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Secretary Lane Believes War
May Shatter American Ideas
A new and greater Europe grow
ing out of the war now raging, with
the peoples of the warring nations
coming at iaat to a realization of the
real liberty Americans gained long
ago was pictured by Secretary of the
Interior Franklin K. Lane, in an ad
dress before the Literary and His
torical Association of North Caroli
na. Then would come, he added, a
challenge to the United States “that
we prove ourselves as against them,
not on the field of battle, but in the
field of service to a people.”
In meeting this challenge he
thought American traditions might
have to be shattered to some degree.
“The world recognizes,” said Mr.
Lane, “that nations may not live up
on their part, but must submit them
selves to the pragmatic test, and we
are to be put to a test of all that we
have of purpose and ingenuity to es
tablish the superiority of our form
of government as a working scheme
for giving men what they want.”
Calls for Mien Unafraid.
Nowadays the cabinet official also
said “men are wondering as to the
future.
“There may be mucn oi envy ana
more of malice in current thought,”
he went on, “but underneath it a’l
there is the feeling that if a nation
, is to have a full life it must devise
methods by which its citizens shall
be insured against monopoly of op
portunity;
“This is the meaning of many poli
cies, the full philosophy of which Is
not generally grapsed—the regula
tion of railroads and other public
service corporations, the conservation
of naturaP, resources, the leasing of
public lands and water powers, the
control of great comblnat'cns of
wealth.
• HOW these movements wm event
ually express themselves none can
foretell, but In the process there will
be some who will dogmatically con
tend that “whatever is right" and
others who will march under the red
flag of revenge and expoliatlon. And
in that day we must look for men to
meet the false cry of both sides—
“gentlemen unafraid" who will neith
er be the money-hired butlers of the
rich nor power-loving panderers to
the poor.” _______
Hits South’s Conservatism.
In opening his address Mr Lane
told of the shattering of some tradi
tions in the progress of the United
States.
•'When you see tt^e West adopting
or urging such measures as presi
dential primaries, the election of
United States senators by populai
vote, the initiative, the referendum,
and the recall as means supplemen:
tary to representative governmem
you shudder in your dignified way
no doubt, at the audacity and irrev
erence of your crude countrymen,”
he said.
“What are the traditions of the
people?” "We are the heirs of all
the ages,” Our inheritance of tradi
tion is greater than that of any other
people, for we trace back not alone to
King John signing the Magna Char
ts in that little stone hut by the river
side, but to Brutus standing beside
the slain Caesar, to Charles Martel
with his battle-ax raised against the
advancing horde, of an old-world
civilization, to Martin Luther declar
ing his square-jawed policy of reli
gious liberty, to Columbus in the
prow of his boat crying to his dis
heartened crew. “Sail on, sail on,
sail on.”
irisnman, ureea. omv, ana aici
lian—all the nations of the world
have poured their hopes and their
history into this great melting pot,
and the product will be—in fact, is
—a civilization that is new in the
sense that it Is the blend of many,
A New Civilization,
and yet is as old as the Egyptians.
"Surely the real tradition of such
a people Is not any one way of do
ing a certain thing; certainly not anv
set and unalterable plan of proce
dure In affairs, nor even any ilxed
phrase expressive of a general philos
ophy unless It comeB from the uni
versal heart of this strange new peo
plo Why are we here9 What Is our
purpose?
"These questions will give you the
tradition of the American people, our
supreme tradition—the one into
which all others fall, and a part of
which they are—the right of man to
govern himself, the right of property
snd to personal liberty, the right to
Freedom of speech lh£. right .to. nUfcn.
of himself all that nature will per
mit, the right to be one of many in
creating a national life that will re
alize those hopes which singly could
not be achieved.”
Mr. Lane then said: "One half of
the world is at war today and we
look with horror upon the inhuman
ity of human nature and say to our
selves: 'Is this all that Christianity
has brought?’ ”
Soldiers to Start Reforms.
At this point Mr. Lane told of the
test for America that would follow
the war. Afterward he said:
"Those soldiers in the field are
thinking this very day of what gov
ernment means, of what society is
organized for, of which it can do what
it has not done, of what it has done
that it should not do. And they will
go home with a new view of the
world and of their relation to it.
“Out of the restless and awaken
ed spirit of such men—German and
Scotch and French and others—will
come conceptions and plans that we
conservatives of America will be com
pelled to heed. For men are full of
daring after war, and once their
home fires are started again we may
expect that these men who have
served their governments will set
about findings ways for their wider
view, of life to express itself in the
disestablishment of the things that
are useless and the uprising of things
worth while. And who shall say that
we should not enter on that race?"
FORD OFLEKITES
GET PASSPORTS
Henry Ford Asserts that He Will
Visit Warring European Coun
tries Without Passports.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Henry
Ford, the Detroit millionaire, and
one hundred and twenty other dele
gates who will take passage on his
ship to attend The Hague conference,
were given their passports this morn
ing. The passports are limited to
ports in neutral countries.
Mr. Ford has announced that he
has made his will, providing that his
son shall inherit his fortune should
he fail to return from the European
trip. He has declared that he will
not be limited to calling at neutral
ports but that he will visit England,
France and Germany in trying to ac
complish his mission of bringing
peace to Europe.
The rumor that William Jennings
Bryan, former secretary of state,
would follow the Ford peace delega
tion to Europe three weeks later, has
not been confirmed. It is stated, how
ever, that Secretary Lansing will re
fuse to give Mr. Bryan a passport ex
cept to neutral ports, as in the case
of the Ford delegates.
CLIFF MINE CASE
BEFORE THE COURT
Minority Interest Holders are Asking
Court to Order Accounting by
the Present Management.
The case of Edmund Smith. Geo.
0. Treat and Logan Archibald vs. H.
E. Ellis, in which the plaintiffs are
asking for an accounting of the mon
eys alleged to have been recovered
from the Cliff mine since it passed
under the present management, is
before the district court this after
noon.
It is reported that other damage
suits may grow out of the charges
which have been made in the r mi
plaints in which the lessee is asserted
to have damaged the mine by n»r
forming his work in an unminer-liic.i
manner. It is also reported that in
case of an adverse declston Mr El
lis will close the mine until the ap
peal from the recent ruling of the
court whereby the plaintiffs were
given a ose-flfth interest In the min-\
can be determined in the higher
courts.
Ice tongs with a spring scale in
one arm so that a customer can see
the weight of a piece of ice have
been patented.
An international exposition of elec
trical appliances and a general Span
ish exposition will be held In Barce
lona in 1917.
A new electric room heater re
sembles the usual hot water type,
but the current can be regulated to
control the temperature
An Illinois inventor has patented
a bookholder to be clamped to the
arm of a chair that can be adjusted
to almost any height, angle or dls
RAYS FROMJTHE SUN.
They Become Light to Ue Only Upon
Striking Our Atmosphere.
The rays of light that reach us from
the sun are not light in themselves.
For instance, to show what is meant,
suppose you were placed out in empty
space, facing so that you would look
sidewise at the light rays passing from
the sun to the earth. You would not
see them at all. You could only see
them if you looked directly at the sun.
so that the rays would enter your
eyes and, striking upon the retina, pro
duce there the impression of light.
The rays passing by and not enter
ing your eyes would he invisible be
cause in open space there is no me
dium like the atmosphere to scatter
the rays in all directions and thus pro
duce an Illumination all around.
The sky at night is full of passing
sunbeams and stnr beams, n vast and
inextricable web of radiations, but they
lie beyond the limits of the atmos
phere. and only those are transformed
into light which hy reflection from a
planet In the case of sunbeams or by
coming straight Into the eye from n
stur directly affect the nerves of vision
—Garrett P. Serviss in New York Jour
uat.
; UNDER AN AVALANCHE.
A Remarkable Experience and Reecue
In the Italian Alps.
Human beings occasionally live
through incredibly long imprisonments
after their dwellings have been over
j whelmed by avalanches. On March 10.
j IY50. avalanches buried the village of
! Bergemoletto, in the Italian Alps, and
' on April 25 three women were dug out
! alive from a stable In which they hail
been immured for thirty-seven days in
the dark beneath the mass of snow
which lay forty-two feet higher than
tite roof. With them had been buried
a little boy, six goats, a donkey and
some hens.
The child, the donkey and the fowls
soon died, but the goats helped the
women to survive, their milk supple
menting the thirty or forty cakes and
! llie pocketful of chestnuts upon which
they depended for food. Hope of find
ing the women alive laid been abun
dotted when far in April the brother
! of one had a dream in which site np
■ tstaled to him for rescue.
I The weather then at last made ex
cavation possible, and the women were
restored to the world and presently to
health.—Chicago News.
I
Culture.
Culture is a slow process It conies
) from long and close contacts. It is tin*
| fruit of reflection, of travail of soul
and of mind. Grappling with some
thing until the very essence of it has
been extracted is a tirst step. Thus the
tastes of essences is learned, and once
learned lesser distillations do not satis
fy. Then follows a growing power to
discriminate, to distinguish nice values,
to judge of quality, to answer to beau
ty, to feel the need, that what you
have, though It may lie little, may
still be the real thing. This is euiture.
it is not baggage, like diplomas and <le
(trees, it is not things seen and heard,
miles traveled or books read. These
are the materials for euiture. They
contribute to it only when they are
absorbed by the mind and as really
lost in it as water and lime, phosphates
and ammonia must he lost in the soil if
they are to enrich it and enable it to
' increase its yield.—Idn M. Tarbell in
| Woman’s Home Companion.
I -
A Personal Application.
A well known business man in Law
rence. Mass., once had a customer who
contracted a debt that ran unpaid foi
a year or more, and even several let
ters failed to bring aliout a settlement.
One day. while glancing over the re
llgiotis notices In a local paper. the
business man saw something that gave
him a new Idea. He went to his desk
and wrote the following note to the
debtor:
My Dear Sir—1 see In the local press
thnt you are to deliver an address on
Friday evening before the V. M. C. A. on
•The Sinner’s Balanced Account.” 1 In
close yours, as yet unbalanced, and trust
that I may have the pleasure of attend
ing your lecture.
A check came by the next mall.—
Youth’s Companion.
New Way* of Saying It.
•‘Strain at q gnat and swallow a
camel" came from the lips of an old
friend as “Gug at a straw and swallow
a whole load of hay." Of a certain
girl she said. "She smiles like a frog at
the girls and grins like a rag carpet at
the boys.” I have never seeu a rag
curpet since but It resolves Itself Into
rows of grinning teeth, and as for the
drooping smile of the frog. It certainly
speaks for itself, as it were.—Woman's
Home Companion.
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Dan Emmet.
"Dixie,” one of the most famous
American sougs. was written In 1851)
by Daniel Emmet, an American song
writer and mlnsrrel. who was born in
Ohio in 1815. He appeared In many
cities of this country and Englund and
at one time was associated with Dan
Bryant
Hs Knew.
“I bad a seventy mile drive yester
day.” sbe said enthusiastically.
“There ain't no inch thing." retorted
the golf player grimly—Detroit Free
Press.
Something Like It.
“I bear your husband Is crasy about
aia new auto."
“I should say so! He's a perfect at»
toerat”-Baltimore American
Fortune cannot take away wbat sbe
did not give.- Seneca
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