Show Bucharest! left thee without a word of farewell I who O Driven into exile with her many sub- Ireland Noted for her beauty idolized ject who had to retreat before the Hun by her people' she has devoted herself to just as the Belgians and Serbians were Red Cross work and the care of her forced out of their peaceful homes’ in') stricken people ever since the entry of the debacle of war: Queen Marie of Rumania into the war Rumania has turned to the pen and In devotinsi her pen to the cause of vHth it is picturing the horrors that- -' her adopted country Queen Marie has have engulfed the pretty little Balkan followed the example of her husband’ V i" aunt the late Queen Elizabeth (Carmen kingdomQueen Marie was married to King Syiva) whose charming books of poetry Ferdinand in 1893 and was - then the and prose deal almost entirely with the Princess Marie of Edinburgh the daugh- customs and folklore of Rumania In ter of "Alfred I Duke of this article Queen Marie gives a graphic Gotha Prince of Great Britain and: picture of war-tor- n Rumania V - Baxe-Cobur- g- ‘ V: rjlHERE Is an hour of which I have three that could so are full of years they angulshand Pain and grief Months that I have lived close to the heart of my people months when I have heard their cries and hoped their hopes and feared their - -- - -- -- s - s s -- ' ‘ - - ' Iona months — months never spoken—an hour of darkness and sorrow that I could share with no one an hour when I had to carry my head very high so that none should see the tears in my eyes' an hour when fears naught else remained to me but to look Months in which I have struggled beyond the things of this earth toward with them' and wept with them doing shadowy futures that belong only to 'all that was In ray power to ease their God "V burden and to dry their tearsI had to be strong at that hour not to But if there are hours when silence Cry out not to complain but to lead the alone can render bearable the duty one way Into exile very simply very quietly has to perform there are others when so as to avoid all panic so that' no one one has a right to lift up one’s voice Others de-- and to cry out one’s longing and one’s shouldbe afraid " L'' regret pended upon me all eyes were turned ' toward me to sfe how I would bear It Is three months since Bucharest that which was unbearable so I was was taken from us slnce the enemy silent at that hour silence alone could struck at the heart of our land! Three S v months and todajI want all help all those who weep who love and then 'those since Three months have passed ’ and all those who regret to turn their wept with you that there is none of faces with mine toward that far-of- f : your griefs that I have not shared none distance and to remember that which of your despairs that I have not Underwe have lost stood none of your sacrifices thatI £ me to as though I must climb have not appreciated but this message It is some very high mountain up up till I would I bring to you: ' Hearts are bound reach Its summit so that from there I more closely together in days of sorrow might perceive at least the smoke rising than in days of Joy in days of war from that town which once was our than In days of peace loved and cherished center and that I cannot know for which special sornow lies chained and silent ’neath the row each man is mourning — I know not what house what spot what face he enemy’s relentless sway Tes indeed heart of our land! Puls- sees in his dreams I know not to what ing center that held us together fed hope he dings to what joy he desires to our energies and filled us with pride — go back there is a national sorrow and who of us will ever forget those last there is a personal sorrow that last days of anguish when hope became al- one each man carries alone in his ways less when from all sides the volce heart of the cannon called out its fearful Bucharest! Thy' name conjures up pic‘message called out its warning'-- ' telling tures without end in the minds of those us that danger was coming ever nearer who have been obliged to ’surrender —that soon it would be flight and exile thee to the hated foe We remembei and sorrow and darkness thee with all thy faces in sunshine in Difficult it is to speak of one's own rain and in snow we remember thee sorrow when the suffering of all was so busy yet smiling within thy streets great yet if today I speak of mine it all seemed happy It is to us now that is because I know that it is my coun- we are torn from thee as though we try’s sorrow that a thousand thousand had known naught but Joy within thy voices are echo to mine when I talk of embrace that for which we are mourning of What is thy face of today O Buthat which lies beyond the line of fire charest? Hast thou veiled thyself in that like a wound upon a mother’s mourning because so many of thy chilbreast cuts our dear country in two! wear a dren have fled? Or dost-thoIt is I your Queen who am speaking smile of false acquiescence so as not to to you and I wish my voice to reach draw down upon thy trembling inhabievery heart to penetrate into every tants the wrath of those who now call home to go toward the most miserable themselves masters and who perchance to 'search out the hero on his bed of keep thee in better order than ' thine snow I want' ye all to know that I have own children ever did? Have thy proud - - - v i - - 4 -- By the Queen of Rumania ‘ so often have been acclaimed in thy streets! I u Like a traitor did Does a High capital even after our : retreat that I was destined to leave my youngest there beneath the coM slabs of the church Did perchance God tear him from us as a sign that all this sorrow will he relate what his mother said to all this sacrifice is but a passing horror him in that hour before her flight! that because Miroea lies there awaiting — were was It my return that surely surely I must evening the shadows come back? ’ and already stealing into the church When he died the popular belief was with them I slipped into the sanctuary while flowers spread a that the heavens had claimed from me wounded filled with foreigners who where a heap of speak not our language that mdck at mystic light And there beside that a sacrifice that God had taken my child our sorrow rejoicing over the misery grave but so recently closed I tore from from me that in his perfect innocence me the mask that all day I had worn he should plead for the country he was they have strewn over our land? O Bucharest I left thee without a and cried out my pain to the little destined to quit so soon! So let it be! For I believe in the word of ’farewell I who so often have one lying beneath the stones was to confessed him I that I going day of return X believe in the hour of been acclaimed in thy streets! It was not when would I knowing victory X believe that the blood of our told that I must steal away from thee —going me come to back him asked heroes has not been shed in vain! I forgive in silence show no sorrow say no good-b- y him to for his mother One forgive day thy arms win be' opened wide betraying no emotion so as to for forsaking five to the others with her reoelve us O Mother-town- ! Flags awaken no panic in the hearts of those whiletaking was who him she left he will windows from streets lonely fly thy thy who were to stay! smallest of all! Left him to the mercy will be strewn with branches and those Like a traitor did I feel like a coward of those who soon would take possession' who return to thy embrace will not to leave thee thus to thy fate! To go of the places we had loved! know If their hearts are breaking with away to know naught of thy sorrow to As I wept in solitary despair it sorrow or with Joy leave thee unprotected to those who seemed to me that I heard the tread of It lies in God’s hand if L your Queen soon would suck thy heart’s blood! the approaching armies ’and shudder-ingl- am to share that solemn hour with you And Cotroceni! House that I love I realized that it was the breasts But this one boon do I ask of my house that little by little I have modeled of our soldiers that were forming a people —that if my feet should not enter to my taste house that knows the rampart around' our threatened home! the dear city with you carry all the voices of my children in whose garden I thought of all those who still must flowers that you would have given me have toddled about fall 'before the enemy could reach this to the church where my little one lies their baby-fee- t Cotroceni! I left thee taking no leave sacred door! And ' with ' anguish ' I carry them there to his grave heap of those who were to remain to protect realized that I would no more be there them in ‘masses above him fill the thee casting hardly a look upon the ' to bind up their wounds to console whole church with flowers so that he rooms that once had been my pride — their defeat who so long was lonely should have I had the courage to smile into the face Perhaps It was so that' some vital share in your songs of praise! of the old family servants who looked part of my being should remain in our MARm est buildings been desecrated with flags that are not dyed in the three holy colors before which each Rumanian uncovers his head? Have the blinds of thy windows been drawn down so that those who have remained should not see men in pointed helmets marching to and fro before the house of thy King? Are the hospitals we prepared so tenderly for our at me anxiously as though divining that my silence hid some awful truth Tes I left thee —and from one one only did I take leave! But that one was so small and so silent that never : - y SchoolEdtationPayT? - it pay a boy in dollars and D OES cents to finish the grade schools to from high school? If his earning capacity is thereby increased is it sufficient to pay him good wages for o sixth and seventh grades gives definite and’posltive answer to both these ques- tions The survey was made by E T Sniverly supervisor of manual training and is pronounced by Prof Frank M Leavitt of the University of Chicago the best thing of its kind on the sub-ject of 15000 at that time) In 1909 the-hig- ' - The most important thing the survey shows is that the boys frho dropped out of school in the seventh grade have an earning capacity of $225 a year lees than the boys who finished three years of high school which ln the course of forty years of active work means $9000 moreover that the average wage of edu- cated labor la enough more than the average wage of uneducated labor in forty years to pay $10 a day for each day spent in school from the primary department through the senior year of high school: bar him from flying with the photograph THE accompanying Let the facts arrived at by Mr Sniv- three positions in' the test bf can Eagles aviation1 candidates in which his sense The test for this branch of the serv-- erly in his survey speak for themselves Of the boys enrolled in the seventh balance is determined The chair ice is the: most ‘rigorous of any To --rade of the Fort Dodge public schools and tho aspirant are revolved rapidly fly for Uncle Sam a roan must: he as -- of -- ped out before they reached high school Over 50 per cent dropped out because lack 0f interest rather than from “Either the boys flnancIai necessity who remajn In school have much more natiVe ability to begin with or else their earnins capacity is increased by added years in school possibly a combi- nation of both" says Mr Sniverly and the survey Justifies his conclusions 'Though the boys who left the seventh grade have been out of school six years and are now past twenty years of age their average monthly wage Is only $4138 and their average monthly in- crease in income per year is only $2 They are earning $1862 a month (or $22344 a year) less than the boys who left ‘the third year in high school schooling after the seventh grade cause the boys remaining in school h school or would either be in ' Moreover the have graduated just in school out of that boys who dropped year would have had a fair number of years in which to show what they coulddo ln the business world with their liraited preparation Is considerably but each additional year spent' in school has invariably brought an enlarged income - with one exception Thus the boys who quit school in the seventh grade were earning onan average $2888 a month the first year they were at work Those who quit in the eighth grade were earning $4001 a month for the first year at work making the additional school year worth $1113 a month or $13356 a year to them Those who quit In the first and second years of high school found them- selves earning on an average $4266 a month the first year at work while those who took three years of ' high school earned on an average $49 a month the first year they worked or $2012 a month more than the boys who quVt "in the seventh grade ThVboys wh0 qut m the seventh grade were earning $4138 a month the sixth yearat work or $762 less than' the thirdyear high school boy earned his first year out of school The boys who quit In the eighth grade were' earning $5969 a month the first year they worked or less than the third-yea- r high school boy -- Moreover the Income increases of the - Not satisfied with this conclusive boys who continued in school are far proof of the value of each additional in excess of the Income increases of year in the grade schools Mr Sniverly those who quit in the grades The boy made a survey of the earning capacity from the Fort who quit In the seventh grade has re- - of boys who graduated ’ ceived an average annual wage increase Dodge- High School in 1914 and 1915 Their average wage per month the first amounting to 9 per cent of his first-yeinthird at work la $50 which is $883 more the who The year boy quit pay - than the average wage of the averan school is of receiving boys who year high to in the increase seventh after annual wage grade quit amounting age they 22 per cent of his first-yepay Four have been at work six years and $8 years more of schooling have more than more than the average wage of the boys doubled the chance of financial advance- - who quit in the sixth grade after they have been at work seven years More- ment over the graduates have Mr Sniverly tabulates the earning ca-or are either to enter entered eevpreparing enrolled the of in the boys pacity which in there is opportu- occupations 1909 as follows: enth grade September ' for advancement and nity development de Some Comparisons school Is the boy who left ' Leaving school at the seventh ' grade doing as well? the boy made $2888 the first year at The Fort Dodge survey shows that of who luit ln th® seventh and work and $4138 the sixth year at work the grades only one has learned a eighth Leaving school at the eighth grade trade and one has made any at- only the boy made $4001 the first year at to work for The latter ark and $5369 the fifth year at work - tempt HxnaI1 a Wcycle repair shop Of the Leaving school at the ninth grade the erkIn °n® one'f°urth boy made $4266 the first year at work e e eor an very engaged and $50 the fourth year at work the remainder are engaged as day labor Leaving school at the tenth grade the boy made $4266the first year at work and $53 the third year at work x - ar - ar high-scho- ol the-gra- torirlorailwjTsho rai his Fort I'- Aa “In an investigation of the influence of education upon earning power Ar- thur Powell of Middletown 0 found that the average earnings of te cated labor are $1£0 per day for 300 days a year This for forty years amounts to $18000 He found that the average wage of educated labor is $1000 per £ear Since this amounts to $40000 in forty years the gain for educated labor is $22000 or $10 per day for each day spent in school from the primary department through the high school “After a study of the latest census returns of the United States a few years ago a high authority arrived at the following conclusions: “First That an uneducated child has one chance out of 150000 to attain dls- tinction as a factor in the progress of the age “Second That a common-schoo- l n cation will increase his chance nearly four times “Third That a training will increase the chances of the coin-mon schoolboy twenty-thre- e time times the giving him eighty-seve- n chanc® of the uneducated" unedu-gradua- edu-tow- high-scho- ol Prevocational Training In view of which finding it is not tobe wondered at that Mr Sniveriy sums up the whole matter' by urging that the time devoted to manual train- - tag in the grades be extended to two hours a week and that from the sev- I" zoiiows enth and eighth grades a special class Leaving school at the sixth grade the He secured some be organized for those students who typical boy made $2220 the first year at work vajuable Information which ''he sum- - are not likely to enter high school and and $42 the seventh year at work to one-hal-f of their time marizes ln this fashion: “In order to from one-thiseventh school' at the grade discover the efficiency of the boys who be devoted ‘to prevocational work Leaving the boy made $2311 the first year at have graduated ’from the commercial among the courses to bo carpentry work and $44'33 the 8ixth year at work department of the high schools in bricklaying cement work electrical Leaving school at the eighth grade Springfield Mass letters were sent to construction plumbing and gasfitting the W made $3022 the first year at seventy-si- x of the graduates who had ceramics printing typewriting and $50-8work fifth at the and work been at work from one to seven years agriculture By thus preparing them year Sixty-seve- n the ninth school at the grade Leaving replies were received and to be something better than day labor- work graded y made $3850 the first year at they show that each of the boys has- ers and factory hands the accomend $58 the fourth year at work had an average annual Increase in sal- schools will have more nearly mission and their the alone plished earning Leaving school at the tenth grade the ary of more than $100 This fact boy made $3750 the first year at work uewiys to answer- tle question as to power of each additional school yea f Dteir Before summing up Dodge 1909 ' M Mr Sniverly scanned the na- findings ' tional field to see If his survey could be rd 3 - t V t - - I V- - j Testing Airmen s '±i W: iJ r Sense of Balance ' I feel to leave thee thus to thy fate! |