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4S& HH First in ■ra Everything First in Quality First in Resulta First in Purity First in Economy and for those reason* Calumet Baking Powder is first in the I hearts of the millions - jay of housewives who - ’ use it and know it. V/v-'j.1 RFCEIVED hichest awards I World’* for* Food Eipuitioa. ■ j 1*12. ■ Hpov^ L_1 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN ATUT TO UK EXPOSITION IN S. F. IF YOU WU.BUKW.rrR ATE OUR PRODUCT ON THE WAY. EBSKCOIDEN GATE ATE., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL E*S1»!!J!U!-."I. —'■■■" I. '. —. Dictating Aloft. When the military aeroplane is ■coating, it usually carries two men. One la the pilot, who runs and steers the craft; the other is the observer, who murks the placing of the hostile troopa. the position of their guns, the movement of trains, und the like. The observer also makes many sketches of the ground over which he Is fly ing—work that often Interferes with his writing notes and memoranda. In certain conditions of flight, too, it is often hard for him to use a pencil and paper. To obviate that difficulty, the military aeroplane, says the Scien tific American, now frequently carries a phonograph, with a speaking tube running to the mouth of the observer, eo that by talking into the machine at. any time during the flight, he can re cord his observations, and still have bis hands free for his field glass or bis sketching pencil. LOW ROUND TRIP FARES TO CALIFORNIA'S EXPOSITIONS AND THE PACIFIC COAST Low round trip fares are now in effect via the Scenic Highway of the Northern Pacific By. to California’s Ex positions via the North Pacific Coast. These tickets permit liberal stop-overs and enable the tourist to include both Expositions as well as a stop-over at Yellowstone National Park via Gardi ner Gateway. If you will advise when you will plan your western trip. I will be pleased to Quote rates, send a copy of our hand some Expositions folder as well as Yellowstone National Park and travel literature, and assist you in any way possible In planning your 1915 vaca tion trip- A- M. Cleland, General Pas senger Agent, 517 Northern Pacitio Ry., 8L Paul, Minnesota.—Adv. A Good Invention. “I see a stool with a top adjustable at several angles as well as eleva tioas baa been patented by a Chicago Inventor for pianists,’’ said the pi anist. "WaO, U It tilts enough to throw the man off when he ought to stop play Ing It will prove a long-felt want," said the ttred man. CUTICURA SOAP BATHS FeMoasad by a Little Ointment for Gaby's Tender Skin. Trial Free. They afford infants and children grant coot fort, permit rest and sleep and petal to speedy healment of oc lesna rashes, itchiugs, chafings and other strep destroying skin troubles Nothing better at any price for the nnraaiy and toilet. rTsmpTi each free by mail with Book. Addraaa postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Getting Ready to Jump. Yasnt—Is he still on the water W^ltesaonbeak—Well, he’s not still on it; ta fiact he’s very restless. \ ghost-lady lives I _ IN KAISER'S HOUSEJ Prom the Strand Magazine. This Is a legend, but a remarkable one, mentioned by all the historians, and even now, In this 20th century, taken seriously by Germans. Whatever may be Its origin. It assuredly sheds a strange light on the manners and men tality of the Hohenzollems. "The White Lady” Is a phantom who, It Is said, shows herself at the moment when some Imminent and dire calam ity threatens the princes of the House of Hohenzollern. The enormous gloomy building known In Berlin as "the Old Palace” stands beyond the bridge which term inates the Unter den Linden. It Is a sort of mountain of stone, which con veys the Impression of being crushed down by Its heavy dome. Frederick, the first king of Prussia, began to build this place in 1699, with the frankly avowed aim of eclipsing Versailles. Strictly speaking, this is the only pic turesque bit of Berlin, the only spot which at all lends Itself to anything In the way of legend and romance. The Mysterious Tower, The Old Palace has a tower—-"the Tower of the Green Hat.” Here, In the time of Frederick "Iron-Tooth,” was lodged the notorious "Malden,” now to be seen In the Castle of Nuremberg. This Is a hallow statue of wood, which i)DAnn likft a fiinhoard Tts 1nt#»rlnr Is lined with enormous steel spikes. MM. Veukomm and l’Estree, In their curious work on "The Hohenzollerns,” tell how, When the court martial (always hard at Work In Berlin) had for lack of proof acquitted an accused person, he was conducted to the "Maiden.” “Render thanks to our Holy Mother," was the srder given him. Then he was pushed inside the statue, which, worked by tome secret mechanism, closed upon him, crushing the unhappy man In Its cruel embrace and piercing him with Its thousand spears. A trap door beneath the statue opened, and the remains of the victim were swallowed up In the lepths of the oubllet. It Is In the Tower of the Green Hat that the White Lady Is said to reside. With respect to her habits statements llffer. Some say that ever night she passes silently through the 600 cham bers of the Old Palace, traversing with {tiding, velvety footstep the chevaliers’ {allery, the throne room, the white hall, but never entering the royal apart ments except on the eve of a Hohenzol ern prince’s death. Others affirm that ihe dwells In some secret retreat, and. invisible to all others, shows herself to Italy’s Frankness. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Von Buelow, It appears now, has defln tely failed with Italy, as It was inevlt ible that he should. It Is doubtful If the lerman prince ever entertained any hope or the success of his mission. He had ittle to offer Italy that she Is not almost ure of acquiring by another arid happier urangement a little later on. Moreover, Is promises lacked persuasion because of he Increasing doubt as to whether he would be able to fulfill them. But the negotiation* have developed one lUtstandlng feature; Italy’s astounding rankness In the midst of circumstances vhere such frankness has been out of oshlon these eight months past. She has et It be known quite plainly that what ihe Is after Is a profitable arrangement, tnd that any part *he may take In the jjuroptan war will bo taken foe that end. Ihe Is not out to avenge any violation )t another’s neutrality; neither Is she hid ing behind any high sounding phrases— 'the Integrity of western civilization,” the guarantee of Individual liberties,” ind the like. What she wants Is lmme Jlato territorial expansion and profitable ,'rlendshlps for the future. Wnat Von Buelow had to offer under the first head was Insufficient both In extent and guar antee; in the matter of strong alliances ,or the future hi* proposals were even less .■onvlnclng. And there Is an end of It, so tar as Italy Is concerned. There Is no misunderstanding her position. Buell frankness Is most engaging to the nind grown weary of searching for reali ses through a welter of dissimulation all jver western Europe. Let a treaty be Iroken, and Immediately we learn that t was broken with loftiest Intent or else ,t Is an Instance of justifiable reprisal. It * not just a matter of plain violation of igreenient. Hut when Italy Is confronted erlth the Instrument of the triple alliance »lie will have none of It; and she will not (etch a far argument to justify her posl ;ion, either. Sue entered the alliance un ler Bismarck for the sole purpose of pro dding herself with backing for her pro ected African colonization. That colo nization has now been perfected, and she s ready to step out of an alliance from which she has nothing more to gain. It has been reported that one of the Mauses of the agreement that bound Germany. Austria and Italy Into that •urlniM* nlllunrA WOVlrtpd thnt mllltarv lupport was compulsory only In the case .hat ono of the parties was made the ob ject of aggression by an outside power, f this report Is accurate, Italy could have •xcused her withdrawal on this ground; 'or neither Germany nor Austria was nade the object of aggression; they each leclarcd war before war was made upon .hem. But Italy Is not looking for ex uses; neither has she any taste for tech Icalltles. With a winning guilelessness ■he says. In effect, that she nas no wish o continue In an agreement that has erved Its purpose—fur her. In all of this Italy Is but following the eachlng of her own Maehlavelll who vrote "11 Principe," that a state, If It is prudente," will not regard as binding any reaty when It appears that It will Injure er or when the objects for which she ntered the agreement have been attained. Cistern Cleaning Time. Prom the Indianapolis Nows. It's cistern cleaning time now. And the istern cleaning man comes round with Is little vacuum cleaner and removes all le dirt from off the cistern door and gets 10 cistern all ready to receive the spring alns. If you have been wondering why is that, no matter hoiv hard and how >ng It niHy rain, your cistern never seems ■ > get full, the cistern cleaning man will dl you In a jiffy. Cisterns get old and ickety. Just like anything else, and in me they develop leaks. That makes islness good for the cistern cleaning tan. If you have been wondering why It y that, In spite of an eight-inch inter wall b your cistern, the dirt never seems to 'esltate, he will lean far down In the ipths and presently come back to earth ary red of face, but triumphant, anil tell ou that “they's a hole there In that wall Ig enough to chase a cat through, and our Alter hatn t adoln' much good.” The cistern cleaning man Is tilled to the trim with wonderful lore about cisterns nd rain and things. He'll tell you that on should get your cistern all fixed up In rder to catch the early spring rains, and len shut the water off and let the sum ler and fall rains run out on the grass nd not go Into the cistern. He'll tel! you iat later In the summer when It rains orms and little toads these get Into your stern and cause It to smell. And If you •monstrute that you did not know It lined worms he will usk you how thev rme In such numbers In the gutters of to houses after a heavy rain If It does Dt rain them. He'll tell you that he has ■ard that It has rained fish, but he never oilly saw It do tt, but he does know It lust rain angle worms, because they >uld not crawl up on the house. And you must not let the water run tn le cistern In the fall, because there are ead loaves and other vegetable matter ‘iat will get In with It and decay, and ause an unpleasant smell to the water The cistern cleaning man will also at a lance tell you about your cistern’s ca aclty, and if you aver that you ordered n 80-barrel cistern, he will examine the It critically for a moment and then ex ialni, nine times out of 10; “Well, lady, ou never got no 80-barrel; you may have ot a 50-barrel, but If you paid for a SC •ou get skim”' I him only who is about to die. Who Is this "White Lady?" Upon this point also opinions differ. Some claim her as a daughter of the people. Anna Sldow. whose bright eyes, In the Sixteenth century, turned the head of Elector Joachim XI. This prince ruined himself for his favorite. After his death, the Elector John George Imprisoned Anna Sldow at Spandau. She never again saw the light of day, but died there miserably. Her soul it is, say some, that, unable to detach itself from earthly splendor, wanders continually through the wide halls of the palace built by tlie descendant of her royal lover. According to others, the "White Lady” Is a certain widow, and mother of two children, the Countess d’Orla munde, with whom, in the olden time, the Margrave Albert the Beautiful, one of the most distinguished ancestors of the Hohenzollern family, fell In love. This margrave Is reported to have said. "I would gladly wed the fair widow, were I not restrained by the force of four eyes ” Erroneously Interpreting this remark as an allusion to her two children, the ambitious countess put them to death by running a gold pin into their heads. There exists a third version, accord ing to which the ghost is that of the nameless woman who served as model for the Iron spiked "Malden" of sin ister renown. rnvi» n 1 —_j.. ed) hollow. It Is a wooden body with out a soul and she who was Its model Is now the Instrument employed to pun ish, to the remotest generation, the des cendants of Its cruel Inventor, Freder ick of the Iron Tooth. Her mission Is to linger on the earth In order to visit them on the night before their death, and to warn them that they are about to be called to their account. Such Is the chastisement inflicted upon each one of them for the detestable profana tion of which their forefather was guil ty In concealing beneath the lineaments of Ihe compassionate Virgin that most frightful Instrument of torture. The Messenqer of Death. But although her origin Is, as we have seen, a subject of dispute, the "White Lady” of the old palace at Ber lin Is not a myth. She exists, she has been seen. She glides along In silence, saluting with a movement of the head the trembling mortals who stand aside to let her pass. None dare question her, for all know that Buch audacity would meet with severe and Immediate punishment. Asiatics In America. According to trustworthy statement* there are, one year and a half after the passage of California’s antl-ailen land law, 331 proprietary Japanese farmer* In that state. The farms comprise 12, 726 acres, valued at $609,000. Japanese renters on a share basis are not enu merated. There are 218 lots owned by Japanese. More than 2,000 Japanese places of business employ a total of $4,000,000 In capital. Business dono by Japanese amounts to $16,000,000 a year. When these figures, Issued on authority of the state board of agriculture, were received In the east, there was a dispo sition on the part of the press of New York and other cities to condemn Cali fornia for the trouble made over Jap anese Immigration. The department of commerce has Just Issued another bulletin on the census; this one dealing especially with Chi nese and Japanese In the United State*. The figures are for 1910, and Include all the United States with the exception of the Philippines. At that time Asiatics in this country numbered 143,688, of whom 72.157 were Japanese. In the Philippines, at the time of a special census In 1903, there were 4.000 Chinese and 1,000 Japanese. The comparative increase In the Asiatic population of the United States Is shown. In 1860 there were 34,000 Chinese In this country, but no recorded Japanese. Now, there are more Japaneso than Chinese. This, of course, Is due to the fact that since 1882 Immigration of Chinese has been practically prohibited. In spite of laws governing Immigration, naturalization and the like, there have been Increases, and peculiar evasions. For example, the census bureau reports 1,368 Chines* and 420 Japanese as naturalized, and can only explain the statement by as suming that naturalization was effect ed before strict federal supervision was undertaken. In California there were. In 1910. 41. 356 Japanese and 36,248 Chinese. Cali fornia Is a very large state, and out of the total millions, 77,000 Asiatics would seem an Insignificant minority. But the lmblt of the Chinese and Japanese Is to gather together. Colonies are es tablished, and "Chinatowns” and “rookeries" are the result. In Sacra mento county—the seat of the capital— 5.7 per cent of the total population Is Japanese. Figures are not wanting to show that Japanese colonists, congre gating In small villages, have literally crowded out native American or Euro pean settlers. The Japanese are thrif ty, but they can no more be assimi lated than the Chinese. The Japanese and Chinese now being educated In American universities recognize this. California Is In much the same posi tion with regard to Asiatics as certain New Jersey and New York counties aro In relation to southeastern Europeans. Perhaps most of the demand for strict er Immigration laws comes not from the west, but from the Atlantic sea board. The east laugns at California's dislike for the Asiatics; but the east can understand Its own aversion to the Illiterate Immigrant from southeastern Europe. The Terrible Freshman. From Ilolworthy Hall's New Book. "Pepper." Instinctively they called him the "Terrible Freshman," but with the same spirit of paradox with which they might have bestowed the name of "Fido” upon a pet elephant. He was 1 an undersized, anemic youth, with a I penchant for clothes and haberdashery j a few months ahead of the Broadway fashions, and he thought It denoted a maturity and worldly experience to profess that he never felt capable of undertaking breakfast until after the fifth clgaret. He possessed about as much moral fiber ns r mud turtle, but he had an allowance that was sinfully large; for - his father, having led a most secluded I and repressed boyhood, was rather pleased at the notion of entertaining a sport in the family. He sent Tommy Foster to Cambridge In the corftdent expectation of making a gentleman out of him; and Tommy discovering that no one was particularly interested In what he did or how he did It took the opportunity to go to the devil as fast as he conveniently could. Tommy engaged a room on the same floor with Pepper McHenry and Monk ! Splnden. and after he had chastely decorated It with a class banner, a dozen assorted steins, and a set of art prints which would have astonished his fond parents, he put on a new suit of the musical comedy variety, a vivid silk shirt, and an equally uproarious tie, and started out to make some friends who could show him a touch of high life In greater Boston CRYING FOR REFORM IN ARMY OF BRITAIN Radical Demand for Democrat* ization Reveals Problems of Finance. From the London Times. One of the most Interesting features of the recent heated discussions in parliament has been the demand made by various radical and labor members that the army should be “democra tized.” No one, however, has pre cisely defined the meaning of the term, or has stated clearly what is in his mind in making this proposal. Let us start with an understanding about terms. Democracy is that form of government in which is vested in and exercised by the people at large. In that sense the army Is already de mocratized. The house of commons is elected by the people, and the army is maintained by the votes of the house of com mons. Were it not for the passing of the army bill annually the army would cease to exist: and the empire would vanish with it, for the army is the solder of the empire, and the de struction of the army and of the em pire is a single operation. Commons Controls the Army. The house of commons supports the army by voting supplies, and can ef fect what changes it pleases in or ganization and numbers by exercising the authority constitutionally vested in the lower chamber. j.ueae rigns me nouse or commons frequently exercise, whether for good or for evil, and the army is con sequently governed by the democracy and is democratized. A democracy is often more stupid ; and more tyrannical than an autocracy j but it is not necessarily devoid of ' sense. | Every democracy recognizes that in an armed force an exact disipline must be observed, and that those who are guilty of crimes of seditions to the prejudice of good order and military discipline must be brought to a more | exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of the law allow. This condition is expressly rec Dnized by the preamble of the army <annual) act, and the rules and regula tions which govern the army are I framed in accordance with the pro visions of that act. and consenquently Issued from the people and are demo cratic. Position of tho Crown. Is tho position of the crown in any sense opposed to the democratic ideal in relation to the army? Certainly not, for it is by the will of the people that the king reigns, and the crown is as much the offspring of democratic Ideals as tho rest of our constitutional system. The defense of the realm has been wisely Intrusted by the constitution to the crown. According to the opinion of our most eminent Jurists the "superma potestas” is inherent in the crown, and the crown could not re lease itself from its tenure if it would. In all democracies, in France as well as in the United States, the head of the state, as the French constitution de clares, "dispose de la force armee," and any failure on the part of the ministers of the head of the state to keep the latter regularly Informed of all pro ceedings relating to the disposal of armed forces is unconstitutional and derogatory to the established demo cratic practice. If, for example, any minister in the recent crisis failed to keep the king regularly Informed, or failed to take his orderB, or authorized, or failed to prevent the Illegitimate use of the king’s name, such act would be uncon stitutional and undemocratic, and no possible excuse for such act or omis sion could be valid. What Do Radicals Want? What, after all, do our radical and labor members want? If they want the terms of the recent army order to be exactly carried out they have nothing to complain of, for it has been admitted in both houses that no orders given to the army have been disobeyed and that the conduct of all ranks has been ex emplary. These admissions destroy at a stroke the whole fabric of criminal libel which we have lately been privi I leged to wonder at, and the country will Judge between the army and its ac cusers. But if the parties of the left desire to possess an instrument which they can use for their own political ends, an Instrument wholly devoid of conscience and convictions, and suitable for such an adventure as the coercion of a deeply religious and Protestant com munity which refuses to be driven out of the united kingdom, then such an army cannot be recruited in England and must be sought for elsewhere. The left parties should recruit such army somewhere between Callabrla and Kordofan and officer it with soldiers of fortune from southern Europe. Then, no doubt, such an army would be fit for any purpose, nnd when not in use it might conceivably—although it also might not—lie passively in a corner awaiting its master's commands. Income of the Officers. Let us suppose, however, that these ideas are fantastic, and that what the left parties desire is that officers should be able to live on their pay, and that the possession of private means should no longer be indispensable to a candidate for a commission. In this case and in this form a very large num ber of officers will heartily welcome more democratization, and it is a com plete mistake to suppose that the ma jority will raise any objection to it. There is an idea, born of ignorance, and sedulously fostered by politicians of the baser sort, that the corps of offi cers in our army is wealthy. It is be cause the actual reverse is the case that we have to make superhuman ef forts to find candidates for commis sions. It has been proved by inquiry that the average private Income of Sand hurst cadets, including candidates for the Indian army, is $350 a year, and that, excluding the Indian army, the average private income is between $500 and $750 a year, leaving out the sprinkling of rich men of whom there may be half a dozen in each batch. Considering that no officer can serve at home unless he has at least $1,500 to $2,000 a year in the cavalry. It is obvious that the reason why we have such difficulty in filling the commis sioned ranks Is a financial reason, and that until this obstacle has been re moved we cannot entertain the hope of enlarging our horizon of choice or of enabling poor men to take commissions. + ***** ♦♦ ♦44444♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦* 4 8TEADFA8TNE8S. 4 4 Emerson. 4 4 It Is easy In the world to live 4 4 after the world's opinion; It Is easy 4 4 In solitude to live after our own: 4 4 but the great man Is he, who in the 4 4 midst of the crowd, keeps, with per- 4 I 4 feet sweetness, the Independence of 4 !4 solitude. 4 4 ^ .. ——■ ■"' """ ' ... I. -------* How Capital Creates Trade. - : j European Surplus Money Has Developed All the New Nations of the World By Investing In All Sorts of Commercial, Industrial and Public Enterprises. ».......................... C. M. Keys, In the World's Work. These foreign Investments of Great Brit ain aggregating $13,4€5,000,000, carry a com prehensive Idea of the worldwide charac ter of European Investment. That Great Britain Is not alone In making great In vestments of this worldwide character may be demonstrated quite easily. It Is enough, for the purpose of this article, to state the total foreign Investments of Germany and France. In 1909, according to the Statist, France, held Investments In foreign lands to the extent of about $8,000,000,000. They were scattered over 21 countries. Germany, In 1913, according to Dr. Karl Helfferlch, of the Deutsche bank, had similar Investments amounting to about $5,000,000,000. There Is no definite authority for the current estimate that Belgium has a total capital abroad amounting to $2,000,000,000, but the esti mate would seem low rather than high. These four countries, then, have total foreign Investments today of about $30, 000,000,000. They tend to Increase at an average rate of nearly If not quite 6 per cent a year. No man today may speculate with any large degree of sense upon the effect of the European war upon this stream of capital that lias done so much to open up the world to commerce and to civiliza tion. Of Belgium It Is possible to make a fair estimate for the answer is written over the face of the country. The world may think no more, In our day, of Bel gium capital as a thing to count upon. men, iu exueimues. cunsiuer wie worst that might happen. Picture Eu rope, after a long and deadly war, pros trate. France, Germany, Western Russia, England, and perhaps Holland have been drained by the terrible havoc of war. Northern and Central France, the Rhine valley, the flat lands of Holland, and the rich plains of Silesia have met the fate of Belgium, let us say. No Prospect For Free Capital. How much free capital, one may well ask. will Britain, France, Germany, or Holland pour out into the wildernesses of the world. If one grant the sad pre mise, the reply is obvious enough. Not in many years will any of the new coun tries be able to call upon the older lands for help. It is the habit of the day to look with selfish eyes upon the strange and almost unthinkable catastrophe in which so much of the world is Involved. Much talk there is of grand new opportunities opening up In South America, Russia, China, South Africa, and many other lands because the hands of Germany, England, France, and Belgium are bathed In one another’s blood. Directly of these matters of trade this article need not treat. Yet, It would seem to be of them that it is written, for there would seem to be a somewrhat close and dangerous connection between the trade of these far lands and the finan cing of these same lands. Upon that phase of the matter it is well to pause. Some years ago. Sir George Palsh. by most men considered one of the most brilliant and the soundest of writers up on British financial matters, wrote, in the course of a short but comprehensive article on the foreign investments of Great 1 Britain, these Illuminating sentences: Borrowers Buy From Lenders. 1 "The Investment of about £2,500,000,000 of British capital has occurred simultan eously with & vast growth of British trade and prosperity, and in my opinion the growth of our trade and prosperity is largely the result of our investment of capital in other countries. By building Mexican Intervention. From the Milwaukee Journal. "From a few sources the suggestion has t>een made that there should be resort to Joint Intervention on the part of all pow ers that have Interests In Mexico, for the furpose of restoring order in that coun ry. • # • Intervention can become a necessity only if it appears that those foreigners who have been unable, for various conceivable reasons, to leave the disordered country, are deprived of pro tection to their lives and property. It does not appear, in spite of all the recent alarming stories that have come from Mexico, that such condition exists.” This is what the Albany Journal has to say about the present Mexican situa tion. We suppose no one will accuse Mr. William Barnes, Jr., of looking through rosy glasses to support the administra tion. Going down to Mexico would not be any summer holiday’s excursion. Mexicans may not like Villa or Carranza or Zapata or Obregon or Gutierrez; but they would like all or any of them better than a for eign Invader. There would be a country, two or three times as large as the Ger man empire, to conquer and police. Ameri can life would become very cheap before that task was well begun. Mexicans are not poor fighters. Mosquitoes and fever are better still. Nor could we expect our neighbor nations on this continent to look on us with favor. All this has nothing to do with the ques tion of doing the right thing, even if that should come to mean going down to Mex ico. It has a good deal to do with the cheap militarists who want to hear guns go off and never realize that they are cru saders in the cause of spec ulative capital that wants tremendous returns and of alien? who hoped to grow rich on Mexi can concessions. It means that the man who so easily condemns the administra- , tion needs to submit a better plan unless , he would be chargeable with willingness ; to see his country’s blood shed without need. Newspapers and Civilization. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Dr. A. Eugene Bartlett, minister of All Souls Universallst church, Flatbush, in a sermon on “Is the World Growing Worse —What Do the Newspapers Say?” said I that if newspapers had been in existence j Christ would not have been crucified. He also said: ) "If newspapers had been in existence, | the Sermon on the Mount would have 1 been published in the Jerusalem Gazette: j and all the Palestinean newspapers would j have had flaring headlines announcing His crucifixion. It Is doubtful if there haa been newspapers in those days that Christ would have been crucified. With newspapers, the words and works of the new prophet would have been given to * the people, and they would have better i understood Him. The members of the 1 Sanhedrin that plotted His death would 1 have been afraid of the arraignment of i the press, and would not have dared to 1 carry out their w'icked design upon an s innocent man for fear that the news- i papers would give the facts to the people, , and they lose thereby their popularity < with their own constituency. "I have been reading hundreds of | newspapers this week, from the east, west, north and south, reading not only ] headlines, but also fine print, and in the , little type I found the greatest encourage ment to my faith. “What did I find? That human life Is , growing more sacred. I note this week the published record of the Pennsylvania railroad—188,000,000 carried last year and not one passenger lost in a railroad acci dent. The lowest death rate in the his tory of New York was reached last year. A course in motherhood is to be opened in the University of Pittsburgh for all mothers. The llth child labor confer ence, this week convened, reports new gains: 78 prisoners have been transferred without shackles from Sing Sing to Au burn, and the men in Sing Sing are being treated as though they were human. "This week’s newspapers tell of the In- I crease of rightly directed charity. A tip less dance hall for those of moderate j means has been opened by Miss Anna , Morgan; the 5-cent lodging house opened --------• -----____—-4 railway* for the world and especially for the young countries we have eaabled the world to Increase Its production of wealth at a rate never previously witnessed, and to produce those things which this coun try Is specially desirous of purchasing. Moreover, by assisting other countries to I Increased their output of the commodities which they were specially fitted to pro duce our Investors have helped those countries to secure the means of purchas ing the goods that Great Britain manu factures. ‘‘Thus, by the Investment of capital In other lands, we have first provided the borrowing countries with the credit which gave them the power to purchase the goods needed for their development and. secondly, enabled them to Increase their own products so largely that they have been able to pay us the interest and prof its upon our capital and also to purchase greatly Increased quantities of British goods.” This simple syllabus of commercial phil osophy is commended to those who fancy that the foreign markets of the world now lie at the mercy of the American sales man. In all probability, Mr. Palsh, when he wrote his pregnant paragraphs, was thinking as much of North Dakota as he was of Brazil. When the English sup plied the money to build the Great North ern railroad, they undoubtedly did pro vide a good many thousands of people with power to make money. The more money they make the more English tin irm irisn linen and Scotch wool cloth they will consume and the more freight bills they will pay, directly or Indirectly, to English ships upon the sea. It Is hardly a. bit less true of North Dakota than It is af Canada, or of Tasmania, or of Chile. To make this principle of commerce and finance perfectly clear it may be well to jse an Illustration. Brazil is as good an illustration as any. That country is al most completely financed tn Europe. About half its railroads are totally owned in Europe. The other half are—or were until this was written—owned by a com pany Incorporated in the United States, but almost wholly paid for in Europe. In the 12 months that ended last June, the people'of the United States bought rrom Brazil products worth about $101,000. XX). They sold to the people of Brazil American products worth about $30,000,000 In other words, the proportion was more than three to one in favor of Brazil. How lid it happen that ships which brought nto American ports goods worth more .han $100,000,000 went back with cargoes worth less than one-third of K? Or did ? .hey go back at all? A Trianqle of Trade. The fact Is that many of them did not to straight back to Brazil. They brought nto this country full shiploads of coffee. ■ubber and hides. At our ports they took >n board full loads of grain and cotton ind sailed away—to England, Prance, and Jermany. At the ports of Europe they lischarged their American cargoes and Hied up with manufactures. Machinery, •allroad supplies, earthenware, elothing -all the thousand things that make up ■eal merchandising commerce—these they lrew from Europe. Then they sailed home igain to South America, to begin a new ( rlangle. It Is an Interesting triangle. On our rade with Brazil In 1914 we owed $70,000,000 tVe did not pay It In cash. We paid It nostly In cotton and grain. We did not lay It to Brazil at all. We paid It to Kng and. France, Germany, and Belgium, rhey did not pay It to Brazil in cash, rhey paid It In manufactured goods, the •lchest sort of exports that are known. i year ago In Chicago has been proved i success, and a chain of them Is to be sstablished through the cities; a system >f loans for the poor has been Inaugurat ed this week for starting adult schools In this country, patterned after the success ful Bchools for grownups In Denmark "Heroism Is alert and active. The rec ords of common people from Maine td California who have celebrated golden weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, etc., whose names have been In very fine type n the thousands of newspapers, prove that gratitude exists and love Is warm ind tender. The record Is that the av srage people are keeping the path and that the current is strong toward right ind duty. "If the newspapers would publish Just the same things only change the type ind headings, giving prominence to such things as I have cited, and letting the nlserable failures be received in fine type would you support them in their effort to encourage decency and optimism? "The newspapers have told me this ast week that the fight is not over, that the battle still rages, and that Christ's lag flies. From a hundred cities and nore I have heard the words. 'I press 'orward.' ” War Begets Progress. From the Milwaukee Journal. I That science usually moves at the Jehest of commerce has again been illus trated in the discovery which will double the output of gasoline and the extrac tion of benzol and tutuol, which form the nost Important part of coal tar dyes. 'rom petroleum instead of from coal tar. The war's limitation on shipments of Jerman dyestuffs gave a sharp impulse to the search for dyes. Undoubtedly there ire many men marvels like these dis coverable just around the corner, as it were, but there must also be the lure of ■ommercial profits around the same cor ter. This demonstrates the great value >f scientific research work In graduate ichools and Institutes. These institution* ire engaged in research work to widen the realm of human knowledge, whether he information so obtained can be put :o practical use or not. In this way many ictentlflc discoveries have been hurrted md the world has received the benefit Gasoline, too. Is in the greatest de nand now with active automobile and ruck locomotion. Anything that doubles he yield of gasoline will be of incaleu able advantage to this industry. Just vhen the auto Is one of the great ln iustrles. is precisely the time when gaa dine discoveries Bhould come from the commercial standpoint. Necessity may be he mother of Invention, but scientiflo esearch for knowledge travels even aster than necessity. American Corn. From the Dayton New*. If the Europeans learn to eat American torn, the war will be worth to them ail t costs. We have been trying for 60 years 0 make them understand they were mlsa ng much of life by not eating corn bread md canned corn, and roasting ears, but hey have heeded us not. They have I icoffed at us, and said that It was only , ;nod for American hogs; not even good ■nough for horses, which ought to have lats. But they are now eating corn, and 1 good deal of It, and they claim that it s not half as bad as they had supposed. They call It maize. They will not dtg llfy It by the name of corn. They say torn, as spoken of In the blble. was some hlng vastly different—that com waa wheat, and so on. But they are eating nalze at this time—all they can get of tt. ind they are feeding It to their horsea ind cattle, and the horses and cattla ihrlve even as do the Europeans them lelves. who eat American corn. Bo when the war la over and the peo ple of Europe sit down to a steaming dish )f com; when they forget the smoke of mttle and order corn cakes for break lost; when they come to aum up tha tost of the war—Including the blit for com tor their horses and their cattle—they are roing to find that anything which broke lown their prajudlce and Induced them to take up corn diet was wocth while. And we shall send them the grain In ahlpload iota, for there isn't any other country un ler thf> tun that can produce suet; tnalM is wa grow here.