The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-05-18

Selected from the Columns of the Leading Nswsps-
pers of America.

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rope is at an end now that there are
two non.European great powers.
It is never to be forgotten that
great war is the supreme test of ma.
tional efficiency. Not only does It
bring to the touchstone the courage,
discipline and endurance of the army
and navy, the intelligence and skill
of the officers, and thelleadership of
the generals and admirals; it also
tries severely the public spirit, de-
termination and self-sacrifce of the
civil population and, lastly, 1t puts
to the proof the foresight and states.
manship of the nations public men,
their power to forsee all contingent.
cies, and their capacity to make full
preparation for them.
Nay, more, it tests the nations
economic efficiency, for a great war
cannot be brought to successful con-
clusion unless the nation Is able to
bring to bear upon the enemy ade-
quate naval and military forces, and
to supply them with everything they
require.
That japan in single combat with
one of the greatest military powers
of the world, the power which hither-
to has been supposed to possess mum.
erically the largest army, has borne
the test we'll nobody can deny. There.
fore, we seem warranted in assuming
that the progress of Japan in the
early future will be very rapid-at
least as rapid as that of Germany
during the past generation.
THE "HE SAID" GIRL.
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette: Did you
ever notice group of little girls be.
tween the age of Ia and 1s chattering
away IN a corner? The next time
you sit near such group listen and
hear If about every tenth word is
about what she said" If it is, you
have found some more of the "he
said" girls, and they are not the
incest little girls in the world. The
che said" girls are likely to loitei
down town after school too late tt
help their mothers with the after
noon work. They are likely to wea,
a little better clothes than theil
fathers can afford, so that the neigh
bors wonder what their mothers car
be thinking about. The she said
girls also too often think more of the
boys than of their books, and conse
quently fail to get through school
They are in for good time, and have
nothing in their heads but hairpin
and two-steps.
Sometimes nature takes girl ou
of the "he said" family and makes ;
fine woman of her, but generally sh,
gets to going out to parties and is de
veloped before her time, and either
marries and fades at twenty or hang
on after all the other girls are mar
ried Off, and takes generation after
generation of young boys to raise BY
hand, and becomes known as "grand
ma" in the crowd.
There is nothing so sweet as sim
Pile, frank, open.hearted girl. Blu,
the boy-struck girl Is an abomination
The whole matter rests with the
girls mother. She can either bring
up one of the she said" girls or shs
can have daughter to be proud of.
GROWTH OF GRAFT.
Toledo Saturday World: Many
people in this vicinity, as well as II
other sections of the state, have beer
astonished by the recent publication
of the Ohio State Journal, stauncl
Republican newspaper, uncoverinl
the horid growth of grating among
the Republican Office holders in tn,
Franklin county court house.
In combination with, the tax inquisi
tor put in Office some Ave years ag'
BY the Republican Board of Commis
sioners, graft to the extent of CSC, ,0O
a year or even more has been tilchet
from the tax.ridden people of th'
county.
Try to think of It A quarter of ;
million dollars graft in single coun
ty In five years under the regime O
Boss Cox.
In forty other counties at least th'
| same sort of rapaci cious grating is be
ing carried on. It is to be regrette,
that there is not Republican pape
In each of these counties that has tn
courage and the honesty to attacl
the boss and the result of the bos
system that rules Ohio.