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TURKISH PROMISES.
("The Balkans: A Laboratory of His
tory.)
T he Sublime Porte again and again
promises such reforms in the admln
..on of Macedonia as would secure
stability and peace. It promised uny
liiing the powers demanded as often
i they demanded. Why not? There
was no intention of performance, and
mi re would not he the slightest pos
. . . uy of performance even were there
the best possible will.—William Milli
gan Sloane.
WHO WANTS TO BE A JOHN D?
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
Sixty years ago John D. Rockefeller
accepted a job as bookkeeper. His
wages amounted to 150 for the few
days more than three months that
ended on January 1.
Where is the $3.50-a-week book
keeper today who is planning to be the
John D. Rockefeller of 1976? Book
Keeper* do not work for so little now
adays. Office boys get more than Rock
efeller received. Where, then, is the
office boy who has decided that he will
become a great commercial giant and
i I devote all his time and all his
cnirgies to that end? The opportuni
ties are as great now as they were
sixty years ago. Mr. Rockefeller says
that they are more numerous and more
promising. The youth who perceives
the opportunity and embraces it will
get there. And he may as well be the
one who Is reading these lines as any
one else.
A VITAL DUTY.
(Minneapolis Journal )
The home is the most precious, as
it is the fundamental and most vital
institution in the life of a nation. If
that thought is commendable, is It not
also reasonable to think that the big
gest, bravest and brightest career pos
sible to women and men, is the found
ing. beautifying and upbuilding of the
home?
Ambition for active citizenship, the
yearning for mental expansion, the
novelty and allurement of playing "the
man's game,” the craving to get into
business and the professions, even the
sometimes unwomanly yearning for
notoriety—all of these tendencies of i
the modern woman may have their
’■■asons, their explanations and their
excuses.
But the destiny of this nation is In
evitably in the line of its homes, its
f amilies, its domestic life. . The com
ing generation must sit at the feet of
the mothers of men, and the home must
be the nursery and the school, the
shrine and the sanctuary of the race.
As there can be no real home with
out a woman, it would seem that fem
inine ambition, pride. Individuality,
assertiveness and patriotism would
resurge toward the home as the most
natural, the most enduring and the
most glorious focus of activity. Law
making Itself is not so near to the
welfare of a people as homemaking.
Men cannot make homes. That is
-or women to do. And it seems worth
while.
NO PLAN FOR NATIONAL DE
FENSE.
(Leslie's.)
There are rocks ahead of the admin
'■itratlon’a program for national de
fense. There is now no definite plan
for financing the different features of
national defense to be recommended to
congress. The attitude of the presi
dent is to recommend as little as pos- I
sible. Recently he rejected a plan of
defense suggested by Secretary of
M,nr Garrison, whereby the strength of
the regular army would be increased
•o 220,000. with a reserve of equal size.
Available state militia forces would
likewise be Increased to 220,000
through the granting of additional
federal aid. The president rejected
this plan because he thought such an
army would be too large and expen
sive. Even though a moderate plan
of national defense is worked out, the
program Is certain to go upon the
rocks unless definite plans for provid
ing the cost are laid before congress.
The fight against preparedness will be
mode on grounds of economy. The
president and his advisers will play
directly Into the hands of Bryan and
followers unless they have a finan
cial program. Opponents of prepar
edness will hold up the specter of
higher taxes and point to the present
•'elicit of 994,000,000 which will have
grown to 9100,000.000 by the end of the
fiscal year.—Thomas V. Logan.
u.mtniOANS LOSING
PHYSICAL STRENGTH
(.Toledo Blade.;
burner K. UlUenliouse, president of
ilie Bite Kxtension institute, declares
mat Americans are becoming the vic
uinea of a passion for physical ease.
They ; "ic wnen they shouat walk .Most
of iiieni lake tneir exercise by proxy.
\jem-ru lions of tal men and women are
succeeuing generations which were so
.mil and wiry tney constituted a uni
>eiral joke.
"Vital statistics indicate that us a
-a.. .Americans are physically deter
iorating. if the present iudlcateu
vienu of pnysicul decline in the puwei
of the American people to resist the
wear and tear of modern life continues,
me time will come wnen we will have
.o uepend upon a weak, soft-museleu,
...may-fibred peop.e for the uetense or
me republic and the perpetuity of tile
race.”
*vrr. riittenhouse may be overper
suaded by the figures and tables of fils
ruul statistics. Bl.t doubtless there
. a good deal in what fie says. Our
merest in athletics is largely as spec
.ators. We are more ready to disci
pline our tastes and tempers than our
jouies. The struggle for money is
.mpiy a struggle for ease.
UNTHINKING PEOPLE.
(Seattle P.-I.)
A writer in the Century, J. U. Whel
pley, says that America is maue up ot
unthinking people, moved by emotion
and impulse and giving only super
ucial attention to the real problems
of me republic affecting mankind.
1 hey think that they think,” but real
y do not take the trouble to think.
It is no new discovery this thinking
,i liter makes. A mad quest for wealtn
and pleasure, with the country waxing
meat ana strong in spite of itself, has
.oft little time for sober-minded, seri
ous thinking. Thus ever-pressing
. rooiems without definite action are
working themselves out or have
reached solution through appeal to
passion and prejudice rather than to
reason. More otten do they go un
solved.
mu it Is no newly-developed nation
al characteristic, after all. When tne
country waa but vaguely dreaming Its
.reams of greatness impulse and emo
tion played a mighty part in the young
nation’s life. Proudly do we now recall
,ne days of our forefathers, as Mr.
Whelpley recalls them, and long for
t.ie sturdy statesmanship which mark
ed that primitive era. But not so
proudly do we find in history coun
terparts of the people of today who
“think that they think." then obstruct
■ ng the birth of the nation, raising
noisy clamor against Washington, re
sisting the constiutional compact, and
rdinating public good to sectional
gain and private interest.
The demagogue was no less potential
then than he is today, and relatively
nis unthinking audience was quite as
large.
Politically the country has been
,'iven to crazy politics in recent times,
everybody knows. But was it any the
less mercurial and prone to go off at
a tangent in primitive times? Recall
the Joy-riding campaign that made the
first Harrison president. Waa anything
ever crazier or more unthinking than
that? Or bring back the era of Jack
son with its iniquitous policy of “to
he victor belongs the spoils,” to which
national unthinking committed the
government to its heavy cost for years
o follow. And In the era of greatest
stress to the nation, with its very life
Hanging in the balance, did not un
.hlnking people by Insensate outcry,
add immeasurably to the burdens of the
patient thinking Lincoln?
Every stage of the nation's career
bears testimony, in fact, to the weak
ness which the Century writer so force
fully emphasizes as a deplorable
characteristic of this twentieth cen
tury American life. It Is too true. A
hurrying, money-mad, pleasure-bent
and hobby-riding people only "think
that they think." Others do their
thinking.
In proof of It all, In the face of the
ssons of the European cataclysm and
four years of anurchy at our very door,
witness the widespread resistance to
the policy of military preparedness
which every statesman the country
has produced from Washington down
has so wisely counseled for the safety
of the republic. Was national un
thinking ever presented In more dis
tressing form?
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