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The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

dustrial arts, sciences, and commerce,
and have led them to discover the in
ternational commercial values OF one
another, and although the present war
is a fight for supremacy in influence in
trade relations. still those very trade re-
lations are destined by and by to be-
come the most potential safeguards
against war, and wars will become less
and less frequent, but war cannot be
Wholly eliminated from the world I'm
less angels can be brought down from
heaven and interbred with the human
race
We are learning many useful lessons
from the European war, the main one
OF which is the vital importance OF pre-
paredness. Germany, all along, has
sternly refused even TO consider any of
the policies of the peace parties who
have cried for the limitation OF arma-
ments. Consequently, Germany has for
the last forty years been preparing for
the present war. which she realized
must come, as earnestly as though at
any time il might come upon her at the
drop OF a hat. But England and
France have listened to and been in
fiuenced to some extent by those poll
cies which Germany did not heed That
admirable and eloquent French gen.
tleman, Baron Estournelles de Con-
slant, who placed the ribbon of the
Legion OF Honor around the neck OF
Andrew Carnegie at an international
peace convention in New York, has
been pleading with his country and with
our country and with England to stay
the hand OF the armorer.
How much the inability OF France
today to prevent German invasion may
be due to the preaching and pleading
OF that earnest gentleman is a question
for serious consideration. How much
Englands unreadiness to prevent that
INVASION has been Que TO the influence
Of Andrew Carnegie and his cohorts
preaching disarmament is question for
serious thought today.
Although it is very likely that the
forces OF the allies will. in the end,
humble Germany, still the incalculable
affiiction OF the invasion OF Belgium
and France could have been prevented
had England and France been good and
ready.
society and Government.
1t is a common error to confound
society with government. They are far
from being the same thing Society is
a creation OF our virtues Government
is an organization for safeguarding So
ciety
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By HUDSON MAXIM, D. SC,
Ex-President of the AerOnautical society OF Am
tCOrsrsht, l9lt)

those days was done by hand and not
largely by machinery. as it is now done
the strength of nation depended abso-
lutely upon the blood and Drawn of its
men. They, were the only fortihcation
and bulwark against invasion.
Therefore, in those days there was
no such thing as stability OF interna-
tional relations or long duration Of
peace. Consequently. the world could
not progress greatly until after the dis
covery of gunpowder and the inven-
ton of the marvellous weapons and
engines of war that eliminated in the
modern machine gun. quick-hring can
non. and steel-ribbed, steam driven war
ship.
These things are exceedingly, expen-
sive and are a heavy burden upon in
dustry. Nevertheless, they are nothing
like so heavy a burden as is the heel
OF the conqueror upon the neck.
Just as the modern machinery of
war served to hold up the advance OF
an enemy, so does it equally hold up
itself by rendering war game OF such
I cost and uncertainty as TO deter the nas
tions from engaging in it during longer
periods. thereby affording intervals of
peace between wars for industrial and
social development.
I Man is a creation OF a warning en-
vIronment. and just as the habit OF
guarding the heart with the shield upon
! the left arm, with the right arm free
10 WELD sword or spear. has made man
right-handed, so has it endowed him
with a martial spirit, which needs but
to be stirred by sufficient provocation
and he becomes the same fighting ami
NAL that he has always been.
Consequently. the endowment of ma
chiney with the fighting spirit, through
the ingenuity OF man. has been the
greatest benefit to him OF all his in
NCllllOll>, 4pI II HdS given Hllii pS4ApAS
Of respite from war. whereby he has
been able TO delve deeply into the Sc
crets OF nature and, through growing
commerce, 10 learn that the people OF
q neighboring nation are worth more
as commercial customers than they
would be as slaves. and more than
their property would be if plundered
To destroy neighboring nation to the
ruination OF trade relations with it for
any advantage of the plumber OF con-
quest is like killing the goose that laid
the golden egg.
The discovery Of gunpowder and the
invention Of modern weapons OF war
have given the people OF the earth re-
spite for the development OF the in
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I and slaughter them in the bloody sham
bles of battle.
1t would be a good thing if inter
national disputes could be settled by
arbitration. 1t would be an excellent
thing if, instead of by war, interna-
tional disputes could be settled by an
international tribunal, and it would
also be an excellent thing if the bur
den of armaments could be reduced to
only what would be necessary to en-
force observance to the mandates OF
/ that tribunal
! If we ever have court of arbitra-
ton for the judicial settlement of in
ternational disputes, we shall need an
international police force to compel OBJ
servance OF law and to maintain our
peace on a world-scale, Just as now
we need policemen in our cities and
/ our militia to maintain internal peace
/ and order.
International peace and order can
never be maintained except by power
full police force and an international
military force, with each OF the nations
represented upon that force in such a
way as to represent and maintain an
international dominance of power.
| Fighting machinery Benefit to Man.
4 noted American wit has said that
few persons can stand prosperity, while
anybody can stand adversely, because
he has to.
THE ease and comforts and blessings
OF peace foster luxury and incorporate
methods OF life
When Cyrus the Great, with his
mountaineers. had conquered, pIunder-
ed, and enslaved the peace-thrifty in
habitants OF the fertile lowlands he
told his soldiers they must return to
their mountain Businesses and to. their
former frugal life. for if they settled
down TO peace, comfort. and luxury in
the lowlands, they. too, in their turn,
would be conquered and enslaved by
other hardy mountain tribes.
In every interval of peace. mankind
has rapidly repaired the destruction
of war and turned its attention from
human conquest to the conquest OF ma
ture; but during all the dark old cons
time to turn from war to industry In
those old cruel days before firearms
were invented when war came, every
man able to carry a shield and spear,
or WELD a sword, had to go to battle,
for to every one of them and to the
family OF every one OF them defeat
meant death, or a life OF slavery far
worse than death, and as fighting in
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A FORTUNE IN LAMP SHADES
By OSBORN MARSHALL

them and big front porch that is quite
suburban in its air-a house in one OF
the West Side streets OF the twenties
1t was pleasant old house, with agree
able, hard-working fellow-boarders.
But it was only beginning, the girls
assured themselves. Within a year they
determined to have a studio of their
own-a wonderful place, with velvet
hangings and lots of easels and pallets
Uttered about, in the real artistic fash
ion.
The two girls entered one OF the art
schools and worked diligently for a
month. Then they thought they were
ready to begin remunerative work
Wilma wanted to paint decorative pic
lures of flowers and fruits and Laura
wanted to paint miniatures. So they
made inquiries of their teachers
whom they found far less encouraging
than their friend, the old artist-and
then they made inquiries OF the art
dealers of the big city.
The verdict was against the impa-
tient young artists. They could paint
little-that was granted. But they had
entered field crowded with those who
could paint better. More than that,
they knew no one with position and
money who might give them commits
sions and obtain other orders from
among the rich and influential
The girls accepted this verdict only
after frequent disappointments and re-
peated assertions on the part of those
who knew that there was no opening
for them.
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rate artistic ability start out to rival
Rosa Bonheur.
. Wilma and Laura grew up in neigh
boring houses, and then, when they had
outgrown the paper doll age. they took
up painting and sketching in earnest.
Wilma used 10 paint butterflies and
pansies in oil on boiling cloth and
frame the pretty results in little frames
to be sold to willing buyers at the
church fairs. and Laura used to make
sets OF place cards, OF exquisite little
ladies and rolIicking children, to give
to her friends on their birthdays and at
Christmastime.
. So time went on. and Laura and
! Wilma were graduated from the high
school OF their home town. In the
meantime they had taken lessons from
an old retired artist in the neighbor-
hood, who occasionally sold a land
scape to a New York department store.
The old artist encouraged the two
girls.
/ You have ability-both of YOU" he
used to say. Not ability of the first
order, of course, but vet you can handle
line and color successfully"
The first time their artist teacher said
this to them, Wilma and Laura hugged
each other with happiness They had
a secret plan to make fame and fortune
in the great field of art.
The following autumn. after their
high-school work was done, the two
girls, with six months allowance in
their pockets, left home for New York
City.
They went to clearinghouse
which the old artist had recommended
as pleasant and inexpensive 1t was
one of the old-fashioned brick houses
alas, now so few-that stand back from
the street so that there is a little lawn
! in front of and a little garden behind
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positively ransacked this town for suit
able lamp shades"
Il can make the lamp shades for
YOU" said Laura, while her friend
looked on in amazement. Wont you
give me your address and let me bring
You some samples some day next
week."
The patroness agreed and named a
convenient day and hour. and as soon
as she had turned her back Miss Stone
croft grasped her astonished friend by
the arm and rushed her out of the ho-
tel
Our fortunes made" she said.
Quick Wen go to the public library"
There they went and studied old
plates OF Louis Nv interiors. They
made copious notes and got permission
from the librarians to make sketches
and tracings. The next day they ran
sacked the various stores for a judi
cious supply OF fabrics-velvet and
plush of various colors, satin and old
lace, gold and silver braid embroidery
silks and beads. They spent most of
their remaining savings on their care
fully selected supplies.
Then they set to work to make few
samples. Wilma painted a wreath of
flowers around the bottom of one of
the lamp shades. Laura painted an ex-
quisite lady OF Louis NV's court and
set in a medallion in another shade.
With their sample shades and with
other samples OF fabrics the two girls
kept their appointment at the rich
woman's house. She gave them an or
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But they were determined not to go
home with a tale OF failure. They gave
up their comfortable quarters and went
to live in a room recommended by their
landlady as far cheaper. And there they
did their own choking and made their
rapidly disappearing funds stretch as
far as possible.
One afternoon they went to an ex-
hibition of miniatures given at one of
the big hotels. 1t was a loan exhibi-
tion for charity, and the two girls paid
the entrance fee gladly in order to see
the miniatures. The exhibition was held
in a big and beautiful room, rich with
gliding and plush and velvet hangings.
The patronesses, women of wealth, had
found the room quite satisfactory, ex-
cepting for the lamp shades. The little
electric lights around the walls we're
hideously shaded with bright glass. foT
it was before the days of the soft
shades we now have. So the patron
esses had veiled the lights with crinkled
paper. The effect was pleasing, but
the little paper shades were hardly in
keeping with the elegance of the rest
of the room.
One of the patronesses, observing
Laura looking at the lamp shades, ex-
planned the situation.
You know like miniatures" said
this woman; indeed, have quite a
collection of them myself, but l wish
some one with artistic ability would go
in for lamp shades l think there is a
great field for that. Now l have a
Louis XIV drawing-room and l have
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EFFECTS OF THE EUROPEAN WARMORA INTELLECTUAL EUGENC

Of all the nations of the world by a
common obligation and understanding
to stand unitedly together to compel
observance OF international treaties,
laws and obligations. compelling the
judicial settlement of all differences at
sn international court of arbitration
without any reservation of difference
for settlement by the sword.
What we need is a substitute for
war which will, without its calamities,
still serve to give men and women as
nearly as possible the supreme test and
bring out of them all of the best and
noblest and strongest that is in them.
The rivalry of business, the rivalry of
science, art, literature. athletics, and.
above all. commercial rivalry. will do
this. While it may not. and cannot.
awaken so thoroughly. rouse so deeply
the dormant powers OF human nature
as does war, it will still supply sufi-
cient necessities for vigorous. virile
effort. and is the best substitute we
have for war. and with all its faults
it is far better than war with all of
wars virtues, and war does have some
virtues
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der for dozen shades, each at a big
price. And there their luck began.
For the rich woman recommended
their work to her friends, and soon the
girls had as many orders as they could
manage to fill They worked hard and
conscientiously. and they had to lower
their aspirations a little But within a
year they had their little studio-a prac-
tical sort Of studio. where wire lamp
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history of the human race is
an Iliad of war and woe. And

an Had of war and woe. And
yet there has always been more
laughter than tears in the world
Wounds of the heart, like those of the
body, soon heal, and song and JOY and
gladness spring up after war with the
return Of peace, just as the flowers
spring up at the very edge of the
arctic ice with the return of the first
summers warmth. God burdens and
af7icts us heavily with trials, cares and
griefs, and yet He generously rewards
us with a joy of living so bountiful
that it is usually out of all proportion
10 the size of our sorrow.
The same physical and psychological
laws that govern an individual also
govern a people; and whenever in
fuences are not deformative or de-
structive, they are necessarily forma-
tive-constructive
Life is a series OF reactions between
the individual and environing forces.
All these forces are in their nature op-
posed to the forces which constitute
the life of the individual Otherwise,
there could be no reaction.
Acid reacts with alkali because alkali
is chemically opposed in its nature to
the acid. Similarly, life is reaction with
opposing forces OF the environment
Consequently, all the forces which, in
nature, constitute the environment OF
the individual are utilized by the in
dIvidual as stimuli for his own growth
and propagation, because they are Op-
posing forces, greedy to seize upon and
devour the body of the individual.
Every animal owes its life to its
ability TO utilize the corrosive. all-de-
vouring oxygen of the air. The con-
suming greed OF the oxygen is fed with
carbon taken into the system. Every
breath of air is also laden with micro
scopic vultures, which seize upon the
system TO, devour it, but are met and
themselves devoured by the microscopic
legions OF defense which awarm in our
blood
The struggle for food to supply fuel
to our bodily furnace and feed the de-
Youring oxygen OF the air, and the
struggle to defend ourselves from be-
ing captured and devoured by other
animals for their food, or subordinated
by other persons to earn their food, is
the main labor OF life This is the
struggle for existence and by it the
more fit are sifted from the less fit.
Consequently. we live and thrive upon
the forces which are constantly tending
to destroy US as individuals. The spe-
Gle goes on still, prohting by the ad-
versity OF its individuals unless the en-
tire species is overcome by some more
powerful species and even then its con-
quest is a vindication of the same law
of survival, because the surviving spe-
Cles have by their act of survival proven
themselves the more fit for survival
These are harsh, hard laws, but they
are the laws OF Nature and of God.
Frederick the Great could never have
finally overcome his enemies and won
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fave You ever, as you sat nib
bling almonds at festal din
ner table, gazed at the sway
ing fringe that dangled from the col
ored shades over the candles? Or
have you ever, in your own living room,
toyed with the fringe on the edge OF
the lamp shade and listened to it fall
Crisply into place when you let it run
through your fingers?
If you have ever done either OF these
things. or if you have ever done any
other thing that has focused your at
tentiOn on the bead fringe around a
lamp shade, have you ever stopped to
wonder about the fringe: Somebody
must have had the first inspiration to
use bead fringe in Just that way. The
idea must have come TO somebody be-
fore it came to anybody else that bead
fringe hanging from lamp shade
would be graceful and would catch the
light with good effect.
When Laura Stonecroft and Wilma
Briggs were small girls in a Western
town they used to paint their own pa
per dolls. Their small playmates en-
We'd them, their elders patted them on
the head and praised them. So Wilma
and Laura got the notion in their two
small heads that they would some day
become famous artists.
1t is very good thing for child
to grow up with an ambition. Ambi-
tion is stimulated in the schools and in
the nurseries and around the family
freside, for ambition is supposed TO
lead to success. But the road to sue
cess is long one, especially when two
small girls with not more than second