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AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
(Boston Record.;
loganberry Juice Is to be the out
put ot' one Oregon brewery drained dry
by law. It is an Interesting speculation,
to what extent the manufacture of non
intoxicutlng beverages would be In
creased and Improved, were the en
tire country to come under the prohibi
tion control. It will not escape atten
tion that in the past decade or two
the business in so-called temperance
drinks has been tremendously increas
ed. Men of no great age can remem
ber well the modest soda fountains of
the old-time drug store, where the
range of selection was narrow, and
where tht favorites were vanilla and
sarsaparilla, with an occasional wild
indulgence in ginger ale or occasion
ally root beer; and there were even
purveyors who made the root beer from
herbs and roots hand-gathered nearby.
The modern elaborate fountain, where
the variety of beverages Is even larger
than at the alcoholic bar, is of brief
history. Yet we have heard of no dis
astrous effect of this Increased busi
ness, upon the alcoholic drink business.
The truth is that the public drinks
vastly more of everything than It used
to, as also it eats more candy than It
did a generation ago. But what the
"temperance drink" would become with
its alcoholic rival legislated out of ex
istence Is hard to guess.
YOUNG MAN’8 ERA.
(Seattle P.-I.)
A Providence newspaper comments
upon the modern bromldion, that this
Is a young man's age, with especial
reference to the recent death of for
mer Governor Sprague, of Rhode Isl
and, who was less than 30 years of
age when he was elected. It goes on
with illustrations from the great civil
war, of extremely young men who
reached high command, showing that
the civil war era rather than the pres
ent one was distinctively the young
man's age
The illustration does not go back far
enough. The early days of the re
public were really those In which
vouti.lul ability received the strong
est recognition. Take the case of the
cabinet of President Washington for
example. Washington sought the ser
vices of the ablest and most distin
guished public men of the entire coun
try without regard to politics. The
men who took cabinet positions under
him had made names at that time,
which were inseparably connected with
the history of the country.
Yet the average age of the eleven
men who set in the cabinet of Wash
ington. at the time they took office,,
was but a trifle more than 38 years.
Thomas Jefferson was the oldest at 46
and James Lee the youngest at 27.
JefTerson was a member of the contin
ental congress at 32 and Hamilton
at 25. Kdward Randolph, who entered
Washington’s cabinet at the age of 26,
had been attorney general of Virginia
at 23 and a member of the continental
congress at 26. Hamilton was but 82
when he entered Washington’s cabinet
ns secretary of the treasury.
The constitution of the United States
was not adopted and the present gov
ernment framed until twelve years
after the declaration of independence,
yet all the members cf the cabinet of
Washington save Lee, had taken prom
inent parts In the revolution and had
rendered great public services during
the Interval between the final recogni
tion of the Independence of the states
and the creation of the present form of
government.
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NO HARMLESS DISEASE.
(Boston Record.)
Mothers might read and carefully
consider Prof. Gunn’s warning against
.measles as a serious disease, not to
he regarded lightly. The "old-fashioned
mother" looked upon measles, chicken
pox and some other "children’s dls- j
eases’’ as necessary evils of no great |
importance. ‘Better let the child have
them, and get them over with” was a
popular belief once upon a time—before
the "woman movement” began to “un
sex" women. Modem science has
taught that there are no harmless and
no Inevitable disease. The child should
be protected against all disease; dis
eases do not "clear out the system,”
and they do not act as a sort of future
health insurance. Critics of modern
ideas, sometimes forget the advances
which have been made in the im
proved conditions of the home. Ad
vancement of womens’ training, in
creased scientific attention to matters
concerning women and children in the
home, have made life safer and better.
Modern woman is batter equipped for
motherhood than waa her own mother
or grandmother. Talk of a decadence
In motherhood la simply blindness to
demonstrated facts.
OUR DEBT TO GERMANY.
(Boston Record.)
How much we owe to German ideals
is the theme or an Interesting article
oy Randolph Bourne in The New Re
public. “We have," he writes “heard
so much of the German Industrialism
and militarism that we have overlook
ed the reservoir bursting with spiritual
energy that twentieth-century Ger
many has become. He continues:
The bubbling intellectual and econ
omic energy of present-day Italy is
German; Nietzsche has raged through
Italian thought, and when it was not
Nietzsche It waa Heel. British poli
tical thought for 40 years has come
straight from German sources. What is
the new social politics of liberalism
but a German collectivism, half-heart
edly grafted on a raw stock of Indi
vidualist ‘liberty?” Our own progres
1 sism has been a filter through the
British strain, dlluated with evangeli
cal Christianity. Our educational frame
work has been German, though unin
teltlgently so. Architecture and art
forms In England and Scandinavia are
strickingly German. Town planning
methods and ideals have been lifted
bodily. Scarcely a country has been
untouched by the German Influence.
Whatever the result of the war may
be otherwise, Mr. Bourne is certain
that all the opposing countries “will be
forced to adopt German organization.
German collectivism.”
LAST YEAR’S EMIGRATION,
(1'Tom the Chicago Tribune)
A brief Hiuuy of me immigration anti
emigration uguieg ot tne war year la
.ugiiiy relevant as a supplement to
.uut'ii of the expression in certain for
j.feu newspapeis printed in the United
■suites. The government report just
.ssued allows 32U, I’ou,immigrants ad
mitted and 204,074 emigrants departed,
.niinigratlon leil to tne low level ot
tsiio, while the emigration record
showed gains.
The figures themselves represent the
net results ot an immigration policy in
which America poses as a polltictl
naven for the downtroden European,
the huge emigration figures would go
10 show, however, that the modern
European comes to America for the
money there is in it rather than any
ueep hatred of his particular govern
ment. In times ^of peace the higher
wages are attractive, but a war re
veals his heart interest The Ameri
can possibly has no right to quarrel
with such a state of affairs, but he
should protect himself accordingly
from the type that has no enthusiasm
for his political understanding. Other
wise he will continue to expose his
democratic habit of living to a system
that lessons Individual Interest and in
telligence.
The results are reflected most pain
fully in the labor field. The “gang"
labor is either totally unable to be
come Americanized, or, if Americanized
in the matter of wage ideas, expresses
itself in blood letting. The Rockefel
lers held wages and living standards
down by importing ignorant foreigners
and promptly deporting them and im
porting others when improvements
were demanded in the Colorado fields.
The trouble in Houghton, Mich., and
in West Virginia was much the same.
The sooner Americans recognize that
an immigrant that comes over to
America because there is money in it
is dangerous to American political in
stitutions, and foreigners accept the
fact that the America of 1915 is no
longer the land of boundless oppor
tunity, both will be better oft. Pos
sibly the literacy test, which has been
vetoed, is not the best means of clos
ing the doors to undesirable Immigra
tion, but it does not lesson the need
of restrictive legislation. The present
lull affords an excellent opportunity
for further study.
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