COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Newspaper Comment on live
topics of the day
WATER DRINKING.
(Kansas City Star.)
Somebody is quoted by Dr. Woods
Hutchinson as. saying that the human
body is made up of a few pounds of
charcoal, a bushel of air, half a peck
of lime and a couple of handfuls of
salt dissolved in four buckets of water.
The patriarch was nearer the truth
than might have been supposed when
he reproached Reuben with being "un
stable as water."
An adult person needs to drink
about six glassfuls of water a day to
supply all that is needed by the body,
ll is hard to drink too much water, and
there is a question whether the bene
fit that some people derive from drink
ing special waters on doctor's orders
isn't really due to the fact that they
muke a business of drinking and so
get plenty of fluid into the system.
GOOD ARGENTINE CROPS.
(New York Times.)
If, as reported, Great Britain has
secured that part of the grain produc
tion of the Argentine which is available
for export, she has little reason to fear
stravation as far as the crops are con
cerned. Consul William Dawson, jr„
reports from Rosario that the 1914-1915
yield of wheat, linseed, oats and rye in
Argentina is exceptionally good and
that the grain is of excellent quality
Corn, which is a later crop, is reported
to be in excellent condition, and a
bumper crop is anticipated.
Air. Dawson reports that the Argen
tine minister of agriculture estimates
th» value at current prices, of the ce
seal crops of 1914-1915 and the value
ol' the amounts available for exporta
tion. respective, as follows: Wheat,
$224,000,000 and $151,000,000: linseed,
$55,000,000 and $51,000,000; oats, $36.
000,000 and $28,000,000, and rye, $1,000,
000 and $1,000,000. At the time of Mr.
Dawson’s report wheat No. 1, for im
mediate delivery at the port of Rosar
io, was quoted at the rate of $4.61
a hectoliter, or 2.84 bushels; wheat No.
2 at $4.54 a hectolier; linseed $3.91,
and good corn, $2.17. The grain freights
quoted when the report was prepar
ed were $15.57 from Rosario to the
Inited Kingdom.
THE KEIR HARDIE TYPE.
(Kansas City Star.)
It may prove that Keir Hardie was a
prophetic statesman far ahead of his
time in his internationalism. Or it may
prove that the type of internationalism
that he and many French socialists
and many German social-democrats
preached was an unfit survival of the
old holy Roman empire ideal—that
pathetic dream of the middle ages for
solidarity and brotherhood, pathetic
because its struggles for realization
were so unsulted to its materials.
Tragic facts have pretty well proved
that the Keir Hardie and Karl Lieb
knecht type of internationalism will
not work—any more for the future than
for the past. Keir Hardie, making
speeches against the war even after
the war was on. failed to appreciate
the factor in life that Gustave Herve,
the Frenchman illuminated in this
sentence: “I have spent fifteen years
in French prisons for preaching that
workingmen had no separate national
ities: but now l know that French
workingmen would rather be shot by
French policemen than fed by German
soldiers."
This war has proved (if now we can
be sure of anything) that when inter
nationalism comes it will come as com
munities are made up of families. A
man does not deny allegiance to his
family, even as against all other fam
ilies, while yet trying to adjust his
own and his family’s relations to the
inclusive community life,
Ltut if ICeir Hardie and others who
thought themselves modernists were
themselves pathetic survivals of a
pathetic medieval hope there is no
question of the fine strong faith of the
man.
LICENSED REPORTERS
(Seattle P.-I.)
Ur. Talbott Williams dean of the
American school of Journalism ad
vances the suggestion that the state
should undertake to regulate the press
to the extent at least that before any
reporter be permitted to work on any
newspaper he should be compelled to
pass an examination and take out a
license precisely as is required of doc
tors and lawyers now. He might have
udded plumbers and barbers to his list,
if he had followed the legislation of the
more progressive states.
Newspaper men will be reluctant to
believe that an examination, no mat
ter how practically framed, would dis
close unerringly the qualifications for
service on the news end of a paper.
The "nose for news," a sense of news
value, is often a matter of intuition or
instinct with these who develop as
"star” men. Ai.icng such, are many
who, at the f rv lacked the equip
ment which w id be considered essen
tial by the frt. w of examination pa
pers. Want of a., adequate vocabulary
and knowledge of grammar and even
ability to spell have been early dis
abilities of men who have developed
is great news gatherers and writers.
As a matter of fact, no education can
be too broad, too comprehensive to
equip a man thoroughly for doing good
newspaper work, yet education in itself
command of language, ability to write
tluently and well, and broad knowl
edge' of facts, with all of their value,
do not invariably equip for success
young men entering the newspaer tield
in the capacity of reporters.
MANY NEEDLESS ARRESTS.
(Chicago Tribune.)
The needless arrest of tens of thou
sands of Chicago citizens, as cited in
a recent declaration of Chief Justice
Olson, is a crime against society. The
municipal court discharges t>7 per cent
of its prisoners, says the judge; 120,
J0O arrests is the record of the
present year, as against 30,000 a few
years ago. This is a startling proof
that the city is making criminals ratti
er than redeeming them. The major
ity of the persons taken into the cus
tody of the police are young men. full
of energy and with a capacity for
learning good or evil. The prisoner
who has endured or a few days and
| nights the intimate association of a
police station or the Jail has learned
vicious lessons that may stay with
him for life. The t»7 per cent who be
fore being released suffer the humilia
tion of being searched, booked and
perhaps imprisoned are bound to have
their self-respect impaired—and in
jury far greater than can be inflicted
on the body. The police department
must abandon tlie idea that the total
number of arrests is a measure of its
efficiency. The public is looking for
the prevention of crime.
TYPHOID INOCULATION.
(Science.)
It is stated in Nature tiiat in an
swer to question as to typhoid in the
army, asked in the house of commons
on February 8. Mr. Tennant, under
secretary of state for war, said: “Of
the 421 cases of typhoid in the present
campaign among British troops 305
cases were in men who were not in
oculated within two years In the 421
cases there have been thirty-five
deaths. Of these deaths thirty-four
were men who had not been inoculat
ed within two years. Only one death
occurred among patients who were in
oculated once, instead of the proper
number of times—namely, twice." Re
plying to criticisms against inoculation
made by Mr. Chancellor in the house
of commons on February a, Dr. Addi
son pointed out that in the Soutli Afri
can war there were 58,000 cases of
typhoid—more than an army corps—
whereas ir. the great force now in
France and Belguim, and after six
months, including three months of
atrocious weather, there have only been
421 cases among the troops. The total
losses in South Africa were 22,000, of
which about 14,000 deaths were from
diseases, and 8.000 of these were from
typhoid.
A WORD IN BEHALF
OF THE FRECKLE
(Cincinnati Times-Star.)
It is high time that somebody spoke
up in behalf of the freckle. The daf
fodil of the complexion has been gibed
at and abused until it has lost its
standing as a thing of beauty. Young
girls smother in powder this wild
flower the sun has placed upon their
checks. Married women apply lotions
to cause it to fade Into pallor. And
only the other day a widow died from
an operation which would scientifical
ly have plucked “the jocund company”
from its ordained meadow.
We cannot all be blondes. And by
the same token ail our complexions
cannot be rose gardens. If the fates
have strewn daffolis upon your face
be not ashamed, even If you do nothing
to encourage their growth. Rather
be you proud that sun and wind have
given you something milady's boudoir
has despaired of imitating. For you
never saw an artificial freckle. Hut
as to the roses that bloom in milady’s
•hecks ah, well, all is not rose that
is red or pink. And many is the rose
chat's true, that is also a hectic bloom.
Uie symbol of latent disease. Hut there
never flourishes a freckle that did not
bespeak health.
Bo f you have freckles, exult in
them. They are true and they are
healthy. And they prove at least that
you have had "a place in the sun."
NON VOTING CITIZENS.
(Seattle P.-I.)
On the theory that the negligent
citizen who falls to vote is the chief
menace to good government and a
liability to his more enterprising fel
low-citizens, Pennsylvania is proposing
to Impose a penalty for the nonper
formance of this important public duty.
There are two theories suggested in
aandling the situation. One is to re
| ward the citizens who votes by issu
I mg voting certificates which shall serve
I as rebates on the voter's taxes. The
alternative is to impose a fine direct
upon the negligent voter. The gov
ernor of the state is said to favor the
principle of rewarding the faithful I
voter.
While eithe uf the alternative reme- ,
dies would stimulate a now interest in
the exercise of the franchise. it is
doubtful if either would contribute to
intelligent or good government. The (
citizen whe is forced to the polling j
place is not likely to exercise his judg
ment in any way that \v..i assist in |
solving the problems of government. IT j
in pursuit of a tax rebat", th* citizens
vote will be but the instrument of per- !
sonal gam. and if in fear of the law’s
penalties, .he indifferent citizen will b.
embittered and his vote is not likely to
be cast with reason nor with a public
spirited purpose.
The real remedy for the abuse -of ;
public indifference to government is j
beyond the Pennsylvania proposals. ^
The springs of good citizenship are
beyond the influence of law and must
proceed from a deeper source. Hike
individual men. governments enjoy
only such benefits as they may earn
by their conduct. And one cannot
force morality upon a citizen more i
ban he can force the exercise of n
public duty upon the units of govern
ment.
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