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THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1916. WILL POLITICIANS RF.rEATf ITS A CONrtJCT Or IDEALS. The Daily Northwestern r.tablH4 luivj 1H1 STATZ ASD OTTEft STaCKTa. HATRED. hunger front the belly crawls Cp to the heart, and draws Its dragon form about it.

and Its claws Make all the limbs to ache; when dark neas falls Upon tn blood shot eyes While yet the imperturbed skies Are full of light; rnrrertaU Military Training. The idea of universal military training appears to be growing in favor in this country. A study of this plan as operated in some of the European countriesSwitzerland, far instance has convinced many that universal training ia not only a good thing aa an essential step to pre Are a nation to protect i Two Editions Daily. eauce. t4 Ot per yar.

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No. 137. OaHKOSH WISCONSIN Friday, Juae 8. 1916. FLOAT housekeeper, Martha, who had been with him a great many years.

Arriving at Chatsworth, they passed slowly through room after room full of almost priceless pictures and works of art. But Martha said never a word, although It was evident that she was not missing anything. At length her master turned to her and said: "Well, Martha, what do you think of it all?" "Why," exclaimed Martha, rapturously, "I canna see a speck o' dust anywhere!" London Tit-Bits. la Hlatory of Party Tears Agra) Be Rrr4ire, TU Year A Bee lleetiea. (To the Editor.) Milwaukee.

June Will the politicians of various parties during th siege of 1'Jl repeat and carry out the preposterous conventions that were held ir. 1S75? There undoubtedly is a com plexion of similarity of H72 regarding various' policies in the vital questions facing the American people. American politics in 1S72 produced some preposterous conventions and candidates. 17. 8.

Grant, who was never a Republican but was the Republican president, was a candidate for reelec tion. Horace Greeley, who never was a Democrat, but quite the contrary, wag the Democratic candidate. International dissension developed in the Republican party during President Grant's administration, resulting In a third party calling themselves Liberal Republicans. They met In Cincinnati In 1S72, a revolt not unlike the Progressive split of 1912. Many eminent men, theorists and reformers Joined.

Among them were Carl Schure, Senator Trumbull of Illinois, Senator Fenton of New Tork, Senator Summer of Massachusetts, and a host of newspaper editors, including Horace White of The Chicago Tribune; Samuel Bowies. Springfield Republican; Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial; Henry Watterson, Louisville Courier- Journal; and Horace Greeley, New York Tribune. It was a massmeeting rather than a convention. No delegates had been elected In the regular way. A roll was made up, assigning to each state, delegates equal to Its congressional repre sentation.

They struggled over a platform first. adopting unanimously many reform propositions, chief of which was a demand for speedy removal of political disabilities of southerners and more liberal treatment of the states lately In rebellion. But tariff reform, one of the animating causes of the movement, they aide-stepped because they could not agree. Horace Greeley was nomi nated for president on the sixth ballot, his principal opponent being- Charles Francis Adams. The Democrats who had been In hopeless minority sine the civil war, met In national convention In Baltimore two months later.

Thinking to play a strategic political trick they adopted a regular Republican platform and nominated Greeley as their candidate. The Republican old sruard refused to be 'bluffed and meeting; at Philadelphia renominated President Grant and stood pat on their record. For a time during the campaign there was indication that Greeley would win. but before election day the preposter-ousness of his nomination and the im possible combination of Liberal Re publicans and irreconcilable Democrats became apparent. Mr.

Grant was over, whelmingly victorious at the polls. Mr. Greeley's spirit was shattered and in three weeks he died. Q. Junius Rus- ticus.

PERSONS AND THINGS, President Wilson will deliver A. dress, June 30, at New Tork. at the In vitation of the New York Press club. illlam Jennings Bryan affects to find at the Chicago convention a "noticeable lacK or enthusiasm as compared with four years ago." Prentiss I Coonley, wealthy manufacturer and member of the millionaire col ony at Lake Forest, has been sworn as foreman of a federal grand Jury. William Allen White, Emporia, Kan-attending the Chicago conventions, claims to have recently "reduced" forty pounds by eschewing corn cake, salt, raisins, bread and potatoes.

Miss Elizabeth Huber, student of so ciology, graduate of Radclifle and daughter of a wealthy manufacturer of Taunton, was killed near Los Angeles while "bumming her way" on a train In search of magazine data Miss Jane Myer, an ardest suffragist and organizer at the Elmlra (N, college, has eschewed the cause and become the wife of Prof. Charles Reitell, member of the faculty of the university of Pennsylvania. "This country needs a blood letting. We have grown too gross. We need the rumble ot the cannon and less of the music of cabaret.

We need the sound of marching hosts, not the seductive shuffle of the dance." That is what Rev. S. T. Smyth, president of St John's Military academy at Delatield, told the graduating class. D.

C. Jacklln, San Francisco mining magnate, has arrived at New York city on his million and a half dollar yacht, Cypress, after a cruise from the Golden gate via Cape Horn. The vessel is 900 feet long and maintained an average speed of thirteen and a half miles an hour. There is a covered golf course on her deck. London reports the engagement of Mrs.

William Leeds, widow of the American tin plate manufacturer, worth some fifteen millions and noted for beauty, to Prince Christophorus, member of the reigning family of Greece. Mrs. Leeds Is tiie 'daughter of the late William C. Stewart, Cleveland millionaire. The proposed union would give her higher rank than any other American woman married to a title.

Swells Coiihoicnce Fund. The conscience fund of the Kansas City (Mo.) railways is growing markedly, following the opening of the Billy Sunday revival. One woman wrote that she had ridden four or five times without paying. She had attended two of the meetings, wanted to get right with God, and, as a first step of cleansing her conscience, Inclosed thirty cents. One man wrote that he had stolen his way into one of the dances which the company gave for Its employes.

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In SOc, $1.00 and $2.00 bottles, at your dealer's, or direct, postpaid, in plain wrapper. Miracle Chemical Dept A-6, Park Ave. and 129th 6u, New yorkl That Is the War Farmer Oaakaah Pwater Tlewa Ewrogteaa War. (Appended Is a portion of a letter written by Rev. K.

c. Anderson, now pastor at Dundee, Scotland. About thirty years ago, Mr. Anderson was pastor of the First Congregational church, this city. The letter showed that it had been opened by war censors and sealed again.) MR.

ANDERSON'S LETTER. Around two conflicting ideals of social order, civilized nations are arrang. ing themselves. Modern democracy and ancient feudalism have come to death grlpa Around the first the com munity of liberal suates in both hemis pheres are more or less consciously grouping themselves. The despotisms of the old world find In Prussianized feudalism the full expression of their affinities and interests.

History seems to have demonstrated that between the two types of human society there can oe no lasting reconciliation. And in letters of fire the war Is putting Its seal on the verdict of history. two years of unparalleled war have graven deep Into the conscious ness of -vestern world this Prussian ideal tate. What is this ideal? It is that a nation organized and disciplined through all the ranges of Us life for aggressive war. It assumes that such war Is the natural and necessary business of the state.

Wars may be deliberately provoked, and Bismarck, it is now well known, provoked three such wars as a matter of policy. The German professors for two generations have systematically taught that war is the true secret of a nation's enduring virility. By it, they main tain, the state is secured against wast ing diseases born of peace, prosperity, and happiness; against the flabbiness of mere sentiment; and against the effeminacy always lying In wait to emasculate man. Here is the source of Prussian hectoring in diplomacy and of "frightfulness" in war. From this comes the swagger about "shining armour," "my devouring sword," and the offen sive Treitschean blasphemy that "the living God will see to It that war al ways recurs as a dreadful medicine for the human race." Prussia has evolved a type of society which is the negation of all that humanity has hitherto meant for the western world.

It Is this spirit, and the type of military nd civil society It has evolved, with which we are at war. It must be ohvious that it is worse than useless to reason with such a portent as this. Diplomacy, as even President Wilson must have discovered by now, might as well argue with Niagara. To talk of coming to terms with such a sinister phenomenon is a crime against all decent human And that is the governing fact In the crisis at which we have arrived. Against the proposal to shape a new social order on the Prussian model let us consider the ideal for which the allies stand.

It is that of a free and peaceful world. In a comity of cbn-federated nation-states, each unit would be free to develop its life and destiny on its own lines. There would be no dominant external power to coerce any one nation into, the adoption of ideals alien to its genius and Its interests. Its-industry, commerce, institutions, laws, and religion would be the reflection of its own spirit, and its relations with neighboring communities would be those of peace. Isolation and domination would be alike alien to its Interests.

One In a comity of equals. It would cherish no dreams of aggressive wars, nor seek to impose its own methods on any unit in the confederacy unwilling to accept them. State rights of autonomy and self-government would be maintained in all their integrity, and the central federal authority would deal with such matters as, by common consent, would be deemed essential to the well-being of the world state. It is this conception of free federated communities In a brotherhood of free nations which Sir E. Grey outlined the other day and to it, even through the murk and gloom of battle smoke, we can see the allied nations steadily tending.

It is the very opposite of Prussianized federalism. This is not a new ideal. In varying mystic phrase, religion and philosophy have known it. But what is new about it is this: Probably for the first time in the history of the race the wisest, calmist, clearest intellect that has ever guided the foreign relations of a great nation has voiced It and adopted it. But much as humanity has gained by Sir E.

Grey's avowal something more remains to be attained. The czar, when he summoned the first Hague conference anticipated it. And it! Is worth recalling today that most governments responded favorably to the czar's appeal. Only one great nation power, nourishing designs of aggression, persistently blocked the way. That one was Prussianized Germany.

Two reasons may be given for the comparative failure of The Hague conference. The first lies In the fundamental policy of the German empire. This recognizes that the governing factor in all German statesmanship is the interest of the German state, and of that interest the state is Itself the supreme judge. Treaties, alliances, agree, ments, either with its own people, or with other nations, bind that smpire only so long as the interest of the state requires It. Germany had guaranteed the Integrity and Independence of Belgium.

So long as the agreement did not conflict with the Interest of the empire, it was observed. The moment it ceased to do that, it was unceremoniously torn up. It had become a mere "scrap of paper." This is the settled policy of Germany, taught by professors In Its universities and practiced by statesmen in Its cabinet. What will be the use of making a treaty of peace with a government capable of such action as this? That is the reason why Mr. Asqulth's and Sir E.

Grey's declaration that "the destruction of Prussian militarism was an indispensable condition of peace" was so essentially wise and right. No peace agreement with such a. state policy as that of Prussianized Germany will be worth the paper it may be written on. Our. pacifists of every name and sect have yet to learn that simple, elemcn-tcry fact.

But the second reason deserves deeper and closer study. The Hague convention has no coercive power behind It Its findings are, essentially, a bundle of pious resolutions. A federation of the western nations to secure peace must have such power behind It as will be able, if necessary, to enforce Its decrees. The allies, representing the civilization of the western world are unitedly In arms to maintain their own freedom and the public law of the world. Their armies and navies are policing the world for the preservation of the imperilled sanctities of human society.

But it is the war that has called their organization and their unity into being. They are a war measure and a war necessity. Without them Prussian feudalism would impose When lips God made for laughter cry outright. Whether te the fault of men or fate. The heart God made for loving; learns to Bate.

Salomon de la Selvg in The Century. KEWS KOTES. Carl Keller, former mayor of Toledo. charged with bribery In connection with tne purchase of lira apparatus, was ac quitted on the second trial. The stats department says that the claims of American citizens a rain at Germany because of the submarine war fare will be adjusted by an International commlaalon.

The first draft of a bill which would give the United States SOO.OOO new trained somiers each year and at the same time ouia free the citizen of military duties before he is nineteen rears old. has been completed. When President Wilson nominated John T. Costello, Democratic national committeeman for the District of Columbia, as recorder of deeds for the district, he violated the precedent of twen ty years whereby that Job was regarded as belonging to the colored race. Mrs.

Mary Cooper, seed thirtv-flva owner of a hotel at Peterson. N. was rescued from her room in which aha had been held a prisoner six months by tne Bartender, John Tunnycliffe. The man had nailed up the door and handed in food through an opening In the door. The fact that the Germans ascribe a percentage of their effectiveness in the recent Skagerrak battle to their Zeppelins, has led Navy Secretary Daniels to the conclusion that the navy should en gage In the manufacture of Its own aeroplanes.

Charles Cappa of Murphysboro. was ajaaitted of the charge of murder gome time ago. Thursday, his wife and cnua of two years were killed, and he and another child were seriously in jured by a dynamite explosion which movea the family domicile off its foundation. STATE) HEWS, A union of timber workers was orran- Ized at Peshtigo with a charter roll of 141. Graduating exercises of the Milwaukee normal school were held today.

The class numbered nearly 400. John F. Schmitt. the oldest hotel keen er In Wisconsin, has sold the Maple ho tel at ivenosna to Peter Nledl of Mari nette. A preparedness parade will be a fea ture of the postmasters' convention at Marshfleld Tuesday evening of next week.

The new gymnasium of the White water Normal school was formally opened by a concert by the Lyric glee club of Milwaukee. A charter has been issued by the state commissioner of banking to the People's oanK or wrlghtstown which has been capitalized at $30,000. The attorney general has Riven his opinion that a member of a county board of supervisors may not act as su pervisor of road construction. Col. C.

E. Morley ot VIroqua is dead, aged seventy-two. He was a civil war veteran, farmer and politician and served on the executive staff of Gov. J. M.

Rusk. James Boden, a Milwaukee pioneer, is dead as the result of injuries sustained In a collision between a street car and a buggy last September. He was eighty-three years old. Dr. B.

H. Oberembt and Dr. E. Rueth of Milwaukee will head a staff of surgeons in charge o.f a hospital to be established in Germany by Milwaukee residents. Rev.

Carl Guenther of, Oconomowoc and Miss Bertha Sehulz of Stephens-ville, will be married June 25. Mr. Guenther wag formerly chaplain at the reservation at Grcsham and Stockbridge Indians will be among the guests. The son of Mr. and Mrs.

George Pen-now, near Oconomowoc, aged nine months. Is dead from injuries received when the end of a bale on a small pall was put in his mouth by the child and a membrane in the throat was punctured. Soren Jenson, a Racine saloonkeeper. was arrested on complaint of Charles Gullekson, who claimed Jenson "shortchanged" him $10 when he tendered a t'M gold piece in payment of a small bill The city of Eau Claire is planning to appoint a policewoman, AMUSEMENTS. Here is a list of the acts of the vaude-vlll program which will be inaugurated at the Grand opera house this evening: Alex and Christy, "street musicians;" Paul Bauens.

"the human freight train;" the Nagyeys, "the human salamanders and unique entertainers;" motion pictures; Arion orchestra and the Bartola. It is a bill that will undoubtedly satisfy and will operate to maintain that high reputation for entertaining and selected vaudeville programs that the Grand opera house has recently achieved. A large attendance is expected on the opening night. "Sudden Riches," the World Film production featuring Robert Warwick, now starring at a Broadway playhouse with Grace George, Clara Whipple and Gerda Holmes, forming a three star picture of unusual merit, is at the Orpheum today. It deals with the efforts of a young man and his wife to wade through a large Inheritance left them their uncle, out of spite because the young man's father had outrlvalled him when the two were courting the same girl, and a double spite against his nephew because his mother died in giving him birth.

His plan was to ruin the little family by giving them so much money, which he very nearly succeeded In doing. Mrs. Ralph H. Thomas, sister of Mrs. Al Davis, the dancer, the latter being formerly Eugenia Kelley of cabaret fajnc, has returned from France, where she volunteered as a Red Cross nurse.

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One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse the hair and scalp thoroughly. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive ell. The hair dries quickly and evenlv. and It leaves the scalp soft, and the nair nne ana siikv.

bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get mulsifled cocoanut oil at any pharmacy, It's very cheap, and a rew ounces win supply every member of th family for months. Itself against attack, but is also val uable for its beneficial Influence on public health and for the advancement of good citizenship. As a consequence the opposition to this plan appears to be dwindling, while supporters and ad vocates of this system are constantly increasing in number. The Progressive national platform, formulated at Chi cago this week, specifically declares for "universal military training," while the Republican platform endorses the same idea in more general terms.

Objection to the plan of universal military training la based largely on the claim that the operation of this system will Interfere with personal liberty, one of the most prized privi leges guaranteed to the people of this nation by the terms of the federal constitution itself. In answer to this ob jection, however, it is pointed out that the obligations resting on the government and the people are mutual, and that neither can shirk its duty toward the other without endangering the safety of all. The people naturally expect their government to protect them, yet the government would be powerless to do so unless the people are them selves prepared to protect and uphold the government. If, therefore, the gov. ernment owes the people an obligation, the obligation resting on the people ia no less strong.

In protecting the government the people are but protecting ineir country ana themselves. Moreover, If the government haa a right to compel any citizen to perform military service in time of national peril and this right has been estab lished by precedent even in the United States the government likewise has a right to compel any citizen to do his part toward preventing a national calamity. If a citizen does not recognize such a right he confesses himself opposed to the theory, as well a the practice, of popular self-government. But while the government has this right, there is no need to exercise it in such a way that anyone would be con scious of compulsion. Universal military training may mean the establishment of a system under which every man would serve his country of his own free will.

Some of the colleges of mo united istates have taken the cor rect tack by incorporating military training in their curriculae. No student feels that his personal llbertv i twinr? abridged by the rule which makes the completion of a course in English a prerequisite to his graduation. The same may be said of gymnasium requirements, which are more In line with military training. The United State might easily become a nation of men-at-arms without becoming militaristic or without even becoming conscious of ita cnanga character. Inoome Tax Returns.

Improvement is noted in the oncrm-inn of the federal income tax law. It is estimated that this year the income tax will bring in to the government at least SRiO.OOO.UOO, which is an increase of about $33,000,000 over the returns of last year. On this basis, moreover, it snouia nor. oe many years before the income tax revenue yields the J400.000.- 000 yearly, that government experts declared it would yield when it was thoroughly in operation. A gain of lorty per cent each year will bring the desired figure quickly and will relieve the stringency the treasury feels after every session of congress.

The result anticipated, however, might have been achieved sooner had there been more of an effort to make the law plain and unmistakable. More than $8,000,000 has been turned iuto the treasury by the federal ferrets who were called into use to see that nobody required to pay an income tax escaped A part of that sum may have been wilfully concealed from the tax collector. The rest of it no doubt was held back simply because the tax payer hud difficulty in understanding just what the law demanded. That fact also may ac- count, in part at least, for the marked increase in the total this year. No doubt a large amount of property es caped this tax last year, simply because the owners were mm hie to comprehend what the framerg of the law meant.

In some cases it would require the aid of an efficiency engineer to determine just that. Encouraging. It is encouraging to hear that the people of the south at last are waking up to the dangers and evil effects of the child labor system. We arc told that at least five of the southern congress men are meeting sharp opposition in their districts this year because tlicy voted against the Keating child labor bill when it was before congress. Popu lar sentiment in the southern stntcs was supposed to be generally opposed to federal regulution of this evil, but it would appear that even in the south sentiment is divided, and that thinking people are commencing to realize that unregulated employment of child labor is Federal regulation alone will nake slow progress in correcting this evil iu the south, where thousands of childun are employed in cotton factories and at other work, thus interfering with their education and greatly impairing their health.

Cooperation by the states themselves is necessary, and apparently it will not lie. long before the southern states will see the point and be ready to do thoir part. The difficulties in the way of effective state control in the south are great, and one of the most important of these difficulties is the bit ter, though secret, opposition of northern capitalists who own southern mills. But the work must be done, or some of the finest native stock in America will be worked out and virtually destroyed by an unregulated factory system. The stormy weather that has marked the first two days of the Republican convention should be a warning to the leaders of that party.

There will be stormy times throughout the coming campaign unless the convention does the right thing. Roosevelt's message, replying to the invitation sent him to address the Republican convention, came much nearer being a real "keynote" speech than did the speech or Senator Harding. Even the big Republican convention seems Inclined to do a little pussyfooting before picking a nominee. Meanw hile the Democrats are getting ready for their little pow-wow, to be held at St. Louis next week.

its model on western society, and, in time, on the American continent. The republics or the weat have not yet realized that their continued existence as commonwealths is being decided on the battlefields of Europe. But the point Is that the western powers have learnt the part of cooperating together for the successful prosecution of the war. Cabinet ministers come and go between them. Conferences are readily arranged.

There is a sort of acting representative international committee for the effective conduct of the war. And that is as it ought to be. There is no winning this war without that cooperative ef fort, with a coercive power behind it to enforce its measures. Now, if this can be done for w-ar, why cannot it be done for peace? Can there not be formed a league of all the west ern nations for the world's well-being? It should be possible to form a league of peace between these nations of such a kind that when an unscrupulous power, within or without the group. should attack any one of the signatory powers it should find all the others with their combined naval, military, and financial resources instantly arrayed against it.

If such an alliance had been in existence in August, 1914, who can doubt that even the range of the Prussian war lords would have been crushed. It was the suggestion of such a possibility in the Sir E. Grey remarks to his Chicago interviewer that made his words so prophetic of coming good. They have widened the skies of hope, and may yet be the heralds of one of the great days of humanity. K.

C. A. SOIES BY THE FUNNY MEN. "Everybody used to prophesy that Jagsby would fill, a drunkard's grave, but he fooled them all." "Reformed and lived to a ripe old age, I presume." "No; he left instructions to have his body cremated." Indignant Subscriber "I say, look here, you know, what do you mean by announcing the birth of my tenth child under the heading of 'Distressing Occurrence'?" Country Editor "Dear, I hadn't noticed it; that must be the foreman's doings; he's a married man himself." "Say, Jim." said the friend of the taxi-cab driver, standing in front of the vehicle, "there's a purse lying on the floor of your cab." The driver looked carefully around, and then whispered: "Sometimes when business is bad I put it there and leave the door open. It's empty, but you've no idea how many peopleil jump in for a short drive when they see it." Samuel Warren, the novelist, was once addressing the duke qf Wellington in terms so flattering that the duke was moved to protest.

"I am very glad we are alone, Mr. Warren," he observed. "May I ask why, my lord?" replied Mr. Warren, his vanity tickled by the seeming compliment. was the duke's crushing reply, "anyone else might think I was fool enough to believe what you are telling me." Mr.

and Mrs. Smith were both growing very plump. Every effort to reduce their weight had proved fruitless, and their discontent with their failure was pathetic. "It is too bad," said a mutual friend to a sympathetic physician. "The Smiths are so fond of each other, and used to be so graceful and slender when they were first married." "Ah, well," replied the physician, "think how much more they are to each other now." For the whole of one Sunday a certain party of the voluntary training corps had been engaged in learning the art of bridge-building.

For the last hour or so they had worked on their own, as their Instructor was engaged elsewhere. But before they were dismissed he came back to Inspect their work. "Why, this affair would collapse In half an hour," he exclaimed, in angry surprise, indicating where the knots on one side were all tied wrongly. "That's all right, sir," replied the maker of the knots, calmly. "This bridge Is designed for the Huns to cross, not our men." An old gentleman one day drove with a party of friends to go over Chats-worth, the famous residence of the duke of Devonshire, taking with him his So Near, Yet So Far.

There is a striking similarity between the platforms adopted by the Progressives and the Republicans at Chicago. They follow almost identical lines, in the main, and the various planks could be interchanged in most instances without arousing objections on the part of the members of either organization. The chasm which separates the two organizations and prevents them from uniting, however, is plainly marked and has yet to be bridged. It is simply a question of leadership, and unless this problem can be solved to the satisfaction of both sides it evidently will mean another campaign and election by divided forces, with practical certainty the common enemy, the Democrats, will again walk away with the prize. In an effort to formulate a get-together program the Republicans and Progressives have named a joint committee on conciliation, but the initial meeting of this committee accomplished nothing more than to disclose the unyielding attitude of both sides.

Possibly this was to be expected, although if the assembled representatives of the people would lit tea to the voice of wisdom they speedily would find a way to carry out the real will and wishes of the voters who selected them for this duty. They would do it by forgetting the prejudices and atipathies which are keeping the two wings of the Republican party apart, and by bringing all factions back to a reunited and harmonious party with enthusiastic zeal for ita success. they would pave the way for a glorious Victory at the November election. Of course this cannot be done unless there is a mutual spirit of yielding and concession, nor will it be accomplished unless selfishness, stubborness and prejudices are laid aside and replaced by common desire' to let patriotic impulses govern the decision which is reached. Party peace and harmony are much desiredperhaps even more so by the people than by the leaders and without thla condition of harmony and united effort the campaign will be lost before it is begun.

There is a logical, easy way to secure party peace and harmony and thereby assure the success of the Republican ticket. It needs no guide-board to point this way, but the Republican leaders are blindly ignoring it. They still are engrossed with the old idea they can wag the dog by its tail. Overlooking the Real Target. In their eagerness to prevent the nomination of Roosevelt, it would seem that the "old guard" leaders of the Republican party almost have lost sight of the fact that Wilson Is the man who will have to be defeated in the final They have schemed, maneuvered and planned with the single object of keeping Roosevelt's name off the Republican and in doing so they have ajuite overlooked the fact this is not a year when "any old kind'' of a Republican ticket can win.

By such tactics the "old guard" leaders are tempting fate and courting defeat for the Republican party, just the same as they did four years ago by their blind and stubborn resistance to public sentiment. And they will get the same results, if they persist in their ostrich-like tactics, for the Republican party will stand small chance In the coming election unless it can be united and harmonized, under a leadership that will command the confidence and arouse the enthusiasm of the people generally. if the Republican leaders are looking for a "winner," they plainly are shutting their eyes to the one best chance. They may imagine they can cram some-thing down the throats of the American people, but they should remember what happened when they tried this same tiling four short years ago. The Republican Standpat leaders declare they are "ready to make almost any concession in order to restore party harmony." In other words, they are ready to make any concession, save only the very one hich ig necessary to bring about a reunion of the party factions.

Bryan says that "hunger" is the password at the Chicago convention. He probably remembers how it was with his own party, during the years when the Democrats were out and Republicans in office. The Republican convention seems to be in about the same plight of the old maid who "couldn't get the man she wanted, and wouldn't take the man she could get." The bad weather which is bothering the Republican convention probably Ig explained by the fact the Democrats now control the weather bureau. And If Roosevelt once gets the ear of the convention well. It will "all be oer but the shouting." Thet broadside from Oyster Bay was whole platform in itself.

AMONG THE NEWSPAPERS. The kaiser will be godfather to the Krupp baby. The Krupp baby seems to be a real war baby. Sheboygan Journal. The preparedness parades are useful because they help In preparing the way for preparedness.

Superior Telegram; One swallow don't make summer and it seems that one or two warm days now and then do not make business for the iceman to any great extent. Milwaukee News. One of the excellent resolutions which most women make and break with frequent abandon Is never to buy another thing from a peddler. Weyau-wega Chronicle. June in Wisconsin this year Is keeping up to Its traditions and the re-gretable thing about this leafy month is that it is not at least four times thirty days In length.

Waukesha Freeman. The Hawkeye state has registered in favor of woman suffrage. The ladies are gaining every, year. Let 'em gain. This business of classing 'em with Idiots and children has gone along far enough.

Ashland Press. McGovern's latest effusion is the best evidence of his dying political struggle. We cannot see what difference it will make whether he attends the Progressive conference in Madison or not. Grand Rapids Reporter. -J- Mr.

Goodland seems to be of the opinion that Mr. McGovern is still open to conviction. The former governor seemed to Indicate that he had entirely made up his mind and that he did not care to waste any more postage over the matter. Kenosha News. Human beings who find comfort in the.

high price of assuming that while it costs so, much manufacturers will not introduce it into their food, are In a position to realize the ecstacy of the potato bug now that the price of paris green is "up In the air." Milwaukee Wisconsin. If the political leaders, who are directing the activities of the convention in session in Chicago, are wise they will put aside petty bickerings and unite on a candidate who by reason of his worth will command the respect of all the people and who will secure enough votes to insure his election. Fond du Lac Commonwealth. Former Oovernor McGovern is entirely within his rights in continuing In the field as a candidate the Republican nomination for the governorship of Wisconsin, tind as he cannot be written out of it even as able an epistolary product as Mr. Goodland, the latter might well give his writing machine a rest Eau-Claire Character of Good Lighting, It must be apparent that scientific, and therefore economic, lighting not only provides a sufficiency of light flux, steady, and so distributed as to avoid obscurity and deep shadows anywhere within the ordinary range of the workers' eyes, but takes care that the source of illumination, it considerably concentrated as is the case in most lighting units now in use, shall be concealed, enclosed.

In a diffusing envelope, or placed outside the range of vision unless at such a distance that the brilliancy Is greatly reduced before the rays reach the eye. Otherwise the main purpose of lighting is defeated, and the workers themselves are physically harmed and rendered less efficient for their work. O. M. Becker, in The Engineering Magazine.

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