flow easy it is tor a foreigner to make
ridiculous mistakes in attempting to
wru« Fuglisn was explaineu o> Mrs.
*irohg, wife uf Alaska s governor, when
•ne* Wag in Fairbanks recently.
It was when Major and Mrs. Strong,
before the former became governor,
were visiting Germany, that Mrs.
Strong took a special course In piuno
tat that time being an accomplished
plan late at a conservatory in that coun
try. When she was going to depart,
one of the students who wanted to show
* his friendship for Mrs. Strong, sent her
some flowers.
What he intended to put on the note
accompanying the flowers was the
words, "With fragrant greetings,"
which in German would be, "Mit duftlg
grusse.” He evidently was a poor stu
dent of Bnglish and in order to get the
phrase Interpreted properly looked up
the meaning of the words in a diction
ary.
The word “grusse” he easily Inter
preted Into “greetings,” but he was at
a loss to know what the word to use
to take the meaning of “duftende,” the
dictionary stating that it meant "frag
rant,” or "smelling.” So when the
flowers were delivered to Mrs. Strong
•he was amused to find the card ac
companying them hearing the follow
ing words:
“With smelling greetings.”—Fair
banks Citizen.
RAILROADS PREPARING TO
COMPETE WITH CANAL
The great railroad companies of ihi
United States will not sit idly bv and
see their enormous freight business go
Into the hands of the steamship com
panies, who are planning low transpor
tation rates through the Panama canal.
"Million dollar” brains behind the rail
roads are at work planning overland
the tariff that will meet any competi
tion. the steamboat men may be able to
put into effect.
This was made apparent recently
when It was announced by officials of
the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe
systems that plans are being made
to put into effect export rates on
freight from all points In the United
States to the Orient and Australia, and
If necessary to other widely distribtued
allots on the globe.
It was announced officially by W. G.
Barnwell, assistant traffic manager of
the Santa Fe, that the Great Northern
the Northern Pacific, the Santa Fe, the
Southern Pacific and the Western Pa
cific are now engaed in framing export
rates to the Orient and Australia that
will be in competition with the lowest
rates the steamship companies will be
able to advance.
MANY WOMEN
PATROLING
CAMPS
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Apropos of the agitation over war
babies, it is stated that over 1,600 wo
men patrols are now at work in the
neighborhood of military camps. Of
this number, 184 are in London. The
reHt are distributed over more than
eighty localities In England, Scotland
and Ireland. In Scotland a separate
organization is being formed, and there
is already a general feeling that the
patrols should be made a permanent
body to look after the safety of wo
men and children in public places.
A large meeting will be held In Lon
don shortly, to give extended publicity
to their work. Meantime,, the home
■ecreary is considering whether it
wouldf be legal to pay for the women
police patrols out of the revenues of
the muntcpalities.
FAMILY OF 15
SEEKINGA NOME
MUSKOGEE, Okla.—Mr. t and Mrs.
Frank Scott, of Highland, Kan., are
seeking a home with lots of land. They
Will need it, for although they have been
married not quite ten years, they have
had nineteen children, all boys, and
thirteen living. They hold the record
Tor triplets, having five sets to their
credit, and also two sets of twins. All
the thirteen living boys are under five
years of age.
Mrs. Scott once boarded a train with
her thirteen boys and one first-class
ticket. The conductor informed her
that she could not taka the entire Sun
day school class on one ticket, and it
was not until she showed him the fam
ily Bible, with all the birth dates re
corded, that he believed It tvas only
her family and permitted them to occu
py live double seats while paying for
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HYPHEN IN
AMERICA
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The oft-repeated suggestions that all
Americans are “hyphenated," even unto
the primeval Indians are likely to be
misunderstood by those who are not
fully alive to the American spirit, gnd
they are likely to be mischievous in
creating impression in the minds of
our more recently acquired citizens.
Americans may truly be regarded as
"hyphenated" so far as the admixture
of racial blood extends, but the same
is true of quite all of the important
nations of the world. Europe and Asia
have been trampled by the restless feet
tf conquering invaders through all the
ages. There are no people of Import
ance in Europe who are not the product
..f ’he admixture of many elemental
races The criticism of “hyphenated,”
when made in a disparaging sense,
comes In very poor taste from any
European, or one of that descent, in
whose veins are not a riot of inter
mngled bloods.
In almost every instance the “melt
ing pot” of Caucasian race admixture
has produced types of men mentally
and physically superior to the contrib
uting types. Indeed, the precise mix
ture of rUcial blood that a nation may
carry Is not so important as the dispo
sition that its manhood may make of
the energy and talent with which it is
endowed. National ideals have had
more to do with differentiating the
nations Into distinct entities than the
varying mixtures of the blood of the
people.
The chief test of nationality is in the
strength of the citizen’s allegiance to
the ideals of the national unit with
which he Is identified, and not in the
contributing elements of his blood. It’
will be observed that there is no con
fusion in the states of Europe over
the duty of the citizen or subject in the
present war. George of England is no
less a patriotic Englishman because he
Is a descendant from German princes,
md the Czar Nicholas is a very good
Russian despite the fact that his moth
er was a Danish princess, his wife a
Berman, and his family tree full of
Bermans. The mother of the kaiser was
ap English princess.
And this, after all. is the test that
must be applied to Americans—not
what admixture of races they may
carry In their veins, but the quality of
allegiance they possess for their coun
try.
The talk nbout “hyphenated’ Ameri
cans is foolish and silly, and beyond
that it is mischievous. In spirit and
in patriotism, and in its ideals, this
is one great potential race of people.
No finer flower of national pride and
of national spirit exists upon this earth.
The nation is rich in men—and women
as well—who would gladly lay down
their lives for it. Those who quibble
over the formula of blood in America
are wasting their time and deceiving
themselves.
If war ever comes to this nation—•
and we pray that It shall not—there
will be just one—Just one—race of peo
ple here—Americans.
ENGLAND SHORT
OFAIRCRAFT
If we have not built big aeroplanes
it is not because we would not, but
could not. The plain fact is that It
has absorbed all our resources, even
to keep pace with the minimum es
sential demands of aeroplanes from
our fronts—land and sea. No nation
but the Germans realized In advance
the part that aircraft -would play in
modern war. Our enemy set to work
organizing according. So far from
being blinded by the triumphs of the
Zeppelin to the exclusion from Its
thoughts of other types of aircraft, it,
almost the least important power in
aeroplane strength, set to work to build
aeroplanes seriously. We know now
what It means when Germany sets se
riously to work on anything.
The result was swiftly apparent—
our own government was marvelously
blind to remain in' ignorance of it. The
different records of the air, hitherto
chiefly held by the French, were “lift
ed." Pilots, at tho same time, were
turned out by the hundreds and the
supply of machines available was In
creased to an Immense degree. At least
a score of important factories were es
tablished and Boundly established, be
cause the government wanted machines
knew It would soon want many more
mnchines. and was prepared to spend
money accordingly.
And now In the hour of national
emergency we have paid the inevitable
price of lack of foresight. Even by the
most strenuous efforts we have found
it barely possible to supply our urgent
needs of the moment. That has re
quired all our endeavors out In the dif
ficult, sphere of aeronautical Innova
tions. At last, in the twelfth month of
the war Mr. Tennant haa been able to
say that “we have In process of manu
facture" a similar article to the Rus
sian Slkorski. That Is satisfactory so
far as it goes, but once again the Ger
mans have been able to strike first.—
Liverpool Post.
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