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WHAT JORDAN OVERLOOKED.
< t q p HERE WILL NEVER be another
great w a r,” declared Prof. David
S ta rr Jordan, form er president of
Stanford University, on many occasions upon
which he delivered his famous address on
world peace. The reason given by the savant
for this statem ent was th at the great money
powers of Europe were so closely related that
for one country to go to war would mean
a great loss to those controlling the finances
of other countries. He pointed out th at the
mammoth holdings of the Rothschilds—the
most wealthy family in the world—in Ger
many, France and England absolutely put
w ar between these countries out of the ques
tion, for to carry on such a war the govern
ments would have to borrow the money from
the Rothschilds, who would never consent to
see their interests in any one of these coun
tries destroyed.
That David S tarr J o rd a n ’s dream for
world peace was prem ature, all the world
now knows. Theoretically, the idea was per
fect; practically, it was not. In observing
the strands of the great money web which
bound the countries of Europe together so
th at the breaking of one might mean disas
ter to the whole, David S tarr Jordan over
looked one element. This was the vulner
ability of the money kings. Despite the
wealth they controlled, the Rothschilds and
other money powers did not control men.
Would a great government refuse to go to
war because the finance of his country was
at a low ebb, when residing within its bor
ders was one of the richest men on earth, a
private citizen?
N aturally not. The wealth would be con
fiscated if necessary and the money king
would have no redress against tho royal
troops. True, the government might pledge
itself to pay back the money forcibly bor
rowed in the future, but this would depend
upon the fortunes of war and if the emperor
should be defeated and his kingdom rent
asunder no restitution would be made. Were
it within the power of a money king in one
of these countries to prevent war, he would
assuredly do so, for if his country borrowed
from him and won he would be a long time
in regaining his money, whereas if his
country lost, his wealth would be gone
irreparably. *Were money the real king of
Europe, the present war would not be rag
ing. David S tarr Jordan reckoned without
the might of kings, ruling by rights heredi
tary or divine.
WORLD PEACE.
HE D R EA il of David S tarr Jordan for
world peace will come true—much
sooner because of the great European
war. Though the war was the one thing this
learned man believed could not occur and
one thing which he must view with unutter
able horror, yet the fact remains that it
probably advances the peace propaganda of
the world by a hundred years by its very
inhumanity. There are those who say that
this war will set back the world centuries.
It may do so in the progress of fine arts
and sciences, but will it in the growth of
human brotherhood?
When this great war is over—and it is too
gigantic in its proportions to last for long
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—hum anity will shrink from the thought of
ever repeating its horrors. Great as are the
bonds of patriotism, greater will rise the
bonds of human brotherhood when it is seen
th at patriotism may mean a blind sacrifice
of happiness, and even of life itself for sat
isfaction of the jealousies of thrones.
THE DEATH OF MOLOCH.
F GREAT INTEREST in considering
the question of the w a r’s effect upon
peace, is an editorial by General H ar
rison Gray Otis in his paper, the Los
geles Times. In a recent issue, he says:
‘‘Those of us who were in the flesh dur
ing the awful days of the terrible Civil W ar
th at raged in America from the early spring
of 1861 to 1865, will recall probably an old
war song of the day whose refrain ran th u s :
“ ‘Many are the hearts th at are weary to
night, waiting for the dawn of peace.’
“ The struggle was awful and the battles
strenuously fought on both sides. To that
time it was the most destructive of human
life ever fought upon the earth, and con
tinued so until the present conflict now
raging along the French frontier where the
Germans are finding every step of their ad
vance contested fiercely by the French and
the British soldiers.
“ The new war is but a month old at this
writing, and yet there are millions of hearts
weary waiting for the dawn of peace in that
war-torn continent, hearts bleeding with an
guish for those who are exposed to the dan
gers of war.
“ It is generally recognized that there was
no valid foundation for the conflict now
raging, that it is a disgrace to hum anity and
an awful menace to modern civilization. It
is impossible to conceive th a t mankind will
much longer tolerate the existence of such
wars as are now cursing Europe.
“ Women will not go on much longer en
during the pains of childbirth, the anxiety
of rearing children, the expense of training
them for life, lavishing love, toil and money
on their sons, to have them made food for
powder and balls. Already there are low,
deep m utterings th at forebode evil in the
future for the man who raises a word in
favor of war. The day of the fierce w ar god
Moloch, who mounted the cone of a burning
mountain in hell and shouted: ‘My voice is
still for w ar,’ is about at an end among
mankind, and it is quite time it was so.”
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THE COUNTY FAIR.
FARMER owes himself an outing or
vacation of at least one week a year.
He owes it to his family, he owes it
to his business to keep in touch with up-to-
date ideas, to be progressive. The county
fair points the way.
The real object of the fairs shonld be,
first of all, educational. Then amusements
should be furnished so as to give the farm er
or others attending a change and a rest after
the long months of hard work. “ All work
and no p lay ” is no better for the farm er
than for anyone else.
All classes can be equally benefitted by
attending the fair, no m atter whether poor
or wealthy; whether farm er or mechanic;
whether private citizen or public official.
Thus the entire state must profit.
The fair helps the farm er boy and the
farm er girl because no bright boy or girl can
attend an agricultural fair without broad
ening their ideas, and inspiring in them high
er ambitions for success in their work. They
enjoy much honest amusement and absorb
a vast amount of general information from
the fair and all its departments.
The fair helps the farm er’s hired man be
cause it teaches him how the simple appli
cation of “ b rains” can reduce the amount
of labor needed to accomplish the farm er’s
task. He may own a farm himself some day
and the more he can comprehend and prac
tice science in his work, or make brains
save the labor of his hands, the greater will
be his success.
In faet, no man, woman or child can at-
tend a good county or interstate or state fair
without going home with a better under
standing of the work, better equipped in
mind and body to meet every emergency.
BUSINESS TRAINING.
DUCATORS differ in opinion regarding
which of tho numerous courses offered
by tho colleges of the land is the best.
The faet of the m atter is th at most of the
courses are good, but none of them are good
for everybody. A course that might be just
the thing for someone else would not do at
all for you. You must make up your mind
as to what kind of training will do you the
most good.
A business course teaches you to do things,
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An teaches you the things th at you must do
to make a success in life. If you learu these
things while you are in school, or even learn
p a rt of them, you will be ju st that much
ahead when you get out into the world. Yorj
will know how to deal with people, what
business terms mean and many of the im-
p ortant facts that will save you time and
money when you get into business for your
self.
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It is rem arkable how few people know thé
common ordinary rides of business ; how few
of them know how to handle a bank account,
for instance; how few of them know any
thing about notes, certificates of deposit,
drafts, accounts and the numerous other
things that are encountered every day in the
world of business.
W hether or not you decide to follow the
lines of a “ higher education,” you should
not neglect to become well informed in the
basic transactions of the business world.
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Practicability of the parcel post as a me
dium of direct exchange between city dwell
ers and producers of the farms has been
established by a test in ten cities. The Post-
office Departm ent announces. Postm asters’
reports say the new system had been wel
comed in nearly all the communities, that it
appeared as a factor in reducing the cost of
living, and th at improvements under way
assured its growth. Damage to parcels in
shipment amounted to less than one-tenth of
one per cent, it was said, and that was main
ly due to inefficient packing.
One of the most lamentable facts in con
sidering the fertile San Joaquin Valley in
California is the lack of interurban roads.
Sacramento Valley is rapidly developing bo-
cause» of these lines. Several are now in
operation in the San Joaquin district and
many are being proposed, and I t is their
completion which means much to the small
land owner.
Tho German Reichstag and the British
House of Commons have each appropriated
$1,250,000,000 to meet the expenses of the
war. The French Chamber of Deputies has
appropriated billions of francs. Even Bel
gium, th at asked only to be let alone, has
had to put up $40,000,000. The people of
Europe will be paying the price of this war
for a hundred years to come.
The Swiss cheese made in Washington and
Oregon seems to be all right, but so far our
neutral eheesemakers have been unable to
imitate the war cry of the Limburger pro
duct.
A lot of Americans are coming over to
America as their ancestors did, with all their
belongings in a pocket handkerchief.
The increase in the price of peroxide is
bound to have an effect on the number of
blondes at large in this country.
It is certainly tough when the war pre
vents people from buying necessities of life
like Paris gowns.
Champagne is steadily rising in price. The
suffering by reason of the war promises to
be amazing.
The gold that goes to Europe to buy war
supplies will pretty soon come back to bay
grub.
Really, it looks as if we have been send,
ing missionaries to the wrong places,