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TWENTIETH century courage.
(Collier’s Weekly.)
All the rules have gone smash In the
war. Theres' on old one In the British
army that you ought to begin to look
to retreat when 10 per cent, of the
men are down. In ours It Is 15. In
all armies It Is either 10 or 15. British
regiments have stuck when 00 per cent
were out. German and French regi
ments have continued charging when
only a handful were still alive or un
wounded. Men have never fought so
bravely as in this war. The idea that
humanity was getting soft was the
most ridiculous diffle that ever emen
ated from a 'knocker” of the good old
human race.
In the old times you fought for a few
hours and the battle was over If you
were uncertain of your courage, you
took a drink before you charged. Now
uiu tight day after day; you face the
i nemy in apprehension that any nr -
ment a shell may bury you alive or
eviscerate you. Hand grenades ar
tossed back and forth like bonquets
It’S a war of nerves, and in this age
hi nerves the highly civilized and or
i> mixed man Is standing what woulo
utterly demoralize a savage.
WILL STIMULATE FACTORIES.
(Buffalo Times.)
Great importance is Justly altachud
oy the Philadelphia Ledger to the gov
ernment railroad soon to he opened up
in Alaska, as furnishing an impetus to
the prosperity of the Pacific coast, es
pecially with relation to increased coal
supply and consequent facilitation of
manufactures.
In this prospect the Ledger foresees
extensive shipments of Alaska's coal
to the Pacific coast states, and wll.ii
[hat a drop in the coast of coal there,
the inevitable result being decrease in
the expense of running manufacturing
plants, and acceleration of the disposi
tion to Invest in them.
As industrial capital becomes famil
iar with the proposition represented by
an Alaskan railroad which, with Us
main line, and branches4 will Include
more than 500 miles of new tracks, it
is seen with ever growing clearness
mat the communication thus opened
with the coat producing district of Al
aska is sure to be a powerful factor in
Pacific coast prosperity.
WHAT SCANDAL IS.
(New Republic.i
There are few of us who do not en
joy this sense of really knowing what's
what. It extends our exeprlence and
gives us a vicarious importance. If we
cannot live great passions we can at
least read about Mme. Du Barry's bou
doir. If wo cannot be smart we can
at least feel that wo have an Insider's
knowledge of the smart set. The moral
earnestness and deep attention which
people will devote to discussing other
people's domestic affairs suggests that
gossip Is ’perhaps a genuine primitive
art in which ther is catharsis through
pity and fear and pride and joy. One
woman leaves her husband; a hun
dred women chatter about it, and their
passionate interest might make a cynic
wonder whether they are not. living
through all the emotions of a great
adventure without the risk of moving
away from their own steam radiators.
Gossip is experience without responsi
bility. It is a means of taking part in
interesting or Important events with
out any of the risk that comes of be
ing an actor in them. G-ossip, in short,
is the pleasure of the spectator at the
business of life.
THE GREAT PROBLEM.
(St. Louis Republic.)
In the cities of over 2,500 population
in every state In the United States ex
cept seven. New Hampshire, Rhode is
land, Indiana, Illinois. South Dakota,
Utah and Wyoming, the total revenue
receipts fell behind total governmental
cost payments In 1913. That Is to say,
the cities of the United States are liv
ing beyond their income, and it is also
a fact that the greater they get the
more money they spend per capita
New York spends about six times as
much as Chicago, and Chicago aboul
twice as much as Philadelphia. The
figures from which there conclusions
are drawn wero gathered by the censu;
bureau. They show also that the am
nual revenues of the cities investigatac
run ponsiderably more than 92,000,000,
000 a year People are in the habit o
thinking that th0 federal governmen
Is omr greatest spender, but compare!
with the aggregate outlay of the citie
the money which the government ex
pends is a modern sum, and this m ate:
a city taxation, with its possibilities
I nation-wide financial embarrassment
contained in the annual excess of cost1
and over revenue, is only one of the
things which make the problem of-city
government the greatest American
problem.
IMMIGRA )N AFTER WAR.
in a rectnt i of Farm and. Fire
side, the national farm paer published
at opringrlo.d, G., appears an articie
about immigrants in which the uel
niie prediction is made that after he
present war immigration to this conn-)
try will greatly increase. 1 he article
includes stories oi remarkable linn. •
grant farmers now in tills country, a.-.0 1
.i also includes many Intel esting lac (
about immigrants. For example, nl
.he three seated, Wisconsin, Minneso
ta and North Dakota, 188,OOo farms out
of 407,000 are ovvneu, operated or man
aged by foreign-born whites. Of these
foreigners none are more prosperous
.nan the Norwegians, in North Dako
fa alone Norwegians own $8,000,000
acres of land, valued for taxation at
$276,000,000. Following is an extract
.alien from the article:
'Here in'tiie t lilted States a greater
proportion of foreign-born farmers ow n
their farm homes than do native born
.armera At the time of the last Gen
us eighty-one out of every 100 Immi
grant farmers owned their places, while’
nly sixty-six out of every loo native,
oi n farmers owned theirs.
When the men who are now fight-i
.r.g in Europe lay down theii arms it1
will be natural for them, gathering the:
remnant of their families about them,
to take the pittance left from their:
service pay and turn their faces west-1
ward to the land of promise, win c
wars are few, where compulsory mili
tary service is unknown and every man
s as good as his neighbor and has a
l ame to get ahead in the world."
GOOD MORNING CLUBS.
(Haverlilll Gazette.)
The apostles of cheerfulne ss and I
kindness are abroad once more. "Good i
morning and good evening" clubs arej
organizing In cities of the west with
ilie purpose of expelling the chilly ln
,HU' ‘s plice which exists between men
•vlio meet each other day after day on
the streets, in cars, in offices, etc., and
yet who have never formed the pleas
ant habit of giving a smiling nod of
recognition. We are all familiar with
:he condition of thtngs which stirs this
latent sense of good fellowship. In
every residence neighborhood there art
men who always take the same street
cars downtown in the morning and >
frequently the same ears back at
night. These same masculine atoms
gather day after day and look at each
other with dead-fish yes until the
situation first becomes embarrassslng.
and then hateful. Tet many of those
atoms only require the presence of an
other atom—the “good morning” atom
[—when, presto! the magic effect of
social unbending is seen in a chum
my group of friends, a molecule of
neighborliness. All men of similar In
terests are pretty much alike. Once
the crust of formality is broken, almost
any group of men may be friendly.
Men become reserved, not to say sus
picious, by force of habit. It is an
unfortunate and unjustifiable habit
and often leads to development of that
unspeakable community nuisance—the
neighborhood grouch.
Seward.—After completing a sea
son’s work on the lighthouses at
Scotch Cap and Cape Sarlchof, M.
Harris and a crew of seven men of the
lighthouse service have returned to
headquarters at Ketchikan.
Harris and his crew were taken to
the westward by the lighthouse tender
Kukut, landing there June 18. They
spent the season in putting up tram
ways and hoisting engines by which
supplies can be handled.
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