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SECTION 2 THE COUHlR-jOURiIAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1917. Letters From the People Grins and Groans By S. AD KINS. THE -POET'S CORNER DO YOUREMEMBER? By WILL S. gAMBffi steers his machine along a French road by the flashes from star shells.

And Mr. Vail would have Uer milk the cows, make the butter, release the qhore bpy for field work, feed the pigs and chickens, get the vegetables from the garden, pick the berries and fruit, as well as can or dehydrate or jam those suitable for dehydration or canning or jamming. She should -make the clabber into cottage cheese, and tho cabbage into sauerkraut, and the last morning port in which he had said of him: 'He will tackle hell single handed." "I am inclined to think he was right," says the veteran. "I had grown to be an ugly devil, but down in the bottom of my heart I was full of fear, and ashamed of it, and in mortal terror lest someone should find it out." "The coward dies a thousand deaths; the brave man dies but once." Midway between the ideal warrior who goes into battle with a song on his lips, apprehensive of nothing, fully confident that the casualties will occur in the enemy's line, and the timid and imaginative man who suffers thousand deaths in anticipation, fighting only because he is afraid not to do so, there are many who belong to neither class. They are men who do not go to war in a spirit of sport, but from a sense of duty, and because they love liberty more than they fear death.

Such men were encountered by the British troops when there existed in England the belief that shop-keeping American colonists would not fight. Such men will be encountered by the Kaiser, who has sneered at the Americans. In the American army, as in all armies, there will be men who, like the veteran whose confession Is published by The Sun, are the oppo-sites of the "fearless man," but who will acquit themselves well and who (A. A. Milne" in London Punch.) In davs of my fellow-men Rightly regarded me as more like A bishop than a Major And nothing since has made me warlike; But when this age-long struggle ends And I have seen the Allies dish up The goose of Hindenburg oh.

friends!" I shall out-bish the mildest bishop. When the war is over and the Kaiser's out of print I'm going to buy some tortoises and watch tho beggars sprint; When the" war is over and tho sword at' last we sheathe I'm going to keep a Jelly-fish and listen to it breathe. I never really longed for gore, And any taste for red corpuscles That lingered with me left before The German troops had entered Brussels. In early days the Colonel's Froze me; and as the war grew older The noise of some one else's gun Left me considerably colder. When the war is over and tho battle has been won, I'm going to buv a barnacle and take it for a run; When the war is over and the, German fleet we sink I'm going to keep a silk-worm's egg and listen to it think.

The Captains and the Kings depart 1 It may be so, but not Lieutenants; Dawn after weary dawn I start The never-ending round of penance; One rock amid tho welter stands On which my gaze is fixed intently An nfter-life in quiet lands Lived very lazily and gently. When the war is over and we've done tiie Belgians proud I'm going to keep a chrysalis and read to it aloud; When the war is over and we've finished up the show I'm going to plant a lemon-pip and listen to it grow. Oh I'm tired of the noise and the turmoil of battle, And I'm even upset by the lowing of cattle. And the clang of the bluebells is death to my liver, And the roar of the dandelion gives me a shiver, And a glacier, in movement, is much too exciting, And I'm nervous, when standing on one, of alighting-Give me peace; that is all, that is nil that I seek, Sav, starting on Saturday week. ft! tt tl ot Pi ei ct ot tt oi ra CHEER UP! By J.

T. POTTS. When life's way is dark and cloudy, Ann vnii noVAr linjii- "hnwih" Published DAILY AND SUNDAY. Office, cor. Third ave.

and Green St. A Consolidation of Louisville, Nov. 24, 1880. LOUISVILLE QAILT DEMOCRAT Louisville, 1843. MORNING- COURIER Louisville, June 1M.

First Issued as tba Courier-Journal Novamber 8. 188. SUNDAY AUGUST 19, 1017, Those Who "Would Economize. Hard indeed is the lot of the buyer of groceries who would economize. There isn't the ghost 'of a chance for him to caYry Into effect his altogether reasonable design to make his dollar go farther than a dollar would go if it were not that a majority of consumers insist upon making the grocer's expense as high as possible and then footing his bills for him.

The majority rules. That is a very good rule as many can tell. But majorities often are as tyrannical as kings. The majority will have the grocer undertake, the expense of parcel delivery and wrapping of package goods and giving away premiums and trading stamps. The minority can do nothing but pay the artificial prices thus created.

There is no hope for the minority. There is nothing whatever but weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth." Groceries spring up to do business at cut rates tor cash, without deliveries. The economical consumer sees the star of hope blazing serenely above his horizon. He his basket to the grocery, gets it loaded, staggers home, blowing, perspiring, happy. "Within a year the public has forced his rate friends to inaugurate premiums, gold coupons, delivery, credit accounts and all other regular expenses of purveying.

Cut rates no longer are possible. The tyranny of the majority is exemplified. The press, the pulpit, the Government and Mr. Hoover and others tell the consumer that paper is high priced and that he should ask the grocer not to wrap his package of Uhaftohava biscuits or Crispanuf potato chips in brown paper and send it to his residence, 3S57 Suburban boulevard. But what cloth it profit him to pay his nickel down and carry his nickel's worth of package goods unwrapped? Does he get a rebate? Nosiree! He does 'jiflt, Pie pays just as much as is paid by the haughty Mrs.

rvevahtotednoth-ing, who represents the majority; just as much as Col. Readybuyer, who has everything chargecj, does not bother about economy and pays his bills as tardily as he pleases. Grocers who can outroar the lions when asked about their delivery costs, their wrapping paper bills, their credit accounts, offer no inducements to individuals who would like to pay cash, carry home their bundles and do without wrapping paper upon goods already thrice wrapped and advertised as air-tight, and without trading stamps and junk premiums. Might it not be possible to develop a cash business, and a nondelivery business by giving the economical consumer a chance to economize? Would it not be practical, and humane, to provide some means whereby those who do not want their pockets stuffed with imitations of Liberty Bonds could, get out of a shop with' out taking them, and without having to confess to their wives that they omitted to lake advantage of an opportunity to add to the family assets a fraction of a cent in the form of stamps? Back to the Chores. Theodore X.

Vail, president of the American Telephone Telegraph Company, expounds in the Agricultural the doctrine that by re-assuming responsibility for the chores and the lighter, "straight work." which their grandmothers undertook as a matter of course, American farm women can do much to help make the war a success from the American point of view, and a failure from the point of view of the future Mr. I-iohenzollern, and, incidentally, increase the profits of farms. The average young woman upon the farm beholds a vision of the useful work she might do as a Red Cross muse just behind the firing trenches. She beholds herse'if in a becoming uniform with the emblem of the order upon her arm and the tender light of the ministering angel in her eyes, giving first aid, or second aid, to a handsome warrior who need3, or has, a bandage across his brow, with a red splotch upon it. She witnesses in a day dream her comforting presence by the bedside of a convalescent hero who, in his rush to the front has neglected to fall in love and illustrate, from her angle or vision, the famous assertion that a young man married is a young man marred.

She sees herself the indespensable auxiliary of medical science at its best as civili-' zation's salvage in sanguinary scenes of savage warfare, she thrills to the roots of her being as in fancy she sits- upon the front Beat of an unlighted ambulance next fearless, chauffeur an American GOEBEL ONCE SEATEST POB APPELLATE JTJDGE ally known, the fet8 Goebel once had an sit on the Court of start which he met with defeat, and been successful it might have Ci! the whole course his MhJ J5 and averted the dreadful traK cost him his life and pianged ul urttemess. It was 1SS2, after the ratifjCati the new Constitution rhaf a State Senator, souent lr-t nomination for Judge of c'at: Appeals in the Sixth Appellate his opponent for the nomination Lesllo Applegate, of Falmouth Judge Thomas H. Pavnter, 0f rr up. The district convention wa heM Augusta, Bracken county, ami met it developed that each 0f the tv candidates was short nii yie coveted rn-The lines were sharply dL" tor Goebel, which sent a divided i gation to the district convention set of delegates being aim neacea oy John ford, a bitter afterwards was shot and killed by it latter en the streets of Covington. Alter numerous ballots had been tak-- "icuua ol -raynter, who his supporters in the convention, m.

io tno opposition, and aft support of the Sanford men from ton county, although the latter did tj much relish the idea, of voting for Paj "ie auspecieu nis would be perfectly satisfactory to si ator tioeoel. However, tneir feats tills point were smoothed over lor.j enough for them to vote for Jafc Paynter on one ballot, which secusi hlnj the nomination Judge Paynter had no Republican OS-position In the ensuing general eWfir-but it doveloped when the votes counted that had he had opposlttor "t-would probably have been uu.se avjiLei twice elected to it-Aonellate bench, nnd if wna iiiciiiocr oi me court oi last resort niccLcu i mieu aiaies senar-over J. O. S. Blackburn, who song'i re-election.

Senator Goebel accepted his defeat ft' the Appellate judgeship nominatis-gracefully and was anoaremk- fectly satisfied with the Judge Paynter. However, it is saidW Goebel often expressed regret to lis close friends that he was unsuceeEsfsl in his quest for the hitrh judicial hone: he sought and the denied opportuiii; tiitiL a caieei on me suue court would have given him. It after this that Senator Goebel aia; doned any further effort to Teach fr. and iie turned his political coin pass in another direction, which cui ininated in his meniorabel campai jr. the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor in ISSil, which he finally von the hardest and most prolonged in the history of Kentucky politic; following tne memorable contest before the Legislature iie was declare! Governor after he lwd been shot by an assassin in front of the State-house.

It has always been tiie conviction ri many that had William Goebel beta chosen Judge of the Court of Appeal? that he would have adorned the bench and made a great jurist, and that the whole political map of Kentuckyivoifd have been changed anil his panysrared the tactions ana DiUernes that have lasted to this day. DEFEATED EACH OTHEE BY ONLY ONE VOTE. Defeating each other by the narro-j margin of" one vote was the distinc tion of the late Gov. Preston 11. Leslie- and Maj.

Smith Barlow in the old political days when the AVhigs and Democrats mixed it up in Kentucky. Long before Leslie became Gov ernor lie became the Whig candidate for State Senator in the Barren-Monroe district, he at that iime being i resident of Monroe county. His rem-ocratic opponent was Maj. Barlow; Barren county. The contest was bit terly waged, and after the return; were all in from the old three-dav election Leslie emerged the victor bv one majority over his opponent.

Four yea.rs afterward Leslie sought re-election, and Maj. Barlow was again his opponent. If anything, the campaign was more bitter than iu predecessor, and the lines weredraivn taut by the opposing sides. Exciting sceues attended the election, and it like the other, lasted for three dayi and after it was all over Maj. banc elected bv a single vote.

The storv goes that the winnit? vote that landed Leslie ill the benair was obtained for a piece of side meat as an inducement, and the vote tru-turned the tables for lla.j. Barlow secured in exchange for a pound saci of coffee. Another noted senatorial Hti out that time was in the distr.t- abo nnmnnml of Allen. EtlniOnSOn Warren counties, the candidates b---Ing W. F.

Evans, of Scottsulle. uiMi-and Euclid Covington, cf Bowlini Old-timers recall that this was oh of the warmest political ccmtesis i pulled off in that section of the Ma'. Evans winning and being ekcu State Senator by only nine DEMOCRATS PLAYED SMAE-T TRICK ON GREENBACKEBS. In the old Greenback days dM the '70s. during which many Pllll calculations were upset the Democrats of Shelby county working a smooth game saved tn' selves from defeat and prevented turnimr over of the county offices the Greenback party.

Tn tho riavs tire votin; was done ih old viva-voce way, and it ves ternary for the various parties to printed tickets containini the names''- the candidates tor the aiau, v. were handed hy the voter to officers of the. election to he reu on the pollbcoks. The GrefbaA had made great neady. a -county and had a ml! ticket held, as did the Democrats, no and had control tl Ig, chinery.

borne oi me gree: workers secured a suppii (U back tickets ami paj- ts a of rvrs sldo of the. these were placed tne unsuspecting Green. t.i iht nous lOCT they wen After these had been ian votes. Alter wesu to the lection i. oVi were Democrats, mv the tickets ana rf runnitiS the Democrats, who were rui the various offices instead Intended.

wortS This' trick was in several of the heavy -G reen 1. as hid cincts and enough tcs ,1 to give up after wn exnesed. but '-i in their were not disturbed of the offices. ir.tion "1 th time oi tne iV Greenback agitation i had; su- many who were proi merit It rl t-elll CTI flli tO I fold. The Associated Press lj- entitled to in or on of all news credited to otherwise credited tn also the local news All rights of publication ji jioMtchps nerein if Age a La Mode.

"You are old, Father William," the voting man said, "but You wear such a gay-colored vest And your heat summer togs are so sportily cut That you look just as young as the rest." A Pair Financier. "I see this bank advertises $3,000,000 undivided profits." "Well, my dear?" "I think I'll start an account with them so as to be in line when they get ready to divide." Added Thrills. "Vaudeville is getting more sophisticated all the time." "What now?" "A difficult juggling turn used to travel on its own merits, but now it's no good unless performed on roller To the Point. "Where are tiie snows of yoster year?" "I dunno. What was the heat record yesterday?" Think of This.

Hot weather, be it understood. Leaves us forlorn. But heat is always very good For growing corn. No End To It. "Two cylinders, four cylinders, eight cylinders, twelve cylinders," mused the motor manufacturer, "we're getting started now." Just So.

"Ho can't tell a funny story without using both hands and his elbows." "Jests and gesticulates, eh?" 0 Pield. "Nearly every State has bad a song written about it." was Just thinking." "Eh?" "Has anybody ever written about the gloaming in Wyoming? Great chance for a rhyme." THE POILU'S PHILOSOPHY. (The following is floating all round the world. The Courier-Journal does not know its author and has not seen it published elsewhere; otherwise, credit would gladly be given.) I am conscripted? Should' 1 worry ow that? ila foi, why? If one is conscripted, there are only two thins. to worry about: on6 is either mobilized or not.

If not mobil- if mobilized, there are only two things to worry aDout eitner one the front, or one is not. If one is sent to the front, there are onlv two thuigs to worry about: either one' goes into battle or one does not. If not, there is nothing to worry about; i one goes into battle, there are only two things to worry about either one is wounded, or one is not. If wounded, there are only two things to worn- about: either one is severely wounded, or one is not. if not severely wounded: there is nothing to worn' about; if one is severely wounded, there rliin-si tn IVOrrV abOUt I either one dies, or one does not.

11 out; UUH Itut U't, nothing to worry about. If one does die, sacre! he Is past all worrying! who has seen honorable service; a soldier whose judgment of what a soldier nix! how he should carry iumself Is worth more than all the treasouauie woiun omi tiie Senate and of the enemy press can whine out In a twelvemonth. American soldiers, very many thousands of them, will be at the war front in a few months and will give an ac-counr of themselves of which no patriotic citizen of our country will be ashamed. They do not need to wait a vcar before going. A CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

Louisville, Aug. IS. NO WIDESPREAD ILLITERACY. (To the Editor of the Courier-Journal.) My duties as a traveling man take me periodically in nearly every county of the State. My business is with county otliciais, county superintendents of schools and school boards.

Everywhere I go in the State I see staring me in the face posters of all kinds, calling on the people to contribute funds toward the education of illiterate soldiers who have been enlisted or drafted into the armv. The posters further state that there are fifteen (15) regiments or Kentuckv soldiers who cannot read and write. People in all the counties resent ibis mode of advertising the illiteracy among the young men of the State, and besides they say that the statement about the SO.000 illiterate voung men is false, and from the records "that have been shown me in the different counties convince me that it is not true. To further prove that the etatemc-nt is not true is that there are not and will not be fifteen regiments nor 30,000 men called from Kentucky. It Is a detriment to the State to have strangers coming into the State to seo these posters.

If the statements on the posters are true if would make the the State, after adding to the. 30,000 soldiers or those of milltary age. everv illiterate person under 21, and everv illtcrate person over 31 years of age. the most illiterate of all the States in the Union, in spite of the fact that erv few States now have a belter school system than Kentucky, and very few States spend more money in proportion to population for educational purposes than Kentucky. J.

am not a native, nor am I a resident of Kentucky; it Is only a. part of my territory, but notwithstanding this, I expect I know as much about the State and its people, or more about it than a big majority of Its residents, on account of coming in contact with the ruling element, educators and the people generallv in eacli county. If the natives do not "resent the untrite and unjust statements about the 30,000 illiterate young men of military age I will'. Even if the statement Is true, why should the people be called upon to educate these young men after they are enlisted. As soon as they enter the army the chaplain is supposed to take hold of the voung men and take them In school; it is' a part of his duty.

He is not supposed to be prayjng every hour he is on duty. The X- J1- c- A- llils many stations at every camp, and the teaching of soldiers is part of their work. My residence is in Illinois and I travel for a Chicago house and my duties take me into several States, and I can truthfully state that Kentucky is the only State that is advertising her Illiteracy. The quicker this false statement is corrected the better it will be for the State. If you want new people to come into the State you cannot induce them to come bv tc ing them about the illiteracy of the people.

I like the State, and I love the people of Kentucky, and therefore will not allow them to be slandered. 1 will "ay again, that through a personal research, and my own knowledge and belief I denounce tho statement that thcre'are fifteen regiments of Kentuckv; soldiers or 30,000 Kentucky soldiers who cmnot read or white, cannot reay. t-I ARLES MARLOWE. Louisville. IS NAVY PORGOTTEN? (To th" Editor of t'he Courier-Journal.) It seems as if the citizens of Louisville have forgotten their boys in the navy, for the boys from various different towns about the country came into my tent to-day loaded with knitted sweaters, comfort bags, cigarettes and' sweets.

They were asking mo about my town and what was the matter with It. I think Louisville is the best citv in the country, and I am sure that if "the matter was brought to the attention of the people of our city they would respond freely to the. cause. And I will be only too glad to distribute any articles that are ent to me for distribution. Yours truly.

W. B. HAGOOD. Gumnr ilave. United States Naval Hospital, PhiJa-.

delphia, Pa. MUNICIPAL THBUT IN BIRMINGHAM (To the Editor of the Courier-Journal.) The elimination of waste is the key to success, as Uncle Sam now daily preaches. Don't waste food, money, Iclothes, tin 'cans, paper, rags, vacant lots anything whatever of which, anybody anywhere can make the smallest use. This is a tale of a big Southern city which beat Uncle Sam to it In the mat: tor of Eight years ago, before the sanest man in America dreamed of the insanity of this world" war and the need for thrift it would lay upon us, Birmingham, invested $60,000 in a plant for the elimination of municipal waste. The Jewish rabbi began it.

He asked the women the City Federation of Clubs' one day if they had ever seen the city's human assets, going to waste in a certain district. They had not; but they would go and look. They went, taking with them a committee from tno Chamber of Commerce and a kodak. They went to a section known as the Buzzards' Roost. The name was unfair to the buzzards; for dirt and ignorance, with them, do not breed vice and crime.

Tho women were shocked. So was tne committee from the Chamber of Commerce; Next morning the town was shocked; for the women and tho KonaK spread the tale hi tho pages ot Birmingham's papers, with the result mat public opinion put the matter squarely up to the City Council and the Loaru of Education. Tho next step was the building of a industrial school Birmingham's blackest slum. One of the club women told this part of the story, and Superintendent of Schools Phillips brought it down to date. Sitting recently in his omcu he grew reminiscent over the whilom Buzzards' Roost.

"We put baths in that scnool, he said. "Most of those negroes had never seen a bathtub in their lives; and wnen we required every child to take a bath once a week, and the teachers to see that thev did as part of the curriculum of the s'cljool. there was a howl. But we kept at It till thev learned to like baths. The first cooking teacher couldn't teach without gas stoves and aluminum ware, and all sorts of frills; so we.

got another, who went into those wretched homes and found out what cooking utensils the people had, and what they ate. Sho tauirht the children to make that kind of food palatable with that kind ot pots and pans. You wouldn't know the place now; tiie whole neighborhood is transformed. Young anil oid, tho people are clean, upright, progressing in everv wav." instead ot waste there is thrift. Of 10.000 colored children in Birmingham's schools 9,50) have gardens.

They are being trained to produce and to save. The Buzzards' Roost section manufactures criminals no longer; it is working up its human material into clean, thrifty. Intelligent workmen. Dr. Olaxton.

United States Commissioner of Education, a Southern man. in advocating industrial education for chil dren of ail says ot school aim vacant-lot gardens especially, they "would do snuch to solve the problem of the. Idle; negro. A large part of the negroes oCthe Southern Stales live on the out-nkirts of cities and small towns surrounded by vacant lots covered witli weeds and rubbish. During the vacation months the negro children roam idly on the streets, falling into mischief and vice.

Under proper direction they might make, on back yards and vacant enouch to support themselves. 5 Their parents might put into savings banks a good part of their earnings. They could gain some degree of that independence necessary for goud citizenship for men and women of any race. The children would he kept from vice and would gain habits- of industry. Incidentally, these negro o.uarters would be changed from places of ugliness to places of beauty." Adequato development of the South's material resources is contingent upon tho development of its human resources.

Our undeveloped mineral and agricultural wealth Is enormous: but greater still is tiie potential wealth of our vast undeveloped human resources. We must conserve all energy; but human energy Is the most valuable of all. and its waste involves the greatest economic loss. Birmingham's investment in its colored children is a Pound policy, financially and every other way. The results already secured aro a valuable commentary on the Report on Negro Education recently issued by the Bureau of Education at Washington.

If tiie South will follow the recommendations of this report, a copy of which will be sent free upon application, its assets, human and phvsical. will enormously in. crease in value. II. HAMMOND.

Dalton." Ga. AMERICA IS READY NOW-. To the Editor of The Courier-Journal: To one who has seen arduous military service, the silly statement that American young men cannot be fittingly prepared for participation in active warfare in less than a year, has a sickening effect and can onh properly come from "slackers" or their near relatives, the pacifists. The writer has been a soldier and claims a correct knowledge of the eminent fitness of the voting American for warfare. More than thirty years ago, he wrote this estimate of the American soldier: "I deem him, in many respects, tiie finest soldier of tho age.

as he is certainly the most intelligent. He unites whliln himself the essential qualities of the true soldier. His patriotism is undoubted, his endurance almost without limit; his courage has stood the crucial test of a thousand battlefields, his pride in his name and honor is a part of the history of his country. The combination of genuine courage and true pride is in no nation, more happily blended thaji in the American soldiery. Their splendid conduct in the Held is only equaled by the readiness witii which they adapt themselves to tho pursuits of peace when war's alarms are fled, becoming as excellent citizens they have been admirable soldiers." The words above quoted were written of the Americans who had confronted each other in the great War Between the States.

They were a truthful presentation of tho dceas of gallant men. and when the great contest in Kurope has ended and our brave boys have come home to us, no one w-ho knows them will doubt that the above characterizing will justly apply to them. The writer has very intimate personal knowledge of a. Kentucky boy who at IT years of age rode away from his boyhood home in a. column of 'Confederate cavalry and fifteen minutes later was an active participant in a cavalry light.

Looking to the left from the battle line, he saw his l'athcr's home. while to the front he saw shells bursting over the field of the school he had attended, and to this day he cherishes the memory of the fact that he remarked to a comrade: "That is the hottest game of ball 1 ever witnessed on that old lot." One week later that same boy participated in the battle of I'erryville, the severest contest ever fought in Kentucky. He had not had "one year's intensive training;" in fact, he had no training whatever, but he did not run away, nor did he fail to do his duty as a. good American soldier always does, as our boys will do theirs "over yonder." A few days ago a command of American soldiers marched through the streets of London, England. A New Zealand volunteer oilicer who had received injuries in battle, making his discharge necessary, witnessed the march of these soldiers and thus wrote of tlfem in a dispatcli published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger: "One of the biggest men in the First Battalion, when asked what he was doinir two months ago, looked a little homesick as he said, 'Chasing hoboes off freight cars on the Dallas-Sweetwater stretch in One was often struck by tho frequent comment on tne pnysical appearance of the American troops.

Remembering they were civilians only six weeks ago, one could but marvel, at the wav they marched. They went along, shoulders squared and eyes front, and there was no taiKius on tne marcli. Each man kept alignment in his four and when, as often pened, the column paused on the route, the men maiKcu uiuc wun a precision that v.ould have pleased even the Guards' Sergeant Major. There Was one noticeable thing about their appearancethey lack mustaches. Very few of them had mustaches and fewer still wore beards.

-v These are the statements of an, officer P'df ca ci IV iii Si 'tr si ui it pi Is, til th 4e 111 in ai tl Tl fo th 1S th bt Sti pa Ei th ev ha wi ht tit ea lh; in tn: in to tr fo at tr: nap into the first hour of saved daylight, thinks Mr. Vail. She who would be a heroine with a red cress on her a.rm and a white cap barely containing her rebellious eurisl Well, if that is what helping in war means, thinks the corn-fed girl who has been reared upon the odor of sweet pears and apple blossoms and the mingled perfumes of the incense bearing "meadow gales of June," the girl who never has smelled iodoform and festering wounds and filth-matted garments from the trenches, and other battle offal; well if that is what helping in war means, Gen- 'Sherman might have said more than he did! He might have elaborated! The Bravery of Armies are not made up, in war, of professional men alone. To many who are volunteers fighting is an avocation. To drafted men it is neither a vocation nor an avocation, but an "unsought duty.

The average or normal male of the species is the average soldier. In many cases he is without any positive inclination for fighting and would rather, if he could with honor, avoid war. Even the volunteer does not got to war becaus'e he delights in battle, or he may delight in it. He goes for the broader and nobler purpose of serving his country in the hour of his country's need. There are many men in armies who'fear the ordeal of going into battle.

There aro many who do not entirely, overcome that fear in the course of many battles, but there are few who will not fight along with the rest, and the man who is frightened sometimes makes an excellent soldier. The bravery of "cowards" requires moral coura'ge' of the highest order. The man who does not want to fight who wants more than anything in the world not to fight yet answers the call of the flag and does his work un flinchingly appears less heroic than the dashing fellow who goes to wnr as to a frolic and goes into battle as he would into a game of football or polo, but if less heroic lie Is not less brave. One definition of "brave" is "of no ble courage." It is nobler to overcome aversion for the brutalities of war, and fear of death, than to go to war with a relish. It is nobler to be forced into war by pride when, others are showing willingness to do their part, than it is to join an army in the spirit of a sportsman who expects to find in battle the zest of the chase and killing which has made big game hunting at tractive, or the thrill of competitive games which has made athletic con tests his favorite pastime.

It is far nobler to defend a hearthstone at the hearthstone or upon the other side of an ocean when the freedom of one's country and the sanctity of one's hearthstone are threatened by the am- bition of a lawless prince than to go to war as an Anglo-Indian gentleman goes to a pig sticking, or as a Spaniard goes to the bull fight. Armies in civilized countries are made up very largely of men who are averse to war except under great provocation; men who are neither ferociously pugnacious nor coldly brutal; average men who would rather build homes and follow peaceful careers, but who will sacrifice their lives with unwavering courage, as volunteers or drafted men, at the call of their country and the call of honor. A veteran of the Civil War con fesses in a letter to the Xew York Sun that in 'CI he enlisted because of his fear of public opinion, when others were enlisting. He went to the recruiting tent with his teeth chattering. When assigned to duty as a soldier he fought to escape "the common gossip of tho barracks" upon his lack of courage, and by do- i ing so won the respect of the men "and likewise tho respect of my company commander, a man of worldly wisdom, who- knew that I was a coward." On picket duty at night he was assailed by temptation to desert, but he stuck to his duty.

One night two bounty jumpers for whom he was responsible, attacked him. "If I had had warning I think I should have let them escape, but I had no such opportunity. When the fight was over the three of us were unconscious. I Was commended in regimental orders, but both my company commander and myself know it was not deserved." The company commander knew perhaps that. a nfltn naturally timid who could take care of two desperate men in.

a hand-to-hand encoun ter, deserved commendation from anyone who knew his weakness, and his strength, as wen as tne lormai commendation of regimental At the battle of Pea Ridge this courageous "coward" felt that he would like to run away, but for the certain knowledge that he would be shot by his comrades for making the attempt, but after the firing began he "took hold of the work steadily," and for his' work, which must have been done uncommonly well, he was "read off Corporal and immediately afterward Fourth Sergeant." Later, and after he been under fire most of the time for a year he learned; bad. ytiXim a je will deserve more praise for their gallantry than is deserved by tho man to whom gallantry is easy because to him the sport of the conflict is a motive more powerful than the fear that he will not live through the battle. Xo recruit need be ashamed of himself if in his heart he does not feel that he is a fearless soldier. The man in the tent with him feels the same way perhaps, but not until both men have stood the test of courage under fire will either admit just how he felt before Ws courage was proved when it was needed. The "War and Education.

The Philadelphia Press, in an article on "Putting the Colleges Out of Business," says: our national duty is clear. We must do all we can to keep education going full blast. We must increase rather than diminish the grade and high school attendance. In higher education we must encourage rather than halt research." The supply of trained leaders for the present battle field and for the fu ture scientific, industrial and com mercial fields must be continuously provided. Thousands of new sur geons, physicians, chemists, physicists, engineers, architects, industrial ex perts and commercial leaders are all needed for the period of the war, and will be needed for the period of the reconstruction after the' war unless our educational, economical and social systems are to be so seriously disturbed as to require the work of generations for restoration.

Both English and Canadian educators, according to the Philadelphia Press, have advised the United States to avoid their mistakes of not thinking of future educational needs and making provision for them. Our schools and colleges should do everything in their power to keep young men in attendance until they reach the age of military service. At the same time they should prepare to give them the training that, the war situation demands. Instruction might be offered in field astronomy, recon-nais-anee surveying, navigation, topographical drawing, plane table surveys for geology and maps, telegraphy, telephony, forestry, political and physical geography, meteorology, photography, as well as In the use of automobile engines, industrial motors and such other subjects as the University of A'irginia proposes for the coming session. The University of Louisville has introduced into the curriculum new courses in chemistry, biology, business organization, stenography, telegraphy, physical culture, first aid and a few others.

The school for telegraphers has been opened on tho request of the chief signal officer oi the Central War Department. Likewise, other departments of the national Government have urged the universities and colleges of the country to provide special courses in training for national service, as well as to try to hold students in college until they are drafted. The United States Government is thus apparently profiting by the advice of our allies and determining not to "put the colleges out of business." Camille Flammarion, the noted French astronomer, says that in the future humanity will utilize nature's forces that are constantly rising round us, and the vast riches and lost resources in the stifling heat waves will be collected and stored for our descendants. In short he means to tell us that wo shall conserve the heat of the summer for use in winter. But when that time comes will those in charge of the heat storage plants possibly the present coal men allow us to keep from freezing for any less than they gouge us for coal now All the way from California some one writes to the Courier-Journal that "the earth is a speck in the universe and ought to be one country." "Amen," says the Kaiser, "and I its ruler!" Abolish the wheat pit for once in behalf of the man with a yearning iop-ythssA is tfta Bit oi feia WE WANT TO TAKE A HAND.

(Dedicated to Our Kentucky Soldier Boys.) By W. W. TTTUM. I. You couldn't, if you tried, keep us away.

We've heard the right command; Kentucky's a sweet old place, to stay, But we want to take a hand. Chorus And we want to take a. hand; Kentucky's a sweet old place to stay, But we want to take a hand. II. It don't often chance that a man can go And filly pledge his all.

In a cause that's white as the driven snow, To answer freedom's call. Chorus And we want to take' a hand; Kentucky's a sweet old place to stay, But we want to take a hand. III. Wo want to knock that Kaiser out And end his despot reign, And givo him such a wholesome rout He'll never come again. Chorus And we want to take a hand; Kentucky's a sweet old place to stay, But we want to take a hand.

IV. And it wo drop some of our years. Our country'U heave a sigh. Borne folks will shed their loving tears, We'll have made a decent die. Chorus And we want to take a hand: Kentucky's a sweet eld place to stay.

But we want to take a hand. Louisville, Ky. WE EIGHT FOB UNCLE SAM. (Air: Oh, Susannah. 1 By SID II.

N'EALY. We've crossed the broad Atlantic For to fight for Uncle Sam, And for you and your Fritzies. Kaiser, We don't give a dam. We're Davy Crocketts from back home-Come down, you Kaiser coon-No use to buck against old Dave, For you'll have to come back soon. Chorus Out with the Kaisers-Throw 'em to the crows; Wo have no use for Hohenzollerns, God Almighty knows.

We're marching on with Tommy Atkins, Marching on with Pierre, We're marching on witli Borisoffski And his Rusian bear; So, Hohenzollern, watch your step pedal soft and low We've come to send you to the devil And his imps below. Chorus-Say your prayers, Oh, Kaiser; Say 'em mighty quick Your next meal will be sulphur With your only friend, Old Nick. We'll "hoch" you. Kaiser, for two bits-Two bits more than you're worth. There is no place for Kaisers On this great, big, honest earth.

Bill Hohenzollern, don't you hear The blast of Gabriel's horn? It means, Oh, Kaiser, that you're doomed As sure as you were born. Chorus-Leave your crown. Oil, Kaiser The Iron Cross as well You'll find the devil has no use For such gew-gaws in hell. Skowhcgan, Me. A LIGHTED CANDLE AT THE WINDOW PANE.

By BERTH H. BE VOE. The following is one more added to the hundreds of war songs. Dr. Do Voe is a Kentuckian.

Bright sun or silver moon, or brilliant stars, A better light I know to glad mine eyes. In this world of estrangements and of terrible sad wars. Or at home or under alien skies I'm onlv a wishin for to see again A lighted candle at the window pane! CHORUS. A lighted candle at the window pane: Its white sign a shinin' through the night to me; A white breast a sighin', a fair head a lyin' On the pillow there. A sweet face see on her clieeks a tear; A sweet face, as like a rose is fair, And her rose-red lips as like a rose mnv he.

A-waitin' to be kissed; I've been a long mile liuaacu, Where's lighted candle at the window pane. Big guns a-belchin' their terrible fire, It ain't no sight except to make one sad: With the smoke black around like to a funeral pyre, I think of ailight to make me glad A little glow will glad me to see again; A lighted candle at the window pane! Kansas. Mo. From the friends that pass along the way. Do not set a white flag sailing, To accord with tearful wailing Just cheer up and be cheerful.

It will help you. When the weather man's uncoiling Humid stuff that's fairly boiling. And "Old Soi" is burning up the wind, Try a glass of ice-eold water, Or some amber if you ought to, But cheer up and be cheerful. It will help you. If your favorite selection Loses out In the election.

And "Salt River" never was so long, Remember that the quadrennial Is a thing that's quite perennial, So cheer up and be cheerful. It will help you. See the flowers are blooming sweetly, And the old world's rolling neatly In the groove it's followed all the years: Sure, we know the war god thunders. That mankind is blind and blunders But cheer up ami be cheerful. It will help you.

THE COURTHOUSE BIRD. At the peep of the day I hear his call. The little bird hy the red brick wall. Deep in nn elm tree's leafy fold That flings its shade on. the courthouse old.

When heat waves rise from the tortured ground And rife Is the jar-fly's rasping sound, He 'defies the sun's fierce deadly blaze With a lyric-sweet through tho August days. Oft when the west's an, amher flare I hear him ilute in the stillness there In tho top of the elm ere It's silvered with light Of the moon when It beams o'er the tower bright. I dream of an autumn's hazy noon; Or cornfields ripe and a harvest moon; Of an altered tree by the courthouse red And the silent notes of a bird that's fled. EDWIN McELFATRICICr POPE'S PEACE PROPOSAL Will Ee Criticised. (Springfield, Republican.) That the programmo is more Austrian than German eau well be believed, and it is certain that among the It" will be sharply criticised.

But German strength has to reckon with Austrian weakness, and that Austria has been pressing upon Germany the need for an early peace on moderate terms is' well, known, and has tended to push forward the Mlttcl Europa scheme, at the expense of great plans of annexation. "Nearer the (Albany Argus.) If, as Washington and London are prompt to suspect, Austria as tho leading Catholic nation and back of her Germany are speaking through the Pope or in any way inspired Ills utterance, It means that these Powers realize that they are nearer the end of their rope more fully than has been supposed, for the terms of settlement he proposes are wholly inconsistent with what the Kaiser's Government is talking to Its people and label that talk us really pure "bluff." Striking- Indication. (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) "Perhaps the most significant feature of the Pope's appeal is that it is apparently already indorsed more or less definitely by Austria. While It is true that tho terms must be considered on their own merits, the intimation that Vienna is looking hopefully toward their acceptance Is one more striking indication of a weariness of the war on the part of Germany's ally. Would Be Peace of Pear.

(Pittsburgh Leader.) It might be possible, at the present time, to make such a peace as Pope Benedict suggests, but it would be a peace of fear, a peace of preparation for future war, despite any pledges that might be made as to reduction of armaments. The world wants and must have a lasting peace a peace that cannot be broken by the will of a Kaiser at Berlin or a secret council at Vienna. It must be a peace that will guarantee the people of Germany, as well as the other peoples of Europe, a determining voice in governmental affairs. May Serve As Basis. (Philadelphia Record.) The peace suggestions that emanate from the Pope do credit to the desire of the chief Christian pastor to bring the world's suffering and bloodshed to an end and usher in the reign of.

peace. They deserve to. be considered respectfully and sympathetically. They may perhaps serve as a basis for beginning peace negotiations. I to H'l in pr fo 1 5 61; th oil th oo 5 lei er th al i Tl 1 Pi ki ll di th ra to Tl in iPc 'at CO I m.

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