Show AMERICAS AMERICA'S PRIDE A MERICA S never nover had better reason rca rca- A son than now to b be be- proud of or the vigor the charity and the efficiency of their countrymen They are arc t today day doing the work vork of the tho world as never before Th This s great neutral na nation ion is he healing lin the tho s sick ck succoring the needy and binding tho the woun wounds S' S of th the tho injured injured injured in in- in every clime American ambassadors ministers and consuls are arc doing the diplomatic work of all nil tl the tho o nations in e er every r T European capital American chadt charity is feeding the hungry in Belgium and u r Poland dispensed b by American agents and ancl contri contributed by the philanthropic citizens of America American medical medical medi medi- cal science is grappling with typhus in Serbia and has but now received a Macedonian call from Montenegro t to fight tho the epidemic ic there When disaster has reared its unlovely ely head hero anywhere on the globe Mexico globe Mexico ex- ex the the S 0 O. S. S S. call has been sounded anti and hearted great America has responded We Ye have proven that the pursuit ursu t of the dollar dollaris is a minor consideration It should not be forgotten however that these laudable enterprises are of private origin With the exception of the work done by American diplomatic agents abroad the tile American government govern govern- ment has contributed nothing to the splendid record we are making m Tho national administration has lias confined its energies to suppressing news ol of happenings that might arouse arous irr irritation lI thou tion at home and aud in wordy protests to foreign powers that have havo not in a single Bingle instance been tive live x An eastern statistician has lIaS calculated hated that at nt the present rate of progress ress rss it will require years for Germany to kill off ff I the entire population of Gr Great t Britain 1 Prance France i r 1 J Y I Russia Servia a Montenegro and alid Japan Since the Kaiser is no not immortal immortal immortal im im- mortal and ana the Crown Prince is far from impressive c it is up to W William ll nm to hurr hurry It must bo be annoying to the prohibitionists prohibitionists prohibitionists who are fire ordinarily humane persons to reflect that the belligerent ent governments arc enforcing prohibition b tion among their soldiery in order that they ma may shoot better and more often In other words drink having interfered with the business of killing killing- tile they are cutting out the drink The The lie Public Employment ment Bureau inan in an eastern city found a shortage of women for housework and a shortage of men for an any employment that might soil the hands but plenty of or women for saleslady jobs and of men for clerkships All of which any observant observant ob ob- ob- ob servant person could easily have haye told the bureau in advance The announcement that the tho failure to obtain n dyestuffs in Germany causes a n famine in that commodity it in the United States is not likel likely to increase American n self arc are our captains of industry Has German Germany a n. monopoly of intelligence as well as dyestuffs dyestuffs' Professor l of Har Harvard l himself proves the integrity of the American neutrality he constantly questions attacks Any nation less hess ess tolerant and neutral than the United States would long ago ngo have suppressed him as a common common nuisance B Because ca se it rained just long enough to o prevent a ball game then the sun came out warm enough to heat the bleachers properly the he weather cr man may be said to have added insult to injury Isn't th the American Association of University ity Pr Professors in violation of the he antitrust law in that it seeks to establish a monopoly of intellect 1 I |