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IT GETS IT ALL Read The Register and Leader for the real newt. You will not be disappointed. A STAFF CORRESPONDENT Is giving The Register and Leader the freshest reports from the great Epworth league convention In Denver. FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR-NO. 6.

DES MOINES, IOWA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1905-TEN PAGES. TRICE 2 CENTS. ON TRAINS, 5 CENTS. ESCAPES Tl HENS UNEARTH LET SWEDEN AND NORWAY PAUSE STOLEN MONEY Good Biddies Which Scratched Under Elevator in Baraboo, Bring to Light Valuable Papers From looted Bank. mm, AND LAWSQN MAKES REPLY THUGS SHOOT 11 10 DESISTED CLUTCHES OF HER PURSUERS BLACK SEA FLEET FAILS TO FIND KNIAZ POTEMKINE.

FRITZ WESTBROOK MEETS HIGHWAYMEN ON NORTH STREET. AUTHOR OF "FRENZIED IS PRICKED BY COMMENT. BARABOO, July some hens were scratching under an elevator they unearthed a bill book containing notes, drafts, and certificates to the value of $1,000. The papers are the 3 the one of you that licks the other will have to suffer this fourth of July sort business once a year to the end of time!" Chicago Dally News. property of the Prairie du Sac bank which was robbed two years ago.

TWENTY FIREMEN BURNED Or Overcome By Smoke In Fire Which Destroyed Big Factory Building In New York. NEW YORK. July score of Are men were seriously burned or overcome by smoke tonight during a fire which destroyed the upper floors of a seven story factory building at Hudson street and Ninth avenue. Seven of the most seriously injured were taken to a hos Pltal. The loss is fcXW.OOO.

TODAY'S NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD DES MOINES. Fritz Westbrook clerk tii.k- ery's, Is shot and perhaps fatally Injured uy iwo uuanown Highwaymen. Paae 1 Storm does thousands of dollars of aamuge to fruit growers near Dos Moines. page 8i The state board of control explains why the meals for the Inmates cost only 5 cents. S- Iowa lumbermen enter a vigorous protest to the attack on the Ksch-Town-send bill.

page i0i Farmers of the state will be represented before tho Iowa executive council In tax discussion. Page 10, Waterloo takes the ribbon for the greatest gain In population In the state In five years. page 10, Rev. W. P.

Lovett, former TV Moines newspaper man, says that Rockefeller Is worse than an anarchist; says church should decline his money. Page 6. Rain eausos trouble In the camp of Fifty-sixth Iowa regiment. Page 3. IOWA.

Coroner's Jury after investigation holds that the wreck at Downey, in which one was killed and three Injured, was due to criminal negligence on the part of the Rock Island road. page 3. Ella Anderson, living near Gowrlo, ends her life with carbolic acid because of unrequited love. page 3. Druggists win fight in unusual liquor case In Belle Plalne.

Page 3. DOMESTIC. Bill to establish state refinery In Knn-sas is declared to be unconstitutional by the trireme court. Page i. rover Cleveland declares Hint mon not resign from the trustocsmp of the fcqunatue.

Page a. "Duties of the Rich" Is the president's theme in an address before the National Educational association in convention at Asbury Park. page 1. Effort Is launched to secure Knwnrih league convention for the year 1911 for Des jwoines. Paae 2.

Flllllt eOrvitfl. kl. i I a.w.'i. riMiiiK. 111 irilLIUH Ol accepting Invitation to succeed John Hay us secretary 01 state, page 2.

Caleb Towers, accused of onmollettv in the murder of Governor nnphf.1 l.r- tucky, will be tried before the United Btates court. Page 7. Santa Fa will not ndvanon monev in develop properties of C. J. Devlin, the Danarupi nansas nnancier.

page z. Kentucky rourtR take ltfA of nn. n. gro and imprison eight others for life for tho murder of one unidentified white man. Page 7.

Eleven lumbermen nre drowned hv thn capsizing of a boat near Chippewa Falls, is. r'age i. Gmv decides Ttlfnola rllemita over employment of shot firers and mines will reopen. Page 2. Thomas W.

Lawson resents remarks nt District Attorney Jerome at Kansas Cltv banquet. Page 1. FOREIGN. Knlaz Potemklne, Russian Black sea battleship manned by mutineers, escapes the battleships that have been sent In search of It. Page 1.

Rumored that the czar will go to Mos cow and Issue manifesto calling representatives of the people together. Page 6. SPORTS. Bill Morrison pitches well and Des Moines wins from Omaha by a score of to 3. Page 7.

MARKETS. News of wet weather over the northwest Imparts a strong tone to Chicago wheat market. Page 9. Transactions In stocks In New YorK chlelly notable for prominenco of Reading and Union Pacific. Page 9.

Summer lull is being felt In business circles, augmented by bad weather and recent holiday. Page 9. OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT. WASHINGTON, D. July for Iowa Saturday and Sunday, showers and thunder storms, The following table shows the slate of tho weather at the places mentioned at 7 p.

Central time. Minimum temperatures are for tho past twenl y-lour hours: Station. Wind. Wthr. Tp.Mx.Mn.Pre Abilene cioyi AOUllliO' Hismank rain 7, 64 Tr 72 64 .47 SHE HAD LEFT THEODOSIA BEFORE WARSHIPS FROM SEVASTOPOL ARRIVED.

CONTINUE THEiR PURSUIT Torpedo Boat Manned With Volunteers, Sworn to Send Mutineers to Bottom, on Trail. ODESSA. July 8. Vice Admiral Chouknln has telegraphed, the governor general of Odessa that the Black sea fleet has been ordered to capture or destroy the Knlas Po-temklne. SEVASTOPOL.

July 7. A naval magistrate Is Investigating a mutiny on the transport Prout, One hundred and fifty sailors of the Prout have been Imprisoned In the fortress nd the others are still on board. YALTA, Crimea, July prevails here owing to the Jear that the Knlas Potemklne will Kmibard the city. THEODOSIA, Crimea, July reports sent from Odessa to the London newspapers regarding the bombardment of Theodosia are untrue. Order is fully maintained In the town by the troops.

Before leaving Theodosia the Knlaz Pottunkine sighted brltish collier, which she followed seaward and from which she took a quantity of coal, MANILA, July Bailors of the interned Bussia squadron are reported to be in a sullen mood and to be en-pressing sympathy for the Black sea mutineers. A rumor that they contemplated murdering their officers caused the American authorities to place the monitor Monsdnock in close proximity to the Russian warships. tiOVBOSHIi'SK, Bussia, July Black sea fleet arrived tonight and will null southwest. The authorities have placarded the town, recommending the people not to go on the streuts should the Knlaz Potemklne appear. Novo-oshlysk Is at the head of No-voroshiysk bay, on th northeast coast of the Black sea, THEODOSIA, July Russian cruiser has arrived to protect the tovn.

Tho inhabitants, who fled while the Knlas Potemklne was In port, are returning. LONDON, July Constantinople correspondent of the Dally Mail says that the chief of staff of the navy has gone to Heracle with orders to prevent at all costs the Knlaz Potemklne from approaching the entrance to the Bosphorus. He is Instructed to supply the battleship with coal and even with money If needed. ST. PETERSBURG, July 8.

2:30 a. m. According to latest reporti the Knlaz Fctemklne has escaped her pursuers and Is still at large In the Black sea, with the torpedo boat destroyer Smetllvy and the Black sea fleet hot on her trial. There is little doubt that she is heading for Poll or Batoum, but no dispatches from either place had been received up to 2 o'clock this morning. Advices received by The Associated Press Indicate that the tension Is Increasing In the Caucasus, where the turbulent elements are excited over reports regarding the Condition of the fleet, increasing tho fear that the arrival of the Knlas Potemkine at a Caucasian port will have the effect of pouring oil on the smouldering flames.

A bomb was thrown at Tifiis today. ST. PETKRSHU KG, July 7. 12:42 p. m.

The Knlus Potemklne escaped from Theodosia before tho Black sea fleet arrived there from Sevastopol, and as the fleet did not put Into Theodosia It Is presumed the warships are in pursuit of the Knlaz Potemkine. The advices received by the admiralty are meager and most conflicting. It Is considered possible that "Ensign and Quartermaster Alexleff," who commands the Knlaz Potemklne, was advised of the fleet's coming and left Theodosia. At any rate, It is clear that she coaled from a BritlRh ship, which she subsequently released and then sailed away. The reports as to the direction taken by the Knlaz Potemklne do not agree.

Admiral Wirenlus, chief of the general staff of the navy, Informed The Associated Press that one report said that she had sailed westward In the direction of Ll-radla, raising the suspicion that It Is the Intention of her crew to bombard the emperor's summer palace. Another report said that when the Knlaz Potemkine was last seen she was headed southeast, as If bound for the Caucusus littoral. This subsequently was supplemented by a report from Sevastopol that the Knlaz Potemklno had put Into Tuapse, half way. to Potie, and had been captured in some mysterious fnshlon by soldiers. The torpedo boat destroyer Smetllvy, manned by a crew of officers and blue-Jackets, who volunteered to sink the mutineer, reached Theodosia several hours after the Knlaz Potemkine had departed, and after hurriedly coaling the Smetllvy put to sea, presumably In pursuit of the rebel battleship.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 7. Official reports received at the ministry of the Interior from the governor of Simferopol, who Is In command at Theodosia, Crimea, furnish some interesting particulars of re CONTINUElirrPAOE 2, COLUMN 6, MAKES IMPASSIONED REPLY STATES HE TAKES FOR THEME THE ONE WORD "TRUTH." TAKES UP EQUITABLE MATTER Both Men Are Speakers at Banquet Given By Knife and Fork Club of Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, July 7. Thomas W.

Lawson of Boslon and William Travels Jerome, district attorney of New York, were the two principal speakers at a dinner given by the Knife and Fork club In this city tonight. Mr. Jerome said In part: "Every time I come to this great country of yours, I go back home a little better and with a wider perceptive. Much of the dear old puritan blood that once furnished the fibre of this great country, has drifted away. In the olden days New England was the vital spot and from It flowed out the streams of moralism.

And today you people must help find the men who will carry on this work cf reform. I care not if the Mis-sour' river overflows your SiO.OoO an acre data, I care nothing for your beautiful boulevards. But I do care that you people help carry on to broader and greater things the moral Inspiration given by those dear old puritans whose blood now flows In my veins. "We people of the effete east mix with you of the west as you of the west mix with us of the east. Your future is not behind; it is before.

Any man who comes here, alive to good Inspirations, goes back a broader and better man. cui you are striving to make yourself realize your Ideals. "I did not come west to learn. I brought hero no kernels of truth to be planted in your magic soil. I want to take them buck with me; we need them In our business.

I came to meet good fellows; 1 came here disposed to like these good fellows, and my every predisposition has been realized." Mr. Jerome spoke jestingly of Mr. Law-son and his writings, Lawson Resents the Jest. At the outset of his speech Mr. Lawson addressed himself directly to Mr.

Jerome in a most Impassioned manner because of the latter's references to him. Mr. Lawson snlij in part: "My story Is a simple one. I take the theme 'Truth; the Wrongs of the American People and Who Committed I came herei to lay at your feet In my simple way the magic kernel of truth. It Vas not given to me to do things, Mr.

Jerome, as.lt has been given to you. It Is my misfortune and your good fortune that you do things and I can only talk. I would rather be you and have your position than to be the president of the United or John D. Rockefeller with I can bring only my simple story of truth, and I am sorry that I cannot do more. I have as much respect for your honesty, Hhillty, and honest Intentions, Mr.

Jerome, as any man has, but I am not going to apologize to you or to any one else for my efforts In trying to tell the American people about frenzied finance. The people of the west sent for me, I am here, and I am not going to apologize. Mr. Jerome, the people of New York are going to give you a second term, and it is your good fortune and my misfortune that you. and not can put fifty-two directors of the Equitable Life Assurance society In stripes, and you will do It.

Brings In Equitable Controversy. "It ts your opportunity to drag the EquituMe directors into prison and you are going to do It. I am sorry, Air. Jerome, that you did not see tit to give me a sendoff here tonight, when I am In the most embarrassing position I ever experienced in my lite. Your words struck me to the heart, on this, the first occasion in my life when 1 ever ad dressed a largo body of my American fellow citizens.

"This country has been enjoying won derful prosperity during the last thirty years. You can tell tho country is prosperous If the people have a balance over the cost of ncccssllles and luxuries of life. But tho people have not got the balance, notwithstanding prosperity. We began to wonder where the balance went. It must have either gone to the banks, shorter hours of labor must have pre vailed, or the necessities were more expensive.

We find that none of these explanations was the true one. But men llko Rockefeller accumulate J5H0.on0.0fO In A comparatively short time. Here is where our surplus goes." SWEDEN TAKES PRECAUTIONS It Is Claimed to Offset the Reported Threatening Attitude Assumed By Norway. STOCKHOLM, July Associated Press has high military authority for Mating that Sweden is taking precau tionary measures on the frontier to off set the reported threatening attitude of Norway. The Swedish treasury today borrowed J6.500.00rt to pay extraordinary expenses.

It is rumored that high Norwegian offi cers have been arrested at Christlnla be- rausp they refused to forswear allegiance to King Oscar. Prominent merchants confirm a report that capitalists are withdrawing their funds from Norwegian banks. MORE VICTIMS OF EXPLOSION Five Have Lost Lives In Tidewater Mine Accident Near Bluefield, West Virginia. BLVEFIELD. W.

July 7. Three more victims of the explosion in the mine of the Tidewater Coal and Coke company have died, makins the death list live. FATALLY SHOT BY ROBBERS FALLS TO GROUND WHILE MEN MAKE GETAWAY. BLOODHOUNDS ON THE TRAIL Fail to Take Scent and Chase Abandoned Westbrook Taken to Hospital Where He May Die. Frits Westbrook.

a clerk of the Harris-Emery company, was hold up and probably fatally shot by two masked highwaymen on 1'nlvcrsity avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets shortly before midnight last night. When attacked. Westbrook grappled with one ot his assailants and succeeded In throwing him to the ground. Tho other drew a tevolver and shot him through the abdomen, and the two men made their escape by running down the alley south fiom Vnlvei'Rlty avenue. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the highwaymen, but up to a late hour last night tho man had not been captured.

Westbrook had been spending the evening at the home of friends, and was on his way to his homo on Twentieth. As he was passing tho alley between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets two nen whose faces were obscured In black masks, stepped from the shadows of the alley, one of them presenting a revolver to his head and commanding him to accompany them. Gun Pointed at Him. "Throw up your hands and come with us," was tho command of tho robber. "What do you want?" gasped Westbrook, thoroughly surprised by (ho suddenness of the attack.

"Never mind what we want. Do a.i 1 you- Comu tlown thla alloy wiilj As ho spoke the robber made a threatening gesture with the revolver which ho held In his hand, and Westbrook, with a cry for help, throw himself at dm tht-ont of his assailant, JJ0 giuppli.j him with botih hands by the throat, knocking the weapon from, bis hand, and throw him the ground. With an oath the second rubber stepped over the two men, and two quick shots rang out, one of the bullets from his revolver penetrating West-brook's abdomen and bowels, Run! Run!" ho shouted, as cries from a neighboring Jioiise showed that tho shots had been heard, and Helping his companion to his feet, tho two men ran at lightning speed down tho alley and disappeared. Aid Quickly Arrives. Westbiook's cries attracted others to the scene, a buggy was quickly secured and be was carried to the homo of Rev.

D. D. Proper nt lllw Kleventli street, from which place an alarm was sent in to police headquarters. A fast run vCas made to the scene of tho shooting, and police officers were on the scene within a few minutes after the shooting had happened. They were too late, however, to gain any clue as to the direction taken by the two robbers, and although Westbrook was conscious while at tho home of tho Rev.

Mr. Proper, ho was unable, to give any description of either of the men. Westbrook was taken to the Methodist hospital under tho care of Drs. Page and Fay and an operation was performed with tho hope that his lifo might bo saved, Nothing definite as to the results of tho operatlun could be given last night. Bloodhounds belonging to William Watts were secured and taken to the siene of the holdup, but their efforts re without avail.

The only clue that the police could secure on which to ncrk, was the description furnished by Miss Proper and a friend who had been ot, the porch of tho Proper home at Twelfth and I'nlversity avenue when the fcfTair occurred. They had been sitting en the porch when Westbrook passed 011 the north side of I'nlversity avenue going west. Both knew him and both recognized hltn as he passed. A minute or two later they heard the sound of the shots and ran to tho street In time to see two men running across the street and down the alley towards tha south. They hurried in tho direction of tha cries and met Westbrook.

who had staggered to the corner of Thirteenth street. Th'y assisted him to tho Proper home, and It was then that tho pollen wero notified. Tho bloodhounds wero taken to the plnce and followed the scent for a short distance down the alley, when they lost It and were unable to regain the trail. The robbers left no evidence by which they could ba followed. Westbrook had a roll of music with him at the time of tho holdup, hut neither It nor any of his valuables wero taken.

His mother, Mrs. A. 13. Westbrook, lives nt Deep River, and he has a brothcr-ln-law, W. H.

Bong, living in Denver. PROMPT REDRESS IS MADE Sultan Makes Full Amends for Indignity Offered to the First Dragoman of American Legation. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 7. Ths American protest airainst the Indignity to which A. A.

Garglulo, the first drago man of the legation, was subjected by the police brought prompt redress. The sultan Immediately after he became aware of the situation sent Galll Bey, the Introducer of ambassadors, to call on Minister Belschman at Prinklnos Island to express to him his most sincere re. grots and to announce tihat tho spy had been Instantly dismissed. The incident is thus closed. Marine Dle3 at Cherbourg, OMKRHOI'RfJ.

Julv 7 A mnrlnn Rodirers. hcloneln? to the I'niled sttt cruiser Chattanooga, died of nephritis lust night and was burled today in the municipal ihospltal cemetery. UNCLE SAM "Now, remember, of SAS SLOW TO OIL I BILL TO ESTABLISH STATE REFINERY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. SUPREME COURT SO DECIDES WAS REGARDED SEVERE RE. STRICTION ON STANDARD OIL.

Natural Gas Company Refused Right to Operate Millions of Dollars' Worth of Property In State. TOPEKA, July 7. The law passed by the legislature last winter appropriating $110,000 to build an Independent oil refinery at Peru was today declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court In an opinion rendered by Associate Justice Greene. The oil refinery law was considered one of the most direct blows struck at the Standard Oil company by the last legislature, which adopted several measures tending to restrict that concern in the handling of the Kansas product. The oil refinery law provided for the erection at Peru also of a branch of the state penitentiary to house sufficient prisoners, who, It was Intended, were to work the oil plant.

State Treasurer T. T. Kcl-ley and Warden E. B. Jewett, whose duty It was to issue the bonds, declined to sign them, in order first to secure a decision on the constitutionality of the act.

Attorney General C. C. Coleman filed mandamus proceedings In the state supreme court on behalf of the state to compel these officers to sign the bonds. The opinion today, declaring the act to be illegal and unconstitutional, was concurred In by all members of the supreme court. The court holds that the construction of the refinery and the branch penitentiary In connection with it Is In violation of the state constitution, which declares: "The state shall never be a party In carrying on any works of Internal Improvement." The court by Inference criticises Gov.

E. W. Hoch for using a scarecrow to frighten the oil trust, so called, and then for informing the trust that the thing he has set up is a scarecrow. "The indictment of the Standard Oil company," says the court, "Is no doubt thorough, and the provocation was great, but we must not make a scarecrow of the law." Governor Hoch was greatly disappointed at the decision, and said; "If I had been the supreme ourt I would have strained a point to have declared the law constitutional." BLOW TO GAS COMPANY. Corporation to Pipe Natural Product Refused Charter.

TOPEKA. July slate supreme court today rendered a decision declaring that the Kansas Natural Gas company, a Delaware corporation, cannot do business In Kansas. The decision, which Is sweeping In its terms, makes an outlaw of the company, which It declares cannot hold property In Kansas and cannot operate In any manner within the state. The company has already spent several million dollars. It is estimated, In laying pipe lines In Kansas.

The opinion Is rendered In the ease of the state of Kansas on the relation of Attorney General C. C. Coleman against the Kansas Natural Gas company. It seems that when the company applied to the Kansas charter board for permission to do business in this state that the board denied the application. However, the company went ahead laying Its pipes and contracting to deliver gas to many cities.

To date the company has expended mil- CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN 8. VOID HIGH ALTITUDE OVERCOMES Miss Hilda Hill of Somers, Delegate to the Epworth League Convention in Denver, Dies as Result of Trip Over Mountain. DENVER, July 7. Specii.il Hilda Hill, a Somers, delegate to the Epworth league convention, died on the Georgetown loop of heart disease today. The Iowa delegation raised J100 to send her body home.

She was in 111 health when she came. gho was a school teacher. An altitude of 9.17S foit was the cause. DCLLIVERS WILL RETURN WEST WITHIN A FEW DAYS Mrs. Dolliver and Children Will Leave Washington Sunday, But Senator May Be Detained Major Flem'ng III, WASHINGTON, D.

July 7. Special: Senator Dolliver and family are planning to leave for the west very goon. Mrs. Dolliver and the three children will probably leave Washington Sumiay evening. Whether the senator will accompany them Is doubtful as his physician is anxious that he remain if possible until July 15, which he will probably do.

Maj. William 11. Fleming h.is been confined to his rooms for several days by Illness. He had planned to go to Pennsylvania July 4 to spend a fortnight visiting a brother, but was suddenly taken down with sickness. He has been able to go out since.

He Is now improving and hopes to get away soon. ROCKEFELLER GIVES FIVE DOLLAR GOLD PIECES AWAY Standard Oil King Places Half Eagles in Potatoes That Are Presented to Pastor of Church at Cleveland, C. CLEVELAND, July basket ot potatoes, in eacli one of which was concealed a J5 gold piece, was presented hero to Hev. Charles A. Eaton of the Euclid avenue Haptlst church, of which John D.

Rockefeller is a member. Mr. Rockefeller attended the presentation and Is said to havo- been the donor. NO YELLOW FEVER IN PANAMA Sanitary Conditions There Have Been Improved By Fumigation and Rainy Season. PANAMA, July William C.

Oeorgas, 'chief sanitary officer of tho Panama canal tone, has Informed The Associated Press that since June 26 there has been no case of yellow fever In tho city of Panama and only one at Colon. Sanitary conditions have been much Improved by a general fumigation and tho rainy season, which Is now In full force. The quarantine at La Rooa, Colonel Georgas says, will probably be suspended within ten days, no more cases of bubonic piague having occurred there, the whole place having been thoroughly disin fected. FOURTEEN MINERS KILLED A Number More Are Injured In Explosion Caused By Firedamp In Belgian Colliery. ANDERLt'S.

Belgium. July 7. Fourteen miners were killed and a number Inlured by an explosion In a colliery today. Tho explosion was caused by Are damp. OF ADDRESSES THE NATIONAL EDIT CATIONAL CONVENTION.

THIRTY THOUSAND GREET HIM IS MOST IMPRESSIVE OF ALL MEETINGS OF ASSOCIATION. Crowd Mounts On Chairs and Cheers Mr. Roosevelt as He Enters the Auditorium. ASIiCRY PARK, N. July 7.A crowd of 30,000 persons, which turned out to welcome President Roosevelt, mud the closing day of the National Educational association convention t.ns mcst Impressive of all tho great educational meetings.

"The Duties of the Rich" was 1110 subject of the speech of the president. "After a certain point has bc-en reached." ho said, "money making cm never again siand on tho same r'-ino wlih other and nobler forms of effort. The roil of American worthies numbers only those rich men who have used their riches right; who have shown good conduct In acquiring and not merely lavish generosity In disposing of it." At the close of bis address, tho president partly retraced his through the crowds, who had welcomed him outside, but who had been unable to secure admittance to the auditorium and at a previously chosen spot, where the overflow crowd hail concentrated, he made a second speech. In the open air to an even greater crowd than In doors. When the president entered the auditorium, tho crowd mounted chairs and cheered him.

As soon as quiet had been restored he began to spcuk. Immediately after the second speech the president ami his military escort proceeded to the railway station and returned to Oyster Hay. Roosevelt's Address. In part -Mr. Roosevelt spoke as follows: It Is not too much to say that the most characteristic work of the republic Is that done by the educators, for whatever our fcliortcomings as a nation may be, we have at least (irmly grasped the fact that we cannot do our part in the difficult and all Important work ot self-government, that wo cannot rule and govern ourselves, unless we approach the task with well developed iiimda and trained characttrs.

i'ou teachers make the whole world your debtor. If you did not do your work well this republic would not endure beyond the span of the generation. Moreover, us an incident to your avowed work, you render some wellnlgh unbelievable services to tho country, for instance, you render to the republic the prime, the vital service of amalgamating Into one homogenous body the children alike of those who are born here and of those who come here from so many different lands abroad. You furnish a common training and common Ideals for the children of all tho mixed peoples who are here being fused Into one nationality. It is In no small degreo due to you and your efforts that we are one people Instead of a group of jarring peoples.

Real Valu of Money, Moreover, where altogether too much prominence is given to the mere possession of wealth, the country is heavy obligations to such a body as ihij, which substitutes for the Ideal of accumulating money tho Infinitely loft.er. nonmalerialisllc Ideal of devotion to work worth doing simply for that work's sake. 1 du not In tho least underestimate the need ot having material prosperity us tho basis of our civilization, hut I most earnostly Insist that if our civilisation does not build a lofly superstructure on this basis wo can never rank among tho really great peoples. A certain amount of money is of course a necessary thing, as much for the nation as for the Individual; and there aro few movements in which I more thoroughly believe than In the movement to CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 2. DUTIES PRESIDENT'S THEME .74 7i 62 .64 74 48 .02 74 (W1.1.H .78 Hi 6S ,.74 S2 Tr SO 62 Tr ,.0 77 fill .4 ,.72 7S dj .14 70 62 .) 6S .20 .72 Ml 62 ,1 102 70 ,.82 72 .92 94 62 ,.64 78 60 .03 ,.70 80 ,.06 7S 64 1.22 ,.76 K2 60 ,.72 RO Tr .94 96 54 .76 82 56 22 ,.) S2 60 .71 7H 62 .16 .76 S6 tlrt 76 62 Tr 1,2 64 Tr Wi Tr ,.86 88 62 ..02 6'i ..74 76 52 64 SO 62 t.11 C.l 7R ri 7a i Wi I.

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