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I The South
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I The President Sees in a Change at Washington a Greater and
a Fuller Opportunity For This Section of the Nation.
That was an altogether graceful and patriotic utterance of
President Taft, when, in welcoming the Daughters of the Con
federacy to Washington Tuesday, he expressed the opinion that
the coining to the national capital of a Democratic administra
tion will bring the South into a fuller and more desirable part
nership in the nation’s affairs.
The South, at least, will accept the president’s words in
good faith, and give him credit for a large measure of sincer
ity in saying them when and where he did.
It must not be forgotten, and particularly must the South
not forget it, that Mr. Taft, as president, has shown by substan
tial deeds his professed friendship toward this immediate section.
He went to Louisiana to find a chief justice of the supreme court
of the United States—he went to Tennessee and to Georgia to
find two associate justices, fie has spent much of his time in the
South—he has loved to mingle with Southern people, and he has
said so, time and again, frankly and freely. His most inti
mate personal military aide, the lamented Archie Butt, was a
Southerner.
The South, in rejoicing that Wilson is to be the president
following Mr. Taft, should not be —and will not be—unmindful
of the fact that President Taft, whatever his political blunders
and misconceptions, and conceding to all men a wide freedom
jf thought as to that, has been always an executive of honesty
of purpose and integrity of action. He may not rank with
some others in the matter of political sagacity; the charge that
he has been a "kind hearted gentleman, surrounded by men who
knew exactly what they wanted’’—may be more or less true —
but it will not be denied that Mr. Taft has been catholic and
broadminded in his ideals, and has desired to be a president of
all the people.
The South, while rejoicing that a change is to come in the
•onduct of the national government, inclines not to gloat that
political misfortune has overtaken the president, nor yet to sus
pect aught of guile or upworthiness within the loyal heart of
him.
The South never will feel that Mr. Taft has intended to be
other than friendly to it, however much it may realize, as he
says, that his hands have been in a degree tied and his high
purposes and desires thwarted time and again by circumstances
over which he had no control.
'
jo Real Democracy Is Good
| Business
The president-elect broke his post-election silence to say one
thing, to wit: That honest business has nothing to fear from a gen
uine Democratic administration.
Under the existing circumstances this assurance was well con
ceived. and it was timely enough. But the day will come when such
an assurance will be superfluous under any circumstances.
The day will come when every schoolboy will understand that
sound democracy and sound business are interchangable terms
that the principles of legitimate and prosperous commerce and in
dustry are simply a transcript of the fundamental ideas of the
-democratic order.
In illustration of this truth, consider the following propositions:
DEMOCRACY CAN NOT EXPAND AND FLOURISH UN
iLESS THERE IS a FREE CAREER FOR TALENT—NEITHER
CAN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.
Whenever the pathways to personal power are clogged by
I privileges and prerogatives and are thus closed to men of original
find creative enterprise, democracy languishes. And so does busi
' ' jess.
Democracy, in flinging wide the gates of opportunity and offer
ug an equal chance to every man, does not mean to offer prizes to
imber egotism or long-winded greed. It means to dear the way
or a rivalry in good works—a race in which the servant of the
•eople shall be the winner of the laurel crown. Where the same
itale does not obtain in the industrial order, enterprise degenerates
ipto sodden monopoly. And monopolv paralyzes business
REAL DEMOCRACY IS BASED UPON FREE CONTRACT
AND MUTUAL INTEREST. IT IS THE SAME WITH* SOUND
BUSINESS.
M hen political advantages are wrung from the majority bv
fraud, the energy of free government is diminished. And when
economic advantages are wrested from the people by commercial
duress, the volume of business runs thin. Men are riot free when
they are in need; and there can be no fair bargaining between hun
gry men and those who are well fed. The prosperity of anv rests
upon the freedom of all.
REAL DEMOCRACY AND SOUND BUSINESS LIAT BY
DISCOVERY AND PROGRESS. NEITHER CAN LIVE IN \
STATE OF REPOSE AND ROUTINE.
The freedom of free government requires that the mass of the
people shall have effective economic power—i. e., the power to
change and improve their occupations. Where political servitude
< and commercial stagnation exist, they are both due to a low voltage
of social motion The political problem and the economic problem
.. | both arise from the fact that there are more job-seekera than jobs.
The solution of both problems lies in the releasing of creative
forces and the increasing of the momentum of enterprise. Wher
ever there are more opportunities of advancement than there are
men knocking al the gates, the antagonism between labor and cap
ital vanishes. The antagonism between the majority and the minor
ity vanishes also.
Thus one might go on indefinitely— multiplying the likenesses
between real democracy and sound business. A book or a whole
library might he written on the subject.
But the point is missed until the legson is brought home that
the likeness is more than a likeness. It is an identity. The two
grand idealisms of the modern world- the enthusiasm of business
and the passion for democracy—are at bottom one and the same
thing.
the rectification of business is the i:e\liz\
TION OF DEMOCRACY.
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The Outside Man
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Even though without ’tis stormy weather
I drink; you drink; we drink together.
The man outside looks through the pane
And wishes he were a man again.
Our time is now—we lead our lives.
And we forget the man who strives
© About Books * ’ l! ' 11, I! . l!AI;l ’ «
Copyright, 1912, International News Service.
MAN'S first great invention
was the scheme whereby a
vocal sound stands for a .spe
cific thought. Then language was
born.
The second great invention, and
the greatest one in the world yet,
was making an arbitrary mark
stand for a vocal sound.
This was the secret of Cadmus,
the Phoenician, who invented the
alphabet.
Twenty-six little crooked marks
called letters, and seven punctua
tion marks -this is.the equipment
of a writer. Os course, it must he
taken for granted that the man has
thoughts. IMit what thought is, no
one yet has ever attempted to say.
A book Is th< utilization of the
t’admean invention. As we grow
in spirit ami mentality we want
fewer books and better book’.
Hooks are not much to teach us
ua to suggest ami make uh think for
ourselves,
Reading is self-ievei.uioii. You
like that autlioi cnk who iHleits
your own thought. In tin book you
di»vuvvi youi'Mclt Unly ihi ■sopiio-
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1912.
•' mon mind reads much and delves
I and dives into bookish depths.
Small boys think It a great ac
complishment to be able to see un
der w iter. The real achievement is
j to see in the open air. out in the
sunshine, in God's great out-of
doors. »
Do not dive too deep into books,
otherwise you will get metaphysi
cal mud in your glimmers, and
memorize, not think.
Do not worship a book. You
would never worship the author if
you knew him. Treat,a book with
dignity. Stand shoulder to shoulder
with an author. Love his book, but
don't num• b it.
Good books are companions. It
is beautiful live neighbor to
Ralph Waldo Emerson and call to
him over the back feme or help
yourself In his Garden of Allah.
This Is what Aleott did. Aleott
had a great crop of girls, but was
short on beets, tin rot- and onions.
bocHU-e Aleott would not pull pit.-,
weed and nuik< am ui) pinsHne
cull it “pusaley" if you prefer
A book is the -tMiden of the
mind. Th. ... is m> ■: y. m.
in 11, but it is sw't.t to iviilvut-
To gain a foothold on the sands.
And shows the world his empty hands.
We see but once Dame Fortune’s smile,
And if we tarry but awhile
We are the men outside the pane .
AVhose chance will never come again.
—Frederic A. Wilson.
pl.-ite. And the curious thing is.
the mpre posies you pick from one
of these gardens of the mind the
more there are left.
Be on good terms with the great;
touch fingertips with Robert Louis:
greet Tammas, the Techy Titan,
w ith a smile, even if he only re
turns it with a grunt: laugh with
Rousseau; learn with Hugo, the
master of the short sentence; sigh
with old Omar, and out of them all.
blessed by your own divinity, your
own insight, your own apprecia
tion, you will be able to sit at the
speaker's table in Valhalla with
Plato, Pericles, Aristotle, Coperni
cus, while Dante the solemn passes
the brown bread.
A book is record of a life.
It Is what the grain of the tree is
to the wood, it Is a history of a
struggle for existence.
In a book you get the best that
n man has ever thought or done or
said, The dross, the iet>s tin- com
monplace, the tr. ltsh 111 all mg
omit ted.
Any book that fives twenty-five
reals lui- - <ai i ;in. .. thi die
| • I 1 n fU is ei.itcd by two
decudw
THE HOME PAHER
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on -iGTirfi
“Super- # f
dreadnoughts” |L
« HF IjgHMy
AVill They Prove Themselves To Be
of the Sea? Overgrowth Destroyed the Arm- L S
ed Monsters of Jurassic Times and Armored
Knights of Middle Ages—America Will Be
Ready To Meet. Situation When Big Battle
ships Cease To Be Valuable.
Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS.
1 STOOD close beside the mighty -I
battleship New York as she
rushed, with an anthem of vic
tory that shook the air, down the
ringing g'rooves which led from her
huge cradle to the salt tide waters
that are to be her Home.
Never have I heard another such
diapason played by any instrument
made with human hands. The
ground trembled, the atmosphere
was turned into a gigantic lute,
with every string in accordant vi- •
bration. The strange birth-song of
the rushing ship, blending with tha
roar of a thousand welcoming whis
tles and the cheers from fifty thou
sand throats, made a concert of
triumphant melodies■ that will al
ways ring in n*iy ears.
The overwhelming effect was
partly the result of surprise; I had
not expected that the great battle
ship would go singing to the sea.
Her voice was one to make every
patriotic heart beat quicker. There
was in it no tone of doubt or fear.
It was the anticipatory chant of
battle and of victory.
How Great Will They Grow?
But as I looked noon her huge
steel hulk I could not but ask n>y- 1
self; How many more of these war
monsters must we build before the
reign of peace shall come? How
much greater must they grow be
fore they disappear entirely?
Biologists tell us tiiat the armed
monsters of Jurassic times grew
so vast, so heavy, so unwieldlj', that
their kind perished through over
growth. Will it be the same with I
these steel monsters of man’s mak
ing? Do they not resemble the ar
mored knights of the Middle Ages,
who at length could hardly carry ■
themselves upright on their ov r
burdened horses? The Invention of
gunpowder and of bullets that fly
2,000 feet in a second put an end to <
armor for goldiers. In maritime
warfare armor has been the latest j
instead of the earliest development, I
but can it continue to be effective
when guns are igade which, at a
distance of five miles, send their
shells through the thickest belts of
steel? On the sea as on the land I
will not armor be abandoned and '
the fate of battles be decided by
TheSanjak of Novi Bazar
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
TN the land where the Turk was accustomed to lurk,
1 Snug and safe in his lowly thatched harem.
1 here were glad golden days for the' Pashas and Beys,
Ere the Bulgars came down there to scare ’em.
Leading sextuple lives with a half dozen wives.
And never a family jar.
1 hey were in pretty rich, were these Turks, among which
Was the Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
Thru the rough, rural folk in the Balkans awoke.
And with expletive Turkish “By Hecks,”
Snore the heel ot the lurk had'borne sorely to irk
The supplian scruff of their necks.
Which saying, they shot up the Pashas a 101.
Ami soon they had fleeing afar
All the once haughty Beys, but a head a long ways
Was the Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
So now there’s a throne that is left all alone <
In a coutry where din and dissension
Are so often the case that one might think the place
Was a prolonged Chicago convention.
And the Novi Jambeek has an ad in this week,
Reading: WANTED—A man who's a star.’
And who’ll hustle right in to a fight he can’t win—
To be Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
I haven I the pelf for the journey myself,
And that may be possibly why
For this excellent chance for a life of romance
I do not rush out ami apply.
Bui Bryan has still go| his fuiiire to fill,
And as for our old friend T. R.,
One worn! certainly think, sine, h.- <an’t he a Kink
He’d be Sau i;i9 of X O vi Bazar.
• swiftness of movement and lengl
of reach?
The New York is called a ~
dreadnought," and she l( iks
Her cost is $6,000,000. Fossibij «e
shall soon see super-super dread
noughts, costing double the money
but we can not go* on forever it
that way. These dinosaurs of tit
sea must ultimately give place b
other forms less unwieldly, mor
active quicker in movement, bet
ter fitted to survive amidst tin
change of environment that is no-,
rapidly coining over the who,
world.
Conquest Will Alter War.
The, conquest of the air and tlia
of the submarine depths will sooi
aiter the conditions of warfare
Man's activities are no longer eon
fined to the surface of the earii
and the sea; he soars above the or,,
and dives beneath the other, ami
still filled with the spirit of i .
he carries his instruments of in
struction with him wherever i,
goes.
When it will all end, who nn
tell'; The way to universal peace i
not tile way of disarmament. A
long as other nations continue n
I build super-dreadnoughts we air
built! them, mid bnihl them In
than anybody else. Their a
will not come through the pr
ing of any theory, but tin.
teachings of the next grt.u v a
We were the first, taaght by i
I experiences of war, to b.ti'.l
moved ships; perhaps we shall .■ '=<’
be the first to show that soar tir y
I better can be made.
Is Result of Experience.
Nn dvance was ever . : : \
upon the earth that w; < no; ti
result , - ' y.eri. nee. Ti;.- i ~ I im:
of one i xperlcnce endure anti na~
, be utilised until the mxt eo-m - ?
its tu l ii. and those who iriaini >
are those who the most promptl.
I meet the new eruditions a- ' 1 ;
arise. The New York, with I: 1
battle song upon her ste> I ‘
the mighty mistress of tlie s< to
day; tomorrow Ini' hour
passed. But of one thing wv
feel sure, whatever the
of tlie morrow may be A
> will know how to meet them.
