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THURSDAY, JI.’NK «. !>l«
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Work and Obedience
Summed Up Gospel of
Kitchener, Man of Iron
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, more
l familiarly known as “K. of K.”. the man
of iron and relentless will, stern disciplin
■ arian, efficient organizer, who seemed to:
• the world at large more of a giant ma
chine than a man. lies dead somewhere
off the Orkney islands in the North sea,
victim of a more implacable machine than
even he could combat.
Leaving England when a very young;
man, to assist in a survey of Palestine.
> the Orient from that time seemed to
cUim him for its own, for, from then on.
most of his life was spent in voluntary
exile. Four years in Palestine were fol
[ lowed by another four-year survey of the
Island of Cyprus, after which Kitchener
•' began his career of 17 years in Egypt.
His first commission was that of com
f tnander of the Egyptian cavalry, later
he was with the Nile expedition and final
ly he was made adjutant general of the
1 Egyptian arm/.
It was through his Khartoum expedi
tion in 1898 that Kitchener became best
known to the world. Parliament recog
’nixed his services by raising him to the
| peerage and granting him 30,000 pounds.
L As chief of staff in the South African war
fat 1899-1900, and commander in chief of
tile army in India 1902-1909, he achieved
A notable position throughout Europe
•nd Asia and became a famous figure to
I America as well.
When the present war broke out he
tM in England on leave of absence,
l which the British parliament considered
A piece of rare good luck. He was made
secretary of war, a position he occupied
At his death.
Physically Lord Kitchener was a larjre
boned, ungainly figure, six feet, three 1
inches tall, with a brick red face in which
eyes of a steely intensity looked out up
on offenders with merciless justice.
His gospel was work and obedience and
he expected of others what he was scrup
ulously conscientious in rendering him
self. He was possessed of a grim, laconic
humor and, though he did not inspire
love, all men respected and trusted him.
There must have been another side to
his nature which he kept hidden, for
children were invariably fond of him and
would approach him without fear.
His nature was conservatively reli
gious. The first thing he did after kill
ing 11,000 Dervishes to avenge General
Gordon, was to hold a solemn service in
Khartoum; the next thing was to collect
funds for a college in which the sons of
the slain Dervishes could be educated.
To Kitchener is due the credit of end
ing the reign of Mahdism in Africa
and also the reconstruction of the Sou
dan. Though considered more of an or
ganizer and director than a soldier, he
could fight when occasion demanded it.
His ability to brush aside non-essentials
and red tape and arrive at the underly
ing principle of the situation, was one
yt his most valuable characteristics.
the opinion of the ma. ority he
? inserted, at the beginning of the present
war, that it would iast three or four years
and asked for men by million . He built
Up from practically nothing, an army of
4,000,000. His mind is *aid to have l*»en
a sort of compromise between the Irish
and the Asiatic, and, on account of his
long life in the Orient, it was felt by
tome that it would be better to place him
In Egypt where he could have charge of
the eastern end of the fighting for the
Allies.
There can be but one opinion as to
I<ord Kitchener’s faithful service to his
country, and he possessed to marked de
jpree those two qualities so dear to the
of the British people, bulldog per-
U&acity and pluck.
Schiff Will Continue
To lie a Mighty Good
Friend to His Race
j Jacob Schiff. known all over the worM
as a great financier and philanthropist,
has announced that he will no longer try
to help his people through the larger,
more effective moans ot legislation, but
will remove his endeavors from politics.
He made this declaration in the an
nual convention of the Kehillah, which
iis the Jewish community ot New \ork
!city, and he did it with much feeling
land regret.
So good an American is Mr. SchitT
that he stood against a movement of the
Jews to create an American Jctvi>h con
gress and also a resolution to have all
Jewish public meetings conducted in the
Yiddish tongue. In his opinion this
would cut off his people from the >\m
pathv and understanding of America and
they would become an alien factor in
American life, as they are in Russia and
Poland. He desired, above all things, to
have them public spirited and to throw
their influence with all civic and national
improvement; to become, in fact, part
of the warp and woof of American life
so that no discriminating laws against
them may ever be made.
Mr. Schiff has sought to bring pres
sure to bear upon the Russian govern
ment, through the government of the
United States, to oblige that country to
allow free enrance to the American Jew,
feeling that with that reciprocity the
Russian government could no longer pur
sue its present anti-Jewish policy of per
secution. His own people have not un
derstood and appreciated him and he,
therefore, withdraws his support and
will in the future help his fellowman
only as individuals and in a private ca
pacity.
Mr. Schiff is one of the greatest fig
ures in banking and railroad finance. He
reconstructed the Union Pacific in 1897,
and brought about the railroad “commu
nity of interests.” which did away with
an immense amount of loss and waste.
He helped float the Japanese loan in
1904-5 and was, later, decorated by the
Mikado for his part in the transaction.
He says that but for the United States
Japan must inevitably have lost in the
war with Russia.
In 1908, he attempted to place all
Jews that came to this country in posi
tions where they could gain a living, and
with that end in view had them land at
[Galveston and thence scattered them
throughout the west. He is a firm be
liever in unrestricted immigration and is
quoted as saying: “The worker in the
tenement who has hardly learned to un
derstand our language, but who toils by
day to earn a mere pittance, does more
to add to the greatness of the metropo
lis than the native-born millionaire who
drives his four-in-hand in Central park.”
Conditions of surplus labor will only be
temporary he thinks, and will speedily
adinst thprnsfdves.
Jacob SchifT holds to the old Mosaic
law that a man must give a tenth of his
income to charity. He has founded a
chair in social economics in Columbia
university and given several scholarships
for this subject. He instituted a Semitic
chair in Harvard and presented a build
ing for its use. He has given to the
New York library the largest collection
of Jewish literature in the world. He
has founded the Montefiore Home for
Chronic Invalids, the Jewish Theological
seminary, and is an officer or member of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, Metropolitan Museum of Art and
each of the twelve Jewish charity so
cieties in New York citv. All municipal
reform movement 1 in that city are sup
ported by Jacob SchifT.
r~ “ i
l! From Another Point ot View
Troubles of the Rich
j “Shad 1 put up anew office building
or go out t»> the fair g ounds this morning
and put the money into a Holstein-
Freisian calf?"
* * •
Situation momTng of the second day:
Hughes hr. trie votes. Roosevelt the
throats.
W W *
Senator Harding did not <ound a key
note, lie just a ked with great eloquence
to have the k<\\ returned to the former
occupant.
• * •
The Progressive convention makes it
easy for the temporary chairman. Ho
mentions T. R.’s name and goes back to
attend to his morning mail urt ' ’he
cheering stops
• * *
The \ ell Record
Rep. 1008
Dem. 1008
Pro. 1916
• • •
But. after all, it is the noisoUv- votes
in Noveml>cr that furnish the big demon
stration.
y* * * *
It was out shortest summer.
. ' • •
The Detroit 111 will house 600
for four dq&s. That will help some.
DETROIT TIMES
Our Boyhood Ambitions.
HAVF OTB«C£PTIW. I ' S ' ■"'N
ally snappy clothe* amp escort nee fir C \
PACK.To ►ft* MATIV/F XEMIA.OHIO Vs __ / ll) '
WHERE NC" WOULP FSR4PC MEK. UP /ft
PtTROiT Street amp all akoumP j \ /
TOvajM FlAUhTihCr HfK PtA<j Ty - (
BCFORE ALLTHC WHO HAD OMCC / s ( } 1
SPUI2MEP Hls VOUMCr S. \J l
*>o wamtepto ye leading- \ l J \ y//
A vicious look-i/mg-fno-uSm Bulldog- f \ ] /
VOCILHAVeh AMitER KlnOOflM COMfIE <*!--' f /yy^
02 Some Such moukk.eiz.
svmAt a-a' vou a ? fCopvngnt. »<)i6, H H 1 Wetater ) .
Let the People Rule--and Write
Gives Hint* to Would-Be Orator*
f>> thr fditor its Tha Times:
Our school boys and girls should
know that the chief fault# among
the speakers In the city oratorical
contest* were not using enough vo
cal power, poor gestures, not enough
variety of expression and speaking
too fa# r .
Parents can help to correct such
mistakes, and those who have chil
dren possessing ability as public
speakers should by all means en
courage the young people to d**vejop
their powers, because It means lead
ership in life. In the seven con
tests recently held, four of the win
ners were boy* less than 13 years
HEALTH MEANS DOLLARS.
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE
Author of The Riddle of Personality “Psychology and Parenthood." etc.
There are many reasons why all
of us should study the wavs of
healthy livlnir Not the least Im
portant reason Is found In the rela
tion *ha» exists between health and
the gaining of our livelihood.
It might be supposed that every
body would recognize this and would
learn to live well. But actually only
a small percentage of people pay
due attention to the laws of per
sonal hygiene.
Sorue people, to he sure, give too
much thought to the question of
health. They are forever fussing
about their health, and live in per
petual and Irrational dread of dis
ease. Indeed, they may actually
make themselves 111 by their mor
bid fear of illness
So much do they think about their
well-being that they have little time
to think of their work. Necessar
lly, even If they are so lucky as to
e«r«pe a nervous breakdown, they
work Inefficiently and thereby keep
their income below- wha f it ought
to be
But most people are r.of unduly
concerned as to their health Where
most people err Is t* thinking that
they ran work at a high efficiency
rate w ithout taking prop* r rare of
themselves.
And to take proper care o' one ■
self Involve** much more than »h»-
mere avoidance of reckless dissipa
tion in the wav of drinking, sexual
excesses, etc. This I* is that mo-'
of us overlook
We may be total abstainers from
alcohol, we may lead morally clean
lives. Nevertheless in unsuspected
ways we lessen our earnlngeapa* ,t>
by violating the law -of right living
Ope great fault Is to forget, or
remain In ignorance of. the funda
mental truth that everything which
hs« a bad effect on our internal
physical proeessea ha- likewise a
bad effect on our power to think.
Steam Presses Hay.
A plant in Philadelphia for »he
ompr*s*lon of hay for the allies
u.ts suddenly confront'd by the Wm?
of Its electrical power John II
Irvin, the owner, promptly bought a
locomotive built in installed
It In hla factory, and Is now running
I,ls machines by steam power.
old. proving that the time to train
public speakers while they are
young One man who, at first, felt
much embarrassed to get up before
an audience afterward made more
than on the lect ire p.at
form. A sucees;«ful speaker mils’
have something good to say, and
know- how to say it Good public
speaking Is in demand, and the In
terest of school puptls has been in
creased by these city contests. As
director of the Detroit Oratorical as
sociation I have been notified that a
number of clubs not represented in
the recent competitions will have
their best public speakers In the
next series
WILLIAM H BOLLES.
No. 32') Warren ave west. June 7.
1»1«.
We may not make the mistake of
poisoning ourselves with rum. But
too many of us do make the mistake
of poisoning ourselves with over
rich and overabundant food
We keep the toxin of alcohol from
our brain. But we are not careful
to keep from it the toxins produced
by excessive eating
We let theae course through our
blood to reach and weaken the dell
- a’e cells of our thinking apparatus
We avoid the germ infections to
which all expose themselves who
indulge in loose sexual relation*
Yet often we needlessly work amid
dust and dirt laden w-ith equally
deadly infection.
We would shudder at the thought
of spending a night in the stifling
atmosphere of a gambling hell. But
week in and week out we cheerfully
work and sleep in quarters that are
little better ventilated.
Then, again. many of us err
through forgetting, or never know
ing. tha» thinking ability is rond!
tinned by the quality of the bloods
circulation, and that this in turn Is
largely conditioned by bodily ex
rrr i «r*
We live in street car. office chair,
and <d letting our muscles grow
flabby, (i ir circulation slow.
And a per a time we flnd nur
se 1v e h w undering why our power *o
par *n reason, to remember, to
execute, j* not as good as It used
to be.
These are only a few of the com
monest errors in personal living
hahi*s.
They are errors that Impair our
be nit they are errors that dimin
i-h our ♦ tficlenry, they are error
tha' 1-cep us or make us p*>or in
pur«e
I .earn to avoid them. Tomorrow.
»he fir- ♦ thing, buy yourself a hand
book on personnl hygiene. It will
not cos* much and is sure to prov -
• splendid investment
______________________ !
Frisco Builds a Theater.
ii
The nev* San Franrlsco. rebuilt
from i*« fir** and reimbursed by it
fair. I to add a opera
house- to the extensive t tvi* center
now projected, the strut turn to t»e
butlt by private capital and ultl
rnately to revert to the city Ail
academy of music may be affiliated
with the opera
—By Webster.
Want* Council Proceeding* Where
He Can See Them.
T<-> th* r'lt tor or The Tt mi’i:
I < Hp the following from a recent
edition of the iHfrott New*
All doubt Ail to Thr I**ll pnwr of
th- orrmon rounoll t,. award the city
printing contract t-> tc* Detroit
I.*Ril New* an>l thereby save • 0*»
.> v * r la.«t year’a printir * bill ha* be»-n
*nded by an opinion of Harry J
l’ i.*p‘man, rp >ratlon couneel
Citing th* derision of the eupreme
court of M -ht*an In the ruee of
Lynch n ennaf Durf**. an opinion
ban t»d town in 183 1. Mr. Din acm an
hold* that the r,«-*al New* lea new*,
paper within the meaning of the law
The eupreme court In the ca*e cit»d
held that the \Vn\ne County t.e*al
New* tea* A new-*; aper. empowered to
print probate proceeding* The De
troit Legal New* le the eucceaeor of
tb» IVjviic tunfy Legal New*, the
nrganixatl n and po|i< > being the
same
‘There I* not' nr ’n the charter
reuniting the *r al n*w*pap*r to be
one that publ ehe* lo al *oe»ip or
n*wa,’ eald Mr Mnt*m»n ‘Legal
new* I.* new* to *nme persons. Ju*t
a* war <>r divorce new* I* new* to
«11her* The opl> .pi* .11 n t at inuld
art** on th< g-mt of the . .ntra. t to
tb* N’eyy * * that in v ■ Ived by
the Aped float p n that the r. jn<il pro
ceeding# muet be published in a
newspaper having a home * llttnn
That, I shall advise the council c m.
mittee, |s a rjuesti n • f fa t to he de
termined by It p,-". f <-an be pr*-
• «nfed by evidence that some copies
of the Detroit I>>fcral News are sent
to homes of the subscriber# ’
That man la surely an optimist,
who, with this interpretation of the
words “a home edition" before him
hopes for a government for the pro
pie here In [Detroit.
That the extract from the col
umns of the News is a very Indif
ferent grade of piffle, j* obvious,
but so, also, are many other mat
ters obvious in this city, obvious to
every one except rhe voter, and he
seem* not to realize that it Is worth
many time* $20,000 to him to have
the council proceeding* before him
at night when he has time for peru
sal. without having to subscribe
for a paper for which he ha* no
Other use
Twenty thousand dollars for 110,
r >ou taxpayers, le-s than 20 cents a
year to keep a householder posted
on the expenditure of 114.000.000
of his money. I>oe# any one serl
ously believe that there !§ a tax
payr in this town who would will
ingly and knowingly forego this op
portunity to Inform himself, and
keep himself Informed on matters
t.f vital interest to himself and f arn
ily to «ave 20 cents a year 7
Hut as usual the voter will not
wake up until the day after. Still
maybe, this year, having been told
so often that the servants he elect
ed la-f "are supreme/’ that he cut*
no ice. that he f* n have what he
wants If he j* careful to want what
the aforesaid servants are willing
to let him have—maybe this year
he Will yawn, stretch himself and
wake from his dream of security the
day before Here'* hoping
FRKD V. OHKNAI KK
Detroit, June 7, 191$
Window Bn PfttltQW
Among the suggestions that have
been advanced for the liurea-e of
flu- food supply In Germany In one
In which the beautiful will he made
to give way to the prarfiral Merlin
an I other German cities ate noted
for the <nthn*ia*m with which the
wom»n engage m the cultivation of
flowers and In this cultivation the
window boxes are made to pixy an
Itiiimrtant part in the beauty of
bloom and the graceful trailing
vines If U now proposed that these
window l*oxe* ahull lie given over
to the growing of potutoe*.
The Daily Reminder
TOUAI’I AV\IYICIISAHIEV
1110—Hubert Alexander Schumann.
fniiu.ui* composer, born In Haxony.
Died near Dunn, July 23. I*sß.
1814 -Charles Iteuvle. famous Klig-
Itsh uovelist. born. Died April 11.
iim
I.XJS -F'lrat death by cholera In
Noith America occurred at Quebec.
1645 —Andrew Jackson, seventh
president of th* I’nlted States, died
at Ur imi la* *. Trim Horn in Meck
lenberg. N. 0., March 15. 1T67,
18 4 8 -Henry Dodge und laaao I*.
Walker were elected the Aral IT.l T . H.
senators from Wisconsin
185* Emperor of ttie French and
Kina <>f Sardinia entered Milan
1861 Proclamation Issued l>> Tex
as tost a state of war existed
10611—The Federal# under Oen Fre
mont engaged a part of “Stonewa'l"
Jackson'» command at t'rosa Keya.
Va . with Indecisive results
1864 Many Fenlana fi*d from Dan
adu because of the suspension of the
habeas corpus act.
1666—The parliament of Panada
was opened for the first time In the
new buildings at Ottawa
1867- Kmperor Francis Joseph was
crowned king of Hungary at Bud*-
Peath.
1871—The Multan of Turkey Issue 1
a proclamation rendering the Khe.
dive of Kg) pt practically Independ
ent.
1881—rtt Kev Cyrus F Knight.
Episcopal b *hop of Milwaukee, dl*d
In Milwaukee Born at Marblehead.
Mass., March £6, 16S1
l’JOi Dissolution of the union be
tween Sweden and Norway was pro
rla’n.ed by the Norwegian parlia
ment.
ONE YEAR 600 TODAY l\ THE
W AH
Italians occupied M >nfa! an*
Hermans reported they ha t reach* 1
a point *5 miles northeast of I’rse
raysl.
Austria withdrew forces from Ca
li o!* to stop the Italian*
Italian attacks br night on great
battle along the Isonso river
Berl n declared Kumanla had de
dined an offer of the Allies to join
them
Secretary of State Brian resigned
because of difference# w‘th President
Wilson over the terms of the note to
Germany.
TODAY’"* BIRTHDAY a
William W i'anad.i Inlted States
consul at Vei t i'r is. born in I.an
• llpti county. Indiana. 66 years ago
today.
John Q A Pra.-kett. former gov*r
noi • f Massachusett * b. rn at Brad
fold. N 11. 74 >*ir* ago today.
Kev. Dr Samuel Simps n M«ruii'_«
noted sociologist and dean of S’
Paul * athedril. Detroit, bom at
Sharon, Oh'o, years a*. !■ •!.,>•
t’yru* A Sulloway. representative
In congress the First New Httrop
shire district, born at Graft- n, N II .
7 7 years -:g > today
Glare nee H De Mar celebrated
Boston long-distance runner >inl
Olympic contestant, b rn at Medina,
Ohio, 28 je.tr* ag > I- day.
A a Day
i
\\ II A TEA EH I I \ K*—Mt*T DIE
We know b V the flower* th.lt wither
By the grasses blea hed and stale.
By .» leg,, n leave* d'-wn dropping
And summer growing pair.
Whatever men ms\ tell us
Wheth-r th*v s.ng or ***h.
As trulv a* • me 1* fleet in «:
W hat ever live* must die!
By the springtime faded garland*.
And the auturrry'a >«-llow leave*.
B> tt;e l 1> bleg n„ inn '*.
And the dr> and rustling sh* ive*
By the shadows lnn*r grow im
And the sh ling light on high.
We school ourselves t*> t' * !> *-on
\Yhat*v*r lives must die’
On the virgin brow of chdlbood.
And the wrinkled cheek of >«’•
\Ae trace the **|f-*nrn* mninlng.
Plainly a* print*. 1 p.ig*.
However long we labor
11 owe ve r » O l!1 r, ( tr y
We see that death 1- th- *• juel -
Whatever live* m ..*t *lle’
In the rod hearts of the Ts -e«.
In the Illy < tefit ,f whit'
The legend Is clearer written
Than m> rtal pen .mil I wr te.
And exermor* fr->m n 'ur«
Goes up <x constant cry.
An infinite admonition
W hat ever i.ve* mu«t die’
%
ANT * h h'gher than human purpose,
God wrought h.* perfe.t ; , n .
And ord* r< and ' iku i;ii -.ns
Bv rul»* unknown to man
\rd though our fate snail find i*
With a ->mll* or with • s ah.
Still the edict line* not #lte|
Whatever lives must d>’
But. Still, while lo«« 1* bitter.
And toll and trouble strains.
To i-heer our fainting *p!rlt*
One g‘|den truth remains;
The everlasting promise
rtsf Jesus came f . give
"Wh' Si believeth f>n Me
"l hough he were ilead ■ *hall live"'
Arthur f)oodenut|gh.
fainted Paragrraphs
And a short anxwer turneth awa>
friends
He's a fool lawyer who will quote
poetry to a Jury
Orator* who deal largely in quo
tations apeak volumes.
Fast friends should he flow to
speak 111 of each other.
A good talker In pleased when he
encounters a good listener.
Give some women time and they’ll
turn info gaudy butterflies.
A ntan with one idea Is sometimes
worse than a man with no Idea at
all.
Poverty enables a man to save a
lot of money hy not having It to
spend.
A patient usually has more rnnfl
denre in his doctor than the latter
has In himself.
A barber sometimes combs a
man’s hair as the man combs It
himself, but a tonsorlal nrtlst never
does.
When yon see a pretty domestic
in a home It’s a sure aign that the
head of the family isn't henpecked
The golden Jubilee enctmpment
of the Minnesota G. A. K op* n* to
day in Minneapolis.
The Old Gardener Says
That beautiful floaer h« d* may
he made with the dwarf roses'
known as baby ramblers. These
form shapely, compact bushes
usually less than two feet high
and are exceedingly generous
with their dainty blooms all the
season through Mnby Dorothy
Perkins and the white baby rain
bier are two of the best sorts
and a bed roses will
make the possessor envied of all
the neighbors. Kven the enm
non rambler can b» obtained In
this dwarf form.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1916
The Encyclopedia Habit.
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright, 1915, by Frank Crane)
A man’s library .should grow with his
lilt’. His books are like the flesh he puts
on; and some men are too fat, and others
too lean.
He should constantly add to his books,
and quite as steadily eliminate books.
Some books are to be borrowed, or
taken from a library, for you only want
to see them once. Such are not really
books; they are bound periodicals. In
this class are almost all fictions, books
“of the day,” books in vogue with the
mob, best sellers, and sensations.
Other books, and they are not many,
you want to keep. They become part of
your being. You mark them, go back
to them, they are as old companions.
Os these books your library should be
made.
And of these books the first and chief
is a good encyclopedia.
The encyclopedia is the corner stone of
she library. It underlies, supports, com
plements all other books.
An encyclopedia is not the product of
one man’s genius; it is the finished ut
terance of the human race, it is the
verdict of civilization, it is the oracle of
this present century.
To consult it is to consult mankind.
The encyclopedia is the one book you
cannot afford not to own.
It costs something; it cannot be
boug!it for the price of the latest thriller,
but when you buy it you do not buy a
cigarette to enjoy a minute and throw
away, but a jeucl to wear your life long.
As with other things, so with books,
the cheapest often the dearest.
I unhesitatingly say that if I were a
young man, whether a clerk, a salesman,
a farmer, a mechanic, or engaged in one
of the professions as a lawyer, physician,
teachc r, or preacher, I would own a good
encyclopedia if 1 had to go without lunch
every day and wear a shiny coat.
It is a luxury for which one may well
do without some necessities.
It is the mind’s wife, a comfort in
I leisure hours, a standby in a crisis, an
insurance of virtue.
For any man’s intellect, I care not
: whose, is crippled without this mute and
'myriad-minded friend at his elbow.
(let the encyclopedia habit.
In other words, be a superior man.
The superior man is the one who is
i not sloppy minded, as the crowd always
is. He challenges facts. He does not
!accept the ipse dixits of the loud and
j positive. He looks things up.
He knows. He does not take things
for granted. That does not mean he is a
pedant, crammed full of ready statistics,
parading his fancy hits of information.
The sure-footed mind is not the one
that knows things, it is the one that
knows where to lind things.
The person with the encyclopedia habit
loes not carry in his head all knowledge;
but be has the key to the storehouse, he
knows right where to go to get what he
needs.
And, other things being equal, success
is the reward of the man who is sure of
his facts.
There are other books it is well to
have, books that are entertaining, use
ful. and of cultural value; but there is
no book you must have, that is equally
essential to the college president and the
stniggling wage earner, except the en
velope dia.
PH VS INDEX NUMBER
In of tlif raplfllt) an*l extent of thr nwv*.
mrnt, !♦ is not surprising that Advance* In com
modify price* are now Icp* striking than pro
vlouxly. Contrary to exportations and predic
tion* In some quarters, the general trend of
wholesale quotation* continue# upward. Dun*
Index Number, which make* proper allowance
for th<* relative Importance of the many article#
entering into consumption, being tH*"..!!)* on
VI iv l, against $147. <l9O a month earlier a gain
of 4 per cent. During March there was a ri#e
of 2*. per cent; In February, owing to the re
ceshlon In bieadstuff#. n slight decline occurred,
while In January the total went up .14 per cant.
A year ago the tendency was toward higher
|ev"< I*. but then the Index was only $126,649, and
an am tint I, It 14, It waa 1120,740 Tima, the
present figure# represent an extreme advance
of full*- 21 per rent, stn'r the outbreak of tha
war and hp- the highest attained In a great
; many years.
A# usually happen# at thl* season, dairy and
garden product# fell to a lower plane last
month, the total ree ding from $21,256 to $20,633,
a* a result y»f cheaper butter, potatoes and cer
tain vegetable#, Thi*. however, was the
only flask'show Inga decline, the trend else
where continuing upward The most notice
able advance wa* In meat# and provisions, the
total of which.'plainly bemuse of dearer beef,
pork, hogs and lard, from sl4 166 to $14,611.
! Among the breadstuff#, wheat was the only
! staple reaching lower levels and this recession
was slightly more than offset by the strength In
rorn. barley, rve, bean# and peas, while the
1 group embraelng other food again went higher.
1 rhlefly on account of the rise in sugar and rof.
i fee. Those who rerenM\ forecast the end of the
advance in ni«4als have been confronted with a
further upwujd revision of prices. nr! the eloth-
I Ing division, comprising both the raw material#
and finished product#, ha* added considerable to
( previous gains. Among the many miscellaneous
articles. Including' Jumhcr. building materials,
drugs and chcmlcal-4, etc, the movement of quo.'
tatlons last mon'h **? ittfegular. but the net
result was H slight rise. Ihoiirli the total is still
a trifle hejow the high pomt of March l.—|>un'«
Review.