The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19
was thrifty and planted the grains of ancien,

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corn. He is now the proud owner of eight
stalks of corn, each bearing two full ears.
He values his crop of ancient corn at one
thousand dollars, and says that each kernel
is worth one dollar. This is a corn story
that has come up out of Kansas, guaranteed
to be the very validity of truth. All that is
necessary to add spice and jest to the story
is for some enterprising lawyer to discover
the heirs to the ancient Aztec who original
ly owned the corn, and then make the pre-
sent owner of the corn disgorge.
We have all kinds of experts in here, but
we need another one, we greatly require a
baseball expert. Somebody who has
assimilated all the fine points of the game.
and, who is able to give correct information
on the scientific part of the sport. We
have the theory of the game, but we are not
expert in the science. We differ as to the
real cause of errors or umpires decisions.
Now what we need is a real high brow base
ball expert. One to preside at a court OF
last resort, one who will always have ready
at hand the sci entific facts relative to any
point at issue. We do not wish any I'M
fortunate bad luck, but we wish that some
unfortunate who has had bad luck would
happen to be scientifically expert in base
ball.
Pendennis ventures the opinion, in spite
of the majority to the contrary. that more
men 60 wrong because they did not start
right. than because there are saloons which
offer the stuff that is liable to make a man
60 wrong. Drinking liquor is not COM
pulsory, but the tendency to do that which is
wrong is entirely self imitatively conceived.
This idea differs from the usual opinion
on the point in question, it is offered with
out any apologies and has the value of the
belief of one who has went wrong
The loss of thousands of young men up
on the battlefields of the great war will have
lasting effect upon the future of America.
The United States received over 200, 900
immigrants during 1914. Most of these
immigrants found upon their arrival that
their services were needed by the industrial
development of this country.
There is growing demand for labor
to do the rough work incidental to large
INDUSTRIES. This need has been supplied
by the nations now at war. The war is
depicting this source of supply.
The young men who survive the war will
need home. American industries will be
forced to curtail expansion through lack of
labor to do the rough work.
Pendennis believes that all those who hold
the idea of government of the people in
reverence, should set day apart in which
to know Switzerland.
Brave valiant Switzerland. Surrounded
by the warning elements of monarchial rule,
still holding fourth in the citadel of de-
mocracy.
Hard pressed for even the necessities of
life. yet keeping the altar of freedom supplied
with incense. Government, by and for
the people, shall not perish from the earth,
when the ideals it stands for are stoutly
maintained
The twentieth century has created a new
philosophy. The philosophy of criticism.
Criticism which does not inspire ambition
to strain for strength to overcome errors is
destructive philosophy.
To mar, to disfigure is the sport of
barbarism; to build, to create, to inspire.
is the work and aim of true greatness.
The critic is forgotten, the genius who
was criticized lives forever,
The philosophy of criticisms is the froth
of the sea of time. Underneath shaking the
rocks at the bottom, pulsating the depths
of the foundations, roll the great pillows of
truth, undistu. bed by the fault finders.
The philosophy of criticism is the gospe
of encouragement.