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make for the creation of the man and master category,
but rather for an equilitarianism.
It may be that the cleavage is unbridgeable but we
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
cannot accept the reasons given by Mr. Levy because
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
they do not meet the facts as they actually exist. Rea-
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
son by analogy is tempting but usually unsatisfactory
Entered itv Seconti.11 41:;‘,.m .a,:,le e r , th ,tar;,h ct li f 1,9 , :l hat c ti47ipostoffice at Detroit,
and inconclusive.
The vital co-operation between Arab and Jew is of
General Offices and Publication Building
paramount importance and we are not persuaded of
525 Woodward Avenue
its impossibility upon the reasons offered.
Cable Address: Chronicle
Telephone: Cadillac 1040
London Office:
We do not like to feel that the hope of Prof. Albert
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England.
Einstein may not be realized when he explained that to
$3.00 I'er Year
Subscription, in Advance
him Palestine meant the creation of a polity differing
To Insure publication, all correspondence and mews matter molt reach this
from the chauvinistic, bourgeoise patterns of Europe
office by Tuesday evening of each week.
and that a nation of creative workers would set an ex-
The Detroit Jew1 , 11 Chronicle in•iten corro+pondence on nubjecte of interest
to the Jewish people, but diArlaims reaponribility for an Indorsement of the
ample for the rest of humanity. This feeling was not a
tunnel...a be the writers.
little strengthened by the reports of Abraham Cahan
Shevat 7, 5686 describing the fervent idealism and the finer social con-
January 22, 1926
sciousness of the chalutzim despite the economic in-
The Plight of Polish Jewry.
adequacies of the country.
The most effective answer to the rhetorical gesture
We do not accept the extravagance of zealots when
of Ludwig Lewisohn, that not one cent should be sent they talk of millions in Palestine, but there is no reason
to help European Jewry, is now being given by the why the hundred thousand now there which may be
Jews of Lodz, Vilna and other Polish centers. These doubled or trebled cannot live in peace and with under-
starving Jews tell American Jewry to stop their poli- standing with the Arabs creating together a finer and
tics and send them bread, and they mean bread literal- better social, economic and cultural life.
ly, for they are starving and freezing and that, too,
without any present prospect of change for the better.
Rhetoric makes a pretty pattern when one deals
Sapiro-Ford Suit.
with theories, but when actualities stare you in the
face rhetoric must give way to action—direct, effective,
The Sapiro-Ford libel suit which may soon be
helpful, to meet the exigencies.
heard in the District Court of the United States for the
Despite the so-called Polish-Jewish Agreement, the Northern District of Michigan promises to be one of
Jews are being deprived of trades and occupations. The real significance in determining the latest reasons for
serious crisis in the textile industry of Poland has ac- Ford anti-Semitism. That the parties to the action con-
centuated the suffering to a point that actual starvation ceive it of great importance is attested by the fact that
is a living prospect unless assistance comes from Amer- Senator James A. Reed of Missouri has been engaged
ica.
to defend Ford while Louis Unlermyer of New York is
The condition of the workers and petty merchants to represent Aaron Sapiro.
of Poland is far worse than that of Russian Jewry be-
The action arose out a series of articles in the Dear-
cause in the last analysis the Soviet government does born Independent, in which Sapiro is accused of a ques-
not discriminate against the Jews as Jews, and because tionable if not fraudulent attempt at organizing farm
of the further fact that the Soviet authorities are pri- co-operatives among the fruit and wheat growers of the
marily concerned about the underlying population, country. The articles in question do not carry convic-
which is the vast majority in any country.
tion for there is too much personal animosity displayed
In the last two or three years the largest number of by the author. Facts are reduced to a minimum, theory
immigrants to Palestine have been Polish Jews who had is employed profusely and conclusions abound, but in
some capital. But even this number has been so insig- the trial it may appear that there were undisclosed facts
nificant that it has afforded no relief to Polish Jewry. in the possession of the author upon which all these con-
Should Palestine afford an asylum for these hundred clusions and theories were based.
of thousands they could not go for they have not the
This is the first time that the charges made by Ford
requisite capital, so they must remain where they are against the Jews have been fairly met. It is not a per-
despite the best intentions in the world.
sonal matter such as the Herman Bernstein case which
American immigration restriction makes relief from resolves itself finally into a question of veracity, but
that quarter entirely out of the question. For immed-
this is a case which shall have some bearing upon the
iate relief they can look only to the J. D. C., but all re- truth or falsity of the general indictment made by Ford
alize that this temporary solution still leaves Polish
against the Jewish people in his "International Jew."
Jewry in the same pitiful economic plight. This is a
Ford with every means at his disposal has libelled
major problem which must be faced and not in the man-
a whole people and has enjoyed practical immunity.
ner that God is in his heaven and all is well.
Poland is economically sick. The discriminatory His paper was his own personal mouth piece while no
legislation passed is symptomatic of serious disorders dissident was given an opportunity to answer any
and maladjustments. Polish industrialists and finan- charges made. The constant repetition without oppo-
ciers do not seem to be able to put the industrial sition has created the impression in many minds that
organization upon an efficient basis so they have re- his charges have a substantial basis. He was never
sorted to the childish expedient of legislating economic called to account in any court for these utterances for
remedies with the result of more calamitious industrial reasons which are not known to us but finally one of
the libelled has felt called upon to answer. It is rather
breakdowns.
When industrial populations are unemployed and fortunate that the one who took up the challenge is
starving and when the local relief agencies are unable engaged in a most necessary and fundamental service
to supply even the most elementary needs then indeed and work, that of agriculture. The charge of parasit-
ism, unearned income, exploitations cannot be made
is the condition grave.
Every traveller who has returned from Poland tells against the farmers of this country or any honest or-
the same story of misery, unemployment and starva- ganization of farmers, whether it be a co-operative, buy-
tion. We are persuaded that these tales of wretched- ing, selling or working arrangement.
We shall be pleased for many reasons to have the
ness are not the propaganda materials furnished by
whole matter thoroughly ventilated. In the first place
specially interested agencies.
Two specific things can be done at this time. The the attitude of supreme arrogance which has character-
J. D. C. fund must be subscribed and every effort must ized the Ford attack will be pierced, for he will discover
be made to have the Perlman bill passed which shall that his statements must be proved, despite his auto-
enable many to come here who shall not have to come cratic power and wealth and that mere loud and oft-
repeated statements do not make them facts. But even
as quota immigrants.
beyond that we may learn what are the reasons, mo-
tives and feelings which are responsible for this con-
Arab and Jew.
sistent anti-Semitic attack. We may learn much about
Reuben Levy writing on the above subject in the our own people which we have heretofore not known or
Menorah Journal offers an historical survey of Arab even refused to know. But yet we are willing that it
and Jewish relationships and brings it to a present focus may all become known even though it be uncompliment-
in Palestine. fie contrasts the Jew and Arab as occi- ary to us for if such be the case we shall know that we
dental and oriental for in speaking of the Jews he says: have a problem to meet which needs solution.
A court is an excellent open forum for just such an
Like other Europeans, he regards the quietist outlook
issue to be heard, both sides will be given ample op-
on life which is associated with the oriental as alien to
portunity to state their positions and to maintain those
him. If anything, he is known for his exuberant activity
positions in the face of searching cross examination.
and for a certain discontent with the established order of
things; a discontent that found extreme expression in a
Let all facts be known.

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Karl Marx and a Trotsky. Normally it shows itself in the
striving for what is considered "more respectable' or
"higher class" social standing, so that the son of j,)sa Awish
peddler becomes a doctor and his grandson a meNber of the
stock exchange. It may be argued that the experiment in
Palestine is one in idealism, that the Jewish cultivator is
tremendously enthusiastic about the "back to the land"
movement, that the Jewish carpenters, masons and so forth
all love their work. But if analogy goes for anything,
their offspring will look for better paid or more varied
work, and since immigration into Palestine is restricted,
labor will have to be recruited, as in fact is it now being
recruited, from the ranks of the Arabs. The differences—
just pointed out—in the outlook on life of Jew and Arab,
will sooner or later lead to their becoming master and man;
a relationship which means only a one-sided form of co-
operation.
On general grounds therefore the cleavage between
Arab and Jew must be declared unbridgeable. Those now
in Palestine must work out their destiny separately, Arabs
aided by their fellow Moslems and Jews by their own co-
religionists in the world at large.

ON THE SEA

To the West Wind

This is thy wind, 0 perfumed west,
With spikenard and apple in his wings!

Thou comest forth of the treasuries of the trailer in
spice-

al I. 110e vl llIC ueanu,

From the picture of the future of the Jews in Pal-
estine one can hardly expect the patterns of bourgeoise
Europe to be improved upon for it is but creating an-
other social organization based upon the master and
man concept.
But the crux of the matter is "Does the analogy go
for anything?" Normally in America the father was a
peddler, the son a doctor and the grandson a stock
broker. There was no idealism in peddling, there was
merely a desire to make an individual fortune. There
was no idealist milieu nor any social conception on the
part of the peddler which differed in any esesntial re-
spect from the current ideology of the country or the
world.
In Palestine according to strict objective observers
as Abraham Cahan there is a genuine idealism which
seeks to express itself in distinct social and economic
forms essentially different from those which produced
the doctor son and the stock exchange grandson. Then,
too, the trade union attitude toward the Arab does not

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Thou waftest me on swallow's wings and proclaimest
liberty for me;
Like pure myrrh from the bundle of spices thou art
chosen.
How must men long for thee, which for thy sake
Ride over the crest of the sea on the back of a plank !
Stay not thine hand from the ship
Either when day abideth or in the cool breath of the
night ;
But beat out the deep. and tear the heart of the seas
and touch
The holy mountains, and there shalt thou rest.
Rebuke thou the east wind which tosseth the sea into
tempest
Until he maketh its heart like a seething pot,
What shall the captive do, in the hand of God,
One moment held back, and one moment set forth free?

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Truly the secret of thy quest is in the hand of the
Highest,
Who formeth the mountain heights and createth the
wind.
JEHUDAH HALEY!

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Farm School Scholarships.

Fail in Einstein Test.

The photographs taken by the
Swarthmore College expedition of the
recent total eclipse of the sun, with a
view of obtaining further information
regarding Einstein's theory of relativ-
ity, failed. Those taken of the corona
are splendid. Einstein photographs
taken by the German and Dutch and
the other American expeditions were
most successful. It has been decided,
therefore, not to demolish the apparat-
us used in connection with the Einstein
investigations, but to retain it for fur-
ther work in attempts to solve Ein-
stein's theory.

Religious Instruction.

A bill allowing state and district
hoards of education to provide for re-
ligious instruction in public schools
will be submitted to the 1926 New
Jersey Legislature by Senator Henry
A. Williams of Passaic county. School
boards adopting the provisions of the
measure will be required to give "strict
regard" to the religious preferences
of pupils by arranging for Protestant,
Catholic and Hebrew instructors. Per-
iods of instruction would be limited to
two hours each -week and no pupil
would be compelled to attend.

Woman Re-elected.



The Moon of the Emek

HERE AND THERE

The date for the closing of the com-
petition for the 60 free scholarships
to the three-year course in scientific
agriculture at the National Farm
School near Doylestown, Pa., has been
postponed to February 12, in order to
give every New York City boy who
wishes to enter this contest an oppor-
tunity to Me an application. Much in-
terest has been shown by city boys in
this competition, and according to the
statement made by the New York of-
fice of the National Farm School,
which has been established at 350
Broadway for the purpose of effective-
ly distributing these scholarships to
boys between the ages of IC, and 21
who have completed a grammar school
education and have an honest desire to
farm, already more boys have express-
ed their desire to compete for these
scholarships than can be accommodat-
ed at the school.

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(Copyright, 1925, by Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

The Dead Sea come.to life again!
Vast factories on the shores for go
many centuries desolate and deserted
save for a few strolling Bedouin
tribes.

Instead of its
of the ruins of
zation brought
way extending

isolation in the shadow
ancient Jericho, civili-
to its shores by a rail-
to Ilaifa.

In that grim sea where there is no
hope for any living thing, life now,
throbbing, eager. Workmen, scores of
them, dredging, draining, experiment-
ing, preparing for the day when the
wealth of all Palestine will flow from
the Dead Sea which, instead of being
the dreariest spot in the Holy Land
will be the most vital, the most pul-
sating.

All
this if the experiments with
the waters of the Dead Sea come up
to expectations of scientists, the most
renowned in the world.
For over 50 years scientists have
been talking of experimenting with
the salt of the Dead Sea. In the past
four years scientists have been ac-
tively starting this work, with the re-
sult that much ground has been cov-
ered and many practical experiments
are now being carried on in the labo-
ratory of the Ilebrew University on
Mount Scopus under the direction of
Dr. Max Bobtelsky. Dr. Bobtelsky
was sent there from Germany, where,
he came fresh from honors at the
University of Berne, Switzerland,
where he was leader of experiments
with inorganic salts.
Three months ago the scientist came
to I'alestine with an expedition for
practical experiments, to help make
the great dream of the stagnant sea
come true. His staff of assistants,
including chemists from London and
Paris laboratories, are at the Dead
Sea and engaged in minute observa-
tion and scrutiny of all its phases.
In order not to miss any phase of
the water's possibilities, the staff ac-
tually live on the shores of the sea,
in the midst of the intense heat of the
valley, which is over 1,200 feet below
sea level. There are no habitations
there owing to the unbearable heat,
so the men occupy the low wooden
shacks used by the British during the

war.

The men measure scientific weight
and the concentration of the water
which is taken out of a tank and then
they try to separate the salts," ex-
plained Dr. Bobtelsky, stopping a min-
ute from an experiment in the labora-
tory at Mount Scopus to talk about
his great opus.
"The Dead Sea is supposed to have
the following salts," he continued:
"Potassium chloride (two grants to
the litre), sodium chloride (table salt,
about 80 grams to the litre) and
much magnesium chloride (over 100
grams to the litre).
Invites European Doctors Here.
"For 40 years now men have
Dr. Carl Beck, of Chicago, Ill., one
thought the salts in this sea were val-
of America's best known physicians,
uable. The Germans wrote books
as emissary of the Interstate Post-
about the riches of the Dead Sea. We
Graduate Assembly of North America
already know there is asphalt there
left Chicago for Europe to invite Eu-
because at times when we watch it,
rope's leading physicians and scient-
when the waves are large, we see big,
ists to attend the national congress of
black stones there. This is bitumi-
the assembly in Cleveland next Octob-
nous chalk drenched with asphalt. We
er. Dr. Beck also will make arrange-
are already making experiments on
ments for the six months visit in Eu-
this.
rope next summer of 500 American
we are also seeking potassium
medical men and their families.
chloride and potassium bromide. If we
find it, we will use the carbon for feed-
Russia is Rich in Coal.
ing plants. Thus far the only country
in the world which has potassium
Should the world ever run short of
chloride is Germany and it has the
cent government figures put Russia's
monopoly on it. It would break this
total coal deposits at nearly 350,-
monopoly were we to discover it here.
000,000,000 tons. This is said to be
If it exists here, it is in larger quan-
the largest in the world. The Kuznet-
tities than Germany has, and so what
sky Basin, situated on the northern
we didn't use we would export. Ac-
slopes of the Altai Mountains, is esti-
cording to estimates, there are ap-
mated to contain not less than 250,-
proximately 2,000,000 metric tons of
000,000,000 tons. Next comes the Do-
- potassium chloride in the Dead Sea,
netz Basin, which experts figure con-
which would be worth about 2,000,000
tains about 60,000,000,000 tons, about
pounds. We estimate about 25,000,000
60 per cent of which is anthracite.
metric tons of magnesium chloride in
the sea also.
"Moses a Chemist!"
"When we are certain of these facts
the next step will be to build a rail-
A German engineer, Jens Juergens,
way to the Dead Sea—perhaps into
has made the wonderful discovery that
the Jordan, for it flows into it at this
Moses was a great chemist and in-
point—connecting it with Ilaifa. This
vented dynamite, nitroglycerin and
would be necessary because we plan
other explosives and by means of them
to erect a large factory there. These
worked his alleged miracles. Mr.
further developments will cost over
Juergens has written a book on the
100,000 pounds more than is already
subject, in which he sets forth argu-
invested. This capital is given by a
ments that prove his contention to
potassium syndicate concern of cap-
his own satisfaction, but it is not at
italists from several nations.
all likely to convince anyone else.
"No permit for erecting the factory
has been given yet because the Eng-
Aid Jewish Consumptives.
lish government will not grant it un-
less plans are made for an extensive
At Columbia, S. C., August Kohn,
plant. They do not wish to give any
president of the Hebrew Benevolent
one permission to exploit the salts of
Society, announces the gift of $2,000
the Dead Sea unless they can put
to the Richland Anti-Tuberculosis As-
large sums of money into it. England
sociation for the erection and furnish-
has let it be understood she will grant
ing of a cottage at Ridgewood Camp.
this right when the time is at hand.
The only restriction placed upon the
One thing is certain—no matter who
donation is that at any time any mem-
controls this syndicate the English
ber of the Jewish faith should need
government will take a share of it."
to he taken care of that preference
The scientist went on to explain
be given to such as the Hebrew Ben-
that the southwest side of the sea is
evolent Society may indicate.
bounded by large mountains which are
thought to consist of clear Potassium.
Vaudeville in Church.
"If this is so," said he, "we would
That vaudeville acts will have a
take potassium with no expense. Not
place in the Sunday evening services
for from the sea there are many phos-
in the First Baptist Church, Erie, Pa.,
phates and I, personally, have many
the Rev. Oliver Horsman, the pastor,
patents in Germany to exploit these
has notified his congregation. Several
phosphates. With magnesium chin-
weeks ago two acts were given by a
ride, which exists on a large scale,
violinist and by vocalists and instru-
one could make a good fertilizer for
mentalists. The pastor said: "I hope
the fields of Palestine.
the congregation will receive the ac-
"We have great need for this in .
tors and actresses as human beings
Palestine. Next winter, at this uni-
like the rest of us."
versity, I shall start experiments on
this. My experiments in Germany
have proven that a combination of
Anti-Semitism in France.
magnesium chloride and the phos-
Cardinal Dubois, the Archbishop of
phate we obtain here make a very
Paris, declared in an interview that
good fertilizer. This should have ex-
there was no anti-Semitism in France
cellent results in the fields, better than
at present and that all efforts to sow
super-phosphate, which is considered
the seeds of race hatred immediately
the best the world over.
after the war proved unavailing.
"Sulphuric acid is very dear. Two-
thirds of it is made for the manufac-
Guedalla Expected Here.
ture of super-phosphates. If we could
make it without this, by using mag-
Philip Guedalla, noted essayist, his-
nesium chloride from the Dead Sea,
torian and politician, is expected in
which is so plentiful we don't know
this country during the next month.
what to do with it, we could make not
While here he will make his first Am-
only a good fertilizer for Palestine
erican lecture tour.
but also for other countries.
"In this respect, Palestine today is
Mayoress in Australia.
the same as it was 2,000 years ago.
The fields are not fertilized. There
The Australian Jewish Herald
is a wood near Jerusalem where the
print, a portrait of Mrs. F. B. Suhr,
trees have grown from stones, which
a Jewess, acting mayoress of Fitzroy,
shows the soil is rich but neglected.
Austrtalia. Our own is not the only
Thus the soil, if fertilized, would
country where women are occupying
yield eight or ten times as much as
high public offices.
at present.

Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh, has re-
appointed Mrs. Enoch Rauch as direc-
tor of the Department of Public Wel-
fare. Mrs. Rauch's administration of
that office has been such as to win
the praise of not only Pittsburghers
but other forward-looking men and
women in other communities. She is
peculiarly fitted to discharge the du-
ties of such a position in an under-
standing and sympathetic way because
of her long and varied experience in
civic and philanthropic organizations.

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"Palestine's chief concern nes
to get a good fertilizer. We cans..
afford to pay Germany for ph. -
phates. They need them for !h.,
own use to build up the ruins brou s •
by the war.
'I think there must be oil in Pal. -
tine, for recently some Arabs broods
me samples of something which .
pear like oil. If this is so, Palest:-
will be a very rich country, with
phosphates and asphalt too. Ths
mineral riches will be the foundati,
of the commercial industries in I.
estine. Germany produces the los,.
phosphates in the world today. I:
fore the war she was the only ow,.
try which produced potassium a ss
was also the first in the chemical i
dustry. This has always commis, I
the wealth of Germany.
"The Dead Sea has the same sol,S;
as Germany has. In time Palest
may be a country of great chess,
industries. The only difficulty is tip,
vast amounts of money that must
expended before this is possible.
It is very important for ths
things to be known, for Palestins i.
at present in a transitional period. I.
is full of immigrants from Europ•
who must finance themselves. Up to
18 years ago the 70,000 men who
were here were getting money from
friends or home or charity organiza-
tions. Now that they are working on
their own, it would be a great tipple.
tunity for them if Palestine's chemi-
cal resources were developed, for the
immigrants are well educated l'0111-
mercially and could easily handle
trade to Europe, and America. No
one knows the developments that can
come about within the next 10 or I:,
years in this respect. Palestine may
become a great center not alone for
the Jewish homeland but for the
whole world, the link that connests
the For East and Europe. with
America.
"The Dead Sea, which scientists
think holds the key to Palestine", fu-
ture wealth and development, is the
lowest sea in the world. It is aver
1,200 feet below sea level, 85 kilo-
meters long and about 10 kilometers
wide. It is more like a lake than a
real sea, resembling Lake Ontario in
size.
"There is absolutely no life in it..
Sometimes fish from the Jordan flow
in and die within a moment. We' find
them there with their eyes burned
out. But life aplenty will he grouped
about the Dead Sea if these experi-
ments prove the truth of scientilie.
hopes. Then miracles will happen
once more in the Huly Land."

ARE JEWS PACIFISTS?

While ancient Israel acquiesced in
the general attitude of surrounding
nations, legitimizing war, still al-
most from the start they took a new
departure. Peace was exalted as the
ideal status. David was deemed un-
fit to build the Temple because he had
shed blood. The Scriptures associate
peace with loyalty, with virtue, and
with blessing. Corresponding teach-
ings will be found throughout all the
rabbinic writings. Both Isaiah and
Micah hailed the ultimate abolition
of war in those familiar words "to
beat swords into ploughshares." Jet-
daises continuity was ;issue, I
through ben Zakkni. the leader of tit..
"peace party" in Judea's war again
Rome. He is one of the first pa-
cifists in history.
While scattered Israel, subject to
the laws of the different nations
among which they lived have fought
in their respective wars as patriotic
citizens, the old tradition for peace
remained in the background of their
consciousIness. It was natural that
a Jew, Bloch, should have advocates]
world peace which resulted in the or.
ganization of the Vague tribunal.
The study of history demonstrate-
to the hilt the folly of war, its fu-
tility and its sin. The time has come
when the Jew need no longer con-
cede it his duty to acquiesce in the
sanction of war of the majority. we
must be pacifists. By that I mean we
must unequivocally declare that war
is sin and therefore never justifiable.
The moment we say that some war,
are defensible, we ruin the cause.
Peace for mankind can only be as-
sured by a categorical imperative de-
mending its absolute and complete
abolition.
This is the psychological moment
to come forward with a declaration:
to wait when a new war may break
out for our peace declaration, might
impugn our motives. The world is
in a mood for it. It has had its ter-
rible lesson in the worst war in his-
tory just closed. The League of Na-
tions has called for a disarmament
conference is which I am glad to say
the United States is going to partici-
pate. Surely this is the time to voice
our convictions.
That was a fine attitude of the
Jewish boys of the College of New
York City to refuse to participate in
military training. Insignificant to
some, it was a tremendods trifle. Let
us all have the courage of our convic•
tions. No one can sincerely say after
the known ...rani*. sr .lays nn all
battlefields that we advocate war' ,
abolition because we are afraid. Ilere
is a great crusade in which Jews
might lead. How far more beneficent
than the Crusades of old.
We must prepare for this better
status by a campaign of education.
The martial spirit must be tabooed
in literature and banished from
schools. We must glorify the arts of
peace and raise monuments .0 the
averters of war. Let as evolve a new
patriotism where love of one country
need not involve hatred of another .
We much teach coming generations
that while patriotism is a fine word,
humanity is a finer word stil! '—Dr.
Maurice H. Harris.

TIMELY

Whoever has anything to do with
the rearing of boys will profit by s
perusal of the recent book by Nicho-
las Ricciardi from the press of It
Appleton & Co., New York, entitle , '

"The Boy and His Future." It is a
timely convincing plea for more in-
telligent direction of boys in prepara-
tion for and choice of a careen—Dr .
Alexander Lyons.

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