| Show howe about giving good advice war those who paid by ED HOWE IN NEW BW york people have laughed at us farmers a long time because of our mortgages 0 0 0 mcintyre a farmer from missouri Is now in new york tork looking up the records there and has discovered so far that every building on fifth avenue Is mortgaged except st patricks cathedral and atif banys jewelry store the only rich man I 1 know now recently called on me he used to work in my shop for eight dollars a week and I 1 recall thinking linking occasionally it was too much lie he in 1 at present getting fifty doll dollers sirs a week in the mechanical ch department of a big town newspaper his 1119 alm aim in calling conme on me was to get help in saving his little home A building association has a small mortgage on it and it obligate friend to pa thirty dollars a month through a term of years such payment to include his rent and a gradual reduction of the be principal sum joe I 1 have long known you to be a good worker and an honest man I 1 said to him do mean to tell me that with wages of fifty dollars a week continuing over eight years you have not been able to pay thirty dollars a month rent when this sum included six dollars to apply on your ma mortgage rt ile he thought awhile before answering as men do when stumped aal I 1 noticed that look of despair I 1 have so often seen lately on the faces of other good men and good fellows well he answered finally 1 I many a good man has made the same reply when he knew he was to blame I 1 have been guilty so often myself I 1 the heart to say anything further although I 1 did ask him if he had never heard of the old advice to steadily save something for a rainy day yes he replied 1 I was brought brou glit up on it mother always fussed bussed at father about that and I 1 burled buried him its another american tragedy I 1 dont know what to do about it there was excuse after excuse in this good mans case tor for one thing he had four daughters and loved them devotedly for they were good girls and three of them married shiftless husbands still excuses are usually urged for neglected duty some of them are eloquent and true enorah but they 10 dont nt count much when ft a mortgage 1 Is due I 1 have often wondered what would have happened had woodrow wilson been a brave and true man before he entered the world war and said we have not sufficient lelent cause to engage in this conflict which will cost us billions in money and hundreds of thousands of deaths there has been popular expression on the question the people elected me president because c a us e I 1 kept them out of it I 1 will resign reign s but I 1 will not enter the war in response to clamor of a mistaken minority probably there would have been so mile much h indignation from the mistaken that mr wilson would have resigned probably his successor would have plunged in but today woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons memory Y would have been blessed by the majority as the memory of no president has been blessed in the bistor history y of the republic in the early sixties dr oliver wendell holmes while sitting in his home in boston received a telegram saying his son had bad been shot through the neck a at t the battle of antietam Antle tam the distressed dist father at once started for the battlefield the atlantic reprints an account of the journey doctor holmes wrote while its events were fresh in his memory and the horrors of war have never been more powerfully depicted ile he walked through many hospitals looking for his son inspected many wagons carrying dead and wounded talked with soldiers who had burled unknown dead in long trenches like cattle met other frantic fathers who were looking for dead or mangled sons saw the wreck of the battlefield j heard the screams of wounded wept at sight of thousands of good looking boy soldiers horribly mangled all through my reading of the story I 1 kept thinking and the people who fought and paid for the war never wanted it never asked for it it was ordered by a few men who never suffered some of whom profited by the carnage out of this unnecessary fighting camo came abraham lincoln who was never lo in a battle lost no sons lincoln as president issued the first c cil 11 for troops probably no man ever had a friend he did not hate a little we are all so constituted by nature no one can pos sibly entirely approve of us 0 I 1 greatly admire the better class clasa scientists for this reason there la Is no such thing as a first class man of science who wishes to tool fool anyone his ambition Is to learn and through learning make life more endurable these men are the one class who al ways wish to tell tho truth who al ways believe honesty to Is the best pol ley icy statesmen writers doctors preachers lawyers business men 0 01 caslo nally wish to fool us but HIP scientists never do honesty Is their trade 0 attl ball by ivr ls |
