The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 14

iatni 1Eetalb WHAT WAS THAT REMARK SHERMAN MADE ABOUT WAR? JUST FOLKS ing off crackers the whole family gets in the bus and father steps on the gas Everybody gads fresh air adventure scenery But whatever the people do they seem bound to hurt and kill themselves Traffic is slaying its hundreds and injuring its thousands The battle of the Fourth was a mild and quiet event compared to the present daily weekly and holiday streams of blood on the highways This calls for new campaigns and laws to save the public It insists upon playing with fire upon getting burned As for noise the explosion of a giant firecracker -would hardly be noticed these days Ebc iHiamx Herald Ownd by ijhs Miami Herald rubUfhlns Co FRK SHl'TTS Pfcllfcr 4 Preldef THIKSDAT MLV 19? Of fir nnf rnr Miami Avmb and Sec ad Mrtrt Miami londa SUBSCKirTIff RATES PAYABLE IB ADVANCE EAILT AND ft DAT 5 lir WA-'h 2 TV Ma 4 Art Pm Sear ROD Cent Pr lfk fafsbl Weekly DAILT DMA SlafA AS Term V'h 1 P' St linrhi 20 Dm W- Kip4 14 tUm 'i vail calf 1 Etr4 as wa riia tt wt A a i pn 'frt at Mtai Pa nW Um art of Mar- 3 1 MEMBER RF TrfC ASSOCIATED PUSS TV fta xrium1r entiled to the fm rmwoiaMm of im errdi trR to or not rrd rd to IS purr r4 a'o tihe aoral mas hrj Ail right of rpub IkiUN of sptrtaJ otspatrbro brln ila iitffoA ADVERTISE SCHOOLS TN THE advertising campaign 1 which is to be conducted for Miami and Florida some attention should be given to presenting the facts regarding the educational opportunities The purpose of any campaign of advertising is not alone to bring tourists here but to bring to the state high-grade people who will become residents and will identify themselves with the whole life of the community Such people want to know something about other things than climate and sports There is a rather widespread impression in the North and West that the South including Florida is very backward educationally Every effort should be made to destroy this impression by setting forth the facts very clearly The fact is of course that in some ways Florida is ahead of the West and North educationally Miami has in recent years been giving a great deal of attention to the development of an efficient well-equipped school system It will mean much to the city if this can be made clear through the advertising that is done The mere picturing of the large number of fine school buildings which have been erected would serve to present in a graphic way the interest of the city in education The kind of people wanted in Miami will be very much more interested in the fact that there is a university here and that there are large numbers of fine public and private schools of all types than they will in the fact that there is good fishing and golfing and racing In the matter of schools there is ample justification for appealing to the best citizens of other sections No one need be afraid to come here because of any idea that the children will not have a fair chance The children not only have a fair chance in the matter of actual instruction but the climate and the whole environment is such as make this a place especially well adapted to the rearing of a family The opportunity to spend every day in the year in healthful outdoor work and play is offered by few other places There is not only proper instruction under capable teachers but the conditions are such that this instruction is received under the most favorable environment There is no better place in the land for a family with children than southeast Florida Those who are advertising the attractions of this section should not fail to make this fact perfectly clear SIMPLE GREATNESS TTHIEN the life of any man is studied who has made a seriou3 impress upon the -world it is usually difficult to discover any mark of outstanding genius which distinguishes him from others He seems to be about as other men are but somehow he stands out from other men in spite of the fact that he is so like them His greatness comes simply from a better use of certain very elemental capacities which are possessed potentially at least by everyone Four students in the University of Chicago recently made a study of the life of Jesus -with the idea of trying to emulate Him in their lives After carefully considering the whole story of His life they decided that His most evident characteristics- were honesty fearlessness modesty humility and courtesy There is nothing very striking or very unique in this assortment of virtues There is apparently nothing in them that would make a man possessing them any different from large numbers of other men Almost everyone possesses at least some of the traits and many people have them all in some measure It is quite possible of course that these students have overlooked some important characteristics of Jesus which would help to explain the power of His life but from a human standpoint the list submitted seems to cover pretty completely what we know of Him It would be found that a study of any outstanding life would bring to the surface the same characteristics These are elemental Greatness is simple in its fundamentals It is the use of these fundamentals which distinguishes between superiority and mediocrity Greatness involves a serious effort to make the best use for unselfish purposes of whatever elements of good character are available When a person seriously faces life and studies himself he will usually find within himself the germs of greatness in these elemental traits of character If he will set before himself a sincere purpose based on an unselfish desire to be of service to his generation he will find that the opportunity comes of doing the fine large thing that he wants to do and he will find that he has all the ability needed to do it Greatness requires little exceptional genius It requires only high purpose and persistent effort in the use of the simple elements of good character ECHOES OF MIAMI By EDGAR A GUEST Falling Mrmory AM a most forgetful man Of that there is no doubt I have no certain memory plan To help me out I can't remember names at all Familiar faces change Sonjetimes a friend who comes to call I look upon as strange Engagements slip my foolish mind! A hund'red times or more gone to banquets but to find They were the night before And the woe and the grief That such a mind entails: There Is no balm and no relief When memory falls But worse than all things else is when A two-foot putt should fall I get the line and length and then Forget to hit the ball (Copyright 1928 E1gr A Cunt LITTLE NOTEBOOK By LEE PAPE Horses everybody in the wer'ld has at leest a Ford horses wont haff to werk eny more ony by that time there proberly wont be enuff horse to celebrate It with a perade A little baby horse looks Ixaetly like its father being more than you can say about a little baby human been Horses can trot or gallop or stand still and think but they cant skip and the ony way they ever slide is axstdeitly are the luckiest because they can see all the fires without getting pushed back ony they would be atlll luckier if they axually lnjoysd watching fires Horseback riders have their horse tales cut off to make them look mor fashionable being a funny thing to do for enybody that claims to desplze flies A horse with a short tale ha to do the shimmy to get the flies off proving necessity Is the mother of invention The most lxclting horse to watch Is a runaway horse unless It starts to run up on the payment This proves most peeple wunt comfort with their lxcitement The most popular way to try to stop a runaway horse Is to wave your arms and yell Wo from the payment but It genrelly makes the horse run away even faster on account of It proberly thinking you are trylng-to incourage It Horses hardly ever use their voice and wen they do they sound Jest the opposite from herds WL By DR FRANK CRANE The Freedom of NVrtter SINCLAIR LEWIS has refused the Pulitzer prize claiming that to accept it would place him under' embarrassing obligations Notwithstanding the sneers of some that this Is a mere publicity stunt there Is a good deal to be said for Mr position Entire freedom on the part writer is an Ignis fatuus It Is 'a wlll-o'-the-wisp which If he follows will bring him to the ditch There are two kinds of masters he may have One kind Is the public at large Its means of expressing this mastery is the buying of his books The other form of control of him consists In the giving of prizes the bestowing of awards the election to membership of various bodies and things of this kind It Is the public that Is the safest and best master It Is the much-abused wage system that la the best form of rule by which the public governs If the people like a thing they will buy It If they do not like It they will not buy It I ike that's all There are many who In their contempt for the public and In despising the common run of men Insist upon writing what they please The public has a sure way of dealing with these people It simply does not buy their writings This may seem a sordid and an unworthy method of controlling the writing man but in the long run It Is the most just Sha'kenpeare Is not In his preeminence because of the verdict of any society the award of any prizes or the approval of any elect body but simply because the public likes him That public has passed favorably upon the merits of Goethe Dante and Victor Hugo They have been elected to their posts as leaders of the world's literature by the world's choice No matter what an elected clique may decide1 and no matter what those in charge of an endowment fund may think the man who Is permanently approved by hla fellows that Is by the people who read him Is selected for his pedeetal (Copyritfit 1928 jf LESSON IN ENGLISH By AS' GORDON Words Often Misused! say "I shall stop at Chicago for a few Say Often lepronoiinced I Because Pronounce be-koz the as la "or" not as In Often Misspelled! Mephlstopheles Synonyms! Deceitful false faithless unfaithful untrue treacherous traitorous dishonest perfidious Word Study! "Use a word three times and It Is Let us Increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day word: EVINCE to manifest or make evident "The untrained soldier evinced awkwardness" PRAYER IN CONGRESS By the Rev James Shera Montgomery: Lord our God while life Is a succession of lessons which must ho lived to be understood we are encouraged to accept their discipline by the presence of Thy Holy Spirit ami Thy unfailing Providence It Is 1 hy love and mercy that make life tolerable accept our praise and grsti-tude for their daily- blessings let us but do our -work from day to tiiy and always 111 our hearts may say this is our work and our blessing May hope and faith In our breasts never be allowed to lie down for then It la night Do Thou direct us to work on trust on believe on pray on until the last and may our paths be measured to wisdom by the labor done and the burdens borne Through Christ our Saviour Ames THE HERALD PLATFORM FOR MIAMI' ProvWe for Sewage Diapoaal aad Trreasary Berner Kxteutaaa Drrprm the Ship Cliaaoel WBollA Railroad to th Wrat Cooat 4 Complete the Taaolamt Trail BIaaarra(a Oreater Miami BASoliak All Orado Croeafagra Early Completion and Beaatlflra tloa of the Bap Froat Property Mare oad Better Roads Into the Evercladeo IS TODArS SETTS CONGRESS WILL adjourn Satur- day according to action- of the senate late yesterday postponing consideration of the rivers and harbors bill until December 14 Much water can flow under the bridges by that time The country is always willing to let congress rest as soon as the most pressing measures are disposed of It fears the worst when the boys are in session and yet con gress is necessary evil in this com plicated civilization with rapidly changing conditions But it is summer The birds and fish are call-Irg and the hills and mountains and seas It is hot and Washington is to place tfor a weary legislator Laws and bills and resolutions and probes may await but not time and tile and seasons And there are fences to mend and politics bubbles adjourn npEACHER TURNOVER is one of A the weakest spots in the American educational system said a report submitted yesterday to the Na-tioral Education Association at Philadelphia "Teaching is a procession gather than a the statement declared Transient teachers contribute less to a community the changes cause losses it was asserted All very true But it proves that despite the opinion of the small boy pedagogues are human possess the American characteristics are 'moved by ambition the desire to get ahead It is very commendable to become a worthy teacher and stay in the same liace through an estimable life-time but it does not appeal to the progressive type the go-getters Feminine instructors true to instinct would listen to romance marry and depart from the halls of learning Or they would study and move on and up Change may be an American failing but it leads to success and accomplishment 4: TA EMPHIS WOULD have its name under foot It wired the American Society of Dancing Teachers at New York yesterday asking that the charleston be given the title of Memphis because it is claimed that terpsichorean contribution to American culture originated there And it was only recently that Charleston objected to the disgrace Oh well a city must have publicity at any cost But Memphis will find it easier to originate another dance and take its name than assume one that has been fixed in the public mind Habits thoughts appellations once set do not alter at the whim of peoples cities Lr laws And the charleston by any other name will he just as had A TAN IS LORD of creation At least he so prides himself Now he has beaten the bird in flying Hummert raced in his airplane against pigeons in New York state yesterday speeding 62 miles to 50 for the pigeons and arriving at his destination three minutes before the first bird Of course the winged creatures depended only upon their natural powers while man relied upon his mechanical contrivance the 'result of intelligence plus manual ability But man alone with-cut h's mind and social aid would he largely helpless in his competitions with the birds and beasts and fish If the church can curb crime Chicago was the right place to hold that gathering of churchmen READING THE number of people who cannot read is rather amazing in view of the extent of the public school system There are comparatively few of course who cannot decipher the printed word and give some pronunciation of it and who cannot scan the papers for the news of the day but those who can really read are not so numerous Reading is something more than merely repeating words which are written or printed It is more than skimming over lines of type and gathering a passing impression of the general tenor of what is found there Reading is absorbing and digesting the thoughts the ideas of which the words are the symbols These thoughts were in the mind of the writer before 'he ever put pen to paper They are living vital things that have in them power to make life and character They are born often through great travail of soul The only way these ideas can be transmitted to another is through words written or printed It is not always easy for a writer to clearly set forth to others what is in his mind Words' are expressive tools of the mind but they are not perfect tools In view of this fact it becomes necessary for the reader to help in the translation of the ideas He cannot do it unless in his reading he has something of the same serious purpose as the author He cannot skim over the verbal surface of that which he reads and expect to find the gold that lies underneath It is the ability to read in a really effective way the- type of literature that is the product of sensitive souls and minds that is somewhat lacking The reason for this is probably to be found in the great mass of books and magazines which is available today and in the character of many of them The magazine stands are burdened with a class of literature which seems to have developed very rapidly in recent times and which appeals simply to the surface emotions It is mushy with a weak sentimentality or it is simply thrilling in the cheap est sense of the word In this mass there is no residuum of the gold of thought It is easy to read because it involves no intellectual effort The constant reading of this type of literature destroys the power to read Many of the novels of the day are of much the same type A constant stream is pouring from the printing presses of the kind of hooks that can live but a day and certainly should live but a day if that long It was not so a few decades ago Then there were few books and few magazines Most of them were of a serious character Bookmaking was so difficult that no effort could be wasted on the froth of literature The few books in the average home library were read and reread with a serious purpose to discover' their message There was not so much reading done but it was better reading As a nation we need to learn to read in the same way that many of our forefathers did who had few of the opportunities for reading that are ours today Berlin will buy an airplane to save the time of the chief burgomaster which raises the question what is time to a burgomaster? SAVE THE FLOWERS the coming or summer and the picnic and touring season the natural beauties of the highways are being seriously threatened People who would not think of stealing a purse will not hesitate to despoil a roadside of the flowers and plants which beautify it They do not seem to realize that they are stealing not only the things which they actually take but the beauty which belongs to all the people There is not much to do about it Those who are selfish enough to add to their own pleasure of the moment by leaving behind them a waste of desolation will usually pay little attention to anything that may be said to them It is out of the question for the police to patrol all the roads continuously and so the spoliation goes on In Nashville Tenn the local automobile club has started a campaign to save the flowers Probably as much can be done in this way as in any At the best however it is impossible to reform a whole nation at once As long as there are thought less and selfish people the highways will not be safe from the depreda tions of the picnickers and tourists TROBE CRASH collapse of the unfinished George Washington school calls for a rigid probe by the authorities And the results whatever they are demand further investigation and action If the crash which injured a number of workmen was due to intent to the use of dynamite then the guilty should be searched out and vigorously prosecuted But while there has been opposition to this negro school together with threats it would hardly seem that objectors would go so far as to imperil life If anyone had wanted to wreck the property that deed could have been carried out at a time when the workers were not engaged On the other hand destroyers might give no thought to humanity If the fall was caused by faulty construction by poor materials or workmanship that too should he unearthed and the proper course taken Miami must he protected in her great building program There is no longer the excuse of last rush to throw up structures by careless methods taking needless chances' endangering employes and the future occupants Suppose a school building should collapse while crowded with children causing heavy loss of life There must be no such possibility Building restrictions should he strict and rigidly adhered to There must be no slighting of labor no weakness in materials If that does exist the safety and se curity of life and property demand that those responsible he exposed and punished In either event the collapse of a school building in process of erection is a serious matter There must be no repetitions Build well and strong for today and tomorrow and all the days to come THE MIRROR OF WASHINGTON By CLINTON NV GILBERT Washington June 30 SENATOR WILLIS of Ohio is one of the Innocent bystanders to be hit by the explosion over the large campaign expenditures in Pennsylvania Mr Willis was one of the senators who voted to seat Senator Newberry of Michigan who was charged with having spent too much In the primary which nominated him for the senatorshlp Mr Willis Is a pure and upright soul who could not quite bring him-elf to vote for Mr Newberry without raising his hands in horror over the amount of money spent He wanted to deprecate large primary campaign funds and still be regular As his vote was necessary to the seating of Mr Newberry he ws9 permitted to shape the resolution In which the senate piously declared Itself against large expenditures In primaries So Mr Willis asserted It to be subversive of popular government to spend as much as 1195000 to carry a primary' but still voted that Mr Newberry who had spent that much ought to be seated It was a silly resolution on Its face and now It has come to plague the Ohio senator who is its author Two senators Pat Harrison of Mississippi and Thaddeus Caraway have already baited Mr Willis about it asking him to draw a resolution to fit the case of Pennsylvania This fun at the Ohio senator's expense Is not serious except that It has started the Issue that he must face in the Ohio campaign next fall when the Democratic candidate ex-Senator Pomerene points to his inconsistency In voting to seat the Michigan senator while condemning his campaign expenditures as dangerous to free Institutions If Mr Willis had merely voted to seat Mr Newberry his doing so would have been forgotten by this time But the resolution was so ridiculous as to be memorable It is so easy to make game of the author of it that the Ohio senator will have an unhappy time on the stump Copyright 1926 by Public Ledger Co) BY HOWE SENTIMENTALITY and emotion says a magazine writer are the same thing We are all sentimental ists all full of emotion In 95 cases out of 100 whaf'we loosely denounce as sentimentality Is simply bad art The tl HE silliest unfairest most Ineffec-e thing the moderp strike Yet millions teach It as a remedy a God-given privilege Mussolini the wisest public man of today has prohibited the strike In Italy We are still trying to 'extract Its ounce of good from Its pound of destruction If one man is careful of his stomach and has health he can do nothing for the glutton who depends on tables Nor can the man who saves his money and works hard do enough to satisfy the Idle men who depend on the law to render them prosperous I know the people have a savage streak How well we all know it! What I am trying to teach Is that they cannot afford it: that they would do better to become not entirely but almost civilized I am often shocked at the freedom allowed these days in churches Recently an infidel was permitted to recite all the old Infidel arguments from a pulpit In Kansas City When a man gets sick he tries so many remedies he can't tell which cured him It is not the rights of men we respect: It is what they will probably do to enforce them The most alluring ambition among men Is to do good and charge for It Every man Is fierce in his thoughts and mild in his actions Everything is doubted: doctors don't believe much in medicine Never he surprised at anything a boy or dog does Our great men are not only those who have arrived but those who are ion the way SIDELIGHTS By BOB HOLLAND JULIAN MITCHELL Is dead and one of the Important figures In American theatrical life has gone Thousands of chorus girls and exchorus girls shed a tear actual or figurative when the news came that this great director of musical comedies had passed away at Long Branch Mr Mitchell was 72 years old though he did not seem to be that age He had spent nearly all his life on the stage having begun as a call boy at Garden when that enterprise ranked high in amusement circles To give Mitchell his deserved place in his field of endeavor it is only necessary to say that he staged the first in 1907 and for 13 years he was the producer of Florenz Zieg-feld's famous shows Before Joining that great glorlfier of American beautiea Mitchell had made a fine reputation He staged "The Wizard of that extravaganza that started Fred Stone on his wonderfully successful career The poppy scene In that show has probably never been surpassed In sheer beauty the transformation from a stage of brilliant scarlet to snowy whiteness when the Ice Queen breathed on the poppies that were putting the characters in the play to sleep caused thousands to gasp Many regard this as Mitchell's masterpiece but he followed it with "Babes In In which the march of the toys and the butterfly dance will be remembered by the theatergoers of nearly a quarter of a century ago CHORUS girls liked Julian Mitchell though he was regarded as a hard taskmaster He worked hard himself and he expected others to work hard Time meant nothing to him when a rehearsal was on and he would keep a company on the go until 2 or 3 a and then order another rehearsal for 8 or 9 o'clock I was watching Mitchell directing a dress rehearsal of "Babes In at the old then the new Majestic Theater In New York In 1903 A fairy queen appeared without her wand Mitchell asked for the wand and a property man was sent for It He did not returrf at once and a demand from the director sent an other man after the maglo wand without which the fairy queen could not function When this messenger was also apparently lost Julian let out another blast "Send someone after the man who went after the boy who went after he ordered In spite of his severity Julian Mitchell was eminently fair and it was because of his fairness that chorus girls liked him They got a square deal hard wrork was appreciated and rewarded and they knew there was little use In trying to "put anything on this master of stagecraft and student of femininity ITCHELL liked chorus girls too He married two of them the first being a sister-in-law of James Corbett He got a divorce when she eloped with another man His second wife was Bessie Clayton a chorus girl In the Weber and Fields show Julian made a star dancer of her but they drifted apart In his later years Mr Mitchell became deaf though it was alwSys a question with me how much of his affliction was real and how much was assumed He could hear all right if the words were uttered directly In his ear even In a whisper It used to be amuelng to see a little chorus girl standing on tiptoe and whispering to Julian I always thought she was going to kiss him I discovered that Mitchell could hear over the telephone and when I wanted to talk to him I got him on the wire Then there was no necessity for speaking loud With the receiver directly against his ear he could hear as well as anyone Mitchell accumulated a considerable fortune He was a member of Hamlin Mitchell and Fields the firm that produced "Babes in and "It Happened In Nordland" The Fields of the firm was Lew Fields of Weber and Fields Fred Hamlin the other member of the firm died soon after the partnership was formed He was a member of ihe Chicago theatrical family of that name the head of which accumulated a fortune selling Hamlin's Wizard Oil a popular patent medicine of 50 years ago By GRACE NORMAN TUTTLE TUHEN' Mrs Henry Talley told Miss Sula Hudgens that she would send for her early Sunday morning to come out to have breakfast Miss Hudgens did not quite know was meant by It proved to be at 8:15 But Miss Hudgens was all ready for the tnessenger She carried in her arms a covered can of maple sugar which she had brought from the North recently The maple sugar was served In liquid form with the waffles which Mrs Tal'ey served for breakfast Miss Hudgens says that Mrs Talley has a negro boy who does the greater part of her cooking but she did not trust the making of the waffles to anyone but herself A lady who has a small book shop near the Columbus Hotel entrance says that she sells a great many books of fiction Nearly all her buyers are men' They are traveling men who when they get ready to leave drop In and buy one two and often three books to read while Journeying They choose such books as "The Diary of a Young Lady of The Private Life of Helen of and "Glass A CORAL GABLES man who Is fond of birds thinks that there will soon be a mocking bird for every house In Coral Gables The mocking birds are raising their third brood this year It Is his opinion that the dense foliage of the plthecoloblum its thorns and knotty limbs which grow close together and close to the trunk of the tree have afforded much protection for the birds and so this season many of them have escaped marauding cats and other depredators A man who walks to town twice a day came down Twelfth street the other morning And all at once he heard a scolding bird It was a mocking bird Jawing him because he was under a tree the branches of which supposedly hid a nest The tree was not more than 12 feet high and no branches had been allowed to grow except above the six-foot mark but the mocking bird considered the tree big enough for its family BAER conductor of the sym phony orchestra at the Olympia has done the seemingly Impossible He has harmonized the dissonant Flagler street sounds with the annoyances incident thereto and made an enjoyable piece of music out of it The whistle of an aggravatlngly little boat Is plainly beard and then you hear the urk-urk-urk of the Miami river bridge as It rises and the honk-honk of many automobile horns ss motorists are compelled to stop until the boat passes under the bridge Then you are swept along with the Instruments -of the Baer orchestra until you reach another familiar spot You are at the crossing You know It because you hear a sound like the thrill petulant jangle that signals for the lowering white arms and the drums drag out the struggling panting choking sounds of a switch engine as it moves leisurely forward and back while you fume But you get the rhythm of it and soon with the help of the orchestra you know that the music has reached Miami avenue -Even a little tilt with a traffic policeman has been woven Into the symphony and you can move on until the rat-tat-tat put-put-put of an electric drill tearing up the pavement strikes your ears A11 the noises are in the orchestration and you like them CARL HOLMER SR has Just bought a new house In Grove Park It Is one built by the Tatums when Grove Park was first opened to the public and Is a fine well-built residence Mr Holmer says It Is a Very much nicer house than Mr Holmer Bays it is a very nice house It Is on Seventeenth avenue about a block and a half from the Miami river The Carl Holmer sr family lived In the Washingtonian Apartments last season In a few days they are going to Asheville for the eummer When they return they will reside In the Grove Park house About two years ago Mr Holmer sold two apartment houses on Ninth street at a fair profit The purchaser changed the name from Holmer apartments to Gourley apartment and In another-year sold them at a profit of $120(100 Then he and his wife went off for a splendid trip They drove up to the North Carolina mountains and camped out on the way Mrs Gourlev cooked all their ameals before a little camp stove CHECKERS SAGE New York judge has decided that the game of checkers is a game of skill and not of chance It therefore lies outside the realm of gambling and is a proper game for the most pious to play Anyone who has attempted to shuffle the men about the checkered board is willing to agree that there is some measure of skill needed in the game For most people how ever there is also an element of chance and this adds zest to the con test Chess and checkers are ancient games In gome form they have ex isted among many peoples and they are a severe test of certain types of intellect It is rather reassuring that even in this jazz age checkers is still popular among many peo pie This is evidenced by the number who may be found any pleasant winter day about the checker tables in any Florida park As long as there are those who are sufficiently alert mentally to play checkers with pleasure civilization is safe New York has found out that the butter it has been eating is not butter and that the cheese is not cheese The killings done by the gunmen however are the real thing Susanne attracts as much attention when she does not play tennis as when she does That French girl is certainly spectacular With seats for first performances in New York theaters selling for $50 each the managers are doubtless longing for the time when all nights will he first nights Senator La Follette has introduced a hill limiting the expenses in a senatorial campaign to $25000 per candidate This seems to be a direct blow at the prosperity of Pennsylvania voters It must be admitted that those who contributed to the funds of theAnti-Saloon League did so without hope of immediate personal gain They were altruists which is more than can be said for many who help fill campaign chests Mexico has prohibited the importation of American money except gold Perhaps this will leave more on this side of the Rio Grande for all of us new wife wants $3000 per month alimony If she grets it only as long as she lasted as a wife it will not break the cartoonist Any little boy in Europe now has a chance to become a dictator One Iowa county did not issue a marriage license during May Those Iowans have evidently ceased to love each other SAFE AND SANE PERHAPS TN THE not so long ago it was the custom tq observe the glorious birthday of our country with a roar of noise and the flash of flame Guns and firecrackers and torpedoes made the night and day hideous The celebration was not considered a success unless one was burned or blown up But the casualty toll began to increase alarmingly so movements were initiated to tame the affair Laws were passed and a campaign of education was conducted through the press The results have been gratifying Ftewer explosives now rend the air with their attack upon the cause But the train made a the nerves and more attention is de-arecord run less than 16 hours And voted to community observances Ik icst around It is rumored historical pageants and fireworks is responsible! spectacles in charge of experts a temperamental Tem-j The dead and injured list grows j-ef ament is costly costly to the less The nation becomes safe and temperamental one and to those sane perhaps Undoubtedly the ad-rear and dear But not much can vent of the motor car helped to fce done about it not when nerves change the order of the observance Hour Instead-of staying home and shoot-.