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, WHY THE MULE DIDN’T KICK.
(Hogwallow Kentuckian.)
After having spent an entire half day
carrying water for his mule to drink.
1 am Sims decided that there was
something radically wrong with the
mule’s thirst and called in the horse
doctor. He made an exhaustive ex
amination of the mule from head to
foot and could And nothing in any
way that would lead him to believe
that the mule had unythlng the mat
ter with it. Then he directed his skill
ed attendant to the trough and found
that it did not have any bottom to it.
GERMANY’S RESOURCES.
(Boston Record.)
It lias been very generally assumed
in this country that Germany is fore
doomed to be starved out (in money
if not in food). A writer in the New
York Mail questions this. After re
citing that the total wealth of Eng
land, including foreign investments, is
about $85,000,000,000 to $80,000,000,000
for Germany and $50,000,000,000 for
France, he points out that:
If the war should continue on the
basis of the present expediture until
January 1. 1917, by that time the pub
lic debt of Germany and of all the
German states would amount to about
$13,000,000,000, or 16 per cent of the
national wealth; that of England would
be about $14,000,000,000, or 10 per cent
of her national wealth, and that of
France would amount to $12,000,000,
000, or 24 per cent of her national
wealth. Again this debt Germany has
state railroads to the value of about
$4,000,000,000. while England and
France have practically no Investment.
in order to pay interest on this pub
lic debt accumulated to January 1,
1917, and pay interest on the already
existing debt and current expenses,
Germany and the German states would
have to increase their revenue from
$2,300,000,000 to $2,700,000,000, or in
crease taxation about 14 per cent; Eng
land would have to Increase her rev
enues from $918,000,000 to about $1,
400.000,000 and increase taation about
55 per cent, and France would have
to bring her revenues from $914,000,
000 to $1,275,000,000 and increase taxa
tion about 32 per cent.
EDISON EXPLAINS.
(Seattle P.-I.)
Thomas A. Edison, In an interview in
the New Tork Sun, corrects a popular
misapprehension about the services to
he rendered by the civilian scientists
and inventors who have accepted the
invitation of the navy department to
act as an advisory board. The pur
pose of the new board is not to fur
nish the navy with new devices of their
own invention: It proposes to act
merely in an advisory capacity, bring
ing expert knowledge to bear upon all
matters which are brought to its at
tention. It will look over carefully
and advise the acceptance or rejection
of any device which may be tendered
the government for use in the navy.
Morover, it will stand strongly for
securing from congress an appropria
tion sufficiently large to permit a wide
range of experiments and to defray
the expenses of. a thorough trial of
all inventions and improvements which
are passed upon by the board as having
practical merit and being worthy of
a fair trial. If congress should act
upon this recommendation, as it should
the new board may prove of the utmost
value to the country.
Innumerable new inventions, doubt
• leBs including many of merit, are of
fered to the navy yearly, but in the
great majority of cases In an inchoate
form. The inventors lack the means
to make the full and elaborate tests
necessary to show the value of their
inventions.
With the proposed appropriations
and the services of the board headed
ed, and there is also assurance that
no invention of merit will be overlook
ed, and there is also assuranec that
every one which, even In Inchoate form.
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WHY HUSBAND LEAVES HOME.
(N. Y. American.)
Why do so many husbands run away?
! A Chicago statistician, connected with
the bureau of public welfare in that
city has been trying to answer the
question.
After investigating thousands of
cases of desertion he finds that the
husband’s action can usually be as
cribed to one of the following four
causes:
111 health and peevishness of the wife.
Slouchiness of the wife either in her
own person or in her housekeeping, or
both.
The wife's habit of nagging or gos
siping.
Dislike for children on the wife’s
part.
This statistician found that the
strongest incentive to reconciliation in
cases of family discord is almost in
, artably the child. He also found that
very few wives are deserted who are:
Physically big and mentally cheerful.
Able to contribute to the family in
come either by outside labor or by
frugality in home management.
Affectionate and home-loving.
Sympathetic and considerate of their
uusbands.
The very interesting and valuable
statistics which he collected prove that
native American husbands are more
prone to desert their wives than are
iho foreign-born.
They also show that married life is
the happiest when husband and wife
are nearest alike in age, nationality,
religion, moral standards, tempera
ment, health and physical strength.
rORD’S REAL WORK FOR PEACE.
(Seattle Star.)
The foundation established by Henry
Ford’s millions, through its hired men,
.il soon be spreading the words of
peace.
W'e have little hope that Ford’s
foundation will succeed where Andy
Farnegle’s failed. Peace Is not a mat
ter of mere words—‘'Gentlemen may
cry, l’eace, Peace but there Is no peace,”
at Patrick Henry said.
Vet Henry Ford hus already done a
great work in the cause of peace—the
establishment of a minimum wage of
$5 a day for every man in his employ.
The prime cause of war is not the lust
of one people for the blood of another
people; it is the greed of a nation’s
ruling class. The United States should
he well "prepared to repel any attack
that may be launched by foreign greed.
Hut at the same time the people of
this country must be on their guard
lest the greed of a ruling class should
corrupt public opinion in an effort to
hurl this nation against another nation
in the interest of private grab.
No matter how well prepared for war
we may be, this country will never
wage an unrighteous war if we have In
dustrial democracy—the rule of the
many, the exaltation of the average
man in the farm, mine, shop, and ware
house.
Ford is making the automobile ‘‘uni
versal.” He is linking country and
city with a firm chain of “tin lizzies.”
He is teaching foreigners English. He
is giving the humblest laborer a wage
sufficient to educate himself and his
children and give both self-respect. He
is making the stuff of a proud and
noble democracy.
That is Henry Ford's real work for
peace.
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