Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1916, Page 6

6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATE . i VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. By Carrier per month. and Sunday ee 6 without Sunda: ...300 three vears in REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken In payment of small accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not leuvl'fl: OFFICES. i Omaha—The Bee Bullding South Omaha—3318 N street Council Bluffs—14 North Maln street Lincoln—526 Little Building. Chlcago—818 People's Gas Bullding New York—Room 803, 286 Fifth avenue St. Louls—503 New Bank of Commerce, Washington—1725 Fourteenth street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department 7 NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. 55,483 Daily—Sunday 50,037. Dwight Wil s, clrculation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the ayerage circulation for the month of November, 1916, was 56,453 dally, and 50,037 Sunday Y LWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Managef: Subscribed in my presence and sworn {o before me this 3nd day of December, 1916. At .'W. CARLSON, Notary Public, . Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. B S =— = No matter how the game ends, it's a wild horse . on the investors. Once more the “status quo ante” holds the world's spotlight. Praffers of p;c_e‘i\:;fiilyrblend with the sea- son's spirit of good will, Spem—— Wonder if the Germnn‘chancellor crossed his fingers before he said it? In the race for the Nobel peace prize the kaiser easily tops the score of Colonel Bryan. ———— Cheaper postage will not serve public needs half as well as better service at present rates. It is' up to the Entente Allies to accept the medicine “made in Germany” or start a real rough house. — It is gathered from side remar.kl that Potsdam presses the “humanity” pedal as deftly as the White House. — ‘ The first substantial breath of peace pulls the props from n and stock prices. Still, the deal- insist the market is unstained by the gamblers’ ‘Officill Austria delicately insinuates that it, 100, was forced to draw the sword. This lends considerable color to the claim that Baron Mun- chausen got his in: A compulsory donation of $25,000 apiece from the meat packers carries a message of cheer té the Missouri state treasury and also intimates that the state law against combinations is a live Wber. () ~ In a public address not long ago Lloyd George characterized Prussia as “the road hog of Eu- rope.” The premier's comment on Germany's peace offer promises a picturesque. addition to war's vocabulary. " Amid the wreckage of cabinets, the tumult of * the shooting and the joyful calculations of war's booty, Bagdad continues in undisturbed repose. Besides other defenses Bagdad possesses an at- mosphere of sufficient strength to put gas bombs out of business. _Auto drivers as a rule observe the law re- quiring a ) at crossings where street cars are receiving or discharging passengers. A few reckless drivers ignore it and take the chance o( getting by without running down someone, x\ conduct defies a reasonable law and those are guilty of it deserve the full penalty. * A long and costly road must be traveled be- fore the United States reaches the goal of pre- paredness, One of the surprises of the present time is“the fact that American shipping in the Philippines is largely dependent on British stocks olicoal, Independent supplies of fuel must be pro- vided at every available port.or other defensive measures are futile, ¥ S —— ¢ A note of profound humility runs through the Austrian message conveying the empire's peaceful désires to Pope Benedict. The tone is in marked contrast to the lofty contempt manifested in the same quarters in July, 1914] when' Pius X pleaded in vain for peace. The cold indifference of “His Most Catholic Majesty” in those appealing days undoubtedly hastened the death of the venerable poBtifi. ! The Nation’s Food Supply New Yeork Ti There is ground for optimism, Secretary Hous- to says in the annual report of the Department of Agriculture, as to the a{;ifily of the nation “not only to supply itself with food, but increasingly to meet the needs of the world” This opinion is based in part upon the results of an inquiry which shows that in the last sixteen years the per capita production of the leading food com- modities, meat and dairy products excepted, has kept pace with an increase of population amount- u;! to 33 per cent. Meat has fallen from 248 to 219 pounds per carila and milk from ninety-five to seventy-five gallons, But the beef supply has ybeen growing slowly since 1913, when the lowest point was reached. Meat and dairy products are about 37 per cent of the average diet and de- clining output must affect prices and the cost of living even in normal times. During the last two years, however, we have not only been supplying our own needs in the food market, but also satisfying an abnormal and extraordinary demand from abroad. Official fig- ares from another department of the government show what has been done. Exports of foodstuffs and food animals in the ten months that ended with October were 000,000, In the corre- (s)gndmg months of last year they were $855- ,000. For these two yeats the shipments have been at the rate of more than $1.008.000 a year, while in the corresponding ten months of 1914 the exports were only $421,000000. High prices due in large measure to this foreign demand would naturally cause effort to increase output, but with the end of the war they will decline. An increase of the acreage of winter-sown wheat - i& ‘wported, but enlargement of the yvields of some o&u products may be prevented by uncertainty and by THE Waiting for Definite Proposals. England and France express surprise and some seepticism at the announcement from Berlin that Germany and its allies are ready to present peace proposals. This is but natural. Neither of the Entente Allies is yet beaten to a point where de- feat will be admitted, and that, if the speech of the German chancellor to the Reichstag is to be accepted as a guide, is a condition precedent. However, that is a point not fully determined, and it is unfair to prejudge entirely the motives of the German government in making its move. Allow- ing for honesty of purpose and sincerity in the proffer, the next step will quite natuarlly await the reception accorded the proposal h; the Al- lies. Until their disposition has been in some way made manifest, it is not likely that exact terms will be stated. It is quite Within reason to believe that Eng- land and France are willing to discuss peace on a basis that concedes to them less than the share of the undefeated. Neither of the belligerents can afford to accept full responsibility for continua- tion of the conflict, save as an alternative to the admission of defeat. If the German proposals contain anything that may lead to such settle- ment as will restore peace to the world on terms all can accept, the outcome will be welcomed by all. From the first month of the war it has been clearly apparent that neither side would be able toswork its full will on the other, without such sacrifice in men and money as would leave the final conquest empty. This situation has so- lidified to the point where “stale mate” might have been announced many weeks ago. To pur- sue the war under guch conditions is idle, if any honorable way to peace be shown, Many days must be Spent in preliminary dig- cussions, but it is not improbable altogether that negotiations may be advanced early enough to permit an armistice within a fortnight, and give the men in the trenches a real Christmas. Once an armistice is declared, the end may be con- sidered as at hand, Another Office Outlived. Auditor of State Smith recommends the abol- ishment of the office of commissioner of public lands and buildings, for the reason that it has outlived its usefulness. The chief work attached to the office is now performed by the State Board of Control and what is left can well be done through the office of the auditor or the secretary of state. This will shorten the ballot in, Nebraska by one office. It raises another question, however, What economy in adminis- tration is there in creating a board of three mem- bers to relieve a single elective officer of his constitutional/duties? This point was urged at the time the law for the board was being shot through the legislature by the democrats. Audi- tor Smith’s further recommendation that the State Printing board be abolished and its duties transferred to the auditor’s office still further supports the stand of The Bee that it is possible to reorganize administration of our state govern:’ ment on a much more compact and efficient basis. The pay roll as well as the ballot may be short- ened without very seriously interfering with pyb- lic service, Readjusting the Canal Tolls. General Goethals, speaking to a gathering of engineers at Pittsburgh, said the Panama canal tolls as at present fixed give British vessels an ad- vantage of fully one-third over American ships. This is because of the difference in systems of determining the carrying capacity of the vessels. He suggests that congress immediately act to remedy the matter, because of the discrimination ainst the home-owned ships, and the consequent loss of revenue, The general's warning will very likely fall on deaf ears. Originally American ships engaged in coatswise commerce were exempt from canal tolls, but the democrats, under pres- sure from President Wilson, repealed the provi- sion made by the republicans for protection of our own commerce. Under the same influence that then moved the president in his course, it is not likely thdt the democrats will feel any more* inclined to favor home interests now. And it may not be out of place to again call attention to the fact that President Wilson has not yet dis- closed what calamity threatened the nation at that time, and which could only be avered, by re- moving the canal toll exemption and placing American vessels at their present disadvantage, If Peace Really Should Come. Some little foretaste of what may reasonably be looked for in event of peace being restored in Europe is afforded by what actually followed on the announcement that one set of belligerents feels ready to treat for peace. Although our democratic friends have in the most solemn man- ner assured us that the present “unexampled pros- perity” is entirely separate and apart from the war and that it will be continued so long as the pres- ent administration is in office, prices generally began to topple with the first suggestion of peace. Nor was this felt alone in America, but wherever trading is carried on. In Tokyo, for example, the movement assumed the proportion of a panic, and the stock exchange was closed in conse- quence. The truth is, all the inflation that has disturbed the normal currents of trade recently finds its source in war conditions, and that the level of prices now existing will fall with the war is equally true, The manager who does not arrange his affairs against the coming of peace is making a mistake. This is not pessimism, but prudence. A spirit of narrow provincialism pervades Rus- sian public life. The president of the Russian Duma resigned because some uncouth opponent dubbed him “a babbling blackguard.” The Duma, compared with its neighbors, is a young body, and its members lack the political tanning processes which render the hide immune to barbed epithets. Women opposed to suffrage set up the claim that only a small minority of the sex desire the ballot. If this is so, how do they account for the whooping majorities which surrounded the ballot boxes where the chance offered? The op- position might solve the mystery by demanding a recount. Two more postmortems on the tragedy of November 7 have been held—one each in Kansas and California. The deliverances are chiefly re- markable as exhibits of the vocal nerve of acces- sories before and after, It is a question whether the Teutonic allies feel they have all they want or realize they have all they can get. That they hold the big end of the war game is beyond dispute, which makes '.l‘lth&t that the process is a slow one. | the present a desirable time to quit. BEE: | \ OMAHA, THURSDAY, On Being a Boy Again ' Boston Transcript And what would you like for Christmas? The question was addressed by our charming hoslcs'~ to my friend Liberalis, and without a moment’s hesitation he answered: “My dear lady, the gift I am really sighing for is a pair of copper-toed shoes.” “But, but”—the hostess almost stam- mered—"is that the latest style? Do they make hoots for grown-up gentlemgn with copper at the toes?” Liberalis smiled as he replied: "It is just a boy's pair that I desire—with the appropriate changes that will make me fit to wear them. My dear madam, | am asking to fit the receiver to the gift. I am growing old, and 1 am weary of maturity. . I want to empty my mind of judg- ments and conclusions. [ want to try life’s ex- periences and adventures all over again. 1 would cease to be a grown-up man and put back my whole stature of body and of mind to fit the cop- per-toed shoes I saw trudging sturdily along the pavements this morning. I want to be rid of the morning news and the noontide gossip and the evening stock quotations, to empty my mind of a huge mass of unnecessary and burdensome in- formation, to attain to the happy irresponsibility of a boy of 10.” ¢ “That is clear enough,” answered our hostess, “and mow I understand exactly what you mean. You are idealizing childhood "as the poets and story tellers of your own generation did. You think that if you had your life to live all over again you couid make a better use of it than you have done. Your friends will hardly agree to that. They are pretty well satisfied with you as you are. You are deceiving yourself, my friend, I fear. Without flatter, you will allow me to say that you would run some risks in those copper- toed shoes and might make a worse use of the long and busy years, Childhood has risks as well as pleasures, let me tell you.” “I have often wondered.” Liberalis took up the conversation, “how much we bring over to our life experience from former existences. The question goes with the problem of whether we are made out of nothing or simple go round and round. It is one of the strange things in a strange world that all the experience of all the enerations throws no light upon that question. t daunted the imagination of‘the Greeks in the heroic age. Homer could imagine the scenery and characters of the Iliad and the Odyssey, but he could not imagine anything for the shades of his dead heroes except aimless living in a world as shadowy as themselves. And some Christian thinkers are just as helpless. They have given the boys just graduating from copper-toed shoes the idea that heaven is a continual harping and hymn singing. You can not feed the imagination —which is the undeveloped soul of a 12-year-old American boy—on such monotony of occupations. He does not believe it, any more than he believes any other unpleasant fact which contradicts his irrepressible activities of mind and body. - The boy of Asia, who is taught that his present life is just the fruit of lives which he has passed through reviously, and that he is reaping only what he has sown, has a more rational, if less hopeful, view of the universe than the Greek or the copper- toed American boy who is taught that what fol- lows on the ending of this life is what seems to him today a perpetual boredom.” “I understand the risk of going back to boy- hood,” he went on, “and I am not ungrateful for our kind appreciation of my career in-life. Rut Tlam thinking of the ‘gerat opportunities which open on the copper-toed youngsters of today. I am also vain enoughl to think that the inherited qualities which have made possible that small success of which you do me the honor to remind me, are a fair insurance that with a new beginning 1 would not make a failure of my new oppor- tunity in life. I know you would be kind to the boy to whom you brought the chance of new venturing with your magic Christmas gift of the copper toes, so I should not lose your fncpdshlr altogether, ' But think of the relief of having all the anguish of this war a dim recollection-of one'’s child tfid. and all its heroisms an inspiration in the fresh and grateful memory of mankind! Think of the new knowledge pushing down into the rimer lessons and even the talks around the amily table! It is so much a bigger world that I am emulous of its opportunities and adven- tures.” Consider, I put in at this point, all the im- provements in games and shows. In the days of your youth there was no golf, too little tennis and no movies. Foot ball was an amusement and'not a heroism and a social rallying point for the very rich. The whole development of the motor car was in the future, you did not even have a bicycle. You learned your lessons by kerosene, or by a flickering gas burner which our grandchildren would scorn. All the flare and glare of electrical advertising was in front of you. You had your news of the doings of the world by steamer ar- rivals and the wars of the world were not the first thing served with due flavoring of horror at the breakfast table. No wonder, Liberalis, you are envious of your grandson and are sighing to get into his shoes. “That is all true enough,” Liberalis answered, “but superficial. A boy puts his whole heart into his occupations, whether they are of the old time or the new. But there is a certain amount . of truth in what you say. I would like to know how the rich world of today looks to the boy of today. I am not afraid of the dwarfing of the human by any amount of machinery, The elaborate arrange- ments for securing a good time no more overawe the modern boy in copper-toed shoes than the lesser arrangements did in my own day. Human nature does not dwindle in any tool shop or place of play. But what interests me is that the boy of today stands on the threshold of such a different world and has so great a charice of seeing it shape itself into the measure of his dream. That bring- ing of the world together which puts the sorrows and the triumphs of all nations on your break- fast table is setting.us face to face with some of the ultimate problems of right living, of peace and good relations in the, four quarters of the earth, I may be wrong in thinking that the boys of to- day will be far nearer to final questions and solu- tions than the boys of ymy age were, but that is the conclusion of what you ¢all wisdom, which I am asking to put off with,the gift of youth-return- ing shoes. I crave the great adventure which seems to make so little appeal to the boys of to- day." . A Natiokal Aseet Philadelphia Ledger.. Secretary Baker wisely recognizes the muni- tion factories as one of the most important of the national assets, without which the nation would be helpless in any emergency calling for instant defensive preparations. Many of these estab- lishmengs owe their being to the stimulated de- mand growing out of the great war, and most of them represent factories originally designed for other purposes, but equipped especially to supply the needs of the belligerents over seas. To allow them to be totally dismantled when the present war ends would be a short-sighted failure to profit by one of the most vital lessons of the hour. There ought to be some way to conserve a resource so valuable short of government own- ership. One of the most powerful arguments against the embarkation of the government in argor-plate manufacture had reference to its ef- fect upon the existing plants. Even the plant contemplated by existing law would be totally inadequate to meet the present needs of the navy for protection for battleships and cruisers, and, of course, it is obvious that the present arsenals could not begin to supply the munitions that would be needed in the event of an emergency calling for national defense on a large scale. It will be recalled that even in the recent case of the mobilization of the regulars and the militia on the Mexican border, the government was de- plorably lacking in_many essentials of the equip- ment of an army. To throw away the great gain in efficiency which we have made in meeting the i needs of others would be suicidal DECEMBER 14, 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own e being. -—Emerson. One Year Ago Today in the War. Bulgarians reported to have entered Greece in pursuit of the allies. General Smith-Dorrien sent to tom- mand allies attacking German kBast Africa. British began withdrawal of 70,000 Anglo-Indian troops for service in Mesopotamia. British on sixty-five-mile front from Ypres to River Somme poured de- structive artillery fire on Germans. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The first number of the High School Register has appeared. It is a little folio published in the interest of the scholars of the high school and is edited by J. W. Broatch, Victor Rose- water, H. Clarke, Miss 8. McClintock and Miss J. Wallace. H. B. Taylor is the publisher. Workmen engaged in cutting down a toboggan slide on Poppleton avenue and Twenty-sixth street, discovered anm old graveyard. Several tombstones were exhumed and one or two skele- tons. The skulls of the latter are in the hands of Dr. Whinnery. The largest real estate transaction in interior property in this city was that of the sale of Joseph Millard’s two lots on the northeast corner of Ifarnam and Seventeenth, which were sold for $85,000 to W. F. Booth of New York, son of the president of the Third National bank of that city. He intends to build upon the property. The Cozzens house on Ninth and Harney, which for several years back has been one of the most popular and successful hotels in this city, has passed out of the hands of Mr. Rum- sey and into those of Robert Law. The Bohemian turners expect great things from the promised visit to this city of Charles Stulik, the celebrated athlete from Bohemia, who is ex- pected to arrive here about Christmas. This Day in History. 1782—Charleston, by the British, 1817—NMission of San Rafeal, Cal, founded. 1819—Joint resolution admitting Alabama into the union approved by President Monroe. # 1844—Steamer “Belle of . Clafks- ville” run down in the Mississippi river by the “Louisiana” and sunk, with loss of over thirty lives, 1851—Louis Napolean ejected presi- dent of the French republic. 1861—Prince Albert, consort of Queen Vietoria, died at ‘Windsor Castle. Born near Coburg, Germany, August. 26, 1819, 1863—General Longstreet repulsed the federals under General Shackel- ford at Bean's station, in east Ten- nessee. 1864—General Benjamin F. Butler was given command of the land forces to operate against Fort- Fisher. 1873—Louis Agassiz, famous nat- uralist, died. Born in Switzerland, May 28, 1807. 1877—Serbia declared war against Turkey. 1891—A bill was introduced in'the senate to provide a memorial statue in Washington to General U. S. Grant. 1894—Eugene V. Debs was sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment for contempt of court during the great railway strike. 1904—Fire in Minneapolis destroy- ed property valued at $2,400,000. 8. C., evacuated The Day We Celebrate. Preston) B. Myers president of the Myers-Diflon Drug company, was born December 14, 1869, at West Liberty, Ja. He is a pharmacist by profession and came to Omaha in 1888, being employed by Kuhn & Co., for seven years, engaging in 1895 in business for himself, Prince Albert, second son of the king of England, and who has been engaged in active service in the British navy, born twenty-one years ago to- day. Prince Paulos, third son of King Constantine of Greece, born in Athens, fifteen years ago today. Orson Smith, for many years a leader in Chicago banking circles, born in Chicago, seventy-five years ago today. Rt. Rev, Frank L. fragan . bishop of the Episcopal dlocese of Minnesota, born at Warsaw, N Y., forty-one years ago today. Oliver A. Harker, former dean and now professor of practice in the Uni- versity of, Ilinois Law school, born at Newport, Ind., seventy years ago to- i orge Tyler, pitcher of the Boston National league base ball team, born at Derry, N. H,, twenty-seven years ago today. 7 Timely Jottings and Reminders. President Wilson is to be the prin- cipal speaker before the National Gov- ernors’ conference, which assembles in ‘Washington today for a three-day ses- sion, Denmark is to take a plebiscite to- day on the question of selling its islands in the West Indies to the United States, according to treaty re- cently concluded at Washington, A great preparedness bazar, for which preparations have been making in New York City for several months, will be opened in the Grand Central palace today for a week's engagement, Rev. Hugh Latimer Burleson, for ten years editorial secretary of the Bpiscopal Board of Missions, is to be consecrated in New York City today as bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of South Dakota. Yale, Columbia and Syracuse uni- versities are to engage in a triangular debate tonight on the subject of the enforced settlement of disputes be- tween employers and employes by legally established courts of arbitra- tion Further hearing of the New Haven railroad’s application for permission to retain ownership and continue opera- tion of its Long Island Sound steam- ers, despite the prohibition in the Panama canal act, 18 to take place to- day before the Interstate Commerce commission in Washington, Storyette of the Day. H. C. Frick, the steel millionaire, sald one day to a Pittsburgh re- porter: “The man who lacks enterprise is always a lazy, do-nothing man. It's like the story of the clock and the sundial. “In an old-fashioned village there was a movement on foot to purchase a town clock for the town hall, but Jabez Hartley said: ‘‘No, no. That'll eat into a lot of money. What do we want a town clock for, anyhow? Why, lying abed of a morning, cau't I see the time by the sundial over the church porch?’ ‘“‘Yes, Jabez,' said a progressive, ‘dbut suppose the sun isn't shining? What do you do then?' ““Why,' said Jabez, 'l know then it ain’t fit weather to be out o' doors, 80 1 stay where 1 am for the day.'"— | Baltimore American McElwain, suf- | ———— The Pees LeHer Control of Coal Mining. Council Bluffs, Dec. 7.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: We are waking up (o the fact t there is needed imme- diate legislation on three points: First. The government should own all the coal mines. Then there would be mo car shortgge Second. We need a law preventing any set of men from combining their capital buying up any commodity and holding it above a limited profit. Third. We need a law to prohibit a strike of any kind.® Then all dis- putes could be adjusted by arbitration and no panics. With these three things accom- plished we will have the best govern- ment on earth. Am I right? God made the coal and all other commodities for the sustenance of his people and not as a deck of cards to be handled by a set of gamblers with His people at their mercy. (an any one wonder why so many apply to the county for aid when they are held up every day by these gamblers for the necessities of life? A. V. COVALT. Thinking of the Daily Grind. La Platte, Neb,, —To the Editor of The Bee: his daily everlasting grind; what a theme for thought it is! Svery week day evening and morn- ing I observe from my window the procession of public laborers on their way going and returning from their places of toil. The faces of the rush- ing masses appear meditative and fixed. served the commanders, the high- salaried and the independent, but 90 per cent of the population are striving for an existence. Now this is a repeating and a continuation of the same old grind which the bulld- ers of the pyramids of Egypt and the great wall of China were com- pelled to endure thousands of years ago, and which will be going on thou- sands of years in the future. In the famous debate in 1858, Stephen A. Douglas delighted in parading his favorite motto of not caring whether slavery in the United States was voted up or voted down. And to this weak bid for the presi- dency, good Abraham replied that he are, and that he proposed to take a definite stand for the right and fight on that side to the end. He said it was a part in that great struggle be- tween right and wrong which is going on all over the world and 'would be going on long after his and Judge Douglas's voices were silent. So it is with the masses who are toiling on and struggling for a mere or a comfortable living. The combat may be traced far away in the very dawn of human life upon the earth. At a foundry during a day's study, I found every one of the twenty-five men employed were arrayed against the corporation as they 'called the company who gave them work. They all were complaining. Visiting at the home of a well-to-do farmer down in northeast Missouri, who had lately moved into a commod- ious home. I said to the woman that all this fine enterprise meant that at least thelr daily grind would surely be enlarged. Both parents are above 50 years and one of the children is at home. Fifteen rooms are to be cared for besides the garden and the chick- ens and forty other duties to be cared for every day. And this with all our labor saving machinery and other con- veniences. I am not criticizing or finding fault. T am pleading that the general people should have some leisure for the cul- tivation of their minds and souls every day. JASPER BLINES. Faith and Its Uses. Omaha, Dec. 12—To the Editor of The Bee: ‘A man can have only one religion,” says Rabbi Cohn in Tues- day's Bee. Why? It is like saying a man can eat only one kind of food. Of course, If the different religions of the world aré exclusive of each other, the distinguished, rabbi is right. But don’t you see the embarrassing pre- dicament we get into the moment we pronounce such a judgment, especially if we are committed to one of the great faiths? These faiths are all dog- matic—that is they know they are right, know it passionately, un- In this great race may be ob-| | [ sure but that his dogma ! nemesis when we the conclusion obvious: all of them but one are wrong. And therc no in- finite_mind among us, nobody can be of which he is wrong, and incompatible; has absolute certitude that he may wear the fool's cap in the next millennium, as all who sneered at the Copernican astronomy wear it now. But if the great master- ful religions are not mutually exclu- sive, but rather complementary (as | firmly believe) then why can't a man have as many religions as he has | friends? Who has ordained monog- amy in the households of faith? | Now, really, isn't it true that our disputation over these things is only | a quarrel about names? Who will arise and tell me the difference (ex- cept in external ritualism and over- bellefs) between Christianity and Judaism and Buddhism? 1 have studied comparative religion until my head whirled (perhaps you think it still gyrating) and I declare that in their great wise hearts these faiths are one. Precipitate the solid, eternal substance of them all, and what do you get? You get a belief that the crude material forces in the universe do not have the last word; that the seen powers do not give the final cue | to the cosmic drama; but that there is something unseen and divine in the cosmos, something that is our live in the dirty fringe of our possibilities, and our ally when we obey the deeper self within us. Prometheus bound we feel never to be final; we always go on, with Shelley, to Prometheus unbound. I was never more impressed with the unanimity of the master religions than when I read Tagore's “Sahdana,” a beautiful exposition of Indian ideal- ism, the religion of the Upanishads. Why can’t we be eclectics here, as we are in our ethical codes? Each situa- tion, each spiritual state, has its own peculiar needs and demands its own special form of faith. Wouldn't it be absurd for one to insist on taking the same medicine (I apologize to the Christian Scientist) for gout and pneumonia and indigestion? Why not have all these faiths in our philosophi- cal home, to use according to ex- igency? For pessimism or physical bankruptcy I recommend Christian Science; for moral enervation, Juda- ism; for flagging idealism, the Hindu systems or theosophy; for inflated egoism (which, goodness knows, Nietzsche did not have to teach us), Christianity. WILLIAM YERINGTON. CHRISTMAS IN LITTLE EYES. Baltimore Sun. Christmas is speaking in little eyes Under the spell of the autumn skies. Secrets are glowing in hearts that knew All that it means when our secrets glow. Hearts are beating In tune té the chime Of the splendor and spirit of Christmas time— And 8o in the lane and so in the street, Christmas Is speaking In child eyes sweet. All of its mystery comes as of old, All of its tinsel of silver and gold, All of its magic and marvel of light, All of its waiting the long coming night, When over the housetops with Jjingles cheer Old Santa will come with his sleigh and his deer, His jolly cheeks glowing, his merry eyes set In that laughter of love we can never for- get. of Christmas is speaking on cheeks that are red— Windows bloomed yesterday bright with a sled, A tool box, a lantern, a train and a book— Christmas 1s speaking in each childish look, Telling its story all over again For the cheer and the glory and comfort of men, For the sweetening and lifting and helping of life Down through the dust of its struggle and, strite. / MIRTHFUL MOMENTS. “Nothing can ever take cooed the bride. “Nothing, dear?" 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