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Boston Sunday Globe (Newspaper) - September 26, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts46THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE-SEPTEMBER 26, 1915 boston -Simtrag (§ltk. I- imt i««i*4 Oet It. IST Ta* boston Daily Giob*. Iwtabllakad March 4, I STC. (lCt?ntfic Kilttlon Finn Imot-d March I. 1447ft.« SUNDAY, SEPT 26, 1915. SEVENTY-SIX PAGES. MINIATURE ALMANAC SEPT 2* Standard Time. Pun Iii nee  5:34 I TI ipzli Tide.. 12:55 am Pun Sets  5:37    "    .. 1:10 pm Length of Dsy.I2.fiS Moon Rises 6:46 pm Hight of Tide Oft 4ln am, Oft "in pm Light Automobile Lamps Rt 6:07 pm Moon'* Chanst?*. Last Quarter. Ort J. 4h 44m. morn. E. New Moon, Ort 8. th 4.m, eve, W. First Quarter, Oet IR, Sh Rim. morn. E. Full Moon, Ort 22, Th 16m, eve, E. srHNCRIPTION RATES. THE DAILY GLOBE firer* tog Ort** roily, per month. Sh cents; per year $6. Poet*ac prcpslri. Retail price 2c per copy. THE DAILY GLOBE (Kvrntno Edition)— Ore cojij*, par ni .nth, by mail. Sh cents; |>cr year fir poet Ute prepctil. R.taU price Ic per copy. Price «)e1itere<t by carrier She a month. THE SENDA Y GM (BK—By mall. $3 per year. Postape prepaid. THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY, 24.' \V««liiDct.‘!i St........... Boatm Entered at the Pnstottce, Boston, Mass , ar ne. on. I-I-la aa matter. Manuscripts sent to the Globe util not be considered unless nturn post-ape is enclosed. Typewritten ropy ie i ll el trays hare the preference. A WASHINGTON CALENDAR. ((ayins* and philosophy of Waah-Inston » Mrh ha • e been collated from hit adders*?*, letter*, order* and diaries, and each da»e In the calendar I* tho date of the document or speech from which the extract la taken. September 26, 1775 Allow me to recommend a gentleness, even to forbearance, with persons so entirely in our power. We know not what the chance of war may be; hut let it be what it will, the duties of humanity and kindness will demand such treatment as we ahould expect from others. (Letter to the war committee at Hartford.) vague idea of making themselves thereby able to earn a slightly better living. In most cases probably this hope is Justified, but less through any direct relation of college studies to their life work than by the indirect mental discipline and stimulation which they receive. It then becomes a question whether what they thus receive is worth the time and the money it costs, and that is a question which each student must ask and answer for himself, the answer being hardly possible until he has made the experiment. Many students do not feel that their own and their parents’ circumstances justify them In allotting three or four years to studies, profitable and delightful as they may be intellectually. which may have only the slightest bearing on their suboequent ability to support themselves and to repay a share of what they have cost their parents in care and expense. There are parents, on the other hand, capable of valuing the things of the mind highly enough to be glad to sacrifice and pinch in order that their children may gratify these fine and wholesome intellectual cravings, whether or not it will ever add a penny to their pockets. This is an admirable spirit, and one which is often Its own reward. How Will the War Affect Jewish Destinies? Answered by MR LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, Leader of Zionists. MR JACOB DE HAAS, Editor Jewish Advocate. RABBI STEPHEN S. WISE, Of the Free Synagogue. New York. MR LOUIS IE KIRSTEIN, Business Man. Will Gain a Fairer Share of Political Equality. By Louin D. Bran dei*. EDITORIAL POINTS. Of course the women speakers In the anti-suffrage team that is going to start tomorrow on a five-weeks’ automobile tour of the State know how to reconcile their position on the stump with their argument that the place for women is the home. - - . - v ■■ _ • Pittsburg, also, is going to have a suffragist parade October 16. Will the girls there dress in white?    .    ♦    ■ Harvard University will be open for. the academic year tomorrow, but Bloody Monday Night isn’t so lively ss it used to be, and nothing sensational is expected to happen in Prexy Lowell’s pet freshman dormitories. PLAIN TALK -FOR Plain People By DR FRANK CRANE Probably even far-sighted Benjamin Franklin didn’t foresee that France and England would ever come over here to get a billion-dollar loan. N COLLEGE AND JOB. KACH June the cartoonist* make merry at the expense of college graduates on the look for a Job. It would be more to the point if they Eaved their Jokes until Autumn, and offered them In the shape of warnings to the entering freshmen classes. Instead of twitting the departing graduates with "You have your degree; now what are you going to do with it?” they would better say to incoming freshmen, “You are going in for a degree; be sure you know what you are going to do with it.” Rut excellent as the advice would be. It would be hard to apply, partly because, as a witty professor once said to his freshmen, "I realize that in that section of your heads reserved for good advice there is now Standing Room Only,” and partly because the . college itself, as things are. stands betwixt and between. The Col leg e Dilemma. The high schools are constantly tending to hitch up their courses with practical life. “Mechanic Arts,” “Practical Arts,” “Commerce”—these are now familiar high school titles. On the far side of the college, the professional schools grow more and more expert: engineering, medicine, dentistry, law, theology, finance, agriculture, architecture—they, too, are training boys (or, by this time, men I for life Jobs. And since the higher grade professional schools (medical or law) require a college degree for entrance, and that adds years to the school life of youth, the colleges have shortened courses to a possible three years. So the need of finding a Job whittles away at the college, both at the top and at the bottom. At this rate, what is to become of the college? The difficulty is comparatively recent. In the old days college education was for the few-. And those Culture vs. Parsnips. But the college must depend for the majority of Its students on more materially minded young folks, and more of these each year are beginning to ask what the college can give them that they will be later able to sell. “A disciplined mind,” says the college. “But I can get that In a technical school." “Culture," adds the college. "But the market for culture is limited," says the student. “Culture is not to sell, it is to enjoy,” the college reminds him. “Yes," retorts the student, “but the enjoyment of culture butters no parsnips.” For the college to reply that it does I ot undertake to butter parsnips does not help matters, because, after all, the cal lege has parsnips of its own to butter by selling education, and if it is to sell this it must comply with the demands of its customers. And the customers are now demanding butter. It would be delightful if everybody vbuld br thoroughly conversant with literature, history, mathematics and science, and talk about such things instead of the weather and the cussedness of the furnace. In college towns such subjects are topics of cr dins ry conversation, and so delightful it is that the people who live In them for life are unfitted to tolerate the crudities of the outside world. But the truth is that this delightful OT until the war la over will it De aafe to premise the gains—should there he any—and losses which will have come to the Jewish people. The losses will be distinct enough. So many tens of thousands of Jews killed and wounded; so many tens of thousands of Jewish homes devastated and pillaged beyond restoration; so many hundreds of Jewish villages on the Rus-so-Oerman and Austrian frontiers with all their economic possibilities destroyed. The food problem at the present moment is the problem of a ten million dollar relief fund for one year. The recapitalization of one or two million persons is ever a large problem and larger than philanthropy has ever attempted. The gains may, however, prove a fair counterbalance. There Is already in evidence the determination of Jews to deal with the problem. The agitation for the American Jewish Congress demonstrates that the Jewish democracy In America Is seeking means to express Itself—and to handle the problems that will arise. This agitation therefore denotes a growth in the scit-nrtiance or the collective group of Jews. And this new-found self-reliance will unquestionably react upon the Individual Jew throughout the dispersion. On the other hand, after the splendid conduct of the Jews of all belligerent countries In the war, the charges of cowardice and military inefficiency, never true, but which have been periodically made against the Jews, should disappear forever. There are probably 600,(KIU Jews in the European Armies, and their conduct in the field has won them distinctions and medals In every one of the forces. Formerly such Incidents were known only to the students of obscure military records. Now all the world reads and obtains a new Impression of peoples and their qualities. In this way the Jew gains. He has come out of a peculiar obscurity, Into which endless persecution pushed him. for the group, In Europe and In Palestine. These, bein* the obvious needs, are the first desires of Jews everywhere. Most writers who have been in Europe since the war affect to believe that several of the Nations have changed their character since the outbreak. This is of course an error. The exigencies of the war have compelled the removal of the superficial attributes of the various nationalities. National character, too, Is a weapon In this gigantic struggle, and the natural tendencies of peoples have therefore been uncovered. That Is why there Is so much talk of the recognition of the smaller nationalities, such eager discussion of the possibilities of democracy, so keen a belief that the outcome of it all will be on the side of social justice. These three terms describe the condition. attitude and ideal of the Jewish to take more than his full share In the jeople. So in proportion as these are ad struggle. His reward should be better | vanced by the war the Jews will gain treatment, better regard Individually, A fairer share of political equality in every country In which at present this is denied him. He should he granted fuller opportunity for the individual, as well as and as it Is a peculiar quality of the Jews to react quickly on* their environment. their gain will speedily be made to advantage social, Intellectual and moral causes.      .    . The Ultimate Righting of Human Wrongs. By Jacob de Haas. T HE world Is never done with sn Idea, provided It is a real one. Thus every great war has provoked the hope or belief that the particular onslaught was somehow distinctly related to human destiny—that ultimate which Is far beyond political geography. This war. which Is the greatest of humanity’s militant experience#, has provoked since its first onset many hopes and aspirations that what was wrong will be set right, thst somehow the ages will round themselves out. and each nationality will, at the end, live In Its own home, and contribute out of Its ripened democratic faith that measure of mutual self-reliance which shall enable It to participate In the parliament of nations and the brotherhood of man. The moment that thought—the world approaching destiny—grips you, then, willy nllly, you have to think of the Jews. They began this Idea of the ultimate righting of human wrongs, and they have lived for 2000 years because they believe in the eternal tomorrow-some tomorrow. But the human hlood-dripping tragedy is so vast that nine out of every IO men who know, or permit themselves to think, about the mixture of human need nnd metaphysical speculation—the dual urge of so much of life—believe that the tomorrow of these hopes and dreams is no longer remote, indeterminate and Indefinitely the morrow of the day after the war. How will the Jew. who has waited patiently for Armageddon, fare then? In all armies, soldier of autocracy, volunteer of democracy, what will be the reward of his courage and bravery? The world pity has rightly gone forth to war-harrowed Belgium nnd the harassed Belgians. But the Jews have suffered In that same year all that the Belgians have suffered, and have suffered some part of all that misery—the dragoon’s law, the pillaged home — for eighteen hundred and forty-five years. How now, my masters? Will the end be merely widowed misery, casting ashes and dust on orphaned misery'* head, or is the glamoured destiny on the other side of the blood-stained horizon? Destiny to be achieved should be an evolution. What has been In process In Israel these 40 years—a process not of accident but of design—Is related to the old conception of destiny—restoration to Palestine. The Jews, to the number of 44,000, have a foothold in the country, and. what is equally Important, their rights to Zion are among the few things that all writers on every phase of the war—pro-Ally or pro-German—admit. Indeed the only point that all warring elements are agreed upon Is that at the end of the holocaust the Jews and Palestine will be more closely related than at present. Democracy everywhere hopes to be the eventual victor in this war. and so the general position of the Jews in every European land should be better than at present. But even democracy is “my doxy," and the minority position of the Jews in lands of otherwise homogeneous elements can never be at permanent ease. So, while we should hope and strive for freedom everywhere, the world will be putting Its best foot forward towards destiny if It helps the Jew onward to that goal of which the Psalmist wrote paradoxically, now as the dream which is the Return; and then as the Return which Is a dream. A Belgian soldier interned In Holland, writing to this country to ask for necessary clothing, gives the measurements of his family, beginning with “My wife. width of shoulders, 40 cm; length of waist, 45 cm; hight, I rn 37 cm: length of arm folded, 61 cm; shoes, No. 40.” Perhaps It ahould be explained that the No. 40 Is French measure. The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard will he open for service tomorrow, and any of the students may begin the task of reading through its 1,750,000 volumes. If you get a paper from the British Islands now. you may be pretty sure that It came from the publication office. Under the rigid British censorship, no newspaper or magazine sent by an individual Is allowed to leave the country. lf your friend lives In the suburbs, It will probably he better not to ask him how he got on with his garden this \ mr    • Philadelphia Record:    Rockefeller    Jr. In overalls in the mines, wielding his pick in the coal seams, eating his grub with the miners, borrowing a night shirt from the mine boss, is getting the precise education he needs as the boss of a Coal Trust. He should hereafter he able to see both sides of controversies he may be called upon to arbitrate between himself and his Income. If the Anglo-French Commissioners came over here hoping to succeed in borrowing $500,000,000, they were wise, according to the wisdom of business men, to ask for a billion dollars at the start. Jews Will Gain From the Spread of Democracy. By Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. fleeing essence of statesmanship on    the    part of    las the spiritually divided hosts of Israel. AT the outset of the war. foreseeing ,    Prov|atonal Committee,    not    merely    j    but It has quickened within Israel the In some measure the crisis in.    anticipated    the    world crisis spirit of self-help and self-dependence. was ahead of us, I felt that ther* (    ^    actually arisen,    but    within    |    Its Incidental effect upon the extra Jew had not been exhibited any really great    ,tmltat,onil of Zionist strength and    l»h world has been equally significant, statesmanship In the handling of Jew-    to    hav,    eV„y    possible    winning from multitudes of non-Jews lsh affairs up to that time Not (jvon    ^    ^    t    ove|    of thft thnt reverence which always goes out the-lesser or more Immediate BNd or    dlfflcuUy    and    stress    which    are    to the self-reverlng. .• ,    __Iv fwa verv /Mir iiconic have been met with that    From    these achievements and from the culture IB possible only to the leo , our pwl. _»»    o(    vttlon    .Web    [new upon us.    e„v..lo„.l    ->.M.rfUl stimulus cr,..* by th. rn.- few, and even college graduates >r> tht    Utable    mark,    of    states-    Much, It net s^ . .a    lo    vu».lun of th. question and organisation _,u|n    I    Zionist tomnmier    of a democratic Jewish Congress, It it not be said that the differ- achieve has become pons e    seems safe to say that the destiny of the M 8 .,lin merely political and I the accession to the forces of Israel of .    .    ^ ^ ^ wm ^ cnee *    -manlike way of dealing j Louis D. Brandels. . nee    _ ' the    hands of    the    American Jew.    Byres- Wh°Uy ‘ESETi«herein? The minor I of Theodor Herzl there ha.    Iteen    £ .    of ^    „    fimher pafp tQ    a8,ume with P method Is to try to meet j such accession to the ian “    .j    that the Jews Will gain from whatever °r i    *hev    arise    The    wider    and    tho    ship In Israel as has come a    spread and advancement of democracy nssds SS tb.yTM h|n |B to 'n, c,rcum»tn..v.s of Louis I). Hrnnd.l. .    The    Ion    of    Mn. wiser in. " qtat.Bman.hlp Inheres : willingness lo step fort    .    .    , j Ie    alrendy In    evidence. The Jew., aa In* riba? pre “.ton whlcb an.loli.ea and I he.U.tl.n and bear lh. harden of    lend- a.--------------- ------- Maeterllnck’a doctrine Is not exactly that of reincarnation or the transmigration of souls, hut he believes that the good In the minds of the millions who are killed In the European war will live again. “All those forces of wisdom, patience, honor and sacrifice, that increase dally, and that even we, though far from danger, feel rising within us, without knowing whence they come, are naught but the souls of the dead heroes received and absorbed by souls.” he says. our own Gov Gosthals will retire October I from active service in the United States Engineer Corps and after taking a rest will open an office In New York city— perhaps with a more or less vague Idea that he may be Governor of New York some day. The bill to prohibit tipping on sleeping and parlor cars to he offered at the forthcoming session of Congress will come from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and not from the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters. themselves must drop It like a hot potato when It comes time to hustle for a living.    ^ .4 Fair Bargain. So the question becomes: Should the college continue to dispense culture to the relatively few—and a culture for which most of their graduates have little time In after life— or should the college change its | teaching to topics with a more vital bearing on the problems of society in general and of the student’s own bread and butter in particular? The latter is already happening. Students gravitate to those studies, Burh as economics und political economy, which help them to understand the processes of modern society. Thus a law of supply and demand is gradually revising the college . ... aaa,,,,. VT. Hie J CWS, SS ffi- u. .«=«<..- dividual., are everywhere In the advance and In- I ershlp In the Zionist movement. For KUar(j of those who believe that the war provides for situations remo e    Zionist movement in America has shouid en(\ in the triumph of democracy tangible. Such statesmanship 1bas in s    boen the world Zionist move- in all lands. On the other hand, every degree been revealed In the t    •    democratic expression Is favoring the duct of the Provisional Zionist Com- men. ^ (u effectp upon the people policy of granting freedom and equality mittee. organized In the 8u™m" J* | f lpnicl> the movement is Immeasura- to the Jews in all lands and already has immediately after the beginning    heneflcent. Not only has It given had a very marked tendency to recog ot the war. Long before the cries.of    J .    ^ ^ „tr|ck«n and done much to jnize the especial claims of the Jew. to „„ay war,    '• »“    v.„    I    lh. bhV-sHy «**<«""• “    ................. would arise. It na. well specific recognition In Palestine. Problem Far Too Great For Mere Philanthropy* By Louis E. Kirstein. few passed smoothly into business, j courses, and these changes are or the professions of law, theology j destined to go faster and farther. and medicine. But when college education became a thing for the many, it did not take long to crowd these professions, and then began that vexed and endless discussion of “whether college makes a man more valuable in business”—a discussion which can be summed up with the brief reply: “Directly, no; indirectly, yes.” Can I Sell It? The practical value of a college education has become an acute question. There is the teaching profession, of course; but not everybody can teach, nor does everybody care to. and if they did there would not be jobs enough to go round. To add three or four yeare more to the collage course for professional studies 5s not within the means of many. Hence the popularity of the teachni-cal schools and the rapid crowding of the various engineering professions. Keen bb they may be on studying delightful but unsalable subjects, such as literature and history, most young people go lo college with the To demand a cash equivalent of a college education is futile. It was not intended for that. The college gives gifts for which no cash standard exists, or can exist—friendships, association with wise and kindly and HE world has been so sickened by the horrors of the European war that it is doubtful whether even the statesmen whose business it is to consider what Is to follow after the war have given serious attention to the process of adjustment. Those who are thinking about such matters are probably thinking more of the commercial and financial problems that will confront the world when peace Is restored than the human element in the debacle. We are all becoming hardened to what is happening in the battle areas and the stories of evacuation of whole towns and cities make little or no Impression now. but when the battle smoke is dissipated the Jews will be found in a condition unselfish instructors, whose lives are I that wil1    humanity, As a class the Russian. Polish and an inspiration, whose speech distills wisdom. It ingrains habits of bodily and mental health, teaches little courtesies and reticences, and senses of fitness and consideration, which help daily life to run more smoothly. For these the community should be, and is, grateful. But the obligation of the colleges toward the community is enlarging, too. lf we let them off from the duty of teaching the arts of bread-and-butter winning, they should teach us a larger view of the bread-and-butter question, and train us how' to give to the community that kind of service which shall make our own and the community’s bread-and-butter problems easier to solve. Culture is a precious possessiot-But, after all, you .an’t eat it. Uncle Dudley. Galician Jews were materially and politically badly off prior to the war; in Russia, in particular, grinding persecution had a disastrous effect in the congested area of the pale of settlement. And as thiB pale of settlement is practically the equivalent of the Russo-German war zone the Jews in Russia are physically and materially In the same plight as the Belgians, with less aureolin the present and less hope of restoration, whoever wins, in the future. In normal times the Jews in Germany, France, Austria, England and Italy did their hest to relieve the poverty that was a consequence of persecution, and while they are still doing what they can their share has had to be diminished in proportion to their own increasing wants —for they, too. are now victims of the war and may shortly have to appeal for ald. This puts the burden squarely up to America as being the home of the only Jews who are In a position to help, and I it has come home to the Jews here gradually, for committees are now being formed by which means the recent immigrants from war zones are coming to the aid of their unfortunate brethren abroad, dividual to make what sacrifice he can at this time, it is equally clear that this sacrifice will not meet the conditions that will discover themselves when the war Is over. Something fur larger than ,or "■* - <»• NATION-WIDE WATER HUNT. anything that charity can do will have American Firma at Last 9olve Prob- to be done. Evacuation of whole com- !    •- to triunities gives the Inverse result that you notice when you throw a stone In a pool of water—the circles enlarge, and with each enlargement become less definite. In this case they become more definite as they are enlarged. Probably a million Jew-s have been moved during the war—moved, first, from the immediate frontier towns and villages to the cities, then moved from the cities, with the old resident elements of those cities, into towns and villages more remote from the battle front. Theae drives have bt en going on for a year, increasing poverty in every diree-tion, accentuating misery in every form, and adding day by day to the total of unspeakable horrors. Meanwhile scores of the towns that people came from have been shelled and destroyed, so there arises a question whether, lf they be given the opportunity to readjust themselves in their own homes, whether their homes exist at all, and if they do exist, the people will have to he capitalized in order to start, life over again. There is Involved in this a huge political problem—will the Russian Govern meat permit them to return? Or will ii permit them to remain at their “last address"? And as this problem involves not only the hunted million, but about 6,OOO,'.OO or 7,000,000 more people, there is a tremendous ferment throughout the Jewish world us to the action the Powers will take, and should take, to bring about an adjustment and reorganization of life far and away above the ability of philanthropic effort. The immediate gain in all this misery is not only that the Jews are raising money tc help their people, but that thereat mass of the Jews in this country have become thoroughly conscious of lem of Photograph Paper. After nine months of constant experimentation two leading American firms have succeeded in making photographic paper. This is the first time that the United States has entered this field successfully. At the outbreak of the European war the supply of photographic paper, which came from France. Germany and Austria. was declared insufficient to last more than months. When it became apparent that the war was likely to last a long time the American photo industry faced business stagnation or the discovery of processes for an American-made paper. The reactions of light on sensitized photographic paper are still Chemical mysteries. So, although American chemists used the formulae that had been found satisfactory tn Europe, they foiled to produce the desired results The printed picture came out blotched nnd uneven. Painstaking investigation of the ln-- red lent s used failed to explain this phenomenon. The manufacturers tried Mnen, straw and wood pulp papers, but the blotches persisted. The only remaining component of the paper, the effect of which was problematic, was the water. Two of the largest American manufacturers entered upon a Nation-wide .search for water, the chemical composition of which would not mar the sensitization. Men with small hand outfits for paper making were sent to all corners of the United States and for six months they carried on experiments at wells and springs innumerable. In two different localities, more than I OHO miles apart, these two firms found water suitable for their purposes. Manufacture on an extensive scale has been begun. The photographic industry of -    . .1 C3( .,4-..    *------ While, therefore, it la up to each in- the whole group of responsibilities they up«m Europ^or*!!!# £uppUea?r dependent Moving pictures with seats selling nt $3 each are an actuality In New York. The ultra-fnzhionables can now choose between moving pictures and grand opera. Are we to understand that there would be no offense iu the adjective "bloed-slnnlg," applied to Capt von Papen? Now that the Russian embargo against exports to the United States has been lifted, are you familiar enough with the market to know what effect this will have on the price of Russia leather? Has the New York World hit on the real explanation of the White House Interview? "Perhaps Mr Bryan called at the W’hite House to persuade the President to subscribe for the Commoner,’’ It says. Constantinople, without either gas, ele trlclty, or candles, must be in a bad way, particularly as Standard Oil can’t get there with a supply of kerosene. Home observant person announces that the girls have adopted a new fashion of wearing stockings that are not mates, so lf you happen to notice any Incongruity don't let It worry you. The official estimate that the people of the United States are fleeced out of approximately $239,OOO,CUO every year through fraudulent mail order schemes is evidence that fools continue to be born at the rute of one every minute. Barbara Erietchie Is to be shown in the moving pictures, so that the chil- When I studied geography In the 3d Ward School at Springfield, 111, I found that Illinois was blue, Missouri was deep green and Indiana a blrd’s-egg blue. The first time I crossed the State line, on a visit to Terre Haute, I was surprised to discover that the country In Indiana was the same color as that of Illinois. The division of ths territory of this Nation into States Is purely artificial There is no more difference between the New Yorkers and the Pennsylvanians than there is betwesn the people of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. We ar# a Nation of homogeneous population. Our State system has some advnn-I tages, perhaps, but when It comes to lawmaking its effect is ludicrous and bothersome. There exists a commission whose object is to promote uniformity In State laws. Its president Is Prof Charles Thaddeus Terry of Columbia University. From a recently published interview with him we gather some striking facts. New York, for Instance, requires two witnesses to a will; Connecticut and some other States require three; and lf a man makes a will In New York with two witnesses, and therein disposes of his Connecticut property, It Is Invalid in the latter State. A couple married In New York are not regarded as duly wed In Wisconsin, where they ask more questions before granting a license. If you are divorced in New Jersey and remarry In New York you may be guilty of bigamy, aa the court! In the latter State have the right to refuse to recognize your divorce. Some years ago New Jersey granted the maker of a promissory note the indent privilege of three days of grace; while in New York this privilege was denied. While this Inconsistency has been remedied, there remain many othd' discrepancies in the laws of the two States regarding negotiable paper. Thirty States have passed workmen s compensation acts, and all are dlffere.it. Cold storage food shipped from Chicago to New York may pass through the four States, West Virginia. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, nnd it will be impossible to comply with the cold storage laws of one State without violating those of another. Stock swindling and fraudulent promotion prohibited In one State are permitted In another. These are samples of the confusing and contradictory State laws, which promote litigation, fraud and Injustice. It la to be hoped that the commission will In t'me be able to reduce the hodgepodge of local laws Into some semblance of uniformity. Brain. The most amazing thing about th* world is the human brain that appreciates It. That mass of corrugated gray matter boxed In borte which registers the im- 'by the American people, and I am eur# he considers himself, as their servant, He has no mortgage on his Job. He hold* It by no divine right. He cannot pass It on to a successor of his own blood or choice. When we don’t like what he does we criticise him. There are ceituln partisans that yelp at him every ’.urn ha makes, like a pack of yapping pups. Wgi do not suppress them. It Is the constitutional privilege of vulgar people to scold their servants. And yet he la the chief man of thd greatest Nation In the world. In former days he would have shouted "Off with his head!" when any one crossed nim. and would have worn a crown, also a lobe with a tall IO feet long. It la the apirtt of service that makes him the decent, conscientious, hardworking man he Is. The curse of wealth is that It destroys this spirit of service. The man who dom nothing because he has enough to tiro on comfortably Is no better than tim man who does nothing because he can beg or smoke his pipe on the bench by the poorhouse farm Both are leeches. They ar# not serving. They are beltie served When you lose sight of the duty of nerving you Invite at once spiritual microbes of the moat destructive character to come and breed In you. There is a luxury in being waited on. But that feeling induces pride, meanness. selfishness, the undisciplined will, the unruled passions and the whole rakehelly crew of traits that causa excess, perversion. Indolence, selfishness, boredness and pessimism. There Is a luxury, too, In serving. It is a real pleasure when it becomes a habit. It brings on the genuine happiness makers, which are humility, unselfishness, sanity, health, optimism, cheer and a wholesome Interest In life. The greatest of men said of himself: “The Bon of Man came not to be served, but to serve.” Laying lip. The thrifty man lays up money for bls old age. The farmer lays up fodder for his Winter feeding. The medical student lays up Information for use in his future practice. The intelligent, by due exercise and diet, lay up health, and the wastrel lays up trouble and disease by his excesses. AU of us lay up something, willy nllly. It is a good Idea to ask one’s self, in considering any act we are about to perform, not only what will be the Immediate pleasure in It, but w-hat sort of a product we are laying up for ourselves by It. We ars always coming Into our Inheritance from our pest deeds. Maetcrlink says: “There Is one thing that can never turn Into suffering, and that is the good we have done." This day you may have to decide between doing a thing that will gain you a thousand dollars and a thing that will cost you ten. In making up your mind It is well to take into consideration what happiness-dlvidend the transaction hi wonderful substance of all substance*. What would a tree mean lf there were no brain to see it with Its eye. to hear it with Its ear, and to touch it with its hand? Nothing. Practically It would not exist. There would be no sun if there were no eye, no perfumes if there were no nose, no sounds lf there were no ear. Blot out brains and the universe I* extinguished. There may be other suns in the sky, there may be spirit bodies moving among us. there may be stupendous music swirling around us, all of such quality that we have no organ to perceive them. For us they do not exist. A telephone would be a dead thing nnd useless without a receiver. Th# brain Is the receiver of the universe. Very wonderful is Paderewski’s performance upon the piano, Raphael's colors upon canvas, Hhakspere's words on paper, and all of the Creator's glory of landscape and sea view; but not bo miraculous as the grayish stuff In our heads that can receive their messages, record them and translate them Into emotion. It was not such a task to create a world as it was to construct this curious organ that the world can play upon For a world with no brain in It would be an Ysaye without a violin. My mind is the ultimate miracle. Long before this brain came into being there were electricity, light, sound, color, and all the phenomena of existence; but, actually, the universe was created when I was born, and when I die It will be the end of the world. The whole cosmos, the sum of things, Is all in that pulp In the bone-cup at the top of my spine. More strange yet than our ability to perceive sights and sounds is our ca laclty tor understanding those notions of pure spirit that go on in other brains, dren cf today will be able to tell their | We CQn fcee the hopc lovc> hate_ Jov an(, grand hildren the incident. that they actually saw lf Hic statement that 13 families control realty In New York worth $■’05,404,-875—which is one-fifteenth of the assessed land in the borough of Manhat- I poetry, laugh at comedy, mourn in sym-tan—ta Justified, there’s a good argu- , pathy, fear from our own fancies, feel ment for the single-taxers.    I    aln and rightness, follow evil or wor ship God. Of all Jewels found in earth or sea, of Ever though the Cubans will no longer teach English in their* schools, there Is no reason why our schools should retaliate by dropping Spanish. M*lae'* zrcutent need Im it mean* of c«>n-vlet lug Anil punishing criminal offlelnl*.— Kenrollee Journal. Even though an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? presslons received from all things, from    ------ stars to dust motes. Is by far the most going to bring you IO years from now.  ------ ---------- The world you live In Is formed on the laying up principle. Nature gains her ends as a child learns to walk and talk, by infinite repetitions. She does the same thing over and over. She Is eternally learning how. Think how many centuries she practiced In fish flappers, bird wings and animal fore-legs until she could make a human arm. Let the scientist tell you of the infinite trials that preceded the formation of an eye. an ear. a human brain. The effciency of every age depends upon what was laid up for It by th* ages gone before. This age of coal and petroleum rest# upon the long cycles of the carboniferous era, when Hummer after Summer giant trees grew and fell, and In the crucible of earth war* changed to coal and oil! Nnture never forgets. She never drops a stitch. What she does now Is a part of what she has In mind for IO,(IOO years from now. The plan of the oak is in the acorn. “The books were opened," say# the Apocalypse, describing the Day of Judgment, "and the dead were Judged out of the things that were written in the books." This parable is but a picture of the scientist's declaration that our every act leaves its rut in the brain, making us prone to repeat; what we feel today we more readily feel tomorrow; every functioning of body or mind, In fact, having memory-making as a byproduct. The whole process looks toward a future man. Creation Is cumulative. That is the meaning of evolution. The human race is cumulative. That we learn from reading history. The individual life is cumulative. Every day is for future days. Every sensation and every act of will, everything J do has a bearing upon the me that shall be IO years from this time-a thousand, a million years hence—who knows? Hence, lf any one chooses to believe that, after this long getting ready. Nature is going to throw me. body and soul, back into the scrap heap, let him believe it. Nature ought to have as much sense as I have. And I certainly would not po to all the pains Nature takes in preparing a human spirit only to fling my product at last Into the dltdh. (Copyright, HHS, by Frank Crane.) sorrow of another, Interpreting them by words, signs and ott er indications. We can grasp world plans, recondite scientific theories, and the subtlest refinements of thought, We can weep ai The statement that 9000 New York policemen have indorsed woman suffrage ie not at all surprising. The policemen are always polite to the ladles. The covered bridge in Vermont is giving place generally to concrete structures. guaranteed to last at least IOO years. There may be people in the next generation who won’t understand what the phrase, "dry as a covered bridge," implies. No matter what the fashion is, any girl with parenthesis legB ought to know enough not to wear short skirts. Meanwhile, Sec Lansing continues fishing in Lake Ontario, and not sending newspaper editors any of the fish. The football season Is now fairly open, and some of the college classes also have begun. What are the gong sleeves that a fashion paper says the girls are going to wear this Winter? "The submarines are too big," Henry Ford. Tee-Lee I says ult machines made by man’s cunning, of all the Incomprehensible works of the Ditty, nothing excels that handful of gray substance that functions Ilk** locked-up god In the cranium of “the two-legged animal without feathers." The Universal Blunder. “The universal blunder of this world," said Phillips Brooks, “is in thinking that there are certain persons put into the world to govern and certain others to obey. "Everybody is in this world to govern and everybody to obey. There are no benefactors and beneficiaries In distinct classes. Every man is at once Loth benefactor and beneficiary. Every good deed you do, you ought to thank your fellow-man for giving you an opportunity to do it: and they ought to be thankful to you for doing it.” That is a mighty good sentiment to set down on your tablets. It may gain you a deal of happiness if you will believe it. It may even save your soul. Certain people work ror me and I pay them wages. But the maid who sweeps my room is no more my servant than I am hers. Because I give her money and she gives me work does not make me her superior. It is the ancient delusion of the centuries that labor In some way lowers a man. The real fact is that It ennobles him. TREE INSURED FOR $30,000. Alligator Pear Returned $3000 to Its Owner Last Year. An alligator pear tree has been insured for $30,000. This makes an American tree, situated in Los Angeles County, ‘Calif, ths most valuable tree in the world, even outstripping the centuries old date palms of Arabia. Through the enterprise of Lloyd’s of London, this tree is Insured against damage by wind or rain. This avacado tree grows on a fruit ranch in Whittier. Last year it produced MOO pears, which brought the owner an average of 50 cents apiece. Besides the pears, the owner received $1600 for the bud wood. The total amount brought by the tree last year was $$000, which la equivalent to the la-terest of a $60,000 lnvestmaal. Not only is the tree valuable In Its production of fruit and bud wood, but valuable by-products can be taken from the fruit, allowing no waste in the event of overripeness or spoiling. The seed is used for the making of black dye, and any fruit unfit for market purposes can be squeezed and the oil expressed. It is used for the finer For instance, Mr ®U«on * oonMdered ‘    an<i    ‘n    rare    perfumPd _