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THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1919.
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MORNING TONIC
(Anon.)
All of us poor devils eluthed in tin garb of
mortality tre but babes la tha wood. Ia t br sight
of the AU-Wiie we are probably but laughable
little lutomotonj cutting inch didoes before high
heaven at to wring snickers treat the angela.
UNCLE WALT MASON
IN THE WOODI.
I wandered today In the wonderful wtsda, a for
eat majestic and grand, where Mlltada, alienee,
ad aimllar goodi are spread with a liberal hand.
Afar from the harry and noiae of the town I Jour
neyed throngh alley of pinet; I thought 'iwonld
Inaplre me lo alt' myself down and write yon some
eoal-searchlnf lines. The forest la nobis, Im
pressive and aad, at pacta hare wotted and weened;
bat I waa rejoiced to get back to the grad. aad alt
In a. room that la screened. The forest la fall of
Baeaatl bega, which bile la aaaaaal ways, and I
am anointing my ayatem with drags, to soften the
swelling they raise. The forest's moeqnitoes are
Urger than hens, they're hangry and active and
mean; the apota where they bit me are looking
like wens, nnd 1 am a night to be seen. The woods
re the homos of malevolent ante, which thrive In
the shade of the trees; they crawl ap Ineide of
the wanderer's pants, sad eat sll lbs leak from his
knees. The town has Us faults; It la wild for the
cash. It's (warming with eallou-ooiriew men; but
If yog would nrge me to chase to the brush, 1
say to yon, "Never again!"
The weather man aayi the deficiency in rainfall
tine January 1 waa three inches. But what it the
Uie to try to make it all up it nnrtf
It ia not much of a river these days that can
got show a itiige of twenty lo forty feet of water,
this oll Ht;tl it backing the cold water crowd for
11 its knows how.
The government predicts a peanut crop of 36,
000,000 biithelt in the United Btatct this year.
That'i going to be a great itimului to the eircui
business next summer.
A Philadelphia, man sura a scarcity of chemi
cals ii what licked Friti. That may hs helped,
bnt the chirf thing waa the abundance of Yankee
iougbboyt.
Charlotte has a beggar who hai aaved 100 unco
March and the city la telling him to move on. But
Isn't thrifty fellow like that a good tiaupl to
keep oa hand I
The folk who are alarmed about tha spread of
dry habits ever the United States might sea that
to much wetnevi nlso hai its drawbacks If they
weald take a look over North Carolina just now.
The Baa Francisco Chronicle In announcing the
name of lfiraiu Johnson for preaideat of tha
TJaittd BUtei says he ia th man the nation needs.
Now if seven million mors ouliT think thai way
Hon. Hi. might have a prospect.
Th rar trouble in Washington mutt throw a
hill in to the soule of some of those whs ataume
that nil iueh things should take place at far south
f th Potomac S potaible. Rut Washington
eemt about as human M Hrowusville. Texas, or
East St. Louis, III.
Th activity of real tilate all over the State
thould suggeet to those who have no land anil
have a poaaible future need of land that the time
t buy never gets better by waiting. Friers that
today ore looked on ae cheap five year ago would
hart beet regarded at wholly out of th question,
ad there if ao res son to think that the pretest
price will seem cheap long. Th truth It that
a lead ia North Carolina it selling high ytt, aad
that all land will b held much higher before a
great deal mors ehsnget hands. North Carolina
Und will be theap whan it hit goes far abov tha
present prices, for it has th producing capacity.
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aad It 4a a Auaetina tuift what la Ia K- tk ni.
tern. Th war awakeatd the workers to a new
toaceptloa t th part they play ia British ia due
try, and I hoy have demanded a new authority la
government aad nor satisfactory thare in the
rsturas of production. They ar asking to eland
oa pUaa mor nearly Itvel with that of th
r .r trYTTiKTn-:" - -v
worter J in unitoo etaiee, ana a aatwer tha
would deny them It tatlifactery. With th d
Baad U th atual radicalism that goet with all to
eial tdvtacei, tad thai ridicalltm 1 aot promis
ing. Th lUna ia appareaUy aot far away, aad
erill b awaited mywhtra with lnUMtt,' Ui
EngUad ierU world-wld latereit jutt bow.
x SCNATOR KSP.
Senator Beed, a Miatonri Demo rat, to makiag
4 tour of th 8tat to argu against th Lagu of
Nations. Senator Beed come here to preach the
doctrine that th North Carolina Bepublleae st
their Goldaboro meeting a few daya ago mad a
featar f their eipreaaioa of fnitb. North Caro
lina will liatea to Senator Beed with aom pa
tienee, bnt with tome cariosity. BeeauM Sena
tor Beed ia ia the Senate a Democrat doeo not
require that be should accept th peace treaty.
But because he comes t North Carolina aa a
Democrat to uphold a doctrine that ia put forth
almost exclusively by a buach of Bepublieaa Sena
tors, and principally because that doctrine it
backed by" the Federal administration, is going to
neline the people to look on Senator Beed aa a
man coming from a good origin, but on a quei
tionabl minion, or at least ia queationable
society.
Senator Beed comes to thf Slate at a time; when
the nationi of the earth ar trying to recover
from war, and have agreed On a method. H
comes to oppet that method, aad to leave th
situation one' of chaos. It is either a case of ac
cept the treaty aa it baa been, agreed by the
delegates, and accepted by Germany, or the whole
matter ia open again, and hil it it further con
sidered by th various nationa disorder and un
certainty continue to affect all international rela
tions, and all internsl affairs among nations.
Senator Beed comet as. an apostle of. pppotition.
He hat nothing to offer, but be opposes the adop
tion of the one thing that ia recommended and
which baa aom prospect of solving th gray
problem that holds the attention of the nations.
He comes her violently protesting aguintt tha
one solution, when he knowt that it is that one so
lution or an invitation to continued and eoatinual
tr.
Senator Heed may not like the administration.
Senator Borah and Knox and Poindextrr and
Ijodge may not like the administration. But
North Carolina will hardly look with a great deal
of enthusiasm on men who will try to atop the
termination of a world-wide condition of war in
order Hint they may get a ebanre to deliver a
blow at the I'resideut of the nation. North Caro
lina is for peace, and ia alto standing by the men
who hat been initrumcntal in bringing that peace
to near, aa Senator Bred will learn before ho gets
bark to Washington. But the boyt are not back
from' the cum pi long enough yet for many of
them to want the peace treaty broken up for the
sake of gratifying Senator Reed'a grouch agatnat
the government.
AN UNSUSPECTED RESOURCE.
The continued rains all over the State bare
brought to light an unsuiperted new asset in the
billy country. Where the power companies have
been building dams it il found that the dnma
have been retaining the water with the result that
the streams below are held in check, suffering
much leu from floods, while the eurplua of water
a in reserve to lie used later in the season whcit
another dry spell may come. The building of
power dame in North Carolina is yet a new occu
pation, and before a great while the number of
damt will be much greater than it is and the
storage of water will be practiced on all th
streams of any consequence. Then when heavy
raina come the first flow of water will be hold at
the dami that the floodt eome to, until by th?
time the lower end of the at ream is reached the
flood will have been much interrupted. Aa the
season advaaeee the water from the upper pool
will be worked down into each successive pool
iustead of all of it running away in the flood and
the reserve of power will be much increased.
Another result will follow. Inatead of the
lloodt hurrying away from the vicinity where the
aier falls, a body of water will be held here and
there all ever the hill country, and the air will
be kept the moister from the evaporation 1hnt
will be ateadily going on, aiding in a limited man
ner to atave off aome of the crop damages from
drouth. Ultimately the building of damt ia going
to have much influence oa the condition in the
water power lone.
LIGHT WINES.
The light wines bunco is one of the llimsiett
affairs ever presented to Congress for a discus
sion. To hear the arguments put up for light
winee would euggest that sueh a thing i, nf the
highest Importance to the welfare and industry
of the country. The bald truth is that loll of
people have ao idea 1mt light wine meant or
nbat any kind of vine it. This never hat and
prubalilv never will be n wine drinking nation.
The greatest amount of wine ever produced in tht
United Slatea in one year waa made in 1911, when
the total reached Ifty-tii million gallons, which
would give an average of about five pints to each
perann. Tn 1917 th (ro(kiMtBn hsd fallen to
about' thre pints to each person, which ii to In
considerable that nobody is going to worry
greatly about being deprived of it.
As far aa the worker making a fust about light
wine it concerned he is infinitely more likely to
kick about the quality of hi chewing gum or hit
toolhpirka. Light win it a peg the brewery triet
lo hang itt ens on, aad th whole motive of the
light wine and beer business is th brewery,
which has been the underlying sgeney that tins
fought the advaare of prohibition from the he-
winning. It has fought in every way, righting
the government, the army, acting no aim but the
money that could be gained by th tale of beer,
and it haa made capital out of everything that It
rould get ita linger on.
At far at a light win goea. if there it tuch a
thing, it probably ia intended to be wine with
little alcohol. The alcohol In wine runt from
about teven to eleven per cent in the chablit and
claret typee to tweaty-flve per cent or more In
the sherries. A only a small per cent of the
win need tn this eonatry Is Imported only a smtll
pee t of those aamed Freaeh wine ar teally
tee la th United States, aad it it useless to try
to dlatiaguish betweea wine that ar given a
faacy French nam t help their sale. But th
main point I that th as ef win In th United
State I intigaincant, no ajatter what tht pr
yllUSil iltohojjj ..reaJij)ja.itjeobl eoa-
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irai vi wouia dbqi ag awiv. ins orewvrits
ar crying for light win to help beer, and thy
ar more interested ia the eale of win than
they ar ia th sal ef prayer book.
The raia (heck la th yrlaeipal fcatur la tht
ball gaatM tbno fcf , , ,
FUClXts THK SOLDIERS.
Tht Charlotte Observer haa be a auggeitinf that
th returning soldiers could b placed to advan
tage ia tht cotton villi of tht Stat. Th editor
thr (track oa it a propeeitioa that I bigger
thaa perhaps he luteaded, for It might be broad
ened to Include vry other growing industry la
North Carolina, aad ta a baaia of educational it
lationi at well a iaduitriaL
The cotton mill I going to be a much bigger
fartV ia North Carolina induttry thaa it i jrtt,
md it will need all th highly trained men ifcan
get to puih along it ultimate development. The
mill owner are working to treate a foree of
killed operative aad managers, but it it possi
ble that a plan could be,evolved that would intro
duce greater educational influences in the millt
md advance more men to a greater skill that
they could officer aad direet the increasing num
ber of millt that I ateidily coming. With th
bigbett degree of tkill in th greatest number of
men te handl th millt North Carolina would Ak
nothing of any milling section, and that it th
deatiny th Ntwt aad Oboerver expeeta for th
mill lit thit State, the first place ia the textile
world both la quantity of production and in
charaeter and quality. A. and E. College hat
been teaching young men the theory of mill work.
It has done a remarkable work, but the numbor
needs to be an army inttead of a handful, tint
cotton iniH efficiency may be more generul and
that a new mill may have at It hand a source
from which lo recruit it force to promptly that
it can atart off with a good orgaaizatioa from the
beginning.
And when tbia principle ia applied to cotton
millt it thould also be applied to the sawmill, th
furniture factory, and to every iaduttrial estab
lishment, fn theory and in practical execution, in
order that North Carolina may eome to be a state
of skilled workera, skilled in the highest degree.
We could include road builders under the State
Highway Commission, and automobile work un
der the automobile agencies and for that matter it
would aot be a bad plan to have a vocational
aehool here and there under State jurisdiction at
which soldiers could be broadly taught in the me-
(haniet of the machine.
The propotitioa to put soldiert in the millt
can be carried to aa endleto'. limit and with many
variations, all of them helpful to the toldiera, to
the general industry, and to the State. It it worth
citended discussion, and wide application.
That Philadelphia cashier who got away with
$900,000 was no hog. Some fcllowt would hare
insisted on a whole million.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS
Woman Give 'Em Pointers.
Wilmington Star.
A Routh Carolina lady who started in with a
small farm now owns three big onet and goes
from one to the other in a big automobile. She
looks after her business, and the land does tho
rest. Her best customers are farmers who don't
produce what they need. She sizet up the local
demand and supplies it, aud alto hat for tale
everything tout her neighbors produce. Most of
them watte a lot of time attending meetings to
throttle the New York and Liverpool cotton ex
changes and other pirates who keep tab on every
acre planted ia cotton,
Need More State Boosting.
Winston-Balera Journal.
Ono of the principal reasons why to many
North Carolina people think about aud talk about
things outside of the State ia becaute we do not
puih thiugi of interest and value in the 6tate at
much at we thould. All North Carolina papers
run newspaper cuti furnished by syndicates in
the North or West which never contain n tubjeet
relative to North Carolina or North Carolina peo
ple. A good lire North Carolina syndicate to dis
tribute cuts of North Carolina people and events
would be of much more iuterest and would help
to build up thjt State inatead of Northern an I
Weetern State. We are very much to blame in
many wayt for not having a greater tpirlt of Sta'e
pride.
Show Lack of Manners.
Philadelphia Kerord.
Why should Henry ralmt Ijndge go to the trouble
to issue a statement, barked up by precedenti
from Federalist daya, that a committee of f'on
great ha no right to tummon tha Presidsnt of th4
United States to appear before itt Everybody
knowt that, There it nothing in tradition, how
rver, that would prevent a President from meetl'ig
a committee if he was asked to do to in the
courteous terms which gentlemen, not Republican
politicians, habitually use In their communica
tions. The President was nil politeness and rank
nets in his offer to place himself and hit infor
mation at the disposal nf the Sennte Committee on
Foreign Relations. The Republicans ditpluy a
paiuful lack of good manuera and common aense
In the boorish fashion in which. they have met tlr
overture.
They Do Not Repreaent State.
Charlotte Observer.
Kxerrising the right of a free American citizen
it ia the privilege of Dr. H. Q. Alexander to assail
the league of Nations to hie heart 't content. The
same, nlso, at to Mr. Marion Butler. W have no
quarrel with either on that aeore, but we believe
too much importance it attached to the influence
that they wield. It is reported from Washington
by Red Buck that Pr. Alexander "hat tuceceded
in convincing a number of Republican Senators
that the people of North Carolina are opposed to
the League of Nations." If the names of thes
Republican Senators who have been so convinced
by the representation! of Dr. Alexander were
printed it would probably be found that they had
already been "convinced."' No doubt they are
parading th Doe'or'a letter! in in I-told-yon-to
manner. It ia only In very Ill-informed circlet
that tht word of Dr. Alexander on war and poli
tical mattera would b taken to In any wsy rcprc
rent North Carolina tentimenU
Attracting Wide Attention.
Winston-Salem Journal.
Announcement of Winaton-Salem't proposed
high tehool plant on ground! large enough to
from all over the United Btatet regarding the
plan in detail. This city' plan of building th
high echool plant on grotunda large enough to
provide tpaciout playground! It In line with the
moat modern ideas. Th old plan of trying tt
build on large building in th renter of the eity
wirh no place tof lhr chtldTea-t Tilay t being
discarded. The high school ef the future will be
more like a college with a large and adequate
camput."
XIr. H. E. Trie hai received a letter from Dr.
Charlet" William PabRcy, president of the Uni
versity of Clneinnati, which tayt;
"I do, Indeed, 'congratulate you and your peo
ple moat heart ily oa thf-pTopet Ipleadtd addti
tioa tolyour educational aad playground faeilltUi.
I am delighted to read the account and to tee the
plant aad Hat of proposed expenditures. Pleate
extend my congratulation to Trot. Latham and
thank him for thinking of me.
."Hart you or profeaaor Latham ever teen the
plant for. out aewEatt 8id High School plant
ia Cincinnati t If Hot..! am going to ask th
auperlntendent'i office to tend "you something
about it. I will acknowledge that tnt object in
doing thit it tt get yon and Mr. Latham tt tomt
here and visit u whiil yon look thit up. Thit
plant of our U going forward rapidly aad will
be complete thit fall or tarty aext year. It it
ia a condition whert you eaa tee a good dm!
now. Your plan reminds mo a gTat deal of it.
W art to have ia addition a thop building. Yon
bar much larger and nor complete park and
playground. Your plan ar truly tplendld. I
tm mott tathutiaitit about them."
Some Hlotory Kecalled.
Philadelphia Record.
The New York Sua, being th unrelenting fo
of the peace treaty, with or without tht League
of Nationi, ii of courte deeply impressed, through
itt Wathington correspondent,' with th profound
ttudy given to th peac treaty by Senator N or
ris. If th Senator really has given deep atndy tt
th traty h mutt have become eonteioqi.of tht
fact that Taingtao waa latd by China to Gar
many when William McKinley wa President, and
that th leate waa unaueationablv aood even if
Chiaa'a motive in making it wot to avoid troubl
with Germany. He will find alto that art year
ago Japan conquered Tsintao from Ger many,
aad its title is just at good at our titlt Is
rorto Bleo and the Philippines. This Tiiagtao
quel tioa hat only the very eliguteit equitable or
political or economi interest for ua, and the Re
publicans have taken it up beeauee they no longer
dare to defeat the treaty on account of the League
cf Nation and therefore they have aearehed for
some other excuse for oppoeing it. All thit en
thusiasm for China it mere subterfuge by meant
of which they hope to beat the treaty without
giving tha Lsagu of Nationi a the reaton for
their action.'
Promise and Performance
By SAVOYARD.
If you will tearch diligently and prayerfully you
will find tbil passage in Holy Writ:
"Let not him that girdeth on bit bar nest boast
himself aa he that putteth it off."
After the election hist autumn, the G. O. V.
girded on itt harness and boasted mightily of the
noble and majestic and august beneficence it wa
going to translate into the law of the land when
the time came for it to solonize on Capitol Hill
in tbia town. It was going to sound th 'entire
gamut of "reconstruction" legitlatio. It waa fl
ing to put our glorious Union oa it feet again
after the horrible thing six year of Democratic
rule had done to it. It waa going to demon
strate that only a Bcpubliean Congreal had th
ken to know th right and th patriotism to do
the right. It wat going to do what no other party
ever did in any couutry criticiee vietory and re
link o the party in power when the vietory waa
won.
It was going to establish the "budget syttem
thnt makes for honesty and frugality in publie ex
penditure; it wat going to deal with the railroad
problem in a way that would put joy in all our
hearts, melody in all our throatt, content in all
our minds, and money iu all our pockets. It wat
going to make a tariff that will take prosperity
captive and harneta it to monopoly aa for instance
the late unlamented and accursed Payne-Aldrich
monstrosity, It was going to turn thing back to
the old ayatem without the slightest suggestion of
reaction. It wat going to be a Btandpat longresi
dishing up Progressive policies.
Well, this blessed Conereaa haa convened. It
l.ns i)liinirl into ita hostile criticism of the war
and the victory and it haa practically abolished the
air service of the War Department, though all the
military men In the world plead that it tnere ia an
nthnr liiir arar the decisive battles will be in the
nir, and the recent visit of the great British air
rhip to our eoatt demonstrate! that they are right.
Tho Republican party claims that it it ttrong for
'preparedncts, but Mr. Kahn, the chairman of
the Military Committee of the House of Represen
tatives, a strong Republican, is disgusted and an
nounces that the war appropriation is botched and
thnt it will call for a deficiency bill early the next
session amounting to UK),uon,ouu ana more.
As for that budget thnt is postponed, aad a
'I'lininiiaalnn" has been ordered to loot into thi
budget system and report whether it b advisable.
Thnt is iiseleis. Whv do thev not turn to that
great speech Swager Hhorley, of. Kentucky, made
in the House when I nele annon wa! Mpeaaert
In it tli able and necointiliahed KentLckian de
bate! the novation with n clearness of loirl aud a
power of argument that was conclusive uf the sub
ject, and if we ever have an mlequnt and a satis
factory budget i.V a I fin It will be made oa lines n
In ill flown. A huduct s v. stem is a reform, and that
i.s why Congress did not adopt it half a century
ago. The time is now eome when it it a neceesity,
and maybe we will get it ere the world ii a dozen
years older. But not from thle Congress, whieh II
too busy attempting the mighty Bcpubliean ttupt
of putting Woodrow Wilson in a hole.
" It ia reported that Senator Cummins hat under
taken to draft a measure that will fettle the rail
road question to the satisfaction and advantage of
capital, labor and all our ritixent affected by i',
which include! every man, woman and child in our
1'lorious Union. Strength to hit arm, and may it
prove as powerful at the intent i noble. A rail
road settlement that will yield reasonable profit to
capital, adequate wage to labor and satiafaetory
efficiency of equipment and promptitude of ad
ministration without oppression td producer or
consumer of merchandise, would be a blessing in
calculable in value. Mr. Cummins, however, It
just putting on the harness. May he be happy
when he putteth it off.
Aa for th tariff, Mr. Fordney, of Michigan, hai
been chosen to boss thnt in the House of Repre
sentatives, and Mr. Penrose, of Pennsylvania, In
the Senate. All we now know it that the man it
not yet born of woman who can write a genernl
tariff bill that would stand the tlightest chance of
liassage in the present Republican Senate. We
have the authority of Mr. Longworth, of Ohio, a
prominent Republican member of the Houae, that
Mr. Fordney holds that the late Sereno E. Payne,
of New York, who bossed the lust Republiraa tariff
in the House, was altogether too much of a free
trader for bit job of chairman of the Way and
Meant Committee, and everybody knowt that
Boies Penroee luspected that th late Nelton W,
jUdrlch wit not altogether tonnd on th doetrin
of protection. It will be a hiicyon and a nita
riotia time when the O. O. P. next ttnrtt out to
make a tariff, "from ngate to ainc
.lust think of Itt A Chicago banker named Rey
nolds the uiun who forced the pretent Senate to
appoint his selection secretary of that body Rey
noldt It the most liberal contributor to Republican
campaign fundi in th Union. He is enormously
iieh and recklessly prodigal in hi financial aid tt
his party. Well, what do you think tbia here Mr.
Reynolds did the other day! H mad at flat a
free-trade speech a ever fell from the lip of John
O. Carlisle or Roger Q. Millt. lie told hi heareri
that Enter bad we meney -with whjh,ta buy our
turplui produeta, and that if w told abroad it
all and it it imperative that we do tell abroad
wt would have to tak ia exchange goods mad
by European pauper labor) Her it th high pritt
of th G. 0, P. preaching what tht lat William
R. Morrison taught for to many year.
No, there wilt b ao tariff legitlatio thit Con
fWMrwrpt- is . pwrwaoef- Pmident ..Wiltott'l
recommendation about dyttufft tad a few other
thing and there will bt 10 party dlvitio oa that
Tho touatry it too protperou tinder tht Under
wood tariff. to. go projeekin' with general tariff
bill, and th next tim thro it a general reviiloa
of tht tariff, it will bt ttvUiott down. . .
YTaahlngtea, Tly SL
Btj EJgar A. GiMtt
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TAL( AMERICA.
Talk aothing but Amiriea heaeeiortb
aad everntore,
Left plaet th gltrioat Start aad
Stripe above each humble door.
Ltt't ling out aean of freedom UU they
echo from tht UUt
And every aluggiik pultt of doubt wHb
lov tf freedom thrill,
Ltt't mak ouratlvo tat family, aorth,
oath and east tad west,
Devoted to America and working for
her bnt.
t
Left ttek tht truth beneath tht lag for
which our toat have died,
No greater happiness far maa eaa aliea
flag provide.
He that wonld grow tt bo a maa, erect
and atrona aad true.
May reach the height! of epleador 'aeath
tho red, the white ana Diut. -Left
dedicate ouraelvet oa mere aate
tha land we lov
Till all who liv beneath it fold aalutt
tht flaag above.
What more eaa mortal maa deelre oa
. earth th while h live
Thaa Freedom' opportunity! aad that
our touatry give,
Her bob i ttified by detpeJr, nor fet
tered by th ttrong.
Our is a flag that guards the truth, bat
sever ehieldt wroag.
If greater glory ia to eome 'twill aool
bo banner new,
But will have birth beneath, tht red aad
whit aad atarry blue.
Talk nothing bat America, united let m
atand -r
Againat the alien who would ipread vile
doetrinet through our land I
Let Terror never italk by Bight oa
Freedom's thoroughfare.
Let' grow to bo oat family whert each
tht glory iharea.
Beneath tur Flag all pod eaa tomt to
cheer the life of maa
So out with him -who cannot bt a true
American I
(Copyright HHP by tdgar A. Guet.)
Why President Wltaoa Went lo larop.
To the Editor: Many ef th acta of
Preiideat Wilsoa hav bee criticised
by hit political oppoaenta ia thi coun
try. But th fact that he went to
Europe at th ipokeamaa of America
in the council of the nationa aot only
placed him in a position to be criticised
for that act itself but for many other
which were the consequence of it. By
thia step he became directly responsible
for our part in the treaty of peace
which might have beta delegated to a
represeatative chosea by him. Then,
why did be got Would he have done
hi duty had he remained at home!
The people of the country had
adopted the policy of Mr. Wilion that
gradually led at into the war ia pref
erence to the pacifist policy Mr. Bryan,
whieh could only have postponed the
conflict until a vietorioti Germany
would have made ua pay the penalty of
prncrnstinatloB, or aa America policy
like that vaguely announced by Mr.
Hughe, which might hav led us to
war eooner without th aupnort of the
whole nation. They endorssd Mr. Wil
ton's statement of the war nim of the
allies and of America. The Europeia
nations friend and foe nlikn, accepted
hit principles a just and right. Labor
ing clatsea and oppressed people very
whero looked to him for their libera
tion. In view of tuch situation, it eem
that the man best fitted to interpret
the American demands at the peace
table wat the man who had stated them.
Only a weak man would have left them
to the explanation of another when
given the opportunity of explaining
them himself. Some people hold then
and etill hold to the absurd theory thai
Mr. Wilton should have remained at
home simply because no oth-r Presi
dsnt while ia office ever went to Europe
to negotiate a treaty. It was just tuch
an unpardonable reverence of th an
cient Egyptian for the acta of their an
cestor that led th historian to any
of their country ''Egypt wn a mummy."
Just aurh a tnperstition among th
Chine hat kept China at the merey
of her unterupulout neighbore.
It ia the same process of reasoning
to conclude that we should not ride on
automobiles because our fathere did
not know about them or that we ahould
not read by electric light because the
ronditiont of his life compelled Lincoln
to read by the light supplied from the
burning of pine knot. Besides, it it
contrary to the reasoning of our great
est statesmen. Did not Jefferson say,
''Living men thould not be ruled by
dead men't laws' f Mrx Roosevelt tatot
very clearly in his autobiography the
danger of making treaties and law that
necessity may force ua to break or
sacrifice our honor in maintaining them.
He explains, further that we cannot af
ford to mak sacred a euttom of never
selecting a President for a third term
just becaute the necessity haa never
arisen ia the past. We should not be
so thoughtless aa to contend that no
President thould ever enter personally
into th eouneil o the nationa simply
because It hat never been the duty9 of
any former Preaident.
Again, according to Mr. Wilson' in
terpretation of the dwtie bt a President
in his Constitutional Government writ
tea long before he waithought of at
Preaidentiel possibility, th Preaideat of
the United State thould occupy th
lame position ia our government that
the Prime Miniater oeeupiee in tho gov
ernment of Great Britain. Thi la the
eame view that Qamlltoa held. By it
the Pretident beeomee the leader of bit
party aad it reipontible for the aett
of hit helper a i th Premier ia Eng
land, Franc or Italy.
In all three of the countries the
Premier it respontibl to th people and
when he fail to meet their approval
a voiced by their representative! in
Parliament, he is succeeded by another.
Thit was illustrated a few week ago
when Nitti succeeded Orlando who had
failed to realix hi Imperial aspiration
in tht peac conference ai Premier of
Italy. Both air. Lloyd Otorgt and lit.
Clemrnra gained their position by
tht " failure of " fhcTr" predecessors ' "to
met tht demtadt ef tht peoplt ia
prosecuting tht war. Now, tf w note
that the men who were sitting at tht
peaet table from England, aad Franco,
and Italy, were tht actual head of
their retpeetlv goverameat. then tt II
tltar that if our Preaideat had aot goae
t-4h oafmnct. wt coujd not hav
beea repreteated by tht rtapoaiibll
bead of tar government at wert thi
great European nationi with tho excep
tion of Germany which, I matt nay, et
eupicd aa equal potltloa.
JOHN P. WrNNX
Eafleld, Wry S3. -
Answers to Yesterday' KWIZ. s
L A tribe Uviag ia aouthwkstera sec
tion of tht United State, aotablt for
beantif ul basketry.
A figure Bude to represent t hu
man being.
5. A veaatl, usually of tin, aa a con
tainer for food and liquid.
4. Ia tht flowering day of tht Ro
aaa Empir, tpectator at gladiatorial
contest placed their thumbs dowu oa
th railiagt ef .tht arena at a aiga that
vietoriout lighter thould put bit fal
len aatagoaiat t death; iign tht aa
titblii of merey.
8. Beeauto tf tht shallow waterway,
tha paddle going but a abort dip into
th water.
It wat taid that tvtrytbing he
touched turned to gold.
7, Tht practice of charging aa un
fair rati of interest on a loan.
fi. The air-bnk; the application of
compressed air to wheels of railroad -traia.
. Republic
10. A medical awarded by Great Brlt
ian for unusual bravery and gallantry
in th aervieo of the government; usu
ally a war honor.
New Qeeatloa.
1. Why dot the United State maia
taia marine in Haiti?
1- Who -wat Booker T, Washington!
I. What it lava!
4. What ia larvae!
I. What is a numismatist!
6. Considered alphabotioally what
given name romet Ant!
7. Who is Robert E. Peoryt
t. What it a blubber!
9. What ia a gnu!
10. What it tympani!
EDISON, THE PHONOGRAPH
AND PRACTICE OF THRIFT
(Naw York Herald)
"Try another recard waltx tuat
thi tim I"
Tum-te-tuat; off they go. N fun
like dancing for young folka, ia there!
real delight it the phonograph, whieh
it elwaye ready to furnish th requiiitt
music)
Edisoa Invented th phonographs
every oat knowt that. But who wat
tht inventor of tht kind of machine
that uatt ditk records those circular
plate, multiplied by million nowadayt,
on which are intcribed nearly all of the
engt and othtr muti reproduced by
iueh automatic meant at tht present
tint!
It waa Emile Berliner the man who
did far more than anybody else to make
tho telephone a realty practical instru
ment. He is on of th very great
American inventor.
Hi invention! hav brought him sot
only fame but a large fortune. Yet he
began with nothing at all ao money
aad ao proapecta in life apparently.
Praetieally, he wat telf-edueated. Find
ing the atudy of electricity attractivt
bt poked away at it persistently ia bit
leieure houn "on hit own hook," aa
ont might aay, and, while learning what
he could, had alwayi ia hi mind th
idea of new discovery
Induttry and thrift mad hit ,tuc
ceu. But listen whil b tells about
it in his own wordt.
"I worked ai a clerk in a ttore," said
h th other day. "My iaeome, of
courte, waa email, but I never epent "
ai much ae I earned. Rather thaa go
into debt, I often went without dinner
during period! when I wa ont of a
job.
"In th meantime I bad become inter- '
ested in electricity, and nil the money
I wat able to save went for experimenta.
One reason why I did not borrow wa
that the consciousness of debt would
have worried me and interfered with my
experimental work, the aim of which
wat Invention. Such work demand
concentration.
''Luckily, I hid been brought up ia
rather humble rirenmstancea. I was
aot used to luxuries, and lo did not
mind going without them. To live fru
gally did not make me unhappy. Ex
periments were my aole extravagance.
I denied myself amusement! in order
to save money for them.
'The lelf-denial paid. My work boro
fruit. It brought into being tho loose
contact battery transmitter, whieh, with
the induction coil, likewise applied by
myself, not only improved the tele
phone vaatly for ordinary use, but
made long distance telephony practi
cable. "Royalties from the t.fcnsmitter en
abled me for the first time to put aside
money that I could heep, and which I
carefully invested. Possession of tht
aavinga thus acquired facilitated tub
sequent Invention work, one product
of which waa that variety of the phono
graph by which sound-writing oa a
disk was made to take the place of tht)
up-and-down engraving on a wax cylin
der. Here I a simple ttory of one 6t
America's most successful inventors. Th
habit and practice of saving enabled him
to prosecute the experiment whieh
finally led to sueh wonderful resulte.
It is a lesion for every American
youth. Don't spend all you earn. Put
tome into war savings stamps, which
are interest-bearing government ae-
curitiea. There ia no better way to
save your money.
JEWISH WELFARE OFFERS '
SERVICES TO SOLDIERS '
New York, July 23. Following aa
appeal from the Treatury Department
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, tht
countrywide machinery of the Ameri
can Jewish Relief Committee, which,
ia rushing relief supplies to war-sufferers
abroad, ha beea placed at tha
disposal of the government to assitt
la tht carapaiga to prevent aolditr.
tailor aad, marinea "from dropping tha
inturane which was taken out at th .
tim of their entry into th aervie. A
communication haa been eent out by ,
Henry H7 RotcHfetr,' naftonsr dTrWtof,
calling tbil matter to the attention of
tht Committee'! membert in fifteen
hundred citict and townt throughout '
tht nation and urging these men to im-
prese upon Jewish boy in the service
th value of the insurance which ther
now. a wide-ipread effort will be made
lo t induct tht Jewish ex-terrice
men whoavf Tsllawartt
to lap to apply for r-lntatoment or
conversion.
Labor cmti In France hav multiplied
two and aeven-tentht timet, and mas ,
tcruu corn art multiplied by tnret.