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^ LESS GOVERNMENT, BETTER.
Dr. Abbott Says World Must Solve
Problem of Brotherhood.
Dr. Lyman Abbott was heard recently
by more than 1,500 people in
the auditorium of the board of commerce,
says the Detroit Free
Press. Dr. Abbott, who is the editor
of the Outlook, is now 79 years old.
He spoke on "The Coming Age."
* "The government is a necessary
evil," said Dr. Abbott. "It is a misfortune
that we have to have any
government at all. The less gov-i
ernment there is the better. We
must protect persons; we must protect
business from violations and
wrongdoings; therefore we must
have armies and navies and laws,
but the less laws and the less police
and the less armies the better.
"The sole idea of government is
to protect life, liberty and property,
and whpnever it undertakes to do
anything more than that it is despotism.
"This is not an age of despotism,
nor is it an age of universalism; it
is an age of fraternalism. All of you
are brethren. Our problems are not
theological; they are sociological.
All problems are problems of brotherhood.
"You will say, some of you, that I
am a theorist. We must have theorists
in the world, but we mu6t not
have too many of them,
j "Abraham Lincoln said: 'God has
given to every man a pair of hands
and a brain, and He has put the pair
of hands and the brain into the samej
man. which indicates that that brain!
should regulate that pair of hands.'
So long as the pair of hands are all
regulated by one organization to get
the most it can out of the brain, and
the brains are all organized, on the
other hand, to get all they can out
of the pair of hands, so long we shall
have industrial unrest, and we ought
to. When we have learned to unite
the brain and the hands in a common
enterprise we shall have peace, and
f not before. *
"In this great America of ours
there is one great orchestra. Some
are leaders, not many, some play
one instrument and some another,
but our success lies in making the
music our music, and I hope you
gentlemen who are employers, and
that means a great many of you,
will figure out with actual men and
women this great problem of brotherfnr
vnnrcolvftc "
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, They Knew Who He Wasn't.
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Col. George Harvey, the famous
editor, according to the story they
tell, visited his native Peachman a
short time after his first brilliant
New York success and, on a cold winter
morning, entered the Peachman
general store. But nobody, to his
surprise, knew him. Colonel Harvey,
seated with the Peachman veterans
around the hot stove, could not reP;;V
sist telling one or two of his minor
" metropolitan successes?successes
? - which the Peachmanites heard in
cold silence.
"And I, too, am a Peachman boy,"
said Col. Harvey. "Yet nobody remembers
me here. Strange!"
He turned warmly to an old man
n with red chin whiskers striped with
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, "You," he said, "are George Slocum."
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He turned to another old man who
j had very large, white, even false
teeth.
"You are George R. Boone," he
, said.
Then he turned to the whole circle
of veterans round the stove and cried
impulsively:
"Somebody, surely, must remember
my name. Come now. think! It's
. . George?George?George"?
. "Waal. judgin' from the tales ye
bin a-givin' us," snorted an old fellow
in gum boots. "I reckon it hain't
George Washington, nohow."?Wash*
ington Star.
Severe Measure Demanded.
A woman went into a New York
police station and began reading the
Bible to the officers in charge. She
was arrested- promptly and taken to
the Bellevue hospital insane ward
* and subjected to observation.
This recalls the story of the man
who went into Westminister Abbey
and knelt in the aisle to pray.
Up ran a verger who collared the
kneeling man and proceeded to turn
him over to the police.
"If I don't make an example of
you. sir, we'll have people prayin' all
over the church."
Question Made Answer.
Gov. Walsh, of Massachusetts, said
of charity at a charity society's ban-j
quet:
"All depends on the spirit wherein j
charity is sriven To uplift." as C.eoree j
Ade once beautifully said, set underneath."
"Otherwise the charitable person j
receives the treatment of the lady
who said to a poor washerwoman: |
""And does your husband drink?"
""No." answered the washerwo-j
man. "Does your3?" "
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i PROGRESS DID NOT STOP.
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Employee of Patent Office Thought I'
All Inventions Were In.
Some one poring over the old files
in the I'nited States patent office at
Washington the other day found a
letter written in 1S33 that illusT
! trates the limitations of the human 1
imagination. It was from an em- w
ployee of the patent office, offering n
his resignation to the head of the 11
department, says the San Antonio n
I.icrVit Uic raicnn n'ac that ac avprv
thing inventable had been invented. Cl
the patent office would soon be dis- a
continued and there would be no 0
further need for his services or the Cl
services of any of his fellow-clerks."
He therefore decided to leave before a
the blow fell. *
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Everything inventable had been k
invented! The writer of this letter Cl
journeyed in a stage coach or a ca- ^
nal boat. He had never seen a limit- '
ed train or an ocean greyhound. He Sl
read at night by candle light, if he
read at all in the evening; more like- a
ly he went to bed soon after dark
and did all his reading by daylight. g
He had never seen a house lighted ^
by illuminating gas. The arc and e
incandescent electric lights were not ?
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to be invented ror nearly a nair cen- tury.
If he had ever heard of elec- i?
tricity, he thought of it as the mys- a
terious ,and dangerous fluid that q
strikes from the clouds duriag a n
thunder storm. That it could be harnessed
to do man's will had never Cl
occurred to him.
He had never heard the clicking 11
of a telegraph sounder. The telephone
would have seemed as won- ?
derful to him as a voyage to the 0
moon. .Motion pictures would have 11
j reminded him of black art, and the y
idea that a machine could be invent- w
I ed whereby a man would flytabove 11
[ the clouds like a bird, ascending and
descending at will, would have seem- e
ed to him merely absurd. The mod- e
ern printing press, the linotype ma- a
j chine, which seems almost to think;
I the X-ray by means of which sur- a
geons may diagnose disease and in- ^
jury and lay out their work with s
scientific certainty, these things were s
yet to be invented long after he was! c
dead. He could not imagine the au-j **
tomobile, now so common that theyj B
cover the streets and roads of all the a
world.
He could not dream that cannon Ci
would be made to throw a projectile is
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more than twenty miles, that repeat-1 *
ing rifles, revolvers and machine! Q
guns would be invented, that steel' Z:
monsters of the deep would speed j g
invisible under the seas with the I 0
power to send a giant ocean liner to! 51
the bottom within a matter of mo-! 0
, raents. He lacked the imagination | s'
to see all the thousands and tens of;
thousands of comparatively small in- Cf
ventions that have come into being
since his day, some of them for good
and some for evil, but all telling a ! ji
story of progress of one sort or another.
Probably in this he did not
differ from most of his fellow-;men
in his day. It is very likely most of b
his friends agreed with him that the I.
limit of invention had been reached, h
He seems, unfortunately, deficient in n
imagination and in optimism, as we
read of his letter of resignation in 3
the musty files of the patent office, y
But let us not take too much unction p
to our souls. We are as ignorant of w
what the next eighty years mayjn
bring forth as he was of the future c<
of American inventions. n
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Did you ever notice the difference g
in the way you feel toward yourself p
when you are compelled to go around {l
in a shabby suit and when you go a
abroad neatly clad from heels to ?
head? Remember the time when w
you were pretty well down and out.
and had to go around looking for a a
job in a suit of clothes that you t(
wouldn't do your gardening in now? n
You were licked before you started. _
says the Duluth Herald. You anticij
pated as you entered the door the re- a.
fusal that sent you cowed, out of it
again. gl
There's a lot in that feeling. w
When Uncle George lent you the
money for a new suit you braced up.
tackled that job-hunting with a new ^
courage, and quickly got on your feet g]
again. t(
Did you ever stop to think that
your home surroundings work in n.
much the same way? -sj
They do. whether you realize ft or t(
not. Here's where "Clean-up week" ja
gets its relationship to the psycholo- n,
gy 01 nearness. ir your huuic is m ^
repair and not in need of paint, if
your home grounds are clean and
well kej>t. if your lawn is green and
sightly and your yard neat and or- ^
derly. then your home environment n
ministers to your self-respect and to
your own judgment of your decent
place in the community. tI
Extra Weight.
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\-ix cents postage reo.uired. miss.
What for?"
"This letter is very heavy."
"Pshaw." said the giri. "Now. I'm
sorry 1 put la t::03e 3.000 kisses." M
POSSESSES THE MAN POWER.
nited States Could Soon Recruit a1
l.arge Force.
It is not safe to infer that because
he United States has a small mili-j
iry organization it would be unable!
3 put forces in the field, says the j
oronto Mail and Empire. If thej
ar were to last only a few morej
lonths that aid to the allies would, |
ideed, be impossible and quite unecessary.
But presuming the war
3 last beyond 1915 the United States
ould, if the authorities wished, arm
nd train quite a formidable body
f men. There need be no misconeption
as to that.
The Civil war found both North I
nd South unorganized in a military
ay. Up to October, 1863, when !
oluntary enlistment practically
eased in the North. 1,332.000 men'
ent into the ranks. The South gotj
50,000 volunteers. Then the coneripiion
acts came into force and
!ie South obtained 1,100,000 men
nd the North a total of 1,500,000
rom the various States by levy. The
rand total obtained by President
incoln was 2.89S.000, including renlistments,
and 2.250,000 without,
n both sides there were 2,000,000
ecruits who volunteered. The Spanih
war thoueh a minor canmaien
ffords another instance of how
uicklv the United States could, on
ecessity, organize military forces,
f Canada, within six weeks of war,
ould organize and equip.33,000 men
ar the front, and within seven
lonths have nearly 100,000 more or
?ss ready, what could the United
tates, with it6 immense resources
f men, material and money, not do
l equal time? By the end of the
ear the United States could, if it
ished, have an army of a million
i Europe.
When war broke out Lord Kitchner
had the task of gathering and
quipping and training a civilian
rmy of over 2,000,000. Those
roops are now ready for the field,
ccording to authoritative advices,
ut must await fuller munition oranization.
If that great feat is posible
among the artisans, shop
lerks, office workers and other
oused-up workers of industrial
iritain, how much more easily could
nation of a hundred millions, as
and of out-door life as the Amerians
do as much. The man power
> possessed by the United States,
o transform it into military usefuless
is merely a question of organiation.
A nation with so much enerv.
capacity and driving power as
ur neighbors could quickly show re
alts. It may be, of course, that the
ccasion may not arise, but if it
ftould the United States would be
ir from as helpless as surface indiations
seem to show.
WAR BOOSTS DIAMONDS.
lice of Gems Has Risen, Never to
Come Down.
All possessors of diamonds should
e interested in the advice offered by
Schrvver, who recently arrived
ere to find customers for the dialonds
cut at Amsterdam, Holland.
"Save your diamonds," said Mr.
chrvver, recently, according to New
ork correspondence Washington
ost. "The price is going up now; it
ill continue to go up, and it will
ever come down. The European
onflict has affected the diamond
larket to a great extent. In fact,
lere are so few valuable diamonds
eing sold now in Amsterdam that
ractically all the cutters are idle,
ixty-five per cent, of the men emloyed
in the diamond-cutting works
1 Amsterdam are now without work,
nd if the war continues the other
5 per cent, will also find themselves
ithout employment.
"'Ordinarily the disappearance of
market for any commodity would
?nd to lower the price, but with dialonds
it is different. The diamond
larket of the world, and they see to
; that there is always an even bal-j
nee maintained between the raw j
laterial and the market, which reults
in no decrease in the price
hen the market is poor.
"At the present time there are no
lines in operation in South Africa,
otwithstanding that fact, there is
nough raw material in London now
) meet the demand from now until
le end of the war I had a cable
lassage this morning from London
:ating that the price of rough ma;rial
had gone up f> per cent, since
ist week. I have been in this busiess
for 27 years, and in all that
me the price has been going up."
When Mr. Schryver was asked
iiemer ,\e? iuik un^ui i
ike the place of Amsterdam as a,
iamond centre, lie answered in the
egative.
"I do believe, however." he connued.
"that Xew York will become
le leading diamond market of the
orld, because the people of this
juntry will have more money than
ny others in the world, and Xew
ork will be the place to get the
nished diamonds."
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