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Show THE It Think TRI-WEEKL- Y Thursday, May 20, 1915. TEXAS FLOOD PLAYS HAVOC. Judging A Man Over JOURNAL, LOGAN, UTAH. GENIUS, THE TALENT FOR HARD WORK Virtuous or sinful correct or incorrect In the heat of passion is not the time for not always jresultsjjf early envirdeciding momentous questions, especially if habits are thejxmvolve the fate or welfare of the nation. A wave of indignation is sweeping over this country because a foreign submarine has torpedoed and sunk a passenger ship loaded men, with fifteen hundred women and children, many of whom were citizens of our own country. In their anger thousands of men have cried for war as a retaliatory measure. - Rut there comes a t ime when an hod fiifliteiifttaiglir is more productive .of J)eneficial humanitarian results than a life time of villificatjon and abuse heaped on other heads. No amount of rage, no hasty action, can bring back the lives that went down with the Lusitania. . y But sober thought and a careful examina tion of ojurown conditions, may save the lives of thousands of Americans now living. Let us think before we act. America is a nation of peace,, and we ask only to be allowed to pursue an honorable . others. course undeterred We do not seek to dominate, or even to io- tprfprft.i'n Ihe flffaifft of the C interfei ed with we want to be dominated ' by any pf the old world powers. And yet a duty confronts the government: of the tThited States a duty which is imperative and must be met with courage and fortitude the duty of safeguarding the lives and property of American .citizens upon the high seas. If that duty can be performed without involving the country in a war with a foreign country, then it becomes the obvious duty of the president to seek a means to that end ; for deadly war should be the last resort And while the President is seeking to uphold the dignity of the United States and protect our citizens without involving us in a war that could but prove disastrous, it becomes our duty as citizens to rally to his side ; to present an united front, and to assure him of the loyal moral and material support of a nation of a hundred million souls. Any act short of this would be unpatriotic, and unworthy xf the human being who claims the United States as his home, the Stars and Stripes as his flag. r But there is another way in which we, as citizens, may well serve our country and materially strengthen the hands of our President. We have many naturalized citizens of German nationality in our midst good men and true. Let us preserve toward them the same attitude of fairness, friendship and good will we have heretofore exhibited, lest some hasty words create discord and strife among our own citizenship. Let us remember that when they came to us, they became citizens of our country, and as loyal citizens let us continue to regard them. Upon the other nand, our expatriated to the occasion and remember that they are now American citizens, and refrain from criticism of the land of their adoption the land which gives themfood, provides them shelter, and make them of, and and its affairs in, government. Then if the inevitable comes and war is forced upon us, it will come to our own shores, where it will find us an united people fighting stanchly in defense of right, justice, honor and home. Take a day off, Mr. Hotspur, and think deeply of the welfare country. Dwell not upon the angry passions of today, but rather upon the higher plane of tomorrow, that the light of justice and reason may guide our footsteps in the path of honor. Let us avoid the counsel and example of the warlike Roosevelt, and accept rather the advice of Bryan and refrain from rocking the boat while non-combat- -- -- .1 . ers of-you- r .QUEjahie..Pj:aidnt..ia,seeking.the.pathv peace witbThonbr.' Then if war is forced upon us we will meet it as American manhood has met every crisis in. our countrys history, and the country that forces it upon us will be the only one to repent. - - onment or training- Quite frequently thejr a6 a matter of natural temperament, which is a matter to be, considered when judging a man. The righteous man of correct habits may have felt no, inclination to transgress, therefore deserves no particular credit for his mode of life. If a natural ascetic he is likely to be cold, unsympathetic, uncharitable. d, companionable who.nhouifh kuowingietter,occasionallrlip3 from the straight and narrow path and falls into error, often wins more fellowship and love, because he gives more,. and in the end may even reap higher reward. These ideas Were illustrated by the Rev. John Malick, a Unitarian minister of Salt Lake on Sunday last, In a sermon entitled, WLydo you fraternize with sinners, wherein he used the prodigal son and his upright brother as illustrations, whoe characters he diagnosed in - ' part as f ollows : The prodigal son had the qualities by which men rise high and fall low. . The light that led astray 'was light from heaven. Warm blooded, companionable, adventuresome, - gen- warm-bloode- THE example of Markr Twain; :!Elbert,Hubbard dedaXs reports of his death greatly exaggerate. The ADVERTisiNCjrcolumns of this paper are arrows which point to better buying. Follow the arrows.' . IN the presence of the present war and its scenes of horror, hell takes a back seat r-- w -- ' sHo-a-fau- lt pie blissed at home. He had a heart of love; fell by his excess of friends; loved without discrimination. He had the qualities of genius, too; belonged to the warm blooded folk who do the things we love most and loathe most. He joined the swine herds, but he had the heart of affection. The elder brother was steady, frugal, industrious. Many say this should have been called The parable of the elder brother.' With all his virtues he was the kind of sinner that Jesus thought most hopeless. He was hardhearted. He walked, with men, but had a frozen heart. His judgment was good; he was a good man of affairs. He was dead to tenderness, sympathy, love.' In the kingdom of the things that matter Jesus thought the street woman, who squandered the ointment, not so hard to reach as the perfectly straight treasurer who stoqd by and regretted the cost of the ointment. The virtues of the prodigal consumed him like a flame. The virtues of the elder brother froze him into a model of propriety. The moris thoroughly bad, al is that but it is so thoroughly respectable that --we forget how bad it is. hard-heartedne- ss . ' o Looks Like Desperation The indications all confirm the impression that just now Germany has lost her steady poise and has entered upon desperate tactics to win; as though her rulers feel that they cannot much longer hold their people up to the incessant drain'of life to which they have been subjected now for nine months. All her original plans have failed. She was by a quick, dash to take Paris ; then by one overwhelming blow to crush Russia's military power; then to hurl a great army upon the English coast and to dictate peace; by some excuse sweep over and take in the Netherlands rthen by her alliance with Turkey to close the Hellespont effectively against Russia, and then capture Egypt and the Suez canal. Now after nine months not one thing has been gained except to so far prevent the invasion of her own territory, and then the foes are steadily closing in upon her and gaining strength every day, while the very flower of the army has been smitten, and" in the trenches her soldiers are going insane by hundreds under the hardships and strain to which they are being subjected. Two weeks ago Dr. Scherer of Lucerne arriving at Geneva direct from the war asylum near Munich, paid: I hever realized the depah of war horrors, said Dr. Scherer, until I saw there hundreds of men, mostly young, who had gone mad in the trenches. Some lay quiet, oblivious to their surroundings; others with burning eyes watched every movement of the visitors and attendants. careful care and rest and later return to the front, Dr. Scherer said, the reremainder are sent to other asylums, because their recovery being doubtful, their presence in the trenches might endanger their comrades. Several such special asylums for madmen o from the trenches have been opened in Ger Why send missionaries to the Dark Con many. Something seems to break .inside the tinent, when Europe offers such a more press- soldiers under the prolonged stress of fighting and fatigue, sanguinary scenes, and hand:to-han- d ing and necessary' field. " FoLLOWiNG Genius is the, power of makis patience.-- It is the talent for hard work. Our greatest men have . been, those who forced their way upward in the face of manifold obstruction, have been among the least believers in the power of genius and were as energetic and persevering as the successful men of common sort. Sir Isaac Newton was a born genius, his - philosophy- - sought with grasp to encircle the umversenf God am yet when asked by what means he had worked out his extraordinary discoveries he modestly answered, By always thinking upon them. Sir Joshua Reynolds was such a believer in the force of industry, that he' held, excellence in art, however expressed by genius may be acquired. BSyle said-o- f Meyerbeer, He has some..talent, butT no genius; he lives solitary, working fifteen hours a day atxmusic . Years passed. MeyerbeersJiard work made him geniusx ing effortr It some weeks of encounters the Dardanelles The news of the capture-ois liable to come at any time; Austria gives unmistakable signs oF exhaustion'; and Germany at fearful sacrifices is barely holding her own. If she moves her fleet out from Kiel, she will do it at the imminent risk of having it destroyed, for in the temper which the British naval officers and men are in, it will mean a fight to the death. : Our belief is that the kaiser "will have to f was, The barriers are not erected which can say to aspirings Car wrecked In street cave-i- n at Austin lq Texas flood. In which twenty talents and industry thus far ' seven lives were lost and no farther. The indefatigable industry of Lord Brougham, Raphael, da ask for Jerms of peace within that $1,116,084 has been saved Vinci, Angelo, Titian,- - Haydn, kave to his the next forty days in the purchase of armor-plat- e and Jenner are matthrong from danger of destruc- alone, and that in two other bu- Arkwright of ters history. tion by his own people. Good- reaus $1,800,000 was saved last Darwin . collected his facts wins Weekly. year. The cost of making powder with almost incredible care, on has been reduced to 2.7 cents a earth-worin of the action the BLACKGUARDING THE pound and $150,000 saved on the formation of the mold, he NAVY that one item. Based upon form'44 years from its comer prices for there is a spent mencement to publication. In 1863, Gideon Welles, Presi- saving in that guns, respect of $280, Dickens illustrated his saying, dent Lincolns secretary of the 425.33. is no substitute for thorthere navy, recorded in his diary that: Yet the secretary of the navy turret first When the oughgoing and sincere earnestvessel, is still abused like a pickpocket, ness, by living day and night the Monitor, was building, many and is charged with with the characters of his creanaval men and men in the ship- murder virtually both by Representative ping interest sneered at her as Gardner and former Secretary tion. Plato wrote the first sentence no me as sailor and a humbug ht in his Republic, nine times beor judge, until . she vindicated Meyer. Fiske in a fit fore he had it to suit him. her power and worth in that of When Admiral as chief of oppique resigned Gibbon rewrote the first chapfirst remarkable conflict. secreof critics the the erations, of The Decline and Fall of ter Then I was' abused by party men because I had not made tary unanimously insisted that the Roman Empire ten times the wreck of the navy was com- and spent twenty-fiv- e years on preparations for and - built plete. Secretary Daniels has now the whole work. more. There is constant caprice made Capt. Benson chief of nain regard to the navy. Macauley, who wrote his best val operations under the new act Secretary Welles experience and nobody can be found to de- essays three times, said: the was not unlike Secretary Dangives its admirthkt Capt. Benson is one of world generally man wjio does not to the iels. Everything is wrong, and ny ation, the ablest and most ever attempts else what the more it succeeds the worse it officers in the service. competent nobody Neverthe- to to man who does but the is. do, less, the campaign against SecNo other member of President retary Daniels proceeds With as best what the multitudes do Lincolns cabinet was so habitu- much virulence as did the cam- well. Wendell Phillips became Amally and variously assailed as paign against Secretary Welles. ericas Gideon Welles, who was prob- Not satisfied with assailing the greatest orator, because to -natural of the best the ability ha added ambiably secretary there secretary tion for theever has every word perfection, navy seems to be a country known. The United States under program to incite the navy it- had to be shaped to express his his administration built up the self to revolt against the civil exact thought, every phrase had largest and most efficient navy it authority that controls it,' or to be one of length and cadence and everysentence had -- to -- be had ever had, a navy that revo against any civil authority-- to lutionized marine warfare and Control it. perfectly balanced before it left has never yet received full credHow much of this is party his lips. As a result exact preit foi all its remarkable achieveand how much of it is cision characterized his style. Rufus Choate declared that ments in the Civil war or for its politics armor-plat- e fighting for. swollen success was not an acident. vast contributions to the victory profits, nobody knows, but the You of the north. campaign reflects little credit Greek might as well let drop toa alphabet and expect The United States now has upon the patriotism of the men pick up the Iliad. the greatest and most efficient responsible for it. Millais said: I work harder The had. This is a poor time to blacknavy that it has ever than any plowman; my advice made for it by guard the United States navy. appropriations to boys is, work.. ' the Sixty-thir- d congress were Things no longer come to him SPRING FEVER the largest ever made for naval who waits, but to him who husto recent letter purposes. In his others work and lose their tles while he waits. President Garfield of Williams health We are bringing up in Americollege, Secretary Daniels show- In piling up the sordid wealth. ca a numerous train of gentleed that there are now thirty-si- x But that is not my wish. men idlers who are passing more ships in commission than Let others burn the midnight oils down the stream of life at the when he took office, with seventy-se- Devising ways of grabbing spoils Id rather sit and fish. ven expense of their fellow passenvessels, including nine Let others solve the problems great, gers. dreadnoughts and thirty-eigThe world does not owe U3 a submarines, under construction Affecting the affairs of state; None of that on my dish. living. Every man owes the or authorized. Let others hew the nations path world work. The personnel of the navy has And hear a thankless publics wrath Luck waits for something to been increased by 5824, the total fish. Id rather sit and turn up. Pluck turns up some- now being 4,355 officers and 53, I X m well-organiz- ed , ht crease of 12 per cent in the en listed strength, desertions have decerased 17 per cent. The number of mines has been increased 244 per cent in two years. The number of torpedoes has been increased 90 per cent, and the cost of manufacturing has been reduced torpedoes from $4,202.11 each to $3,245.72 each, the total saving being $326,700. As against l2 submarines, costing $7,958,936, which were authorized under the Taft administration, 26 submarines costing $16,260,000, have been authorized under, the first half of the Wilson administration. In addition $1,000,000 was appropriated for aviation purposes. Much of - this - increase' has been obtained without cost to the country. Mr. Daniels shows .- areuthcrwise'rpeople x Bad luck is a man with his hands in his pockets waiting to see how things will turn out. 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