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son's body and that she three times commerce be in such danger as to
replied that she preferred it should suggest intervention. Yet the im
remain in the ground hallowed by I perial conference to be held in Lon
his sacrifice. Notwithstanding this, don in June is to be a "military con-
she received a fourth inquiry, on I ference," which term suggests that
which she wrote to General Persh- it is to arrange military aid by the
ing asking him to notify the gcvern- I members of the empire to one an
merit not to disturb her son. AI-1 other, especially fey the dominions
though this revealed no flaw in the
government's general policy, it be
trayed a weakness in detail of ad
ministration. . It is unfortunate that
the incident and others like it should
have occurred.
to the mother country, but is to
effect no change in their political
relations.
This is not what the dominions
asked and were led to expect during
the war. As foreign relations lead
To some the thought of disturbing to war, they were promised a voice
the dead is desecration; to others I in deciding questions of foreign pol
there is vast comfort in the sense f I icy, that they might not be involved
nearness of a domestic shrine. It is I in wars In the origin of which they
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will be done to the proprieties if I plete equality with Britain, and be
some of our soldier dead are brought made free to choose on what occa-
home, while others are permitted to I sions they will give military aid to
remain undisturbed in France. There I other members. The leader of the
is in reality nothing to discuss and movement in this direction is John
in all certainty nothing to provoke S. Ewart of Ottawa, who advanced
discord. Unseemly rancor hare It the idea that Canada should be-made
EXCLUDE THE HUMAN WRECKAGE.
It should be understood that the
Immigration restriction bill now be
fore the senate is a protective law.
It is designed to protect the United
States from an Invasion of the hu
man derelicts, the diseases and the
disjointed ideas that the war has
produced. These are to be found
mainly in central and eastern Europe
and western Asia. The number who
came during the year 1920 was not
large, but many more are buying
Fteamship tickets in advance and
there is an organized emigration
propaganda, especially in Warsaw.
The kind of people who want to
flee to America is indicated by a
synopsis of reports from American
officials abroad which was sent to
the house of representatives by Sec
retary of State Hughes. Regarding
those who are now leaving Poland it
is said:
It Is only too obvious that they must be
subnormal, and their normal state is of
very low standard. Six years of war and
confusion and famine anl pestilence hav
racked their bodies and twisted their men
tality. The elders have deteriorated to a
marked degree. Minors have grown Into
adult years with the entire period lost in
their ngntrul development and too ire
fluently with the acquisition of the per
verted Ideaa which have flooded Europe
since 1914.
When asked why he wishes to
come to America, the would-be emi
grant almost invariably answers:
Please, mister, we have rich relatives
there. we can find an easier lite.
Observing that "these are not the
Europeans of a sturdier day' who
"built America," the report says:
These are beaten folk, spirits broken, in
ffect driven from their European habitat
into the west. They have no desire to
form and build. They will exist on what
has been prepared for them by a better
people. They are in search of an easier
life.
In the Baltic states the peasants,
among whom desirable immigrants
are found, have now acquired the
land and wish to remain and aulti
vate it, so that few of them are leav
ing their native country. The report
says:
The class of Letts and Lithuanians who
are leaving are the people from the slums
or tne cities and lowna and are of an un
desirable type.
If the bars were thrown down
Koumania would send "a large num
ber of undesirable aliens," for It is
said of them:
Besides being as a class economic para
sites, tailors, small salesmen, butchers, etc.,
they are not unsympathetic with bolshe
vik ideas. Emigrants from Bessarabia fall
within the above-mentioned Claris.
The class of persons who form the? ma
jority of emigrants from Bessarabia offer
no particular value to our country as
productive labor, but rather Increase our
burden of petty middlemen with ideals of
moral and business dealings difficult to
assimilate with our own.
peculiarly out of place.
Crossing into Asia, we are told of
the Russian Caucasus:
THe great bulk of emigrants to the
United states from this district are highly
undesirable as material for future Amer
ican citizens. They are not only illiterate,
but the years of unsettled conditions in
which they have been forced to live have
caused them to lose the habit of work.
Their physical and moral courage is greatly
depleted, as well ss their physical consti
tutions. The bulk of them have been
habituated either to lawlessness or to the
exercise of violence in the name of the
law for so long that if not actually im
pregnated with bolshevism they are good
material for bolshevik propaganda.
Self-preservation demands that
the American people guard against
a flood of new arrivals of that char
acter. They would be no aid to in
dustry or to the development of the
country, which requires the sturdy
peasants that stay behind, and they
would menace the stability of our in
stitutions. America is willing to help
Europe in rebuilding itself, but not
to our own injury; that would be a
poor service to mankind. America
will help the people of Europe to
restore their continent, but they
must remain there to do the work
and must rebuild the shattered
population in its own home.
DISPOSITION OF SOLDIER DEAD.
Ths unfortunate phase of ths con
troversy that has arisen anew over
the disposal of the bodies of Ameri
can soldiers who died in France is
that the subject should have been
permitted to form the basis of acri
mony of any kind. It is clear, from
the tenor of the discussion, that peo
ple are of two minds, that even those
who have the best right to be con
sulted are not agreed, and that there
is practically even division of opin
ion. It is nevertheless not a topic
that one would wish to see degener
ate into a quarrel.
Thomas Nelson Page and Owen
Wister, together with a considerable
number of former army officers, have
recently written letters protesting
against the exhumation of any of the
soldier dead, on the ground that it
would be desecration. In reply to
this, a Writer, holding a different
view, declares that only recently he
attended the funeral of one returned
hero, and that "the relief that It
brought to the sad parents was al
most akin to joy." "Who can be so
heartless," he asks, "as even to sug
gest the thought of depriving a
pa.r of this relief to an aching
heart?" Yet the fact in all proba
bility is that no one least of all Mr.
Page or Mr. Wister contemplates
any denial of such solace as may be
derived from restoration of the
physical bodies of these heroes to
their loved ones at home.
The issue is one entirely to be
settled, in individual cases, by the
next of kin of the dead themselves.
It Is not necessary that an undevi
ating policy should be formulated
ither to return all of the dead to
America or to let them all remain in
Europe, nor has the war department
done so, for it has endeavored to
ascertain the wishes of the surviving
a kingdom on the same footing as
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
nnrl Trelanfl. tha kin? hAine trip, sole
BEYOND THE PRIMITIVE. k ,d from . ,nlance -a the
Jazz," said Dr. F. E. Morton, "ex- Canadian e-overnment chose to
presses hysteria and incites to idle- make. Mr. Ewart. in alarm at the
ness, revelry, dissipation, destruction, prospect of new military obligations,
discord and chaos. He was speak- now goes farther and proposes that
Ing before the music trades conven- Canada should become a eomDletelv
tion at Chicago. Just a few days be- I independent republic, and he gives
lore me gooa doctor unouraenea nis these reasons:
mind someone of an inquisitive i. It wouia be a complete reversal of
irena tnea specimen strains of jazz ihe policy heretofore pursued by Canada.
fn the rroitiim nf on oactorn I 2. Canada now bas a greatly lncreasea
bicu "f" uecmoc l complications.
proianation, and roared and cast . That the dangers of war are much
themselves at the har, nnrl nil the greater than before 1014. At that time
nm iiiuiiKcys ilea cnauenng to me friends France and Russia and one
darkest corners. If jazz is primal cret ally Italy. Today she has no friends,
mucin oulrfontlv n la mnt- nrlm.i I ami the old enemies still remain.
fhon t'Jm vf-in,,,. , . . . I 4. That the tremendous growth of the
K, num.:.?. aiiu ii io aisv emnire has a-reatlv increased her resnon
evident that the jungle folk are tibiiuies.
keener critics than its rtsvnleu I 5. Canada will have no more control
Jazz is popular because it is prof- ?V,ri:m" ln" may "aa 10 war lDa"
ntaoie. 1 nat is to say, tne purvey-1 6. That Canada's interests are diver
ors of music have discovered a new I Ent from those of the United Kingdom,
vogue, or created one, and though it I Fundamental changes may im- (
raises havoc with morality they are pend over the British empire. Lloyd
bound to squeeze the last nickel I George may not be able to keen the
from it. For the last nickel will be political relations of the members
squeezed, ana in time to come there out of the discussion. In fact
will be none so shoddy as to do it changes have already begun. Par-
honor. Perhaps we shall then have I liaments have been established in
renaissance cf old ballads, of I India and one has even been prom
simple songs, of tuneful romance, of I ised to Burmah, Egypt has been of-
melodies that move the emotions in fered an alliance in place of a pro
gentler manner. If the producers tectorate, and Ireland is likely to be
are keen for the dollar let them re- conceded a degree of self-govern
member that these, also, were ment exceeding that provided by the
money-makers and that their vogue I home rule act. Britain learned
is in the heart. I from the American revolution that
Gone are the days, indeed, when the tie binding its distant children is
hearts were young and gay with the stronger the looser it is, and he may
sentimental appeal of 1 ve a longing 1 decide to slacken It.
in my heart for you, Louise," or the
raillery of "Just because she made
them goo-goo eyes," or the fine spir
itual simplicity of "The hours I spent
with thee, dear heart." But they are
really better than youths of the
twentieth century. Relaxation of the
old inhibitions, which pains some
and alarms others, must be regarded
as a whole, and not judged by iso
lated extremes, in order to arrive at
a sober estimate.
Have we lost ground because a
pleasant camaraderie between the
sexes has supplanted the ancient
outward deference of the one and
the sometimes irksome subservience
pf the other? Was the punctilio of
the olden days always precisely what
it pretended to be? Are we td judge
by surface indications, or by the
heartfelt purposes of men and
women? Is there not now, on the
whole, rather more of the spirit of
justice and of equality than there
used to be? We are inclined to be
lieve that if the whole truth were
known the present generation of
young people would bear compari
son with any that has gone before
The mellow light of romance with
which the past is always apt to be
invested has had a good deal to do
with our more or less unquestioning
acceptance of mere legend as fact.
We doubt that many young women
of today or young men "either
would return if they could to the
age in which knighthood was in
perfect flower.
ARE WE GOING DOWN HILL?
An address delivered the other day
by Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president
destined to return, the old songs, the I emeritus of Harvard university, in
old tunes, in other guises just as which that eminent educator said
surely as they have returned time
and again since the Scotch lover
penned to Annie Laurie those melo
dious memorable lines "Maxwel-
ton's braes are bonny, where early
falls the dew."
THE RELIGION OF THE BODT.
"There are those who scoff at the
philosophy of the body," said a noted
dancer. "They say that we are mak
ing a religion of materialism. That
is the excuse of the lazy thinker.
My body and my wife's body are not
the finality of our existence. They
are only the storehouses for our
brains, our art, our souls and our
ideals.
You are shown a man whose name
Is in the gallery of the famous, whose
that he had observed a coarsening of
manners of young folk toward one
another in recent years, is likely to
provoke the obvious comment that
Dr. Eliot is only following in the
footsteps of the elders of every gen
eration. In no age of which there is
historical record has mankind been
spared the pessimism of Its own es
pecial Jeremiahs. The note of
lament is the oldest in all literature.
Yet Dr. Eliot precipitates another
issue that is not bound up in the
question of conservatism. By com
plaining, for example, not only that
young men address young women
with much greater familiarity than
those of a generation ago were wont
to do, but also that the recipients of
these addresses "don't much resent
it," he raises the question of the
fundamental purpose of those social
service to the thought of the cen
tury has been that of a titan among .nv-ntina mi n
AU;nt-n,.A Ua tcr n-PAea nnnrlnrnna I J
' , , ' ''"r' ;,." "r.v." ners." The niceties of etiquette in
snauicu 111 iican auu 1 ' ... 111 w , .. riii
the enforced deliberation of one
whose body is burdensome. Or he is
prematurely wizened and aged, con
sumed by a fatal energy that is not
generated in genius alone, but in
tortured nerves. The old trick of
comparisons flashes through your
mind, so that you say to 'yourself:
I would not trade places with him
-my body for his mind. I would
rather climb a hill trail, with every
muscle responding to my will and
glad of the effort, than to be cited
in the encyclopaedias." And with
your homage to his mental strength
goes out the half-contemptuous tol
erance of the fit for the unfit.
Roosevelt was a physical weakling
In boyhood. But the desire for
health, urged by his powerful spirit.
wrought a physical transformation.
He became a woodsman, an athlete,
a formidable boxer, a tireless and
recreational enthusiast. He followed
lions, both political and African, and
shot them down on their native
veldt. Who will say that the light of
genius and of common sense did not
burn as brightly in him as though he
had lived bflt one phase of this vari
ous life that of the secluded
scientist?
It is the fact that America has
broken the records for average
longevity. ,We are allotted more
years than those of other lands.
One is led to presume that our habits
of sport and recreation, of bidding
good morning to - nature now and
again, have much to do with this
happy circumstance. But some of
us have violated the canons and de
pressed the average.
CANADA WANTS EQUALITY,
Canada is so proud of its part In
the war and at the same time so
conscious of the burden arising from
membership in the British empire
that it is more inclined than ever to
insist on its dignity as a nation. To
gratify its . pride it cast off the
ignoble title "colony" and became a
"dominion," but that still Implies
subordination. Sense of nationhood
prompted it to reject reciprocity
with the United States and has
prompted it to claim entire freedom
from subordination to the imperial
government and parliament, equality
as a nation with the mother cointry,
both owing allegiance to the same
king. This arrangement would give
effect to the idea expressed by Gen
eral Smuts, that the British empire
is a commonwealth of nations in
which the king is the symbol of
unity. Then the dominion would
have its own foreign department and
diplomatic service and would be free
to give or refuse aid to Britain in its
wars and controversies.
In the reason for this ambition
there is a parallel to Washington's1
policy of non-interference in Euro
pean affairs. While Canada had an
interest in the war because victory
of Germany would have brought
ultimate German invasion, it had
no interest in preserving neutrality
of Belgium, for which Britain de
clared war. It has only a sentimen-.
variably change with the times.
'The commonest salutation," says
Dr. Eliot, "whether in conversation
or on the telephone, which I hear,
is "hullo, Bess,' or 'Jack, hullo.' Un
heard of in my youth. I am told.
too, that young men and young
women touch, tap and shove each
other, sometimes with much energy.
Unheard of in my prime." But here
it is obvious that since these acts
arouse no resentment, and since we
have no evidence, or even a sugges
tion by Dr. Eliot that they are more
than cursory outward manifesta
tions, the code of the gentleman or
the lady which forbids the giving of
offense or pain is not violated. We
are quite certain that young men in
the circle about which Dr. Eliot is
most likely to be informed would not
intentionally wound, the feelings of
their young women acquaintances.
They would not address them by
their first names if there were any
likelihood that by doing so they
would cause embarrassment. The
easier familiarity between young
men and young women which Is
here indicated may point to a change
In the spirit of the times, but it does
not follow-that it is a change for the
worse.
The young people of the present
day also use slang in their coversa
tion with one another, Dr. Eliot
notes. We yield nothing of our ab
horrence of slang in suggesting that
this is a sign neither of the de
cadence of goo manners nor, of
moral turpitude. It is rather the
indication of a sprightliness common
to its youth of every period. Their
conversations also "have a form and
relate to things, events, processes.
and subjects which the young men
and young women of my time never
referred to at all, never mentioned
and never proposed to mention."
But we wonder what the good Dr.
Eliot expected would be the result of
half a century of . (coeducation, of
calm, straightforward looking of
realities in the face, of side-by-side
study of the sciences, including bi
ology, and finally of emancipation
of women as well as men from the
notion that knowledge is based on
authority. Change was certainly to
be expected. Here again it is per
tinent to suggest that in showing
only that customs are different he
has not proved that they are less de
sirable than the old. '
So far as candor in conversation
and it will be borne in mind that
candor is always subject to the im
ponderable restraints of good taste
is the result of the decline of hypoc
risy, of unwholesome prudishness
and abnormal . s'elf-repression, it
probably is not undesirable. The es
sence of the whole matter is intent,
and purity of motives or the re
verse, and it has not been shown
that in these respects the current
generation suffers by comparison
with former ones. Certainly the
present will bear setting beside the
age about which Fielding wrote, or
(if the truth were teld) the so-called
age of chivalry; and we do not be
lieve that young Victorians were
KNIGHTS ERRANT OF THE USUAL.
While scientists have wagged their
whiskers over the problem of hold
ing speech with Mars, or busied
themselves with theorizing on the
impossibility of the straight line in
space, certain practical folk have
mused for a moment or two, turned
some simple trick of invention and
retired on the proceeds. It is a de
batable matter, indeed, whether the
world owes more to Einstein for hia
theory of relativity than it does to
the New England dreamer who in
vented the garroting mousetrap. Ein
stein came to America to expound
his scientific contentions, creating
much furor but shedding little light.
whereas the world made a beaten
path to the door of the other fellow.
Opportunity lurks in the usual in
greater degree than it inhabits the
unknown, the scientifically specula
tive. This must be true, of course,
because there is such a vast aggrega
tion of Usual things. We rejoice, to
discover that the inventors of devices
for the usual humble, everyday con
trivances which lift the load of worry
and vexation quite frequently have
reaped the rewards they so richly
deserved, materia! rewards form ma
terial benefactions. The mousetrap
made its originator quite wealthy, for
mice were plentiful and good traps
were scarce.
So also did fortune smile on the
farmer who riveted copper toeplates
to his children's shoes, and who
afterward patented the device.
Though he prospered beyond all
need for sucti economy, he saved
millions upon millions of dollars for
folk who were forced to be careful.
A chap named Dennison, noting the
loss and delay incident to the disap
pearance of shipping tags, conceived
the idea of reinforcing the hole with
cardboard circles. Fortune promptly
consigned wealth to the ingenious
Mr. Dennison, all charges prepaid,
The list is long, and it includes many
of the simple yet indispensable con
veniences that make the bout with
life less formidable. The rubber on
a lead pencil, for example; the ball-and-socket
clasp for gloves and
pocketbocks; the wooden shoepeg.
Professor Einstein is said to have
asserted that not more than twelve
men in all the world are capable of
entirely comprehending his theory.
How easily he could have been char
itable, permitting the benefit of the
doubt, and made it a baker's dozen!
So we are stalked by the slinking
suspicion that a theory so opaque is
not worth bothering about. It will
not alter the predestined gear of the
universe by so much as a cog. Wha.
the world really is waiting for,
among other things, is to present a
truck-load of gold to the serviceable
savant who will announce synthetic
rubber.
we grope for a translation into the
colloquial smote the court smack
on the bean! There was contempt of
court for you! From that moment
we lose track of Metellus, and know
not what befell him; our lively con
cern - is for the bold stenographer
who dared imperial Rome. There is
no comedy in this . . . he was
torn to pieces by judicial order.
Know also, you who dictate curtly
to your stenographers, that short
hand once was the hobby of the
great; that Julius Caesar was its
enthused votary, likewise certain of
the apostles; that there is every
likelihood that the sermon on the
mount was taken down in steno
graphic nonchalance, and that with
out doubt St. Paul dictated his
epistles to the Colossians and scanned
the curves and angles of the record,
We have Cicero s own word that h
couldn't get along without it, while
the shade of Titus Vespasian, llth
of the imperial, Caesars, still haunts
those enticing precincts where pen
cils race to prison words in mazes of
weird pigeon - tracks. Popes both
banned and blessed it, according to
their learning or intolerance, and
much that the ancients bequeathed
to -us, from their store of , wisdom,
was carried across the centuries on
the stout shoulders' of shorthand.
We will inform the world, Ermen
trude, that it gives a person sort of
a queer feeling under the ribs to
think that all those old birds were
stenographers, too. To reflect that
Cicero must have been a hard fellow
to take, because he spoke so ele
gantly that you almost forgot what
you were there for, and you got to
hand it to him, at that. And as ro
the court stenographer of Metellus
the centurion . . .' his fingers
quiet these many, many lifetimes
. it makes the shivers run over
von to think what nerve he had
We're for him, if that's any comfort
to his scattered ashes.
There's an august ghost at your
elbow, girlie the wraith of old J
Caesar himself, who wrote very pass
able shorthand, and who crossed over
when the styli stabbed to his vitais.
We fancy we hear him saying abov
the rapping click of the keys, y
Bacchus, what luck if we had such
a maid to report the Roman senate!
HAIL, THE IMPERIAL STENOGRAPHER.
There she sits, as fair a damosel
as ever munched gum, idly resting
her dreamy eyes ori the. housetops of
the city and the vagabond clouds of
spring, while her exquisite fingers
dance and dally over and with the
symbols of the keyboard. Beside her
typewriter are the cryptic notes of
her calling, sheer Sanskrit to the
uninitiate but eloquent to her casual
glance with such bright epistolary
fragments as: "In reply to yours of
the llth inst., in regards to our last
shipment of - Eclipse can-openers,
beg to say that . . ." In her ab
straction, that takes no seeming
thought of the task at hand, me
chanical and exact, what vision
frames itself in the fleece to west
ward? ' Sees she Cicero, thundering,
pleading, persuading, before the
Roman senate, or the frills of fancy
in a lingerie shop? She is the ste
nographer. A certain John Robert Gegg,
worthy educator and gifted racon
teur, evolved a system of shorthand
and, for ,his sins, was commissioned
to indite a history of that commer
cial and literary art for the current
number of the Century, where it ap
pears. It is to be hoped that all
stenographers as well as lesser folk
will read it a diverting narrative.
very, wherein Mr. Gregg has set
down in sober print all relevant and
irrelevant facts pertaining to the
science of transcribing the spoken
Word in jig time. And be she blonde
or brunette, her tresses mobilized
over her pretty pink ears or severely
arranged in an earlier fashion, we
will wager that an added sense of
responsibility, of fealty to fine tra
dition, will descend on the shorthand
priestess ancl remain.
It was a day of unusual interest in
the Roman courts, according to Mr.
Gregg, when Metellus the centurion
was arraigned as a conscientious ob
jector. He had cast his armor aside
with the double-edged stabbing
sword, and Rome must hew her way
to conquest without him. For the
centurion had turned Christian and
would no longer serve. Moreover,
being somewhat of the legal turn of
mind, he had employed a stenogra
pher to set down with stylus on tab
lets of wax the rapid-fire record of
his trial. We fancy that the Roman
judge was prejudiced . before the
opening statement, but justice was
upheld by an extended hearing. A
hush fell upon that ancient court
room. The togaed jurist yawned.
composed his countenance to impas
sivity and spoke the verdict: "Me
tellus, thou art guilty." ,
Bing! The heavy shorthand tablets
of the court reporter one would in
fer that he was partisan as well as
employe of the centurion sailed
through the pregnant ' hush and i
smote the court smote the court
OPEN A NEW ERA IN THE SOUTH.
Neither machine politicians who
traffic in the votes of southern dele
eates nor theorists who cling to the
shadow without the substance of
negro representation in the south
should be permitted to defeat plans
for reform of the rules of the repuo
lican party in that respect If, as is
proposed, none but qualified voters
and those who have voted are per
mitted to take part in local conven
tions or to sit as delegates in the
national convention, the irrespon
sible negro whom drastic state laws
have disqualified will be excluded
Then we may expect both the white
people of the south and the Intel
ligent, qualified negroes to divide po
Iitically on the natural lines of na
tional issues instead of on the un
natural lines of race.
For half a century the republican
party has endeavored to secure for
the nes-ro indiscriminately the
franchise to which the right is given
him by the constitution. All the re
publican party has accomplished is
to drive practically ail the white
people of the south into the demo
cratic party, to become known Itself
in that section as the party or tne
negroes and to cause the southern
states to enact franshise laws de
signed to defeat its efforts to have
negro votes cast and counted. In
consequence on several occasions
some southern states have gone
democratic though a majority of
their voters approved of republican
policy. In their minds the danger
of black supremacy which overhung
the south was greater than any dan
eer that overhung the nation. Di
vision by section rather than by
opinion on national policy gives one
party an unfair advantage at the
start and tends to breed sectionalism
in the north also.
-'By amending its rules as proposed
the republican party would prove
that it does not aim to impose negro
domination on the south, and should
thereby gradually win over those
whites , who approve republican
policy. It would remove the Incen
tive to suppress the vote of qualified
negroes and would j.empt the demo
cratic party to compete with it for
those votes. A new attitude toward
the negro would arise, the antag
onism which has resulted from his
identification with one party would
die down and a disposition would
grow up to educate the negroes and
to train them m responsible citizen
ship as a means of qualifying them
to vote. By that means the negro
can be enfranchised to the advantage
nf the south without being a con
stant source of social and political
strife.
This change would redound to the
good of both the nation and the re
publican party. The southern vote
has long been a scandal in national
conventions simply because it rep
resents nothing but a mercenary ele
ment that trades on the name of a
party which has been but a skeleton
In the south. The last election
proved that the party has begun to
gain substance, and the changes pro
posed should do much to break the
solid south.' If at the same time the
north should become less solid, we
shall not object, provided the di
vision is on live differences of
opinion.
on the chance that in the end he
will prove not to be peculiarly fitted
for the employment of his choice.
Primarily he should have a good
basic education, preferably a stand
ard academic course, and this should
e supplemented by especial train
ing in some technical college or uni
versity. His summers should be spent
In industrial plants to get the at
mosphere of the field." But the
real test comes kwith post-school
training. The weeding-out process
is apt to be quite ruthless. The
qualities that he needs in his
profession are unlikely to show for
some time after he has taken up
practical work, and then there Is
no room for the inept or the ineffi
cient. Like medicine, the profession
of Industrial chemistry calls for
peculiarly arduous training, but it la
even more exacting in . its demand
for practical results.
The professions taken as a whole
are notoriously underpaid, taking
their demands into account. Those
who rise to eminence may draw
higher salaries than mechanics and
craftsmen possessing less training,
but the average of all professional
rewards is probably smaller than the
average in the skilled' trades. There
is intangible reward in the satisfac
tion of being pleasantly employed
and in the sense of social servici
factor that may account largely for
the overcrowding of some of the
professions but it will be well for
the young man to have considered
this phase well in advance. "I would
never," says Mr. Whitaker, "advise
any one to enter the profession for
the sake of money. In general it
is no business In which to get rich
(luickly."
Yet the field is alluring and not
without compensations for the ro
mantically inclined. In the respect
that it is boundless it meets a long
ing inherent In certain types of men.
It underlies agriculture In the pro
duction of foods, the mineral indus
try in the production of essential
metals, the textile industry in the
treatment of fabrics and the produc
tion and use of dyes, the printing
industry In production of paper and
inks, and transportation and manu
facturing of every other kind, in the
provision of alloys, paints, leather,
fuel and a myriad of other things.
In the respect that it is without
hampering restrictions it has pe
culiar enticements. In its inclusion
of the material of many other pro
fessions, such as mechanics, physics,
bacteriology and various phases of
engineering, it Is typical of the
twentieth century, which appropri
ates the knowledge and the experi
ence of all ages to its own uses.
But the point of Mr. Whitaker's
observations is that the profession
is highly unsuited to the tempera
ments of those who are seeking a
royal road to ease. Like nearly every
other employment of a quasi-social'
character, its pecuniary rewards are
apt to be uncertain. Owing to its
technical nature, it is unlikely to
reward its devotees with fame. The
names of the men who have revolu
tionized the whole field of industrial
chemistry are still practically un
known. The number of Its recruit?
will depend largely upon the number
of those who are capable of infinite
endeavor for material remuneration
that is relatively small.
The Listening: Post.
Kxeose Uollectlnar Is Hobby
The immensity of space is not the
only thing that is difficult to com
prehend. Professor Pupin says that
the electron, which has a diameter
of only one hundred-thousandth of
that of the atom "may have a com
plex system of its own." Going up
or going down, the finite mind soon
or late comes to the place where It
might as well stop working.
I; probably has not escaped the at
tention of the man whose business
takes him around a,bit that home
building has assumed! healthy pro
portions, if not those of a boom.
Credit high rent with one good re
sult: It has greatly stimulated de
sire for home ownership.
ITOBBIES expose queer quirks of
1 A human nature and few normal
humans are free from the collecting
virus in some form. Richard Deick
collects stamps, Frederick V. Holman
roses, Edwin D. Whitney firearms and
W. c. Dibble tulips and each in his
line is an expert. Most news writers
are avid collectora .of human emotion
experiences, but Miss Mllle Schloth.
swimming Instructor for the public
schools undoubtedly has the most
singular fad of all. She collects ex-,
cuses. Not for personal use. don't
misunderstand this, but the kind that
pupils hand teacher when absent or
tardy. I
1 Could there be an exchange for
rare specimens of this kind Miss
Schloth is certain that she has some
priceless bits of paper. They come in
every form, mostly scribbled hurried
ly on scraps of paper with pencil.
Some of them contain evidence of
tragic happenings In the home, others
veer around to the ridiculous,
"teener plese ex cuse poul fare not
earning this morning fore his ribbut
got out and they are not wane to look
fare it But him at name Mrs. Duftan."
reads one that bears a penciled nota
tion "Not Valid." The chances are
that Paul had a fine time that fair
morning chasing his pet bunny and
thought he was a lucky chap until
teacher refused to accept his excuse.
His punishment must rest with the.
Imagination of the grown-up kids who
remember staying in after school and
writing Interminable words.
Ruth's father writes teacher that
her mother is In the asylum and thai
he has had to keep Ruth out of school
to look after her two little sisters.
Again he writes of the housekeeper's
dereliction in neglecting the children
and failing to send Ruth to school.
Another mother writes "Kindly ex
cuse Mama for absence yesterday. Her
shoes gave out on her." Other ex
amples: "Verna complained of a head
ache this morning so I gave her soma
castor oil and kept her home." "Pleaae
excuse Edith for staying home this
morning. We were out camping anJ
could not get gas to come back." And
this last one, evidently from a parent
who has sent the children away with
insufficient explanation. "It is
just like this. Our clock must havii
been slow. When I tell them that
they say It Is no excuse, but that Is
all I have to tell them. Now I will
do my best to see that It doesn't
happen again."
But will anyone forget the thrill of
playing hookey, the temptation to at
tempt forgery or some other means
to avoid punishment after that half
day loafing along the river bank
smoking cornsilk. Never. And hookey
days are here now when it la a tor
ment to stay In the class rooms.
Reply to a Letter.
Rr Graee K. Hall.
You have made a wreck of your life,
you say.
Through faults that were all your
own;
You ve hast what you loved. In tho
, old, old way.
And now you must grieve alone;
iou numbered for wealth and you
snuKnt it. too;
'Twas folly like all the rest;
'TIs hard to reply to a man like you.
With the red scar on his breast.
But I hold no man to a Mern account
For his follies, fuulls or sin,
Not mine Is the privilege to scoff, or
doubt
That good may still dwell within:
And ah! when he suffers in black de
spair
For sorrows that cannot fade,
I say there is manhood yet burning
there
As fine as God ever made.
It is never too late to take a hand
In the Kama of Destiny,
And the soul that la sin-sick was not
planned
To perish so wretchedly:
You may hoist a standard that's whit
and high
And reach it In lime. I swear.
If you have the manhood alive to
try
And a heart to grieve and care.
The years that are gone you may not
reclaim;
They lie in the vaults of time.
But you may erase all the signs of
shame.
And win to a higher shrine;
And you may atone with a man's true
worth
For all that you failed to do,
And those whom you robbed from
the hour of birth.
Shall in good time honor you.
Oh, blame not the laws that are mad
by men,
For the sadness In your heart;
'Twas the red, red wine and beyond)
your ken
Some weakness out-played Its part.
But you've cleansed the record with
burning tears
Let your dear ones know and aerj
Have hope, new-born, in the Coming
yeara.
Be all that a man should b.
It Is those who rob and who go their
way t
With hearts that are hard anil roM.
Who merit no gift from the comln
days t
BiA you have a soul that la calling
heart is s tortured thing.
Iou may gain w hat you will, if you'll
only hear
Tou may merd each broken atrln.
England is planning to put a Wvo-
hour daylight saving system into
effect, and come to think of it there
are reasons why the scheme ought to
be popular in northern latitudes.
But an hour is more than the Amer
ican farmers want their city cousins
to have.
The growth of the parent-teacher
movement is a healthy sign that we
are getting back to the time when
people didn't think it sufficient to
turn Johnny over to the teacher and.
let it go at that.
The price of automobiles is down.
gasoline has dropped and tires are
off several per cent. Maybe some
of us will live to see streetcar fares
nd five-cent cigars back to the old
Ickel charge.
Now comes a statistician who says
that married men save more than
single men, after which we shall be
prepared for a revival of the old no
tion that two can live more cheaply
than one.
CHEMISTRY AS A CAREER.
Young men who contemplate
chemical "engineering," as it is
modernly called, as a vocation will
do 'well to read the counsel of M. C.
Whitaker, vice-president of a big
industrial alcohol concern,, before
committing themselves to this pro
fession. Mr. Whitaker observes that
unusually long and arduous train
ing is required. The American In
stitute of Chemical Engineers, for
example, does not consider a man
qualified for membership in that
body until he is thirty-five years old.
That means that he must have not
only a technical education but also
about ten years of practical experi
ence before he is considered as a
chemical engineer. . On 'the other
hand the requirements of the calling
are so technical that it offers no
prospect at all to the type of youth
who expects to pick up his knowl
edge at haphazard and then to win
speedy promotion to a "limousine
job."
Close and" persistent preparation
is more and more the price of the
white collar job. The young man
seeking professional privileges finds
that they entail responsibilities and
sacrifices as well.
The-new 'emergency Immigration
bill may be a little hard on people
anxious to run away from responsi
bility, but they are .the very kind we
don't particularly wanf.over here
Even the elevation of domestic
service to the dignity of a profession
seems not to have brought out a
surplus of candidates for the higher
degrees.
Good old-time beer is said to be
flowing for all who want it in Chi
cago at a mere two-bits per stein.
Must be getting ready for the next
census.
The drop in the prices of gas and
gasoline will do something toward
redeeming the sinister reputation of
Friday the thirteenth.
It is getting to the point in some
localities where daylight saving and
prohibition enforcement come to
about the same thing.
Mexico appears to i have become
civilized again; late dispatches tell
of fifty deaths following an argu
ment over religion.
The new comet will be fine for a
scapegoat. If things do not go right
from now on, we can blame it to our
celestial visitor.
General Pershing becomes chief of
staff on July 1. Well, that will give
General March a chance to live -up
to his name.
Caviare! What recollections it re
calls of days gone by. Eaten on rye
bread with a dash of kummel it gave
a fervent fillip to the appetite?
Caviare Is yet held in esteem as a
relish, and for some reason Russian
caviare seems to be preferred. True.
caviare is made from the eggs of
the sturgeon, of which there are num
bers caught In the Columbia each
year. Much of the Russian caviare
sold in this country Is domestic made
just like imported rugs from Salt
Lake City.
William Karambelas makes Oregon
caviare, pronounced by experts to be
even better than the Russian type.
Karambelas guarantees that his cav
iare is genuine, made from sturgeon
eggs and not from the roe of carp
or other fish. He learned how to
make it from a Greek who spent sev
eral years in Russian factories and
was an expert. However Karambela
will not describe his process.
In the enclypedla It states that cav
iare ia made in winter by beating the
ovaries of the sturgeon until the
eggs are clear of membranes, fibres
and fatty matter and then preserving
the clean eggs by the addition of
salt and spices. The Turks or Tartars
were the first to make caviare.
Russian caviare, much of it likely
made in this country, costs about
$11.20 per pound; good wholesome I
Oregon caviare about 14. Karambelas
finds no difficulty is disposing of hla
entire output to clubs, hotels and
restaurants in Portland and is hard
put to keep up'with the demand.
"
H. E. Joy admits that he Is not too
brave but is a living example that
men can assume a role if necessary
and get away with it. Last week he
was at a party when one of the
guests discovered two men stripping
the cars parked In front. On dis
covery the thieves fled and two blocks
away the party found their car, ton
neau well filled with loot. They
moved it near the house, the thieve
lurking about trying to recover, when
two policemen came and helped chase
them to earth.
Jov took the officers In his ca
and they soon located their men and
caught one of them, the other board-
Ins: a street car. One oftlcer accom
panied the car with the captive and
swung from the auto when they over
took the street car, leaving Joy alone
with the thief. Now Joy does not
know who was the most frightened,
himself or the thief, but he posed as
a detective and warned tne captive
to stay quiet, finally managing to
pick up the officer, the companion tJ
their captive having escaped.
"I don't know what I would have
done had he tried to escape." ad
mitted Joy. "but we got him to the
station and the next day he was
convicted and fined."
COI.IMHIS.
He knew a world was waiting for his
quest.
He knew the magic needle pointed to
the west;
They shook their heads and smiled.
those mighty kings:
They could not sec the lifting of the
'wings.
Nor hear along the vast, the uhls
perlnxs Of waiting life nor break the dark
ness through
He knew!
He tolled the dusty step of dun-
geoned days.
He fought alone, through deep, un.
fathomed ways:
And yet hope's quadrant lifted hope
on high,
And faith yet charted paths that did
not lie.
And yet there lived a Ciod, that could
npt die; ,
The things men aaw were shams
the unaeen, true;
He knew!
At last, the tides drew out his ships
from shore.
At last the earth had opened wide
her door;
The time was ripe to furrow a new
field.
To turn to gold the grain that truth
will yield:
To show tiod's dreaming purpose.
long concealed:
A world, a star, came shining Into
view!
This faith could do!
MARY ALETHKA WOODWARD.
Even beer might lose its charm if
He stakes more it had to be taken as medicine. -1
t 1
Lovers of onions will rellih this
possibly envy the recipient of the
dellpate flavors. It is an old axiom
that the girl who eats onions does not
need a chaperone. but how would you
like to be In the position of an en
forced and close attendant on some
one who ate several pounds of the
vegetable.
One of the most delicate animals
with a circus Is the hippopotamus.
Hippos dearly love onions, not the
dainty green kind, but rich full
flavored ripened ones that have
punch. Animal trainers, know that
there is nothing beMer- to keep
hlnno in condition than plenty of
onions, and so valuable an aalmal is
the hippo that one of the trainers
always sleeps In his den. Eight or
ten pounds of onlona at a meal Is
nothing out of the ordinary, but the
special attendant for the great beast
in Portland put up a strenuous ob
jection last week when, on a specia1
occasion, the circus management feed
the giant nearly 20 pounds of onions
for supper. They did not heed hla
protests, said It was but part of his
job to sleep with the beast. Pleasant
dreams. itia m,vlt,
THK ROCK OVSTrJR.
Like a' meditative monk.
Who loves a tiny cloister,
In a cell In soapstone sunk
Resides the Nye Heach oyster.
Home to hint's a place to dwell.
To love, and not deface it;
Hence his purpose, one can tell
Was properly to place It.
When hla cell seems small to him
He reams and bores It bigger;
Fits It tight, if stout or slliih
Exactly to his figure.
Wrestling wind throws struggling
sea
Down on his home In thunder,
Yet he's tranquil, trouble free.
Which Is cause for wonder.
If he contemplates a theme
'Tis past all comprehension
How he holds his darling dream
Amid so much contention.
High tide brings in fond for him.
The undertow serves rations.
So he need not dive or swim
To get his cold collations.
When the tide runs farthest out.
And jutting reef exposes.
Comes your chance to peer about
O'er all the light discloses.
Then you find him fast In rock.
With kin and quiet neighbors.
Safe from capture or from shock
And resting from his labors.
Could rash man his poise attain,
His satisfaction quiet,
'Twould be greatly to his gain,'
A change from greed and Hot.
JOHN h. VESTAL.
I
MOSS AGATKM.
lont. leenlno' un lha ffrounft.
iTuw have you such beauty found?
Ik
Here you dream your heart agio
With the fire- of long ago
On this desert lone and bare
Must have come from otherwhere.
Mosa and leaf and lichen tell
Of a home in woodsy dell.
Where the sighing breeaes slept,
Where the fairy sprlngleta wept.
Where the song of gladsome bird
Through the Joyous wood waa heard.
Why is It, Moss Agate fair.
Tou are not found alumb'rlng there 1
Clowa thy opalescent nre
With a strangely sweet fle!re.
A If all your heart would tell
Of that birth In leafy dell.
And of how It came to pass
You lie here in desert grass.
In your flimsy moss we ses
Elflnnd shrub and flower and tres
Stolen from that distant day
Prisoned In your heart they atay
Singing prehistoric rhymes
Of those long-forgotten times.
All your dreams must be replete
With a memory so sweet.
When shall future time Impart
All the music from your heart?
I hold you have heaven found.
Lyric Agate on the ground.
MERRILL ARTHUR YOTHERS.
ITROPKrTIO.
He who Is satisfied within himself
Ia like a volume laid upon a shelf;
A closed book, unopened and unread.
One not by introspection led.
With dally blessings satisfied and
thankful? Yes
But for our Inner life, keen watchful
ness .
Lest egotism, selfishness and pride
Bear us beyond the coal, an, un
checked tide.
JAXETTE MARTIN.