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ymck Man's Capacity Only Limit GREAT national convention will be held in the city of Bal timore next January with a unique object in view. The f-33X purpose of the gathering la to promote the "See America J First" movement and to de vise means 01 arousing senu- l J out the length and breadth of rL 1 the United States.- President Taft has already expressed his entire sympathy with the move ment and promised to be pres ent and speak at the conven tion. It is likewise expected that the sovernor of every state in the Union wtti eitner oe present in person or be officially represented . by some spokesman of standing In the com monwealth from which he balls, in addition to the national and state officials there witi do prominent men and women in all walks ot me and many persons who are deeply interested In the project for unselfish reasons. The "See America First" crusade has been gradually taking form and gaining supporters for several years past, but the forthcoming gathering . In the Monumental City will be the first ef fort to supplement sentiment with practical missionary work amc?:g the people of the whole country. The charac ter of this crusade is pretty well explained by its title. To put the matter in a nutshell, the object Is to induce all Americans to see thfcir own country before crossing the ocean to .look at scenery that In no instance surpasses and fn few instances equals what we have here at home. The people who are behind the move ment want to not only Impress their fellow citizens with the fact that we have the most wonderful 6cenery in the world here under the Stars and Stripes, but they want to also con-,, duct a "campaign of education" that will in form every tourist and vacationist and pieas nre seeker where he may see the particular class of scenery that most appeals to him. To this end it is proposed to hold in con nection with the Baltimore convention a pic torial exposition wherein will be shown paint ings and photographs, etc., of the most at tractive scenery on this continent. If a man likes grand and majestic mountain scenery he will be informed just where he may find this to the best advantage. Or, if on the other hand Ms preference is for the boiling, tumbling surf of a rocky sea coast he will be given pictorial pointers as to where to seek it. In short, the exhibition and convention are designed to do away with all cause for the complaint so often made that we Americans do not devote the proper time and efCort to seeing the scenic wonders of our country because wo have not been sufficiently informed as to how much there Is worth seeing, ' Patriotic loyalty has lrsplred many of the prominent men who are taking up this "See America First" propaganda a feeling that it Is a shame to see Uncle Sam's citizens wander ing off to the uttermost parts of the world to view scenery the equal of which they could find on tyi3 side of the Atlantic and which they might enjoy with none of the incidental discomforts that come to a stranger in a strange land, struggling with a language and a money system he does not understand.' How ever, there is a yet more potent or at least more practical reason for the activity In the awakening of our brainy men to the menace to be found in the yearly drain of American gold Into foreign coffers. Each succeeding season ees new and larger steamers added to the trans-Atlantic passenger-carrying fleet and mil lions upon millions of dollars of American money is .taken to Europe by the tourists who rush eastward by the thousand. Were it not for the untold wealth that is thus handed over to European railroads and hotel proprietors, shopkeepers and all the other purveyors to the globe-trotters, the balance of trade would always be heavily in our favor. Great Britain and the various continental countries are com pelled to buy heavily every year of our food tn ffa n n A n .it. .... creuu Biue or our ledger are usually counter- balanced by the total of the money snent abroad by Americans on pleasure bent The public-spirited citizens who have en rolled in the "See America First" crusade hope to influence some people by moral suasion to tay at home and enjoy our own scenic feast Instead of seeking i foreign substitute They realize, however, that for the most part they must use some other argument than patriot ism. The man or woman with money saved up for a trip or a vacation is likely to go wherever he or she believes that they can get the most for their money without regard to the nationality of the people who rake in the shekels. To convert such a person to the "Ste America First" doctrine it Is necessary to prove to him that he can actually receive an much for his money in the way of travel, education, diversion and enjoyment here in the land of the free as he can across the big pond, where eo largo a portion of the people make their living out of the expenditures cf Ameri can tourists Thi3. then. i3 the aim of the crowder who FXA Taft has already expressed his C- . ' .' 4tf Y, vVs3 yvV,' .JfiPW - - II enure sympathy with the move- f ' ' & milI MltfifWrt tw-avyst . A wmMmmm-Mm:- fig&mt& i lifts l wwmwi i lit isiirpf gs j?m,tm;M-?mM:'-i: ii : rj-Hr-iaJ? la '-f' " Y.y -TN VT tsest &aaf Jtm are singing the praises of the o p p o r tunitles and the com forts of home. Nor do they lack for inspira tion In debate If any person essays to ques tion their claims. If a Bkeptic does not admit conversion when they point how superior are Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite and the Grani Canyon to any scenic masterpieces throughout the whole length and breadth ot Europe, he can be depended upon to have to haul down his colors when they marshal fact3 and figures to prove how much more marvel ous are the Rockies than are the famed Alps; how our beloved Mississippi outshines the sto- 7mm 1 i Powder Grows Human Skin The market for human skin is going to pieces. Where it once commanded 525 a square inch up it bids fair to be soon Just hu man skin, with no value except to its original possessor. Heroic husbands, fathers,' sons and sweethearts who bravely let themselves be stripped of their hides to cover some death threatening gap on the bodies of their beloved may soon cease to have opportunity for such devotion. A little red powder one can get in any paint store Is astounding the surgeons with its per formances as a substitute for the heroes and their skins, the New York correspondent of the Denver Republican writes. Scarlet red Is Its name and a dollar's worth will keep a busy surgery in stock for months. It is mixed with vaseline or other components as a salve and applied to the edgos of the gap ing wounds. Then you can almost see the skin grow. Dr. John Staige Davis, a noted surgeon of Johns Hopkins In Baltimore, says almost asmuch, but In the careful language of his profession. A A It ill ried Rhine in romance and how the thousand mile inland water highway of the Great Lakes puts to shame the Mediterranean in the nov elty of the experiences afforded the voyager who may, incidently, experience more thrills when passing through the greatest locks in the world at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., than he could hope for In gazing at the rock at Gibralter. Many people in the east have gained the erroneous impression that the "See America First" crusade Is solely a movement designed to induce the people of the east to visit the west and particularly the Pacific coast. That such an impression has gained credence may be attributed to two circumstances. For one thing many of the most notable scenic won ders of the world are located In western Amer ica, so that naturally there is sound logic In advising people to see them before risking seasickness to view something not half so im pressive. Secondly, there is the circumstance that the people east of the Mississippi river He tells of scarlet red growing new skin at the rate of three millimeters in Torty-eight hours on one of his patients. His report on its use in Johns Hopkins hospital, published In a medical journal, did much to bring the strange little aniline dye to surgical notice here and elsewhere. It was taken up in the post graduate and the German hospitals here last spring. Then its use was experimental. Now It is uniformly used in every case where burns, wounds or ulcers have stripped the epidermis from any area of a human body. "The results have been astonishing, even baf fling," said Dr. F. William Steichmann of the post graduate, and also connected with the German hospital. "There is just one thing about its use, how ever, that should be generally known," Dr. Steichman said. "Where surgeons in the dis pensary have used it and applied the dress ings the results have been marvelous. Where patients have used it themselves the results have been unsatisfactory." seem to be more prone than are those west of it to rush off to Europe with out having traveled to any extent at home, so that the communities near the Atlantic sea board are particu larly In need of such missionary work. But, for all that, the movement is neither local nor sectional, but is broadly national. To be sure, the cham pions of America for the Americans, in a scenic sense, do urge people to see the Big Trees of California before they go to the Black Forest, and to view the Golden Gate be fore they seek the Bay of Naples, but at the same ume they are urging our fellow citizens who have time to devote to travel to awaken to the mir acles Qf nature that may be found In every sec tion. No globe-trotter can find in his anfler ings anything more wonderful than the Mam moth Cave of Kentucky and the natural bridges of Virginia and Utah. No foreign watering place presents beach spectacles equal to those of At lantic City and there is no lake district in the world more beautiful than the Adlrondacks. For the American with any patriotism in his make up no tour could be more Inspiring than visits to the first landing place of the Pilgrims, Con cord, Lexington, Bunker Hill and the other his toric meccas of New England, and finally, the tourist should not forget Uncle Sam's seat of government, conceded by foreigners to be the most beautiful capital in the world. One thing for which the "See America First" crusaders are working Is to get the Idea out of the minds of Americans that all sightseeing must needs be done in the summer vacation season. There are many classes of people, take, for instance, the farmers, who find it al most impossible to leave home In midsummer, but who could very readily take a trip in the autumn or winter. Efforts are being made to point out to these people that there Is just as much which can be seen to the best advantage in winter as there is in the category ef summer show placGS. Indeed, it is only at such times, when it is chilly or snowing in the t-orth and west, that one may enjoy maximum comfort in quaint old New Orleans, In Florida or in south ern California, all of them districts worthy to vie with anything In southern France and Italy. The broad policy of the "See America First" movement calls upon its devotees to not only In duce people to give New World scenery the pref erence (and Canada Is, of course, included), but also to do everything In their power to make traveling in America comfortable and to re duce the cost. Indeed, the claim that one may travel more cheaply in Europe than in the United States Is one of the arguments invariably advanced by people who argue for foreign travel. However, thj greatest need of American tourist regions Is more good hotels, not necessarily high-priced fashionable hotels, but good, clean, neatly-kept hostelrles where the traveler who is not a multimillionaire may obtain wholesome, well-cooked food and a comfortable bed at a price that Is not two or three times what his earnings would be for the day's labor If he were back home. There has been great Im provement in this direction In late years, but there is plenty of room for further betterment Another need Is lines of reasonable priced pub lic coaches traversing regions not traversed by the railroads and which in many Instances are now a closed book to people who cannot afford the luxury of an automobile. Coaches such as are operated In Yellowstone Park and on Gettys burg battlefield might well be introduced In other scenic or historic districts. Unpopularity Demanded. "How did you come to elect that man? He never seemed to make friends." "We didn't want a man who makes friends," replied Farmer Corntossel, "as much as one who don't object to enemies. Wo wanted a watchdog of the treasury. Altitudlnous. Jack So you had a high time on your vaca tion? Tom Yes, I was up In the mountains. By Rev. BARRY B. HALL of Temple Bnptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn. God blesses man at every opportu nity and furnishes every real joy he is able to appropriate. We enjoy so little, not because of God's unwilling ness to bless, but because of our in ability to receive and appropriate his blessings. This old world is big with blessings to him who has the eyes to see them. Thousands stand before the most beautiful landscapes and see nothing but hills and valleys. To the singing of the birds and the beauties of nature -they are deaf, and blind, and dumb. A missionary saw African boys playing with diamonds of rarest value. - They were rocks and nothing more to the boys. Before the days of Franklin the air was as full of electricity as now, but our fathers went on burning candles, deprived of the telephone and the tel egraph, because none of them , had the eyes to see it. All of our morfern inventions were as possible to our 4 fathers as they are to us; yet they plowed with crude instruments when they could have ridden the cultivator; they rode in ox carts when they could have ridden on the lightning express, only because they had no eyes to see these blessings and to appropriate them. And the wprld is big with in ventions today, involving great for tunes to him who is able" to see them, and the business world is big with marvelous opportunities for those who have the eyes to see. Thus it is clear that material blessings are limited only by man's ability to see and ap propriate them. But material, blessings are real blessings only to those who have the eyes to see them aright. If they see wealth as an opportunity to serve their fellows through the channels ol legitimate business or philanthropy It will bless them, but if they see il through carnal eyes, simply an op portunity for the gratification of the flesh, it will cause them to forget God and brotherliness, and to grow cold and haughty. It will lead them into a mad rush for pleasure, causing them to commit involuntary suicide, burn ing out the candle of life at both ends. To leave the ordinary young man $50,000 is equal to a through ticket to hell. Wealth is a curse to the carnally-minded. It must be seen through spiritual eye3 before it be comes a real blessing. This is a glorious or horrid old world, according to one's point of view. If his point of view is carnal Instead of Christian, he will com plete this life in disapointment; but If he views this world with the good and not the evil eye, he will see a grand old world, even its clouds hav ing a silver lining. One's poiut of view determines whether children are a blessing or a curse. If he has been reared to view them as an evil or misfortune, he will be able to find no pleasure in them; but if he sees them as God-given and a blessing, he can say, as did the woman of old, "these are my Jewels." One man says, "Isn't it a shame I have to work for a living?" Another says: "Isn't It a blessing I have a chance to earn a living?" Some say: "Isn't It a shame that people have to get sick?" Others, "Isn't It glorious that sick ness Is only temporary and good health is the (normal state." A man's point of view determines his happiness. He must view things from the spiritual rather than from the carnal point of view to be satis fied and happy. Thousands are happy with litle and others are miserable with much. Jesus explained this by the parable of the rich fool, who thought he had all he needed to make him happy because his barns were filled with plenty. And the fools are not all dead yet; because there are thousands who think that all they need to be happy is a fine home, thor oughly furnished, and lots of money. These poor, unfortunate people have not the ability to see that material possessions never did and never will make anyone contented and happy. He who has not learned to be happy t with litle would not be happy with much. This world is big with bless ings, other than money, if one is only able to see and appropriate them. The only pleasures which really satisfy, that give contentment, peace and happiness, are spiritual; and mate rial blessings are only a curse unless they are spiritually enjoyed. This old world is so big with blessings, mate rial and spiritual, that there is an abundance for all, and all of its bless, ings are only limited by our ability to see and enjoy them aright. "Thy Neighbor." "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." We are all willing to love our neighbors. But that Is just where God tests us. He gives us neighbors whom we naturally would not choose In order to teach us to act upon the real neighbor rule of helping the man next us, whoever he is. Until we do this, our neighborllness is but a sham. not the Christian kind. J. R. Miller, D. D. Lovers of Evil. Now and then there is a man who appears in every community, who does evil because he loves evil. He roes about sowing the community with misunderstandings, undermlnlne men, poisoning m,ns thoughts, stir ring up bitterness and sowing tare? of evil on every side. Rev. N. D Hillis, Congregationalist, Brooklyn. v s r 1
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