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PAGE TEN ( : r- I CROSSWORD PUZZLIT MII I 1 I Wk\" 1 ~ ”j|r jtltl 1 « H 55 ~ K Do you know the naiiie applied to an 72 Grinned contemptuously. i eftgleV'neat,?... Work, this puizle and,73 Golt ball rest. you'll learn it. , HORIZONTAL 1 Unit* 6F "work. * 4 Speaker. 10 Matting groups of dishes. 14 Money paid for prisoner's temporary release. Ift To love exceedingly. 17 Defendants answer in court. 18> Rye socket. i 20 Clothes. 21' To declaim noisily. 22- Wanted. , v* 24: Corded cloth. 24 Corded cloth. 25-; Conjunction. 2*i- Mythical bird. .. , . 28' Stiff. * 31 Opposed. 3ft' Light brown. 37 Italian river. 38' To corrode. 39 Drugged. 41! Beverage. ; •• 42 Withered. 43; Husbands and wives. 44 Spur) wool. 45' Highest card. 4ft' Uncovered. 47 Eagle’s nest. 48 Neuter pronoun. 49 Distant! 50 To weid with a flux of cilicia. 52 T> wander. 54 Guided. 55 Witticism. 56 Annoy. 58 ( House of worship. 63 To break the ranks of. 64 River nymph. 66 i Governed. 67 Hottom of pulley block. 68 In a state of activity. 70 Bell. 71, To, gaze. t i B 1 ' 1 .. ... pßeverty Baird went to Hollywood • few yean ago from Texas to try to , 9 get la the movie*., The best she could do was a Job aa a double, and ! when abe got Injured she gave it up.. So now she's opened a garage, land says tt cheats the movie game all hollow.- She's shown here.with her three-year-old,daughter^ -1,000 YEARS HENCE. London Man Predicts as to TTow Things , WUI Be. Evolution in the next 1,000 years will work more changes in ,man. mentally and physically, than in 10.000 years past. Professor A. M. Low, F. R. G. S„ declares in a new book called “The Future." He foraees. among other radical changes for the next ten centuries in the evolution of man, the following: Education of children will begin be fore birth. Legs will gradually be atrophied from non use. Men will become bald. Men and women will wear one-piece or two-piece- (suits. mtostty alike, and capable of donning or divestiiw in a minute. ■ .' Both men and women will wear trousers. Men and women will compete, in every walk of life. A man will not hesitate to stop a woman oa the street and ask for a “light." All workers will be skilled for- an skilled labor will be done by machines. Men’s eyes and ekrs will become Radio will be a necessary common place. and most badness will be done <V ™« 0 VERTICAL 1 Black. f 2 Uncommon. J i 3 To scoff. ,r 5 Sun god. > 6 To !total. l 1 7 .Tourney. t 8 Command. 9 Pauses. 10 To straing a ligament. 11 Largest South African antelope. 12 To care for. 13 Perched. 15 Cover. 1 ■ • 19 Concise. 23 Period. 27 Three whose wood is a moth pre ventative. 29 To wander about idlv. 30 Lent. 31 To sail back. 32 To construct. 33 Bruise. 34 Small fresh water fish. 35 Adores. 37 Danger. 40 Foot lever. 41 Weight of container. 43 Along the edge. 44 Dark green foliaged tree. 46 To prohibit. 47 Snake. 49 Fleshier. 51 Fishing bag 32 To waken. ' e 53 To obliterate. 55 Opposite of less. i 57 Child's toy that flies. 59 Drinking cup. 60 To plan. 61 Smooth ‘(sound). i 62 Brim. 63 To knock., 65 Polite word used to address a man. 69 Second note in scale. t thereby speeding up life and increasing its joy and efficiency. » * Love and marriage will be on a dif ferent plane. Low thinks the mar riage contract ought to have a “strike and arbitration clause.” The state biologist will have certain women create children to order. Women will realize that “one wife will never make a contented husband.” Interplanetary communication prob ably will have been established. Warfare will be conducted by “flying submarines." A New One. * Eve was the flrst reporter, says 8. i A. Canary, editor of the Bowling Green. 1.0., Sentinel. Tribune. Writing of the l trials of a reporter, ,he says: “With nothing else on her mind Eve > hastened to Adam and told‘him of what the serpent had said of the fruit of the i tree of knowledge. - ' “When Adam had accepted the re : port at its face value, acted.upon it, and got into trouble, he blamed the reporter. “An', In* it is being done even onto this day." i A Pleasant Change. N “Why doee Peck patronize a woman s dentist ?” i woman him to, open his mouth in - flg< UA!i.Y jlUpyWI "j THE P. AND N. Shelby Star. "X? ** taßt b "* n «'”* ont that J Mi Northern electric hne will be extended. While the pnpem play up the extension from Charlotte to Concord* Salisbury. Lexington to Win ston-Salem. the story also mentions that the link win he built* between Spartan burg and Qastonia, thus connecting the two divisions in South Carolina and North Carolina, It is the Spartanburg- Uastnma link in which Cleveland Coun ty is particularly interested. Mr. Duke and hie associate* bujld where business and it is up to Bhelby tr> of fer sufficient moral and business hack ing to induce, the line thw way. We be lieve things are in onr favor but we must not rest until our claims are pre sented in a most vigorous and business like manner. There are ten textile plants in and near Shelby which could be reached and which would be large revenue producers to the road. Then there are the other manufacturing plants, mercantile and agricultural in terests which would no doubt assure the P. and N. of patronage sufficetu to warrant its extension via Shelby. We also trust that when his P. and N. is built it will connect *Hth Kings Moun tain where there are other industrial plants as numerous as, are found in Shelby. It has always been an ambi tion of Cleveland to-have its two largest towns connected by an electric line and to .this end a bond issue of $50,000 was voted some years ago to take .stock in such a project. Mr. Duke and bis as sociates will not ask for stock-subscrip tions in -the enterprise, but we know the , hearty co-operation and sympathy is i back of the contemplated project. P. and N. Extension. Winston-Salem Journal. The- news comes from Charlotte that serious consideration is being given to the plan of extending the Piedmont and Northern RailwAy from the Mecklenburg metropolis to Winston-Salem. In this dispatch it is stated that there is every likelihood of the plan bring carried out if it will receive support by the cities to and through which the line will be ex tended. The dispatch does not go into details as to just what support is expected, other than that the communities will not be exiiected to finance the extension. It is, therefore, assumed that passenger aud freight patronage and the good will of the communities are the things de sired in the way of support. Insofar as the latter phase of the situation is concerned, that of the good will of the. people, it is hard to con ceive that any of the communities con cerned would not welcome the extension of this line. As to freight or passenger traffic. insofar ns Winston-Salem is concerned the outlook is apparent. This city, as is known, is served by three lines of railways, one of which should play au important part in developing freight traffic for the new railway line. The Norfolk and Western Railway serves* Winston-Salem. This ‘railway touches some of the most important freight producing centers of the coun try. In the territory it serves are a good many industries ,that sell goods to establishments located along the Hne of the Piedmont and Northern. While this freight to points South on the Piedmont and Northern such as is routed via the Winston Salem gateway, is transhipped over the lines connecting at Winston- Salem, there is no reason why the Pied mont and Northern. extension should not be able to secure its share of the business. It would seem, therefore, that the situation is very favorable for the Piedmont and Northern securing busi ness at Winston-Salem. Not only would it get a share of this through business but such local business as originates here for the points it serves. Winston-Salem has a very vital in terest in the plans for the proposed ex tension. It will mean that this city will add to its already three completing lines another traffic artery. Freight service competition is a factor that is cutting a big figure in the plana of manufactur ers and distributors today. The time was when shippers were satisfied, to a de gree. with merely the movement of freight and tTie question of service was a secondary factory. But today, when competition is so .keen, if a' distributor or manufacturer can have tile benefit of railway competition it is to his ad vantage. More information as to the details of the plans for the extension will be awaited with interest on the part o7 Winston-Salem, but at first blush it would seem that this community has a real interest in proposed extension for the reason, as said before, it will give commerce from here and through here another competihg railway. Berglurn’s Proposition. Hjckory Record. It is not certain whether Guts in Bor glum. deposed sculptor of the Stone Mountain memorial, is advocating the continuance of his work which lie start ed near Atlanta—the continuance being somewhere near Chimney Rock —or whether he wants to begin a memorial to Woodrow Wilson with the League of Nations Memorialized in the background. North Carolina would be entering into no end of trouble if R supported Bor glum in a proposition to duplicate the Stone Mountain Memorial in this State. Naturally Georgia would resent it if another state tried to' steal her thunder and it would appear as if Borglum bad tvorked us into dnbes of great magnitude. He was fired from Georgia. Whether justly or unjustly, and this state should not want him to begin a work which remains incomplete*! elsewhere ia the South. The idea of a memorial to Woodrow Wilson and his conception of the League of Nations should not be considered in the light of a political battle at all, bat should be sanctioned by the entire state. The present coni crisis ia England has served to recall the methods employed by the miners in bringing their griev ances to public attention more than a century ago in ISIS. At that same time the workara made their protest in person. They dragged loads of coal to London and demanded to see the Prince Regent. Bnt the magistrate sent for ' them, told them they must not bother London's august personages, and bada them go hack to their work. And they went back home, carrying their loads be hißd The JPaitad States 75 par 1 * HoluVciy Dv 1 rBVCfIICQ - I Message of One of the World’s Moat Eminent Surgeons 1 on#) D infifinno ana uienuans. p 1 By Sir ;W. Atbathoot Lake, Bart, in Dearborn Independent. 1 shall not diV of cancer. I am taking measures to prevent it. What f am do ing anybody can do. It iis not a matter of money. It is n matter of only fore thought and forehearance. What I *m. doing everybody should do if he would avoid the risk of death from a disease more terrible than tuberculosis, ayphiilis and a number of other awful di seases rolled into one. Cancer Is the great human menace. It is increasing by leaps and bound* If anything, it is' increasing more in the United States than it is in the British Isle* Os those now living in the British Isles, 5,000,000 are doomed to’die of can cer if they do nothing to prevent it. . In the United States, the doomed number is 10.000,000 and aaav quite easily rise to 15,000.000 or. 36,000.000. This means that at least one in ten of those now living ia America and perhaps! one in five are damned to die of cancer if they do nothing to prevent it. But for those more than 40 years of age the dan ger is far greater-than that. Cancer sel dom strikes until" th. victim is at least 40. The percentage of ■ any community that is,4o or more is but a fraction of the total. Thin might be called the can cer fraction. Them the disease does its worst. One and perhaps two out 6f ev ery five Americans of this age are doom ed to die of cancer unless they do some- « thing to prevent jt. And. unfortunately, women are in the greater danger from * the fact that cancel strikes them a little 1 earlier than it does men. What picture of imiieuding fate could t be more awful than this? How terrible i it is only the physician knows who has I seeu human beings slowly eaten alive by ; an ailment that spares neither king nor i peasant. Yet I paint the picture'not to terrify, but to move to preventive action. What it has made it can destroy. We ■ can be as free from cancer as are says ages as whom the disease .is apparently nearly if not quite unknown, • Savages beenme cancerous only when they come within the influence of civilization and wrong their bodies as we wrong ours. A great flood of light has come upon cancer. We know what causes it It is not the bacillus that scientists have so long sought and sot .vet found. It is caused by poisons created in our bodies by the food we eat. I am speaking now, of course, in a general way. A few can cers are caused by bruises, but it is a question if bruises would ever cause can cer if i>oisons had tot first done their work to the tissue. What causes poisons to accumulate in .the body? Bad drainage. Nothing else. The body was never intended to be a traveling receptacle of iierlshable com modities. the waste products of which should be carried about for twenty-four hours or more at a time. We were never built to bear the strain and we are not bearing it. We are breaking tinder it, We are breaking nut with cancer origin. There is but one cause pf diseases, all of which have the sOlhe and a large number of other diseases <h6 that cause is pniison, We may take in pbtKon through the Mr, but we mauufaet ui% imist of it within ourselves from the food that we eat; M e eat three Lines a day and’ sometimes more. Our bodies '.should he cMed as often as we eat. Animals do not need to be told this. But we need tp be told. The! seeming requirements' of what we' call civilization have comp in the path, of our instincts. We eat regularly and expel irregularly. We eat' frequently and ex pel infrequently. Wp live in a house that: is called our body and we do not drain our house. j What are “we"t We are little cells. According to the scientists one little group is the heart, another little group is the stomach, and the combination of all, the groups is tire individual. We eat fre quently, eipel infreqaeptly, and poisons are set up. These ‘poisons enter the bjood stream. Eves, part of the body ia readied. Every paflt at the body suffers.! The body resists. It tries to bear up tire burden. It tries to set up intidotek tp. the poisons. It thickens the walls of parts of the intestines to enable them to bear a load for which they were not intended,' but in trying to offset one evii creates another by decreaatag the capacity of the intestines. The body fights hack and dies hard— but it dies. It doee not die the day the poison is introduced. It makes a losing fight for years. But 'eventually the break comes, it mate# Where the strains of poison and the strains of life meet. What I mean is that the strains of life may and usually do bear upon some parts of the body more than other* If one is doing work that requires the ex penditure of a considerable amount of brain power, he puts- a strain upon hia nervous system. This strain -might not and probably would not hurt him if the poisons that he is manufacturing within his own body were also putting a strain upon his nervous system. Thee two strains meet. The ;mnn goes down with paralysis or some kindred aliment. He goes down bcaaise he did not drain the house in which his cells lived. We do such terrible things to the little crils that live in our house. Nobody would tre*t other persons as he treats hia own cell* Imagine a man having a great bouse and filling it with guests, then stopping the sewer wad Ailing the rooms each day with dead eats. With the rooms reeking with foul pdots we can imagine the crying and the dying of little children, who may be compared with the more del icate cells of our bodice. As the fames become heavier w» can visualize the fatntin* away of weaaea. Finally, none are left but the strangest of the men but !• time they too die and the house that was once so gal is but a silent sepulcher. On the theory that moat persons can more about themselna than they daaJSont Swiiiwas: *• account Mr what dvillaed human brinfe do to themselves except re. ize the fast that the, do not 3 5.7 frSttSS. T.l'T, man, sooner or later, to have this or that di^,* Dd dip Nothing could ha further from the t usually during sleep. Disease of any kind lit certain that the body turn been E misused. We are indicted by our ailment*. What ■ we hare done Is reflected in what we ■ have. We should be proud of health and escape blame unless he can show that i ashamed of sickness No ill man should i CANCER—TWO , the victim of society rather than. ■ of “himself. Bad housing conditions, for instance, fob which no individual ia to blame, may and do cause sickness, hut most of/our ills we create outselves. Any body can see that the house in which hi* cells live is drained. Whoever does not see to this invitee all of the death and de struction that may come to him, be cause bad in drainage in the human body is the cause of cancer and most of the other ills that affiict mankind. Remove this cause and we shall have destroyed most of the diseases. ' Hippicrites, the great father of medi cine, knew this, thousands of years ago, ns did many of the ancients, but most of his followers seem to have forgotten it. We should go bark to the sources of our information and preach more ardently what was tahgbt so long ago: what is and always will he true— that man by nature is not' a poison fac tory ; that his body is -but a house in which his cells live and that to permit this house to till up with sewage is even .worse thans it would be to maintain an open air sewer in one’s residence. One might get a breath of fresh air once in e awhile in such a house, but there is no escape from the poisons that one ear- J fin *bout ia hi* body. They are flowing e into bis blood stream all the while and a preparing it tor all of the diseases, in i' eluding the worst of all—cancer, r Now what is the matter with the body , that it does not adequately drain itself? . Nothing is the matter with the bWy. It P was made all right The matter is with , us. We have suddenly changed our I methods of living, We call this change , civilisation. Part of it is good, part of it . is bad. That part of it which, pertains 1 to our habits oC life .is rpostly bad be cause it represents so sharp a break i with our past The hyiman body, which i has been created through coantless cen i tunes of slow change, cannot in a day i a year, or a century adopt itself to an en i, vironmept that is radftly different from , anything to which it has never beeu ad . customerd.- Force such an environment upon it and there is "trouble. That is what we have done. We Ore trying to force Onr bodjes to be entirely different circumstances .than human bod ies ever lived before. For millions of years perhaps, we went on four legs. We now stand erect. For a very long time, after we began to stand erect, we were physically active. We huntW, We clear ed forests, we attended flocks. We did everythinq. Perhaps, except to ait at desks, ride in motor cars, eat white breed and other bad food. Such activity and Buck food caused good drainage. I am'inclined to believe that the average duration of life in an cient time was tar greater than it M now, but if it were not It svas not because of perils with which mfodern science is prepared to combat The same rice field that keeps the coolie's drainage good pro- , duces the malaria germ that kills him. > The coolie knows how to eat but we dpn't, . and we know how to stop malaria, but he I doesn’t. ■’* We shall never begin at the beginning, l in our fight aguinst cancer, and eat the ■ food of some of the lowly peoples of it Asia, but we may. as well know what it i is. It begihs with bread nude from flour ground between two stones by hand. The . Sour is coarse and all (there—nothing ia • sifted out to make it whiter, i This flour is moistened with water and I, made into little cakes. The cakes are ■ placed, one by one, on a flat iron sur i face that is heated by charcoal Are. When ■ the cake is scorched one side It is ■ turned over with forceps and scorched .. on the other. It is then .ready to eat. With this cake are eaten raw vegeta i. bles. A favorite vegetable is the radish i which, in. that, part of .the world, grows ' as large as one’s forearm. The natives , also eat. sugar cane,. swallowing some of i the liber. , , ? The first thing 'that one notiees about this diet is that it has hulk. Bulk ia necessary to elimination. Part of our i trouble is that we shun bulk. We eat : concentrated foods. Concentrated foods ■ -decay and create poisons to carry around i and absorb, but are difficult to eliminate. The next thing we observe about this i diet that it contains no meat. We think !we need meat. An Asiatic can march ' all day on vegetables and fight at eve - uing. We should never eat any food ! that, when decayed, has an odor that ia i exceedingly offensive. All animal prod ucts come under this band. Tour Asiatic eats his vegetables raw. i He gets his vitamines, which are so nec cesaary to life and health, while they are i in good’condition. We destroy ours with i heat. Vegetables are better if mot cook ed. Lastly the Asiatic peasant eats bread i made from while grain Hour. We eat i white bfead which contains but part of i the grain. White bread is so bad that if i fed exclusively to animals for a month they will die. It ia not fit to eat. - In ; the first place, it does not contain the i food elements that we require. Further - i asore, it tends to dog the drainage sys i tem.. Whoever eats it dees so at his , peril. Whole-wheat bread Is difficult to ■ get in England. I understand it is easy i to get in the United States. Americans i who persist in eating .white bread and > die of cancer have nobody to Marne but What we should do then. If we would , avoid cancer is to eat wholewheat bread >, * nd mw taflfo and vegetables, stmnniag t aU meat, •first that we may be better i nourished, second that we may more mb s' fly eliminate waste products and thus l adequately drain the hones ia Which our , ceils live. i a nation. The heat we can expect to do t ie to effect as favorable a compromise as ■ seif how farhe is willing to go to avoid 1 hph ■ wlk .. . . How many trill do if. Not nZj, l fm! If not. the problem of bad drainage re> mains. What are we to do) rihmiM I simple , measures of diet and habit foil, the freeing of the intestinal canal by , operation restores its mechanics to th« condition in whiS-h it existed ia Infancy, The effects are tremendous—far ami away beyond what I expected. Men ami women are transformed. Their very *«. tures seem to clrnnge. They became bright and happy aad well. Not outy do the particular ills of which they complain, ed disappear, but minor troubles go with them. Obviously it would not db to operate on everybody whose drainage system was not working properly, because that would mean to operate on everybody. Just as obviously it would have been idle to expect everybody who suffered from bad drainage to correct his habits with re gard to diet and exercise. The problem of bad dsalnage remained. The ques tion was how to meet it. 1 determined to try mechanical means. 4 sought a lubricant by means of wh'ch I hoped to keep the bowels open. I tried olive oil, but found that it was absorb ed before it had completed the lubrica tion of the'intestinal tract. I finally hit upon paraffin oil, a by-product of petro leum, which at that time I was able to get in a highly refined state only from Russia. Now, lam glad to say that high grade pariffln oil is on sale pretty much throughout the civiliaed world. In differ- 1 ent countries it is put out under different 1 trade names. It is practically without color, taste or odor. In buying it, one 1 should be sure that th« bottle bears the 1 statement that it ia Intended for inter- 1 Da I use. I Now what wilL paraffin oil do? So far 1 aq elimination is concerned, it will do everything that proper food and exercise could do. It is mechanically perfect. It lubricates without being absorbed. It has no effect upon the body except as a lubricant. Two tablespoonfuls of it should be taken half an hour before each meal. The reason for taking it half an hour before mealtime is to give it time to pass out of the stomach before the Arrival of food. If paraffin oil were to be smeared over food it would interfere with the operation of the gastric juices and nrob baly do more harm than good. Three doses of paraffin oil a day will insure perfect drainage of the human house. This should be drained three times a day. Once is not enough. Watch the animals. They don’t eat white bread aad commit our othef crimes against them selves. Tflfey are well drffined. To pre vent accidents from the use of paraffin oH, it is best <? form the habit of dear - bo<1 J' . before each meal. We should take it out as often as we put m. If we would' avoid cancer we must •cease, to be badly drained human houses. Whoever will correct his,diet to rea sonable extent, take reasonable exercise, knd a dose of paraffin oil half an hour before each meal need have no fear of earner. I make this dedaratitfh With no reservations. Cancer is a filth disease I am certain that it is the last stage in a sequence of ailments brought about by bad drainage of the system. I am also certain that cancer never attacks a healthy organ. Tissue must first be weakened by poison before it will yield to this or any other tnalady. Drain the body and there need be no fear of can cert appendicitis. diabetes, neuritis, neu ralgia, sleeplessness, melancholia, epilep- sy and a great number of other ■ ail ments. , • , , (Editor’s note—Paraffin oil Is known under some fifty different trade names and Bold many liman the basic article v s?* £“ nmon «»neral term is “miner al oil. The pharmacopeia of the Unit ed States refers to it as “petrolatum lin uidum.”) w Textile School a* North Carotins State Th * Board of Trustees have enlarged the Textile Department and made it into a separate administrative unit which will be known as the Textile Schotd of the North Carolina State Col lege. Professor Thomas Nedxon who has been director of the Textile Department for the past twenty years, has been named Dean of the School. Thera has been added to the Textile School a Research Department which will be directed by Mr. James McDowell, cotton specialist whh an international reputation. Mr. W. E. Shinn who has been a teacher in the school will devote hto entire time to research problems. He js spending this summer in research laboratories so as to become acquainted with all the various methods of textile testing. ' J. E. Sirrine & Company, Mill En gineers of Greenville, S. 0., have drawn pins for an addition to the textile building. This will be completed during tfa> year and equipment added which wHI make the Textile School of the North Carolina State College one of the best equipped textile schools in Amer ica for cotton manufacturing. For the seventeenth year the Nation al Association of Cotton Manufacturers has awarded the Student’s medal to this Textile School. The medal is presented to the student having the highest pro-1 ftciency in his work for four years. This association is composed of the leading Textile manufacturers of America. fa addition to the regular courses of fered in the school which are—Textile Manufacturing. Textile Engineering, Textile Chemistry and Dyeing, a new course in Textile Design, will be offered during the coming year to those who wish to specialise ia the dasigning and weaving of fancy fabrics. The Textile School also has a two year course for University and College graduates who have selected the Textile Industry as their vocation and who wish to 'supplement theft- academic' training ylth a thorough textile educa tion. Oh! fjfm Safama af~it. Tenderly she laid the silent, white form beside those that had gone before. She made no outcry, she did not weep. Such a moment was too precious to he spent is MB* team. But soon there came a rime when it seemed as if nature must give"way. She lifted her voice, and cried long and loud. Her cry was taken op by others who were near, and it, echoed and re-echoed over the ground. Then sudden ly all waa still. What Was the use of it «n? She would lay another egg toraor- Ita faa race for the first half pennant Wfdnenhy, August 5, 1925 RWAK A f JBATMBK OF FACTIONS. N»w fork World! l» wtutM ha insincere to writ* a* if we thought any better of Bryan'* career now than We did a week agq. Hie death does tad alter the record: to convert the sym pathy we feel for his family and hto ft tends Into any sort of preteqae that we think he waa a good Influence upon bis generation wunld be to rob a thirty years’ struggle us It* meiinlug. Mr. Bryan had many virtues. He whs simple. He was aoeenlhle. He was resolute. He had the common touch. But the bottle with Hryauiam has not been, a sham battle. And so aa we salute a fallen foe wa can't thru the atory of that battle into a farce by constructing a eulogy that no follower of his Would wish to hear us speak. Although Bryan was jg national poli thirty year*, he never exercised national lenderehsfp. Always he was the spokesman of a faction: when he was a leader be was a lentler of one section or . .^' mn,ry against another, of ope wing of hto party against another. That, per haps, is why k» was least influential dur ing that interlude of eight years when the party he had led so often to defeat at last controlled the National Government. Bryan was never so completely obscured as he was during the only Democratic regime that occurred while he was a man of importance. Woodrow Wilson did not make Bryan pbscure. He gave him the flrst place in bis Cabinet. And yet pre cisely when Bryan should have been at the top of his power he faded into obscur ity and played no part in the great events of the war and the peace. Astonishing as it would seem, Bryan dominated his party only when it was defeated, and in fluenced his country least during the ’ graatest crisis of its recent history. It' ' was only when his party had lost control.' e °*,*be Government and was again dis t unit *d and the prey of factions that the ‘ t star of Bryan rose once more. j i For be was a natural-born maker and j leader of factions. He had great' ambi- F turn for power, but no taste for the ex s tT° ise of *be power to which he aspired. s He espoused causes in great numbers, 1 t b,,t “ e never faced the perplexities of a f statesman m office nor made (he kind of I decision a man of action must make. He : ''■*?. SpcrPta, 'y of State in the Wilson . Cabinet, but in those trying days he bad neither a plan to make war nor a plan I to keep peace. He. did not know !what to , do - Although he was three times nomi , nated for President, he really had no . conception of the mental effort required | to administer n Government' or frame ita policies. It was only when he was lead mg one body of men iuto collision with some other body of men that he knew what to do. Then he shoved genius for uniting a faction by arousing its biasing hostility against some other faction. It was in these factional quarrels that Bryan aroused such passionate and sin cere devotion to what seemed exalted capsesi But always the basis of his ap peal was distrust of some other group of men. He would preach idealism not at loyalty to a program but ns fear of some alleged enemy. With skill and daring and a certain lack of scruple he appealed to the fears which set men violently against one nnother. Thus in the course of his career he managed to divide the country section ally in 1806 a ltd' his party at all times whet he exercised influence over it. Even' ll religion he could not refrain from faction alism. and tlie last years of his life were devoted to a crusade which set one group of Christians against another. He pro fessed himself a Democrat and a Chris tion, but at bottom he was always • man looking for a point of conflict where his talent for factionalism could find free play. Thus as a Democrat he spent his chief energies quarreling with Democrats and as a Christian he ended his life quar reling with other Christians. He understood how to rouse a following and keep it in fighting spirit. But what to do if he won. how to act if he had t< act, was not within the range of his men tality. Unless he could find a faction he simply was not a public figure. That is why, in spite of the immense commo tion he produced for thirty years, hit career was bo barren. At the end he wai no better equipped for statesmanship than when he began. After thirty years of constant appearance before the Am erican people he had no counsel to give them on' their great problems of peace and war. He adopted one “issue” after another, but they were disconnected and casual issues, and whether they were good or bad they originated in no philos ophy of governtnent or wisdom about public affairs. His advice was sought when there was a quarrel inside bis party or his church. Then he was always on the scene in full activity. But, except to deepen the quar rel, he had little to offer byway of a so lution, for whenever he exposed the inner workings of his mind he revealed merely an odd assortment of prejudices and phrases. He had never bent his mind to the labor of, thinking out any of the problems over which he made himself so conspicuous. It was his conviction that you could solve great questions cheaply, on hunches and by a phrase, that made his influence and his example a , dangerous one. The barm he did to his party by committing it against ita .own tradition to the cen tralised coercion of Prohibition, the harm he did- to pacifism by associating it with empty phrases, the harm he did to Protestantism by associating it with ig norance and legalized intolerance—above all, the great and unforgivable harm hq did to his country by introducing a rei ligious feud into politics—were all part and parcel of a life lived without respect for or loyalty to the laborious Bearch for truth. •. He had ideals, public and private, and according to his lights he lived by them. But among those ideals there was no love of truth, whldf alone can render idealism civilised, and no reverence for the meth od by which truth to attained. At the tost this deep defect became over and \ Ur3r *® l * d * crusade against human rea- I sen Rself. Bryan ism ended in what j would have become, had he had his way f a religion, quarter throughout the laofaJ _ Bay he rest in peace! And may the Rspuwic whose peace and good-fellow-' . shlh are threatened by the Area he light ed find peace too! • “ , | b ** ln,lln « September fat.. The first American patent for an en velope-making machine was granted to J * xj.fl ..J c. 8. w.irot, J.»u.„ as, oth«r state° r **** ** ****** ***** **
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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Aug. 5, 1925, edition 1
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