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CHEERFULNESS.
SMILE u while, friend, smile. Tons of
ndvicu linvc Iiocn ladled out on the
subject of cheerfulness, and if all the
precepts of good cheer hnd been followed
in past days Ihis world would he a much
brighter onu in which (o live. There is noth
ing which costs less mid bus more far-roach-"ing
results tliiui cheerfulness. It is nu At
tribute tlmt nut kos u person beloved among
bis fellow -nioii.
The nrtifieiiil elicerfu1iius born of a desire
to please and placate has no place in the
rciilin of joy. Thai it is forced is too obvious
and, far from having the effect desired, it
often breeds sneering cynicism in the ob
server. An idiotic grin can never take the
place of a warming smile.
Things will go wrong, it's true. It is hard
to be cheerful all the while, and often im
possible; but cheerfulness in I be face of ad
versity, wins the praise and admiration of
the world.
For the test of tlio lioiut Is trouble,
Anil It nlwny-R comos with years,
Ami tlio 8inllo that Is worth the ni-nta ot oarth
Is thohinlUi that Hhlnert throuKh tonrj.
A smile is not the vapid leer at a joke
that's "(juoer," but an expression of the best
in man. The most tender of human emotions.
mother love finds expression in the smilo
would bo fatal.
As Churchill says, the British, by the no
eessity of their nntrol dutv. Imv.. !. v.
ol'Jho mother at the warm body clinging to posed to submarine itltuek and losses from
mines, wliilo their enemy was bevond reneli.
Answering the speculative inquiry -whether
uormany cannot thus cut down tho British
her breast. True immim&c enmna win, ..
smile. The riches of Midas cannot bring tho
pleasure that lies in tho smiles of a child,
l.ovo and friendship thrive on smiles, with
out which neither could exist for long.
It's so easy to bo cheerful, and what a
pleasant, friendly road is tho path of life
when bordered by tho smiles of those we
know and love.
WHERE RIGHTEOUS SUFFER.
TjKOl'liK who conduct business honestly lm.'ee ,)y Germany. Two 25,00Mon battle-
-- invariably suffer when dishonest 0o- WPS "Wo ,,e added siueo the war boron.
Plo are allowed to ply their trade unmo- ', , .. -J'00?-10" battleships are to be fin.
.-..,. .u..u six niontns. Four light cruisers,
AC des royers and a number of submarine
suffer should the Uovernment attempt to
force the unwatering of the stock.
Most of the railroads have seen the error
of their way and arc now hewing to tho
line and making an honest effort to miiko
the railroads pay in spile of what has hap
pened in the past.
Howard Elliott, president of tho New
lravcn Railway, made the following state
ment: Wo mum Rlvc our rallwnilft tlio lilirlieat charac
ter for honesty, uml In onlcr to do tlilM wo must
ho honest ami ulncore ournolve. Ami wlion I nay
tlint. I don't m.'ttii only about money, but 1 menu
wo must ho holiest of purposH and lionet of
statement and Maiiin out all vlucncea of tool
leliiion.f in )erxoniil and railroad conduct, anil
Hlmliiato anything that looks mimilelotm In the af
fairs of (treat public norvleo corporations.
HomctlniKS wo are ankrd to ko into politic?, and,
as you know, the railroads and bmduuNS Kenerully
havo been charged with engaKlnt; too much In
politics and trying to iiiiiuhku politics. That day
has koiio by.
It would certainly be a splendid thing
if every railroad would act in accordance
with the statement of .Mr. Klliott. It would
not only be much better for the railroads,
but it would be better for the public and
the country at largo.
The rate increase allowed by the in
terstate Commerce Commission is based
on the belief, by men who ought to know,
that the railroads are entitled to a living
profit.
Since the progress and financial affairs
of this country depend so much on the rail
roads, it seems high time for everybody to
get busy and boost for prosperity.
BRITAIN'S NAVAL POSITION.
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S statement
of the British naval position, while,
of course, intended to reassure his
countrymen in the faeu of recent losses, pre
sents certain non-controversial facts which
are too often forgotten in popular discus
sion, lie has abandoned tho bellicose tone
in which he promised that tho British navy is in accord with tins liiuhost dictates of
would "go after the Cerman ships and dig humanity.
them out of their holes." There will be noth- But because we arc more compassionate
ing of that sort attempted as long us Britain than nature, can wo nfford to be less wisol
remembers the possibility of what naval dc- Can wo afford to use weaklings and defec-
feat must mean. The continental combatants lives as breeding slock? The proportion of
might lose their navies and remain strong, tliese is increasing with alarming rapidity,
but if England lost control of the seas it How lornr can civilization continue, to nro-
gross with a handicap liko this!
WAIT FOR HER, BOYS I
(Editorial In Slicrlilnn TOr. Bun.)
TWO girl who is unkind to her mother
isn't worth u tinker's dog-gone. This
isn't written 'in any part of the Bible,
about 1,000,000,000 u month. This in a year
will aggregate about 12,000,000,000. Tlio
five big belligerents havo now Khot away
between a fourth and a third of the vnluc
of American railroads.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
TIIM other day I noticed him in the ele
vator a puny, untlcrsii-cd, ill-shaped
errand boy, says the editor of tho
Prairie Fanner. His vacant eyo and reced
ing chin showed that ho was us lacking men.
tally as lie was physically. Evidently he wis
hardly worth the meager three or four dol
lars a week that he got. as errand boy. "What
will become of him as he grows older Ho
will never be an asset to the community, but
always u liability, part of the increasing
dead weight that, makes human progress
slow and toilsome.
You can find hundreds of boys and girls
liko this in Chicago or any other largo city,
and less frequently in the country. Any
stockman recognizes them as the result of
improper muting, Ho would not tolerate
such individuals among his livestock, for lie
knows that the result would soon be an un
profitable lot of scrubs. Ho knows thnt lie
cannot improve his stock unless he prevents
the unfit from mating.
Is it not time that we seriously considered
applying the same methods to tho human
family ? Tho objection is at once raised that
such action would bo against nature. Hut
wo are already far uwiiy from nature in our
treatment of defectives. Nature maintain!
the vigor of primitive people by eliminating
tho unfit. Only the strongest and most per
feet survive. Modern civilization, less cold
blooded than nature, protects and keeps olivo
the people that nature allows to perish. This
on Z v Y m' ,laUlC Ca" ,,C ivcn ,",t il' Litton in the history of thousands
flnin ovl.K 7. V"''"""". "oinowlmt and thousands of misfit homes. If one of
U n S, 0t 'o,8,a": L"m l0S0 a ,mt- y W over run across u girl with her face
neslnp a month for 12 months ninl cfjii i, . ,.n .. ., .. " ,,,..,!..
months and still lm flB
much stronger as at the beginning of the
war.
This is based on a programme of complet
ing 15 new battleships within a year against
loMud. Honest railroads havo sufl'ern.l w
!uso of tho dishonest deals of other rail
roads. Tho time should be past fr 1)0o,,e to
condemn every railroad beeausa of tho
manipulation of eertain railroads which
have watered their stocks to such an ex
tout that it seems impossible to make tho
Ration show a profit. In recent years
hero bus been poetically no stoek-watering,
ihilo ,oM of it w,s iJono so long ,B0 tb.U
th' statute of lbuit.UoiH no loir ap2
"d it ccriii iilv um.1,1 ,V ' ,a"
,ii,ii . , ... " ""1 mniion
(1"'l'"'s in Hi. Cni.ed States who would
have already been added.
But whether Germany's building capacity
w limited, as Churchill avers, and whethe'r
Cerman submarines and mines and internal
accidents may not reduce the British supc
viority much more than one battleship n
month, is a question.
At last we have an approximate idea of
the governmental expenditures in the Euro
Ptan war. Austria, England, France, Ger
many and RS!iFH) to say nothing of BoWum
Japan, Scvia and Turkey, are tw2i
full of roses, wih eyes thnt would dim the
luster of a Colorado sky and with a voice
that would make the song of an angel seem
discordant, and she says, as she comes to the
door:
"1 can't go for a few minutes; I'vo got
to help mother with tho dishes." Don't give
her up. Stick to her like a burr to a mule'
tail. Just sit down on the doorstep and wait.
If she joins you in two or three-minutes, RO"
much the better; but if you have to Etay
there on the doorstep for half an hour, you
just wait for her. If you don't somebody
else will, and in timo you'll bo sorry. For
you'll realizo what you have lost.
Wait for her, boy. She's worth it.
After tho war is over there ought to be
some profitable lead mining in some of the
European countries.
Andrew Carnegie ought to endow a regi
ment of soldiers to protect his peace palace