The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., April 01, 1926, Page 7, Image 7

THE UNITED AMERICAN
Page Seven
JOHN BULL CUTS HIS NAVAL BUDGET BY TWELVE
LOVE
MILLION DOLLARS
By Vera E. Adama
HE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT recently made the an­
How wonderful is Love!
nouncement that the naval expense budget
budg for this year
had been cut twelve million dollars. Nevertheless John Bull’s Yes, Love is wonderful. But what is Love?
naval expense for this year will be over $290,000,000.
It is not anything that men call love:
Although the total cost of the navy this year is to be re­
duced as an economy measure, the estimate provides for in­ Love is impartial, universal good.
creasing the cost of new construction from $35,000,000 to It giveth all, yet asks naught in return.
Love never envies—nay, for Love has all;
$45,000,000.
The new construction includes the immediate 'building of And though it gives all, still has all to give;
three cruisers, six submarines and a number of auxiliary Love is the wisdom that doth understand
ships. Included also is the building of a new floating dock
All that men need, the substance that supplies.
at Singapore.
The British admiralty makes the statement that the Love never fails: it is th’ untiring Mind
$12,000,000 reduction is made possible by extending the new That vigil keeps above a sleeping world
construction over a period of five years and the “favorable And waits for it to wake—and still is Love;
aspect of the political horizon.”
John Bull is not having a very favorable outlook just at the And when it wakes, is Love forevermore.
And Love is Truth—that Truth which makes men free;
present time. His troubles with the colonies have now been
augmented by plenty of trouble at home.
And Love is Life—that Life which knows no death.
April 1926
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THE THEATER COUGH
Theaters managers in London are waging a battle against
the “theater cough.” One manager is giving out cough drops
to the assembled “guests” in an effort to remove the static
sufficiently for the other members of the audience to enjoy the
performance.
London however has nothing on Philadelphia in this re­
spect. The Philadelphia Forum season ticket bears the follow­
ing pertinent suggestion: “Out of consideration to the
health and enjoyment of others, it is courteously suggested
that, during the continuance of a cold or cough, the owner
of this ticket may deem it wise to refrain from attendance at
all events of the Philadelphia Forum.”
The effort of the Forum bore fruit for the first few per­
formances, but after that, all caution was thrown to the
winds, and during the lectures of the recent week or so, the
chorus of barking has quite drowned the efforts of the men
on the platform. One would imagine half the audience to be
in the last stages of consumption.
The nuisance of the “theater cough” may be laid to colds
only in part. Any psychologist will assure the timid member
of the audience that the great majority of apparent suffer­
ers have not the slightest affection of the throat, but simply
cough in unconscious imitation of the few who have come to
the entertainment in defiance of good form. They cough for
the same reason one yawns when one sees another yawn.
The removal of cough static in the modern theater is not
so much a matter for the distribution of cough drops as it is
for a continuing education of entertainment patrons in the
truth that nine times out of 10 a cough like ä sneeze may
, ■ -—Philadelphia Bulletin.
be averted.
THE THINGS WE LOVE THE BEST
By George Eliot.
E COULD never have loved the earth so well if we
V V had had r no childhood in it, if it were not the earth
where the same flowers come up again every spring that
we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping
to ourselves on the grass; the same hips and haws on the
autumn hedgerows; the same redbreasts that we used to
call God’s birds because they did no harm to the precious crops.
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where every­
thing is known, and loved because it is known?
Love knows no evil, but is only good;
For God is good,
And Love is God.
HIGH COST OF BRIDES
WO HUNDRED Russian youths, wishing to marry, peti­
tioned the government to abolish the present system of
“selling marriageable girls like cattle.” The cost of living
is high, the swains say they cannot pay the parents the pre­
vailing compensation for young brides, which consists of $100
in cash, 100 pounds of sugar, thirty-five pounds of butter, four
pounds of Chinese tea, thirty-five pounds of honey and two
pairs of shoes. In addition to this the bride receives from
her spouse a dowry comprising ten yards of material for a
coat, nine yards of satin, three woolen shawls, two pairs of
shoes, a woolen neckerchief, and a set of necklaces and a
bracelet made of old silver coins.
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HE WHO LIVES MOST
To live is to know, to hope, to love, to admire, to do
good. He has lived most whom in his mind, in his heart,
and in his works has loved most.
— Renan.
LOVE ALL
Love all, trust few,
Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy
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But never taxed for speech.
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