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,BOOKEFELLER’S MONET.
IS
John D. Rockefeller’s money la always
M*l The average man feels that he has
m:
'At least a fraternal. If not a practical In
terest In John D.'s load. The government Is
0
Suite sure It has a practical Interest In this
' > Money. But It requires no argument to
: ;?4Stabllsh the proposition that the money of
Hon. John D. Rockefeller of New York, for
I
jnerly of Ohio, Is a public Issue.
h- A large number of people are still In doubt
'» as to what attitude they should take with
regard to the Rockefeller fortune. Shall he
l4‘be execrated for hla earning capacity, scorned
yf for the 'material success which he has
0 Achieved because of his genius and his op
pqptunltlesT Or shall he be adulated as a
f(Ant and a leader? Suffice to say that pub
tlcly Rockefeller Is loathed as mucivns any
|g American business man and privately ad
i * mired as much as any other.
la any case, Mr. Rockefeller Is spending
T (Us money. He Is spending some of It volun
tarily. some of It under duress, some of It
■| Incidentally—for he requires food and rai
ment.
It Is estimated that Rockefeller's Income
Is *6,000,000 a year. In that case the new
<;] revenue bill will take $2,600,000 of It as ln
come tax. Others estimate his Income at
$10,000,400. In that case his Income tax
would amount to $6,000,000 a year. We have
often seen the statement that Mr. Rockefeller
actually does not know how much he Is
' ^Worth, nor what his Income la In that cate
4_.the old gentleman will find himself emb&r
tossed when the Income tax man comes
j
around.
Rockefeller subscribed for 15.000,000 of
Liberty Bond*, but part of the eum repre
' Mate eubecrlptlone from companlea in which
v|: he ta Interested. One of hie companies took
$1,000,000 in bond*.
This represent* the Rockefeller contrlbu
<■
tlon to the war fund. But he Is spending
Other money than this, and for good pur
| poses. Last February, it Is announced, the
oil kin* made a gift of (25,765,500 to the
Rockefeller Foundation, which makes the
s||' total endowment of (125,000,000. The sum of
$10,000,000 has recently been appropriated by
^ the board of trustees to meet obligations
arising out of war conditions. The Rocke
A
feller Institute for Medical Research receives
of this amount (2,000,000; to school of
% hygiene and health of Johns Hopkins Untver
J; »lty goes (70,290 and to the mobile hospital
unit of the medical school of Tale (25,000.
The hospital plan contemplates setting up
'V. 100 to 100 beds with a complete operating
r room and food kitchen close to the firing line
; ■ • In a very short time. The government will
?•< maintain the Yale unit after it is started.
Rockefeller Is such an Important figure In
:.S the business and financial world that in view
4 of the sum total of his taxes, as fixed by the
new revenue bill the question Is actually'
raised whether the payments of these mil*
lions in taxes would “divert the customary
• Investment or reinvestment methods adopted
0 by Rockefeller." would "curtail his gifts to
| educational or philanthropic Institutions, anj
5J? also his lnvestmetns In great business under
takings and In railroads." But since the
money collected in taxes will be promptly
Si spent by the government. It may be expected
4 that the great channels of trade will not be
sigseriously disturbed by the collection of the
W Rockefeller taxes.
ig/l* If there are any persons who are troubled
K jover the possibility that the government
won't get all the money possible out of
Jit Rockefeller, let him be reassured. Congress
would never overlook such an opportunity to
m '•soak" a helpless old gentleman such as
^ Brother Rockefeller Is.
tre
Rockefeller's business represents
mendous earning power. So long as his sys
tem Is not emolated the government may
jfe safely count upon a fair Income from that
source.
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Buy a
bond. It's easy when you know how
:;*nd want It badly enough.
i
The navy wants 2.000 more doctors. Judg
Jhg from the Increase in enrollments In medl
cal colleges in late years and the guardei
Sjtalk about "crowded professions” the doctor;
should be available.
vsi.
. CRACKING under the strain
A* **»• war approaches the and of Its third
pear, the terrific strain upon ths belligerent
nations Is revealing Itself in the Interior
political affairs of every one of the large
eombatanta The disturbing yst Interesting
political conditions, after the shocks and
struggles of three years of war, are displayed
alike In the allied and In the Teutonic na
tions.
Russia, of course, stands first among the
fighting nations, as the country which has
passed through the greatest political ex
perience. The ancient monarchy and the
most autocratic government In the world col
lapsed amidst Its own struggles In the world
war' The first chapter of the revolution
was both dramatic and tragic—the latter
chapters of the great revolution are yet to
be written. Until the stormy Internal affairs
of Russia are quieted, and until It Is fully
equipped with a will and a purpose, It would
be folly for the allies to lean heavily upon
Russian aid. We may be encouraged by the
conviction, however, founded upon the better
news that comes day by day out of Russia,
that the new nation Is gradually finding Its
strength and that the worst Is passed.
Oreat Britain has no really serious Issue
—no really menacing question, but of some
smaller troubles the Empire has Its share.
First of .all, of course. Is the Irish question
—the Irish question Great Britain .always has
with It. In spite of present dlfflcultlea
Ireland Is . not near the menace to Great
Britain that it was a year ago. Again, the
labor unions, which had so heavy a hand In
ruling the Empire just previous to the out
break of the war, are showing, signs of rest
lessness and an Inclination to give trouble.
France has won so completely the admira
tion of the world in her supreme sacrifice of
her brave army, that unless we are reminded
of It we are likely to forget that France has
about as demagogic a government as there Is
in the world. The French government, with
patriotic Ipslght, decided that It wai best to
practically efface Itself In the early days of
the war. The army has been continually
struggling to keep what Napoleon called
"those rascally lawyers" In Paris, "from
plunging the army Into French politics.”
But of lata the French Parliament has be
come bolder and It Is displaying a disposition
to run the army. If It Is permitted to do It.
The Teutonic Powers, particularly Germany
and Austria-Hungary, are In a far more
troubled state than are the allied nations.
Germany, when It launched this war, never
In the world Intended It to be such a war as
this. Germany has not been accustomed to
having such a war. Germany was spoiled
by the wars of her late history. She had
been accustomed to prepare long. Intelligent
ly and efficiently and then crush her un
suspecting enemy within a few weeks. She
fell on Denmark and tore froth her weak
enemy the territory of Bchleswlg-Holsteln
with hardly a national effort. She sprang on
Austria and In a few weeks had gotten the
territory she aimed at. She trapped France,
In a moment of Inconceivable French folly,
crushed the French armies, took Paris and
then lopped off Alsace-Lorraine with a huge
Indemnity.
Such have been the wars of Germany In her
later history; the German people were
brought up on such history. When her forty
years of preparations were completed, Ger
many saw no reason why her powerful armies
could not dispose of her peaceful enemies In
a few months at the outside. The horror of
this war—a million and a half German dead
and seven million wounded—stunned the Ger
man people. It was well that Germany won
early victories—for If she had not won them,
the German government would have been at
surely overthrown as was the tinsel Empire
of Napoleon, Third.
The censor In Germany Is alert and in
dustrious, but he cannot keep the world In
Ignorance of the continuous strikes, the riot
ing and the Internal struggle going on In
Germany. A month ago. It was expected that
the socialists and the supporters of a peace
without annexation or Indemnities would get
thdukper hand. Now, however, the conserva
tives. or Junkers, largely through the In
fluence of Von Hlndenburg, appear to be
firmly In the saddle. The war party in Ger
many, the Junkers and the conservatives, ap
pear to have bettered their positions In the
past month, for no apparent reason, unless
It was the Intervention of Hlndenburg.
But the flame of discontent Is still smolder
ing. The price that Germany is paying for
the war has staggered the German people.
Austria-Hungary, "the ramshackle Empire"
of the Teutonic alliance, Is In a desperate
political situation. Her present military
weakness. In which, faced by no enemy ex
cept Italy, she is losing ground. Is a reflec
tion of her internal sickness and exhaustion.
The Austrian Emperor frankly grants any
peace he can get, the Austria Premier, who
was a pro-war leader, has been thrown out of
office. For the first time since the war be
gan ,the Austrian Parliament Is about to meet
and nobody knows what Is going to happen.
We are expecting some sensational news from
the interior of Austria, before the summer Is
half over.
The collapse of one of the great nations in
tho war, France or Great Britain on the one
hand, Germany or Austria on the other, will
bring peace. Without such a collapse, and
it Is by no means certain or imminent, the
war will go on for at least another year with
a half million or a million American soldiers
In France. '
A STATE CONSTABULARY.
In the midst of military events of mightier
moment, Alabama forgot to observe that it
was without State troops at this time for the
preservation of property and order. We are
suddenly realizing that, in the absence of
State troops In the future. Alabama may fol
low the lead of Pennsylvania and New York
in establishing a small force of highly
trained, professional soldiers who will serve
as rural police, or as a State constabulary.
Nobody knows what the future of the Na
tional Guard will be. We suspect that the
doom of the Guard is written; that when It Is
mustered out at the close of the present war.
it will pass Into history. The War Depart
ment. supported or rather inspired by the
regular army, has decided that the Guard
must go. The war brought conscription sud
denly and unexpectedly, and universal mill*
tarjr service la the corallary of conscription.
The new .military legislation at the dose of
the war will embody universal military serv
ice and In all probability the disappearance
of the Guard.
The threatened trouble at Mobile, revealed
the fact that for the first time In forty years
Alabama had no troops for maintaining the
law, and for restoring public order. The
four regiments of the Alabama National
Guard are in the Federal service, and they
will not be used, except In desperate canee,
and then only by consent of the President,
for quelling disorder.
The State government of Alabama must
have a strong arm; It must have a resource
of strength to which It can apply In the
event of general disorder. If Its citlsen sol
diery are gone from It, what can It dot
There comes pp the suggestion of a State
constabulary, which Pennsylvania has found
most useful and which New Tork recently
created. The next Legislature, we expect,
will grapple with this very question. The
State constabulary Is used not only as a
queller of mobs, but as a rural police for the
protection of Isolated communities from
crimes of violence of flagrant thievery. To
this force of trained and professional 'sol
diers the State may have to resort after the
war Is over.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
London says 100,000 Americans will soon
be fighting in France. What might have
been is not usually a profitable lamentation;
nonetheless it is well to remark here that if
five years ago America had begun the ap
plication of a universal training policy, we
should today have 1,000,000 men either on
their way to France or awaiting transports..
As it is we must wait till.we can train the
million men, and that will require many
months of hard work. It might even have
been that Qermany would not have forced us
Into the war if a million of our dtlxens had
been trained and accustomed to arms. Cer
tainly the war could be shortened if we were
prepared to send a million troops to France.
Who, in view of these obvious facts, can feel
justified In holding out longer against uni
versal training in time of peace?
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
A pathetic and moving story comes from
New Tork picturing the condition of Andrew
Carnegie as that of a man now without
reason due to his distress of soul over the
world war. His fortune has been put Into
other hands for direction and protection.
Carnegie thought this war could not hap
pen. He spent mtlllons In endowment of
peace funds and peace tabernacles. He was
obsessed with the world peace idea. He
was so profoundly obsessed with this Idea
that he even went so far as to oppose meas
ures of preparedness on our part pending a
conversion of other nations to the Carnegie
idea.
His dreams encountered hopeless disaster.
He la more than SO years old and the once
strong mind was not equal to the test of
utter defeat at the hands of millions of other
human beings who wers morei practical and
leas visionary than the American Iron mas
ter.
Hr. Carnegie Is the only conspicuous pacif
ist who has suffered the distressing fate
which Is his—which In Itself Is remarkable!
The Charleston American pretends to be an
American newspaper. Owned by Charleston
men. The American Is said to be edited by
a man who formerly edited a German lan
guage newspaper. Ths American continues
to assail President Wilson, In adroit terms,
for "forcing" us Into the war. The American
recently printed an editorial along this line
which must have warmed the heart of the
Kaiser if he saw it, which he did not, as he
probably doesn't take The American. The
time for pro-German, anti-America^ propa
ganda In this country Is In the past.
We judge from Clemencau’s open letter to
President Wilson that France la "rearin’”
to see Roosevelt.
Item: Billy Sunday has approved the
Liberty Loan.
. The Diversified
Farmer
Liberty Bonds With Future Money.
No less an authority than Frank Vander
llp, of the National City Bank of New York,
declares that the Liberty Bonds should be
bought with money earned In the future so
far as Is possible.
His Idea Is the same, we note ,as that we
presented several days ago—It Is the great op
portunity for the banks, large and small.
His plan, and the one we spoke of. Is that of
the banks buying the bonds and then lending
people money at six per cent to buy them
from the banks. In this way the bonds are
bought on money earned and saved In the
future and not on money drawn from the
banks.
Any bank can buy Its share of Liberty
Bonds and any bank can sell all of the bonds
It buys by lending money for their purchase
at six per cent. This gives .the buyer the
opportunity to buy bonds out of money
earned and saved In the future. The bonds
are a good Investment for anyltdy and a
splendid opportunity for the banks to serve
the nation and to make Interest at the same
time. Incidentally. It stimulates saving and
will largely Increase bank business.
The idea now Is to sell Liberty Bonds to
people who never saw a bond before; folks
who have heretofore had no opportunity to
Invest In such securities
An opportunity for the banks and the peo
ple that we hope all banks and as many peo
ple will take advantage of.
Advancing On Enemy.
The U. S. cattle tick quarantine has been
extended to Porto Rico. Heretofore the cat
tle business _of Porto tllco has been re
stricted because hut little stuff could be
shipped to the Cnlted States on account of
Porto Rico being Infested with ticks. Now
that the clean-up campaign has been started
there tho Industry will begin to grow.
The Pink Boll n orm.
A hearing Is called In Washington for June
4 to decide If cotton, cottonseed and cotton
seed rake nhatl be admitted to this country.
This hearing Is called by the Department of
Agriculture. It Is possible that all cotton
seed products except oil, will he kept out of
this country for fear of introduction of the
pink boll worm that has wrought such dam
age In Mexico, it la tha old truth of an
ounce of prevention being wo/th a pound of
cure. •
VeaUay ffa .
It la eatlmated that more than five million
dozen eggs spoil in thia country each year
because they are washed.
Washing or rain removes from the egg its
gelatine covering that.Nature put there to
keep out air and^germs. So when an egg is
washed or if it has been in the rain it is easy
prey to decay in cold storage.
The United States government sends out a
warning not to wash eggs that are to be
sold and to buyers not to buy washed eggs
or wash them themselves. Eggs must take
the place of meat In many places as thp war
goes on
Marketing.
The first essential In successful marketing
of vegetables' and grains is that they be
made ready for market In the right way.
Eggs, for Instance, should be only several
days old and should not be washed. Corn
should be husked and shelled. The markets
this year will not be able to take care of
corn in the husk and ear and the railroads
will have no cars to handle this bulk. The
business men In the towns should be getting
storage houses for sweet potatoes under
way.
Co-operative marketing of hogs and cat
tle must come. The practice of a farmer
hauling a few hogs or' driving a couple of
cows to town is very unprofitable for the
farmer. The practice of selling to Tom, Dick
and Harry traveling through the country
does not bring the profits to the farmer that
the farmer ought to have.
Co-operative shipping to the Southern
packing plants or to the central markets has
brought excellent results in Mississippi. It
should bring the same results In Alabama.
Co-operative shipping by small farmers
should be more profitable than ever this
year because of the high prices and the In
sistent demand. The farmers should use his
opportunity- to get every penny's worth from
every hog.
we're gradually settling down on a cash
basis.
Old High Cost of Living is charging the
"Charge It” brigade.
Lots of folks trying to get acquainted with
Miss Aggie Culture.
You may be a milkman but you can’t be a
dairyman without a silo.
The world needs mighty bad more good
farmers and good doctors and good elec
tricians and good mechanics an 1 skillful
everything else that leads to Increased pro
duction, conservation and manufacture and
that leads to better living conditions.
We can sincerely say: God blesj three
women of the home who are doing their level
beat to make the best of the foodstuffs they
handle and Who tire keeping the old fireside
alight with economy, efficiency and love.
Comparatively few will fight for our coun
try; but all of us must work for her.
Awake for the sake of. the children of the
earth, and fight for the right of the cause
that gave us birth. , —L. M.
f.. ,-—. .\
[ Letters to Editor |
CLARKE! AUTHOR OF THE! “FIGHTING
RACK.”
Montgomery, Ala., May 27, 1»17.
Editor The Advertiser:
I was glad to read the- poem on the "Fight
ing Race” in today's Advertiser. As the word
"unknown” heads the poem, the Inference Is
the author is unknown to you. Will you
kindly, therefore, allow me the privilege of
Informing you that the author Is Joseph
Ignatius Constantine Clarke, editor and play
wright. ' He was born In Kingston, Ireland,
July 1, 1846. At the age of twelve his family
moved to London, England, and at seventeen
he was a clerk In the Board of Trade. From
patriotic motives he resigned and went to
Paris. After a short sojourn there he came
to America. He was at one time editor of
The "Irish Republic.”
He later joined the editorial staff of»The
New York Herald. Frqm 1883 to 1895 he was
managing editor ofv The New York Morning
Journal, and later on Mr. Clarke was editor
of the Sunday edition of The New York
Herald. He has been a prolific writer and
the author of various plays.
I may add the poem, "The Fighting Race,"
was inspired by the large ntimber of men of
Irish birth and descent who were victims of
the blowing up of thfe United States battle
ship^Maine and of nie large per centage of
Irish names among the volunteers of the
Spanish-Amerlcan war.
Yours truly,
HUGH GALLAGHER.
Si
France's Silent Enemy
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Literary Digest.
An enemy from which our honored ally,
France, suffers'is more subtle but perhaps no
less deadly than the open one at the front.
It is tuberculosis. The ranks that feel theso
attacks are not alone the men under arms,
but the civil population at home. To meet
the hazards from this enemy, whose victims,
both actual and prospective, number many
thousands, is a work peculiarly appealing to
us, because America has advanced so much
further in teaching, hygienic methods of liv
ing to act as a preventive. This is pointed
out in a letter to The New York Times by
the American novelist, Kdith Wharton, who
has been actively engaged in relief-work in
France since the beginning of the war. The
problem as it applies to the civil population
is aggravated by the native neglect of sani
tary habits. For one thing, we are told, "the
immense majority of French people regard
fresh air with absolute terror." Fresh air,
bodily cleanliness, and vigilant disinfection
are the three fundamental essentials of the
treatment of tuberculosis, and “It is not too
much to sny that all three are thought un
necessary. when they are not actually
dreaded, by all but a small cosmopolitan
class In France." Even members of the medl
tal profession are often opponents of the
fresh-air treatment, declaring that “drafts"
are the enemy of mankind. Mrs. Wharton
writes:
"Such superstitions and prejudices are hard
to uproot ,and it can be done only by giving
France the object-lesson of the successful
open-air treatment of the tubercular. It is
with this purpose in view that a group of
French and American friemis, moved by the
growing horror of the situation, decided some
months ago to create as rapidly as possible
a group of model American settlements to be
known as 'French Tuberculosis War-Victims’
Sanatoria.' There can be no doubt in the
mind of any one who has worked in France
since the war that if America wishes to help
the French war-victims at this Juncture, one
of the most efficacious ways of doing so is
through the object-lesson of fresh-air cures
for the tuberculous, fitted up according to
American ideas, and managed medicalL', and
In all other respects, ’on the American plan.’
"It Is no slight to our allies to say this,
and to say it loudly. The leading French
tuberculosis experts—all those, in fact, who
have any knowledge of what America has
done in this field—are the first to proclaim
It. France has excelled In too many other
lines, surgical and therapeutical, not to wel
come the collaboration of another country
which happens to have had exceptional sue
s
v.
Shoulder Arms!
- - -
cess in dealing: with one particular disease.
“Efforts are being: made by the French
government and by private enterprise to deal
with the fearful increase of tuberculosis.
But there are hardly an available organiza
tion upon which to draw for experienced
staffs, and the public has hardly any con
ception of what is needed. Nor Is It possible
for France at this moment to concentrate
upon the terrible problem the time, the
money, or the organizing abilities she could
dispose of in normal conditions. On every
hand she is 'confronted by material difficul
ties under which the courage and hopeful
ness of any less indomitable race might well
waver. When all the strength of a nation is
at the front, it Is Impossible that it should
deal with conditions at the rear as promptly
and as thoroughly as in days of peace.
There la a shortage of everything—of doc
tors, of nurses, of servants, of work people;
above all. of people with enough organizing
capacity to push through the necessary re
forms in spite of popular Ignorance and
apathy. It Is for America to take the work
in hand at a time when France is pouring
out her whole strength in the struggle on
which the future of civilization hangs.”
From the side of the army the matter Is
treated in The Survey (New Tork), by Dr.
Hermann M. Biggs, Commissioner of the New
York State Department of Health. He points
out that "tuberculosis has never before
played a very large part in the sanitary his
tory of any great war, but It is playing such *
a part in the present struggle.” England
suffers comparatively little, because she had
long before attended to the problem and had,
previous to the war, the lowest death rate of
any of the great countries of the world.
France had done practically nothing:
“Such anti-tuberculosis movements a^ had
been undertaken had been local and sporadic
in character and had been solely the result
of private initiative. The sanitary authori
ties h^ve never taken official cognizance of
the disease, and notification of it is not re
quired anywhere in France even now. There
have been no provisions for Institutional care
of either early or advanced cases, and but
few dispensaries.
"At the beginning of the war there were
In the whole of France only one thousand
sanltorlum beds for tuberculosis, and these
were In private institutions. There were no
provisions for the care of advanced cases
excepting as they were received In the gen
eral wards of the general hospitals. You
will remember that this method of care was
prohibited more than twenty years ago In
New York City.
"The death-rate from tuberculosis In
Franc; has been continuously high, and
especially high in the cities, and has de
creased slowly and but little. For the whole
of France before the war It was nearly three
per 1,000 and In many of the cities it was
much higher In some cities, as, for example,
in Havre, the death-rate last year was more
than three times that of New York City, and
the tuberculosis death-rate alone of Havre
was equal to 40 per cent of the total death
rate from all causes in New York City.
“With such conditions existing amon^ the
civil population of France in 1914, It would
have been possible to have anticipated to a
large extent the precise results which have
followed. With pulmonary tuberculosis thus
widely disseminated In the general popula
tion. France mobilized a great army with
great rapidity and without thorough physical
examination of those enrolled. Under the
stress of the situation such examinations
were impossible and, consequently, a large
number of early, latent, and arrested cases
of pulmonary tuberculosis were mobilized.
Many men thus enrolled in the armyrapldly
developed pulmonary tuberculosis in the pre- I
liminary training camps, while still more
broke down, with active diseaso when sub
jected to the strains and hardships incident
to life at the front.”
A LOYAL FARMER )
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Louisville Courier-Journal.
King George, of Great Britain, Emperor of
India, Defender of the Faith, and what not.
Is cultivating a patch of potatoes in Wild
sor Park, as a participator In the general
allotment scheme.
King George Is not the lnaugurator of
potato growing as a suitable duty for royal
ty. Agriculture and stock raising are the
oldest industries. The prominent men of
Biblical times, chieftains, kings and proph
ets, were, largely, stock breeders, where
as the prominent men nowadays in America
are more often stockholders, stock waterers
or stock Jobbers, and, In some cases, stock
brokers. But in times comparatively mod
ern, far removed from the days of Abraham
and King Ahab, royalty has wielded the hoe
or followed the plow in the furrow. King
Dinlz, of Portugal, was complimented when
his subjects called him Farmer Dinlz. He
was devoted to the cutllvatlon of land, and
the royal hand at the plow was expert. |
Whether Diniz made a net proilt upon his
agricultural operations neither history nor
tradition reports, but the two agree that he
raised good crops, understood rotation and
fertilization, kept his fencerows clean, knew
better than to plow his land wet and let
the aun bake It Into Indaatructlbla clods and
talked farming Ilka a county agent to all
with whom he came In social contact. Ha
believed In farming, rather than In free
booting, as the national Industry. Being a
person of unquestioned social position, ho
was not afraid to state hla preference In
any company. 'The history of Portugal and
the history of Spain sustain the contention
of Dlnls that the profits of plundering are
ephemeral, while tha benefits of good farm
ing are permanent, but the history of tha
world Indicates a pretty wide-spread prefer
ence fqr large loot, as against modest farm
profits, and the settlement of great estates
often leave athe Impression that the con
tention of Farmer DInix with regard to
States does not constitute a rule with few
exceptions as to the activities of Individuals.
Royalty In Great Britain is about as futile
as the coat of arms of a Virginia family*
and Is cherished with sentiments much tha
same. King George hasn’t much to do with
the vast buslness-in-hand of the United
Kingdom. As a cultivator ha makes' a pic
turesque figure and sets an example to Lon
don clubmen which hardly will be followed.
HOT INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
People who rely on the prohibition of "In
voluntary servitude” contained In the Thir
teenth Amendment to defeat military con
scription are lefinlng on a broken reed. In
the first place, military service Is not servi
tude, under any reasonable definition. In'
the next, if It were, a general act of the peo
ple. through their representatives in Con
gress, applying to a general class, would re
move Its "Involuntary” feature. It was early
held that the power vested lp Congress to
raise an army, contained in section 8 of
article 1 of the constitution, was not affeoted
by any of the amendments. The validity of
conscription was upheld both In the United
States and In ths Confederacy during the
civil war. Since the adoption of the Thir
teenth amendment, a law providing for ar
rest and return of deserters from merchant
ships was held not to be In violation of the
prohibition of “involuntary servitude.” It
was only the other day that the Supreme
Court of the United States held that Inter
state railway employes could be compelled to
work, under compulsion by Congress, when
necessary to maintain interstate commerce.
The right of the President to order a member
of the State militia to do Federal service,
against his will, wasjong ago upheld.
The amendment might as well be Invoked
to escape Jury service. A citizen called upon
to assist peace officers, at risk of his life
and at great Inconvenience to himself, can- |
not claim that It Is "involuntary servitude.” 4
While some courts have held "involuntary
servitude” to be synonymous with slavery,
most have found a distinction. But no court
has ever said anything that even hinted at Its
resemblance to army service. Missouri has
long had universal military service of able
bodied males between certain ages, at call
of the Governor.
Nobody will be so bold as to argue that
the authors or advocates of the Thirteenth »
amendment were trying to make conscription
unconstitutional. Conscription had been put
in force, and held valid before the amendment
was adopted. The amendment was directed
at a specific practice.
DIPLOMACY.
Jerome S. McWade said of the manage
,ment of children in a recent Sunday school
address: “Diplomacy succeeds best with the
little one. A lad of nine came puffing and
rosy in out of the cold the other night and
said:
“Pa. I'm tired. I’ve sawed enough wood
for this evening, ain’t I? I'm awful tired.’
‘“Tired!’ cried his father, looking up from
his paper with an air of surprise and dis
appointment. 'Why, I bet your mother a
quarter you'd have the whole pile done be
fore supper.’ ”
“ ‘Did you? shouted the boy, taking up
his hat and mittens again.
“’Well, you’ll win your money if the saw
holds out. Nobody ever bet on me and lost.’
“And he rushed back to his hard task
again, his eyes naming enthusiasm.”—Phil
adelphia Bulletin. /•
FATHER NOT EFFICIENT.
Johnny B-, who has seen eight summers
go by, not. very long ago developed a fond
ness for playing hookey from school. After
two or three offenses of this kind he was
taken to task by his teacher.
"Johnny," she said, "the next time you are
absent I want you to bring me an excuse
from your father telling me why you were
not here." *
“I don’t want to bring an excuse from my
father,” protested the boy.
“Why not?” asked the teacher, her suspic
ion plain.
“ 'Cause father Isn't any good at making'
excuses. Mother finds him out ever ytime."
—Topeka State Journal.
"There's a man planting potatoes,” said
Farmer Corntcssel, “when he ought to be c
playing gqlt.’
"You don’t approve of gardening?”
"Yes, I do. But If he'd go ahead and play
golf he wouldn't be spollln’ good potatoes
that somebody could use.’’—Washington Star