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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 25, 1920
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Is the bulwark of Our institutions and .a poet, for none but a poet could do
lets it go at that. I full justice to the simple creed by
Yet the tflinavw must have 1 which he lives. But he is not alone.
known, if he gave any real thought ! ?e ha s nyo"e can determine for
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KJSYSTOXE OF THE AMERICAN ARC IT.
The Oregonian would like to have
a survey made, by competent author
ity, of the entire public educational
system of the state. It is not a job
for experts, who never agree with
one another, and who too often
square their findings to fit their the
ories, but for earnest, intelligent,
consecrated American citizens, and no
other. They should have no pre
conceptions, except that the schools
of the nation are its first line of of
fense and defense. They should ap
proach their task with a purpose to
help, and not to hinder. They
should take nothing for granted, ex
cept that the principle of public ed
ucation is sound, and that, with all
its defects, it is the greatest national
asset. They should study conditions.
Investigate tendencies, furnish exam
ples, make recommendations. They
.should tell us whether the system is
too elaborate or whether it does not
go far enough; whether the teaching
personnel is all it should be; whether
their remuneration is sufficient;
whether the equipment is thorough;
whether the opportunities for all stu
dents, rich and poor, to learn, are
easy or hard; whether there is the
right kind of co-ordination between
elementary and higher education;
whether the public attitude toward
the schools is all it should be; and
many other things.
The purpose of The Oregonian in
offering this suggestion is not merely
to invite a critical analysis of the
system for purposes of correction
certainly not for mere fault-finding
but also to reassure the public, to at
tract a closer interest in the schools,
and to bring to them fuller and bet
ter support.
It is mere commonplace to say that
the schools are the keystone of the
national arch. We all believe it; we
know it. But most citizens merely
assume that the keystone is duly in
place, performing its vital function
of holding the entire structure to
gether; and they do not take the
trouble to see whether unseen hands
may not be steadily undermining it
or substituting for it that which Is a
base counterfeit of the real thing.
We have in mind that a band of
citizens in Portland not long ago set
out to look into the school situjtion.
It was made up of one hundred ex
emplary men and women, drawn
from various walks of life, but all
united in the purpose to contribute
a share to the general welfare by
studying school problems and aiding
in their solution. They got nowhere.
because they could not agree either
on what was the matter, or what to
do. It was an unfortunate illustra
tion of worthy but misdirected enter
prise. It served, perhaps, to discour
age others from similar undertak
ings. The Oregonian does not know
what was wrong whether the
scheme was devised under unfavora
ble auspices, whether there were too
many men and women with fixed no
tions, whether there was a harmful
effort to steer the inquiry for the
benefit of particular interests; or
what. It failed. It should not have
failed. Above all, it should not
serve as a warning to others, or even
to the same citizens, to try nothing of
the kind, and to leave the-schools in
the hands of the professionals. Prob
ably better results would be obtained
If a smaller body were to be organ
fzed, and if a painstaking effort were
to be made to avoid fruitless debate
however interesting, but to pursue
unfalteringly a comprehensive policy
of searching investigation on lines
previously laid down. Terhaps we
shall hear that this was, what was
attempted in the recent project. If
so, it was not done.
The taxpayer will doubtless feel
that he has yielded for the school
great sums of money, and he may
be disposed to hesitate when ' he is
asked to give more. He has given
generously, to be sure, but he has
not interested himself as a citize
enough to see what was done afte
he had performed his function as
taxpayer. Buildings have been built.
courses have been multiplied, teach
ers have been hired, children hav
taken their books in arm and gone
away from home in the morning, an
have come home at night, and that
Is about all he has known about it.
Doubtless we shall be told that th
Farent Teachers associations, admir
able organizations of fine women,
have been on the job. So they have
been. But we are talking about the
average citizen who supports the
schools with his money, and with his
enthusiasm, but not with his actual
service or interest. He contents him
self with declaring his unalterable
. conviction that the American school
to the subject, that the progress of
the schools has been unevenly main- J
tained, and that in some vital par-'
ticulars it has not kept pace with '
the advancement made in other i
branches of American life. Take
teachers and professors' salaries. 1
They are on an average below the
hod-carrier's; and we do not mean
to speak disrespectfully of the hod
carrier, who does his work, and in
sists on adequate pay for it. We
mean to say that if we are to keep
our schools efficient, the instructors
must have pay on a par with the
pay of other working people. That
is all. It is enough. We pour
enormous sums into the schools, and
then refuse, or fail, to see that the
machinery is put in the hands of
engineers competent to handle it
Poor pay necessarily and inevitably
attracts poor teachers, and poor
teachers only. Poor teachers mean
poor schools, and nothing else. The
nly way to have the best schools is
to have the best teachers. The only
way to have the test government in
the world is to have the best schools.
It is all axiomatic.
On the ballot in May is a new
two-mill tax for elementary educa-
on the common schools and a
.2 mill tax for the higher institu
tions the State Agricultural college,
the State University, the Monmouth
Xormal school. The public has in
sisted on an extension of the common
school system, and it is here. It has
sent its young men and women to
Corvallis, Eugene and Monmouth by
the thousands in numbers far be-
ond the capacity of those institu
tions. The alternative now is to close
the doors of the higher institutions
to at least half the numbers of boys
and girls clamoring to get in, or to
give sufficient money enough money
to keep the wolf from the door of
near-starving professors and their
families. Shall we also let the
country schools of Oregon take what
poorly trained teachers they can gut.
nd keep open only half the time?
What becomes of the keystone to
the arch if we shall permit such
things to happen?
KNOWN CRIMINALS BUSV.
Those who think that the wave of
crime is the result of yielding to
temptation by young men with pre-
ious spotless records, newly moved
to adventure by the disturbing ex
periences of war-, will be interested
n the result of a recent drive in Chi
cago, in which some hundreds of
known vagabonds and individuals
with known criminal propensities
were put behind the bars. With only
these criminals and vagabonds out ot
the way, holdups dropped from
twenty-five in a certain period to
none; automobile thefts declined 80
per cent; other serious offenses
showed a proportionate falling off.
Two men were killed while re
sisting arrest. The police went after
the'm rough-shod, but the crime wave
was checked, and one will be in
clined to believe that the end justi
fied the means. The recrudescence
of crime is quite as likely to be the
result of old offenders taking ad
vantage of the spirit of leniency that
prevails almost everywhere as ot any
sudden access of criminal desire.
Nothing has happened lately to make
a new crop of criminals out, of pre
viously law-abiding young men.
TIIE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN.
It is significant of a thing or two
that a man living in Pierce, Neb.,
who represents himself as being the
richest man in the world," on being
pressed by a reporter to enumerate
his possessions showed no hesitation
for fear that the county assessor or
the federal income tax collector
would make use of the information.
He makes no mention of dollars in
his inventory, although he seems to
have accumulated a modest few of
these. He speaks of an excellent
stomach, which he thinks John I).
Rockefeller would give millions to
possess, and of a cozy home, a wife
and children, a pipe, a shotgun and
a dog. There are a few other items.
but above all, and necessary to all, is
capacity for enjoying them. It is -on
this that he founds his claim to dis-
tinction.
Now contentment may be the
product of a purely negative philo
sophy, and so arrived at is not to be
confounded with happiness in the
sense in Which this Nebraska black
smith undoubtedly means it. Mere
absence of ambition, the quality of
preferring the simple life because
the more complex gives too much
trouble, is not inspiring, because it
does not fit in with our conception of
the destiny of the race and the duty
of each individual to contribute his
mite, according to his talents, to its
development. But the blacksmith's
riches are of a more positive kind
He reveals this when he says that his
greatest pride is in being able to
boast that he has never failed to give
the best that is in him to the task in
hand. Whether shoeing a horse, or
setting a wagon tire, he has never
skimped a job nor overcharged
customer. The satisfaction that he
has derived from giving always
full dollar's worth for 'every dollar
that he received, whether in labor or
material, in time or pains, is his
greatest happiness. His indepen
dence is absolute, because no man is
his creditor, either in material af
fairs or matters of the spirit. And
the element of pride in his work
makes work lighter a3 hp labors. He
admits that he has been physically
tired, but he has never been so weary
that he did not recover completely
with a good night's sleep. His great
happiness, superior, he believes, to
that of Rockefeller or any other so
called rich man, undoubtedly can be
traced to his discovery that service
is the best promoter of soul peace
that ever has been known
In the belief that he is the "richest
man" there can be no harm in in
dulging him. Richer than many so
called rich men he probably is, but
there are many reasons for believing
that others than he have found out
that the secret of happiness, which
is the purpose of riches, lies in in-
look around him, at least one coun
terpart in every community.
LOYALTY NEVER CONQUERED.
The final verdict of history on the
restoration of Alsace and Lorraine
to France, although definitely em
bodied in the. peace treaty and con
ceded without a single dissenting
voice by all of the plenipotentiaries
at the conference, was expressed in
convincing form at Paris even pre
vious to the recent exchange of rati
fications which made peace between
France and Germany a technical
fact. Probably no other occasion
has illustrated the sympathetic rela
tionship between the mother country
and her lost colonies with greater sig
nificance than the opening of the
new French parliament in which Al
sace and Lorraine are represented fcy
twenty-four regularly elected depu
ties. It is to be recalled that after 1871,
the Germans waited three years be
fore any elections were held in. the
annexed territory; and when a dele
gation to the Reichstag was finally
chosen, its one outspoken purpose
was that of protest, and its first ut
terance was one of protest.
Now the case is reversed. For
even before the treaty becomes ef
fective in all of its provisions, the
entire body of deputies from the new
departments of Upper-Rhine, Lower
Rhine, and Moselle have made a
unanimous declaration before the
chamber in the name of their con
stituents and of their defeated oppo
nents, that their country has never
ceased to be French. The character
of the new delegation is indicated by
the speech made during the opening
ceremonies at the Palais-Bourbon by
M. Francois, one of its members, who
said in part:
We are here solemnly to affirm that no
protest has arisen in oar two provinces
against the treaty of Versailles which now
restores to us our French nationality. Very
much is the contrary true for the candi
dates of every ticket, even of those which
are not represented here, have proclaimed
In their platforms, theitsnanifestos and In
their speeches an ineradicable affection for
the country to which they have been re
united. Krant-e bas, therefore, obtained a
unanimous vote in thA truly plebiscite
election of November 16. and by virtue of
the right, now universally recognized, of
self-determination. Germany shall have no
further claim whatsoever to a territory
that sha held only by tha discredited right
of conquest.
Such a statement as the foregoing
should have been particularly im
pressive to those who remember the
session held at Bordeaux by the
French Assembly in March. 1871, to
ratify the treaty of Frankfort. The
poignant utterance of Kmile Keller,
deputy from the department of Up
per-Rhine, who remonstrated on this
occasion for the last time at the vlo-
ent seizure of his home by Germany,
was recalled at the recent session by
one of the speakers as a part of
French tradition
"I appeal to God, the avenger of
just causes," said Keller; "I appeal
to the posterity that will judge both
parties: I appeal to all peoples who
cannot permit themselves to be sold
liKe vile cattle; and above all. 1 ap
peal to the swords of those brave
men.i who, at the earliest possible
moment, will tear up this detestable
treaty,
peculiar strategic interest and the
action, confirmatory or otherwise, of
their coming general conferences is
likely to be fraught with important
consequences to the cause of evan
gelical religion as a whole.
can earn $300 a week Is going to be I church organizations divided by in
in a hurry about taking up farm ' consequential issues. The Methodists
labor; and the back-to-the-land j by the action of their representatives
movement is bound to be delayed by rft Louisville have taken a position of
the call of the wild. For the mat
ter of that, fur-sewers are so much
better paid than workers on $7 pants
and $4.50 overalls that the drift of the
more talented worker is quite easy to
understand. Yet it will be argued by
nobody that these are not obeying
natural laws in gravitating in the
direction in which they are going.
While demand for costly furs con
tinues, manufacture of common
clotmng will have to wait.
The trapper is a producer of es
sentials, or not, according to the way
one looks at it- But it is pretty cer
tain that when he collects his $300
a week, somebody not the middle
man pays the ultimate bill. An
$S0,000 fur coat was brought into the
country by way of the New York cus
toms house recently, and It does not
solve the problem of the high cost
of living to suggest that the very
considerable duty paid by the im
porter helped to pay the cost of the
war.
WHY THE TRAPPER LAUGHS.
The trapper can afford to laugh
nowadays at the talk he hears about
doing away with the middleman. It
is not that the latter has been elim
inated, but that the "ultimate con
sumer" of furs is exhibiting a per
fect willingness to give both trapper
and middleman a fine reward for
their enterprise. Nothing except
perhaps, platinum jeweli-y and a few
of the rarer precious stones, has so
responded to rapacious demand for
luxury. The man who traps the
beaver and breeds the fox even the
farmer's boy who used to be satis
fled with twenty-five cents for i
black muskrat skin and now gets
upwards of $2.50 for it may realize
that even if they are not getting all
of the profits of the business, enough
is as good as a feast, even in times
like these.
The St- Louis fur auctions are cen
ters around which many a romance
might be woven. Something over a
century ago a great trade in skins
was built, up on this coast, but the
chief market for them was found in
the orient, whose potentates and
mandarins were glad to exchange
their goods for the seal and marten
and otter that men got by trading
with our Indians, but did not wear
themselves. The foundation of the
Astor fortune was laid in this fur
trade, which at the same time great
ly stimulated exploration and was
one -of the prime motives of early
adventure in the northwest. But
there have been slumps in the fur
business, too. and the advent of the
tall silk, hat for men was the cause
of one of them. The period of furs
for women, inaugurated a relatively
short while age, seems to be only in
its infancy. Wallis Nash, in his de
scription of life in the Yaquina Bay
region in Oregon in the early '80s,
relates how a single sea otter skin
was supposed to represent a year's
work for a white or Indian hunter.
and commonly fetched from $200 to
$400, while eastern dispatches re
cently told of trappers in the Adiron
dacks who were making as high as
$500 a week, with $300 a week as a
probable ' season's average. Raw
skins at the regular February " sale
in New York showed an advane of
from 15 to 25 per cent over prices
of October, 1918, with sales in ex
cess of three-quarters of a million
dollars a day. Prices have mounted
steadily since then.
Breeders north of the Arctic circle
are feeding foxes the delicacies of
the season tidbits that a good many
children in suffering countries, like
Syria and Armenia, for example,
would like to have. The fox whose
fur comes up to the high mark set
by a capricious fashion ts the true
aristocrat of the animal world. One
can buy twenty farm horses, or half
a dozen flivvers, for the price of a
single fox skin. Lynx has jumped
from two to three dollars to forty
in the trapper's hands, not in the
finished coat. The pioneers who
killed the buffaloes for their meat
and left the hides to wither in the
sun of. the plains have a double
cause for regret that this noble ani
mal was exterminated, but if Daniel
Boone or Davy Crockett were with us
they would open their eyes still
wider. One can buy a "fair" coon-
dependence, in conscientious work, j skin coat nowadays for $600 or
and above all, in service. Those who
place undue emphasis on getting and
not enough on giving may accumu
late material wealth, but they are
not rich, as the. true philosophers of
all time have pointed out. The Ne
braska blacksmith should have been
thereabouts, but a really splendid one
will set its new possessor back a
thousand dollars or more. A fine
squirrel is worth, raw, a dollar and a
half. There is a new use for house
cats, but only, of course, after cer
tain changes in trade nomenclature
A STEP TOWARD CHCRCH UNION.
"It is a notable fact," said an emi
nent Methodist educator two years
ago, "that notwithstanding American
Methodism has differentiated, into a
score of branches, there has never
been a schism on doctrine." The
statement, passing unchallenged; con
tains the seed of promise that the
scheme for unification of two great
bodies of Methodism agreed on the
other day by a joint commission sit
ting at Louisville will be adopted.
The movement toward church union
progresses, and in an important re
spect elimination of a good deal of
unnecessary duplication of effort
may be regarded as almost accom
plished. But this will be true only
if the members of both bodies con
tinue to bear constantly in mind that
the issues which still stand In the
way, and which ' may defeat final
ratification, are non-essential
Differences which still exist will
seem trivial to the observer on the
ecclesiastical side lines, but they have
their foundations deep in the history
of the church organization. The Is
sue of slavery, as a Methodist au
thority has pointed out, "perished in
the crucible of war, and is only a
memory of a bitter strife and con
flict," but another reason for the
separation, the doctrine that the
bishopric is "an order and not an of
fice," abides as one of the few re
maining oDstacles to complete or
ganic union. The manner in which
this barrier has been surmounted, if
it has been surmounted, will be as
certainable only when the complete
text of the new plan of unification
has been received.
That conflicting opinions on an in
terpretation of Holy Writ by differ
ent theological schools, one of which
contends that there are two orders in
the ministry, deacons and elders, and
the other that there are three, dea
cons, elders and bishops, should
threaten a movement founded in the
spirit of fellowship seems now to be
anachronistic, and there is ground for
hope that a way has been found to
effect reconciliation on this point.
We doubt that the average layman is
very much concerned with so fine a
distinction, and it will be supposed
that measures adopted to bring the
race issue to a settlement, as indi
cated in the report from Louisville
will contain deeper Interest for the
rank and file of both organizations.
It is plain that the colored brother
has not yet ceased to be a cause of
contention; beneath the surface the
old delimitation of North and South
has long operated against complete
fellowship. In the regional divisions
originally proposed, the north sus
pected that the lines followed too
closely the historic Mason and Dix
on s line, which it was desirous of
avoiding, and the south was still un
der the epell of the race bugaboo
Admission of negro pastors to whita
conferences, it was feared, though
apparently without sound reason,
would invite appointment of negro
pastors to churches of white mem
bership. But this fear Is seemingly
allayed by provision by the Louisvill
commission for seven regional con
ferences, six consisting of white con
gregations in as many geographica
districts, and the seventh comprising
tne colored membership of the coun
try at large. We look with confidence
for a composition of merely theologi
cal differences as to "orders" and
"offices," once the historic problem
of the colored brother has been
solved.
The immediate cause of the separ
ation of 184 4 was a resolution adopt
ed by the general conference of that
year setting forth that whereas Bish
op Andrews had become connected
with slavery, by marriage and other
wise, it was the sense of the confer
ence that he "desist from the exer
cise of this office so long as the im
pediment remains." On the day fol
lowing Its adoption, the boundary
line between the churches was fixed
and amicable division of property
was determined on. Both churches
have grown mightily since that time.
The conference before the separation
consisted of 4828 "traveling preach
ers" and 1.109,060 members. The
Methodist Kpiscopal church a year
ago was estimated to have 20,504
preachers and 4,283,280 communi
cants, while the Methodist Episcopal
cnurcn south had 7507 preachers
and z.154, 307 communicants, a total
or 28,011 preachers and 6,437,596
members. Property of both confer
ences was valued at $326,483,918, In
cluding 48,133 church buildings and
20,255 parsonages. Educational en
terprises of both institutions are ex
ceedingly large and influential. The
latter, no less than the church mem
bership itself, are intensely interested
in the outcome of the movement for
unification.
Local efforts to foster union of de
nominations In villages and small
towns, which have failed in a good
many instances for reasons that have
not always strengthened our faith in
men, may or may not be stimulated
by success of the greater movement
within the body of Methodism, but
a good deal that is pertinent to the
success of the new movement to en
large the Influence of the church as
a whole is involved In the outcome of
tne Louisville convention. If two
great ecclesiastical bodies of which it
can truthfully be said that "there has
never been a schism on doctrine" are
unable, because of theological, or po
litical, or administrative obstacles, to
agree, a vast number of present out
siders will find only discouragement
wnere much had been hoped for.
ANIMALS THAT REASON.
Reasoning, says a writer on the '
ubject, is a successive association of
judgments, and other students con
tend that only man possesses the
faculty. These are careful to disas
sociate reason from instinct, which
is possessed by animals, and by men
in inverse ratio to the superiority of
their intelligence over that of the
brutes. But controversy is likely to
be revived by the recent performance
of a New Foundland dog off the
coast of Labrador last month. A
steamship was stranded on the rocks
with ninety-two persons on board,
and the only possibility of saving
them was by getting a life line
ashore. Mechanical means bad failed.
A correspondent thus describes how
t was done:
Boats cnuld not make the hazardous
passage from the stranded stamhip.
An effort to shoot a line ashore failed
when the line became fouled. Men did
not dare to attempt the trip through th
icy waters, so the dog was put overboard.
Directed by officers of the Ethle. the ani
mal succeeded In releasing the rope, and
holding It tightly in his teeth fought his
way through the breakers to the shore.
The ninety-two passengers were alt hauled
to safety. A baby. 18 months old, was put
ashore in a mall bag.
Only those who have lived near a
rocky coast and have seen the forces
of nature there at their grandest can
appreciate fully what the dog in this
story did, but a good many persons
can recall some incident tending to
show that dogs think for themselves,
beyond the degree involved in their
own preservation or the satisfaction
of their appetites. The dog burying
the bone for which he will never
have any future use is the embodi
ment of instinct inherited from an
cestors who did not know where
their next meal would come from,
but the dog in a stormy surf, if he
had been governed only by instinct
ive desire to save himself, would
have deserted his ship and struck out
for the nearest land. This New
Foundland dog, at least, must have
done some thinkirrg and the con
clusion he arrived at was altogether
creditable to his moral sense, no
less than to the purely mental qual
ity which is called intelligence.
Mrs. tdtelaw Ilrid Provides Stit
in the main contemplate consolida-1 good stock, from the eugenic point BY - PRODUCTS of the TIMES
tion so complete as to preclude I of view, but they Invariably, even
healthy emulation, but they have in the most devastating wars, are
counted on elimination of a great a large proportion of the army. 1M-
It will not escape the attention of amount of duplicated effort such as i rect loss In excellent men is not dis
the economist that no trapper who ' is entailed by the labors of rival ' puted, but It is not this phase of
have taken place. The thrifty hunt
er or trapper will hesitate before he
casts aside anything that resembles
"fur."
loss from war that Professor Nicolai
and others are concerned with.
Both those who contend, andsithose
who deny, that there was deteriora
tion of human stock in the south
after the war are Inclined to agree
that the eugenic element was neg,
ligible. War's aftermath is unde
niably grave, but not always a reason
for utter despair. One Influential
teacher of youth in the region em
braced by the Jordan survey believed
there had been deterioration, but
not of the "stock" of the people.
There had been loss of opportunity,
which is a far different matter. "Too
much schooling by girls," another
explanation honestly made, will not
be regarded seriously by scientific
investigators. And this is more than
offset by the judgment of an ob
server that "the southern youth is
better, stronger, freer, and more ag
gressive than ever," and that "the
standards are as high as ever in the
world's history." How high a given
standard is must remain a matter of
opinion, and standards are subject)
to change, but the present generation
of southern people, two generations
removed from the civil war, will be
little disposed, we think, to admit
that they are intrinsically inferior to
their forefathers.
War results, no doubt, in a net loss
to those on whom it falls. No one in
the present enlightened ago will
longer contend that it is even a
"biological necessity." But Professor
Nicolai probably is two generations
too precipitate in his conclusions.
Sixty years hence, if he were living.
he might be willing to revise his
estimate. Economic losses, however
severe, can be atoned for, and it is
true that despite the millions of
deaths that the war has caused, more
millions, eugenically sound, and vig
orous In mind and body, survive. The
present generation has much to do
to atone for its own sins. It will,
however, be unduly handicapped if
it sets about the task of reconstruc
tion under the fatalistic assumption
that war's ravages are so funda
mentally "biological" that they can
not be repaired.
WAR AND EUGENICS.
"For the war as war," said a con
federate officer a few years ago, re
viewing the consequences of our civil
conflict, "there was no redeeming
feature, no benefit to anyone, not one
Word to be said." But the same of
ficer, quoted in "War's Aftermath,"
a book published soon after the
breaking out of the war in Europe,
judged that the south, for which he
spoke, was "the better by far for the
spread of education, for the willing
ness to work, for the loss of slavery.
for the maintenance of the Union,
and for the development of busi
ness." War's full consequences are
difficult to appraise. The eugenists
least of all have made out an inrjls
putable case for their preconception
that the future of the race has been
permanently impaired by the killing
or maiming of a large percentage of
the best men eugenically speaking
of many lands. The question of
the deterioration of human stock is
indeed of surpassing interest: yet
data from which to form a condu
it Is Charles Leonard Moore's
opinion that George Eliot Is largely
responsible for the prevailing notion
that "the atmosphere of mid-Vic
torian literature was the atmosphere
of a Sunday school," but he accounts
for the popularity of sin In literature
on the theory that so-long as virtue
triumphs a good deal of Its antithe
sis can be borne with by way of spir
itual discipline. Even George Eliot
needed vice to spice her novels, but
it is a mistake to regard her as only
a "preacher." Her humor was the
finest of the time, arrd her wisdom
was homely and genuine. Enough of
her work rose above the topical In
terest of her time to warrant the at
tempt to revive interest in It that Is
now being made. Half a dozen, at
least, of her novels are fit to answer
the question, "What shall I read?"
so often asked by people who regard
the output of present writers as un
satisfactory, and who want both
sound moral Instruction and enter
tainment in the same book.
A bit over three months ago a
Boise man was sentenced to ninety
days for bigamy and hiss first act on
release was to murder the second
"wife" and . commit suicide. Jail
sentences pale at that three months
for bigamy. Three years might have
taken the murder out of him.
There is one candidate for presi
dent of Mexico who tays that if
elected he will promote better rela
sion are, and for perhaps half a cen- ( Uons wiln tne united States. He is
tury after the recent war, will be
Inadequate.
"The strongest and ablest men
who went to the front," says Profes
sor Nicolai, in his book, "The Biology
of War," "were either killed or have
come home maimed, blinded, and
nervous wrecks. Those who did not
go to the front were mostly, of
course, sickly, hunchbacked, feeble
minded or idiots. These classes of j
men it is who have been spared to
build up the new Germany." If Pro- j
fessor Nicolai's conclusions are cor
rect, the same will be true of many
other countries, and the future of all
Europe will be dark Indeed. Only the
United States, which suffered rela
tively small loss in proportion to Us
population, and the neutral nations
can have much hope.
The book, "War's Aftermath, to
which reference already has been
made, was written by Dr. David Start
Jordan, then chancellor of Stanford
university, and Harvey Ernest Jor
dan, professor of histology and em
bryology In the University of Vir
ginia. Association of Dr. David Starr
Jordan In Its authorship Is a warrant
against bias in favor of war as a
'biological necessity," and his col
league also has an established repu
tation as an investigator who seeks
truth only. The principal chapter of
"War's Aftermath" recounts the re
sults of a painstaking Inquiry into
the effects of the civil war on the
southern people. It does not Indicate
that the war appreciably affected the
vigor and mentality of the southern
people. "There is degeneration of
stock all over the 'country," said an
eminent judge whom the authors
quote, "but this is due to social en
vironment. There are just as good
men today as there were at the time
of the civil war, only the time does
not give them opportunity to show
their ability." He admitted that the
"principle of contra-sclectlon" was
widely accepted, but regarded It as
difficult to prove. A principle fre
quently Ignored by the doleful
prophets is that the family, rather
than the individual. Is the eugenic
unit.
Though the loss in proportion
to population was far heavier In the
south than In the north, "families
which were entirely wiped out by the
war are the exception. There was
usually enough left to keep the stock
up." One of the statements on which
comment was invited In the Burvey
was: "The war destroyed the cream,
and stirred up the dregs." But this
quite generally was not approved. "It
is denied by a number of men
of exceptional thoughtfulness and
of special opportunity for becom
ing conversant with the facts." The
statement that "the men who got
themselves killed were the better
men," suggests the old French prov
erb, "A la guerre ce sont toujours
les memes qui se font tuer." Good
men of all classes were killed, but
no one class had a monopoly ot
getting killed. Those who went
to war were apt to have been as
brave as those who were killed
General Gonzales. It is something
to know that he regards this state
ment as a drawing card In a Mexican
election.
Burial Place for Ben llolladay.
The bodies of eight members of the
Holladay family, former owners of
Ophlr farm. Purchase, N. Y., have been j
taken from the crypt under the chapel
on the estate to a vault in St. Mary's
cemetery. Rye, which was constructed
for the purpose under the direction
of Mrs. Whltelaw Reid. present ow ner
of Ophir farm, says the New York
Herald. Many private cemeteries In
Westchester county have been oblit
erated in the changing ownership of
property, and Mrs. Reid's motive In
reinterring the bodies was to save the
remains of the Holladay from such
a fate.
One of the bodies removed was that
of Benjamin Holladay, who ranted his
Westchester county farm for the
Ophlr mine, in Nevada, whose silver
ore was the source of his fortune. He
died In Oregon, his fortune dissipated,
and already there were many of his
former neighbors or their children in
Westchester county who had forgot
ten whether he was buried at Ophir
farm or In the state where he died.
The record of reinterment filed at
Harrison. N. Y.. shows that the bodies
of the following persons were re
moved from the crypt:
Madge Holladay, born in riatte
county, Missouri, January 24. 1S44;
died In San Francisco, Cal., November
9, 1852.
"Joseph C. Holladay, died in Hong
Kong. China, March 13, 1872; aged 23
years.
"Jennie Lind Mary Holladay. Coun
tess A de Pourtales Gorgier; died May
15, 1873; aged 21 years.
"Notley Ann Calvert, wife of Ben
jamin Holladay, born in Scott county,
Kentucky. April 17, 1S24; died in Pur
chase, N. Y.. September 18. 1873.
"Pauline Cassandra de Bussierre,
wife of. Baron de Bussierre of Tarls.
France; born April 20, 1S51; died De
cember lfi. 1877.
"Benjamin Holladay.
"One unidentified infant."
Ginger is dead.
Ginger was only a cat a fine, big
Persian cat but It was worth one's
while to have known him. He did
some things that even human beings
too often neglect to do he said his
prayers every night, and he nevet
stayed out late nor disturbed the
neighborhood by singing "We won't
go home till morning." He was a re
spectable cat. and If there is a cat
heaven Ginger went straight to it.
"'"sit maae nis home for nine
years with Dr. John A. and Josephine
Carten Price in Denver, and when he
died a few days aso he was buried
with all the rites and ceremonies
usually given a human bein coffin.
shroud, tears, tombstone and all.
Ginger could sins. talk. wink, say
his prayers and hold a conversation
over the telephone. His wonderful in
tellect was almost human, and he was
known to scientists and students in
psychology all over the country. His
articulation on human words was
marvelous.
Such words as "daddy" "mamma,"
cowboy ranger." "I love- you" and
many others were pie for Ginger. One
of the most wonderful traits of Gin
ger was his delight in "talking over
the telephone" to his human friends.
and he would listen to the mysterious
voice that came back to him with
marked attention. If the telephone
bell would ring he would run to his
masters and call out "r-i-n-g. r-l-n-e "
With his paws upon his little bed
Ginger would kneel every night and 1
literally "say his prayers.- A won
derful cat was Ginger, and when he
died It was almost like taking a baby
from the Price home. I knew- Ginger
for six years, and that this article
may not be taken for a joke, I vouch
for its truthfulness. A. U. llayfield
in National Humane Review.
Miller and Miser.
Hy Grace K. IlalL
' A jocund miller once lived by a stream
and faithfully ran his mill,
la the early dawn, you could see the
gleam of his windows below the
' hill;
Each man who came with a grist to
grind went out with his own
full share.
And the miller eung while hla great
wheel flung Its tune to the
morning air.
TMe miller was free in a heedless
way. so the folk of the moun
tains suid.
Declaring that naught did he save
each day the shingles to mend
o'erhead;
But his cheer was elixir that thrilled
the veins, hie mill was beloved
for miles.
While the rich and poor who came
to the door were blessed with
his wealth of smiles.
A rich man dwelt by the selfsame
brook in a mansion a-top the
hill.
There was velvet lawn where no man
took his rest in the evening
still:
For an iron fence stood hard and grim
to guard every tick and stone.
And no song came down to the drowsy
town from the mansion tall and
lone.
General Pershing has set a pace
that he is going to find It hard to
maintain. He won't be able to kiss
all the pretty little girls who will at
tend his meetings, once his reputa
tion Is established.
Discussion of the "status of the do
mestic servant" is rapidly approach
ing the academic stage. Already
there are plenty of housewives will
ing to testify that "there ain't no
such animal."
It Is hard lines for the fellow who
expected to profit by this year's de
crease of the income tax to 4 per
cent, but whose income went up so
much that his tax is higher than
ever.
The price makers are still con
vinced that prices must continue to
advance, and they will continue to
do so as long as people say "wrap it
up" instead of "how much?"
Holland's honor will not permit
her to surrender the kaiser, but just
the same we suspect that Holland
would like mighty well to be rid of
the Incubus.
Emma Goldman says she is com
ing back. Evidently she sees some
good In us, but it Is not easy, even in
gallantry, to return the compliment.
A scientist terls us that milk can be
made from peanuts, but at the
present price of peanuts we don't see
ourselves buying the new product.
The politicians are "showing
more friendly attitude" toward the
Hoover boom. Perhaps they hava
heard something.
The rich man passed by the mill each
day and the miller would smile
- and wave.
But the brief response from the near
histhway was chillingly cool and
g rave ;
The miller but twirked a pudgy thumb
and winked with a rouRlsh. eye.
Xor gave more thought to the snub
he got from the miser riding by.
When the courts affirm JJerger's
sentence there will be no doubt at
all about his being "out of congress"
for a while.
Lord Dunsany, who met Maurice
Maeterlinck for the first time at a
luncheon in the home of Mrs. New-bold
Leroy Edgar, given in honor of tho
Belgian poet, confided his impressions
to a friend the next day.
"I had always looked upon him as
a master of poetry and philosophy," he
said. "But when I saw him I realised
that he resembled nothing so much as
a 'quaint, whimsical child who had
defied time,
"His l harm is expressed in his de
lightful 'new' English, which at that,
I must confess. Is much mora under
standable to a lot of my American
friends than the 'dialect' of some Eng
lish lecturers.
"Of course, Maeterlinck hasn't ex
pressed his Impressions of me; per
haps he would liken me to a carrot
grafted on a lime tree. Even poets
will indulge in symbolism once In a
while, you know."
In the farce-comedy, "Imagination."
the character of a Swedish servant
girl has what is called in theatrical
parlance "a gag line," which is, in
brief, a line often repeated by the
same character during the course of
the play.
This particular gag line was: "Ay
knew a connundrum; Ay don't know
what that question ban, but tha ainser
ban. because et kaint sit down." Each
time the line was repeated it was
greeted wltha chuckle rrom the audi
ence and had thoroughly lmp'ressed
Itself by the time the eloping bride
groom came on with his future bride,
the chunky leading lady. Both were
in riding habit.
They showed the fatigue of a 20
mile gallop across country. "Won't
you be seated?" asked the rector's
wife. The bride-to-be attempted to
comply, then falterir.gly replied: "I
I think I had better stand."
"Great!" chirped a boy in the gal
lery. "Tell It to the Swede.'- St.
Louis Star.
Seven million dollars' worth of
whisky taken out of bond for ship
ment to Havana seems a lot for 3000
cases of influenza.
Years hence and the P.eaper came for
toll and two men answered
"Here!"
Now silent the wheel the waters roll
the mansion Is dark and
drear;
They made two graves on the hill
side green 'neath skies that
were limpid blue.
The miller's hands were empty, clean ;
the rich man's empty, too!
There's an iron fence 'round the rich
man's tomb where he slumbers
In lonely state.
But no one come in the twilight
gloom to weep by the iron gate;
He wove him a ehroud out of cold
disdain that enfolds him within
his grave.
No rose is found on his lowly mound
for thistles were all he gave.
But the old red mill brings many a
tear from friends who must
pass that way.
They gently tpeak of the love and
cheer that the miller had spread
each day:
They talk of the leak in the old mill
roof as they pause by his lowly
grave.
And roses grow from the tears that
flow for roses were what he
gave.
THE ECHO.
Heart of the heart of the heart of me.
Iep as the pearls In the deepest sea.
What are you peeking to say to me?
Tears of the roses or breath of the
balm?
Passion of morning or science of
calm?
Gleam on the water or moan of the
bay?
What are you trying forever to say.
Truer than ever my hates can be.
Heart of the heart of the heart of
me?
Singers may die, but their Bongs will -live
on,
r'rophecy holds when the prophets
aru gone;
Fingers which stray o'er tho lish;
strinc.x awaking
Memories of that which the lone
heart is breaking,
Waf Hires of joy in the wondrous re
taking. Martyrs whose tears are today's cloud
of sorrow,
Iris the bow of fulfillment to tomor
row. Better that man should meet man a.
his brother.
Better than scorning and manglinp
each other;
Better than drinking the blood that
is spilling
From the veins of the man our in
justice is killing:
Wise to ti-ko healing nards into the
hand:
Kind to sow myrtles and palms o'er
the land;
Wisdom forbids we should cause
much regretting;
Mercy invites us to constant forget
ting. Are these the things you Invite me
to see.
Heart of the heart of the heart of me?
Far In the palace of opal and gold.
Tell me the things which have never
been told.
Shake from my brain and my spirit
the clod.
Link me to being which links me to
God.
Tell me the plan and the purpose of
old.
Voices deceive me and envies dis
grace.
Writing a lie on the brow of the race,
l-'lxing a devil's name into each face:
Oh. take my wounds to the healings
of thee.
Heart of the heart of the heart of me.
Deeper than pitiful, pitiful pain.
Deep as the srraves of the things wa
have slain.
Is there not faith In the innermost
core?
Is there not love which loves oa
evermore?
Are there not angels unwaked from
their dream.
Waiting for aye for the blaze of the
team.
Of the hope and the truth and the
pardon and prayer
Too holy, too true for the touch of
despair?
Lips may have issues outliving their
breath;
Kindness rests under no sentence of
death ;
Art, imitation and wealth may be
guile. Living as God Is the soul of a smile.
Leap to life's surface clean togaed
and free.
Heart of the heart of the heart of me.
Y FITCH THELPS.
If holdup men read more, they
would know that the pitcher that
goes often to the well is sure to be
broken.
Jazz is losing its hold on London.
Paris is denouncing it. But what
have they to offer In its place?
In war. is the sense of the nrovprh.
Proponents of church union do not Not only do the survivors constitute
Welfare workers used to go "slum
ming" to teach the other half how to
live. Now they go to learn.
It seemB to us that the offense is
only aggravated by pronouncing
"vers llbre" "vare leeb."
Candidates for vice-president are
keeping unusually quiet, even for
this time ot yeart
Details of the method by which a
remarkable photograph of the wrecked
Laurentlc was tai.en at the bottom of
the Atlantic ocean, off the Donegal
coast are given in a recent Issue of
the London Times. The camera was
inclosed In a water-tight Iron tank,
tested to stand pressure 20 fathoms
deep in water, and fitted with a ves
sel's porthole glass. A diver took it
down, and electric bulbs were lowered
from the Admiralty salvage steam
ship to provide light for the picture.
After exposure of an hour and a half
It was found that an admirable photo
graph of th wreck had been obtained.
Tne experiment is regarded as a
unique instance of successful deep-sea
photography.
It Is very well to think of Amer
ica as a melting pot, but one must re
rcnn or flowi
When 1 pursue the even tenor of my
way.
Life Is becalmed, the tide ebbs slowly
day by day.
Then comes unrest, I trace monotony
upon the sands;
And for the turning tide Impatient,
wait with outstretched hands.
Yet. when the fullness comes, from
surge and sweep.
I turn again and court oblivion's
sleep.
And which were best? (The question
puzzles so)
The quiet ebbing tide or surging
flow?
JANETTE MARTIN.
GOD IS NKAJC
We fight along in speedless haste;
We gain, we lose what we gain I?
waste ;
member that some things won't melt iv finht in the dark in h"pe ni feur;
unless we maae it very not lor them. 1 We fight alone but God i mar.
I
Wichita, Kan. Review.
M, A TOIHERS.