THE BENEFITS OF GOVERNMENT [
HREE thousand or more
B Yyears ago an ancient Greek
exclaimed: “Not good is
the rule of many; let one be
ruler, let one be king, to whom
God has given over the laws, to
rule by them!” :
We cannot mow agree wi
:L‘::‘ sent'i’x:}ént, except as it
WS a ound respect for
law and order, and a well
grounded fear of their oppo
sites. We balk at the idea of a|
king. And yet we must realize
that the one strong man, able by
strength of body and mind to
keep order, was the only agency
the ancient Greeks,.or the people
of the Bible, knew about, for get
ting the peace and order and se
curity which they had to have.
Se they were glad enough to get
it in this way, ?ther than sug;e;
from uncertainty, insecurity
disorder. They actually got law
:ld order under the king, and it
no wonder that the kingship
was popular among- them.
_Let uz start, then, with the|
king as the first agency for keep
ing the peace, and see how, as
time went on, peoples worked out
beiter means for realizing the
indispensable blessing of living
out their lives in peace and co
operation.
~ We hear of despots, but we
must realize that no king ever|
succeeded in ruling very long
without peying any attention to
the public opinion of his people.
Tyrants have been able to sup-
Wbfic opinion for a time.
2 have endured a crazy
man on the throme for a while.
But the end of the matter, as the
history of some of the Roman
Emperors shows, has then been
an assassination and a new em
peror.
Ordinarily the king was sur
rounded by a council represent
ing some, at least, of the diverse
interests of the people. This
-council could, at least, restrain
the king by advice and-protest,
and sometimes could overrule
the king altogether. And then
there was usually an assembly of
the tribe or people, who were not
utterly deprived of the right to
express their opinion. They
could rattle their spears against
their shields for applause, or
could sulk in silence if displeased.
Wise kings and chiefs, if their
programs were received in the
latter manner, would reflect a
while before going ahead with
them. :
In the course of time, the peo
ples ruled over by kings became
so widespread over the country
et b sty o 1o
in an assembly
people, and they took to picking
out someone to represent their
LOW FARES TO SOLDIERS
HELD TO BE JUSTIFI
Reduced railroad fares for officers,
enlisted men and nurses of the Army
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a
- ;:auomey iner who
investigated a complaint filed by
‘Willlamz E. Golden as a private indi
vidual, contending unlawful discrim
ination.
“The Commission is without pow
er to pass upon the propriety of
classifications and regulations gov
erning passenger fares which apply
exclusively to a class of travelers over
whom the President, as commander
fn-chiet of the army and navy, has
supreme suthority,” the Imvestigator
said. ‘“‘Limitations upom rates and
practices initiated by the President do
mot apply when they are preseribed
and promulgated for the exclusive
use of the military- or other forces
‘over which as commander-in-chief he
lhas supreme power.”
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“TRENCH AND CAMP
interests at court. This was the
germ of representative govern
‘ment. \ , :
The people, under these cir
cumstances, defended their in
terests from possible encroach
‘ment by the king through their
representatives. So the struggle,
‘'when there was one, came be
tween the king and these dele
gates. It did not pay for the
king to try to bulldoze them, as
‘Charles 1 of England found out.
And even when the king did no
go seo far as Charles, he was re
strained all the time because,
since the masses paid the taxes
that supported his court, he had
to keep on the right side of their
delegates, or he got no revenue.
Thus the power was creeping
the hands of the people. They could
control the king through their repre
sentatives; and if the latter did not
represent with fidelity, they lost their
jobs the mnext time election came
around. This still oceurs, of course,
and this is why representatives are
sc solicitous for local interests.
{ Thus the people, who could only
grumble under their breath at first,
came to exercise the real power ia th
state. They never could do this as a
body; for to get business done, some
one or few persons have to be set
at a job and give all their time and
thought to it. Too many cooks would
spoil the broth. The king slipped
into the background and has come to
be little more than a sort of figure
head. In the monarchies which
really democracies, like Great
Britain, the king ‘““reigns but does mot
rule.”
. Amhpe princes like George. V
have slid gracefully into this role,
which is a useful one. We all know
how the King went about on speak
ing tours during the war; he is sald
to have been the hardest-working
man in England, as well as one of the
most frugal acd economical. Such a
king is an honor to & nation.
Similarly with the King of Italy.
All unite to praise his tireless energy,
as well as the self-sacrificing labors
of the Queen, who has made a hos
pital of one of the wings of the Royal
Pfalace. and takes personal charge
of it.
‘King Albert of Belgium is a noble
figure. Semeone has said that he has
attained the dignity of a beroic statue
without dying to do so.
These kings have no especial
power; they cannot make, nor do
they even have much of anything to
do with administering the laws. No
one of them has the power of the
President. They are simply eminent
patriots. There is nothing u'aimti
them at all. When we speak about
hating kings, we do not mean this
kind at all, but the Kaiser-variety,
that stores food for himself, and
swells about stepping on his people’s
rigats. .
It was against a king of this sort,
who was also a German—George 111
—that .our “forefathers rebelled.
Then, instead of letting the kingship
slide down into the figurehead status,
as in England, the fathers of this
Republic decided to do away with
kings altogether. And so they laid
down the lines of a government by
the people—a democracy. For that
| is what the word means, as any Greek
knows, the “power of the people.”’
This sketch shows how peoples
HONORABLE DISCHARGE BUT
TON LIKE G. A. R.’'s EMBLEM
The “homerable discharge” em
blem to be issued by the War De
partment will be a bronze lapel but
ton somewhat similar to the G. A. R.
button. It is the intention of the
Government to distribute the butten
free of charge to all enmntitled to ft.
The buttons will be manufactured
only by conecerns chosen by the Gov
ernment, which will furnish the dies
for their manufacture and purchase
the buttons, thus obviating any pos
sible variance from the approved
pattern in design, color or material.
Of appropriate and artistic design,
the button is the resuit of a competi
tion among American artisis and
sculptors, conducted by the Com
mission of Fine Arts of which Chas.
Moore is chairman, and the follow
ing are members: Herbert Adams,
J. Alden Weir, Charles A. Platt, Wil
liam Mitchell Kendall, John Russell
Pope, James L. Greemnleaf and Col.
C. S. Ridley is secretary. Pifteen
designs were submitted by the com
mission for final selection by the
Chief of Staff.
Bave sguirmed about, and taken now|
one tack and mow another, to solve
the problem of how to get and k
the blessings of law and order. It
appears that the experience of the
race bhas brought it to democracy
the best way of realizing t(hese,
whether or not there is a king at the
top, like a brass ball on top of a ma
chine. That is the form of govern-|
ment whiech all advanced peoples
have developed—and it is precisely
what we have recently fought to pre
serve, against several powerful na
tioms (especially one particular omne)
that lagged behind and wunted to
bring us all back tea discarded form.
Risas if someone wanted to foree
us to give wp a modern rifle and go
back to a blunderbuse; to give up the
steam plow and go back to the
crooked stick drawn by a bufislo,
that barely tickled the ribs of the
earth; to give up modern money and
go back to swapping things; to give
up the railroad and go back to the
ox-cart. We were not to be taken in
by such a propesition, even .though
we were threatened with guns.
We are too well satisfied with the
law, order and freedom which we
have come {0 enjoy, to throw it away
by falling into lawlessness and tu
mulf. If we do that we see that we
| descend below the level of the sav
| ages who at any rate had a king to
preserve order. We now have per
| feetly well-known and accredited
| means for making our interests
{ known, and for securing a hearing
for them; and there is no auioerat
to prevent us from doing it. We are
not unwilling to make the supreme
| saerifice that our children may enjoy
| these advantages which the hard ex
perience of centuries has gaimed
| for us.
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TRAIN DISABLED SOLDIERS
| “At the present time, whes : sur
plus of lsbor is appearing It the
country, what chance has s disabled
man in competition with Ifi:’:
men?” asks Dr. C. A. Prosser,
tor of the Federal Board for Voca
tional Education.
“Figures show that the percentage
of wmemployed is greatest anmong Bm
skilled labor at the present time. That
is thoroughly indicative. It shows
just what is to be expected in normal
times. The man who has nothing but
his strength to offer in the labor mar
ket 7 always the first to feel the
pineh of retrenchment.
“Suppose ke has lost that strength
and does mot have snything to take
its place. This is preecisely the con
dition facing many a disabled soldier,
sailor or marine right mow. If these
men will allow us, we will give them
skill in some particular trade to take
the place of the lost stremgth. -By
using that skill a man will be sble to
earn a great deal more than when ke
was selling only crude stremgth. He
will be in demand; will have employ
ment when those not skilled in any
way are walking the streets looking
for work.
“Jf these war-disabled men wili
write the Federal Board for Voca
tional Education at Washington, it
will be immensely to their advantage.
We will sppport them with an allow
snce of $65 per month while they
sgre undergoing training, and pay all
other expenses. The m given
direct in some of the i m
and in techmical and trade me .
Places are found for these mea and
are ready for thems when the men are
ready to go into the trades, and this
not in the least affect the amount
of compensation 3 man will seceive
from the War Risk Insuran¢e Bu
reau.”
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