Show Editorials by C C. C. C Goodwin I ITh The Th Ruling Spirit t It It seems seems almost useless to deplore the war spirit among i men men and nations nations' for that is the spirit that carries on the world The rhe stock boards in the cities have their little wars every day dayI I Look at the advertisements in the papers One merchant against another n ther not in direct assault but to convince the public that one oneas has is as bett better r goods than Iii hi his neighbor Wh When n the blonde and mid the br brunette nette g girls dressed in their best walk down th the street side by side smil smiling and chatting beneath all there is Is' Is Isa a deadly I war war and the he spoils spoil dreamed of unconsciously perhaps arc are the conquests of men Inen In earlier days the contests among one class of men were ere to tt secure faster horses than any of the the- neighbors neighbors' p possessed Now that sp spirit rit has gone to automobile obile It Jt may be said this is not the war spirit but mele merely y a generous rivalry Is Isit Isit Isita it ita a a bit different in spirit of kings when they fight for coveted p possession of a state or island At last comprehending this spirit p Pasteur made a new departure He saw fi fierce rc animals preying upon others which had no defense against them except in flight he saw the canvasback duck speeding away from the hawk and watching close he found that this spirit went down downto to inse insects tS and going still lower by the microscope that extended to bacteria too minute for the unaided human eye to distinguish This gave him an idea so against the enemies of the vines of France he introduced a stronger enemy that did not feast upon th the vine Q but t upon the minute creatures that were feasting u upon on th the vine and destroyed them Then he tested the blood of sick people to lo try to discover what hat enemy had possession that was cau causing ing th the illness He fie found them in some cases and discovered top toj what hat the special foe of the murderers was and then introducing introducing intro intro- this foe into the b blood killed the microbes that hat were killing killing killing kill kill- ing the patient Dr Lister extended this investigation with the result that antiseptics became a necessity in all cases of surgery Now v it is announced that typhoid fever is being arrested in inthe inthe inthe I the same sanle manner I The mouthy creatures who are out to cure all the evils that I aff affect ct mankind pra practically are using the same same process They have l ve many sovereign microbes and bacteria such as appeal to the prejudices and passions of men but the trouble with them generally g is that they kill their bacilli in the culture But the spirit is the same in the m man n in the tiger the Mexican 1 guerrilla and the microbe |