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VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL
The Least Submerged
Vice President
GI XTLKMKX: tin Via President oi the I mtcd
States! Probably the least lulmerfed and the
in. decorous oi all Vice Presidents, He has been
anything but i nonentity, but he has ncvet exceeded
his position. Whenever be hmi bad anything to say. it
hai been sound, strong and satisfying. rfe stands For
something and knows what it is. His discretion during
the rime of the President's illness has marked him as
i singularly well balanced man. air. Marshall has his
little jokes" at his own expense: he says that he is
President Wilson's "only vice." He has his jokes at
the expense of the Senate over which he rules, also.
One day when a dozen Senators had crated to the tune
of "what this country needs is ' the Vice President
leaned over his desk and said to a clerk, but audible
to the whole chamber. "What this country needs is a
good 5-cent cigar. "' He i a religious man by in
clination. The photograph given here is cue oi his
latest and is very successful in revealing the strength
and character of the man. This is a new photograph
of the Vice President
The Wasted Two
SIXTY -FIVE per cent of Australia's returned vet
erans are back either in their old jobs or in the
same line of work they gave Up to enlist for service.
Only 11 per cent have taken advantage of the sjov
ernment's offer to apportion jobs to them.
Snne 11 per cent returned to new jobs, obtained by
themselves, and of a different nature to their former
employment.
Of every hundred soldiers Australia has received
back, two are counted as wastage.
Considering the distance Australia was from the
war. the youthfulness of the nation, and the radical
character of much of its population, it is at least re
markable to find the Pacific Commonwealth leading
the world in rehabilitation of soldiers.
It is true that the Australian has a leaning toward
work, not always recognized by those not well ac
quainted with him.
Australia can afford to reflect complacently on the
two per cent wastage. It is not much; and the in
fluence of the 98 industrious ones must make the idle
two feel very lonesome. If that is the sort of army
Australia put in the held for war, it is time the world
began to take notice of the sort of an army Australia
puts in her fields in peace.
There has long been a general impression that Aus
tralia is a hotbed of radicalism. It has a Labor ad
ministration and in Australia Labor has advanced
further politically than anywhere else in the world.
Radicalism exists. But it is also quite true that a
greater percentage of the population actually work for
their living in Australia than anywhere else.
That probably explains the splendid readjustment
to civil life and the magnificent reduction of the wast
age to an inconsiderable two per cent.
Now it will be interesting to see what Australia
docs with those two men.
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captivity for two or three years, even longer. The stone barracks in which they lived are shown
in the background. A hrench officer in the foreground is consulting with a German about the program
by which the Germans rtc 10 be sent home. The men are lined up for instruction. They are a well
kept looking lot and their French captors seem to have dealt well with them. The returning soldier is
a very important part ol Germany's wealth just now. for it is by his efforts that the wheels of German
life must be started Igain. When these men reach Germany they are received with all the honors suitable
to returning heroes. They are inspired with the thought of one day redressing the balance and winning
back the fatherlands lot prestige Bui none of them want the kaiser back
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An Airplane on Runners
THIS airplane can land on a snowdrift, or hop 0ff
again at speed of (0 miles an hour. It i n aiTja
snow sled a flying machine on runners. Th ordinirv
plane of the Hying fields is equipped with w ;s
hydroplane with pontoons, but here is a flying Machine
on skiis.
FROM OUR READERS
Following the Bell-Wether
To Thk Editor: We are fast approaching the les
son of primary elections when nearly every mail will
bring circular letters from prospective candidates for
political office. We may expect to receive the time
honored letter from the man who in the opening para
graph makes the assertion that he has always voted
his party ticket. In the year 1920. this statement will
not carry the weight it has in former years. While the
intention is to get the good will of the voter, in many
cases it will have the opposite effect this year which
may be taken as a hopeful sign of the times. It is an
admission that he is labeled and owned by a political
party, a subservient follower and swallower of anything
and everything his party might perpetrate.
To him conformity is the highest of virtues It mat
ters not to him how good men or what good measures
may be connected with the opposing ticket, or what evil
men and bad measures may be connected with his ticket;
his political affiliation has been marked out i r him or
by him when he first became a voter, and to change, to
give any adherence to any man or measure put forth by
the opposing party, either in a local or a national elec
tion, would, to him, be little less than trea He is
part of the party and proposes to vote Straight under
all circumstances. He is entirely satisfied with his own
pasture, and it never occurs to him to look over the
fence and investigate whether there is anything better
in the next field. Not only is this his attitude, but he
boasts of it and hopes by this means to gain votes.
To him politics is a shrewd cunning that knows best
how to profit by the weaknesses of other nn n In the
past we all, like sheep, have been prone to follow some
bell-wether, irrespective of whether he is 'ding to
good pasture or into the wilderness. Too ma
have accepted our politics, our religion, our ideal d
right and wrong, ready-made; it is so much easier to
follow this course than to pursue a course our own
conscience has marked out, irrespective of th opffikffll
of others. It seems pleasanter to conform I the ideas
of the majority, or the moat influential oi who
happen to be of our own class, than to Sta out tor
ourselves and beat a new trail ; it gives i to leu
criticism; it causes less friction.
But when one carries this so far that h identity
himself soul and body with one particular rty. and
boasts of the fact that he has never voted ) othc
ticket, he is labeling himself as one to be led, not to
lead as one to be delivered at the poll by rm
political boss, and not as one to hold some i iiportant
office requiring character and decision; he derves the
support of no robust American citizen.
The line fences that divide the world into two
classes as my political party, my economic viewi all
rigni; ana tne other political parties, and coaxm
is perhaps the best substitute for thtnlrins but it tail'
i, oiiu mi oohi poiiueai parties, ami
views all wrong is all very well for small minds, a
lc tinrlin.M- 1 1-. U. a. L r .1 ' I . L.. . i it t3lK
, in,tr uie uesi suustituie lor iniuKing w i 11
to conform to our present ideals of true American
ciuzcnsntD. We are beginning to realize as never i
fore that such artificial fences do not have all sheep on
one side and all goats on the other. The good and
the evil are fairly mixed wherever we go.
A. L. Gilbert
Hiawatha, Kansas.
Madison's First-Born White Child
To Thk Ebukmu In vour issue of February 21 oc
curs a marked error of history. This excellent article
on Vinnie Ream, sculptress of Lincoln, says she wa
the first white child born in Madison- September jg
1847." As a matter of fact, Mrs. Koseline Peck, JJ'11
of Kben Feck, became the mother of a baby girl hert
on September 14, 1837, and this baby girl, now Mr
A. S. Hawley, of Delton, still lives. The Pecks wen
the hrst permanent white settlers of Madison. COflMns
m the spring of 1837. Their little log home was m
earliest boarding house at the future capital; a"a
that very home Vinnie Ream also was born, her tain .
Kobert L Ream, having succeeded Peck as ,4mi "Jt
W 1838. The structure was razed in 1857. after W
a notable history for twenty years. The Peck W)
"mcu w isconsiana victoria, in nonoi -
tori.- i,J .. L f i , ,..! t ht ri-
oi uir young r.ngnsn ijueen eruvu- -year
of the birth.
Mi Sincereli yours, , ,
Madison. Wisconsin ' Q. D. HrandenburK