Show howe about giving good advice war those who paid by ED HOWE HOVE rw york people have laughed NEW N at us farmers a long time because ol of our mortgages 0 0 mcintyre a farmer from missouri Is now in new york looking up the records there and has disco discovered ered so far that every building on fifth avenue is mortgaged except st patricks cathedral and tit tanys jewelry store the only rich man I 1 know now recently called on me he used to work in my shop tor for eight dollars a week and I 1 recall thinking occasionally it was too much he is at present getting getling fifty doll dolkas rs a week in the mechanical ch anical department of a big town newspaper his aim in calling on me was to get help in saving his little home borne A building association has a small mortgage on it and it obligates my friend to pay thirty dollars a month through a term of years such payment to include his rent and a gradual reduction of the principal sum joe I 1 liae hae ton long known you to be ba a good worker and an honest man 1 I said to him do you 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 mortgage he thought awhile before answering as men do when stumped ani 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 11 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 sr SG 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 rare something for a rainy day yes he be replied 1 I was brought up on it mother always fussed bussed at father about that and I 1 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 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 then them are eloquent and true enough but they dont count much when a mortgage Is due 0 I 1 have often wondered what would have happened had woodrow wilson heen been a brave and true man before he entered the world war and said i we have not sufficient clent cause to engage in this conflict conni ct which will cota cost us billions in money and hundreds of thousands of deaths there has bag been popular expression on the question the people elected me president be cause I 1 kept them out of it it I 1 will resign but I 1 will not enter the war in response to clamor of a mistaken minority probably there would have been so much indignation from the mistaken that mr wilson would hay have e re resigned jg i probably his successor would have plunged in but today woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons memory would have been blessed by the majority as the memory of no president has been blessed in the history of the republic in the early sixties dr oliver wentell wendell holmes while sitting in his home in boston received a telegram saying his son had been shot through the neck at the battle of antietam Antle tam the als distressed father at once started for the battlefield the atlantic reprints an account of the rhe journey doctor holmes wrote while its events were fresh in his memory and the horrors of war have never apen more powerfully depleted depicted tie ile walked through many hospitals look ing for his son inspected many wagons carrying dead and wounded talked with soldiers who had burled buried unknown dead in long trenches like corttle met other frantic fathers who were looking for dead or mangled sons saw the wreck of the battlefield heard the screams of wounded wept fit at sight of thousands of good looking boy soldiers horribly ni mangled angled all through my reading of the story I 1 kept thinking and the people who relight 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 car carnage Dage out of this unnecessary fighting came abraham lincoln who was never in a battle lost no sons lincoln as president issued the first call for troops 0 0 0 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 scientists for this reason there Is no such thing as a first class man of science who wishes to fool anyone his ambit ambition lon Is to learn and through learning leal nine make life more endurable these men are tle the one class who al was anis wish to tell the truth who a al I 1 ways believe honesty Is the hest best pot ley icy statesmen writers ditora preachers lawyers lawver 3 business nin ov nr rationally asio nally ally wish to fool us its hill but ah ahr scientists never do hon honesty sty Is thel 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