The farmer and mechanic., 1912-04-23
THE, CHIVALRY OF THE STA.


Of captains of industry and leaders OF
thought and men useful in every line
If life to save the llliterdte ana lgnor-
ant women immigrants who were on
the Titanic?' Many Of these female
immigrants are SO ignorant they did
not know where they We're going. and,
judged by the standard Of earning ca
pacity, are Of little value to the IN
dustrial world. When they arrived At
New York it was found that
Of the lowest order of lntelll-
sence and could contribute lit
tie TO the development and progress
Of the country to which they had
come. No doubt it is true that some
Of them were assisted to come and
some Of them Will prove to be unde-
slrahle immigrants, and yet. the spec
tacle Was witnessed on that ship, be-
cause Of the chiValry Of the sea, OF
men whose genius had given them
first place in the world of art and let
ters and industrialism and war, being
sacrificed that these women seem
ingly not as valuable to the world as
the men, might be saved But While
the question Will inVoluntarily come
- the thought of many people, why
should the great artist of Philadelphia
ana the great journalist Of London
and the great Jewish merchant Of
New York and the rich miner Of Col
orado. who were doing great things
Tor the world, and seemed to be
greatly needed in their places. should
perish While an unknown woman of
the alien race and her children should
benefit by the chiNalry that prevails
Whenever there is d tragedy on the
sea 1t IS perhaps true that if some
man could have had the time to sit
down and select those who should
have been rescued, he would have Sc
lected among the men and women
those who seemed most capable Of
rendering service to the world and
We would have had. from such a point
OF view, the 'surNival of the tittest, =
but no man lives in the world who is
| pie to wisely say what six hundred
| Of them Will contribute most to the
world and whose lives are therefore
most valuable to mankind Among
these poor and illiterate and ien0ra Mt
women who We're rescued who knows
but that their descendants will give
to the Wrold great artists and great
scholars and great captains Of indus
! try: 1t is out Of the homes Of poverty
and out Of the lives Of self f-sacrificine
mothers tWhose yearning to make
the world better for their children
than it has been to them, causing
them to leave their mother country
and come to America it is from
homes like these that most of the
worlds most influential leaders have
come. The chief service of Straus anf
Gugeenheim and Widener and Steaf
ana Mlllat was behind them In the
course Of nature their lives were go
ing toward the sunset. while the chill
dren who were saved had all tn,
world before them and their lives K
; live. 1t was better q thousand tin,e
better. that these should have bee,
saved, hard as it may seem. tha,
, those whose lives are at the spring.
, High, and above the consideration
Of these questions which involuntaril
: comes to the minds Of all who rea,
| about the tragedy Of the Titanic. rise.
: the glory of the Anglo Saxon man
| hood in its relation toward wuIner
. which famed forth as steadily and a
p glOriously as men looked in the fac
: Of death. as when the knghthood {
u King ArthurS s Court was in flower.
+ The world stands today in crit
4 cism, in severe criticism. Of j. BruC
y lsmay. the chief owner and officer
n the company that owned the Titani
n who rushed into a life boat to pre-