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Show : (t ; ""T : : m American Individualism A Timely Message to the American People By HERBERT HOOVER Secretary of Commerce. HAVE witnessed in this last eight years the spread of WE over one-thi- rd of the world. The causes of these explosions lie at far greater depths than the failure of governments in war. The war itself in it3 last stages was a conflict of social philosophies but beyond this the causes of social explosion lay in the great inequalities and injustices of centuries flogged beyond endurance by the conflict and freed from restraint by the destruction of war. The urgent forces whieh drive human society have been plunged into a terriblo furnace. Great theories spun by dreamers to-- i remedy the pressing human Ills have come to the front of men's minds. Great formulas came Into life that promised to dissolve all trouble. Great masses of people have flocked to their banners tu hopes born of misery and suffering. Nor has the great social ferment been confined to those nations that have burned with revolutions. Now, as the storm of war, of revo-lution and of emotion subsides there Is left even with us of the United States much unrest, much discontent with the surer forces of human To all of us, out of this crucible of actual, poignant. Individual experience has come a deal of new understanding, and It Is for all of us to ponder these new currents If we are to shape our future with Intelligence. Even those parts of the world that suffered less from the war have been partly Infected by these Ideas. Beyond this, however, many have had high hopes of civilization suddenly purified and ennobled by the sacrifices and services of the war ; they- - had thought the fine unity of purpose gained In war would be carried into great unity of action In remedy of the faults of civili-sation In peace. But from concentra-tion of every spiritual and materlul energy upon the single purpose of war the scene changed to the Immense com-plexity and the many purposes of peace. Thus there loom up certain definite underlying forces In our national life that need to be stripped of the Imagi-nary the transitory and a definition er thought upon their great Is-sues to humanity. And from It U I emerge an Individualist an unashamed Individualist, liut let me gay also thut 1 am an American Individualist. For America has been steadily develop-ing the Ideals that constitute progres-sive Individualism. No doubt, Individualism run riot, with no tempering principle, would pro-vide a long category of Inequalities, of tyrannies, dominations, and injustices. America, how ever, has tempered the whole conception of Individualism by the injection of a definite principle, and from this principle It follows that attempts at domination, whether In government or In the processes of In-dustry und commerce, are under an Insistent curb. If we would have tin values of Individualism, their stimula-tion to Initiative, to the development of hand and Intellect, to the high de-velopment of thought and spirituality, they must be tempered with that firm and fixed ideal of American Individu-alism an equality of opportunity. If we would have these values we must soften Its hardness and stimulate prog-ress through that sense of service that lies In our people. Therefore, It Is not the Individualism of other countries for which I would speak, but the Individualism of Amer-ica. Our Individualism differs from ail others because it embraces these great Ideals', that while we build our Bocloty upon the attainment of the In-dividual, we shall safeguard to every Individual an equality of opportunity should b given to th actual, perma-nent and persistent motivation of our civilization. In contemplation of these questions we must go far deeper than tha superflcJaU of our political and economic structure, for these are but the products of our social philosophy the machinery of our social system. Nor Is It ever amiss to review the political, economic, and spiritual princi-ples through which our country has steadily grown In usefulness and great-ness, not only to preserve them from being fouled by false notions, but more importantly that we may guide our-selves In the rood of progress. Five or six great social philosophies are at struggle In the world for as-cendency. There Is the Individualism of America. There Is the Individual-ism of the more democratic states of Europe with Its careful reservations of castes and classes. There are Com-munism, Socialism. Syndicalism, Cap-italism, and finally there la Autocracy whether by birth, by possessions, militarism, or divine right of kings. Even the Divine Bight still lingers on although our lifetime has seen fully two-third- s of the earth's population, in-cluding Germany, Austria, Russia, and China, arrive at a state of angry dis-gust with this type of social motive power and throw It on the scrap heap. All these thoughts are In ferment today In every country In the world. They fluctuate In ascendency with times and places. They compromise with each other in daily reaction on governments and peoples. Some of these Ideas are perhaps more adapted to oue race than another. Some are false, some are true. The partisans of some of these other brands of social schemes challenge us to comparison ; and some of their par-tisans even among our own people are increasing In their agitation that we adopt one or another or parts of their devices In place of our tried Individual-Ism- . Tuey Insist that our social foun-dations are exhausted, that like fuedal-Isi- n and autocracy America's plan has served Its puriwse that It must be abandoned. There are those who have been left In sober doubt of our Institutions or are confounded by bewildering catch-words of vivid phrases. For In this nelter of discussions there Is much to glorify or defame social und economic forces with phrases. Nor In-deed should we disregard the potency of ome of these phrases In their slr to action The dlctatoaahp of the Proletariat." "Capitalistic nations," "Germany over all," and a score of oth-ers. We need only to review those that have jumped to horseback during the lust ten years In order that we may be proirly awed by the great social und political havoc that can be worlred where the bestial Instincts of hate, murder, and destruction are clothe.! by the demagogues in the line terms of pollllcol Idealism. For mvself. let me say at the very outset that my faith In the essen'ial truth, trength. and vitality of the de-veloping creed by which we have hith-erto lived in this country of oim-- s 1ms ,een confirmed stid deepened v th" M,.,irchlfig exoerlen'vs of seven : r of aervlre In ll'.e and n. " ,.f war. Seven ye-.r- of rot.ten fti!h ,.,,n,-.n!- with ..l .I'Siiiteirmion. Hh ,,,,.,,1 ,l.vl,,r:lt!nn. with Ml of Its ,', n.l of lcil'.nhnl nod copiivt, cou'd but li.ipp-;- - no iiiry iimI :it !n of "'"' .,, t:;1- - uive.-s:t- y for broad- - to take that position In the commun-ity to which his intelligence, character, ability, and ambition entitle hlra ; that we keep the social solution free from frozen strata of classes ; that we shall stimulate effort of each Individual to achievement; that through an enlarg-ing sense of responsibility and under-standing we shall assist him to this attainment; while he In turn must stand up to the emery wheel of com-petition. Individualism cannot be maintained as the foundation of a society if it looks to only legalistic justice based upon contracts, property, and politi-cal equality. Such legalistic safe-guards are themselves not enough. In our Individualism we have long since abandoned the lolssez fulre of the Eighteenth century the notion that It Is "every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost" We aban-doned that when we adopted the Ideal of equality of opportunity the fair chance of Abraham Lincoln. We have confirmed Its abandonment In terms of legislation, of social and economic jus-tice In part because we have learned that It Is the hindmost who throws the bricks at onr social edifice, In part because we have learned that the fore-most are not always the best nor the hindmost the worst and In part be-cause we have learned that social In-justice Is the destruction of Justice Itself. We have learned that the Im-pulse to production can only be main-tained at a high pitch if there 1 fair division of the product, We have also learned that fair division can only be obtained by certain restric-tions on the strong and the dominant. We hnve Indeed gone even further In the Twentieth century with the of the necessity of a greater and broader sense of service and re-sponsibility to others as a part of In-dividualism. Whatever may be the case wdth re-gard to Old World Individualism (and we have given more back to Europe than we received from her) the truth that Is important for us to grasp to-day Is that there Is a world of differ-ence between the principles and spirit of Old World Individualism and that which we have developed In our own country. We have. In fact, a social social system of our own. We have mndo It ourselves from materials brought In revolt from conditions In Europe. Wo have lived It; we constantly Improve It; we have seldom tried to define It. It abhors autocracy and does not argun with It, but fights it. It Is not capital-Ism- , or socialism, or syndicalism, nor a cross breed of them. Mke most Amerlenns, I refuse to be dsmnefl by anybody's of It, sueh as "capitalism," "plutocracy," "prole-tariat" or "mlddle-clnss,- " or any other, or to any kind of compartment that Is bused on the assumption of some group dominating somebody eise. The social for'-- In whb'h I am Inter-ested Is fnr higher and far more s a thing than all these. It springs from something Infinitely more It splines from the one source of htiinati progressthat each Individ-ual l be given the chance and vtjntilrit ion for development of the) het w'.tii whhii he has l.eeri endowed In heart and tnii.d; It U the sole source n' progrev; it Is Amerb-ji- Indivblii liliSMl. (To i'K roNTiNC::r .own"! 1. !'outi.V!.i l'ae ft I,. T'llli-hc- l )y Wlt-- Newspaper Uiion.) A Past Time. Charles Klauder. the well-know-architect, said at a dinner la Phila-delphi- a: "American architecture stands to-day us high us any In the world, but there was a time when we were almost proud of our terrible jorry-bulhler- An American, gazing at the 8tu. pendmis and lucelike musses of the Spanish cathedral of Toledo, said to his guide: '"lliv long did it take to run un this nlTiiir?' '"rive hundred years, sonor,' the guide unswered. "The American gave a contemptuous laugh. "'Five hundred years? Holy smoke!' he said. 'Why over In God's own country we could build a struc-ture like that and have it fall to pieces on our hands, all Inside of two or three years.' " A sure, safe way to end CORNS In one minute you can end the pain or corn, with Dr. Scholl i Jou riik no infection from cuttina no danger from corroeive acidi. Zlno-pad- a protect irhlle they heal, "in; autie-ptl-c; waterproof. Si. for jorna. callouea, buoiooa. 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Pmkham s Vegetable Compound to Keep Thcrn in Health What to Eat and Why A Natural Supply of Vitamin A Mother's Advice Prevents Operation Corona, N. Y.- -"I tawl s terribly rain in my left aide and hail Led every so often. Doctors had U)ld mo I must be operated on, but I ao not believe in the knife and would rather suiTer than go through it. M7 mother also did not believe in it aval she made me tako Lydia b. I Vecetal.lo Compound beu- - it had help) her. It bus also h"4'd me for I am better and ablo to do all my work. I recommend your meoi-cin- o and five you permission to n my letter as a testimonial. .vrs..i. lit'jsai. Jr., 11 H. KailrouJ Avciiuo, Coroiw, N. Y. A Sickly CliiU Mnhoninjrtown, Pa.- -" I wott!. U to any a low words about I.yum r l'inkhiiin's Vrifetjible Compound. AUut a year ntro I thought it wou .i be nocesHnry for me to tao my daughter out of txiiool. -- hii wi.i losing weiriit, whs nervous, ai" Winn Khe would cn.e liome from school she would drcpinto a ciimrnnd cry, and say, ' Mamma, I don't behevo 1 can u.o to school um.ih r il.iy 1 rave her Lydia E. TlnVSam's Vege-table Compound and now sns is hcHltny, happy, hearty. gjl nd weighs 130 P,h" F difficulty in doinr her 'fym andIshe works at home .very niffht and morning, too. I am a mother wno can tertaiiily praiiw your medicine, and if Uwifl t ot benefit you' this letter as a reference, "ilrt Geo sua E. WHrTAcna. W. MaJison Ave.. MaoniiMrtown, is. Fverv girl wanta to be healthy and every moth- -f wsnU her SaSt-d- o well in school d to enjoy herself t ell times, fvdia K. I'inkham'i VepeiablJ ComponmJ is "P"-.1"- wtom for vourr juentermirwonmnh ood. gills pfepared from rats and LrirorUins nothing that can in-r- " "and t-- to ton- - up and ut it iwip yr tltat wd yourwli. The word "Vitamin" is new, but the thing iUelf is as eld as the human race. It is the encrgizim?, Vitalizing, growth - produciru ehj-me- nt in the right food. Its ab-aeti-co i3 a serious fault of the wrong food. When the fuod is right, th3ro is no r.ced to o to the druir store for Vitamin, Grape-Nut- s, the famous ready to-o- at cereal, supplies the natural Vitamin from the wheat, and a fur-ther supply is iit( luded i:i the cream or milk with which CrejAi-Nu- U ia tat en. Crupe-Xut- s is delight-full- cri"p and anuclizira. with a ilavor which happily suggests tha wholesome, healUi-buUdiri- g goodness which tho food contnia. phosphorus and Iron, as well as ViUuuln, wit! a i braa content to atimulate intestinal action, are supplied by Grape-Nut- s. Many ef our modern, "refined' fevds lack these vitally veceasary tleinenta. Orape-Nut- s ditrests eoily and is assimilated quickly, and is splen-didly nonrishintf and energizing. You'll find better health and tit-ns- s, in the natural way, with Grape-Nut- s as a regular part of your diet. There's genuine eeonnmv la Grape-Nut- .; many servings of this erceptionally nouriMlling food to t).e package. At your grocer's ready to serve. Grape-Nut- s the Body r.iiihier. "Tliere's a Reason." Made by Postum Cerrai, Co., Ine, Bttls Crouk, Mkbltui Theory and Condition. blossoming forth from poverty to riches, Mr. Smith bought a motor car. It wasn't much of a car, but he talked about It a lot. He always called It "my automobile." He tried many experiments with It, and was often seen reclining underneath It. This happened so frequently that Smith and his automobile became the Joke of the neighborhood. One day Smith was mowing his lawn when something went wrong with the mower. lie sat down beside it to have a look at the mnchlnery. A wag, chancing to puss that way, paused. "Good morning, Smith," he said ; "Is that your automobile again?" "No," growled Smith. "It's my oughtermograss but It won't!" An Young Feller. Two high-scho- girls, short-skirte-bob- haire- bright-eye- d and talkative, sat in a downtown motion picture the-ater while on the screen before them a story of love was unfolded. The central figure was a man whose chief distinction, outside his motion pic-ture success, Is that of a certain brand of trousers which once were named for hlra. One girl sighed. She turned to her companion and whispered: "Oh, Nell, wouldn't you Just love to hate a man like that?" Indianapo-lis News. Oyster 80 Year Old. An oyster eighty years old has been taken from Delaware bay, It Is report-ed. Scientific Investigators agree and assert that the age of an oyster Is In-dicated by' the ridges or waterllnes on its shell, Just as the age of a tree Is Indicated by the annual rings that form on Its trunk. A ridge appears on an oyster every year, according to these savants, up to the fortieth year. After that the shell takes on one only every ten years. This venerable Delaware oyster had 44 ridges; hence It was eighty years old. Many Species In Kentucky. In Kentucky, which is a center of f.f the broad-leave- belt, there are several hundred different varieties of trees, says the school hook of for-estry of the American Tree ossocla-tion- . Farther south the cone-hearin- g species prevail. They are followed In the march toward the Gulf of Mexico by the tropical trees of southern Florida. Cologne Is 200 Year Old. The recipe for making the orlglnnl erni de cologne was discovered more than two hundred years ago, and since that time It has been Intrusted to only a dozen pfrsons. The written copy of the recipe Is kept In a crys-tal goblet, under triple lockn, In a room In which the essential oils ara mixed. Thought for tha Day. The average s.m takes the advlca .if his father just like the futher took iidvhf from his futher. Worse Still. "Tour husband has been 111?" asked the vicar who was paying bis monthly call. "Yes," replied the worried-lookin-woman. "He hus been feeling very bad. I do my best to please him, but nothing eeema to satisfy him." "Is his condition critical?" "It's worse than critical," she an-swered, with a sigh ; "It's abusive." London Tlt-lllt- Not Entirely Artificial. "I was deceived In you," complained the husband. "Your teeth are hand-made, your complexion Is art tidal and your hulr la another's. You are wholly fulne." "No, not wholly," she replied. "I have a mind of my own, as you very well know." And he was forced to admit the bitter truth of her statement. Bos-ton Evening Transcript. An Important Point, Judge "Five dollars or ten days In Jail." Prisoner "What kind of a Jail have you got?" Paaalng Through the Panama Canal. It take a ship about ten hours to make the trip through the Panama canal. There Is probably a difference be. tween canceling a debt and never col-lecting it. Trace of tire most ancient cave-mo- n found In Europe seein to Identify them with the Fskifim. |