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MON DA y , APRIL 21, 19-13.
BATTLESHIPS FOR TARGETS.
Winston Spencer Churchill's '
suggestion Unit England and I lie
other powers abandon their bat
tleship building program for a
few years has an argument add
ed in its favor in the announce
ment that the battleship Indiana,
built a few years ago at a cost
of $7,000,000, is to be turned oy- j
er for target, practice, sharing the •
fate of the Texas, which played
so glorious a pari in I lie battle
of Santiago.
l-'or two years I.lie old Texas j
has been used as a target for the j
gunners of the North Atlantic
squadron, until now there is lit
tle of the battered hulk left to
aim at. So, to answer the de
mand for a target, the Indiana
will lie dismantled and lowed lo
some convenient spot where the
newer and mightier ships of the
Arkansas, DaHfcare, Michigan,
Florida andJ^wmiierl icul types
can hainemrBer as though she
were a foreign haltleship that
had come to devastate our coast.
If is hard fate for a ahttleship
that, cost about $0,000,000 to
fmild a score of years ago, hut
lesfc ignominious far than the
scrap heap or sale to some minor
power that wants a make-believe
navy. They changed the name
of the Texas to the San Marcos
when they look the old battle
ship for a target; and probably
the Indiana, which was called the
most wonderful floating fortress
in I In1 world a few short years
-ago, will he. tired at under some
other name. |
In a few years the Massachu
setts, the Iowa and the Illinois!
will follow the Texas and the In-j
diana into oblivion by tin1 same i
route, and the names will eh giv
ell lo new and mightier dread-j
noughts. One haltleship of t he i
old Heel, however, will lie spared. !
The Oregon, which made that i
-wonderful run from the Pacific j
coast around the Horn to the
coast of Cuba |o help drive Spain
off this hemisphere, will be spar
ed for 'coming generations lo
preserve as this general ion cher
ishes the old Constitution.
WORTH THINKING ABOUT.
There is ground fur very ser
ious Ihougiil on I lie pari of Amer
ican parents—anti, we may add,
for serious discussion among
thoughtful bodies of women — in
an editorial in the Ladies Home
Journal for April, from which the
following is taken:
"What we must not forget is
that there is a distinct point of
morals in this question of how
a girl dresses. When we see
young girls, as we saw them Iasi
summer in larger numbers (ban
ever before, brazenly or innocent
ly displaying in their all ire (heir
physical rather than their inno
cent charms, I he fault is not so
much with the girls as it is with
file mothers who perm il them to
buy and wear such dollies. The]
excuse that mol hers cannot con
trol the atlire of their daughters
is begging I he question: a mother
is a pretty poor failure when she
has to confess such inability.
When a girl is permitted to buy
and wear the amazing hats that
she wore Iasi year, set on a head
loaded down with puffs and
“rats”: the waist so Iiiin and
transparent as In he absolutely
indecent, with sleeves so short
and neck so low as to transgress
the line of decency, and a skirt so
tight that her figure is displayed
al every step, with stockings of
the thinnest transparent silk,
there js a question of morals in
volved that is tremendous.”
It was Abe Marlin, the home
spun philosopher, who reduced to
sentence essence an inevitable
conclusion as to this whole ques
tion when he remarked: “The
transparent stocking aint, start
in’ no boom for the straight and
narrow way.” The Ohio, legisla
ture lias before it at the present
lime a resolution calling for the
organization of a commission to
regulate woman’s dress and to
determine the relation, of women’s
clot lies to vice.
The question is worth thinking
about. Urookville is only an
average American community—
no better and no worse than the
most of them. A sane discussion
of the question in tile sanctity of
even Urookville homes may save
the chronicling of a number of
shipwrecks of life.
Incidentally, loo, “W'lial My Hoy
Knows,” in the American Maga
zine for April, is fraught will)
I bought -provoking /suggest ions
upon the question of morality
from another and equally import
ant angle_Hrookville (Pa. He
puld iean.
THE FALL OF ADRIANOPLE.
The fall of Adrianople brings
peace in the Balkans wit bin sight.
While it will tend to stiffen the
necks of the Bulgarians, it will
leave the control of the situation
more definitely in the hands of
the European powers, with whom
the Balkan allies will now have
directly lo deal.
I lH! speech hi Sir Ivlwarnl Grey
in the House of Conunons, with
the equally linn ami eonliilenf
statement of I he British Premier,
shows file spirit in which the task
will he met.
The Balkan allies may persist
in the demand for an indemnity.
If will hardly he conceded. For
one reason, In-cause there is no
precedent for a defeated govern
ment giving an indemnity and
surrounding territory not yet con
quered. And, for a second rea
son, because the holdings of
French and English and German
hanks in the Turkish debt, would
practically be wiped out by tin
addition of an indemnity.
W ith a settlement in the Bal
kans, general peace may he re
garded as'reasonably secure. Xhe
chief difficulty, of course, is the
peculiar situation and the pecu
liar temper of the ruling class of
Germany. No doubt it seems to
the German government that the
vital interests of the nation are
gravely menaced by the changes
of (In* last six months. There has
grown up in the Balkans a ser
ious military power the future af
filiations of which if is impossi
ble Ip predict. It is possible—
some German publicists think it
certain —that this power will act
with Russia, and that, with or
without Greece, there will he
formed a strong Slav alliance
which will complete the circle of
probably hostile nations with
which Germany will have to light
for ils very existence. Against
such a combination the Triple Al
liance would he weakened in Aus
tria-Hungary by the large and
more or less discontented Slav
element in its population. II
might he further weakened by I lie
indifference of Italy, with its new
empire on the south coast of the
Mediterranean to defend, to the
larger needs of the Alliance. In
such a situation (iermany would
be left with far the heaviest bur
I den on her own shoulders, with
! I lie Triple Entente arrayed
against her and with her part
ners crippled, or worse. This is
the reason for the desperate
measures of preparation for war
on which (Iermany is embarking.
But, reasoning of much the
same sort was frecpienlly used a
month ago as to the course of
Russia and Austria. I| was said
that the interests of Austria were
so depply involved in preventing
fhe Balkan Allies, and especially
Servia, from gaining a foothold
on the Adriatic, that she would
light to gain that end, and that
as soon as Austria look up arms
Russia was bound o do the same.
Nothing of the sort has happened.
Servia has withdrawn her claims
under the advice and even pres
sure of Russia. The two great
powers have hailed on the very
brink of a conflict that threat
ened a general war. It is not un
reasonable In hope that (Iermany
and Russia and fireal Britain and
France will find a means for a
like understanding. And the
nearest Europe gets to actual
lighting the more likely it seems
that an agreement of some work
able sort will lie reached.—New
York Times.
Moving On.
We foolish folk are discontent
ed with things where’er we chance i
to dwell. "The air,’’ we say, “is,
sweeter scented in some far dis- .
laid dale or dell.” And so we
pull up slakes and travel to seek
tIn* fair and prnmisvd land, and
lind our Canaan is hut gravel, a
wilderness of rocks and sand.
"Across the hills the lields are
greener,” we murmur, "and the
view more fair: the water of the
brooks is clearer, and iish grow
larger over I here." And so we
leave our pleasant valley, from all
our loving friends we pari, and
o’er the slony hills we sally, to
reach a land that breaks I he
heart. "There’s gold in plenty
over yonder," we say, “and we
shall seek the mines.” Then
from our cheerful homes we wan
der. far from our flglrees and our
vines; a little while our dreams
we cherish, and think that we can
never fail: hut, tired at last, we
drop and perish, and leave our
hones upon the trail. How happy
is the mail whose nature per
mits him to enjoy his home, who,
till compelled by legislature, de
clines in paths afar lo roam.
There is no region belter, fairer,
Ilian that home region Ilia! you
know; there are no zephyrs
sweeter, rarer, than those which
through your galways blow.
WAT.T MASON.
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makes more sales and
makes them with greater
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enforced by Electric Light.
It shows his goods to the
best advantage,and colors
may be readily matched
under its rays.
A brilliant electrically
lighted store stamps a
merchant as a hustler.
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