‘There Are No Alps to the Napoleon” ____:___ r / * . We have learned many things about the Alps since Napoleon crossed them with his army. The Alps are but an obstacle to be overcome. All the obstacles in our path are figuratively ranges of mountains to be crossed. The crossing of the Alps was a marvelous accomplish ment for Napoleon. Today, with modern inventions, an army can go through those mountains with ease. An army might fly over them in airplanes. Napoleon had no airplanes —he had no motors to haul his cannon. No trucks to carry his baggage. Horses and his soldiers dragged all his cannon and all his freight over those high, bleak passes. In the illustration which we present today the Alps seem small compared to the man on horseback in the fore ground. In fact, they were no smaller in comparison to Napoleon than to any other man—physically. They were smaller in spirit only. Na poleon had the spirit that dwarfed these formidable peaks. As it was true of Napoleon it would have been true of any other man with the same indomitable spirit. Murray was speaking of them. Every day all of us find before us our Alps— Alps that we must climb if we are to achieve our goal. It is well to remember that the Alps that face us every day are not always mountain ranges. spirit. Our muscles are weak. If we use only our muscles we will dig always in the ditches. It is when we realize that in our minds, in our spirit, is the real strength, that we move forward to accomplish ment. Few persons, too, have the courage to be as good as they really are. Study the illustration to day and realize that not Na poleon alone faced the Alps, but that all of us, every day are confronted with obstacles that seem as formidable. If we get discouraged, think of Napoleon and the Alps. W. John Murray, who is one of the great preachers in New York City, has said: "There are no Alps to the Napoleon.” Note he said "the Napoleon.” The world s filled with Napoleons. Rev. All our obstacles are Alps to us. If we are to cross them we must have the spirit to carry us over. Few persons realize the strength of the spirit. Few realize that all strength is in Bear in mind that it is in the courage of the spirit we do things. Say with Robert Browning: "One fight more, God’s in His Heaven, all’s right with the world.” 1 ----\ Labor Government Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Says Lloyd George | ___' By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE. Ex-Premier of Great Britain. London. Aug. 18.—fBy Cable)—If foreign countries are watching Great Britain this year to see how a socialist experiment works In a great empire—then they have looked In vain. The socialist experiment has not yet begun. Britain has exper ienced seven months' rule of a social ist government but not a day, yet, of socialism. To apprehend the practical differ ence between the two experiences, one has only to reperuse Mr. Snow Sen's famous resolution In the last parliament, authoritatively defining. In clear terms, the policy of his party and to compare It with what has ac tually happened after the propound ers of that policy have been In of floe. It Is worth while reproducing ♦.hat motion in full. "That In view of the failure of the capitalistic system to adequate ly utilize and organize natural re sources and productive power, or to provide a necessary standard of life for vast numbers of the population, and believing that the cause of this failure lies In the private ownership and control of the means of produc tion and distribution, this house de clares that legislative effort should be directed to gradual supercession of the capitalist system by an In dustrial and social order based on public ownership and the democratic qontrol of the Instruments of produc tion and distribution.” Capital Sleeps Peacefully. This was moved a year ago. It then received the official support of the whole socialist party. Mr. Hamsay MacDonald wound up the dehate upon It In a strong and unequivocal speech. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has now been prime minister for seven months. Mr. Snowden has, for that period, been chancellor of the exchequer. The party which voted so solidly for that socialistic pronouncement has been In office for the term of an ordinary parliamentary session. How fares It with the "capitalistic system,” which was denounced as the root of all evils? No gardener has ever shown more tender care for any root than the socialist government has for capital ism! Every effort to Injure It has been strongly avoided. There lias not been much done to strengthen or foe ter capital, but that failure has been so obviously owing to Inefficiency or sheer timidity and not to hatred of tha evil thlngl Speeches delivered by the socialist ministers In parliament and outside at assemblies and deputa tions of financiers and business men have breathed the very essence of sympathy for property, credit and In dividual enterprise. Everything has been done to put the bourgeoisie com fortably to sleep. Under liberal pressure, they con aented at laat to the use of state credit to enable householders to pur chase their own house* at a reason able price. What more assured method la there of spreading the roots of that pernicious capitalistic i • system than to create thousands of new capitalists throughout the land? Forced Into I/lne. They had one lapse. For this their leaders were not to blame. On a Fri day afternoon, they voted for a pri vate bill, the object of which was to syndlcallze the mines of this Island. They could not help It. The bill was not introduced by the government. It was not moved In government time. But having been put, Introduced and pressed to second reading by Its pro moters, the socialist ministers were forced to support It. They did It so reluctantly that It was clear they did not enjoy the process. For months they had done their best to keep so ber. Here was the old socialist brew thrust upon them by their own In discreet friends, who were tired of the long 'dry'* spell. It was too much of a temptation. They drank It. Let us admit that In public It was sipped with a wry face, as If they liked it no longer. But If they had refused, they would have forfeited the confl dence of the bootlegging fraternity behind them. I refer, of course, to the political and economic bootleg gers. The secret drinking of socialist liquors still goes on—behind the scenes—on an unprecedented scale, and they are all—leaders and follow ers—looking forward to the day, not far distant, when they cannot only openly revel In their favorite lndul gence but force their cococtlons on the British public. What accounts for their public ab stinence? The fact that any attempt under present parliamentary condi tions to carry out socialist experi ments would bring their government to a premature grave. Nothing else. They are governing, not only with the liberal eye fixed vigilantly upon them, but with the liberal revolver leveled at their heads. If the liberal leader pulls the trig ger, this government Is dead. And It knows It. Thnt Is one reason why the socialist prime minister hates the liberals with a savage 111 will that he cannot conceal. His supporters are In the minority In the house of commons. Without the liberal vote his government could not live one parliamentary day. Hence this tern porary abandonment of the wild ways of socialism and this quiet wnlk In the older and safer paths of liberal Ism. Socialists Isiom Ahead. The socialistic experiment has not yet commenced. When will It begin? This depends upon the extent to which the nation Is deceived by the present show of moderation nnd also upon the sucesa which the govern ment achieves In Its present role. It cannot be more than a temporary f« pedlent to get through un awkward pass. It would be a slunder on the Integrity arid honor of tho soclallat loaders to assume that all their 30 years’ vlrulenee against capita! and private property win a pretenae to win the favor of the violent and that they meant nothing of It. To quote Mr. Hamsay MacDonald, It la a case of "one step enough for 1110" and, as the first step Is very slippery nnd the stepping stone Is by no means firmly fixed, he goes very slowly. Hut the [ mon«»nt the socialist leaders think the delusion of ths country Is complete, if at that time the government has scored a political success, either In home or foreign affairs, they will dis solve this parliament. In the hope of securing another more to their pur pose. If the next gives them a soclal Ist majority then we shall see for the first time what socialism means In action. When Impatient socialists— and there are many and they are growing In number—press the govern ment now to carry out their real pro gram and to redeem tlielr electoral pledges, the prime minister can al ways plead the parliamentary situa tion In defense of his caution. He simply tells them to wait until he Is ready. “Do you want an election now nr later on. after we have estab lished ourselves?” That Interrogatory always quells the disaffected. But If he returns from the next general election with n majority of hla own he can no longer set up thnt plea for Inaction. Whether ho wished It or not, he would be forced to Intro duce socialist measures. Britain would then, for the first time, he faced with five years of real social ism. I wonder how many there are who realize how near we may ho to that [stats of things. A small percentage of change In the present electorate will have that Inevitable result. At the last election, the socialists fell short of first place by loss than 1, 600,000 votes, that Is, 7 per cent of the electorate. Over 4,000.000 voters did not go to the polls at all at thnt election. Colossal efforts are being made by labor agencies to secure the support of the apathetic next time. A few votes captured from amongst the libernl and conservative working men and their wives, added to 80 per cent of the unpolled, would give socialism a sweeping victory at the next election. Then the mask of sweet reason and moderation will he torn off and there will appear the stern face of the relentless enemy which has pursued private enterprise and Individual property for fully a generation and at last tracked It dowm. Comparison of leaders. Socialism Is approaching skillfully, under rover, to a grand attack on the existing order of society. Thera nr# honest men In the press helping the maneuver without having the least Idea what they arc doing. Judged as a bourgeois government, how have they done? Very unevenly. Some have done quite well, some very badly and Korns have done both. In Judging any government, ono must bear In mind that, In general, 9,899 decisions out of 10,000 are taken and given by the permanent c,vll eervlre. The remaining one Is often rerom mended by them and generally Is taken after their advice has been heard. The Influence of the minis ters la felt In the spirit In which the law Is administered, In the drive given to the administration In the encouragement of new Idea# and In Ihe 10,000th big thing, which eman ates from the brain of the head of the department. In these respects, this government, has, so far, not displayed a very notable Improvement on Us predecessors. There may be one or two exceptions. In the foreign of flee, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Is a change for the better in comparison with Lord Curson. He could not pos slbly be otherwise. There Is, after all, only one Lord Curxon. Mr. Phil lip Snowden hss not only done well, but he hag shown much personality. The same observation applies to Mr. J, H. Thomas. Mr. Wheatley Is still In doubt. He Is an able parliamenta rian and one or two of his speeches I have heard have been e.mply first rate. But his reputation will depend on the success of his housing schemes —and that Is still In great doubt. Smiled On By Fortune. They complain that they Inherited trouble. May be, but they also In herited the means to deal with It. They Inherited the results of war, but they also Inherited victory. They inherited heavy debt, but they also Inherited restored national credit and a large financial surplti8. They Inherited unemployment—they also In herited the most perfect machinery In the world for dealing with It. They Inherited trouble In Kurope, hut they also Inherited the advantage which comes from the complete failure of militarism In France and the equally complete fiasco of Isolation In America. They came straight In for the defeat of Ifoincarelsm, the co operation of America and the accept ance by all parties of the Dawes re port. So far the luck has been with them. Their test as a government will come when the luck turns, as It does for every government. As for the Russian treaty, their best hope Is In Its failure. If com missions set up under Its terms come to agreement the government will be obliged to corn* to parliament for the loan of perhaps £50,000,000 ol British money to be epent by the communist government of Russia. Some of It must be devoted to the purchase of British goods. But a good deal of It must lie handed over In hard rash to the bolshevik govern ment, to be spent—or squandered—by them. Thnt Is the difference between a loan and the financing of British purchases under ths trades facilities set. I cannot see thin parliament agreeing to such a transaction. Violet Picnic Date Aug. 22. Tabls Rock. Neb., Aug. 18. Repra sentatlves of the various locals of the aentlvea of the various locals of the Farmers' union In Pawnee county recently mot at the Violet school hotiss to plan for the annual county Fannera’ union picnic, which will be held on Friday, August 22, at Will Albers grove, otu« mile west and one-half mile north of Violet. Violet plcnlo has grown from a small affair to !>• one of the largest cele brations In this part of ths state. Ford has saved America from a so rial crisis To keep a man contented you must keep hint amused and busy; snd when alcohol was taken from a nation, the flivver was needed to re place It. The cheap automobile la mors than enough to amuse and busy a man and hie whole family Samuel M, Vaurlaln. president of the Bald win Locomotive Works, t TL. „ I ?i>l_ f T . As It Was In the Beginning, Is Now and 1 ne Little House Apparently Ever Will Be _ J By II. U. WELLS. (Author of The Outline of History.) London, Aug. 18.—What a very odd spectacle the British parliament face to face with the housing problem Is! On the strength of that Issue alone I should Imagine that any really civil ized Judgment would condemn the poor old Institution at once and set about a revolutionary search for a better constructed Instrument of gov ernment. , There Is a shortage of housing ac comodation in Great Britain: the pic turesque, creeper-clad country cottage is too often a cramped, declvlllzlng, insanitary fraud and most of the In dustrial population lives In slums worse than the corresponding slums In America and little better than those on the continent of Europe. You can not get a house or flat In which a civilized family can live for much less than a hundred pounds a year rent and most of those available at that price are stereotyped and dull-looklng and sometimes detestably ugly. Be low that level comes a descending se ries of Inconvenient, unsound, and un pleasant lodgements for the mass of the population. The labor ministry of health has been making large en couraging gestures of help, it has pro jected big and complicated bargains with the building trades and the build ing trades-unions that may—If all goes well—provide at an Immense cost on a quasi-charity basis at the public expense, a sufficiency of houses for the poorer sort of people of 60 years hence according to the ideas of comfort and decency prevail ing 60 years ago. The government and the local authorities are to pay about half the cost of building a mul titude of houses, the assistance being given on the sole condition that they fall below a certain standard of size and comfort, and the Industrial em ployer will be able to pay low wages in proportion to the cheapness at tained. In other words the labor government is doing a deal with the building trade in the interests of the low grade employer and Is putting British Industry “on the rates." They are returning by a circuitous route to the condition of things In England before the New Poor Law, when farm ers grew rich by employing labor In receipt of outdoor relief, at otherwise Impossibly low wages. The most strlkirig thing about these housing proposals Is the tacit accept ance by all parties In parliament that the population of the coming years must be put away each family In a little separate house of Us own. If anything was needed to prove that the socialism of the labor party was merely skin deep and its creative in tentions an electioneering bid, It would be this. If one thing is clearer than another in the outlook of the modern community it Is the Impossi bility of the small separate house. It is a cage of needless toil for women; it is a place of deprivation and hard ship for children. The whole drift of things is In favor of the highly or ganized block building containing a great number of houses. In this there can be electric light, radiators, and supply of hot and cold water, efficient sanitary accomodation, group wash houses, adequate cupboards and con venient shopping facilities, all pro vided at a less cost than Is needed for the same number of scattered low grade homes, each under Its seoarate roof with lamps to clean, fires to light, water to boil and every pos sible demand for feminine drudgery and servitude. In their dreams peo ple think of Mr. Wheatley's projected houses as little flower-girdled cot tages, each with a bright little gar den and a drying-ground and an un controlled multitude of children play ing In the sun; In reality we shall get rows and rows of mean little boxes on the outskirts of our towns, Jammed together Into slums, each fouling the air with a separate chim ney and remote from every modern amenity. At present a large part of the pop ulation of East London lives In small houses of two stories, or two stories and a basement. Idiotic foreign visi tors surveying this from train win dows remark on the Englishman’s superb individualism no that every man's house is his castle. In the east end no man's house le his castle, every floor and often every room Is a separate household, and sometimes these households entertain lodgers. This Btate of affairs the new labor legislation will extend and perpetu ate. Yet plans have been made that show beyond dispute that the whole population of industrial London could be rehoused in fine and hand some apartment buildings, w;th night and day lifts, roof gardens, and near ly all the light and air conveniences to be found in a Kensington flat at hardly greater cost than would be needed to choke all the way* out of London with a corresponding spread of Wheatley hovels, and so great an amount of space could be saved by doing so that half that area of London could be made Into a playground and garden. But even to entertain scheme* of that sort requires imagination, and the new labor government has shown Itself the least Imaginative of gov ernments. It has excreted or sup pressed all Its creative elements. It is a class government and It embodies the subdued mind of the common “Money Devil” Is Working as Usual, Shouts Col Chugwolloper Angrily diagnosin' a case right and givin' na ture proper assistance In brlngln’ about permaynent recovery-” "But suppose the dancers leave the floor and nobody but Be* is left, how Is he going to step on all those corns and bunions?" we asked. "O, there’s always plenty o' people who can’t resist dancin’ to the kind o’ political Jazz music that Bob’s or chestra pervldes," grinned Colonel Chugwolloper. What's smashed bun ions and flattened corns alongside the lure o’ the dance aner. "There's th# best little ol' money devil that ever happened lie's been Just wise enough to rhuee the money devil around lx a circle, knowln' that If Its ever chased It Ixter a hole little ol' Bob wouldn’t have nothin’ to whine about for personal purposes. Just think how many fellera would have to go to work for a livin’ If It hadn't been for Bob's digging ujj a lot o woes (hat nobody honest in his political methods?" we asked. “Honest? Battlin’ Bob honest? Sny, ol’ man, there ain't but one honester man in public life than Bob, an’ I'd tell you who he Is if I wasn't so durned modest. There ain't nothin' flnessey about him You Just watch the people beginnin' to feel good, an' then see Bob git Inter the dance an' begin steppln’ on toea. It ain't no time a tall until he a got so many corns an' bunions hurtin’ that the people feigit everything else, an’ then Bob an' the rest of ua can begin ped dlin' our corn an' bunion remedies ag'in. He's the feller that keeps up the demand for political corn an' bunion medicine, without which more'n one of us would be compelled t' do somethin' fer a livin’ that's worth while." Inside Hope on Bob. "What do you think would happen to the country In case of lUh> l> !he u»d, mark o[ n.».( kUnuf.elum U ot S.licjiU'.clk wages earner. Whatever Is. It ac cepts, from court costumes to slums Its Idea ot life is the life of the back street in which It has always lived and it wants more back streets and cheaper back streets to live In, with an oocaslonal treat in the garden ot Buckingham palace. In dealing with housing. Just as In dealing with mines or with transport It shows Itself in capable of any breadth or power of initiative. Women Ineffective. One of the most remarkable aspect; of this housing legislation Is the In effectiveness of the women in it. When women were struggling for the vote, the world was given to understand that their success would be an end to "man-made laws" and ‘‘man-made" ways of living. There was to be an astonishing release of the sensible, practical feminize mind. Well, here is a question that concerns women primarily. A very large proportion of the girls and women of today, be fore their lives are out, will have to live either In the slums that the labor government Is falling to reorganize or In the rows and clumps of boxes of brick or timber thst ars to be spread out over the outskirts of every center of population. There was nothing to prevent the distinguished women of the labor party from giving these men who are framing up these schemes to build pauper house# and endow the building trade at the public expense, a lead towards better things. These houses of the Wheatley proj ect mean an effectual subjugation of great multitudes of women to dingy drudgery for score# of years to come; they mean the growth of a new gen eration of children with miserable standards of comfort and freedom. But so far, we have no guidance from Intelligent women at all, but only speeches from such notables as Dr. Marlon Phillips sustaining the. slums of Mr. Wheatley. Generally the women of the coun try seem not to be awake to the man ner in which this business concerns them. True State of Affair#. Only one exception occurs to me at the present moment in the wide spread Indifference of intelligent and Influential women to the comfort and outlook of the mass of their sex and that Is Mrs. Leonora Evles. the novel ist. Her book, "The Woman In the Little House," Is a most Intelligent, sympathetic and Illuminating ac count of what It means to live In Just such little houses aa Mr. Wheatley and his friends, the employers and employed of the building trade, are conspiring to stereotype. She de scribes not slum life but the life ot an ordinary working man's wife In London, without exaggeration and without extenuation. It la a picture of extreme dinginess and meanness relieved only by the pluck and devo tion and hopefulness and cheerful humor that enable# these peopl# to hang on and hop# for better things. 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