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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1914.
It is well to moor your bark with
two anchors.
-Publius Syrus.
Great men are not always wise.
-Job.
PROSECUTING PARENTS
The National League for Compul
sory Education, in session in Detroit
yesterday, discussed several things
and struck a keynote when a speaker
declared that parents, not children,
should be brought to book in truancy
eases. William L Bodine, superin
tendent of compulsory education, in
Chicago, declared the recently initiat
ed schools for parents are a great
force for good. Mr. Bodine, according
to an Associated Press summary, sees I
"a noticeable interest in sub-normal
children" He said:
"The parents should be given proper
training to overcome this problem and
if they do not benefit accordingly we
should prosecute the parents more and
the children less. In the higher edu
cation of the children let us get at
the lower education of the parents."
Mr. Bodine also urged that the
league go on record as favoring the
expansion of the powers of juvenile
courts so that parents instead of chil
dren, be put on probation in cases of
the violation of compulsory education
laws.
"This convention should announce
its opposition to corporal punishment,"
Mr. Bodine continued, "I believe in
moral supplication and not in mental
application."
Educators are going to the roots of
things. It was remarked in this same
session that our lax marriage laws are
partly responsible for the increasing
per cent of defective youth. When
drunkards and lunatics breed, it was
said, the nation must not wonder at
the result.
All of these theories, of course, are
very fine, and the discussion can hurt
no one. Yet, economic difficulties lie
at the bottom of most of our ills and
we shall eliminate defectives and cut
down the per cent of drunkards and
lunatics only when we make the bat
tie of life a trifle less hard.
THE PLUCKY SERVIANS
Servia, with Belgium the chief vic
tim thus far, fights pluckily on-al
most alone. Just why Russia, which
has a superabundance of men, does
not contrive to get some of them to
Nish, it is hard to understand. Thus
far, despite reputed Russian victories,
the allies have failed to detract Aus
tria's attention from the Servian cam
paign. The Servians may suffer crush
ing and irretrievable defeat any hour.
And Veeya goes marching on-like
J. B.'s soul.
The British will cut the kaiser off
from his tea; but too many other
things suit the kaiser to a T, just
now-so he'll, not worry.
Better steel bumpers are new being
used on cars on American railways.
Which is fitting and proper, because
an increasing per cent of Americans,
when traveling, are obliged to recline
on bumpers.
Napoleon tried a winter campaign
and died on St. Helena.
The British government allows a
soldier's wife 10 shillings a week; a
soldier's widow nine. This is a funny
world.
Nations, like individuals, are swayed
by trlfles. Be prepared to see reac
taon prevail tor awhile
WHAT HAS BSCOME OF IT?
Now that election is over,.it might be well to inquire what
has become of the $125,000 appropriated by congress two
years ago, for the construction of the federal court house
at Missoula.
This appropriation was made before our democratic
friends took over the administration of national affairs.
The sessions of the federal court in Missoula are being
held in rented quarters, with meagre accommodations for
the work of the court.
The plans for the new court house called for a three-story
addition, forty feet wide, the full length of the present fed
eral building. The upper story was to have been given over
for additional quarters for the forestry headquarters, which
are sadly in need of additional room.
The rents now being paid for court accommodations and
additional quarters for the forestry employes would twice
over pay the interest on the amount appropriated for the
construction of the new building.
We hope this $125,000 will not get lost in the shifting of
accounts at Washington.
Now that Montana has again returned a solid democratic
congressional delegation to Washington, "to help carry out
the plans of the Wilson administration," we sincerely trust
that the plans of the administration that we heard of so
frequently in the recent campaign will also include the ar
chitect's plans for the addition to the federal building at
Missoula.
WHAT LIFE MEANS TO ME
A recent interview with Mrs. Hiram Maxim, the wife'of
the great inventor, contains much of the whole philosophy
of life.
It is well worth the consideration 'of the man or woman
who sometimes may have reached the conclusion that life
is not worth living.
Mrs. Maxim says:.
Life means to me a very sharp race with time for hap
piness, which consists in the exercise of all those faculties
put most to use in the doing of best work.
The here and the now are all I can be sure of, and I must
plan to utilize every hour to the best advantage. I want
to love and to be loved; I want to work and to play; I want
to build the best I can with the materials I have.
I once told Mr. Maxim, when he was complaining about
something gone awry, "If you are not happy now, you
never will be." He has taken his revenge by springing this
sentence on me whenever I am worrying or fretting, and it
always does me good. Since we cannot control the past I
do not believe in regrets. We should use our mistakes to
shape the future, and today is the future of yesterday.
Most of us are too apt to forget to be thankful that we
are alive and well and able to work. After all, what more
can we ask? Who was it that said, "Half the joy of life is
in little things taken on the run"?
To my mind the helpfulest little aphorism I have ever
seen is this one, which I keep always on the wall of my
own sanctum: "Find your happiness in your work, for it is
the only real happiness you will ever know."
It is in our work, more than in anything else, that we are
able to express ourselves. This still holds true, even though
by environment our work may often" be more restricted,
more mechanical, less constructive and less world-moving
than that of which we feel we are worthy and capable.
On the Spur of the Moment
By ROY K MOULTON.
Turkey in de Tree.
Turkey roostin' in de tree,
Happy as a bird kin he;
Gettin' fed up on de best,
Life with him is but a jest.
He ain't got no work to do;
Has de laugh on me an' you.
All he does is set aroun',
(.it de best what kin be foun'.
He am treated lak a king,
Feels so joyous he kin sing.
Turkey roostin' in de tree,
Gittin' fat as fat kin be.
He ain't got a single care,
Don't see no cloud anywhere.
Everything am comin' right;
Bill of fare is out of sight.
F'olks come 'round jest to admire
His fine shape an' he don' tire
Of their adulations loud,
An' he sure enjoys de crowd.
Turkey roostin' in de tree,
lDoes not know de joke's on he.
In a sho't time, Ah expect,
He gwine git it in de neck.
Livin' easy, satisfied,
Dis yere bird has lots of pride,
Pride what goes befo' a fall,
Pride what is made up of gall.
He gwine git it, dat am sho',
Lak a lot of folks Ah know.
Uncle Abner.
The only fellers in this world who
really know anything about the war
in Europe are the fellers who are di
recting the thing, and it sometimes
scems as though they didn't know
\cry much about it themselves.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned mothers who used to have a jar
of fresh doughnuts standing in the
cupboard?
'.'here are some towns where the
ouly excitement a feller kin have is
saving cigar coupons and reading the
premium lists.
If some of those Russian generals
would cut a few sections off from
their vestibule names they would get
into the papers oftener.
Old Pete Spivvins has put on his
felt boots and will not take 'em off
intil next spring. This is taken to
indicate for sure that the pleasant
weather is over for 1914.
Elmer Spink says he expects to lay
aside his Palm Beach outfit as soon
as he kin sell enough crayon portraits
to buy a good $7 suit. It looks as
though he might have to wear the
Palm Beaches all winter.
The Ladies' Aid of the Hard Shell
church expect to hold an oyster supper
at the parsonage next Saturday even
in.g. Hank Tumms says "an oyster"
is right.
A friend is the worst kind of a fel
low to borry money from.
Lem Higgins' oatmobile broke down
and he looked in the book to see what
was the matter with it. The book
said, "Tickle the carburetor valve," but
Hank said he didn't want to make his
catmobile laugh, he wanted to make
it go.
The Reverse Side.
This "brown October" poetry is grow
ing flat and stale;
This Robin Hoodish bunk about the
brown October ale.
The poets have for many years sung
praises to the fall,
But I for one cannot quite see this
autumn stuff at all.
The "harvest moon" may be all
right; it may be pert and cute;
It only means to me that ma must
have a new fall suit.
'The golden leaves are pretty, but they
don't enthrall my soul;
They simply mean that I must go and
spend my dough for coal.
This beauteous haze of autumn days
is sung in metered tome,
It means that I must go and buy
storm windows for my home.
' he golden punlpkins are all right,
but still they get my goat,
Reminding me that I must go and
steal an overcoat.
SIEGE OF PRZEMYSL
IS NEARING CLOSE
Paris, Nov. 20.-A dispatch from
Petrograd says:
"It is announced here that the siege
of Przemysl appears to be rapidly ap
rroaching its end. The trenches sur
rounding the fortifications are in the
irasession of the Russians. Many of
the trenches are filled with lime, con
firming statements of prisoners that
cholera is raging in the garrison of
Pa'zemyal."
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WAR
War, and the hell of it!
Blood, and the smell of it!
Pity to tell of it,
Yet it is true;
Boasted humanity,
(.hanged to insanity,
Greed, itst, and va.ity
Seekie,; their du-.
Sweep' of the rushing hordes,
HorrOrs ,oo deep for words,
Every dark day affords
tllmpses of Hades;
Clasped hands assuder rent,
Foul crimes with murder blent,
Blood of the innocent
Bathing their blades.
Treasuress of priceless worth
Shattered and dashed to earth,
Harvest hopes turned to dearth
All in a breath.
Homes rendered desolate,
Loved ones disconsolate,
1Doomed to a darker fate,
Often, than death.
Sound of the chapel bell
rDrowned by the screaming shell,
Terrors no tongue can tell
Sicken the heart;
Demons in human form
O'er the scodrged country swarm,
Launching the leaden storm
Proud of their art. '
War, and the blaze of it!
Blood, and the craze of it!
Every dark phase of it
rears to the soul!
God of the Universe,
Stay thou the blighting curse,
Bid the black clouds disperse,
Cease, the dread toll!
-Mortimer Craine Brown.
WHOLESALE MURDER
-LAID TO GERMANS
London, Nov. 20.-The Belgian com
mission of inquiry into the alleged Ger
man violation of the laws and cue
tome has issued another lengthy re
port which was published today by the
British' official bureau. The report
says that more than 660 persons si.hr
shot by the Germans in the village of
Tamines.
Referring in detail to this alleged
massacre, the report describes how a
group of between 400 and 460 men were
collected in front of the village church.
As shooting them down with rifles
proved too slow, German offioers or
dered up a machine gun and those not
killed by bullets from this weapon were
finished with bayonet thrusts.
According to the report, more than
700 of the inhabitants of .Dinant were
killed. Eighty-four of thes .Wre shot
to death on the publi1lqMtiare and 50
others outside of a chureh, from which
they were driven by the Germans.
The report alleges that more than
1,000 similar executions have 6~durred`
in the province of Lxe.mbeuY r
OFAR
HE DESCRIBES FIEROE FI4HT AT
CHALONS-SAYS .ZOUAVEB
ARE REAL TERRORS
(Associated Press Correbpondence.)
karis.--The Attenblatt of Stock-
holm prblishes a letter 'from a Ger
man officer to a. friend in Sweden
giving the following impressions of an
engagement near Chalons during the
battle of the Marne.
"In the neighborhood of Chalons I
took part in the most terrible battle
that I have ever seen; 1 was, how
ever, at Liege, at Namur and at
Longwy . ... .. . Since
it was impossible for our artillery to
silence the French batteries, we de-,
cided to charge, thinking the French
and English would fly before the Ger
man bayonet; the experience proved
that our ideas on that subject were
entirely erroneous.
"Two of our regiments were ordered
to take the allies' position by storm.
The French, however, were ready to
receive us and there ensued such a
butchery-as never was seen in this or
any other war. A detachment of
French concealed among the trees
threw themselves on us. They were
mostly turcos and zouaves4 strong
devils against whom it is impossible
to fight. A souave, vith a gun, bayo
net,fixed, is the mopt infernal thing
that can be described.
"Savage cries of pain and of anger
resounds through the wood. A great
many men fell there and saturated the
ground with blood. Soon the French
artillery came into action and its pro
jectiles completed the work of the
bayonet. Our men beat a retreat at
full speed across the wood now in
flames. Those who had escaped the
bayonet fell under the rain of bullets
and lay burning in the thickets. Only
60 men of my regiment returned. Of
the other only 11 came back, and of
the 71 survivors, all were more or less
grievously wounded.
"I followed the campaign in Man
churia, but think in the course of the
five days of the battle of the Marne,
more victims fell than were counted in
the battles of Mukden and of Liao
Yang."
Another evidence of the murderous
character of the fighting in this bat
tle is furnished by a French soldier's
letter published by the Depeche de
Toulouse. "We have been fighting for
three weeks to the east of Verdun
in the region of the Tournon, Geni
court and Saint Mediel forests," he
wrote. "We advance, but very slowly
because the "boches" (Germans) are
strongly entrenched. For ten days
we occupied trenches only 400 yards
from theirs, and they did all that .was
humanly possible to break through.
They charged as many as ten times a
day and at night they tried to ap
proach by creeping along the ground.
But all their assaults were repelled
with great slaughter; 3,000 German
bodies were left in front of our
trenches.
"After every repulse each "of our
men grabbed two or three mausers
with ammunition from the bodies of
the dead and stood them alongside in
the trenches, and when the enemy
came back he was received by fire
from his own weapons.
"To guiard against surprise at night,
we took all the empty beef cans, tied
them to a cord and piled them so that
when the Germans came creeping to
ward our lines and the cord was
touched, they made noise to give the
alarm. One night when the cans rat
tled, we replied with immediate vol
leys and there was no more disturbance
that night. In the morning we count
ed five hundred dead Germans lying
on the ground within a hundred yards
of the trenches.
LANCES INTEREST.
(Correspondence of Associated Press.)
Manchester, England.-"Among the
most interesting of the war trophies
that have found their way over here,"
says the Manchester Guardian, "are
some specimens of the Gbrman lance.
It is not a wooden pole, but an 11 or
12 foot steel tube. It is very heavy and
at firstt sees quite unamanageable
to a man of ordinary strength. But
two-thirds of the way down from the
head toward the butt is a wrapping of
Ithick twine to give a grip. And if you
hold it there, and there only, you find
,that it is so evenely poised that, as
one admiring observer remarked, you
could write your name with it.
"There have been some descriptions
of cases where these tubular lances
;have crumpled up in action like an
loverburdened steel mast on a racing
yacht. Perhaps that may be accounted
for by the peculiar shape of the head.
There is no point or spear head of any
kind. Instead, there is a solid piece of
iron shaped exactly like the end of a
giant poker, square and quite blunt."
An Austrian fire department Is try
Ing out a fire epgina that, though
drawn by horses, is operated by elec
tricity taken from any convenient
source through a cable carried by the
engine for the purpose . y.a.i
Mls. Wiltof oashil ledt .
is lfamed .e world re dver
. mandeTd.
Sre n former year
rmon m.h"ta lting t the President'o
,Ehristmae Cake, usng Cualumet
oBaking Powder
e .Mrs. Wilson's Baking Motto ison
To have complete success with
·ne failures, ae shoudi bre used
i adlection of Baking Powder."
BAKING POWDER
Some little time ago I made a careful sw4 and mine ation of the
baking powder ei.bject and I feel fully repaid. I am firmlny convinced
from the results I have received' that there is no baking powder to
equal Calumet for wholesomeness and economy. and I also reconnmend
Calmnet Baking Powder for its never failing results.
December 9, 1913. Mrs. Betty Lyler Wilson.
Calumet also received the Highest Awardi at the World' Pure Feed
Euposalon. Chicago and Pauls, France, 1912.
When our lady representative calls, let her prove to you the
purity, wholesomeness and economy of Calumet Baking
S,
"Powder. lte real merit will int erest yo.
SOME SIMPLE LESSONS IN NATIONAL FINANCE
(By George H. Benedict).
W9 are learning some interesting fi
nancial lessons from the war, and
those of us, who never paid much at
tention before to stock exchanges and
international credits are beginning to
grow better informed.
It is interesting to know, for example,
that the war places upon us a nation
al obligation not only to pay our debts
abroad, but to buy in American securi
ties held in Europe. Further than that,
we are to be asked to lendgreat sums
to Europe to finance the war, besides
advancing money needed by our own
railroads and other expanding com
mercial institutions.
From a young, expanding, borrow
ing nation, it seems that we must be
transformed by the war to a money
saving, investing, and lending nation.
Can we do it? Can we as individu
als give up some of our care-free hab
its with money, and save more, in order
that the nation may play its part?
It is estimated that the amount of
American debts falling due in Europe
between the start of the war and Jan
A PREVENTABLE DEATH LOSS
(Fargo Courier-News.)
Yesterday 2,500 unnecessary deaths
occurred in the United States; today
the same number, tomorrow the same,
and every day the same terrible loss
of life goes on which benefits no
body.
We are antagonistic to the fright
ful war raging in Europe, but some
thing can be said for patriotism which
rushes to arms at the call of the gov
ernment, even if it is mistaken in its
cause for war. A life needlessly de
stroyed at home is as sad a mistake
as one thrown away in war.
The sorrow, hunger and want of a
widow and of little children is no
less painful because the bread-winner
is destroyed by preventable disease,
instead of by the sword. The suffer
ing and privations of multitudes, crip
pled and physically wrecked by pre
ventable disease, is just as distress
ing as if caused by war.
If these 2,500 preventable deaths
were scheduled to occur in one given
locality every day, this would be re
garded as a great tragedy, and the
newspapers would be overflowing with
heart-stirring accounts of the disaster.
Pocketbooks and activities o; various
kinds would be invoked in order to
stop the impending calamity. This
loss by preventable disease is a crime
against civilization.
Our people have learned in recent
Years to eliminate our deadly small
pox epidemics: To sleep with win
dows open. To apply to a considerable
extent the knowledge science has given
us to prevent tuberculosis, typhoid
fever, yellow fever, malaria, etc., re
sulting in a marked reduction in the
death rate. To exercise the daily bath
habit. That the ridiculed hookworm
disease actually exists, and can be
both cured and prevented. To check
the habit of spitting in public places
as- dangerous to health. That alcohol
is not a nepessity, either as a food
or noediline-its sale is now restricted
uary 1 next, amount to $300,000,000.
This is a big sum, but it will be taken
care of by gold shipments' already
made, and by favoring balances of
trade. In October alone the debt was
reduced $95,000,000.
After the new year sets in, Europe
will begin piling up a debt With us,
through great purchases of supplies,
and this debt will not be offset by ex
travagant expenditures of American
tourists in Europe.
This growing balance to our credit
may be applied for the assimilation of
American securities held abroad, to the
value of $5,000,000,000. It is estimated
that we will be called upon very soon
after the stock exchanges open to buy
back $500,000,000 of these securities.
It will be done gradually, and without
panic.
Our national position will be that of
a thriving, borrowing business man,
who is', obliged by circumstances to
pay up'his debts, and hustle around
for money to lend his neighbors at
good interest. We cannot help but
become stronger and sounder as a re
sult.
or prohibited in many states. To in
duce railways and factories to install.
safety devices. To purify and to pro
tect milk and drinking water, which
is now being done in many cities. To
reduce the excessive infant death rate
by educating the mother-this mor
tality has been cut nearly in two in
some cities. How to eliminate fourth
of July injuries and fatalities which
have now nearly disappeared. That
flies, mosquitoes and rats carry dis
ease, and that it pays to fight them.
Apart from the efforts to inculcate
hygiene and preventive medicine, the
Lift Extension institute, of which
President Taft is a director, is organ
izing the National Health guard. They
propose to make it an effective organ
"ization for carrying out such plans.
E. E. Rittenhouse is president, and the
office is 25 West Forty-fifth street,
New Yodk.
NEW MODEL CHARTER
DRAFTED FOR CITIES
Baltimore, Nov. 20.-Subjects relat
ing mainly to municipal government
were the chief features of today's pro
gram at the annual conference of the
National Municipal league here.
The committee working on the
drafting of a new model charter and
home-rule constitutional amendments
presented a partial report, in the form
of sections dealing with council, city
manager, civil service and efficiency
board subjects.
The committee on political organ
izations has not completed its work,
and the report is described as only an
"interlocutory expression." It was
prepared by the chairman, A. Leo
Well, president of the voters league of
Pitsburgh,