Show howe about giving good advice war those who paid by ED HOWE NEW nat EW york people have laughed at us farmers a long lon time thue because of our mortgages 0 0 mcintyre a farmer from Is now in new york looking up the records there and has discovered so far that every building on fifth avenue Is mortgaged except st patricks cathedral cathedra and alf banys jewelry store the only rich man I 1 know now recently called led on me he used to work in my shop for eight dollars a week and I 1 recall clinking occasionally it was too much ile he Is at present getting fifty dolls dollars rs a week in the mechanical ch department of a big town newspaper ills aim in calling on sie me was to get help in saving his little home 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 hla his rent and a gradual reduction of the principal sum joe I 1 have long known you to be a good worker and an honest man I 1 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 lie ile thought awhile before answering as men do when stumped ani I 1 noticed thit 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 ar often myself I 1 the heart to say anything further although I 1 did ask him it if he had never heard of the old advice to steadily save something tor for a rainy day yes he replied 1 I war wa brought up on it mother always fussed bussed at father about that and I 1 burled 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 be had four daughters and loved them devotedly for they were good girls and three of them married shiftless husbands still excuses are usually urged tor for neglected duty some of 0 them are eloquent and true enough but they dont count much when a mortgage Is due I 1 have hare often wondered what would have happened had woodrow wilson been a brave and true man before he entered the world war avid and said we have not sufficient cause to engage in this conflict which will cot us billions in money and hundreds of thousands of deaths there has been i popular expression on the question the people elected me president because I 1 kept them out of it I 1 will resign but I 1 will not enter the war in response to clamor of a mistaken minority probably there gouid would have been so i much indignation from the mistaken I 1 that mr wilson would have resigned probably his successor would have plunged in cut but today woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons memory would have been blessed by the I 1 majority as the memory of no i derit dent has been blessed in the history 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 been shot through the neck at the battle of antietam the distressed father at once started for the battlefield the atlantic reprints an account of the journey doctor llo Ilo loies luies wrote while its events were fresh in hla his memory and the horrors of war have bare never been more powerfully depleted depicted tie ire 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 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 rought 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 came abraham lincoln who was wag never in a battle lost no sons lincoln as president issuer issued the first call tor for troops probably no man ever had a friend he did not hate a little we vre are nil kit so BO constituted by nature no one can possibly entirely approve of us I 1 greatly admire the better cl class ass scientists tor for this reason there Is no such tiling thing as a first class man or of science who wishes to fool anyone bl bis ambition Is to learn find and through learning make life more endur endurably ablo these men are the one class who always wish to tell the truth who at a I 1 ways believe honesty ho Is the best rul pil ley icy statesmen writers ilin tors preachers lawyers business men ni nc caslo nally wish to fool us ua tim bin ib hi scientists never do honesty honest Is tairi trade C IU 1113 did ball if As cr cc 0 |