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H 2 GOODWIN'SWEEKLY. H Deducting tho preparedness schedule and then L it is far in excess of all expectations. Of course B the people understood that the party had been a Hk long time out in tho cold; that it was both hungry A and thirsty for spoils; moreover, that it as a A- party, was not made up of expert accountants HT and expected some generous stealing, hut why V on every occasion does tho party proclaim its m public integrity and horror of the extravagance H of their opponents? Still it is an old trick and B may be hereditary. In the New Testament there H is mention of a particular class whose represen- B tatives were want to stand on the corners and H thank God they were not like the other fellows. . V When Mr. Wilson calls congress together and H makes his "speech from the throne," has he never H reminded us of that class in Jerusalem? M The World's Work H HTHEY are doing things in the outside states. H The Nation's Business Magazine has a two- M page illuminated proof of tho statement. The H first is a picture of 12,000 of the 20,000 men cm- M ployed in one automobile factory. Tho second is Hj a partial view of the 1,800 cars they turn out H H The third is an interior view of a typewriting H machine factory so taken as to give the impres- M sion that the works extend to the ends of the m earth) which we suspect they do. Hj The fourth is a view of a mighty conveyor H unloading bananas at New Orleans, and watching H it one begins at last to expect that at its next Hj swing it will tear up by the roots some Central H American state and dump it on the wharf. H The next picture goes back to the farm, a H quiet pastoral picture, but a close look shows H thirty horses, working six abreast hauling a com- H bination harvester at work in eastern Washington. H The next picture shows "a fisherman's luck" H a.millioa salmon wriggling a protest against be- H ing canned. H The next is perhaps the most impressive of all M the group. It is of a load of cotton on the Mis- H sissippi. The outlines indicate about a million of V- bales on a boat Only the outlines of the boat H are seen, tho cotton gives the impression that it H is going out to clothe the world. H The next picture is of an aerial fleet in process H of construction at Buffalo, N. Y. The world is H too small, the country is about to prove up on its H claim to the clouds and the air. H Another picture shows a market morning in H New York where food for the day i3 being pur- H chased for the millions of the modern Babylon. H Another most striking picture shows in a little Hf way where the food comes from. It is a traction H engine hauling fifty plows in a South Dakota field. H To one who, when a boy, was want to plow an H acre and a half a day with three Morgan horses B abreast, and when the plow point caught a buried H boulder, hung a moment then slipped off and M caused the plow handle to strike the boy in the M side and cause him to wonder if a little profan- H ity was not permissible on such an occasion, this M Dakota field seen is most interesting. M The center picture is of a Connecticut muni- M tion factory working twenty-four hours daily. .The H picture is clouded by the night and its own smoke H as it should be, for in a world where there is so H much for man to do, what kind of judgment is it H that sets in array millions of men to slaughter H each other? Is it not about time for civilized man to learn H that after all, the pen is in j.iuids entirely great, H mightier than the sword? Is the trouble that H men not entirely great are given the pen? We H suspect it is, and that it is time for tho world's H great journalists to enter into a league to work H in accord and make another great war impos- slble. H Utah Is not represented in this picture, but it I should have been, The legend beneath it should H have read: I "You all work to convert what you have into money. Lands are tilled, the sea is explored, the rivers are vexed to bear your products to places where they can bo sold. Look on this pic ture and see how it is when man in earnest storms tho mountains and sets great machinery at work, not to find something to sell, but out of the sul len mountains to wrest the thing you give your products for and to add to the world's store of that material for which the whole world is strug gling." War's Wreck In France HP HE French minister of tho interior has made a careful estimate of tho damage that has been inflicted upon France by 'the Germans since their invasion two years ago. t The figures cover those portions of Franco that tho, Germans have held and those they are still holding. The minister has just made public the figures. The data collected from 754 towns and com munes (villages) gives 16,000 buildings destroyed and 25,5G4 partially wrecked. In tho department of the Marne, 15,100 build ings were damaged and 3,499 destroyed. In Pas de Calais 13,542 buildings were dam aged and G.GGO completely destroyed. In 148 communes more than 5 per cent of all the buildings were destroyed and in seventy-four communes more than 80 per cent of the buildings were wrecked. In 428 communes 221 city halls, 379 school buildings, 331 churches and 30G other public buildings were wrecked or badly damaged. Of public monuments sixty were destroyed. Of the edifices destroyed fifty-six are desig nated as historical. When Germany crushed France in 1870-'71, she exacted from France two provinces and 1,000,000, 000 in money. If the Allies win in tho present war, what will France naturally claim as a fair Indemnity from Germany? Or, reversed, what would Germany claim? Those two questions give an idea of what diffi culties await tho settlement for tho war's de struction. What will Russia claim? What Great Britain? What Belgium? What Italy? We can anticipate Russia's claim, but no ono can anticipate the claims of the others. According to the record when in the beginning all was chaos and darkness tho Creator said: "Let there be Light! and there was light." Contemplating the wreck in Europe, the chaos and the darkness, it looks as though no power less than the Creator can command light. A Dream That Must Materialize OLD KING DAVID in one of his high songs of praise to the Creator, said: "For he knows our frame and remembereth that we are dust." After three thousand years that comes back to us, and the mystery of our being here is just as great as ever. David had been a shepherd boy, a soldier, a law giver and even then was king. He had sounded all tho heights and depths of this human existence; he realized how brief was the span of the longest human life; he knew to what heights the human mind can climb; he believed that he was in accord with the Infinite, and yet that ho was, after all, but dust. So it has been from the beginning and the only change that has come has been a defining of the belief that it is only this frame that is dust, that tho Infinite would not permit immortal thoughts, such as come to men to go out extinguished in the night of death. We watch the worm and after a while it casts off its repulsive shell and lo, a radiant butterfly rises exultingly on illuminated wing? and flies to its home among the flowers. Is not that typical? Cannot man, too, cast off his worn-out shell and rise to tho glories he dreamed of before his wings had grown? Tho Hebrew idea of heaven was material. There would be streets of gold, walls of jasper, gates of pearl and trees bearing all manner of fruits. The Indian's idea of heaven made it a vast and lovely hunting ground, with hills and streams and eternal summer. Why does lettered and unlettered man alike cling to a belief of an after life of joy? Is it not that there must be a spark of heaven fire in all of us? A spark that shines in our souls "as shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew"? A spark that shines above the depth, shines on ' ' , and on forever? i The People's Will THE war makers across the sea should keep wary eyes to leaward. They are driving the armies on to death. Did they ever stop to think that those armies have really no grievance against the other armies, that they are killing and that are killing them in return? They know how glad those men in the ranks would be to know that the era of murder had passed. Are they not afraid that a few inspired men in the ranks may rise up and call a halt? This brings at once the thought that no future war should ever be fought among civilized peo ples without those peoples demand it. Our war with Spain was the people's war and a public demand crowded it upon congress and over President McKinley's plea to wait. It was because tho cruelties of Spain to the Cubans had become intolerable in our people's minds. And cannot that thought, amplified and re duced to form be woven into a statute in an in ternational code for the guidance of the nations and in the interest of mercy and peace? We believe that in the old code there was a provision that differences between nations should be submitted to arbitration before a war should be declared. But no power in Europe was impressed enough with it to heed it when the war note was finally sounded. But the people were not consulted. Will they not have to before another great war is sprung? When peace finally comes and the people are permitted to survey the wreck and to estimate the gains and losses, will not a determination grow in their minds that never, again shall like horrors be wrought until the men in the ranks and in the pursuits of peace shall have been consulted. Storm Centers THERE are capes and promontories on the ocean shores which seem to be storm centers, where the winds have their caves and are con stantly rushing out from them to engage in battle the angered seas which in wrath are with their surges lashing the trembling shores. There are places on the earth's surface which seem, like wise, storm centers. Since -before the Turk ob tain both shores of the Dardanelles, that hds been a storm center. Tho Persians, the Egyptians, tho Greeks and Romans fought over its possession; then the crusaders with such soldiers as Saladln and Richard the lion-hearted. In modern days a dozen nations have fought around and over it, and now the people, on its shores are waiting and watching and wondering what is to be its fate in the coming few months. The gUns of half a dozen nations are almost with in hearing; battleships are hovering in the off ings and fiery meteors armed for war are poising in the air above. Utah has been a storm center from the first. The winds of superstition and ignorance and fear and hate have their caves here and though tho skies are fair, the sunbeams sweet and flow ers bloom in profusion, no one" knows when out