
quarreled. Mrs, Scoville-Mumm went |
to Switzerland, where she consulted
with lawyers upon a formal separa-|
tion. The papers were filed with the
American legation in Berne. It was
arranged that she was to receive from
the estates in France an income of
s£l,ooo & month for a certain period,
at the end of which time she was to
receive a two-fifths interest in the
property.
Shortly after the signing of the
armistice Mrs Scoville-Mumm
sought permission to go to Germany
to institute divorce proceedings, but
was barred by the existing German
government because of her work for
the French cause in the war. She re
mained in France, therefore, until the
treaty of peace wasg signed. BShe then
learned that by the provisions of the
treaty the French government was
empowerd to liquidate the property
of all aliens and assign the proceeds
to the sum which Germany is re.
quired to pay France by way of rep
aration for the damage doneé during
the war. This process gives the own
ers of the property a claim against
Germany, which in the present state
of affairs is little more than value
less.
ASKS AID OF CONGRESS.
Mrs, Scoville-Mumm protested
against this action with respect to
her property rights in the Mumm os
tates and applied to have her two
fifths interests recognized and con
tinued. 'The French authorities de
elined to listen to her claim, holding
that as she had, by marviage, taken
the citizenship of her husband she
was not entitled to recognition,
Thereupon, Mrs, Scoville-Mumm
hastened to the United States to ap
ply to Congress to have rights as a
citizen of America established and
declared. If she should obtain read
mission te American citizenship, her
property in France could not be as
salled. In the meantime, it {8 under
gtood that the French .authorities are
making every effort to bring about
the liguidation of the property before
Congress can act.
The resolution offered by Senator
Capper is before the Committee on
Immigration, of which Senator Celt
of Rhode Island is chairman.
200 Postmasters Meet
At Macon on Monday
MACON, Ga., Aug. 28.-~Three hun
‘d?fld postmasters will be in Macon
Monday for the meeting of the Qeors
wla Assoclation of Postmasters. W,
P, Thurmond of Commerce, president
of the association, will preside,
The chief subject for discussion be
fore the meeting will be higher sala
ries for postal employees, All post.
masters have been asked to submit
reports on conditions in their offices,
American Correspondent Just Home Tells of
Orgie of Spending in Spirit of Louis XV., Who
Said, “After Us the Deluge,” That Is Sweep
ing T.ondon,
BY ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE,
Universal Service Staff Correspondent who has just returned from England.
“WANTED—Donations from kindly.
disposed persons to buy a barrel or
gan vfar a demobilized major, blinaed
at Nueve Chappelle and now unable
to support himself.”
In these few lines of agate type ap
pearing in the “agony column” of the
London Times a few months ago is
condensed a tragedy sufficient for the
theme of a novel—or to furnish an
argument to the Hyde Park Suneay
soapbox orator who each week tears
down the British empire and elevates
the proletariat with terrific gestures.
Because the incident of the major
who must go out on London’s streets
with a barrel organ in order to sup
port himself somehow epitomizes in
dramatic fashion the strange after
the-war condition of life that is Brit
ain’s I have chosen it to introduce
this attempt at an analysis of the
nightmare of nerves through which
the people of Great Britain now are
passing.
EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.
It is difficult to do this; extremely
difficult. During eight months' resi
dence in london, just concludea, I
myself came under the haunting spell
of this intangible thing called *“war
nerver;” every other American resi
dent of London and even the casual
soldier visitor come from Flrance on
leave experienced the encounter.
Many times, chatting with American
acquaintances, I sought to draw from
them some analysis of the ghostly
business, but in every instance the
answer was always the came: “Oh, [
can't tell you what it is; you must
feel it.”
Just before I left Englan? in early
August 1 chanced upon thé clearest
exposition of the thing defying cap
ture. 1 was in the office explaining
to a recently arrived American, whom
'I had introduced, the difference in
the standards of commodities called
news between British and America.
Said he:
| ATTEMPT A FAILURE.
“As soon as the armistice came our
paper tried to return to the pre-war
news standard. We tried to put the
soft pedal on everything relating to
‘the war and its results and to fill our|
paper with light stuff, amusing stuff
—anything that did not have rerer
ence to the horrors that had passed.
“Our attempt was a failure. Read
ers did not want to be amused, did not
want to be diverted or to have their
thoughts taken away from the war.
They reveled in a morbid contempla
tion of the things that had passed
and actually appeared to crave the
most pessimistic view of the future|
possible, |
“We discovered that the story of a
great achievement in science or an ac‘l
count of an opera's opening was not
worth a paragraph, whereas the pub
lic craved every grisly detail of the
'latest murder, all the facts of a sen
sational suicide, the latest word on a
scandalous divorce case.
“What Lord Rohert Cecil had to say
in defense of the League of Nations|
or Premier Orlando’s bluff in leaving
the peace conference for Italy werei
not half so important to the reader ui
the testimony of some Whitechapel
| fishmonger as to the nolses he heard
| when the Kkeeper of a wineshop wns]
being beaten to death by a soldier.”
CRUSHED LIKE INSECTS.
“Why?
“Lock ouf of the window, See that
building with the front all torn out?
A bomb dropped there one night
when 1 was sitting at this desk.
Heavy presses and other printing ma
chinéry on the upper . floors wenl
ttrough to the baspment, and more
than thirty people were crushed like
insects, The building has not been
repaired since, hecause there are no
' bricks and no laborers to lay them.
ll,ondon is pockmarked with such
monruments to the night horror of the
air raids—all standing just as the
German bombers left them.
“Bear in mind, too, there's hardly
a family in Britain that has not suf
! sered bereavement; that has not had
,some son, brother or husband sent
to an unmarked grave, Other fami
lies have reecived back the wrecks
of men-—blinded, short of limbs,
broken in health and mad from shell
shock and strain, Dependent moth
ers whose sons have been taken
| from them have been forced to wive
up their homes and move to a single
room where they try to starve gen
teelly.
“Do you think these people ean be
Adlverted from the war in a day? No,
they cling to war horrors and war
Lexperiences with desperate morbid
ness and the cure can only be very
gradual”
IN MIASMA OF DREAD.
It has been my observation that
everything the London publisher said
as to the reflection of the heart of
Britain in the nows was true, Since
the first of the yvear but three events
of domestic happening served to take
tre British gsople out of their miasma
, of dread. hese werp the dramatic
flights of Hawker and Alcock from
Newfoundland and the round trip
flight of the great dirigible R-34 to
Long Island and back, For the rest,
just a dreary succession of brutal
murders and startling sulcides to feed
the morbid tastes of the publie,
A woman whose heauty once nearly
wrecked the British army shoots her
head off with a shotgun and even the
most conseryative journals give
three and four columns to the testi
mony brought out at the coroner's
inquest,
A girl war worker strangely dis
appears from ..a base hospital in
Prance, and when her body subse
crently is found in the Channel,
London's cleverest news writers are
rushed to “cover” the story to th
extent of thousands of words. l‘lv‘ |
murder mysterfes in a week eclaim
:m its columms of closely packed
ype.
Another great factor in the un
settled life of Britain today--and 1
ain touching upon only the social, not
the economic side of the problem—is
the struggle of the demobilized man
to find a place for himself, to win a
Hving out of the scramble and con
fusion that follow m war’s train.
Herein the private soldie{ and non
commissioned officer have tremendous
advantage aver their officers, as they
were largely recruited from the ranks
of the workers and labor is looking
after its own in a manner both pa
ternal and despotic. But take the
professional man-—the engineer, the
doctor, the lawyer or the office man
ager—who gave up his peace task to
win a commission and who served
from one to five years at the front.
He returns to civil life to find his
clientele scattered, his business gone,
his carefully upbuilt practice either
in the hands of a stay-at-home (a
Cuthbert, as the English slang has it)
or beyond his powers to reconstruct.
CRUSHING INCOME TAX.
But there’s no cessation of a crush.
ing income tax until the last of his
reserve js gone and he has no in
come to be taxed. The price of liv
inz has doubled and in some instances
trebled. The rent of his leased home
has jumped or the mortgage rates
on the house he has half paid for has
gone up.
This man who has not been produc.
ing anything except the will to ex
terminate an enemy for such and
such a term of years, faces gaunt
poverty, and he has nothing but his
special training to tide him over the
chasm.
Wholesale poverty has, strangely
enough, begun at the top of the Eng
lish social scheme and is eating
downward. When 'Arry, the coster
of Wapping Stairs, “joined up” his
’Arriet got a job in munitions and
made more at it than 'Arry ever had
made with his barrow and his “moke.”
Result, when 'Arry was “demobbed”
there was a piano in the front room
of his two-roomed flat and 'Arriet was
sporting a set of near-fox, to say
nothing of the “sparklers” in her
ears.
WIPED OUT HIS RENTS.
- But when Lord Nonesuch of the
Grenadier Guards went to France
with his exclusive regiment—in
which he'd been enrolled at birth, by
”@f‘mw/ :
tomerehants
the way—the government clapped an
income tax on him which at a single
blow wiped out 25 per cent of his
rents and dividends. Then the same
government hit him: with a land tax,
ruled against his trading in certain
stocks which he'd laid by for a rainy
day and even threatened to force a
division of his green—and unpro
ductive—acres hitherto devoted ex
clusively to supporting coverts for
foxes and grouse.
Result, our noble lord has begun to
part with his priceless portraits done
by Gainsborough and Reynolds and
held in the ancestral galleries for
generations, When those are all gone
he'll have to sell parcels of his land.
Some already have done soo. A few
have gone so far as to make a clean
sweep and converted their manors in
to cash.
Not long ago the Baroness Decies,
a.relatlva by marriage to the former
Vivien Gould, converted her magnifi
‘cent country estate into a hotel and
became its manageress. She said she
was doing this in a patriotic attempt
to help solve the housing problem.
But the thing the Englishman read
in this report was that a member of
the nobility had become a hotel
keeper.
REACTION ON “MASSES.”
The reaction upon that portion of
the English people ecalled ‘“the
masses” of this swift decay of the
nobility through war poverty can not
be conceived. The radicals—popularly
termed “wild men” because the Brit
ish people will not permit themselves
to use the word bolshevists—glory in
these financial embarrassments of
the hitherto cherished and reverenced
nobility.
But the great bulk of the middle
and lower classes stand appalled at
the threatened collapse of an ancient
British institution. With no titled—
and moneyed—nobility to stand at the
top o fthe soc¢ial order in Britain the
mass of Britishers would find them
selves lost, so rooted is the idea in the
very groundwork of the social state
over there.
So the threatened disappearance of
this cherished and petted upper tenth
through engulfing debt is not one of
the least causes of the prevalent!
sense of hovering disaster over the
British Isles. That this ofrcumstange
forms an element in the spreading
support of republicanism and the
overturn of the whole social order
from the kingship down is a fact be
vond the scope of this article to fol
low further.
CURIOUS BY-PRODUCT.
One curious by-product of that
poverty nudging the elbow of every
demobilized officer and already vic
torious over so many ancient families
is the mania for spending—for trivial
and hysterical flinging away of
money. |
Since the armistice London has
gone mad in a riot of extravagance.
Peaple are dancing their money away,
trundling it away on the wheels of
motors bought at four times the pre
war cost, hanging it about the necks
of their women folks in the form of
priceless ropes of pearls. And the
spirit of their spending is exactly
that of the French monarch Louis
XV, who said, “After us, the deluge.”
Every night in the week, not even
excluding Sunday, the so-called night
clubs of Piccadilly and Oxford street
where American negro jazz orchestras
bray syncopated music are jammed
with crowds of reckless bobbed-haired
Eves. Your voung demobilized offi
cer who hagn’t a job yet, and doesn't
know where he's going to find one, is
out to spend his war bonuses and that
check representing back pay, and to
lspvnd it in a hurry.
Those merchants who have followed the trend of the market during the
last sixty days realize that while they are facing the busiest Fall and Winter
season they have ever experienced, th:y are, at the same time, approaching
this unprecedented activity in a nervous frame of mind on account of the daily
fluctuations in both staple and fancy merchandise. :
No one knows today what the prices will be in thirty days from now, but
this much is generally appreciated, that almost without exception goods will
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Keep Your Eye on Miami;
It Has the Atlanta Spirit
IAMI, on the famous East Coast of Florida is a town
M after Atlanta’s own heart.
Miami believes in itself, against any gol-durned
place on earth. And Miami is exactly right. That’s why Miami
has grown 300 per cent in the last nine years.
Miami boosters are on ‘‘the job.”” Sunday, a week ago,
The Atlanta Sunday American did a little bragging about
Atlanta, which The American likes to do as a regular thing.
We quoted some figures, a preliminary census of cities of
30,000 or over, showing how Atlanta had grown more than 50
per cent since 1910, increasing its lead over Birmingham and
other places. :
Growth of other Somthern cities was also shown, based
on the figures furnished by the Newspaper Feature Bureau.
Miami was not in the list.
But now comes one John R. Livingston, of the staff of
the Miami Daily Metropolis, and deposes as follows: ‘‘Miami
has grown more than 300 per cent in nine years. You wake up,”’
or words to that effect; and he encloses a clipping from his
paper, stating that Miami, which was only a village of 7,500
in 1910, is now a thriving city of approximately 30,000 in 1919.
Furthermore, that in building Miami ranks second in the
Southeast to Atlanta itself.
Bully for Miami!
That word ‘‘approximately’’ vindicates The Atlanta Sun
day American and the Newspaper Feature Bureau, because
the census only included cities of 30,000 or more. Nevertheless,
The American is so strong for the spirit of Miami and so proud
of the rapid growth of cities in the great Southeast, that it is
a real pleasure to help tell the world about that thriving spot
in Florida.
By H. F. SMITH.
(Written for Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Secrets of
science, unless written into perma
nency, die with the brain, and hu
manity is by so much the loser.
Feeling the situation Kkeenly, a
number of leading educational insti
tutions have émbarked upon cam
paigns which, if successful, will make
a sufficient addition to their andow
ments to repair their deficits, and
make salary increases for their pro
fessors a consummation of what has
long been devoutly wished.
At Harvard, for instance, no in
creases have been allowed for thir
teen years, the present scale having
been adopted in 1906, At that institu
tion, which is typical of all, the max
imum in sight for any professor, re
gardless of merit and length of serv
ice, has been $5,500. This is all tos
small, unless suppdemented from pri«
vate sources, which is not the coms _
mon experience.
Among the institutions which are
waging a campaign for money are Co=
lumbia, Harvard, University of Penn«
sylvania, Cornell, Exeter, Mouni
Holyoke, Fordham and Princeton. Fot
the first time in their history they are
making a general appeal to theii
graduates, some of whom have be
come famous men since leaving
school.
The list of each college containg
names which are well known to the
public in business and the proses«
sional world. Their prominence seems
to prove that the educated man is
better fitted than his brother to take
part in the world's affairs, The great
war gave further proof, if it were
needed. One hundred and fifty thou
sand American college men went to
war, and besides the great number in
the armed forces of this country, oth«
ers had posts in important adminis«
trative and executive capacities. It i
common knowledge how well these
tasks were performed.
Peace hag its problems, no less than
war. The world looks to its educated
men for their solution, and if it is not,
to be denied, the colleges must not b
hindered in their great work of pro
viding the best material.