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THE WASHINGTON HERALD. SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1915.
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J"ew- Vork Office Tribune Bids.
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St. Ixmis Offico Third Nat. Bank Bids iwho discuss murder or express approal of mur-
Authorities Blind to a Menace.
I he man Weinschenk, who was arrested n
this city on Friday, several weeks after the time
when he should have been taken into custody,
may or may not be mentally deranged; but there
is no doubt that he is a 'dangerous character.
There is nothing strikingly irrational about the
literature of which he is the author, unless the
dangerous assumption is indulged in that all men
ATLANTIC CITY. X. J. ItEPP.ESENTATIVE
C K. ABBOT Guarantee Trust Elds.
fcCBSCIUPTION RATES BY CARRIER:
railv and Sundaj 45 cents per month
Jiilv and fcundav Ji 40 per jear
railj. without Sundaj 25 cents per month
SUBSCRIPTION' RATES BY MAIL.
riailv and Sunday 45 cents per month
Dailv rtid Sunday J5 4u per vear
Iiailv. wit1 out Sunday 25 cents psr month
Pail -without Sunday JS (III per J nar
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Lntered at tie j.ostofflce at Washington. D. C. as
sero t class mail matter.
SUNDAY. JULY IK. 191.'
A Line o' Cheer Each Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
First printing of an original poeta. rrtttB vJtiit
or The Washington Herald
A PRESCRIPTION.
An hour spent in thinking of
Some deed of an unselfish love;
Another spared from daily care
To dream of things of beauty rare;
A third at eve in dwelling on
The ictones by effort won
Such thinking turns a world of stress
Into a realm ot loclincss.
(Cotjrisht. lElil
Bill Sulzer is going to star in a film plav de
picting the events that led to his impeachment as
governor of Xcw York. If the censors want to
do Bill a faor they will put the ban on the play.
I'ollovving the reduction in the number of
baloon-. the Xcw 'N. ork health department reports
an increisc of ;o per cent in the consumption of
milk. So the great "White Wav" has become the
Alilkv Va
Tlnrtv-four persons were killed in automobile
accidents in Xew Vork in June, while the record
for tl c i ist si months is i;s The ratio of auto
inortl s to population is higher in Washington
than in New ork, but this city fortunatel has
rot ticci'ii to compete with Xcw York's appalling
rtc.mi o! slaughter
t
1 rk
t r
i
t
1
Mill prisoner'. have escaped or attempted
. ! uom ng Sing rrcentlv, ipparcntlv
i . f ebrad that thev may be included in
i ill to be trMivterrcd to other prisons The
n th' mi- mg ones would promptly re
i ti e iic gtcn assurances that the could
i with Wardrn (i -borne.
Sta
lien .t long, long vear lor those un
r r ivn'i- ut - ii ill lots on the I nion Sta
f t t a- nol Pit .i, who hac been paving a com
nii ii n on ai- aril $fo a dav and expenses lor
r ic i rendered in the wav of paring down the
un illotid tliTii in pav ment for their propert
t mi vcirs ago hv a former rominission
unti sentenced in Xrw York to spend .1
mil a il.i in the pcii!trnttar at tlanta has
1 i i '-ii till to go to the prison and dclicr him
i'i into eustndv, upon the theor that his feeble
1 i il !i mil Mt ears will insure compliance
Hi i been forgotten th it a man now active in
1 i mess was released from the tl,inta pcni
l ntn for the vrrv reasons that arc now dc
t i 1 d upon to get a man m'
1
Scott Ncinng savs the motto, "there is
room at the top" i- no longer true in
r u ' nj
l'i c uintrv on .irrinint oi the fact that in everj
ire i indiistrv oitlv tlirrc of everv t.ooo cmplojc
I n ail nice to rise to the top The professor's
it ut is no dutibt literally correct, but he will
j i J iMv not dn that the motto still applies to
I i tiheres ot aclivitv which cannot be con
ldi'id under the head of industrv.
dcr arc irrational. Weinschenk may be quite
crazy, but his writings do not disclose it, and they
are of a character calculated to arouse others per
haps less responsible than himself to deeds of vio
lence. The Secret Service may doubtless be de
pended upon, now that the belated arrest has been
made, to thoroughly investigate Wcinschenk's
antecedents and make a careful examination of
his effects with a view to discovering what method
their may be in his madness. It may be worth
while to bear in mind that this man established
his publicitv bi'rcau in Washington a ear or so
ago and that recently his facilities for reaching
the public, whatever they amount to, have been
utilized for the promulgation of the pro-German
propaganda. This fact may signify nothing but
the vagaries of a disordered mind, but it is well
to determine dcfinitclv whether or not Wein
schenk was being used as a tool by others.
But, sane or insane, Weinschenk is dangerous
and the uncovering ot lus nest by a newspaper!
ought to bring a rough awakening to the Wash
ington police department and the government
detective services from a state of lcthargy"that
in such times as these is alarming. It is almost
incredible that such a menace could have so
long existed in security in the Capital This man,
who was having incendiary literature printed here,
had written repeatedly lo President Wilson, and
vet it remained lor a correspondent of the Xcw
ork Sun to call that newspaper's attention to his
dangerous utterances, and for the Sun to prod the
Washington authorities into taking a step neces
sary to guard the public safctv. Conditions pre
vailing in various parts of the country today call
for the services of competent and alert officers of
the law directed bv men skilled in the work of
discovering and dealing with criminals and crooks,
and capable ot recognizing danger or the possi
bility of danger when it confronts them.
W einschcnk may be nothing more than a
crank, but there is good reason to believe him
capable ot committing violent crimes That an
appalling tragedy has not been enacted here il
nothing to the credit of the Washington authori
ties The action that ma possibly have averted
it was directed by an intelligent citizen ot Xcw
ork through the columns of a Xcw York newspaper.
Efficiency.
By JOHN D. BRRY.
T T was Louis Brandeis, of Boston, that gave
the movement its strongest impulse. His ar
guments aroused instant response all over the
country. They showed that in most kinds of
work there was an immense amount of waste in
both time and energy. The explanation lay in
imperfection of method and, loss of effort. The
best way, the only right way, was the easiest
and the most economical. The unnecessary turn
of a hand in performing an act repeated thou
sands of times in a day meant a heavy loss. Be
sides, most workers were not keyed uo to their
highest pitch. They could maintain far greater
speed and in this way accomplish much more.
.Harvard Grads Hear Notable
Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Calkins
Members of the Class of '90 Are Told: "According to Your
Faith Be It Unto You" Address Delivered
in Appleton Chapel.
Xo wonder so many business men saw the
shrewdness of the argument. For them it meant
increase of profit with decrease of CNpcnditurc.
To the men working for them they would have
to pay no more and they could even cut down
expenses by a decrease in the number of work
ers. The most efficient workers would be left
and they would spur one another to the highest
degree of unremitting effort. The less efficient
workers would drop out or be dropped, including
those of the efficient that had worn themselves
into inefficiency. It would tend to keep the work
ers voting!
At the tune Mr. Brandeis began to nreach the
gospel of efficiency he was recognized, as he still
is, as a friend of labor. Already he had shown
a courageous splrit in pointing out the injustices
that resulted from the tvranny of capital. And
yet his doctrine was received with dismay and
resentment by most of the laboring people.' Very
quickly the labor unions expressed their opposi
tion In efficiency they saw an adroit means of
cnannng capital to gam more advantage from
labor, of subjecting labor to what H. C Wells
describes as a form of "sweating." They saw,
too, a graver menace, increased efficiency would
create a kind of aristocrac) among laboring men.
The aristocrats would secure most of the work
in the world, leaving their weaker brothers to
perish. Here labor, either conciously or uncon
sciouslv, gave expression to a theory of sensa
tional interest, that labor was a commodity to
be controlled like any other commodity and to
be utilized to the best advantage of the laborers
themselves.
The following sermon was delivered by the Rev. Raymond Calkins. Har
vard graduate of the class of '90, in Appleton Chapel, Cambridge, Mass.. on
the occasion of the twenty-hfth reunion of the class during commencement
week. It is of so unusual a character, so wide in its appeal, so helpful and
strengthening that The Herald desires to give its readers the opportunity to
benefit by it and to give the sermon a wider publicity.
!-23, "Accordlnj to Jour
The position of the labor
Temperance Drinks.
What is a temperance drink' Thev arc ask
ng the question in Lngland and also in Xcw
'loik There will be as manv answers as there
are advocates and users of the various decoc
tions which have been in favor for many years or
have more recently been placed on the market.
Mr if C. Wells, the English author, expresses
hiniscll emphatically against "terrible temperance
drinks, solutions of qualified sugar mixed with vast
volumes ot gas, as for example, soda, seltzer, lem
onade, and fire extmctcurs, hand grenades min
erals thov call such stuff in England which fill a
man with wind and sclt-nghtcousness Indeed
thev do' Coffer destrovs brain and kidnev, a fact
row timvcrsallv recognized and advertised
throughout merica, and tea, except for a kind
nt ".rcen tea best used with discretion in punch,
mis the entrails and turns honest stomachs into
It liber bags" J-o, Mr Wells insists- "If we arc
to h.ive no ale in L lopia, give me the one clean
temperance drink that is worthy to be set beside
wine, and that is simple water. Best it is when
not quite pure and with a trace of organic matter
for then it tastes and sparkles "
How manv temperance people, even "teeto
talers" will follow Mr Wells and take to plain
water, either pure or impure3 King George and;
unions seems very
tin-mcncan. It denies the right of a laborer
working for capital, when his powers are excep
tional, to exercise those powers to the utmost
limit It opposes the spirit that we have always
believed in and that we have all been taught to
encourage, the spirit that makes us long to de-
m.iui me uesi mat is m us, to make it
ductivc as possible, to take delight m i
cise. Here, indeed, is the highest reward that a
man can achieve through work. The efficient
worker, spurred to his limit, reaches a kind of
) freedom ol the faculties. In his absorhtion he
as pro
its exer-
Tat-t. Mitlhews
faith be it iinio suu.
The word faith" Is used over ana
over -again in our lilhles It ahiaj.i
means the same thine, or rather it
means two things, two of the great
est things In the world In the first
place it means a great desire and in
the second place It means a great
confidence And the man of faith in
the Bible is alwajs the man who both
desires gieat things and is superbly
and sercnel) confident that he w ill be
them or get them or do them
Js there an word in the English
language that contains both of these
ideas.' I think there is It is the
word "expectation" expectation may
be defined as an' act or state of con
fident anticipation Thus, w c can
take this word "expectation ' and sub
stitute it lor the word 'faith" where
ever it is used and get right at the
meaning of it Here for example. Is
our text "According to jour faith be
it unto jou" The words were spoken
h) Jesus to two blind men They
dcspcratel) desired to have their c)es
nnn...kr4 "TliAtl 111., rt till i.4 ' 1Ha.
called, "have merov unon us'- Aml I harbor wifct) " To believe In the pos-
tude toward life would be sound if it
were not based on the fundamental
error that there is no God," no Power
that woreth within us both to will
and to do But because God is and
because it is possible for a human
soul to be In league with God, there
fore the highest wisdom of this world
Is the wisdom of vouth. or faith, or
enthusiasm, of confidence Because
God is, therefore, the bet things are
true and therefore the best things be
long to us and are within our reach.
If not within our grasp
The glory of vouth and the glory
which no number of ears ought ever
to take away from us Is that "which
trusts instinctivel the hidden forces
Instead of fearing them and marches
holdl) out into life instead of en
trenching Itself against life, and risks
ears, life, talent, heart, as great souls
have alwas risked these things. In
believing that there are few things
In life worth getting but a host of
things worth being and worth doing;
th it it is better to meet with ship
wreck seeking worlds than to rot in
THE OPEN FORUM
In Which Readers of The Herald Give Their Views
On Current Topics.
Editor of The 'Washington Herald:
Will you let me, as a Democrat, say
a word about the "depression?" First:
Apparently this country was enjojing
the highest prosperity in 1912-13
There was great expansion of busi
ness, particularly of the steel and iron
business, there having been in 1912
a greater demand for those products
than Europe could supply, and prices
ranged high.
Second: Then the railroads of this
country ceased purchasing (because
they were trjing to curtail expenses)
and the home market for these prod
ucts fell off
Third. Then the undue expansion in
Canada and South America had Its
Perils of the Pedestrian.
Editor of The Washington Herald
The question of safety in city streets
is rapidly becoming one of first im
portance in the dally life of city in
habitants and particularly, of course.
Washington That the citizens alreadv
recognize the significance of the great
ly increased motor traffic in the public
streets is evidenced by the so-called
"safety first" movement It is a curi
ous fact, however, that manv- people
and especially newspapers seemingly
Ignore the all-important role plaed
by automobiles and auto-trucks in the
daily Increasing list of victims of ac
cidents of street tramc Statements
have. I believe, appeared in some of
natural consequence of depression, and ' the dally papers to the effect that
those countries which had been Im- street car accidents are more frequent
nortant foreicn markets, ceased buy- and more to be feared than so-called
lng and we lost both in the foreign
torgcts everv thing but his task. He reaches in
tense concentration So often, if he does not do
his best, he becomes mdrfferent and slipshod and
lav. He nny even seem to be inefficient For
in the white heat of effort the energies break into
amazing stores of energy which, if such effort
were not made, might seem not to exist at all.
Such being the case then one cannot help de
ploring the present opposition to what seems the
cultivation of a valuable faculty in men, the fac
ulty that is rewarded, not merely in achievement,
but in jov and in the cultivation of high qualities
of chararter For the more efficient a man be
comes the more he is of a man By opposing
efficiency the labor unions demand of their ablest
members a heavy sacrifice. But it is a sacrlnce
made for reasons that we must all respect and
honor, for the sake of the millions who have not
the physical and mental and moral stamina to
keep up the pace set by the favored, for the
securing to all laborers a just reward proportion
ate to accomplishment, and for the protection
ot middle htc and age trcm sinking into idleness
and dishonor.
A real understanding n( tin., ritt,..- t:
. CatCll matter r.-lnnnt 1... .-.....! 1 ..It 1- i i
the roval household did not go sQ far. The Kingj neath the surface. What is the cause of the situ
insists on having barlc water and the Queen ' a,,on 'bat makes the labor unions take their
continues to serve tea Coffee is a general and ! P1".0"6"' attitude5 Is it not to be found in the
ere it deal is lacking in the explanation made
Ii I'r I i p.irt'iieiit ol Commerce that the adver j
t nt ot an vimric.iti firm, ottering to supplv
s' ' s iipahU ot inilicting wounds which ciusc
' di ii in limbic agon) m four hours" was a
'iii ike ' The linn whose name was used docs
t i' in in ttar'iire such shell-, and it would appear
I it hast advisable for the I nitcil States gov
ir -i t in ascirtait exactlv how an advcrtisc
n t .iking t coiivcv the false impression that
la'i 1 irbaroiis implements were being manufac
tured in this country and shipped to the
can c to be published
illtcs
Mis.
ri
n ..1 I
l! is
lane ddains is receiving compliments
ides tor having called the present war
man's war" If only old men arc fight
war, the several countries must have
.'n millions ol r serves on hand. Probably
vi s ddams meant that the old fellows were
scttip.. the vming ones at each other, and ought
ti le ashamed ot themselves Hie is credited,
no, with saving that the officers get the soldiers
e'runk to nerve them for the bavonct charges
Of cr. irso this could mean nothing more than I l I..,-. : .1,. ....,..-.. .. i .t.
I IIULU IfllH til (IIL VUllllil I, iiiicit;iJi
braciu up for the task. I osstblv a tew of the
tun r ttllows might want one last drink before
going lo the sHughtir A man who is going
to tare almost certain death is not i-king much
when he onlv asks for a drink.
In a bulletin urging co-operation between the
farmer and consumer the Department ot Agricul
ture sav s "Like the European farmer the American
farmer is being driven to co-operation by ncccs
sitv In the United States the ncccssitv arises
chief! v from the costly, clums), and unbusiness
like methods of distributing food products, re
sulting m an abnormal discrepancy between the
price paid to the producer and the cost to the
consumer " Washington furnishes a striking ex
ample of the evils to which the department calls
attention. With the advantage of close proximity
to the farms from whence its food supplies come
the average householder fails to avail himself of
the benefits to be derived from direct dealing with
the producer It is well for the middleman, of
course, that he docs, but it means unnecessary loss
to producer and consume- - vlman'rf
almost universal drink here in America notwith
standing the wide advertising that it destroys
brim and kidnest and probably because of the
old tradition that the discovery of the -virtues
of the bcrrv were due to the Arabian goat herder
who noticed that atter eating it the goats were
triskv. acting like a mail who had had a glass of
good wine. Tea has also become popular not
withstanding the trouble it once caused in Bos
ton Harbor, and in defiance of such warnings as
those of Mr Wells that it "tans the entrails and
turns honest stomachs into leather bags" The
Chinese insist that tea came as a gift from the
gods, just as Xoali believed his first command
from the Alnughtv was to plant a vine and make
wine
There are a good many people who agree
with Mr Wells that soda water and the other
liquids that flow from the soda fountains, "fill
a man with wind and self-righteousness," and Dr.
Bartich, president of the American Association for
Promoting Hvgicne and Public Baths, says that
more people innocently form the clrug habit at
the soda fountain and patent medicine counters
than an) where cNc. Xotwithstanding thcc warn
ings, the soda fountain and the patent medicine
counter arc the most popular and best patro-
erc is no restric
tion for age or sex in drinking what they please.
The decoctions that arc advertised and used as
temperance drinks are as numerous as arc the
p itcnt medicines that arc to cure all known and
unknown diseases. It has become almost a cru
sade for temperance drinks, and yet the cold water
advocates arc fewer than ever. We have not one
cold water advocate among all our distinguished
temperance promoters. They all have some favor
ite tipple which is something else than plain water.
And it is not a new development. The first man
was not satisfied with plain water, and Xoah
could not be blamed for regarding it more of a
curse than a blessing, and trying to find a sub
stitute as soon as he reached dry land. So it has
continued with the races of men. They would
drink water only when they had no substitute for
it. They have used it as a dilutant, for some
juice of fruit, vegetable, or grain, or some drug,
all of which arc known to be injurious when taken
in immoderate quantities. The temperance drink I
simply resolves itself into the old Chinese proverb:
Intoxication is not the wine's fault but the
iaisc relation that exists hetween Inl.n.- -,,! ,.,:
tal And does not this relation result from the
social and economic system established and sus
tained by the power of capital- This system en
courages the prosperity ol the comparatively few
at the expense of the manv. While the few arc
ciijoving the bounty of the earth the manv arc
living close to the danger line, insufficient v
nourished in bodv and in mind. The many rcp-rc-cnt
labor And when the heavy tasks placed
on labor bv capital arc suddenly made heavier,
without a corresponding increase in the ph)sical
and mental support s0 necessary to bear the
tasks, no wonder labor cries out "in resentment.
Alreadv vvenkened by capital, it looks with terror
on further encroachments. It might be blamed
for its present attitude if, with the exactions, cap
ital were ready to provide more wholesome con
ditions of living and more opportunities for the
securing of the training that should develop the
latent powers of the workers as a class and a
reasonable provision for workers enfeebled and
wasted by )cars of effort!
the contidently believtd th-it Jesus
would bo able to open their ccs, for
when He 'said. "Believe )e that I am
able to do this"" thej inswertii. "Yea,
Lord," and Jesus said, "According to
jour faith," (thit is jour expectation)
be it unto v ou ' And ttraiglitwaj
their ej es were opened
Now, if there Is nn truth in Goa-
word, of which up ina be sure, if
there is an truth In Gods word which
u e need to take to heart. It Is th it the
life that we live, the min that we are,
the work that we do, is according to
our expectation . The worst thin,?
that can lief ill a soul is to lose its
faith, its expectations, us confident an
ticipations The one thing above all
others that we need to do is to keep
our faith alive in God. In our fellow
men, in ourselves it will be to us
according to our faith The way to
get results is to desire them and ever
lastingly to believe th-it we can get
them Proportionate to our expecta
tions will be our conquests if we
expect little, we will get little, if we
expect much, we will get much The
reason tint we do not have more Is
that wo do not expect more To keep
our expectations alive and let no cloud
of doubt rest upon our confident an
ticipations, that is the deepest need of
every human life
Recalls Phillips flrnok.
It is our deepest need and mine
toda There is not a person In this
chapel this afternoon who is not sur
prised to find himself here, who rinds
it possible to realize thit twent-flv
jears have paesed since that soft sum
mer afternoon when we met together
here to listen to our baccal lureate
sermon preached bv Phillips Brooks.
who t-ummoned us to applj our human
energy to Us highest tisks, chancter
of moral adventure, to be
lleve that there is no safety except ill
doing the highest possible things, to
believe that the wisest thing in the
world is to throw a purely worldly
wisdom to the winds and that we will
never know what we can do and what
vie can be unless we do throw it to
the winds, to have great expectations
and to live hv them, this Is the secret
of the life that avails and of the life
that arrives
1 Such Is the spirit that we need
to c-irrj Into our work It must be
kept fresh and joung a'nd efficient
Perhaps this Is more evident in some
professions than in others In the
profession of teaching, for example,
we all understand that It Is the spirit
behind the teacher rather than the
thing that he teaches that makes the
impression and leaves its mark When
Nathaniel bhiiler died, for example,
some veirs asf, a writer In the Hai
vard Graduates' Magazine predicten
that Mr Shaller's pupils all over the
world would lav dow n the message
with the words. -There died a man"
Not a Fcientlsl. not a geologist, not
an author, although he was all or
these, but pre-eminent!) something
more a man with the unspent VI
talit) of vouth with the dew of tne
morning on him. looking toward the
East That i the spirit which makes
a man. and alwavs and everywhere
measures the worth of what he is do
ing We ma) be good doctors., skillful
surgeons. keen lawers, influential
financiers, hut the measure of our
work will depend ultimately on the
soul that lies bejond and shines
through our s-pecia.1 task whatever it
ma be In husiness. In finance, in
commerce, the indispensable quallty
of fine work is the gift of seeing
and in the domestic trade
The result was the depression whicn
would have come from these causes if
there had been no tariff changes what
ever. A noteworthy fact is imports
of steel products fell off under the new
tariff S A. ASHE.
The Locked Pump.
Editor of The Washington Herald
This inscription is cut on a watering
trough on the side of a road that the
writer was recently riding on. and on
inquiry it was found that the owner
of the land on which the spring is lo
cated, had made the trough, piped it
from the spring and invited ever)body
and ever) thing to quench their thirst
at anv time dav or night.
Sta) stranger, be e man or beast
Or even winged thing:
Let ever) living creature drink
From this puie bubbling spring"
It is different In Washington for ex
ample there is a pump located at
Twelfth and M streets northwest,
where clear, wholesome water can be
obtained onlv at a restricted time, and
that restricted time is made bv an
Iron band fastened about the handle of
the pumP. locked b) a padlock, con
trolled bv a policeman who locks and
unlocks the padlock, and no water can
be had when the handle is locked
There are man families in the
neighborhood whose thirst, these blis
tering hot das and nights, does not
cease at 9 p m and manv who art
thirsty in the morning that would be
greatlv comforted with a drink of
the fine water this well affords, and
as the well was put the'e at public
expense for the benefit of the public,
particularlj the poor, who cannot af
ford the luxurv of ice, the attention
of the chief of police is invited to
this article with the suggestion that
the order to the policeman, who locks
and unlocks the pump, be rescinded,
and that he he ordered to throw- the
kev and padlock Into the Potomac
River, and the iron bands be torn
from the pump and disposed of in the
ame wav. so thit ever) living crea
ture mav be at lihertv to take a drink
I from this pump at antlme, da) or
night
The selfishness of anv one or more
persons in depriving a large neigh
borhood of the privilege of ohtaining
a drink of cold water, furnished at
public expense, should not he consider
ed by anv authority that claims to be
Christian
A NEIGHBOR OF THE PUMP
and service Then we went forth, things that are not visible to the eye
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as he said we would, in tne nrigni
morning of our life in evirv direc
tion. East. West. North. Sotilh. until
we meet again in the place where vie
p-irted. each to tell over to himself
the stor) of the vears and to l.i)
their lesson to heart before vie go for
ward again in the quest of that goal
which we have not )et reached but
to which we all aspire
What is now the equipment which,
at this stage in our life, we most
of prudence and calculation, and what
Is more, the qualil to believe in the
realit) of what we see. and what Is
most, the capaclt to make the things
that we see and In which we believe
come true just because we believe in
them and act on the faith that they
are true This qualit) is rated high
in the marketplace It is a greater
sset than an) amount of experience
and fund of prudence It is the qaul-
Itv that makes reall good w ork in
want' What is the virtue which Is ; an department In life I heard read
indispensable if we are to obtain th it i nilj the other day a letter written in
incorruptible crown which is the end'ans'WPr to a request for information
and reward of everv ttue life' It lsiahout a man wanted for a certain po
preciscly the gift of fa ih in the sen'- pition, and his friend writing in rcpl
that I hive d-llneil It The )ears have al)0ut hm ,au this "He is all ricnt
brought us experience, wisdom indnnen ne iels himself go. but then,
knowledge of the world, of men. of i j1P pidom does" No one is reallv ail
ourselves, which, when we began our rK,t unless he knows what it Is to
lives, we did not possess The ques-1 jet i,imseif Bo. but then, how- seldom
tion Is. have they robbrd us of our j people do For things that are really
enthusiasms, our confidence, our cver-lcroat an)i trill) fine are never thought
lahtlng faith In God and man and 1 0, or worked out in advance Thev
ourselves' Thej have jsiven us eon aro the poetry of the soul written
trol and caution and prudence tliatlWlth a freP inspired hand on the open
spring from a wide acquaintance w 1th paj-e of this worlds life If a man
those forces that make up the world, cannot work like that, he has trulj
In which we live, but have the robbed paj.SP(j his prime, but if he can, then
us of our confident expectations, of nc )s arcounted a leader, whom men
what we are able to be and to have , ei,Bht to follow and to honor,
and to do? If. to the added know 1-1
edge and skill and discipline that the I.nmls Ilopklnaon Smith.
veirs have brought, we can prescrvcj When Hopkinson Smith died some
an untarnished faith, an unclouded time ago. between 70 and SO )ears or
outlook, an undimmed desire and ex-ncc. a reviewer declared that "to the
pectation for ourselves and for the end ne worked with the unspent ar
world In which vie live what 13
there which we cannot do' If just
where we find ourselves toda). we
can preserve the romantic temper, the
faith ill moral adventure, the confi
dence In what real and live persons
can do pi o lng upon the apparently
inexorable and fixed forces of the uni
verse, then there can be no danger
dor of vouth" It Is Just that stamp
of unspent ardor which puts the fine
ness into the work that an) man does,
and determines the true measure of
our contribtulon to life What it may
be w 111 depend. If I may use a phrase
once spoken of Sidney Lanier. "Upon
a certain immortal. unconquerable j entering on a work
Hrieness of fiber: upon a lordl and' dwelling upon obstacl
'"auto" accidents Attempts have also
been made to minimize the latier by
making It appear that pedestrians,
who before the greatlv increased au
tomobile traffic were in the majorit
(according to these authorities) are
now in a minorit). and therefore this
unfortunate part of the community
should be made to shoulder the entire
responsibilitj of avoiding the dangers
of the streets This is, of course, as
every intelligent person knows sreer
nonsense, and ivvors of cvnicism IT
not downright disregard f human lire
and civic rights
The fact is. however that the great
majority of these so-called "accidents"
ire not accidents at all. hut the results
of riminal carelessness and neglig
ence on the part of automobile driv
ers An uglier term could be applied,
and with just reason, to these unfor
tunate happenings When loss of life
results many of these, "accidents ' are
mere manslaughter, and when mir.ir
injuries are inflicted the term "fel
on" would be more appropriate It is
only neeessarv to observe the daily
sight of automobiles and heavy auto
trucks running at railroad speed
through the streets and at night steal
ing silentlv upon their victims in the
dimly lighted thoroughfares of the less
frequented parts of the citv. rapidly
turning corners, without giving the
customary signals, in order to be able
to properlv analvze the mental status
of many of thee drivers, and to place
responsibility where it justly belongs
The automohilf craze has advanced so
far that It mav safely he asserted that
ir a majont of those now using this
favored mode of progression were to
relv solel on their natural means of
locomotion It vi ould be infinitely bet
ter for their pockets as well as their
general health
As things are. it is well nich im
possible for the average pedestrian to
protect himself against injur) or
worse at the hands of reckless driv
ers crippled individuals, children an I
aged being left entirelx out of the
question This is rapidlv hring'tia:
about an intolerable sittntion which
difficult as it is to handle should be
courageouslv ficed and relieved Pu-
lie co-operation is all that is nece
sarv . societies for the adoption o
wavs and means of combating the e 1
should be organized, but aboee i'i
public lethargv should be -iron ed
The egotism of the individual V
readv enormouslv exaggerat.il in o ir
communities and the source of most
rnvTlMW ox pvgb FLTV fx-
who. before such moral adventure as
this, answer, 'homeone ought to do
it. but vi hv should I"" and those who
replj. 'Someone ought to do it so why
not I'" "Between these two." she re
marked "lie whole centuries of moral
evolution" Those two pharses draw
the line today between those whom
this weary world is carrying on Its
shoulders and those who are Irving to
lift this world on their shoulders to
higher and better things
A recent review of a book of Bishop
Brent placed him in the "small group
of those who. In a centurj occupied
with tasks and works, still hungered
for righteousnes3 and followed after
the vision of the divine as the best
men and wo'men did other dis.' and
It went on to a that what we niert
todiy is that spirit that Includes the
passion of the early church and the
romantic temper of the mediaeval
church Passion and romantic tamper,
everlasting desire, serene, indomitable,
undiscourageable expectation These
are vi hat lift a life high above the
level of routine performance and mea
ger rewards and fill it with all klnc-i
of blessings and make it to be all
kinds of blessings to the world
eeil I UMpent 1 onth.
What we all need is what vias once
sild of Henri Mart)n. that "he had
not a single torpid nerve in him '
Whai we need is the ardor of un
spent )oiuh of a man like Samuel
Gridlc) Howe, that great soul and
strong heart, who feared no difficult)
and shrank from no encounter, who
remarked to one who asked his ad
vice about some work which he wished
to undertake. "The plan seems to me
to lie fraught with great. If not In
surmountable, difficulties, nevertheless.
I vi ould never elisiourage an) one from
of beneficence
g upon onstacies vv e neen me
that we shall fail in our quest or fait , HrBe compiss of soul." upon n "large , spirit of the misslonarj who return-
short ot me glory o; woo blue heaven of moral wiuin anu e-1 mrj from ten vears of labor In ( hum
light which the cares of life, the dull j stood up before a great convention anil
But just there is where the danger
lies, that what is not only the glory
of our youth but the glor) of any
life, alwavs and an) where, will de
effects of routine, the hard facts of
experience, can never obscure"
It is according to our faith, our fr
The discussion of this subject must make us all
sec the folly of our present human relations and
the importance of developing a way of living that
shall encourage all men to make the most of their
powers without harm to others. In the opposition
to efficiency there is a grotesque contradiction.
Xevcrthclcss, behind this contradiction lies a great
truth, that, for the sake of the minority, the favored
ones, we must not subject the mass of mankind
to further disadvantage, creating more incapacity
and more suffering. Some day we shall perceive
thc need of establishing human relations on a
basis where all men may hope to become efficient
and where increase of efficiency shrill mean not
the gain of a few at the expense of the many, but ' IurIJ at
a gain for the whole social body, with increase l 0f t"
of the leisure so necessary to the recuperation There Is
ot inc tacuiucs ana to tne tun enjoyment of life
and with the confident expectation of the attain
ment of honorable old age, free from the horrors
of dependence and the menace of wantl
Kirt frnm us that we shall Iosn our pectations. that It will lie unto us in
hold unon the one key that can un- the work which we have selected to
in-L for us not onlv- the cates of do To preserve that faith, to culti
Heaven but the gates of life, that we Irate and cherish these enthusiasms
Thought For Zeppelin.
When the fierce old ejes of Count Zeppelin
fall upon the names of Thomas Alva Edison and
Orville Wright, in the advisory board, co-operating
with the United States navy, he may, for once,
tcalize that all ideas are not made in Germany.
New York Evening Sun.
New York Not Alone.
Xew York provided carefully against any men
acing miscreant who sought to buy a package of
firecrackers to celebrate the Fourth of July. Its
markets were wide topen to the enterprising ma
niac who wanted 200 pdunds of dynamite to blow
up Mr. Morgan, the Xational Capitol and a few
ships. On this principle, we should swat the
fly and let the man-eating tiger run amuck.
flew, york .World, ?l JUL
shall cease to have any great and
glowing expectations, that we shall
feel that this world is nol the place
of romanco that vie dreamed, that
we shall become, if not actually cj nt-
cal. at least without buoy-incy, with
out what we may call moral elan or
confidence. We live in an age when
enthusiasm is at a discount and when
emotion Is discarded In the interests
of poise and control The one thing
to be guarded against, wo aro told. Is
that wo shall ever let ourselves go
or let our feelings get the better of
us The romanticist and the poet that
the bottom of ever) mans
re suppressed in the Interests
logician and the calculator
There Is a common philosophy. I have
read, with which all of us are more
or less familiar which, under the dis
guise of prudence, or, as it likes to
be known and spoken of. common
sense, tends to discard Idealism of any
kind and to look down In serene con
tempt upon the less cultured enthusi
asm of well-meaning but Inexperi
enced men: which "critically challenges
every generous impulse and chival
rous experiment; which sometimes
recognizes the beauty of high alms
but always questions the possibility
of realizing them. It sees the long
line of apparent failures. Infelicities,
disappointments and rather prides It
self upon that larger outlook ana
broader wisdom which keeps one from
embarklnn. upon seemingly Impossible
enterprises."
Terms It "Fatal Mistake.'
As a matter of fact, the man who
believes like that, talks like that, lives
like that, is not wise, but has made
the supreme and fatal mistake of his
jjfe, Tbla prudent, calculating, attu
and labor on in the hope and light
of these expectations is the ultimate
necessity of every true workman A
man Is no older than his ideals; he Is
as young as his faith, ho Is as fresh
as his hope, his work never loses Its
value so long as the light shines on
within it. "that never was on sea or
land "
I It is our expectations, our faith.
also, which measures our worth in
the social order to which we belong
It Is this quality which literally makes
men and women he the salt of the
earth, centers, that is. of life, of
quickening strength, of pervading and
contagious vitality. Perhaps there
never was a time when such men were
more needed than the day in which
we live. If there is any moral les
son, any spiritual truth, that we neea
to get hold of and to keep hold of
more than this, I simply do not know
what It Is "If this modern world of
ours Is going to be saved, it must
deepen its faith. It must freshen Its
hope. It must preserve Its enthusiasm.
Its problems are so perplexing. Its
cares are so many. Its duties are so
difficult, that nothing can save It but
a great tide of spiritual vitality."
There never was a time which called
so urgently for a truly spiritual opti
mism, for a genuine, well-grounded,
unshakablo belief In the entire prac
ticability and ultimate invincibility of
truly spiritual faith. The kingdom of
heaven awaits generations of men and
women who. with work to be done,
wrongs to be righted, evils to be over
thrown, walk right out not only tn
the sure faith that the thing can be
done, but also in the sure faith that
they are the men to do It. That was a.
fine phrase of Annie Besant who dis
jipnihej between men and, women
used these words "You want me to
make a report, but I have no report
to make. ou want me to tell ou of
progress, but I cannot see anv. ion
want to know- how many souls I hiv
won. but I do not know of one.
Nevertheless." he went on in a tone
which those that heard him will never
forget. "I do not doubt the promises
of God and I do not doubt that those
promises are being fulfilled today in
the heart of a great nation that is
struggling to be born into the life of
Jesus Christ" And In a world like
ours toda. where it seems as If all
report of progress were a mockery
and all our lofty ideals were falling
around us in ruins and civilization
were going up In smoke and gotnc
down in a welter of blood an1 carn
age, we need men and women as never
before who can stand up in the spirit
of faith and everlasting expectation
and can sal, "I do not doubt the prom
ises of God; I do not doubt that today
those promises are being fulllllled in
the heart of a world that is struggling
to be born into the life of Jesus Christ "
3 And we must have great expecta
tions for ourselves. It Is much harder
to believe In ourselves than it is to
believe in God or to believe in others,
but we must do It just the same It
is only lack of faith In ourselves that
halts the progress of ourselves. Our
real moral danger Is not that we shall
aspire too high but that our aim will
be too lpw. For one man today who
thinks more highly of himself than
ho ought to think, there are a hun
dred men who think more meanly ot
themselves than they ought to think
The Importance of such faith In our
selves Is borne In upon ono w ho re
alizes that with the passing of the
years he has come to tho rather set
tled persuasion that for him at least
the day of grace Is past; that his
character U now settling, if. Indeed.
It has not already settled. Into .Its
fixed and final moulds: that there are
limits growing more and more precise
and rigid beyond which hla character
is elestined never to pass, thit like
his other hihits. so his fallings ana
his virtues are becoming or have al
ready become fixed and determined
Such a one defines in advame with
more or less conscious prei l-ton. the
point to which he ma) reasonably ex
pect to advance in his personal de
velopment, but bevond which it is use
less for him to expect to pass 'at'
that I can expect to be.- he saj s to
himself, "is an average man in morals,
in efficlenc). In aims '
Well, if that is all we expect to be
then that is all we will be If vri
mvke up our minds that we havo
leached our limit. then we have
reached it If a man ia)s. "I know
tn limitations." then he has made
them, he has driven the stakes Into
the soli of his being and his im
prisoned foul will never get be) ono
them It will be to him according
to his expectations But there Is an
other possibility, a glorious and an
infinite possibility If we were only
a bundle of nerves and tissues then
years might tell the story of our
spiritual as of our physical progress
x- rr Sona of God."
But we are something more In the
words of an inspired writer, which
we may well la) to heart. "Now are
we the sons of God and it eloth not
et apiar i.hit we shall be but we
know tint we shall be like Him when
we shall see Him a He Is ' And no
human calculations of what he might
reasonabli expect to become ever
limited the growing Godlikeness of
tile roul and lived on such faith as
that "I slnll be satisfied, cried an
other soul When' Well now. what
vi ould satlsfv ou so far as )OU are
concerned If v ou come how far. will
-nil a). "That wilf satisfy mo' "I
shall be satisfied." cried the Psalmist,
"when I awake in His likenes3" What
a vault'ng ambition' But one wholly
reasonable mil altogether right be
cause be 1 ould sav. "My expectations
are in Him" Vnd let our expectations
be not in what we are. not in whit
we have, but lit our expectations be
in Him w ho never slumbers, whose
word and whose will abide forever,
and he will grow from glory to glory
even into Ihe glory of the Lord It
will be to us anordlng to our faith
And ma) I ay as I close. I am sure
that jou villi understand If I say. I
am sure that vim would not want me
to close without saving, that these
gre-.it spiritual expectations, these un
spent and Incxh lustlble enthusiasms,
this ardor of a youth that Is eternal,
come into a m 111 s life only as that
life is given to and draws'its strength
from the life of God The great re
ward of the life that never grows old
comes onl) into that man's life who
has laid hold of the Life that Is eternal.
This is the gift of God Eternal Life
and God is the only one who gives It
Short of losing our life in His life
and so draw inc. forth from His life
a life whose falTh and hope and love
can never be lost, the great relentless
ongoing life of the world in whtcn
we live' will rob us of our birthright.
Bat let a man lay hold on God. and
because for you and me that Life is
embodied in Jesus Christ, lay hold on
Christ, and his is the gift of a life
that grows brighter and brighter even
unto the perfect day.
My classmates, the best of our life
Is Just before us. The )ears on which
we now enter are the years that will
tell the stor)-. If we can match the
lessons that we have learned, the dis
cipline hat we have received, the
knowledge that comes and can conn
only, through experience with the ar
dor, the faith, the hope, of the soul
that takes God nt His word and la
bors In that sure and confident expec
tation, vv-e will live on as sons of
God "until we all come In the unity
of the faith and of the knowledge
of the Son of God unto a perfect man.
unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ."
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