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Seeking Their Own Profit
Our Business Men Will Serve
the Interests of the World
In the fullest sense the duty of the United Btates to the world
will be the best discharged if the peopie of this country prompt
ly and vigorously set about repairing the wastage of wealth, and
filling the commercial and industrial vacuum caused by the em
battled nations of Europe.
Not enlightened selfishness alone, but the truest altruism
dictates that course. To feed those who but for our products
would starve, to clothe the tattered, to rebuild shattered cities,
and draw together again with new railroads and ships the com
munities rudely thrust asunder by the iron hand of war will be
our duty to civilization, our task in this remodeling of the world.
There are those who hold that in preclaiming this duty The
Georgian and other newspapers following its lead are guilty of
bad taste—that they seek to find profit in the misfortunes of the
millions now engaged in desperate warfare.
That is as though one said that the Red Cross nurse hurrying
with hbandages and healing appliances to the battlefield is mer
cenary and callous because she finds her occupation in the wounds
and suffering of others.
The commercial and industrial body of this world is to be
sorely wounded in the next few weeks, and it will be the part of
the United States to be first and chief in the v;ork of succor and
restoration.
Of course it will profit us, and largely. But in obtaining that
profit we neither lose sympathy with those who suffer, nor do we
in any way become part of the gigantic and criminal fabric of
intrigue, national aggressions and jealousies, personal ambitions
and political conspiracies which ended in this European smash
up. In all'that we had no participation. Our hands are clean,
and can be employed in the work of restoration without any taint
of responsibility for the cataclysm.
The more promptly and clearly American business men
recognize the opportunity presented to them, and the more ener
getically they seize upon it, the better it will be for the weorld,
which must be fed and clothed, and housed and served generally
while 15,000,000 European men are withdrawn from productive
pursuits and set to slaying one another.
In a message of instructions to his newspapers, Mr. Hearst
says:
““The American people deplore this war; it is a crime
against civilization; it is a reversion to barbarism, but it will
be so disastrous to the nations concerned in it that it will
inflict its own penalty, preach its own sermon and probably
be the last great war.’’
If, as is now apparent, the United States shall be the one
great power to stand out against the war mania, and shall pro
seed with tranquillity through this period of stress and bloodshed
to build up its manufactures, extend its commerce and fill the
most distant seas with its ships as it did in the days of Napoleonic
struggles, the spectacle it will present tc) the exhausted people of
Europe at the end will be an argument against war that not the
flood of coming years can wholly overwhelm. .
An Englishman recently wrote a convincing book, and has
supported by an energetic propaganda its theory that no war,
not even a successful war, is a source of profit either material or
moral to a nation. Mr. Norman Angell supported his thesis by a
wealth of illustration drawn from past history, but the next edi
tion o‘f his book will doubtless make the demonstration complete
by a simple comparison of the economic and moral state of the
United States with any one of the combatants in this sanguinary
struggle.
It is clearly, then, to the interest of the world, not of the
United States alone; to the moral interest as well as to the ma
terial interest of humanity that the business men of this nation
should seize upon this opportunity.
If to acquire for ourselves the South American markets that
England and Germany have held for their own is hurtful to those
two nations, it is an action helpful to the South Americans—
necessary indeed to their welfare. To criticise our manufacturers
for seizing this opportunity, or to deprecate efforts to direct and
stimulate their zeal there, is cheap hypocrisy.
To-day our business community is passing through a time of
confusion, of doubt, ignorance and of lack of coherent effort.
This feeling is but temporary. The rally is at hand. So absolute
ly obvious is the proposition that with all European competition
checked, our opportunity for trade expansion is world-wide, il
limitable, that it admits of no debate.
The manufacturer has but to consider it to accept its truth.
To the exporter, to the producer, it is self-evident.
Given a brief time to regain a sure footing, to fix anew lost
landmarks and to enlarge and extend the machinery of produc
tion and distribution, the American business world will enter
upon such a period of expansion as has not been witnessed in this
generation.
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How Wonderfully He Has Grown!
To Thousands of Americans, Fleeing from Embattled Europe, from the Suspicion, Hostility and Violence of
Maddened Nations, the Calm and Peaceful Figure of Uncle Sam Appears To-day in
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America’s Opportunity in Science
HE sclence as well as tha
commerce and industry of
America can hardly fail to
benefit enormously through the
mania of self-destruction that has
seized upon the civilization of
~ Europe.
‘German Chemistry Suffers
| Drawback From
|
| War.
For many years the work of the
German laboratories has been the
envy of Amerlcan anda other
cnemists. The German investi
gators have hitherto-—in number,
at least—led the world. In indus
trial and Dbiological chemistry
they obtained an apparently
hopeless lead. In their studies of
medical specifics. and inoculants
they took first place. Their chem
ical products went everyvwhere,
' and everywhere they were re
garded as almost unrivaled in
quality and reliability. The con
sequence of the shutting off of the
German supply is already seen in
’ the increased cost of drugs.
‘ A vivid idea of the position of
. advantage which the German
chemists have maintained is given
by a gilance at any up-to-date
statistical book. I turn to an
English year book of that kind
~ and find that during the year
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
1918 61 German investigators in
chemistry and chemical physics
earned a mention of their names,
« while the English investigators,
including Americans, numbered
33, the French 15 and the Rus
slans 2.
No doubt the character of the
Teutonic mind has something to
do with the lead which Germany
has had in chemical industry, but
there is no gooa reason why
American chemists should nol.
now that an extraordinary op
portunity is oifered them, assume
the lead and keep it for an in
definite period in the future. We
have the knowledge, the skill and
the raw materials to work with,
Hitherto we have lacked incen
tive to do our best, and, bowing
to European pretige, have con
centrated our sattention upon
other things
\
They Have Developed the
Radium Produced
Here.
Now, necessity and opportunity
together call upon us. :
Consider for a moment the sub-
Ject of redium. The greatest de
posits of radio-active minerals
known in the world exist in our
country, and vet we have been
sending this preclous matemai to
Europe, and mainiy to Germany,
1o have its virtue extracted and
made available for medical use.
Hereafter, it is probable the Unit
ed States will be the great center
of the radium industry. -
Chemical Industries Will
Be Developed in the
U. S. Now.
A hundred other industries in
which chemistry plays the chief
part, and which have hitherto had
their principal seat in Germany,
will now be developed here, |if
only the will to do is matched to
the opportunity. There is, for in
stance, an industry of continual
ly growing importance that has
hardly found a foothold in this
country, although its products
are very widely used here—the
manufacture of optical glass and
‘of glass for laboratory use.
Whenever our American astron
omers, who as observers lead the
world, wanted a new and greater
telescope, they have heretofore
sent to Germany or to France for
the material of which to make
‘the lenses and the mirrors. The
optical glass of Jena, in Germa
ny, is world-famous, and that of
St. Gobain, in France, is equally
renowned,
. We have the greatest telescopes
in existence and the best tele
| “scope-makers, but up to the pres
ent time we have never learned
~ to manufacture the glass with
~ out which no telescope could ex
st
1 All our college laboratories are
. crowded with apparatus made in
‘ Germany; all our drug stores
| have their shelves loaded with
drugs prepared in Germany,; all
‘ our technical libraries abound
. with books printed in Germany
‘ and describing the results of Ger
| man scientific investigation.
A Wonderful Chance for
\ America to Steal a
’ March.
But since Germany now has
‘ her attention absorbed by other
j things than the advance of knowl
~ edge and industry, and since the
~ other European nations that have
hitherto held the lead over us in
| these matters are straining their
energies also on the flelds of
bloodshed, it becomes a duty for
' American men of science to pre
vent the halt and the recession
| which science would surely ex
~ perience if her torch were not
‘ kept alight .and her march ac
celerated on this side of the
\ ocean.
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Men Who Madae
Amernca
Sir William Johnson— This Strong
Willed Irishman Tamed the
Dreaded Iroquois and Saved
the Continent to the Rule of
the White Race.
By Rev. THOMAS B. GREGORY
[ VONG “The Men Who Made
| A America” we must not for
{ get to reckon Sir William
Johnson, the glick-tongued,
strong-willed Irishman who tam
| ed the dreaded Iroquois, whee
dled them into friendship with
the English colonists, and so
saved this great continent to the
rule of the race whose descend
ants were to become the people
of the United States.
{ William Johnson was born in
! the County of Meath, lreland, in
} the year 1715.
As young men have been doing
ever since young men have ex
isted, Johnson fell in love, and it
happened to him as it has hap
pened to many another wooer,
that the “course of true love” did
not run smooth.”
The black-haired, blue-eyved
beauty whose charms had en
meshed him 'did not return his
affection—in fact, rejec'ted him
in the rudest sort of a way, and
Johnson found himself at the
very bottom of .the pit of de
spendency.
'Convinced Himself It Was
Better to Die Than
to Live.
Like Jonah of old, he declared,
“it is better for me to die than to
live,” and he actually made all
the arrangements for lifting
against himself the hand of self
slaughter.
But the disconsolate young man
| was intended for a nobler end
than that of filling a suicide's
grave. His uncle, Sir Peter War
ren, owned large tracts of land
in the Mohawk Valley, New York,
and thinking to cure his nephew
of his love-sickness, and at the
i same time to make him of some
| use in the world, he sent him to
! look after his blg estates in the
New World.
The vessel bearing Johnsgon and
his fortunes entered New York
Harbor on the 21st day of Feb
ruary, 1738, and at the age of 23
the young man wno was later on
to become the king of diplomats.
astutest of statesmen, and one of
‘ the greatest of the masters of
men, landed at the Battery, look
! ed about himself for a brief spell,
| and headed himself for the Land
| of the Iroquois.
' The cold-blooded realism of the
American wilderness knocked a
I good share of the sentiment out
of Johnson's soul, and if he ever
| lost any more sleep over the
| “girl he left behind him” there is
| no record of it.
| Johnson had other and sterner
WAR SONNETS
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1914, by Star Company
I,
W AR is destructive, wasteful, brutal, yet
The energies of men are brought to play,
And hidden valor by occasion met
Lieaps to the light, as precious jewels may
When earthquakes rend the rock. The stress and strain
Of war stirs men to do their worst and best.
Heroes are forged on anvils hot with pain
And splendid courage comes but with the test.
Some natures ripen and some virtues bloom
Only in blood-red soil; some souls prove great,
Only in moments dark with death or doom.
This is the sad historic jest which fate
Flings to the world, recurring time on time
Many must fall that one may seem sublime.
1T
Above the chaos of impending ills,
Through all the clamor of insistent strife,
Now while the noise of warring nations fills
Each throbbing hour with menaces to life,
I hear the voice of Progress! Strange indeed
The shadowed pathways that lead up to light.
But as a runner sometimes will recede
That he may so accumulate his might,
Then with a will that needs must be obeyed
Rushes resistless to the goal with ease,
So the whole world seems now to retrograde,
Slips back to war, that it may speed to peace.
And in that baekward step it gathers force
For the triumphant finish of its course.
things to think of. and cutting
himself loose from the visions of
“love's young dream” he applied
himself vigorously to the mattere
of-fact tasks that confronted him
there in the forest.
He had scarcely planted hime
self in the Mohawk region when 3
it became clear to all that his in<
fluence was going to be tremen-<
dous, and that it was going to be
in the right direction.
Became King Immediately
of the Dreaded Red
Men. %
Among the Red Men he becamd '
at once a king. By the magical
power of his personality he made
them both love and fear him.
Their trust in him was perfecte
His great common sense, iron
will and unflinching justice made
him ‘he “Great Father” to thoue
sands of savages over whom, up
to that time, no other man, white
or red, had been able to exert the
least control.
The value of the wonderful
power that Johnson had over the
Indians was demonstrated during
the life and d2ath struggle be
tween England and France for
supremacy on this continent. By
keeping the powerful “Six Na
tions” steadfast in their support
of the English cause Johnson
practically saved the day.
The strategic importance of the
State of New York in the great
war game was immense, and it
was Johnson's diplomacy in pre
serving that importance for the
English that finally turned the
scale.
~ The greatest of our American
‘historians have accepted the con
clusicn that, had the terrible
Iroquois confederacy been against
the English, it would have prob
ably meant French victory.
His Friendship for the Iroa
quois Was His Master
[
Stroke. 2
And right here comes in the
significance of Johnson's work,
for if the French had succeeded
in the mighty duel there would
have been ro English ruie, tl.ndi
therefore, no United States o
America as we know it to-day.
Johnson died in 1774, in his
fifty-ninth year, rich and full of
honor, having done his full share .
toward the making of our nation,
Our debt to him is simply incale
culable, and we can never he
grateful enough to the lassie who
gave him the mitten and thus
opened the way for his coming to «
America.